“If they want the government to be funded, then government funding must include the Save Act, a nationwide citizenship verification for voting.”
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Over 4,000 UK children diagnosed with anxiety every week: report
Researchers have discovered that children from all socioeconomic backgrounds have experienced developmental delays in their emotional and social growth since the pandemic.
Southport UK hero dance teacher who tried to shield students from stabbing attack recovering from injuries
Leanne Lucas suffered life-threatening injuries after being stabbed in the neck, back, and arms while attempting to protect her students from the knifeman.
UAE ‘closely following the case of its citizen’ Telegram founder Pavel Durov as France brings charges
“The UAE has submitted a request to the Government of the French Republic to provide him with all the necessary consular services in an urgent manner.”
UC San Diego Abandons Female-Only STEM Program After Federal Complaint
UC San Diego Abandons Female-Only STEM Program After Federal Complaint
Civil rights activist told university to drop program or offer equal opportunities…
The University of California San Diego removed some information about its STEM program only open to female high school students following a federal civil rights complaint.
The physical sciences’ department page for “STEM Girl Summer” returns an “access denied” message.
However, the university still lists information on the program elsewhere, including in a social media post last week.
Civil rights activist Mark Perry told The College Fix he believes the university removed the information after he shared a “courtesy copy” of his Title IX complaint. He said in his complaint that the university should open the program to all students or create an equivalent opportunity for male students.
“The information provided in the press release makes it clear that the University intends to continue to offer this illegal girl-only program in the future,” Perry wrote to the Department of Education’s Office for Civil Rights.
Perry shared an email he wrote to the university counsel and chancellor, which stated:
Based on my experience filing almost 1,000 federal civil rights complaints for more than 2,000 violations of Title VI and Title IX at more than 850 colleges and universities, I would have to describe your STEM Girl Summer program as legally indefensible and unable to survive an upcoming investigation by the San Francisco Office for Civil Rights. Therefore, I would encourage you to conduct your own internal legal review of your discriminatory program while OCR evaluates, investigates, and resolves my complaint. I am confident that if this illegal program had been reviewed by your office for legal compliance with federal civil rights laws before it was implemented, funded, and offered, you would not have approved this program.
This likely led to the change, Perry told The Fix via email over the weekend.
He said:
I’m sure it’s another example of hundreds of when a graduate student, staff member, faculty member, administrator, etc. comes up with a new program that discriminates based on sex and/or race, and they don’t realize the program is illegal, and they never think it’s necessary to get legal clearance from the university’s legal office and so the program goes forward. Once the General Counsel reviews it, it takes only a few seconds for the lawyers to realize it’s illegal and they scrub the website (or change the requirements to comply with Title VI/IX). You would think there would be some process in place at universities where new programs would have to be reviewed and given legal clearance by the lawyers before going forward, but that is obviously not the case. You would also think there might be some internal review/audit process in place where the university lawyers would regularly review all existing programs for compliance with Title VI/IX, but that is also not the case.
The physical sciences’ department dean helped fund the program, according to a university news release.
“Originally started with funding from the dean’s office in the School of Physical Sciences, the program is now supported through several on-campus sources,” a news release from Aug. 13 states.
“Going forward, she hopes it will be easier for organizations and individuals to make donations to support the program.”
Graduate student Robin Glefke created the program which “brings female San Diego-area high school students to campus for a weekend of hands-on learning, introducing them to career paths in science, technology, engineering and math,” according to the university’s post on X.
Perry is also affiliated with Do No Harm, an anti-DEI medical group. The group recently filed its own federal civil rights complaint against Loyola University Chicago and its nursing program for “students of color.”
Some information about the program, including a YouTube video describing it, has been subsequently removed, as reported by The Fix.
Tyler Durden
Tue, 08/27/2024 – 14:25
RONEN SHOVAL: Europe will die if it can’t confront Islamic extremism
Unlike previous waves of immigrants, many among the recent Muslim influx have shown little interest in integrating into the European vision.
If Everything Is So Great, Why Are Millions Of Americans Sleeping In Their Vehicles?
If Everything Is So Great, Why Are Millions Of Americans Sleeping In Their Vehicles?
Authored by Michael Snyder via TheMostImportantNews.com,
Have you noticed an unusual number of vehicles in the parking lots of major retailers in your area at night? If you look closely enough, you will see that many of those vehicles actually have people sleeping in them. At this point, millions of Americans are sleeping in their vehicles every night. This is happening even though we are being told that the economy is just fine. But of course the truth is that the system is failing all around us. So if you get to sleep in a very warm bed in a very warm home, you should consider yourself to be very blessed, because vast numbers of people are really struggling right now.
The primary reason why so many people are living in their vehicles is because the cost of living has soared to unprecedented heights.
In particular, the cost of housing has become extremely oppressive. In fact, housing in the United States has become more unaffordable than it has ever been before.
This week, I was stunned to read about a 33-year-old man named Ishan Abeysekera that is paying $2,100 a month to share a house with 23 other people…
In a city as notoriously expensive as New York, it’s common to see people in their late 20s and early 30s living with roommates to help manage the high cost of living.
But Ishan Abeysekera has taken that to the next level with his current living situation in Brooklyn: a communal building that he shares with a whopping 23 other people.
“When I say I have 23 housemates, people are like ‘What? That sounds wild,’” Abeysekera tells CNBC Make It. “But actually, it’s quite nice.”
That is nuts!
Who would pay that much to live with 23 total strangers?
Of course most Americans can’t afford to pay $2,100 a month for housing.
For example, it is being reported that some flight attendants that work for American Airlines are “sleeping in their cars” because the pay is so low…
Most new flight attendant hires are required to live in cities like Dallas, Miami, and New York, which have high costs of living that they cannot afford, Hedrick noted.
American flight attendants are sleeping in their cars, she said. Some of them fight for trips just for the chance to eat the plane meals, if the pilots don’t take their meals first.
“Our new hire flight attendants are struggling,” Hedrick said, adding that new hires most strongly rejected the 17% hike.
When I was growing up, I always thought that those that were selected as flight attendants had very good jobs.
But those days are long gone.
In this economy, many flight attendants can’t even afford a place to live.
Of course there are millions of others in a similar position. In recent years, “van life” has become quite trendy, and more than 3 million Americans now fall into this category…
“Van life” or “van living” is a term that is becoming more popular around the country. People packing up their lives, moving into a mobile unit and exploring the states.
According to Yahoo Finance, the number of American van lifers has increased by 63% over the last couple of years, going from 1.9 million in 2020, to 3.1 million in 2022.
In the old days, if you lived in a van down by the river you were considered to be a bum.
But in this economy, living in a van down by the river is just considered to be normal.
Needless to say, there are some “van lifers” that choose the lifestyle because of the freedom it offers.
But there are many others that have been forced into this lifestyle. A woman named Michelle Rose that used to own a home in Montana is one of them…
Three and a half years ago, at the beginning of the pandemic, Michelle Rose was about to lose her Montana home, was having issues with her job, lost her mother, and put everything she owned into a van to live in it permanently.
“I was like let’s just do this, let’s just sell the house and get on the road and we will figure out things as we go. It has sort of been a by the seat of my pants kind of life,” said Rose.
Michelle says that finances are the hardest part of van life for her, it is a constant worry and finding work is also challenging.
Another woman named Katie that “works as a manifestation coach and at a local coffee shop” admits that it was a tough mental adjustment when she started to live out of her vehicle…
Katie J., who works as a manifestation coach and at a local coffee shop, spoke about the mental legwork she had to work through in order to reach a sense of belonging in the community.
“Van life is fun and cool and saves money and it’s flashy on Instagram and stuff,” Katie J. said, “but it will bring up a lot for you to work through when it comes to not having roots somewhere … I’m a black woman and I’m already rare in Truckee as is, so to be also living in a van, I had so much stuff around that, so much shadow work to do around the limiting beliefs and feeling like I’m not supposed to be here, and I shouldn’t be parking here and I’m gonna get in trouble.”
A lot of these people have jobs, and a lot of these people would not be officially classified as “homeless”.
But the cost of living crisis has driven them to the brink of losing everything.
Unfortunately, our leaders never seem to learn. They keep borrowing and spending money at an unprecedented rate, and this continues to create even more inflation.
If you can believe it, our government is even spending “up to a quarter million taxpayer dollars” to teach Iraqi kids how to be climate activists…
The State Department is offering up to a quarter million taxpayer dollars to an eligible nonprofit to teach Iraqi teenagers about climate activism.
Iraqi high schoolers could receive “Eco Action Clubs” bankrolled by taxpayers that will teach them how to advocate for environmental reform in their home country, according to a grant solicitation posted by the State Department earlier this month. The clubs will have several objectives, ranging from developing an “eco-agenda and action plan” which will generate “climate change solutions” to running a social media campaign to increase awareness of the climate crisis.
We are literally committing national suicide, but most of the population doesn’t seem to care.
Every election cycle, the big spenders are sent back to Washington over and over again.
Meanwhile, more Americans are being forced to sleep in their vehicles with each passing day.
Please do not look down on those that have been forced to sleep in a vehicle, because with a bit of bad luck just about anyone could end up in the same situation.
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Michael’s new book entitled “Chaos” is available in paperback and for the Kindle on Amazon.com, and you can subscribe to his Substack newsletter at michaeltsnyder.substack.com.
Tyler Durden
Tue, 08/27/2024 – 07:20
Recent Events Prove Western Nations Are Highly Vulnerable To Cyber Calamity – Alt-Market.us
This article was written by Brandon Smith and originally published at Prepper All Naturals As most people are aware, this…
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The Quiet Before The Storms In Ukraine, Gaza, And Taiwan?
The Quiet Before The Storms In Ukraine, Gaza, And Taiwan?
Authored by Victor Davis Hanson via American Greatness,
There are three current hot or cold wars: on the Ukrainian border, in the regions surrounding Israel, and in the strategic space between Taiwan and mainland China.
All three conflicts could not only expand within their respective theaters but also escalate to draw in the United States.
And all three involve nuclear powers.
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Various Russian megaphones routinely threaten to use tactical nuclear weapons against Ukraine. Some boast about sending strategic nuclear bombs or missiles against its Western suppliers, especially as the costs of Russian aggression mount and the humiliation of Putin escalates.
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Nuclear Israel and near-nuclear Iran have both exchanged attacks on their respective homelands—and promise to do so again.
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China likewise on occasion existentially threatens Taiwan. Its freelancing generals and spokesmen periodically warn Japan and the U.S. of dire nuclear consequences should they intervene on Taiwan’s behalf.
In all these theaters, there superficially appears to be stasis and deadlock:
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Israel is said to be bogged down in Gaza as it seeks to neutralize 400 miles of subterranean command-and-control installations and munitions, find and rescue surviving Israeli hostages, and take out the Hamas leaders. And no one believes that the degradation of Hamas will mark the end of the war, given the agendas of Hezbollah, the Houthis, and Iran, to attack periodically and chronically the Jewish state.
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Combined Russian and Ukrainian dead, wounded, and missing may be nearing one million. Experts argue about whether the current apparently successful Ukrainian counteroffensive towards Kursk inside Russia was merely a demonstration to gain diplomatic concessions. Or was it designed to take and hold ground inside the Russian homeland? Or intended to draw off Russian offensives to the southeast? Some call it brilliantly conceived but dangerous—given the risk of its ending like the ill-fated Battle of the Bulge German offensive of 1945 that achieved startling initial success but was soon ground down by superior numbers and ultimately weakened the overall German defense.
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China has stepped up its harassment of Philippine forces and its rhetoric. It has upped its intrusions into Taiwanese airspace and waters while cementing strategic partnerships with Russia and Iran, even as it courts India and Turkey. Yet for now, China is not especially eager to attack Taiwan, given that it feels it is steadily gaining momentum in psychologically, strategically, and politically strangling the Taiwanese.
Confusion and strategic pauses for the brief moment mark all these conflicts. In part, the hiatuses arose because of uncertainty surrounding the murky intentions and role of the United States. The latter is bogged down in an unpredictable if not bizarre election year, compounded by ambiguity about who is actually in control of the country and for how long, and who will be president after January 2025.
The 2024 race saw the first-ever presidential debate held well before the formal nomination of candidates, the sudden forced removal of President Biden from his reelection candidacy, the abrupt coronation of a once-deemed-unimpressive Kamala Harris as his replacement, the inability or unwillingness of Harris to meet the media or give interviews, the continued apparent debility of Biden as he enters the last six months of his presidential tenure, the assassination attempt on Donald Trump, and the near-even presidential polls.
While Russian and Ukrainian forces advance and retreat along their shared border, most experts privately feel that there is quiet consensus about an eventual armistice to end the Somme-like bloodbath. This will involve recognition of Russia’s control over the Donbas and Crimea that Putin attacked and de facto absorbed in 2014; a demilitarized border; and an autonomous and heavily armed but non-NATO Ukraine.
Currently, Ukraine is running out of manpower, given its losses, draft problems, and a quarter of the population having fled the country. Russia has suffered twice as many casualties as Ukraine and faced blows to its military prestige. It has so far found no tactical or strategic pathway to absorb Ukraine as it intended with its February 2022 surprise attack on Kyiv.
Yet the apparent ossification on the border may be illusory. If either side cracks and its enemy suddenly makes dramatic advances, a dangerous escalation could ensue, and rapidly so. Russia will likely not allow Ukraine to occupy for any extended period any Russian territory and will up its threats toward what it sees as an exhausted Ukraine and a tired NATO partnership.
And NATO and the United States will likely never allow Russia to annex Ukraine in toto beyond the Donbas and Crimea. The longer the ensuing stagnation, the more likely one side will seek a dramatic breakthrough, and so the more likely becomes a greater war with third-party intervention and deadlier weapons.
Turning to the second conflict, we find that Iran is now in a dangerous position of its own making. It has loudly promised Israel and boasted to the Muslim world that it will attack the Jewish homeland for a second time within a year. Hezbollah threatens to join in, perhaps along with anemic contributions from Hamas and the Houthis.
Yet does Iran really believe that even a missile and drone launch twice the size of its last huge but failed barrage—say 640 projectiles—will seriously injure Israel? Even with the confusion and chaos in the U.S., is Tehran really convinced that the U.S. and some of its European and Arab allies will not again intervene to protect their own assets or their own or international airspace, by knocking down Iranian aerial attacks?
In short, Iran’s rhetoric and the provocations of its satellites have put it in a lose/lose situation: to save face the theocracy feels it must honor its threats and attack Israel, but it also knows it may not be able to do much damage, while earning a second retaliatory response potentially far more grievous and far more warranted in international eyes than Israel’s prior successful but largely demonstrative missile launch.
Ditto Hezbollah. It hopes that its some 150,000 rockets and drones will do real damage in concert with an Iranian attack but accepts that it will certainly earn in response a devastation of Shiite Beirut and its environs far in excess of what it suffered in 2006. The damage from that conflict took a generation to repair, with hundreds of miles of roads, thousands of homes, and billions of dollars in infrastructure destroyed.
So, like the Ukrainian conflict, the Middle East war is only temporarily on pause. And it will continue until Iran or Israel seeks to break the stalemate in a second phase that would make the Gaza campaign seem minor in comparison and be far more likely to draw in outside powers—especially if the United States appears feeble and unable to protect its traditional ally Israel.
As for the third, still-bloodless conflict: China envisions strategy globally rather than regionally. It helps to fuel the stalemate in Ukraine, on the grounds that its traditional rival turned temporary friend Russia is hurting the West by consuming its money, weapons, and attention—while conveniently hurting itself in the process.
China is openly aiding Iran, not because it is especially friendly to radical Islam (cf. its treatment of the Uyghurs) or innately hostile to the Jewish state. Instead, it simply welcomes these tensions that cause radical domestic upheaval and political dissension inside America, while drawing U.S. naval and air assets far away from the South China Sea.
China’s operating principle seems to be to watch and wait for the outcome of the wars in Ukraine and the Middle East, given that both tax Western powers. It is eager and patient to see how the conflicts end, especially whether Russia achieves by force its apparent goals, and whether Iran and its proxies permanently redefine the future of the Middle East. These outcomes will serve to indicate the level of potential Western resistance to or intentional condemnation of its own planned annexation of Taiwan.
In conclusion, we are entering a very dangerous five-month period.
Joe Biden has been judged by the American people in the polls as too enfeebled to be reelected and declared by his own party to be too cognitively challenged to remain its nominee. That may suggest to foreign risk-takers that the U.S. president is deemed unfit by Americans themselves and thus conclude there might be a vacuum of rapid-response leadership at the White House.
The unspoken corollary is that the American people and both their political parties are certain that, while Biden is incapable of continuing as a normally engaged president through the last half-year of his tenure, he will nevertheless inevitably do so. And that conclusion is likely shared by enemies abroad, who may surmise that if there ever was a time to alter the current geostrategic map or the relative balance of power, that rare occasion is now on the horizon.
Tyler Durden
Mon, 08/26/2024 – 23:25
Taliban outlaws women from speaking or showing their faces in public
Afghanistan’s Taliban have banned women from speaking in public or showing their faces outside their homes.