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Putin signs decree creating ruble payment system for Russian gas to bolster currency
President Vladimir Putin has signed a decree forcing some purchasers of Russian gas to set up a special account to pay for their supplies as the country tries to cope with the impact of Western sanctions imposed because of Moscow's unprovoked invasion of Ukraine last month. Comment: "Unprovoked." RFE/RL will never give up their special breed of slimy journalism. For reality, see: Russia, Ukraine & the law of war: Crime of aggression Putin said after signing the decree that, from April 1, buyers of Russian gas from what Russia deems "unfriendly" countries would have to set up special "K-accounts" to transfer their payments. Once the payment is received, the funds will be exchanged into rubles. The entire payment facility will be set up and run through Russia's Gazprombank, a subsidiary of state energy giant Gazprom. Putin also said any country refusing to use the payment mechanism will be in violation of their contracts and face "corresponding repercussions." European leaders...
https://www.sott.net/article/466134-Putin-signs-decree-creating-ruble-payment-system-for-Russian-gas-to-bolster-currency
Putin signs decree creating ruble payment system for Russian gas to bolster currency
President Vladimir Putin has signed a decree forcing some purchasers of Russian gas to set up a special account to pay for their supplies as the country tries to cope with the impact of Western sanctions imposed because of Moscow's unprovoked invasion of Ukraine last month. Comment: "Unprovoked." RFE/RL will never give up their special breed of slimy journalism. For reality, see: Russia, Ukraine & the law of war: Crime of aggression Putin said after signing the decree that, from April 1, buyers of Russian gas from what Russia deems "unfriendly" countries would have to set up special "K-accounts" to transfer their payments. Once the payment is received, the funds will be exchanged into rubles. The entire payment facility will be set up and run through Russia's Gazprombank, a subsidiary of state energy giant Gazprom. Putin also said any country refusing to use the payment mechanism will be in violation of their contracts and face "corresponding repercussions." European leaders...
https://www.sott.net/article/466134-Putin-signs-decree-creating-ruble-payment-system-for-Russian-gas-to-bolster-currency
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YouTube continues its assault on the press, removes 6 years of Chris Hedges' RT show from platform
On Monday, YouTube removed six years' worth of episodes of the Emmy-nominated show On Contact by Pulitzer prize-winning journalist Chris Hedges. The show was produced by RT, formerly Russia Today, but Hedges maintained editorial control. No explanation, forewarning or notice was given by YouTube, the videos simply disappeared, according to Hedges, who wrote about the experience on ScheerPost in an article titled "On Being Disappeared." "I received no inquiry or notice from YouTube. I vanished. In totalitarian systems you exist, then you don't. I suppose this was done in the name of censoring Russian propaganda, although I have a hard time seeing how a detailed discussion of "Ulysses" or the biographies of Susan Sontag and J. Robert Oppenheimer had any connection in the eyes of the most obtuse censors in Silicon Valley with Vladimir Putin. Indeed, there is not one show that dealt with Russia." On Contact contained interviews with a wide range of individuals. From social commentators...
https://www.sott.net/article/466140-YouTube-continues-its-assault-on-the-press-removes-6-years-of-Chris-Hedges-RT-show-from-platform
YouTube continues its assault on the press, removes 6 years of Chris Hedges' RT show from platform
On Monday, YouTube removed six years' worth of episodes of the Emmy-nominated show On Contact by Pulitzer prize-winning journalist Chris Hedges. The show was produced by RT, formerly Russia Today, but Hedges maintained editorial control. No explanation, forewarning or notice was given by YouTube, the videos simply disappeared, according to Hedges, who wrote about the experience on ScheerPost in an article titled "On Being Disappeared." "I received no inquiry or notice from YouTube. I vanished. In totalitarian systems you exist, then you don't. I suppose this was done in the name of censoring Russian propaganda, although I have a hard time seeing how a detailed discussion of "Ulysses" or the biographies of Susan Sontag and J. Robert Oppenheimer had any connection in the eyes of the most obtuse censors in Silicon Valley with Vladimir Putin. Indeed, there is not one show that dealt with Russia." On Contact contained interviews with a wide range of individuals. From social commentators...
https://www.sott.net/article/466140-YouTube-continues-its-assault-on-the-press-removes-6-years-of-Chris-Hedges-RT-show-from-platform
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Cruise ship that was 100% vaccinated hit with COVID-19 outbreak
Princess Cruises confirmed that one of its cruise liners, the Ruby Princess, reported a COVID-19 outbreak before docking in San Francisco. The cruise operator requires passengers and crew members to be fully vaccinated for COVID-19.. Princess Cruises also mandates passengers to show a negative COVID-19 test and proof of vaccination to board, according to its website. Those who tested positive were "isolated and quarantined while monitored and cared for by our shipboard medical team," Princess Cruises said in a statement to news outlets Monday. It did not say how many people tested positive or when they tested positive during the cruise.
https://www.sott.net/article/466141-Cruise-ship-that-was-100-vaccinated-hit-with-COVID-19-outbreak
Cruise ship that was 100% vaccinated hit with COVID-19 outbreak
Princess Cruises confirmed that one of its cruise liners, the Ruby Princess, reported a COVID-19 outbreak before docking in San Francisco. The cruise operator requires passengers and crew members to be fully vaccinated for COVID-19.. Princess Cruises also mandates passengers to show a negative COVID-19 test and proof of vaccination to board, according to its website. Those who tested positive were "isolated and quarantined while monitored and cared for by our shipboard medical team," Princess Cruises said in a statement to news outlets Monday. It did not say how many people tested positive or when they tested positive during the cruise.
https://www.sott.net/article/466141-Cruise-ship-that-was-100-vaccinated-hit-with-COVID-19-outbreak
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Russia, India to discuss Swift alternative for rouble payments when Lavrov visits New Delhi
India's government is considering a proposal from Russia to use a system developed by the Russian central bank for bilateral payments, according to people with knowledge of the matter, as the Asian nation seeks to buy oil and weapons from the sanctions-hit country. The plan involves rupee-rouble-denominated payments using Russia's messaging system SPFS, the people said, asking not to be identified discussing confidential deliberations. No final decision has been taken and the matter will probably be discussed when Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov arrives in India for a two-day visit starting on Thursday. A finance ministry spokesman was not immediately available for a comment. Lavrov's visit will coincide with visits by British foreign secretary Liz Truss and US Deputy National Security Advisor for International Economics Daleep Singh.
https://www.sott.net/article/466142-Russia-India-to-discuss-Swift-alternative-for-rouble-payments-when-Lavrov-visits-New-Delhi
Russia, India to discuss Swift alternative for rouble payments when Lavrov visits New Delhi
India's government is considering a proposal from Russia to use a system developed by the Russian central bank for bilateral payments, according to people with knowledge of the matter, as the Asian nation seeks to buy oil and weapons from the sanctions-hit country. The plan involves rupee-rouble-denominated payments using Russia's messaging system SPFS, the people said, asking not to be identified discussing confidential deliberations. No final decision has been taken and the matter will probably be discussed when Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov arrives in India for a two-day visit starting on Thursday. A finance ministry spokesman was not immediately available for a comment. Lavrov's visit will coincide with visits by British foreign secretary Liz Truss and US Deputy National Security Advisor for International Economics Daleep Singh.
https://www.sott.net/article/466142-Russia-India-to-discuss-Swift-alternative-for-rouble-payments-when-Lavrov-visits-New-Delhi
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5,000-year population history of Xinjiang brought to light in new ancient DNA study
Xinjiang, in northwest China, lays at an important junction between east and west Eurasia and has played a historically important role in the exchange of goods and technologies between these two regions along the Silk Road. It is a complex mix of cultures and populations. However, the interflow and blending of these diverse populations in Xinjiang can be traced further back. Bronze Age mummies discovered in Tarim Basin were purported to have western features and textiles, and the discovery of 5th century C.E. texts of an extinct Indo-European language group, Tocharian, has spurred great interest in archeologists, linguists, and anthropologists. Now, a research team led by Prof. FU Qiaomei from the Institute of Vertebrate Paleontology and Paleoanthropology (IVPP) of the Chinese Academy of Sciences has unraveled the past population history of Xinjiang, China, based on information from 201 ancient genomes from 39 archeological sites.
https://www.sott.net/article/466143-5000-year-population-history-of-Xinjiang-brought-to-light-in-new-ancient-DNA-study
5,000-year population history of Xinjiang brought to light in new ancient DNA study
Xinjiang, in northwest China, lays at an important junction between east and west Eurasia and has played a historically important role in the exchange of goods and technologies between these two regions along the Silk Road. It is a complex mix of cultures and populations. However, the interflow and blending of these diverse populations in Xinjiang can be traced further back. Bronze Age mummies discovered in Tarim Basin were purported to have western features and textiles, and the discovery of 5th century C.E. texts of an extinct Indo-European language group, Tocharian, has spurred great interest in archeologists, linguists, and anthropologists. Now, a research team led by Prof. FU Qiaomei from the Institute of Vertebrate Paleontology and Paleoanthropology (IVPP) of the Chinese Academy of Sciences has unraveled the past population history of Xinjiang, China, based on information from 201 ancient genomes from 39 archeological sites.
https://www.sott.net/article/466143-5000-year-population-history-of-Xinjiang-brought-to-light-in-new-ancient-DNA-study
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Deaths among UK's homeless surges 80% in two years
Two years ago this week, the government launched a scheme called Everyone In, which did just what it said on the tin. It provided funding to ensure rough sleepers were housed in hotels or hostels during the first lockdown. In a single stroke, it essentially eradicated Britain's street homelessness crisis. It remains among the only positives to emerge from the pandemic, even if it was introduced to remedy an emergency the Conservatives had ignored during their previous decade in power. We hoped at the time it would be the start of a concerted, long-term plan to deal with homelessness in general and street homelessness in particular. How naive we were. A few months later the government quietly pulled the plug on the programme. Look around you now, and it's hard to imagine that rough sleepers were living in hotels only a couple of years ago.
https://www.sott.net/article/466144-Deaths-among-UKs-homeless-surges-80-in-two-years
Deaths among UK's homeless surges 80% in two years
Two years ago this week, the government launched a scheme called Everyone In, which did just what it said on the tin. It provided funding to ensure rough sleepers were housed in hotels or hostels during the first lockdown. In a single stroke, it essentially eradicated Britain's street homelessness crisis. It remains among the only positives to emerge from the pandemic, even if it was introduced to remedy an emergency the Conservatives had ignored during their previous decade in power. We hoped at the time it would be the start of a concerted, long-term plan to deal with homelessness in general and street homelessness in particular. How naive we were. A few months later the government quietly pulled the plug on the programme. Look around you now, and it's hard to imagine that rough sleepers were living in hotels only a couple of years ago.
https://www.sott.net/article/466144-Deaths-among-UKs-homeless-surges-80-in-two-years
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Hungary accuses Ukraine of meddling in upcoming election
Hungary's foreign minister on Wednesday accused Ukraine's leadership of attempting to interfere in the upcoming Hungarian election, a charge later denied by his Ukrainian counterpart in an episode that put further strain on relations between the two countries. In a video on social media, Hungarian Foreign Minister Peter Szijjarto claimed that there was "ongoing coordination between the Hungarian left and representatives of the Ukrainian government," and that Ukraine was attempting to influence Hungary's April 3 election in favor of a coalition of opposition parties. Szijjarto didn't provide any evidence supporting the claim.
https://www.sott.net/article/466145-Hungary-accuses-Ukraine-of-meddling-in-upcoming-election
Hungary accuses Ukraine of meddling in upcoming election
Hungary's foreign minister on Wednesday accused Ukraine's leadership of attempting to interfere in the upcoming Hungarian election, a charge later denied by his Ukrainian counterpart in an episode that put further strain on relations between the two countries. In a video on social media, Hungarian Foreign Minister Peter Szijjarto claimed that there was "ongoing coordination between the Hungarian left and representatives of the Ukrainian government," and that Ukraine was attempting to influence Hungary's April 3 election in favor of a coalition of opposition parties. Szijjarto didn't provide any evidence supporting the claim.
https://www.sott.net/article/466145-Hungary-accuses-Ukraine-of-meddling-in-upcoming-election
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Is the Biden laptop dam about to burst? WaPo, CNN go scorched earth over 'laptop from hell'
Something strange is going on with the Hunter Biden laptop story. As regular ZeroHedge readers know, the New York Post was excommunicated from social media shortly before the 2020 US election by Big Tech for reporting on shady international business dealings by the Biden family - particularly in Ukraine and China, contained within a trove of emails, text messages, photographs and financial documents that were on a laptop Hunter abandoned at a Delaware computer repair shop in April 2019. To refresh your memory: Hunter Biden Ex-Biz Associate Was Livid Over $5MM Side-Deal With Chinese: TextsWhy Is The FBI's Top Child Porn Lawyer Involved In Hunter Biden Laptop Case?Hunter Biden Laptop Linked To FBI Money Laundering InvestigationHunter Biden Witness Moved From Prison Cell After Exposing Influence-Peddling OperationChinese Money Launderer Called James Biden After FBI Arrest, Was Trying To Reach HunterSperry Exposes The Complete History Of Hunter Biden's Crony-Connected JobsLatest Cache...
https://www.sott.net/article/466146-Is-the-Biden-laptop-dam-about-to-burst-WaPo-CNN-go-scorched-earth-over-laptop-from-hell
Is the Biden laptop dam about to burst? WaPo, CNN go scorched earth over 'laptop from hell'
Something strange is going on with the Hunter Biden laptop story. As regular ZeroHedge readers know, the New York Post was excommunicated from social media shortly before the 2020 US election by Big Tech for reporting on shady international business dealings by the Biden family - particularly in Ukraine and China, contained within a trove of emails, text messages, photographs and financial documents that were on a laptop Hunter abandoned at a Delaware computer repair shop in April 2019. To refresh your memory: Hunter Biden Ex-Biz Associate Was Livid Over $5MM Side-Deal With Chinese: TextsWhy Is The FBI's Top Child Porn Lawyer Involved In Hunter Biden Laptop Case?Hunter Biden Laptop Linked To FBI Money Laundering InvestigationHunter Biden Witness Moved From Prison Cell After Exposing Influence-Peddling OperationChinese Money Launderer Called James Biden After FBI Arrest, Was Trying To Reach HunterSperry Exposes The Complete History Of Hunter Biden's Crony-Connected JobsLatest Cache...
https://www.sott.net/article/466146-Is-the-Biden-laptop-dam-about-to-burst-WaPo-CNN-go-scorched-earth-over-laptop-from-hell
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Company that fueled violence in Myanmar worried about TikTok
A SOCIAL MEDIA company that has been credibly accused of allowing its platform to be used to foment and facilitate genocidal violence in Myanmar and violence in other countries including Ethiopia has expressed its worry at the possible harms TikTok is exposing its young users to. Facebook, known for the Cambridge Analytica scandal among 400 others, was so worried by this it employed a Republican party affiliated think tank to start rumours and fuel distrust of TikTok through newspaper ads and local news stories, many of which were fabrications. "No," confirmed a Facebook spokesperson when asked if it's money was better spent solving the huge issues with its own corporate culture and products than smearing rivals. "No," added the spokesperson when asked if it was a little embarrassing that the firm it hired spread misinformation about dangerous trends on TikTok such as 'happy slapping' encouraging students to record themselves hitting their teachers only for it to emerge that there...
https://www.sott.net/article/466147-Company-that-fueled-violence-in-Myanmar-worried-about-TikTok
Company that fueled violence in Myanmar worried about TikTok
A SOCIAL MEDIA company that has been credibly accused of allowing its platform to be used to foment and facilitate genocidal violence in Myanmar and violence in other countries including Ethiopia has expressed its worry at the possible harms TikTok is exposing its young users to. Facebook, known for the Cambridge Analytica scandal among 400 others, was so worried by this it employed a Republican party affiliated think tank to start rumours and fuel distrust of TikTok through newspaper ads and local news stories, many of which were fabrications. "No," confirmed a Facebook spokesperson when asked if it's money was better spent solving the huge issues with its own corporate culture and products than smearing rivals. "No," added the spokesperson when asked if it was a little embarrassing that the firm it hired spread misinformation about dangerous trends on TikTok such as 'happy slapping' encouraging students to record themselves hitting their teachers only for it to emerge that there...
https://www.sott.net/article/466147-Company-that-fueled-violence-in-Myanmar-worried-about-TikTok
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Earth braces for solar storm, potential aurora displays
A powerful solar storm is set to hit Earth on Thursday (March 31) with spectacular aurora displays accompanying it after the sun fired nearly 20 flares from a single sunspot in just two days. The U.S. National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) warned that two coronal mass ejections (CMEs), spat out from the overactive sunspot AR2975, on Monday (March 28), are heading toward our planet and might trigger a geomagnetic storm rated as G3 on NOAA's five-point scale. CMEs are huge expulsions of magnetized particles released from the sun's upper atmosphere, the corona. If those charged clouds hit Earth, they can wreak havoc with the planet's magnetic field, causing disruptions to satellites, electric grids and telecommunication networks. A G3-level solar storm, NOAA said in a statement, is unlikely to have serious impacts on infrastructure. However, it might trigger stunning aurora displays that could be visible from locations more distant from the poles than regions where...
https://www.sott.net/article/466148-Earth-braces-for-solar-storm-potential-aurora-displays
Earth braces for solar storm, potential aurora displays
A powerful solar storm is set to hit Earth on Thursday (March 31) with spectacular aurora displays accompanying it after the sun fired nearly 20 flares from a single sunspot in just two days. The U.S. National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) warned that two coronal mass ejections (CMEs), spat out from the overactive sunspot AR2975, on Monday (March 28), are heading toward our planet and might trigger a geomagnetic storm rated as G3 on NOAA's five-point scale. CMEs are huge expulsions of magnetized particles released from the sun's upper atmosphere, the corona. If those charged clouds hit Earth, they can wreak havoc with the planet's magnetic field, causing disruptions to satellites, electric grids and telecommunication networks. A G3-level solar storm, NOAA said in a statement, is unlikely to have serious impacts on infrastructure. However, it might trigger stunning aurora displays that could be visible from locations more distant from the poles than regions where...
https://www.sott.net/article/466148-Earth-braces-for-solar-storm-potential-aurora-displays
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The New World Order that is being prepared under the pretext of war in Ukraine
The conflict in Ukraine was not opened by Russia on February 24, but by Ukraine a week before. The OSCE is a witness to this. This peripheral conflict had been planned by Washington to impose a New World Order from which Russia, then China, were to be excluded. Don't be fooled! Russia's military operations in Ukraine have been going on for more than a month and Nato's propaganda operations for a month and a half. As always, the war propaganda of the Anglo-Saxons is coordinated from London. Since the First World War, the British have acquired an unparalleled know-how. In 1914, they had managed to convince their own population that the German army had carried out mass rapes in Belgium and that it was the duty of every Briton to come to the rescue of these poor women. It was a cleaner version of Kaiser Wilhelm II's attempt to compete with the British colonial empire. At the end of the conflict, the British population demanded that the victims be compensated. A census was taken and it...
https://www.sott.net/article/466149-The-New-World-Order-that-is-being-prepared-under-the-pretext-of-war-in-Ukraine
The New World Order that is being prepared under the pretext of war in Ukraine
The conflict in Ukraine was not opened by Russia on February 24, but by Ukraine a week before. The OSCE is a witness to this. This peripheral conflict had been planned by Washington to impose a New World Order from which Russia, then China, were to be excluded. Don't be fooled! Russia's military operations in Ukraine have been going on for more than a month and Nato's propaganda operations for a month and a half. As always, the war propaganda of the Anglo-Saxons is coordinated from London. Since the First World War, the British have acquired an unparalleled know-how. In 1914, they had managed to convince their own population that the German army had carried out mass rapes in Belgium and that it was the duty of every Briton to come to the rescue of these poor women. It was a cleaner version of Kaiser Wilhelm II's attempt to compete with the British colonial empire. At the end of the conflict, the British population demanded that the victims be compensated. A census was taken and it...
https://www.sott.net/article/466149-The-New-World-Order-that-is-being-prepared-under-the-pretext-of-war-in-Ukraine
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NY Times latest to mislead public on new ivermectin study
The New York Times on Wednesday sent an email blast to subscribers with the subject line: "Breaking News: Ivermectin failed as a Covid treatment, a large clinical trial found." The Times was referring to a study I wrote about, that same day, for The Defender. My article called out the Wall Street Journal for its March 18 reporting on the same study — before the study was even published — for its failure to provide an accurate, critical assessment of the study. The study in question — "Effect of Early Treatment with Ivermectin among Patients with Covid-19" — was officially published Wednesday in the New England Journal of Medicine (NEJM). In it the authors concluded: "Treatment with ivermectin did not result in a lower incidence of medical admission to a hospital due to progression of Covid-19 or of prolonged emergency department observation among outpatients with an early diagnosis of Covid-19"
https://www.sott.net/article/466150-NY-Times-latest-to-mislead-public-on-new-ivermectin-study
NY Times latest to mislead public on new ivermectin study
The New York Times on Wednesday sent an email blast to subscribers with the subject line: "Breaking News: Ivermectin failed as a Covid treatment, a large clinical trial found." The Times was referring to a study I wrote about, that same day, for The Defender. My article called out the Wall Street Journal for its March 18 reporting on the same study — before the study was even published — for its failure to provide an accurate, critical assessment of the study. The study in question — "Effect of Early Treatment with Ivermectin among Patients with Covid-19" — was officially published Wednesday in the New England Journal of Medicine (NEJM). In it the authors concluded: "Treatment with ivermectin did not result in a lower incidence of medical admission to a hospital due to progression of Covid-19 or of prolonged emergency department observation among outpatients with an early diagnosis of Covid-19"
https://www.sott.net/article/466150-NY-Times-latest-to-mislead-public-on-new-ivermectin-study
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Sri Lanka Turns Off Street Lights As Energy Crisis Worsens; Fishermen Unable To Sail For Lack Of Fuel
Tiny Sri Lanka is struggling through an economic crisis that is having terrible repercussions for its economy, as a brutal energy crisis threatens to blossom into shortages of food and other essential goods. Thanks to an energy crisis (and China's reluctance to allow the country to restructure its debts), Sri Lanka is resorting to turning off its street lights to save electricity as its worst economic crisis in decades bites, forcing - among other cutbacks - the temporary closure of the local stock market as the impact of the crisis is felt (the Colombo Stock Exchange reduced daily trading to two hours from the usual four-and-a-half because of the power cuts for the rest of this week at the request of brokers).
https://www.sott.net/article/466151-Sri-Lanka-Turns-Off-Street-Lights-As-Energy-Crisis-Worsens-Fishermen-Unable-To-Sail-For-Lack-Of-Fuel
Sri Lanka Turns Off Street Lights As Energy Crisis Worsens; Fishermen Unable To Sail For Lack Of Fuel
Tiny Sri Lanka is struggling through an economic crisis that is having terrible repercussions for its economy, as a brutal energy crisis threatens to blossom into shortages of food and other essential goods. Thanks to an energy crisis (and China's reluctance to allow the country to restructure its debts), Sri Lanka is resorting to turning off its street lights to save electricity as its worst economic crisis in decades bites, forcing - among other cutbacks - the temporary closure of the local stock market as the impact of the crisis is felt (the Colombo Stock Exchange reduced daily trading to two hours from the usual four-and-a-half because of the power cuts for the rest of this week at the request of brokers).
https://www.sott.net/article/466151-Sri-Lanka-Turns-Off-Street-Lights-As-Energy-Crisis-Worsens-Fishermen-Unable-To-Sail-For-Lack-Of-Fuel
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Western MSM news is getting men, women and children killed in Ukraine
The coverage of the Ukraine conflict across the western mainstream is totally one-sided, however, this is only one aspect of the way it has been responsible for getting more people killed than would be the case without this coverage. By a completely partial rendering of events in Ukraine western mainstream media news creates a false picture that, if enough people believe it, will lead to the combat continuing far longer than it properly should. One aspect of this deeply irresponsible behaviour is that it leads to a false sense of confidence that Kiev regime forces are winning against the Russian forces. This could lead outsiders to this conflict involving themselves directly and, due to their lack of training, getting themselves killed. The emotional impact, purposefully selected by television news channels seeks to generate such impulses along with others regarding fundraising for the regime. The amount of bias involved is massive, along with misinformed speculation, assertion and...
https://www.sott.net/article/466152-Western-MSM-news-is-getting-men-women-and-children-killed-in-Ukraine
Western MSM news is getting men, women and children killed in Ukraine
The coverage of the Ukraine conflict across the western mainstream is totally one-sided, however, this is only one aspect of the way it has been responsible for getting more people killed than would be the case without this coverage. By a completely partial rendering of events in Ukraine western mainstream media news creates a false picture that, if enough people believe it, will lead to the combat continuing far longer than it properly should. One aspect of this deeply irresponsible behaviour is that it leads to a false sense of confidence that Kiev regime forces are winning against the Russian forces. This could lead outsiders to this conflict involving themselves directly and, due to their lack of training, getting themselves killed. The emotional impact, purposefully selected by television news channels seeks to generate such impulses along with others regarding fundraising for the regime. The amount of bias involved is massive, along with misinformed speculation, assertion and...
https://www.sott.net/article/466152-Western-MSM-news-is-getting-men-women-and-children-killed-in-Ukraine
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Four years later: The Skripal case is weirder than ever
While navigating through today's propaganda-heavy world of misinformation, spin and outright creative writing which appears to have replaced conventional journalism, it is most important that two qualities are active in the mind of any truth-seeker. The first quality is the adherence to a strong top down perspective, both historic and global. This is vital in order to guide us as a sort of compass or North Star used by sailors navigating across the ocean. The second quality is a strong power of logic, memory and discernment of wheat vs. chaff to process the mountains of data that slaps us in the face from all directions like sand in a desert storm. As the fourth anniversary of the poisoning of Sergei and Yulia Skripal has arrived and as accusations of biolabs, and chemical warfare are again on peoples minds with Victoria Nuland's recent admission of US "bioresearch facilities" spread across Ukraine, it is a useful time to take these qualities and revisit this bizarre moment of...
https://www.sott.net/article/466153-Four-years-later-The-Skripal-case-is-weirder-than-ever
Four years later: The Skripal case is weirder than ever
While navigating through today's propaganda-heavy world of misinformation, spin and outright creative writing which appears to have replaced conventional journalism, it is most important that two qualities are active in the mind of any truth-seeker. The first quality is the adherence to a strong top down perspective, both historic and global. This is vital in order to guide us as a sort of compass or North Star used by sailors navigating across the ocean. The second quality is a strong power of logic, memory and discernment of wheat vs. chaff to process the mountains of data that slaps us in the face from all directions like sand in a desert storm. As the fourth anniversary of the poisoning of Sergei and Yulia Skripal has arrived and as accusations of biolabs, and chemical warfare are again on peoples minds with Victoria Nuland's recent admission of US "bioresearch facilities" spread across Ukraine, it is a useful time to take these qualities and revisit this bizarre moment of...
https://www.sott.net/article/466153-Four-years-later-The-Skripal-case-is-weirder-than-ever
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Maxine Waters tells homeless people to 'go home,' tries to intimidate reporter covering the story
Rep. Maxine Waters told a group of homeless people to "go home," dropped an f-bomb, and then tried to intimidate a reporter out of writing a story about it. Last week, a group of homeless people were misled by social media rumors and showed up at an event by the organization Fathers and Mothers Who Care. Hundreds of people arrived believing that the organization was handing out Section 8 housing vouchers.
https://www.sott.net/article/466154-Maxine-Waters-tells-homeless-people-to-go-home-tries-to-intimidate-reporter-covering-the-story
Maxine Waters tells homeless people to 'go home,' tries to intimidate reporter covering the story
Rep. Maxine Waters told a group of homeless people to "go home," dropped an f-bomb, and then tried to intimidate a reporter out of writing a story about it. Last week, a group of homeless people were misled by social media rumors and showed up at an event by the organization Fathers and Mothers Who Care. Hundreds of people arrived believing that the organization was handing out Section 8 housing vouchers.
https://www.sott.net/article/466154-Maxine-Waters-tells-homeless-people-to-go-home-tries-to-intimidate-reporter-covering-the-story
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BEST OF THE WEB: White House: 'Early' trans surgeries, hormones are 'crucial' for kids, teens who identify as trans
"Early" transgender surgeries, hormone treatment, and affirmations are "crucial" for the health of kids and teens who identify as transgender and nonbinary, President Joe Biden's administration said in messaging released Thursday. The White House flagged a resource from the Office of the Assistant Secretary for Health on "Transgender Day of Visibility" intended to "inform parents and guardians, educators, and other persons supporting children and adolescents with information on what is gender-affirming care and why it is important to transgender, nonbinary, and other gender expansive young people's well-being." Gender-affirming care is a phrase used by transgender activists and media to mask the more grisly sounding transgender top and bottom surgeries, including removing a biological women's breasts, removing a biological man's genitals, sculpting a fake penis on a biological woman, facial feminization or facial masculinization, and more.
https://www.sott.net/article/466155-White-House-Early-trans-surgeries-hormones-are-crucial-for-kids-teens-who-identify-as-trans
BEST OF THE WEB: White House: 'Early' trans surgeries, hormones are 'crucial' for kids, teens who identify as trans
"Early" transgender surgeries, hormone treatment, and affirmations are "crucial" for the health of kids and teens who identify as transgender and nonbinary, President Joe Biden's administration said in messaging released Thursday. The White House flagged a resource from the Office of the Assistant Secretary for Health on "Transgender Day of Visibility" intended to "inform parents and guardians, educators, and other persons supporting children and adolescents with information on what is gender-affirming care and why it is important to transgender, nonbinary, and other gender expansive young people's well-being." Gender-affirming care is a phrase used by transgender activists and media to mask the more grisly sounding transgender top and bottom surgeries, including removing a biological women's breasts, removing a biological man's genitals, sculpting a fake penis on a biological woman, facial feminization or facial masculinization, and more.
https://www.sott.net/article/466155-White-House-Early-trans-surgeries-hormones-are-crucial-for-kids-teens-who-identify-as-trans
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BEST OF THE WEB: US veteran who volunteered to fight for Ukraine describes 'suicide mission'
An American volunteer for Ukraine tells The Grayzone how his foreign legion tried to use him as cannon fodder. A decade after Henry Hoeft joined the US Army at age 18, he was back on the battlefield, but this time as a volunteer for a foreign military engaged in a proxy war against a powerful foe. After answering the Ukrainian government's call for foreign fighters this February, however, the American veteran quickly decided he was being sent on a "suicide mission" against the Russian military. After escaping with his life, claiming his own allies had threatened to shoot him in the back, Hoeft posted a viral message advising other Westerners against joining the fight in Ukraine. Within days, he was at the center of a global information war, with the military for which he had volunteered publicly branding him a Russian agent.
https://www.sott.net/article/466156-US-veteran-who-volunteered-to-fight-for-Ukraine-describes-suicide-mission
BEST OF THE WEB: US veteran who volunteered to fight for Ukraine describes 'suicide mission'
An American volunteer for Ukraine tells The Grayzone how his foreign legion tried to use him as cannon fodder. A decade after Henry Hoeft joined the US Army at age 18, he was back on the battlefield, but this time as a volunteer for a foreign military engaged in a proxy war against a powerful foe. After answering the Ukrainian government's call for foreign fighters this February, however, the American veteran quickly decided he was being sent on a "suicide mission" against the Russian military. After escaping with his life, claiming his own allies had threatened to shoot him in the back, Hoeft posted a viral message advising other Westerners against joining the fight in Ukraine. Within days, he was at the center of a global information war, with the military for which he had volunteered publicly branding him a Russian agent.
https://www.sott.net/article/466156-US-veteran-who-volunteered-to-fight-for-Ukraine-describes-suicide-mission
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CIA veteran who signed Hunter Biden laptop letter says he sarcastically claimed credit for 2020 election
A longtime CIA veteran who signed the infamous letter baselessly asserting Russian involvement in the Hunter Biden laptop saga said he was proud to have played his part in influencing the 2020 election in favor of President Joe Biden — before backtracking and claiming he was being sarcastic when he became embroiled in a Twitter spat with Donald Trump's ex-intelligence chief. John Sipher retired in 2014 after a 28-year career in the CIA's National Clandestine Service, and he is one of the dozens of former intelligence officials who claimed the laptop story "has all the classic earmarks of a Russian information operation." Sipher, a longtime defender of Christopher Steele's discredited dossier, is now a co-founder of Spycraft Entertainment and a senior fellow at the Atlantic Council.
https://www.sott.net/article/466157-CIA-veteran-who-signed-Hunter-Biden-laptop-letter-says-he-sarcastically-claimed-credit-for-2020-election
CIA veteran who signed Hunter Biden laptop letter says he sarcastically claimed credit for 2020 election
A longtime CIA veteran who signed the infamous letter baselessly asserting Russian involvement in the Hunter Biden laptop saga said he was proud to have played his part in influencing the 2020 election in favor of President Joe Biden — before backtracking and claiming he was being sarcastic when he became embroiled in a Twitter spat with Donald Trump's ex-intelligence chief. John Sipher retired in 2014 after a 28-year career in the CIA's National Clandestine Service, and he is one of the dozens of former intelligence officials who claimed the laptop story "has all the classic earmarks of a Russian information operation." Sipher, a longtime defender of Christopher Steele's discredited dossier, is now a co-founder of Spycraft Entertainment and a senior fellow at the Atlantic Council.
https://www.sott.net/article/466157-CIA-veteran-who-signed-Hunter-Biden-laptop-letter-says-he-sarcastically-claimed-credit-for-2020-election
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The media avoided the ties between Joe Biden and Hunter's laptop
Wonders never cease. First the New York Times. Then CNN. Now the Washington Post has caught up with the Hunter Biden laptop story — only 18 months after the New York Post broke the scandal, and too late for the 2020 election. But now, after our story was censored by Big Tech and dismissed as "Russian disinformation" by Democratic prevaricator Adam Schiff, and 51 former spooks led by former CIA Director John Brennan, apparently it's safe to admit the laptop is real and the emails we published can be easily authenticated. Of course, they all avoid the inevitable conclusion to be drawn from evidence contained on the laptop that the president's drug-addled son Hunter abandoned at a MacBook repair shop in Delaware in April 2019: that Joe Biden, when he was vice president, was aware of, and intimately involved in, a corrupt, multimillion-dollar, international influence-peddling scheme run by Hunter, and Joe's brother Jim Biden, in the countries for which Joe was point man in the Obama...
https://www.sott.net/article/466158-The-media-avoided-the-ties-between-Joe-Biden-and-Hunters-laptop
The media avoided the ties between Joe Biden and Hunter's laptop
Wonders never cease. First the New York Times. Then CNN. Now the Washington Post has caught up with the Hunter Biden laptop story — only 18 months after the New York Post broke the scandal, and too late for the 2020 election. But now, after our story was censored by Big Tech and dismissed as "Russian disinformation" by Democratic prevaricator Adam Schiff, and 51 former spooks led by former CIA Director John Brennan, apparently it's safe to admit the laptop is real and the emails we published can be easily authenticated. Of course, they all avoid the inevitable conclusion to be drawn from evidence contained on the laptop that the president's drug-addled son Hunter abandoned at a MacBook repair shop in Delaware in April 2019: that Joe Biden, when he was vice president, was aware of, and intimately involved in, a corrupt, multimillion-dollar, international influence-peddling scheme run by Hunter, and Joe's brother Jim Biden, in the countries for which Joe was point man in the Obama...
https://www.sott.net/article/466158-The-media-avoided-the-ties-between-Joe-Biden-and-Hunters-laptop
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Shallow 6.3 magnitude earthquake off New Caledonia - 3rd major quake in the area within 24 hours
There is no tsunami threat to Hawaii following a 6.3 magnitude earthquake detected southeast of the Loyalty Islands near New Caledonia this morning. The earthquake struck at about 9:51 a.m. Hawaii time. The Pacific Tsunami Warning Center issued a statement saying that based on all available data, a destructive, Pacific-wide tsunami is not expected. The U.S. Geological Survey said the earthquake occurred at a depth of 6.2 miles, and that no ground was affected.
https://www.sott.net/article/466159-Shallow-6-3-magnitude-earthquake-off-New-Caledonia-3rd-major-quake-in-the-area-within-24-hours
Shallow 6.3 magnitude earthquake off New Caledonia - 3rd major quake in the area within 24 hours
There is no tsunami threat to Hawaii following a 6.3 magnitude earthquake detected southeast of the Loyalty Islands near New Caledonia this morning. The earthquake struck at about 9:51 a.m. Hawaii time. The Pacific Tsunami Warning Center issued a statement saying that based on all available data, a destructive, Pacific-wide tsunami is not expected. The U.S. Geological Survey said the earthquake occurred at a depth of 6.2 miles, and that no ground was affected.
https://www.sott.net/article/466159-Shallow-6-3-magnitude-earthquake-off-New-Caledonia-3rd-major-quake-in-the-area-within-24-hours
