Chicago Mayor Brandon Johnson Points Finger at Automakers for Skyrocketing Car Thefts — Files Outlandish Lawsuit Against Kia and Hyundai

Democrat Chicago Mayor Brandon Johnson has decided to take legal action against automakers Kia and Hyundai, blaming them for the significant increase in car thefts in the city.

In a lawsuit filed Thursday, Johnson alleges that the companies have a “critical defect” in their vehicles that makes them more susceptible to theft.

For those who have been closely following the rise in crimes in Chicago, the mayor’s lawsuit is an attempt to shift the spotlight away from his own administration’s shortcomings. Crime rates in the city, including car thefts, have been on the rise for several years now because of Democrats’ soft on crime, but the decision to blame car manufacturers rather than address the underlying issues feels nothing short of absurd.

“The impact of car theft on Chicago residents can be deeply destabilizing, particularly for low- to middle-income workers who have fewer options for getting to work and taking care of their families,” said Mayor Brandon Johnson.

“The failure of Kia and Hyundai to install basic auto-theft prevention technology in these models is sheer negligence, and as a result, a citywide and nationwide crime spree around automobile theft has been unfolding right before our eyes,” he added.

From the press release:

Mayor Brandon Johnson announced today that the City has filed a civil lawsuit against Kia America, Inc., Kia Corporation, Hyundai Motor America, and Hyundai Motor Company for their failure to include industry-standard engine immobilizers in multiple models of their vehicles, resulting in a steep rise in vehicle thefts, reckless driving, property damage, and a wide array of related violent crimes in Chicago.

The complaint, which was filed in the Circuit Court of Cook County, alleges that Kia and Hyundai failed to equip their U.S. cars, sold between 2011 and 2022, with vital anti-theft technology, which almost all other car manufacturers made a standard feature over a decade ago and which Kia and Hyundai include in their vehicles sold outside of the country. The Complaint alleges that Kia and Hyundai deceptively assured consumers that these vehicles possessed “advanced” safety features, despite knowing about this critical defect and its consequences.

https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2023/08/chicago-mayor-brandon-johnson-points-finger-automakers-skyrocketing/

"Yes, They Were Being Bribed": Fired Ukraine Prosecutor Corroborates Biden Corruption

Victor Shokin, the fired Ukrainian prosecutor investigating Biden family corruption (that Donald Trump was impeached for asking about) has spoken out for the first time since 2019 - and says the Bidens did it.

To review - Shokin had an active and ongoing investigation into Ukrainian energy company Burisma and its owner, Mykola Zlochevsky, according to a 2020 US Senate Committee report.

Zlochevsky, who hired Hunter Biden to sit on his board, granted his own company (Burisma) permits to drill for oil and gas in Ukraine while he was Minister of Ecology and Natural Resources. Shokin stated in a 2019 deposition that there were five criminal cases against Zlochevesky, including money laundering, corruption, illegal funds transfers, and profiteering through shell corporations while he was a sitting minister.

Now, Shokin tells Fox News that be believes the Bidens were taking bribes.

"I do not want to deal in unproven facts. But my firm personal conviction is that yes, this was the case. They were being bribed," Shokin told the outlet. "The fact that Joe Biden gave away $1 billion in U.S. money in exchange for my dismissal - my firing - isn't that alone a case of corruption?" he asks in another clip.

https://www.zerohedge.com/political/yes-they-were-being-bribed-fired-ukraine-prosecutor-corroborates-biden-corruption

Google buries websites of Trump, RFK Jr, Republican challengers – report

Searching ‘presidential campaign websites’ returned incumbent Joe Biden’s webpage and several inactive Democrats

Google is suppressing the 2024 campaign websites of all serious challengers to Democratic incumbent President Joe Biden, a report from the Media Research Center claimed on Thursday.

Searching the web for ‘presidential campaign websites’ using Google returned results that did not include a single Republican candidate on the first page the day before the first Republican primary debate of the 2024 season, according to the MRC.

Not even former US President Donald Trump, who is polling neck-and-neck with Biden, appeared in the first few pages of results, the media watchdog observed.

Nor did Democratic challenger Robert F. Kennedy Jr., the chief threat to Biden’s candidacy from within his own party, appear in the results at all, even though a recent poll had him at nearly 20% in a matchup against Biden.

Indeed, the only non-Biden Democrat to feature on the first page was lifestyle guru Marianne Williamson, who has never polled above the low single digits.

However, the websites of prominent Democrats who are not running for president in 2024, including former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton, Massachusetts Senator Elizabeth Warren, and Vermont Senator Bernie Sanders, were more prominently featured at 29th, 12th, and 9th place in the results, respectively.

“Google has erased every threat to Joe Biden,” MRC Free Speech America VP Dan Schneider said on Thursday, recalling how Google had “pulled out all the stops to put Hillary Clinton in the White House” and “has continued to interfere in our elections ever since.”

As of Saturday, the phenomenon appeared to have actually worsened. While Biden’s site was the fourth listed on the search engine and Williamson’s the fifth, Sanders remained at 12th, while Clinton had actually moved up to 13th.

Former Vice President Mike Pence’s site was the highest-ranked Republican in a search run on Saturday morning – though even his page was listed several places behind an Atlantic article informing the casual browser that 1996 Republican candidate and now-deceased former Senator Bob Dole’s campaign website “is still online.”

Kennedy has been widely disparaged by the media establishment and online factcheckers for his work on vaccine safety. He sued Google earlier this month for violating his First Amendment rights, arguing its subsidiary YouTube had blocked his content on orders from the Biden administration.

Trump also sued Google in 2021 for infringing on his free speech after he was deplatformed from YouTube along with most other mainstream social media platforms following the January 6 Capitol riot.

Over a dozen government agencies were found to be issuing content-based censorship orders to social media platforms last year in Missouri v. Biden, leading a judge to issue a restraining order forbidding the administration from contacting the platforms.

https://www.rt.com/news/581881-google-censors-republicans-rfk-websites/

BBC Edits Article on Convicted Paedophile, Removes References to Role as a Pride-Promoting Drag Queen

The BBC is facing accusations of engaging in “Orwellian manipulation” of the news after it edited an article on a convicted paedophile to remove references to his role in organising a Pride event and that he also performed as a drag queen.

In its original article on Andrew Way, who has been sentenced to 34 months in prison this week after a group of paedophile hunters tricked him into thinking that he was sending explicit messages to a 14-year-old boy, the BBC originally included the fact that he has acted as a “drag queen” and that he “had also been organising the first-ever gay Pride event for Welshpool, Powys.”

However, the public broadcaster has since scrubbed both facts from its article as well as having deleted a post on social media referencing Way’s role as a drag queen.

The article now contains the disclaimer: “An earlier version of this story made reference to details not reported in court and has been updated accordingly.”

This explanation did not suffice for many on social media, however, with political commentator Chris Rose writing: “A state broadcaster shouldn’t be selective with facts when they wouldn’t hide details for other groups. I’m sure BBC Verify & Marianna Spring are investigating.”

Comedian and GB News presenter Leo Kearse added: “This isn’t objective journalism – this is Orwellian manipulation of the news to remove facts that don’t align with the establishment narrative.”

Way, who has been active as a drag queen for over four decades under the stage name ‘Miss Gin’, according to The Telegraph, was found to have messaged a paedophile hunting group posing online as a 14-year-old boy that he wanted to meet up to “do it” and even sent pictures of his genitals to what he assumed was a teenage boy.

A frequent attendee of the LGBT Pride events in Wales, the convicted paedophile had already been subject to a lifelong sexual harm prevention order after a 2007 conviction.

Sentencing him to 34 months in prison for his latest offences, Judge Niclas Parry said Way had shown “utter disregard” for previous court orders prohibiting him from unsupervised contact with children, adding: “These were serious and persistent and different breaches,”

It is far from the first time that the BBC has faced accusations of bias in its reporting on transgender issues, with the publicly-funded broadcaster being forced last year to amend an article to reflect that a transgender murderer was not born as a woman as the original article had implied.

https://www.breitbart.com/europe/2023/08/26/bbc-edits-article-on-convicted-paedophile-removes-references-to-role-as-a-pride-promoting-drag-queen/

Former French president Nicolas Sarkozy will go on trial for 'receiving £42million in cash from Colonel Gaddafi to fund his election campaign'

Sarkozy, 68, and 12 others, including three former ministers, will stand trial

The case is the biggest of multiple corruption investigations involving Sarkozy

Former French President Nicolas Sarkozy is set to stand trial on charges that his 2007 election campaign received £42million in illegal financing from the Libyan government under its late dictator Muammar Gaddafi.

Sarkozy, 68, and 12 others will all go on trial in 2025, the national financial prosecutor Jean-Francois Bohnert announced following the closure of the decade-long investigation into the financing.

The case is the biggest of multiple corruption investigations involving the right-wing politician. He has been convicted in two others but denies any wrongdoing in all cases.

In the Libya case, he is charged with illegal campaign financing, embezzling, passive corruption, and related counts.

The trial of the former president, who held the office between 2007 and 2012, will run from January to April 2025. The dozen others also standing trial include three of his former ministers.

Sarkozy has been under investigation in the Libya case since 2013. Investigators examined claims that Gaddafi's regime secretly gave Sarkozy 50 million euros (£42 million) for his winning 2007 campaign.

The sum would be more than double the legal campaign funding limit at the time and would violate French rules against foreign campaign financing.

Sarkozy could face up to 10 years in prison if convicted following trial in the case.

Among the 12 others facing trial in the case are Sarkozy's former right-hand man Claude Gueant, his then head of campaign financing Eric Woerth, and former Interior Minister Brice Hortefeux.

The investigation gained traction when French-Lebanese businessman Ziad Takieddine told news site Mediapart in 2016 that he had delivered suitcases from Libya containing five million euro (£4.2 million) in cash to Sarkozy and his former chief of staff.

Takieddine later reversed course and Sarkozy sought to have the investigation closed.

After becoming president in 2007, Sarkozy welcomed Gaddafi to France with high honours later that year.

Sarkozy then put France at the forefront of NATO-led air strikes that helped rebel fighters topple Mr Gaddafi's government in 2011.

In an unrelated case, Sarkozy was sentenced to a year under house arrest for illegal campaign financing of his unsuccessful 2012 re-election bid. He is free while the case is pending appeal.

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-12445803/French-president-Nicolas-Sarkozy-trial-Colonel-Gaddafi.html

Wells Fargo customers left unable to use their bank cards or transfer cash amid major outage

According to DownDetector, which tracks website outages, hundreds of users said they had experienced issues with online banking

Frustrated customers pledged to switch banks after being left unable to make transfers or use their bank cards

A spokesperson said the bank is working to resolve the issues which started on Thursday afternoon

Wells Fargo resolved technical issues with its banking systems Friday after customers reported issues with using their bank cards and transferring funds.

The bank, which has 70 million customers overall, said it was aware that some issues began on Thursday night, with outages continuing this morning. It is unclear how many of its users are affected.

According to DownDetector, which tracks website outages, hundreds of users said they had experienced issues with using debit cards, viewing their account balance or making transactions and transferring funds.

'We are aware that some customers are experiencing intermittent issues with certain transactions. Our teams are working diligently to resolve. We apologize for any inconvenience,' the bank told DailyMail.com in a statement.

A Wells Fargo spokesperson on X, formerly known as Twitter, acknowledged that some online banking customers were having trouble completing transactions on digital payments network Zelle.

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/yourmoney/banking/article-12445499/Wells-Fargo-bank-cards-transfer-cash-major-outage.html

Beijing nabs another ‘CIA spy’

Less than a month after the new National Security Law came into effect, China’s security ministry has announced another espionage case allegedly involving the American spy agency.

The Ministry of State Security, or MSS, on Monday accused a government worker of spying for the U.S. Central Intelligence Agency, the second such case this month, as Beijing ramps up an anti-espionage campaign that it says every Chinese citizen should participate in.

On Aug. 1 China’s national spy agency opened an official WeChat account with the announcement, “Counter-espionage requires the mobilization of [the] entire society.”

WeChat has more than 1.3 billion active monthly users – think of it as Twitter (now known as X), Facebook and daily banking all rolled into one.

The latest arrest by the MSS is a 39-year-old Chinese national, identified only by his surname Hao, whom the ministry claims was recruited by the CIA while he was studying in Japan.

Some China watchers called the latest developments disturbing.

Associate Professor Chongyi Feng of the University of Technology, Sydney in Australia said that since the new National Security Law was implemented, China’s anti-espionage efforts have gone into a state of hyper-vigilance.

“This newly implemented law empowers security personnel to commit injustice. They have a strong motive to fabricate false accusations to gain merit. They can easily concoct a story and then release it to the world. It’s a mechanism of persecution that’s extremely terrifying,” Feng said.

China’s state spy agency said the latest arrest, Hao, was groomed by a U.S. embassy official in Japan while applying for a U.S. visa before introducing him to a colleague name Li Jun, who later revealed himself to be a CIA officer and asked Hao to return to China to work for a “core and critical department.”

Hao allegedly agreed, signed an espionage agreement with the U.S. and received training, the statement said.

Upon returning to China, Hao landed a job at a government ministry, and allegedly met with CIA agents multiple times to “provide intelligence and collect espionage funds,” the Chinese spy agency claimed, adding that the case is under further investigation.

Spies in the woodwork

The MSS statement comes just 10 days after the same ministry claimed it uncovered another Chinese national of spying for the CIA – a worker at an unidentified Chinese military industrial group who was allegedly recruited while studying in Italy.

Ten days ago, the MSS announced that the suspect – identified only by the surname Zeng – had secretly met with CIA personnel multiple times and provided a substantial amount of core Chinese intelligence, and received espionage funds.

The time and location of the case’s occurrence were not disclosed, leaving some to question the veracity of the case.

https://americanmilitarynews.com/2023/08/beijing-nabs-another-cia-spy/

The Biden Crime Family.

https://twitter.com/RyLiberty/status/1695368018921242786

Haley: We Have to ‘Humanize’ Abortion Issue — We’ve Got to Stop ‘Demonizing’ It

Friday, during an appearance on FNC’s “Fox & Friends,” former U.S. Ambassador to the United Nations Nikki Haley, a candidate for the 2024 Republican presidential nomination, argued the correct approach to taking on abortion for Republicans was to “humanize” it.

According to the former South Carolina governor, the GOP demonizing it only added to the division in the country.

“Be realistic with the numbers,” “Fox & Friends” co-host Ainsley Earhardt said. “Yes, we don’t have enough votes in the House or in the Senate to abolish this. How did you come up with this answer, and what are you hearing from the voters after that debate?”

“I mean, Ainsley, that’s the answer from my heart,” Haley replied. “You know, I am surrounded by blessings, and God has blessed me with an amazing husband and two wonderful children. But having said that, I think it’s really important that all of us remember everybody has a personal story. So while I’m unapologetically pro-life, I don’t judge anyone for being pro-choice. I think that we have to humanize this issue. We’ve got to stop demonizing this issue.”

“I think the division in this country has gone too far. We have to start looking at the vision going forward. My vision is how do we save as many babies as possible and support as many moms as possible. If that’s the case, be honest with the American people. Tell them what is possible and what’s not possible, and let’s bring people together based on humanity, not based on making people hate each other. And I think it’s happened too long, and I’m just not going to be a part of that. I refuse to be a part of that.”

https://www.breitbart.com/clips/2023/08/25/haley-we-have-to-humanize-abortion-issue-weve-got-to-stop-demonizing-it/

Seven-year-old girl DIES from brain-swelling disease that kills 30% of suffers - after being bitten by mosquito in ALABAMA

Youngster, who has not been named, was a second grader at elementary school

Died after contracting easten equine encephalitis (EEE) from a mosquito bite

A seven-year-old girl in Alabama has died after contracting a virus from a mosquito that leads to life-threatening brain swelling.

The second-grader, who has not been named, became infected with eastern equine encephalitis (EEE) — a rare virus that kills up to one in three of those it infects.

The fatality marks the first reported death linked to the virus in Alabama this year and the second case statewide, after another was also detected in Spanish Fort, an Alabama city on the Gulf Coast.

The virus was also detected in horses in New York this year, although no cases have appeared in humans.

The cases of EEE follow multiple diagnoses of locally-transmitted malaria, another mosquito-born disease, which were detected in Florida and Texas this year. Additionally, two people in Michigan tested positive for the rare mosquito-carried 'Jamestown Canyon virus'.

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/health/article-12446635/Seven-year-old-girl-DIES-brain-swelling-disease-kills-30-suffers-bitten-mosquito-ALABAMA.html

Massive Blast Rocks Khartoum Airport In Sudan (Video)

On August 26 afternoon, a massive blast rocked the fuel tanks of Khartoum International Airport near the Sudanese capital.

Sources close to the Sudanese army said that the blast was a result of airstrikes that targeted ammunition depots of the paramilitary Rapid Support Force (RSF). However, this is yet to be confirmed.

Video footage that surfaced on social media showed a massive fireball erupting from the airport. The extent of damage caused by the massive blast is still unknown.

The blast came following intense clashes between the army and the RSF in the capital Khartoum and its sister city Omdurman in recent days. At least seven civilians were reported killed in the fighting.

The army’s Commander-in-Chief General Abdel Fattah al-Burhan and the commander of the RSF General Mohamed Hamdan Dagalo ruled Sudan as the president and vice-president of the so-called Sovereign Council after a coup in October 2021.

In mid-April, a heated conflict broke out between the two forces as a result of a disagreement over how the RSF should be integrated into the army and what authority should oversee the process during transition to civilian-led rule in the Arab country.

The United States and Saudi Arabia, who maintain good relations with both the Sudanese army and the RSF, intervened to launch talks and help broker a ceasefire. However, the two forces are yet to reach a settlement.

Since the start of the conflict in Sudan, around ten thousand people have been killed and more than four million have been displaced, especially in Khartoum and Darfur state.

https://southfront.press/massive-blast-rocks-khartoum-airport-in-sudan-video/

Greece wildfires: 79 people arrested for arson

Greece has called out "arsonist scum" after police made 79 arson arrests over wildfires ravaging the country.

Civil Protection Minister Vassilis Kikilias said there had been several attempts by arsonists to start new fires on Mount Parnitha, north-west of Athens.

The blaze is one of hundreds in the nation where wildfires have already killed at least 20 people this week.

"You are committing a crime against the country," Mr Kikilias said.

"Arsonist scum are setting fires that threaten forests, property and, most of all, human lives," Mr Kikilias told Greeks during a televised emergency briefing on Thursday.

"You will not get away with it, we will find you, you will be held accountable."

Summer wildfires are common in Greece and scientists have linked the increasing frequency and intensity of extreme weather events, including heatwaves, to climate change.

Stefan Doerr, who directs the Centre for Wildfire Research at Swansea University, says that more flammable landscapes - due to hot weather or poor vegetation management - mean that arson and other incidents can more easily turn into fast-moving wildfires.

Greek fires rage after migrant tragedy near border

Eighteen bodies found in Greek forest hit by fires

Greece on high alert for new spate of wildfires

Police and Greek intelligence service EYP are investigating the incidents, AFP reported.

Government spokesperson Pavlos Marinakis told Greek public broadcaster ERT that of 140 wildfire-related arrests, 79 were related to arson.

Hundreds of firefighters across Greece have been battling deadly wildfires.

The large fire front which erupted on Saturday near the port city of Alexandroupolis has become the EU's largest on record, according to European commissioner Janez Lenarcic.

Meanwhile, on Mount Parnitha near Athens, fires have been raging in a forest adjoining the capital, threatening a national park.

Earlier this week, the bodies of 19 people believed to be migrants, with children among them, were found near the Evros region of north-eastern Greece.

A shepherd also lost his life in the fires in the Boeotia region on Monday.

https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-66612781

Israel is the Rothschilds' personal fiefdom -

Israel is their personal family army, nuclear arsenal,

and intelligence service, all in one.

The most Evil structure on Earth - Satan's Capital Canberra - built on Australian soil

https://www.bitchute.com/video/WKHauBiVK1md/

Maui’s Top Emergency Officials Were on a Different Island for FEMA Disaster Training as Flames Flared

Maui’s top emergency officials were on another island when the wildfires begun, it emerged on Wednesday – and did not join a call about the response until five hours after the blazes broke out.

Dozens of senior bureaucrats were gathering on Waikiki Beach in Honolulu, on the island of Oahu, on August 8 for the annual meeting of FEMA coordinators in the Pacific region.

The first fire on Maui, the Upcounty Fire, broke out in the early hours of August 8.

Around 6:40am on that day, a school near Lahaina was evacuated, but an emergency response call was not held until nearly five hours later, at 11am.

The fire was declared ‘contained’ by 9am, CNN reported.

Yet by 3:30pm the fire had spread so significantly around Lahaina that an evacuation order was given for the town, and Lt. Gov. Sylvia Luke, Hawaii’s acting governor, activated Hawaii’s national guard.

https://www.blacklistednews.com/article/85303/mauis-top-emergency-officials-were-on-a-different-island-for-fema-disaster-training-as-flames.html

Third-Largest U.S. Oil Refinery Forced to Shut Down Following Devastating Fire in Garyville, Louisiana

A towering inferno erupted at a south Louisiana oil refinery on Friday morning, sending plumes of black smoke and forcing an emergency evacuation of residents within a two-mile radius. Although no injuries were reported, the incident has reignited concerns about the safety of such facilities, especially as it’s the third fire to hit the plant in less than a year.

The fire broke out around 8:30 a.m. at the Marathon Petroleum facility in Garyville, situated about 30 miles northwest of New Orleans, according to WBRZ.

Officials from St. John the Baptist Parish reported that the incident involved a naphtha release and a fire at one of the refinery’s storage tanks. Naphtha is a flammable and toxic kind of raw petrol or gasoline distilled from crude oil and a raw material for the chemical industry, which is often used in soaps and varnishes.

St. John Parish President Jaclyn Hotard declared an emergency soon after the incident was reported, and an evacuation order was swiftly enacted for residents within a two-mile radius of the blaze. That order was lifted by 2:20 p.m., after emergency crews managed to bring the fire under control and limit it to two damaged storage tanks.

https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2023/08/third-largest-u-s-oil-refinery-forced-shut/

Kentucky School District Cancels In-Person Learning Due to Covid, Flu

https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/kentucky-school-district-cancels-classes-covid-flu-strep-rcna101511

How the Victorian Education Department's historical child sexual abuse scandal was hidden for decades

On June 27, 2019, the viewing areas of Melbourne's County Court were a hive of nervous energy as Justice Gabriele Cannon arrived to deliver a sentence that would publicly account for the private sorrows of dozens of people in the room.

Slumped beside his defence counsel, a 78-year-old former primary school teacher who'd once sneered at his victims that they'd never be believed was now a diminished and defeated figure.

But it was not just the reputation of Vincent Henry Reynolds on trial that day.

Warning: This story contains details of child sexual abuse

The story presented of Reynolds's career would soon be understood as a microcosm of the unravelling crisis of historical sexual abuse in the Victorian education system. It would reveal in granular detail the methods by which the Victorian Education Department had covered up the sexual abuse of children — methods that lawyers for survivors say have been identified in dozens of other cases.

The catchwords for Cannon's sentencing remarks were succinct and compelling: "historical sexual offending"; "42 charges"; "38 child complainants"; "period of offending about 31 years"; "abuse of power"; "gross breach of trust"; "brazen and prolonged offending"; "systemic failures in duty of care".

Yet as disturbing as the raw numbers were, they sold short the devastation wrought by Reynolds's decades of rampant abuse of children placed in his care at government-run schools, reflecting only the reported cases of those who'd both survived their ordeals and mustered the strength to endure the justice system's lengthy and often dispiriting delays.

One after the other, survivors stepped forward to read victim impact statements to the court.

"The Education Department knew he was a sick child abuser, knew that he preyed on kids, but they turned him loose on me and my classmates, and on lots of other kids in country Victoria," one of them would later say.

Survivors who'd spent decades negotiating their traumas alone now gathered as a collective, participating in the unfortunately rare experience of personally witnessing the comeuppance of their abuser.

More

https://www.abc.net.au/news/2023-08-27/victorian-education-department-historical-child-sex-abuse/102743128

Detransitioning woman who had a double mastectomy at AGE 14 slams therapists who told her that gender affirming surgery was 'only solution' to her mental illness - despite her also suffering from bipolar disorder, autism, and sexual assault trauma

A detransitioning woman who had a mastectomy at age 14 has slammed therapists who told her that gender transition and surgery was the 'only solution' to her mental health issues - despite her also struggling with bipolar disorder, autism, and sexual assault trauma.

Cassie, 18, from Maryland, who has kept her last name hidden for privacy reasons, recently spoke out about her decision to get her breasts removed as 'a minor' during an appearance on the We're All Insane podcast - and claimed that her doctor encouraged her to get the procedure done after only one visit.

She explained that she began suffering from 'gender dysphoria' after being sexually assaulted and 'groomed' at a young age - but rather than discussing what had happened to her, the therapist told her that going under the knife was 'the only way to fix' her problems.

Cassie said she regretted the decision almost immediately after the surgery - and has branded it as 'medical malpractice' that professionals didn't take more time to go over the long-term effects and potential consequences beforehand.

Cassie has now begun to detransition, and will have to have a total of four more surgeries if she wants to fix her chest - but unfortunately, she was left with 'permanent damage' that she will never be able to undo.

While chatting to podcast host Devorah Roloff, Cassie explained that she was diagnosed with bipolar disorder and autism as a child, and started experiencing severe 'anxiety' when she was 'pretty young.'

At the age of 10, she said she was 'groomed' by someone she met 'online,' which she believes first contributed to her 'gender struggles.'

'That's when I found out what being transgender was from the internet, and I started privately, internally identifying that way,' she explained.

She added that she went through puberty very early and that her chest 'started developing' when she was only 'seven or eight years old.'

She soon started to 'hate' her breasts, and recalled 'standing in the shower' and 'trying to push them back in' to 'stop them from growing.'

Cassie also said she would 'layer' sports bras on top of one another to make them appear smaller.

By age 14, she said her breast size was triple-D, revealing, 'I was 130 pounds and 20 of them were boobs.'

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/femail/article-12418103/Woman-slams-therapist-transition-surgery.html

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Biden Admin Blocks Millions Of Acres To Oil And Gas Drilling

The Biden administration has blocked off millions of acres of federal waters from a planned oil and gas lease sale after settling with environmental groups over habitat protections for a rare species of whale.

The Bureau of Ocean Energy Management (BOEM) said in an Aug. 23 notice that, as part of Lease Sale 261, it will offer around 67 million acres in the Gulf of Mexico for oil and gas drilling.

That is around 9 percent, or 6.4 million acres, less than BOEM's original proposal, following a settlement with environmental groups that pauses ongoing litigation over environmental protections in the Gulf of Mexico in exchange for excluding Rice's whale habitat from any lease sales.

Environmental groups praised the exclusions, while representatives of the oil and gas industry called the carveouts "unfounded" and said the restrictions would needlessly hamper domestic energy production.

Some lawmakers also objected to the exclusions, including Sen. Joe Manchin (D-W.Va.), chairman of the Senate Energy and Natural Resources Committee.

“This Administration continues to kowtow to radical environmentalists at the expense of American energy security and costs to American families," Mr. Manchin said in a statement obtained by The Epoch Times.

Rice's whale is one of the most endangered marine mammal species on the planet, with an estimated population of just 51 individuals, around 100 scientists told the Biden administration in an open letter (pdf) last year.

Arguing that the loss of even a single whale threatens the survival of the entire species, the scientists urged the Biden administration to disallow oil and gas drilling in and around the whale's habitat.

https://www.zerohedge.com/energy/biden-admin-blocks-millions-acres-oil-and-gas-drilling

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