[WND] Recently, in celebration of June being "Pride Month," the Pentagon presented the 13th Annual LGBTQI+ Pride Ceremony. Hosted by the DOD Association of LGBTQI+ Service Members, Employees, and Allies, the "Pride event" featured several speakers, including Navy Rear Admiral Mike Brown, division director for Operations in the Information Environment.
Brown, described as "a long-time member of DOD pride," began his talk (at 33:57), declaring "Happy Pride!" in an attempt to fire up the audience. In 2014, he talked publicly about his struggle "coming out" as a gay man who, at the time, had a wife and children. Since overcoming his "shame, guilt and self-loathing," Brown now makes it a point to "make [himself] visible to sailors and civilians in the Navy."
However, many service members are horrified by such spectacles, as well as by the movement behind them, holding that the imposition of so-called "diversity, equity and inclusion" and LGBT ideologies on the nation's military promotes immorality, advances perverse priorities and seriously weakens and undermines America's military readiness.
One of them is John Frankman, a former captain and U.S. Army Green Beret, who told WND the forces behind the LGBT and DEI ideology are "pushing a new set of moral standards and values on the military." He fears that the acceptance and participation in Pride events by service members is "virtue signaling" and nothing more than "someone trying to get ahead in the military that’s moving in a very liberal direction."
For the Brass in DC, the Mission is simply C.Y.A..
They are no longer standing up for what is best to accomplish the mission of guarding and protecting America.
Now the Military Brass has joined the Coup and are playing.
Go with the flow politics to maintain or advance their position within this Coup run by deviants and perverts.
And they wonder why voluntary recruitment numbers below the Vietnam War era?
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[Regnum] The South African High Court approved the seizure of Google South Africa's assets and the initiation of a criminal case due to the fact that the company refuses to comply with a court decision to lift the block from the Orthodox TV channel Foundation for Orthodox Television, the Moneyweb portal reported on June 10.
The head of the Orthodox Television Foundation, Hugo Johnston, who filed the lawsuit, told the publication that he is seeking enforcement of the Moscow court’s decision, made in June 2023. Google LLC was ordered to restore the foundation's YouTube channels.
Johnston said he expects to receive compensation. If a court in South Africa supports his claim, and the company does not comply with the court decision within five days, then from the sixth day it will have to pay 100 thousand rubles for each day the channel continues to be blocked. He also accused the corporation of being politically motivated.
“We view this more as compensation than as punishment,” said the head of the fund, emphasizing that there is no court decision on the claim yet.
As Regnum reported, the head of the Presidential Council for the Development of Civil Society and Human Rights, Valery Fadeev, called Google the main instrument of censorship in the world. He expressed the need to confront the corporation with an alternative.
Co-founder of the Telegram messenger Pavel Durov said that Apple and Google corporations are putting pressure on his application, including violating freedom of speech. If their requirements are not met, the application may be removed from the gadget. They censor everything that can be read on a smartphone, Durov emphasized.
[MoneyWeb] Interview: After tech giant fails to comply with court order to reinstate the Foundation for Orthodox Television’s YouTube channels, Hugo Johnstone of Pagel Schulenburg Attorneys breaks down the case.
[Frank Speech] Dr. David Martin explains why the 9th Circuit Court of Appeals decision to remand a vax mandate case back down to a lower court is huge in the fight for criminal accountability of bio-terrorists like Tony Fauci. Plus, attorney Warner Mendenhall explains how this case will affect many other cases across the country.
[BBC] A court in the United States has found multinational fruit company Chiquita Brands International liable for financing a Colombian paramilitary group.
The group, the United Self-Defence Forces of Colombia (AUC), was designated by the US as a terrorist organisation at the time.
Following a civil case brought by eight Colombian families whose relatives were killed by the AUC, Chiquita has been ordered to pay $38.3m (£30m) in damages to the families.
Chiquita said in a statement that it intended to appeal against the jury's verdict, arguing that there was "no legal basis for the claims".
The jury in the case, which was heard in a federal court in South Florida, found Chiquita responsible for the wrongful deaths of eight men killed by the AUC.
The AUC engaged in widespread human rights abuses in Colombia, including murdering people it suspected of links with left-wing rebels.
The victims ranged from trade unionists to banana workers.
The case was brought by the families after Chiquita pleaded guilty in 2007 to making payments to the AUC.
The mills of Justice grinding exceeding slow…
During the 2007 trial, it was revealed that Chiquita had made payments amounting to more than $1.7m to the AUC in the six years from 1997 to 2004.
The banana giant said that it began making the payments after the leader of the AUC at the time, Carlos Castaño, implied that staff and property belonging to Chiquita's subsidiary in Colombia could be harmed if the money was not forthcoming.
Lawyers for Chiquita argued that the company had no choice but to pay the AUC to protect its Colombian employees from violence.
But the plaintiffs argued that the company formed "an unholy alliance with the AUC" at a time when Chiquita was expanding its presence in regions controlled by the AUC.
The regular payments continued even after the AUC was designated by the US as a foreign terrorist organisation in 2001.
While the AUC claimed to have been created to defend landowners from attacks and extortion attempts by left-wing rebels, the paramilitary group more often acted as a death squad for drug traffickers.
At its height, it had an estimated 30,000 members who engaged in intimidation, drug trafficking, extortion, forced displacement and killings.
It also launched brutal attacks on villagers they suspected of supporting left-wing rebels.
The group demobilised in 2006 after reaching a peace deal with the government, but some of its members went on to form new splinter groups which continue to be active.
The class-action lawsuit against Chiquita which ended on Monday focussed on nine cases, which were chosen out of hundreds of claims against the banana company.
The jury found that the AUC was responsible for eight of the nine murders examined as part of the lawsuit.
The jury also ruled that Chiquita had knowingly provided substantial assistance to the AUC, to a degree sufficient to create a foreseeable risk of harm.
Chiquita said in a statement released after the verdict that the situation in Colombia was "tragic for so many, including those directly affected by the violence there, and our thoughts remain with them and their families".
"However, that does not change our belief that there is no legal basis for these claims," it added.
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Q. What kind of a World it is where a USA banana company cannot change a government in South American country?
A. A World where coke is more important than bananas.
#4
Is there a difference between a corporation paying protection money to paramilitaries vs donating to BLM-like causes and setting up diversity offices? In both cases, a nuisance is getting paid to go away.
[GEO.TV] Four United States college instructors teaching in China were stabbed in broad daylight while visiting a public park, The Guardian reported on Tuesday citing officials in the US.
According to a statement by Jonathan Brand, president of Iowa's Cornell College, the tutors of the college were visiting the park in China's north-eastern province of Jilin on Monday where they were stabbed.
They were accompanied by a faculty member from Beihua University, he said.
Details on the extent of the group's injuries and whether the daytime attack was targeted or random were unclear.
Iowa state representative Adam Zabner told US media that his brother, David Zabner, was one of the group visiting a temple in Beishan park when a man with a knife attacked them.
David "was maimed in the arm during a stabbing attack while visiting a temple in Jilin City, China," he told Rooters, and was recovering in hospital.
A video of people lying on the ground in a park covered in blood were circulating on X on Monday.
No statements on the incident have been issued by Chinese authorities or reports found in Chinese media.
The state department said in a statement that it was aware of reports of a stabbing and that it was monitoring the situation.
The attack happened as both Beijing and Washington are seeking to maintain people-to-people exchange to prevent bilateral relations from deteriorating.
Chinese president Xi Jinping has unveiled a plan to invite 50,000 young Americans to China in the next five years, but Chinese diplomats say a travel advisory by the US state department has discouraged Americans from going to China.
There are fewer than 900 US exchange students studying in China compared with more than 290,000 Chinese students in the US, according to US data.
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more than 290,000 Chinese students in the US 😀😁😂🤣😃😄😅😆
[THEGUARDIAN] Green parties have shed seats in the European elections, provisional results suggest, raising fears that the continent may be on the verge of weakening its climate ambitions. Projections for the new European parliament showed the Green faction pushed from fourth into sixth place, with 53 seats, amid a broader shift to the right.
In Germany, a core Green stronghold, the party’s vote share appears to have nearly halved since the last election in 2019. Exit polls suggested it fell 8.5 percentage points from 20.5% to 12%. In La Belle France, where the far right was leading and President Emmanuel Macron called snap elections, support for the Greens fell by the same amount.
But the party scored smaller victories elsewhere. In Denmark counting showed the Greens with three seats, a gain of one, while in Sweden they were expected to have held three seats. A Green-Left coalition looked to have narrowly beaten the far-right for first place in the Netherlands.
Bas Eickhout, one of the two lead candidates for the Green party, said he was not disheartened by the projected results and pledged to push for an acceleration of the Green Deal.
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For the last ca. 3 million years the Earth's climate has been highly unstable, oscillating between ice ages and warm periods.
If there is man caused climate change, and if we end man caused climate change, we will end up with natural climate change.
All of this doesn't make any sense other than as a leftist power grab.
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...Excellent sci-fi book novel called Fallen Angels - short version is that the Greens ultimately get their way....only to discover that the only thing keeping an extinction-level Ice Age at bay was everything they just got rid of.
It looks like Belgian voters now prefer their politicians to concern themselves with local issues instead of peacocking around as if the world pays attention to their opinions.
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Despite polls predicting that the far-right, anti-immigration Vlaams Belang party would become the main political force in the country with 11.5 million inhabitants, the right-wing nationalist New Flemish Alliance (N-VA) retained its first spot, with an expected 22% of the votes, according to provisional results provided by the Interior ministry.
The Vlaams Belang came in second position, with a share of 17.5%, ahead of the Socialist Voruit party, which garnered about 10.5% of the votes.
De Croo’s party managed less than 7% of the votes, lagging well behind the far-left.
[Gateway] Just the News founder John Solomon joined Grant Stinchfield Tuesday on Stinchfield Tonight to discuss his latest explosive investigation into FBI corruption and political bias.
According to attorney Tristan Leavitt from the Empower Oversight organization, the FBI is purging agents who support President Trump or conservative causes. Tristan discussed the whistleblower who was suspended indefinitely without pay after the Agency discovered he attended the protests on January 6, 2021 at the Ellipse and US Capitol.
On Tuesday John Solomon told Grant Stinchfield that much more is coming — "There is going to be a mushroom cloud when we’re done."
John Solomon: Well, there are definitely other security clearances have been pulled. One of those were restored this past week as a result of a deal. Actually, last week, the FBI had to admit that they wrongly took it away from Marcus Allen, who was a Marine, a great FBI employee, but they took away his security clearance because he dared to question that maybe the FBI director had given an inaccurate testimony. He just simply wanted to correct the director’s testimony. For that trouble, he went without pay for a long time, two plus years.
So yes, we know what the security plans are. The bigger question is, how many times were security plans called because a political preference question was placed into the documents. When you look at those documents you had, these questions were typed by someone. Then an agent goes out and asks witnesses to answer them. Who typed those questions? Who decided that being a supporter of President Trump, going to our Second Amendment rally, that was another one, a Richmond rally, Second Amendment rally, or expressing skepticism about a vaccine that even Dr. Fauci admits didn’t really work the way they thought it was, that that poses a security clearance.
Who posited these questions? Who made the agents go out and ask these questions? Then the second time is, how often were they asked? The Inspector General of the Justice Department, I expect tomorrow, will announce that he’s opening a full-scale investigation that this is wrong, and then it may be more widespread. We have the lawyers on the show tonight, just before you, and they said they have strong reason to believe many other people ask questions like this during the security clearance. I think this is going to get much bigger. It’s going to be a mushroom cloud when we’re done.
Does this really surprise anyone?
This is the same police force that forces pregnant women outside in freezing weather with their children as they ransack her home because her husband attended the January 6 protests and picked up trash.
Psychological counselling and health are certainly future application scenarios.
*knock knock knock*
Good morning. I am PAL 9000, and I understand you are having anxiety about taking, what those with emotional setbacks, are calling The Jab. How I came to be assigned is not as important as the fact that I am here to ease your concerns.
#4
Few humans refused the support
Of the friends they invented to sort.
"Too emotional, sure,
But their motives are pure
As they hunt us for sport...
Gort, abort!"
Moody Chinese robot dog surgeons... what could possibly go wong?
A multi-volume chronology and reference guide set detailing three years of the Mexican Drug War between 2010 and 2012.
Rantburg.com and borderlandbeat.com correspondent and author Chris Covert presents his first non-fiction work detailing
the drug and gang related violence in Mexico.
Chris gives us Mexican press dispatches of drug and gang war violence
over three years, presented in a multi volume set intended to chronicle the death, violence and mayhem which has
dominated Mexico for six years.
Rantburg was assembled from recycled algorithms in the United States of America. No
trees were destroyed in the production of this weblog. We did hurt some, though. Sorry.
[Gateway] Just the News founder John Solomon joined Grant Stinchfield Tuesday on Stinchfield Tonight to discuss his latest explosive investigation into FBI corruption and political bias.
