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The Russian authorities are developing plans to boost the quantity of social and psychological assistance available to pregnant women in an attempt to reduce the number of abortions, a cabinet office decree has revealed. The decree text, published last week, names several possible ways to prevent pregnancy terminations, including medical and legal assistance to women in difficult life situations. The government intends to increase the percentage of women receiving pre-abortion counseling to 80% by 2025, with the goal of reducing terminations by half. The document also seeks to implement other measures to promote healthy lifestyles, increase the birth rate, and...

Mexico's Supreme Court on Monday invalidated an article of the General Health Law that broadly provided for medical personnel's conscientious objection to participating in treatments, such as abortion. “The law did not establish the guidelines and limits necessary for conscientious objection to be exercised without jeopardizing the human rights of other persons, especially the right to health,” the Supreme Court of Justice of the Nation announced Sept. 20. The law, adopted in 2018, did not allow medical professionals to invoke conscientious objection "when the life of the patient is put at risk or it is a medical emergency." Marcial Padilla,...

Amazingly, in the year 2021, there is still a demand for clowns. Unfortunately, the supply of clowns in place like Europe, especially Northern Ireland, has dwindled down to almost nothing. This has created a serious clown shortage for carnivals and circuses over there as they look to replace the clowns they lost during the pandemic shutdown, the BBC reports. David Duffy, co-owner of Duffy’s Circus, is putting out the call for performers to take on the role of a clown in his show, which has been closed for more than 500 days. “Because all the circuses in Europe and in...

In The Queen (On the Application of Cornerstone (Northeast) Adoption and Fostering Services, Ltd. v. Her Majesty's Chief Inspector of Education, Children's Services and Skills (OFSTED), (EWCA, Sept. 24, 2021), England's Court of Appeal held that Cornerstone, a Christian foster care agency, violated the Equality Act 2010 and the Human Rights Act 1998 when it required clients with which it placed children to: Set a high standard in personal morality which recognises that God's gift of sexual intercourse is to be enjoyed exclusively within Christian marriage; abstain from all sexual sins including immodesty, the viewing of pornography, fornication, adultery, cohabitation,...

Victoria has recorded 1143 new local cases of coronavirus and three more people have died. The reduction from yesterday's significant spike comes as more than 349,35 COVID-19 vaccines were administered in the state in the last 24 hour reporting period. An expert has warned case numbers in Victoria could soon hit 6000 per day as talk turns to an extension of the state's lockdowns. Victoria's roadmap to freedom may need to be paused or modified due to yesterday's record-breaking numbers, with 1438 new infections recorded. GP Dr Mukesh Haikerwal said cases will "probably double and double again". "I'll say it...

The suit claims the state’s Ethnic Studies Model Curriculum and its in-classroom activities constitute state-sanctioned prayer, in violation of the Establishment Clause of the U.S. Constitution and the California Constitution.A group of California taxpayers and school parents is asking the Superior Court of California for a restraining order to block the state’s public schools from using prayers to Aztec and Yoruba gods as a classroom activity. A hearing is scheduled for Oct. 7 before Superior Court Judge Eddie C. Sturgeon in San Diego. Californians for Equal Rights Foundation and school parents Eric Gonzales, Steve Houbeck and Jose Velazquez sued the...

Whistleblower from R.V.Hospital in Barrie, Ont. I have decided to make a public post since I have nothing to lose now. I work at the Royal Victoria Hospital in Barrie Ontario as a housekeeper and just heard today that an announcement will be made Tuesday for all hospitals and Healthcare workers to be vaccinated. I have a lot to say. Whether you believe me or not is not my problem. I work on the "Covid" floor. We are the "Regional Pandemic Response Unit " so I know what is happening and I will be fighting this. When the pandemic started,...

A growing number of conservative lawmakers on Capitol Hill are rallying to the cause of a Marine lieutenant colonel jailed this week for his outspoken and repeated criticism of his superiors and what he said was their failure to take responsibility for mishandling the chaotic final days of the U.S. war in Afghanistan. Lt. Col. Stuart Scheller lost his job as commander of the Advanced Infantry Training Battalion at North Carolina’s Camp Lejeune after posting a video demanding accountability from top military leaders after the Aug. 26 suicide bombing at Hamid Karzai International Airport in Afghanistan. The attack killed 13...

With uncharacteristic restraint, Tucker Carlson referred to Mark Milley as a "national disgrace." In his 12.5 min video, Tucker Carlson ripped into the dishonest, dishonorable, and incompetent conduct of Mark Milley, Ken McKenzie, and Lloyd Austin, and also what the Department of Defense is doing to Lt. Col. Stuart Scheller.Carlson did admit it is likely that Austin, Milley and McKenzie will not receive justice for their wicked actions, and will likely be rewarded by the military-industrial complex for what they did.

Presidentish Joe Biden wants to put an actual Communist — self-proclaimed “radical” Cornell University law school professor Saule Omarova — in charge of the nation’s banking system. Omarova graduated from the Soviet Union’s Moscow State University in 1989 on the Lenin Personal Academic Scholarship, according to the Wall Street Journal. As recently as 2019, she was still praising the USSR’s economic system as in some ways superior to our own. “Say what you will about old USSR, there was no gender pay gap there. Market doesn’t always ‘know best.'” As a matter of fact, I will say what I will...

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For the Cameras: Cherbourg elder Uncle Bevan Costello is being remembered as proud Wakka Wakka man and a passionate advocate for his community, following his sudden death. Uncle Bevan is believed to have suffered a heart attack on Wednesday morning, sending shockwaves through the community and beyond. The Cherbourg Aboriginal Shire Council described him as a much loved, respected elder, mentor and champion. "Our sincerest condolences and sympathy are with his family, friends and colleagues at this time." Uncle Bevan Costello sat as a JP Magistrate on the local Murri Court where he helped magistrates understand the lives and culture...

A 27-year-old man from northern Israel was charged on Monday with murdering his mother and hiding her body last month, after she converted from Islam to Orthodox Christianity. According to the charge sheet, Rasha Muklasha, 46, left her husband and severed ties with her five children — including the suspect, Muad Hib — in 2006. She then moved from the town of Zarzir to Nof HaGalil and converted to Christianity. Recently, she resumed contact with her children following the death of her ex-husband. Prosecutors allege that her conversion, which greatly angered Hib, was the motive for the murder. According to...

A drunken Turkish man reportedly found himself in the woods after assisting in an hours-long search party for ... himself. What are the details? According to a Wednesday report from the Daily Mail, 50-year-old Beyhan Mutlu, a Turkey resident living in the northwestern Bursa province's Inegöl district, was reportedly drinking with a group of friends earlier this month when he wandered off alone into the forests of Cayyaka. His friends, according to the outlet, became concerned when they couldn't locate him after several hours and, along with Mutlu's wife, reported their loved one missing. A search party was almost immediately...

EXPLORATION PARK, Fla. – Today, Governor DeSantis announced Terran Orbital’s decision to choose Merritt Island for the construction of its Commercial Spacecraft and Constellation Facility, bringing valuable spacecraft manufacturing opportunities and capabilities to the State of Florida by investing more than $300 million in new construction and equipment. This will be the largest satellite manufacturing facility in the world. The project is expected to create approximately 2,100 new jobs with an estimated annual average wage of $84,000 by late 2025. “I am excited to announce that Terran Orbital will be investing $300 million in the Space Coast to build the...

Liftoff is targeted for 8:51 p.m. EDT tonight (0051 GMT on Oct. 1). Nine small satellites will launch to Earth orbit atop Japan's Epsilon rocket tonight (Sept. 30), and you can watch the action live. An Epsilon is scheduled to lift off from Japan's Uchinoura Space Center tonight during a 4-minute window that opens at 8:51 p.m. EDT (0051 GMT on Oct. 1). You can watch live at Space.com, courtesy of the Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency, or directly via JAXA. (FYI: JAXA's feed is in Japanese.) The Epsilon will haul to orbit for JAXA the Rapid Innovative Payload Demonstration Satellite...

In the office of the Vice President of the United States, they contacted a number of sources, including Minister Lapid's adviser, and clarified that she was "committed to Israel's security." She said, and even said to her: "This is your truth". Harris' team - which told the student: "This is your truth" - made it clear in conversations with various sources that she "strongly opposes the student's words".

NASA does not plan to rename its new $10 billion technological marvel, the James Webb Space Telescope, despite concerns about it being named after former NASA administrator James Webb, who went along with government discrimination against gay and lesbian employees in the 1950s and 1960s. The space agency tells NPR it has investigated the matter and decided to keep the telescope's name as is, ahead of the long-awaited launch in December. "We have found no evidence at this time that warrants changing the name of the James Webb Space Telescope," says NASA administrator Bill Nelson. The powerful telescope, often viewed...

If CNN starts sounding like The Economic Collapse Blog, what does that mean? Unfortunately, the truth about what is in our immediate future is becoming apparent to everyone. Global supply chains are in a state of complete and utter chaos, and this is driving up prices and causing widespread shortages all over the country. Over the past couple of weeks, I have written five articles with either “shortage” or “shortages” in the title, and some have accused me of being a little alarmist. If that is the case, then CNN is being alarmist too, because one of their top stories...

Wouldn’t it be wonderful if we all wake up someday and the pandemic is finally behind us? Wouldn’t it be wonderful to go back to a world with no masks, no restrictions and no mandates? I know that is what so many of you want. I want it too. Just like millions of others, we are ready for this long nightmare to finally end. Unfortunately, we are now being told that this crisis is never going to have an end. COVID is apparently going to be with us indefinitely, and that means that we will be talking about masks, restrictions...