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Journalists who challenge NATO narratives are now 'information terrorists'
A US state department sponsored round table on 'countering disinformation' was recently held at the National Security and Defence Council of Ukraine. "Information terrorists should know that they will have to answer to the law as war criminals" Andrii Shapovalov According to the press release - "NGOs, mass media and international experts" took part in the round table discussions. Delegates discussed 'disinformation methods' used in Ukraine and abroad. On the agenda was legal and state prevention of 'fakes and disinformation in the context of cyber security'. Andrii Shapovalov, head of the Ukrainian Centre for Combatting Disinformation emphasized that those who 'deliberately spread disinformation are information terrorists'. Shapovalov recommended changes to the legislation to crack down on these terrorists - reminiscent of the pre-WW2 Nazi Germany suppression of media and information channels. Shapovalov determined that 'information terrorists should know that they will have to...
https://www.sott.net/article/471410-Journalists-who-challenge-NATO-narratives-are-now-information-terrorists

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Justice Centre brings legal challenge against ArriveCAN and quarantine measures
The Justice Centre filed a lawsuit today in the Federal Court of Canada, on behalf of 11 Canadians either fined for not using the ArriveCAN and/or ordered to quarantine for 14 days after returning home from abroad. The Applicants involved in this legal challenge have received fines of up to $8,500 each and been forced to disclose private medical information via ArriveCAN. The legal challenge seeks to strike down the mandatory use of ArriveCAN and declare unconstitutional the 14-day quarantine requirements for Canadians who refuse to use ArriveCAN when returning home. ArriveCan was initially implemented in April 2020 to force Canadian citizens returning home to submit quarantine plans due to Covid. It was mandated for air travellers November 21, 2020. In February 2021, the federal government mandated ArriveCan for all land travellers, while the US-Canada land crossing was still closed. After the Covid vaccine rollouts, travellers were required to upload their vaccination...
https://www.sott.net/article/471411-Justice-Centre-brings-legal-challenge-against-ArriveCAN-and-quarantine-measures

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Caught red-handed: Facebook and Twitter delete pro-western bot networks - study
Data provided by the social media giants showed a web of linked accounts pushing pro-US and anti-Russia narratives. Twitter and Facebook have deleted a network of suspicious accounts said to be involved in "covert influence operations" online, including efforts to promote "pro-Western" sentiment and demonize US adversaries, according to company data analyzed by researchers at Stanford University. Partnering with social media analytics firm Graphika, the Stanford Internet Observatory issued a report on Wednesday outlining the alleged influence ops, citing datasets provided by both Twitter and Meta, Facebook's parent company.
https://www.sott.net/article/471412-Caught-red-handed-Facebook-and-Twitter-delete-pro-western-bot-networks-study

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Don't go searching for terrorists, they are not hard to find
May I just spit it out? We are the terrorists. Americans are the terrorists creating tremendous suffering and tragedy around the world. And no, I am not the only one admitting to this. Deep down, all of my fellow citizens know what we are up to. A recent incident in Yemen drives home the hegemony my country has created, looted, and still loots the whole world. I watched talk show host Jimmy Dore a few moments ago, laying out how the US, France, and other nations are robbing other people of this world to prop up failed super-capitalism. Dore, who has an uncanny ability to drive at the heart of matters, was interviewing Ethiopian-American Journalist Hermela Aregawi in a story about the French Foreign Legion securing Yemeni natural gas for sale to the EU. The story begins something like this from The New Arab: "France could be gearing up to help protect a gas facility in Yemen to allow for exports in a bid to cut Europe's reliance on Russia, according to an ex-Yemeni foreign...
https://www.sott.net/article/471413-Dont-go-searching-for-terrorists-they-are-not-hard-to-find

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FBI brass warned agents off Hunter Biden laptop due to 2020 election: whistleblowers
FBI officials told agents not to investigate first son Hunter Biden's infamous laptop for months — vowing that the bureau was "not going to change the outcome of the election again," according to whistleblower claims made public Wednesday by Sen. Ron Johnson (R-Wis.) "These new allegations provide even more evidence of FBI corruption and renew calls for you to take immediate steps to investigate the FBI's actions regarding the laptop," Johnson wrote in a letter to Justice Department Inspector General Michael Horowitz. According to the senator, "individuals with knowledge" had told his office that "local FBI leadership" had slow-walked the laptop investigation after the computer was recovered from a Wilmington, Del. repair shop in December 2019.
https://www.sott.net/article/471414-FBI-brass-warned-agents-off-Hunter-Biden-laptop-due-to-2020-election-whistleblowers

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Lab-made mouse embryos grew brains and beating hearts, just like the real thing
The embryos survived for 8.5 days. Scientists coaxed mouse stem cells to grow into synthetic embryos that began developing hearts and brains, just like the real thing. The lab-made embryos, crafted without any eggs or sperm and incubated in a device that resembles a fast-spinning Ferris wheel full of tiny glass vials, survived for 8.5 days. That's nearly half the length of a typical mouse pregnancy. In that time, a yolk sac developed around the embryos to supply nutrition, and the embryos themselves developed digestive tracts; neural tubes, or the beginnings of the central nervous system; beating hearts; and brains with well-defined subsections, including the forebrain and midbrain, the scientists reported in a study published Thursday (Aug. 25) in the journal Nature. "This has been the dream of our community for years and [a] major focus of our work for a decade, and finally, we've done it," senior study author Magdalena Zernicka-Goetz, a developmental and stem-cell biologist with...
https://www.sott.net/article/471415-Lab-made-mouse-embryos-grew-brains-and-beating-hearts-just-like-the-real-thing

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Mark Zuckerberg tells Joe Rogan Facebook was wrong to ban The Post's Hunter Biden laptop story
Mark Zuckerberg finally admitted on Thursday that Facebook dropped the ball when the company banned the sharing of The Post's exclusive report on Hunter Biden's laptop ahead of the 2020 election. The billionaire CEO of Meta said he regretted Facebook's handling of the bombshell story during an appearance on "The Joe Rogan Experience" — but he still defended the process as "pretty reasonable." Zuckerberg opened up about the controversial media suppression after the host pressed him to explain his views on how tech platforms should handle content moderation on sensitive subjects.
https://www.sott.net/article/471416-Mark-Zuckerberg-tells-Joe-Rogan-Facebook-was-wrong-to-ban-The-Posts-Hunter-Biden-laptop-story

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Gender dysphoria is covered by disability law, federal court rules
The ruling could become a powerful tool to challenge legislation restricting access to medical care and other accommodations for transgender people, advocates say. A federal ruling that gender dysphoria is covered by the Americans with Disabilities Act could help block conservative political efforts to restrict access to gender-affirming care, advocates and experts say. A panel of the 4th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals last week became the first federal appellate court in the country to find that the 1990 landmark federal law protects transgender people who experience anguish and other symptoms as a result of the disparity between their assigned sex and their gender identity.
https://www.sott.net/article/471417-Gender-dysphoria-is-covered-by-disability-law-federal-court-rules

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Section of Interstate 10 washed away in flash flood in Riverside County, California
Flash floods caused a section of Interstate 10 in Riverside County, California to be washed out, making the eastbound side inaccessible.
https://www.sott.net/article/471418-Section-of-Interstate-10-washed-away-in-flash-flood-in-Riverside-County-California

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Lightning strike kills two brothers in Sukkur, Pakistan
Two brothers were killed as lightning struck them in Sukkur on Thursday, ARY News reported. As per details, the lightning struck in a neighboring village of Saleh Put, Sukkur, killing two brothers on the spot. The locals of the area said the deceased were named Muhamad Raza and Ali Raza, who were brothers. It may be noted that several areas of Sukkur are still submerged with rainwater after heavy downpours lashed Sindh's third biggest city.
https://www.sott.net/article/471419-Lightning-strike-kills-two-brothers-in-Sukkur-Pakistan

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Court strikes down "quarantine camp" regulation in New York State
We have had a tremendous victory here in New York: a Supreme Court Judge has struck down Governor Kathy Hochul's forced quarantine regulation! On July 8, 2022, Judge Ronald Ploetz ruled that the "Isolation and Quarantine Procedures" regulation is unconstitutional and "violative of New York State law as promulgated and enacted, and therefore null, void and unenforceable as a matter of law." Shockingly, Governor Hochul and Attorney General, Letitia James, plan to appeal the decision. Yes, that's right...the Governor and AG, both unabashedly support quarantine camps! One would think that this fact, in and of itself, would be disturbing enough but add to it the fact that they're both running for election this November, and you can see just how unconstitutionally brazen and wholly out-of-touch with New Yorkers each of these "leaders" is. For anyone who missed my prior article on this horrific forced quarantine regime, the regulation truly shocks the conscience. Without exaggeration,...
https://www.sott.net/article/471420-Court-strikes-down-quarantine-camp-regulation-in-New-York-State

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Twitter declined to remove sex video exploiting minors, according to lawsuit supported by powerful watchdog groups
Child-safety advocates are blasting Twitter and lining up to support a lawsuit that alleges the social network declined to remove videos depicting the sexual exploitation of minors despite pleas from a victim and his family. "It's child sexual abuse material. He was 13 years old and being extorted. What the hell is Twitter doing?" asked Hany Farid, a professor at the School of Information at UC Berkeley. Farid, who has testified before Congress five times on issues of online safety and regulation, and others filed paperwork with a federal appellate court in San Francisco last week supporting the lawsuit.
https://www.sott.net/article/471421-Twitter-declined-to-remove-sex-video-exploiting-minors-according-to-lawsuit-supported-by-powerful-watchdog-groups

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Heavy rain causes damage and flooding in Delicias, Chihuahua, Mexico
Heavy rain that was accompanied by wind caused several damages in the city, where the streets and avenues turned into rivers in a matter of a few minutes. Around 4:00 p.m. the first drops began to fall on the "agricultural capital of the state", but the light rain quickly turned into a downpour that flooded the roads in all sectors of the urban area. In some parts of the city, the water covered half of the vehicles, while in the south and west, failures in the supply of drinking water to homes were reported. In this regard, the Municipal Board of Water and Sanitation explained that the rain caused breakdowns in the wells that supply the liquid, for which the technicians of the unit immediately went to carry out the repair work. (Translated by Google)
https://www.sott.net/article/471422-Heavy-rain-causes-damage-and-flooding-in-Delicias-Chihuahua-Mexico

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Dog attacks, kills teenage girl in Harīpur, Pakistan
A teenage girl died when a pet dog attacked and injured her in her house in Kahka village here on Thursday, family and hospital sources said. They said that Rozina Bibi, 13, had come from Abbottabad to live with her maternal grandparents in Kahka. On Thursday morning she was sitting in the courtyard of the home when a pet dog of her maternal grandfather Abdul Majeed attacked and injured her critically. As the dog had bitten her in the neck and other parts of body she bled profusely and did not survive despite shifting to a hospital.
https://www.sott.net/article/471423-Dog-attacks-kills-teenage-girl-in-Haripur-Pakistan

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Dog enters home, kills 11-year-old girl in Trinidad
A dog identified as a mix between an American Bully and an American Bulldog escaped its kennel and entered a house, where it chased a child into a bedroom and mauled to death the 11-year-old girl. Rachael Bhagwandeen had no chance to escape the powerful animal, and not even an attempt by responders, including the child's own mother, could tear the animal away from its attack. Only the dog's owner could intervene. By then it was too late. Her mother Seema Bhagwandeen said she ran into the house to find her child had been savaged. She said her bleeding daughter reached out to her.
https://www.sott.net/article/471424-Dog-enters-home-kills-11-year-old-girl-in-Trinidad

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Steven Hoffenberg, Epstein mentor & fellow Ponzi criminal found dead
Steven Hoffenberg, the disgraced businessman and longtime mentor of Jeffrey Epstein, was found dead Tuesday when Connecticut police discovered his rotting corpse during a wellness check, The Post has learned. Comment: Unusual choice of phrasing. Authorities discovered Hoffenberg, who spent 18 years in prison for running a half-billion-dollar Ponzi scheme, dead in his home around 8 p.m. Tuesday. It is not clear exactly when he died. Police had been called to the 77-year-old's home in Derby, Conn., at the request of a friend.
https://www.sott.net/article/471425-Steven-Hoffenberg-Epstein-mentor-fellow-Ponzi-criminal-found-dead

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Strangely magnetized sunspot may reflect unusual happenings on the sun
New sunspot AR3088 is emerging in the sun's southern hemisphere. Its magnetic field is not normal: Shown above is a map of magnetic fields on the sun. AR3088 is inset. According to Hale's Law, the sunspot's magnetic poles should be arranged /-, that is, positive ( ) on the left and negative (-) on the right. Instead, they are rotated 90 degrees; positive ( ) is on top and negative (-) is on the bottom.
https://www.sott.net/article/471426-Strangely-magnetized-sunspot-may-reflect-unusual-happenings-on-the-sun

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Kiev was gearing up for military conflict since 2019, security chief admits
A top Ukrainian security official has said that Kiev had been gearing up for hostilities with Russia since as early as December 2019. The Russian military had earlier reported uncovering classified Ukrainian documents indicating a planned offensive against Donbass rebels. The revelation about Kiev's military preparation was made by Aleksey Danilov, who chairs Ukraine's national security council, in an interview with the Polish daily Wyborcza on Tuesday. "We were actually preparing for the war from December 2019, and all the claims that we were not dealing with it are absolutely out of touch with reality," he was quoted as saying. "If we did not prepare for war, today Russian tanks would be in Warsaw, Prague, Tallinn and Vilnius."
https://www.sott.net/article/471427-Kiev-was-gearing-up-for-military-conflict-since-2019-security-chief-admits

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BEST OF THE WEB: Jeffrey Sachs: The west's false narrative about Russia and China
The world is on the edge of nuclear catastrophe in no small part because of the failure of Western political leaders to be forthright about the causes of the escalating global conflicts. The relentless Western narrative that the West is noble while Russia and China are evil is simple-minded and extraordinarily dangerous. It is an attempt to manipulate public opinion, not to deal with very real and pressing diplomacy. The essential narrative of the West is built into US national security strategy. The core US idea is that China and Russia are implacable foes that are "attempting to erode American security and prosperity." These countries are, according to the US, "determined to make economies less free and less fair, to grow their. militaries, and to control information and data to repress their societies and expand their influence." The irony is that since 1980 the US has been in at least 15 overseas wars of choice (Afghanistan, Iraq, Libya, Panama, Serbia, Syria, and Yemen just to...
https://www.sott.net/article/471428-Jeffrey-Sachs-The-wests-false-narrative-about-Russia-and-China

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Is The Virus Real?
I wrote this 18 months ago, but it has held up. The last part talks about how one might start a COVID origin investigation. I continue to be asked if the virus is real. I answered this question in 2 prior blog posts, below. But Off-Guardian has a new article claiming the virus is fake, and I was again asked to comment. https://anthraxvaccine.blogspot.com/2020/10/the-testing-mess-lack-of-reliable-data.html https://anthraxvaccine.blogspot.com/2021/01/is-virus-real-has-it-been-photographed.html Here is a description of its culture and isolation, with additional details in the supplementary materials, for those who continue to clamour for it. https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7228321/
https://www.sott.net/article/471429-Is-The-Virus-Real

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After days of failed attempts, judge finally grants Trump lawyers permission to appear in Mar-a-Lago warrant dispute
A federal judge in Florida has approved the appearances of two out-of-state Donald Trump attorneys in a court skirmish connected to a search warrant executed on Aug. 8 at the ex-president's palatial Mar-a-Lago club and residence. U.S. District Judge Aileen M. Cannon, a Trump appointee to the Southern District of Florida, issued the approval order late Wednesday after several days of wrangling by two Trump attorneys. Those attorneys, James M. Trusty of Washington, D.C. and M. Evan Corcoran of Baltimore, Maryland, sought to appear in Cannon's Florida courtroom for Trump's case only — a process known as pro hac vice admission. As a general rule, lawyers can apply for pro hac admission in connection with a specific proceeding — the phrase means "for this occasion only" — if they're members in good standing of their own local bar, if they agree to work through "local counsel" (someone who is licensed in the forum jurisdiction), and with the permission of the court. However, attorneys...
https://www.sott.net/article/471430-After-days-of-failed-attempts-judge-finally-grants-Trump-lawyers-permission-to-appear-in-Mar-a-Lago-warrant-dispute