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NYT crossword puzzle shaped like a swastika on the 1st day of Hanukkah causes uproar

Alex Hammer
Daily Mail
Mon, 19 Dec 2022 00:23 UTC
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Readers looking to partake in this Sunday's New York Times crossword puzzle have left dumbfounded by its layout - which many noticed bears a resemblance to a Nazi swastika
Donald Trump Jr. was among hundreds of New York Times readers who slammed the newspaper for their crossword puzzle on Sunday - which many noticed bore an uncanny resemblance to a Nazi swastika.

The puzzle's silhouette has caused a stir on social media, with several prominent Jewish leaders and political figures taking to social media to voice their outrage - especially since it was published on the first night of Hanukkah.

Some contend the pattern - which is striking and jumps off the page even at a glance - is a coincidence, while others claimed it serves as one of the latest and most brazen examples of the paper's supposed history of anti-Israel rhetoric.

The Times has yet to comment on the controversial puzzle.

Donald Trump Jr. slammed the puzzle as 'disgusting,' writing Sunday that 'only the New York Times would get Hanukkah going with this is the crossword puzzle.'

Comment: It seems unlikely that this could be due to the New York Times 'siding with the Palestinians', or being particularly critical of Israel, because few if any mainstream American media outlets take that stance, partly because the Israel lobby is so powerful in the US.

What makes this 'coincidence' even stranger is that this isn't the first time it has happened. Back in October 2017 the crossword also just so happened to resemble a swastika - and some users highlighted the one of the words was 'overready' -

to which the NYT Games account responded:
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And the 2022 hardcopy:




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Federal court declares it's fair for biological males to compete in women's sports

Libby Emmons
The Post Millennial
Sun, 18 Dec 2022 08:02 UTC
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Connecticut women high school athletes have been waiting for justice for years, ever since their sporting events and rankings were upended by biological males who entered women's competitions, and then dominated. A federal court ruled that these women will not see justice served.

Selina Soule, Chelsea Mitchell, Alana Smith, and Ashley Nicoletti all competed against biological males in high school athletics in the state of Connecticut, and each one, despite their dominance in the sport when it was restricted to females only, lost to biological males Andraya Yearwood and Terry Miller.


In the case before the 2nd Circuit Court of Appeals, Soule v. Connecticut Association of Schools, the court stated they were "unpersuaded" by the arguments that it is unfair for biological males to compete in women's sports. The case specifically asked for the women to be given the titles they would have earned had the biological males not competed, and the trans-identified athletes be stripped of those titles.
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Germany's gas reserves 'emptying at record speed' due to colder than average weather

P Gosselin
NoTricksZone
Mon, 19 Dec 2022 00:39 UTC
Duitse Vlag
© Anadolu AgencyPermits for new buildings have dropped dramatically since last year
Pleiteticker.de here reports how Germany's natural gas reserves "are emptying at record speed" because wind and solar power have been on the scarce side over the past few weeks. This means gas turbines have had to jump in to pick up the slack in electricity production - not one the German government had hoped as it wrestles with the heightening energy crisis.

"Germany is converting gas into electricity in record quantities," pleiteticker.de reports. "Thanks to high pressure system 'Erika', the current December is colder than it has been for years. [...] In recent days, gas storage facilities have therefore been emptying much faster than before. From December 12 onwards, more than one percent was withdrawn from gas storage facilities in Germany every day."

"Last week, almost one third of all electricity was generated from natural gas. These are record figures," writes pleiteticker.de.
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ANOTHER large-scale fire in Russia, this time at an oil and gas field

Roman Petrenko
Pravda
Sun, 18 Dec 2022 20:22 UTC
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The fire occurred at the oil and gas condensate Markovskoye field in the Russian Irkutsk Oblast; five injuries were reported.

Source: RBC. Meduza

Details: It is reported that the fire with the area of thousands of square metres was localised quickly; there were no victims, and five people were injured.

Propaganda media report that "there was a fire at the technological installation"; people wrote that they heard an explosion on social media.

Comment: TASS reports:
"The fire was localized at 02:24 a.m. local time (09:24 p.m. Moscow time). The jet fire at the buffer drum area has been extinguished. Firefighting operation continues. There is no threat to the local population," it said.

The fire broke out on Sunday during the works at the field's gas treatment unit. According to preliminary data, five people were hurt, Konstantin Vlasov, head of the settlement of Verkhnemarkovo, located 2.5 kilometers of the field, told TASS. He also said that the accident did not tell on the operation of the settlement's vital facilities.

Discovered in 1962, the Merkovskoye oil and gas condensate field is operated by the Irkutsk Oil Company, which obtained the license in 2000.

The Irkutsk Oil Company is one of Russia's largest independent producer of hydrocarbons. It operated in the Irkutsk region, Krasnoyarsk territory, and in the Republic od Sakha (Yakutia). It plans to commission a gas chemical facility in the north of the Irkutsk region in 2024.
Below are just some of the most recent suspect fires and explosions in Russia. We suspect that most of them are due to sabotage and/or remotely-activated cyberattacks.

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Best of the Web: Excess deaths DOUBLED in 2021, NOT from Covid, lockdown partly to blame, WHO research reveals

Carissa Wong
New Scientist
Wed, 14 Dec 2022 12:00 UTC
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© David Cliff/NurPhoto/Getty ImagesFILE PHOTO: An empty street in London during lockdown in March 2020. World Health Organization research suggests that during just the first two years of the pandemic, 14.83 million more deaths occurred worldwide than would otherwise have been expected .
Nearly 15 million excess deaths from any cause may have occurred during 2020 and 2021, nearly three times the 5.42 million covid-19 fatalities that were reported over the same two-year period.


Comment: And even those labeled Covid may be deaths 'with' Covid, when actually the person died due to multiple comorbidities or old age.


William Msemburi at the World Health Organization in Geneva, Switzerland, and his colleagues estimated the number of deaths that would have occurred globally from January 2020 to December 2021 if the pandemic hadn't taken place.

For some countries, the team used mortality data from 2015 to 2019 to calculate the number of expected deaths per year, which they compared with the number of reported deaths from any cause over two years of the pandemic.

Comment: Deaths from the experimental Covid jabs will account for possibly a quarter - 2.5 million - of those excess deaths, if not significantly more. And counting.

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Huge fire at industrial estate in Russian city of Vladivostok

Chris King
Euro Weekly News
Sat, 17 Dec 2022 19:00 UTC
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© Twitter@NOELreportsScreenshot of the fire in Vladivostok.
A huge fire broke out in a confectionery warehouse on an industrial estate in the Russian city of Vladivostok.

A huge fire has been blazing for some hours this evening, Saturday, December 17, in a warehouse located on an industrial estate in the Russian city of Vladivostok. According to local online reports, the facility manufactures confectionery goods.

Around 1,100m² of the 'Yashinko' building has been destroyed according to reports, and the roof has allegedly collapsed as well. There has been no confirmation as to the cause of the huge blaze.

Comment: Below are just some of the most recent suspect fires and explosions in Russia. We suspect that most of them are due to sabotage and/or remotely-activated cyberattacks.

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Internal email reveals top Maricopa election offices couldn't reconcile 15k disparity in outstanding votes

Natalia Mittelstadt
Just the News
Fri, 16 Dec 2022 19:31 UTC
hobbs lake arizona
"Unable to currently reconcile [Secretary of State] listing with our estimates from yesterday," Maricopa County Recorder Stephen Richer wrote in a Nov. 10 email.

Recently disclosed internal communications between top election officials in Arizona's Maricopa County in the immediate aftermath of Election Day reveal that they struggled to reconcile a discrepancy of almost 16,000 in outstanding ballot totals.

The governor's race in Arizona was decided by a margin of just over 17,000 votes.

Maricopa County was plagued by numerous issues with ballot machines at many of its vote centers on Election Day, resulting in delays and long lines.

Prior to a Maricopa County press conference with Board of Supervisors Chair Bill Gates and Recorder Stephen Richer on Nov. 10, Richer sent an email to Elections Director Scott Jarrett, Gates and others about a significant discrepancy between the county's estimated remaining ballot totals and the number reported by the secretary of state's office.

Arizona Secretary of State Katie Hobbs was also the Democratic nominee for governor in the Nov. 8 election.

Comment: Twitter gets the last word:



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Eco-hypocrite: Google tries to hide gobbling up nearly 300 MILLION gallons of city's water amid droughts


Truth Press
Sun, 18 Dec 2022 19:17 UTC
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© AP File Photo/Andrew SelskyGoogle's data center in The Dalles, Oregon on Oct. 5, 2021.
Google says it seeks to "foster sustainability at scale" and to reduce the "environmental impact" of its operations. The tech giant also claims to provide "critical information ... in moments of crisis."

When the residents of The Dalles, Oregon, attempted to figure out precisely how much of their water was being used by the local Google data center amid a drought affecting over 540,000 residents in the state, the city sued on the company's behalf to keep the amount a secret.

That lawsuit was dropped this week and with it the veil hiding the full extent of Google's water consumption.

Google released its annual water metrics for 2021, revealing that it had consumed 274.5 million gallons of water last year. It withdrew 358.3 million gallons and only discharged 83.8 million gallons.

According to John Devoe, the executive director of WaterWatch, that's enough water to cover the city's seven square miles in water 3 inches deep.
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Australian actuaries raise alarm: Citizens are "unexpectedly" dying at an exaggerated rate

Rhoda Wilson
The Exposé
Fri, 16 Dec 2022 18:46 UTC
hospital corridor gurney
The Australian government should be urgently investigating the "incredibly high" 13% excess death rate in 2022, the country's peak actuarial body says.

An extra 15,400 people died in the first eight months of the year, according to a new analysis of Australian Bureau of Statistics ("ABS") data by the Actuaries Institute, with around one-third of those having no link to Covid.

Karen Cutter, an actuary of more than 25 years and spokeswoman for the institute's Covid-19 Mortality Working Group, said 13% was an "incredibly high number for mortality" and that it was "not clear" what was driving the increase. "Mortality doesn't normally vary by more than 1% to 2%, so 13% is way higher than normal levels," she said.

Comment: The elephant in the room can be hidden with statistical chicanery for only so long. The real numbers will out, as seen by those who are on the front lines, such as insurance companies and funeral homes. But will anyone ever be held responsible?

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Not just Baker: Twitter's top ranks were positively infested with ex-FBI employees

Jon Levine
New York Post
Sat, 17 Dec 2022 18:23 UTC
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© The Conservative TreehouseJames Baker, FBI's former general counsel who later worked in the same role for Twitter. (L) Elon Musk (R)
Twitter's top ranks were riddled with ex-FBI agents and executives, stitching the company even closer to the federal agency now under fire for leaning on Twitter to meddle in the 2020 elections.

More than a dozen former feds flocked to the company in the months and years prior to Elon Musk's purchase of the social network in October.

The Post found FBI influence was considerably more significant than just James Baker, the FBI's former general counsel who later worked in the same role for Twitter. He was recently fired by Musk for interfering in the billionaire's efforts to come clean about past transgressions at the company.

The news comes on the heels of the latest Twitter Files disclosures which show how the agency dedicated dozens of agents to pressuring the company to remove political tweets it found objectionable.

In some cases, the former G-men and -women held positions that would have put them close to company leadership directly involved in censoring The Post's Hunter Biden coverage in October 2020.
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