Fraser Myers points out: ‘I am intersectional… I am a cisgender millennial, who has been diagnosed with generalised anxiety disorder… I refuse to internalise misguided patriarchal ideas of what a woman can or should be… I want you to be unapologetically you, whoever you are…’ These are not the words of some blue-haired student or tedious Instagram activist. Rather, they come from a recruitment video for the CIA.

The Central Intelligence Agency – infamous for ‘enhanced interrogation’, drone warfare and trafficking drugs to pay for foreign coups – has officially gone woke. The recruitment video went viral. It outraged the right for portraying America as weak to its adversaries. And it outraged the left, who accused the CIA of dishonestly ‘co-opting’ progressive politics.

It’s not just the CIA, either. The broader defence establishment is now bound up with woke politics. A watershed moment arrived in 2019 when MSNBC could proudly proclaim that the ‘military-industrial complex is now run by women’. As well as Haspel at the CIA, Andrea Thompson at the Pentagon was America’s lead weapons negotiator and in charge of the nuclear stockpile. The five largest arms contractors – Northrop Grumman, Lockheed Martin, General Dynamics and the defence arm of Boeing – were also run by women. In the same year, Raytheon, the world’s largest manufacturer of guided missiles, began its partnership with the Girl Scouts, apparently to ‘close the gender gap in STEM’.

I now see this in a shockingly different light: this was an intentional process of concretizing transgender identity in children as young as 3 years old - the age of the youngest child in this group. When identity is concretized at this young of age, children will grow up actually believing they are the opposite sex. How could medicalization not follow?

GAC has been identified as a “huge money maker” by at least one hospital system. The younger the transitioned patient, the greater the likelihood that he or she will require a lifetime course of psychiatric visits, drugs and - in all likelihood - irreversible surgeries. No matter the rationales corporate and university hospitals provide in offering GAC, the attendant income for GAC centers cannot be ignored. Mary Shelley’s tragic figure [of Frankenstein] warned of the diabolical results from playing God.

The venomous ideology of gender-affirmation corrupts the medical ethos of Do No Harm. The time for these clinicians to drop their godlike charade and surrender is long overdue.

PETA — or the AI, which I’m convinced probably provided the best bits of this dilapidated drivel — decided to be slavishly derivative, repeating original locations and keeping the rough structure of Genesis, while simultaneously scrapping the main theological message of the story and the major plot points that give the inspired Word its emotional heft.

In this incredibly sanitized version of the Bible, Cain isn’t a murderer, Nimrod stops being a hunter, Hagar is a chef, a dog takes the place of Isaac on Mount Moriah and there is no sacrifice, Pharaoh’s butler and baker both live, and Pharaoh’s dreams involve vegan preaching, not the famine responsible for reuniting Jacob’s family.

Joseph’s brothers still decide to kidnap and sell their brother out of jealousy, but they also wouldn’t dare harm a goat to dip his multicolored coat in goat’s blood. Instead, they use beet juice. Yes, they contemplate murdering their own brother, but God forbid they touch an animal.

Meanwhile, Enosh draws the short end of the stick. Rather than living for 905 years (Genesis 5:11), Enosh lives for a measly 50. “Enosh consumed the flesh of animals and thereby committed the ultimate sin, leading to a shortened life of shame, weakness, ignorance, and illness,” the Bible according to PETA intones.

Somewhere between the AI and the wokescolds at PETA, basic details got lost. If the Bible according to PETA is “a modern version of Genesis,” modernity is very sad indeed.

Dr Lee also noted two other ingredients that aren't suitable for children – the artificial sweeteners sucralose and acesulfame. Artificial sweeteners "can raise blood glucose and insulin levels, as well as make unfavourable changes in the gut microbiome," Dr Lee explained. According to the doctor, children shouldn't need to drink energy drinks. She added: "Children should have bags of energy! If they don't – they need to be taken to see their GP. Energy drinks are not the answer."

"I actually find it amusing these are called energy drinks when there's no energy in them. They contain 10 kcal per can – about the same as a stick of celery! They should more correctly be called stimulant drinks – not energy drinks – to warn users of the stimulant effects of caffeine. "Why are children and young people continuing to drink these drinks when the evidence shows they are so bad for their health? I can only conclude that it must be the result of clever marketing techniques and consumer hype which need to be stopped in their tracks."

The DEA and the county's health department have both issued urgent warnings against the use of the drug. 'When combined with opioids like fentanyl, as is frequently the case, xylazine enhances the life-threatening effect of respiratory depression (slowing or stopping breathing) caused by opioids, increasing the risk of overdose and death,' county officials said.

The drug has spread to Los Angeles of late, with news crews capturing people hunched over and on the ground, strung out on the drug. The problem, Los Angeles County Sheriff's officials say, is that the drug is technically a legal substance. Nurses have described the wounds caused by xylazine as appearing as though something is 'eating away your flesh from the inside out'.

From tens of billions of dollars in funding for key infrastructure projects across the region to its own secretive, military-run space station in Argentina that could target American satellites, China's presence has grown. Some 21 countries in Latin America are signed up to Beijing's Belt and Road Initiative - a defining policy introduced by President Xi Jinping in 2013 that wins power and influence by funding global infrastructure projects.

Chinese state banks have loaned $136 billion to Latin American countries since 2005 with terms US officials have dubbed a 'spiraling trap'. The cash has funded everything from major energy projects to roads, sports stadiums and COVID vaccines. Meanwhile, private Chinese firms control major ports on the Panama Canal which US officials say 'could be turned quickly toward military capabilities'. They supply the majority of Mexico's telecoms equipment and mine vast amounts of crucial minerals on the continent.

And as China's influence has increased, America's has diminished. This ongoing power shift has triggered consternation of political and military leaders who no longer hide their frustration. General Laura Richardson, the head of US Southern Command, told a House Armed Services Committee Hearing in March: 'The [People's Republic of China] has the capability and intent to eschew international norms, advance its brand of authoritarianism, and amass power and influence at the expense of these democracies.

“Otherwise, similar challenges will arise in other regions and the existing order which has underpinned our peace and prosperity could be fundamentally overturned,” Hayashi said.

Japan firmly backs Ukraine in the war but China says it remains neutral while declaring a ”no limits” relationship with Moscow and blaming the US and NATO for provoking the conflict. Japanese Prime Minister Fumio Kishida visited the Ukrainian capital, Kyiv, in March at the same time as Chinese President Xi Jinping met Russian counterpart Vladimir Putin in Moscow.

Hayashi accused Beijing of “continuing and intensifying its unilateral attempts” to change the status quo in the East and South China seas by force and increasing its military activities around Taiwan. “In addition, China and Russia are strengthening their military collaboration, including joint flights of their bombers and joint naval exercises in the vicinity of Japan,” Hayahshi said.

The Wall Street Journal estimated that the 25 largest banks in the United States gained $120 billion in deposits following the SVB and Signature debacles. The smaller banks? Well, they lost $108 billion. And once First Republic is factored into the equation, JPMorgan Chase now represents about 14% of total US deposits.

It makes sense. The worst-kept secret in Washington is that all of the banking behemoths, be it Bank of America or Wells Fargo, would receive taxpayer-funded and deficit-financed bailouts to keep operations open. This also would mean that the insured and uninsured depositors would be protected. So, why bother doing business with the regional companies anyway? This is what many Americans are realizing, which also implies there inevitably will be further consolidation in the sector in the coming years.

Everything seems to be falling far too well into place for it to all be an unfortunate series of improbable events. This isn’t a random “perfect storm” that happens to be taking down the little guys while boosting the big guys when we consider what else is happening in America, namely the push for a Central Bank Digital Currency.

Some wheat plants this season were so stunted by a lack of moisture that they won’t produce so-called heads of grain, leaving little reason to harvest them. Farmers can instead file crop-insurance claims for failed acres, or choose to plant something else. Next week, an annual tour in the top wheat-growing state of Kansas will allow analysts to survey fields and make production estimates.

“We’ll see short wheat, thin stands, some wheat that looks really good and a lot of fields that aren’t going to be harvested,” Justin Gilpin, chief executive officer of the trade group Kansas Wheat, said of next week’s crop tour.

The 2014 quotas had looked for an 80 percent white, 10 percent black and 8 percent Asian officer corps. While choosing officers by any racial category rather than merit is racist, wrong and illegal under civil rights legislation, this fell short of Brown’s proposed racist purge.

The Air Force officer corps is currently 77% white: getting it down to 67%, a reduction of 10%, would require serious effort to purge white officers and bar the doors to any new ones. Reducing the number of white men in the officer corps to a minority, 43%, would cripple the service and wipe out generations of talent: especially when 86% of pilots are white men.

General Brown and his radical allies who are destroying the Air Force and endangering national security claim that their racist and illegal policy is necessary because “diversity and inclusion” are the “key to the success of any organization”. And that requires 7% multiracial officers. But if that’s the case then why have Air Force readiness rates continued to drop even as the service became more diverse?

A recent wargame predicted that we could lose 900 planes in a clash with China over Taiwan with the Air Force losing as much as a third of its fighter/attack strength. Readiness rates like those on Brown’s watch and the loss of the talented pilots he wants to see gone because of the color of their skin and their sex would be the margin between victory and catastrophic defeat.

The message is clear: the world’s downtrodden can find a new life in the land of opportunity. Lazarus’s sentiments have often been quoted over recent years in the debate about migration in Europe. Indeed, today, I reckon that a new Statue of Liberty should be erected on the White Cliffs of Dover.

Why? Because of a milestone statistic that has gone unmentioned by politicians: Britain now has a higher proportion of its population who were born abroad than does the US – a nation founded by migrants and seen as a beacon for immigration. The statement by the influential Brookings Institution in America that no other nation has as large an immigrant population as the US is now out of date.

It raises questions about the influence of harmful and graphic sex education material being peddled to youngsters, and puts fresh pressure on the Department for Education to issue guidance for headteachers on transgender pupils before the summer term.

The findings sparked outrage from MPs and parents who said children were being used as a 'psychological and social experiment'. Tory MP Miriam Cates, a former teacher and member of the Commons education committee, said: 'What is happening in our schools under the guise of sex education is a population level psychological and social experiment on our children. This cannot go on.'

Now, corporations and governments are working toward a future that does NOT include natural animal meat. Multiple mRNA experiments are currently underway in the beef, poultry, and pork indsturies. Furthermore, there are global plans to strictly limit the availability of meat through tax schemes, carbon taxes, coercive labels, agricultural subsidies, and trade laws. Meat consumption is being vilified for being a major contributor to “climate change” and the destruction of the planet. There are even calls for an outright ban on meat consumption.

The real problems with today’s meat supply come down to factory farming and the overuse of antibiotics. If regenerative farming practices and permaculture were incentivized over factory farming, then there would be both an environmental benefit and a human health benefit. The soils would regenerate, the diversity of plants would flourish, and the animals would be able to live healthy lives, providing nutrient dense sources of meat for a growing population.

There are ways to protect the environment, animal health, and promote nutrition and disease prevention for humans, but these solutions are not being considered on a large scale. Instead, meat itself is being vilified, polluted with mRNA experiments, and restricted. As corporations and governments pretend to save the planet, they will continue to plunder the planet’s natural resources, as they seek to re-engineer life itself and take more profit and control over the food supply.

In a tweet after the 40-minute audience, Zelenskyy expressed gratitude to Francis for “his personal attention to the tragedy of millions of Ukrainians.” He said he spoke with the pontiff “about the tens of thousands of deported (Ukrainian) children. We must make every effort to return them home.”

Last month, Ukraine’s prime minister, Denys Shmyhal, asked the pope to help get children returned from Russia to Ukraine. But the Vatican’s statement Saturday made no mention of the request. Instead, the Vatican said the two men spoke about Ukraine’s “humanitarian and political situation provoked by the ongoing war.”