An explosion in a gas pipeline in Lithuania sent flames 150 feet into the air and forced the evacuation of the village of Pasvalio Vienkiemiai. The gas utility responsible for the pipeline said that there was no evidence that the blast was caused by any kind of attack.
In other news, a 16-year-old Chicago youth has been arrested for allegedly committing twelve armed carjackings in the space of seven hours.
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Average Canadian Family Dinged $847 Yearly on Carbon Tax After Rebates
he average Canadian family can expect to pay up to $847 on carbon taxes even after rebates are dished out, according to the Canadian Taxpayers Federation (CTF).
They say the federal government isn’t telling the full story when it comes to the cost of the levy.
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Rolls-Royce Sales Hit Record as Rich Splurged on Luxury While Everyone Else Crushed by Inflation
2022 was a terrible year for billionaires, many of which lost nearly $2 trillion combined.
Despite stock, crypto, and bond market turmoil, as well as soaring interest rates, elevated inflation, and increased risk of economic uncertainty, the ultra-wealthy were increasingly purchasing luxury vehicles.
Rolls-Royce Motor Cars published a press release stating it recorded its “highest-ever annual sales” in 2022, delivering 6,021 motor cars, up 8% versus 2021.
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UK: Tesco Store Puts Padlocks on Bacon and Sausages
A Tesco store resorted to locking sausages and bacon in a fridge in an attempt to prevent shoplifting.
The Tesco Express branch in Bermondsey, south London, placed a notice on its chilled meats cabinet warning that it was locked to “protect stock and availability”. Customers were told to ask a member of staff for assistance in order to purchase items.
Consumer expert Jane Hawkes said: “It’s a very worrying sign of the times that supermarkets are resorting to locking away produce to prevent shoplifting during the cost of living crisis.”
She added that extreme measures were becoming increasingly common as prices increased and “the number of those struggling to make ends meet rises”.
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16-Year-Old Charged With Carjacking 12 People in 7 Hours in Chicago
Chicago police arrested a 16-year-old boy for committing 12 armed carjackings in 7 hours during an August crime spree. Chicago Police issued a statement that said:
“Juvenile offender charged with 16 felony counts of aggravated vehicle or hijacking armed robbery. 11 felony counts: vehicle hijacking, aggravated firearm. Four felony counts: robbery armed with a firearm. One felony count: attempt vehicle hijacking aggravated firearm.
“The above offender was arrested by members of the vehicular hijacking task force on January 12, 2023 in the 200 block of 69th Pl. He was identified as one of the offenders who robbed multiple victims and took their vehicles by force while armed with a firearm.”
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20 Year Old Colorado College Tennis Player Dies Unexpectedly in His Sleep
We hate to say it, but another day, another mysterious and unexpected death of a seemingly normal collegiate athlete. As we wrote yesterday, either there is a new focus in media on reporting about the untimely deaths of athletes and young adults, or something very odd appears to be taking place across the country.
Jack Madison, a sophomore on the Colorado College men’s tennis team, passed away in his sleep on January 2nd, a new report from the Gazette, published yesterday, confirms. Colorado College vice president and director of athletics Lesley Irvine commented: “We are devastated by the tragic passing of Jack Madison.”
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A PETA official is speaking out after Hamtramck, Michigan, approved the religious sacrifice of animals at home for residents of the community.
PETA spokesperson Ashley Byrne joined “Jesse Watters Primetime” to argue why Tuesday’s ruling is a “violation” of cruelty and health codes.
“At PETA, we don’t believe in harming animals for any reason, and we encourage anyone who’s bothered by this to take a look at what goes on in any slaughterhouse,” she said.
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NEWPORT NEWS, Va. (WAVY) — The superintendent of Newport News Public Schools has revealed new information in the shooting of a teacher at Richneck Elementary School by a 6-year-old student last week.
During a virtual town hall with Richneck parents on Thursday, officials said at least one administrator knew that the student may have had a weapon on him hours before the shooting happened.
“At least one administrator was notified of a possible weapon,” said Supt. Dr. George Parker.
Thursday’s town hall was for Richneck parents only, though one shared their access link with Nexstar’s WAVY.
Parker revealed that there had been a report that the boy may have had a weapon when he got to school Friday morning. His backpack was searched, but nothing was found.
Two and a half hours later, police were storming the school after that boy shot his first-grade teacher.
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One Black college instructor’s dress code for the semester landed him in hot water on social media this week, with many users claiming his mandate to ban “hoodies,” “durags,” “twerk shorts,” and “coochie cutter shorts” was discriminatory against Black students.
Last week, a snapshot of a computer science class syllabus from North Carolina Agricultural and Technical State University went viral on Twitter thanks to its attention grabbing dress code policy.
The computer science class instructor, a Black male whom Twitter allegedly identified as NCAT professor Derrick LeFlore, listed several items, including “Bonnets, Durag, Hoodies, Booty Shorts, Coochie Cutter Shorts, Twerk Shorts,” that were not to be worn in his class.
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CDC Identifies Potential Side Effects in Pfizer COVID-19 Vaccine
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention on Friday announced that the data it had collected merited an investigation into potential stroke risks for recipients for the Pfizer-BioNTech COVID-19 vaccine.
“Following the availability and use of the updated (bivalent) COVID-19 vaccines, CDC’s Vaccine Safety Datalink (VSD), a near real-time surveillance system, met the statistical criteria to prompt additional investigation into whether there was a safety concern for ischemic stroke in people ages 65 and older who received the Pfizer-BioNTech COVID-19 Vaccine, Bivalent,” the agency wrote in a press release.
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Cousin of BLM Co-Founder Dies in LAPD Custody After Allegedly Resisting Arrest
On January 3, a cousin of Black Lives Matter co-founder Patrisse Cullors died after getting tased by police during an arrest for allegedly committing a felony hit & run and attempted auto theft. A toxicology test found cocaine and cannabis in his system.
In a Critical Incident Community Briefing released to Youtube on Wednesday, LAPD Commanding Officer of Media Relations Captain Kelly Muniz said that an officer was flagged down for a traffic collision near Venice Boulevard and Lincoln Boulevard in Pacific Area at 3:38 pm on Jan. 3.
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Facebook Censored ‘Often-True Content’ On COVID Shots to Appease Biden White House, Emails Show
A bombshell batch of emails between the White House and Facebook executives reveals that the social media giant has been censoring “often-true content” about COVID-19 vaccines to appease the Biden administration.
Missouri Attorney General Andrew Bailey released the documents earlier this week.
The emails show a Facebook official admitted to suppressing information that isn’t false because it conflicts with the Biden admin’s narrative.
Aside from censoring true content that is shared a lot, the Facebook staffer assures the White House that the Big Tech company will “remove these Groups, Pages, and Accounts” that share popular information that may create “vaccine hesitancy.”
Bailey obtained the emails through a court case, Missouri v. Biden.
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FBI, ATF Use Gun Background Checks to Track Specific Purchasers, Documents Show
The Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives (ATF) and FBI coordinate to track the gun purchases of specific individuals through the federal background check system, according to documents that Second Amendment advocacy group Gun Owners of America obtained via a Freedom of Information Act request.
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GOP Congressman Introduces Resolution to Place a ‘Permanent’ Bust of Zelensky in the U.S. Capitol
Republican Rep Joe Wilson of South Carolina wants the US capitol to have a bust of Ukrainian president Vladimir Zelensky on permanent display.
From The Washington Times, “House Republican proposes putting a bust of Ukraine leader in U.S. Capitol”.
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GOP-Led House Launches Probe Into Biden’s “Absurd & Disgraceful” Botched Afghan Withdrawal
The Republican-led House has launched a formal probe into the Biden administration’s chaotic and deadly Afghanistan troop withdrawal operation and evacuation of August 2021, which is to be complete with issuing subpoenas for US officials to undergo depositions, in order to gain a clear picture of what happened and the botched decision-making. This as there’s still yet to be any level of accountability for officials that oversaw the disaster.
The Hill reports Friday, “Rep. Michael McCaul (R-Texas), the chairman of the House Foreign Affairs Committee who served as its ranking member previously, said the Biden administration has so far refused to hand over documents but that he is now formally requesting compliance as chair of the panel.”
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Hero Veteran Takes Out Man Threatening Shoppers, Staff With Knife in South Carolina Walmart
A South Carolina veteran is being heralded as a hero after taking down a knife-wielding man threatening to stab staff and shoppers at a Walmart by smashing him over the head with a metal stanchion.
Video footage shows the unidentified man wearing a red hoodie shouting and erratically waving a knife around on the floor of the Columbia, South Carolina, Walmart on January 4 at around 2pm. At one point, the footage shows a customer moving towards the man to gently subdue him, but having to suddenly jump back to avoid being slashed in the face.
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EXCLUSIVE: PULLMAN, Wash. — Bryan Kohberger’s doctoral program at Washington State University maintains access to a “crime lab” database of police bodycam videos as well as live streams from security cameras on and off campus, an insider told Fox News Digital.
The programs are referenced on the school’s public website and are used to study policing and the “complex social interactions” between patrol officers and the people they encounter, as well as other government functions.
The source, who works for the university and has direct knowledge of the department, is warning that the research tools, in the wrong hands, could have allowed a suspected killer to view unredacted crime scene images, potential videos of death and even live streams of surveillance cameras with remote controls that allow the viewer to zoom in on faces. The university told Fox News Digital Friday evening that Kohberger was not part of the program.
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Indiana University Says Student Was Targeted in Bus Stabbing for Being Asian
Indiana University says an 18-year-old student was targeted and stabbed on a bus in Bloomington for being Asian.
The student was attacked Wednesday afternoon on A Bloomington transit bus.
Billie Davis, 56, has been charged with attempted murder, aggravated battery and battery by means of a deadly weapon, according to online court documents.
It wasn’t clear if the defendant had a lawyer who could speak on their behalf. The public defender’s office for Monroe County, Indiana didn’t immediately respond to a request for comment.
An 18-year-old Carmel, Indiana, woman told investigators that while waiting for the doors of the bus to open, another passenger began to strike her repeatedly in the head, police said in a statement.
The student, who has not been publicly identified, had multiple stab wounds to her head, was bleeding and was transported to a hospital, police said.
Police said that based on video, the woman and suspect had no interaction before the attack.
Police did not respond to a question about whether the attack is being investigated as a hate crime.
“This week, Bloomington was sadly reminded that anti-Asian hate is real and can have painful impacts on individuals and our community,” said James Wimbush, Indiana University vice president of diversity, equity and multicultural affairs. “No one should face harassment or violence due to their background, ethnicity or heritage. Instead, the Bloomington and IU communities are stronger because of the vast diversity of identities and perspectives that make up our campus and community culture.”
The university is providing counseling support to members of the community who need it.
The university’s Asian Culture Center called the attack “a horrific and targeted anti-Asian hate crime.”
“Our thoughts go out to the victim of this horrendous act, to her family, and to everyone in the community who is affected by this racial violence,” it said in a statement Friday. “We are outraged and heartbroken by this unprovoked act of violence, but we also worry for the well-being of our community.”
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Jim Jordan Launches First Investigation Into Joe Biden’s Mishandling of Classified Documents
Rep Jim Jordan and Rep Mike Johnson just launched the first investigation into President Joe Biden’s growing classified document scandal. They sent a letter to Attorney General Merrick Garland demanding documents and information related to the scandal.
They wrote: “We are conducting oversight of the Justice Department’s actions with respect to former Vice President Biden’s mishandling of classified documents, including the apparently unauthorized possession of classified material at a Washington, D.C., private office and in the garage of his Wilmington, Delaware, residence.
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Joe Rogan and a former CIA agent roasted liberal mega-donor George Soros on the “Joe Rogan Experience” podcast, posted on Wednesday.
Rogan spoke about controversial Democratic mega-donors with former CIA covert operations officer, and current CEO of Portman Square Group, Mike Baker. The conversation turned to Soros and his influence on local politicians.
“I had a conversation with the governor of Texas about him, with Greg Abbott, where he was explaining to me what George Soros does, and it’s f — —ing terrifying that he donates money to a very progressive, very leftist — whether it’s a D.A. or whatever politician, and then funds someone who is even further left than them to go against them,” Rogan noted. “He just keeps moving it along, so he’s playing like a global game and that he enjoys doing it.”
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Kevin McCarthy Will Consider Expunging Trump’s Impeachments
Republican House Speaker Kevin McCarthy (R-CA) has said that he will consider expunging one or both of President Donald Trump’s impeachments.
Trump was impeached twice in the House but was acquitted twice in the Senate.
McCarthy said: “I would understand why members would want to bring that forward.
“I understand why individuals want to do it, and we’d look at it.”
“I would certainly be interested in it,” Rep. Andrew Clyde (R-GA) said.
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“Twitter Files” journalist Matt Taibbi went into a viral sparring match with Rep. Ted Lieu, D-Calif., over the latest installment of Twitter revelations that implicates Democratic lawmakers.
On Thursday, Taibbi reported that top Democrats including California Rep. Adam Schiff, California Sen. Dianne Feinstein and Connecticut Sen. Richard Blumenthal falsely claimed in 2018 that Russian actors on Twitter were elevating the hashtag #ReleaseTheMemo, referring to the Devin Nunes report about flaws in the Trump-Russia investigation, despite being told directly by Twitter executives that it found no evidence that Russian bots were behind it.
Lieu was quick to dismiss Taibbi’s reporting.
“You can believe gaslighting by @mtaibbi, or you can believe facts. Russian meddling was not manufactured,” Lieu tweeted Thursday. “DOJ indicted 12 Russian Intel officers for hacking: ‘defendants claimed to be American hacktivists and used…Twitter accounts to promote the website.’“
On Friday, Taibbi responded, tweeting “What @TedLieu leaves out is that the DOJ indicted 12 individuals they knew would never show up in court, but had to drop two related cases of companies that did fight back, rather than go through discovery.”
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A Michigan school board could face legal action after a trustee demanded answers about a middle school field trip that resulted in sixth graders pole dancing.
Rochester Community Schools trustee Andrew Weaver joined “Fox & Friends” to discuss his fight for transparency on the 2022 incident in Detroit.
“It’s just unbelievable,” Weaver said Friday. “How did we get here? How does this even become a thing?”
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Authored by Ryan Morgan via The Epoch Times (emphasis ours)
A group of 43 national security experts published an open letter on Jan. 11 criticizing news organizations and scientific publications that dismissed the possibility that the COVID-19 pandemic might have been the result of a lab leak.
The letter is addressed “To the editors, authors, and contributors to major scientific, medical, and journalistic publications worldwide.” The addressees include The Lancet, Nature Medicine, The New York Times, and TIME magazine.
The letter was coordinated by the Vandenberg Coalition, and included signatures from House Foreign Affairs Committee Chairman Michael McCaul (R-Texas), former U.S. National Security Advisor Robert O’Brien, Former U.S. Deputy National Security Advisor Matthew Pottinger, and analysts from the Heritage Foundation, the Hudson Institute, the Center for Strategic and International Studies (CSIS), and other security and foreign policy analysts.
“Leading scientific journals censored dissenting voices; many science writers at major news outlets promoted narratives or asserted conclusions unsubstantiated by evidence; reporters failed to make even cursory attempts at surfacing potential conflicts of interest of their sources,” the letter states.
“This served to hamper national and international policy discussions about how to mitigate against future pandemics of any origin—natural, accidental, or deliberate.”
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Pritzker to Police on Gun Ban Enforcement: ‘They Will Do Their Job or Won’t be in Their Job’
(The Center Square) — With a new ban on certain guns now in place in Illinois, some have said they won’t comply. Gov. J.B. Pritzker has a message for law enforcement: Do your job or else. Gun-rights groups say the ban won’t last long.
With counties across the state saying they won’t enforce a gun ban, or are Second Amendment sanctuaries, and some publicly saying they won’t comply with a looming registry, Pritzker said Illinois State Police will be responsible for enforcement.
“As are all law enforcement all across our state and they will in fact do their job or they won’t be in their job,” Pritzker said.
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Raleigh Sets Record High in Homicides as Mayor Moves to Make City ‘Inclusive’ And ‘Equitable’
Raleigh, North Carolina under Democrat Mayor Mary-Ann Baldwin has seen homicide increase at rates as high as 49 percent since she took office along with an overall increase in violent crime with a large number of offenses perpetrated by minors.
According to local news, Raleigh Police Chief Estella Patterson said on Wednesday, “When we see 14— and 15-year-olds committing crimes, we have to have groups of people who can really connect with them and be able to turn that around and prevent them from going to a life of crime.”
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Snapchat Lawsuit Alleges 8 Fentanyl Deaths Across 6 States Resulted From Pills Purchased Through App
A lawsuit filed earlier this month by the Social Media Victims Law Center (SMVLC) alleges that fentanyl-laced pills purchased via Snapchat led to the deaths of eight people between the ages of 15 and 22.
The center filed its lawsuits against the social media app — which allows users to send photos and messages that disappear immediately or over a specified amount of time — in the Los Angeles Superior Court earlier this month.
“The Social Media Victims Law Center will continue to hold Snap, Inc. and its social media product Snapchat legally accountable for the sale of illicit drugs on its site and its features that allow drug dealers to operate without fear of facing justice for their crimes,” Matthew Bergman, founding attorney of SMVLC, said in a statement.
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Some Illinois Sheriffs Won’t Enforce Pritzker’s Gun Ban, Registry
(The Center Square) — A growing number of county officials say they won’t enforce the gun ban and registry Illinois Gov. J.B. Pritzker enacted this week.
It is now illegal to buy or sell more than 170 semi-automatic firearms. Those who owned such guns before the ban went into effect Tuesday when the governor signed the measure must register them with Illinois State Police by Jan. 1, 2024. There’s also a ban on long gun magazines of more than 10 and handgun magazines of more than 15.
Sheriffs and state’s attorneys from across the state say they won’t enforce the ban and registry.
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Soros-Backed Loudoun County Attorney Issues List of Crimes She Won’t Prosecute
Soros-backed Loudoun County, Virginia, Commonwealth’s Attorney Buta Biberaj issued a list of crimes her office will no longer be involved in prosecuting.
Misdemeanor charges including hit and run with property damage, eluding police, reckless driving under 90 miles per hour, and trespassing will not be handled by Biberaj’s office, according to a letter sent to judges obtained by ABC 7 News.
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Texas Brewery Cancels Anti-Censorship Rally Featuring Kyle Rittenhouse: ‘Doesn’t Reflect Our Values’
A brewery in Texas has canceled a rally featuring Kyle Rittenhouse, claiming that the event doesn’t reflect its values.
Southern Star Brewing Company, a brewery in Conroe, Texas, will no longer host the “Rally Against Censorship” featuring Rittenhouse on Jan. 26, explaining its position Friday in a Twitter post.
“Southern star brewery is an apolitical organization. But we feel that this event doesn’t reflect our own values and we could not in good faith continue to rent our space for the event on 1/26. We don’t do rallies, we make beer for people who like beer,” the brewery said.
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The Insurrection of General Milley
by Daniel Greenfield
“The riots over the summer, you know, I could make a case that those riots were riots organic to an aggrieved community that perceived that they had various injustices throughout their life,” General Mark A Milley told the J6 Committee. “It was sheer, unmitigated anger that expressed itself in the form of mass violence and rioting. And, okay, I get it, it’s illegal, it’s wrong.”
The Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, who had previously justified the study of “white rage”, went on to defend the riots and the double standard at the heart of the J6 Committee.
“I don’t think the intent of those riots was to overturn the United States Government and to destroy the Constitution of the United States of America,” he argued.
The mobs assaulting police officers, burning flags, attacking federal buildings in sieges, like the one in Portland, reminiscent of Fort Sumter, and calling for the destruction of America under the guidance of an organization of “trained Marxists” demonstrated that it was an insurrection.
And Gen. Milley’s testimony showed that he sympathized with the insurrectionists…
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The White House’s Most Brazen, Entitled, Social Media Censorship Demands
The latest batch of revelations into the social media censorship directed by the Biden White House reveal a range of broad, often petty, censorship demands, some of which are purely requests to boost President Biden’s image and show him and his family in a better light.
The revelations came as part of the discovery in the ongoing lawsuit against the government for its alleged First Amendment violations, making clear requests to silence American citizens through online platforms.
The New Civil Liberties Alliance (NCLA), also a plaintiff in the lawsuit, shared some of the documents obtained during discovery.
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Top Secret Documents Reportedly Found in Biden Cache
Classified files recovered from US President Joe Biden’s former private office reportedly include some material marked top secret.
Papers with the highest classification level were among about 10 files at a think tank bearing his name, according to the BBC’s US partner CBS News.
Fewer than 10 classified documents were found at one of his Delaware homes, but none were top secret, says CBS.
A leak of top secret information could cause “exceptionally grave damage”.
[Comment: BBC article dated Jan. 13, 2023.]
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Trump Organization Fined $1.6 Million for Tax Fraud
A New York judge Friday fined the Trump Organization $1.6 million for a tax fraud scheme for over 15 years.
Subsidiaries of the Trump Organization — Trump Corp. and Trump Payroll Corp. — were convicted in December 2022 on 17 counts, some of which included criminal tax fraud, falsifying business records, and conspiracy.
Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg said the companies have for too long been getting away “with a scheme that awarded high-level executives with lavish perks and compensation while intentionally concealing the benefits from the taxing authorities to avoid paying taxes,” according to NBC News.
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Twitter Files: Adam Schiff’s Office Asked ‘Quite Often’ To Remove Tweets, Including Parody Biden Pic
A new batch of Twitter Files on Friday continues to put a harsh spotlight on Rep. Adam Schiff, D-Calif., and his office’s frequent requests that the social media juggernaut ban unfavorable content.
Journalist Matt Taibbi indicated that Schiff’s staff asked Twitter “quite often” to take down damning tweets. Last week, a separate batch of Twitter Files revealed similar requests by Schiff’s office. An example he shared was one sent in November 2020 by Schiff’s office, who contacted Twitter hoping the tech giant would take action regarding “alleged harassment from QAnon conspiracists” against Schiff’s staff, including aide Sean Misko. The latest batch indicates Schiff’s office even fought to have unflattering pictures removed.
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Alcohol and Drug Deaths Reach Record Highs During the Pandemic: Statistics Canada
Recent data released by Statistics Canada on Thursday paints a grim reality of Canadians dying from alcohol and drug abuse during the course of the Covid-19 pandemic.
A record number of people died from alcohol-induced deaths over the past few years. In 2020 there were 3,790 reports of alcohol-related deaths and by 2021 that number had grown to 3,875.
“Alcohol-induced mortality also increased significantly throughout the pandemic,” wrote analysts.
“The 18% increase from 2019 to 2020 was the largest year-over-year change in alcohol-induced deaths seen in at least the last 20 years.”
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Jordan Peterson’s Ottawa Event Directly Opposes NHL’s Diversity and Inclusion Efforts, Experts Say
Ottawa’s Canadian Tire Centre hosts many events, touting itself as a venue where “The greatest games, the biggest shows, the best times in the nation’s capital happen.” Most notably, the arena serves as home to the National Hockey League’s Ottawa Senators, with both the team and arena owned by the estate of the late Eugene Melnyk and run by branches of Capital Sports.
While the Senators are the venue’s top billing, a more controversial tenant is set to play to the crowd at the Canadian Tire Centre this month. That person is Jordan B. Peterson.
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Smith Hints Pandemic-Related Charges May Go Against Public Interest
Alberta Premier Danielle Smith says she’s asking Justice Minister Tyler Shandro and his deputy minister to consider “on a regular basis” whether charges made for breaching Covid-19 restrictions are in the public interest.
The premier made the comments on Thursday, less than three months after saying she wanted to seek pardons for those who violated Covid-19 restrictions.
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Trudeau Spends $400M Giving Ukraine Air Defence Canadian Army Has Wanted for Decade
The Canadian government under Prime Minister Justin Trudeau has promised to spend over $400 million on an air defence system for Ukraine that the Canadian army has begged for since 2012.
Justin Trudeau’s Liberal Party government is looking to spend over $400 million to purchase a National Advanced Surface-to-Air Missile System (NASAMS), according to an announcement made on Tuesday by Defence Minister Anita Anand.
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18-Year-Old English Rugby Player Logan Holgate Dies ‘Suddenly’
An 18-year-old rising rugby player in England died suddenly this week, leaving his local club and family devastated at the tragic loss of life.
Logan Holgate, of the Hensingham Amateur Rugby League Football Club (ARLFC) in the Northern England town of Whitehaven, died “suddenly” at the aged 18 on Wednesday, according to local reports.
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80% of NL Residents Worried About Daily Costs of Living: Eurobarometer
The rising cost of living is the biggest concern for 81 percent of the Dutch population. Concerns about the increasing prices of energy and food, in particular, are felt by all layers of society, across all educational and professional backgrounds, and regardless of gender or age. Eighty percent of the Dutch are also concerned about climate change, and 62 percent are worried about the possible spread of the war in Ukraine to other countries, according to a poll by the European Parliament.
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Demographic Disaster? Close to 70% of Polish Women Do Not Plan on Having Children
Like many European countries, Poland is struggling with a challenging demographic situation, with younger generations of women increasingly going childless, often by choice.
The latest research reveals that the situation may not be improving anytime soon. It shows that 68 percent of Polish women aged between 18 and 45 years do not plan to have children.
The report from the Center for Public Opinion Research (CBOS) shows that only 32 percent of respondents aged between 18 and 45 years revealed that they plan to have children. Only 17 percent want to give birth within the next three to four years.
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Explosion Rocks Natural Gas Pipeline Connecting Lithuania, Latvia; Village Evacuated
Lithuania natural gas transmission operator Amber Grid told Reuters its pipeline that connects Lithuania to Latvia was rocked by an explosion on Friday.
Footage of the explosion emerged on Twitter in the last 30 minutes.
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France: Pfizer and Ministers Sued by Vaccine Victims
In Marseille and Paris, two actions have started on behalf of the alleged victims of Covid injections. They call on all concerned to join them.
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Me Jean-Pierre Joseph is taking on Pfizer in Paris, as well as the ministers responsible for the vaccination campaign, in particular Olivier Véran and Jean Castex. See the video below. At the same time, a first hearing at the Marseille civil court took place on Monday January 9, following the action of lawyer Eric Lanzarone, defending nearly 300 clients who contracted illnesses shortly after their vaccination against Covid-19.
Complaint against Pfizer, Véran and Castex
Me Jean-Pierre Joseph’s criminal complaint was filed with the Paris Court of Justice, Pôle Santé. The civil party is represented in particular by Marc Doyer, spokesperson for the association of victims of Covid vaccines Verity France: His wife Mauricette (ER: a French singer) died on June 23, 2021 of Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease following a Pfizer injection.
The lawyer is going after Pfizer, as well as former Prime Minister Jean Castex and the Minister of Health at the time Olivier Véran (who had claimed that the Covid vaccination had no connection with the Jakob-Creutzfeldt disease), as well as all the ministers and elected officials who had a responsibility in the vaccination campaign.
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Gas Pipeline Explosion Rocks Northern Lithuania, 250 People Told to Evacuate
Open flames up to 50 metres high were seen on the site of a burst gas pipeline in northern Lithuania. A village of around 250 people is being evacuated.
The explosion was reported at around 17:00 on Friday evening in the village of Pasvalio Vienkiemiai, in the District of Pasvalys.
The explosion occurred in the Amber Grid gas main pipeline. No casualties have been reported.
“There were unexpected sounds, it seemed as if planes were flying somewhere low — a high-pressure gas pipeline exploded on the side of Valakeliai, on the Pasvalys-Šiauliai road, a couple of kilometres from Pasvalys. The flames are shooting up to a high altitude,” Pasvalys District Mayor Gintautas Gegužinskas described the incident to LRT RADIO.
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German Police Say Lützerath Anti-Coal Protest Nearly Cleared
Authorities said on Thursday that most of the western German village of Lützerath had been cleared of climate activists, who were trying to block the expansion of a coal mine there.
Riot police spent a second day under heavy rain removing people from buildings and other structures, such as tree houses.
Over a thousand police officers were involved in the operation, with bulldozers moving in in their wake to finish clearing areas and removing debris from parts of the site.
“The weather conditions are a big problem today. We now have to analyze carefully whether it is even possible today to clear tree houses without risk,” Aachen police spokesperson Andrew Mueller said.
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Germany to Scrap COVID Mask Rule on Long-Distance Transport
German Health Minister Karl Lauterbach announced on Friday that, from February 2, travelers will no longer need to wear face masks on long-distance public transport in Germany.
The minister said the government had taken the decision to scrap the mask mandate several months ahead of schedule because of a reduction in the risk posed by the coronavirus.
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A local politician for the Alternative for Germany (AfD) party was viciously attacked by two men last Friday as he rode the bus home in the port city of Hamburg.
The incident occurred in the Billstedt district of the city as Marc-Manuel Kunstmann, son of prominent German actress, was traveling home on a bus. The victim claims to have been recognized by two men and was savagely beaten on public transport.
“They must have recognized me as an AfD’er,” 45-year-old Kunstmann, who is chairman of the AfD district group in Hamburg-Mitte, claimed in a Facebook post detailing the attack.
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Huge Rare Earth Metals Discovery in Arctic Sweden
Europe’s largest deposit of rare earths — which are used from mobile phones to missiles — has been found in Sweden.
No rare earths are mined in Europe at the moment and a Swedish minister hailed the find as a way of reducing the EU’s dependence on China.
The discovery is also being seen as “decisive” for the green transition, given the expected rise in demand for electric vehicles and wind turbines.
Some 98% of rare earths used in the EU in 2021 were imported from China.
Over one million tonnes are reported to have now been found in Sweden’s far north.
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Hungary Ready to Sue EU Commission for Pulling Plug on Erasmus Scholarships
The European Commission’s decision to exclude universities run by foundations from the European Union’s Erasmus+ program is unacceptable, Cabinet Minister Gergely Gulyas said on Thursday in a briefing after Wednesday’s cabinet meeting.
As Remix News reported, the European Commission has suspended over 20 of the country’s universities from the Erasmus+ student exchange and educational cooperation program.
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It’s a Big Club and You’re Not in it
Davos globalists are set to discuss climate change again.
Last year, their private jets belched out the CO2 equivalent of 350,000 cars.
Private jet emissions quadrupled during Davos 2022.
But yeah, you’re bad for driving an SUV.
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Polish President Andrzej Duda Greeted With Ovations in the Streets of Lviv
Polish President Andrzej Duda met with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy and Lithuania’s Gitanas Nauseda in Lviv, Ukraine, on Wednesday. In the evening, before his return to Poland, Duda met residents of Lviv on the street where he was greeted with ovations and exclamations of gratitude.
“That is how residents of Lviv bid farewell to the president of Poland,” wrote Jakub Kumoch from the Chancellery of the President of Poland.
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Populist Czech Ex-PM Favourite to Win Presidency After EU Fraud Acquittal
PRAGUE (AP) — Populist billionaire Andrej Babis leads a field of eight candidates hoping to succeed Milos Zeman in the largely ceremonial but prestigious post of the Czech president.
Babis, a former prime minister, was recently acquitted in a fraud trial, boosting his chances of winning in the first round of the presidential election in voting on Friday and Saturday.
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Top Swedish Doctors Warn: COVID Shots Are ‘Obviously Dangerous’
A group of Sweden’s leading doctors has issued a warning to the public that Covid shots are “obviously dangerous” and called on governments worldwide to order an “immediate halt” on vaccinations.
Five of Sweden’s most senior doctors published a public statement in collaboration with Dr. Johan Eddebo, a researcher in digitalization and human rights.
The top medical experts are raising the alarm about the vaccines and urge that “thorough investigations” must be carried out to identify the true incidence and severity of adverse effects.
The doctors are members of the renowned bio-medico-legal network of Läkaruppropet.
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UK Doctors Have Doubled Antipsychotic Prescriptions to Children and Youth: Study
Authored by Jessie Zhang via The Epoch Times
Despite the lack of evidence of the safety of antipsychotics in children, who are smaller in size and still rapidly developing, the number of prescriptions to English youth has doubled between 2000 to 2019, a study suggests.
The researchers from the University of Manchester examined over seven million children and adolescents aged three to 18.
They discovered that youth prescriptions of antipsychotics — drugs used to treat major mental illnesses, such as autism, schizophrenia, and ADHD — increased from 0.06 percent to 0.11 in the past two decades.
While the percentage is small, co-author and senior research fellow at the University of Manchester Matthias Pierce said that the higher prevalence of these disorders, as well as a growing trend to prescribe antipsychotics by clinicians, is concerning.
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UK: Anti-Brexit Sadiq Khan Calls for ‘Pragmatic’ Debate on Rejoining EU Single Market
London’s anti-Brexit progressive mayor, Sadiq Khan, has called for a “pragmatic” debate to once again take place in Britain on the topic of rejoining the EU Single Market, with its associated Free Movement migration regime.
Sadiq Khan, the leftist Mayor of London, has demanded that a “pragmatic” debate take place in Britain on the topic of rejoining the European Union’s Single Market.
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UK: Oxford Residents Mount Resistance Against the Sectioning of Their Streets
The Great Climate Con
Oxford residents are taking matters into their own hands and destroying the street zone sectioning barriers.
Just recently there was a day of action by activists to kick start the year of fighting back. We predicted the UK was just getting started with their resistance, and here we have it. Taking matters into their own hands, Oxford residents are destroying street zoning barriers.
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Watch: Man Wielding Medieval Weapon Faces Off With Brussels Police
A suspect wielding a club studded with nails was arrested following a tense standoff with police in Belgium this week, according to reports.
The wild incident unfolded at around noon on Thursday in Brussels, the de facto capital of the European Union.
Officers encountered the male suspect during a patrol in Matongewijk, a neighborhood known as the “African quarter” of the city.
The man was behaving erratically and refused orders to drop a “homemade bat with nails tied around it,” Bruzz reports.
Footage of the chaotic scene was shared on social media by multiple prominent officials in the nationalist-populist Vlaams Belang party.
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‘It’s a Fact’ — Ukrainian Govt Declares Country is ‘De Facto’ NATO Member
Ukraine’s defence minister has told Western media is a “de facto” NATO member and expects substantial Western weapons shipments shortly.
“Ukraine as a country, and the armed forces of Ukraine, became [a] member of NATO. De facto, not de jure (by law). Because we have weaponry, and the understanding of how to use it,” Zelensky’s defence chief, Oleksii Reznikov, said in an interview with the British Broadcasting Corporation.
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Russia Army Set to Increase Number of Soldiers to 1.5 Million, Create 24 New Divisions
Russian forces are preparing to increase the number of soldiers in the country’s armed forces by 30 percent, raising the total count to 1.5 million, according to Ukrainian intelligence and a Washington D.C.-based think tank.
The news comes as Russia’s military leadership looks set to carry out sweeping military reforms this year. The huge increase in soldiers would result in the creation of 24 new divisions, with the news coming at the same time that NATO countries signal they are increasingly likely to send main battle tanks and other advanced NATO weaponry to Ukraine.
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Ukraine Rejects Russian Claims Over Control of Soledar, Says Fighting Ongoing
Ukraine has rejected claims by Russia of a rare battleground success after months of setbacks in the eastern Ukrainian town of Soledar, saying intense fighting continues for control of the town.
Russia’s Defense Ministry said in a statement on January 13 that it had captured the strategically important salt-mining town overnight. There have been several conflicting reports over who controls the town in recent days, and the Russian claim could not be independently verified.
Ukraine and Washington have tamped down talk about the importance of Soledar, saying the heavy cost in personnel incurred by Russia was not worth an area now devastated by weeks of fighting and likely not significant enough to swing the war markedly in Moscow’s favor.
“No, this is not true. Severe fighting is still going on in the town,” Serhiy Cherevatiy, a spokesman for the eastern group of the Ukrainian armed forces, said on January 13 in comments to the media outlet RBC-Ukraine, just hours after the Russian ministry’s claim.
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Zelensky Strips Orthodox Clergy, Politicians, And Other Accused Russia Sympathisers of Citizenship
Ukraine’s President Volodymyr Zelensky has stripped Ukrainian citizenship from 13 Orthodox clergy and several opposition politicians alleged to have ties to Russia.
President Zelensky stripped the 13 priests of the Ukrainian Orthodox Church (UOC) of their citizenship late last month and this week stripped several prominent opposition politicians of their Ukrainian citizenship as well, among them Viktor Medvedchuk, who was given to Russian authorities as part of a prisoner exchange in September of last year.
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Summer is finally here as authorities issue heatwave warnings for six states and territories with parts of Australia already sweltering through days above 45C.
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Brazil to Investigate Former President Bolsonaro’s Role in Brasilia Riots
Brazil’s Supreme Federal Court will investigate the role of former President Jair Bolsonaro in the recent riots that saw his supports storm multiple government buildings in the capital city of Brasilia, demanding the ouster of President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva.
“By posting a video on January 10 (two days after the attack) questioning the legality of the 2022 presidential elections, Bolsonaro delivered a public incitement to commit crimes,” a statement from the court read, according to CNN. Bolsonaro on Tuesday shared a video on Facebook of a woman questioning the legality of the 2022 presidential election, which was subsequently deleted. The video was posted after the riots.
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333,000 Migrants Attempted to Enter EU Illegally in 2022, Over 80 Per Cent Were Men
BRUSSELS (AP) — The number of attempts by migrants to enter the European Union without authorization reached around 330,000 last year, the highest number since 2016, the EU’s border and coast guard agency said Friday.
Almost half of the 2022 attempts were made overland through the Western Balkans region, EU agency Frontex said, according to its “preliminary calculations.” Regardless of entry route, Syrians, Afghans, and Tunisians together accounted for roughly 47 per cent of the attempted border crossings.
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Afghan Refugees Cost U.S. Military Bases Over $535 Million
(The Center Square) — Afghan nationals housed at U.S. bases overseas and in six states cost military branches more than $535 million in damages and consumables according to findings released by the Department of Defense inspector general. A Texas congressman is now demanding answers.
Those housed at eight military bases in the six states cost the bases $362.63 million in depleted resources and damages to facilities. This included $257.48 million in damages to base facilities, making some buildings and infrastructure unusable for U.S. troops, and over $105 million in equipment and replaceable consumable items used, and weakening military readiness.
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Biden to Allow Illegal Immigrants to Avoid Deportation if They Report Employers for ‘Labor Abuses’
The Biden administration will offer a streamlined deportation “relief” process to illegal immigrants who report labor abuses, the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) announced on Friday.
According to a new webpage, illegal immigrants are encouraged to cooperate with law enforcement investigations, and in exchange will be shielded from potential employer retaliation and will have their deportation relief process expedited.
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War in Ukraine: Five Russian Refugees Stuck in an Airport Terminal in South Korea
The issue of Russian refugees fleeing the war in Ukraine is embarrassing the South Korean government, which has a strict policy of accepting asylum seekers but wants to avoid offending Moscow. The issue has become more acute since the revelations on January 9 by the daily Korea Times that five Russians have been present in the boarding area of Incheon airport, west of Seoul. The five Russian nationals fled their country to avoid being sent to the Ukrainian front. They have been stuck there since their asylum applications were rejected in the fall.
“I would volunteer if my country was under attack. But now my own country is the aggressor. I will never take arms to go and kill innocent people in Ukraine,” says Vladimir Maraktaev, who fled his native region in Buryatia (southern Siberia) on the night of September 24, 2022, a few hours after receiving his mobilization orders.
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Florida Gov. Ron Desantis’ Office Blasts NHL for ‘Discriminatory’ Job Fair
Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis’s office blasted the National Hockey League for hosting a “discriminatory” job fair that only allows certain groups of people to attend.
The event, titled “Pathway to Hockey Summit” is scheduled for on Feb. 2 during the 2023 All Star Festivities in Fort Lauderdale, Florida, and seeks to help “diverse job seekers who are pursuing careers in hockey.”
According to a post by the NHL promoting the event on LinkedIn, the event is only open to certain groups of people.
“Participants must be 18 years of age or older, based in the U.S., and identify as female, Black, Asian/Pacific Islander, Hispanic/Latino, Indigenous, LGBTQIA+, and/or a person with a disability. Veterans are also welcome and encouraged to attend,” the event description states.
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Former Kentucky Swimmer Leads Protest Against NCAA’s Inclusion of Transgender Athletes
Former University of Kentucky swimmer Riley Gaines and about two dozen demonstrators outside the NCAA convention Thursday protested the inclusion of transgender athletes in women’s sports and threatened the association with legal action if it doesn’t change its policies.
Gaines competed in last year’s NCAA swimming and diving championships against Penn’s Lia Thomas, who became the first transgender woman to win a national title (the women’s 500-yard freestyle). She also placed fifth in the 200 freestyle, tying with Gaines.
“Today, we intend to personally tell the NCAA to stop discriminating against female athletes by handing them a petition that we have garnered nearly 10,000 signatures on in just a couple of days,” Gaines said, kicking off more than an hour of speeches that attracted a few onlookers and a handful of quiet counter-protesters.
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A federal judge ruled that a Maryland Catholic hospital discriminated against a transgender patient when it refused to perform a gender-affirming surgery, which hospital officials said was not in line with its religious, ethical guidelines.
U.S. District Court Judge Deborah Chasanow ruled Friday that the hospital’s actions were “discriminatory” under the Affordable Care Act, according to the opinion.
[Comment: Judge appointed by—surprise! — a Democrat.]
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New York Moves to Allow Biological Males to be Housed in Women’s Prisons
The New York State legislature has reintroduced a piece of legislation brought forth in the previous legislative session that would allow prisoners to be housed according to their self-reported “gender identity,” meaning that biological males could “self-ID” their way into women’s prisons.
Assembly Bill A709, also called the “gender identity respect, dignity and safety act,” states that prisoners who have a gender identity that differs from their birth sex should be allowed to seek accommodations that closely match their gender identity.
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Texas Lawmakers Introduce Bill Restricting Teachings on Gender Identity, Reinforcing Parental Rights
Texas legislators introduced a bill on Thursday that prohibits schools from withholding information regarding the mental, physical, or emotional well-being, or changes in gender identity of students, and restricts the teaching of gender identity and sexual orientation.
The legislation comes as a slew of schools across the country have adopted procedures that allow students to take on a different gender identity at school without the knowledge of their parents.
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A $1 million+ government-funded study by academics in Norway is investigating how the color white is racist.
No, this isn’t a joke.
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Who Designed Global Guidelines for Puberty Blockers?
Clinics around the world follow guidelines from the Netherlands for gender treatments in children. The basis for this is, among other things, a much-criticized study sponsored by a German hormone manufacturer.
More and more children and young people believe they have to question their gender identity. Some 60 minors were treated in the Netherlands in 2010, but has increased to around 1 600 last year. Another 1 800 people under the age of 18 were on the waiting list because gender clinics in the country are full.
Institutions around the world use a standard procedure developed in Amsterdam in the 1990s when it comes to the drug treatment of supposedly transsexual children.
A report by the Dutch newspaper NRC Handelsblad has meanwhile cast doubt on the directive and the independence of gender research at the Amsterdam UMC hospital. As strict as the conditions for treatment may appear, several complications have been overlooked: The terrible side effects of the heavy drug has been brushed off by doctors as being the lesser evil.
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Farenheit 40 – 42 all week long –
yet the light flickers constantly –
voltage obviously is commuteing
up and down – the end must be near?
Electricity shortages prevail, as is
well known.
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Tidö parties say no to “electricity billing”
Published 14 January 2023 in Fria Tider
A proposal from the Social Democrats to set up a subsidy fund to help households and businesses pay their electricity bills has been rejected by the Riksdag’s Finance Committee, where the parties behind the Tidö Agreement have a majority.
The chairman of the committee, Edward Riedl (M), believes that it does not make sense to go ahead with the proposal, reports TV4 News.
This after the industry association Energiföretagen gave its views during an extraordinary meeting.
The industry felt that it would not be possible for electricity companies to introduce functioning IT systems and staff to manage an electricity billing office in a short time.
These comments led the committee to reject the proposal.
The electricity shortage
Population freeze – Sweden hits record for electricity exports in 2022
Municipalities deny companies to set up – electricity is not enough
First major blackout in Stockholm
‘Disconnection’ of households as industry’s electricity is secured this winter
Population had to freeze – Sweden hit record in electricity exports in 2022
Municipalities deny businesses setting up shop – electricity isn’t enough
First major blackout in Stockholm
‘Disconnection’ of households as industry’s electricity is secured this winter
Solar panels pay for themselves in 2.5 years
90 billion homeowner subsidy promised
Parties’ electricity promises dismissed as election bluff
‘Sweden price’ for electricity may be in breach of EU law
Electricity prices today: 50 kronor for a shower
The forecast: electricity will be SEK 50,000 more expensive for homeowners this winter
Government opens up for new homeowner subsidy
Electricity prices expected to double again
Electricity prices to rise by 388 percent
Tax-free electricity attracts cryptocurrencies to Sweden
Sweden starts subsidising electricity for bitcoin
“Why can’t electricity be considered a luxury good?”
Electricity consumers to be compensated: 6.000 SEK
Swedish IT giant regrets tax exemption for IT giants
Government’s electricity rebate to online giants: SEK 300 million
Electricity price hits new record
MP on electricity prices: “Anger should be directed at Russia”
Extremely high electricity prices today
Norway and France give targeted aid to victims of electricity prices
Opposition forces government to defend nuclear power in EU
Ygeman: Putin behind soaring Swedish electricity prices
A kilowatt-hour of electricity could cost seven kronor this winter
Swedish oil power plant running like never before
Norrland municipality lost 2,000 jobs due to electricity shortage
Majority wants to expand Swedish nuclear power
Expert: Expect electricity prices to double this summer thanks to wind power
Sabuni warns that Sweden “will soon be a U-country”
SVT urges people not to vacuum clean – electricity is not enough
SVT: “The functioning of the electricity grid is threatened”
Electricity crisis worsens – oil power plants must start
Green Party denies electricity crisis – compared to “Baghdad Bob”
Oil power to prevent electricity shortages in Sweden
How your economy will be affected by wind power investment
Electricity prices soar – highest in five years
The electricity shortage is here – then Stockholm goes dark and so do YOU
Electricity shortage in Stockholm threatens 400,000 jobs
Svenska Kraftnät shocks grid fee by 20 percent
Government shock tax hike threatens “acute electricity shortage”
Bread giant stopped by electricity shortage – compares Sweden to developing country
The Zuckerberg effect: the electricity bill is now starting to sting Swedish wallets
Swedish electricity prices hit 7 kr/kWh as politicians give tax-funded data centres to Google, Microsoft and Facebook (the Cloud).
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