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Bullseye

Pennsylvania court rules in favor of parental right to opt out of gender-identity lessons

Haley Strack
National Review
Wed, 09 Oct 2024 22:53 UTC
pennsylvania capitol building
© Ray Tan/via Getty ImagesThe Pennsylvania State Capitol Building, in downtown Harrisburg, Pennsylvania
A Pennsylvania court has ruled in favor of parents who accused a Pennsylvania public school district of violating their civil rights by teaching first-grade children concepts such as gender dysphoria and gender transition.

Carmilla Tatel, Stacy Dunn, and Gretchen Melton are mothers of three first-grade students in Mt. Lebanon School District in Allegheny County, Pennsylvania, who brought a case against the district, its school board, and one of its first-grade teachers, Megan Williams. The parents claimed that Williams, herself a mother of a transgender child, read aloud to six- and seven-year-old students books that discussed gender transitioning, played a video in class called Jacob's New Dress, and "explained to her students that sometimes 'parents are wrong' and parents and doctors 'make mistakes' when they bring a child home from the hospital."

The school district violated the parents' constitutional rights by refusing to give families the right to opt their children out of such lessons, Joy Flowers Conti, a senior district judge for the U.S. District Court for the Western District of Pennsylvania ruled last week.
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NPC

Professor suspended after calling for male Trump supporters to be "lined up and shot"


Zerohedge
Thu, 10 Oct 2024 10:56 UTC
Professor suspended
A professor at the University of Kansas was suspended Wednesday after footage emerged of him telling a class that men who choose not to vote for Kamala Harris should be "lined up and shot."


Athletics lecturer Phillip Lowcock can be seen in the clip telling students: "(If you think) guys are smarter than girls, you've got some serious problems," adding "That's what frustrates me. There are going to be some males in our society that will refuse to vote for a potential female president because they don't think females are smart enough to be president. We could line all those guys up and shoot them. They clearly don't understand the way the world works.

"Did I say that? Scratch that from the recording. I don't want the deans hearing that I said that," Lowcock continued.
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Dollars

Corrupt Ukrainian official's son found lying in bed with huge sum of money, $6 million in total seized from medical fraud operation


Remix
Mon, 07 Oct 2024 09:46 UTC
huge sums of money
Corrupt officials in Ukraine are making huge profits off of their own people

A huge corruption case was uncovered in Khmelnytskyi, western Ukraine, with authorities detaining the head of the Hmelnytskyi County Medical Center over allegations he accepted huge sums of money to offer medical exemptions to Ukrainian men to avoid being conscripted.

The official, Tetyana Krupá, was responsible for medical examinations in the area, according to Trancarpathian news outlet Kárpáti Igaz Szó, which produces news in the Hungarian language. The paper reveals that the suspect is also the Khmelnytskyi county representative of President Volodymyr Zelensky's party, the Servant of the People.

During a search of the official's home, the man was found with various currencies worth a total of $6 million, which is an extraordinary sum for Ukraine. Officers found $5.24 million, €300,000, and 5 million hryvnias, which is Ukraine's currency. In addition, jewelry and other valuables were seized.

Comment: One wonders just how much Zelensky has stashed away.

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Briefcase

New evidence in Daniel Penny 'chokehold' death case: Support for young Marine veteran swells


Truth Press
Thu, 03 Oct 2024 20:47 UTC
Daniel Penny chokehold trial
Daniel Penny subdued a violent subway passenger so that others could exit the train.
Police officers responding to the scene at a New York City subway station where a homeless man who'd been placed in a chokehold by a Marine veteran lay unconscious opted to administer Narcan first rather than CPR, a court heard Thursday.

Daniel Penny, 25, will stand trial this month accused of manslaughter and negligent homicide after he placed Jordan Neely, a homeless Michael Jackson impersonator with mental health issues, in a six-minute, fatal chokehold in May 2023.

But the officers' decision to give Neely a dose of Narcan before performing CPR minutes later could be crucial for the defense as lawyers for Penny rally against the state's efforts to prevent them from calling witnesses to testify about Neely's history of drug abuse and mental illness.

Comment: 'Subway killer' Daniel Penny's actions expose a gap in US law enforcement

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Stock Down

EU economy suffering from loss of Russian energy - Orban


RT
Wed, 09 Oct 2024 06:54 UTC
Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban
© Getty Images / picture alliance / ContributorHungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban.
The bloc is losing its competitiveness due to soaring prices, according to the Hungarian PM.

The EU's refusal to buy Russian energy has been crippling the bloc's economic growth, Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban told a plenary session of the European Parliament on Wednesday.

Orban, whose country currently holds the EU's six-month rotating presidency, was addressing the parliament in Strasbourg, France.
"EU productivity is growing at a slower pace than that of our competitors. Our share of world trade is declining," he said.
He added that EU businesses were facing electricity prices that are two to three times higher than in the US. And when it comes to natural gas, "prices are four to five times higher."

Comment: See also:

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Gavel

Colorado Supreme Court tosses malicious lawfare suit against baker who refused cake for trans woman

Ryan King
New York Post
Wed, 09 Oct 2024 20:56 UTC
Jack Phillips
© AP Photo/David ZalubowskiJack Phillips, owner of Masterpiece Cakeshop
Colorado's Supreme Court threw out a lawsuit Tuesday against a Christian baker who refused to make a pink-and-blue cake for a transgender woman who said she wanted it to celebrate her transition.

The Centennial State's high court rebuffed the suit on procedural grounds in a 6-3 opinion.

Masterpiece Cakeshop proprietor Jack Phillips had been sued by attorney Autumn Scardina, who is transgender, in 2017 as part of an antidiscrimination claim. Phillips is famous for declining to make a cake for a same-sex wedding in 2012, which turned into a national case that wound up before the US Supreme Court.

"Enough is enough. Jack has been dragged through courts for over a decade. It's time to leave him alone," his attorney, Alliance for Defending Freedom senior counsel Jake Warner, said in a statement.

"Because that cake admittedly expresses a message, and because Jack cannot express that message for anyone, the government cannot punish Jack for declining to express it."

Comment: Scadina has been warring against Phillips for twelve years. Phillips is not out of the woods either. The ruling was made on a technicality issue. Scardina will come up with something new, bet on it. That's called pathological persistence. They/them is not right in the head.

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Airplane

Turkish Airlines flight makes emergency landing at JFK after pilot dies

Chris Pandolfo
Fox News
Wed, 09 Oct 2024 20:19 UTC
Airbus A330 operated by Turkish Airlines
© Bruce Bennett/Getty Images / Getty ImagesAn Airbus A330 operated by Turkish Airlines takes off from JFK Airport on Aug. 24, 2019, in the Queens borough of New York City.
The pilot on Turkish Airlines flight 204 from Seattle to Istanbul collapsed mid-flight and died

A Turkish Airlines flight made an emergency landing at JFK International Airport in New York after the pilot fainted mid-flight, the airline said Wednesday.

The plane had taken off from Seattle on Tuesday and was intended to land in Istanbul, according to Turkish Airlines spokesman Yahya Üstün. However, the pilot collapsed during the flight, and he died after attempts to resuscitate him were unsuccessful.

"The pilot of our Airbus 350... flight TK204 from Seattle to Istanbul collapsed during the flight," Üstün wrote on X, formerly Twitter.

Comment: Expect more events in the future. Notice the article makes no mention of the probable cause: the mass covid vaccinations forced on commercial pilots if they wanted to keep their jobs. The problem has been swept under the rug since 2022.







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Bulb

Google backed Israel's military. Now its workers are in revolt

Areeb Ullah
Middle East Eye
Tue, 08 Oct 2024 17:30 UTC
A demonstrator wears a Google-themed protest T-shirt
© ReutersA demonstrator wears a Google-themed protest T-shirt in Seattle in May 2024
Dozens of workers have been sacked by the tech giant for speaking up for Palestinians against Project Nimbus - but others say they won't be silenced

It's early morning, and Zelda Montes walks briskly through the crisp New York air as they head to Google's headquarters on Manhattan's 9th Avenue.

Montes, who self-identifies as they, fumbles with their ID card at the entrance, blending in with the steady stream of Googlers swiping through the security barriers as if it were just another day at the office.

Armed with an oversized tote bag, Montes pulls back their purple hair and heads to the 13th-floor canteen to order their usual: a dirty chai and an egg, avocado, and cheese sandwich with a bowl of raspberries. Their hands tremble slightly as they grip the coffee cup.

Locking eyes with two others, they get the signal that the coast is clear, head down to the entrance, and sit.

The three Googlers unfurl their banners and begin chanting to demand that Google do one thing: Drop Project Nimbus.

Comment: Don't the Googlers know that their employer was set up, in part, to do what they're currently doing by military and intelligence agencies?

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Magnify

One of the most important substances in the world comes from an area of North Carolina devastated by Hurricane Helene

Michael Snyder
The Most Important News
Mon, 07 Oct 2024 00:00 UTC
mineral city
Did you know that a little town in the mountains of North Carolina is the primary worldwide producer of a substance that makes our modern high tech way of life possible? Without the ultra-pure natural quartz that comes from Spruce Pine, North Carolina we would not have the ultra-sophisticated electronic gadgets that we enjoy so much and the global economy would collapse. So is it just a coincidence that Spruce Pine was absolutely devastated by Hurricane Helene?

The two facilities that produce this ultra-pure natural quartz in Spruce Pine are both shut down at this point...
Two North Carolina facilities that manufacture the high-purity quartz used for making semiconductors, solar panels and fiber-optic cables have been shut down by Hurricane Helene with no reopening date in sight.

Sibelco and The Quartz Corp both shut down operations in the Appalachian town of Spruce Pine on Thursday ahead of the storm that swept away whole communities in the western part of the state and across the border in East Tennessee. The town is home to mines that produce some of the world's highest quality quartz.
Hopefully these facilities will be able to open again before the end of the year, because they are absolutely critical to the global economy.
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Biohazard

A Faustian bargain with corporate power: From Monsanto to Bayer, the worst of both worlds

Colin Todhunter
Off-Guardian
Mon, 07 Oct 2024 00:00 UTC
monsanto bayer
Environmentalist and campaigner Rosemary Mason has been relentlessly exposing the insidious effects of agrochemicals on human health and the environment through a decade-long series of incisive reports. Many of these reports have taken the form of scathing open letters directed at corporations, regulators and officials in the UK and the EU.

Mason has never held back in her condemnations of the agrochemical giants. After Bayer's acquisition of Monsanto in 2018, her focus sharpened on Bayer, scrutinising its troubling history and its actions, not least during one of humanity's darkest chapters: Nazi Germany.

Bayer's complicity as part of IG Farben, a chemical and pharmaceutical conglomerate notorious for its involvement in war crimes, has been well documented. The company was formed in 1925 from a merger of six chemical firms: Agfa, BASF, Bayer, Chemische Fabrik Griesheim-Elektron, Hoechst and Weiler-ter-Meer.
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