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Blinken meets Zelensky in Kiev pledging billions more dollars for proxy war against Russia, Moscow demands the US stop escalating the situation
His secrecy-shrouded visit to Kyiv along with defence secretary Lloyd Austin was the highest-level American visit to the capital since Russia invaded in late February. Comment: These 'face to face' meetings that Zelensky continues to have with world leaders merely demonstrates how careful and considered Russia's special operation is, because this wouldn't have been possible during the US Shock and Awe invasion of Iraq: Polish, Czech & Slovenian leaders visit 'war-torn Kiev', Poland suggests NATO 'peace mission', US to send long range weapons & killer drones They told Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky and his advisers that the US will provide more than 300 million dollars (£234 million) in foreign military financing and had approved a 165 million dollar (£128 million) sale of ammunition. Comment: That's on top of the billions they've already funneled in to Ukraine in the form of money and weapons.
https://www.sott.net/article/467179-Blinken-meets-Zelensky-in-Kiev-pledging-billions-more-dollars-for-proxy-war-against-Russia-Moscow-demands-the-US-stop-escalating-the-situation

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Adoption of cereal crops key to emergence of hierarchy, shedding new light on origin of civilization - study
New research from the University of Warwick, the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Reichman University, Universitat Pompeu Fabra and the Barcelona School of Economics challenges the conventional theory that the transition from foraging to farming drove the development of complex, hierarchical societies by creating agricultural surplus in areas of fertile land. In The Origin of the State: Land Productivity or AppropriabilityLink opens in a new window?, published in the April issue of the Journal of Political Economy (Link opens in a new window) - one of the oldest and most prestigious journals in economics - Professors Joram Mayshar, Omer Moav and Luigi Pascali show that high land productivity on its own does not lead to the development of tax-levying states. It is the adoption of cereal crops that is the key factor for the emergence of hierarchy. Professor Moav explains in this short video:-
https://www.sott.net/article/467180-Adoption-of-cereal-crops-key-to-emergence-of-hierarchy-shedding-new-light-on-origin-of-civilization-study

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China's capital city warns of more Covid cases and begins mass testing in the central business district
China's capital city of Beijing reported a spike in Covid cases over the weekend, and warned more would be found since the virus had spread undetected in the city for a week. The city's business district of Chaoyang began three days of mass testing on Monday for anyone living or working in the region. The increase in cases in Beijing come as mainland China faces its worst Covid outbreak since early 2020 and most of Shanghai, China's largest city, remains under prolonged lockdown. China's capital of Beijing warned over the weekend that Covid had spread undetected in the city for a week, and that more cases would be found with investigation. The main business district of Chaoyang began three days of mass testing on Monday for anyone living or working in the region, which is home to many embassies and foreign businesses. The district accounted for most of the 42 new Covid cases reported in Beijing since Friday. Only specific apartment buildings have been locked down in Beijing....
https://www.sott.net/article/467187-Chinas-capital-city-warns-of-more-Covid-cases-and-begins-mass-testing-in-the-central-business-district

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Two-year-old boy dies after stray dog attack in Telangana, India
A two-year-old boy died, allegedly after being attacked by a pack of street dogs at Golconda on Tuesday night. The victim, Ahmed a resident of Bada Bazaar, was playing near his house when the pack of dogs attacked him. Locals scared away the dogs and rescued the boy, who sustained injuries on the neck and other parts of the body. He was rushed to Niloufer hospital where doctors pronounced him dead. Locals pointed out that the stray dogs had attacked locals in the colony earlier too.
https://www.sott.net/article/467188-Two-year-old-boy-dies-after-stray-dog-attack-in-Telangana-India

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Meteor fireball over Washington, Oregon and British Columbia on April 27
We received 44 reports about a fireball seen over British Columbia, OR and WA on Wednesday, April 27th 2022 around 03:44 UT. For this event, we received one video.
https://www.sott.net/article/467189-Meteor-fireball-over-Washington-Oregon-and-British-Columbia-on-April-27

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Terrorist bombing of gov't building in breakaway Transnistria region, Russia says situation is 'concerning'
The Ministry of State Security building in Transnistria's capital city of Tiraspol was rocked by multiple explosions on Monday. Transnistria, officially known as the Pridnestrovian Moldavian Republic (PMR), is a self-proclaimed state located along a narrow strip of land between the Dniester River and Ukrainian border in the eastern part of Moldova. Footage circulating online shows the building's facade damaged, with windows shattered and doors broken. Images show at least two spent shoulder-fired rocket launchers can be seen lying in the middle of a street near the building.
https://www.sott.net/article/467190-Terrorist-bombing-of-govt-building-in-breakaway-Transnistria-region-Russia-says-situation-is-concerning

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San Jose baby kidnapped from grandmother's home found safe, suspect in custody
3-month-old Brandon Cuellar found alive after being taken from home in San Jose, California. A 3-month-old baby kidnapped from his grandmother's home in San Jose, California, was found safe and a suspect has been taken into custody, authorities said Tuesday. Brandon Cuellar was located alive and taken to a hospital as a precaution, San Jose police announced around 10 a.m. local time. Police said one suspect was in custody but didn't immediately give further details.
https://www.sott.net/article/467191-San-Jose-baby-kidnapped-from-grandmothers-home-found-safe-suspect-in-custody

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Russia halts gas supplies to Bulgaria and Poland after failing to pay for fuel in rubles
Gazprom, Russia's main natural gas supplier, has announced a complete halt in gas exports to Bulgaria and Poland on Wednesday after the two countries refused to make payments in rubles. According to a statement, supplies will not resume until Sofia and Warsaw comply with the new terms. The Saint Petersburg-based energy giant warned that should Bulgaria and Poland start siphoning off Russian transit gas intended for other countries, it will reduce supplies by the amount Sofia and Warsaw has illegally withheld. In a statement early on Wednesday, the company explained that "as of the end of the working day on 26 April, Gazprom Export had not received ruble payments for gas deliveries in April from the companies 'Bulgargaz' (Bulgaria) and PGNiG (Poland)," as required under President Vladimir Putin's decree dated 31 March. It noted that "payments for gas delivered since 1 April must be made in rubles," and that both companies had been notified of this "in a timely manner."
https://www.sott.net/article/467192-Russia-halts-gas-supplies-to-Bulgaria-and-Poland-after-failing-to-pay-for-fuel-in-rubles

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Ukraine: The Second World War continues
While working for the CIA in 1950, the criminal against humanity Stepan Bandera wrote: "The general line of our liberation policy is based on the fact that a struggle for an independent Ukrainian state is a struggle against Russia, not only against Bolshevism, but against all expansionist Russian imperialism which has been typical of the Russian people. If it is replaced by another form of Russian imperialism, it will first deploy all its energy against independent Ukraine to enslave it. The Russian people are obliged to support this imperialism. It will do everything to keep Ukraine enslaved. This is clearly demonstrated in the political thinking and feelings of the Russian mass, of all Russian circles, both communist and anti-Bolshevik." In a previous article, I showed how and why MI6 and the CIA formed an alliance with Ukrainian Banderites during the Cold War. These men and women, who should have been tried at Nuremberg, became shadow soldiers for the victors. They could pursue...
https://www.sott.net/article/467193-Ukraine-The-Second-World-War-continues

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Polygamist cult leader Warren Jeffs' son: My dad married my 12-year-old 'moms'
One of the many sons of convicted child rapist and polygamist church leader Warren Jeffs is speaking out about his time with his "manipulative" father — and how he is "blazing" a new path for himself, which includes a significant name change. Wendell Jeffson, 21, was raised on a 1,700-acre ranch near Eldorado, Texas, with his nearly 50 brothers and sisters. His father, Warren Jeffs, was a self-proclaimed prophet of the Fundamentalist Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints (FLDS). He rose to fame in the '90s before being placed on the FBI's Top 10 Most Wanted List and convicted in 2011 of sexually assaulting two teen girls he married, claiming they were his "spiritual" wives.
https://www.sott.net/article/467194-Polygamist-cult-leader-Warren-Jeffs-son-My-dad-married-my-12-year-old-moms

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Ukraine apologizes to Japan for 'fascism' video
In a video condemning Russians as fascists, Ukraine's Twitter account showed wartime emperor Hirohito alongside Mussolini and Hitler. The Ukrainian government apologized to Japan after it released an anti-Russian video ending with a shot of Adolf Hitler, Benito Mussolini, and Emperor Hirohito, describing the three as fascists. Japanese politicians insist that Hirohito was not responsible for Japan's wartime actions. The video, first posted nearly a month ago, condemns Russian President Vladimir Putin and describes the Russian political system as "ruscism." It closes with images of Germany's Hitler, Italy's Mussolini, and Japan's Hirohito, along with the text "Fascism and Nazism were defeated in 1945. We will fight ruscism, here and now."
https://www.sott.net/article/467195-Ukraine-apologizes-to-Japan-for-fascism-video

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UK says it backs Ukraine's right to attack Russian territory as Kremlin claims NATO is fighting a proxy war
It is "completely legitimate" for Ukraine to attack Russian territory, a British defence minister has said, as Russia accused the NATO military alliance of waging a proxy war. James Heappey, the UK armed forces minister, told Times Radio on Tuesday that Ukraine was justified in seeking to disrupt Russian supplies. "In war, Ukraine needs to strike into its opponents' depth to attack its logistics lines, its fuel supplies, its ammunition depots, and that's part of it," he said.
https://www.sott.net/article/467196-UK-says-it-backs-Ukraines-right-to-attack-Russian-territory-as-Kremlin-claims-NATO-is-fighting-a-proxy-war

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Woman died after being attacked by multiple dogs in Newalla, Oklahoma
A 61-year-old woman died after being attacked by multiple dogs, the Oklahoma County Sheriff's Office announced Tuesday. Deputies responded to the 4300 block of South Catfish Drive just after noon Sunday after getting a report that a woman was dead. Upon arrival, deputies found Anita Mears dead in her front yard with apparent stab wounds. The Oklahoma County Coroners Office later determined her death was not a homicide but rather that she was the victim of an attack by multiple dogs.
https://www.sott.net/article/467197-Woman-died-after-being-attacked-by-multiple-dogs-in-Newalla-Oklahoma

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20 killed in floods and landslides after heavy rain in DR Congo and Rwanda
At least 20 people have died after heavy rain caused floods and landslides in areas of Rwanda and neighbouring parts of the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DR Congo) over the last few days. Rwanda Local media quoting Ministry of Emergency Preparedness (MINEMA) said at least 11 people died and 13 were injured after heavy rain on 23 April caused flooding and landslides in several districts of the country. Damage to homes, roads and crops was also reported. Affected areas included the districts of Nyamasheke (7 fatalities), Kicukiro (2), Gasabo (1), and Ngororero (1). Areas of Kayonza district suffered damage but no fatalities were reported.
https://www.sott.net/article/467198-20-killed-in-floods-and-landslides-after-heavy-rain-in-DR-Congo-and-Rwanda

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Flooding Jari river affects thousands in Amapá, Brazil
Flooding from the Jari river has affected thousands of people in communities in the state of Amapá in northern Brazil. Levels of the Jari river increased after heavy rainfall in the region over the last few weeks. The Amapá state government said the river reached 3.01 metres on 26 April, the highest level of the year so far. According to officials, communities in the municipalities of Laranjal do Jari and Vitória do Jari have been affected by the flooding since mid-April. As of 26 April, the state government reported 16,152 people affected in Laranjal do Jari and 8,340 in Vitória do Jari. Federal government sources said over 220 families have been displaced. State and federal government agencies are providing aid and relief supplies to communities in affected areas.
https://www.sott.net/article/467199-Flooding-Jari-river-affects-thousands-in-Amapa-Brazil

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Late April snow hits mountainous areas of Beijing, China
Beijing has seen a sharp temperature drop, with temperatures recorded 13 degrees Celsius lower than Tuesday, accompanied by rain and snow since Wednesday morning, the municipal meteorological bureau has said. Snow has hit mountainous areas in the suburbs of Beijing, with the highest daily temperature dropping to 10.7 degrees Celsius from Tuesday's 23.2 degrees Celsius. The average precipitation in Beijing was 2.6 millimeters between 5 a.m. and 3 p.m. on Wednesday.
https://www.sott.net/article/467200-Late-April-snow-hits-mountainous-areas-of-Beijing-China

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Shaping the Russiagate hoax: Durham has hundreds of e-mails between Fusion GPS and reporters
Special Counsel John Durham just filed this motion in response to the efforts of Hillary for America, Fusion GPS, et al. to keep secret (by use of the attorney-client and work product privileges) communications involving Fusion GPS. You can read it here. Durham states the "purported privilege holders who have intervened do so in a case in which the defendant has denied representing any client when he brought the Russian Bank-1 allegations to the FBI." The privilege controversy thus entraps Sussmann to a certain extent, seemingly precluding his denial that he was working on behalf of a client. Brilliant. Additionally, Durham casts doubt on the declaration of Marc Elias that Fusion GPS was retained to provide "legal advice." Here he makes a key point: "if rendering such advice was truly the intended purpose of Fusion GPS's retention, one would also expect the investigative firm to seek permission and/or guidance from [Hillary for America] or its counsel before sharing such derogatory...
https://www.sott.net/article/467201-Shaping-the-Russiagate-hoax-Durham-has-hundreds-of-e-mails-between-Fusion-GPS-and-reporters

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Ukraine could dissolve into several states - Moscow
The policy pursued by the West and the "Kiev regime" it controls may ultimately result in Ukraine falling apart and ceasing to exist as a unified state, the secretary of Russia's Security Council, Nikolay Patrushev, has predicted. "Finding no positive ways to win Ukrainians over to its side, Washington, long before the 2014 coup d'etat, has been persuading Ukrainians of the supremacy of their nation and hatred toward everything Russian," Patrushev told the Rossiyskaya Gazeta newspaper in an exclusive interview, excerpts from which were published Tuesday. Today, the peoples living in Ukraine are held together only by fear of nationalist battalions. Such a policy of the West and the Kiev regime it controls can result only in disintegration of Ukraine into several states.
https://www.sott.net/article/467202-Ukraine-could-dissolve-into-several-states-Moscow

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Macron's re-election masks deep French malaise
French President Emmanuel Macron sailed to a re-election victory on April 24 with 58.5% of the vote over populist challenger Marine Le Pen's 41.4%. But his mandate to govern France has taken a hit. According to a voting day Ipsos Sopra Steria poll, 42% of second-round voters who ultimately chose Macron, only did so to block Le Pen - routinely portrayed as dangerously far-right in the mainstream French press - and not because they overtly support Macron and his program. The President even acknowledged this phenomenon in his victory speech. The math therefore suggests that Macron's actual support among the French who bothered to vote in the final round (with a 53-year record high of 28% of them choosing not to) was only about 41%. Hardly the resounding victory portrayed in the fawning praise of European Union Commission President Ursula von der Leyen. "Together, we will move France and Europe forward," said the bureaucrat, who was elected by even fewer French than Macron (that is,...
https://www.sott.net/article/467203-Macrons-re-election-masks-deep-French-malaise

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China issues 'color revolution' warning for Kazakhstan
The Chinese defense minister has said Beijing stands opposed to foreign intervention in Kazakhstan, warning of "color revolutions" launched under the guise of protests while also vowing to support the country's efforts to "safeguard national security." Following a meeting with Kazakh President Kassym-Jomart Tokayev in Nur-Sultan on Monday, Defense Minister Wei Fenghe touted the "bright future prospects" offered by bilateral ties, also touching on the threat posed by foreign interference. "China firmly opposes external forces deliberately instigating a 'color revolution' in Kazakhstan, and supports Kazakhstan in taking effective measures to safeguard national security and social stability," Wei said, as cited by the Defense Ministry. "We must be alert to some major powers interfering in Central Asia and disrupting the security of Central Asia."
https://www.sott.net/article/467204-China-issues-color-revolution-warning-for-Kazakhstan

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EU to boost Russian gas imports through countries willing to pay in rubles - 4 EU countries have made payments in rubles
The European Union plans to significantly increase the purchase of Russian natural gas through countries that are ready to pay for the commodity in rubles, TASS news agency reported on Wednesday citing a government source in Brussels. "An emergency meeting of the Gas Coordinating Group took place today in view of the situation in Poland and Bulgaria. A temporary decision was made to significantly increase gas purchases from Russia through the remaining channels, which will allow Poland and Bulgaria to purchase additional volumes of gas on the European market. The EU is also working with all partners to ensure an increase in gas supplies, primarily liquefied natural gas (LNG)," the source was cited as saying. The move is aimed to compensate for the lack of supplies to Poland and Bulgaria after Russian energy giant Gazprom announced that it would no longer deliver gas to the two countries due to their refusal to adhere to the new ruble-based gas payment mechanism. Last month, Russia...
https://www.sott.net/article/467205-EU-to-boost-Russian-gas-imports-through-countries-willing-to-pay-in-rubles-4-EU-countries-have-made-payments-in-rubles