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Produced by Joseph Backholm of the Family Policy Institute of Washington, the video, entitled “College Kids Say the Darndest Things: On Identity,” shows several young students struggling to answer the simplest questions on race, gender and genetics.
In light of recent debate surrounding bathrooms and those who identify as transgender, Backholm begins the video by asking participants what their response would be if he claimed to be a woman.
Besides one skeptical student, the majority believed that Backholm’s gender would actually be female if he simply said so.
“Good for you…” one female says.
“I don’t have a problem with it,” another says.
With the students assured that gender can be chosen based merely on feelings, Backholm goes on to claim that he is in fact Chinese.
“I mean, I might be a little surprised but I’d say good for you. Ya, be who you are,” a female student says.
Despite becoming increasingly ridiculous, next stating that he is actually a 7-year-old, the young liberals continue to agree.
“If you feel 7 at heart then so be it, good for you,” a female says.
Given the fact that Backholm is now identifying as a 7-year-old Chinese female, the students seemingly have no issue with him attending a children’s school.
“I would say so long as you’re not hindering society and you’re not causing harm to other people, I feel like that should be an okay thing,” a male student says.
In an attempt to reach the ultimate absurdity, Backholm next states that he is 6 feet 5 inches despite actually being 5 feet 9 inches.
“I feel like that’s not my place as another human to say someone is wrong or to draw lines or boundaries,” a young woman answers.
The video, as Backholm suggests in its closing, begs the question as to whether the next generation will be able to answer life’s difficult questions if even the most elementary can not be logically addressed.
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The report, published by Sandler Research, says that demand for surveillance drones is driving growth, with new systems that deploy water canons to “handle large crowds and demonstration(s)” also proving popular.
Riot control systems are expected to “generate revenues of over USD 3.5 billion by the end of 2020,” with North America being one of the primary growth areas for upgraded weapons due to “militarization of the police department and other law enforcement agencies” in the aftermath of the 2014 riots in Ferguson, Missouri.
Purchases of long-range acoustic devices, whips, batons and armored vehicles that will be used to “disperse, control, and arrest people involved in riots and protests” are also on the increase.
“Demand for such equipment is expected to rise during the next few years,” states the report, with authorities in Iran, Egypt, Russia, China, and Thailand also spending increased amounts on riot control equipment in advance of potential social disorder.
As we highlighted earlier this week, top insurer Lloyds released a report that warned of a “pandemic” of global civil unrest that could go viral, threatening international stability.
The ultra-wealthy are highly concerned about civil unrest and have made moves to prepare for social disorder.
Elitists are buying luxury bomb-proof survival bunkers, with one of the companies behind the underground units, Vivos, revealing that they are for the “protection of high net worth individuals” against the threat posed by the “general public”.
“This is for wealthy people who are concerned about various disaster scenarios, but a common theme among them is a fear of civil unrest, a fear of an uprising from the 99%,” said journalist Lynn Parramore, who visited one of the facilities in Indiana.
Millionaires are also fleeing Chicago and other major cities due to concerns over racial tensions and rising crime rates.
When asked why the super-rich were buying land and homes in remote locations like New Zealand, Davos economist Robert Johnson told RT that Ferguson-style unrest was one of the primary worries.
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The latest technology in use by the Milwaukee Police Department seems like something from a comic book or spy novel.
Devices mounted on squad cars fire GPS units onto fleeing vehicles to track them without engaging in high-speed chases.
Early results of the Milwaukee pilot program show the devices have been deployed successfully about 50% of the time — meaning the GPS unit is launched by an officer and sticks to the fleeing vehicle. Department officials say they expect that rate to improve to closer to 75% as officers get more familiar with the technology.
During a demonstration for reporters Tuesday, the GPS unit bounced off the intended target car twice. Conditions were not ideal, officials said, noting the steady rain and stationary cars (officers frequently are firing at a moving target).
Still, front-line officers say the technology is valuable and has been used to find suspects in violent crimes, such as carjackings and robberies.
“It helps us locate the vehicle and even if we don’t have the suspects in custody, we still have evidence,” Officer Kim Lastrilla said.
City officials announced in August the Police Department would use the technology, which was created by StarChase LLC in Virginia Beach. The move came during continued public discussion about the department’s restrictive pursuit policy. Since 2010, the policy has required officers to have probable cause that someone in the car is committing a violent felony or is “a clear and immediate threat to the safety of others” before pursuing the person.
Supporters say the policy is saving lives by limiting pursuits, while critics argue it allows criminals to get away.
‘GPS bullet’
StarChase uses battery-powered GPS trackers. A compressed-air launcher, mounted behind the grille of a police car, uses a laser to target the fleeing vehicle. When an officer fires the device, a tracker — sometimes called a “GPS bullet” or tag — is released.
The tag has an adhesive so it can stick to the fleeing car. Dispatchers and officers can then track the car on a computer or mobile device. A standard StarChase unit costs just under $5,000. The department used asset forfeiture funds to pay for the units, but a total cost was not released Tuesday. Police officials also have not said how many units were purchased or how many squad cars are outfitted with the technology.
The StarChase pilot program began in December, and since then the devices have been used 55 times with 27 successful deployments, according to a Milwaukee police spokesman.
The Milwaukee Journal Sentinel requested any incident reports dating from Aug. 1, 2015, through Jan. 24, 2016, that contained a reference to StarChase.
The Police Department released 16 reports last month in response to the request. Six of the incidents had enough information to determine if StarChase was used successfully, while the other 10 contained few details because they were the subject of ongoing investigations.
StarChase was used successfully in three of the six reports: to track a driver who fled a traffic stop and was on probation with open warrants; to catch a driver who had been operating a car reported stolen in Illinois; and to find a stolen vehicle and arrest several of the occupants.
In one of the reports, officers tried to use StarChase but it failed to fire. The officers replaced the defective unit and returned to the same area where a suspect had been. They saw the suspect in a vehicle and tried again to use StarChase, but this time, the GPS tracker failed to stick and bounced off the car.
In another report, a tracker bounced off a vehicle. In a third instance, officers could not safely maneuver to deploy StarChase and did not fire it.
Emergency use only
StarChase can be used only in exigent, or emergency, circumstances, according to a directive from Police Chief Edward Flynn and a training bulletin governing the technology’s use during the pilot program.
“As long as there’s exigency and as long as there’s a reason to pull the car over, there should be no privacy issues,” Inspector Terrence Gordon said Tuesday. “No GPS technology should be used absent exigency or a warrant.”
Civil liberties experts have said there likely isn’t a problem as long as the technology is used when a police officer has the equivalent of probable cause and does not have time to get a warrant.
But tracking should end as soon as police catch up to the fleeing vehicle and police also should not delay stopping the vehicle as a way to learn more about the driver via the GPS, the American Civil Liberties Union has said.
A formal department policy has not gone before the city’s Fire and Police Commission. The Journal Sentinel requested any policies governing the technology’s use and received redacted copies of the training bulletin and directive.
Officers cannot pursue vehicles that have fled from traffic stops just to deploy StarChase unless the chase is justified under the existing pursuit policy. They also cannot use StarChase on motorcycles. Otherwise, officers can exercise discretion about when to use it and do not need approval of a supervisor.
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BRUSSELS (Reuters) - Russia accused the United States on Wednesday of intimidation by sailing a U.S. naval destroyer close to Russia’s border in the Baltics and warned that the Russian military would respond with “all necessary measures” to any future incidents.
Speaking after a meeting between NATO envoys and Russia, their first in almost two years, Moscow’s ambassador to NATO said the April 11 maritime incident showed there could be no improvement in ties until the U.S.-led alliance withdrew from Russia’s borders.
“This is about attempts to exercise military pressure on Russia,” the envoy, Alexander Grushko, said. “We will take all necessary measures, precautions, to compensate for these attempts to use military force,” he told reporters.
U.S. Ambassador to NATO Douglas Lute pressed Russia about the incident, warning it had been dangerous. The United States has said the guided missile destroyer USS Cook was on routine business near Poland when it was harassed by Russian jets.
“We were in international waters,” a NATO diplomat reported Lute as telling Grushko during the NATO-Russia council meeting.
Despite what officials said was a calm and professional meeting, the public comments highlighted the state of tension that persists between the sides since Moscow’s annexation of Ukraine’s Crimea in March 2014 and its support for separatist rebels in eastern Ukraine.
NATO Secretary-General Jens Stoltenberg said the NATO member states had, during the meeting, rejected Grushko’s account of the crisis in eastern Ukraine, where 9,000 people have died since April 2014.
Stoltenberg said while there were “profound disagreements” over how to handle Europe’s security, each side urgently needed to talk more and to use existing rules to reduce military risk.
Stoltenberg suggested revamping a Cold War-era treaty known as the Vienna document, which sets out the rules for large-scale exercises and other military activity, as well as telephone hotlines and other military communication channels.
“We have to use our lines of communication,” he said.
Russia’s chief concern is NATO’s biggest modernization since the Cold War, which is likely to include a military build-up in eastern Europe with a rotating, multinational force in Poland and the Baltics.
NATO says the plans are a proportionate response to Russian aggression following Moscow’s annexation of Crimea, and the alliance had no forces in eastern Europe before the Ukraine crisis.
Poland and other NATO members in the Baltics worry about an increase in the Russian military presence in its Kaliningrad enclave, where Russia is positioning longer-range surface-to-air missiles.
NO AGREEMENT ON UKRAINE
The session of the NATO-Russia Council, which last met in June 2014, had been called in part to assuage Russia’s concerns that it feels threatened by NATO. But core differences clearly remained afterwards.
NATO envoys had expressed concern about Russia’s so-called snap exercises, where thousands of Russian troops carry out war games without any prior warning. “That is clearly destabilizing,” a NATO diplomat said.
Stoltenberg said NATO members had rejected Grushko’s description of the crisis in eastern Ukraine as a civil war.
“In the meeting, it was re-confirmed that we disagree on the facts, on the narrative and the responsibilities in and around Ukraine,” Stoltenberg said after the meeting.
“Many allies disagree when Russia tries to portray this as a civil war. This is Russia destabilizing eastern Ukraine, providing support for the separatists, munitions, funding, equipment and also command and control,” he said.
“So there were profound disagreements,” he said.
Russia denies any direct involvement in eastern Ukraine.
(Reporting by Robin Emmott; Editing by Richard Balmforth
This is great…now he’s got to defeat the GOP establishment who is in bed with the left to continue their globalist New World Order agenda.
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* Note taken from Health Sciences Institute e-Alert - Jenny Thompson - 4/19/16
Dear Reader,
It’s supposed to be one of the healthiest things you can do each day — but it may be giving you Alzheimer’s instead.
We all do our best to eat smart, whether that means tossing a salad for lunch or steaming an extra helping of broccoli at dinner time.
But a shocking new study has found that two common chemicals — ones that are being sprayed all over the fruits and vegetables we eat every day — may be slowly destroying our brains.
In fact, they could even put you on the fast track to Alzheimer’s.
Fortunately, there are two simple steps you can take — starting today — to keep yourself and your family safe.
Leave it to these giant chemical companies to turn something like eating fruits and vegetables into a life-or-death proposition.
But according to newly published research, that’s exactly what they’ve done.
Scientists from the University of North Carolina Neuroscience Center just wrapped up a study of close to 300 agricultural chemicals.
And they found two in particular — Headline (made by BASF) and Compass (made by Bayer) — were causing serious damage in animals’ brains.
What the researchers found in this laboratory study is damage to brain tissue that is similar to what is seen in cases of autism, advanced age, and even Alzheimer’s.
Have you ever heard anything so cruel in your life? The very foods we eat to make us healthy could actually be wrecking our brains.
Now, Headline and Compass are both fungicides and they’re pretty new to the market. But, unfortunately, they’ve caught on with farmers fast and you can find them on just about any fruit or vegetable you can imagine.
For example, the USDA discovered residues of Headline in spinach, kale, and grapes. And Compass has turned up in everything from cherry tomatoes to sweet bell peppers.
In other words, these chemicals could be hiding just about anywhere.
Mark Zylka, who led the latest research, said it’s just another example of how dangerous agricultural products are being unleashed on the market (and on our dinner plates) before we understand all the risks.
Yeah, well, that’s only partly true.
You see, some time ago German and Swiss researchers exposed frogs to the recommended concentration of Headline (the amount that would normally be sprayed in a field) and found that it killed all of them within an hour.
Call me crazy — but when this stuff started killing Kermit left and right, I think we knew exactly how dangerous it was.
As I said, staying away from Headline and Compass is no small task. But, fortunately, there are a couple things you can do.
First, it’s always a good idea to buy organic fruits and vegetables when you can, so you limit your exposure to pesticides, herbicides, and fungicides as much as possible.
Second, the Environmental Working Group has released its 2016 list of the top fruits and vegetables that contain chemical residues. The data came from both the USDA and the FDA — and, while it wasn’t specific to Headline and Compass, it’ll give you a good idea of which foods can be riskiest.
For EWG’s complete list, click here.
To Your Good Health,
Jenny Thompson
Sources:
“Disturbing new evidence about what common pesticides can do to brains” Tom Philpott, April 13, 2016, Mother Jones, motherjones.com
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* Note taken from The Daily Dose with Jack Harrison 4/17/16
Cold season might be mostly over here on the ground — but when you’re at 30,000 feet, EVERY season is cold season.
Once they seal the door on the plane, you’re trapped in a metal tube, inhaling the same recirculating air as all your fellow passengers.
A guy burps in row 1, and eventually it’s going to waft back to you in row 28. And that’s not even the worst of it — because if that same guy is carrying disease-causing germs, one little cough or sneeze will send them out for the grand tour of ALL the rows.
That’s why you’re more likely to get sick after traveling by air, but researchers have now discovered how you can beat the odds: Just get some elderberry before your flight.
Unlike their sweet and juicy brethren, elderberries aren’t exactly a snack you’d grab by the handful. They’re so bitter that they need a truckload of sugar before they can be turned into jam or pie…and even then, if you ask me, they’re kinda blech.
But wouldn’t you know it, what’s bitter on your taste buds is sweet for fighting off a cold. In a new study, elderberry extract beat a placebo in preventing colds in some air travelers and cutting their duration and easing symptoms in the less fortunate jetsetters.
In fact, folks given the extract were nearly a third less likely to get sick. The researchers say that results weren’t dramatic enough to be statistically significant, but to me, they’re also pretty hard to ignore.
The study did find some numbers that ARE significant: Travelers given the extract had a much easier time with the cold when they did get sick. They reported fewer days overall battling the sniffles and sneezes, and the symptoms themselves were half as a bad than in folks who took a placebo.
That’s not all elderberry can do, either. It can also fight the flu, with one study finding that it’s as effective as the drug Tamiflu — but without the infamously awful side effects.
You can read more about that study right here.
But if you’re getting ready to fly, don’t stop with elderberry.
Be sure to kick up your immune system with vitamins C and D as well as fish oil, the mineral zinc, and the herbal remedy Echinacea. These should help protect you from some of the more common bugs floating around out there.
Of course, you should be aware of where you’re going and what risks you might face there, so you can prepare accordingly.
And if traveling means picking up something like the Zika or Ebola viruses that are floating around, there comes a time when the best travel decision you can make is to stay home.
With an uncommon cure for the common cold,
Jack Harrison
by Rev. Austin Miles
Miles Tones: Many, including this writer, literally fell out of their chairs this morning when the news headline broke and appeared on in-boxes throughout America and Europe. It caused conservatives to choke on their coffee as social media lit up, while frantic phone calls were dispatched throughout the land.
It all started with my story: “Sex-Change Surgery Halted at John Hopkins Hospital.” This is a factual account as to why the famed hospital has discontinued “gender reassignment” surgery due to health risks, including severe mental problems resulting in countless suicides.” Here is the direct link to that story: http://www.renewamerica.com/columns/miles/160418
Readers of the prominent news site, Renew America can subscribe to stories by their favorite authors and are alerted the moment the stories break. When the notice comes in, it is formatted to show author’s name, THEN the title of the story. That is where it all started to explode in cyber space, and here is why:
The header this morning stated: Rev. Austin Miles-Sex-Change Surgery HALTED- Many readers stared at the headline in disbelief and sent emails. France stated: “Really?” Russia said, “Can’t be,” Denmark said, “AHA!” while The Assemblies of God stated, “See there-we told you so!” while the democrats proclaimed, “Hey, he’s one of us!”
My wife, grandson and great grandson assisted in getting me off the floor which is a very helpful service when one gets to be my age. Back on my feet, upright, I seriously and earnestly pondered this situation:
First of all, I could never be a woman as good looking as my wife and my beard would be a slight distraction from the sought after illusion. If perfection cannot be achieved, it won’t be attempted by this unworthy Australopithecus.
A major challenge is that I could never walk in high heels without serious wobbling. Besides, Bruce Jenner, who has never mastered that skill himself, would be disqualified as a coach. One thing for sure, it has been an eventful morning. Now it’s time to trim and shape my beard.
EXTRA READERS NOTE: Yesterday my website, http://www.revaustinmiles.com, welcomed its 5 millionth visitor. Since that time, over a thousand new readers have logged in.
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