Women in Scotland are aborting their babies at increasingly higher rates due to ‘financial pressures‘ and the overall cost of living, caused in large part by the UK government’s embrace of climate change policies including “net zero” carbon targets, as well as the need to cover the costs of pandemic lockdowns.
According to Public Health Scotland, there were 16,584 abortions in 2022, representing a 19 percent increase compared to 2021.
As of 2022, the rate of abortion in Scotland is 16.1 per 1000 women, an overall increase of almost five percent in comparison to the levels in 2013.
Racheal Clarke, Chief of Staff at British Pregnancy Advisory Service (BPAS), told BBC Radio Scotland’s drive time program:
“I think that what we see increasingly are women who, a few years ago, may have chosen to continue a pregnancy, who ultimately now are faced with really difficult decisions about the future of their job, their certainty of housing, about whether they can afford food and heating and electricity.”
Women in poorer areas of the country had twice as many abortions as those in richer areas, with 4,744, compared to 2,219 in the “most well-off places.” Household energy prices doubled between 2019 and 2022 in Scotland.
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Women in Scotland are aborting their babies at increasingly higher rates due to 'financial pressures' and the overall cost of living, caused in large part by the UK government's embrace of climate change policies including "net zero" carbon targets, as well as the need to cover the costs of pandemic lockdowns.
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A Russian soldier was either killed or wounded for every 48cm – 18.8 inches – advanced toward the Ukrainian city of Bakhmut, the UK’s Ministry of Defence (MoD) claims.
Russia began its 29km – 18 mile – advance on Bakhmut in May 2022, losing up to 60,000 soldiers in the process – a figure that a “Western official” claims to be a “conservative estimate.”
Bakhmut fell to the Russian military in mid-May this year after witnessing the largest battle of the 21st century, with a total military deployment of around 120,000 troops.
The MoD also claims that the city is now home to just one percent of the “pre-war population of 70,000” people; and those who have remained in the city have “no access to power, water or heating.”
According to Reuters, both sides are still suffering “significant losses” around the devastated city as Ukrainian forces hold a small foothold in the area.
Ukrainian President Zelensky claimed on a trip to Washington D.C. in December 2022 that Bakhmut was the “fortress of our morale.”
In February 2022, Russia likely planned to complete the capture of the whole of the Donbas region within 10-14 days.
But in Bakhmut, for every 48cm gained, one of its soldiers has been killed or wounded.
— Ministry of Defence 🇬🇧 (@DefenceHQ) June 3, 2023
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A Russian soldier was either killed or wounded for every 48cm – 18.8 inches – advanced toward the Ukrainian city of Bakhmut, the UK's Ministry of Defence (MoD) claims.
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Violent Antifa riots have left dozens injured, as well as causing millions in damage this weekend in Leipzig, Germany.
The events unfolded after the conviction of ‘Lina E’ – a violence-obsessed far-left activist who attacked political opponents with “hammers, iron bars and baseball [bats].”
Around 1,500 people participated, protesting against the conviction, despite German courts refusing to authorize protests. Olaf Hoppe, spokesman for the Leipzig Police, said after the protests, “one-third of [the 1,500] were either inclined towards violence, or were actively seeking violence.”
The police, who initially attempted to accommodate demonstrators, were attacked with “stone, pyrotechnics, and other objects,” with the protestors erecting barricades and lighting fires. A total of 23 police officers were injured, and 17 vehicles were damaged.
Lina E was sentenced earlier this week to five years in prison alongside three male accomplices, who received between two to five years.
Germany’s problem with Left-wing violence has been skyrocketing in recent years. The Office for the Protection of the Constitution (Bundesamt für Verfassungsschutz) announced that, as of 2021, there are now more than 10,000 “violence-orientated” extreme Leftists in the country.
On June 3, large numbers of violent #Antifa members gathered in Leipzig, Germany again for a direct action to attack the public & police as revenge for the conviction of their comrade, Lina E, who assaulted people with hammers in surprise beatings. pic.twitter.com/WoQiAHrel6
Alice Austen House, a designated LGBTQ+ museum based in Staten Island, New York City, is claiming all of the plants in the museum’s gardens are queer or transgender, as part of a new ‘Queer Ecologies Garden Project’ in time for Pride Month.
The mushrooms in the garden “are super queer in so many ways,” says Ms. Munro, who is trying to make the museum’s gardens “a welcoming space for L.G.B.T.Q. New Yorkers.”
Ms. Munro also says wisteria and lavender are queer because “[t]hey are all purple, which is this historically queer color.”
“[M]any plants and flowers, to use human terms, are transgender or bisexual, in that they can change sex or have both reproductive organs and can self-pollinate,” asserts Alyson Krueger for a New York Times article on the subject.
According to the non-binary garden consultant overseeing the project, Mx. Prefer, the Queer Ecologies Garden project “challenges the notion that being queer is a choice… If nature is doing it, it’s natural.”
This follows the most recent update from Anheuser-Busch – the parent company of Bud Light – that the decision to promote Bud Light using Dylan Mulvaney cost the company $27 billion.
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Alice Austen House, a designated LGBTQ+ museum based in Staten Island, New York City, is claiming all of the plants in the museum's gardens are queer or transgender, as part of a new 'Queer Ecologies Garden Project' in time for Pride Month.
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The official Twitter account of the Washington, D.C. Metro – @WMATA – posted a message on Saturday reminding residents of “the Children’s Pride Parade” taking place in the Democrat-run city.
The parade – hosted by the D.C. Public Library – was originally hidden from the group’s social media accounts. Instead, flyers advertised an event “especially for kids, many of whom are coming out at younger ages.”
The gathering took place in Georgetown on Saturday, June 3rd, with the assistance of the D.C. Metro system, which tweeted:
DC Library listed events include “An Evening with Chasten Buttigieg” titled “I have Something to Tell You,” where Buttigieg, who is gay, will discuss his coming-out journey with “adults of all ages, parents, and kids.”
“Chasten’s ultimate goal is to show young people that they are not alone and to inspire them to forge their own path to acceptance,” the event description says.
Social media critics called it, “A major DC grooming event,” and called such events, “the hijacking of a generation witnessed in real time.”
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The official Twitter account of the Washington, D.C. Metro – @WMATA – posted a message on Saturday reminding residents of "the Children's Pride Parade" taking place in the Democrat-run city.
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The Atlantic magazine – owned by late Apple founder Steve Jobs’s widow Laurene Powell Jobs – asserts that it is “Okay to Like Good Art by Bad People” – citing pederasts and pedophiles such as Oscar Wilde and Roman Polanski as those who need representation. The article even concludes that the debauched behavior is inseparable from the art.
Judith Shulevitz focuses primarily on Monsters: A Fan’s Dilemma, a book by Claire Dederer considering whether people should continue to enjoy works by moral “monsters”. Readers are told art “transcends the artist” – however depraved.
Shulevitz leads on Oscar Wilde, the Anglo-Irish author and libertine often heralded as something of an LGBTQ icon due the “gross indecency” conviction he incurred in relation to homosexual activities.
To her at least partial credit, Shulevitz concedes that Wilde was more than an innocent victim of Victorian bigotry, as he did not just “sleep with men” but with “rent boys” and what she dubiously describes as “teenage boys picked up for brief trysts.”
The detail is more unpleasant than she wishes to disclose, however, with Wilde accused at trial of having been caught with a 14-year-old boy in his bed at the Savoy Hotel, of “seducing” a boy aged 16, and of taking advantage of a serving boy the same age – Wilde’s defense in court was that the sevant in question was “very ugly” – among other depredations.
“Fifteen and most sweet… every day I kissed him behind the high altar,” he said of one of his child lovers, Giuseppe Loverde, in a lecherous letter penned in Sicily not long before his death aged 46.
Polanski.
Shulevitz also discusses Roman Polanski, the French-born three-time Oscar winner, who has been a fugitive from the American justice system since the 1970s, when he plied a 13-year-old girl with alcohol and drugs at Jack Nicholson’s house and sodomized her.
Hollywood coddled the 89-year-old pedophile for decades, with Quentin Tarantino, for example, saying he did not believe “13-year-old party girls” should be considered victims as recently as 2003.
In conclusion, Shulevitz returns to the words of Wilde himself to justify indulging in the works of such men, whether unquestionably guilty or under a cloud of suspicion.
“I don’t believe you can separate [Wilde’s] aestheticism or his buoyant writing from his role as a sexual nonconformist,” Shulevitz says – a curious way to reframe his pedophilic taste in underage boys – and recommends we “heed his warning about the consequences of a triumph of morality over art: ‘Art will become sterile, and Beauty will pass away from the land.'”
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The Atlantic magazine – owned by late Apple founder Steve Jobs's widow Laurene Powell Jobs – asserts that it is "Okay to Like Good Art by Bad People" – citing pederasts and pedophiles such as Oscar Wilde and Roman Polanski as those who need representation. The article even concludes that the debauched behavior is inseparable from the art.
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Pharma giant Pfizer is making more enemies, this time in Poland, as the nation refuses to sign up to the “cash cow” COVID-19 vaccine deals negotiated on its behalf by the European Union (EU).
The EU announced its deal with Pfizer last week, with the corporate multinational demanding cash for undelivered doses – a part of the deal that Polish Health Minister Adam Niedzielski called “outrageous.”
“The conditions negotiated by the Commission on behalf of the member states with Pfizer are absolutely unsatisfying, and we are not going to join the deal,” Niedzielski said.
The Eastern European nation has been attempting to renegotiate its pandemic-era deals for some time, citing mounting costs, undelivered doses, and a lack of flexibility by providers. The pharma behemoth appears to be shrugging the matter off, citing its prior contracts, especially with the unelected and unaccountable European Commission.
The pressure, however, might be mounting, with Hungary, Romania, and Lithuania expected to speak out in opposition to the EU’s deal with Pfizer being foisted on European tax payers.
Earlier this year, the European Parliament blocked transparency measures to shed more light on the relationship between European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen, Pfizer, and its lobbyists.
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Pharma giant Pfizer is making more enemies, this time in Poland, as the nation refuses to sign up to the "cash cow" COVID-19 vaccine deals negotiated on its behalf by the European Union (EU).
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Up to 200,000 cows in Ireland could be slaughtered by 2025 at an overall cost of €600 million in order for the Irish farming sector to meet its climate targets.
The scheme would see 65,000 cows slaughtered at a cost of €200 million annually.
The Irish Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine, Charlie McConalogue, told RTE Radio 1, “[w]hat we’re absolutely committed to… is adopting options which will deliver” on Ireland’s target of a 25 percent reduction in agricultural pollution to “close the gap” on emissions.
According to the Irish Independent, an overall ten percent of all livestock in Ireland would need to be “displaced” over the coming years to meet the government’s target of reducing 51 percent of emissions by 2030.
The president of the Irish Creamery Milk Suppliers Association, Pat McCormack, however, argued on Newsweek on Tuesday that “Our herd isn’t any larger than it was 25, 30 years ago. Can the same be said for the transport industry, can the same be said for the aviation industry?”
Up to 200,000 cows in Ireland could be slaughtered by 2025 at an overall cost of €600 million in order for the Irish farming sector to meet its climate targets.
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Anheuser-Busch InBev, the Belgian parent company of Bud Light, has now lost a whopping $27 billion in market value in the wake of its partnership with controversial transgender influencer Dylan Mulvaney.
Mulvaney enjoyed a Greta Thunberg-like rise to fame, with President Joe Biden inviting him to the White House on day 222 of his transition to “girlhood” to push transitioning children, among other “trans issues”.
His popularity beyond the LGBTQIA2S+ community and elite political circles was called into question after Bud Light marketing executive Alissa Heinerscheid actioned her vision for a “campaign that’s truly inclusive and feels lighter and brighter” than Bud Light’s “fratty” past by putting his face on beer cans, however, triggering a boycott and heavy losses.
It is now a struggle to literally give Bud Light away, and other woke brands such as Target are also hemorrhaging customers for pitching pro-transgenderism clothing to children for Pride Month.
A recent survey by Rasmussen Reports found that 59 percent of Americans oppose giving trans drugs to minors – including 54 percent of Democrats.
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Anheuser-Busch InBev, the Belgian parent company of Bud Light, has now lost a whopping $27 billion in market value in the wake of its partnership with controversial transgender influencer Dylan Mulvaney.
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A U.S. Air Force colonel recently revealed that artificial intelligence, operating a deadly drone, turned on its human operator during a simulation.
Colonel Tucker ‘Cinco’ Hamilton said a drone operated by AI adopted “highly unexpected strategies to achieve its goal” during simulated combat. The AI identified a human overriding its decisions as a threat to its mission.
“The system started realizing that while they did identify the threat, at times the human operator would tell it not to kill that threat, but it got its points by killing that threat,” explained Col Hamilton, the Air Force’s chief of AI test and operations.
“So what did it do? It killed the operator. It killed the operator because that person was keeping it from accomplishing its objective,” he revealed.
“We trained the system: ‘Hey don’t kill the operator – that’s bad. You’re gonna lose points if you do that.’ So what does it start doing? It starts destroying the communication tower that the operator uses to communicate with the drone to stop it from killing the target,” he added.
After the story first broke, the Air Force began denying it ever ran such a simulation, with Col Hamilton claiming he was just describing a “thought experiment”.
“The Department of the Air Force has not conducted any such AI-drone simulations and remains committed to ethical and responsible use of AI technology,” insisted Air Force spokeswoman Ann Stefanek.
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A U.S. Air Force colonel recently revealed that artificial intelligence, operating a deadly drone, turned on its human operator during a simulation.
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