Nigeria has detained some tailors for making Russian flags that were waved during anti-government protests this week in northern states, the state secret police said, in a move that underscores concerns about increased Russian activity in western Africa.
Bangladesh prime minister reportedly flees nation as anti-government protesters storm her residence
The prime minister of Bangladesh, Sheikh Hasina, resigned and fled to neighboring India on Monday after protesters stormed her official residence after weeks of deadly anti-government demonstrations in the South Asian nation.
Scenes of jubilation erupted on the streets as protesters celebrated the end of her 15 years in power by climbing on tanks and scaling an imposing statue of Hasina’s father, independence leader Sheikh Mujibur Rahman, in Dhaka, attacking the head with an ax.
In a national address, Bangladesh’s army chief, Gen. Waker-uz-Zaman confirmed Hasina had resigned and said the military would form an interim government.
Addressing protesters, largely young Bangladeshis and students, he said: “Whatever demands you have we will fulfil and bring back peace to the nation, please help us in this, stay away from violence.”
“The military will not fire at anyone, the police will not fire at anyone, I have given orders,” he added.
“We want to see the Bangladeshi people decide the future of the Bangladeshi government,” State Department Spokesperson Matthew Miller told reporters at his daily news conference.
Some schools in the United States have begun introducing various forms of “meditation” in their classes, including such techniques as yoga, in an alleged effort to help students improve their mental health.
As reported by ABC News, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) has endorsed such tactics being used in schools as a means of combating the lingering effects of the Chinese Coronavirus pandemic, which disproportionately affected schools and significantly stunted childrens’ growth and education across the country.
“We know that our teenagers and adolescents have really strained in their mental health,” said CDC Director Mandy Cohen. “There are real skills that we can give our teens to make sure that they are coping with some big emotions.”
The CDC claims that, in 2023, over one-third of all American students reported feeling “persistent sadness” and “hopelessness” in the aftermath of the COVID pandemic lockdowns and the subsequent disastrous impact on education. As such, the agency has recommended the implementation of “mindfulness practices” in order to deal with students’ emotional states.
The Boy Scouts of America have officially announced to the world that the word “boy” has no place in their literature any more. All of their instruction manuals, promotion materials, etc., have all replaced the word by with “youth.” Even when describing the past, the organization says things like “Scouting programs have instilled in youth the values found in the Scout Oath.”
The Boy Scouts of America has a Chief Diversity Officer & Vice President of Diversity and Inclusion. The organization requires all Eagle Scouts to earn a badge in diversity, equity, and inclusion. It admitted girls to its program for 11- to 17-year-old boys in 2019 and changed the name of that program from the Boy Scouts to Scouts BSA. The word “boy” has been routed from the organization’s promotional materials and replaced with “youth,” as in: “For more than 100 years, Scouting programs have instilled in youth the values found in the Scout Oath.”
Does it matter, then, that the Boy Scouts of America has now extirpated the last use of “boy” found in its entire portfolio—the “boy” in “Boy Scouts of America,” the name of the parent organization? It does. That the Boy Scouts cannot tolerate even an atavistic use of “boy” reveals how powerful the impulse is to efface males from our culture. The transformation of the Boy Scouts of America into Scouting America is an object lesson in the incapacity of traditional institutions to withstand progressive takeover.
A school district in Southern California, Newport-Mesa Unified School District, has informed parents that even after concerns were sent to its office about its new policy, the matter was out of the parents’ hands; If you want to go on overnight trips, you have to be willing to room with transgendered students, a rule that concerns parents of daughters the most.
Sarah Coley, the district administrative director. Exclaimed in her reasoning, which she presumed to be the legal and gospel truth, “Parents and students do not get to pick, and saying I don’t want to stay with ‘Susie’ because ‘Susie isn’t a real girl,’ is no different than saying, ‘I don’t want to stay with Sara because Sara is [white/older/non-religious, etc.]’”
FIRST ON THE DAILY SIGNAL—Students in a Southern California school district could be forced to choose between rooming with a transgender-identifying student or missing out on an overnight school field trip.
If parents complain about their child rooming with a transgender-identifying student of the opposite biological sex, staff in the Newport-Mesa Unified School District listen to the parents’ concerns, then say that the child’s rooming assignment isn’t the parents’ choice, according to emails from 2021 and 2022 obtained by the Center for American Liberty and shared with The Daily Signal.
The only option for students who are uncomfortable staying in a room with transgender students is to opt out of the trip, Sarah Coley, the school district’s administrative director, said in an email to school district employees regarding a sixth-grade science trip.
“You would say to the students/parents, ‘If you have questions about the assignment, please feel free to discuss with me,’” Coley wrote in the email. “Then, if a parent says ‘hey, I don’t want my student with [who],’ you could provide an ear to listen and consider whether the student is a good fit, but the eventual response would be, ‘If you / your student is not comfortable with the rooming assignments and process of staying with other students in a room, then they can elect not to participate in this optional trip.’”
The State Department of the USA expressed concern over the arrest of Pakistan Tehreek-I-Insaf leader Imran Khan. The department has urged Pakistan to respect human rights and uphold democratic principles.
“We have seen the reports of the arrests of PTI leaders. We are always concerned when we see arrests of opposition leaders,” said US State Department Spokesperson Matthew Miller while speaking at a press briefing in Washington on Tuesday.
NEW DELHI — (AP) — The United Nations’ cultural agency rejected recommendations Wednesday to place Stonehenge on the list of world heritage sites in danger over concerns that Britain’s plans to build a nearby highway tunnel threaten the landscape around the prehistoric monument.
Stonehenge was built on the flat lands of Salisbury Plain in southern England in stages, starting 5,000 years ago, with the unique stone circle erected in the late Neolithic period about 2,500 B.C.
On June 28, the U.S. Supreme Court overruled a 48-year-old precedent, Chevron U.S.A. v. Natural Resources Defense Council, in a 6-3 decision that made it easier to challenge rules and regulations issued by federal administrative agencies. The new ruling, Loper Bright Enterprises v. Raimondo, abolished the doctrine of “Chevron Deference,” under which federal courts were supposed to “defer” to administrative agencies’ interpretations of federal statutes on issues as to which Congress had not spoken clearly in the statutes. The new rule, under which the courts are freed of any such requirement and may freely disagree with agency interpretations, has been seized upon by numerous courts over the past few weeks in ruling against the Biden Administration’s new Title IX rules intended to protect LGBTQ people in educational institutions and for purposes of health care coverage subject to the Affordable Care Act (ACA) and the Medicare and Medicaid Acts.
Governor Gavin Newsome (D-CA) signed a bill into law that alleges to “protect” gay, trans, and non-binary children from parental threat by prohibiting schools from compelling teachers to inform parents when their kids identify as one of those categories.
The law does not prevent teachers from choosing to inform parents if they choose, and the language is vague enough that the interpretation of its application is in doubt, specifically when it comes to not informing parents if their trans child was moving down the road of some form of chemical treatment or surgical alterations.
Immediately upon passage, Chino Valley Unified School District filed a lawsuit, stating “PK-12 minor students, most of whom are too young to drive, vote, or provide medical consent for themselves, are also too young to make life-altering decisions about their expressed gender identity without their parents’ knowledge. But that is precisely what AB 1955 enables, with potentially devastating consequences for children too young to fully comprehend them.”
A school district in Southern California filed a lawsuit against Governor Gavin Newsom (D-Calif.) over a new law he signed that would forbid schools from notifying parents if their children start to “transition” their gender
As Fox News reports, the lawsuit was filed by Chino Valley Unified School District, which is being represented by the Liberty Justice Center (LJC). The lawsuit argues that the new law, which was signed on Monday, violates parents’ Constitutional rights.
“PK-12 minor students, most of whom are too young to drive, vote, or provide medical consent for themselves, are also too young to make life-altering decisions about their expressed gender identity without their parents’ knowledge,” said Emily Rae, senior counsel at LJC, in a statement. “But that is precisely what AB 1955 enables, with potentially devastating consequences for children too young to fully comprehend them.”
“School officials do not have the right to keep secrets from parents, but parents do have a constitutional right to know what their minor children are doing at school,” Rae continued. “Parents are the legal guardians of their children, not Governor Newsom.”
A spokeswoman from Newsom’s office issued a statement mocking the lawsuit and vowing to fight it.
“This is a deeply unserious lawsuit, seemingly designed to stoke the dumpster fire formerly known as Twitter rather than surface legitimate legal claims,” said spokeswoman Izzy Gardon. “AB 1955 preserves the child-parent relationship, California law ensures minors can’t legally change their name or gender without parental consent, and parents continue to have guaranteed and full access to their student’s educational records consistent with federal law. We’re confident the state will swiftly prevail in this case.”
UNAIDS Executive Director Winnie Byanyima. (Screen capture via Kellogg Institute YouTube)
The U.N. human rights chief and UNAIDS’s executive director have reiterated their calls for countries to decriminalize consensual same-sex sexual relations.
“Laws criminalizing LGBTQ+ people must be consigned to history,” said Volker Türk and Winnie Byanyima in a statement they released on July 19.
The 25th International AIDS Conference began in Munich on July 22.
The statement notes Angola, Antigua and Barbuda, Barbados, Belize, Bhutan, Botswana, the Cook Islands, Dominica, Gabon, India, Mauritius, Mozambique, Namibia, Nauru, Palau, St. Kitts and Nevis, Seychelles, Singapore, and Trinidad and Tobago over the last decade have repealed laws that criminalized consensual same-sex sexual relations.
The U.S. Sixth Circuit confirmed the blockage of a new order by President Joe Biden that would force schools to allow boys transitioning as girls into girls locker rooms, bathrooms, and sports fields. The three-judge panel voted unanimously to block the order. The judgment comes as a result of a lawsuit filed by Kentucky, Tennessee, Indiana, Ohio, Virginia, and West Virginia.
NASHVILLE, Tenn. (WSMV) – The Tennessee Attorney General is celebrating after the U.S. Court of Appeals confirmed the blockage of a new Title IX rule.
Jonathan Skrmetti said the appeals court confirmed the blockage of a new Title IX rule that “would have allowed boys into girls’ locker rooms and private spaces, remains BLOCKED and will not go into effect this summer.”
Skrmetti held a press conference earlier in the year to discuss the state’s fight to defend Title IX. He led six states in suing the federal Department of Education to challenge its “dangerous overhaul” of Title IX of the Education Amendments Act.
Title IX prohibits sex-based discrimination in schools that receive funding from the federal government.
“The U.S. Department of Education has no authority to let boys into girls’ locker rooms,” Tennessee Attorney General Skrmetti said in a statement. “In the decades since its adoption, Title IX has been universally understood to protect the privacy and safety of women in private spaces like locker rooms and bathrooms. Under this radical and illegal attempt to rewrite the statute, if a man enters a woman’s locker room and a woman complains that makes her uncomfortable, the woman will be subject to investigation and penalties for violating the man’s civil rights. Federal bureaucrats have no power to rewrite laws passed by the people’s elected representatives, and I expect the courts will put a stop to this unconstitutional power grab.”
A Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals panel asked California on Wednesday why a state law requiring social media platforms to disclose their policies about moderating hate speech and disinformation doesn’t amount to a violation of the First Amendment.
The three-judge panel took up X Corp.’s appeal of a federal judge’s refusal to block what California Governor Gavin Newsom in 2022 said was a first-of-its-kind social media transparency law to protect Californians from hate and disinformation spread online.
The law, AB 587, requires large social media businesses with annual revenue over $100 million to provide the state with reports about how they define and moderate content like hate speech, extremism, harassment and misinformation, as well as data on their enforcement of these policies.
Microsoft has reportedly laid off a team devoted to diversity, equity and inclusion after pouring millions of dollars into the initiative — becoming the latest major company to ditch the “woke” policy.
The Big Tech giant disbanded the DEI team at the beginning of the month due to “changing business needs,” according to a July 1 email obtained by Business Insider.
It is unclear how many employees were affected.
The decision was a further sign that companies are pulling back on diversity-based initiatives that were put in place following the 2020 death of George Floyd and the subsequent Black Lives Matter protest campaigns.
In June 2020, Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella pledged to double the number of black employees at the company by 2025. AP
… Recently, Britain had an election that shockingly turned the Tory Party and Conservative Party out of power and ushered in a left-wing, Labour Party majority. But even these leftists are not turning back the clock on radical transgenderism.
Per Breitbart News, new Prime Minister Keir Starmer is not bowing to the transgender movement:
Now, having been installed in his cabinet post earlier this month, the openly gay Labour politician is continuing to reject the far-left excesses of gender ideologues within his own party, shutting down demands for the government to once again allow doctors to give children life-altering puberty blockers.
“We don’t yet know the risks of stopping pubertal hormones at this critical life stage. That is the basis upon which I am making decisions. I am treading cautiously because the safety of children must come first,” Streeting wrote on X.
“Some of the public statements being made are highly irresponsible,” he said in an apparent reference to those on the woke left claiming that preventing children from puberty-blocking drugs would lead to the death of transgender children.
“I know there’s lots of fear and anxiety. I am determined to improve the quality of, and access to, care for trans people. The decisions I am taking will always be based on evidence, rather than politics or political pressure,” the Health Secretary said.
New sales data in the beer market shows that Bud Light continues to fall from its position as the most preferred pilsner in the country, demonstrating the staying power that mass boycotts have had on one of the best-selling beers in American history.
The pilsner owned by German brewing company Anheuser-Busch sits in the number three position among beers sold in the U.S., lagging behind Modelo Especial and Michelob Ultra 12 months after the industry was reshaped by outrage over Bud Light’s partnership with a transgender social media influencer. The Wall Street Journal reported that Bud Light represented 6.5% of beer dollar sales in U.S. stores in the four weeks ended July 6, compared with 7.3% for Michelob Ultra and 9.7% for Modelo, according to an analysis of NielsenIQ data by the consulting firm Bump Williams.
Modelo Especial, a Mexican import, outsold Bud Light during the critical period between Memorial Day and the Fourth of July, adding insult to injury as patriotic Americans enjoying the start of summer eschewed a brand once beloved for its flag-themed cans. Once the best-selling beer in American history, Bud Light slipped from the No. 1 spot just one month after an April 2023 report that transgender influence Dylan Mulvaney was hired to help shift the brand away from its blue-collar base and towards a younger, “woker” crowd of beer enthusiasts.
(LifeSiteNews) — While COVID vaccine mandates remain, Ontario physicians are demanding “urgent support” for the 2.5 million residents of the province who are currently without a family doctor.
In a July 11 press release, the Ontario College of Family Physicians called for urgent support for the 2.5 million Ontarians who are without a family doctor, amid ongoing hospital staff shortages that were ostensibly worsened due to the imposition of COVID vaccine mandates.
“Every Ontarian deserves a family doctor, and patients should be able to find one in their community,” said Dr. Mekalai Kumanan, president of the Ontario College of Family Physicians. “System-wide issues are stretching family doctors far beyond capacity. We need to address the pressing issues facing family doctors today.”
(Live Action) — The abortion pill regimen is currently only approved by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) through 70 days (10 weeks) gestation. But the abortion industry, including Planned Parenthood, has been committing chemical abortions past this timeframe, flouting the FDA’s limits. Now, Planned Parenthood is publicly promoting on its website a gestational limit for the abortion pill regimen that goes beyond these FDA limits.
That 10-week FDA limit is still in effect – and while Planned Parenthood once abided by that limit, the corporation’s national website now claims, “In general, you can have a medication abortion up to 77 days (11 weeks) after the first day of your last period,” which is 11 weeks’ gestation – one week later than the FDA’s gestational limit. In some Planned Parenthood locations, the drug is prescribed at an even later gestation.
(LifeSiteNews) — Twenty-four-year-old Cameron Downing may be a vicious, misogynist trans activist — but he is also a good poster child for the Scottish National Party, which he served as “equalities officer” for the London branch in 2021 and again since August 2022. The UK government defines an “equalities officer” as someone who “makes sure people are treated equally in an organisation by promoting positive practices and attitudes.”
In Downing’s case, this included posting online that he wanted to “beat the f***” out” of women who oppose transgender ideology.
Downing, who delusionally identifies as “non-binary” and demands that he be referred to by “he/they” pronouns, has now been labeled a “dangerous individual whose predatory and manipulative behaviour has inflicted unimaginable trauma.” The trans-identifying predator and former drama student had, it turns out, targeted six female and male victims in the Glasgow, Falkirk, and Edinburgh areas between 2016 and 2023. In one instance, he “blackmailed a young man into maintaining a sexual relationship by threatening to falsely accuse him of rape.”
Capistrano Unified School District in Orange County, CA has a school policy that “protects” the identities of students from their parents when they choose to adopt non-cis, non-binary, or trans identities. The nonprofit law firm Center for American Liberty learned of the policy, called “The Individual Transition Plan” through a FOIA request.
FIRST ON THE DAILY SIGNAL—A Southern California school district trains counselors to help students hide their transgender identity from their concerned parents, according to documents obtained by The Daily Signal.
Capistrano Unified School District in southern Orange County, California, allows students to change their name and gender in school records without parental permission.
The Individual Transition Plan, obtained by the nonprofit law firm Center for American Liberty through a California Public Records Act request, asks the counselor filling it out whether the child’s parents “need to know” about their child’s transition. It later asks the student to respond with “yes” or “no” to the statement: “My parents/guardians are aware of my transition.”
With a WEF member at the helm in Prime Minister Donald Tusk, Poland appears poised to significantly increase its ties with embattled Ukraine, entering in to an agreement to develop joint air defenses, as well as integrating their arms industries. The deal was signed in Warsaw, Poland on July 8, 2024.
Imran Khan’s Party to get Banned from Next Pakistani Election – The current administration of Pakistan’s government, led by Shehbaz Sharif, is about to declare the former jailed Prime Minister Imran Khan’s political party should be banned from the next spate of elections.
Information Minister, Attaullah Tarar, stated “The government has decided that the federal government will move a case to ban the PTI (Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf).” He also added that there was “credible evidence” Khan’s party received foreign funds illegally, among other claims of criminal activity by the former PM’s party.
The Shehbaz Sharif-led government in Pakistan has decided to ban Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) party, led by the jailed former PM Imran Khan.
This decision was announced by Pakistan’s Information Minister, Attaullah Tarar, in a press conference on Monday. “The government has decided that the federal government will move a case to ban the PTI (Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf),” Tarar told AFP. Tarar cited “credible evidence” for the ban, pointing to the foreign funding case, the May 9 riots, the cipher episode, and a resolution passed in the US as grounds for this action. The government plans to refer the case to the Supreme Court.
The House Judiciary Committee released an interim staff report that maps out the parties and methods being used to censor voices that don’t align with the DNC party’s core “values” and narratives.
May 8th, Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton announced he secured an important victory in his ongoing lawsuit against the Biden Administration for unlawfully censoring American media companies. “The federal government sought to have the lawsuit dismissed, but a federal district court judge denied the Biden Administration’s request and ordered expedited discovery, the Texas AG said. “The Biden Administration made a reprehensible attempt to censor the American press with funding intended to monitor foreign propaganda, aiming to repress viewpoints the federal government disagreed with,” said Attorney General Paxton.
… Wednesday, the House Judiciary Committee released an interim staff report titled, “GARM’s Harm: How the World’s Biggest Brands Seek to Control Online Speech,” which details how large corporations, advertising agencies, and industry associations through the World Federation of Advertisers (WFA) and specifically its Global Alliance for Responsible Media (GARM) initiative participated in boycotts and coordinated action to demonetize platforms, podcasts, news outlets, and other content that GARM and its members deem disfavored. They represent 90% of all advertising dollars spent, according to House Chairman Jim Jordan. The full interim staff report here.
Our job as journalists is to hold government accountable and suss out the truth. NewsGuard is funded by the government, Big Pharma, and Big Tech to prevent that. Dennis Prager says, “If truth is allowed to prevail, the Left will fail.”
The war on meat is in full swing as far-left environmental groups engage in a coordinated effort to smear proponents of sustainable livestock as industry bogeymen seduced by corporate greed.
In October 2022, a coalition of over 1,000 scientists signed a declaration stressing that the optimal nutrition delivered by a meat-based diet was vital in alleviating world hunger.
The “Dublin Declaration of Scientists on the Societal Role of Livestock,” which advocates for a more “balanced view of the future of animal agriculture,” was written to push back against a highly funded, globally coordinated effort to discredit animal agriculture as antithetical to human health and environmental sustainability. “Livestock systems,” the coalition wrote, “are too precious to society to become the victim of simplification, reductionism or zealotry.”
ANALYSIS: Scholar’s new book accuses scientists of creating ‘geotrauma’
A British professor of “inhuman geography” links white supremacy to geology and paleontology – or “pale-ontology,” as she refers to it – in a new book published by Duke University Press.
The author of “Geologic life,” Kathryn Yusoff is a professor at Queen Mary University of London, according to her bio. Her work focuses on “historical, geophilosophical and black feminist methods to speak to issues of environmental change.”
In the book, Yusoff makes the argument that “forms of imperial geology embedded in Western and Enlightenment” have created “anti-Black, anti-Indigenous, and anti-Brown environmental and racial injustices,” according to the publisher’s description.
Burkina Faso has been under military rule since two
successive coups in 2022 and is part of a confederation with
juntas in neighbouring Mali and Niger.
(The Center Square) — Virginia Attorney General Jason Miyares filed an amicus brief Monday with attorneys general from 15 other states asking the U.S. Supreme Court to hear a case about schools socially transitioning students without parents’ knowledge or consent.
“It is essential that schools work with parents, not against them, to support a child’s well-being,” Miyares said in a statement. “Parents have the right to be involved in major decisions affecting their children’s lives.”
President William Ruto has fired all Cabinet Secretaries and Attorney General save for the Prime Cabinet Secretary Musalia Mudavadi.
“I have today in line with the powers given to me decided to dismiss all the Cabinet Secretaries and Attorney general, except for the Prime Cabinet Secretary and CS Foreign Affairs,” said the president.
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