Muslim Malaysia Bans Israeli Ships at Its Ports Citing ‘Cruelty Against the Palestinian People’

Malaysia announced that the country is imposing a ban on all Israeli owned and flagged ships, as well as any vessels headed to Israel, from docking at its ports, effective immediately. Prime Minister Anwar Ibrahim wrote, “This sanction is a response to Israel’s actions that disregard the basic humanitarian principles and violate international law through the ongoing massacre and continuous cruelty against the Palestinian people.” There have been massive rallies in Malaysia pressuring Anwar.

Muslim–majority Malaysia has long championed Palestinian rights and causes. Like nearby Indonesia, Brunei, Bangladesh, the Maldives and Pakistan, it does not recognize Israel.

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Malaysia’s government announced Wednesday that it was imposing a ban on all Israeli owned and flagged ships, as well as any vessels headed to Israel, from docking at its ports.

The announcement by Prime Minister Anwar Ibrahim’s office said the ban would take place with immediate effect and was in response to Israel’s conduct in its conflict with Hamas.

“This sanction is a response to Israel’s actions that disregard the basic humanitarian principles and violate international law through the ongoing massacre and continuous cruelty against the Palestinian people,” the statement read.

Muslim–majority Malaysia has long championed Palestinian rights and causes. Like nearby Indonesia, Brunei, Bangladesh, the Maldives and Pakistan, it does not recognize Israel.

The ongoing bombardment of Gaza by Israel’s military following Hamas’ deadly October 7 attacks has sparked mass rallies in Malaysia and put domestic political pressure on Anwar.

Anwar remains one of the most outspoken world leaders against Israel as well as its backers in the United States, although the latter remains a major trading partner.

In a parliamentary speech made in November, Anwar said that the government would maintain ties with Hamas and “would not punish” the group following its October 7 rampage in Israel in which some 1,200 people were killed, mostly civilians, and saw more than 200 hostages taken.

Malaysian passports also bear the inscription: “Valid for all countries except Israel.” Israeli passport holders are forbidden to enter Malaysia without prior permission.

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California Approves Toilet-to-Tap Recycled Sewage Water for Use as Drinking Water

California regulators, under a mandate from a state law, approved new rules that allow water agencies treat sewage wastewater and use it for drinking water in homes, schools and businesses.. The water companies are not required to use recycled toilet water for drinking water. Currently recycled sewage water is mixed into aquifers or used for irrigation and other non-drinking purposes. Joaquin Esquivel, the chair of the state water resources control board that approved the new rules, said that most people are already drinking recycled water because most wastewater treatment plants put their treated water back into rivers and streams.

California and Colorado are the only two states that allow wastewater to be used for drinking water. Water agencies will need public support to complete the toilet-to-tap water recycling projects – which means convincing customers that treated water safe to drink and is not disgusting. The CalMatters article cited ‘climate change’ as the cause of water shortages in California, but radical environmental regulations limiting water distribution and lack of water storage are the major cause of ‘man-made’ drought in the state. Remember that Governor Newsom flushed trillions of gallons of rainwater from January 2023 storms out to the ocean instead of saving it in reservoirs and pumping it to farmers after three years of extreme drought.

The recycled sewage water is expected to be more expensive than imported water.

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Suppliers now have detailed steps to create a new source of drinking water. But it’s not really “toilet-to-tap.” Due to the cost, it’ll likely be only large suppliers.

In a milestone for creating a major new source of drinking water, California has approved its first standards for turning sewage into potable water supplies delivered to homes and businesses.

The State Water Resources Control Board, in a unanimous vote today, outlined for the first time how water suppliers can treat recycled water and send it directly to taps. Currently recycled water is mixed into aquifers or used for irrigation and other non-drinking purposes.

The new rules — which have been more than a decade in the making and were mandated by a state law — outline a slew of requirements aimed at ensuring that germs and chemicals are scrubbed from treated sewage.

Often dubbed “toilet-to-tap,” the process is actually much more extensive and complex, requiring multiple treatment steps overseen by 63 pages of detailed rules. The new rules also call for extensive monitoring to ensure the treatment is working.

1.  : All the random debris in sewage is filtered out, typically using bars and grates. Essentially, the treatment process starts by removing the largest objects and moving on to the smallest.
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2.  : The waste then is sent to settling tanks, where heavy solids, such as fecal matter, sinks to the bottom and forms a sludge. Meanwhile, oils and soapy chemicals float to the top and form scum.
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3.  : The next step is to remove organic matter and other biological contaminants from this clarified water. In aeration tanks, oxygen bubbles into the water, allowing microorganisms to gradually digest contaminants. After gorging, these microorganisms clump together and settle to the bottom of the tank.
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4.  : Wastewater that will be used for non-potable purposes, such as irrigating crops or golf courses, must then be disinfected. Typically, chlorine is used to kill bacteria, making the water safe for many purposes, but not for drinking.
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5.   : Additional steps are taken to purify the water enough to consume. It is disinfected with ozone, digested by microbes and filtered through activated carbon. Reverse osmosis clears away chemicals and salt, and finally, advanced oxidation with UV light cleanses remaining contaminants.
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6.  Then, finally, the wastewater will be subjected to the regular treatment that all drinking water currently undergoes..
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The sewage will be bubbled with ozone, chewed by bacteria, filtered through activated carbon, pushed at high pressures through reverse osmosis membranes multiple times, cleansed with an oxidizer like hydrogen peroxide and beamed with high-intensity UV light. Valuable minerals, such as calcium, that were filtered out will be restored. And then, finally, the wastewater will be subjected to the regular treatment that all drinking water currently undergoes.

California will be following Colorado, which already has regulations, and Texas, where the nation’s first direct potable reuse plant was built a decade ago. Rules are in development in Florida and Arizona, as well.

Nothing will go into effect immediately; the regulations must undergo a final review by the Office of Administrative Law before being implemented, likely next summer or fall.  The first facilities are several years away.

“A city produces wastewater during a drought, and having that source available to augment other (drinking water) supplies can be critical,” said Darrin Polhemus, deputy director of the state water board’s Division of Drinking Water.

The water is expected to be more expensive than imported water, but also provide a more renewable and reliable supply for California as climate change continues.

The expense of the treatment and monitoring means that it will likely be limited to large urban water providers, Polhemus said.

“It will offer a resilient source in drought times for large water systems to be part of their portfolio. It’s not going to be a singular water source for some small community on the coast — that’s just not going to work out well the way these regs are written,” Polhemus said.

Fewer than a dozen people commented about the regulations at today’s meeting, all in support.

These regulations “really herald a new era for water reuse in California,” said Jennifer West, managing director of the trade association WateReuse California. “Communities across California will be able to benefit from this new, safe, resilient supply.”

Some environmental groups urged the board to adopt deadlines for more aggressive monitoring to reassure consumers about safety and ensure no outbreaks or other health scares derail the projects.

Board Chair E. Joaquin Esquivel directed the staff to report back within the next year to update the board on monitoring, contaminants and other issues.

A panel of independent experts determined that the regulations “adequately protect public health,” but reported that some requirements, such as for removing disease-causing germs, might be on the more conservative side, driving up costs.

This could “push utilities toward less environmentally desirable alternatives, such as extracting groundwater without replenishing it,” the panel said in a memo to the state board in September. It could also “limit the ability of smaller communities to use” the recycled water as drinking water.

“I don’t think anyone should be surprised that a water board regulator would choose to err on the side of public health,” said Kevin Hardy, executive director of the National Water Research Institute, a non-profit that coordinated the expert panel.

The Metropolitan Water District, the giant agency that imports water to Southern California, is already on its way to being among the first to directly use recycled water for drinking supplies with Pure Water Southern California, a multi-billion dollar project with the Los Angeles County Sanitation Districts.

By 2032, the plant is expected to produce about 115 million gallons of recycled water a day, enough for 385,000 Southern California households. Most will replenish groundwater, but some is expected to be added to drinking supplies upstream of Metropolitan’s treatment plant for imported water.

Mickey Chaudhuri, interim chief of operations at Metropolitan, applauded what he called a historic milestone.

“This marks a pivotal moment in California’s water management history,” he said at the public hearing today.

Last year, Gov. Gavin Newsom called for increasing recycled water use in California roughly 9% by 2030 and more than doubling it by 2040.

CalMatters:      https://calmatters.org/environment/2023/12/california-rules-turn-sewage-into-drinking-water/

Citizens Against Government Waste:      https://www.cagw.org/thewastewatcher/water-wars-man-made-drought




Colorado Supreme Court Rules Trump Disqualified From The 2024 Ballot

In a historic decision on December 19, 2023, the Colorado Supreme Court barred Donald Trump from running in the state’s presidential primary after determining that he had engaged in insurrection on January 6, 2021. The 4-3 ruling marked the first time a court has kept a presidential candidate off the ballot under an 1868 provision of the Constitution that prevents insurrectionists from holding office. The ruling comes as courts consider similar cases in other states. The four judges who ruled against Trump are Monica Marquez, Melissa Hart, William Hood and Richard Gabriel. If other states follow suit, it is unlikely that Trump will receive the Republican nomination that is essential to win the presidency in November. A Trump campaign spokesman said that Trump will appeal the case at the Supreme Court and added, “We have full confidence that the US Supreme Court will quickly rule in our favor and finally put an end to these unAmerican lawsuits.

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The all Democrat-appointed Colorado Supreme Court on Tuesday staged an insurrection against our sacred democracy by ruling that former President Donald Trump is ineligible to appear on the ballot in 2024.

From The Washington Post, “Trump disqualified from Colorado’s 2024 primary ballot by state Supreme Court”:

In a historic decision Tuesday, the Colorado Supreme Court barred Donald Trump from running in the state’s presidential primary after determining that he had engaged in insurrection on Jan. 6, 2021.

The 4-3 ruling marked the first time a court has kept a presidential candidate off the ballot under an 1868 provision of the Constitution that prevents insurrectionists from holding office. The ruling comes as courts consider similar cases in other states.

If other states reach the same conclusion, Trump would have a difficult — if not impossible — time securing the Republican nomination and winning in November.

The decision is certain to be appealed to the U.S. Supreme Court, but it will be up to the justices to decide whether to take the case. Scholars have said only the nation’s high court can settle the issue of whether the Jan. 6 attack on the U.S. Capitol constituted an insurrection and whether Trump is banned from running.

“A majority of the court holds that President Trump is disqualified from holding the office of President under Section Three of the Fourteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution,” the decision reads. “Because he is disqualified, it would be a wrongful act under the Election Code for the Colorado Secretary of State to list him as a candidate on the presidential primary ballot.”

More from The Hill:

Steven Cheung, a spokesperson for Trump’s campaign, blamed the decision on the “all-Democrat appointed” court, swearing to appeal the ruling to the U.S. Supreme Court. The seven-member bench of Colorado’s Supreme Court was entirely appointed by Democratic governors; six later faced voters and won retention elections, while the seventh will do so next year.

“The Colorado Supreme Court issued a completely flawed decision tonight and we will swiftly file an appeal to the United States Supreme Court and a concurrent request for a stay of this deeply undemocratic decision,” Cheung said. “We have full confidence that the U.S. Supreme Court will quickly rule in our favor and finally put an end to these unAmerican lawsuits.”

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Investigative Journalist Debunks Atrocity and Rape Stories Promoted by Israeli ‘Rescue’ Groups  

Investigative journalist and author Max Blumenthal researched atrocity stories that include dead Jewish babies dangling from a laundry line in a kibbutz, beheaded babies, Hamas fighters cutting fetuses out of pregnant women’s bodies, severing a little girl’s arm, and baking a baby in an oven. He found no death records, photos, firsthand testimony, independent witnesses or other evidence to corroborate the stories. In addition, Israel claimed that Hamas not only raped Israeli women on October 7, but has continued to abuse female hostages ever since. However, officials have been unable to produce a single firsthand testimony or video proving allegations of mass rape.

The biased media repeat the dubious allegations. Blumenthal wrote that Israeli spinmeisters seek out lurid testimonies to justify the country’s campaign of collective punishment against Palestinians.

The most inflammatory allegations have emerged from ultra-Orthodox volunteer organizations such as ZAKA, and its rival United Hatzalah, in order to raise millions of dollars from wealthy Jewish donors abroad. An investigation by Haaretz in 2016 explained that ZAKA and United Hatzalah have engaged in an intense battle for publicity and the money that follows it.

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Founded by a serial rapist known as the “Haredi Jeffrey Epstein,” Israeli ultra-Orthodox rescue group ZAKA is responsible for some of the most obscene post-October 7 atrocity fabrications, from beheaded babies to “mass rape” to a fetus cut from its mother.

Secretary of State Tony Blinken and President Joseph Biden have each echoed demonstrably false ZAKA testimonies about Hamas atrocities.

Marred by allegations of financial fraud, ZAKA is leveraging October 7 publicity to raise unprecedented sums of cash.

Its rival, United Hatzalah, has spun out bogus tales of babies baked in ovens as it closes in on a $50 million fundraising goal.

During an October 31 Senate hearing on Israel’s war in Gaza, Secretary of State Antony Blinken offered his rationale for rejecting a ceasefire. Summoning as much emotion as a dour Democratic Party operative could muster, Blinken conjured up a gruesome scene intended to illustrate the savagery of Hamas, and the impossibility of negotiations with such an organization: “A young boy and girl, 6 and 8 years old, and their parents around the breakfast table,” Blinken intoned. “The father’s eye gouged out in front of his kids. The mother’s breast cut off, the girl’s foot amputated, the boy’s fingers cut off before they were executed.”

The Secretary of State concluded, “That is what this [Israeli] society is dealing with.”

Though Blinken did not state the source of his disturbing claim – and was not prompted to do so by any senator – it matched testimony delivered by Yossi Landau, the head of operations for the southern Israel region of a religious “disaster victim identification” organization called ZAKA. Indeed, Landau has rehashed various forms of the story Blinken referenced since October 12, detailing how Hamas militants viciously mutilated and killed a 6 and 8 year-old child and their parents in Kibbutz Beeri before dining in their home.

Despite the presence of multiple potential witnesses inside Beeri before ZAKA arrived to collect dead bodies, independent testimony corroborating Landau’s claim has yet to surface. Further, there are no recorded deaths of siblings around the age of 6 to 8 in Beeri on October 7. Any record of a young child killed in the manner Landau described is similarly nonexistent, as are photos of the murdered family he described. In fact, the only siblings anywhere close to this age range who died in the community on that day—12-year-old twins Liel and Yanai Hetrzroni—were killed by Israeli tank shelling.

Landau’s story – and by extension, Blinken’s testimony before the Senate – therefore appears to have been spun out of whole cloth; a cynical fabrication intended to dramatize the supposed barbarism of Hamas in order to widen the political space for Israel’s rampage in the Gaza Strip. As this investigation will demonstrate, Landau’s tale was merely one of many tall tales concocted by a small circle of dubious characters who have managed to shape the official narrative of October 7 in Western media.

Though Israeli officials played a central role in Tel Aviv’s misinformation campaign  surrounding the events of October 7— falsely claiming, for instance, that the bodies of dead Jewish babies were found dangling from a laundry line in one kibbutz—the most inflammatory allegations have emerged from a collection of ultra-Orthodox volunteer organizations such as ZAKA. Though ZAKA specializes “in body collection and disposal,” the group has no coronary credentials and is staffed by droves of poorly trained volunteers.

From “confirming” the fraudulent story of beheaded babies found in a kibbutz to blatantly inventing others about Hamas fighters cutting fetuses out of pregnant women’s bodies, severing a little girl’s arm, and baking a baby in an oven, ZAKA and rival groups have demonstrated a remarkable gift for seeding the media with depraved tales of alleged Hamas brutality. In doing so, they have armed Western leaders like Blinken and President Joe Biden with the narrative they would weaponize in order to block ceasefire proposals and rearm a military that has killed over 15,000 civilians in Gaza in less than two months.

ZAKA now sits at the center of the Tel Aviv’s campaign to convince the world that Hamas not only raped Israeli women on October 7, but has continued to abuse female hostages ever since. Indeed, Israel’s newly-unveiled, factually challenged “Civil Commission on Oct. 7th Crimes by Hamas against Women and Children” is heavily dependent on graphic second-hand claims provided by ZAKA. Yet it has been unable to produce a single firsthand testimony or video proving allegations of mass rape.

Legacy media outlets have since repeated the group’s dubious allegations, with the UK’s Sunday Times, for example, dutifully quoting a senior ZAKA staffer who claimed: “it was clear they were trying to spread as much horror as they could — to kill, to burn alive, to rape.”

ZAKA’s presence at the heart of a high-level rape investigation, however, is fraught with irony. Until recently, Israeli media coverage of the organization largely focused on gruesome sex crimes committed by its founder, ultra-Orthodox bigwig Yehuda Meshi-Zahav. Known among Jerusalem’s Orthodox community as “the Haredi Jeffrey Epstein” due to his well-documented penchant for raping young people of both sexes, Meshi-Zahav’s decades-long rampage of sexual abuse was undoubtedly known to ZAKA staffers—and only came to an end following his suicide.

In addition to being a serial rapist, ZAKA’s longtime leader was a profligate hustler, financing a lavish lifestyle with millions of dollars illegally pocketed from his organization. Brad Pearce, an independent scholar who published an extensive profile of ZAKA’s corruption in October 2023, described the group as “the most opaque and suspicious non-governmental organization I have ever investigated.”

Since its volunteers first emerged on the streets of Israel on their trademark motorbikes during the 1990s, ZAKA has engaged in a publicity war with rival ultra-Orthodox rescue groups such as United Hatzalah in a bid for millions from wealthy Jewish donors abroad. The competition between these organizations appears to be driving the stream of fake atrocity stories pouring in from both volunteer groups. The more promotion each outfit generates from the media and Western leaders, the more likely they are to smash their own fundraising goals.

The shock of October 7 has indeed proven a fundraising bonanza for these notoriously unscrupulous religious organizations, enabling them to transform the Israeli government, Western media outlets such as CNN, and the Biden administration into free publicity agents.

A scene from ZAKA’s November 19, 2023 fundraising concert in New York City, which raised over $1 million

ZAKA’s Yossi Landau, master storyteller who duped Biden and Blinken

After militants from Hamas overran southern Israeli military bases enforcing the siege of the Gaza Strip and nearby communities on October 7, Jewish Israeli society descended into an unprecedented state of trauma. The widespread sense of insecurity soon morphed into an almost insatiable lust for vengeance as Tel Aviv’s vast propaganda apparatus mobilized to justify Israel’s ensuing slaughter of Gaza’s civilian population, which Israeli leadership have held collectively responsible for the events of October 7. Indeed, even after the Israeli army destroyed the majority of residential structures in northern Gaza, only 1.8% of Jewish Israelis told pollsters this December that they believed their country’s military was using too much firepower.

With the death toll in Gaza rising by the thousands each week, Israeli government spinmeisters have sought out the most lurid testimonies from October 7 to explain why their campaign of collective punishment is not only necessary from a military standpoint, but a morally sound response. With help from loyal international media outlets, Israel’s propaganda complex found that Washington was all too eager to echo and promote its bunk stories of beheaded babies and families savagely mutilated by Hamas.

And as we will see, some of the most obscene fabrications disseminated by Israel’s government and echoed in Washington originated from one man with an especially active imagination: Yossi Landau of ZAKA.

According to Landau, anyone who questions his version of events “should be killed.”

ZAKA’s Yossi Landau on India’s Republic TV

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Oklahoma Governor Signs Executive Order Effectively Banning DEI In All State Institutions

Oklahoma Governor Kevin Stitt signed Executive Order 2023-31, effectively banning diversity, equity and inclusion (DEI) bureaucracies in state institutions, including schools for higher learning. Standing in front of a podium which read “DEFUNDING DISCRIMINATION”, Stitt announced: “In Oklahoma, we’re going to encourage equal opportunity, rather than promising equal outcomes.” A critic of DEi said that discriminatory DEI programming has done damage on college campuses by fomenting division between students, eroding free speech rights, threatening academic freedom, and bloating school bureaucracies, which in turn drives up tuition costs.

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Following the meltdown on Capitol Hill by “Ivy League” Presidents from Harvard, MIT and Penn, on Wednesday of this week Oklahoma Governor Kevin Stitt signed Executive Order 2023-31, effectively banning diversity, equity and inclusion bureaucracies in state institutions.

Standing in front of a podium which read “DEFUNDING DISCRIMINATION”, Stitt announced: “In Oklahoma, we’re going to encourage equal opportunity, rather than promising equal outcomes.”

“Encouraging our workforce, economy, and education systems to flourish means shifting focus away from exclusivity and discrimination, and toward opportunity and merit. We’re taking politics out of education and focusing on preparing students for the workforce,” he said at a press conference.

According to the Governor’s office, the order says that state agencies and institutions for higher education shall not utilize state funds, property, or resources to:

  1. Grant or support diversity, equity, and inclusion positions, departments, activities, procedures, or programs to the extent they grant preferential treatment based on one person’s particular race, color, sex, ethnicity, or national origin over another’s;
  2. mandate any person to participate in, listen to, or receive any education, training, activities, procedures, or programming to the extent such education, training, activity, or procedure grants preferences based on one person’s particular race, color, sex, ethnicity, or national origin over another’s;
  3. mandate any person swear, certify, or agree to any loyalty oath that favors or prefers one particular race, color, sex, ethnicity, or national origin over another;
  4. mandate any person to certify or declare agreement with, recognition of, or adherence to, any particular political, philosophical, religious, or other ideological viewpoint;
  5. mandate any applicant for employment provide a diversity, equity, and inclusion statement or give any applicant for employment preferential consideration based on the provision of such a diversity, equity, and inclusion statement; or
  6. mandate any person to disclose their pronouns.

Patrice Onwuka, director of Independent Women’s Forum’s Center for Economic Opportunity, commented: “As a nation, we strive for equality of opportunity to give every young person a chance at achieving their American Dream. Race, ethnicity, gender, and heritage should not be used to discriminate against any person. Yet, discriminatory DEI programming has done damage on college campuses—fomenting division between students, eroding free speech rights, threatening academic freedom, and bloating school bureaucracies, which in turn drives up tuition costs.”

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Tennessee Atty. General Sues BlackRock Over Environmental ESG Activism

Tennessee Attorney General Jonathan Skrmetti on Monday sued the investment company BlackRock for deceptive practices. BlackRock is the world’s largest asset management firm with approximately $9 trillion in assets under management. The lawsuit accuses BlackRock of leveraging its influence over companies in which it holds shares to pressure management to pursue goals such as achieving “net-zero” carbon emissions by 2050. It also claims that BlackRock misled investors by asserting that they could achieve higher returns through ESG (Environmental, Social, and Governance) investments.

The state lawsuit says BlackRock is inconsistent in how it presents itself to customers: on one hand, claiming to be only profit-driven, but on the other, making promises to help fight climate change. The state is asking for injunctive relief, civil penalties and recoupment of the state’s costs.

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Tennessee Attorney General Jonathan Skrmetti filed a lawsuit against BlackRock Inc. Monday, claiming the investment company misled Tennessee customers about how it’s fighting climate change, violating consumer protection laws.

BlackRock joined the Net Zero Asset Managers Initiative in 2021 and Climate Action 100+ in 2020. As part of joining those groups, the state said, BlackRock made promises aimed at fighting climate change and did not make that clear to customers.

Skrmetti said that BlackRock presents itself to customers as strictly profit-driven, but has also made promises to invest in fighting climate change through its memberships with the climate initiatives. This misled customers because BlackRock made business decisions based on fighting climate change, not making customers money, according to the attorney general.

“We allege that BlackRock’s inconsistent statements about its investment strategies deprived consumers of the ability to make an informed choice,” Skrmetti said in a statement. “Some public statements show a company that focuses exclusively on return on investment, others show a company that gives special consideration to environmental factors. Ultimately, I want to make certain that corporations, no matter their size, treat Tennessee consumers fairly and honestly.”

BlackRock directly contested Skrmetti’s claims in a statement given to WVLT News, instead saying that it does disclose its practices to customers.

We reject the Attorney General’s claims and will vigorously contest any accusations that BlackRock violated Tennessee’s consumer protection laws. Contrary to the Attorney General’s claims, BlackRock fully and accurately discloses our investment practices and our approach to proxy voting.

On behalf of our clients, BlackRock has invested approximately $40 billion in Tennessee, and we are helping more than 600,000 hard-working Tennesseans retire with dignity. We are proud of our contribution and committed to the future in Tennessee.

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It’s worth noting that BlackRock’s participation in both groups was announced publicly by either the groups or the company itself when they signed two and three years ago.

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Gateway Pundit:      https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2023/12/blackrock-scandal-tennessee-sues-company-demands-transparency-alleged/




University of Washington Gives Female Volleyball Scholarship to Trans Athlete

Seattle: The University of Washington (UW) appears set to award one of only 12 female volleyball scholarships to Tate Drageset, a 17-year old natural-born male who is transgender and reportedly began “transitioning” at the age of 12. None of his teams, schools, or volleyball associations have revealed that he is a male playing as a transgender girl. There are many parents who are furious that the taller, more powerful Drageset has been facing down and taking opportunities from natural-born girls for years. Parents are also concerned that the more powerful player could injure their daughters.

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A male-born transgender athlete appears set to be awarded one of only 12 female volleyball scholarships at the University of Washington, a report finds.

Tate Drageset, a 17-year-old transgender “girl” who apparently began “transitioning” at the age of 12, made a verbal commitment to attend the school in June and will be awarded one of Washington’s Division 1 athletic scholarships, according to Reduxx.

Drageset has already been part of several girls’ volleyball teams that made it to state championships, and this year, he was named the MVP at the Girls Junior National Championships. Drageset also won the California Interscholastic Federation’s Division 5 Player of the 2022-23 Year.

Despite the well-known accolades, what has been less well known is that Drageset is transgender and was born a male. None of his teams, schools, or volleyball associations have revealed that he is a male playing as a transgender girl.

Parents of girls that Drageset has faced on the court, though, have reportedly talked about the situation for years, with many furious that the taller, more powerful Drageset has been facing down and taking opportunities from natural-born girls for years.

But many have been afraid to speak out for fear that they would be targeted as haters and their daughters would be punished.

“Everyone is scared of how their child will be treated if they speak up. It’s already so competitive to get on a good club team,” one parent told Reduxx. “The stealing of positions and opportunities has been infuriating and so sad when you see how it affects the girls. There is no concern for their mental health or safety after being replaced.”

Drageset’s mother, though, seems to have made a cottage industry for herself, chronicling her son’s progress as a trans girl.

According to her story published by the Los Angeles Times in 2016, Stacey Drageset claims she knew her son was transgender because when he was a small child, he liked girls’ clothing. While the story does not fully name Tate, the child in the story is called “T” and is also said to be heavily into volleyball. “T” is also from the same area Tate lives in, according to the paper’s story.

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Soros-Backed Jewish Organization, IfNotNow, Protest Shuts Down Freeway in Los Angeles

A group called IfNotNow, which describes itself as a movement of American Jews supporting the end of US support for Israel’s war on Gaza, claimed responsibility for the protest, which shut down a freeway in Los Angeles on Wednesday morning. The California Highway Patrol reported that 75 people were arrested. According to the New York Post, the Jewish Voice for Peace and If Not Now have received $650,000 and $400,000 respectively from George Soros groups.

IfNotNow posted this message on X: “As Jews, we cannot sit by as the people of Gaza are starved and slaughtered [in] our name. And as Americans, we can’t let Biden & Congress send billions more in funding for Israeli war crimes. We have shut down the freeway to call for a #CeasefireNOW, which 66% of Americans support.”

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Dozens of protesters calling for a cease-fire in the Israel-Hamas war brought traffic to a halt on the 110 Freeway in downtown Los Angeles Wednesday morning.

A group called IfNotNow, which described itself as a movement of American Jews supporting the end of U.S. support for Israel’s war on Gaza, claimed responsibility for the protest, which began around 9:30 a.m.

Sky5 news helicopter footage showed the demonstrators sitting in the southbound lanes of the freeway near 3rd Street behind a banner reading, “Permanent Ceasefire: Equality, Justice, Safety For All.”

A large Jewish Hanukia, or Menorah, had also been placed on the freeway.

“As Jews, we cannot sit by as the people of Gaza are starved and slaughtered [in] our name. And as Americans, we can’t let Biden & Congress send billions more in funding for Israeli war crimes. We have shut down the freeway to call for a #CeasefireNOW, which 66% of Americans support,” the group posted on X, formerly Twitter.

Thousands of drivers were impacted as the protest not only blocked travel on the busy 110 Freeway but also caused heavy congestion on other L.A. freeways and side streets.

Fashion designer and KTLA contributor Nick Verreos, who was among those stopped, said he witnessed violent confrontations involving the protesters and frustrated drivers.

“There was a scuffle. There were demonstrators fighting with some of the motorists who got out of their cars,” Verreos said during KTLA’s live coverage. “They started fighting and punching, and I think the police got in there [to break it up].”

Video also showed motorcyclists riding through the line of demonstrators.

Authorities told protesters that the gathering was unlawful and asked them to move, but the group refused to leave until they were individually handcuffed and hauled away to face criminal charges.

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Gang of Teens Brutally Attack Student Who Is Hospitalized with a Skull Fracture

Coral Springs, Florida: Multiple black students surrounded an 18-year-old white student and one of the attackers lifted and then dropped him head-first onto the pavement. A report mentioned that the fight escalated with one teen reportedly pulling out a knife, but it is unclear who had the weapon. There was a crowd of students who filmed the fight instead of calling for help. The violence happened at an off-campus overflow parking lot near the Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School where a mass shooting event was reported in 2018. The victim suffered a fractured skull and his condition is unknown. Coral Springs Police have reportedly identified the suspects and have arrested some of them, but no names or details have been released yet.

UPDATE:    Black students Arrested in Marjory Stoneman Douglas Beatdown of White Classmate: The student critically injured in a violent attack by classmates in a parking lot outside Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in Parkland remains hospitalized as four classmates were arrested by Coral Springs Police on Friday. The victim is white. All of the alleged assailants are black. It’s not immediately clear if race is factor in the violent attacks.

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A spokesperson for the Coral Springs Police Department told Local 10 News Thursday that arrests are imminent after a Marjory Stoneman Douglas student was left hospitalized after being body-slammed by one of his peers during a brutal attack.

The student was met with pure brutality by his peers Tuesday and it was all caught on camera.

Local 10 News obtained cellphone video Wednesday depicting a fight among students from MSD at North Community Park in nearby Coral Springs that showed the male getting jumped by multiple teens who were seen pummeling him with heavy blows.

On Thursday, MSD students told Local 10 News that some of their classmates have been arrested after police questioned several of them in an effort to identify those responsible.

Local 10 News:      https://www.local10.com/news/local/2023/12/15/police-suspects-arrested-after-marjory-stoneman-douglas-high-school-brawl-leaves-student-hospitalized/

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Former Phoenix police officer Brandon Tatum reported on the beating and said that black people have animosity against white people because they are taught that white people are born with a silver spoon and have ‘white privilege.’ He said that black people are raised to believe that they are “bigger, badder and stronger” than any white person and they are taught to hate white people. He stated that is why black on white attacks are lopsided as black on white murders are double the number of white on black murders. 

 

Newsweek:        https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/us/white-student-hospitalized-after-brutal-attack-at-school-sparks-outrage/ar-AA1lsQFN

Sun Sentinel:        https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/us/student-hospitalized-after-violent-beating-near-marjory-stoneman-douglas-high-school/ar-AA1ls85n




SAG-AFTRA Hit With Over 100 Covid Vaccine Mandate Suits By Members

Over 100 individual lawsuits placed in the LA Superior Court docket claim the SAG-AFTRA Guild threw members under corporate buses during the height of the pandemic, and joined with the studios to require vaccinations to work. The lawsuit asserts that SAG-AFTRA members had a right to expect that its Union would protect them, negotiate with the studios, producers and other hiring officials on their behalf to prevent prejudicial treatment against their religious, medical and philosophical reasons to refuse COVID-19 vaccines. SAG-AFTRA allowed its signatories (production companies/studios) to forcibly impose vaccination requirements and mandates in exchange for a Union Member’s ability to work, receive an audition, maintain management, maintain an agent, work with talent agencies, etc.

Along with SAG-AFTRA, studios like Disney and Netflix have been taken to court over the vaccine requirements, with most of those cases still winding their way through the justice system.

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Hollywood’s vaccine mandates are gone, but as new legal actions filed today against SAG-AFTRA make clear, the battle over the Covid-19 protection is far from over.

Over 100 individual suits placed in the LA Superior Court docket Thursday claim the Guild threw members under corporate buses during the height of the pandemic, essentially linking arms with the studios to require vaccinations to work.

“While Defendants are Plaintiff’s Union representatives, SAG-AFTRA members had a right to expect that its Union would protect them, negotiate with the studios, producers and other hiring officials on their behalf to prevent prejudicial treatment for exerting their philosophical, religious, medical or disability-based reason for not taking the COVID-19 vaccine,” says stuntman and Guild member Dorian Kingi in his jury trial seeking filing today (read it here).

Kingi’s action is one of 103 complaints filed by the firm of Gerald Fox Law this week.

“Adding insult to injury, assuming SAG-AFTRA were a public/government and not private actor, similar to California law which requires students attending public or private school be vaccinated against certain named and identified infectious diseases, SAG-AFTRA was allowing its signatories (production companies/studios) to forcibly impose vaccination requirements and mandates in exchange for a Union Member’s ability to work, receive an audition, maintain management, maintain an agent, work with talent agencies, etc,” adds the 21-page suit for breach of fiduciary duty negligence, and four other claims. “Thus, SAG-AFTRA Members were forced to choose between their financial livelihood, breaking the law to obtain a falsified vaccination card or adhering to the acceptance of a foreign, not yet CDC approved, vaccine and boosters in their bodies against their will.”

The suits are looking for a plethora of damages and injunctive relief. They also want court orders for a full accounting and “compelling SAG-AFTRA as the fiduciary to Plaintiff and found to have breached their fiduciary duties to Plaintiff to restore all losses to Plaintiff which resulted from the breaches of fiduciary duty or by virtue of liability.”

SAG-AFTRA say: been there, done that, going there again.

“The claims are without merit and SAG-AFTRA will seek their dismissal,” spokesperson for the 160,000-strong Guild responded to Deadline today. “The union has already defended and obtained dismissal of other charges brought against it before the National Labor Relations Board relating to the Return to Work Agreement.”

“We believe in the strength of our cases, look forward to litigating the issues, eager to find justice for our clients and believe we will be victorious,” plaintiffs’ attorney Breyon J. Davis said to Deadline after the filings Thursday.

The suits are looking for a plethora of damages and injunctive relief. They also want court orders for a full accounting and “compelling SAG-AFTRA as the fiduciary to Plaintiff and found to have breached their fiduciary duties to Plaintiff to restore all losses to Plaintiff which resulted from the breaches of fiduciary duty or by virtue of liability.”

SAG-AFTRA say: been there, done that, going there again.

“The claims are without merit and SAG-AFTRA will seek their dismissal,” spokesperson for the 160,000-strong Guild responded to Deadline today. “The union has already defended and obtained dismissal of other charges brought against it before the National Labor Relations Board relating to the Return to Work Agreement.”

“We believe in the strength of our cases, look forward to litigating the issues, eager to find justice for our clients and believe we will be victorious,” plaintiffs’ attorney Breyon J. Davis said to Deadline after the filings Thursday

Read full article here…




Seattle Student Fails Quiz After Answering That Men Can’t Get Pregnant

Seattle: A student failed a quiz in a 10th grade Ethnic Studies World History class titled “Understanding Gender vs. Sex” because the student answered that men can’t get pregnant, and that all men have penises. The activist teacher marked the questions wrong because the teacher claims men can get pregnant and that women can have a penis. A critic wrote that these activist teachers know they’re confusing the youth, but they just do it anyway because it’ll help bring down the West. “They don’t want inclusion, they want confusion. They want the English language to get rekt.”

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No joke at all, this kid actually failed a quiz at a public school in Seattle because he or she answered one, that men can’t get pregnant, and two, that all men have penises.

This was a tenth grade Ethnic Studies World History class and the quiz was titled “Understanding Gender vs. Sex.”

You won’t be surprised that many of the questions on this quiz had to do with personal pronouns and gender identity. These questions our student answered correctly because educators have already hit the indoctrination button on those issues.

But it was these other two questions that stumped the student, resulting in a failing grade on the quiz.

Question 4 was a true or false question with the statement, “All men have penises.” The student labeled the statement “true” since it is, in fact, true. But the teacher penalized the answer, marking it incorrect. The teacher claims women can have a penis.

Similarly, Question 7 was a true or false question with the statement, “Only women can get pregnant.” Again, the student marked the statement “true” because only women can get pregnant. Again, the teacher penalized the student, insisting the answer is false. The teacher believes men can get pregnant.

The student failed the quiz after missing these, and I’m surprised in zero ways, especially since we’re talking public schools in Seattle. I do wonder, however, if this was the public school CHAZ built out of cardboard boxes back in 2020 when they were a country. I hear they were pretty serious back then, and I wouldn’t be surprised if that school is still standing today.

These activist teachers know they’re confusing the youth, but they just do it anyway because it’ll help bring down the West. They don’t want inclusion, they want confusion. They want the English language to get rekt.

“I keep trying to wrap my head around how it is legal to teach inaccurate information and force students to answer against their beliefs or receive negative scores,” [the student’s mom] said to the Jason Rantz Show on KTTH. She asked for anonymity for fear her son would face retribution.

The mom told the Jason Rantz Show on KTTH that she worries about the school routinely allowing teachers to bring political beliefs into the classroom. The gender identity issue is just one example. She also said her child, who is white, routinely faces scrutiny for his skin color and so-called privilege.

The only way to fight back against this pure indoctrination of our youth is to speak out like this parent did — a parent who is a liberal, by the way. It’s time for not only conservative-leaning people to speak out, but anyone who still has a brain left in their skull. We’ve been silent for much too long.

Read full article here…




Leftists Ordered to Pay $500 for Burning Down a Wendy’s Sparking Outrage

A Fulton County, Georgia judge ordered $500 fines and probation, but no jail time, for two rioters involved in the burning down of an Atlanta Wendy’s after an Atlanta Police officer shot and killed Rayshard Brooks in 2020. Chisom Kingston and Natalie White, the two convicted, were found guilty of conspiracy to commit arson and two counts of first-degree arson.

Representative Mike Collins, a Republican of Georgia’s 10th congressional district, wrote: “I’m sure a lot of J6 trespassers would love to pay $500 and go home. If only they had burned down a building, maybe.”

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  • Two of three suspects in an arson attack on an Atlanta Wendy’s where Rayshard Brooks was fatally shot by police have pleaded guilty.
  • Chisom Kingston and Natalie White each admitted to two counts of first-degree arson and one count of conspiracy to commit first-degree arson.
  • The case of the third suspect, John Wade, remains pending.

Two of three people charged with arson in the burning of the Wendy’s restaurant in Atlanta where a police officer fatally shot Rayshard Brooks in June 2020 have pleaded guilty after reaching deals with prosecutors.

Chisom Kingston, Natalie White and John Wade were arrested on arson charges within weeks of the fire, which came in the midst of weeks of upheaval and protest across the country in the wake of George Floyd’s death under the knee of a Minneapolis police officer. A Fulton County grand jury in January 2022 indicted the trio on two counts each of first-degree arson and one count of conspiracy to commit first-degree arson.

Kingston and White on Thursday pleaded guilty to the charges and each received a sentence of five years of probation, a $500 fine and 150 hours of community service to be completed with a nonprofit organization within the first year of probation, according to online court records. They were each sentenced under Georgia’s first offender law, meaning that if they complete their sentences without violating the terms or committing another crime, their records will be wiped clean.

Wade’s case was still pending. He was in federal prison in West Virginia after pleading guilty in February 2022 to a charge of conspiracy to burn U.S. Postal Service vehicles. Amanda Young, a lawyer listed for him in court records, declined on Tuesday to comment on his Fulton County case or his co-defendants’ plea deals.

Khalil Eaddy, an attorney for Kingston, said his client is remorseful and is grateful to have this case behind him.

“This is a good young man committed to his family and his community” Eaddy said in a press release Tuesday. “Since that night three years ago, he’s not only graduated from Georgia State University with plans to begin graduate school, he has kept the faith with our courts and with justice itself.”

Drew Findling and Zack Kelehear, attorneys for White, said in a statement that their client resolved her case with a plea “after three years of litigation, on the eve of a specially set jury trial.”

The fast food restaurant was set ablaze during a protest on June 13, 2020, the night after a police officer fatally shot Brooks.

Police had responded on June 12, 2020, to complaints that Brooks was asleep in his car in the restaurant’s drive-thru lane. Police body camera video shows the 27-year-old Black man struggling with two white officers after they told him he’d had too much to drink to be driving and tried to arrest him. Brooks grabbed a Taser from one of the officers and fled, firing it at the other officer as he ran. An autopsy found that Brooks was shot twice in the back.

A special prosecutor appointed to examine the shooting last year announced that he would not seek charges against either officer involved, saying they acted reasonably.

Before he was shot, Brooks told officers three times that he had been with a girlfriend named Natalie White that night. Findling confirmed at the time that his client is the person Brooks was talking about but declined to comment further on their relationship, saying only that they were close.

Read full article from Fox News here:  https://www.foxnews.com/us/2-plead-guilty-torching-atlanta-wendys-rayshard-brooks-riot

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From Newsweek:

“J6’ers are being locked up for years for walking in the Capitol and some never walked inside at all, but the guys who plead guilty to arson and burned down the Wendy’s in Atl in 2020 BLM riots only have to pay a $500 fine!!!” Greene wrote on X, formerly Twitter.

“The scales of Justice have tipped so hard one way they have fallen off!!!”

The conservative Libs of TikTok account claimed there was a “2-tier justice system” for those arrested during the unrest that erupted in the summer of 2020 following the death of George Floyd and other Black people and those charged in relation to the attack on the U.S. Capitol.

“$500 fine for burning down a Wendy’s for BLM, and 17 years in prison for knocking over a fence on Jan 6,” Libs of TikTok posted on X.

Newsweek:      https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/crime/rioters-500-fine-for-burning-down-a-wendys-sparks-outrage/ar-AA1kZ2OD

Gateway Pundit:      https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2023/12/fulton-county-judge-issues-500-fine-no-jail/