The excesses of feminism have prompted a backlash over the years and, at least on the political right, there is widespread acknowledgement that the fundamental principles on which feminism is based are false, and that feminism itself is little more than a Marxist tool.

There is a segment of the political right that actually adopts the talking points and philosophical premises of feminism — but merely switches the sexes. In other words, this movement regards men as victims who must liberate themselves from the female-driven oppression of society. For example, some in this movement argue that men should abstain from marriage because there is a danger of divorce, and modern divorce laws are unfair to men, putting them at danger of losing most of their money to an ex-wife.

The goal, obviously, is to dissuade both men and women from getting married, having children, and building stable families. Strong, healthy families are the foundation of a prosperous society; eliminating the family as the most basic unit of society is pivotal for the Marxists. So while they previously had their feminist argument for convincing women against marriage, they now have their anti-marriage argument adapted to the sensibilities of gullible men.

Wastewater flowing into the ocean has resulted in more than 700 consecutive days of beach closures in San Diego county, but the contamination isn’t limited to the water. Pollutants and pathogens contained in sewage have also been detected in the local air and soil – exposing even those who live miles away from the water.

Communities on both sides of the border have been raising the alarm about this contamination for decades, complaining of the near-constant stench in the air, and pushing for better wastewater infrastructure. Unprecedented storms in recent years, exacerbated by the climate crisis, have put even more pressure on faltering sewage systems – and increased public health risks.

“This is not a trickle of contamination,” said Paula Stigler Granados, associate professor in San Diego State University’s School of Public Health and the paper’s lead author. “This is a large amount of contamination over a long period of time.”

"It seems that nature is revolting, angry with us," Marques told the publication. "I've been reading nature since I was a child, but I am no longer able to decipher it." The Amazon isn't the only place susceptible to brackish water overtaking rivers. In October, saltwater intrusion exacerbated by drought threatened drinking water availability for about a million New Orleans residents.

A plethora of other human-induced problems are threatening rivers worldwide. Last year, a portion of another Brazilian river, the 684-mile long Tietê, turned into a toxic foam due to phosphate and phosphorus residues from household detergents entering the waterway. The foam was dangerous to humans and killed off fish, birds, and other wildlife.

Meanwhile, Macapá City Hall (Bailique belongs to the Macapá municipality) sent boatloads of bottled water to archipelago residents, but some families received only a six-pack of 1.5-liter bottles after the boats hauling them were stranded on riverbanks because of the ongoing drought.

Known medically as gonadotrophin-releasing hormone analogues, puberty blockers stop the physical changes of puberty in teens questioning their gender. For example, they halt the development of breasts in girls and facial hair in boys. Testosterone helps those born female put on muscle and gives them body hair, while oestrogen promotes the growth of breast tissue in those born male.

Around 250 patients are expected to be transferred to the new clinics from GIDS [Gender Identity Development Services] when they open. Some 5,000 more children and young people are currently on the waiting list for referral into the new clinics

If people today would like to rename something or pull down some statues, they might consider renaming “Camp Gezo”, the military base in modern-day Benin, or vandalise a statue of King Gezo, ruler of Dahomey from 1818 to 1859. Gezo enslaved huge numbers of Africans and built an economy based on selling them to the Atlantic traders.

If we want some new statues and celebrations to make us proud to be British, let us celebrate the men of the RN [Royal Navy] West Africa Squadron, aka the Preventive Squadron. They fought the Atlantic slave trade at great cost and hardship throughout the 19th century – largely alone during the early, hard part. Mortality among British sailors on the anti-slavery service was more than five times normal, mainly due to disease but also in combat.

From 1808 to 1860 the RN West African force captured or destroyed 1600+ slave ships and freed 150,000 slaves at sea: many more in operations ashore, sometimes hundreds of miles up dangerous rivers in ship’s boats. Something like 1600 officers and men never came back from operations on the slave coasts in the early decades.

When the terms ‘British history’ and ‘slavery’ are linked, then, this is not only grounds for shame, but also for pride: pride such as no other nation can claim. There is no other nation on Earth, not in Europe, not in Africa or Arabia, not in North or South America, with as little cause to apologise as Britain for its history with and around slavery.

“When you look at the numbers, it is staggering,” said Jason Shaw, chairman of the Georgia Public Service Commission, which regulates electricity. “It makes you scratch your head and wonder how we ended up in this situation. How were the projections that far off? This has created a challenge like we have never seen before.”

The proliferation of crypto-mining, in which currencies like bitcoin are transacted and minted, is also driving data center growth. It is all putting new pressures on an overtaxed grid — the network of transmission lines and power stations that move electricity around the country. Bottlenecks are mounting, leaving both new generators of energy, particularly clean energy, and large consumers facing growing wait times for hookups.

The situation is sparking battles across the nation over who will pay for new power supplies, with regulators worrying that residential ratepayers could be stuck with the bill for costly upgrades. It also threatens to stifle the transition to cleaner energy, as utility executives lobby to delay the retirement of fossil fuel plants and bring more online. The power crunch imperils their ability to supply the energy that will be needed to charge the millions of electric cars and household appliances required to meet state and federal climate goals. To answer the call, some states have passed laws to protect crypto mining’s access to huge amounts of power.

The US ranks 13th in the world for having a modern national infrastructure. Estimates of the cost of upgrading America’s power grid vary but can be as high as $2.59 trillion by 2035. If America hopes to catch up with the world’s largest electricity producer; China, which produces approximately 30% of the world’s electricity production, they have a long way to go.

AB 1840 was first introduced by California Democrat Assemblyman Joaquin Arambula in mid-January and after several amendments, it advanced last week to the Committee on Housing and Community Development, where it awaits further action. Arambula last month told Fresno-based news outlet GV Wire that he “wanted to ensure that qualified first-time homebuyers include undocumented applicants.” When the bill advanced to committee after amendments last week, he told the Los Angeles Times that, historically, homeownership has been the main way people accumulate generational wealth in the United States.

“The social and economic benefits of homeownership should be available to everyone,” he said, arguing that it is wrong to exclude people from the benefits of the California Dream for All Fund program just because they’re illegal immigrants. The proposed bill will amend Section 51523 of the California Health and Safety Code to include a subsection that reads: “An applicant under the program shall not be disqualified solely based on the applicant’s immigration status.”

Today, the CPD [Chicago Police Department] has identified more than 280,000 gang members in the city of Chicago… That is the size of a small army! And it is important to note that these are just the individuals that the CPD has been able to identify and put into their databases. There are undoubtedly more that they don’t know about or have not been able to identify. Meanwhile, the size of the CPD has been hovering just above 12,000… Once I had the numbers, I did the math, and I discovered that gang members now outnumber police in the city of Chicago by a ratio of 22 to 1. So it should come as no surprise that major crime in the Windy City was way up in 2023…

Memphis is another city that has an absolutely massive gang problem. It is being reported that the mayor recently met with gang leaders and “asked them to agree to a seven-day ceasefire”… A seven day ceasefire? That sounds like something that would happen in the Middle East. But of course the truth is that Memphis really has become a war zone.

Overall, it is being estimated that there will be over 8 million “asylum seekers” living in the US “by the end of September”… And this is one of the primary reasons why gangs are experiencing such explosive growth. The stage is being set for societal chaos on an epic scale.

Current talks have been conducted around the Paris proposal, which calls for a six-week ceasefire and an exchange of Israeli hostages for Palestinian prisoners, most of whom are held on terror charges. Hamas has rejected a temporary ceasefire, saying it will only accept a permanent ceasefire and a complete withdrawal of Israeli forces from the Gaza Strip before it agrees to release the hostages.

Following Hamas’ hardened stance, Israel said it would not continue negotiations without a list of living hostages. Hamas refused to provide such a list, saying that information was “valuable” and couldn’t be released for free.

In February, 6,458,000 Americans were considered to be officially “unemployed”. If that number was accurate, that would be good news. But another 100,285,000 Americans were considered to be “not in the labor force” in February. When you add those two numbers together, you get a grand total of 106,743,000 Americans that are not working.

In other words, nearly 107 million Americans do not have a job right now. Let me try to put that number into proper perspective. During the Great Recession, that number never even reached 90 million.Meanwhile, conditions continue to get even rougher for those that are actually working. The cost of living has been rising much faster than our paychecks have, and that is putting enormous stress on households from coast to coast.

But some members of my profession are coining money by convincing confused children and adolescents – many with other psychiatric issues - that they are males instead of females or females instead of males. They are using hormone treatments to chemically castrate them and, in some instances, subjecting them to brutal surgical treatments that remove or add breasts and destroy and rearrange parts of their genitalia. This sometimes results in infertility and sexual dysfunction for the rest of their lives.

Furthermore, gender affirming care has been practiced in Europe, especially in Scandinavian countries for over a decade (longer than in the United States) and the long-term data on its efficacy is now available. And the verdict is that it does more harm than good. This means that trial lawyers now have convincing expert witnesses to speak to juries.

Tyson’s investment in Protix isn’t just about funding a bug’s life; it’s about creating a sustainable system for churning out insect protein and lipids*. Yes, you read that right — lipids. Soon, our plates may be adorned with a symphony of insects, all thanks to the wonders of modern capitalism.

As Tyson Foods takes a leap into the bugsphere, one thing is certain: the world of processed food will never be the same. So, the next time you take a bite of your favorite chicken nugget, remember — the crunch might just be courtesy of our six-legged friends. Bon appétit!

[*A lipid is any of a group of organic compounds including the fats, oils, waxes, sterols, and triglycerides. Lipids are characterized by being insoluble in water, and account for most of the fat present in the human body.]

While hunger overwhelmingly afflicts the poverty-stricken nations of the world, obesity represents a unique type of affliction in that it targets both rich and poor alike. Between 1990 and 2022, global obesity rates quadrupled for children and doubled for adults, according to a new study by the Lancet (The World Health Organization classifies obesity as having a body-mass index equal to or greater than 30 kilograms per square meter).

Among the wealthy countries, the United States was the heavyweight representative and is tenth in the world for obesity among men. Shockingly, the US adult obesity rate increased from 21.2% in 1990 to 43.8% in 2022 for women, and from 16.9% to 41.6% in 2022 for men, placing the nation of 330 million fast-food consumers 36th in the world for highest obesity rates among women and, for men, tenth in the world.

None of this should have been unpredictable. After all, what does a society expect that can’t even park the car and walk several steps into the restaurant? And it’s not like consumers are ordering homemade soup and salads at the drive-thru window. The junk food served at fast food enterprises is loaded with sodium content in order to prolong its shelf life, as well as saturated fatty acids that increase cholesterol levels in the body, clog the blood vessels and restrict normal blood flow, leading to heart disease. And that’s not even mentioning the high-fructose corn syrup found in the cola drinks.

But do the American people really need another drug to combat the battle of the bulge, or is there a better, more natural way forward? Back in 2022, the World Health Organization adopted an obesity response plan that includes a number of lifestyle changes, including the promotion of breastfeeding, restrictions on marketing unhealthy food and drinks to children, nutrition labelling, and physical activity standards for schools. Now, if the WHO can just get Big Business behind the initiative, it just might make an impact.

Experts this week theorized the sales could be the result of the looming election, and as the S&P 500 index - a decent measure of the larger economy - remains at an all-time high. American Hartford Gold, a company that shills gold and other metals to investors, suggested in a promo video published on the firm's website late last month that the large liquidations may be a sign of a still-to-come economic dip. Airing the warning was the Senior Director Mechi Block, who suggested the CEOs - using their different perspective on the economy - were 'getting out before the tech bubble bursts.'

'Typically if CEOs are buying shares, it shows a confidence in the future growth potential of that company. It is also possible these billionaires' view from above could be giving them a different perspective of the economy, and where it's headed.'