“… with the smartest minds and so much money and the very best of intentions, San Francisco became a cruel city. It became so dogmatically progressive that maintaining the purity of the politics required accepting—or at least ignoring—devastating results.”
HOW SAN FRANCISCO BECAME A FAILED CITY
“A transgender health organization will release new guidelines lowering its recommended age to receive gender-transition treatments. Hormone treatments may begin at age 14, about two years younger than previously recommended, according to new guidelines from the World Professional Association for Transgender Health. The group is expected to publish the new guidance in a medical journal sometime this year, and gave the Associated Press an advance copy of the recommendations. In addition, some surgeries may be conducted at ages 15 or 17, about a year younger than previously recommended.”
Major Transgender Org to Recommend Lowering Age for Hormone Treatment, Surgeries
“…energy-starved Europe has noticed Israel’s growing drilling abilities. Brussels is even siding with Israel over a Hezbollah-manufactured crisis — Lebanon’s claim of sovereignty over a major Israeli offshore gas field…Immigration to Europe from Arab countries, Israel’s mastery of new technologies, and its ability to help the Europeans in advancing their internal and external security contribute to the shift in Europe’s attitudes, according to [a] former Israeli diplomat: “They can attack us and condemn our policies in various forums but in reality the need for Israeli technologies is more important to Europeans than what happens in the Palestinian territories…””
Europe, in Panic Over Energy, Is Suddenly Cozying Up to Israel
“How humiliating. In mid-July, President Biden will travel to Saudi Arabia to meet with Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman, who is that nation’s de facto ruler. That’s the same Mr. Biden who, on the campaign trail in 2020, called the oil superpower a “pariah” state and vowed to make sure “America does not check its values at the door to sell arms or buy oil.” Unless, apparently, polling suggests he really, really needs the oil. Such are the complications that arise when the president of the United States departs from decades-long relationships rooted in realpolitik and follows a childish urge to abandon every policy of his predecessor, even those that were unquestionably successful.”
Desperate Biden Goes Begging to Saudi Arabia
“Gender ideologues complain that this shift in public tolerance is merely a conservative backlash against trans rights, but they are wrong. What we are seeing is the inevitable result of trans activists – and, most of all, Stonewall – pushing far beyond civil rights for trans people and insisting instead on unpopular and unworkable policies, such as trans women in sport, child transition and any open acknowledgement of female biology…It's finally ok to say that gender extremism wears no clothes.”
The week the trans spell was broken
https://unherd.com/2022/04/the-week-the-trans-spell-was-broken/?=refinnar
“Despite all the effort made by self-proclaimed “trans rights activists”, people in positions of power are finally realising that the movement’s temper tantrums have held far too many companies and institutions hostage for far too long. Have the adults finally come back into the room? Have years and years of grassroots feminist activism — by organisations such as Woman’s Place UK, Fair Play For Women and Sex Matters — finally shaken people awake, before we sleepwalk into disaster?”
How the Royal Academy uncancelled me
"Co-opted and defanged like so many countercultural movements of the Sixties, feminism has now generally settled into uncritical embrace of choice, wary to articulate any theory of good, bad, or even fair sex beyond the presence of “consent”. This liberal, legalistic framework is something of a fiction, of course; much as the underdogs in capitalism are treated as giving free and informed consent even under the most dire economic duress, women today are treated as giving consent even when their wishes are as minimised and obscured as ever. But the imperative of sex-positive feminism is to not question women’s desires, but instead take them at their word.”
Pro-porn feminists can’t tell the truth: Any honest portrait of the industry reveals its brutality
“We must understand that the hard Left sees its setbacks and losses as strategic. They propose extreme measures — like defunding the police or making housing free — knowing that they will fail, for now. But they get their ideas out in public, and when the dust has settled, we scarcely notice that they have gained a few inches of precious ground in their fight to make society less free, less prosperous and more dangerous. New Yorkers who care about the future of their city must shun complacency. While we sleep, the Left is brewing up plans to destroy everything we cherish.”
Why Eric Adams can’t defeat AOC and the socialists destroying NYC
“…we sure as hell don’t go to the movies to have to explain human sexuality to our children before they’re ready for it.”
Disney’s Big, Gay ‘Lightyear’ Is the Latest Woke Box Office Flop
“It warms Cockburn’s heart to see further proof of the Biden family’s support for strippers, a much maligned group even in 2022. But why stop at Hunter’s company? There are plenty of vacancies in the Biden administration that could capably be filled by sex workers. Vice President Harris’s office alone could afford to employ a harem’s worth. Naturally a working group should be set up to identify suitable candidates. Who better to chair it than the sex-positive First Son?”
Business mogul Hunter Biden had stripper-mistress on payroll
https://spectatorworld.com/topic/hunter-biden-stripper-mistress-lunden-roberts-payroll/
““According to the model, the probability of a soft landing -- defined as four-quarter GDP growth staying positive over the next ten quarters -- is only about 10%,” the economists wrote in a blog post published Friday on the bank’s website. “Conversely, the chances of a hard landing -- defined to include at least one quarter in the next ten in which four-quarter GDP growth dips below -1%, as occurred during the 1990 recession -- are about 80%.””
New York Fed Model Shows Chance of ‘Soft Landing’ At Just 10%
“Since the beginning of BRI, Beijing has preferred to view criticism as nothing more than Western refusal to accept China’s rise. Today, however, the concerns are coming not from the West but from Africa and Asia, where governments are desperate to head off soaring debt problems and the wrath of their people. If Beijing seeks to export the Chinese model or burnish its reputation in the world, it will have to learn to work with democracies, whether it likes them or not.”
Why Democracies Are Turning Against Belt and Road
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