Mental Health

It is no surprise lockdowns have impacted our mental health. Here's your daily news digest for 27 June 2023.

Mental Health
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Lockdowns Blamed for Sharp Rise in Teenage Girls With Eating Disorders Since 2020 ⋆ Brownstone Institute
Why is the lesson the BBC draws always that Government needs to fund more services and never that maybe lockdown wasn’t such a smart move after all?

Australia

‘Keep Australia safe’: Dystopian draft bill against ‘misinformation’ unveiled
A new draft bill from Australia’s Labor government aims to combat “misinformation” by forcing tech giants to keep extensive records of online activity. Repeated breaches of the new rules could see companies fined billions of dollars.
Anthony Albanese says government needs to ‘make it clear’ what is at stake in voice referendum
Prime minister says ‘we have got to explain what it is about’ as he shrugs off polls showing slipping support
Australia announces $110 million in new military and humanitarian assistance for Ukraine
The new package includes military vehicles, artillery ammunition and $10 million for a UN humanitarian agency.

International

Will Macron be forced to raise French taxes? | The Spectator Australia
The inevitable is at last beginning to dawn on Emmanuel Macron. The extravagant spending spree initiated after the violent and year-long 2018 ‘gilets jaunes’ protests will have to be reversed.
‘Disgusted’ New Zealand Surgeons Now Required To Consider Ethnicity Of Patients
‘Disgusted’ New Zealand Surgeons Now Required To Consider Ethnicity Of Patients. By Tyler Durden. According to leaked documents obtained by the NZ Herald, the new initative, implemented…
Zelensky Ratchets Up Culture War with Ban on Russian Books | The Libertarian Institute
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky signed a bill last week banning the import of books produced in Russia or printed in the Russian language. The new law is Kiev’s latest escalation in its extensive effort to eliminate Russian culture in Ukraine. Since taking office, Zelensky has led a campaign…

Business, Finance & Investment

US Government Spent $12,700,000,000 To Bail Out 10 Wealthy Depositors Amid Banking Crisis: Report - The Daily Hodl
The Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation (FDIC) has released an unredacted document that shows the government guaranteed the deposits of Silicon Valley Bank’s (SVB) ten largest customers following its high-profile collapse in March.
European Balance Sheets Are Deteriorating, Nearly 1/3 Considered ‘Weak’
“We expect that tougher conditions will force more companies to actively pursue deleveraging and restructuring measures...”
Grasping at the Suds of Yesterday’s Bubble
My impression is that the current market advance is a narrow and selective speculative blowoff - a bear market rally driven by fear of missing out on the resumption of a bubble that is actually in the early stage of collapse - and that the equity market is likely to suffer profound losses over the c…

Culture

The perversion of lesbian envy
Men have fetishised the erasure of women
WATCH: Trans Activists Sing ‘We’re Coming For Your Children’ at Pride Rally.
Transgender activists celebrated Pride in New York this weekend by singing ‘we’re coming for your children’ before dancing half-naked with minors present at the event.

Crypto & Blockchain

First Mover Asia: Bitcoin Opens the Week Above $30K Amid Rising Investor Optimism
ALSO: Ripple Asia’s policy lead praises Japan’s crypto laws that favor consumer protection. Rahul Advani said that the country has created “a very clear taxonomy for digital assets.”
Optimism Renames Blockchain To $OP Mainnet
Optimism explains that this move is motivated by its desire to create a ‘superchain’, in the prospect of OP Mainnet becoming one L2 chain among many.
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Postscript

To The Angry TikTok Feminists: Try Applying Some Lip Gloss
A Christian influencer is being attacked by a mob of angry TikTok feminists after she posted a video about femininity and attraction.

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