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Russian stocks on the rebound after markets reopen


RT
Thu, 24 Mar 2022 17:26 UTC
moscow stock exchange
© The Telegraph
Trading was suspended since February 28

Russia's stocks continued to rise sharply on Thursday as the Moscow Exchange reopened for limited trading this week, after suspending most of its transactions on February 28.

The ruble-based MOEX benchmark went up more than 11% to 2,743 points. The dollar-denominated RTS index of leading Russian stocks was down slightly, to 888.59 points.

The Moscow Exchange resumed trading in 33 Russian equities, including shares of Gazprom, Sberbank, Aeroflot, and other domestic firms. Oil majors Rosneft and Lukoil were both up by 20% and 16%, respectively. Aluminum company Rusal rose more than 14%, while Norilsk Nickel jumped more than 22%.

Short-selling on stocks will be banned, the central bank announced earlier. Foreign investors will not be able to sell stocks or OFZ ruble bonds until April 1.

The MOEX nosedived on February 24, when Russia launched a military operation in Ukraine. On February 28, trading was suspended until further notice as Western sanctions targeting Russia's financial system threw stock markets into turmoil.

Comment: Putin has handily reminded the world that true wealth lies in tangible resources such as oil and gas with Russia's insistence that unfriendly countries will have to pay for their commodities in rubles. It's likely the same demand will be made for other products such as fertilizer. The death of the petrodollar has arrived.

Putin flips sanctions, demands rubles for Russian gas from 'hostile' countries, says credibility of dollar and euro is 'destroyed'

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Attention

Spain hit by yet another mass protest over rising prices


France 24
Sun, 20 Mar 2022 17:14 UTC
Spain protest
© Pierre-Philippe MARCOU AFPTens of thousands of farmers and others from the countryside warned the Spanish government their lifestyles are in danger
As many as 150,000 farmers, ranchers and hunters marched Sunday through Madrid to protest the Spanish centre-left government's failure to tackle soaring prices exacerbated by Russia's invasion of Ukraine.

The mass demonstration came a day after thousands of demonstrators, called by the far-right Vox party, protested against rising food, energy and fuel prices.

Hoisting Spanish flags and blowing whistles, demonstrators walked Sunday through the central avenues of the capital, often led by tractors blaring their horns.

Slogans stamped on protest banners read "Costs continue to rise," or "We are ranchers on the way to extinction" and "S.O.S rural world."
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Eggs Fried

Adapt 2030 Ice Age Report: (June 2022) Pulling the plug on civilization


Adapt 2030
Wed, 23 Mar 2022 11:39 UTC
food
The awareness of the world not having the usual supply of food available for the global population will tear the threads of civilization. Through the past a 4X increase is common as events line up for energy disruptions, grain export stoppages, weather extremes and supply chains barely if it all functional. When the awareness reaches main street and mama bear, our world will shift, here is a timeline.

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Twitter now suspends Babylon Bee editor following 'joke' about satire site being suspended

Steve Watson
Summit News
Wed, 23 Mar 2022 20:30 UTC
twitter babylon bee suspended
© Pavlo Gonchar/SOPA Images/LightRocket via Getty Images
Twitter has doubled down on its suspension of the account belonging to the satirical website The Babylon Bee by suspending the personal account of its chief editor after he 'joked' about what it would take to lift the suspension.

The Babylon Bee's editor-in-chief Kyle Mann is in 'twitter jail', locked out of his account for suggesting that Twitter might lift its original suspension "if we throw a few thousand Uighurs in a concentration camp."

The comment was likely a reference to Twitter allowing Communist Chinese Party PR people and apologists to operate freely on the platform.

Comment: See also:

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Newspaper

Oklahoma votes to ban all abortion unless necessary for saving life of mother

Shawna Chen
Axios
Wed, 23 Mar 2022 12:00 UTC
abortion protest
© Anna Moneymaker via Getty Images
The Oklahoma House voted 78-19 Tuesday to ban all abortions unless it's necessary for saving a pregnant person's life.

Why it matters: The bill, which would incentivize private citizens to sue anyone suspected of helping a person get an abortion, would surpass Texas' six-week abortion ban to become the most restrictive in the nation.
  • The bill now heads to the state Senate. If signed into law, it would take effect immediately but would likely face legal challenges.

Comment: As the number of abortions continue to rise each year we're seeing a shift in public sentiment, from the US to Russia, over the use of abortion to deal with unwanted pregnancies:

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Sheriff

Judge blocks D.C. law allowing children to receive COVID-19 vaccination without parental consent

Dillon Burroughs
Daily Wire
Tue, 22 Mar 2022 00:00 UTC
vaccine
A federal judge temporarily blocked a Washington, D.C., law from going into effect that would have allowed children as young as 11 years old to receive COVID-19 vaccination without parental consent.

Judge Trevor McFadden ruled that the Minor Consent for Vaccinations Amendment Act of 2020 (MCA) "targets religious parents."

"States and the District are free to encourage individuals — including children — to get vaccines," McFadden wrote in his ruling. "But they cannot transgress on the [National Childhood Vaccine Injury Act] Congress created. And they cannot trample on the Constitution."
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Attention

Ukrainian refugee women targeted by German trans organization as potential sex workers

Hannah Nightingale
The Post Millennial
Wed, 23 Mar 2022 09:05 UTC
ukrainian refugee sex worker
A German transgender sex work advocacy organization recently placed a call out on social media for Ukrainian refugee women who want to enter the legal German sex trade.

Trans*sexworks, based in Berlin, posted peer-counseling services on their Instagram page last week targeting Ukrainian women who "need support/info on how to begin sex work in Germany," according to Reduxx.

The organization, which described itself as "a peer-to-peer support structure and network for and made up of trans and non-binary sexworkers," wrote in the post that "we are now offering peer-counceling and support in Ukrainian, Russian and English for all sex-workers fleeing the war in Ukraine."
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HAL9000

State partners with Apple for digital IDs


RT
Wed, 23 Mar 2022 22:57 UTC
Apple digital id
© AFP / Elijah Nouvelage
The state of Arizona has become the first to partner with tech behemoth Apple to merge a digital driver's license and state ID with Apple's Wallet app. Users can pass through Phoenix Sky Harbor International Airport with "just a tap of their iPhone or Apple Watch," VP of Apple Pay and Apple Wallet Jennifer Bailey enthused in a statement released on Wednesday.

The digital ID includes all the data found on a normal state ID or driver's license, plus detailed facial recognition scans, fingerprints and an unspecified list of other information "requested by the TSA." All the user needs to do, according to Apple, is consent to provide whatever information the TSA requests using their device's Face ID or Touch ID function.

While the company touts the convenience of being able to whip out one's device and move through airline security with "just a tap," its built-in biometric features already offer up more data than even the most advanced non-computerized driver's license, and Apple admits that the TSA nabs a photo of the user above and beyond what is needed to travel - just "for verification purposes."

Comment: Soon to follow: SMART Health Cards...

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NPC

Do you support the Current Thing?

Allum Bokhari
Breitbart
Wed, 23 Mar 2022 05:32 UTC
the current thing
Not every meme deserves an article of its own, but for those of us who follow politics on social media closely, this one hits home. It's a meme that could force even the most sheep-like adherents of official narratives to stop and think.

It's the Current Thing:

the current thing meme
If you spend enough time observing the liberal hivemind, you know there's something that unites the #Resistence, Black Lives Matter, transgender bathrooms, masking, vaccine mandates, mail-in voting, Anthony Fauci, and Volodymyr Zelensky, but it's difficult to put your finger on it.

Well, now we have a way to describe it. All of those were, at some point, "The Current Thing."

We can't expect liberals to give up their mindless devotion to the Current Thing. Sometimes it may even make sense to care about the Current Thing. But at the very least, this meme forces you to ask the question: why? Why do you care about the Current Thing? Is it just because you've been told to care about it? Is it because everyone else has suddenly started caring about it? Are there other things — perhaps even more important things, that you aren't paying attention to, because the Current Thing is all anyone is talking about?
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Arrow Up

UK inflation hits 6.2%, the highest level in three decades

Larry Elliott and Richard Partington
The Guardian
Wed, 23 Mar 2022 07:08 UTC
uk supermarket
© Andy Rain/EPA
Britain's cost of living squeeze intensified further last month, according to official figures showing inflation reached 6.2% in February - announced before Rishi Sunak's spring statement.

Figures from the Office for National Statistics showed a jump in the government's preferred measure of the cost of living from 5.5% in January, fuelled by the rising cost of petrol and diesel and a wide range of goods from food to toys and games.

The February inflation figure for the consumer prices index was higher than the 5.9% predicted by a Reuters poll of economists, illustrating the scale of the squeeze on UK households from soaring living costs.

According to the latest snapshot, soaring inflationary pressure was fuelled by rising costs for gas and electricity, as well as average petrol and diesel prices hitting record highs in a blow to motorists.

Comment: See also:

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