Quote:Babylon Bee is the definitive source of fake news you can trust.

(11-19-2022, 05:38 AM)EndtheMadnessNow Wrote:

Roughly 60 percent voting yes. Trump posts ALOT on his Truth Social platform.

(11-20-2022, 03:08 AM)EndtheMadnessNow Wrote: Like uncorking a time capsule.



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Quote:AOC says that gas stoves are linked to 'reduced cognitive performance' in spat with Republican
Ronny Jackson - after he said he would 'never' give his up

*The Biden administration is weighing a ban on gas stoves, citing health effects
*Texas Republican Rep. Ronny Jackson said the federal government would have
to 'pry' his gas stove 'from my cold dead hands'
*He also shot back at NY Democrat Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez with a photo
of her own gas stove

'Progressive Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez took a shot at Republican Rep. Ronny Jackson from Texas on Tuesday
evening after the Texas lawmaker lashed out against the Biden administration for considering a ban on gas stoves.

Federal officials are weighing the significant step, which would have a sweeping effect on new building regulations,
over the growing evidence of their risk to people's heath. Jackson, known for his fiery tirades against the Biden
administration on Twitter, made clear where he stood on the matter.

'I’ll NEVER give up my gas stove,' Jackson wrote on the social platform. 'If the maniacs in the White House come
for my stove, they can pry it from my cold dead hands. COME AND TAKE IT!!'

Ocasio-Cortez retweeted the Republican's statement, writing, 'Did you know that ongoing exposure to NO2 from
gas stoves is linked to reduced cognitive performance.' Jackson responded with what appeared to be a screenshot
from the New York congresswoman's Instagram story, showing her kitchen.



'[Ocasio-Cortez] says gas stoves cause “reduced cognitive performance” - yet she uses a gas stove? Is this a self
-diagnosis?' the conservative lawmaker wrote. 'AOC, as a medical doctor, I can tell you this: what’s wrong with
your head IS NOT caused by stoves. Something WAY BIGGER is causing your decreased cognitive function!'

Consumer Product Safety Commissioner Richard Trumka, Jr. said a ban on gas stoves is 'on the table' in a
Bloomberg interview published on Monday. Trumka called gas stoves, which have been a fixture in American
homes since the early 1920s, a 'hidden hazard.' 'Products that can’t be made safe can be banned,' he said.
Four in every 10 American homes has a natural gas stove.

They've been linked to childhood asthma in multiple studies, and gases produced such as nitrogen dioxide and
carbon monoxide have been linked to cancer as well as other health conditions. A study out of California published
late last year indicates that gas stoves also leak carcinogens such as benzene.

Arizona conservative Rep. Andy Biggs blasted the potential ban as 'woke.'
'The Biden Administration is now weighing a nationwide ban on gas stoves. Tens of millions of Americans use gas
stoves. They're affordable, practical, and popular,' Biggs wrote on Twitter.
'Enough with this woke garbage!'

It's become another debate dividing conservatives and progressives.
Moderate Democratic Senator Joe Manchin of West Virginia joined the right in panning the move.
'This is a recipe for disaster. The federal government has no business telling American families how to cook their
dinner,' Manchin said. 'I can tell you the last thing that would ever leave my house is the gas stove that we cook on.'...'

Quote:Teacher Sacked After Refusing to Use Eight Year-Old’s Trans Pronouns and Raising Safeguarding Concerns

A primary schoolteacher has lost her job and is facing a raft of investigations from various regulatory bodies for questioning the advice from Stonewall and Mermaids to encourage a ‘gender transition’ of an eight year-old pupil without any medical evidence.

The child, who cannot be identified for legal reasons and is known only as ‘Child X’, believed she was born in a wrong body and wanted to be treated as a boy.

Based on the advice from trans rights organisations such as Mermaids and Stonewall, the council instructed all school staff always to refer to the child by male pronouns and her chosen male name and that she should use boys’ toilets, dressing rooms and dormitories as requested.

The teacher known as ‘Hannah’ (not her real name) invoked the school’s and the council’s whistleblowing procedure to argue that this approach was not based on medical evidence or compliance with the safeguarding procedures and was putting the child’s health and welfare at risk.

Supported by the Christian Legal Centre, Hannah relied on several expert reports from scientists and doctors highlighting the dangers of encouraging ‘gender transition’ in young children.

After her concern was brushed aside, Hannah brought a claim for judicial review against the school and the council.

The court ordered that the local council, the school and all its staff must remain anonymous to ensure this does not lead to a jigsaw identification of the child.

In response to Hannah’s legal action, the school summarily dismissed her for divulging confidential information to her lawyers and to the court.

The school reported Hannah to the Information Commissioner for a criminal offence under the Data Protection Act. The Information Commissioner has concluded there was no evidence of a criminal offence and decided to take no further action.

The school also reported Hannah to the professional regulator, Teaching Regulation Agency (TRA), for an alleged confidentiality breach. The TRA is currently investigating the case. If found guilty of professional misconduct, Hannah may face a lifelong ban from the profession.

Reporting Hannah to the Disclosure and Barring Service (DBS), the school sought to bar her from teaching. The DBS, however, has declined to impose a ban pending further enquiries following an investigation.

After a life-long career as a professional teacher, Hannah has been forced to find a job in a sandwich bar.
She has now brought a claim in Employment Tribunal against the school for victimising her for whistleblowing, unfair dismissal and religious discrimination.

She has alleged that the school dismissed her, and reported her to a raft of regulators, for blowing the whistle on the school’s practice which endangered the child’s safety, health and welfare.

The Employment Tribunal is expected to hear the claim in August 2024.

Hannah has this week written to Education Secretary, Gillian Keegan, requesting a meeting to discuss her case. 

Her case and the TRA investigation come despite a scathing report published last month by think tank Policy Exchange.

The report reveals the disturbing extent of extreme transgender and gender identity ideology in U.K. schools. In the foreword to the report Rosie Duffield MP writes: “A generation of children are being let down, because well-established safeguarding standards are being compromised.”’

The report goes on to say that in relation to sex and gender issues: “Safeguarding principles are being routinely disregarded in many secondary schools, which are neglecting their safeguarding responsibilities in favour of a set of contested beliefs in a way that risk jeopardising child wellbeing and safety.”

Hannah said:

Quote:Like all teachers at the school, I owed a safeguarding duty to Child X. From day one I believe that I acted in Child X’s best interests as I had a legitimate belief that the treatment of Child X amounted to a serious safeguarding issue.

I followed all the correct procedures, I backed all of my concerns with expert evidence and believed the action I took was in the public interest.

It is because I care so much about children that I am taking this action. This isn’t about me simply trying to prove that I am right, but about the safety of a seriously distressed child.

I could not participate in causing harm to Child X. The tragic stories of ‘detransitioners’, the Policy Exchange report and clear expert scientific evidence, back and vindicate me.

Teachers are being bullied not to question trans affirming policies when evidence shows that the actual result of the approach is to put the welfare of children at serious risk.

I am determined to pursue justice over how I have been treated, but my number one concern and motivation is to protect this child and other children in this country from harm.

Quote:“Are school libraries banning thousands of books?” – In the Daily Signal, Jay Green and Madison Marino explain why you shouldn’t trust the Left’s narrative.

It is simply false that 2,532 books were removed from schools during the 2021-2022 school year. We know this is false because we examined online card catalogues and found that 74% of the books PEN America identified as banned from school libraries are actually listed as available in the catalogues of those school districts. In many cases we could see that copies of those books are currently checked out and in use by students. 

Among the books that PEN America alleges were banned are classic works, such as “Anne Frank’s Diary,” “Brave New World,” “Lord of the Flies,” “Of Mice and Men,” “The Color Purple,” and “To Kill a Mockingbird.” In every school district in which PEN America alleges those books were banned, we found copies listed as available in the online card catalogue.

Quote:European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen’s State of the Union Address on Wednesday included a list of the accomplishments of the European Union under her leadership, including this pearl (expressed in the characteristically unidiomatic English of European officialdom): “We have set the building blocks for a Health Union, helping to vaccinate an entire continent – and large parts of the world.” (For video of the speech, see here; for text, here.)

No mention of the fact that the EU vaccinated the European continent for the most part with a vaccine – that of the German company BioNTech and its American partner Pfizer – whose safety and efficacy were unknown per the very terms of the contract which the Commission signed with the companies on behalf of all EU member states, as can be seen below.



Here, as a reminder, is what the same passage looks like in the redacted version of the contract released by the Commission.



(The unredacted version, as discussed in my article here, was published by the Italian public broadcaster RAI over two years ago, but has gone largely ignored, undoubtedly due in no small part to suppression on social media.)

No mention either of the fact that the published results of the very clinical trial which was the basis for the emergency authorisation of the drug include an explicit acknowledgement that it remains unknown whether the so-called vaccine prevents transmission of the virus.

Quote:Russian billionaires take their money out of Europe

Russian billionaires have withdrawn tens of billions of dollars of assets from Europe since the beginning of the Russian-Ukrainian conflict, under the influence of international sanctions and the Russian authorities’ favourable asset repatriation policy. As calculated by Bloomberg, the total value of assets returned to the Russian Federation by the richest Russians since February 2022 reaches $50 billion.

In particular, just last month the shareholders of United Medical Group CY Plc and MD Medical Group Investments Plc, controlled by Igor Shilov and Mark Kurtser, approved the redomiciliation (transfer to another tax jurisdiction) of the companies from Cyprus to Russia.

The transfer of assets registered in places such as Cyprus, Jersey and Switzerland to Russia also to countries the Kremlin considers friendly, Bloomberg writes, such as the United Arab Emirates and Kazakhstan, began shortly after the start of the SMO. One of the first steps was to move the family assets of fertiliser billionaire Andrey Guryev and steel magnate Viktor Rashnikov from Switzerland and Cyprus to Russia.

Quote:In four days’ time, on Wednesday September 20th, our representatives meeting at the United Nations will sign off on a ‘Declaration’ titled: ‘Political Declaration of the United Nations General Assembly High-level Meeting on Pandemic Prevention, Preparedness and Response.’

This was announced as a “silent procedure”, meaning that States not responding will be deemed supporters of the text. The document expresses a new policy pathway for managing populations when the World Health Organisation (WHO), the health arm of the UN, declares a future viral variant to be a “public health emergency of international concern”. The WHO noted in 2019 that pandemics are rare and insignificant in terms of overall mortality over the last century. Since then, it decided that the 2019 old-normal population was simply oblivious to impending annihilation. The WHO and the entire UN system now consider pandemics an existential and imminent threat. This matters, because:

Quote:Don’t Be Distracted by Alarmism Over a Diversionary War

Governments that face significant domestic problems can ill afford gambling on war.
by Daniel Larison Posted on September 15, 2023

M. Taylor Fravel contends that the Chinese government isn’t likely to lash out militarily to distract from its domestic problems:

Since 1949, China has frequently suffered from significant ethnic and political unrest and economic shocks. But virtually no leaders have started crises or wars to distract the Chinese public – even when they should have been quite likely to do so according to the logic of diversionary war.

The record shows that the Chinese government hasn’t started diversionary wars despite having had many opportunities to do so. For that matter, the Chinese communist government has rarely initiated large-scale hostilities for any reason in more than seventy years. While it is possible that this could change in the future, it’s not something you would assume to be the most likely course of action.

The idea that China might start a diversionary war is certainly convenient for China hawks now that Chinese economic growth is slowing. Then again, China hawks are nothing if not flexible when it comes to predicting future Chinese government behavior. When the Chinese economy was growing at a fast clip, they warned of impending aggression. Now that it is slowing down, many of them also warn of impending aggression. It’s almost as if they reached their conclusions about what they think the Chinese government is going to do first and then worked backwards.

Diversionary wars can happen, but they are not terribly common. It would be extremely unlikely for any government to initiate a major conflict because it wants to distract its people from domestic problems. For one thing, a major conflict would almost certainly exacerbate their country’s economic and social problems by putting the country under intense strain. Unless the war is a minor campaign against a much weaker state, there is no reason to assume that the war will be either quick or successful. In most cases, it is unlikely that starting a war would benefit the leadership or the regime. Even a successful minor war might not be very useful for the leadership because the stakes are so insignificant.

Quote:Earlier this week, the mystery surrounding the origins of SARS-CoV-2 took another bewildering turn when the House Select Subcommittee on the Coronavirus Pandemic revealed that a “multi-decade, senior-level, current [CIA] officer” stepped forward to claim that when six of the seven specialists tasked by the CIA with investigating the origins of the virus concluded with low confidence that it likely came from a lab in Wuhan, the CIA paid those scientists hush money to reverse their decision. The six experts who were offered “financial incentives”—otherwise known as bribes—eventually concluded that the origin of the pandemic was uncertain. For its part, the CIA has denied the whistleblower’s claims. This denial was issued by CIA spokesperson Tammy Kupperman Thorp who, until just two years ago, worked as a journalist for CNN and NBC News covering, among other things, the CIA.

...
Indeed, despite USAID’s $200 million virus-hunting and surveillance program, “Predict,” it was Chinese doctors who alerted the world to the new pathogen rampaging around through Hubei province in late 2019, while those in the U.S. running nine-figure global surveillance programs remained, at least for a while, blissfully unaware.

"The whistleblower’s testimony reveals how deep the ties between virus research, the military-industrial complex, and China really run."

....
Despite the implications of the claim—the CIA bribing its own experts to alter professional assessments in a way that would favor the CCP—and the quality of the source, there has been nothing yet from either outlet as of the time of this writing.

As Rudyard Kipling wrote in Kim, his famous novel about international spy games playing out under the cover of seemingly mundane events in 19th-century India, the wheel turns, and turns again.

Quote:Something of a European blackspot when it comes to right-wing populism, a remarkably well-attended event in Ireland over the weekend offers tangible hope that a political thaw could be coming to the Emerald Isle faster than originally anticipated.

Elon Musk has promised to mount a legal challenge against the bill, with Ireland already a major battleground between the EU and Silicon Valley when it comes to privacy and data collection.

To recap, politics in the Republic of Ireland has been passed back and forth between two identical political factions (Fianna Fáil and Fine Gael) over the past century, formed out of the ashes of the Irish Civil War and buttressed by smaller leftist parties. With the electoral rise of the former political wing of the IRA (Sinn Féin) increasingly pivoting towards the progressive centre, a substantial segment of the population has been left uncatered to.

Quote:Under the auspices of the Praxis Society, which has received $15 million from Peter Thiel, he hopes to create a libertarian Mecca powered by “dissident Right” rhetoric and a cryptocurrency-is-king meritocracy. The new community, says Brown, will exude “hero futurism” and sport a “neo-Gilded Age” aesthetic.

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For Thiel and the Praxis Society, then, capitalism is not just an economic system; it is a tool for cultural and even philosophical change, aimed at remaking society according to a very specific ideological blueprint. And at its essence, this is a philosophy that is willing to sever its roots — to essentially say: “Thanks for the billions, America; we’re off to build a sanctuary free from your regulatory clutches.”

Quote:The true story of the fake unboxed aliens is wilder than actual aliens

But how they aren’t real is a story that’s frankly wilder than aliens.

In fact, these little guys appear to have been literally crowdfunded into existence in 2017 as part of an ongoing attempt to create the illusion that these hucksters are sitting on an ancient alien gold mine. And that’s just the tip of the alien scam iceberg. The full picture includes a long lineup of skeevy con men dedicated to passing themselves off as pseudoscientific “experts,” from media veterans to fake archaeologists and doctors with dubious degrees — all committed to insisting (even as a litany of real scientists line up to object) that their fake aliens are real.

That’s a lot to unpack alongside these two dubious extraterrestrials, so let’s take a closer look.

Quote:Months after he buried it in darkness, Régis Hauser still dreamt of “the beast.” Of the hole he dug at 3:30 a.m. on April 24, 1993, three feet deep somewhere in France. How he lugged the hunk of metal from his car trunk and placed it in the dirt. When he told his tale to the French newspaper Libération, he made the entombment sound faintly gothic: “I hadn’t even finished, and my hands were bloody. When it was done, I went far away, to get breakfast. I looked at myself in the mirror at the cafe. I was barely recognizable, disheveled, covered in earth.” No one had seen him in the act, or so Hauser hoped. Years later, he recounted seeing just one person during his whole expedition: a dog walker looking for his animal. How could he forget the hound’s name: Dracula.

On the Trail of the Golden Owl

Quote:Newly Released Documents Shed Light on “UFO Whistleblower” David Grusch’s DOPSR Review

In a recent release of documents obtained via FOIA case 23-F-0946, new information has surfaced surrounding the media-nicknamed “UFO Whistleblower,” David Grusch. Grusch, who has claimed to have knowledge regarding “non-human intelligence”—believed by many to refer to extraterrestrial beings—had made headlines with his story, yet a crucial piece of the puzzle seemed elusive: his Defense Office of Prepublication and Security Review (DOPSR)  submission that he, and the media, often references.

The Black Vault has extensively highlighted the absence of Grusch’s actual approved DOPSR submission. While Grusch remained tight-lipped, a FOIA request filed by The Black Vault has now shed light on the matter from the Department of Defense’s end. Although the recent release still leaves many questions unanswered due to significant redactions, it does provide a more comprehensive picture of how everything went down.

Quote:Avast! No lubbers today, ye scurvy bilge rats!

Arrrr!!

'Tis once again Talk Like a Pirate Day, and thar ye be sittin', me beauties and landlubbers, with yer cup o' grog, or yer bucket o' chum, holding this scurvy newspaper in your hand, just a-waitin' fer a tale.

Arrrr!!

What? Ye never heard of Talk Like a Pirate Day, ye slimy bilge rat?

Well, don't get yer doubloons in a wad, me hearties. Just bend ye an ear.

If ye read that scurvy syndicated humor columnist Dave Barry on Sundays, ye might know what we're talkin' about.

But it was two landlubbers in Albany, John Baur (Ol' Chumbucket) and Mark Summers (Cap'n Slappy), who started this whole thing - that's now gone international - when they e-mailed Barry last year and asked him to promote it.

(09-19-2023, 07:59 PM)EndtheMadnessNow Wrote: “Blowing the Covid cover-up wide open” – A CIA whistleblower has pulled back the curtain on Covid’s origins in the shadowy world of U.S. biodefense programmes, writes Ashley Rindsberg in Tablet...