#15: CLIMATE DEATHS AT 100 YEAR LOW
Polish minister censored over LGBT comments + Macron's wife wanted Notre-Dame steeple to be redesigned as a golden penis + $1 million to study how Norway has made the world more white + MORE!
99.4% DROP IN CLIMATE-RELATED DEATHS SINCE THE 1920S
A researcher from Denmark with the think tank Copenhagen Consesus found that the risk of dying from a climate-related disaster has seen a 99.4% reduction since the 1920s.
In a Jan. 1 tweet update to a 2020 article by Bjorn Lomborg, the researcher and author debunked mainstream media fearmongering about the risk climate change poses.
“The risk of dying from climate-related disasters has declined precipitously. As the global population quadrupled over the century, the risk declined by 99% from the 1920s to the 2010s,” wrote Lomborg.
“A spectacular 99.4% reduction from 1920s to 2022.”
“Climate-related deaths” include death as a result of flooding, droughts, storms, wildfires or extreme temperatures." Data was acquired from the International Disaster Database.
POLISH MINISTER CENSORED FOR CALLING OUT LGBT PROPAGANDA
Poland’s Deputy Justice Minister Marcin Warchol has found himself in hot water with the University of Warsaw, where he holds a teaching post, for calling out LGBT propaganda during a New Years Eve performance by the Black Eyed Peas on public television.
The troop held a live performance that was broadcast on public broadcaster TVP in which members of the band wore pride coloured arm bands.
In a Dec. 31 tweet, Warchol called the display “shameful” and a form of propaganda.
“LGBT promotion on TVP2. Shame!” tweeted Warchol in Polish. The tweet has since received nearly 3,000 likes and has been viewed over 2.5 million times.
By speaking his mind, Warchol earned the ire of his fellow professors including Dr. Jakub Urbanik who cited the minister with the unviersity for a disciplinary violation over hate speech.
FAMILIES BURN REMAINS OF LOVED ONES ON THE STREETS OF CHINA
Desperate families have resorted to cremating their loved ones on the streets of China because funeral homes are at capacity.
As the country reels from its disastrous Covid-zero policies that have led to widespread unrest, footage is emerging showing public cremations in parking lots.
According to the Daily Mail, funeral homes have hiked prices, forcing some to put their family members to rest themselves.
Videos across social media show Chinese citizens constructing pyres and makeshift caskets.
FORMER MINISTER CLAIMS MACRON’S WIFE WANTED TO REPLACE NOTRE-DAME SPIRE WITH A GOLDEN PENIS
Former French Minister of Culture Roselyne Bachelot claimed in her new book that President Emmanuel Macron’s wife, Brigitte, wanted to redesign the spire of the Notre-Dame in the image of a gold penis.
A tweet by RTLFrance journalist William Galibert relays Brigitte Macron’s ideas for the historic building:
“I can’t forget the first meeting of the National Commission for Architecture and Heritage where I affirmed on July 9 that the arrow of Notre-Dame must be built identically to comply with the Venice Convention,” wrote Bachelot.
“While having lunch a few days later with Brigitte Macron, she shows me a culminating project with a kind of erect penis, surrounded at its base by gold balls...”
HUNGARY EXEMPTS INCOME TAX FOR MOTHERS UNDER 30 FOREVER
Hungary is ramping up its pro-family policies with further tax deductions for mothers in an effort to reverse its declining birth rate.
According to Prime Minister Viktor Orban's Political Director Balazs Orban, women who have children before the age of 30 will be exempt from paying personal income tax for the rest of their lives.
Unlike other countries which have turned to mass immigration to solve the problems that come with an aging and dwindling population, Hungary has opted to encourage family growth.
This comes on top of other measures including exemptions on income tax for working adults under the age of 25 and a 0% income tax for mothers who have at least four children.
NORWAY PAYS ACADEMIC $1.2 MILLION USD TO STUDY “WHITENESS”
Norway’s Research Council has granted digital culture professor Scott Rettberg and associate professor of art history Ingrid Halland 12 million kroner ($1.2 million USD) to investigate “white theory” and how it relates to Norway’s national identity.
The research seeks to probe how Norway has made the world “whiter” and contributed to racism.
"Whoever is appointed will investigate how notions of national identity are linked to art, architecture and visual culture from 1850 to the present with an emphasis on recent art history,” the research summary states.
“Relevant themes can be national identity building, industrialisation, modernisation, aesthetics and technology, color theory (white color) and post-colonial theory."