USA - It’s in a report from The Daily Signal that the details are documented. It reports that at least one school library in a school district in South Carolina actually “restricted access” to its online card catalog to hide “critical race theory books” from parents. The group Moms for Liberty obtained internal documents where officials admitted just that. The report said the school district alleged it insisted all schools in the district unlock their catalogs to start the school year, but Moms for Liberty officials say at least one remained blocked into February. “Instead of listing these books as available in the library, they are making a conscious decision to include them in curriculum read aloud in class so parents don’t know,” charged Carly Carter, of the Anderson County Moms for Liberty chapter.

UK - We've dehumanised the unborn. Now it's the turn of the elderly and the ill. Supporters of assisted dying need to grasp that they will almost certainly get more than they say that they want. You will have to judge whether they really are as moderate as they claim, or whether they reckon – with good reason – that legalising assisted death will allow them to expand their scheme in ways that would horrify many now. The campaign to legalise abortion on demand was never, in my view, frank about its true aims. Nor is the similar campaign for assisted dying.

USA - The next eight months of your life should be devoted to preparing for a black swan event. I’ve had a nagging fear for more than a few months, now, that most Americans have their election math totally wrong. You know these people. You love these people. We’re talking about your friends and family. The problem is not that they’re stupid or disengaged or indifferent. The problem is: they’re living in the old America.

USA - “Automakers from Ford Motor and General Motors to Mercedes-Benz, Volkswagen, Jaguar Land Rover and Aston Martin are scaling back or delaying their electric vehicle plans,” reports CNBC. The headline says it all: “EV euphoria is dead. Automakers are scaling back or delaying their electric vehicle plans.” There’s a shock. Why-oh-why would people not want to purchase a super-expensive vehicle that can take more than an hour to charge — and that’s if you can find a charging station?

USA - You may be surprised to learn that the cheese you are eating, if it’s not USDA organic, most likely contains synthetic rennet bioengineered by Pfizer. Often referred to as microbial rennet, the source of the rennet is not required to be listed on food labels, so most Americans have no idea that the food they are eating contains non-natural ingredients. Global Research‘s Dr Ashley Armstrong, who believes that natural rennet is preferable to synthetic rennet, explained that cheese making involves just four ingredients — milk, salt, starter culture, and (traditionally) animal rennet. Rennet is used to curdle the cheese and separate the curds from the whey.

USA - Kellogg’s is facing even more backlash amidst a mass boycott of their products after one of the company’s shareholders publicly demanded accountability for the “harmful additives” in their products. Jason Karp, founder of health food company HumanCo and investor in Kellogg’s, has teamed up with celebrity attorney Alex Spiro to get the cereal manufacturer to get rid of “harmful artificial dyes, such as Red 40, Yellow 6, and Blue 1, as well as the preservative BHT.” “When a company is knowingly harming our children to make a little extra money, we have to stand up and do what is right,” Karp wrote in a statement on X alongside an activist letter he filed with Spiro against Kellogg’s. The Thursday letter is demanding the company to “stop their unethical behavior of selling inferior, more harmful versions of their products to American children.”

USA - Meat is essential for warding off depression and anxiety, a top nutrition expert has revealed, sending a blow to veganism. Dr Georgia Ede, a Harvard-trained nutritional and metabolic psychiatrist and author of Change Your Diet, Change Your Mind, studies the relationship between what we eat and our mental and physical health. And despite the health halo that vegan diets have been given over the last few years, she claims that giving up meat could be detrimental for mental health. 'The brain needs meat,' she told KIRO News Radio. 'We’re used to hearing that meat is dangerous for our total health, including our brain health, and plants are really the best way to nourish and protect our brains. But the truth of the matter is that it’s actually — that’s upside down and backward.'

USA - According to a new Gallup report, the percentage of lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, and queer adults in the US has soared from 4.4% to an all-time high of 7.6% in 2023. Broken down by gender, the survey of 12,000 people 18 and older across the country found that women were nearly twice as likely as men to identify as LGBTQ. This is the first year Gallup has laid out its annual LGBTQ identification report in a way that breaks down each generation by gender. Looking at all generations, 8.5% of women and 4.7% of men identified as LGBTQ, the survey found.

HUNGARY - Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban is isolating his country from the Western “community of democracies,” US Ambassador David Pressman claimed on Thursday in wide-reaching rebuke. Ties between the two nations should not depend on “temporary” leaders, the diplomat argued, as he delivered a list of grievances against Budapest. “While the Orban government may want to wait out the United States government, the United States will certainly not wait out the Orban administration. While Hungry waits, we will act,” Pressman warned. The ambassador was referring to Orban’s expressed hope that Donald Trump will defeat President Joe Biden in the upcoming presidential election.

HUNGARY - Hungary will not tolerate Washington’s “lies” about the country’s prime minister, FM Peter Szijjarto has said. Budapest has protested US President Joe Biden’s remarks that Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban is seeking to establish a “dictatorship.” Hungary will not tolerate these “lies,” Foreign Minister Peter Szijjarto told journalists on Tuesday. On Tuesday, Szijjarto told reporters that Orban had never said anything close to these words. He also revealed that Budapest summoned Washington’s ambassador over the matter.

UK - Foreign Office staff told to not call Hamas 'terrorists' in Whitehall training session as academics brand term 'unhelpful' and suggest Israel is a 'white, settler colonialist nation'. MPs have accused senior civil servants of allowing ‘ignorant and dangerous’ views into the department. The seminar, held in Whitehall, said calling Hamas terrorists was ‘unhelpful’ and suggested Israel is a ‘white, settler colonialist nation’. The training was run by academics from King’s College London who also said there was ‘no future without Hamas’, which carried out the October 7 terror attacks in Israel. About 100 officials, including specialists in the Middle East, attended the 75-minute session, which was first reported by the Jewish Chronicle. Speakers said applying the ‘terrorist label’ to Hamas was an obstacle to peace.

MIDDLE EAST - Russian, Chinese, and Iranian navy ships are holding a joint exercise in the Arabian Sea this week, staging from the Port of Chah Bahar in the Gulf of Oman. The wargames – Maritime Security Belt – are scheduled to run from March 12-15 and involve vessels and aircraft from the three countries. Envoys from the militaries of Azerbaijan, India, Kazakhstan, Oman, Pakistan, and South Africa are in attendance as observers. “The practical part of the exercise will take place in the waters of the Arabian Sea, specifically the Gulf of Oman,” the Russian Defense Ministry said in a statement on Monday. “The main purpose of the maneuvers is to ensure the safety of maritime economic activities.” Two Pacific Fleet ships, the Slava-class guided missile cruiser Varyag and the Udaloy-class frigate Marshal Shaposhnikov, make up the Russian contingent in the exercises.

USA - Another one! A 25-year-old United Airlines Boeing 737 landed at an Airport in Oregon on Friday with a missing exterior panel. Per CNN: United Airlines Boeing 737-800 lands safely in Medford, Oregon with an under-fuselage panel missing. United says the issue was first discovered when parked at the gate. Friday’s problem with a missing airplane panel is at least the 8th time a Boeing aircraft was involved in an incident this year. A United Airlines Boeing 737 Max 8 suffered gear failure last Friday and crashed off the runway at Houston’s George Bush Intercontinental Airport. Friday’s gear failure comes one day after a United Airlines Boeing 777 plane was forced to make an emergency landing after it lost a tire during takeoff.

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USA - When undergraduates came through university education programs 30 years ago, professors drubbed into teacher candidates the importance of fostering in their students an internal locus of control, or the belief that one’s choices and actions drive one’s outcomes: If I choose not to do my homework, my grades will suffer because of my poor decision. Today, however, children learn exactly the opposite: If my grades are low, it’s because I have trauma, a learning disability, an emotional disability, an unaccommodating learning environment, an emotionally absent parent, or I’m being bullied, yadda, yadda, yadda. In other words, kids today are taught to have an external locus of control: Their failures are always someone else’s fault, and they can’t be expected to overcome difficulties because they’re just too broken and fragile.