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Companies weren't forced to pull out of Russia says White House


RT
Tue, 22 Mar 2022 08:48 UTC
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© Getty Images/E4C
Scores of Western businesses have cut ties with Russia amid its conflict with Ukraine.

White House Press Secretary Jen Psaki insisted on Monday that the US government had no part in the decision of a large number of Western companies to pull out of the Russian market amid Russia's conflict with Ukraine.

Upon being asked by a reporter whether Western companies still operating in Russia "should stay," Psaki claimed:
"The US government had not asked any company specifically to take steps to pull out. We have applauded those who have made that decision, and they are going to have to make decisions of their own regard."
Many American companies have withdrawn from the Russian market amid the conflict with Ukraine. While certain major brands, such as Coca-Cola, Pepsi, and McDonald's, were initially not among the departing companies, they too have since left.

Comment: Companies running from a lucrative market to a failing one is financial suicide.

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Scared of the woke mob: Biden's Supreme Court nominee refuses to define the term 'woman'


The Post Millenial
Wed, 23 Mar 2022 19:42 UTC
Ketanji Brown Jackson
Senator Marsha Blackburn asked Judge Ketanji Brown Jackson about the definition for the word "woman" on Tuesday night as day two of the Biden's SCOTUS nominee's confirmation hearings drew to a close.

Jackson would not define the word.

"Can you provide a definition for the word 'woman'?" Blackburn asked simply. "Can I provide a definition?" Jackson responded. "No, I can't."

"You can't?" Blackburn asked. (Both the Senator and the judge are, in fact, women.) "Not in this context," Jackson said. "I'm not a biologist."
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Biden's approval rating drops to an all-time low of 40% in poll

Jeff Mordock
Washington Examiner
Wed, 23 Mar 2022 19:39 UTC
Biden
President Biden's approval rating dropped to an all-time low of 40%, according to a Reuters/Ipsos poll released Wednesday.

The poll raises concerns among Democrats ahead of November's midterm elections. Democrats are looking to cling to their razor-thin majorities in the House and the Senate, but a string of poor approval polls for Mr. Biden signal trouble for their plans.

The poll found that 54% of Americans disapprove of Mr. Biden's job performance as the country grapples with record-high inflation and Russia's invasion of Ukraine.

Mr. Biden's approval rating is down roughly 3 percentage points from the prior survey. Respondents said their top concern is the economy, followed by the Ukraine war and foreign conflicts.
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Russia boosts gas flows to Europe through Ukraine


RT
Wed, 23 Mar 2022 19:32 UTC
natural gas pipe
© Getty Images / Bet_Noire
Russia is shipping more natural gas through Ukraine than before the start of its military operation in the country, and paying Kiev for transit in full and in hard currency, Yury Vitrenko, the CEO of Ukraine's largest state-owned oil and gas company, Naftogaz, told Bloomberg TV on Tuesday.

Ukraine will continue shipping Russian gas through its pipelines to Europe "as long as it's technically possible," Vitrenko said, adding that the Russian forces were taking care not to damage the transit infrastructure.

The Ukrainian gas pipeline network is one of the routes that Russian energy giant Gazprom uses to deliver natural gas to its European customers, who at the moment receive 40% of the gas they need from Russia. Under the contract for 2020-24, Gazprom ships 40 billion cubic meters of natural gas a year through the Ukrainian transit infrastructure. Last year, the transit amounted to 41.66 billion cubic meters. According to earlier reports, Gazprom pays Ukraine roughly $2 billion per year for its transit services.
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Joe Rogan calls out U-turn on lamestream media's Ukraine coverage


RT
Wed, 23 Mar 2022 18:45 UTC
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© J. Scott Applewhite / Pool / Getty ImagesUkrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy speaks to the US Congress.
The nation was perceived as the "most corrupt country in Europe" before Russia's attack, the podcaster noted

Maverick podcaster Joe Rogan has called out journalists in the US who are treating Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky as a war hero since the Russian attack on the country. Previously, Ukraine was perceived in the West as a corrupt hellhole and its leader as a would-be authoritarian, so the U-turn is "confusing," Rogan said on his show on Saturday.

"This is one of the things that is so weird is that they were very disparaging of Ukraine. They were talking about [the] massive corruption of Ukraine and how horrible it was over there. And now all of a sudden they are looking at it like they're heroes," he observed.
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What happens to animals on the vast outback cattle stations in Australia has never before been exposed. Until now...


Animals Australia Org
Tue, 08 Mar 2022 18:44 UTC
Cattle Business
© SentientEmployees confirmed that leaving animals to die was an accepted part of the cattle business.
Israeli-based investigation agency, Sentient, set out to discover how Australian cattle were being treated prior to being exported live to Israel. Their disturbing findings — captured across four outback stations — has aired on prime-time television in Israel and sparked renewed calls to shut down the live trade to the country.

Investigators witnessed cattle being dehorned and castrated without pain relief; sick, injured and young animals being left to die or being euthanised incorrectly; animals being kicked and punched; and costs and convenience routinely put ahead of the welfare of animals.
The only thing more shocking than the systemic abuse exposed through this investigation, is that much of it is entirely legal.
Dehorning is one of the most traumatic experiences cattle are forced to endure. Yet, there are no laws in Australia requiring them to receive pain relief. The practice is excruciating — and is just one of the many painful mutilations Australian cattle are routinely subjected to.

The investigation also revealed that workers and backpackers on these stations felt they had no choice but to accept inflicting suffering on animals; especially when some of these cruel practices were legal or accepted by the industry.
Animal Torture
© SentientThe absence of regulatory oversight on isolated properties leaves animals exposed to abuse and suffering.
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Ukraine blocks trans women refugees, saying "they are men and must go back & fight"

Tyler Durden
ZeroHedge
Wed, 23 Mar 2022 18:36 UTC
trans women ukraine
© Alessio Mamo/The GuardianTrans women in Kiev, Ukraine
The Ukrainian government is refusing to allow transgender women to leave the country along with the millions of women and children refugees who have been streaming into Poland and other European nations. Instead, Ukrainian border guards are turning them back and forcing them to return home to join the fight.

Their reasoning might sour some trans activists in the West: Ukraine's martial law requires all biological males between the ages of 18 and 60 to remain in the country and fight. And it makes no exceptions for trans women.

Even trans women who have been widely accepted by their communities as woman still carry passports identifying them as males, which is what border guards see when they try to cross the border. In many cases, trans women who have tried to flee have been turned back, according to the Italian newspaper La Corriere della Sera, Italy's largest-circulation newspaper.
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Expert weighs in on what brought down China Eastern flight MU5735

Vanessa Brown
news.com.au
Tue, 22 Mar 2022 16:49 UTC
china eastern airlines flight path
In two minutes, China Eastern flight MU5735 plunged 20,000ft. A nosedive that resulted in the death of 132 people. Now, one expert has a chilling theory.

In the hours following China Eastern's horrific passenger jet crash, which has left 132 people dead, the airline abruptly moved to ground all of its Boeing 737-800s in a dramatic response.

Horrifying CCTV footage emerged on social media within hours of the deadly crash, reportedly showing the flight MU5735 nosediving vertically from 30,000 feet towards the ground.

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Best of the Web: Adapt 2030 Ice Age Report: Massive panic returns summer 2022 (Few are ready)


Adapt 2030
Tue, 22 Mar 2022 11:28 UTC
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Commodities, grains, fertilizer, herbicide, seeds and diesel fuel all the least available since 1945, it all dovetails into global shortages of food and rationing inbound late summer 2022.

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Bad Guys

An Army vet's realization in Ukraine: 'So horrible or heartbreaking that you can't continue'

Jeff Schogol
Task and Purpose
Tue, 22 Mar 2022 08:32 UTC
army veteran Hieu Le
© Facebook photoHieu Le, an Army veteran who deployed to Afghanistan in 2012, came to Ukraine as a volunteer but decided to leave nearly two weeks later.
'Physically I feel fine, but I also feel like I have these invisible wounds on my soul.'

After spending 13 hours hiking into enemy territory and back to retrieve the body of a Georgian soldier who had been killed near Irpin, Ukraine, U.S. Army veteran Hieu Le knew that his war was over.

Not long after recovering the fallen soldier, Le resigned from Ukraine's legion of international volunteers. "My team was very supportive since they saw how deeply affected I was by recovering his body," he told Task & Purpose. "Physically I feel fine, but I also feel like I have these invisible wounds on my soul."

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