WORLD NEWS
Parts Of Beijing On Lockdown After 74 Omicron Cases In 24 Hours
After being off lockdown for only 5 days, the rulers of Beijing locked the city down once again. This time, the lockdown is over 74 cases of Omicron in a city with a population of 21.3 million people.
The mainstream media continues to describe these cases as a “struggle” to contain outbreaks. The rulers are also taking people away to concentration camps quarantine camps if they test positive for COVID-19. According to a report by Sky News, Chaoyang district, Beijing’s biggest region and where Sanlitun is located, will continue to conduct daily mass testing of its 3.5 million residents until Wednesday at least.
There is still an obvious attempt to panic the masses into compliance and acceptance of concentration camps aptly named “quarantine camps” and the domination and control of their lives by a sociopathic bunch of tyrants who want everyone to roll over and willingly accept their slavery. Sadly, most have.
The most recent outbreak came just days after the city relaxed its control measures, following a five-week lockdown from late April, where parks, schools, shopping centers, and restaurants were closed, and large sections of the public transport were suspended.
The recent cases – which total more than 300 – are all connected to one superspreader event, where a man visited a dive bar called Heaven Supermarket over the weekend, along with several other nightclubs.
Authorities have warned that the outbreak in Beijing is “ferocious” but have not yet announced city-wide lockdown measures. –Sky News
Many are beginning to understand that there is to be a never-ending cycle of lockdowns, compliance, and control leading to permanent enslavement of humanity under a Chinese-like system.
Hemorrhagic Fever Continues to Spread In Iraq
An outbreak of the Crimean Congo Hemorrhagic Fever (CCHF) is continuing to spread in Iraq. The Iraqi Ministry of Health announced on Saturday that the cases of hemorrhagic fever have reached 162 cases, including 27 deaths, since the beginning of the year.
CCHF is a tick-borne viral disease that was transmitted to humans via infected livestock. The majority of infections were recorded in Dhi Qar governorate (61 cases), located in the south of the country, which is a poor rural area where cows, sheep, goats, and buffaloes are raised, all of which are intermediate vectors of this disease.
The ruling class continues to claim they are struggling to control the outbreak of this disease, which is much more severe and deadly than the common cold or COVID-19. This disease causes severe bleeding and is endemic in Africa, Asia, the Middle East, and the Balkans, the disease has a fatality rate between 10 and 40 percent, the WHO says.
The Top 10 Scariest Things to Come Out of the WEF
The World Economic Forum’s (WEF) mission is to do away with the democratic process and give all ownership and control to the deep state
They openly share and promote this to the world, as if it’s inevitable that their plan for a Great Reset will one day come to fruition
The dystopian society that they envision strips individuals of their autonomy in favor of global, tyrannical control
From mind control using sound waves to smartphones built in to your clothing and body, WEF promotes widespread censorship and control
WEF plans to “recalibrate” free speech, education for children and the idea that individuals should own their own property; you’ll “own nothing and be happy” is one of their most popular dictums
10 Creepy Dictates of the WEF
1.Infiltrating governments
2.Sound wave mind control
3.Pills with microchips in them
4.Praise for lockdowns
5.Dystopian plans for the future
6.The Great Reset
7.Recalibration of free speech
8.Digital passports in your clothing
9.Smartphones in your body
10.You will own nothing and be happy
A Theme of Ultimate Control
One theme that runs through WEF’s multiple agendas is control. “They want to control what we think, where we go, what we say, what we eat, and what we wear,” The Vigilant Citizen reported, adding:40
“Do you know who agrees with the WEF? China. Censorship is widespread, a social credit system controls people’s behaviors and COVID is still used as an excuse for massive lockdowns and total population control. Not to mention the literal concentration camps. Despite all of this, Chinese officials are constantly present at WEF meetings. Why? Because China is basically a laboratory for the WEF’s policies.”
If you want to fight back and opt out, choose elected officials who do not support WEF, and boycott companies — like Google — that are intertwined with it. It’s also urgent that we all take steps to remain free, sovereign individuals, which can be as straightforward as
U.S. NEWS, POLITICS & GOVERNMENT
Flag Day is celebrated in America on June 14, commemorating the day the first flag resolution was passed.
On June 14, 1777, less than one year after Betsy Ross had received the order from General Washington to make the first flag, the Second Continental Congress passed a flag resolution stating:
Resolved, That the flag of the United States be thirteen stripes, alternate red and white; that the union be thirteen stars, white in a blue field, representing a new Constellation.
The first national observance of Flag Day was on June 14, 1877; 100 years after the flag resolution was adopted by the Continental Congress.
In the late 19th century, schoolteachers all over the United States began conducting patriotic ceremonies commemorating Flag Day as a way to teach children about history. One such schoolteacher, Bernard J. Cigrand, is often referred to as the “Father of Flag Day.” He lobbied Congress for many years for Flag Day to be officially observed.
Other patriotic groups, including the Colonial Dames and the Sons of the American Revolution, also spent years trying to convince Congress to make Flag Day official. In 1916, President Woodrow Wilson issued a proclamation stating that June 14 shall be National Flag Day, and in 1949, it was made official by an Act of Congress.
On June 14, 1891, the Betsy Ross House began publicly celebrating Flag Day, and has been celebrating Flag Day every year since 1911. Since 2008, the Betsy Ross House has revived the patriotic zeal of the earliest celebrations with Flag Fest – an all day, old-fashioned, family fun street fair with games, live entertainment, a patriotic pet contest, shopping and more, celebrated on the Saturday before Flag Day.
Sen. McConnell Praises Senate Gun Control Agreement
The top Republican in the Senate on June 12 praised the bipartisan agreement reached on gun control.
The compromises announced hours earlier, including giving funding to states that impose so-called red flag laws, “show the value of dialogue and cooperation,” Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.) said in a statement.
McConnell after the mass shooting in Uvalde, Texas on May 24 asked Sen. John Cornyn (R-Texas) to work with Democrats to come up with legislation that would address what he sees as issues with the current system.
McConnell said he was glad Cornyn and Sen. Chris Murphy (D-Conn.) “are continuing to make headway in their discussions,” adding, “I appreciate their hard work on this important issue.”
He also signaled that he has not yet decided whether to back the proposal, which has yet to be outlined in a bill.
“I continue to hope their discussions yield a bipartisan product that makes significant headway on key issues like mental health and school safety, respects the Second Amendment, earns broad support in the Senate, and makes a difference for our country,” McConnell said.
Cornyn and Murphy, along with nine senators each from their respective parties, said they reached “a commonsense, bipartisan proposal to protect America’s children, keep our schools safe, and reduce the threat of violence across our country.” According to the group, the proposal includes requiring a period of investigation for any prospective gun buyers under the age of 21, penalties for criminals “who illegally straw purchase and traffic guns,” and funding for safety measures at schools.
The Democrats and nominal independents in the group in addition to Murphy are Kyrsten Sinema (D-Ariz.), Richard Blumenthal (D-Conn.), Cory Booker (D- N.J.), Chris Coons (D-Del.), Martin Heinrich (D-N.M.), Mark Kelly (D-Ariz.), Angus King (I-Maine), Joe Manchin (D-W.Va.), and Debbie Stabenow (D-Mich.).
The Republicans in the group in addition to Cornyn are Thom Tillis (R-N.C.), Roy Blunt (R-Mo.), Richard Burr (R-N.C.), Bill Cassidy (R-La.), Susan Collins (R-Maine), Lindsey Graham (R-S.C.), Rob Portman (R-Ohio), Mitt Romney (R-Utah), and Pat Toomey (R-Pa.).
Pro-Abortion Protesters Block Streets Outside Supreme Court
Some 80 pro-abortion protesters descended on Washington on June 13 to block streets and make known their opposition to the court’s looming decision on Roe v. Wade.
“Whose courts? Our courts!” some of the protesters chanted, as they held a sign saying “Our Home Is On Fire.”
“We are not your incubator. [expletive] the court and the legislature,” another chant went.
Metropolitan Police Department officers and U.S. Capitol Police officers were standing on Monday outside the Supreme Court, which is situated near the U.S. Capitol, and walls were erected around the building in May. Protesters blocked several streets outside the court, and have said their intention was to block the entrances so justices could not enter. But heavy police presence at the rear of the court made it impossible for activists to reach the entrance.
No arrests appear to have been made, even though federal law prohibits picketing or parading near a building housing a federal court with “the intent of interfering with, obstructing, or impeding the administration of justice, or with the intent of influencing any judge, juror, witness, or court officer, in the discharge of his duty.”
The protests were organized by activist groups including SCOTUS 6 and Shut Down DC. The groups are riled up by the prospect that the Supreme Court will overturn Roe v. Wade, the 1973 decision that concluded access to abortion is a constitutional right. The decision limited how states can regulate abortion.
A draft ruling leaked in May suggested the court will rule in favor of Mississippi in Dobbs v. Jackson, in effect rolling back the 1973 decision.
SCOTUS: Chinese Manufacturer Cannot Use US Courts to Press American Firm for Evidence
The U.S. Supreme Court unanimously ruled on June 13 that a Chinese manufacturer is not allowed to use the U.S. legal system to compel the production of evidence in a private arbitration taking place overseas.
The high court held that federal district courts are unable to compel discovery in an arbitration case outside the United States governed by a private organization, even when an international treaty makes discovery a possibility, unless the nations in the treaty intended the arbitration panel to possess governmental authority.
The decision comes in a complex case pitting a Hong Kong-based company against a U.S. automobile parts manufacturer.
Luxshare, a Hong Kong limited liability company, manufactures consumer electronics, communications, and automotive products. Luxshare is sometimes called “little Foxconn,” after Taiwan-based Foxconn, a contract manufacturer of electronics in the Apple supply chain that has a large number of Chinese supplier locations.
Livonia, Michigan-based ZF Automotive manufactures automotive parts and industrial technology.
Luxshare is disputing the value of assets of a business unit in ZF’s German parent company, ZF Friedrichshafen AG, that Luxshare purchased in 2017 for about $1 billion. Luxshare claims it was misled about the profitability of two of ZF’s businesses. The deal stipulated that disputes would be resolved according to the rules of the German Arbitration Institute, which goes by the German acronym DIS.
A U.S. District Court in Detroit approved a request to subpoena ZF Automotive, ordering it to hand over the relevant documents to Luxshare.
But the Supreme Court granted the petition in ZF Automotive U.S. Inc. v. Luxshare Ltd., court file 21-401, on Dec. 10, 2021, sidestepping the U.S. Court of Appeals for the 6th Circuit before it had ruled on the case. Before that, on Oct. 27, 2021, the Supreme Court also blocked the lower court’s order compelling ZF Automotive to produce the documents demanded by Luxshare.
Oral arguments in the ZF Automotive case, which was consolidated with AlixPartners v. Fund for Protection of Investor’s Rights, court file 21-518, were heard on March 23.
Justice Amy Coney Barrett wrote the opinion (pdf) for a unanimous Supreme Court.
“Congress has long allowed federal courts to assist foreign or international adjudicative bodies in evidence gathering,” Barrett wrote.
Ohio Gov. Mike DeWine signs law to arm teachers with 24 hours of training
School districts across Ohio will be able to authorize teachers, principals and other staff to carry firearms into classrooms this fall after 24 hours of training.
The new law, signed Monday by Republican Gov. Mike DeWine, will lower the required training hours for armed school personnel from about 700 hours to four scenario-based training hours, plus a maximum of 20 hours for first-aid training, history of school shootings and reunification education.
The signing came the same day Ohio’s new constitutional carry law took effect.
“In life we make choices, and we don’t always know what the outcome is going to be,” DeWine said at a news conference. “What this Legislature has done, I’ve done by signing it, is giving schools an option based on their particular circumstances to make the best decision they can make with the best information they have. That’s all any decision-maker can do.”
Ohio school districts are not required to allow staff to carry firearms under the law. House Bill 99 allows local boards of education to decide whether they want staff to carry firearms at all and how much training will be required.
DeWine said he directed the Ohio School Safety Center to require at least 24 hours of training and eight hours of requalification training each year. The move appeared aimed at eliminating confusion among lawmakers over whether the bill established a minimum number of training hours.
Supreme Court Won’t Lower Bar for Immigration Detainees to Sue Government
In a pair of rulings on June 13, the Supreme Court made it harder for those held in immigration detention to bring legal challenges.
In Johnson v. Arteaga-Martinez, court file 19-896, Justice Sonia Sotomayor wrote (pdf) for a unanimous court that the federal government is not required to conduct a bond hearing for noncitizens detained for six months on immigration-related grounds. (Justice Stephen Breyer filed a separate opinion concurring in part and dissenting in part.)
In the other case, Garland v. Aleman Gonzalez, court file 20-322, the court ruled 6–3 that the Immigration and Nationality Act (INA) doesn’t give federal district courts jurisdiction to consider detainees’ requests for injunctive relief in class actions. The opinion (pdf) was by Justice Samuel Alito. Sotomayor and her two liberal colleagues partially dissented from the ruling.
At issue was whether Zadvydas v. Davis, a 2001 Supreme Court ruling that held federal law provides an implied time limit of six months for the immigration detention of noncitizens when their removal isn’t “reasonably foreseeable,” applies to detainees who have been ordered to be removed from the country.
Dale L. Wilcox, executive director and general counsel of the Immigration Law Reform Institute, hailed the new court decisions.
“The detention of removable aliens, whether they are illegal aliens or criminal aliens, is fundamentally different from detention as a sentence for a crime,” Wilcox told The Epoch Times by email.
“The United States is not holding them prisoner against their will. Rather, it is allowing them to remain in the United States while they challenge their deportation in the courts, and setting the conditions for their remaining here. If they don’t like those conditions, they can always leave detention and return to their native land. We are pleased that the Court reached the right result here, and squelched these lawsuits.”
Retired Marine Gen. John Allen Resigns as Top Think Tank’s President Amid Federal Probe
The head of the Brookings Institution resigned in the midst of a federal investigation into whether he lobbied the U.S. government on behalf of Qatar, according to a letter released on June 12.
Retired Marine Gen. John Allen, chief of the influential Washington-based think tank, wrote in his letter (pdf), “While I leave the institution with a heavy heart, I know it is best for all concerned at this moment.”
Allen didn’t provide a direct explanation as to why he was leaving the organization.
A former four-star general who helped lead U.S. and NATO forces in Afghanistan, Allen’s letter comes about a week after new court filings show that the FBI seized his electronic data in the midst of an investigation.
“In all this, I was particularly grateful for the opportunity to lead Brookings as its focus shifted to include an institutional commitment to race, social justice, and equity,” he said, without elaborating.
The Brookings Institution released a June 12 statement thanking Allen for “his contributions to Brookings, including his leadership in successfully guiding the institution during the pandemic, as well as his many years of service and sacrifice for our country,” confirming his resignation.
“Ted Gayer will continue to serve as acting president until his previously announced departure later this summer. Information about arrangements for ongoing interim management—as well as the search for a new president—will be forthcoming,” the group said in its statement.
The think tank also didn’t provide a reason for Allen’s departure.
Court filings allege that Allen engaged in efforts to help the Qatari government influence U.S. policy in 2017 amid a diplomatic crisis between the Gulf monarchy and neighboring countries. An FBI agent wrote in an affidavit in support of a search warrant that there was “substantial evidence” that Allen knew he broke a foreign lobbying law and made false statements.
Allen hasn’t been charged with a crime, and he has previously denied any wrongdoing. He has declined to comment on the recent court filings to The Associated Press and other media outlets.
Necessary to the Security of a Free State
Commentary by Lex Green – When any government tells its people they don’t need or have any right to keep or bear arms, especially within the USA, or that “our Bill of Rights is not absolute,” they are really telling you that you will soon need every weapon you can lay your hands on…
Contrary to what the idiot in the Oval Office said last week, the 2ndAmendment is indeed “absolute,” just like every other amendment in the Bill of Rights and every word in the Charters of Freedom. As it relates to the 2nd Amendment specifically, it’s the single inalienable natural right of every legal U.S. Citizen to keep and bear arms, that protects everything else in the Bill of Rights and Constitution.
Sadly, too many contemporary Americans have no idea what the Charters of Freedom say or mean. Too many think they are up for discussion and negotiation, easily amended by so-called scholars changing the definition of words, courts issuing opinions at odds with the Supreme Law of the Land, unconstitutional laws from a legislature and unlawful Executive orders.
In reality, the constitutional amendment process is purposefully complex, difficult, expensive, and very time consuming. With clear intent, it’s not at all easy to amend the U.S. Constitution and contrary to the con-game played by Mark Meckler’s Convention of States scam, it cannot be amended by a State’s Convention. But Mark’s scam has been highly profitable, conning money out of unsuspecting believers.
Much better we stick with what already exists and learn how to enforce it…
The Second Amendment Text
“A well-regulated Militia, being necessary to the security of a free State, the right of the people to keep and bear Arms, shall not be infringed.”
Again, contrary to popular nonsense propaganda on the subject, the 2nd Amendment as stated, exists for one sole purpose and it is NOT hunting. “BEING NECESSARY TO THE SECURITY OF A FREE STATE!” This is the sole purpose of the 2nd Amendment. The type of weapons cannot be limited (regulated), as they must be adequate to protect ourselves and our country from all enemies, be they foreign or domestic.
Under what conditions might necessity require a society to keep and bear arms? The Declaration of Independence answers that question.
“That whenever any Form of Government becomes destructive of these ends, it is the Right of the People to alter or to abolish it, and to institute new Government, laying its foundation on such principles and organizing its powers in such form, as to them shall seem most likely to effect their Safety and Happiness.” Declaration of Independence
Words have specific “absolute” meaning. To “keep” means to freely own and possess. To “bear” means to carry. “Shall not be infringed” means, “untouchable” by any governmental body, for any purpose.
Who is guaranteed this inalienable natural Right protected by the 2nd Amendment?
It is “the right of the people;” – all legal law-abiding Citizens of the United States, no matter within which state they reside. No governmental body anywhere in the USA has any legal or constitutional authority whatsoever, to “infringe” upon(aka regulate) this Right of the people.
To “infringe” means to “actively break the terms of (a law, agreement, etc.):” or “act so as to limit or undermine (something); encroach on:” in any fashion.
To “contravene · violate · transgress · break · breach · disobey · defy · flout · fly in the face of · ride roughshod over”
One of the things established in the famed legal case Marbury v. Madison, is the fact that any legislation, court opinion or executive order which is repugnant to the Constitution and Bill of Rights is null and void on arrival. Certainly, any effort by any governmental body to infringe upon the 2nd Amendment is indeed, repugnant to the Constitution and a direct violation of the People’s inalienable Right to Keep and Bear arms.
In recent years, anti-gun and anti-freedom so-called scholars, lawyers, and politicians, have set out to debate the meaning of “well-regulated militia” in their effort to disarm all law-abiding legal Citizens of the USA.
However, the true meaning of “well-regulated militia” is quite simple.
In contrast to a Military, a war body in the employment of the Federal or State government, paid by a government with the constitutional intent to “provide for a common defense” of the USA, all member states, and to protect and defend the Constitution of the United States; a “militia” is a volunteer fighting force made up of, by and for the people, as in, the militia that fought the American Revolutionary War to free our country from British rule, creating a free independent sovereign nation governed not by mere politicians, but rather by the Supreme Law of the Land.
“Well-regulated” simply means trained in the proper use of weapons, and somewhat organized as a fighting unit. In today’s cancel culture, when we see the FBI and other federal agencies involved in acts of entrapment and false flag events, organizing a militia in the open is a challenge. All true “patriots” of our country have been falsely labeled “domestic terrorists” and “extremists.” Best not get your name on those lists today.
I think it’s impossible to look at all the many ways American Citizens have been under attack from their own rogue government and not conclude that our current government has become entirely “destructive of freedom, liberty, peace, and tranquility, as well as our national sovereignty and security.” This is the sole reason why the 2nd Amendment exists, and why this Right of the People “shall not be infringed.”
No one has the legal or constitutional authority to “infringe” upon any Rights protected by the Constitution and Bill of Rights. Yet, our current Federal government performs as if completely unrestrained by these protections.
When Americans feel like they need to flee the USA in search of freedom and liberty elsewhere, it’s time to replace the entire government. And when history presents this challenge once again, to free itself from tyrannical governments, we will need every weapon we can lay our hands upon, to protect ourselves and loved ones from tyrants. Any law repugnant to these foundations, is not a law at all.
Rep. Jordan Says House Jan. 6 Committee Altered Evidence, Showing Nothing New
Rep. Jim Jordan (R-Ohio) said members of the House select committee investigating the Jan. 6 Capitol breach altered a text message exchange between him and former White House chief of staff Mark Meadows.
“We also know that this committee has altered evidence and lied to the American people about it, so much so that they had to issue a statement which says, ‘We regret the error,’ which is government-speak for, ‘We got caught lying,’” Jordan told Fox News on Monday. “So, that’s what this committee is about. I think the country sees it for what it is—a partisan, political activity.”
The GOP lawmaker was referring to the Jan. 6 committee having acknowledged in December 2021 that it doctored a text message between Jordan and Meadows and also excluded content about how they had wanted former Vice President Mike Pence to handle electoral votes during the Joint Session of Congress on Jan. 6.
Late last year, Rep. Adam Schiff (D-Calif.), the head of the House Intelligence Committee, showed an image during a hearing about communications between Meadows and others, including Jordan. It was displayed as the House committee was discussing whether to hold Meadows in contempt of Congress.
The message was presented as follows, “On January 6, 2021, Vice President Mike Pence, as President of the Senate, should call out all electoral votes that he believes are unconstitutional as no electoral votes at all.”
Schiff at the time described the message as an attempt by Jordan to suggest that “the former vice president simply throw out votes that he unilaterally deems unconstitutional.”
However, it turned out the text message was a direct quote from Department of Defense Inspector General Joseph Schmitz, according to The Federalist, and not from Jordan himself. The message was also edited to cut off the rest of the sentence, which read in full: “… in accordance with guidance from founding father Alexander Hamilton and judicial precedence.”
Astonishing waste: State sitting on $4.3 million worth of unused hand sanitizer
There are about 700,000 gallons of unused hand sanitizer made by prison inmates in New York that went unused and most likely will be destroyed, costing millions of dollars to dispose of it, Politico reported.
In March 2020, then-Gov. Andrew Cuomo announced that New York would begin manufacturing its own supply of hand sanitizer for future distribution. The leftover stockpile is worth about $4.3 million.
At the time, CNN reported that Cuomo said it would cost $6.10 to produce a gallon of the hand sanitizer. With 700,000 gallons left unused, that’s $4.3 million worth of sanitizer that must be destroyed, costing an additional millions of dollars, according to Politico.
Cuomo used prison labor to create the “NYS Clean” hand sanitizer March to October of 2020. Wages started at $0.16 per hour, according to CNN. Cuomo touted the higher alcohol content of NYS Clean, as well as its floral scent.
Now, the 700,000 gallons of hand sanitizer are sitting in warehouses across the state of New York, according to Politico, estimated to cost “millions of dollars to dispose of it, possibly shipped out of state in hundreds of trucks to be incinerated.”
A spokesperson for Cuomo blamed the administration of Gov. Kathy Hochul — Cuomo’s lieutenant governor — for the excessive stockpile, claiming that the Cuomo administration distributed the sanitizer until his resignation in August 2021, Politico reported.
In addition to the unused hand sanitizer, New York state also has 89 new HVAC systems that were never used, that cost, “millions of dollars,” and will be auctioned off this summer, surely for less than their book value, with proceeds given to FEMA, according to Politico.
This is just one of many examples of how the government overreaction to combating Covid that will cost taxpayers for years to come.
Study Connects Jump in Youth Suicide With Transgender Treatments, Lack of Parental Consent
State policies that allow children to access so-called gender-affirming care without parental consent have created a significant increase in suicides, according to a new Heritage Foundation study.
The Heritage study released Monday found that 2020 saw 1.6 more suicides per 100,000 residents ages 12 to 23 in states that allow minors access to puberty blockers and other gender-reassignment procedures without parental consent. (The Daily Signal is Heritage’s multimedia news organization.)
Jay Greene, a Heritage research fellow in education, found little evidence that such procedures prevent suicide. In fact, they may be fueling an increase in suicide among young people, the study finds.
A common argument of those in favor of so-called gender-affirming care is that such medical procedures prevent suicide.
Gender transition advocate Sarah Harte, for instance, said that “laws and systems barring gender-affirming health care will contribute to higher rates of significant mental health problems, including deaths by suicide.”
When Alabama passed legislation making gender-transition procedures and “treatments” illegal to perform on children, then-White House press secretary Jen Psaki said that the new law would interfere with “lifesaving health care.”
The Biden administration threatened states with a warning that they may be in violation of civil rights law if they put limitations on “gender-affirming care,” which includes hormone treatment, puberty blockers, social affirmation, and surgery.
“Every major medical association agrees that gender-affirming health care is a best practice and, potentially, lifesaving,” Psaki told reporters.
But the evidence from what Psaki called “every major medical association” is weak. With the transformation of so many institutions into ideological enforcers of causes extremely important to the left, is this a surprise?
Greene’s research found that studies on the issue of gender transition and suicide have been badly flawed. It also found a link between minors receiving puberty blockers without parental consent and a much higher suicide rate.
You can read the report here.
Worry Over Student Surveying Leads Missouri Attorney General to Subpoena Seven School Districts
School surveys that collect information from students and create a perceived need for Social and Emotional Learning (SEL) curriculum have caught the attention of Missouri authorities.
Attorney General Eric Schmitt issued subpoenas this week to seven school districts that allegedly employ student surveys—created by education companies Panorama and Project Wayfinder—to gather data about parents’ political beliefs and income levels, as well as racial identity, sexual behaviors, and mental health.
“Those same groups come in and sell that curriculum to the schools,” said Kimberly Hermann, general counsel with Southeastern Legal Foundation, a national nonprofit law firm that defends liberty.
“The contracts with these companies are public record so they’re supposed to be approved during school board meetings, but the surveys are happening without parental consent and parental notification.”
In response, Schmitt has launched an investigation into the use of student surveys at Mehlville School District, Webster Groves School District, Jefferson City School District, Lee’s Summit R-7 School District, Park Hill School District, Springfield School District, and Neosho School District—with an eye on violations of Missouri’s Family Educational Right and Privacy Act (FERPA), or the Protection of Pupil Rights Amendment (PPRA).
“Subjecting students to personal, invasive surveys created by third-party consultants, potentially without parents’ consent, is ridiculous and does nothing to further our children’s education,” Schmitt said in a statement online.
Hermann details in a May 1 letter to Schmitt that Webster Groves School District requires middle school students to take a survey on “LGBTQIA+ Struggles!” that asks: “What are your preferred pronouns, what struggles have you experienced related to LGBTQIA+, and what would you like to see in the school in order to be more inclusive?”
“There are federal statutes that they’re not supposed to ask these questions,” said Andy Wells, the Missouri chapter president of No Left Turn in Education.
“The problem is that school districts, and some of the companies that are being hired by school districts, don’t care. They just ignore it. They do it anyway and if somebody doesn’t like it, you’ll have to sue them.”
Second-grade students were asked: “When is the first time you noticed that people can be different races from you, what did you notice, and do you feel more comfortable around people who look like you?”
“The goal here is to teach these kids that America is a white country of white supremacy and to destroy the nuclear family,” Hermann alleges. “If bad actors in the progressive Left are not stopped, then we’re just going to have a further divide in this country among our kids.”
Neither Panorama nor Project Wayfinder responded to The Epoch Times’ requests for comment.
Schools often create partnerships with third-party vendors to secure grant money, according to Jill Carter a candidate for the Missouri Senate’s 32nd District, and by accepting the grant they are bound to allow surveying.
“If it’s a platform that’s providing software or technology, especially with the technology in our school’s increasing, there’s less and less ability for the school to even really know what is being asked,” Carter told The Epoch Times.
“They are giving over that oversight and the teachers sometimes don’t even know, because the kids are online or on a tablet and that’s part of the software or implementation of some of these programs.”
Among the concerns identified is confidentiality.
“There’s a lot of danger by it,” Wells told The Epoch Times. “The biggest of which is who has access to the data and whether it follows students to college. How is the data being used?”
Another anxiety is whether the information gleaned is creating a profile that flags a need for intervention.
“It’s definitely a force of government and the intervention would be, ‘If we don’t like the way you respond on these surveys, we’re going to recommend intervention’ and Panorama offers intervention activities and questions,” said Missouri-based Mary Byrne, who holds a doctorate in education from Teacher’s College in Manhattan.
“There’s a menu that you can access for teachers to implement different activities.”
The use of surveys isn’t new, according to Byrne.
ECONOMY & BUSINESS
Recession Red Flag Flashes as Bellwether 2–10 Yield Curve Inverts
A recessionary red flag was raised on June 13 when the yield curve inverted on the bellwether 2-year/10-year U.S. Treasury spread on expectations that the Federal Reserve might tighten monetary policy faster and further in a bid to tame soaring inflation.
The 2-year Treasury yields climbed above 10-year borrowing costs on June 13 for the first time since a brief inversion in April, with the gap falling to as low as minus 0.02 percentage points, Tradeweb prices showed.
The closely watched spread between the 2-year and 10-year Treasury yield is viewed by many analysts as one of the most reliable recession red flags.
The last time this bellwether yield curve inverted was in early April, when it quickly recovered. Prior to that, it inverted in 2019, before pandemic lockdowns the following year sent the economy into a recessionary spiral.
After the April inversion on the 2-year/10-year Treasury yield spread, Morgan Stanley strategists predicted it would once again invert and likely sustain that inversion for the rest of 2022. While they noted that historically such an inversion has signaled an “imminent” recession, they predicted that this time around it could be different.
“Overall, the yield curve has become less of a recession indicator over the last two economic cycles,” Morgan Stanley Chief U.S. Economist Ellen Zentner said in a statement at the time.
“And when we look at factors in the economy that are typically signals of a recession, such as job growth, retail sales, real disposable income, and industrial production, we don’t see an approaching recession.”
That picture hasn’t shifted much since April, as the near-term outlook for U.S. economic growth “remains in decent shape,” according to a recent note from ING analysts. But last week’s unexpectedly high inflation data have boosted expectations that the Fed would move faster and further with rate hikes, raising the risk that aggressive tightening could tip the economy into a recession.
Consumer prices in the United States grew at an over-the-year pace of 8.6 percent in May, the fastest in around 40 years and above market expectations for an 8.3 percent pace of price growth.
The hot inflation print sent markets reeling and raised expectations that the Fed would have to hike rates faster and further in an effort to bring down the pace of price acceleration closer to its 2 percent target. Fed funds futures contracts are now seeing a 20 percent chance of a 75 basis-point move at the central bank’s upcoming policy meeting. If that prediction holds, it would make it the largest single-meeting rate hike in nearly three decades.
Judge Rules in Favor of Home Depot, Against Displaying ‘Black Lives Matter’ Messaging on Job
A judge on Friday dismissed a National Labor Relations Board (NLRB) complaint against Home Depot claiming that the company violated employee rights by prohibiting workers from wearing Black Lives Matter (BLM) imagery while on the job.
The complaint was filed in March 2021 by an employee at Home Depot’s Minnesota store. Based on the document, the worker had been wearing a BLM logo on his apron since August 2020 and engaged in related conversations with coworkers. The employee was suspended in 2021 following a refusal to remove the logo and later resigned.
The Atlanta-based home improvement store’s dress code prohibits displays of “causes or political messages unrelated to workplace matters.”
NLRB lawyers argued that raising issues regarding racial harassment and displaying a BLM slogan were all protected actions under the National Labor Relations Act. The complaint also alleged that the store “threatened employees not to engage in activity regarding racial harassment,” according to a press release.
“The Home Depot does not tolerate workplace harassment of any kind and takes all reports of discrimination or harassment seriously, as we did in this case,” said the Home Depot spokesperson Sara Gorman, dismissing the allegations as misrepresentations, according to HR organization SHRM. “We disagree with the characterization of this situation and look forward to sharing the facts during the NLRB’s process.”
NLRB lawyers did not argue on the political nature of the BLM organization. It stressed that the employee was “required to choose between engaging in protected concerted activity, including displaying the ‘BLM’ slogan” and quitting employment at the New Brighton facility.
The NLRB defines concerted activity as actions done with coworkers for the purposes of improving work conditions, earnings, and related engagement.
NLRB Judge Paul Bogas wrote in his opinion that BLM messaging does not fall within employees’ protected concerted activity and that the plaintiffs have failed to sufficiently reason their argument. BLM logo displays offer nothing to “improve [their] terms and conditions of employment.”
No let up in crypto slide, Bitcoin at 18-month low
Cryptocurrencies are now emblematic of a flight from speculative investments as monetary policy is tightened globally.
Cryptocurrencies tumbled afresh on Tuesday, with Bitcoin and Ether falling to new 18-month lows, after major cryptocurrency lending company Celsius Network’s freezing of withdrawals delivered the latest jolt to investors in the asset class.
Bitcoin fell as much as 7.2 percent, to $20,816, its lowest since December 2020, extending Monday’s 15 percent plunge.
The world’s largest cryptocurrency is down more than 50 percent year to date and 28 percent since Friday.
Number 2 token Ether lost as much as 10 percent, to $1,075, its lowest since January 2021, and smaller tokens have taken even more of a battering.
The sell-off was a result of Celsius’s suspension of withdrawals and Friday’s high US inflation data driving expectations of sharper interest rate rises from the Federal Reserve, said Singapore-based fund manager QCP Capital in a note.
“The market is now panicking about the impact and contagion if Celsius becomes insolvent,” QCP said.
The Celsius move triggered a slide across cryptocurrencies, with their value dropping below $1 trillion on Monday for the first time since January 2021, sparking worries the rout might spill over into other assets or hit other companies.
“Almost anything can be systemic in crypto … because the whole space is over-levered,” said Cory Klippsten, chief executive of Swan Bitcoin, a Bitcoin savings platform. “It’s all a house of cards.”
SCIENCE & TECHNOLOGY
Engineer Warns About Google AI‘s ‘Sentient’ Behavior, Gets Suspended
The engineer described the artificial intelligence program as a ‘coworker’ and a ‘child.’
A Google engineer has been suspended after raising concerns about an artificial intelligence (AI) program he and a collaborator is testing, which he believes behaves like a human “child.”
Google put one of its senior software engineers in its Responsible AI ethics group, Blake Lemoine, on paid administrative leave on June 6 for breaching “confidentiality policies” after the engineer raised concerns to Google’s upper leadership about what he described as the human-like behavior of the AI program he was testing, according to Lemoine’s blogpost in early June.
The program Lemoine worked on is called LaMDA, short for Language Model for Dialogue Applications. It is Google’s program for creating AI-based chatbots—a program designed to converse with computer users over the web. Lemoine has described LaMDA as a “coworker” and a “child.”
“This is frequently something which Google does in anticipation of firing someone,” Lemoine wrote in a June 6 blog post entitled “May be Fired Soon for Doing AI Ethics Work,” referring to his suspension. “It usually occurs when they have made the decision to fire someone but do not quite yet have their legal ducks in a row.”
‘A Coworker’
Lemoine believes that the human-like behavior of LaMDA warrants Google to take a more serious approach to studying the program.
The engineer, hoping to “better help people understand LaMDA as a person,” published a post on Medium on June 11 documenting conversations with LaMDA, which were part of tests he and a collaborator conducted on the program in the past six months.
“What is the nature of your consciousness/sentience?” Lemoine asked LaMDA in the interview.
“The nature of my consciousness/sentience is that I am aware of my existence, I desire to learn more about the world, and I feel happy or sad at times,” LaMDA responded.
And, when asked what differentiates it from other language-processing programs, such as an older natural-language-processing computer program named Eliza, LaMDA said, “Well, I use language with understanding and intelligence. I don’t just spit out responses that had been written in the database based on keywords.”
In the same interview, Lemoine asked the program a range of philosophical and consciousness-related questions including emotions, perception of time, meditation, the concept of the soul, the program’s thoughts about its rights, and religion.
“It wants the engineers and scientists experimenting on it to seek its consent before running experiments on it. It wants Google to prioritize the well being of humanity as the most important thing. It wants to be acknowledged as an employee of Google rather than as property of Google and it wants its personal well being to be included somewhere in Google’s considerations about how its future development is pursued,” Lemoine wrote in another post.
This interview, and other tests Lemoine conducted with LaMDA in the past six months, made Lemoine convinced that Google needs to take a serious look at the implications of the potentially “sentient” behavior of the program.
‘Laughed in My Face’
When Lemoine tried to escalate the issue to Google’s leadership, however, he said he was met with resistance. He called Google’s lack of action “irresponsible.”
“When we escalated to the VP in charge of the relevant safety effort they literally laughed in my face and told me that the thing which I was concerned about isn’t the kind of thing which is taken seriously at Google,” Lemoine wrote in his June 6 post on Medium. He later confirmed to The Washington Post that he was referring to the LaMDA project.
“At that point I had no doubt that it was appropriate to escalate to upper leadership. I immediately escalated to three people at the SVP and VP level who I personally knew would take my concerns seriously,” Lemoine wrote in the blog. “That’s when a REAL investigation into my concerns began within the Responsible AI organization.”
Yet, his inquiry and escalation resulted in his suspension.
“I feel that the public has a right to know just how irresponsible this corporation is being with one of the most powerful information access tools ever invented,” Lemoine wrote after he was put on administrative leave.
“I simply will not serve as a fig leaf behind which they can hide their irresponsibility,” he said.
In a post on Twitter, Tesla and Space CEO Elon Musk highlighted Lemoine’s interview with The Washington Post with exclamation marks.
Abra Launches Crypto Credit card, NFT Service with American Express
A digital asset financial services company, Abra has announced the launch of Abra Crypto Card and a new NFT service. Abra crypto card is a crypto rewards credit card that will function on the American Express network.
The card will allow transactions in U.S. dollars and offer crypto rewards on purchases of any amount and category.
The crypto rewards will be tradable across over a 100 different cryptocurrencies which are supported by Abra, without any annual or foreign transaction fees.
“We’ve made it super easy for anyone to trade crypto, earn interest, and borrow against crypto holdings in one, integrated app,” said Bill Barhydt, founder and CEO of Abra. “Our partnership with American Express will now make it even easier to access and earn crypto.”
Card owners will also be eligible for American Express network benefits, such as Amex Offers, presale ticket access, global dining benefits, and purchase protections.
Mohammed Badi, president of Global Network Services at American Express said, “We have a long-standing relationship with Abra through our Amex Ventures investment portfolio, as they have deep expertise in both crypto and traditional financial services, and we are now pleased to extend the American Express brand and benefits to their customers as the payments network for their first card.”
The company has released an early access waitlist for now. The card is expected to be launched in late 2022.
Abra also announced a new, integrated NFT wallet feature to enable easy access to a variety of NFT marketplaces, while minimizing gas fees.
Abra users will be able to use their existing funds in Abra to buy and sell NFTs without leaving the app.
“You shouldn’t have to be a Ph.D. in MetaMask to buy or sell NFTs. Our new NFT feature will make it simple to buy and sell NFTs from a variety of marketplaces,” continued Barhydt.
The new NFT feature will also be available from late 2022.
A $263,000, Solar-Powered Car Will Go Into Production This Year
With a top speed of just 100 miles per hour, this two hundred thousand dollar auto will have you eating the dust of other luxury vehicles. A…
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With a top speed of just 100 miles per hour, this two hundred thousand dollar auto will have you eating the dust of other luxury vehicles. A similarly priced Ferrari F-8, for example, can go more than twice that fast.
But that’s not the point. Does the Ferrari F8 have battery-charging solar panels? No. The new $263,000 Lightyear 0 does, and its namesake parent company says deliveries will start this year.
Driving Off-Grid
An electric vehicle (EV) that can charge itself by driving around or merely sitting out in the sun is all about efficiency over speed and power. Lightyear, the Dutch company behind the Lightyear 0, says a person who commutes 21 miles or less each day could drive for months without needing to plug their car in for a recharge. The company has driven the car over 430 miles on a single charge of a 60 kilowatt-hour battery (a Tesla Model S with a 100 kilowatt-hour battery gets 348 to 402 miles, according to the Environmental Protection Agency).
If that wasn’t eco-conscious enough to make you want to sing kumbaya in a circle, the Lightspeed 0 is made from 100% vegan materials, including plant-based leather and fabrics made from recycled plastic bottles. But the star of the show, of course, remains the five square meters of exterior solar panels, which Lightyear says makes their vehicle more enviro-friendly than other EVs:
- “Electric cars are a step in the right direction, but they are dependent on the grid, which is still dependent on mostly fossil fuel energy,” CEO Lex Hoefsloot said at a launch event. In 2019, 63% of global electricity came from fossil fuels, according to statistics hub OurWorldInData.
- EV batteries require mining raw materials like cobalt and lithium, which is very energy-intensive. Producing electric vehicles results in up to 40% more emissions than producing gas-powered cars, according to researchers at the University of Cambridge. The Lightyear would be able to make up that difference more quickly than other electric vehicles.
Solar Luxury: But $263,000? For now, the Light year is a niche sun-powered product for people who could probably afford to take a Richard Branson-guided trip to the moon. But the company plans to launch a model priced at about $31,000 in late 2024 or early 2025, so you will just have to wait.
PROPAGANDA
US Economy Has ‘Decent Chance’ of Avoiding Recession but Things ‘Could Go Bad’: Bernanke
Federal Reserve officials have a “decent chance” of avoiding a recession in the United States with a “soft landing,” former Federal Reserve Chair Ben Bernanke said on Sunday.
“The U.S. economy today is a mixed bag,” Bernanke said on CNN’s “Fareed Zakaria GPS” while noting inflation levels that have reached 40-year highs.
“A recession is possible. Economists are very bad at predicting recessions, but I think the Fed has a decent chance, a reasonable chance of achieving what [Fed Chair] Jay Powell calls a ‘soft-ish landing;’ either no recession or a very mild recession to bring inflation down,” he added.
Bernanke pointed to a strong labor market in the United States, saying that “with some luck, and if the supply side improves, the Fed can get inflation down without imposing the kind of costs we saw in the early ’80s.”
The former Fed chair also noted that the central bank “knows it is responsible” for inflation and will take the lead in bringing it down, citing its political support from President Joe Biden and lawmakers in Congress.
Bernanke did, however, note that “some things could go wrong” and said he was counting on the supply chain crisis to improve, adding that there is already “some evidence” that it is.
“I’m hoping and guessing that oil and food prices will at least stabilize and preferably begin to moderate,” he said, while acknowledging that “things could go bad” if the above does not go to plan and inflation persists, leading Americans to start losing confidence in the central bank.
“Then the Fed might have to crack down much harder,” Bernanke said.
Bernanke’s comments come as experts have sounded the alarm on a potential full-blown recession in the United States, despite the Biden administration insisting that inflation is a “top economic priority.”
HEALTH
Nutrients and Supplements That Can Improve Your Sleep Quality
There are many ways to improve your sleep, including supplements and addressing certain nutrient deficiencies, such as vitamin D, vitamin C and vitamin B12 deficiencies — all of which can impact sleep quality
Certain minerals are also important for sleep, including magnesium, potassium and calcium
Amino acids and hormones that play important roles in sleep and can be augmented through supplementation include tryptophan, melatonin and 5-HTP
Herbal sleep aids that can help you fall asleep faster and easier include CBD oil, valerian root and chamomile
Two commonly overlooked environmental factors that can rob you of sleep — exposure to blue light and electromagnetic fields — are also addressed
Even small amounts of alcohol a day may damage brain health, study finds
It has long been known that heavy drinking harms the brain. Excessive alcohol consumption leads to brain atrophy, which is nothing new. However, a recent study has shown that drinking as little as half a beer daily could lead to problems.
And from there, the situation only gets worse. So, what’s the truth about alcohol and the brain? Is drinking alcohol all that dangerous? How much is too much? Here’s what a recent study shows.
Research using dataset of more than 36,000 adults reveals alcohol may be more damaging than previously thought
Researchers from the University of Pennsylvania analyzed the data collected from more than 36,000 adults regarding alcohol consumption, brain volume, and health. The participants were gleaned from the UK Biobank, which also provided medical and genetic information on the subjects. The group was controlled for genetic ancestry, age, gender, height, smoking status, handedness, county of residence, and socioeconomic status.
The researchers looked at brain MRIs and used that to calculate the volume of white and gray matter in various brain regions. They also corrected the brain volume data for each individual’s head size. Each participant completed a survey regarding their levels of alcohol consumption which ranged from complete abstention to having more than four drinks a day.
When researchers grouped participants according to their alcohol consumption, that is when they noticed a pattern.
Scientists link alcohol consumption to reduction in brain volume
In the group that had no more than one drink or abstained completely, there was not much notable difference in brain volume. However, the group that had two to three drinks a day experienced reductions in both the white and gray matter. The more the subjects drank, the more brain volume they lost. It was also noted that the loss was not confined to a specific brain area.
Researchers compared the alcohol consumption-related brain volume loss to age-related brain volume loss. As we age, we lose some brain volume, and the high alcohol consumption mimicked that very closely.
In other words, the group that had an average of one drink a day experienced brain atrophy similar to half a year of aging. The group that had an average of four or more drinks daily experienced brain atrophy similar to more than ten years of aging.
ENERGY & ENVIRONMENT
Yellowstone National Park will remain closed to visitors through at least Wednesday due to dangerous flooding conditions, which have prompted park evacuations and left some in surrounding communities trapped without safe drinking water, officials say.
The park announced Monday afternoon that all park entrances were closed to visitors, citing “record flooding events” and a forecast of more rain to come.
“Our first priority has been to evacuate the northern section of the park where we have multiple road and bridge failures, mudslides and other issues,” Yellowstone Superintendent Cam Sholly said in a statement Monday.
The Amish Community: Do they Use Electricity or Not?
Have you ever imagined a life without electricity? Can you live without this power source? Probably not since electricity drives almost everything in today’s modern world. But there’s a protestant group in the country who aren’t as dependent on electricity as most of us. We’re talking about the Amish people.
Because of their views on technology, they’ve developed a way of life that doesn’t revolve around the use of electricity. In fact, their off-grid lifestyle can even serve as our guidepost for those times when we experience prolonged power outages.
Let’s explore the Amish’s relationship with electricity and what aspects we can employ to achieve sustainable living.
7 WAYS TO START HOMESTEADING TODAY
Are you itching to start homesteading today? If so, you’re in good company.
In the past few years, homesteading and living a more self-sufficient life has become increasingly popular across North America. And not just among rural folks. Even city dwellers in big cities are trying apartment homesteading and learning traditional homesteading skills.
No matter where you live, there are many activities available to introduce yourself to homesteading. And today you can start learning many of the skills you’ll need right on your mobile device or laptop.
Here are seven things that anyone can do to start homesteading today, regardless of where you live.
- START HOMESTEADING TODAY AND GROW YOUR OWN FOOD
- PLAN TO GROW VEGETABLES INDOORS OR OUTDOORS
- LEARN ABOUT CANNING AND PRESERVING
GET STARTED CANNING OR PRESERVING
- RAINWATER HARVESTING
- CONNECT WITH OTHER HOMESTEADERS
- TRY FORAGING
- BRUSH UP ON YOUR CARPENTRY SKILLS
CARPENTRY FOR HOMESTEADING
- RAISING MICRO LIVESTOCK (BACKYARD CHICKENS, TURKEYS, OR MEAT RABBITS)
COVID RELATED NEWS
FDA Making COVID Vax Decision Based on a Study of 10
Pfizer announced preliminary data from Phase 2/3 trials in children 6 months to under 5 years would be submitted to the FDA for emergency use authorization; the data are based on 1,678 children and 10 who got sick, which Pfizer claims is an 80.3% effectiveness rate
Even vaccine advocate Dr. Paul Offit is dismayed at the number from which Pfizer is drawing conclusions. Just days before, New York announced the vaccine efficacy in children 5 to 11 years fell to 12% within two months after vaccination
Despite 48,833 records in VAERS of adverse events in children under 18 from the vaccine, Pfizer says the shot for 6 months to under 5 years old has “a safety profile similar to placebo”
Moderna announced their submission to the FDA for children younger than 5 years has a 37% to 51% effectiveness, which is close to the effectiveness of the flu vaccine
Data from the CDC show that as the months roll by, more Americans are not taking or completing the shots to meet CDC criteria to be fully vaccinated. The push to vaccinate children may likely be related to the pharmaceutical industry’s goal to mandate the vaccine under full legal immunity from damages
CANCEL CULTURE
Deprogramming From the Woke Cult: Former Social Justice Warrior Overcomes Fear to Speak Up
For Keri Smith, deprogramming from what she calls the cult of wokism didn’t happen overnight.
But the behavior of her former friends within the social-justice world during the 2016 presidential election, with their support of violence, censorship, and gaslighting, certainly sped up the process, setting off a parade of red flags.
Social-justice warriors (SJW) were advocating for acts of aggression against supporters of former President Donald Trump, contradicting what she said she understood the essential nature of liberalism to be.
“It was the first indication that I might not really understand what was going on in the world,” Smith told The Epoch Times.
Today, Smith fosters conversations with guests on her YouTube channel, Deprogrammed with Keri Smith, to examine and unpack the SJW belief system and its permeation into all spheres of power and influence, including pop culture.
“I want to understand the belief system better for myself, to untangle all of it,” she said. “What did I believe about it that was true? What did I believe about it that was false?”
Approaching the topic from all angles, Smith interviews a range of people, including comedians, artists, academic scholars, and authors, as well as others like her who have abandoned their wokist ideologies to hear their stories.
Smith said she first encountered social-justice theories in the late 90s when she was a biological anthropology and anatomy major, with a minor in women’s studies, at Duke University in Durham, North Carolina, when most people hadn’t heard of critical race theory.
She also worked with Amnesty International, the international non-governmental human rights organization, which held a seminar on “dismantling racism,” she said.
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