Pronouns Unbound San Francisco

Unified School District facilitates secret child sexual transitions and allows students to identify as “it.”

San Francisco Unified School District has released a guidebook for teachers to facilitate secret child sexual transitions and to let students use the pronoun “it” at school.

According to documents obtained from a whistleblower, in 2021 the district celebrated “International Pronouns Day,” teaching students that they can adopt a wide range of genders and sexual identities. In elementary school, the district tells students that they may not “feel like a boy OR a girl” and can identify as “non-binary” and use “they” pronouns. For secondary students, the district teaches that they can be part of the “bisexual umbrella” and identify as “fluid,” “pansexual,” “omnisexual,” “hetero-, homo-, lesbi-curious,” “hetero-, homo-, lesbi-flexible,” and “queer.”

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted in"Peak Woke"

Russia’s Great Transformational Failure

Hopes that post-Soviet Russia would join the ranks of prosperous liberal democracies have proven to be a chimera

The collapse of the Soviet system led to a period of hope in Russia. Throughout the 2000s, it was popular to describe Russia as a “normal country.” The changes it went through during its transition from Soviet communism to a Westernized, market-based economy and parliamentary system were agreed to be irreversible, setting the stage for the country to eventually join the club of liberal democracies.

Thirty years later, however, it seems clear that Russia’s much-heralded modernization effort was a failure.

In the early 1990s, the political scientist Claus Offe explained the nature of the unique challenges faced by countries across the post-communist region, which he called the triple transformation: the political transition from autocracy to democracy; the economic transition from planned to market economy; and a national transition from empire to nation-building. While post-communist countries saw varying degrees of success, it is the failure to modernize along all three dimensions that distinguishes Russia.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted in"Ukraine - Russia"

The dark continent: How ‘green’ power insanity will black out Europe

THE European electricity grid is hurtling towards disaster, a new paper from the Global Warming Policy Foundation warns.

Countries are closing reliable nuclear and fossil-fuelled power stations while hoping interconnectors – cables linking different grids – will make up the deficit. But they won’t, according to the paper’s author, Alexander Stahel, a Swiss-based commodities expert.

He explains that the European grid has relied on French and German power surpluses for many years. However, with nuclear power in both countries being wound down and the two likely to soon become net power importers – and with fierce international competition for scarce gas supplies – the whole continent is now left hoping for Scandinavian hydro power and occasional surpluses of UK wind to save it.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted in"Energy Matters", "Ukraine - Russia"

Mother Earth > Pregnant Mothers

Pope Francis abandons the Catholic Church’s opposition to abortion

A high-ranking Vatican official stunned Catholics during a recent television interview by inadvertently confirming the Catholic Church’s retreat from one of its fundamental moral positions — a retreat FrontPage Magazine explored more than a year ago.

The official in question said on Italy’s national network Aug. 26 that the church had no interest in opposing that nation’s law allowing abortion. Enacted in 1978, Law 194 legalizes abortions in the first trimester and permits them afterward only if the mother’s life is in danger or if the fetus displays “serious abnormalities or malformations,” the law states.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted inPope Francis

The European Death Wish

Answers to Mrs. Hitler

It is seen in the boring hysteria about Giorgia Meloni.

The European elite’s sour reaction to the rise of Giorgia Meloni, Italy’s next prime minister, reveals less about her politics than its own. It harbors a death wish for Europe — a willfulness passed off as a “progressive” ideology that has led to a culture of death, demographic implosion, a floundering economy, and the prospect of a Eurabian future. Consequently, any European politician with even a modicum of common sense poses a grave threat to the elite. Its description of Meloni as a “fascist” is gaslighting of the first order — a lame projection of its own desire to build a coercive one-party state.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted inEuropean Union

What if you held a leadership race and no one cared?

Green Party cancels first round of voting in leadership race: ‘We did not have the capacity to deal with it’

OTTAWA — The federal Green Party is changing course in the middle of its leadership race, dropping from two rounds of voting to one in the latest sign of turmoil for the troubled political organization.

The party’s internal governing body, the federal council, voted on Wednesday night to eliminate the first round of voting in the leadership race. The move was announced Thursday morning in a news release that said voting in the contest will now begin on Nov. 12 and conclude as scheduled with an announced winner and new leader on Nov. 19.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted inGreen Party, WTF?

Morality police retreat from Iranian streets in wake of hijab death protests

Not long after Iran’s ultra-conservative president issued an edict for greater enforcement of the religious code, three women wearing black chadors patrolled the streets of Rasht almost every day in a green-and-white van that marked them out as members of the morality police.

President Raisi’s order on July 5 commanded the Guidance Patrols to seek out women failing to wear their headscarves properly. It represented an attempt to enforce Islamic law across a younger and increasingly secular population.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted in"Islamophobia", Iran, Islam, Islam and violence