The petition states:

Emboldened by “gay pride,” Netflix is releasing a show geared towards children where homosexuality and cross-dressing are the focal point. Netflix has taken the skill sets of those who create wholesome, educational content for children and has inserted the homosexual agenda into their content.

Here’s how Netflix describes the show: “During the day, they work in a department store and deal with their uptight bitchy boss. By night, they tighten up their corsets and transform into the baddest SUPER DRAGS in town, ready to combat shade and rescue the world’s glitter from the evil villains. Get ready, because the SUPER DRAGS are going deeper than you think.”

“What should now be clear for parents is that you can’t trust a Network’s children programming simply because they deem it ‘children’s programming,'” asserts Movie Guide. “The filmmakers will insert whatever messaging they desire, and many parents won’t notice.”

Donald Trump is already talking about hitting China with an additional 500 billion dollars in tariffs, which would essentially cover pretty much everything that China exports to the US in a typical year.  The Chinese have accused Trump of starting “the biggest trade war in economic history”, and they are pledging to fight for as long as it takes.  As I discussed yesterday, the only way that one side is going to “win” this trade war is if the other side completely backs down, and that simply is not going to happen. 

So there is going to be economic pain, and that pain is likely to intensify for as long as this trade war persists.  US businesses that will be affected by foreign tariffs are already cutting back production and laying off workers, and CNN is reporting that 1,300 products have suddenly become more expensive for US consumers.  There will be nowhere that anyone can hide from this trade war, and it will ultimately affect every single man, woman and child in the entire country. Most Americans are not paying any attention to these ongoing developments, but the Chinese sure are.

One man that understands what is happening is the founder of the largest hedge fund on the entire planet.  On Friday, Ray Dalio posted the following ominous message on Twitter… “Today is the first day of the war with China.”

The leaked documents were published by the Central Military Commission in February for the purpose of spreading President Xi Jinping’s “thought on strengthening the armed forces”. If the reforms go ahead, they will lead to heightened tensions with China’s neighbouring countries, including Japan, in the East and South China Seas and the US.

“As we open up and expand our national interests beyond borders, we desperately need a comprehensive protection of our own security around the globe,” read the leaked documents, which adds that a strong military is the best way to "escape the obsession that war is unavoidable between an emerging power and a ruling hegemony". It's worth noting that in March Beijing rolled out their largest defense budget in three years.

According to the leaked documents, China's rapid military expansion will allow them to “more effectively create a situation, manage a crisis, contain a conflict, win a war, defend the expansion of our country’s strategic interests in an all-round fashion and realize the goals set by the party and Chairman Xi”.

‘Iran won’t settle for sending drones into Israel,’ Soleimani announced, ‘but will work to wipe the Zionist entity off the map’. It wasn’t a mere statement. Soleimani ordered a significant reinforcement of the Iranian aerial system in Syria, which is operated from a closed compound in the T-4 base, including a fleet of suicide drones, like the one destroyed over Israel. This system was damaged in the bombing attributed to the Israeli Air Force about three weeks ago.

Mossad Director Yossi Cohen asserted that edging Iran out of the Middle East was his organization’s main goal. “Iran, which is located 1,500 kilometers from Israel, has succeed in creating an actual border with Israel, while Israel has no border with Iran,” Cohen told his colleagues. “First from Lebanon and now from Syria too, they can operate directly against Israeli communities and strategic targets in Israel. This is a very serious strategic threat faced by Israel.”

...Humanity is now in the midst of its fastest-ever period of change. There were almost 2 billion people alive in 1918; there are now 7.6 billion, and they have migrated rapidly into cities, which since 2008 have been home to more than half of all human beings. In these dense throngs, pathogens can more easily spread and more quickly evolve resistance to drugs.

Not coincidentally, the total number of outbreaks per decade has more than tripled since the 1980s. Globalization compounds the risk: Airplanes now carry almost 10 times as many passengers around the world as they did four decades ago. Among all known pandemic threats, influenza is widely regarded as the most dangerous. Its various strains are constantly changing.

Currently, Swiss banks are capping client cash withdrawals to between 100,000–200,000 euros.  Although the onus is placed upon individual banks to decide cash withdrawal limits for their clients, we have recently seen these limits enforced more strictly.  This has to be an unannounced official mandate as it is now being widely reported by our clients…

It’s important to understand that these cash withdrawal limits also determine physical gold withdrawal limits. It is the strictly enforced physical gold withdrawal limits that have our attention. Following at least 10 similar reports to us of banks refusing to deliver clients’ physical gold bars, this week a very wealthy client sought to remove 500 kilos of his physical gold from a German bank for safekeeping in a secure, independent vault. The bank refused delivery of his gold bars.

These refusals to deliver bullion are now resonating loudly enough to prompt something to be officially sanctioned soon.  Cash restrictions are already in place, however, the problem officials potentially face is being forced to go to market to buy thousands of tonnes of gold bullion to meet the surge of requests to withdraw bullion. That is simply not going to be allowed happen as the bulk of unallocated exposure sits on the balance sheets of the too-big-too fail bullion banks…

“If Iran’s oil exports are [stopped], we will not give permission for oil to be exported to the world through the Strait of Hormuz,” Kowsari said, as cited by Bloomberg. The US and Iran have been trading veiled threats for quite some time now.

On Wednesday, the Iranian President Hassan Rouhani also warned Washington against intervening in Iran’s oil trade and threatened the US with “consequences,” even though he did not name any specific measures. Some international media then promptly attributed the remark to a possible closure of the Strait of Hormuz.

A spokesman for US Central Command (Centcom), Captain Bill Urban, responded by saying that the US Navy and its regional allies are ready to safeguard “the freedom of navigation and the free flow of commerce” in the Persian Gulf.

Marxists, after the tremendous failure of their *economic* ideas, decided to change their angle of attack. There was no way that people could be convinced that Socialism is economically superior to Capitalism. Socialism produced tyranny and death in the hundreds of millions, while Capitalist nations were bursting with wealth.

So, Marxists shifted to targeting culture instead of the economy. If Cultural Marxists could *destroy the culture* of Capitalist nations, *then* they would try to use the opportunity to change the governments and economies to their Socialist utopia. Their original argument of workers being *exploited* by capitalists, didn't sell. It's obviously not the case.

So Marxists just shifted their "exploitation" schtick to culture:

- women exploited by men

- gays exploited by heterosexuals

- The old exploited by the young...and vice-versa

- This list goes on and on.

Anything that is true is to be twisted like a pretzel - to the point where people can't tell what is true anymore.

How do you think they're doing?

Had enough yet?

He said: “The Germans lost the shooting war but they did not lose their ambitions. Nazi Germany left us a legacy. Back in, I think it was 1942, when the Germans thought they were going to win the war, they wrote a plan for how they were going to govern their new empire. It was called the European economic community.”

“They were going to have interest rates linked to the Reichsmark, they were going to have a common agricultural policy, a common industrial policy, a common policy for everything. That plan resurfaced in 1957 as the European Economic Community.” Batten was heckled by other MEPs in the chamber as he made the remarks.

The idea was reportedly floated in meetings in Brussels, Berlin and Beijing, between senior Chinese officials, including Vice Premier Liu He and the Chinese government’s top diplomat, State Councillor Wang Yi, according to Reuters. Willing to use either a carrot or a stick to achieve its goals, in these meetings China has been putting pressure on the European Union to issue a strong joint statement against President Donald Trump’s trade policies at a summit later this month.

However, perhaps because China's veneer of the leader of the free trade world is so laughably shallow - China was and remains a pure mercantilist power, whose grand total of protectionist policies put both the US and Europe to shame - the European Union has outright rejected any idea of allying with Beijing against Washington ahead of a Sino-European summit in Beijing on July 16-17.

Almost as if behind the facade of smiles and agreement, Europe has absolutely no belief that Beijing will ever follow through with its promises. In other words, not even when faced with the specter of a full-blown trade war, is Europe willing to terminally alienate the world's biggest buying power: the US consumer, in exchange for some vague promises for "open trade" from Beijing.