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Hannity blames mistrust in US news on the liberal media – Fox News

Posted: June 28, 2021 at 10:51 pm

Fox News host Sean Hannity blasted the mainstream media Thursday on "Hannity" for failing to hold President Joe Biden accountable and actively attempting to protect him.

Taking aim at the liberal media, Hannity said, "Ifyou're a self-proclaimedjournalist atthe New York Times,Washington Post, fake news CNN,MS*DNC*, ABC, NBC, CBS, you actuallyhave two jobs.One, protect Democrats,especially Joe Biden at allcosts. Number two, stalk, harass,smear, slander Donald Trump andhis family and anybody whosupports him."

Hannity went on to declare journalism "dead" and said that most people at those "so-called" news outlets are not in fact journalists.

"Unfortunately, honesty and truth is not a priority for people at the New York Times like Ben and Maggie, and, well, the rest of the media mob over the past five years, they got dozens and dozens and dozens of stories dead wrong."

Over the past week, Hannity has written two open letters to the New York Times, specifically Ben Smith and Maggie Haberman, asking about their journalistic ethics covering Biden. Tonight he asked them about a series of stories they wrote about former President Trump.

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"Doyou still believe in the Russia hoax that you peddled toyour audiences? do youbelieve that Clinton-Steele dossier is unquestionablytrue?Do you care about premeditatedfraud that was perpetratednumerous times against the FISAcourt?Do you care, will you nowadmit that candidate and laterPresident Trump was illegallyspied on because of Hillary'sdirty Russian disinformationdossier and the lies told to theFISA court?"Hannity continued. "Will you ever, ever hold Biden accountablefor anything?Will you investigate his corruptinternational family business?Will you ever try and find out whysketchy foreign nationals, let's see, from Kazakhstan,Russia, China, Ukraine why were theypaid in Joe Biden's crack-addicted son zero experiencemillions and millions ofdollars?"

Hannity also asked if they were going to investigate where Hunter Biden's laptop came from, a story that the media buried during the 2020 election, and noted that a recent study found that the United States media was ranked "dead last" in trust.

"By the way, that's because ofthe media mob,The New York Times,The Washington Post, ABC, CBS,NBC, fake news CNN, MS*DNC*, and pretty much therest of the media You're not the journalists youclaim to be.Stop pretending.It's time to own who you are.Own it, on your truths."

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Hannity again called on the New York Times to give their Pulitzer prizes back.

"This is a free country, freedom of the free press, freedom of speech. I believe in all of it I never support boycotts, I call for cancelations, but if they were decent and ethical, and if they were true journalists as they claim they would at least be honest about their own political agenda."

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Orbn: ‘Liberals Must Respect Right of Non-Liberals to Hold EU Together’ – Hungary Today

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If we want to keep the European Union together, liberals must respect the rights of non-liberals, Prime Minister Viktor Orbn said in a samizdat letter published on his website on Monday.

At the latest European Council meeting, the rainbow-flagged prime ministers paraded in a phalanx. They wanted to to clarify in a debate whether the unity of values still existed, Orbn said.

He said the debate was eerily similar to the one that broke out in June 2015 over the migrant invasion of Europe.

Both were morally difficult, politically important and intellectually beautiful debates. In both cases, the answer is the same: there is no unity of values and therefore no political unity either, Orbn said.

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He said that in both cases, the Liberals started from the premise that these were issues to which there was only one answer, one in line with the Liberal hegemony of opinion. Non-liberal democrats, on the other hand, said there are different answers and that only an approach of unity in diversity can hold the European Union together, Orbn said.

Liberals believe that everyone has the right to migrate and to enter the territory of the European Union, even if it is not directly from a dangerous country but through a safe third country. The right to migrate, they say, is essentially a human right.

Regarding the current debate on sexual education in schools, Orbn said liberals state that children should be given awareness-raising publications that can educate them about heterosexuality, homosexuality, leaving the biological sex and sex-change operations and this is their human right. In their view children can be educated about those issues without parental consent and without state restrictions.

Non-liberal democrats, however, see the sexual education of children as the right of the parent, and without their consent, neither the state, nor political parties, NGOs, or rainbow activists can play a role, the prime minister said.

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Orbn said that today rainbow countries have the right to move beyond the binary social arrangement based on man-woman and mother-father relations. They used to be like that, but deliberately and by elevating their intentions to the level of state policy, they have moved to another dimension, he said.

Whether it is better to live in a binary or a rainbow world and why is a question on which both sides argue their own opinion. Everyone has ones own truth, Orbn said.

But from the point of view of law, international law, EU law and the Charter of Fundamental Rights, the right position is beyond doubt. Migration is not a human right, and how a child is brought up sexually is not a childs human right. There is no such human right. Instead, there is Article 14 of the Charter of Fundamental Rights on the right of parents to ensure that their child is provided with an appropriate upbringing. If we want to keep the European Union together, liberals must respect the rights of non-liberals. Unity in diversity. That is the future, the prime minister said.

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Letter: Liberals are responsible for the even ‘bigger lies’ – Eagle-Tribune

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To the editor:

Much has been made in this column about the supposed big lie perpetuated about the 2020 election and its use as the foundation for new restrictive voting laws.

Setting aside the fact that most of the voting laws proposed by Republican governors are far less restrictive than those currently in place in Blue states, its clear that liberal pundits enjoy this distraction as cover for their own series of bigger lies.

For two long years we heard nothing but Russian collusion, a myth built upon a phony dossier funded by the Clinton campaign. When the two-year investigation ultimately turned up empty, liberals moved on to other lies.

There was a phony Ukrainian scandal fueled by hearsay from an anonymous whistleblower; an attempted takedown of a U.S. Supreme Court nominee based on an unsubstantiated, 30-year-old sexual assault allegation; and a debunked immigration narrative accusing President Donald Trumps administration of putting kids in cages. Those were the same cages built by the Obama administration and currently in use by the Biden administration.

Then there were tax cuts for the rich, which actually benefited the middle class.

This list barely scratches the surface of four years of bigger lies by the left.

Now, after a summer of destruction in our cities and broad accusations of systemic racism, we are told that red state governors seek a return to Jim Crow-era voting restrictions.

Liberals ignore that there is less proof of voter suppression than there is of voter fraud.

Which bigger lie will they try next?

Ryan McNamara

Salem, N.H.

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Lindsey Graham says he won’t be ‘extorted by liberal Democrats’ over infrastructure deal – Yahoo News

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Republican senators are already voicing their reasons for opposing the bipartisan infrastructure proposal unveiled on Thursday, with Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-S.C.) revealing what would be the "ultimate deal-breaker" for him.

A bipartisan group of senators 5 Democrats and 5 Republicans spent weeks negotiating with top White House aides, and on Thursday afternoon the White House released details on the proposal: it calls for $973 billion in spending over five years, including $579 billion in new funds not already allocated through other projects. There would be $312 billion going to transportation, $65 billion for broadband, and $55 billion for water infrastructure. President Biden tweeted that under this plan, millions of jobs will be created.

"Neither side got everything they wanted in this deal," Biden said. "That's what it means to compromise, and it reflects something important, reflects consensus. The heart of democracy requires consensus." However, Biden also said it must work "in tandem" with a Democratic reconciliation bill containing the party's spending priorities, and if the infrastructure package "is the only thing that comes to me, I'm not signing it."

That's not going to work for Graham, who tweeted that if the "reports are accurate that President Biden is refusing to sign a bipartisan deal unless reconciliation is also passed, that would be the ultimate deal-breaker for me. I don't mind working with the other side for the common good, but I'm not going to be extorted by liberal Democrats or anyone else."

Graham isn't alone. Sen. Jerry Moran (R-Kansas) supports the bipartisan plan, his office told Kansas City Star reporter Bryan Lowry, but he's also in discussions with moderate Democrats, asking them to assure him that if the infrastructure bill passes, they won't push through additional spending proposals through reconciliation.

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Liberals face possible federal, provincial privacy probes for use of facial recognition technology – The Globe and Mail

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British Columbia Privacy Commissioner Michael McEvoy speaks during a news conference in Ottawa on April 25, 2019. McEvoy says he's considering launching an investigation into the use of facial recognition technology by the federal Liberals.

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Facial recognition technology used by the governing Liberals to verify the identities of people voting in the partys candidate nomination elections may be investigated by privacy commissioners at the federal and provincial levels.

After The Globe and Mail reported on Wednesday that the Liberal Party of Canada is using the technology, the federal NDP asked Canadas Privacy Commissioner, Daniel Therrien, to launch a probe. Meanwhile, B.C.s Information and Privacy Commissioner, Michael McEvoy, said his office is now reviewing the Liberal Partys practices.

We are going to look into the matter ourselves and review it before drawing any conclusions, Mr. McEvoy told the Globe and Mail on Thursday. The main questions, he said, are whether the data has been appropriately collected, whether its been appropriately used, and whether the process was compliant with B.C. law.

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Federal political parties are exempt from federal privacy laws, which put safeguards on the collection and use of personal information. But their operations in British Columbia fall under provincial privacy laws.

The Liberal party said it is using the technology to verify identities in B.C. nomination races and in other races across the country.

The technology is controversial because it is seen as invasive. The Canadian Civil Liberties Association (CCLA) sent the Liberals a letter on Wednesday asking the party to cease and desist from using it. The association refers to facial recognition as facial fingerprinting, because its use is comparable to obtaining a fingerprint a biological pattern unique to every individual.

Civil liberties group urges Liberal Party to stop using facial recognition technology

The Liberal Party is using a version of the technology built by Jumio, a California-based company. Voters in Liberal nomination races are directed to a website, operated by Jumio. The website uses facial recognition to verify a picture of the front and back of each voters drivers licence against a selfie.

NDP MP Charlie Angus wrote a letter to Mr. Therrien on Thursday asking him to review the matter. The letter raises concerns that the Liberal Party did not adequately disclose that it is using facial recognition to verify identities. The partys website does not mention the technology by name. Instead, it refers to a secure automated ID verification portal.

Mr. Angus asked Mr. Therrien to address whether commercial third parties who are contracted by political parties enjoy blanket immunity from Canadas privacy laws.

It is troubling that Canadians may be unwillingly turning over facial data to an American-based company that may not be following Canadian laws, Mr. Angus wrote in the letter.

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The Liberal Party has said that verification information is deleted automatically and immediately, and not retained or stored. On Wednesday, Mr. McEvoy said the problem is that there is no way to verify if this is the case.

In an interview, Mr. Angus described using facial recognition to verify identities in a local nomination race as the nuclear option.

He said the federal political parties should not be exempt from privacy laws. As it stands, he said, all they have to do is pinky swear that theyre doing the right thing.

In an emailed statement on Thursday, Liberal spokesperson Matteo Rossi said the nomination process is in line with the partys privacy policy and public guidance from Mr. Therriens office.

Privacy commissions across Canada do vital work to help ensure that Canadians personal information is appropriately safeguarded, and we will always be pleased to engage with them about our commitment to doing the same, Mr. Rossi said.

Jumio did not provide a response to The Globes requests for information on Wednesday or Thursday. Its privacy policy describes the company as a data processor and not a data controller and says the company makes its services available to third parties for integration into those third parties websites, applications, and online services. The policy says that Jumio collects, uses, and discloses individual users information only as directed by these third parties.

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But the same policy says that Jumio may process certain individual users information in anonymized and/or aggregated form for its own purposes.

Representatives from the other major political parties have told The Globe they do not use facial recognition technology for any element of their partys work.

In its letter, the CCLA acknowledged that the type of technology the Liberal Party is using is likely less invasive than other forms of facial recognition because it compares one photo to a picture of an ID, rather than searching a database to find a matching face.

Mr. Rossi stressed on Thursday that voters who prefer not to submit to facial recognition can have their identities verified by other means. Its important to note that the party makes it clear that manual ID verification is always possible as an option for anyone who wants it, he said.

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Federal Liberal MP Andrew Laming threatens 10 MPs and journalists with legal action – Sydney Morning Herald

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Dr Lamings statement of claim alleged Milligan had not apologised either privately or publicly and rejected her attempts to clarify her comments in another tweet on June 17 as self-serving.

Milligans clarifying tweet was posted with a note saying attached are some things that should be known about Dr Andrew Laming and linked to an ABC article from April reporting that Dr Laming had not been charged, which she urged her followers to read.

In a broader Twitter discussion about gender and politics a couple of months ago, I did not include Dr Lamings denials, nor the decision by Queensland police not to proceed. I was not reporting on the matter, but nonetheless, am committed as ever to the full story being known, Milligan tweeted.

Liberal Senator James McGrath, a vocal critic of the ABC, on Monday tweeted a letter he had written to ABC chair Ita Buttrose questioning why the broadcaster was paying Milligans legal fees.

As the action relates to tweets issued by Ms Milligan not in a work capacity (as Ms Milligan has admitted) how can you justify this to the taxpayer? I note that Dr Laming is personally paying for his legal costs, Senator McGrath tweeted.

It is the second defamation case Ms Giles has acted in on behalf of Liberal MPs against Milligan this year. She representing Industry Minister Christian Porter in his litigation against Milligan over her reporting of alleged historical rape allegation him, which he denies. The parties settled last month, with the ABC agreeing to pay $100,000 for Mr Porters mediation costs. But the broadcaster did not apologise and the article remains on the ABC website with an editors note.

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The legal blitz by Dr Lamings lawyers has prompted a flurry of written retractions and apologies, issued over Twitter in recent weeks, including from Labor Senator Murray Watt, Greens Senator Sarah Hanson-Young, former independent Senator Derryn Hinch, Queensland Labor MP Don Brown, and Chaser-owned website The Shot.

Labor Senator Kristina Keneally deleted a tweet after she received a concerns notice from Ms Giles, but has not apologised publicly.

Journalist and author Georgie Dent, represented by Marque Lawyers partner Michael Bradley, has also deleted a post but not apologised since being contacted by Ms Giles.

Nine, which owns this masthead, has also received concerns notice from Dr Lamings lawyers in connection with its reporting of the allegations against him, but no apology has been issued.

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Upper Gastrointestinal Bleeding (UGIB Bleeding) Rockall …

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Acute upper gastrointestinal bleeding (UGIB) is a gastroenterological emergency with a mortality of 6%-13%.[1] Despite changes in management, mortality has not significantly improved over a period of 50 years.[2] Bleeding from the upper gastrointestinal tract (GIT) is about four times as common as bleeding from the lower GIT. It is important to identify patients with a low probability of re-bleeding from patients with a high probability of re-bleeding. The size of the bleeding vessel is important in prognosis. Visible vessels are usually between 0.3 mm and 1.8 mm. Large bleeding vessels cause faster blood loss. Generally, larger vessels are found deeper in the submucosa and serosa and more specifically high in the lesser curve of the stomach and postero-inferiorly in the duodenal bulb.

Endoscopy does not reveal a cause in approximately 20% of patients presenting with apparent acute UGIB. The most common causes are peptic ulcer and oesophago-gastric varices.[3]

Rare causes include:

The incidence of acute UGIB in the UK ranges between 84-172 per 100,000 per year, causing 50-70,000 hospital admissions per year.[2]

An ageing population with associated conditions and a worse prognosis has helped maintain constant mortality figures despite advances in treatment. Mortality is about 7% in patients admitted because of bleeding but some three times higher amongst those developing UGIB whilst in hospital.[3] Peptic ulcer disease is the most common cause of UGIB. Risk factors for peptic ulcer disease are:

Although duodenal ulcers are more common than gastric ulcers, both contribute nearly equally to the incidence of UGIB. After an initial bleed the risk factors for re-bleeding, with associated higher mortality, are:

Bleeding severity can be assessed by:[4]

Initial assessment may provide an indication of the cause of UGIB:

The main aim of examination is to assess blood loss and look for signs of shock. A secondary aim is to look for signs of underlying disease and significant comorbid conditions - for example:

Endoscopy is the primary diagnostic investigation in patients with acute UGIB:[2]

Consider for admission and early endoscopy (and calculation of full Rockall score) if:

Other significant comorbidity (especially cardiac disease, malignancy) should also lower the threshold for admission.

Shocked patients should receive prompt volume replacement. It has been demonstrated that early and aggressive resuscitation reduces mortality in UGIB.[5]

Proton pump inhibitors (PPIs) should not be used prior to diagnosis by endoscopy in patients presenting with acute UGIB.[3]

Recommendations emphasise early risk stratification, using validated prognostic scales, and early endoscopy (within 24 hours).[8] The following formal risk assessment scores are recommended by the National Institute for Health and Care Excellence (NICE) for all patients with acute UGIB:[2]

The Blatchford risk assessment is designed to be used pre-endoscopy (see the full NICE Guideline for details).[2]Scores are added using the level of urea, haemoglobin, systolic blood pressure, pulse rate, presentation with melaena, presentation with syncope, hepatic disease and cardiac failure. A score of 0 is the cut-off with any patient scoring >0 being at risk of requiring an intervention.

The Scottish Intercollegiate Guidelines Network (SIGN) guideline on the management of acute upper and lower gastrointestinal bleeding recommends that an initial (pre-endoscopic) Rockall score be calculated for all patients presenting with acute UGIB. In patients with an initial Rockall score >0, endoscopy is recommended for a full assessment of bleeding risk.[3]

Adapted with permission from BMJ Publishing Group Limited. Original tables in Rockall TA, Logan RF, Devlin HB, et al; Risk assessment after acute upper gastrointestinal haemorrhage. Gut. 1996 Mar; 38(3):316-21. 1996 BMJ Publishing Group Limited.

Endoscopy is now the method of choice for controlling active peptic-ulcer related UGIB.[10]Endoscopic therapy should only be delivered to actively bleeding lesions, non-bleeding visible vessels and, when technically possible, to ulcers with an adherent blood clot. Black or red spots or a clean ulcer base with oozing do not merit endoscopic intervention since these lesions have an excellent prognosis without intervention.[3]

Adrenaline (epinephrine) should not be used as monotherapy for the endoscopic treatment of non-variceal UGIB. For the endoscopic treatment of non-variceal UGIB, one of the following should be used:

Acid-suppression drugs (PPIs or H2-receptor antagonists) should not be offered before endoscopy to patients with suspected non-variceal UGIB. PPIs should be offered to patients with non-variceal UGIB and stigmata of recent haemorrhage shown at endoscopy.

Surgical intervention is required when endoscopic techniques fail or are contra-indicated. Clinical judgement is required and consideration given to local expertise.

Helicobacter pylori eradication - see separate Helicobacter Pylori article:

The complications of UGIB are self-evident. Other complications can arise from treatments administered - for example:

Elderly patients and people with chronic medical conditions withstand acute UGIB less well and have a higher risk of death.[2] Mortality is about 7% in patients admitted with an UGIB. It is as high as 26% in patients who develop bleeding whilst in hospital having been admitted for another cause.[3] A score of less than 3 using the Rockall Score system above is associated with an excellent prognosis, whereas a score of 8 or above is associated with high mortality.[9]

Factors which affect the risk of death include:

Mortality is reported to be lower in specialist units, possibly because of adherence to protocols rather than because of technical advances. The prognosis in liver disease relates significantly to the severity of the liver disease rather than to the magnitude of the haemorrhage.

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Quotas cut by 15%, and a 1 billion industry on the brink: The confusing figures fuelling fishers’ anger – TheJournal.ie

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WHEN SPEAKING TO fishers about why they were concerned about the proposed Brexit trade deal, about why they dont see a viable future for their industry, a flurry of various figures are usually cited to explain the decline in their industry in recent years.

A lot of figures are given as to why theyre struggling to survive, and various species of fish might be mentioned all of which can be hard to get your head around.

So heres a rundown of those figures, fishers concerns, and the post-Brexit trade deal quotas that are driving them to march on the Taoiseachs Cork office and the Dil in recent weeks, mostly based off a Seafood Sector Task Force interim report that was released last week.

This is how much the Irish seafood economy is estimated to be worth. There are around 16,400 people employed by the industry, which includes ancillary services like production, people who service fishing boats, and net producers.

Brd Iascaigh Mhara, Irelands seafood development agency, says that 400 million is generated through domestic consumption, and 263 through exports and imports.

There are 2,030 fishing vessels registered in Ireland as of 2020. France (115m), the United Kingdom (93m) and Spain (53m) are the top export areas for Irish seafood.

Quotas are complicated, so lets explain all this out:

This is to give stocks a chance to replenish and to ensure overfishing doesnt happen. Some fishers say it is easy to overfish now, because quotas are so low and they are struggling to make the same living they did before.

Quotas are different from, but are usually based on, the maximum sustainable yield (MSY) for a species of fish, which is an ecological estimation of what proportion of fish can be caught to ensure stocks are not depleted to unsustainable levels.

Stock caught above this level are classed as overfished.

It should be noted that fishers have said because quotas keep increasing, and because they are so low for certain species, it is easy to go over the line, and overfish.

In the Brexit trade deal agreed between the EU and the UK, the EU wanted to return 15-18% of the value of fish quota caught in UK waters, and the UK wanted 35%.

Instead, both settled on 25% the value of fish quotas on a five-year phased basis.

In practice, this meant that 199 million worth of EU-wide quotas will be transferred back to the UK,with Ireland contributing around 43 million of that total a drop of 26,412 tonnes of fish, representing 15% in Irelands national fishing quota.

Source: Seafood Taskforce interim report

Fish worth an annual average of 650 million had been caught by EU fishing fleets in British waters.

As our sister publication Noteworthy reported, Ireland has a system of giving the quota to those that catch the fish first, which gives an advantage to bigger vessels with greater resources.

A2019 European Commission reportcompiled a database of the entire EU fleet register and found that most Irish vessels are owned by individual Irish fishers, with only about 3.5% of the fleet registered to a foreign owner or foreign-registered company.

The top eight quota owners share 28% of the national quota between them, with the Atlantic Dawn Company topping the table, at over 7% of the total quota.

There are many small fishing vessels in Ireland that are out-financed and disadvantaged by Irelands first-come first-served system of awarding quotas, and who may be more likely to use hand-based practices that may be a more sustainable way of fishing.

Fish quotas are broken down based on the species of fish, and on where they live:

For shellfish, around 1,500 inshore vessels which target mostly non-quota shellfish will not be directly impacted by quota transfers, as they have only minimal catches of quotas.

Two thirds of the losses sustained by the fleet in 2021 will be incurred by the Refrigerated Seawater (RSW) segment of the fleet, which mostly fish for pelagic species.

Those post-Brexit deal losses are as follows:

Other fishing catches arealso affected, but to a lesser extent than the above group:

This estimated losses for whitefish trawlers assumes access will be given to the 12-mile limit around Rockall, which the Irish Government is currently in dispute with the UK Government over.

If access was lost permanently, the report states that the total squid fishery valued at around 6.6m (based on 2019 landings) and up to 60% of the total Rockall haddock quota, valued 1m (based on 2020 Irish quota), could potentially be lost.

This would not only impact on the 9 of these 12 vessels that fish at Rockall but also an additional 16 vessels, mostly Nephrops freezer vessels that target squid seasonally. When factoring in catches of other species monk, megrim, ling, saithe caught inside 12 miles from Rockall, the total impact of the loss of these fisheries is estimated at 7.7m.

Fishers have requested as part of their seven demands that the traditional fishing grounds at Rockall be reinstated to something similar to the 2019 arrangement.

One of the major recommendations from the Task Forces interim report is that a one-month long voluntary temporary cessation scheme be offered to 220 whitefish vessels impacted by the quota reductions, in the period from September to December.

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12% of EU waters

The Department of Agriculture and Marine said that before Breixt, Irelands Exclusive Economic Zone (EEZ) made up 10% of the EUs EEZ and the UKs EEZ made up 17%.

After Brexit, Irish waters now make up 12% of EU waters, the Department said.

The Governments Seafood Sector Task Force was set up to examine the implications for the Irish fishing industry and coastal communities following the Brexit trade deal.

Its membership includes representatives of the fishers production organisations, small fishers groups, fishers cooperatives, and dars na Gaeltachta. The taskforce is lead by barrister and former Bord Bia CEO Aidan Cotter.

With reporting from Maria Delaney.

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Forever Stronger: Lauren Londons First Puma Capsule Is Finally Here – Essence

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PUMA and brand ambassador Lauren Londons highly anticipated capsule, Forever Stronger, is finally here. Rooted in authenticity, the collection is inspired by London and her hometown of Los Angeles. Given how personal this collection is, ESSENCE was happy to have had a chance to sit down with London and discuss the process, her definition of strength, and how staying firm in what you believe in is just enough.

With this being the first collection, originality and most important, intentionality was a must. When speaking of the brand, London praised them for their partnership and their ability to let her express her creativity freely. Puma was really amazing to work with, she says. Its a very respectful work environment. They allow me to be myself and they give me the creative freedom to do what I want. They feel like more of a family than a business partnershipI just love them.

Effortless is an adjective wed use to describe Londons aesthetic, especially highlighting her personal style. We asked the Without Remorse star how would she define her wardrobe, and comfort was the first word that came to mind. Featuring three pieces: a T-shirt, a hoodie and a classic black and white PUMA suede sneaker with Forever Stronger prominently embroidered in script, the entire collection is a reflection of casual. Most important, the hoodie and tee feature a tiny blue heart, a special representation of Nipsey Hussle, that serves as a reminder of where London came from and where shes going. The purpose of such a prominent detail does not go unnoticed and speaks to the type of designer London is. She explains: I like for the clothes to work for me in any moment. I spent years in uncomfortable clothing thinking I had to because of the industry I was in, Ihadto do that. As time went on I realized I didnt need to and my style just evolved.

And while shes ditched the unnecessary pieces, London made sure the things that matter most, like her love for Los Angeles, was properly portrayed. When I think of L.A. fashion I think about growing up, going to the Slauson swap meet, buying gold, buying bamboo earrings, buying a track suit and long fly nails with a good French tip. I still rock all of that to this day.

After eyeing the pieces of the capsule, ESSENCE was curious to know which one had Laurens heart. Out of the three pieces my favorite is actually the sneakers, she says. Even though Im a hoodie girl. To make the drop even more special, were being introduced to fat laces again, a return that is long overdue. London gushed about the throwback feature, stating, Growing up I used to wear the fat laces, and these sneakers are kind of like an ode to that, she shares. Every box comes with a pair of sneakers and with the fat laces. And if youre worried about durability, that shouldnt be a problem at all. I wear these sneakers everywhere, London says. I just love how comfortable they are.

That emphasis placed on creating a line that lasts parallels the fortitude of London herself. Often modeled as a pillar of strength, and known for her resilience and inventiveness, the actress and mother of three still understands the importance of softness, assuring us theres strength in cryingespecially as Black women. You dont always have to be super strong, she says. Its okay to say, Today is not my day, and thats still being strong, right? Today, Im just not feeling it. And theres power in saying and doing that. I want more people to realize acknowledging youre not having a good day or moment is still an act of strength.

All things considered, genuine is undoubtedly a word that could be used when describing the effort behind this collections name and overall purpose. When people wear any item from Forever Stronger, I want them to know its an embodiment of me, she says. I want them to instantly feel empowered. Whether you rock the hoodie yourself or admire it from afar, the brand-new capsule has cemented itself as not only stylish but also captivating.

Releasing today, June 25, the collection will be on PUMA.com, at the PUMA NYC Flagship store, The Marathon Clothing Store, Shoe Palace, Champs, Foot Locker and more with retail prices ranging from $30$75.

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Alan Bishop of underground avant-garde rock legends Sun City Girls is reflecting on Eddy Detroit, the longtime friend he lost to suicide on June 15.

"Eddy was his own scene," Bishop says when asked what made the willfully eccentric folk-punk icon stand out on the local scene.

"He was like a comedian or an actor creating his own realities and he truly understood what many never realize that unless you are a dreamer, you went absolutely nowhere in this world."

Detroit went many places in this world, whether busking on the streets of London, where he moved in the late '60s, drumming for the Church of Satan while livingin Hollywood or reading tarot cards by phone through the Psychic Friends Network, famously hostedby Dionne Warwick.

Born Edward Michael Dunn in 1952, Detroit, whose stage name is a tribute to his hometown, had been living in Phoenix since the spring of 1981.

It was in the course of recruiting musicians for 1982's "Immortal God's,"a debut album of exotica-tinged psychedelic folk, that the outsider artist met Bishop, one of several luminaries from the local underground to appear on the album.

"A friend suggested we meet up," Bishop recalls. "He saw my Tyrannosaurus Rex albums sitting in front of a speaker and we hit it off immediately."

Bishop would've worked with anyone who was unique.

"At the beginning of the '80s, the only 'progressive'music was independent or underground," Bishop says.

"So when you found someone who wasnt buying all the over-produced (expletive), well, you gravitated towards them."

A talented percussionist whose aesthetic was heavily influenced by Martin Denny and '60s exotica, Detroit was known to join Sun City Girls on stage and in the studio, appearing on several of their more than 50 albums.

The day Detroit died, Sun City Girls posted a video on Facebook, filmed in 1983,of Detroit in his element, leading his friends in an unhinged, shambolic performance of "Beelzeebub," the opening track on his first album, that at times suggests a manpossessed by Yoko Ono.

It's beyond electrifying, far more punkish and chaotic than the version on the album.

"Eddy was someone I always rooted for," Bishop says.

"He had an obsessive sincerity that ran through all his songs and his lifestyle. He never stopped believing in what he did and was always excited by a new project, usually seeing them to completion. Ill miss his crazy humor, his observations, and his stubbornness to remain off the grid."

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Michael Pistrui of Fat Gray Cat, another Valley band that often benefited from Detroit's percussion skills, refers to 1982's "Immortal God's" as "literally an Arizona punk-rock all-star record."

In addition to Bishop, it features the talents of Charlie Gocher ofSun City Girls, Dan Clark of the Feederz and Victory Acres, and Mary Clark, alsoof Victory Acres.

"He was part of the Mad Gardens scene," Pistrui says, referring the legendary Phoenix punk performance space that shared a name with New York City's Madison Square Garden.

"Tony (Victor of Placebo Records) said that Eddy just showed up one night and said that he was half man and half goat and wanted to play his bongos. So Tony started letting him play between the bands. He started playing with the Poet's Corners guys that did kind of a jazz punk-rock thing. And then he started playing with Sun City Girls."

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Cris Kirkwood of the Meat Puppets thinks of Detroit as a pivotal memberof the early '80s Arizona music scene.

"He called himself Eddy Detroit," Kirkwood says.

"But he really seemed to fit in with a certain kind of crusty Phoenix underground vibe that I thought Mighty Sphincter kind of embodied and us and Sun City Girls, this sort of feel that Phoenix managed to spark at a particular point."

At the same time, he says, with a laugh, Detroit was "his own unique creature."

Kirkwood points to how freely and enthusiastically Detroit would talk about his foot fetish and other points of interest people tend to downplay in casual conversation.

"You gotta love someone who's that open to break that ground of it's OK to be who you are," Kirkwoodsays. "He was just kind of fearless. That's why his albums are sought after to the degree that they are by people who like that sort of thing."

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Kirkwood was thrilled to have an opportunity to make a record with Detroit a few years back when he produced an album by a band called Moonlight Magic, a Phoenix-based lounge actdoing instrumental '60s-style exotica, bossa nova, samba and lounge music.

By then, Detroit had done a series of exotica-themed local bands Banana Boat, the Tropical Island, Mondo Exotica and the Garden.

"What a fun record to make," he says of "Phoenixotica," an album released in 2018.

"This is part of what punk rock is, right? Just that grab bag of 'If I say it's art, it is.'"

Ruth Wilson and Jaime Paul Lamb of Moonlight Magic both say there would be no Moonlight Magic if it weren't for their desire to build a band around Detroit.

"He was such a stellar drummer in that arena," Wilson says, "with bossa novas andthose Latin beats. He was the master."

He was trained in jazz, playingtraditional grip, although his first band, in Detroit, was a rock 'n' roll cover band calledthe Premieres.

"I don't think he could even hold the sticks like your typical rock bonehead just clubbing away at the drums as hard as he can," Lamb says.

"Eddy was a realdrummer, and I mean a trap set drummer, but he was also an amazing hand percussionist. Just an incredible, incredible musician."

So incredible, in fact, that when he parted ways with Moonlight Magic, Wilson figured that might be the end for that whole project.

"I thought, 'How are you gonna find a drummer to replace Eddy Detroit?" she says.

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A lot of times, when someone dies, Lamb says, you'll hear a lot of talk about how that particular person was "one in a million" or words to that effect.

"ButEddy was a one-off," Lamb says."And he sort of represents a cycle that's now ended. He hadso much of that midcentury, kind of quirky, schmaltzy, kitschy exotica thing about him, but he also had this dark Velvet Underground underbelly to his thing."

You could hear that combination play out in the songs he wrote.

"The lyrics just exemplify the love of seediness he had under that 'Leave it to Beaver' veneer," Lamb says, pointing to his shared love of that wholesome family sitcom on the one hand and less wholesome B-movies like "Trip with the Teacher" and "The Ultimate Degenerate" on the other.

"He was deeply divided because he wasthis very pure, kind of naive midcentury guy, a real child of the '50s, whosort of embracedthis kind of juvenile delinquent culture. So he had this seedy beatnik side."

Being a productof midcentury culture made it difficult at times for him to feel at home in the 21st century.

"This world is not a world for Eddy Detroit," Lamb says.

"He hated computers. He had a dumb phone. Didn't know how to text or write an email. I think he was just too visceral for that.I mean, I think he half-heartedly tried to keep a foot in the Modern World. But unsuccessfully."

In recent years, Detroit was playing in the jazz trio Escargot Jazz.

And through it all, he kept performing and occasionally making records as Eddy Detroit.

His latest album, released in 2016, was "Shock-A-Lock-A-Lickum," a compilation ofrecordings made from 1979 to 2010.

The press materials accompanying the release said the songs "run the gamut of Detroit's musical landscape, from the UK acid-folk ofTyrannosaurus RexandThe Incredible String Bandthrough bongo-fueled satanic calypso to his new phase as a troubadour recounting tales of hobos, whores, and one-eyed jacks from the old west."

Lamb accompanied Detroit when he toured Europein support of that release and got to see him treated like a rock star, including a performance at the U.K. TUSK Festival.

"When you see an Eddy Detroit show in Phoenix, there are like five people there a couple punkers from Mad Gardens and whatever barflies just happen to be there," Lamb says.

"When we went to Europe, we played to enraptured arthouse venues. There were a bazillion people there, and many of them knew his entire catalogue, even words to tunes, if you can believe that. And Paris. We killed it in Paris."

Detroit, who was billed on a lot of the posters for that tour as 'US Tiki weirdo outsider,'was elated.

"He came back from that tourand he was on top of the world," Lamb says.

"That trip really made him feel loved and feel as though his work has had some sort of impact.So that wasa good way for him to sort of end his run in a lot of ways."

After that, he went back to what Lamb refers to as "workaday gigs" with his jazz comboand Moonlight Magic,doing an Eddy Detroit gig here and there.

"But there was nothing like that European tour," Lamb says. "He was so just really blown away with the response that he got over there."

About a week before his death, Detroit seemed really down about his health in his last conversation with Lamb. He'd been struggling with acute insomnia, chronic depression and diverticulitis.

"The only thing he was excited about in that phone call was he just picked up an old Les Baxter record that he didn't have before," Lamb recalls. "The exotica bandleader. Yeah. All of a sudden, he was back to old Eddy for a couple minutes."

A memorial held at a Knights of Columbus hall in Glendale on June 21 was packed with members of the local musicscene.

"It was so Eddy Detroit," Pistruisays.

"Hehad a unique way of living and breathing in all sorts of different musical circles. There were people there from the folk musicscene that play in parks and little coffee houses. There were people from the jazz side of things. There were punk rockers there. Bam Bam was there from JFA."

Lamb says theGin Blossoms mentioned him during their halftime performance at the Phoenix Suns game on Tuesday night.

"It doesn't take too much digging to know that Eddy was iconic here, despite hanging on a long time and being sort of low-key throughout on a simmer," Lamb says. "There was some true desert-fried originality in there."

He even ran his own performance space here in the '90s, a coffee house that lasted five years called the Grotto.

He was alsosomething of a raconteur, retelling stories of hisrun-ins with the rich and famous as a drummer for the Church of Satan when he lived in Hollywood around the same time he was playing all the legendary L.A. punk clubs as part of the Permanent Wave Band.

"He was just so full of stories," Wilson says. "And a lot of times, you'd heard these stories before, but he just insisted on telling them again and again. That was just Eddy."

There was the story of how he was there to witnessIggy Pop's first gig when Pop was still James Osterberg and drummingfora band called the Iguanas. Or he'd talk about joiningthe White Panther Party withthe MC5 and John Sinclair.

He even had a story about dropping off a demo tape at Apple Records just as Ringo Starr was finding out his band had broken up.

"Eddy liked to talk," Pistrui says.

"And a lot of people would be like, 'Yeah, right.' Then all of a sudden, there's a picture of Iggy Pop and there's Eddy in the picture."

Detroit was thrilled to find himself the subject of a Phoenix New Times cover story last year, Bishop says, seeing the cover treatment as a validation of his legacy.

"But all the crazy stories and wild times he experienced shouldnt cloud the fact that he wrote so many great songs, was a master percussionist and kept reinventing himself, learned to play the mandolin, continued his craft of performing and songwriting," Bishop says.

"And perhaps most importantly, he had the gift of being able to entertain or command attention without a prop, without an instrument, without electricity or a gimmick to fall back on as security. He was a real storyteller in a world where a vast majority pretend to be."

Reach the reporter at ed.masley@arizonarepublic.com or 602-444-4495. Follow him on Twitter @EdMasley.

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