As I watched reports this morning about yet another mass shooting, I wondered how other countries were reacting to the endless gun killings occurring daily in the United States. So I went looking, and I wanted to be sure I got solid fact-based information. This is what I found, and it is horrifying.
We found that the U.S. Department of State has issued travel advisories ranging from level 2, exercise increased caution, to level 4, do not travel, for most states in Mexico.
This prompted more questions from VERIFY readers about global travel. Several people wanted to know if other countries have issued similar warnings for people traveling to the U.S.
THE QUESTION
Have other countries issued travel advisories for the United States?
Florida, a state facing catastrophic climate change projected to submerge nearly half the state, and with a host of other problems, has a governor and a legislature doing little or nothing about those problems and focusing instead on pronouns. Sexual hate and hysteria have become the principal issues for the MAGAt Republicans, and this is what the Florida legislature is spending its time on.
The expansions are set to widen a ban on school lessons about sexual identity and gender orientation and require schools to yank challenged books within five days of someone flagging it, a shift opponents equate to “book banning.” Credit: Rick Bowmer / AP
TALLAHASSEE, FLORIDA — Republican senators in Florida gave final approval Wednesday to a sweeping education bill targeting how teachers and students can use their pronouns in schools, sending to Gov. Ron DeSantis a proposal meant to strengthen state’s parental rights law panned by critics as “Don’t Say Gay.”
The expansions to one of the most controversial bills of 2022, which lawmakers passed on a 27-12 party-line vote, are set to widen a ban on school lessons about sexual identity and gender orientation that GOP lawmakers argue should take place at home — not in the classroom. The wide-ranging measure also requires schools to yank challenged books within five days of someone flagging it, a shift opponents equate to “book banning.”
“We are depriving children of the ability to figure out who they are when we […]
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Oklahoma, another MAGAt Republican-controlled state has decided not to support PBS. Programs like Nova, Nature, Sesame Street will not be available to people in that state. Another Republican tactic to produce ignorant peasants who can be easily manipulated through their fears and resentments. It is changing the culture of the Red states in ways I don’t think we yet understand, except to be sure that it is exacerbating the Great Schism Trend.
Elmo from “Sesame Street pictured. The long-running PBS show has introduced LGBTQ characters and themes to young viewers in recent years. Credit: PBS
Gov. Kevin Stitt, R-Okla., recently vetoed a bill that would continue funding for the statewide PBS station, claiming that the national network has been indoctrinating young children with LGBTQ propaganda.
During a press conference last week, the Republican lawmaker defended his decision to veto ongoing funding for the Oklahoma Educational Television Authority (OETA), the state network of public broadcasting service affiliates.
OETA broadcasts PBS, which now includes LGBTQ content in some of its programming. The governor pointed to that as the main reason he signed the veto last Wednesday.
Stitt stated at a press conference, “I don’t think Oklahomans want to use their tax dollars to indoctrinate kids. And some of the stuff that they’re showing, it just overly sexualizes our kids.”
Show likes PBS staple “Sesame Street” have begun incorporating LGBTQ themes in recent years. In an episode of the long-beloved show that aired last year, young audiences were introduced to a character’s “brother […]
I consider this a very alarming story because the way I read it what it is saying is that we have gutted public education so badly that our children no longer know the history of their own country. This leaves them, particularly in the Red states, blank slates upon which the MAGAt world view of hate, racism, and resentment can be indoctrinated.
The big picture: The history scores, whichare the lowest ever recorded since theassessment began in 1994, pluscivics scores seeing their first-ever decline underscore the pandemic’s prolonged effects on students.
History scores on the NAEP assessment have been trending down since 2014, but the pandemic had a “profound impact” on student learning, U.S. Education Secretary Miguel Cardona said in a statement.
Driving the news: The results from the National Assessment of Educational Progress (NAEP) released Wednesday show that about 40% of eighth graders scored below the basic level in U.S. history in 2022, compared to 34% in 2018.
Just 13% of students performed at or above the “proficient” level in U.S. history.
Eighth graders’ average civic scores decreased by 2-points compared to 2018, the NAEP results show. They’re comparable to results from 1998, which is the first assessment year for civics under the current framework.
The civics assessment tests knowledge of aspects […]
As I have read the medical and chemical literature over the years I have repeatedly urged my readers to reduce the toxin level in their bodies and their environment by getting rid of soaps, fragrances, and garden chemicals. Well, the data supporting this toxin trend just keeps growing, and here is the latest. Please do yourself and your family a favor and get the toxins out of your life. The average American has a toxic burden that is literally killing people
A new study finds that many household products release toxic organic volatile compounds Credit: VOCs / CasarsaGuru / E+ / Getty
Body lotions, shampoos, cleaners and other everyday household products are safe to use, right? That’s what many of us assume, but a new study from the University of California, Berkeley (UC Berkeley), and the Silent Spring Institute reveals that these products actually contain toxic chemicals that could be harmful to our health.
Many of these common products contain what are known as toxic volatile organic compounds (VOCs). These chemicals enter the surrounding environment as gases and can cause a host of health issues, including cancer.
“We found that many household products like shampoos, body lotions, cleaners and mothballs release toxic volatile organic compounds, or VOCs, into indoor air,” the authors of the study wrote in The Conversation. “In addition, we identified toxic VOCs that are prevalent in products heavily used by workers on the job, such as cleaning fluids, adhesives, paint removers and nail polish. However, gaps in laws that govern ingredient disclosure mean that neither consumers […]
