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THE NEW YORK TIMES instructed journalists covering Israel's war on the Gaza Strip to restrict the use of the terms "genocide" and "ethnic cleansing" and to "avoid" using the phrase "occupied territory" when describing Palestinian land, according to a copy of an internal memo obtained by The Intercept. The memo also instructs reporters not to use the word Palestine "except in very rare cases" and to steer clear of the term "refugee camps" to describe areas of Gaza historically settled by displaced Palestinians expelled from other parts of Palestine during previous Israeli–Arab wars. The areas are recognized by the United Nations as refugee camps and house hundreds of thousands of registered refugees. The memo — written by Times standards editor Susan Wessling, international editor Philip Pan, and their deputies — "offers guidance about some terms and other issues we have grappled with since the start of the conflict in October.” While the document is presented as an outline for maintaining objective journalistic principles in reporting on the Gaza war, several Times staffers told The Intercept that some of its contents show evidence of the paper's deference to Israeli narratives. "I think it's the kind of thing that looks professional and logical if you have no knowledge of the historical context of the Palestinian-Israeli conflict,” said a Times newsroom source, who requested anonymity for fear of reprisal, of the Gaza memo. "But if you do know, it will be clear how apologetic it is to Israel.” First distributed to Times journalists in November, the guidance — which collected and expanded on past style directives about the Israeli–Palestinian conflict — has been regularly updated over the ensuing months. It presents an internal window into the thinking of Times international editors as they have faced upheaval within the newsroom surrounding the paper's Gaza war coverage. Full article:https://theintercept.com/2024/04/15/nyt-israel-gaza-genocide-palestine-coverage/

Looks like it will be going into affect soon. Will ATRL be paying or not?

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A priest has been stabbed multiple times while delivering Mass at a Sydney church, a live stream appears to have shown. The incident comes just days after a man killed six people in a Westfield shopping centre. Bishop Mar Mari Emmanuel was leading a service at Wakely's Christ The Good Shepherd Church when he appeared to have been stabbed multiple times by a man who approached him at the altar. x

The private sector arm of the World Bank is facing claims that it contributes to global heating and the undermining of animal welfare by providing financial support for factory farming, including the building of pig farming tower blocks in China. A coalition of environmental and animal welfare groups is calling on the World Bank to phase out financial support for large-scale "industrial" livestock operations. More than $1.6bn was provided for industrial farming projects between 2017 and 2023, according to an analysis by campaigners. The International Finance Corporation (IFC), part of the World Bank Group, is owned by 186 member countries including the UK, which has a 4.5% shareholding. Andrew Mitchell, the minister for development, is a governor of the IFC. Kelly McNamara, a senior research and policy analyst at Friends of the Earth US, said there was a "mismatch" between the World Bank's commitments on the climate crisis, sustainable development and animal welfare, and its financing of intensive farming. "Expanding industrial livestock production is a threat to climate, sustainable development and food security,” she said, adding that investing in such projects put smallholders out of business and increased meat consumption, fuelling global heating. In June last year, the IFC approved a $47.3m (£37.4m) loan to the Chinese company Guangxi Yangxiang providing capital for four multistorey industrial pig-rearing complexes and a feed mill. "There are big advantages to a high-rise building,” a company manager told Reuters during early construction of the blocks at Yaji Mountain in southern China in 2018. "The land area is not that much, but you can raise a lot of pigs.” The farms, known as "hog hotels", can be 13 floors high. The Yangxiang group says it has combined "internet technologies such as artificial intelligence [and] cloud computing" with the traditional pig-rearing business. The company says on its website: "Yangxiang has created an industrial model with multifloor pig farming as the core and strives to build a high-end intelligent 'meat factory'.” Peter Stevenson, chief policy adviser at Compassion in World Farming (CIWF), said: "I'm appalled by some of these developments, which have limited space and barren conditions. They are not just damaging for animal welfare, but also for food security and the environment.” Stevenson said intensive agriculture undermined food security because animals converted cereal feed inefficiently into meat and milk. He said it would be better to produce more crops for direct human consumption and reduce the amount of cereals used for animal feed. Full article: https://www.theguardian.com/business/2024/apr/07/world-banks-funding-of-hog-hotel-factory-farms-under-fire-over-climate-effect

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https://www.timesnownews.com/world/europe/spanish-politician-daniel-gmez-del-barrio-resigns-after-photos-reveal-he-offered-himself-as-sex-slave-article-109256687 who was it?

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WASHINGTON (AP) — In a move that environmentalists called a betrayal, the Biden administration has approved the construction of a deepwater oil export terminal off the Texas coast that would be the largest of its kind in the United States. The Sea Port Oil Terminal being developed off Freeport, Texas, will be able to load two supertankers at once, with an export capacity of 2 million barrels of crude oil per day. The $1.8 billion project by Houston-based Enterprise Products Partners received a deepwater port license from the Department of Transportation's Maritime Administration this week, the final step in a five-year federal review. Environmentalists denounced the license approval, saying it contradicted President Joe Biden's climate agenda and would lead to "disastrous" planet-warming greenhouse gas emissions, equivalent to nearly 90 coal-fired power plants. The action could jeopardize Biden's support from environmental allies and young voters already disenchanted by the Democratic administration's approval last year of the massive Willow oil project in Alaska. "Nothing about this project is in alignment with President Biden's climate and environmental justice goals,’' said Kelsey Crane, senior policy advocate at Earthworks, an environmental group that has long opposed the export terminal. "The communities that will be impacted by (the oil terminal) have once again been ignored and will be forced to live with the threat of more oil spills, explosions and pollution,’' Crane said. "The best way to protect the public and the climate from the harms of oil is to keep it in the ground.” In a statement after the license was approved, the Maritime Administration said the project meets a number of congressionally mandated requirements, including extensive environmental reviews and a federal determination that the port's operation is in the national interest.

https://www.cp24.com/news/ontarian-wins-legal-battle-for-public-funding-of-gender-affirming-surgery-argued-as-experimental-1.6843548 The Ontario resident, who identifies as she/her, feels she doesn't fit within the gender binary, and was not satisfied with the option of receiving regular vaginoplasty surgery. She took it to court and fought for her right to receive penile preserving vaginoplasty, which involves the creation of a neovagina in the perineum, the part of the body located between the anus and the scrotum. After two years of fighting for coverage from the Ontario Health Insurance Plan (OHIP), the Health Services and Review Board (HSARB) ruled against an appeal from OHIP who claimed the procedure was too experimental, and ordered OHIP to pay the legal costs of her court battle. "Such an interpretation would force transgender, non-binary people like K.S. to choose between having a surgery (penectomy) they do not want and which does not align with their gender expression to get state funding, on the one hand, and not having gender-affirming surgery at all, on the other. Such a choice would reinforce their disadvantaged position and would not promote their dignity and autonomy," Justice Breese Davies wrote in the decision, commenting on OHIP's "inconsistent" interpretation of the schedule of benefits. ... Further, the court decided that HSARB's conclusion that the term vaginoplasty includes this procedure is consistent with the World Professional Association for Transgender Health (WPATH) Standards of Care, the leading authority on gender-affirming medical and surgical care ... "We hope that OHIP decides to accept the decision of the Court rather than seeking leave to appeal so that K.S. can move forward with her surgery she has been trying to get for years now." K.S. and McIntyre said they hope the decision encourages Canadian clinics to start offering such procedures ... "With the vast push rightward stemming from the recent strong anti-equality ideology, it's been a second dark ages for us in the 2SLGBTQIA+ community of late, so this very appropriate and correct verdict is a breath of fresh air," K.S. said.

Reporters are getting arrested for trying to cover the story as well. EDIT: EDIT 2: -

Popular Twitter User with 100,000 that I've followed for years It seems like she killed the father of the kids in Woodland Hills, then drove the 2 kids on the 405 where she threw them out the car near the 90. The infant died and the 9 year old is in the hospital. She then drove to Redondo Beach, and fatally crashed her Porsche into a tree on Pacific Coast Highway. Her Twitter account over the past few days included a lot of dark posts over the solar eclipse. She called it "the epitome spiritual warfare" and told people they needed to "pick a side" and that something big was coming. NBC 4 LOS ANGELES - https://www.nbclosangeles.com/news/local/woman-who-threw-her-daughters-onto-405-traffic-claimed-to-be-astrologer-i-team-confirms/3384844/

Terrible terrible terrible. Religion is such a menace to society. RIP to her & her baby they deserved so much better. Somalian, 22, 'strangles heavily pregnant girlfriend, 20, to death - also killing their unborn child' - in suspected honour killing in Sweden 'because his mother wouldn't approve of him dating a "white" girl from a different culture' Article: https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-13271287/pregnant-woman-murdered-sweden-suspected-honour-killing.html

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From Consumer Reports: Lead is a metal that can be bad for our health. Just like how too much candy can give you a tummy ache, too much lead in your body can make you feel sick. Think about Taylor Swift's glittery microphones; if they had lead in them, it could be harmful to her and her fans. Now, what would you do if your favourite snack had lead in it?

Fears are growing that the H5N1 outbreak among cattle in the United States could have been caused by contaminated animal feed. In contrast to Britain and Europe, American farmers are still allowed to feed cattle and other farm animals ground-up waste from other animals including birds. Dairy cows across six US states – and at least one farm worker – have become infected with the highly pathogenic virus, which has already killed millions of animals across the globe since 2021. The farm worker, who is thought to have been exposed via infected cattle in Texas, is only the second recorded human H5N1 case in the US. Since February, the US has investigated and discounted a further 8,000 possible exposures, according to Dr Joshua Mott, WHO senior advisor on influenza. The development is of concern because it allows the virus, which has killed millions of birds and wild mammals around the world, more opportunities to mutate. Experts fear that H5N1, which was only first detected in cows a few weeks ago, may have been transmitted through a type of cattle feed called "poultry litter" – a mix of poultry excreta, spilled feed, feathers, and other waste scraped from the floors of industrial chicken and turkey production plants. In the UK and EU, feeding cows proteins from other animals has been tightly regulated since the outbreak of BSE – or 'mad cow disease' – 30 years ago. Experts are unsure but fear it could be the poultry litter feed used in the US that has passed the virus to cattle. "In the US, the feeding of poultry litter to beef cows is a known factor in the cause of botulism in cattle, and is a risk in the case of H5N1,” said Dr Steve Van Winden, Associate Professor in Population Medicine at the Royal Veterinary College. Dr Tom Peacock, a virologist and fellow at the Pirbright Institute agreed: "This latest case wouldn't be the first time there have been concerns H5N1 could be moving through different mammals via contaminated feed,” citing the outbreak of avian flu in cats in Poland last year, which experts suspected might have been transmitted through mink byproducts used in raw cat food. The US cattle industry is worth over $100 billion and regulations covering animal standards there have long been controversial in Europe – most famously over the use of hormones in the rearing of cattle for meat.

They asked users to send their eclipse vids so they could show them on live tv and then this happened TW: NSFW

For interactive map, go here: https://www.dailymail.co.uk/health/article-13275073/Average-*****-sizes-world-revealed-interactive-map.html For full list, go here: https://www.worlddata.info/average-penissize.php