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Published On 22 May 2022

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❗️Mayor of Russian-Held City in Ukraine Injured in Bomb Blast

The mayor of the Russian-held city of Energodar in southeast Ukraine and two of his security guards were injured in an explosion on Sunday, local law enforcement said.

The blast occurred in the entranceway of an apartment block where the mother of Mayor Andrey Shevchik reportedly resides. 

An improvised explosive device was planted inside an electrical distribution box, a police representative told Russia’s TASS news agency. 

The mayor had recently received numerous threats from the Ukrainian side, he added.

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Inflation Imperils Boris Johnson’s Grip on Power

A new poll suggests Britain’s PM is likely headed for defeat in the country’s next election unless he can begin to convince voters his party has the right leadership to ease the inflation crisis. (Daily Mail)

The Savanta ComRes poll suggests only 24% of voters see the Tories as the best party to manage the inflation crisis, compared with 39% who chose the opposition Labour Party.

Dealing with surging prices will be the top election issue as 90% of respondents said it will be an important factor in their vote.

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COVID-19: 'Positive trend' as 'fever' cases in North Korea dip
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North Korean state media reported on Sunday that for the first time in nearly 10 days, the "fever" cases in North Korea cases dropped below 200,000

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US heatwave moves east, power consumptions increase
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A large number of states across the US are reeling from a heatwave that has seen above-average temperatures in at least a dozen states.

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Microsoft's Bing censored searches linked to Xi, other Chinese party leaders: Study
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According to a new study, Microsoft's Bing censured names appearing in autosuggestions linked to Chinese party leaders and dissidents.

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 The Murderous Madness of Trillions for Nuclear Weapons
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W.J. ASTORE

Supporting trillions of dollars “to update and modernize our nuclear arsenal” is akin to advocating for more production of Zyklon B and improved gas chambers.

Incendiary claim? I think not. Like Zyklon B, nuclear weapons are genocidal. They are designed to kill millions; used en masse, they will kill billions. They are ecocidal as well; nuclear weapons with their intense heat and blast and radiation kill virtually everything in their radius. How can anyone who’s sane want more of them?

I happened to catch Kelly Ayotte, a former U.S. senator who’s now the Chair of the Board of Directors for BAE Systems, a major weapons contractor, say that she’s “always” been a strong supporter of updating and modernizing the U.S. nuclear arsenal. Of course, she and her company stand to profit from this. But at what cost to life on this planet?

Nevertheless, nuclear “modernization” proceeds apace in the U.S. at an estimated cost of nearly $2 trillion over the next few decades. Is this not the very definition of a murderous insanity?

As Daniel Ellsberg pointed out, U.S. nuclear attacks plans in the early 1960s could have resulted in the death of 600 million people, mainly in China and the Soviet Union. As Ellsberg noted, the U.S. was prepared to launch 100 Holocausts in the name of defending its “ideals.” (And this was before we knew about the dangers of nuclear winter.)

This murderous madness has to stop before we put an end to ourselves and our planet.

We’ll produce new nuclear missiles like so many sausages. But it’s all OK because we need to “update” and “modernize” our (genocidal and ecocidal) nuclear arsenal. Sure makes me proud to be an American.

Addendum: When you think of nuclear weapons as “investments” or as “sensible” (see comments), please consider this scene from “Terminator II.”

What is “sensible” about any of this? Sorry, count me out of “investing” in mass death via nuclear holocaust.

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US makes another Taiwan move
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Washington has followed the EU by announcing it would upgrade trade ties with Taipei, a move that has angered Beijing

Washington is seeking to deepen its economic cooperation with Taiwan, US National Security Advisor Jake Sullivan has told journalists.

Speaking en route to Japan on board Air Force One on Sunday, Sullivan said the US was “looking to deepen our economic partnership with Taiwan including on high technology issues, including on semiconductors and supply chains.”

He noted that America did “not want to see unilateral changes to the status quo,” nor “military aggression.”...

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Day in the life of a Dublin Bus driver
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Angela O'Callaghan has been transporting people around Dublin for just two short years.

Newly appointed French minister denies rape accusations
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France's newly appointed minister for Solidarity and the Disabled denies the allegations made by two women

Two men charged in connection with burglary in Dublin
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Gardaí were called to the scene at about 7.30pm and saw two people taking items from a unit in the park.

Biden spares two words for North Korean leader
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The US president had little to say to Kim Jong-un when asked what message he wanted to relay

Asked by a reporter if he had a message for North Korean leader Kim Jong-un, US President Joe Biden succinctly replied “Hello. Period” on Sunday, his last day in South Korea before moving on to the Japanese leg of his Asian trip.

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Biden outlines conditions for meeting Kim Jong-un

The not-quite-message followed Biden's acknowledgment that he would consider meeting with Kim so long as the DPRK head was “sincere” and “...

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Pummeled by Russian offensive in the east, Ukraine rules out a ceasefire
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Polish President Andrzej Duda told Ukraine's parliament that ceding even "one inch" of the country's territory would be a blow to the whole West and reassured Kyiv of Warsaw's strong backing for its European Union membership bid.

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Twitter to Ramp Up Censorship of ‘Misinformation’ About the Ukraine War
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By Caitlin JOHNSTONE

Twitter has published what it calls a “crisis misinformation policy” announcing that it will be actively reducing the visibility of content found to be false which pertains to “situations of armed conflict, public health emergencies, and large-scale natural disasters.”

If you’ve been paying attention to the dramatic escalations in...

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We are prepared for anything North Korea does, says Biden
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US President Joe Biden met South Korea's new President Yoon Suk-yeol as the two leaders sought to expand military ties in the wake of threats from

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WION reports from Tokyo: Despite no security goals spelt out, Quad understands China's threat to Indo-Pacific
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The Quadrilateral Security Dialogue or Quad has been in existence since 2007.

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Ukraine's EU membership '15 or 20 years' away, says French minister
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Amid Finland and Sweden's application for NATO membership, France's Europe minister Clement Beaune has reportedly said Ukraine's EU membership is "

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We are never ever getting back...Binken taps into Taylor Swift to take a dig at Putin
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US secretary of state Anthony Blinken gave a hilarious twist to relations with Russia taking up lines from pop singer Taylor Swift's song declaring

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