Metro Atlanta School District Sneakily Includes Gender Propaganda on School-Issued Devices

By Chris Queen Aug 18, 2022 3:14 PM ET

Even as parents have begun to make strides in exposing and reversing the trend of radical gender theory education in schools, educators are finding ways to sneak in the propaganda in ways that parents can’t easily discover.

The latest example of that is taking place just outside of Atlanta in Gwinnett County. This is the largest school district in Georgia and the same one that brought us the infamous school board president Dr. Tarece Williams, who posts bizarre TikTok videos and promotes divisive racial ideology.

Gwinnett Schools are now adding gender propaganda to the mix with what one group calls “inappropriate gender lessons” on school-issued Chromebooks that parents can’t access when logging into their children’s accounts on other devices.

Holly Terei, the Gwinnett County chapter president of No Left Turn in Education, discovered the objectionable content on the Chromebook that the school issued to her child.

“One ebook on the fourth grade page claims that gender is a social construct ‘not based on anything biological or medical,'” explains the press release from No Left Turn in Education. “It dismisses the differences between men and women as figments of societal imagination.”

Terei then discovered that she couldn’t access the content when she logged in to her child’s school account on her own laptop. Instead, the site directed her to an additional login page. She documented the difference in the login experience on different devices in a Facebook video.

Terei shot the video on school property to demonstrate that she couldn’t access the content on her own device even while using the school’s WiFi.

An IT professional with over 20 years of experience explained to PJ Media that organizations can limit certain content to specific devices by restricting the content to certain MAC addresses (which, to oversimplify, is the unique identifier of a particular device).

Terei told PJ Media that she was eventually able to access the content on her computerin a roundabout way that wouldn’t be easy for most parents to accomplish.

“Gwinnett County Schools are pushing gender lessons on kids and hiding it from their parents,” Terei said in No Left Turn’s statement. “This is a brazen attempt to supplant the role of parents in their children’s lives. Nothing in the content is educational. It does not serve students; it serves the political goals of bureaucrats.”

PJ Media reached out to Gwinnett County Schools for comment but the district did not respond by the publication of this article. If we do hear from the school system, we’ll update this article with the district’s comment or reply.

What’s going on in Gwinnett County should sound alarm bells for parents across the nation. Schools are sneaking radical gender theory propaganda into curriculum in ways that parents may never find out. Parents, be sure to keep an eye on everything your child is learning. Ask your kids questions. Ask teachers and administrators questions. The more you know what’s going on with your kids, the more prepared you’ll be to speak out against the radical ideas the schools want to plant in the heads of your children.

https://pjmedia.com/news-and-politics/chris-queen/2022/08/18/metro-atlanta-school-district-sneakily-includes-gender-propaganda-on-school-issued-devices-n1622132

Eagles vs. Greens: Golden Eagles Becoming Endangered Because of Wind Farms

By Rick Moran Aug 18, 2022 10:33 AM ET

Since wind farms became part of the landscape, it’s become obvious that wind energy may save the planet from climate change but birds are going to suffer the consequences. Up to a million birds a year are killed after zigging when they should have zagged near a wind farm. And that tally is expected to explode with the new climate bill throwing billions of dollars at the wind turbine industry.

Wind farms are located in areas that experience steady winds. Just by coincidence, these areas are also home to birds that use the wind to hunt by soaring over vast distances looking for food.

Of particular interest are declining golden eagle populations; the raptors’ habitat is now ground zero for wind farm expansion. Golden eagles are teetering on the edge of being declared an endangered species unless some way can be found to protect them.

Associated Press:

Federal officials have tried to curb turbine deaths, while avoiding any slowdown in the growth of wind power as an alternative to carbon-emitting fossil fuels — a key piece of President Joe Biden’s climate agenda.

In April, a Florida-based power company pleaded guilty in federal court in Wyoming to criminal violations of wildlife protection laws after its wind turbines killed more than 100 golden eagles in eight states. It was the third conviction of a major wind company for killing eagles in a decade.

Despite the deaths, scientists like Bedrosian say more turbines are needed to fight climate change. He and colleague Charles Preston are finding ways wind companies can reduce or offset eagle deaths, such as building in areas less frequented by the birds, improving habitat elsewhere or retrofitting power poles to make them less perilous when eagles land.

But what the scientists can’t do is reduce the amount of land needed to generate electricity on an industrial scale using wind or solar power. A nuclear plant like Diablo Canyon in California sits on about 1.3 square miles of land. To generate a comparable amount of electricity using wind power would require 500 square miles of land.

It would help scientists if federal officials would reveal the number of golden eagles killed by wind farms. But strangely, that information has been tagged “sensitive law enforcement” information. One company, NextEra Energy, one of the largest U.S. renewable energy providers, pleaded guilty to three counts of violating the Migratory Bird Treaty Act and was ordered to pay more than $8 million in fines. About 150 golden eagles in eight states became “victims.”

But should we really criminalize accidents that kill birds who don’t have the intelligence to avoid wind turbines?

Prosecutors said the company’s failure to take steps to protect eagles or to obtain permits to kill the birds gave it an advantage over competitors that did take such steps — even as NextEra and affiliates received hundreds of millions of dollars in federal tax credits for wind power.

The company remained defiant after the plea deal: NextEra President Rebecca Kujawa said bird collisions with turbines were unavoidable accidents that should not be criminalized.

Utilities Duke Energy and PacifiCorp previously pleaded guilty to similar charges in Wyoming. North Carolina-based Duke Energy was sentenced in 2013 to $1 million in fines and restitution and five years probation following deaths of 14 golden eagles and 149 other birds at two of the company’s wind projects.

The Greens feel very, very bad about the bird deaths. But it’s a small price to pay to save the planet, right?

https://pjmedia.com/news-and-politics/rick-moran/2022/08/18/eagles-vs-greens-golden-eagles-becoming-endangered-because-of-wind-farms-n1622102

'Civil War' Porn

By Victor Davis Hanson Aug 18, 2022 12:28 AM ET

As President Joe Biden’s polls stagnate and the midterms approach, we are now serially treated to yet another progressive melodrama about the dangers of a supposed impending radical right-wing violent takeover.This time the alleged threat is a Neanderthal desire for a “civil war.”

The FBI raid on former President Donald Trump’s Florida home, the dubious rationale for such a historic swoop, and the popular pushback at the FBI and Department of Justice from roughly half the country have further fueled these giddy “civil war” conjectures.

Recently “presidential historian” Michael Beschloss speculated about the parameters of such an envisioned civil war. Beschloss is an ironic source. Just days earlier, he had tweeted references to the executions of Julius and Ethel Rosenberg, who passed U.S. nuclear secrets to the Soviet Union in the 1950s, in connection with the FBI raid on Mar-a-Lago.

That was a lunatic insinuation that Trump might justly suffer the same lethal fate due to his supposed mishandling of “nuclear secrets.” Unhinged former CIA Director Michael Hayden picked up on Beschloss death-penalty prompt, adding that it “sounds about right.”

Hayden had gained recent notoriety for comparing Trump’s continuance of the Obama Administration’s border detention facilities to Hitler’s death camps. And he had assured the public that Hunter Biden’s lost and incriminating laptop was likely “Russian disinformation.”

So, like the earlier “Russian collusion” hoax, and the January 6 “insurrection,” the supposed right-wing inspired civil war is the latest shrill warning from the Left about how “democracy dies in darkness” and the impending end of progressive control of Congress in a few months.

On cue, Hollywood now joins the civil war bandwagon. It has issued a few bad, grade-C movies. They focus on deranged white “insurrectionists” who seek to take over the United States in hopes of driving out or killing off various “marginalized” peoples. Pentagon grandees promise to learn about “white rage” in the military and to root it out. But never do they offer any hard data to suggest white males express any greater degree of racial or ethnic chauvinism than any other demographic.

When we do hear of an insurrectionary plan — to kidnap the Michigan governor — we discover a concocted mess. The buffoonish January 6 riot at the Capitol is often cited as proof of the insurrectionary right-wing movement. But the one-day riotous embarrassment never turned up any armed revolutionaries or plots to overthrow the government.

What it did do was give the Left an excuse to weaponize the nation’s capital with barbed wire and thousands of federal troops, in the greatest militarization of Washington D.C. since the Civil War. In contrast, Antifa and BLM rioters systematically organized a series of destructive and deadly riots across the country for over four months in the summer of 2020. The lethal toll of their work was over 35 dead, $2 billion in property losses, and hundreds of police officers injured.

Such violent protestors torched the ironic St. John’s Episcopal church and attempted to fight their way into the White House grounds. Their violent agenda prompted the Secret Service to evacuate the president of the United States to a secure bunker.

As far as secession talk, it mostly now comes from the Left, not the Right.

Over the last five years, it was the Left who talked openly of tearing apart the American system of governance — from packing the Supreme Court and junking the Electoral College to ending the ancient filibuster and nullifying immigration law. Time essayist Molly Ball in early 2021 gushed about a brilliant “conspiracy” of wealthy tech lords, Democratic Party activists, and Biden operators. Ball bragged how they had systematically poured hundreds of millions of dark money into changing voting laws, and absorbing the role of government registrars in key precincts.

What was revolutionary were new progressive precedents of impeaching a president twice, trying him as a private citizen, barring minority congressional representatives from House committee memberships, and tearing up the state of the union address on national television. In contrast, decrying the weaponization of a once-professional FBI, and the scandals among its wayward Washington hierarchy is not insurrectionary. Nor is being appalled at the FBI raiding a former president’s and possible presidential candidate’s home, when historically disputes over presidential papers were the business of lawyers not armed agents.

Historic overreach is insurrectionary, not objecting to it. And those who warn most of some mythical civil war are those most likely to incite one.

https://pjmedia.com/columns/victor-davis-hanson/2022/08/18/auto-draft-76-n1622048

'Self-Silencing' Is a Problem and It's Destroying Our Politics

By Rick Moran Aug 18, 2022 9:53 AM ET

“Self-silencing” is people saying what they think others want to hear rather than what they truly believe. And it’s causing what one researcher calls “false polarization.”

In other words, there’s more agreement between Americans than we’re given to believe by polls that use responders who are self-silencing. The importance of this is that people’s actual views are what drive consumer and social behavior — not their stated views.

“When we’re misreading what we all think, it actually causes false polarization,” said Todd Rose, co-founder and president of Populace, the firm that conducted the study. “It actually destroys social trust. And it tends to historically make social progress all but impossible.”

Axios:

People are often more moderate than they’ll readily admit when “being pulled toward a vocal fringe,” whether left or right, Rose said.

But in some cases, he said, people reshape their privately held views to conform to what they think their group believes, even if that assessment is inaccurate.

The gap between real and stated views can have a generational impact, he said, because media amplifies perceptions that then cue young adults: “This generation’s illusions tend to become next generation’s private opinion.”

There are some real shockers in this study on both the right and left.

On abortion, the study found men are much less likely to privately agree with the idea that the choice to have an abortion should be left solely to a woman and her doctor (45%) than would say so publicly (60%).

Republicans, meanwhile, were less likely to privately say Roe v. Wade should be overturned (51%) than publicly (64%).

On COVID-19, only 44% of women privately feel wearing masks was effective at stopping COVID-19 spread, though 63% felt they should say they did.

An astonishing four times as many Democrats say CEOs should take a public stand on social issues (44%) than actually care (11%).

On education, Americans overall are privately more supportive of parents having more influence over curriculum (60%) than proclaim this publicly (52%).

That may help explain why GOP Gov. Glenn Youngkin’s messaging on schools appealed to swing voters in Virginia last year, and why GOP Gov. Ron DeSantis (R-Fla.) championed “parents’ rights” in signing prohibitions on classroom instruction about sexual orientation and gender identity.

Axios explains the unique methodology of the survey.

Respondents were provided a mix of traditional polling questions and other questions using a list experiment method, or item-count technique, that provides them with a greater sense of anonymity. This process allows researchers to find the gap between what people say versus how they privately feel.

Are parents really opposed to discussing gender issues in kindergarten through third grade, as the Florida law stipulates? Only about half the parents privately think so, compared to 63 percent who tell pollsters they oppose it.

As far as racism being taught in schools, 63% of Republicans privately said they believed racism was too much of a focus in public schools which is a lot lower than the 80 percent who say so publicly.

For our VIPs: Dems’ Lead on the Generic Ballot Won’t Last. Here’s Why.

Pollsters confess to being flummoxed by the problem of people saying one thing to them while believing something else. They try all sorts of gimmicks to weed out responses that aren’t what people actually think. But the American people have become far more sophisticated about polls in recent decades. This has led to people not only refusing to trust polls but also refusing to participate in the surveys.

All of this has skewed our poll-driven politics and may have contributed to our disunity. And that’s dangerous for the future of our republic.

https://pjmedia.com/news-and-politics/rick-moran/2022/08/18/self-silencing-is-a-problem-and-its-destroying-our-politics-n1622090

18 Aug, 2022 16:19

Ukraine to gain more reconnaissance capabilities

Satellite monitoring company ICEYE has struck a deal with a Ukrainian charity to provide Kiev with SAR imaging capacity

Finnish satellite maker ICEYE announced on Thursday that it had signed a contract with a Ukrainian charity to provide Kiev with Synthetic Aperture Radar (SAR) satellite imaging capabilities.

In a statement published on its website, ICEYE said the deal would grant the government in Kiev access to the full capabilities of one of its SAR satellites already in orbit, which is able to capture images on Earth’s surface regardless of the time of day or weather conditions.

While the satellite will continue to be operated by ICEYE, the company will also provide Kiev with access to its constellation of SAR satellites for over a year, which will allow Kiev’s forces to receive high resolution radar satellite imagery on “critical locations with a high revisit frequency.”

Sergey Prytula, the founder of the Sergey Prytula Charity Foundation that signed the contract with the Finnish satellite maker, said ICEYE’s products are the “most developed radar satellite imaging technology in the world as of today.”

Although he did not provide details on how much the deal with ICEYE cost, in a YouTube video announcing the signing of the contract, he noted that it had been paid for using money his charity was gathering for the purchase of Bayraktar drones, which Turkey ended up gifting to Ukraine. According to Prytula, the charity raised over $16 million.

“This agreement is a significant step in responding to the government of Ukraine’s urgent request for critical Earth observation data and it will greatly benefit our armed forces,” said Prytula.

ICEYE CEO Rafal Modrzewski said he also believed the contract would provide Kiev with “objective data and technological support.”

Operating the world’s largest SAR satellite constellation, ICEYE positions itself as the global leader in persistent monitoring via satellite imaging. Founded in 2014, the company has so far deployed some 21 satellites, including both commercial and dedicated customer missions, and claims to be the only organization in the world that offers its clients “rapid delivery of high-precision SAR satellites and data.”

https://www.rt.com/russia/561109-ukraine-finland-reconnaissance-satellites/

(Why do all these countries give them for free to Ukraine, everyone knows all the money that comes in and taken out of the door, they really should be the richest country in EU?)

18 Aug, 2022 12:29

Kiev slams German state media over 'Russian propaganda’

Ukraine's Foreign Ministry has called for action from Berlin citing lack of balance

(Nina Jancowicz taught them how to do this, blame the opponent of what you are doing. Alinsky)

The Russian-language section of Deutsche Welle (DW) is “spreading Russian propaganda,” Oleg Nikolaenko, the spokesman for the Ukrainian Foreign Ministry has claimed, while calling on Berlin to take action.

He vented anger at DW on his Facebook page on Wednesday, saying that the German state-funded outlet was a “stooge for Russian propaganda, manipulates quotes and misrepresents the causes and consequences of the Russian aggression against Ukraine.”

The post includes several screenshots, of what he sees as DW’s wrongdoing. One of the messages reported an initiative by a Russian political party last month to designate Ukraine “a terrorist state.”

Another was from Vogue magazine, which disproved claims that in 1939 it published a glamorous photo of Adolf Hitler and his companion Eva Braun. The theme became popular in Russian social media after the magazine printed images of Ukrainian President Vladimir Zelenksy and his wife Elena last month, with users comparing the actual photoshoot with the fictional one.

Nikolaenko was also apparently unhappy with DW’s coverage of a possible disaster at the Russia-controlled Zaporozhye nuclear power plant, a poll on a ban of all Russians from the Schengen zone, and even Zelensky’s statement calling for such a restrictive measure.

The Ukrainian diplomat recalled that the German government had banned Russian media outlets like RT from broadcasting in the country, adding: “We are calling on our German partners to react to the narratives of the Russian propaganda, which are being spread in the DW content.”

https://www.rt.com/russia/561088-ukraine-deutsche-welle-propaganda/

28 Jul, 2022 14:05

Zelensky’s Vogue photoshoot raises eyebrows

The Ukrainian leader was blasted online for posing for the magazine with his wife amid the ongoing military conflict

The latest edition of Vogue magazine – featuring a glossy photoshoot with Ukrainian President Vladimir Zelensky with his wife Elena – has elicited a mixed reaction online.

Tuesday’s article, which primarily focused on the 44-year-old first lady, features a series of shots of the couple taken by famed photographer Annie Leibovitz. In one photo, the two are seen hugging each other while seated at a table. In another, the first lady sits on a grand staircase as the president stands guard behind her. Another shows Elena standing beside the remains of an Antonov AN-225 Mriya surrounded by armed soldiers.

Reactions to the article have been mixed. Some have called the photoshoot “beautiful” and “powerful,” and defended the couple’s decision to pose for Vogue as shining a light on the conflict in Ukraine, keeping it in the forefront of international attention.

Verizon executive Tami Erwin wrote on Twitter that the article was “an outstanding profile” and commended the first lady for doing an incredible job representing her people.

Others, however, used the glossy photos as evidence that the West should not have sent billions in military aid to Ukraine, saying the photo session was in poor taste.

“While we send Ukraine $69 billion in aid Zelensky is doing photoshoots for Vogue Magazine,” Republican Congresswoman Lauren Boebert tweeted. “These people think we are nothing but a bunch of suckers.”

Congresswoman Mayra Flores (R-Texas) juxtaposed US President Joe Biden’s statements that Ukraine needs more money from America with the reality that the Zelensky family instead “graces us with a photo shoot to be on the cover of Vogue magazine.”

Rebel News Australia bureau chief Avi Yemini said the photoshoot reminded him of when he first saw Zelensky supposedly on the frontline in the early days of the military conflict between Russia and Ukraine.

“I respected Zelensky at the beginning of the war when we were flooded with photos of the Ukrainian President on the frontline in tactical gear.Turned out the photos were faked. An act like the man himself. Now posing for Vogue. All to grift billions from western taxpayers,” Yemini wrote.

Zelensky also recently appeared on the cover of Wired magazine for its September/October issue, albeit in a less glamorous shoot. The Ukrainian leader told the magazine that it was important to be a good communicator in the world of social media.

“The internet is a reality. It is not another world, but rather a modern reality. So if you want people to perceive you as you are, you must use what people use,” he stated.

https://www.rt.com/pop-culture/559771-zelensky-photoshoot-vogue-reactions/

His wife doesn't look very happy, distant and sad, but why did they put a picture of both of them on the couch in the background? Does he beat her? Really creepy pictures. There's no love there. I'm sure Vogue said give a somber heavy look instead of smiling, but weird pictures

18 Aug, 2022 08:39

Dozens of foreign fighters eliminated in strike on Ukrainian base –Russia

More than 90 mercenaries have been killed in a high-precision strike on the city of Kharkov, Moscow claims

Dozens of foreign mercenaries, fighting for Kiev against Moscow, have been killed in an attack on a compound in the city of Kharkov in northeastern Ukraine, Russia’s Defense Ministry said on Thursday.

“A temporary base of foreign mercenaries in the city of Kharkov was hit with a ground-based high-precision weapon.More than 90 militants were killed,” ministry’s spokesman Lieutenant General Igor Konashenkov announced during his daily briefing.

The Russian Air Force also struck Ukrainian manpower and military hardware in Kherson and Nikolaev Regions, eliminating 80 combatants and injuring 50 others, he added.

Compounds, hosting foreign mercenaries in Ukraine, have already been targeted by Russia several times this month, leading to multiple casualties.

Thousands of fighters from Poland, Canada, the US, the UK and other countries responded to a call by President Vladimir Zelensky and flocked to Ukraine. In April, the Russian military estimated their numbers at nearly 7,000. However, last month it said that only 2,741 foreign fighters remained in Ukraine.

Many of them were killed, while others fled to their home countries and later complained about chaos in the ranks of the Kiev forces, and a lack of arms and other equipment.

Konashenkov had earlier warned that mercenaries aren’t viewed as combatants under international law and “the best thing that awaits them if they are captured alive is a trial and maximum prison terms.”

https://www.rt.com/news/561074-ukraine-foreign-fighters-kharkov/

>>17412707

agreed, they evil he is doing and agreeing with; and the US media are psychos, all the pictures they've taken of him like he's a hero.

he looks like a disgusting little rat to me

>>17412569

Oh that is funny, so it's like the FBI an DOJ have no reason for seizing Trump's records especially when a judicial court judge said it can't be done, that outdoes a magistrate judge. Does anyone know why they went to a magistrate judge? Seems pretty low level, like he should be signing eviction orders of something

notable

>>17412640

God I hope so unless they get orders from above

>>17412657

he was talked out of it by Cyplone and Rudy, and Mark Meadow, but there were other reasons too

>>17412679

that's more like reality when the skinsuits are removed, but they both should have a dragon tail

Mar 2, 2022 6:31 PM

Volodymyr Zelensky Is Not a Meme

The Ukrainian president's actions in the face of the Russian invasion turned him into a hero online. But the Marvelization of political figures is dangerous….

Reece Rogers

As Ukraine continues to fight against Russia’s invasion, its 44-year-old president has transformed into a beloved wartime leader. As such, this isn’t the only Zelensky imagery going viral right now. There’s also a front-facing video he made with his cabinet members as they hunkered down in Kyiv, as well as photos of him dressed for combat.

Still, onlookers who eagerly treat Zelensky like the latest action-movie star are not doing him any favors. “What we see in studying memes and politics is that while memification helps a political message or cause spread to many people, it often comes at the expense of a flattening of that story,” says Sulafa Zidani, a Massachusetts Institute of Technology professor specializing in digital culture studies. What’s the harm, one might ask, in viewing Ukraine as the Rebel Alliance and Russian president Vladimir Putin as Emperor Palpatine? Well, for starters, Zelensky is a person, not a Jedi. He doesn’t have magical powers. Thrusting an actual person into the role of Cinematic Savior is wildly unfair. Plus, Putin rules a country filled with actual human beings, many who are putting themselves at risk to protest this invasion. It also reduces Ukraine’s plight to something for people in NATO nations to pause over while looking at their phones, sighing sadly, maybe wiping away a few tears like they did at the end of Avengers: Endgame. Maybe, as Zelensky warned them not to do, they’ll admire his portrait. And then they’ll keep scrolling.

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https://www.wired.com/story/ukraine-volodymyr-zelensky-meme/

Wired actually wrote an article with this title,let's make him a meme forever with lasting impact anonsHave at it anons, if you are on twitter make sure you drop on the Ukrainian areas and where the blue/yellow flag is. BTW, you can find the ones with blue/yellow under every republican politicians twitter site, replying in disgusting ways