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Pentagon Orders Military To Put Male Soldiers In Female Showers

The DOD Instruction stipulates that if a person “self-identifies” as a person of the opposite sex, and if the Defense Enrollment Eligibility Reporting System (DEERS) changes a person’s bureaucratic “gender marker,” a man claiming to be a woman must be treated as a woman, and vice versa.

Military commanders, doctors and nurses, chaplains, and military men and women at all levels must endorse and act on this ideological belief or suffer career penalties if they don’t. Alleged “biases against transgender individuals,” which are prohibited, could include anything from “misgendering” people with the wrong pronouns to expressions of concern about medically questionable hormone treatments or surgeries for adults or military-dependent children.

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Tom Emmer Unveils CBDC Anti-Surveillance State Act

House Majority Whip Tom Emmer (R-MN) on Wednesday introduced legislation to prevent the Federal Reserve from issuing a central bank digital currency (CBDC), which he and others say could surveil Americans’ financial activity.

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Report: Some lab-grown meat pushed by WEF and Bill Gates as a remedy for climate change is made of 'immortalized' cancer cells - TheBlaze

A recent Bloomberg report noted that for decades, "companies such as Pfizer Inc. and Johnson & Johnson have cultured large volumes of cells to produce vaccines, monoclonal antibodies and other biotherapeutics. Now the idea is that we might as well eat these cells, too."

While lab-grown meat advocates contend their product is, at least on the cellular level, no different from real meat, the report stressed that "normal meat cells don't just keep dividing forever"; normal cells will only divide a few dozen times.

In order to get the cell cultures to multiply at the rates necessary to keep these doctored meat companies afloat, "several companies, including the Big Three, are quietly using what are called immortalized cells. ... Immortalized cells are a staple of medical research, but they are, technically speaking, precancerous and can be, in some cases, fully cancerous."

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New Skin Rotting Drug Is Literally Turning Drug Users Into Zombies | The Gateway Pundit

Xylazine, which has been approved for veterinary use but not for use in humans, acts as a sedative and is a non-opioid drug that does not respond to Narcan. The drug, which is rotting the skin of drug users, is currently most prevalent in major Democrat-controlled cities and is also referred to as “tranq dope.”

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Couple takes case all the way to U.S. Supreme Court to challenge IRS tax on unrealized gains | Just The News

In return for that 2005 investment they received about 11% of the company's shares, according to their petition filed with the Supreme Court.

This represented a significant sum to the Moores, and to date, they haven’t received a dime of dividends or income from said investment.

Despite that, because of a change in the US Tax Code enacted in 2017, the Moores were hit with a nearly $15,000 income tax bill from the IRS.

The law, known as the Mandatory Repatriation Tax, created a 30 year retroactive window between January 1, 1987 and December 31, 2017, where shareholders of foreign companies can be taxed on the company's retained profit, even if that profit is not controlled by or disbursed to the shareholders.

That suddenly turned their unrealized investment into “income,” at least according to the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals.

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mes5464 wrote: February 24th, 2023, 9:47 am Pentagon Orders Military To Put Male Soldiers In Female Showers

The DOD Instruction stipulates that if a person “self-identifies” as a person of the opposite sex, and if the Defense Enrollment Eligibility Reporting System (DEERS) changes a person’s bureaucratic “gender marker,” a man claiming to be a woman must be treated as a woman, and vice versa.

Military commanders, doctors and nurses, chaplains, and military men and women at all levels must endorse and act on this ideological belief or suffer career penalties if they don’t. Alleged “biases against transgender individuals,” which are prohibited, could include anything from “misgendering” people with the wrong pronouns to expressions of concern about medically questionable hormone treatments or surgeries for adults or military-dependent children.
I never thought Klinger from M*A*S*H would be so prophetic!

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Lineman1012 wrote: February 24th, 2023, 2:06 pm
mes5464 wrote: February 24th, 2023, 9:47 am Pentagon Orders Military To Put Male Soldiers In Female Showers

The DOD Instruction stipulates that if a person “self-identifies” as a person of the opposite sex, and if the Defense Enrollment Eligibility Reporting System (DEERS) changes a person’s bureaucratic “gender marker,” a man claiming to be a woman must be treated as a woman, and vice versa.

Military commanders, doctors and nurses, chaplains, and military men and women at all levels must endorse and act on this ideological belief or suffer career penalties if they don’t. Alleged “biases against transgender individuals,” which are prohibited, could include anything from “misgendering” people with the wrong pronouns to expressions of concern about medically questionable hormone treatments or surgeries for adults or military-dependent children.
I never thought Klinger from M*A*S*H would be so prophetic!

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Trudeau shrugs as evidence of Chinese electoral interference mounts
The proof is out, and the jig is up: China’s government interfered in two Canadian federal elections. It did so aggressively and with tangible results.

According to CSIS documents obtained by the Globe and Mail, Chinese Communist Party (CCP) operatives orchestrated cash donations to political campaigns, had business owners hire “volunteers” for specific election campaigns and boasted that it’s “easy to influence Chinese immigrants to agree with the PRC’s stance.”
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The goal: to install a minority Liberal government. In the words of one Chinese consular official, Beijing “likes it when the parties in Parliament are fighting with each other, whereas if there is a majority, the party in power can easily implement policies that do not favour the PRC.”

Last June, former Conservative leader Erin O’Toole stated that the Tories lost eight or nine seats in 2021 due to foreign interference. The CSIS documents reveal that China’s former consul general in Vancouver, Tong Xiaoling, bragged that she helped defeat two Conservative candidates in 2021.

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Lineman1012 wrote: February 24th, 2023, 2:09 pm
Lineman1012 wrote: February 24th, 2023, 2:06 pm
mes5464 wrote: February 24th, 2023, 9:47 am Pentagon Orders Military To Put Male Soldiers In Female Showers

The DOD Instruction stipulates that if a person “self-identifies” as a person of the opposite sex, and if the Defense Enrollment Eligibility Reporting System (DEERS) changes a person’s bureaucratic “gender marker,” a man claiming to be a woman must be treated as a woman, and vice versa.

Military commanders, doctors and nurses, chaplains, and military men and women at all levels must endorse and act on this ideological belief or suffer career penalties if they don’t. Alleged “biases against transgender individuals,” which are prohibited, could include anything from “misgendering” people with the wrong pronouns to expressions of concern about medically questionable hormone treatments or surgeries for adults or military-dependent children.
I never thought Klinger from M*A*S*H would be so prophetic!
All of this has caused me to look back on my life and some experiences that I questioned at the time but now I think I understand them.

I can remember as a child in primary getting ready to do a Nativity padgent and we struggled with not having enough boys for the boy parts and someone suggested letting the girls play some of the parts but the primary presidency said we couldn't do that because it was forbidden in the handbook.

I remember how stirn the R.S. was about women wear dresses to church. You might wear pants at home but at church women were to wear dresses and long hear, and men wear pants and short hear.

Today, I understand the purpose for those strict customs.

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New Paper Debunks Claim That Hurricanes Are Getting Worse Due to Climate Change - The New American

One of the climate cult’s most treasured myths is that tropical cyclones are increasing in intensity and destructive force due to so-called climate change. However, yet another paper is concluding that hurricanes and typhoons, at least thus far, are not increasing in either frequency or intensity.

Published by Paul Homewood for the Global Warming Policy Foundation (GWPF), the paper concludes that any upward trends in frequency or intensity when it comes to hurricanes, cyclones, and typhoons are likely explained by an increase in observational ability, and are definitely not due to man-made climate change.

“2021 and 2022 recorded the lowest number of both hurricanes and major hurricanes globally for any two year period since 1980,” the paper declares. “The apparent long-term increase in the number of hurricanes since the 19th century has been due to changes in observational practices over the years, rather than a real increase.”

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Liberal Filmmaker Believed in “Gender Transitioning” — Until Seeing What Befell Her Son - The New American

Dawes says they called a few “gender” clinics, which were so busy with new “customers” in 2021 that they didn’t even have waiting-list space. That’s when it dawned on the couple that their experiences weren’t rare, she states, that MUSS identification was now a widespread phenomenon.

How widespread? Get this: “Five of the 10 kids in our son’s closest friend group are now identifying as trans or nonbinary,” writes Dawes. “Our neighbors on both sides each have a trans kid. One of our son’s teachers told us he had so many kids with new identities … that he had to make a chart to know when to use which names and pronouns.”

“I joined a local support group with more than 100 members for parents of kids with rapid-onset [gender-identity disorder],” Dawes continues. “Hearing their stories, with so many similarities to ours, I couldn’t help but think that something other than kids finding their authentic selves was going on here.” My, one wonders:

What was her first clue?

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Far-left Nevada Democrats furious with party members over 'horrors of socialism' vote | Washington Examiner

Nevada progressives are furious with establishment Democrats in the state after they voted in favor of a House resolution to “condemn the horrors of socialism,” setting up a showdown between the party’s far-left flank and its more centrist officials.

The Las Vegas chapter of the Democratic Socialists of America hit out against the state’s Democratic Party, decrying officials for not condemning Nevada’s House members after all four lawmakers voted to denounce “the horrors of socialism” in countries such as Cuba and North Korea. The LVDSA cited the state party’s silence, along with a handful of other grievances, as evidence that the Democratic Party has become a “dead end.”

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Christian Nurse Suspended from NHS Certification Program for Saying 'Being White Doesn't Make You Racist" | The Gateway Pundit

A Christian nurse was suspended from a NHS certification program after she said “being white doesn’t make you racist.”

Amy Gallagher said the harassment and bullying by the woke staff left her with crippling anxiety.

The lecturers at the NHS in Britain also taught that Christianity is responsible for racism because “it’s European.”

Amy Gallagher is bringing a lawsuit against the Tavistock Trust where she took the course.

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Texas sheriff warns that America is experiencing a 'silent invasion' of military age men | Just The News

What's happening at the southern U.S. border with Mexico is in fact an invasion, Kinney County Sheriff Brad Coe says.

“We’re experiencing a silent invasion of military age men,” Coe told The Center Square when describing what his deputies have been increasingly facing over the past two years.

He spoke with The Center Square during an Operation Lone Star task force multi-day operation during which law enforcement officers rescued foreign nationals from a burning vehicle and revived a five-year-old girl being smuggled who’d been stashed inside of a car’s trunk.

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Speculative tech to reflect sun away from Earth needs focus, UN says

The “speculative group of technologies” that involve reflecting sunlight away from the Earth and back toward space, often called solar radiation modification, or more broadly solar geoengineering, should not be used now, the United Nations said, but they should be studied more rigorously.
Reflecting sunlight away from the Earth is dangerous, but it is also doable and quick, which means that if climate change-mitigation strategies continue to be insufficient, it could become a viable option.
There also needs to be international governance rules established for any possible use of sunlight-reflection technology, especially because the relatively low cost and relatively simple technology make it possible for a “rogue deployment.”

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Actually, it does matter what the meat is made of, because if it wasn't cut off a cow, pig, chicken, etc: IT'S NOT MEAT!
If you don't want to eat meat, why do you keep trying to make your food taste like meat?!

Finland Rules That Plant-Based Meats Can Be Called “Burger Patty” But Cannot Be Called “Plant-Based Meat” – winepressnews.com

“We are very happy that we can now sell plant-based patties. Ultimately, it doesn’t matter what the meat is made of, but that the food tastes good,” said the CEO of a faux meat company.

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Zuckerbucks Takes on New Life in 2024 with CTCL's 'US Alliance for Elections Excellence' an Organization Aimed at Recruiting Far-Left Operatives to Take Over Elections Offices Across the Country | The Gateway Pundit

If you thought the Zuckerberg interference in US elections was over in 2020 when Democrats pulled off a shocking victory over President Trump five days after Election Day, you would be wrong.

Zuckerbucks are back. And Democrats are now going after local elections offices around the country and pushing far-left candidates or secret sleepers to move elections in the Democrat Party’s direction.

Democrats no longer have to worry about nominating candidates who are senile or can’t string together two sentences. All they have to do is make sure they are running the elections offices and counting the ballots.

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NIH Transgender Research Includes 3D Body-Image Avatars

The National Institutes of Health is funding a study to create 3D avatars for transgender-identifying people to envision the body they imagine they should have and then medically alter their figure accordingly. Another NIH-funded project aims to allow trans folks to adopt a voice congruent with their sex-denying identity. Multiple taxpayer-funded studies on transgender issues focus on “intersectionality,” disparity, and HIV.

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Companies Hate Women. Advertising With Men In Bows Proves It

No business would advertise using a white guy in blackface. Yet many major brands are fine with paying a delusional male to sell to real women.

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They want to be able to draft women into war, and ironically, allow men to avoid war.

Passing The ERA Would Hurt Low-Income Women The Most

The real reason for the renewed interest in the ERA in the face of dramatic and ongoing success of women is that today’s advocates of the ERA quite consciously see it as a tool to embed gender ideology in all facets of American life and obliterate any distinctions between the two sexes in the process. This 2020 report from the liberal think tank Center for American Progress urging the passage of the ERA begins with an “author’s note”:

The author uses the term “sex discrimination” throughout this issue brief to match the language in the ERA’s text. This term is intended to be synonymous with other terms, such as “sex-based discrimination,” “gender discrimination,” or “gender-based discrimination,” all of which are intended herein to be comprehensive and inclusive beyond discrimination based solely upon sex assigned at birth to include discrimination based on gender identity, gender expression, and/or sexual orientation.

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Soldiers Use ‘Telepathy’ to Control Robot Dogs with Brain Waves: See Video - The Debrief

A new video released by the Australian Army shows soldiers using a form of enhanced digital ‘telepathy’ to control robot dogs.

Unlike more well-known brain-machine interface technologies like Elon Musk’s Neuralink, the new system doesn’t use an implant. Instead, the system reads brain signals via an external helmet and then translates that information into commands for the robot dogs. Although still in the testing stages, robotic systems that can be controlled by thoughts instead of verbal or physical commands could offer a significant technological advantage to militaries of the future

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Vanguard's break with ESG investing clouds practice's future viability | Just The News

Vanguard CEO Tim Buckley made waves last December after withdrawing the firm from the Net Zero Asset Managers initiative, citing in part the company's financial duties to its investors.

The NZAM initiative is a coalition of financial firms committed to environmental, social, and governance (ESG) investing with a mind toward steering capital toward firms working toward the goal of net-zero greenhouse gas emissions by 2050, as outlined in the Paris Climate Accord. The bloc collectively has trillions in assets under management, and the departure of one of the world's largest asset managers has considerable implications for the soundness of the investing strategy.

Buckley emphasized that his firm maintained a fiduciary responsibility to its investors to deliver returns and that Vanguard's own analysis of ESG approaches showed that such a strategy could not reliably help it deliver for its investors.

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Inmates claim jail guards are pressuring them to vote illegally in Chicago's mayoral election | Daily Mail Online

Inmates claimed guards at Cook County Jail were pushing them to illegally vote
Guards are allegedly getting orders from higher up and 'doing what they're told'
It sparked fears of ballot harvesting because jail was an 'ideal environment' for it
And raised fears it may propel Lori Lightfoot back in office, despite poor polling

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Study: Taking Cross-sex Hormones Carries “Substantial” Risk of Heart Attack or Stroke - The New American

Individuals taking cross-sex hormones to relieve their gender dysphoria have “a substantially increased risk of serious cardiac events, including stroke, heart attack, and pulmonary embolism,” according to a new American College of Cardiology (ACC) study.

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