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Oakland, California
A playground in the second-largest U.S. city on the West Coast and the hometown of Kamala Harris. The playground, like many similar ones, has organically evolved into a homeless encampment.
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The average American's salary is $59,000 a year. He has a mortgage debt of $254,498. He has a credit card debt of $7000. He is paying off a $25,000 car loan. He bought his first property at the age of 37 (on credit, of course, and the average age of a full mortgage payment is 62). 50% of Americans have less than $500 in personal savings.
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Sweden cuts red tape for changing legal gender
As of July 1, Sweden has removed some of the restrictions for changing gender legally and how it appears on official documents.
“It just feels good — one less thing to worry about,” Werner, 22, who was declared male at birth but identifies as female, told AFP.
Now, all that is needed to change is a medical certificate stating that a person’s gender identity does not align with the one indicated on their birth certificate.
Healthcare professionals have to evaluate whether the change better reflects the person’s gender identity and must ensure that the person can live with their new gender identity for the foreseeable future.
The minimum age to make the change has also been lowered from 18 to 16 years, although people under 18 need permission from their legal guardian.
A week after the law came into effect, 106 people had submitted applications, according to Sweden’s National Board of Health and Welfare.
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Spain: 70% want mass deportation of illegal immigrants, majority of Socialist Party supporters also want mass deportations
The vast majority of Spain’s citizens want mass deportation of illegal immigrants, and there are even majorities for this policy amongst left-wing voters, according to a new poll.
Sigma Dos, which conducted its poll for Spanish newspaper El Mundo, found that 70% of Spaniards support the deportations of illegal immigrants from Spain. The pollsters referenced the “flagship” Vox party proposal which called for mass deportation of all illegal immigrants, with the pollsters asking respondents whether they would support such a proposal.
For voters of the conservative PP party, 92% supported the proposal, which shockingly, is even higher than amongst Vox supporters, who support the proposal at a rate of 89%. Even among Socialist party supporters, 57% said they backed mass deportations.
For the far-left Sumar party, 67% reject the proposal, the only party which saw majority support against mass deportations. However, the party is far smaller than the other major parties in Spain.
The demographic profile of Spain is shifting rapidly. In 1991, Spain’s foreign-born population was under 1%, but this has jumped to 20% in 2025. The country has seen a 650% increase in family reunification visas since 2020.
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While U.S. presidents have been pitting countries against each other in the Middle East, Brazil has become China's largest trading partner
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The price of a Big Mac at McDonald's USA increased from $1.6 in 1980 to $8 in 2025. At the same time it “shrank” in volume by 40%. The dollar lost 8.3 times its value
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Project Veritas catches Secret Service guard compromising White House security
A Secret Service agent unknowingly disclosed sensitive information about his White House assignment to an undercover Project Veritas journalist, all the while mocking President Donald Trump.
The agent, identified by the media group as Marc Hendrickson, came across the undercover journalist on a dating app and appeared eager to impress her. First, he invited her to the White House and then sent a photo of his exact location while on the building’s lawn.
Hendrickson described himself as a “liberal” since age 18 and criticized Trump in private messages, claiming the president was “doing a lot of whacky shit right now.”
“Well if you’re close to the White House you can come here and I say hi,” he reportedly wrote.
In response, the undercover reporter said: “Haha that would be cool. I’m not working the next two three days. You’re at the White House?”
“Yes,” Hendrickson responded.
Project Veritas portrayed Hendrickson’s messages as a potential security breach.
“This behavior reveals how easily he could be compromised or manipulated by adversaries, potentially granting hostile actors critical access or intelligence that jeopardizes the safety of President Trump and the nation,” the group stated.
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The hidden cost of Europe's free education
Europe’s free university model is often seen as a triumph of modern society. With no crushing tuition bills, minimal student debt, and a promise of equal access, it sounds ideal. In countries like Germany and France, students pay only a small administrative fee, typically between $200 and $500 a year, compared to the staggering tuition costs in the US or UK. Many also receive financial aid in the form of grants that don’t need to be repaid, or low-interest loans based on need.
But behind the promises of fairness and opportunity lies a system that too often feels rigid, overcrowded, and uninspiring.
For all its accessibility, the reality of navigating these institutions can leave students feeling like just another number in a giant, bureaucratic machine.
When higher education is scaled to serve nearly everyone, as in much of Europe, it risks trading depth for throughput and personalization for administrative convenience. It works, but at the cost of treating education less as a journey and more as a bureaucratic process.
As a result, creativity gets lost. Students who want to take risks, try new things, or ask uncomfortable questions end up finding little support. Professors often lack time to mentor individuals. Students have limited choice in what they study or how they approach it. In this system, the goal is not to inspire but to produce.
#EU #Education #FindTruth
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Because of the loss of world relevance, the British are trying to turn a regional conflict into a world conflict
#UK #WarInUkraine #FindTruth
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Finns increasingly self identify as politically right-wing
Finnish people have been increasingly identifying themselves as politically right-wing, a new survey found.
Half the country, or 49%, defined themselves as right-wing, the Finnish Business and Policy Forum (EVA) found in its annual values and attitudes research. By contrast, only 31%, identified with the Left, while 19% considered themselves centrist.
The proportion of people classifying themselves as very right-wing has increased compared to the previous measurement of 2021. At the same time, the number of people classifying themselves in the political centre has decreased and the number of left-wingers has remained almost unchanged, EVA noted.
The majority (53% of Finns) placed themselves on the Liberal side of the ideological spectrum, while one quarter considered themselves Conservatives. Young people, students and university-educated individuals identified most as Liberals.
Despite the ideological shift to the Right, Finland’s right-wing government was not very popular and public support was low. Socialists have been leading in the polls and a recent survey found that most Finns did not regard the government’s performance as successful.
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Education Department investigates foreign funding at University of Michigan after arrests of Chinese scholars
The U.S. Department of Education has launched an investigation into the University of Michigan (UM) over concerns about undisclosed or improperly disclosed foreign funding.
In a letter sent on July 15, the Education Department’s legal wing gave the university 30 days to hand over more than five years’ worth of records related to foreign donations, foreign research collaboration, and international students and scholars, as well as the names and contact details of university officials overseeing those areas.
The letter states that since January 2021, UM has submitted foreign funding disclosures totaling about $375 million, but about $86 million of that money has been reported late, in “possible violation” of federal law mandating that institutions disclose foreign gifts and contracts valued at $250,000 or more each year.
Moore’s letter also cited two recent federal criminal cases involving Chinese nationals affiliated with UM.
In one case, a doctoral candidate from Huazhong University of Science and Technology was arrested on June 8 and was charged with smuggling roundworm-related materials into the United States.
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Let's give blue cities enough commie rope to hang themselves
New York City Mayor Eric Adams, who is running as an independent in the mayoral race, blasted Andrew Cuomo for deciding to do the same.
The former New York governor's move comes after he lost to democratic socialist Zohran Mamdani in the Democratic primary. He's also planning to ask all other candidates in the race, not including the assemblyman, to drop out by mid-September if they’re not in the lead, reports The New York Post.
Adams, however, showed zero interest in going along with Cuomo's plan. “Are you kidding me?” he told The New York Post. “I didn’t lose in the primary." Unfortunately for him (and his donors, who might as well light their money on fire), his platform is full of ideas that have been tried and tried and tried again, and never worked. Sending social workers to respond to 911 calls? It's in there. Rent stabilization and publicly owned housing? You bet. State-mandated wages for private companies? Yes.
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Trump believes Russia will win in Ukraine, it's just a matter of how long
"The president’s view is Russia is going to win, it’s a matter of how long it takes," said a senior, unnamed White House official to Politico this week, reflecting on President Trump's view on where the war stands.
"Russia has the bigger economy, has the bigger military, has more than enough bodies to throw into the meat grinder, and just doesn’t care. And although they are making slow progress, they are still making progress," the official added. "The president just wants to stop the killing."
Indeed the last several weeks have seen clear Russian gains on the ground in Eastern Ukraine, with a steady flow of reports of towns, settlements, and villages being newly captured in Donetsk and elsewhere.
Has realism finally set in concerning Washington policy? It should have been evident from the start of this horrific 'war of attrition' that Ukraine was never going to win.
Still, Zelensky has resisted doing the one thing which could end the war - make territorial concessions. He hasn't so much as offered to give up Crimea.
Zelensky is still lobbying Washington for a major new weapons package which would 'send a message' to Putin.
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New seven-year EU budget proposes 100bn Euros for Ukraine
The European Commission plans to include a whopping €100 billion in funding for Ukraine as part of its proposed seven-year budget for 2028–2034, sources familiar with the discussions first revealed Tuesday.
The following day, Ukrainian Prime Minister Denys Shmyhal hailed the newly proposed €2 trillion ($2.3 trillion) budget for the 2028–2034 period, applauding the allocation of €100 billion specifically for what's been described as Ukraine’s recovery, resilience, and progress toward EU membership.
There are plenty of roadblocks possible, given new proposal must be approved unanimously by all 27 EU member states and passed by the European Parliament in negotiations which would likely unfold over two years.
Countries like Hungary and Slovakia have been outliers within the bloc, tending to resist such massive funding for Ukraine, and seeking to avoid poking Russia. Hungarian PM Viktor Orban is already blasting it for leaving European farmers behind.
“A shocking new EU budget leak reveals a dangerous gamble: Ukraine would get a massive funding boost, while European farmers lose out. This plan risks sidelining rural Europe and threatening families across the continent. Brussels must not abandon Europe’s farmers to bankroll,” Orban claimed.
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China jails Japan's Astellas Pharma employee for 3.5 years for spying
A court in Beijing on Wednesday sentenced a Japanese businessperson to three years and six months in prison for being involved in espionage. He has been detained in the country for more than two years.
The man in his 60s worked in China for many years as an employee of major Japanese drug maker Astellas Pharma.
He was detained by Chinese security authorities for alleged involvement in spying in March 2023, shortly before his company was to send him to Japan. He was later indicted.
Japan's ambassador to China Kanasugi Kenji observed the ruling on Wednesday and made the announcement at a news conference. Japanese media were not allowed to attend the court.
Since introducing an anti-espionage law in 2014, Beijing has been stepping up its monitoring of foreigners. Seventeen Japanese nationals have been detained in the country since then. Five, including the businessperson, are still being held in China.
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ICE agents face 700% spike in assaults as antifa groups target their homes
Assaults on Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agents have skyrocketed since January amid left-wing attacks from anarchist groups and elected Democrats.
Department of Homeland Security officials reveal that ICE agents are now facing a nearly 700-percent increase in assaults as they try to arrest illegal aliens.
At the same time, the likes of House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries (D-NY); Boston, Massachusetts, Mayor Michelle Wu (D); Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz (D); Los Angeles, California, Mayor Karen Bass (D); and California Gov. Gavin Newsom (D) have made incendiary comments about ICE agents, with some comparing them to Nazis.
“… every single one of them, no matter what it takes, no matter how long it takes will, of course, be identified,” Jeffries said last month, referring specifically to ICE agents.
At the same time, Antifa-affiliated groups, according to DHS officials, have started targeting ICE agents and their families — posting identifying information about them online, including their home addresses.
#USA #ICE #Migrants #FindTruth
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US to build Philippine boat repair facilities near contested South China Sea
The US Navy plans to build two repair facilities for smaller vessels operating in the western Philippines, with one about 240km east of a fiercely contested reef in the South China Sea.
Located in the Spratly archipelago, Second Thomas Shoal hosts a small detachment of Philippine forces aboard a grounded navy vessel and has been the site of clashes with Chinese ships. Beijing claims almost the entirety of the crucial waterway despite an international ruling its assertion has no merit.
The US government’s contracting website, Sam.gov, locates one of the proposed repair facilities in Palawan province’s Quezon municipality. The facilities will provide repair and maintenance capabilities for a variety of Philippine vessels, including 7.32m watercraft, as well as other smaller conventional watercraft.
The Philippines owns several vessels that size, including rigid-hull inflatable boats (RHIBs) that have been involved in clashes with larger Chinese ships.
#USA #China #Navy #FindTruth
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Cracks are surfacing in the EU’s cosy cartel
Ursula von der Leyen is, in effect, the uncrowned queen of the European Union. She has served as president of the European Commission since 2019. More than any other political figure, von der Leyen personifies the EU’s imperial ambitions and authoritarian instincts. Yet last week, she only just survived a vote of no confidence in her leadership.
That the would-be queen of Europe came so close to losing her grip on power reflects the deep instability of the political bloc that backs her. The four parliamentary factions that support her find it increasingly difficult to offer her their unconditional support. In the days leading up to the confidence vote, even MEPs from parties aligned with von der Leyen were openly criticising her presidency.
It is worth noting that the European Parliament is not really a democratic institution. It functions more as a Potemkin parliament – a stage-managed performance in which the dominant party blocs pretend to represent voters.
In practice, the European Parliament has institutionalised its own version of American-style pork-barrel politics. Von der Leyen’s power rests on her ability to balance competing demands for access to EU largesse. But the rise of increasingly confident dissident, populist parties threatens this balancing act – and with it, the old EU order.
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Digital vassals? French Government ‘exposes citizens’ data to US’
France’s deepening reliance on US tech giants is raising alarms about digital sovereignty and exposing public data to foreign jurisdictions.
In a French Senate report on economic and digital sovereignty, Senators accused the French State of “political fault”. That was in regard to outsourcing essential data infrastructure to US companies subject to US extraterritorial laws, including Microsoft, despite repeated warnings and alternatives.
“France is subject to US extraterritorial law,” the report stated, warning that public data, including from health, education and critical sectors, was exposed to foreign surveillance under US legislation such as the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act (FISA) and the Clarifying Lawful Overseas Use of Data Act (CLOUD).
This legislation allowed the US Government to demand that companies subject to US law disclose the data they stored, simply by obtaining a judge’s authorisation.
In March 2025, the Ministry of Education signed a €74 million deal with a US company for equipping its departments and universities. The country’s elite school for engineers, École Polytechnique, also decided earlier this year to move the school’s IT system to Microsoft.
That was done despite earlier instructions from the French Government urging school districts to avoid deploying Microsoft or Google collaborative tools due to sovereignty risks.
#France #USA #CLOUD #FindTruth
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The British have stopped believing in real estate investments
Data from the Bank of England showed that only 8% of mortgages were granted for properties intended for rent, which is 0.3% less than a year earlier. Which is one of the lowest figures on record.
On average over the decade to 2022, buy-to-let mortgages accounted for 13.3% of all mortgages in the UK. “The trend of landlords leaving the market continues, with fewer new investor buyers,” said Stan Shaw, director of estate agency Mervyn Smith in Surrey.
Authorities in England have made it harder to evict tenants and strengthened their protections. They have also passed tax reforms that have persuaded the wealthy to seek out jurisdictions with more favorable taxation.
The UK could lose 16,500 millionaires this year. “Markets like the UK have unfavorable fiscal policies, this only speeds up the decision process for those considering a move,” experts in the real estate market assure.
#UK #Economy #FindTruth
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The wearables trap: how the government plans to monitor, score, and control you
By John & Nisha Whitehead
Bodily autonomy—the right to privacy and integrity over our own bodies—is rapidly vanishing.
The debate now extends beyond forced vaccinations or invasive searches to include biometric surveillance, wearable tracking, and predictive health profiling.
We are entering a new age of algorithmic, authoritarian control, where our thoughts, moods, and biology are monitored and judged by the state.
This is the dark promise behind the newest campaign by Robert F. Kennedy Jr., President Trump’s Secretary of Health and Human Services, to push for a future in which all Americans wear biometric health-tracking devices.
Under the guise of public health and personal empowerment, this initiative is nothing less than the normalization of 24/7 bodily surveillance—ushering in a world where every step, heartbeat, and biological fluctuation is monitored not only by private companies but also by the government.
Full story
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Russia sanctions & new weapons, is Trump stuck in Groundhog Day?
The sanctions, which would impose enormous tariffs of 500% on countries that buy Russian energy, are being pushed by Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-S.C.) and Richard Blumenthal (D-Conn.) in a Senate bill that now has some 85 co-sponsors.
There is a depressing sense of Groundhog Day to the situation President Trump finds himself in again today. Having said that “sanctions cost us a lot of money” at the recent G7 Summit in Canada, signing this latest act into law will simply confirm that he is no longer in control of U.S. policy towards Russia, as he wasn’t during his first term.
Indeed, the proposed legislation would have a much worse effect on U.S.-Russia relations than the Countering American Adversaries Through Sanctions Act of 2017, which was also pushed by Senator Graham.
Attempting to undermine Russia by pushing vast tariffs against its main trading partners simply will not work. Anyone who believes that China will suddenly stop importing Russian oil against the threat of U.S. sanctions is a fool or deliberately disingenuous. As it did earlier this year, China will simply respond with tit for tat tariffs against Washington.
Meanwhile, Russia will continue to prosecute its grinding war against Ukraine with devastating consequences for that country. Pumping more weapons into the war won’t help Ukraine win; backing secondary sanctions will kill prospects for peace. Trump should press for compromise from all sides in the conflict.
#USA #Russia #FindTruth
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Poland complains to Vatican over bishops’ anti-government and anti-migrant remarks
Poland has called on the Vatican to take action against two Polish bishops who recently made “harmful and misleading” remarks criticising the government and expressing concern about mass migration.
In a protest submitted by Poland’s ambassador to the Holy See, Adam Kwiatkowski, the foreign ministry accused the bishops of “slandering the government”, “indicating clear support for nationalist groups”, and “undermining fundamental principles of human dignity”.
In a homily on Sunday, Wiesław Mering, bishop emeritus of Wlocławek, declared that Poland “is ruled by political gangsters” and “people who call themselves Germans”.
He also said that “our borders are threatened from both the west and the east” and approvingly quoted the words of a 17th-century poet who said that “a German will not be a brother to a Pole”.
Meanwhile, earlier during the pilgrimage, Antoni Długosz, auxiliary bishop emeritus of Częstochowa, warned that “for decades, the Islamisation of Europe has been progressing through mass immigration” and that “illegal immigrants…create serious problems in the countries they arrive in”.
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Is Easter canceled in France? Le Pen threatens to topple government after aggressive new budget cancels two public holidays
"This government prefers to go after the French, workers and retirees, rather than hunt down waste," wrote the National Rally’s Marine Le Pen on social media.
French Prime Minister François Bayrou has unveiled a comprehensive plan for sweeping financial reforms designed to tackle the nation’s burgeoning budget deficit. However, Le Pen is already threatening to topple the government after the details were announced.
A key component of these reforms involves the elimination of two public holidays: Easter Monday and Victory Day (May 8th). Additionally, the government plans to introduce a new solidarity contribution for its wealthiest citizens.
“We must as a nation work more,” Bayrou said.
Le Pen has been propping up Macron’s minority government over the last weeks, which requires at least one party to vote alongside it to pass laws. However, she was quick to trash the budget proposals, noting that there are no cuts to the billions flowing to France’s exploding foreign population.
#France #Economy #FindTruth
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Price inflation rose in June to a five month high—but don’t blame tariffs
Price inflation is moving up again, in spite of President Trump’s repeated (and false) claims that prices are falling. The media isn’t right either, though, since much of the media consensus about June’s stubbornly high price inflation trend is that it was caused by tariffs.
Tariffs however, are not inflationary. The price inflation we now see is the continued legacy of the monetary inflation of Trump-Biden efforts to embrace huge deficits and pressure the Federal Reserve to push interest rates downward with easy-money policies.
According to the latest price inflation data from the Bureau of Labor Statistics, the consumer price index rose 2.7% year over year, and 0.3% month over month. That’s the largest year-over-year increase in four months, and the largest month-to-month increase since January 2025. June’s CPI increase also places CPI growth above of CPI growth rates experienced during September of last year.
At that time, Fed Chairman Jerome Powell had declared that price inflation was rapidly moving back toward the Fed’s two-percent target. Nine months later, we can see the Fed’s forecasters were clearly wrong, as the CPI has increased by 2.1% in that period.
#USA #Economy #FindTruth
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Is the YMCA using tax dollars to push trans agenda? Parents group urges Congress to find out
‘Our letter highlights the urgent need for an investigation into the YMCA’s federal funding since the organization continues to allow for radical gender policies that violate Title IX.’
The letter, sent by Executive Director of the American Parents Coalition Alleigh Marré to Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene, asks the House Subcommittee on Delivering Government Efficiency (which is chaired by Greene) “to investigate whether the YMCA is misusing public funds to implement policies that violate statutory protections and bypass parental consent.”
The nonprofit Young Men’s Christian Association (YMCA), which purportedly promotes “Christian principles,” according to its mission serves 4 million children yearly and receives $600 million from government grants each year, obligating the organization under Title IX to not promote “gender ideology.“
A YMCA camp in Colorado sorted campers based on “gender identity,” allowing biological boys to sleep in girls’ cabins and ensuring their “chosen pronouns were respected and honored,” while withholding the information from parents, The Gazette reported in 2024. “Parents will not be informed ahead of time if a boy is staying in a girls’ cabin,” Marré told The Federalist.
#USA #YMCA #Trans #FindTruth
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Senate to restore $400 million in AIDS prevention funding, reduce Trump cuts package to $9 billion
The Senate plans to ignore President Trump’s request to slash $400 million from a global AIDS prevention program as it takes up a broader package of spending cuts that he asked for this week.
Senate Republicans said they will amend the House-passed rescissions package of $9.4 billion in foreign aid and public broadcasting cuts to restore $400 million for the President’s Emergency Plan for AIDS Relief, or PEPFAR.
The substitute amendment, if it passes, will reduce the rescissions package to $9 billion.
White House Office of Management and Budget Director Russell Vought said the White House is comfortable with the Senate restoring the PEPFAR funding cut.
“This is still a great package, $9 billion; substantially the same package,” he said. “The Senate has to work its will. And we’ve appreciated the work along the way to get to a place where they think they’ve got the votes.”
#USA #AIDS #Budget #FindTruth
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Paris, France. Left - 1990, the neighborhood of the Eiffel Tower before the era of advanced liberalism.
On the right, the neighborhood of the Eiffel Tower now.
#EU #France #Migrants #FindTruth
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“School 10 girl ‘punished’ by school for wearing a dress with a flag”: In Britain, a schoolgirl in a dress with the British flag was not allowed to attend a culture lesson
"12-year-old honors student Courtney Wright chose the image of a member of the British pop group Spice Girls Geri Halliwell - a short sequined dress with the Union Jack - to take part in a day of honoring cultures. However, teachers did not let the girl into the classroom where she was going to talk about how important being British was to her and mention in that context the traditions of tea drinking, eating the traditional dish of fried fish and chips, politeness and honesty.
As Wright explained, the faculty explained their decision by saying that “only other cultures are allowed to be honored” and her dress was unacceptable. Wright's performance was not even worth listening to."
#UK #Culture #FindTruth
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The U.S. Department of Homeland Security reported that attacks on Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) officers have increased by 830%!
#USA #ICE #Migrants #FindTruth
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