April 23, 2026

Mindful Intelligence

New Google Tool Could Empower Censorship-Resistance Networks

A Google Team called Jigsaw has created a new software developer kit (SDK) that they allege will enable groups of people to create censorship-free digital networks they can use to communicate with each other even in the face of government oppression.

The tool was created in response to the crackdown on protestors and protest organizations by Iran. The fact that the tool was designed by a team working for a company who pushes the DNC-CCP narrative and oppresses users who too impactfully contradict that narrative is a bit of actual irony, but we liberty-lovers will take it and apply it in ways this team probably would never imagine, or support.

The tool itself, while designed to help a preferred oppressed group of people (Iranians wanting to live their own stewarded lives), can help an oppressed group of people Google has clearly demonstrated is not one of their preferred ones, the American people, those of us that also wish to live self-stewarded lives, not lives defined by and for the party, the DNC-CCP.

Jigsaw tweeted, “In times of crisis, internet connectivity is a lifeline, but authoritarian regimes are sophisticated at blocking access. That’s why VPNs are vital to keep people online when they need it most.”

They offered an explanation of what they’ve actually created, “Our team created this toolkit [Outline SDK] for developers. It empowers them to embed circumvention tech directly into their apps. Outline SDK simplifies the process, allowing apps to continue delivering crucial content even when faced with censorship, all without the need for a VPN.”

It would be much better if toolkits like this were developed by open-source liberty groups as opposed to Google, whose founding mantra, “don’t be evil” was long abandoned even before the creation of the parent corporation, Alphabet, who holds more allegiance with Karl Marx than it does Thomas Jefferson, who embraces evil in the name of ending evil, like all “good” leftists do.

Trump Aborting, After-Death Awareness, SCOTUS Goes Jan 6ing, Forever Ukraine Warring, DNC Can Pick Its Phobing

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FIA WEEKDAY

TUESDAY SEPTEMBER 19, 2023

editor Paul Collier

A summary of news from the day before (or weekend for Monday reports),
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Trump Aborting, After-Death Awareness, SCOTUS Goes Jan 6ing, Forever Ukraine Warring, DNC Can Pick Its Phobing

Trump Aborting, After-Death Awareness, SCOTUS Goes Jan 6ing, Forever Ukraine Warring, DNC Can Pick Its Phobing

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TOP STORIES

Trump Wants Republicans to Go Easy on Abortion Issue

TRUMP WANTS REPUBLICANS TO GO EASY ON ABORTION ISSUE – Former President Donald Trump is calling on Republicans to moderate their approach to abortion, saying they “speak very inarticulately” about abortion. Trump, speaking in an NBC interview said that if he were elected, on the abortion issue He would “sit down with both sides and I’d negotiate something, and we’ll end up with peace on that issue for the first time in 52 years.”

… Trump warned Republicans that going hard on this issue could lose them votes in most places, saying, “Other than certain parts of the country, you can’t- you’re not going to win on this issue.” He was speaking specifically of efforts to restrict abortions even in the cases of incest, rape, and the health of the mother, though such legislation is not widely supported, even among most “hardcore” Pro-Life supporters. GO DEEPER

RESEARCH SHOWS PEOPLE EXPERIENCED “LIFE AFTER DEATH” DURING HEART ATTACKS – Researchers from NYU Grossman School of Medicine found that among patients who were clinically dead after a heart attack, but ultimately survived, 40 percent experienced consciousness while dead. The study involved patients from hospitals in the UK and America who suffered heart attacks that led to clinical death. About 10 percent of the 567 patients survived and were able to be released from the hospital. It is among this group that reports of consciousness during death was reported. GO DEEPER

SCOTUS TO HEAR FIRST JAN 6 APPEALS – Edward Lang, Joseph Fischer and Garret Miller will be the first January 6 political prisoners to get their cases heard by the Supreme Court as they seek to have a part of their indictments wiped out that would remove an extra 20-year potential sentence should they be found guilty. The cases could indicate how SCOTUS views the constitutionality of the whole prosecutorial and judicial actions against American citizens, mostly of whom were welcomed into the Capitol they were later charged with attempting to seize.

NATO CHIEF, U.S. GENERAL PREDICT LONG, DRAWN-OUT WAR IN UKRAINE – NATO Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg is preparing Europe for a long war, saying in an interview with a German newspaper, “most wars last longer than is expected when they first start. Therefore, we must prepare ourselves for a long war in Ukraine.”

That sentiment was echoed by Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff General Mark A. Milley, who told CNN’s Fareed Zakaria that meeting Zelensky’s strategy will take a “long time.” He said of Zelensky’s goals, “That’s a high bar. It’s going to take a long time.”

It seems they are preparing us for a long war with little changes in the front lines, just walls of men and drones exploding one another into dust, blood, bone, and mud.

DNC MUST DECIDE WHETHER TO BE HOMOPHOBIC OR ISLAMOPHOBIC IN MICHIGANAfter a Muslim majority town in Michigan voted to ban all pride flags being displayed on any public facility, Democrats are beside themselves in how to confront this “betrayal” of their alliance. Not only are Muslims fighting them over pride flags, they’re pushing back against the trans/non-binary cult.

It seems the “alliance” had a tenuous tether, and one that could be broken should the DNC-CCP insist on continuing to push for their version of the “moral” person on everyone else. GO DEEPER

ANTI-LIBERTY AGIT-PROP

ED.NOTE: Links in this category are either agit prop (be it intentionally or unwittingly) or exposing agit prop intended to undermine American liberty values.

Trump says it was ‘my decision’ to try to overturn 2020 election results – AppleValleyNewsNow.com – www.applevalleynewsnow.com

The Supreme Court will spend its new term cleaning up after rogue MAGA judges – www.vox.com

How US Veterans Are Being Radicalized by Domestic Terrorists – www.businessinsider.com

Gen. Mark Milley Shoots Down Right Wing ‘Woke’ Criticism Of U.S. Military – www.huffpost.com

Apple CEO Tim Cook Questions if Advertising With Elon Musk’s X Is Still the Right Thing to Do (Video) – Yahoo Entertainment – www.yahoo.com

Professor: Mike Pence’s opposition to ‘gender-affirming’ care for minors is ‘appalling’ – www.thecollegefix.com

Doesn’t Anyone Understand White Trash Culture? – crooksandliars.com

Constitutional revolution: Why a rightwing SCOTUS supermajority can rewrite our understanding of law – www.milwaukeeindependent.com

One-Third of States Have an Election Denier Overseeing Elections – Mother Jones – www.motherjones.com

How library supporters rallied against a call to ban LGBTQ books in Fairhope – www.al.com

Opinion | The Republican Party Has Devolved Into a Racket – www.nytimes.com

Shareholders just sued Fox over Dominion election lies. Here’s how Fox board members and executives let election lies run rampant. – www.mediamatters.org

Black youths suffer the most from gun violence in America – afro.com

North Shelby Library Board fires back at “misinformation” by Rep. Susan Dubose, others – www.alreporter.com

TRENDING (Mon-Fri)

SURGEON-SCIENTISTS PUT ON ENDANGERED PROFESSIONALS LIST – “Experts” from University of Virginia Health are sounding an alarm to the medical industry that, due to a number of factors, the Physician-Scientist is becoming an endangered profession. GO DEEPER

IRAN-U.S. PRISON SWAP LOSES IN THE POLLS – A poll commissioned by the Senate Opportunity Fund found only 28 percent approved the recent prison swap deal between the U.S. and Iran that saw the U.S. release $6.8 billion in frozen Iranian assets in exchange for the deal.  17 percent said they had no opinion regarding the swap while 33 percent “strongly opposed” and another 22 percent “somewhat disapprove.”

more:

US auto union chief warns ready to ‘amp up’ strike if no deal | Business and Economy News – www.aljazeera.com

UAW wants pension plans back from Big 3; request unreasonable, experts say–and about those EVs … – texasmetronews.com

How Ford, GM and Stellantis misread UAW triggering historic strike – auto.hindustantimes.com

EU urges Iran to reconsider barring UN nuclear watchdog inspectors – www.france24.com

Trump’s DC Trial Date Could Spoil DA Alvin Bragg’s Manhattan Case – conservativebrief.com

Global Leaders Sound Alarm On Sustainable Development Goals At UN SDG Summit – healthpolicy-watch.news

Landslide in northwest Congo kills at least 17 people after torrential rain – timesofindia.indiatimes.com

Los Angeles County sheriff’s deputy killed in ambush at Palmdale station – www.latimes.com

3 Injured In Australian University Campus Stabbing – www.ndtv.com

Bill Maher Isn’t Bringing ‘Real Time’ Back Despite the Strikes After All – www.vanityfair.com

Alabama high school band director stunned, arrested after refusing … – The Seattle Times – www.seattletimes.com

New Zealand nurse faces hearing after allegedly masturbating quadriplegic patient – www.dailymail.co.uk

Prisoner suit claims they’re forced to endure dangerous conditions at Angola prison farm – American Press – www.americanpress.com

US military loses F-35, possibly still flying; asks public for help – americanmilitarynews.com

Woman lying down in Aurora parking lot run over, killed Sunday – www.denverpost.com

Controversial series Naked Education becomes one of the most complained about programmes of the year – www.dailymail.co.uk

Ashton Kutcher resigns from anti-child sex abuse organization after backlash – www.cnbc.com

German climate activists spray paint Brandenburg Gate in Berlin – Fox News – www.foxnews.com

A railroad worker was crushed to death in Ohio by a remote-controlled train. Unions have concerns – financialpost.com

Police Seek Help in Identifying Teen Robbers Who Looted Gas Station and Brutally Beat Clerk in Seattle Suburb Normandy Park (Video) | The Gateway Pundit – www.thegatewaypundit.com

WORLD (Mon-Fri)

ZELENSKY TO SUE POLAND OVER GRAIN BAN – While Ukraine relies on its European neighbors, including and especially Poland, to have their backs and help with supplies and logistics, it has chosen to sue the nation of Poland for banning Ukrainian agricultural products, a move that is intended to protect polish farmers, and one that is popular in the country.

ED.NOTE: This is a story that might merit a more-detailed follow-up should developments warrant, and this writer believes that is highly probable. This is a clash between “allies” as well as between the EU and Poland (and the other two nations that are part of “the resistance.”)

POLAND’S DEFENSE MINISTER EXPOSES SURRENDER POLAND PARTY – Polish politics are becoming a brutal blood sport as of late, with the opposition party accusing Poland’s defense minister, Mariusz Blaszczak of treason after he released the previous administration’s “surrender half of Poland” plan should they be invaded by Russia again.

The opposition party isn’t denying the plan, they’re accusing the Defense Minister of violating the law by exposing top secrets he allegedly had no authority to release. Methinks the same folks that favor the DNC-CCP in America are attempting to get this rising power back their orbit again.

more:

Libyan flood toll tops 11,300 amid recovery and recrimination – americanmilitarynews.com

UN Warns Disease Outbreak in Libya’s Flooded East Could Spark ‘Second Devastating Crisis’ – english.aawsat.com

Farmers Across Bulgaria Protest Against Ukrainian Grain As EU … – Barchart – www.barchart.com

First Thing: US and Iran expected to complete $6bn prisoner swap deal | US news – amp.theguardian.com

U.S. Jewish Leaders Slam Netanyahu for Equating Pro-democracy Protesters With Iran, PLO – Israel News – www.haaretz.com

EU states expressed ‘incomprehension’ at Tunisia migration pact, says Borrell | European Union – amp.theguardian.com

Italian PM Meloni says ‘future of Europe at stake’ over migrant crisis – newseu.cgtn.com

Kiev’s counteroffensive has been in vain – Musk — RT World News – www.rt.com

Ukraine to get advanced combat engineering vehicles from South Korea – defence-blog.com

For a divided Libya, disastrous floods have become a rallying cry for unity – abcnews.go.com

As foreign troops withdraw, how likely is an Al-Shabab takeover in Somalia? – www.newarab.com

African Union says its 2nd phase of troop withdrawal from Somalia has begun – abcnews.go.com

Niger: Thousands again take part in anti-French protests, say ‘enough is enough’ – www.africanews.com

Thousands Rally in Sweida, Syria, Demanding End to Assad’s Rule – themedialine.org

Australian state suspends human rights law to lock up more children | Child Rights News – www.aljazeera.com

Singapore Censorship Campaign Expands to Academic Website – www.asiasentinel.com

Airport in Iraq’s Kurdish region hit by deadly drone attack | News – www.aljazeera.com

Emirati moves toward military escalation in conjunction with Sana’a and Riyadh negotiations – alkhabaralyemeni.net

Flames destroy landmark tower as Sudan war enters sixth month – Middle East Monitor – www.middleeastmonitor.com

Brazil Calls on Rich Nations to Pay for Global Energy Transition – financialpost.com

Congo Republic Government Denies Rumours of Military Coup – www.bloomberg.com

Air Force Chiefs absent in Myanmar over junta’s actions – www.malaysiasun.com

Fatah gives deadline for handover of general’s killers amid fragile truce in Lebanon refugee camp – abcnews.go.com

POLITICS (Mon-Fri)

HUNTER BIDEN ADDS IRS TO GROWING LIST OF FOLKS HE’S SUING – Hunter Biden’s strategy to combat the hate seems to be to sue anyone and everyone he can, including the IRS, even as he’s being investigated for potential tax fraud. His lawyers filed a lawsuit alleging agents who talked about Hunter Biden’s case in public forums, like before congress, violated his right to privacy.

“This assault on Mr. Biden’s rights involved the public disclosure of his confidential tax information during more than 20 nationally televised and non-congressionally sanctioned interviews and numerous public statements,” the lawsuit asserts.

RFK JR. THREATENS TO GO ROGUE ON DEMOCRATIC PARTY – Democratic Presidential Candidate Robert F. Kennedy Jr. declared his intentions to “look at other options” should he deem the whole Democratic Primary system to be rigged against him.

He said at a live town hall event hosted by Stand for Health Freedom, “They’ve changed the rules… They’ve disenfranchised states that voted against Biden last time, so their votes will not be counted [in the primaries]. Even if I win all the states, I could lose at the convention, even if I win those states overwhelmingly, because the votes of the superdelegates… (pause) so we are appealing to the DNC to make this a free and fair election, and if they don’t do that, I’m going to look at other options.”

more:

Facing Pushback From Both Parties, New Mexico Governor Scales Back Firearms Order – www.nytimes.com

Trump reiterates request for Judge Tanya Chutkan to recuse herself from his D.C. Jan. 6 case – www.cbsnews.com

House Democrats press for cameras in federal courts, as Trump trials and Supreme Court session loom – www.cbsnews.com

FBI Received Information from Second Informant Against Biden, then Shut Him Down › American Greatness – amgreatness.com

Legality of Hunter Biden gun charges challenged by Supreme Court Bruen ruling | News – gazette.com

CBS News Biden-Trump poll finds concerns about Biden finishing a second term, and voters’ finances also weigh on Biden – www.cbsnews.com

Bipartisan NYC Council Caucus Tells Hochul to Sue Biden Over Migrant and Border Crisis – legalinsurrection.com

Vindicated Ken Paxton blames Biden and Texas House for ‘sham impeachment’ – www.washingtonexaminer.com

Voters in New York swing districts support migrant work permits, poll … – Crain’s New York Business – www.crainsnewyork.com

‘Bidenomics’: $42B internet investment favors wealthy left-wing regions, new report finds – www.foxnews.com

Marjorie Taylor Greene Slams Jack Smith For Election Interference And Violating Trump’s 1st Amendment Rights: ‘Special Counsel Must Be Defunded’ – www.benzinga.com

GOP Chairs in Safe Seats Rake in Campaign Cash They Don’t Need – news.bloombergtax.com

Louisiana GOP endorses candidate accused of whipping child and other “criminal cruelty” charges – boingboing.net

Some Democrats Are Trying to Preemptively Outlaw a Billionaire Tax – jacobin.com

D.C. Download: Nevada’s Democratic senators at odds with Biden administration over mining proposals – thenevadaindependent.com

EDITOR’S CHOICE (Tues & Fri)

CLINTONS REACTIVATE GLOBAL MONEY-LAUNDERING SCHEME, AKA, THE CLINTON GLOBAL INITIATIVE – The Clinton Global Initiative will use the Ukraine War to justify its emergence from the ashes as the DNC-CCP must imagine its shored up its defenses enough to reactivate the reliable war chest that the organization has been for the Clintons personally, and the Party as well. GO DEEPER

U.S. NAVY MISSES RECRUITMENT TARGET BY THOUSANDS – It seems the U.S. Navy is happy its expected shortfall of new sailors of 13,000 turned out to only be 7,000, at least that is what Admiral Lisa Franchetti, the acting Chief of Naval Operations, told congress during her confirmation hearing to become permanently assigned.

more:

Charges in St. Louis doubled since exit of Soros-backed prosecutor – nypost.com

Supreme Court pauses order curbing Biden administration efforts to block social media posts – www.stamfordadvocate.com

Politicians still lying about the dead in Lahaina – American Thinker – www.americanthinker.com

George Soros gives at least $300K to network of TikTok activists to praise Joe Biden and push ultra-left ideas on young voters – www.dailymail.co.uk

California sues oil giants, claiming they downplayed climate change for decades : NPR – www.npr.org

Obituary That Called Late NBA Player ‘Useless’ Sparks Firestorm – www.huffpost.com

New student grants at Drexel fund ‘racial literacy’ for pre-kindergarten teachers – www.thecollegefix.com

System Designed to Alert Chicago Police Brass About Officers With Multiple Complaints Was Ready 2 1/2 Years Ago but Never Implemented: Letter | Chicago News – news.wttw.com

How liberalism sabotaged itself: Are Cold War intellectuals to blame? – www.salon.com

Intellectualization Results From Blocked Childhood Trauma | Daniel Mackler – www.madinamerica.com

A Mississippi jury rules officers justified in fatal 2017 shooting after police went to wrong house – www.wfmj.com

Arkansas Gov. Sarah Huckabee Sanders Signs Law Restricting Release of Her Travel, Security Records – www.usnews.com

IRS tax returns leak an ‘affront to all citizens,’ Citadel says as Ken Griffin subpoenas ProPublica for documents – fortune.com

Anti-Pot Group Tattles On Bank – abq.news

Librarians’ focus on the individual leads to ‘white savior narratives,’ scholars argue – www.thecollegefix.com

The Fox Lawsuits Piling Up on Rupert Murdoch’s Desk – www.newsweek.com

DHS warns of malicious AI use against critical infrastructure – cyberscoop.com

Australian Defence force chief warns of “truth decay” from AI – cosmosmagazine.com

In America, lots of usable organs go unrecovered or get binned – www.economist.com

SCI-TECH (Tues & Fri)

IS TESLA ABOUT TO REVOLUTIONIZE THE AUTO INDUSTRY WITH ADVANCED MANUFACTURING BREAKTHROUGH? – Tesla has allegedly been developing new methods for manufacturing electric vehicles that could significantly reduce the production time and resources needed to manufacture their vehicles.

According to a Reuters report, “The company pioneered the use of huge presses with 6,000 to 9,000 tons of clamping pressure to mold the front and rear structures of its Model Y in a ‘gigacasting’ process that slashed production costs and left rivals scrambling to catch up. In a bid to extend its lead, Tesla is closing in on an innovation that would allow it to die cast nearly all the complex underbody of an EV in one piece, rather than about 400 parts in a conventional car, the people said.”

SLINKY TIRES COULD BE YOUR NEXT AIRLESS BIKE TIRES – SMART Tire Company is creating a new kind of tire that might look like a slinky wrapped around a wheel but they could revolutionize the tire industry, starting with the bike industry where working models are easier to initially develop. They call them Metl tires and they might work even better than our air tires currently do.

more:

Stephen Fry Says AI Cloned His Voice to Create Audio Illegally – www.businessinsider.com

TikTok hit with $500M fine in Europe for past failings safeguarding youth privacy – www.cbc.ca

New ‘Inverse Vaccine’ Shows Potential to Treat MS and Other Autoimmune Diseases – science.slashdot.org

450,000 Americans May Have A Meat Allergy Caused By Tick Bites – www.discovermagazine.com

Forgotten Memories May Remain Intact in the Brain – www.scientificamerican.com

NASA UFO report finds no evidence UFOs have alien origins – thehill.com

NASA names UFO chief to investigate ‘anomalous phenomena’ – fortune.com

NASA Wants to Make UFO Studies a Real Science – www.scientificamerican.com

Brain organoids could reveal origins of autism – www.futurity.org

World’s most powerful X-ray laser will ‘film’ chemical reactions in unprecedented detail – www.nature.com

Abandoned Apollo 17 Lunar Module Is Causing Tremors On the Moon – science.slashdot.org

Archaeologists Found Seal Impressions That Could Change Hittite History in Kayalıpınar – arkeonews.net

Newfound Stem Cell Might Explain How Breast Cancer Spreads to the Spine – www.scientificamerican.com

Tiny nanocarriers could prove the magic bullet for acne sufferers – www.sciencedaily.com

Scientists make significant strides in studying schizophrenia genes – www.techexplorist.com

A New Technique Confirms the Universe is 69% Dark Energy, 31% Matter (Mostly Dark) – www.universetoday.com

Supermassive black holes have a significant impact on galactic chemistry – www.techexplorist.com

NASA’s Closest Spacecraft To The Sun Flies Through A Colossal Solar Explosion – www.forbes.com

Scientists finally detected oxygen-28. Its instability surprised them – www.sciencenews.org

No Snoots Here: Dogs and Wolves Can Find Hidden Food Without Relying Only On Their Noses – www.discovermagazine.com

You Can Now Purchase 3D-Printed Salmon – hypebeast.com

FIA FEATURE EXCERPT:

ABORTION OR THE REPUBLIC, YOU CAN’T HAVE BOTH

INTRODUCTION

Many Americans have long debated the causes behind the Civil War that left 750,000 dead. That war was fought ostensibly over states’ rights, or maybe commerce rights, or maybe because of slavery. Whatever reason you suppose the Civil War was fought, or even what the combatants THOUGHT they were fighting for, America’s first Civil War was fought because the spirit that gives our government its authority was undermined by the existence of slavery.

Our nation’s authority comes from the government’s demonstrated respect for the sovereign and sacred rights of individuals to steward their own lives by defining happiness and prosperity for themselves, and having the freedom to pursue that happiness and prosperity however they see fit. The only check on that freedom is that Americans also demonstrate respect for the sovereignty and sacredness of their neighbors as well.

I hope in this report to show you the cold, discouraging truth about the spirit in this land today, a spirit that has no connection to the republic’s legitimization of authority and has become increasingly ready to sub-humanize first the unborn and then any neighbor that stands against their hedonistic desires.

After that, I will make the case as to why the GOP should continue to stand defiantly, even if it means losing elections today, for tomorrow, an abortion-supporting GOP is no more legitimate as an American party than the DNC is. READ FULL REPORT

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Trump Wants Republicans to Go Easy on Abortion Issue

Former President Donald Trump is calling on Republicans to moderate their approach to abortion, saying they “speak very inarticulately” about abortion. Trump, speaking in an NBC interview said that if he were elected, on the abortion issue He would “sit down with both sides and I’d negotiate something, and we’ll end up with peace on that issue for the first time in 52 years.”

This writer is pressing x to doubt on that claim, as abortion is an issue that individuals in this country will never be satisfied with until, on one side, it’s ended almost completely (save for exceptions such as rape, incest, and the health of the mother, more on that later), or, on the other side, has no restrictions applied at all.

Trump warned Republicans that going hard on this issue could lose them votes in most places, saying, “Other than certain parts of the country, you can’t- you’re not going to win on this issue.” He was speaking specifically of efforts to restrict abortions even in the cases of incest, rape, and the health of the mother, though such legislation is not widely supported, even among most “hardcore” Pro-Life supporters.

Trump even went so far as to say that efforts by Florida to outlaw abortions after six weeks was “a terrible, terrible mistake.” He said, “What’s going to happen is you’re going to come up with a number of weeks or months, you’re going to come up with a number that’s going to make people happy.”

One of the major criticisms of Trump is his tendency to be “pragmatic” rather than consistent in our ideals. It’s a critique leveled at conservatism in general, and is one of the major reasons this writer doesn’t identify as a conservative even if, socially, the Ven diagram between myself and conservatives overlaps considerably.

As if to accentuate his pragmatism, he also said, “From a pure standpoint, from a legal standpoint, I think it’s probably better. But I can live with it either way. It could be state or could it federal, I don’t frankly care.”

We made the case in a report I wrote called “Abortion or the Republic, You Can’t Have Both,” that winning elections by compromising on abortion won’t actually restore or preserve our republic.

From our report on abortion and the GOP:

The Republican Party has long been the only party openly supporting making the murdering of unborn children illegal. Now, it faces a hostile crowd that has been inured to the evil of abortion as surely as a dairy farmer gets inured to the smell of cow manure after working in those conditions for years. Now, the Republican party appears ready to seek to win elections over defending the underlying American standard that gives our republic its legitimacy, that all humans are created in God’s image, and thus entitled to the right to life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness.

The question for the Republican Party is this: Would you rather win and lose the republic or lose and keep fighting to restore and preserve the republic?

We can posit this question to Donald Trump, the far-and-away frontrunner for the GOP Presidential nomination and ask him if he even understands what he is surrendering by seeking to drive the GOP down the path of “compromise” on the abortion issue (never mind his strawman argument against banning abortions without exceptions, like rape, incest, and the health of the mother, which aren’t seriously considered by the Pro-Life community).

I realize my position on abortion, that it should be outlawed altogether save for the exceptions already listed, is cutting against the overwhelming worldviews of most Americans, but I hold to my assertion that if you want an American republic where the individual is assumed to have God-given rights to self-stewardship, you cannot support abortion. I might be fighting windmills or battling the wind itself in making this claim, but I believe it is the right proclamation to make, come what may.

From Ezekiel 3:16-19

“ And at the end of seven days, the word of the Lord came to me: ‘Son of man, I have made you a watchman for the house of Israel. Whenever you hear a word from my mouth, you shall give them warning from me. If I say to the wicked, “You shall surely die,” and you give him no warning, nor speak to warn the wicked from his wicked way, in order to save his life, that wicked person shall die for his iniquity, but his blood I will require at your hand. But if you warn the wicked, and he does not turn from his wickedness, or from his wicked way, he shall die for his iniquity, but you will have delivered your soul. ‘”

Research Shows People Experienced “Life After Death” During Heart Attacks

Researchers from NYU Grossman School of Medicine found that among patients who were clinically dead after a heart attack, but ultimately survived, 40 percent experienced consciousness while dead. The study involved patients from hospitals in the UK and America who suffered heart attacks that led to clinical death. About 10 percent of the 567 patients survived and were able to be released from the hospital. It is among this group that reports of consciousness during death was reported.

From sciencedaily.com:

The study also found that in a subset of these patients, who received brain monitoring, nearly 40% had brain activity that returned to normal, or nearly normal, from a “flatline” state, at points even an hour into CPR. As captured by EEG, a technology that records brain activity with electrodes, the patients saw spikes in the gamma, delta, theta, alpha, and beta waves associated with higher mental function.

The study authors theorize the “dying brain,” one that appears to have “flatlined,” loses what is called its natural inhibitory systems, or “braking” systems that allow the mind to focus on immediate, essential perceptions.

Senior study author Dr. Sam Parnia said of the study, “Although doctors have long thought that the brain suffers permanent damage about 10 minutes after the heart stops supplying it with oxygen, our work found that the brain can show signs of electrical recovery long into ongoing CPR. This is the first large study to show that these recollections and brain wave changes may be signs of universal, shared elements of so-called near-death experiences. These experiences provide a glimpse into a real, yet little understood dimension of human consciousness that becomes uncovered with death. The findings may also guide the design of new ways to restart the heart or prevent brain injuries and hold implications for transplantation.”

The study authors are staying away from the whole debate of whether there is life after death, rather they are focused on what the study can show that can lead to help people that are living.

Woke Teachers Only, America’s Trust Crisis, Gagging Trump, NATO’S New Army, UAW Still Negotiating

FREEDOMIST INTELLIGENCE ADVISOR Presents

FIA WEEKDAY

MONDAY SEPTEMBER 18, 2023

editor Paul Collier

A summary of news from the day before (or weekend for Monday reports),
with breaking news added at the time of publication (released weekdays 8am eastern time).

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(News recap from 3p September 15 to 3p September 17)

“(Love) does not rejoice at wrongdoing, but rejoices with the truth. “1 Corinthians 13:6

Woke Teachers Only, America’s Trust Crisis, Gagging Trump, NATO’S New Army, UAW Still Negotiating

WOKE TEACHERS ONLY, AMERICA’S TRUST CRISIS, GAGGING TRUMP, NATO’S NEW ARMY, UAW STILL NEGOTIATING

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Only Woke Ideologues Selected to be Public School Teachers

ONLY WOKE IDEOLOGUES SELECTED TO BE PUBLIC SCHOOL TEACHERSThe National Opportunity Project (NOP) conducted a survey of 70 American public schools and discovered in that survey these schools are hiring new teachers not so much based on their qualifications to teach but their willingness to terrorize children with abominable lies that sprout out of the woketarian ideology (DEI- Diversity, Equity, Inclusion) the DNC-CCP has chosen to adopt as its vehicle of power, its justification for taking violent action against peaceful Americans.

From The Federalist: Documents obtained by NOP show public schools advertised ideological requirements in their job postings with coded language seeking “equity-literate educator[s]” who will work at “dismantling systemic racism” with a “commitment to social justice.” Denver Public Schools dictated that applicants should “have an anti-racist mindset and will work to dismantle systems of oppression and inequity in our community.” GO DEEPER

AMERICANS LOSE TRUST IN ALL MAJOR INSTITUTIONS – American confidence in major institutions has hit an all-time low, according to Gallop, which has been tracking that confidence level since 1979 at a time when America had just lost the Vietnam War, had seen an American President resign, and were in the midst of Jimmy Carter’s self-inflicted economic malaise. At that time, confidence in these same institutions hovered around 50 percent, now they have plummeted to 26 percent. GO DEEPER.

PROSECUTORS MOVE TO GAG TRUMP, PROTECT CHUTKAN – Jack Smith and his collection of lawfare assassins are moving to up the ante against opponents of the Biden regime, announcing plans to seek a gag order against President Trump that is “narrow, well-defined.” Meanwhile, Jack Smith opposed the removal of DNC-CCP activist U.S. District Judge Tanya Chutkan, as requested by the Trump legal team over clear demonstrations of bias against the President and his supporters. GO DEEPER

NATO WANTS 300K DEFENSIVE FORCE TO COUNTER RUSSIAN THREAT – NATO Chair Rob Baur told the press that NATO will be forming a defensive force of 300,000 soldiers to counter the perceived Russian threat of potential invasion. He said, “If we are talking about collective defense, you do not have the time to prepare for an attack if the attack happens. And it is not us planning the attack, it is the opponent planning the attack. If they attack, you have to be ready. Therefore, we need more soldiers at high readiness … We are talking, in NATO as a whole if Finland and Sweden have joined, of about 3.5 million soldiers in the alliance. So the 300,000 is the number … that we foresee at high readiness available for basically the first 30 days if it is necessary”.

UAW MEETS WITH BIG THREE DAY AFTER STRIKE STARTS – The United Auto Workers’ top leadership team met with representatives of the big three automakers a day after the union called a strike after their current working contract expired. The UAW said of the meeting that they had a “reasonably productive conversation with Ford today.”

More meetings took place between General Motors, with more scheduled for Monday with Stellantis.

ANTI-LIBERTY AGIT-PROP

Trump Just Handed Jack Smith A Confession That He Stole Classified Documents – www.politicususa.com

Trump Looks Mentally Gone As He Claims Biden Will Start World War II – www.politicususa.com

It’s Debatable Is Trump an insurrectionist, can he serve as President? – www.lubbockonline.com

Republicans attempt slut-shaming with married mom of two – roanoke.com

Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez calls out Alito’s ‘extraordinary corruption’ – www.dailykos.com

US Supreme Court Justice accused of corruption in case he ruled against Argentina – buenosairesherald.com

US military leaders begin to speak out about Tuberville’s hold on military promotions – NBC Connecticut – www.nbcconnecticut.com

“Bolder and more aggressive”: Elon Musk’s X placing major brand names next to antisemitic content – www.salon.com

For Elon Musk, the personal is political – but his march to the right affects us all | Elon Musk – amp.theguardian.com

Russell Brand sexual assault accusers speak out in TV special after bombshell exposé – pagesix.com

Survey: Pandemic gun buyers have more self-harm risk, extreme beliefs – www.futurity.org

Romney starts naming names, casting GOP colleagues as cowards – www.washingtonpost.com

Lahaina disaster fueled by climate change, Gov. Green to tell UN – www.staradvertiser.com

Framers would likely agree with disqualifying Trump under the 14th Amendment – www.yorkdispatch.com

Kentucky AG Daniel Cameron Under Fire Over Birth Control – Rolling Stone – www.rollingstone.com

FBI Didn’t Care That Giuliani ‘May Have Been Compromised’ by Kremlin: Whistleblower – www.businessinsider.com

Don’t give up on Joe Biden (Letters to The Republican) – www.masslive.com

Candace Owens suspended for anti-LGBTQ YouTube hate again – www.losangelesblade.com

DeSantis, Florida lawmakers blamed for racism, hate, by protesters – www.usatoday.com

Meet the Stop Cop City Activist Facing RICO Charges – www.truthdig.com

A men’s movement takes reins in a nationwide quest to end abortion – ncnewsline.com

Climate change poses increasing threat for dead as cemeteries flood – www.cincinnati.com

Zionist lobby seeking to alienate Muslims from Holy Qur’an – www.presstv.ir

TRENDING (Mon-Fri)

DID RFK JR NARROWLY MISS BEING ASSASSINATED? – Adrian Paul Aispuro, 44, was charged with carrying a concealed weapon after being found at a Robert F. Kennedy campaign event trying to pass himself off as a member of Kennedy’s security detail. He was found to be carrying two loaded pistols, both in shoulder holsters, and extra fully-loaded magazines. The incident happened at the Wilshire Ebell Theater in Los Angeles, less than two miles from where the Ambassador Hotel once stood, where his father, Robert F. Kennedy was gun downed. He is only being held on bail for $35,000.

LIBYA FLOOD DISASTER HIGHLIGHTS WORLDWIDE DAM EMERGENCY – The recent disaster in Libya that left tens of thousands dead and a city nearly destroyed, was the result of dams that failed to hold back floodwaters. The problem is worldwide, and even the United States is at risk. Even back in 2021, the American Society of Engineers gave a report card grade of D for the state of America’s dams.

more:

New Mexico governor narrows gun ban to playgrounds, parks in Albuquerque and surrounding county | National News – www.applevalleynewsnow.com

Libya: Aid groups urge authorities to stop burying flood victims in mass graves due to health risks – www.euronews.com

Libya floods: Grieving families continue search for loved ones despite 72-hour window to find survivors passes | World News – news.sky.com

Hurricane Lee tracker update: One dead in Maine after storm landfall leaves thousands without power – www.independent.co.uk

Storm Lee makes landfall in Canada, downing trees and knocking out power – www.reuters.com

Storm Lee bears down on New England, Canada with hurricane-force winds – www.cnbc.com

NASA Confirms That 2023 was the Hottest Summer on Record – www.universetoday.com

Water beads sold at Target recalled after baby’s death – midmichigannow.com

Deadly disease wreaks havoc in banana fields, 23 districts confined – www.thecitizen.co.tz

Brazil plane crash: 14 dead as aircraft full of American tourists plunges near Amazon | World | News – www.express.co.uk

‘One of the Most Hated People in the World’: Sam Bankman-Fried’s 250 Pages of Justifications – www.nytimes.com

Algeria struggles to contain wildfires – Anadolu Agency | English – www.aa.com.tr

Wrongful death lawsuit filed against police over fatal shooting at wrong house – www.cbs58.com

Los Angeles County Sheriff’s Deputy Ambushed, Killed in Patrol Car – RedState – redstate.com

Russell Brand Preemptively Denies “Astonishing” Criminal Allegations – Deadline – deadline.com

Retail theft crime in Denver ‘is getting worse than ever’ | Subscriber Content – denvergazette.com

Idaho man accused of shooting dead four of his neighbors after one exposed himself to his family – www.dailymail.co.uk

Girl, 5, dies after military jet ‘crashes into family car during acrobatic exercise’ – www.mirror.co.uk

Painkillers increase blood clot risk with hormonal Birth control – www.techexplorist.com

DeSantis offers $5,000 bonus to Chicago police who move to Florida | National – www.union-bulletin.com

Drew Barrymore Deletes Emotional Apology Video, As WGA Cancels Anticipated Showrunner Meeting – www.vanityfair.com

Yale Psychiatrist Receives Federal Grant to Shock Elderly Dementia Patients – www.madinamerica.com

City Council OKs one of Chicago’s largest police settlements – www.chicagotribune.com

Princess Diana’s iconic ‘black sheep’ sweater smashes auction records – National – globalnews.ca

WORLD (Mon-Fri)

GUATEMALAN ELECTION WINNER THREATENS TO TAKE TO THE STREETS – President-elect Bernardo Arévalo of Guatemala has apparently had enough of the legal jiu jitsu being deployed by the reigning party preventing him from taking power he won in a Democratic election. He is now announcing plans to call people to take to the streets to protest the government. He said it would be a protest for ALL Guatemalans who “(feel) cheated, against a system that is trying to mock them.”

IRAN REMOVES SEASONED UN INSPECTORS, IAEA CALLS MOVE “UNPRECEDENTED” – The International Atomic Energy Agency was informed by Iran of its decision to expel key seasoned UN inspectors which were there to assure Iran is meeting its current nuclear agreement obligations.

IAEA chief Rafael Grossi said of the move by Iran, “With today’s decision, Iran has effectively removed about one-third of the core group of the Agency’s most experienced inspectors designated for Iran. This measure, while formally permitted by the NPT Safeguards Agreement, has been exercised by Iran in a manner that affects in a direct and severe way the ability of the IAEA to conduct effectively its inspections in Iran. I strongly condemn this disproportionate and unprecedented unilateral measure.”

more:

Israeli settlers storm Al-Aqsa compound on last day of Rosh Hashanah – www.newarab.com

Junta-ruled Mali, Niger, and Burkina Faso sign Sahel security pact – english.alarabiya.net

6 ASEAN air force chiefs attend conference hosted by Myanmar – asia.nikkei.com

Nairobi Declaration proposes global carbon tax as climate talks intensify – www.theafricareport.com

Thousands protest in Prague, demand Czech’s pro-Western govt. resign – www.presstv.ir

US military is scouting more Philippine bases for shared access, admiral says – www.stripes.com

Fortified by Eucharist, U.S. Catholic priest negotiates ‘fragile’ Haiti gang truce – catholicreview.org

Inflation continues to climb in Argentina as presidential election nears | Inflation News – www.aljazeera.com

Chicago State University caught in dispute over Nigeria’s presidential election – www.cbsnews.com

Pentagon says surveillance flights, not counterterrorism ops, have restarted in Niger – news.yahoo.co

After Niger coup, Air Force looks for other countries to host drone base – www.defenseone.com

India-China Maritime Race and Its Potential Implications – moderndiplomacy.eu

Rishi Sunak says American XL bully dogs are ‘a danger to our communities’ as he announces ban – UK politics live – The Guardian – amp.theguardian.com

Kim visits military aviation plant in Russia’s far east – www.manilatimes.net

Serbia and Kosovo’s hopes of joining EU at risk after talks breakdown again – www.euronews.com

Denmark takes delivery of first four F-35 fighter jets – defence-blog.com

Islamabad: Pakistan election commission questions political neutrality of caretaker government – m.timesofindia.com

Two parties dominate Taiwan. This brash surgeon-turned-politician is shaking that up – americanmilitarynews.com

Ukraine’s Military Strategy Inspires Taiwan; Plans To Make Chinese Invasion ‘Too Costly To Contemplate’ – www.eurasiantimes.com

Zelenskyy set to visit Washington as U.S. debates continuing Ukraine aid – National – globalnews.ca

South Korea’s Unification Ministry is undergoing changes to be tougher on North Korea : NPR – www.npr.org

Saudi Arabia Executes Two Soldiers For “Military Treason” – www.ndtv.com

Yemen’s Houthis heading to Riyadh for ceasefire talks with Saudi Arabia | News – www.aljazeera.com

ISRAEL: Court orders Levin to justify inaction on appointing judges – en.globes.co.il

G-7 plans Russian diamond imports ban by year-end, Belgium says – www.moneyweb.co.za

Brazilian leader Lula rekindles ties with Cuba at G77 summit in Havana – www.washingtontimes.com

US, Royal Canadian Navy Conduct Joint Exercise in South China Sea Amid Regional Tensions – sofrep.com

POLITICS (Mon-Fri)

THEN-VP BIDEN HELD MEETING AT RESIDENCE WITH SON, BANKING HEAD TO AID BURISMA PROJECT IN KAZAKHSTAN – GOP House investigators have uncovered a meeting at the Vice-Presidential residence on July 7, 2015, that involved then-Vice President Joe Biden, his son Hunter, family business partner Devon Archer and Mark Holtzman, the then-chairman of Kazakhstan’s largest bank.

The NY Post claims “(t)he unspoken subtext of the conversation between the four men was that Hunter and Archer were working on a lucrative energy project in Kazakhstan on behalf of Burisma, the corrupt Ukrainian energy company that was paying them $1 million apiece.” They base that claim on information received from an unnamed source who was present at the meeting.

AG PAXTON ACQUITTED BY TEXAS SENATE – Embattled Attorney General Ken Paxton is back on the job after being acquitted of all 16 articles of impeachment by the Texas State Senate which were passed by the Texas House. In the House battle, 70 percent of the Republicans voted for impeachment, while only two of Republican Senators voted to convict on any of the articles.

Paxton said of the final vote, “The sham impeachment coordinated by the Biden Administration with liberal House Speaker Dade Phelan and his kangaroo court has cost taxpayers millions of dollars, disrupted the work of the Office of Attorney General and left a dark and permanent stain on the Texas House. The weaponization of the impeachment process to settle political differences is not only wrong, it is immoral and corrupt.”

more:

Donald Trump news today: Trump says he is ‘very unlikely’ to pardon himself after winning stay in New York fraud trial – www.the-independent.com

Elizabeth Warren explains her new Big Tech-focused Digital Consumer Protection Commission Act – www.vox.com

House GOP: JPMorgan Chase failing to hand over communications with feds over Jan. 6 customer data – www.foxbusiness.com

Election officials reject calls to unilaterally block Trump from ballot using 14th Amendment but will defer to courts – krdo.com

Biden campaign plots long-game strategy as Democrats’ fears of a Trump win spike – KTEN – www.kten.com

A judge must now decide if Georgia voting districts are racially discriminatory after a trial ended – www.fox5atlanta.com

N.H. Secretary of State: No Legal Basis to Keep Trump off Ballot – thenewamerican.com

Ron DeSantis Slams Defense Department’s Support Of ‘Abortion Tourism’ – www.huffpost.com

Florida Republicans scrap planned loyalty pledge to eventual primary winner – boingboing.net

Ohio Sec. of State LaRose’s office move amid U.S. Senate candidacy raises ethical questions – ohiocapitaljournal.com

Kevin McCarthy Makes Case for Impeachment Probe to Reporter Who Says There’s No Evidence – freebeacon.com

These candidates in Virginia could shape how both parties talk about abortion in 2024 – www.wral.com

Kentucky Supreme Court to consider question of gerrymandered voting maps this week – NKyTribune – nkytribune.com

FINANCE (Mon & Thurs)

AZERBAIJAN ANNOUNCES NEW LAND ROUTES FOR CENTRAL ASIA TO REACH EUROPE THROUGH – President Ilham Aliyev, speaking at the 5th Consultative Meeting of the Heads of State of Central Asia (held this year in Tajikistan), told his Central Asian counterparts, “Our brothers in Central Asia know that Azerbaijan’s entire transportation and logistics infrastructure is available to them. We are modernizing the Baku-Tbilisi-Kars railway…. The cargo volume via that road will be increased from 1 to 5 million tons (per annum). In parallel to that, the capacity of the Baku Trade Port is also being expanded from current 15 to 25 million tons.”

EPA MAKES IT EASIER FOR ANYONE TO STOP ENERGY PIPELINES FROM BEING BUILT – The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) announced the finalization of a rule that gives much broader authority for states and tribes to stop energy pipelines from being built. Radhika Fox, a top EPA official told reporters, “ Our focus was on restoring [state] authority and providing an efficient path to critical infrastructure projects in this country.”

Wilson’s dream has come through, as the administrators are now empowered to create new law unencumbered by “democratic” and “republican” impediments.

more:

California legislature advances new food ban – www.nationalhogfarmer.com

California’s homeowners insurance market is collapsing – www.pressdemocrat.com

Citizens, Florida’s property insurance of last resort, wants double-digit rate hikes by end of the year | Florida News | Orlando – www.orlandoweekly.com

SEC Tells 5th Circ. Kroger Vote Moots Conservative Proxy Suit – www.law360.com

Google Parent Alphabet Lays Off Hundreds From Global Recruitment Team – pragativadi.com

IMF’s Argentina predicament: Seek reforms and tango on or kill the music – www.reuters.com

Blackstone Creates Corporate Credit, Asset-Based Finance, Insurance Group – www.ai-cio.com

Heavier U.S. sanctions on China’s Huawei, SMIC called for in Washington – www.washingtonpost.com

Uber to appeal Brazil court’s $205 million fine for irregular labor relations By Reuters – www.investing.com

Biden’s clean-car rules face a crucial test as appeals court hears Republican-led challenges | Pennsylvania State News – lancasteronline.com

Walt Disney Receives $10 Billion Offer From Byron Allen for ABC, Other Networks -September 15, 2023 at 07:25 am EDT – www.marketscreener.com

Disney Denies Reports of Decision to Sell ABC – www.thewrap.com

California State University Students to See 6% Tuition Increase Next Fall – www.kqed.org

Nike permanently shutters beloved Portland store after ‘rapid escalation in retail theft’ — how a national crime spike is costing US retailers $100B – finance.yahoo.com

CULTURE (Mon & Thurs)

DID THE POPE KNOW ABOUT NAZI WAR CRIMES WHILE CONTINUING TO COOPERATE WITH THEM? – During World War II, the Vatican failed to condemn the actions by the Nazis, specifically regarding their efforts to exterminate the Jewish race from the European continent. Their reason has been that the Vatican couldn’t condemn an action they could never confirm until after the war.

Now, evidence has emerged of correspondence between then-Pope Pius XII and a German Jesuit that seems to show he should have known with “confirmable” detail about the atrocities taking place under the brutal dictatorship of Adolph Hitler.

AUSTRALIA’S BIG W PULLS BOOK TEACHING 8-YEAR OLDS HOW TO “SCISSOR” – After parental backlash and alleged threats to its workers, the Australian retail chain Big W, has announced plans to pull the children’s version of the book “Welcome to Sex” called “Welcome to Sex: Your no-silly-questions guide to sexuality, pleasure, and figuring it out.” In the children’s book, it covers explicit sexual details and encourages children to explore their sexuality, including how to “scissor” if they’re engaging in lesbian sex. GO DEEPER

more:

States ease teen employment laws amid rising child labor violations | National – www.rrdailyherald.com

Detransitioner Chloe Cole: I’ve Been Censored By ‘Big Tech Overlords’ at Instagram – www.cbn.com

Paedophile snatches girl outside school after police tell parents he’s no threat – www.mirror.co.uk

Hiding Students’ Gender Identities From Their Parents Is Immoral – www.newsweek.com

‘Acceptable’ Violence Against Peaceful Pro-Lifers Is Unacceptable – thefederalist.com

Nevada abortion-rights groups seek state constitutional amendment – www.nbcnews.com

Criminalizing women for getting abortions ‘will not happen in Florida’ – news.yahoo.com

Florida groups push to get abortion rights into state’s constitution | Ap – www.thederrick.com

Missouri trans clinic closure: Page out of anti-abortion playbook – Los Angeles Blade – www.losangelesblade.com

Planned Parenthood to resume abortions in Wisconsin next week – www.dailycardinal.com

This Chatbot Could Help You With Abortion Information And Options In Your State – www.reformaustin.org

Fran Drescher and GLAAD warn LGBTQ stories are at risk due to strikes – ew.com

Hagia Sophia Restoration And Maintenance: Concerns Over Political Motives And Damage Highlighted – GreekCityTimes.com – greekcitytimes.com

Jojo Siwa Defends Colleen Ballinger After Grooming Controversy – Hollywood Life – hollywoodlife.com

‘Biblical Highway’ film explores ‘original Bible belt’ in Israel where Jesus and Abraham walked – www.foxnews.com

Of Issachar, men who had understanding of the times, to know what Israel ought to do, 200 chiefs, and all their kinsmen under their command. – 1 Chronicles 12:32

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Only Woke Ideologues Selected to be Public School Teachers

The National Opportunity Project (NOP) conducted a survey of 70 American public schools and discovered in that survey these schools are hiring new teachers not so much based on their qualifications to teach but their willingness to terrorize children with abominable lies that sprout out of the woketarian ideology (DEI- Diversity, Equity, Inclusion) the DNC-CCP has chosen to adopt as its vehicle of power, its justification for taking violent action against peaceful Americans.

From The Federalist: Documents obtained by NOP show public schools advertised ideological requirements in their job postings with coded language seeking “equity-literate educator[s]” who will work at “dismantling systemic racism” with a “commitment to social justice.” Denver Public Schools dictated that applicants should “have an anti-racist mindset and will work to dismantle systems of oppression and inequity in our community.”

These standards invite educators of a particular ideological affiliation to pursue jobs in public schools while deterring other candidates. “They position teachers as soldiers who share responsibility for upending societal barriers,” the report noted. “Their message to applicants is clear: Be prepared to join our crusade, or don’t apply.”

Kristen Williamson, communications director at the National Opportunity Project, told The Federalist schools are “possibly breaking the law” by ideologically filtering potential teachers.

The NOP survey concluded “Perspectives that diverge from or fail to mesh with the district’s views on equity” are “judged poorly.”

This means if you hold to the view that human beings should not be forced to accept homosexuality, transgenderism and non-binarism, then you can’t “teach” children in public schools. If you hold to the correct view that men are men and women are women, you can’t teach children in public schools. If you disagree with the idea of “criminalizing hate speech” (an unconstitutional belief that defies our 1st Amendment rights), you can’t teach children in public schools. If you believe no person should be judged by the color of their skin, you can’t teach children in public schools.

Our educational institutions at all levels have been infected with an anti-American, anti-human, anti-God virus that calls evil good and good evil and will not tolerate being rightly exposed for the lies they tell our children every day.

So we end up with blue-haired non-binary minor-attracted adults terrorizing children with lies like “you are born with sin skins and can never hope to be forgiven, can never hope to steward your own happiness and prosperity.”

A sure sign of a fallen nation in rebellion against God is seen in the selection of these adult-children to teach our children. That sign can be seen in Isaiah 3:4: And I will make boys their princes, and infants shall rule over them.

Our suicide rates continue to climb among youth as does our rate of teachers sexually abusing children, and this, my friends, is by design, it’s a feature, not a bug. The ideology of the DNC-CCP seeks to sexualize children as early and as often as possible, to fill their minds with emotional, short-term ecstasy-seeking drives to make them more controllable by the elites who funded the violent terrorist organizations (like GLADD and the Human Rights Campaign) that have infected our institutions with this Ba’al worship.

If you can, and God help you and your children if you can’t, get your children out of these sex abuse centers where adults are groomed by colleges to groom children, those children they let live, that is.

More from the Federalist that illustrates the depravity of our public schools under the DEI virus:
According to a Fairfax County Public Schools screening rubric, an “outstanding candidate” is someone who “provides concrete examples of strategies of their commitment to serve to promote diversity, equity, and inclusion,” and understands “their role in breaking down barriers.”

One prompt from City Schools of Decatur in Georgia asks how applicants would shut down parents who object to their racially divisive curricula:

An upset parent emails you regarding a classroom discussion with your students about Critical Race Theory. They accuse you (the teacher) of anti-Americanism, changing ‘real history,’ and of making White children feel marginalized and attacked. Please discuss your course of action and draft a response to this parent.

The hiring team then must ensure “that there is at least one person of color and one woman or gender-fluid person” involved in scoring the response. NOP uncovered several other identity quotes for hiring panels and committees like this one.

“The effect of these policies is that teachers in many of the country’s K-12 schools are selected partly based on subjective, quasi-political, and sometimes illegal criteria that have nothing to do with reading, writing, and math,” Williamson said, noting that these teachers are “handpicked based at least in part on their acceptance and evangelism of one side’s political and social orthodoxy.”

Americans Lose Trust in ALL Major Institutions

American confidence in major institutions has hit an all-time low, according to Gallop, which has been tracking that confidence level since 1979 at a time when America had just lost the Vietnam War, had seen an American President resign, and were in the midst of Jimmy Carter’s self-inflicted economic malaise. At that time, confidence in these same institutions hovered around 50 percent, now they have plummeted to 26 percent.

The institutions on this list include Congress, the presidency, the FBI, the judiciary, the media, higher education, corporations, churches, scientists, tech companies, labor unions, and healthcare. Since Gallop started taking the polls, the numbers have not been that high, but now they have reached critically low levels.

Gerard Baker has written a book about this phenomenon called “American Breakdown: How Americans Lost Trust in their leaders and Institutions and How to rebuild Confidence.” In that book, he points to what this writer believes is the key reason for the collapse in confidence, the institutions no longer reflect American values.

Within the last 5-10 years, institutional departure from American institutions has accelerated, largely, this writer assets, due to the firing of Americans using “Woke” cancel culture to condemns those that dare, in any way shape or form, deny woke assumptions (like anyone can be any “gender” they want). They have replaced those cancelled Americans with spiritual foreigners, that is, people who no longer believe in, understand, or uphold the values that made our republic possible in the first place.

They have used the sins of America to justify the destruction of America, promising to do what only American values can do, level the playing field for everyone (or get far closer to that reality than anything these spiritual foreigners can ever accomplish with their anti-American ideologies). We overcame our racist past because of the ideals that our nation was founded on. We could not continue to be a nation built on those ideals and yet allow slavery, and racism in general, to continue as “official” policy.

America was founded on the underlying presupposition that there is a higher authority that commands us to recognize all humans as being potentially equal with everyone else, that authority is the God of scriptures, of the Holy Bible of the one true faith, Christianity, whose God alone executes vengeance, whose God alone grants humans the capacity to steward their own beliefs, their own preferences, come what may.

From that presupposition we get the “mind your own business” principles of our Declaration of Independence (all men are endowed by their creator with certain inalienable rights, and among these rights are the right to life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness as defined by the individual).

But our institutions are led by a people who openly reject that principle, who advocate for forced acceptance of certain classes of individuals and the criminalization of the Word of God, especially where it challenges the foreigner-in-spirit’s notion on sexuality, which condemns heterosexuality, celebrates homosexuality, hates the family, mothers, fathers, men, and women, and revels in “non-binary” lies that defy human biological reality.

Americans are fine with anyone holding their beliefs, but we’re not fine with having them forced on us by international corporatists and foreigners occupying our government offices, and we’re certainly not fine with government schools teaching such anti-American, anti-human, anti-God hate to our children.

So long as these institutions continue to reject the American standard in favor of foreign ones, only the foreigners in spirit that corrupt and condemn our lands will find any reason to find trust in them, though even they are likely to lose trust in them as well as they come to experience the violent blood and bone reality of the actions borne from such corrupting ideals that hate God and love Satan, who lied to man from the beginning, telling them they can “know” (as in define for themselves) good and evil.

Eggless Human Embryo, Mega-Farm Explosion, Gunning for Hunter, Libyan Flood Catastrophe, U.S. Niger Action

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Lab Creates Synthetic Human Embryo Without Fertilized Egg

LAB CREATES SYNTHETIC HUMAN EMBRYO WITHOUT FERTILIZED EGG – The Weizmann Institute of Science in Israel has successfully created a synthetic human embryo without using a fertilized egg to do so. It is intended to allow embryo research that bypasses some ethical dilemmas. The synthetic embryo, according to lead research professor Jacob Hanna, has all the features and characteristics of a human embryo that is 14 days old, sans the living part.

The project is intended to help scientists understand the first month of human development, which is still, according to Hanna “largely a black box.” He said, “Our complete stem-cell derived human embryo model offers an ethical and accessible way of peering into this box.” GO DEEPER

BILLIONAIRES BUYING UP FARMLANDS, USING CHEAP IMMIGRANT WORKERS TO MAN THEM – Billionaires like Bill Gates, Rupert Murdoch, Stan Kroenke, Phillip Anschutz, and John Malone have been buying up American farmland from independent farmers and using the H2A Via Program to replace family farmers with immigrants working at minimum-wage levels. GO DEEPER

HUNTER BIDEN AVOIDS SERIOUS CHARGES, ONLY FACES GUN CHARGES – Hunter Biden has been charges with three weapons violations by the token special prosecutor David Weiss, who also happens to be a family friend. The charges are all felonies.

The charges listed in the court record are False Statement in Purchase of a Firearm, False Statement Related to Information Required to be Kept by Federal Firearms Licensed Dealer, and Possession of a Firearm by a Person who is an Unlawful User of or Addicted to a Controlled Substance. GO DEEPER

7,000 DEAD, 20,000 FEARED DEAD AFTER LIBYAN FLOODS – After a torrent of rain from a cyclone burst multiple dams in Libya, many communities were devasted, especially the port city of Derna. So far, there are 7,000 confirmed dead, and authorities fear at least 20,000 total are dead, possibly more.

U.S. NIGER BASE BACK IN ACTION – After the July Coup that saw a Junta take over the country of Niger, U.S. troops have been held inside their base, all 1,100 of them. Now, drone flights and manned counterterrorism missions have resumed.

General James Hecker, the top Air Force commander for Europe and Africa, said of the resumption of missions, “For a while we weren’t doing any missions on the bases, they pretty much closed down the airfields. Through the diplomatic process, we are now doing, I wouldn’t say 100 percent of the missions that we were doing before, but we’re doing a large amount of missions that we’re doing before.”

ANTI-LIBERTY AGIT-PROP

With Nothing on Joe Biden, Republicans Move Toward Impeaching Him Anyway – Mother Jones – www.motherjones.com

Impeaching Biden is a desperate Republican gamble that will backfire | US politics – amp.theguardian.com

‘A very large portion of my party, really doesn’t believe in the Constitution’ – Mitt Romney – www.politicususa.com

Republicans Find A New, Non-Existent Problem To Fear-Monger Over – www.huffpost.com

White House tells media to commit acts of journalism – www.dailykos.com

Conditions On Earth May Be Moving Outside the ‘Safe Operating Space’ For Humanity – news.slashdot.org

Hoping to ban abortion Virginia Republicans try revenge porn – boingboing.net

Gasoline lights up US consumer inflation; underlying trend steadily improving – www.reuters.com

Charlie Kirk: Trump Cult Exists Because GOP ‘Wants A White Obama’ – crooksandliars.com

The Senate Is Losing One Of Its Few Remaining Moderate Republicans – fivethirtyeight.com

Mitt Romney and the Doomed Nobility of Republican Moderation – nymag.com

GUEST COLUMN: When press is under assault, so is Constitution | Hillsboro Star-Journal – starj.com

Gun advocates are already suing over new California gun law – www.sfchronicle.com

TRENDING (Mon-Fri)

TRUMP TO GET SEPARATE TRIAL FROM ALLEGED CO-CONSPIRATORS – Judge Scott McAfee at the Superior Court of Fulton County has ruled on the motion by the prosecutor, Fani Willis, to have a group trial for all 19 defendants in her contrived RICO case. The Judge said in his ruling, “Defendants Chesebro and Powell will join each other at trial, however, the other 17 defendants are severed from these two. Additional severances may follow. All pretrial deadlines will proceed as scheduled without a stay of proceedings.”

UAW LAUNCHES STAND-UP STRIKES AS DEADLINE PASSES– The UAW (United Auto Workers) deadline for a new contract has come and gone. Immediately after the deadline passed UAW President Shawn Fain sent out this message: “A few minutes ago, thousands of UAW members at Ford, GM, and Stellantis, walked out, marking the beginning of the Stand Up Strike. This fight is our generation’s defining moment. Not just at the Big Three, but across the entire working class. We will stand up for ourselves. We will stand up for our families. We will stand up for our communities.”

“Stand-Up-Strikes” are done through selective walkouts that break down the whole operation rather than a broad strike of all autoworkers.

more:

REPORT: 7,000 Dead, Up To 20,000 Feared Lost To Biblical Floods In Libya – dailycaller.com

Libya floods: ‘Every time they pick up debris, they uncover more bodies’ – observers.france24.com

Why Hurricane Lee Is Growing Bigger – www.scientificamerican.com

Gov. Janet Mills declares state of emergency as Hurricane Lee looms – www.pressherald.com

Ford’s former CEO has a stark warning for both the UAW and automakers – amp.cnn.com

Sky-high CEO pay is in focus as UAW workers demand higher wages : NPR – www.npr.org

177,000 Illegal Aliens Released into the U.S. with Missing, Faulty Addresses › American Greatness – amgreatness.com

Gen Z Has Very Little Trust in Major U.S. Institutions – www.breitbart.com

BREAKING: Judge strikes down Emperor Michelle’s suspension of the Second Amendment – hotair.com

CBS Reports Judge Striking Down New Mexico Gun Ban, ABC & NBC Ignore – www.newsbusters.org

U.S. reopens troubled facility for migrant children in Texas amid spike in border arrivals – www.cbsnews.com

Elon Musk to meet with Bibi Netanyahu over antisemitism on X – www.washingtonpost.com

Fentanyl-Stimulant Mix Leading To New Phase In Overdose Crisis – kffhealthnews.org

Explorer thought he would die while trapped 1,000 metres underground in a Turkish cave – www.euronews.com

Candidate Who Livestreamed Sex Videos Draws Support From Women, Democratic Leader – GV Wire – gvwire.com

Leftist writer slams Eric Adams As ‘Black Trump’ For Saying Migrant Crisis Destroying NYC… Will Destroy NYC – www.louderwithcrowder.com

Bizarre moment Kim Jong-un’s bodyguards sweeps his chair before meeting with Putin – www.mirror.co.uk

Delaware man gets 7 1/2-year federal term in carjacking of congresswoman’s SUV in Philadelphia – www.myjournalcourier.com

Pa. Gov. will replace stolen Eagles hoodie killer had when caught – www.delawareonline.com

WORLD (Mon-Fri)

NATO MILITARY DRILL IN WESTERN EUROPE TO BE BIGGEST SINCE COLD WAR DAYS – NATO (North Atlantic Treaty Organization) has announced plans to conduct a military drill in Western Europe that is intended to practice for a potential Russian invasion. The size of the drill hasn’t been seen since Cold War days.

The name of the operation is called “Steadfast Defender,” which will involve 41,000 troops, 50 plus ships, and also conduct over 500 combat missions. Financial Times quoted an unnamed NATO official who gave what might be the real reason for the drills, to be “seen as a key part of demonstrating to Moscow that the alliance is prepared to fight.”

U.S. GOVERNMENT TO PAY POLES TO COVER UKRAINE WAR POSITIVELY – The U.S. Consulate General in Krakow is willing to pay a Polish media outlet $50,000 to write stories about Ukrainian refugees “returning and rebuilding.” The project is intended to last one year.  The goal of the project is to “promote in-depth reporting by local and regional Polish media of the return of Ukrainian families from Poland to Ukraine and their social and physical rebuilding efforts, particularly those built on partnerships between Poles and Ukrainians.”

more:

Mexico’s Sheinbaum leads 2024 presidential race -poll – www.reuters.com

‘Myanmar junta depriving Suu Kyi of medical care’ – www.manilatimes.net

China alert as Kim capable of giving Putin ‘good quality’ munitions | World | News – www.express.co.uk

Thailand’s New Government Aims for Balance Amid US-China Rivalry – www.voanews.com

Wagner Group sustains significant losses in clashes with Central African Republic rebels – www.middleeasteye.net

More than 3,000 arrested as massive climate protests block major Netherlands motorway for fifth day – www.independent.co.uk

Trials begin in Brazil for pro-Bolsonaro rioters who stormed capital | Courts News – www.aljazeera.com

US muddies Cyprus conflict by lifting arms embargo on the Greek side -TRT World – www.trtworld.com

South Korean and Polish leaders visit an air base in eastern Poland, discuss defense and energy ties – ca.style.yahoo.com

US approves $389mln military sale to Poland – english.almayadeen.net

Baltic states ban vehicles with Russian license plates in line with EU sanctions interpretation – www.euronews.com

Romania summons head of Russian diplomatic mission after new drone debris are found on its territory – www.reddit.com

Ukrainian Forces successfully hit shipyard in Russian-occupied Crimea – defence-blog.com

A Saudi Defense Contractor Courted Russia and China. Then, Its U.S. Business Partners Fled. – www.wsj.com

Saudi Arabia Is Murdering Ethiopian Migrants. Washington Is Silent. – foreignpolicy.com

Jamaat calls for nationwide protests Friday demanding release of party leaders – www.tbsnews.net

Over Four Million Venezuelan Refugees and Migrants Struggle to Meet Basic Needs across the Americas – Venezuela (Bolivarian Republic of) – reliefweb.int

Rising gang violence and organized crime in Sweden – www.police1.com

Rohingya Say No Return to Myanmar Without Guaranteed Citizenship – www.voanews.com

Sweden Brings More Books and Handwriting Practice Back To Its Tech-Heavy Schools – news.slashdot.org

POLITICS (Mon-Fri)

ANOTHER FBI AGENT TESTIFIES DAVID WEISS DID NOT HAVE FULL AUTHORITY TO CHARGE HUNTER BIDEN – A Baltimore Field Office female FBI agent testified to the House Judiciary Committee that now-Special Prosecutor David Weiss was hampered by both U.S. Attorneys and California in his efforts to bring charges against Hunter Biden.

When asked about Weiss’ charging authority, the agent said, “I’m aware that obviously charging discussions were happening, and, yes, there was a difference in the venue for some of those charges. I remember learning at some point in the investigation that Mr. Weiss would have to go through his other processes because the U.S. Attorney’s Offices had, I guess, in that sense, using that terminology, wasn’t going to partner.”

FORMER TRUMP AID SUED FOR PUBLISHING HUNTER BIDEN LAPTOP CONTENT – Hunter Biden’s attorneys have filed a lawsuit against Garrett Ziegler, a former White House aid to then-Trade advisor Peter Navarro, for publishing content from his misplaced laptop. The lawsuit him, his company, and 10 unnamed defendants of improperly “accessing, tampering with, manipulating, altering, copying and damaging computer data that they do not own.”

more:

Trump Lawyers File Motion to Dismiss Charges in Georgia, Following Giuliani Strategy – conservativebrief.com

Minnesota Voters Sue To Bar Trump From Ballot – www.politicususa.com

GOP rep calls for impeachment inquiry into Biden energy secretary Granholm: ‘she lied, under oath’ – globeecho.com

Biden brushes off House impeachment inquiry and says Republicans want to shut down the government – www.arabnews.com

Biden Hopes for a Michigan Repeat Rides on Strike he Can’t Avert – www.bloomberg.com

US Senate committee passes bill to cut taxes on Taiwanese firms operating in US – amp.scmp.com

Whitmer team, Michigan Democrats tied to Marshall money in Ford fight – www.freep.com

House GOP fires back at ‘smear merchant’ Dem operative targeting families of lawmakers investigating Bidens – Fox News

Americans split on Biden’s role in son’s business – spectrumlocalnews.com

‘Revenge Porn’? A Virginia Democrat Gaslights the Public – freebeacon.com

Report Reveals Backroom Deals Between Unions and Louisiana Schools – www.dailysignal.com

Senator Actually Complains Supreme Court Follows 2nd Amendment | The Gateway Pundit – www.thegatewaypundit.com

Climate bill on Newsom’s desk would force companies to reveal carbon footprint – thebusinessjournal.com

KJP Rips Reporter Over Question About Whether Biden Lied: ‘Incredibly Inappropriate’ – conservativebrief.com

Georgia Governor Suspends Fuel Tax for One Month – www.rigzone.com

Oklahoma Lawmakers Weigh Restrictions on Ranked-choice Voting – oklahomawatch.org

EDITOR’S CHOICE (Tues & Fri)

X NOW CENSORING ANTI-WOKE CONTENT CREATORS – Another sign that the Elon Musk hiring of a WEF executive was a signal of intent to bring Twitter, now X, back into the control of the censorship machine came with the report by The American Accountability Foundation has seen most of its content censored on the platform. The organization works on exposing woke idealogues.

In their Substack, they wrote “… after we posted images of the LGBTQ books they are pushing on our children, X (Twitter) hit our account with a ‘sensitive content’ warning on ALL OUR MEDIA POSTS, and shadowbanned our account so that you won’t find us in a search on X.”

BIDEN WORKING TO CONVERT MARINE SANCTUARY TO WIND FARM FOR BILLIONAIRE DONOR – The Biden administration is looking to cut 1,400 square miles of ocean and coastline out of an Indian tribe’s proposed marine sanctuary to repurpose it to a wind farm involving Invenergy. That company’s founder and CEO is Michael Polsky, who happens to be a DNC-CCP megadonor, giving $400K to the party since 2016, and has paid more than $2.4 million to lobby the DNC-controlled government.

more:

Court rules NHS hospital can condemn teen with rare disorder to death, even though the teen wants to “try to live” – www.louderwithcrowder.com

G20 proposes digital ID similar to COVID-19 passport system to ‘further financial inclusion’ – www.theblaze.com

Federal Judge Again Rules DACA Is Illegal – www.nytimes.com

Harvard student newspaper calls new 200-word limit on admissions essays racist – www.thecollegefix.com

State Department Panics When Asked About Funding for Wuhan Institute – townhall.com

Fox Sued by New York City Pension Funds Over Election Falsehoods – www.nytimes.com

COVID-19 Lockdown Fallout: We May Have Failed School Kids – www.science20.com

Tuberville’s hold on military promotions would take hundreds of hours to process individually, memo says – www.cbs58.com

Controversial group aims to limit immigration for Black Americans – www.washingtoninformer.com

City officials push for gun law reform before Pa. Supreme Court – NBC10 Philadelphia – www.nbcphiladelphia.com

N.M. Governor Seeks to ‘Name-and-Shame’ Firearm Manufacturers Through Emergency Order • NSSF – www.nssf.org

America’s ‘most extreme’ gun control law heads to court – www.foxnews.com

Rothschild Admits ESG Failure As Globalists Shift To “Inclusive Capitalism” Agenda – alt-market.us

Missouri AG Opens Probe of Liberty Safe in Wake of Code Release Scandal – townhall.com

Federal Judge Upholds State Department Rule Requiring Visa Applicants to Disclose Social Media Information – www.eff.org

United Nations declares US-Mexico border the deadliest land migrant route in the world – www.theblaze.com

Exclusive: Democrat Judge BLOCKS $15,000 Donation to Texas Border Law Enforcement as Biden Border Crisis Rages (Video) | The Gateway Pundit – www.thegatewaypundit.com

Facebook Wages Legal War on Company that Claims Its AI Can Predict Crimes – www.breitbart.com

Amazon’s Whole Foods Defends Its Right to Ban BLM Masks at Work – Bloomberg – www.bloomberg.com

San Francisco Hires Tourism Boss To Battle ‘Ongoing Narrative’ About Surging Crime (No Plan To Tackle Crime, Though) – www.louderwithcrowder.com

DC Teens Are Committing Crimes in Droves. Punishment Is Light. – freebeacon.com

Organized Shoplifting a $100 Billion Problem, Costing Jobs and Even Lives – www.dailysignal.com

Marx’s Strawman of Capitalism – New Discourses – newdiscourses.com

Liberals on the same path of self-inflicted ruin as the Soviets – financialpost.com

EFF to Michigan Court: Governments Shouldn’t Be Allowed to Use a Drone to Spy on You Without a Warrant – www.eff.org

‘Too rock heavy,’ too ableist, too white: Geoscience students identify concerns in field – www.thecollegefix.com

Law Firm Representing Hunter Biden Offers Diversity Scholarship Explicitly Designed For Minority Students – dailycaller.com

DHS probing prosecutions of migrants from Muslim-majority countries exposed by Times investigation – www.latimes.com

New York’s gun background checks survive another legal challenge | New York – www.thecentersquare.com

OPINION | Docs offer glimpse inside Censorship Industrial Complex | Op-Ed – www.livingstonparishnews.com

Professor to ‘hold space’ for students of color: ‘I see your pain, grief, anger’ – www.thecollegefix.com

SCI-TECH (Tues & Fri)

YOUR IMMUNE SYSTEM AFFECTS YOUR VERY BEHAVIORS – A Yale-led research paper published in the journal Nature suggests the immune system can affect you far more than previously believed. Ruslan Medzhitov, Sterling Professor of Immunobiology at Yale School of Medicine, investigator for the Howard Hughes Medical Institute, and senior author of the study, said “We find immune recognition controls behavior, specifically defensive behaviors against toxins that are communicated first through antibodies and then to our brains.”

ORIGAMI DRONES FOR DRONES? – Researchers at the University of Washington are working on drones that are launched by drones. They move through the air through origami-like motions as they descend, meaning they require no batteries to power them to their destination.

From sciencedaily.com: When these “microfliers” are dropped from a drone, they use a Miura-ori origami fold to switch from tumbling and dispersing outward through the air to dropping straight to the ground. To spread out the fliers, the researchers control the timing of each device’s transition using a few methods: an onboard pressure sensor (estimating altitude), an onboard timer or a Bluetooth signal.

more:

FTX gets green light to sell $3.4B in bitcoin, ethereum, solana (Cryptocurrency:FTT-USD) – seekingalpha.com

WATCH: ‘Overwhelming consensus’ for artificial intelligence regulation, Musk says after Senate tech meeting – PBS NewsHour

Leaving Google’s search engine isn’t easy, government witness says in antitrust case – Boston Herald – www.bostonherald.com

World-first nuclear fusion device to be built by students – cosmosmagazine.com

Team develops new gold nanocluster-rich titanium dioxide photocatalyst for the oxidative coupling of methane – phys.org

Material kills viruses with heat but stays cool to the touch – www.futurity.org

US court upholds rulings for Apple in Masimo smartwatch patent fight – www.reuters.com

“Digital Humans” Quietly Being Developed by Disney as AI Becomes the Way of the Future – www.disneydining.com

Astronomers Observe Blobs of Dark Matter Down to a Scale of 30,000 Light-Years Across – www.universetoday.com

Experiment at Newport News’s Jefferson Lab gives insight into building blocks of the universe – The Virginian-Pilot – www.pilotonline.com

Ancient Shoes: Tracks On A South African Beach Offer Oldest Evidence Yet Of Human Footwear – www.discovermagazine.com

Humans can feel empathic embarrassment towards robots, finds virtual reality study – techxplore.com

White House secures AI safeguard agreements from eight additional tech companies – amp.cnn.com

California firefighters use AI to battle wildfires – phys.org

Pulitzer Prize winning author Michael Chabon and others sue OpenAI • The Register – www.theregister.com

Will batteries usher in a new era of global energy sovereignty? – techcrunch.com

How AI agents are already simulating human civilization – venturebeat.com

Huawei and Xiaomi sign global patent cross-licensing agreement – en.pingwest.com

Carbon Capture Technology Is Running Out of Time to Prove Itself – www.bloomberg.com

How AI agents are already simulating human civilization – venturebeat.com

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Lab Creates Synthetic Human Embryo Without Fertilized Egg

The Weizmann Institute of Science in Israel has successfully created a synthetic human embryo without using a fertilized egg to do so. It is intended to allow embryo research that bypasses some ethical dilemmas. The synthetic embryo, according to lead research professor Jacob Hanna, has all the features and characteristics of a human embryo that is 14 days old, sans the living part.  The synthetic embryo, according to lead research professor Jacob Hanna, has all the features and characteristics of a human embryo that is 14 days old, sans the living part.

The project is intended to help scientists understand the first month of human development, which is still, according to Hanna “largely a black box.” He said, “Our complete stem-cell derived human embryo model offers an ethical and accessible way of peering into this box.”

From Discover Magazine: “An embryo is self-driven by definition,” said Hanna. “We don’t need to tell it what to do. We must only unleash its internally encoded potential.”

He dubbed the structures “stem cell-based complete embryo-like structures (SEMs)” and fostered their development for eight days, until they had reached the equivalent of 14 days of normal development. Along the way, his team found that the SEMs bore a close resemblance to the embryos illustrated in classical embryology atlases from the 1960s.

“Every compartment and supporting structure was not only there but in the right place, size and shape,” the statement said.

The project could help researchers bypass a looming controversy in embryonic research, when to continue to use actual human embryos for research purposes. Right now, the standard is to not use embryos beyond 14 days, The International Society for Stem Cell Research recently announced it would consider going beyond the 14-day limit and invited scientists to have a debate about what a new, longer standard might be.

Billionaires Buying Up Farmlands, Using Cheap Immigrant Workers to Man Them

Billionaires like Bill Gates, Rupert Murdoch, Stan Kroenke, Phillip Anschutz, and John Malone have been buying up American farmland from independent farmers and using the H2A Via Program to replace family farmers with immigrants working at minimum-wage levels.

From levernews.com: The H-2A visa program, established in 1986, allows U.S. farm owners to sponsor temporary visas for foreign workers to do seasonal work. The initiative effectively succeeded the Bracero Program, a Mexican guest worker program, which lasted from 1942-1964, and is often cited by historians as an example of the U.S. government encouraging systemic racial discrimination and poor working conditions.

Under the H-2A program, growers must demonstrate to the Labor Department that they “anticipate a shortage of domestic workers” after unsuccessfully attempting to hire through state governments’ workforce agencies. The growers then get certified by immigration authorities to sponsor H-2A visas. Guest workers, often recruited by contractors, apply for matching visas at U.S. embassies and border crossings.

About 90 percent of all H-2A workers come from Mexico. Many live in rural poverty, and many are indigenous: In a 2019 survey conducted by the migrant worker advocacy group Centro de los Derechos del Migrante, 19 percent of  Mexican H-2A workers reported speaking a first language other than Spanish.

The billionaires involved in this buying out of independent, family farms to be replaced by corporate farms manned by cheap immigrant labor have ties to both the Democratic and Republican parties and seem, from this writer’s perspective, to show how the two parties have too much in common for the RNC to ever be an effective opposition party to the DNC-CCP.

ED.NOTE: The article quoted from is written with a leftist bias. They point out the billionaire connections to the GOP but fail to cite the connections to the DNC-CCP. The influx of available “immigrants” that enable these billionaires to make these family farm killing moves is entirely due to policies the DNC-CCP supports, a fact this article omits.

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