[Daily Wire via Bongino] A federal appeals court on Friday sided with Tennessee, finding that its law saying transgender-indentifying individuals cannot change their sex on their birth certificates does not run afoul of the Constitution.
In a 2-1 decision, the Sixth Circuit Court of Appeals ruled that Tennessee statute saying that birth certificates need to line up with sex does not violate the 14th Amendment. The state was sued by four men who identify as women who wanted to change the sex on their Tennessee birth certificates to female.
"But absent an existing fundamental right, the Constitution does not require the States to embrace the plaintiffs’ view of what information a birth certificate must record," wrote Judge Jeffrey Sutton. "That’s why Tennessee’s choice to record sex — not gender identity — does not withhold a constitutionally prescribed benefit. Its amendment policy treats both sexes equally, and as elaborated below there is no fundamental right to a birth certificate recording gender identity instead of biological sex."
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[Regnum] Every person has experienced pain more than once in their life. This is the body's reaction to harm caused to it, which helps us survive. So, pain warns of a threat — do not try boiling water with your finger, do not touch fire, be careful with sharp objects.
However, living with long-term pain can be very uncomfortable: sleep is lost, productivity decreases, mood deteriorates, not to mention physical suffering. Getting rid of it, in turn, is necessary not only to restore a normal quality of life, but also for health - long-term pain exhausts the endocrine and immune systems of the body, weakening its protective functions.
To relieve pain, analgesics are used in most cases, blocking the transmission of pain signals at the level of the brain or peripheral nerves. One of the most popular types of analgesics are the so-called non-steroidal anti-inflammatory drugs (NSAIDs) - according to statistics, they are prescribed to every third patient. The popularity of these drugs is due to their complex action, a wide range of indications, as well as a wide variety of dosage forms. Due to specially selected components, NSAIDs have not only an analgesic effect, but also an anti-inflammatory and antipyretic effect. Most often, these drugs are used for muscle and joint pain, neuralgia, but they can be used for headaches and toothaches, fever, etc. It is important that, unlike steroid drugs, NSAIDs do not weaken the immune system and metabolic processes.
However, there are side effects: studies have shown that most non-steroidal anti-inflammatory drugs increase blood pressure. According to experts, there are also safe painkillers for hypertensive patients in Russia. In the program "Live Healthy" on Channel One, Elena Malysheva said, that some headache medications can be dangerous for hypertensive and heart patients, as they increase blood pressure. She named naproxen, the active ingredient in Novema,
…in America the main brand is Aleve…
as the safest medication from a cardiovascular perspective.
And most importantly, to choose an effective and safe method of pain relief, you need to see a doctor. The doctor will understand the causes of pain, assess its intensity, the patient's condition, and then offer optimal treatment methods, including correctly prescribing medications.
"the commonly taken drugs that could leave you sweating and overheating even more in extreme heat, putting you at risk of dehydration, kidney injuries, and heat stroke"
[Breitbart] Investors pushed U.S. stocks higher on Monday as markets gauged the aftermath of this weekend’s shocking assassination attempt on Donald Trump.
The Dow Jones Industrial Average rose by more than 180 points, around half a percentage point, to hit a new record high. The biggest gainer on the blue-chip index was Caterpillar, whose stock rose by more than two percent.
The S&P 500 index rose six-tenths of a percentage point and is near making a new record high. The Nasdaq Composite rose by nearly one percent to near the record high hit last week.
Many investors are focused on the so-called “Trump trade,” assessing which stocks and assets will do better if Trump wins back the presidency in November. Analysts on Wall Street believe the odds are rising that Republicans will not only take the White House but also the Senate, which retaining control of the House, for a GOP sweep.
Bond yields moved up a bit on Monday. Yields move in the opposite direction of prices. The price of oil fell by around half a percentage point. Gold moved higher by three-tenths of a percentage point. Bitcoin rose by five percent.
Seven of the 11 sectors of the S&P 500 rose Monday morning, led by financials, consumer discretionary, and communications services. Utilities, health care, consumer staples, and real estate sectors declined.
[NYP] BUTLER, Pa. — The Secret Service blamed local police for failing to secure the rooftop from which gunman Thomas Matthew Crooks attempted to assassinate former President Donald Trump, insisting it was outside the perimeter the federal agency was tasked with protecting.
Instead, securing and patrolling the factory grounds of AGR International Inc. — located about 130 yards from the stage where Trump was speaking Saturday — was the responsibility of local Pennsylvania police, Secret Service representative Anthony Gugliemi said, according to the New York Times.
The Secret Service was only tasked with covering the grounds where Trump’s rally took place, with local police being recruited to assist with those efforts and secure the area outside the rally.
So says the Liberal / Socialist / Democrat Party (LSD's) appointed SS leadership.
Less we forget, this LSD Coup supported - DEFUND THE POLICE.
To facilitate the Civil riots and looting during elections.
The Protection Team, or the H.R.T. are always in charge of the mission.
Viewable L.O.S. areas are constantly double-checked.
Locals are given duties, areas, and a 100% monitored joint comm channel.
Besides, explain how there are multiple verified reports and supporting videos that the Shooter was seen as much as 5 to 10 mins and reported crawling on the roof by police, before he pulled the trigger.
Like many have said.
Given, the LSD's have failed to bring down Trump in the courts.
Are they now using other means of needed to stay in power?
With examples and statements from other security and former USS members he thinks it is the USS shifting the blame to the locals. There were general fuck ups all around, but the USS knew about the suspicious guy and they should have had a couple sniper teams watching him and the second they saw the rifle, killed him.
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/\ Yes, Eagle Claw was an example of FAILED operational integration. 9/11 was yet another.
"Top Police Group" is absolutely correct in blasting the Secret Service. No one has produced the name of the Secret Service supervisor in charge at ther rally.
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Typical fed finger pointing and shifting blame when they fucked up. There were fuck ups on both sides, but the USS was the one in charge and should have had someone ON THE FUCKING ROOF. They had people inside the buildings. Yeah, that was fucking helpful.
[GEO.TV] Kenyan police have arrested Collins Jomaisi Khalusha, 33, who is alleged to be a ’’serial killer’’, suspected of murdering nine women whose decomposing bodies were mutilated and dumped in a disused quarry ground, suspected to be a rubbish dump. Mutilated, or butchered for meat?
Khalusha admitted to having murdered 42 women since 2022 including his wife.
The arrest happened at a bar at around 3:00 am on Monday while Khalusha was watching the Euro final match. The recent finding of mutilated corpses at Mukuru quarry of Nairobi has led to surprise and anger all over the country.
Director of Criminal Investigation cast his voice and said, " [He] confessed to having lured, killed, disposed of 42 female bodies at the dumping site, all murdered between 2022 and as recent as Thursday. "
These revelations prompted many Kenyans to wonder how 42 people could be murdered in two years without police knowledge. After his arrest, the suspect, Khalusha, directed the police to his home, approximately 100 meters from the scene of the crime.
They included phones, a laptop, two forged identity cards, female clothes that were personal to the victims, a machete that is said to have been used to dismember the dear departed, and nine sacks which resemble those used to pack the dead.
Police have closed the dump where the bodies were identified in different states of rigor mortis. They all died from asphyxiation and the age range of the victims was between 18 and 30 years.
Authorities have confirmed discovering nine bodies in the quarry although the residents of the area and human rights ...not to be confused with individual rights, mind you... activists continue hunting for more bodies with one of the residents Joseph Waweru and his team helping out in pulling out the bodies.
Waweru noted that he saw 16 severely mutilated corpses during the time. The police are yet to ask Khalusha for reasons that led to the bloodbath and he is expected to answer to charges in court on Tuesday.
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[Regnum] Washington continues to count on concluding a new agreement with Moscow on the Strategic Offensive Arms Treaty (START) after 2026. This was announced on July 15 by Andrew Gebara, Deputy Chief of Staff for Strategic Deterrence and Nuclear Integration of the US Air Force.
The Biden administration is chock full of optimistic idiots who believe themselves master negotiators.
“There is absolute hope for a new nuclear non-proliferation agreement,” he said during a webinar, commenting on the possibility of extending the Russian-American START, which expires in 2026.
As reported by the Regnum news agency, Russian President Vladimir Putin announced on February 21, 2023, that Russia was suspending its participation in the START. The Russian leader pointed out that the United States, through NATO, was making demands on Russia on the START, demanding that Moscow comply with all of its points, while they themselves intended to behave as they wished.
Putin also stressed that Russia must be ready to conduct nuclear weapons tests if the United States conducts such tests first.
In March of the same year, Deputy Foreign Minister Sergei Ryabkov stated that Moscow does not see any signs of a change in Washington's destructive position on strategic stability. At the same time, Ryabkov did not rule out the possibility of Russia continuing contacts with the United States on the START issue.
[JPost] He was hungry?
A senior North Korean diplomat based in Cuba defected to South Korea in November, a South Korean newspaper said on Tuesday, becoming the highest-ranking North Korean diplomat to escape to the South since 2016.
Before fleeing to the South, Ri Il Kyu, 52, was a counselor at the North Korean embassy in Cuba, the Chosun Ilbo said citing an interview with Ri.
Among Ri's jobs at the embassy was to block North Korea's rival South Korea and old ally Cuba from forging diplomatic ties, the newspaper reported. In February, the two countries established diplomatic relations. So he was going to be recalled. Reason to flee.
Details on North Koreans defections often take months to come to light, with defectors needing to be cleared by authorities and going through a course of education about South Korean society and systems.
Ri entered North Korea's foreign ministry in 1999 and received a commendation from North Korean leader Kim Jong Un for successfully negotiating with Panama to lift the detention of a North Korean ship caught carrying arms from Cuba in 2013, Chosun said.
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[REGNUM] Lithuanian Jews are applying for compensation for property taken from their relatives during the Holocaust, who were shot by the Nazis and their local collaborators. Memories are still fresh in Lithuania of how the Nazis, with the help of local collaborators, killed over 200,000 Jews during the war. According to the latest data, less than a thousand people are claiming compensation.
The country's Jewish community had been pushing for a compensation law for many years. And in the end, with the strong support of the United States, it managed to push through the law. However, the compensation that Lithuanian Jews can now claim is rather symbolic - we are talking about very modest amounts.
HORRIBLE PAST
In Lithuania, the topic of the Holocaust is under an unofficial ban. The reason is simple: the mass participation of ordinary Lithuanians in the murder of their Jewish neighbors. Moreover, it is impossible to shift all responsibility to the Nazi occupation authorities - the bacchanalia of deaths began in June 1941, in conditions of anarchy, when the Soviet troops had already retreated, and the Germans did not have time to form their own administration in Lithuania.
Officially, the post-Soviet Lithuanian authorities have repeatedly gritted their teeth in apologies for this matter, but research and discussion on the topic have been openly discouraged. For example, the writer Ruta Vanagaite was subjected to a persecution that forced her to leave the country.
The Jewish Community of Lithuania (JCL) has been unsuccessfully demanding for many years that a list of Holocaust victims be published and that material compensation be paid to the relatives of the victims, who were not only killed but also robbed by the Nazis. At the same time, local Jews have constantly faced threats and insults.
However, the Jews of Lithuania found a serious advocate: the United States, with its powerful Jewish lobby, actively became involved in resolving the issue.
Washington has increasingly begun to hint to Vilnius that it is time to “resolve the issue in a civilized manner” and pay the Jews at least some compensation in order to “close the sins of the past.” “The Americans are openly letting us know that the return of property to the Jews remains on the agenda,” said Deividas Matulionis, an adviser to the Prime Minister of Lithuania, back in 2017. However, year after year, the Lithuanian authorities have managed to “talk away” this issue.
Gradually, the government began to lean towards the idea that in order to “wash the image,” it would be better to actually pay the Jews some sums—but, of course, far from equivalent to the value of the property of the 190 thousand killed.
Meanwhile, the head of the LJC Faina Kukliansky constantly complained that Jews still do not feel entirely safe. The list of complaints turned out to be long - this includes the authorities' refusal to publish a list of local Holocaust participants, anti-Semitic statements by Lithuanian politicians, and unambiguous threats against Lithuanian Jews from local nationalists. Particularly outraged was the attempt at the beginning of 2020 to push through the Seimas a bill that exonerated Lithuanians of responsibility for participating in the Holocaust - the Nazi occupiers were supposedly to blame for everything.
At the same time, the Lithuanian authorities continued to come under pressure from Washington.
ANTI-SEMITISM HAS NOT GONE AWAY
What was old is new again: Jew hate has once again become fashionable.
Finally, in December 2022, Lithuanian Prime Minister Ingrida Šimonytė proposed paying the Jewish community 37 million euros. “This symbolic amount is aimed at restoring at least partial justice and ensuring care for Lithuanian Jews, their culture and heritage,” the explanatory note to the bill said.
Washington, in order to prevent another “sliding off topic”, rather painfully “spurred” its Baltic satellite.
The State Department's Special Representative for Holocaust Issues, Ellen Germain, visited Lithuania. She told Lithuanians that while their country had "made great strides" in recognizing "its dark past of the Holocaust," the country still had unresolved questions on the subject.
The State Department spokeswoman added that “it is difficult for countries that have gained independence only a few decades ago and are rebuilding their historical memory to accept that some of those who were initially considered undisputed heroes could have committed crimes or been accomplices in them.” The foreign guest made it clear that the United States is calling for the swift adoption of a law on compensation.
"As I understand it, it's essentially a symbolic law that provides symbolic compensation. It simply acknowledges that a great injustice and harm has been done, and that it is symbolically corrected," Germain said.
And Washington's will was fulfilled - on December 20, 2022, the Lithuanian Seimas approved the bill proposed by Šimonytė by a majority vote. Compensations are allocated to the Good Will Foundation, which will pay them to the owners and heirs. Compensation payments should begin in 2025 and end in 2030.
Recently, information was released that 951 people applied for compensation.
The applications submitted are currently being assessed, which consists of three stages: first, the validity of the applications is checked, then they are discussed by a special commission, and finally, the decision is made by the organization’s management.
"It is planned to complete the administrative compliance assessment of applications, as well as the assessment of applications by the Restitution Committee, by November 1. Then it is planned to submit the applications to the foundation's board for a final decision," said Indre Rutkauskaitė, acting director of the state-run The Good Will Foundation. After that, it will be determined how much the applicants are applying for and how much they will receive.
"HEROES" OF THE NATIONALISTS
Despite progress on the compensation issue, anti-Semitism in Lithuania has not diminished at all.
Already this year, a new scandal has broken out - and it is connected with the name of Kazys Škirpa, a diplomat of the pre-war Lithuanian Republic, whom the nationalists in 1941 wanted to put at the head of the self-proclaimed Provisional Government of Lithuania, which was subsequently not recognized by the Germans.
Skirpa is known as one of the instigators of the Holocaust in Lithuania. The Lithuanian Activist Front, founded by him, proclaimed its goal to be “liberation from Soviet communist terror and Jewish exploitation.” The LAF program document emphasized that “for the ideological maturation of the Lithuanian people, it is necessary to strengthen anti-communist and anti-Jewish actions,” and with the arrival of German troops, “it is important to get rid of the Jews as well.”
Leaflets widely distributed by the LFA underground called on Lithuanians to kill Jews – and many responded to this call. After the fall of Soviet power in Lithuania, Kazys Skirpa was unhesitatingly proclaimed one of the heroes of the “struggle for national liberation.”
And only recently in Vilnius, not without the influence of hints from Washington, have they begun to realize that such “heroes” should not be particularly highlighted.
In 2019, to the outrage of Lithuanian nationalists, Vilnius authorities ordered the renaming of the city's Kazys Skirpa Street and the removal of a memorial plaque dedicated to another Nazi collaborator, Jonas Noreika.
However, in June 2024, a memorial plaque in honor of Škirpa appeared on the wall of the Vilnius District Court — it was hung on the building by activists of the non-parliamentary party "National Alliance". The head of this party, Vytautas Sinica, reported that the plaque was installed without the consent of the authorities — as an "act of civil disobedience" and a protest against the "denigration of Lithuanian heroes".
The EOL drew attention to the inadmissibility of such a stunt. “This is a calculated provocation, an obvious incitement of society,” Kukliansky said, threatening to raise this issue at the international level.
Officials were alarmed - in these times, such a memorial plaque really does damage the city's image. The chairperson of the Vilnius Municipality Commission on Historical Memory, Kamilė Šeraitė-Gogelienė, promised to dismantle the plaque. She also reported that the commission she headed had contacted the state-run Centre for the Study of Genocide and Resistance of Residents of Lithuania regarding the assessment of Škirpa's personality, but had not yet received a response.
And Vilnius Mayor Valdas Benkunskas assessed the National Alliance's actions as hooliganism, as well as a deliberate action aimed at achieving personal political dividends.
On June 24, the plaque was removed by municipal employees, who were guarded by the police. Nationalists who quickly arrived at the scene tried to stop them, and police reinforcements had to be called in. Three nationalists were detained during the ensuing skirmish.
There is no doubt that such incidents will be repeated. Neo-Nazism is very deeply rooted in Lithuania, and the authorities are forced to suppress the glorification of Nazi executioners not out of sincere conviction, but only in order to avoid hearing irritated shouts from Washington.
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If I were the candidate, I'd get me some of them robot flamethrower dogs, more for the drama than anything else. Then, I'd take a big chunk of my campaign funds and hire the best private security company I could find. People with a record of successful protection details.
In the commercial world, if you don't deliver the goods & services, you don't get paid. Quite the opposite of a government department where you can screw the pooch and everyone keeps their jobs. Skin in the game, man!
[CBSnews] Former President Donald Trump has chosen Sen. JD Vance of Ohio to be his vice presidential running mate this November. Trump announced his VP pick on social media just before he was to accept the presidential nomination at the in Milwaukee on Monday.
A source familiar with Vance's selection told CBS News that Vance flew privately to Mar a Lago to meet with Trump Saturday morning. He received the call from Trump asking him to be his running mate 20 minutes before the former president announced his selection on social media.
Trump said in his social media post, "After lengthy deliberation and thought, and considering the tremendous talents of many others, I have decided that the person best suited to assume the position of Vice President of the United States is Senator J.D. Vance of the Great State of Ohio."
He said of Vance that he had "honorably served our Country in the Marine Corps, graduated from Ohio State University in two years, Summa Cum Laude, and is a Yale Law School Graduate, where he was Editor of The Yale Law Journal, and President of the Yale Law Veterans Association."
The former president noted that Vance's book, "Hillbilly Elegy," was a bestseller that "championed the hardworking men and women of our Country." And he pointed to Vance's previous career as a venture capitalist.
A source familiar with Vance's selection told CBS News that Vance flew privately to Mar a Lago to meet with Trump Saturday morning. He received the call from Trump asking him to be his running mate 20 minutes before the the former president announced his selection on social media.
Vance, who is just 39, is half Trump's age, is one of the youngest men to be a vice presidential nominee and is political neophyte, a first-term senator who's only been in office for about a year and a half.
Sources confirmed before Vance's selection was announced that Florida Sen. Marco Rubio and North Dakota Gov. Doug Burgum, who were also considered to be top contenders for the No. 2 job, were informed that they had not been chosen. Upon the announcement that Vance was the pick, Burgum said in a social media post that his "small town roots and service to country make him a powerful voice for the America First Agenda."
Although Vance wasn't at the Pennsylvania rally where a shooter made an attempt on the former president's life, the senator expressed his concern and support for the president from Ohio. He also shared fundraising information for the families of those who were killed or injured at the rally.
The Trump campaign released a campaign video showing clips of Vance appearing on the campaign trail with Trump, and his TV appearances and concluded it with the Trump-Vance campaign logo.
Vance has frequently joined Trump on the campaign trail and was long considered to be on the shortlist of VP contenders. Vance and his wife, Usha, were spotted leaving their Ohio home Monday morning, a sign that Vance might be the pick.
Ohio has been a reliably Republican-dominated state in recent elections, although the senior senator from the state, Sherrod Brown, is a Democrat and is also up for reelection this year. But Trump has focused less on choosing a running mate from a key battleground state and more on the qualities in a candidate that matter most to him.
Trump has prioritized picking a running mate who would be loyal to him and support him publicly, as Vance has increasingly done through the years.
Initially, though, Vance harshly criticized Trump and was an avowed "Never-Trump guy." Earlier this year, Fox News' Bett Baier confronted Vance with some of his previous statements, including comments that Trump could be "America's Hitler" and "cultural heroin." Vance told Baier he was "wrong" about Trump.
"I think you should, when you are wrong about something, you should change your mind and be honest with people about that fact," Vance said in the interview.
Vance grew up in challenging circumstances, largely raised by his grandparents before going on to college and law school at Yale.
Now one of Trump's most vocal allies, Vance defended the former president during his criminal trial in Manhattan, including after his conviction on 34 felony counts of falsifying business records for "hush money" payments.
"The entire purpose of this trial was to allow the media and the Democrats to say exactly that," Vance told CNN after the New York verdict. "This was never about justice, this is about plastering 'convicted felon' all over the airwaves when in reality the only thing that Donald Trump is guilty of is being in the courtroom of a political sham trial."
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Trump really needs people who understand government, legislation and federal executive rulemaking. It doesn't have to be his VP but it would have been nice to have someone who could help a bit with that.
Remember that during Trump's first term his own bureaucracy conspired against him (many of the 51 'laptop is Russian' people were part of Trump's govt. and of course Fauci was part of the permanent govt.). A big failure of the Trump admin was that they didn't start border control until the 3rd year of his term partly because of a lack of understanding of the process of govt.
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What I like is, it's not another 60-70 year old. Time to change the guard.
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Picking someone who will be just as much as a threat to Deep State as Trump instead of some compromised RINO.
#10
A major fore behind Vance and a key source of his meteoric rise is Tucker Carlson. Did you note Tuckers proximity to Trump last night and their repeated conversations. It was amusing to see the entire Fox TV crew assiduously never even mention Tuckers presence. Fox has made him taboo, a glaring mistake given his obvious influence in the months to come.
[Jpost] A global leader in rail transportation, Israel Railways has developed innovative electric trains, smart stations incorporating artificial intelligence, and cellular frequencies for train management.
A multi-volume chronology and reference guide set detailing three years of the Mexican Drug War between 2010 and 2012.
Rantburg.com and borderlandbeat.com correspondent and author Chris Covert presents his first non-fiction work detailing
the drug and gang related violence in Mexico.
Chris gives us Mexican press dispatches of drug and gang war violence
over three years, presented in a multi volume set intended to chronicle the death, violence and mayhem which has
dominated Mexico for six years.
Rantburg was assembled from recycled algorithms in the United States of America. No
trees were destroyed in the production of this weblog. We did hurt some, though. Sorry.
