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China now seeing a new surge also. China faces a new Covid wave that could peak at 65 million cases a week https://www.nbcnews.com/news/world/china-covid-second-wave-xbb-variant-omicron-rcna86171

Considering its a UK report and only referencing those schools in the UK then its hardly surprising is it. I'm grateful my 2 UK kids attended a normal government run school there and not one of these so called christian schools who promote such misinformation and racism.

6000 schools in 145 countries according to ACE themselves. That's a lot of pupils being fed that crap. That's without the home schooling.

He also said. “By ‘free speech,’ I simply mean that which matches the law,” Musk said in a tweet last year about his vision for Twitter. “I am against censorship that goes far beyond the law.” The law European Digital Services Act is there for a reason.

Considering Twitter under Musk is now obliging with authoritarian governments to censor on their requests now more than ever before? No wonder there is a threat to democracies. Twitter approved 83% percent of censorship requests under Musk Despite Musk presenting himself as a free speech advocate, who almost immediately fired content moderation staff, Twitter satisfied the majority of requests for content restriction coming from countries like Turkey and India that are frequently accused of limiting freedom of speech. If prior to the purchase of the platform by the American billionaire, Twitter agreed to 50 percent of such requests, in the last six months, this number has risen to 83 percent, according to the analysis of the data by the technology information portal Rest of World. https://www.i24news.tv/en/news/international/technology-science/1685011820-twitter-approved-83-percent-of-censorship-requests-under-musk

A Trump flip flop then.................lol

Well like the Accelerated Christian Education (ACE) curriculum you can claim to disprove Evolution by citing the Lochness Monster in Scotland. ACE made headlines last year for a science textbook that cites the existence of the Loch Ness monster as evidence against evolution. Those who are more educated follow the science: EVIDENCE FOR EVOLUTION https://necsi.edu/evidence-for-evolution Evidence for evolution https://www.uc.edu/content/dam/refresh/cont-ed-62/olli/s21/kahn-evidence-of-evolution.pdf I'm sure the scientists who excavated tiktaalik will be crushed to learn that their discovery doesn't, in fact, exist. But even without fossils, evolution is thoroughly supported by DNA and a wealth of other evidence.

Just one of its bizarre beliefs aside from using the Loch Ness monster as evidence against evolution: 1) God is a right-winger. "Liberals" are the root of all political evil. God's values are rightwing, and anything else is a rejection of His will. On a politics chart, "right" is associated with "absolute" and "God", while "left" is connected to "no values" and "atheism." The term "leftwing", we learn, exists because "left" means "sinister", "to twist something", or "to corrupt." Jesus, by contrast, taught that "we should use what we have to earn a profit." If your political views lean left, you are neither a true Christian, nor a good citizen. https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/belief/2013/feb/01/nessie-accelerated-christian-education-curriculum

Its correct, deaths have been decreasing. "Quite simply, we are better than ever before at saving lives,” “More lives are being saved thanks to early warning systems" But the economic costs are increasing and the extreme weather events are also increasing. Famine and extreme hunger has more than doubled in the 10 most climate hotspots. We can't reply on early warnings forever. Weather-related disasters increase over past 50 years, causing more damage but fewer deaths The number of disasters has increased by a factor of five over the 50-year period, driven by climate change, more extreme weather and improved reporting. But, thanks to improved early warnings and disaster management, the number of deaths decreased almost three-fold. Economic losses have increased sevenfold https://public.wmo.int/en/media/press-release/weather-related-disasters-increase-over-past-50-years-causing-more-damage-fewer Extreme hunger has more than doubled in 10 of the world’s worst climate hotspots over past six years Climate-fueled hunger is a stark demonstration of global inequality. Countries that are least responsible for the climate crisis are suffering most from its impact and are also the least resourced to cope with it. Collectively responsible for just 0.13 per cent of global carbon emissions, the 10 climate hotspots sit in the bottom third of countries least ready for climate change. https://www.oxfamamerica.org/press/extreme-hunger-has-more-than-doubled-in-10-of-the-worlds-worst-climate-hotspots-over-past-six-years/

Trump can't stop losing. This posted a few hours before impeachment. https://truthsocial.com/@realDonaldTrump/posts/110441844700908079

That report is a year old. Tom Fitton, the same right wing conservative activist who was urging aides Molly Michael and Dan Scavino to have President Trump declare victory and stop the counting of ballots by midnight on November 3.

Exactly. They believe yet have no evidence or facts to back up those beliefs. Back to my first post.

What do you think? lol Millions of those same people also believe in the principle beliefs of QAnon. Note "believe" no facts or evidence to back them up.

There is no evidence to back up any claims that Covid was not true. That's a futile example. Take Tom Hanks point: "telling the truth is no longer the benchmark for public service" Example Trump still maintains he was robbed of the election through fraud, voting machines etc. Yet after over 60 court cases found virtually none, he still claims this. Its a fact based on the evidence he lost. Despite his ongoing lies.

Hence why I said, evidence/facts. If evidence is provided then that is a fact.

What makes you say that? Facts are facts as is evidence. I thought I just made that clear. Obviously you find that a little difficult to digest.

Evidence/facts does it for me.

Coming soon to the occupied territories............................. Oleksiy Danilov interview: Ukraine counter-offensive 'ready to begin' Ukraine is ready to launch its long-expected counter-offensive against Russian forces, one of the country's most senior security officials has told the BBC. Oleksiy Danilov would not name a date but said an assault to retake territory from President Vladimir Putin's occupying forces could begin "tomorrow, the day after tomorrow or in a week". He warned that Ukraine's government had "no right to make a mistake" on the decision because this was an "historic opportunity" that "we cannot lose". https://www.bbc.com/news/world-65725004

I agree but there is certainly some other sources to back this up: 3 scientists behind Putin's 'unstoppable' missiles were jailed on charges of treason. Russian researchers say they are now living in fear. In an open letter Monday, members of Institute of Theoretical and Applied Mechanics of the Russian Academy of Sciences' Siberian Branch, which is based in Novosibirsk, said the arrests were having a chilling effect on research. The weapons, often falsely described as hypersonic, are a type of advanced air-launched ballistic missile capable of carrying over a 1,000 pounds of explosives. Russia has long described the Kinzhal as an unstoppable hypersonic weapon that it claims is capable of overcoming all known air defense systems. https://ca.news.yahoo.com/3-scientists-behind-putins-unstoppable-131941440.html

Its called investigative journalism, you know, that pesky thing that uncovers secrets and things that would otherwise go unnoticed. Its what democracies have.

Tom was once voted the most trusted man in the US Some excerpts from his speech... The American Way, he noted, took root here, in the American Revolution, despite chattel slavery, despite the relegation of Native Americans to subhuman status. Now, “All of us, no exceptions, are entitled to inalienable rights of liberty and freedom because…we live in the United States of America.” But those rights are under attack because they depend on “the language of telling the Truth,” and “Truth to some, is no longer empirical, no longer based on data, nor common sense, nor even common decency—telling the truth is no longer the benchmark for public service, no longer the salve to our fears nor the guide to our actions.” Truth is vulnerable to those who “play fast and loose” with synonymns for truth such as honesty and honor “to create enemies, to claim victimhood, to raise the mediocre into merit, and to make cloudy a vista that is actually crystal clear.” Most of all, it is vulnerable to indifference: https://www.harvardmagazine.com/2023/05/commencement-exercises-tom-hanks

Its usually the first with MTG Greene doubled down when pressed on her “over the top” remarks in the past, including calling Democrats a “party of pedophiles.”

Turns out that Salinas who made the complaint on the poem used to post nazi and right wing propoganda on her facebook page. Months before a Miami-area mother persuaded a local school to restrict access to an Amanda Gorman poem, she was posting antisemitic memes on her Facebook page. Now, Daily Salinas is apologizing for one of those things — and unrepentant about the other. “I want to apologize to the Jewish community,” Salinas told the Jewish Telegraphic Agency on Wednesday. She was saying sorry for a Facebook post she shared in March offering a summary of “The Protocols of the Elders of Zion,” a notorious antisemitic forgery written more than a century ago in Russia. https://www.timesofisrael.com/florida-mom-who-sought-to-ban-amanda-gorman-poem-sorry-for-protocols-facebook-post/

I guess a book is easier than taking on the gun nuts. Along with the book whats needed is: Banning of AR-15 style firearms, ban of high-capacity magazines, establishing universal background checks, national red flag laws and firearm storage requirements. That's just the start. Of course not sure about that book in Florida, its a Disney character, DeSantis may ban it........................

Just last week in Phoenix another potential disaster was avoided when a teen carry an adapted Ar-15 fully automatic rifle brought it into school with ammo. "The 15-year-old accused of bringing an AR-15 to his Phoenix high school last week also allegedly possessed a device that would allow the weapon to function as a fully automatic machine gun, according to court documents exclusively obtained by NBC News." https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/arizona-high-schooler-ar-15-machine-gun-phoenix-rcna86283