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Athletes 'pretended to be women' in world championship - organizer

IBA Women's World Boxing Championship 2023
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The preliminary round of the Elite women 63-66 kgs welter category IBA Women's World Boxing Championship 2023, in New Delhi on March 18, 2023.
Several participants were disqualified from the Women's World Boxing Championship after DNA tests rendered them ineligible, Umar Kremlev, president of the International Boxing Association (IBA), wrote on Telegram on Saturday. The competition concluded in New Delhi, India on Sunday.

Kremlev said that IBA executives had met towards the end of the championship to discuss "fairness among athletes and professionalism." He added that after "a series of DNA-tests" the association "uncovered athletes who were trying to fool their colleagues and pretended to be women."

Kremlev claimed that the tests "proved they had XY chromosomes and were thus excluded from the sports events."

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Eye 1

Climate hysteria and woke gobbledegook are becoming inseparable

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One of Britain's leading climate 'experts', Professor Kevin Anderson, has provided a valuable insight into the increasingly bizarre demands that surround the promotion of the collectivist Net Zero political project. Writing in the Conversation, he argues for Net Zero within 12 years, complete with a refit of U.K. housing stock, a withdrawal of all combustion engine cars in favour of expanded public transport, electrification of industry, the roll out of 'zero-carbon' energy, and the banning of all fossil fuel production. To achieve his aims, Anderson suggests mobilisation on the scale of the post-war European reconstruction Marshall Plan. Others might suggest his crackpot schemes will leave the country facing a similar scale of destruction, ruin and poverty to that caused by the Luftwaffe.

Anderson is currently a Professor of Energy and Climate Change at the University of Manchester and he has plenty of form when it comes to extremist claims and calls for widespread rationing. As early as 2010, he was calling on politicians to consider a rationing system "similar to the one introduced during the last time of crisis in the 1930s and 40s". He also suggested a limit on electricity "so people are forced to turn the heating down", and a limit on goods that require a lot of energy to manufacture.

On a practical level, Anderson's latest calls for radical societal restructuring under the guise of a 'climate emergency' are plainly ridiculous. Retrofitting Britain's well-ventilated housing and industrial stock along with installing heat pumps would cost around £3 trillion, according to a paper published last year by the technology professor Michael Kelly - equivalent, it should be noted, to Britain's annual GDP. That, of course, is before we've factored in the cost of Anderson's other plans such as retrofitting the entire industrial and transport infrastructure, all within the next 12 years. In its more sane moments, even Extinction Rebellion might be proud of such an ambitious plan.

Comment: The insane "Net Zero" policies that are making the rounds is yet another facet of a larger plan: The Great Reset.




NPC

Corporatism, the new, new left and the gender industry

corporate con game
"Inclusivity is more than a social cause; it's a business opportunity. It's time to maximize your business growth."

- DMI Consulting
Let me get this out of the way because it seems more than a few people still need to hear this.

CORPORATIONS DO NOT CARE ABOUT YOU!

"Diversity and inclusion "(D&I) comprise a new business mantra. Programs and language based on the normalization of body dissociation are being corporately cultivated worldwide. The programs being instituted appeal to our emotions, to entice us to believe that companies care about people and want to create one big happy, diverse work-family, which includes marginalized sectors of society - most notably, those who imagine they have a sex that is not male or female. The overlooked are finally being given a place at the table!

Or are they?

The new, new liberal left in America, the left that has emerged out of a traditional new left, which cared about the working class, blacks, and women's rights, who yearned for a more equal and just social order, is unrecognizable to many of us who've long been of the traditional left. Just a decade ago, that left sparked a potentially revolutionary movement on Wall street, calling out the financial industry and the monopolies ruining our lives and our planet. Emerging out of the carcass of that potentially revolutionary movement is a left that has recently climbed into bed with those same big banks. Snuggled up in bed with them, fluffing their pillows, are Big Pharma and Big Tech. The new left is screaming at protests, getting comprehensive media coverage, voices in our universities and institutions, and crying that people claiming their sex is not male or female need human rights. These manufactured sexes are being supported by, promoted, and advertised by Big Pharma, Big Tech, and Big Banking. This new, unrecognizable left sees no irony at all in their behavior.

Colosseum

Cost of living soars in Britain with 4/10 people using credit cards to pay for essentials

deep poverty UK
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Almost four in 10 people have to use credit cards to cover the rising prices of essentials, says Nationwide
The deepening cost-of-living crisis has pushed up bills in the UK, with households now spending 12% more on essentials than they were a year ago, Nationwide reports.

According to the monthly analysis by Britain's biggest building society, spending on utility bills jumped by around a third (34%) last month in annual terms.

Spending on mortgage payments surged by 17%, while rent payments were up by 11%. The report also showed that spending on loans and insurance rose by 8% and 7%, respectively.

Comment: The same suffering is being experienced throughout the collapsing Western empire: Biggest strike in decades brings Germany to a standstill, unions demand payrise in line with soaring inflation


Yellow Vest

Biggest strike in decades brings Germany to a standstill, unions demand payrise in line with soaring inflation

Germany protest
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Protestors demonstrate in front of 'Landungsbruecken' at the harbour during a nationwide strike called by the German trade union Verdi over a wage dispute in Hamburg, Germany, March 27, 2023.
Airports and bus and train stations across Germany were at a standstill on Monday, causing disruption for millions of people during one of the largest walkouts in decades in Europe's biggest economy as soaring inflation stokes wage demands.

The 24-hour "warning" strikes called by the Verdi union and railway and transport union EVG were the latest in months of industrial action which has hit major European economies as higher food and energy prices dent living standards.


Comment: Evidently this is much more than just a 'dent'; people are struggling to afford the absolute basics: (decent) food, and energy.


They kicked off three days of wage talks which could lead to further strikes if they fail to yield a compromise.

Easter Egg

An Eastertime carol

Rabbit
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"The true administration of justice is the firmest pillar of good government"
— Inscription on the pediment of the Manhattan Criminal Court.
After wolfing down a heartburn-inducing Popeye's Shrimp Tacklebox Combo for supper, Manhattan District attorney Alvin Bragg retires to his four-poster Sleep Number bed beset with anxiety about the grand jury he has convened for fulfilling his campaign promise to stuff Donald Trump into a state prison cell. From the wall-mounted flat-screen across from his bed, the specter of a of giant rabbit emerges, gaunt and grizzled, draped in chains and weighty padlocks.
"Who are you, spirit?" Bragg asks.

"I am the ghost of prosecutions past," it moans. "This night you will be visited by three other spirits: The ghost of what you wish to be, the ghost of what should be, and the ghost of actually what-it-is."

Oh, Gawd," Bragg groans, his esophagus on fire with acidified hot-sauce residue.

Star of David

Color Revolution? Massive wave of protests against new Netanyahu government sweeps across Israel

Protesters
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Protest rally against Israel's far right and judicial overhaul
Hundreds of thousands of Israelis took to the streets across the country on Saturday to protest against the government's controversial push to overhaul the judicial system.

The organizers of the massive demonstrations - which took place in cities including Jerusalem, Haifa, Beersheba, and Tel Aviv - announced on Friday a 'Week of Paralysis' to resist what they called an "attempt to turn Israel into a dictatorship."

According to figures provided by the organizers, a total of 630,000 people attended the rallies. In Tel Aviv alone, which was the main venue for the activists, around 200,000 protesters gathered, local media said.


Comment: Regular readers know well that we'd usually be the last outlet to 'defend' Netanyahu, but there's something fishy about this protest movement.

Netanyahu's coalition won last year's parliamentary elections, something no one in Israel seriously disputes. Instead, it appears that the 'losing parties' are seeking to oust him 'extra-constitutionally' via this protest movement, which is organized by one particular organization, one that is funded by the US State Department...

State Department funds left-wing group behind protests against Israeli prime minister


Oil Well

Saudi oil giant to build refinery in northeast China

The Saudi oil conglomerate has pledged its full support to the east Asian country's growing demand for fuel and petrochemical products.
MBS and Xi
© Anadolu Agency
Saudi oil giant Aramco announced on 27 March that it has signed an agreement with China for the building of an oil refinery and petrochemical complex in the far-eastern country's northeast, aimed at supporting the growing Chinese demand for fuel and petrochemical products.

According to the Saudi newspaper Sabq, the total cost of the project will amount to $12.2 billion.

Construction is set to begin during the second quarter of this year, and the complex is scheduled to officially open by 2026. Currently, the project is awaiting the necessary administrative approvals.

In a statement, Aramco announced that it will be supplying 210,000 barrels of crude oil to the complex, which is being constructed in Panjin city, in China's province of Liaoning.

"This important project will support China's growing demand across fuel and chemical products. It also represents a major milestone in our ongoing downstream expansion strategy in China and the wider region, which is an increasingly significant driver of global petrochemical demand," said Aramco Executive Vice President Mohammed al-Qahtani.

This project is a joint initiative between Aramco and Chinese firm NORINCO and Panjin Xinxin Industrial Group.

Smiley

When satire becomes reality: Nearly 100 Babylon Bee joke stories have come true

babylon bee seth dillon stories come true

Seth Dillon, the CEO of the satirical right-wing Babylon Bee, told Fox News that nearly 100 of their jokes have turned into real news stories after publication.
The Babylon Bee has had nearly 100 joke headlines turn into prophecies after the stories eventually came true, the CEO of America's largest right-leaning satire website told Fox News.

"The problem isn't that our satire is too close to reality," Seth Dillon told Fox News. "It's that reality is too close to satire, so our jokes keep coming true."

The Bee maintains a running list of its satirical headlines that became real — or at least partially real — stories after publication. The fulfilled prophecies include a wide range of topics and include jokes about Democrats and Republicans alike.

Comment: Humor may conquer when might cannot. When Twitter banned the Bee, that was the last straw for Elon Musk. We all know what happened next:

babylon bee banned twitter musk buy



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Fauci should be prosecuted for negligent homicide for vaccine lies

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Fauci: The face you make when you've bamboozled most of the world and made bank doing it.
I recently proposed that COVID Warlord Fauci can and should be prosecuted for negligent homicide vis a vis the illicit gain-of-function research he funded in Wuhan Institute of Virology.

Here, I would like to expand the indictment to include his vaxx-related criminality, which is legion.

On the vaxx front, Fauci is culpable for an untold number of deaths which will become, perhaps, more concrete over time as the research unfolds into what exactly the long-term effects of the gene therapy are.

As of March 2023, there are 19,476 preliminary reports of death from the COVID-19 shots reported to the CDC's and FDA's Vaccine Adverse Event Reporting System (VAERS).

However - and this is a huge caveat - the figures reflected in VAERS are likely significant under-estimates of the actual death toll. Research indicates that less than 1% of adverse events are ever actually reported to VAERS.

Comment: What are they waiting for?