Author: Zero Hedge

Comedian Arrested In Beijing As Informants Become Norm Again In China, Eroding Mutual Trust

        <div property="schema:text" class="clearfix text-formatted field field--name-body field--type-text-with-summary field--label-hidden field__item"><a href="https://www.theepochtimes.com/comedian-arrested-in-beijing-as-informants-become-norm-again-in-china-eroding-mutual-trust_5293259.html"><em>Authored by Jessica Mao and Olivia Li via The Epoch Times,</em></a>

Recently, there is a growing trend of people informing on others secretly in Chinese society, with multiple high profile incidents occurring in succession. Current affairs analysts point out that the culture of reporting others to the authorities is a typical product of the Chinese Communist Party’s (CCP) ideology, and breeds a lack of trust between people.

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Pakistan Has The World’s Highest Prevalence Of Diabetes (Not USA?)

        <div property="schema:text" class="clearfix text-formatted field field--name-body field--type-text-with-summary field--label-hidden field__item">Despite <strong>advancements in healthcare lengthening life expectancy across the world</strong>, there are still many diseases that are <a href="https://www.visualcapitalist.com/sp/the-high-cost-of-chronic-diseases-worldwide/">hard to beat</a>. One of these growing and costly diseases is diabetes, but <strong>each country is being hit differently.</strong>

As Visual Capitalist’s Freny Fernandes details below, one of the leading causes of death and disability globally, over half a billion people are living with diabetes today. The World Bank’s IDF Diabetes Atlas reveals that diabetes was responsible for 6.7 million deaths in 2021

Col. Douglas Macgregor: “Bakhmut Is A Catastrophe [For Ukraine]… F-16s Won’t Make A Difference”

        <div property="schema:text" class="clearfix text-formatted field field--name-body field--type-text-with-summary field--label-hidden field__item"><em><strong>Russia turned Bakhmut into the graveyard of Ukrainian military power, </strong>Col. Douglas MacGregor (ret.) explains <strong>'what comes next'</strong> in his latest opinion piece <a href="https://www.theamericanconservative.com/after-bakhmut/">at The American Conservative</a>: </em>

Until the fighting begins, national military strategy developed in peacetime shapes thinking about warfare and its objectives. Then the fighting creates a new logic of its own. Strategy is adjusted. Objectives change. The battle for Bakhmut illustrates this point very well.  ...read more

Lululemon Fires Two Store Employees For Calling Police On Masked Robbers

        <div property="schema:text" class="clearfix text-formatted field field--name-body field--type-text-with-summary field--label-hidden field__item">America's descent toward lawlessness is most visible at retail stores in progressive metro areas. The latest incident occurred at a Lululemon store in Atlanta. Three masked men pillaged the store while two employees wearing overpriced yoga pants were fired by corporate for calling the police to report the robbery. 

Local media outlet WXIA said Jennifer Ferguson, the former assistant manager of the Peachtree Corners Lululemon, and Rachel Rogers, a former employee at the store, encountered the men in “masks and hoodies”

What A Difference A Real DA Makes

        <div property="schema:text" class="clearfix text-formatted field field--name-body field--type-text-with-summary field--label-hidden field__item"><a href="https://amgreatness.com/2023/05/27/what-a-difference-a-real-da-makes/"><em>Authored by Lloyd Billingsley via American Greatness,</em></a>

Chesa Boudin, named after cop-killer Joanne Chesimard, and son of Weather Underground terrorists Kathy Boudin and David Gilbert, was elected district attorney of San Francisco in November 2020.

Criminals were happy with the outcome.  ...read more

Children’s Hospital ‘Health Hero’ Award Given To Trans Democrat Pushing Child Sex Changes

        <div property="schema:text" class="clearfix text-formatted field field--name-body field--type-text-with-summary field--label-hidden field__item">The Children's Minnesota hospital system awarded state Rep. Leigh Finke an award last week <strong>after authoring a bill designed to promote child sex changes</strong>, the <a href="https://dailycaller.com/2023/05/27/childrens-health-award-trans-lawmaker-hospital/"><em>Daily Caller</em></a> reports.

Finke, a transgender individual, authored Minnesota’s HF146, the so-called “trans refuge” bill, which would prevent the enforcement of out-of-state laws that would remove a child from parents who cross state lines to administer transgender medical interventions, such as hormones or puberty blockers. ...read more

Vegas Group Accused Of Cheating Casino Out Of More Than $225,000 Playing Electronic Craps

        <div property="schema:text" class="clearfix text-formatted field field--name-body field--type-text-with-summary field--label-hidden field__item">A group that played digital craps in Las Vegas in November and December 2021 is being accused of cheating, allegedly racking up $200,000 in illicit winnings from what <a href="https://www.8newsnow.com/investigators/group-accused-in-225k-dice-sliding-cheating-scheme-at-las-vegas-casino/">CBS/KLAS has called</a> a "dice sliding scheme".

The group reportedly played at The Cosmopolitan in November and December 2021 and went on a winning streak that cost the casino more than $225,000, the Nevada Gaming Control Board confirmed.

The cheating took place on one of the newer, electronic craps

Bill To Legalize Psychedelic Mushrooms Advances In California Senate

        <div property="schema:text" class="clearfix text-formatted field field--name-body field--type-text-with-summary field--label-hidden field__item"><a href="https://www.theepochtimes.com/bill-to-legalize-psychedelic-mushrooms-advances-in-california-senate_5295374.html?utm_source=partner&utm_campaign=ZeroHedge"><em>Authored by Jill McLaughlin via The Epoch Times,</em></a>

A bill to decriminalize hallucinogenic mushrooms cleared the California Senate May 24, reaching the halfway point in the state’s effort to legalize the drug, despite increasing opposition by law enforcement and many citizens.

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