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Americans are increasingly wary of US efforts to harm Russia causing economic damage in America

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© Money/Getty Images/KJNRussian Sanctions...US Inflation
On March 8, President Joe Biden declared, in a speech announcing a ban on imports of Russian oil and gas, that these and other actions taken by the United States government "to inflict further pain on [Russia President Vladimir Putin]" would "cost us as well, in the United States."
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Since then, the US government's economic sanctions on Russia — as well as spending, military training, intelligence sharing, and weapons transfers to attack the Russian military — have increased as the economic conditions in America have declined. Some of that economic decline is a result of the actions against Russia, as Biden suggested would be the case. Other parts of the decline have other causes.
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New poling results from The Associated Press-NORC Center for Public Affairs Research indicate that Americans are increasingly wary of incurring economic costs in America due to efforts to inflict pain on Putin or, as the poll puts it, "sanctioning Russia." In fact, despite the nonstop hate Russia propaganda in the big money media, the polling indicates the majority of Americans are now opposed to harming the American economy to advance the anti-Russia crusade that Biden and most US Congress members have been pushing.

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Amends: Southern Baptist Convention releases secret list of accused sex abusers

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© Van Payne/UPISouthern Baptist Convention leaders said they released a list naming hundreds of alleged abusers within its church on May 26, 2022, as an important step to implementing reform.
Leaders of the Southern Baptist Convention on Thursday night released a list naming hundreds of ministers and church employees who have been accused of sexual abuse over the last 20 years.

The release of the 205-page list comes after the church's executive committee earlier this week vowed to make it public in response to the results of a third-party investigation that found Southern Baptist Convention leaders had suppressed reports of child molestation and other forms of sexual abuse.

"This list is being made public for the first time as an initial, but important step towards addressing the scourge of sexual abuse and implementing reform in the convention," Willie McLaurin, interim president and CEO of the church's executive committee, and Rolland Slade, the executive committee's chairman, said in a joint statement. "Each entry in this list reminds us of the devastation and destruction brought about by sexual abuse."

Comment: Looks like the SBC is finally addressing the plank in its own eye. About time.


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Instagram suspends Libs of Tik Tok for 'community guidelines' violation

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The infamous social media account Libs of Tik Tok was suspended from Instagram on Thursday without reason other than that the account "violated community standards."

Libs of Tik Tok, an account that culls the internet for evidence of the most insane aspects of the raging culture war in the United States, broke the news of the suspension on Twitter.

"Breaking: @instragram just suspended our account," Libs of Tik Tok said Thursday evening.

Comment: The agenda-pushers really don't like Libs of Tik Tok. The account exposes how insane the leftist ideology really is (and how insane its adherents are). Wide-scale adoption of this insane ideology is certainly being hindered by this exposure.

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81-year-old granny 'Angel' and the kids of Mariupol

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When it is said that for eight years Ukraine has completely gone mad and there is no one to save, this is, to put it mildly, not just untrue, but the most monstrous lie.

Because the stunning meeting that took place in Mariupol, this long-suffering city, shocked everyone present to the core.

On May 21 of this year, during the regular visit to Mariupol of Eleonora Fedorenko, Adviser to the Head of the Donetsk People's Republic on children's rights, accompanied by representatives of the All-Russian Non-Profit Organisation of Veterans of Local Wars and Military Conflicts "Fighting Brotherhood" and volunteer Yury Gagarin, better known in the DPR under the call sign "Angel", a truly amazing story happened.

Even the veteran 52-year-old businessman from Chelyabinsk, who made saving the children of Donbass the goal and meaning of his life and brought 367 children of our long-suffering region to Russia (for which "Angel" was awarded the Order of Courage by the Republic's leadership), could not contain his feelings.

When the next visit to the war-torn seaside town was coming to an end, the audience suddenly noticed an old grandmother walking with a shopping cart along one of the streets of the Levoberezhniy district of Mariupol.

When asked if she needed help, the woman replied no — because she provides help herself!

"We met her quite by accident - she was walking with a small cart of groceries, confidently walking barefoot along the road broken after the shelling. So our acquaintance began," say shocked eyewitnesses.

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Protest erupts in Greece over planned campus police force

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© AP Photo/Giannis PapanikosA protester runs during a protest at the University of Thessaloniki in northern Greece, Thursday, May 26, 2022. Earlier Thursday, the protesters faced off with police inside the city's main university campus, where unrest has been bubbling for weeks over a left-wing squat that was closed down.
Riot police in this northern Greek city fired tear gas to disperse crowds attacking them with gasoline bombs and stones late Thursday during a protest against government plans to introduce policing on university campuses.

About 5,000 members of left-wing and anarchist groups took part in the march through the center of Thessaloniki, with some smashing shop windows and setting rubbish bins on fire. At least eight people were detained. No injuries were reported.

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

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© Majdi Fathi/NurPhoto via Getty ImagesA Palestinian artist paints a mural in Gaza City honoring Shireen Abu Akleh, and depicting Shatha Hanaysha crouching beside her after she was killed.
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.

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Massive job losses feared in Austria without Russian gas

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The suspension of Russian gas supplies would be "a serious blow" to the welfare of the Austrian people as it threatens some 300,000 jobs, Kronen Zeitung newspaper reported citing the Federation of Austrian Industries.

According to the president of the federation, Georg Knill, almost the entire food industry depends on the supply of the "blue fuel." Steel production also requires huge capacities, he said, noting that other industries will also be seriously affected.

The Austrian government does not have a plan in the event of a cessation of gas supplies from Russia, Knill said as cited by the newspaper. The Cabinet reportedly proceeds from the point that "it should not be cold in any apartment."

Knill said that authorities could first cut off gas to the country's enterprises, which is a major concern for the nation's business owners.

He stressed that he sees the danger not so much in the fact that Russia could "turn off the taps," but in the decision of the European Union to stop importing Russian gas. The bloc earlier pledged to abandon fossil fuels by 2040-2050.

Meanwhile, Austrian energy giant OMV is preparing to open ruble accounts at Russia's Gazprombank to pay for gas supplies, according to media reports. The company said that its next payment is due this month.

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Twitter jumps after Musk increases commitment in takeover bid to $33.5 billion, in talks for other funding

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A new filing reveals that Elon Musk plans to front $33.5 billion in his bid to take over Twitter.

Musk is in talks with Twitter founder and former CEO Jack Dorsey and others to help finance, or roll their shares over, to complete the deal. In a letter to investors backing the holding company that Musk is forming to take Twitter private, the Tesla and SpaceX CEO expressed his commitment to completing the deal.

Shares of Twitter rose more than 5% after hours on the news, while Tesla shares dipped about 1%.

As CNBC's David Faber previously reported, Elon Musk is expected to serve as a temporary CEO of Twitter for a few months after he completes the $44 billion acquisition.


Comment: Jack Dorsey exits stage left:
Twitter cofounder Jack Dorsey has exited the social media company's board of directors.

The planned departure comes as Tesla and SpaceX founder and CEO Elon Musk continues his attempt to purchase the company. The company initially announced last November that Dorsey would leave the board when his term expired at the company's 2022 shareholder meeting, which took place Wednesday.

Dorsey's departure means that all of the company's founders have discontinued official ties with the company. Dorsey is currently the CEO of payments company Block, previously known as Square.

Last month, Dorsey appeared to personally endorse the move of selling Twitter to Musk for $44 billion, indicating that Musk would be the right person to take the company in a sensible direction.

Elon's goal of creating a platform that is 'maximally trusted and broadly inclusive' is the right one," wrote Dorsey in April.



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Mass shootings: The vicious cycle fueled by America's toxic cult of violence

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"Mass shootings have become routine in the United States and speak to a society that relies on violence to feed the coffers of the merchants of death. Given the profits made by arms manufacturers, the defense industry, gun dealers and the lobbyists who represent them in Congress, it comes as no surprise that the culture of violence cannot be abstracted from either the culture of business or the corruption of politics."
— Professor Henry A. Giroux
We are caught in a vicious cycle.

With alarming regularity, the nation is being subjected to a heartbreaking spate of violence that terrorizes the populace, fractures communities, and gives the government greater justifications to crack down, lock down, and institute even more authoritarian policies for the so-called sake of national security without many objections from the citizenry.

Mass shootings have taken place in schools, on college campuses, movie theaters, nightclubs, grocery stores, concert venues, bars, workplaces, churches, on military bases, and in government offices. In almost every instance, the shooters were dressed in military-style gear and armed with military-style weapons.

Comment: The barrel of the collective's loaded gun is aimed at the Second Amendment. Mongering fear is the means to 'an end'.


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Police charge big pharma boss with falsifying his Covid vaccination status

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Jose Maria Fernandez Sousa-Faro, president of European pharmaceuticals giant PharmaMar, has been charged by police with being falsely vaccinated against Covid-19. Dr. Sousa-Faro has been caught up in a scandal in Europe involving people being added to the National Immunization Registry in exchange for large sums of money, with many of them familiar faces and household names.

Police allege that Sousa-Faro arranged to be injected with a saline solution instead of a Covid-19 vaccination and paid thousands of dollars to have his name added to Spain's immunization register, as confirmed by police sources and reported by El Periodico de Espana.

Dr. Sousa-Faro is among more than 2,200 celebrities and European elites on the list drawn up by National Police of those falsely vaccinated against Covid.

According to El Mundo, Spanish police carried out the investigation called Operation Jenner which uncovered the vast network of celebrities and elites who have paid money to have their names fraudulently entered on the National Immunization Register, despite refusing to be vaccinated.

Comment: Gaming the fake system with fake money gets you a 'buck'shot in the arm.