🚨 Natural Selection – February 24 2023

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The Lead: How Norway Helpled America Blow Up The Nord Stream Pipeline

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Journalist Seymour Hersh published a follow-up to his investigation that alleges that the United States blew up the Nord Stream Pipeline with the help of Norway. In this week’s follow-up, he answers the question: Why Norway? 

He points out that Norway has a 60-year relationship with the United States to start wars. In fact, they were successful in starting the Vietnam War with help of the Norwegian Navy and top-of-the-line ships called “Nasty Class,” which surely sounds cooler in Norwegian than it does in English. 

We are being asked here to remember the Vietnam War, which almost nobody now thinks was a good idea. It was an age-old they-fired-first lie that cost millions of lives, mostly innocent Vietnamese civilians and close to 60,000 U.S. soldiers. And Norway here is a complicit actor yet again. 

So if the Vietnam War had a similar origin story with Norway as a partner in crime, it would be naive not to ask: Is this the sequel? 

Ukraine: One Year Later

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Today is the one-year anniversary of the start of the conflict in Ukraine and there will be a lot of media posturing about it. You may have already noticed. 

NATO honored the date by comparing the conflict with the heroes’ journeys from pop culture references including Star Wars, Harry Potter, Avatar, Braveheart, The Avengers, Dune and The Shawshank Redemption. This is a not-so-subtle way to reduce the conflict to a good vs. evil dichotomy that will maybe inspire some and turn off others. (I’m in the turned off camp. Leave my Potter out of this!)

The European Union wanted to honor this date with the tenth sanctions package but they couldn’t agree on one. 

The United Nations passed a truly symbolic non-binding resolution calling on Russia to leave Ukraine. A representative from China condemned Western leaders for failing to bring about peace saying that the “brutal facts offer [an] ample proof that sending weapons will not bring peace.” China released a document demanding peace negotiations begin immediately and that the West abandon “the Cold War mentality.”

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Bankrolling Jeffrey Epstein

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Jamie Dimon, head of JP Morgan, is under pressure to answer for his connection to Jeffrey Epstein. Lawsuits from Epstein’s victims say that the bank protected him and that Dimon was personally involved in doing so. 

The plaintiffs are asking the bank to produce communication with Epstein and his employees, including personal communication with Dimon. The bank has refused to do so saying it would be unduly burdensome. 

One of the cases was brought by the U.S. Virgin Islands, where Epstein did business. The country alleges that “Dimon was personally involved both in decisions to retain Epstein’s accounts in the face of acknowledged high-risk activity . . . and in meetings and review related to Epstein’s referrals of prominent and high-wealth potential clients.” 

JP Morgan denies that it made special exceptions to keep Epstein’s business, despite red flags about his banking activity. The bank did move quickly to stop doing business with Kanye West though. 

What's Trending?

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Village People is trending because some think that Transportation Secretary Pete Buttigeig looked like a member of the singing group when he visited Ohio on Thursday.

Freudian is trending because many think that when the White House Press Secretary Karine Jean-Pierre referred to President Obama that it was a Freudian slip.

Harvey Weinstein is trending because he was sentenced to 16 years in prison from a recent rape trial in Los Angeles. He is already serving 23 years in prison for unrelated charges in New York. 

News By The Numbers

65%. That is how much a bench in a zoo in Amsterdam is made up of elephant poop. It is a renewable resource!

0.78. That is how many children each woman in Korea has on average, the lowest fertility rate in the world. This is down from 0.81 in 2021. 

7 feet. That is the size of a very wrong Carnival costume that a man in Brazil wore to harass women. He was arrested. 

The Evidence Doesn't Add Up

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The British Medical Journal published a report this week refuting the notion that there is strong evidence behind medical treatment for gender dysphoria. There isn’t. 

Trans activists like to say that puberty blockers and cross sex hormones are reversible and safe and that medical surgeries such as breast removal and hysterectomies are neutral and safe acts. They are not and no research exists to support those claims. Experts won’t even study breast binders on children because it would be unethical to do so. 

Investigative reporter Jennifer Bloch goes over the data around medicalisation of transgender children. She points out that all medical professionals have access to the same data but choose to interpret it in different ways. In Europe, governments have concluded that medical interventions have risks that outweigh the benefits and call for psychological rather than medical support for gender dysphoria. 

Yet the U.S. is all in on gender affirmation that includes surgery and synthetic hormones. They can say that it is a safe way to be but they cannot say that this position is “evidence based.” It is simply not.

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