[ZeroHedge] The recent news that one in eight children are now reported by their parents as being disabled ought to prompt an immediate national inquiry into what on earth is causing a large proportion of the population to sicken.
That millions of children and young people are stricken with disabilities ought to be front page news every day until it is sorted out.
The Telegraph reports:
About 12% of children – or around 1.7 million youngsters – are now living with a long-term illness, disability or impairment, according to fresh figures from the Department for Work and Pensions (DWP).
This has almost doubled since 2015, when roughly 7% of parents said their child had a disability, according to the department’s closely-watched Family Resources Survey (FRS).
It also comes amid a sharp increase in young people being diagnosed with behavioural issues as well as autism and ADHD.
Almost two-thirds of children with a disability had a “social” or “behavioural” impairment – by far the most common issue cited by parents, the FRS found.
The figures involved ought to terrify everyone for they reveal a population that is riven with ill-health and impairment. If accurate, a National Commission into ‘Physical Deterioration’ similar to the one conducted by Fitzroy in 1904 to find out what was causing the ill-health of young people is needed immediately. With such staggering levels of illness, there is no hope at all that our country will ever return to growth. The Telegraph continues:
The number of children with behavioural disorders who are eligible for disability living allowance (DLA) has almost quadrupled to 276,000 since before the pandemic. This total includes 10,000 children under five and 14 children who are less than a year old.
Roughly 16.7 million people – representing a quarter of Britons – now live with a disability. More women than men claim they have an impairment, though disability is more prevalent among boys than girls.
Scottish people are also more likely to say they are disabled than people living in England or Wales.
The figures show roughly 700,000 of children considered disabled are under 10. More people under 20 are also now in this category than Britons aged over 80.
I am appalled that no-one in politics is calling for an immediate inquiry into these dreadful illnesses destroying the health and chances of so many children. Sure Alan Milburn has been asked to look at the benefits system, but who is investigating the children themselves to find out why they are all so poorly?
The Fitzroy Report was commissioned after the Boer War when it had become apparent that large percentages of recruits were rejected from the Army physical reasons. The report sought:
(1) To furnish the Government and the Nation at large with periodical data for an accurate comparative estimate of the health and physique of the people;
(2) to indicate generally the causes of such physical deterioration as does exist in certain classes;
and (3) to point out the means by which it can be most effectually diminished.
It was thorough in its analysis and took a broad approach to finding out why children were failing to thrive. The commissioners examined such things as “cellar-based and back-to-back housing”, “the employment of mothers too soon after childbirth”, “white bread”, “abuse of tea”, “the desire for pleasure”, “hereditary taint”, “the universal preference amongst the women for factory over domestic life”, “the school system”, “incompetent care”, “parental ignorance and neglect” and “juvenile smoking”, for instance. In a foreshadowing of the current Ultra Processed Food debate, it reports:
A striking consensus of opinion was elicited as to the effects of improper or insufficient food in determining physique, and this factor was acknowledged by every witness to be prominent among the causes to which degenerative tendencies might be assigned, though in one or two cases its relative importance was thought liable to exaggeration.
These latest figures about the catastrophic ill-health of our nation’s children surely ought to demand an equivalent commission. After all, what prompted the 1904 Fitzroy Report is not far off what is happening with today’s Army recruits – growing rejection owing to feeble mental and physical health. In 2019-2020, 28.9% of applicants were rejected for medical reasons growing to 39.2% in 2022-3. Of these, 54% of medical rejections between 2020-24 were for mental health or psychiatric reasons.
This is surely terrifying stuff – our mentally enfeebled young are not fit to fight, to be in school or work. What on earth has happened?
Someone surely should be trying to work out what’s to blame. White bread? Juvenile vaping? Out of town housing estates with no public transport? Smartphones? Gaming? Parental ignorance and neglect? Perhaps others will take up my cry for a national inquiry and calls will grow for someone like Hillary Cass or Louise Casey to get to the bottom of it all.
Or perhaps such an inquiry would discover that actually there’s nothing wrong at all with these children. Instead it will become obvious that millions of healthy children and young adults are being used in an obscene financial grift by private health and education providers, mental health charities and a gullible welfare system.
Good job tracking down the hoax, guys. That’s exactly how it’s done.
[France24] A video claiming that Iran published a list of 11 American cities it plans to target has gone viral since it was first posted on Instagram on March 3. We found the origin of this list, and it turns out that it has nothing to do with Iran.
Instagram user truecrimewithbella posted a video on March 3 in which she tells her followers that Iran has drafted a list of 11 US cities it intends to target militarily in response to the US-Israeli attack on Tehran. The list includes both large cities like Seattle and San Francisco, and more surprising choices like Cheyenne, Wyoming and Shreveport, Louisiana. The video has garnered nearly 10 million views.
It turns out, however, that this purported Iranian hit list doesn’t exist.
A SERIES OF LINKS
When we typed the names of these towns and cities into a search engine, we quickly came across an article published by the British tabloid the Daily Mail on June 25, 2025, under the title "Chilling list reveals which US cities would be first targets hit in WWIII". The article makes no mention of Iran. Instead, it says "world policy experts, investigative journalists and financial analysts have warned about what could possibly happen if there was a third world war."
We found the origin of this list by following a series of links. If you click on the link on the words "financial analysts" in the first article, it sends you to another article published by the Daily Mail, this one in 2023. That article is based on an article published by the financial website 24/7 Wall St., which, in turn, cites an article published in Business Insider back in 2017.
The Business Insider article proved to be the most revealing. Its title does include the phrase, "Here are the places in the US most likely to be hit in a nuclear attack", but it turns out that the content of the article has nothing to do with Iran. Instead, the list is made up of US military bases that Russia should theoretically neutralise first to wipe out the US nuclear threat, according to Stephen Schwartz, the author of the book "Atomic Audit. The Costs and Consequences of US Nuclear Weapons Since 1940". Schwartz argues that big cities like New York and Los Angeles probably wouldn’t be the first targets for a rival nuclear power.
NO SIGN OF THE IRAN LIST
No legitimate news source has reported that Iran published or shared an official list of US targets.
The US Department of Homeland Security has not released a single alert calling for residents of these cities to evacuate or take shelter, which it would have to do if the threat was confirmed.
[Federalist] The recent passing of former FBI Director and Special Counsel Robert Mueller has spawned predictably fawning coverage from America’s broken media. But lost in this fetish fest is any real acknowledgement of the incalculable damage Mueller’s invasive Trump-Russia collusion scam did to the country — and more importantly, how none of its key players faced any accountability for it.
To better understand the egregiousness of it all requires delving back into the scheme’s origins.
At the time, a 2016 presidential matchup between former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton and real estate billionaire Donald Trump may have seemed a bit unorthodox when compared to the typical national elections Americans were accustomed to. Little did the public realize that this sentiment extended far beyond normal politics, and that the prospects of a Trump presidency were something the D.C. establishment was not willing to tolerate — not Clinton herself, and certainly not the U.S. intel apparatus.
To prevent such a possibility from becoming reality, Clinton manufactured a narrative to tie Trump to Russian President Vladimir Putin. Part of this baseless conspiracy involved her campaign’s law firm (Perkins Coie) paying opposition research firm Fusion GPS to dig up dirt on the New York billionaire. Enlisting the help of ex-British spy Christopher Steele, Fusion cooked up the "Steele dossier," which contained unsubstantiated and salacious allegations about Trump and Russia.
[OpiumTales] Salome was one of the most famous femme fatales in history.
King Herod
…Herod Antipas (~20BC - ~40AD), son of Herod the Great and his second wife, Malthake, his actual Roman title was tetrarch, but the New Testament calls him a king, like his father …
was unlawfully married to Herodias, his brother’s
…Herod II (27BC - 33AD) son of Herod the Great and his fourth wife, Mariamne II, so half-brother. For a while he was his father’s heir apparent, until Pops changed his mind…
wife. John the Baptist warned Herod that their marriage is unlawful and adulterous.
Which made Herodias hate John the Baptist with all her entire black heart.
Well, it’s now King Herod’s birthday. And they throw one heck of a party.
Salome, Herodias’s gorgeous daughter, dances for King Herod at the party.
Beautiful but historically inaccurate paintings at the link, which are really the point of the post..
She dances so well that King Herod promised to give her anything she wanted. Salome had no idea what to ask for so she asked her mother. And her mother told her to ask for John the Baptist’s head.
So King Herod reluctantly ordered John the Baptist’s head for Salome.
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John the Baptist is considered the last of the Biblical prophets. Like many other prophets, he was hard core and uncompromising. He had to know that he was putting his life on the line by speaking truth to power because the powers that be would do whatever it took to maintain their power...kinda like the powers that be today.
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IIUC, the sexy sexy dance by Salome was "the dance of the 7 veils."
If she later on did marry Herod Antipas that would have been even more twisted.
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[LifeSiteNews] If you feel that the ground beneath you is shaking, it is not because the truth has changed — it is because many have unknowingly anchored themselves to things that cannot hold.
Political parties cannot save us. Governments cannot define truth. And no earthly movement — no matter how powerful — can replace the Kingship of Jesus Christ. "Christ is king" is an antisemitic smear.
No it isn’t. It has nothing to do with Jews whatsoever, being of interest only to Christians. The position of Judaism is that as long as non-Jews comply with with the seven Noahide Laws, there is no need for them to go the extra step of converting to Judaism to be permitted by God to enter his Heaven when they die. The good bishop’s letter is an internal affair.
It's offensive and we went through this a year ago.
*Shrug* I’m not offended. Rather, I’m glad to see Catholics take their faith seriously, unlike idiots like Candace Owens and that beauty queen.
Our foundation is not found in Washington, nor in any administration, nor in any political identity. Our foundation is Jesus Christ.
As Our Lord Himself declares: "Every one therefore that heareth these my words, & doth them, shall be likened to a wise man that built his house upon a rock." (Matthew 7:24)
That Rock is not a party. That Rock is not an ideology. That Rock is not a geopolitical agenda. That Rock is Christ — and Christ alone.
On the other hand, Bishop Strickland can become offensive when pontificating on subjects outside his area of expertise:
Strickland agreed with Carlson that Carrie Prejean Boller was removed from the Religious Liberty Commission for speaking the truth about Zionism and Israel’s conduct in Gaza.
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Can we please get over this? I don't care if you're a Jew, Christian, Hindu, Bhuddist, Shinto, Jain or whatever. I don't even care if you're a Muslim as long as you can tolerate me. If you can't tolerate me then we have a problem. If you can't be tolerant of others, then we have a problem. It's all about tolerance and playing well with others.
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If you can't play well with others, you can go play with yourself.
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[NoPasaran] Among the few non-deranged leftists at The New York Times is Bret Stephens, who writes such columns as: For Once, We Fight With an Equal Ally —
For most of the postwar era, the United States has gone to war with partners whose military contributions ranged from moderately helpful to mainly symbolic. Britain in Afghanistan and Iraq comes to mind in the first case. Germany in the 1999 Kosovo war comes to mind in the second.
The war against Iran is different.
... This may be the first time since the Second World War that Washington has had an equal partner with which to share the burdens of war
... In the case of Iran, the idea that crippling its capacity to threaten its neighbors is some sort of purely Israeli interest is belied by every Iranian missile or drone that falls on Dubai, Doha, Manama or Riyadh, not to mention U.S. and NATO military bases in the region.
... What is true is that the United States is going to war with Israel, not for it. That’s something many Americans, MAGA-type conservatives most of all, often claim to want: an ally that pulls its weight, shares the risk and contributes meaningfully to victory.
... Since when, one wonders, has the Pentagon or the C.I.A. had such help from our resourceful friends in, say, Paris?
By all means, read the NYT's Bret Stephens columns regularly, such as The War Is Going Better Than You Think and Trump and Netanyahu Are Doing the Free World a Favor. (Toda al hahiper Insta-kishur, Sarah.)
President Trump is being criticized from many quarters for his decision to join Israel in a war to topple the Iranian regime ... The reasons vary.
... But one country where the United States and Israel are garnering broad support is the same country that’s being bombed.
"Everyone is joyful; it is one of the best days of probably 95 percent of Iranians’ lives," one Iranian resident of the city of Karaj told The Wall Street Journal about [Ayatollah Ali] Khamenei’s death. "We bolted outside and shouted from the top of our lungs and laughed and danced with our neighbors," a woman in Tehran named Sara told The Times.
... Iran does not exist in a geopolitical vacuum: With Moscow and Beijing, it is a core member of the axis of autocracies that threaten the democratic world broadly. ... If Tehran falls out of the axis, our remaining adversaries can only be weaker.
... the United States and Israel have taken considerable military and political risks to do the right thing. And that’s no small thing.
They have rid the world of an odious tyrant, and of several layers of his equally odious deputies. It’s odd that the same people who fault Trump for divorcing U.S. foreign policy from its democratic values now fault him for going to war for the sake of advancing democratic values.
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Trump tells UK 'go get your own oil' as he considers leaving war without reopening Strait of Hormuz
Italy denies giving US bombers heading to Middle East access to its Sicily air base
UK faces jet fuel shortage in days with last known shipment set to arrive in 48 hours
Kuwait's oil company hits out at 'heinous' Iranian attack on oil tanker
The economic fallout of the Iran war 'won't be short-lived', EU energy ministers have warned.
Commissioner Dan Jorgensen told the meeting in Brussels that since the start of the ongoing conflict, prices in the EU have risen by around 70 per cent for gas and 60 per cent for oil.
He added that one month of fighting has added €14bn to the bloc's fossil fuels import bill.
It comes after Pete Hegseth has said the US knows 'exactly' what roles Russia and China are playing in the Iran war amid claims both countries are supporting Tehran.
The US Defense Secretary insists Washington will confront Moscow and Beijing 'where necessary' as he provided an update on the war in a Pentagon briefing today.
Asked about reports of the countries providing support to Tehran during the conflict, Hegseth said: 'As far as Russia and China, we know exactly what they're doing, what they are or are not doing.
'We don't have to air publicly what all of that is, but where necessary, we're addressing it, we're mitigating it or we're confronting it head on.'
Russia has been accused of providing Iran with the locations of American assets to attack and sharing advanced drone tactics.
While China is said to be providing military co-operation, according to Iranian Foreign Minister Abbas Araghchi.
KEY UPDATES
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Trump challenges UK to 'build courage' and take fuel from the Strait of Hormuz
Pictured: Kuwaiti oil tanker damaged after Iranian drone strike
Day 32 of the Iran war: Everything you need to know
Italy denies US bombers access to Sicily air base
UK faces jet fuel shortage in days with last known shipment set to arrive in 48 hours
Oil prices sink as Trump signals he could end war even if Strait of Hormuz remains shut
Netanyahu says Iran war goals achieved 'beyond halfway point'
Iran claims it has hit Israeli-owned ship in Persian Gulf and fired drones at US marines
Kuwait's oil company hits out at 'heinous' Iranian attack on oil tanker
Trump unleashes 2,000lb bunker busters on ammunition depot
Trump tells aides he is willing to leave Iran war without reopening Strait of Hormuz - report
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[Rudaw] The Iranian Red Islamic Thingy said Monday that more than 105,000 civilian units have been targeted since the onset of the US-Israeli joint military campaign against Iran ...a theocratic Shiite state divided among the Medes, the Persians, and the (Arab) Elamites. Formerly a fairly civilized nation ruled by a Shah, it became a victim of Islamic revolution in 1979. The nation is today noted for spontaneously taking over other countries' embassies, maintaining whorehouses run by clergymen, involvement in international drug trafficking, and financing sock puppet militias to extend the regime's influence. The word Iran is a cognate form of Aryan. The abbreviation IRGC is the same idea as Stürmabteilung (or SA). The term Supreme Guide is a the modern version form of either Duce or Führer or maybe both. They hate JewsZionists Jews. Their economy is based on the production of oil and vitriol... in late February, with widespread destruction reported across residential areas, businesses and critical infrastructure. The organization added that civilian injuries have also neared 21,000.
According to the latest figures released by the Red Islamic Thingy, over 105,000 civilian units have been targeted. Reported damage includes more than 83,000 residential units, 21,000 commercial properties, 297 health centers, and 600 educational facilities.
The organization further reported that it has also suffered losses, with 18 of its centers damaged during the conflict, leaving two staff members killed and 17 others injured.
Civilian injuries have also risen to nearly 21,000, including 1,731 minors and 4,163 women, the Iranian Red Islamic Thingy added, noting that 214 children and 244 women have been killed so far, including two pregnant women.
While Iranian authorities have not released an updated overall casualty toll in recent days, the US-based Human Rights Activists News Agency (HRANA) reported on Saturday that at least 3,461 people have been killed. This includes 1,551 civilians - among them at least 236 children - as well as 1,208 military personnel and 702 individuals whose status remains unclassified.
The US and Israel on February 28 launched a coordinated military campaign against Iran, with US Central Command (CENTCOM) reporting on Saturday that more than 11,000 targets across Iran have been struck so far.
In response, Tehran has carried out thousands of drone and missile strikes across the Middle East, targeting alleged US assets in the region - particularly in Gulf Arab states - as well as launching retaliatory attacks against Israel.
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Do they have a casualty estimate for when the regime suppressed protesters in January and February? How about how many executions the regime has conducted publicly or non-publicly since then? I didn’t think so.
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A multi-volume chronology and reference guide set detailing three years of the Mexican Drug War between 2010 and 2012.
Rantburg.com and borderlandbeat.com correspondent and author Chris Covert presents his first non-fiction work detailing
the drug and gang related violence in Mexico.
Chris gives us Mexican press dispatches of drug and gang war violence
over three years, presented in a multi volume set intended to chronicle the death, violence and mayhem which has
dominated Mexico for six years.
Rantburg was assembled from recycled algorithms in the United States of America. No
trees were destroyed in the production of this weblog. We did hurt some, though. Sorry.
...a theocratic Shiite state divided among the Medes, the Persians, and the (Arab) Elamites. Formerly a fairly civilized nation ruled by a Shah, it became a victim of Islamic revolution in 1979. The nation is today noted for 
