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50 dead after 'anti-witchcraft rituals' in Angola, Africa

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© RosaFrei/Getty ImagesThe deaths reportedly resulted from ceremonies in Angola earlier this year
At least 50 people have died in Angola after being coerced into drinking a herbal potion to prove they were not practitioners of witchcraft, police reported on Thursday.

The deaths occurred in the past two months near the town of Camacupa, local councilor Luzia Filemone told national radio, claiming that traditional healers had used a lethal mixture in the procedures.

"More than 50 victims were forced to drink this mysterious liquid which, according to traditional healers, proves whether or not a person practices witchcraft," Filemone stated.


Comment: Not unlike the ducking stool test Europeans allegedly practiced during the Middle Ages, and up to the 18th century.


Comment: As noted, this kind of belief and practice isn't uncommon, but could it be, going off the reports, that the concerns of people are increasing?


Attention

Zakharova refutes Estonian collaborators

"Always forgive your enemies - nothing annoys them so much." (Oscar Wilde)
Dear Readers:

Russian Diplomat Maria Zakharova is known around the world for her pithy put-downs of Russia's enemies. She is like a Russian, female, version of Oscar Wilde. In this story, Maria takes on the Estonians. Granted, it's like shooting fish in a barrel, but it's still fun to watch.

The topic is the 80th anniversary (celebrated last Saturday, March 9) of a Soviet air attack (March 9, 1944) on Nazi-occupied Tallinn, the capital of Estonia. Tallinn was actually bombed many times in the course of WWII. First by the Germans, in the first few days of the war, and later by the Soviets, several times over the next few years, in the course of driving the Germans out.

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© Awful AvalancheTallinn residents light candles to commemorate the Soviet bombs.
Apparently the Estonians didn't mind being bombed by the Germans, whom they considered to be their friends, but deeply resented the Soviet bombings. Which is why the Estonian Foreign Ministry decided make a big deal out of the 1944 anniversary. In their communique they termed the enemy bombers as "Russian" rather than "Soviet", and bemoaned the loss of life and property.

While it's true that bombs were not as "smart" in those days, and didn't always hit their target, the target was certainly fascist military formations. And yet the Estonian government, in its communique, insisted that the "Russians" were deliberately targeting "residential areas and cultural objects, just as they are doing now in the Ukraine."

Zakharova commented on her Telegram channel: "It is no secret to anyone that the current Estonian government associates itself with the Hitlerites... In fact, their rabid Russophobia would be envied by Goebbels himself."

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Social contagion: Gallup survey finds nearly 30% of Gen Z women identify as LGBTQ

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© Hannah Beier / ReutersPeople raise Bucks County's Pride Flag to kick off Pride Month in Doylestown, Pa., on June 1, 2023
Women ages 18 to 26 were more than twice as likely to identify as LGBTQ than their millennial counterparts, the survey found.

The percentage of lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender and queer adults in the U.S. continues to increase, reaching an all-time high of 7.6% in 2023, according to a new Gallup report. Broken down by gender, the survey of 12,000 people 18 and older across the country found that women were nearly twice as likely as men to identify as LGBTQ.

"Almost 30% of Gen Z women identify as LGBTQ+, most as bisexual," Jeffrey Jones, a senior editor at Gallup, told NBC News. "That's where a lot of the growth seems to be happening."

This is the first year Gallup has laid out its annual LGBTQ identification report in a way that breaks down each generation by gender. Looking at all generations, 8.5% of women and 4.7% of men identified as LGBTQ, the survey found. The survey reported margins of sampling error of plus or minus 4 percentage points among LGBTQ respondents.

Comment: What will happen to all these folks when social approval for their lifestyle choices goes away? The pendulum always swings back.


Witch hat

Maryland city equity official says she wants US to burn to the ground: 'MY ideology can rise from the ashes'

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© TIkTok: @kaylalieseMaryland city equity officer Kayla Aliese Carter labeled police as White supremacists in 2020.
The City of College Park, Maryland, hired a "racial equity" leader to spearhead its mission to eliminate systemic racism in its departments who has made statements defending violence and promoting the idea of a revolution against the United States.

Kayla Aliese Carter supports "Black liberation" through revolutionary means and said she is working with some activists to plan "how we will eat and live and grow after we burn it all down." She was hired to be a "Racial Equity Officer" under former Mayor Patrick L. Wojahn, who resigned from office after being arrested for child pornography.

According to the city's website, she assembled a team tasked with implementing a "racial equity" agenda across all city departments, affecting policies, practices, programs and budgets. However, after publication, the city told Fox News Digital that Carter doesn't oversee an entire team.

"Ms. Carter does not oversee an 'entire team.' Ms. Carter does not supervise City staff and her work primarily has been with the City's Restorative Justice Commission, which has been charged with the development and implementation of a successful process of restorative justice for College Park's Lakeland community," the city told Fox News Digital.

Carter was hired after former Mayor Wojahn signed into law "Resolution 20-R-16," "which renounced systemic racism, declared support of Black lives, and called for the ongoing explicit and conscious confrontation of racism," in the aftermath of the death of George Floyd in 2020.

Comment: This woman's unabashed narcissism has revealed what drives many revolutionary Leftists: resentment. They resent having to work and they resent not being born with the intelligence and competence required to reach the top of competence hierarchies where they feel they belong. Hence the adoption of ideological causes which seek to reorder social hierarchies. It's the only way they can reach the top.


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Majority disagree with Macron's comments on sending NATO troops to Ukraine - poll

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A majority of French people believe President Emmanuel Macron's increasingly hawkish stance on Russia is dangerous and will only increase tensions with Moscow, a new poll has found.

Some 57% of respondents believe Macron was "wrong" to "raise his voice against Russia" with recent remarks about deploying troops to Ukraine and calls to provide more support to Kiev, according to a survey by French broadcaster BFMTV.

Macron received a stern backlash in February after he suggested that the West "cannot exclude" the possibility of sending soldiers to aid Ukraine in its ongoing conflict with Russia.

Several NATO member states quickly repudiated Macron's remarks, asserting that they would put no boots on the ground in Ukraine. Macron, however, later doubled down on his original statement, arguing that his words were "weighed, thought-through, and measured."

According to the poll, a majority of French citizens believe his remarks not only increase tensions between France and Russia, but also create disagreements between France and its allies.

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Net-zero, the digital panopticon and the future of food

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The food transition, the energy transition, net-zero ideology, programmable central bank digital currencies, the censorship of free speech and clampdowns on protest. What's it all about? To understand these processes, we need to first locate what is essentially a social and economic reset within the context of a collapsing financial system.

Writer Ted Reece notes that the general rate of profit has trended downwards from an estimated 43% in the 1870s to 17% in the 2000s. By late 2019, many companies could not generate enough profit. Falling turnover, squeezed margins, limited cashflows and highly leveraged balance sheets were prevalent.

Professor Fabio Vighi of Cardiff University has described how closing down the global economy in early 2020 under the guise of fighting a supposedly new and novel pathogen allowed the US Federal Reserve to flood collapsing financial markets (COVID relief) with freshly printed money without causing hyperinflation. Lockdowns curtailed economic activity, thereby removing demand for the newly printed money (credit) in the physical economy and preventing 'contagion'.

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Bad omen: Dollar Tree to close around 1K Family Dollar stores

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© Jin Lee/Bloomberg via Getty Images / Getty ImagesDollar Tree will close 600 of its Family Dollar stores in the first half of 2024.
600 of its Family Dollar stores to close in first half of 2024

Dollar Tree announced on Wednesday that it plans to close nearly 1,000 U.S. stores in its portfolio after suffering a significant quarterly loss.

As part of its portfolio optimization, initially announced late last year, the company will close 600 of its Family Dollar stores in the first half of 2024. An additional 370 Family Dollar stores and 30 Dollar Tree stores will close over the next several years once their leases expire, the company said in its fourth-quarter earnings report.

The company incurred $594.4 million in charges in connection with the store portfolio review.

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Four years ago this week, freedom was torched

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Beware the Ides of March," Shakespeare quotes the soothsayer's warning Julius Caesar about what turned out to be an impending assassination on March 15. The death of American liberty happened around the same time four years ago, when the orders went out from all levels of government to close all indoor and outdoor venues where people gather.

It was not quite a law and it was never voted on by anyone. Seemingly out of nowhere, people who the public had largely ignored, the public health bureaucrats, all united to tell the executives in charge - mayors, governors, and the president - that the only way to deal with a respiratory virus was to scrap freedom and the Bill of Rights.

And they did, not only in the US but all over the world.

Gavel

India implements 'Islamophobic' citizenship law seen as election stunt

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© Unknown1 Up to 7M Indians form 620km human chain to protest anti-Muslim law • State of Kerala
The Indian government enacts a hugely controversial citizenship law, which is discriminatory against Muslims, weeks before the country's general elections as, what analysts call, a means of wooing Hindu nationalist voters.

Prime Minister Narendra Modi's "government announces implementation of Citizenship Amendment Act (CAA)," a government spokesman said on Monday.

The law allows Indian citizenship for non-Muslim refugees from three of India's neighboring countries, namely Afghanistan, Bangladesh, and Pakistan, who fled to Hindu-majority India before December 31, 2014.

Billed as "Islamophobic" by critics, the CAA was passed in 2019. Its implementation was, however, delayed after the outbreak of protests, during which more than a 100 people were reportedly killed, most of them Muslims.

The law's implementation came as the country is expected to soon announce dates for the elections, which is likely to be held in April or May, with Modi widely favored to win a third term in office.
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© unknownUp to 7M Indians form 620km human chain to protest anti-Muslim law • State of Kerala

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Briton kills himself on return from fighting for Ukraine, said he was 'inspired' by former PM Truss' 'illegal' call for volunteers

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© CopyrightHarry served three tours despite his only military experience being a few months in the Army Cadets when he was 11. 
A young British man told his mother he was going to fight in Ukraine because he had 'done some bad things' and wanted to 'give back to society' before coming home with PTSD and killing himself.

Harry Gregg was 23 when he travelled to the war-torn country after the then foreign secretary Liz Truss encouraged British volunteers to enter the conflict.

He served three tours despite his only military experience being a few months in the Army Cadets when he was 11.


Comment: That's about the same amount of experience many in the Kiev-juntas proxy army have/had.


His devastated mother, Sandi Gregg, has told how Harry felt he was needed and thought he could help, despite his limited experience.