A severe drought has prompted 24 out 96 departments of France to impose limits on water usage, the country’s Ministry of Ecological Transition said on Saturday. The restrictions range from simple calls to save water in some areas to a more than 50% reduction in agricultural withdrawals and bans on …
Read More »Better pronoun usage won’t help US counter hypersonic missiles, congressman says, urging intelligence to focus on security threats
During a House Intelligence Committee hearing Wednesday on diversity in the security agencies, the committee’s ranking member cautioned that the “utterly destructive” politicization of America’s national security apparatus had “severely eroded trust” in its institutions and distracted from its mission to counter the “international threat matrix.” Noting that this “tendency” …
Read More »Ruling that correct pronoun usage is a human right for trans people makes a MOCKERY of freedom of expression
The tribunal in British Columbia found in favour of restaurant waitress Jessie Nelson, who regards herself as a non-binary, gender fluid, transgender person. Nelson was fired from her job after asking the bar manager to stop using the pronouns ‘she/her’ and refer to her as ‘they/them’. What is really significant …
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