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Best of the Web: Johnny Depp wins $15M defamation claim; Amber Heard partial $2M win in counterclaim

Joel B. Pollak
Breitbart
Wed, 01 Jun 2022 00:00 UTC

The jury in a Fairfax County, Virginia, courthouse decided Wednesday that Johnny Depp and Amber Heard each wronged the other, though Depp was the more aggrieved party, in a defamation suit and counter-suit that captivated the country.

Depp sued Heard, his former wife, for a 2018 op-ed in the Washington Post that claimed she was a victim of domestic abuse. She did not name Depp directly, but it was clear from the context that she was accusing Depp of having abused her.

Depp sued Heard for $50 million. Heard filed a counterclaim for $100 million, complaining about statements his lawyers had made about her in answering her claims.

Comment: Raging narcissist:

Best of the Web: One of the largest egg factories in US torched in the middle of the night amid outbreak of fires in food processing facilities across the nation

Alicia Powe
Gateway Pundit
Mon, 30 May 2022 03:22 UTC

A barn that housed tens of thousands of chickens on Forsman Farm in Howard Lake, Minnesota, one of the nation's largest egg producers, was set aflame late Saturday night.

According to Forsman Farms, which provides more than three million eggs to the largest retailers in the country, the cause of the fire remains a mystery as investigators evaluate the scene to determine how the barn was set ablaze.

Forsman Farms told Minnesota's local CBS affiliate:

"Overnight, a fire destroyed one of our barns at our Howard Lake farm. No one was injured and we are grateful that first responders were quickly on the scene to put out the fire. Unfortunately, chickens were lost because of the fire. We are evaluating the extent of the damage - which appears to be confined to a single structure - as well as investigating the cause of the fire."

Law enforcement officials estimate at least 200,000 chickens were killed in the massive flame.

Comment: Accidental? Inconclusive? What about 'deliberate sabotage' suggests this?

Best of the Web: Massive storm dumps 3 FEET of snow at the end of May in northwest Wyoming - dozens of travelers rescued

Wendy Corr
Cowboy State Daily
Mon, 30 May 2022 17:09 UTC

A major spring snow storm dumped more than 3 feet of snow on northwest Wyoming over the Memorial Day weekend, stranding dozens of travelers on the Chief Joseph Highway.

Dozens of people caught in the storm that closed Wyoming Highway 296, which connects Cody to Cooke City, Montana, and the Beartooth Highway, had to be rescued by Department of Transportation personnel, according to Cody Beers, a department public relations specialist.

"There were vehicles blocked there last night and spun out on the road," Beers told Cowboy State Daily midday Monday. "There's at least two feet of snow up on (Dead Indian Pass) and there was a pretty good line of cars, 10 to 12 cars backed up."

To make matters worse, Beers said a pickup with a camper in the back had spun out, blocking the road for oncoming traffic.

Best of the Web: Zelensky feeling the heat as Ukraine's unity crumbles amid serious military losses in the Donbass

Vladislav Ugolniy
RT
Mon, 30 May 2022 19:28 UTC

© Sputnik/Russian Defence MinistryUkrainian soldiers of the Azov battalion who have surrendered at the Azovstal steel plant walk on a road in the Russia-controlled port city of Mariupol, Donetsk People's Republic.

The recent advances of the Russian army have taken their toll on society and are a major setback for the leadership's motivational efforts

Ukrainians appear to be losing unity amid military defeats in the Donbass and the economic crisis in the rest of the country. The surge of patriotism that arose when the Russian army was close to Kiev appears now, in the last days of May, to have been exhausted. Along with it, the national consensus that saw all political groups rallying behind the Ukrainian army, rather than struggling against President Volodomyr Zelensky seems to have disappeared.

Now, the Western-backed leader looks to be in big trouble.

The withdrawal of Russian troops from areas around Kiev, Chernigov, and Sumy, completed by April 3, was seen as a significant victory for the Ukrainian authorities. The removal of the threat from the capital made it possible to return diplomatic institutions, organize the visits of foreign delegations to the sites of past battles, and convince NATO countries that Ukraine would be able to withstand the war against Russia if it received more serious weapons.

Best of the Web: Ukraine conflict 'at whim of govt': Former politicians of New Zealand speak out against West's proxy war against Russia

Michael Hall
New Zealand Herald
Tue, 31 May 2022 22:58 UTC

FILE PHOTO: Former Labour Party General Secretary Mike Smith.

A former senior Labour Party member says New Zealand has effectively gone to war without consulting the public by joining Nato's efforts to defeat Russia's military objectives in Ukraine.

Mike Smith, who served as general-secretary of the party from 2001-2009, told RNZ the government was helping to put back a negotiated peace settlement indefinitely by sending Defence Force personnel and resources to Europe as confrontation between Russia and the Western military alliance continues to escalate.

Russia invaded Ukraine on February 24 (local time) claiming its "special military operation" would remove anti-Russian neo-Nazi elements entrenched in Kyiv's institutions of state and protect Russian-speaking populations in the breakaway republics of Donetsk and Luhansk after eight years of civil war. It wants a security guarantee its neighbour won't join Nato, which it views as a hostile threat to its borders.

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Best of the Web: 'DNA repair genes' may explain mystery of why many lifelong smokers never get lung cancer

Svetlana Ekimenko
Sputnik
Fri, 27 May 2022 16:22 UTC

Smoke em if you got em

Tobacco products cause up to 90 percent of lung cancer deaths in the United States, according to the Centres for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC). The US national public health agency also warns in its guidance that people who smoke cigarettes are 15 to 30 times more likely to die from lung cancer than people who do not smoke.

Comment: Emphasis on according to the CDC...

Furthermore, the findings could help explain why some people who never smoke at all nevertheless develop tumours. Scientists have long been puzzled why not all lifelong smokers succumb to the disease.

Comment: Specifically, 90% of them don't.

Genetics appear to have a key role to play in this, according to a new study published in Nature Genetics.

In the US, cigarette smoking is the number one risk factor for lung cancer, linked to about 90 percent of the lung cancer deaths. The toxic mix of more than 7,000 chemicals in tobacco smoke is such, according to the Centres for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), that even smoking a few cigarettes a day or smoking occasionally increases the risk of lung cancer.

Comment: There's no way they're ever putting this genie back in the bottle. Smokers were massively 'underrepresented' among Covid victims. In fact, smoking proved to be the single greatest medical prophylactic against Covid - by a mile.

Best of the Web: Ex-president warns Ukraine risks merger with Poland through defeat by Russia

RT
Fri, 27 May 2022 15:39 UTC

Former Ukraine President Viktor Yanukovych

The country is facing a "complete destruction" of its sovereignty amid the conflict with Russia, Viktor Yanukovych warned

Ukraine is facing a complete loss of its sovereignty and, potentially, a merger with Poland, former President Viktor Yanukovych has warned. The ex-president, who was ousted in the 2014 Maidan coup, released an extensive address on Friday in which he shared his thoughts about the roots of the ongoing turmoil and the potential fate of the country.

The current role of Ukraine as an instrument against Russia was outlined by the collective West long before the conflict between Moscow and Kiev broke out in late February, the ex-president believes.

Comment: Poland has been craving to regain the western portion of Ukraine (Galacia) for decades. Now it appears to be within their grasp.

Best of the Web: Russian secretary of the Security council of Russia, Nikolai Patrushev: "The truth is at our side"

Gleb Ivanov
aif.ru
Wed, 25 May 2022 05:35 UTC

Comment: The special operation in Ukraine brought to a climax the confrontation between Russia and Western countries led by the United States. Battles are taking place not only in the vast expanses of Ukraine, but also in the economic, political, and cultural planes.

Secretary of the Russian Security Council Nikolai Patrushev told AIF what threats Russia faces and how much longer the special operation can continue.

Nikolai Patrushev is a Russian politician, security officer and intelligence officer who has served as the secretary of the Security Council of Russia since 2008. He previously served as the director of the Federal Security Service (FSB) from 1999 to 2008.

What is the West trying to achieve?

Gleb Ivanov, АиФ.ru — Nikolai Platonovich, the United States and other Western states openly demonize Russia, turn to direct insults. What is the reason for this?

Nikolai Patrushev: The style of the Anglo-Saxons has not changed over the centuries. So today they continue to dictate their terms to the world, rudely trampling on the sovereign rights of states. Covering their actions with words about the struggle for human rights, freedom and democracy, they actually implement the doctrine of the "golden billion", suggesting that a limited number of people can thrive in this world. The lot of the rest, as they believe, is to bend their backs in the name of their goal.

Best of the Web: The story of how the CIA conducted secret LSD experiments on unwitting US citizens

Anastasia Safronova
RT
Tue, 24 May 2022 16:37 UTC

After World War II, the possibility of gaining control over a person's mind became one of the top pursuits for intelligence services. Amid never-ending spy games, the capacity to make someone tell the full truth during an interrogation, or to wipe out a subject's personality and impose another - perhaps, a controlled one - became quite attractive to secret services.

In 1979, former US State Department officer John Marks published a book called 'The Search for the 'Manchurian Candidate'', which focused on the CIA's mind-control experiments and is based on agency documents released under the Freedom of Information Act.

The term 'Manchurian Candidate' emerged from a title of a novel by Richard Condon, first published in 1959, which tells the story of a US soldier brainwashed and turned into an assassin by the Communists. Back then, the fear that America's rivals might use such techniques was not only a fictional fantasy, but a matter of very serious concern.

Best of the Web: CNN investigation finds Israeli forces deliberately murdered star Al Jazeera journalist Shireen Abu Akleh

Zeena Saifi, Eliza Mackintosh, Celine Alkhaldi, Kareem Khadder, Katie Polglase, Gianluca Mezzofiore and Abeer Salman
CNN
Wed, 25 May 2022 21:44 UTC

Several shots ring out in quick succession, cutting through a clear, blue spring morning in Jenin, in the West Bank. Crack, crack, crack, crack, crack, crack, crack.

The cameraman filming the scene scrambles backwards to take cover behind a low concrete wall. Then a man cries out in Arabic: "Injured! Shireen, Shireen, oh man, Shireen! Ambulance!"

When the camera operator pans around the corner, Al Jazeera journalist Shireen Abu Akleh can be seen lying motionless, face down on the ground as another Palestinian reporter, Shatha Hanaysha, crouches down beside her, using a tree trunk for cover. Hanaysha reaches out and tries to rouse her as gunshots continue. There's no response. Both women are wearing helmets and blue protective vests marked "Press."

In the moments that follow, a man in a white T-shirt makes several attempts to move Abu Akleh, but is forced back repeatedly by gunfire. Finally, after a few long minutes, he manages to drag her body from the street.

On Monday, Israel also reignited a brutal campaign of collective punishment on Gaza by closing all entry points for humanitarian aid in response...

Psstoffgoy

"Highly sophisticated" does not mean effective. As the 12-day-war last year showed, when Israel, the US and other Nato vassals shot at incoming...

codis

Same old shit. Go ahead, have a bullshit inquiry. Nothing will change. As far as those people (who survived) giving evidence, how about admitting...

Spur2

I fear Kushner, Trump and Co. might be messing with the wrong people here. Albanians kept up their blood feud tradition until quite recently, and...

codis

OTOH Mussolini and Ceaușescu seemed untouchable and above the law, as long as they were in control.

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Best of the Web:

Best of the Web: Johnny Depp wins $15M defamation claim; Amber Heard partial $2M win in counterclaim

Best of the Web: One of the largest egg factories in US torched in the middle of the night amid outbreak of fires in food processing facilities across the nation

Best of the Web: Massive storm dumps 3 FEET of snow at the end of May in northwest Wyoming - dozens of travelers rescued

Best of the Web: Zelensky feeling the heat as Ukraine's unity crumbles amid serious military losses in the Donbass

Best of the Web: Ukraine conflict 'at whim of govt': Former politicians of New Zealand speak out against West's proxy war against Russia

Best of the Web: 'DNA repair genes' may explain mystery of why many lifelong smokers never get lung cancer

Best of the Web: Ex-president warns Ukraine risks merger with Poland through defeat by Russia

Best of the Web: Russian secretary of the Security council of Russia, Nikolai Patrushev: "The truth is at our side"

Best of the Web: The story of how the CIA conducted secret LSD experiments on unwitting US citizens

Best of the Web: CNN investigation finds Israeli forces deliberately murdered star Al Jazeera journalist Shireen Abu Akleh

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