VIDEO: Great Reset & Covid Climate Connection Explained in Just 20 Minutes

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Marc Morano, the force behind CFACT’s award-winning Climate Depot news and information service, is hitting the speaking circuit hard.  Marc recently appeared in Calgary, Canada, Orlando, Houston, Pittsburgh, and Harrisburg.

WATCH: Marc Morano speaking tour exposes the “Great Reset” and climate agendas.

Morano Excerpt: 

“They’re collapsing high-yield agriculture in the Netherlands and other places. They’re making food scarce. The Harvard public school of Health: The root causes of the climate also increase the risk of pandemics. So if you don’t support the Green New Deal, you’re a grandma killer! And that’s coming from Harvard University. This is Harvard as well. The Harvard Environment Law Review — this paper just came out this week. Climate homicide deaths for prosecuting big oil for climate deaths. Two years ago, a doctor issues the first clinically diagnosed patient with climate change — a lady suffering from heat stroke. So you can be charged with homicide; A doctor can diagnose you with climate change;  and you can now have climate as a cause of death on your death certificate. I’m not making any of this up. This is in our academic mainstream now. Of course, the last hundred years of climate change has at a 99% drop in climate-related deaths.

Now be afraid, because the Biden Administration is pushing the U.S into a pandemic treaty where it won’t matter who your Governor is, who your mayor is, this will be coming International Global instant lockdowns.”

Morano’s Complete PowerPoint available here.

Marc has issued some stark warnings, for instance that, “the Great Reset essentially is restricting energy, food, transportation, free speech, property ownership, and collapsing our financial system, and the Biden Administration is pushing the U.S into a pandemic treaty where it won’t matter who your Governor is, who your mayor is, there would be international global instant lockdowns.”

Marc reels off an endless list of current climate absurdities for his audience.  Here’s a sample:

  • The Harvard Public School of Health bizarrely declared that climate change would increase the likelihood of future pandemics
  • A lady suffering from heat stroke was diagnosed by a doctor as suffering from – you guessed it – “climate change”
  • Calls have been made for climate change to be used as a “cause of death” on death certificates
  • The Harvard Law Review promotes adding the crime of “climate homicide” to the criminal code
  • Scientists are urging people to embrace a “climate friendly” diet that includes eating bugs and insects

Government policy in the free world has gone off the rails.

Do you think China, or the rest of the world’s autocracies, will throttle down their economies over any of this nonsense?

Don’t hold your breath.

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Biden’s EPA ‘intentionally creating car shortages’ to force Americans into public transit

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“Let’s call it what it is – a ‘gas-powered car ban.’” — Marc Morano, Climate Depot.

Watch: Morano on TV on Biden EPA’s EV mandates: ‘This is mandating car shortages for Americans’ to ‘force people into public transit’

Morano excerpt: “This is mandating car shortages for Americans…with the design of forcing more people into public transit. You will go nowhere and be happy. … Once we don’t have the freedom of movement in America that we have grown accustomed to, they will be able to put all sorts of other mandates on you as well. They are making gas-powered cars statutorily extinct…creating radical chaos and car shortages.” …

Bypassing Democracy: “This is why they loved COVID lockdowns, and this is a way of recreating it through a regulatory process. By the way, no one’s voting on 15-minute cities. No one’s voting on gas car bans. No one’s voting on banning meat eating. No one’s voting on killing high-yield agriculture. But yet, somehow, it’s all happening through corporate government collusion, all bypassing democracy.”

Biden’s EPA Chief Micheal Regan: “Together, today’s actions will accelerate our ongoing transition to a clean vehicles future, tackle the climate crisis head on…”

Morano: “It is easier to transition your gender than it is your energy, particularly on the energy timescales they’re talking about. So if you think it’s impossible for a man to have a baby, well, then it’s equally impossible to have solar and wind power our entire economy. That’s the kind of delusion we’re living in right now.”

Marc Morano: “We did not get to vote on whether we wanted to ban gas-powered cars — it’s just happening to us…They’re banning gas-powered cars. That’s the goal here. Gavin Newsom started in California – then many states had trigger laws to follow suit. This is now a corporate government collusion because you have the World Bank telling automakers we’re not going to finance the creation of gas-powered cars, you have corporate banks announcing they’re not going to give out car loans for gas-powered cars. And if you’re lucky enough to still have a gas-powered car in a decade, you now have cities across the country in Colorado, and California, banning the creation of new gas stations —  to do what? To create gas shortages.”

Morano: “This is the most insane part. China is now becoming the world’s number one automaker came out of nowhere, by the way, why because of the EV mandates because of the EV subsidies, and because of the banning on gas-powered cars throughout Europe, and the United States. We’re empowering China by doing this, and we’re doing nothing for the planet… You can’t even write a Hollywood script this dystopian, but this is what’s being imposed upon us as we speak.”

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Federal Court Blocks Biden’s Far-Reaching ‘Waters Of The United States’ Regulation

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A federal court granted a preliminary injunction Wednesday against the Biden administration’s “waters of the United States” (WOTUS) rule that extends the Environmental Protection Agency’s (EPA) regulatory authority.

The new rule, which defines what “navigable waters” are subject to government regulation under the Clean Water Act, allowed the EPA to claim regulatory authority over lands containing small streams and wetlands. District of North Dakota Judge Daniel Hovland granted 24 states who sued the EPA over the rule in February a preliminary injunction on Wednesday, finding they have “persuasively shown that the new 2023 Rule poses a threat to their sovereign rights and amounts to irreparable harm.”

“The States involved in this litigation will expend unrecoverable resources complying with a rule unlikely to withstand judicial scrutiny,” the court found.

Hovland also stated that the rule appears to “directly” affect landowners who are now “potentially subject to federal jurisdiction and permitting requirements,” forcing them to “undertake expensive assessments or forgo their activities.” He noted the “dire need” for clarification on what constitutes a navigable water, holding out hope that the Supreme Court’s pending decision in Sackett v. EPA will settle the issue.

“Until then, every state will continue to swim in waters of uncertainty, ambiguity, and chaos,” Hovland wrote.

Last week, President Biden vetoed a bipartisan bill designed to overturn the new rule. Republicans have criticized the rule for the burden it places on farmers and landowners.

“The agencies are reviewing the decision and their options,” an EPA spokesman told the DCNF. “The agencies continue to believe the rule, which is informed by the text of the relevant provisions of the Clean Water Act and the statute as a whole, as well as the scientific record, relevant Supreme Court case law, input from public comment, and the agencies’ experience and technical expertise after more than 45 years of implementing the longstanding pre-2015 regulations defining waters of the United States, is the best interpretation of the Clean Water Act.”

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KATELYNN RICHARDSON

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Walter Reed Jettisons Catholic Priests from Serving Veterans at Medical Center

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In a move that has stunned Catholics and religious freedom advocates, Walter Reed National Military Medical Center in Bethesda, Md. issued a “cease and desist order” just before Holy Week to a community of Franciscan Catholic priests from Holy Name College that had been serving servicemembers and their families at the center for almost two decades.

On April 7, the Catholic Archdiocese for the Military Services (AMS) announced that Walter Reed issued the order on March 31, just as the most sacred week of the year for Christians was beginning. AMS noted that the contract for providing Catholic Pastoral Care was instead awarded to a secular defense contracting firm that does not have the capacity to offer Catholic pastoral services such as Mass and confession, which can only be administered by an ordained priest. AMS further pointed out that without the services of the Franciscan priests, there would be only one other Catholic priest assigned to Walter Reed, an Army chaplain who is currently “in the process of separating from the Army.”

Archbishop for the Military Services Timothy P. Broglio was perplexed by Walter Reed’s decision and expressed concern that it would infringe on the ability of Catholic servicemembers and their families to freely exercise their faith while at the center.

“It is incomprehensible that essential pastoral care is taken away from the sick and the aged when it was so readily available,” he said. “This is a classic case where the adage ‘if it is not broken, do not fix it’ applies. I fear that giving a contract to the lowest bidder overlooked the fact that the bidder cannot provide the necessary service. I earnestly hope that this disdain for the sick will be remedied at once and their First Amendment rights will be respected.”

Some lawmakers on Capitol Hill reacted even more forcefully, saying that the order was a direct attack on the First Amendment.

“This is an unconscionable attack on Christian service members and the First Amendment by [President Joe] Biden, [Defense Secretary Lloyd] Austin, and [Joint Chiefs Chair General Mark] Milley,” tweeted Rep. Mary Miller (R-Ill.) on Saturday. “The House must investigate why DOD did this, especially on Holy Week!”

AMS said that despite numerous appeals to Walter Reed by their general counsel Elizabeth A. Tomlin to reinstate the priests at least through Holy Week, they received no response from the medical center.

“Especially during Holy Week, the lack of adequate Catholic pastoral care causes untold and irreparable harm to Catholics who are hospitalized and therefore a captive population whose religious rights the government has a constitutional duty to provide for and protect,” AMS stated.

This latest move by the military under the Biden administration fits a pattern of what many experts see as a steady erosion of religious freedom for those working for the armed forces.

After the administration instituted a COVID vaccine mandate for all military personnel in August of 2021, most of the branches granted a tiny fraction of the religious exemptions that were requested before the mandate was rescinded in December 2022. Only 0.9% of religious exemption requests were granted in the Army, zero were granted in the National Guard, and 0.8% were granted in the Air Force.

Additionally, in September of last year, the administration issued a rule mandating that Veterans Affairs medical facilities carry out abortions as well as provide abortion counseling. When a Christian nurse practitioner requested a religious accommodation on two occasions from having to participate in abortions, she was denied. She is now filing suit against the hospital for placing a substantial burden on her sincerely held religious beliefs.

Lt. Gen. (Ret.) William G. Boykin, a 36-year Army veteran who currently serves as executive vice president at Family Research Council, said Walter Reed’s cease and desist order showed harmful neglect of religious freedom.

“The First Amendment states that ‘Congress shall make no laws respecting an establishment of religion or prohibiting the free exercise thereof,’” he told The Washington Stand. “The U.S. military should be held accountable for violating the intent of the First Amendment at the same time that drag queen programs are acceptable.”

AUTHOR

Dan Hart

Dan Hart is senior editor at The Washington Stand.

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Abortion Pill Rulings Could Send FDA Approval to the Supreme Court

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Friday afternoon, a U.S. district court judge in Texas issued a long-awaited ruling in the case Alliance for Hippocratic Medicine v. U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA). The judge decided in favor of the plaintiff, agreeing that the FDA’s approval of the chemical abortion drug regimen was politicized and bypassed safety concerns in the rush to put abortion drugs on the U.S. market. The judge gave the federal government one week to file an appeal before the ruling would go into effect, revoking FDA approval of the chemical abortion regimen and removing it from the market.

Immediately after the ruling, President Joe Biden issued a statement saying, “My Administration will fight this ruling. The Department of Justice has already filed an appeal and will seek an immediate stay of the decision. But let’s be clear — the only way to stop those who are committed to taking away women’s rights and freedoms in every state is to elect a Congress who will pass a law restoring Roe versus Wade.”

“No surprise that the Biden administration has announced it will appeal a federal court ruling out of Texas that puts the health and safety of women over the FDA’s now politicized policymaking,” Tony Perkins, president of Family Research Council, told The Washington Stand. “Chemical abortion drugs are extremely dangerous — resulting in deaths and severe adverse events filed by physicians and patients over the last two decades.”

Perkins added, “The Clinton White House, throughout the approval process, made it clear to FDA staff that this was a drug application that would not be denied. Finally, after all these years, the illegal approval of these hazardous drugs is being addressed.”

While the decision in the highly anticipated Texas abortion drug case drew the most media attention over the weekend, a second ruling from a federal judge out of Washington State is also significant to the fate of chemical abortion drugs in the United States. The Washington judge placed an opposite order on the FDA, requiring that no changes be made to the status of the chemical abortion regimen’s approval.

The conflicting rulings make it likely that the question of chemical abortion drug approval under the FDA will escalate to the Supreme Court — a result that would serve as a dramatic reminder of the court’s recent role in redefining the abortion industry’s power in America after the Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s Health Organization ruling in 2022.

According to Mary Szoch, FRC’s director of the Center for Human Dignity, Americans must focus on the facts of the case. “The mission of the FDA is to protect public health by ensuring the safety, efficacy, and security of human and veterinary drugs,” she explained. “It is not to approve drugs in pursuit of a political agenda that kills innocent children and destroys the very foundation of American society — the family. Chemical abortion drugs take the lives of unborn Americans, often putting their mothers’ lives in danger as part of the ‘process.’ Even The New York Times’s own report defending these drugs acknowledges that at least 1 in 33 women who take these drugs, and as many as 1 in 20, end up needing surgical intervention following their use.”

She concluded, “What is regularly overlooked, though, is the devastation these drugs cause to the mother who makes a decision to take the drugs out of fear and is then confronted with the reality that what the abortion industry told her was a clump of cells is, in fact, her recognizable unborn baby — delivered dead into the toilet.”

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Joy Stockbauer

Joy Stockbauer is a correspondent for The Washington Stand.

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Rep. Massie, Judiciary Committee Launch Probe Into Reports Biden Admin Pressured FDA Over COVID Booster Approval

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Republican Kentucky Rep. Thomas Massie sent letters Monday to senior Food and Drug Administration (FDA) vaccine officials, letting them know the House Judiciary Committee will be investigating allegations the Biden administration interfered in the FDA’s authorization and licensure of the COVID-19 vaccines.

The Daily Caller first obtained the letters to Dr. Marion Gruber and Dr. Philip Krause, both of whom resigned following President Joe Biden’s announcement in August 2021 calling for adults to receive a COVID-19 booster shot, which Massie says “put undue pressure on FDA health officials to quickly authorize the vaccinations.”

Gruber serves as the Vice President of Public Health and Regulatory Science at the International AIDS Vaccine Initiative. Philip Krause sits on the Board of Directors of Mesoblast, Inc. Gruber had been with the FDA for 32 years and Krause had worked at the agency for over a decade.

In the letters, Massie calls for records and materials relating to: 1. The FDA’s review, authorization, approval and/or promotion of all COVID-19 vaccines and boosters; 2. The departure of Dr. Marion Gruber and Dr. Philip Krause from the FDA’s Office of Vaccines Research and Review (OVRR); and 3. The identities of current or former employees who worked in the FDA’s OVRR for the period of Jan. 1, 2020, to the present.

“The Committee on the Judiciary is investigating allegations that the Biden Administration interfered in the U.S. Food and Drug Administration’s (FDA) authorization and licensure of the COVID-19 vaccines,” Massie wrote in the letter to the FDA.

“Dr. Gruber and Dr. Krause reportedly felt that the White House was getting ahead of the FDA on booster shots and disagreed with the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention’s (CDC) involvement in FDA decisions. You replaced Dr. Gruber as acting director of the FDA’s Office of Vaccines Research and Review (OVRR). Accordingly, we believe that you possess information relating to this matter, and we request your assistance with our inquiry,” he added.

READ THE LETTERS HERE: 

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“Congress has an obligation to examine these facts to understand the sufficiency of existing federal statutes and to assess the Executive Branch’s execution of these statutes. Pursuant to the Rules of the House of Representatives, the Committee on the Judiciary has jurisdiction to conduct oversight of matters concerning ‘civil liberties’ and ‘administrative practice and procedures’ to inform potential legislative reforms,” Massie added.

The Caller contacted the FDA, Mesoblast, Inc. and the International AIDS Vaccine Initiative about the letters, to which they did not immediately respond.

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HENRY RODGERS

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Ignoring dead whales, NOAA proposes another site survey off New Jersey

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“Damn the whales, full speed ahead” seems to be the offshore wind policy of Biden’s NOAA. They now propose to approve yet another site survey, just 10 miles off Atlantic City. These surveys are the top suspect for the recent wave of dead whales, centered on New Jersey.

See the proposal at https://www.federalregister.gov/documents/2023/03/30/2023-06594/takes-of-marine-mammals-incidental-to-specified-activities-taking-marine-mammals-incidental-to

The site is a big one because the offshore wind project is huge. Phase 1 is a whopping 1,500 MW, which means over 100 monster turbine towers. The survey area is around 1,500,000 acres or an incredible 2,300 square miles.

Ironically the project is called Atlantic Shores, which is where all the dead whales are washing up. In fact this is basically a renewal of a prior permit. NOAA acts as though nothing has changed, ignoring the horrible New Jersey whale deaths.

NOAA’s National Marine Fisheries Service (NMFS) is taking public comments on this preposterous proposal, details below.

The proposal’s cursory environmental impact assessment is ridiculously simple minded. NMFS itself predicts that a great many (supposedly protected by them) marine mammals will be subjected to unsafe levels of survey noise. See https://www.fisheries.noaa.gov/s3/2023-03/AtlanticShoresHRG_2023_Proposed_IHA_OPR1.pdf

NOAA predicts the number of adverse impacts by species, but here are the staggering numbers by category:

42 Whales

2,534 Dolphins

142 Porpoises

1,472 Seals

Total = 4,190 adversely impacted marine mammals

Here is NOAA’s basic argument:

“….only Level B harassment is proposed for authorization, which NMFS expects would be of a lower severity, predominately in the form of avoidance of the sound sources that may cause a temporary abandonment of the location during active source use that may result in a temporary interruption of foraging activities for some species. NMFS does not expect that the proposed activity will have long-term or permanent impacts as the acoustic source would be mobile and would leave the area within a specific amount of time for which the animals could return to the area.”

In short these thousands of large animals will get the hell out of the way and come home when the survey is over, in a year or so. Apparently NMFS thinks this massive forced relocation is harmless. Despite having hundreds of scientists on staff they cannot think of how it might be harmful.

Here are two obviously harmful possibilities, among many.

First, the site is deliberately in a relatively low ship traffic area, surrounded by high traffic zones. This is one of the busiest ship traffic areas in the world. Being forced to relocate into higher traffic areas is virtually certain to increase the incidence of fatal ship strikes.

Second, moving this many animals into territory already occupied by similar animals should greatly increase the population densities for each species. But the food supply remains the same, which could lead to food scarcity.

The treatment of the severely endangered North Atlantic Right Whale is especially egregious. NOAA says this:

“…the size of the survey area (5,868 km2) in comparison with the entire migratory habitat for the North Atlantic right whale (BIA of 269,448 km2) is small, representing 2.11 percent of the entire migratory corridor.”

Right Whales migrate through the area twice a year, going between offshore Georgia and New England so the “corridor” is indeed large, but this is irrelevant. What is crucial is that the survey area is about 35 miles wide East to West and almost all of the migrating whales presently pass through this space. Thus the survey has the potential effect of blocking the migration, or at least seriously disrupting it, taking nearly 100% of the needed space not 2.11%.

Despite all of the above predicted and potential impacts, NOAA maintains that this proposed authorization is exempt from the environmental impact assessment requirements of NEPA. They specifically claim there is “no anticipated serious injury or mortality”.

They should anticipate a little harder. NEPA requires assessment if injury is reasonably likely. Injury and death certainly are reasonably likely here, to thousands of supposedly protected marine mammals, including the severely endangered Right Whales.

More deeply, the Atlantic Shores Wind Project has yet to be approved and may never be. Hugely disruptive site surveys should not be authorized until the Project is approved.

Here is the basic comment statement: “Comments should be addressed to Jolie Harrison, Chief, Permits and Conservation Division, Office of Protected Resources, National Marine Fisheries Service. Written comments should be submitted via email to ITP.Potlock@noaa.gov “

I suggest as an email subject line: “Comment on proposed Atlantic Shores IHA”. Simple objection is sufficient but specific arguments are always useful. Anyone can comment.

In the offshore wind stampede Biden’s National Marine Fisheries Service has lost sight of its mission to protect marine mammals.

Just say no to NOAA.

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David Wojick

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CEO of JPMorgan Chase & Co.: Biden’s EV Addiction Could Hurt National Security

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Biden is a wrecking ball.

Head of major U.S. bank: Biden’s EV addiction could hurt national security

‘We cannot cede … to another country’

By: WND Staff, April 5, 2023:

The head of one of America’s largest financial institutions, Chase Bank, says the electric vehicle ideology being pursued by the Joe Biden administration could be dangerous.

In fact, according to Jamie Dimon, such moves could imperil national security.

In a report from Just the News, it explained how Dimon’s comments came in the company’s 2022 annual report.

The top Democrat Party donor says he has concerns about Biden’s agenda.

“China … and its economic muscle to dominate batteries, rare earths, semiconductors or EVs, could eventually imperil national security by disrupting our access to these products and materials,” Dimon explained in the company’s 2022 report.

“We cannot cede these important resources and capabilities to another country.”

The Biden administration and others have admitted the U.S. needs to move to a position of being less dependent on China’s battery and semiconductor industries.

But analysts point out independence on such issues remains “far away.”

Read more.

NOTE: James Dimon is an American billionaire businessman who has been the chairman and chief executive officer of JPMorgan Chase since 2005. Dimon was previously on the board of directors of the Federal Reserve Bank of New York.

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Pamela Geller

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Abortionistas’ Dirty Tricks Kill the Innocent

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Democrat abortion supporters will say and do anything to keep the party going.  They’ll even throw the Rule of Law out the window.

HHS Secretary Xavier Becerra and Congresswoman Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez suggested the Biden administration ignore the court ruling invalidating the FDA’s approval of the abortion drug mifepristone.

But that’s just for starters.  Here are some of the other things discovered recently abortionistas are doing to promote the radical abortion agenda:

D.C. Mayor Muriel Bowser is stalling media inquiries about the investigation into the suspicious deaths of five babies at a D.C. abortion clinic a year ago – including Baby Boy 1 – some of whom might have been left to die after being born alive.  D.C. police won’t comment.  Once again, I defy anyone to look at the iconic photo of Baby Boy 1 and tell me he was not a human being.  If you support his killing, you’re despicable.

No justice for the innocent and no Rule of Law.  Here’s what else abortion activists are up to:

  • misrepresenting that the overturning of Roe v. Wade prevents medical care for miscarriages
  • publishing false pictures of empty gestational sacs after nine weeks, suggesting abortion is no big deal, without disclosing the fact the embryos had already been removed
  • forcing private insurers to cover elective abortions by executive order after the state legislature voted down the measure
  • misusing medical privacy laws as a shield to thwart state investigations into abortionists who kill unborn babies in violation of pro-life laws
  • slanting poll questions to falsely claim a majority of Americans support abortion
  • letting less qualified nurse practitioners perform abortions
  • falsifying health reasons to perform late-term abortions for healthy mothers who simply do not want to carry their babies to term
  • ratcheting up the pressure on women who travel out of pro-life states to have abortions by reminding them their abortions have already been paid for
  • trying to pass state laws to have schools facilitate secret abortions for students without parental knowledge or consent
  • forcing students to buy subscriptions to their professor’s website that donates to Planned Parenthood

What a bunch of dirty, low-down tricks.  These are disgusting people doing disgusting things to support a disgusting policy.  Isn’t there something wrong when you have to lie, cheat, and steal to make your case?

But maybe you’re one of those people who thinks winning is the only thing and so the ends justify the means.  If you’re one of those out there cheering the Democrats on, all I can say is you’ve got some serious soul-searching to do, if you can still find it.

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*** The Attack on Trump is an Attack on America

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*** Beyond the Reset – Animated Short Film

*** At What Point Do We Say ENOUGH? (II)

*** We Can’t Even Agree On What A Woman Is

*** How Substack Changed the Internet

*** The War on Substack

*** National Teachers Group Censors Climate Science That Doesn’t Conform To Disaster Agenda

*** Net zero is a Trojan horse for the total destruction of Western society

*** A Belated Reckoning as Climate Act Costs Become Apparent

*** The Energy Transition Is a Delusion Indeed

*** Dem senators from 4 states ask NOAA to address whale deaths

*** Eminent Scientist Says Wind Power “Fails on Every Count”

*** The Death of a Wind Project

*** Energy as a Vehicle of Control and the War on Carbon

*** The great renewables rip-off continues

*** This Is Why ‘Green Solutions’ Are a Gigantic Scam

*** The limitless hidden costs of the “Inflation Reduction Act”

*** Report: The Key to Fixing the US Education System

*** New: Portrait of a NC K-12 Graduate

*** Analysis: COVID Vaccines Caused 300,000 Excess Deaths in 2022 Alone

*** Dr Pierre Kory: I Was Asked For a Follow-Up Op-Ed From the Daily Caller. I Took The Gloves Off

Education Related:

*** Report: The Key to Fixing the US Education System

*** New: Portrait of a NC K-12 Graduate

Is DEI Good (Enough)?

Children should be taught how to think, NOT what to think

Shining Light on Science Education’s Dark Age

Treat Student-Loan Borrowing Like Medicare

Greed Energy Economics:

*** The Death of a Wind Project

*** The limitless hidden costs of the “Inflation Reduction Act”

Renewables (General):

*** Seize property to build wind and solar projects, says JP Morgan chief

*** Renewables and Fossil Fuels Are Not Comparable for Their Support of Humanity

*** The great renewables rip-off continues

*** This Is Why ‘Green Solutions’ Are a Gigantic Scam

Communities with renewable energy projects could lose out under NY Gov’s budget

Renewable Energy Crisis Coming and It’s Home Grown!

Wind Energy — Offshore:

*** Dem senators from 4 states ask NOAA to address whale deaths

*** Will Offshore Wind Lower Energy Bills?

*** Massachusetts Offshore Wind Reneging On Electric Contracts

*** Proposed House Resolution calls for offshore wind moratorium

New proposed NC Bill re Moratorium on Offshore Wind Projects

Ignoring dead whales, NOAA proposes another site survey off New Jersey

NextEra wants nothing to do with offshore wind development

Wind Energy — Other:

*** Taking the Wind Out of Climate Change (referencing 60± studies)

*** Eminent Scientist Says Wind Power “Fails on Every Count”

Wind developers renege on electricity contracts for a second year

Greta Thunberg’s War Against Wind Turbines

Archive: Wind projects will cause more environmental impact than previously thought

Solar Energy:

New proposed NC Bill re Decommissioning Solar Projects

Nuclear Energy:

*** Report: Physicist says nuclear energy is the only recipe for a good future

*** Short video: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love Nuclear Waste

*** New proposed NC Bill Defining Nuclear Power as Clean Energy

*** Talking about decarbonization? Think nuclear

Nuclear Power has Suddenly Been Branded Clean Energy

How We Learned to Stop Worrying and Love Nuclear Waste

Archive: Nuclear Power Plants: Our Industrial Cathedrals

Nuclear bro’s and environmentalists

Fossil Fuel Energy:

Senate Testimony: The Cost of Oil Dependence in a Low-Carbon World

Fossil Fueled: The Concert—a landmark event

Fossil Fuels Still Dominate Security and Defense Needs

EPA approves California rules phasing out diesel trucks

Energy Insecurity Is the Problem Natural Gas Cures

Electric Vehicles (EVs):

*** Europe Abandons All-Electric Car Mandate

*** Untransformed

Elon’s Terrible, Horrible, No Good, Very Bad Battery Math

Electric cars being written off after minor bumps

Misc Energy:

*** The Energy Transition Is a Delusion Indeed

*** Breakthrough! Dominion Says Net-Zero May Not Be Reliable

*** Energy as a Vehicle of Control and the War on Carbon

*** Energy security is trumping climate concerns

A History of Our Broken Energy Paradigm

Geothermal’s full potential: 24/7 power everywhere, storage, etc.

Manmade Global Warming — Some Deceptions:

*** Past and Present Warming – A Temporal Resolution Issue

*** National Teachers Group Censors Climate Science That Doesn’t Conform To Disaster Agenda

The Charles Kovess Show: I love our planet and there is NO ‘climate emergency’

Not Zero …or even close

What Will Net Zero Ever Do For Us?

Manmade Global Warming — Misc:

*** Steven E Koonin’s conference talk in Paris on March 23, 2023

*** Net zero is a Trojan horse for the total destruction of Western society

*** A Belated Reckoning as Climate Act Costs Become Apparent

*** How Climate Alarmism Killed Real Environmentalism

*** Jordan Peterson Just EXPOSED The Whole DAMN THING!

Why You Should Ignore The Latest IPCC Climate Report

Documentary: The Climate Is Changing Without Man’s Help

Nigel Lawson and the birth of the GWPF

Climate Hysteria in the Dark Age: Are We Seeing Glimmers of Light?

The Global Warming Doomsday Religion Is A Suicide Pact To Wreck Our Economy

US Election:

Election-Integrity.info (10 major election reports by our team of experts, plus much more!)

James O’Keefe Uncovers Huge Potential Money Laundering Operation Into Democrat Campaigns

US Election — State Issues:

University of Minnesota Report: Evidence Doesn’t Support Claims of Ranked Choice Voting Advocates

Idaho Takes An Axe To Ranked-Choice Voting In Elections, And North Dakota And Arizona Could Follow Suit

Meet the Young Attorney Who May Have Saved Kari Lake’s Election Challenge

Trump Indictment:

*** Victor Hanson: Indict One—And All?

*** No One Is Above The Law? Give Me A Break

*** The Attack on Trump is an Attack on America

Trump Indictment a Terrible Moment for America

Alvin Bragg put the Ham in the Ham Sandwich

The (Legal) Closer from the (DOJ) Bullpen

Unsealed Trump Indictment Previews a Case That Puts Us in Uncharted Territory

Misc US Politics:

*** A State of Never-Ending Crisis: The Government Is Fomenting Mass Hysteria

*** The Left Unmasks Its Desire To Destroy Families — And The Nation — With Sexual Chaos

*** Why Government Is the Problem – The American Experiment Has Failed

*** Beyond the Reset – Animated Short Film

A nation divided and world in turmoil

We Must Not Compromise

Our military is in a dangerous decline and this is the reason why

Radical prosecutors could end up losing their legal immunity

Societally US:

*** At What Point Do We Say ENOUGH? (II)

*** We Can’t Even Agree On What A Woman Is

*** 21 states threaten banks with legal action over woke policies: ‘Stay in your lane’

*** Americans frightened by shock poll on diminishing importance of traditional values

AI Is Not Your Friend

Price Discoveries (Bankman follow-up)

Jennifer Bilek | Who is Behind the TRANS Agenda?

Miscommunication:

*** How Substack Changed the Internet

*** The War on Substack

Journalist Matt Taibbi dumps Twitter after Elon Musk restricts Substack content

The Importance of Being Urgent

US Politics and Socialism:

America’s Economic and Spiritual Woes

*** NC’s Mark Robinson To Black Americans: ‘You Are Owed Nothing’

Gov. Kristi Noem on Tucker Carlson Discussing UCC Bill VETO

Religion Related:

The Way Forward for Religious Colleges

*** Climate change and the rhythm of life

The Hypocrisy of the Christian Church

When ChatGPT Meets The King James Bible

How Transhumanism is at Odds With Christianity

Ukraine:

*** Pray for the safety of the Ukrainian people

*** A well-rated source to make a Ukraine donation

*** Latest Developments in Ukraine: April 9th

Ukraine War Plans Leak Prompts Pentagon Investigation

COVID-19 — Injections:

*** Latest Rasmussen Reports poll: Vax deaths = COVID deaths

COVID Vaccination knocks up to 2.5 Decades off a Man’s life

The Medicare records clearly show the vaccines are killing people

COVID-19 — Injection Mandates:

College students succeed in getting injection mandate removed

Fauci Takes Heat After Casting Doubt on Efficacy of COVID Vaccines

COVID-19 — Misc:

*** Analysis: COVID Vaccines Caused 300,000 Excess Deaths in 2022 Alone

*** Dr Pierre Kory: I Was Asked For a Follow-Up Op-Ed From the Daily Caller. I Took The Gloves Off

*** Dr. Pierre Kory: Three of the Most Important Lessons from the U.S’s Failed Pandemic Response

Sweden Did Exceptionally Well During the COVID-19 Pandemic

Dr. David Martin Reveals the Creation of the Covid Virus, Who Was Involved, etc.

Another COVID Fail: School Budget Cliffs With Gaping Holes

COVID-19 — Repeated Important Information:

My webpage (C19Science.info) with dozens of Science-based COVID-19 reports

*** World Council of Health: Early COVID-19 Treatment Guidelines

*** FLCCC Long COVID Treatment Protocol

*** COVID-19: What You Need To Know (Physicians for Informed Consent)

*** If you have received a COVID-19 injection, here’s how to Detox

*** Place Your US Order for Free At-Home COVID-19 Tests

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Trans-Terrorist Murder Plot Foiled in Colorado, Targeting THREE SCHOOLS and President Donald J. Trump

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Targeting children again.

The left has been inciting the mentally disturbed to slaughter and this is the consequence.

And still no Nashville shooter manifesto. They’re hiding it.

BREAKING: Trans male arrested for planning Colorado school shooting, had anti-Trump manifesto

Whitworth faces charges of attempted murder after allegedly making threads against schools in Colorado Springs, Colo.

By: The Post Millennial, April 6, 2023:

A trans-identified male who goes by Lilly, though his given name is William Whitworth, was arrested and charged after a police investigation in Colorado Springs revealed that the 19-year-old was responsible for “threats involving schools in Colorado Springs Academy District 20.”

Whitworth faces charges of attempted murder after allegedly making threats against schools in Colorado Springs, Colo., according to local news.

The Elbert County Sheriff’s Office charged Whitworth with two counts of a criminal attempt to commit murder in the first degree, criminal mischief, menacing, and interference with staff, faculty or students of educational institutions.

Whitworth is an alum of the school district and attended from 2014-16. Whitworth had attended Timberview Middle School in District 20, and an affidavit showed that this was the school Whitworth planned to target, for “no specific reason.”

The investigation began after the sheriff’s office was dispatched on March 31 due to a disturbance.

Deputies spoke with someone at the door on that day, and learned that another individual inside was “very upset and punched holes inside the walls.” Deputies, however, were not immediately allowed access to the residence.

Once inside, however, deputies found signs that someone had been punching holes in walls, and had ripped doors off their hinges. The person who reported the disturbance was reportedly Whitworth’s sister.

Deputies asked Whitworth if he had an intention of harming people at a school, and according to an affidavit, Whitworth indicated that this was the intention.

When asked why, Whitworth said “Why does anyone do it.”

Whitworth, deputies noted, appeared to be drunk and made suicidal statements. Additional targets per Whitworth’s manifesto were churches, and the planning had been ongoing for a month. Whitworth told officers that he had learned how to make a detonation device on YouTube.

Whitworth’s manifesto had a list of school people and shooters with notes next to their names:

“Eric and Dylan: Losers
“Adam Lanza: To smart
“Isreal Keyes: Degenerate
“Lauren Southern: Pathetic
“Vaush: Terrorist
“Donald J. Trump: Con-mam
“Bad cops: Useless garbage
“Stockholm, Name: Liam K.”

The manifesto’s contents detailed:

“A list of firearms and how to 3D print them; Detailed lists of numerous named individuals to be killed and their indented casualty versus injury rate. Information detailing the creation of improvised explosive devices; The Finalization of locations being Timberview Middle School, Prairie Hills Elementary, and Pine Creek High School.”

This comes after trans-identified female Audrey Hale shot 3 children and 3 adults to death in The Covenant School in Nashville, Tenn.

Read more.

AUTHOR

Pamela Geller

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Switzerland Bans the COVID Vaccines

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Truth breaks through.

Switzerland bans the COVID vaccines, Spike protein kills brain cells, AAPS updates, Twitter at war with Substack.

BY: Robert W Malone MD, MS, April 8, 2023:

Note: Switzerland, a non-aligned nation (not NATO, EU, or BRICS) is generally considered the global hub of the pharmaceutical industry. The Government of Switzerland coming out with this position is a clear recognition that objective scientific analysis of the risk/benefit ratio of COVID-19 “vaccines” does not justify “vaccination” in any cohort. Note that the Swiss position is that physicians can prescribe, but will need to carry the risk of liability in the case of adverse events – the exact opposite position of the US HHS position. This clearly demonstrates that this issue has become politicized in the USA, and that the objectivity of HHS decision making has been compromised. This decision is based in part on the widespread natural immunity which has developed in Switzerland, something which was long denied by the US Government, US corporate media and US information technology (social media) companies and their NGO surrogates.

Machine translated from the original German

By Vanessa Renner: vanessa.renner@report24.news

April 07, 2023

Bang: Switzerland withdraws all Covid vaccination recommendations

Switzerland stops the Covid vaccinations: all vaccination recommendations have been withdrawn, doctors can only administer the controversial vaccines in individual cases under certain conditions – but then bear the risk of liability for vaccination damage. When will countries like Germany and Austria follow this example?

The Federal Office of Public Health (BAG) and the Federal Commission for Vaccination Issues (EKIF) stated in their vaccination recommendation (as of April 3rd, 2023) (to be found on this website):

In principle, the FOPH and EKIF will not formulate a recommendation for vaccination against Covid-19 in spring/summer 2023 due to the expected low virus circulation and the high level of immunity in the population.

Vaccination is only possible in individual cases – namely:

Vaccination is possible for people who are particularly at risk (BGP) ≥ 16 years of age if the attending physician considers it to be medically indicated in the respective epidemiological situation in the individual case, a temporarily increased protection against serious illness is to be expected and the last vaccination dose at least 6 months ago.

However, no vaccination recommendation for risk patients is explicitly given here.

In the following, it will be discussed that the effectiveness of vaccinations against current variants is reduced and short-lived – especially for people who are at risk. The adaptation of the mRNA vaccine could not keep up with the development of the variants. The recommendations of the BAG could change if there is a new wave of outbreaks, but even then, according to the document, vaccinations are no longer recommended for people under the age of 65.

No positive risk-benefit ratio

The remarks on “Adverse Vaccination Symptoms” (UIE) are also piquant:

According to the current state of knowledge, the risk of severe UIE with a recommended vaccination is much lower than the risk of a complication from Covid-19, against which the vaccination protects. The benefit of the vaccination administered according to the recommendation therefore outweighs the possible risks.

In the case of the valid non-recommendation, this essentially means that there is no longer a positive benefit-risk ratio for any Covid vaccination.

Liability: the federal government is out, doctors have a duty

The new recommendations also have consequences for liability. This is what the BAG document on the Covid vaccination strategy (as of November 29th, 2022) says:

Compensation by the federal government to injured persons for vaccination damage can only be considered for vaccinations if they were officially recommended or ordered (see Art. 64 EpG).

However, the federal government only stepped in if the damage was not covered by the vaccine manufacturer, the person vaccinating or an insurance company. The person vaccinating – i.e. generally the doctor – can be held liable if he has breached his duty of care. In this context, it is pointed out that the same rules regarding patient information apply to the Covid vaccination as to all other vaccinations.

The fact is, however, that very few doctors are likely to have informed their patients correctly about all the risks and side effects and the limited effectiveness of the Covid vaccinations. The off-label use of vaccines (not unusual for Covid vaccinations, for example the bivalent mRNA vaccines in Switzerland are not approved as first vaccinations, not as a booster for people under the age of 18 and not as a fifth vaccination) must be discussed become. For doctors, the justification of vaccinations is becoming more difficult due to the changed recommendations, according to a BAG document on liability issues:

If the doctor treating you bases his/her choice or prescription on the vaccination recommendations of the BAG, he/she can prove that he/she has observed the recognized rules of medical and pharmaceutical sciences and has therefore complied with the duty of care under the law on medicinal products.

The “Weltwoche” reports that from now on the doctors have to be liable for the vaccination – which should probably decrease their willingness to vaccinate significantly.

AUTHOR

Pamela Geller

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DeSantis Announces Next Moves In Fight With Disney

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Republican Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis announced his plan Thursday to void the last-second legal agreement signed by Disney to maintain its self-governance and special privileges in the Central Florida Tourism Oversight District, formerly known as the Reedy Creek Improvement District.

DeSantis spoke April 6 at Hillsdale College, a conservative school in Michigan, about his next move in Florida’s ongoing battle with Disney.

“They are not superior to the people of Florida. And so come hell or high water, we’re going to make sure that policy of Florida carries the day,” DeSantis said, according to Reuters.

“We’re going to look at things like taxes on hotels, we’re going to look at things like tolls on the roads, we’re going to look at things like developing some of the property that the district owns,” DeSantis continued.

Earlier in the day, DeSantis hinted at next moves at a breakfast with the Midland County Republican Party of Michigan, Politico reported. Disney “tried to pull a fast one on the way out the door,” he said. “That story’s not over yet. Buckle up. There’s more coming down the pike.”

Disney reportedly signed legal agreements with the Reedy Creek Special Improvement District in February to preserve its special benefits as DeSantis’ legislation to abolish the special district was making its way through Florida’s legislature. The legislation replaced the Reedy Creek district with a new governance body and revoked Disney’s special privileges.

Disney CEO Bob Iger called DeSantis legislation “anti-business” and “anti-Florida” during the company’s annual shareholder meeting Monday. The company’s feud with DeSantis began when Disney came out against his legislation restricting the teaching of gender ideology and sexuality from kindergarten through third grade.

AUTHOR

JAMES LYNCH

Reporter.

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Politico’s Banned Words

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“But if thought corrupts language, language can also corrupt thought.” ― George Orwell, 1984

“Political language is designed to make lies sound truthful and murder respectable, and to give an appearance of solidity to pure wind.” ― George Orwell

Politico has surrendered to mentally disturbed woke millennial staffers.

“The entire dynamic is totally backwards.”

Some of the banned words and phrases:

  • biological woman
  • biological female
  • waiter/waitress
  • mankind
  • manhunt

Revealed: Politico’s banned words

Inside one media company’s surrender to progressive pieties

By: Amber Athey, The Spectator, March 6, 2023:

In my new book, The Snowflakes’ Revolt, I examine how progressive millennials have infiltrated and influenced American media over the past decade, taking ideas from college campuses into the newsroom and pushing the editorial line further to the left than ever before. Among the many prominent organizations where this has happened is Politico. One sign of the shift at this Washington news mainstay came in December 2020, when staff revolted after conservative commentator Ben Shapiro guest-authored the outlet’s flagship newsletter, Playbook. A few months later newsroom activists, unsatisfied by Politico’s response to their concerns, quickly seized on a new culture war battle — transgender issues.

The showdown centered on a March 2021 article titled “GOP seizes on women’s sports as unlikely wedge issue.” The article, by political reporter Gabby Orr, explored how Republicans sought to position themselves as defenders of women’s sports against transgender athletes. The row over the article didn’t generate as many headlines as the bust-up over Shapiro, but internally it was a decisive moment that marked a sea change in how the publication reported the news.

As a source briefed on the situation explained to me, Orr was informed by Politico’s director of editorial diversity initiatives Robin Turner that two colleagues had voiced concerns about her story. Turner wanted to arrange a meeting to discuss them. During the meeting, Orr was asked about her employment history at the Washington Examiner, a center-right outlet, and asked why the story omitted any transgender voices — though it had extensively quoted Kate Oakley, senior counsel at the Human Rights Campaign, an activist organization dedicated to LGBTQ+ issues.

Orr’s colleagues also complained that she quoted conservatives, such as American Principles Project director Terry Schilling and former White House policy adviser Stephen Miller, without “contextualizing” their comments. Schilling had pessimistically praised left-wing activists for their ability to convince the American public that transgender people were facing a wave of violence even though when “you look at the numbers… it’s, like, forty people.” Orr, her colleagues argued, should have explicitly told readers that those remarks were offensive and transphobic.

One attendee took issue with the phrase “biological women,” which appeared three times in the piece, but only in direct quotations. Her colleagues again described the phrase as offensive to transgender readers.

At the end of the meeting Turner suggested that Orr’s colleagues serve as “sensitivity readers” — making sure Orr wasn’t causing offense — prior to publication of future stories about transgender issues. Interestingly, the problem didn’t arise when Orr wrote a 5,000-word Politico magazine cover story on the same subject only six months earlier, extensively quoting trans people without drawing internal complaints.

Multiple sources point back to a bad-blooded Zoom meeting about Shapiro guest-editing Playbook as the moment that emboldened Politico staff to start pushing back on colleagues who did not write about issues in the overtly partisan way they desired. The sources also confirmed that multiple other Politico reporters were given warnings about their coverage of transgender issues.

[ … ]

A style guide sent to staff in January 2022 reads more like a game of Media Matters mad libs than a document for journalists. It suggested some noninclusive words that Politico reporters should avoid using in their work.

YOU CAN’T SAY THAT: Politico’s banned words

  • Mankind
  • Man-made
  • Manhunt
  • Crack the whip: unacceptable because of origins in slavery
  • Waiter or waitress: server should be used instead
  • Biological gender, biological sex, biological woman, biological female, biological man, or biological male
  • Illegal immigrant or illegal alien
  • Cake walk: “originated during slavery” and thus perpetuates “racist motifs”
  • In reference to illegal migration: onslaught, tidal wave, flood, inundation, surge, invasion, army, march, sneak and stealth
  • Anchor baby
  • Chain migration: this is a term used by “immigration hard-liners”
  • Peanut gallery: “the cheapest seats often occupied by Black people and people with low incomes”
  • Third-world countries: too “derogatory”

The guide also warned that reporters should not say that a transgender person “identifies as” a certain gender, or describe the current situation at the border as a “crisis,” because “while the sharp increase in the arrival of unaccompanied minors is a problem for border officials, a political challenge for the Biden administration and a dire situation for many migrants who make the journey, it does not fit the dictionary definition of a crisis.” It also cautioned reporters against portraying migrants as a “negative, harmful influence.”

Read more.

AUTHOR

Pamela Geller

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Supreme Court: Trans Can Compete on Women’s Team

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UPDATE: The Supreme Court’s Rejection of Bid to Enforce Trans Athlete Ban Isn’t What it Seems

A devastating blow for state’s rights and existential threat to women’s sports.

Supreme Court REJECTS West Virginia’s Ban on Trans Athletes from Female Sports

Despite The “Save Womens Sports Act” The Supreme Court Still Rejected The Case

By: Real News Now, April 7, 2023:

The Supreme Court has made a disappointing decision, ruling that transgender athletes in West Virginia can compete on female school sports teams, despite a law prohibiting such athletes from doing so.

The justices denied the state’s emergency request to lift an appeals court’s injunction, allowing a transgender girl to compete on her middle school’s female teams until the three-judge panel reaches a final decision. Governor Jim Justice could not provide a specific example of a transgender athlete with an unfair competitive advantage in his state when asked, but claims that his experience as a girls’ basketball coach led him to believe the legislation is fair.

The law, known as the “Save Women’s Sports Act,” prohibits transgender female athletes from participating in sports consistent with their gender identity in public elementary schools, high schools, and universities. Although the Supreme Court doesn’t seem to honor this as it goes against the nations current agenda.

Keep reading.

AUTHOR

Pamela Geller

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