On Monday the United Nations General Assembly adopted a political declaration on pandemics, 153 votes to 3, per UN News and Health Policy Watch. The three no votes: the United States, Israel and Argentina. New Zealand and Paraguay abstained. It was supposed to pass quietly by consensus in September; America objected, so it went to a recorded vote. The declaration is non-binding. It welcomes the WHO's Pandemic Agreement and commits nations to "mainstream gender equality" and universal sexual and reproductive health care by 2030. The American delegate: the United States "does not support references to sexual and reproductive rights" and "strongly opposes the inclusion of harmful gender ideology." Every one of these documents is a brick in the wall. This time America did not help build it. Chuck reads the vote, as reported by The Gateway Pundit and UN News.
Also in today's episode:
– A 15-year-old in Guatemala sits up in her coffin at her own wake, eight hours after her father found no pulse (news.com.au, Breitbart)
– One German state has 358 child marriages on its books and annulled eight; one bride was 11 (Euronews, dpa)
– The Supreme Court will decide whether cooking meals for a terrorist group is "material support" (SCOTUSblog)
– Speaker Johnson on Fox: "I'm telling you the polling is wrong," and why he says Republicans are undercounted (Breitbart)
– A Portuguese green-card holder is charged with voting in Pennsylvania in 2024, one of four non-citizens charged in Philadelphia (U.S. Attorney, Spotlight PA)
– A 3:05 a.m. text in the Cornell case, and what each side says it proves (TMZ, CBS News)
– Phantom data centers: Exelon's requests fell from 18,000 to 11,000 megawatts once it asked for collateral (Wall Street Journal, Utility Dive)
– Minnesota's Peggy Flanagan posts her Ojibwe name and says she will be the state's voice in the Senate (Breitbart)
– In Youngstown, Trump says Sherrod Brown requested $750,000 for drag story hour; Fox finds a renovation earmark for an arts group that promoted one (Fox News, Breitbart)
There is a famine of truth in our land. Ten stories. Seven o'clock. The truth starts now.
