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UK institute apologizes for discriminating against Russian


RT
Fri, 12 Aug 2022 12:07 UTC
beaston institute for cancer research
© WikipediaThe Beatson Institute for Cancer Research building in Glasgow, Scotland, UK.
Summary A cancer research facility overturned its rejection of a Russian PhD applicant.

A UK cancer research facility has apologized for telling a student that her PhD application had been rejected because she is Russian.

The controversy erupted when student Alisa Iakupova tweeted on Tuesday that her friend had been denied a PhD place at the Beatson Institute for Cancer Research, which is based in Glasgow, Scotland.

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Bizarro Earth

11 killed as man goes on shooting rampage over 'family dispute' in Montenegro


RT
Fri, 12 Aug 2022 22:38 UTC
Montenegro
State prosecutor Andrijana Nastic talks to the forensic team at the house where a gunman started a mass shooting in Cetinje, Montenegro August 12, 2022.
A resident of Cetinje, Montenegro shot and killed eleven people - including two children - and injured six more on Friday, before he was shot and killed by police, according to local media reports.

Witnesses said the man pulled a pistol in what was termed a family dispute, killed his family, and then proceeded to fire into random bystanders.

Cetinje police are still investigating the scene and very little information has been released officially.

Montenegro state TV initially reported that more than ten people may have been shot, including a police officer, citing local residents. The toll was later raised to 11 dead and six wounded.

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See also: Knife attacker kills six and injures 14 in Chinese city, THIRD incident this month (June 2022)

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Pistol

IRS seeks armed accountants ready for 'deadly force'

Paul Bedard
Washington Examiner
Wed, 10 Aug 2022 03:03 UTC
SWAT team
© ForbesIRS SWAT Team
Even before Congress and President Joe Biden give the final OK for the IRS to hire 87,000 more agents in an $80 billion package, the tax agency is revealing a priority job category that could get first dibs on the huge budget expansion.

On its jobs page is a listing of vacancies for special agents to be placed around the country to root out financial fraud.

But these are opening for more than just financial experts: They will also be armed. Among the job requirements listed: "Carry a firearm and be willing to use deadly force, if necessary."

Special agents, who can be placed around the nation and world, have an interesting job, according to the IRS description. They are financial analysts and armed officers ready for a shootout.

Comment: Another show of unnecessary force to intimidate the public.

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Wolf

Hunter Biden laptop repairman John Paul Mac Isaac says FBI agent threatened him to keep quiet

Miranda Devine and Emily Crane
New York Post
Thu, 11 Aug 2022 17:21 UTC
John Paul Mac Isaac computer hunter biden laptom
© James KeivomJohn Paul Mac Isaac, owner of The Mac Shop in Wilmington, Del.
Hunter Biden laptop repairman discusses double standard after Mar-A-Lago raid

The computer repair shop owner who blew the whistle on Hunter Biden's infamous laptop claims in a new book that an FBI agent threatened him to stay silent.

John Paul Mac Isaac said two federal agents came to his Mac Shop in Wilmington, Del. in December 2019 to recoup the laptop following a subpoena, he details in his new book American Injustice: My Battle to Expose the Truth.

The repairman, who had volunteered to hand the laptop over to the feds two months earlier, said the alleged threat came after he made a joke, telling them: "Hey, lads, I'll remember to change your names when I write the book."

"Agent Wilson kept walking but Agent DeMeo paused and turned to face me," Paul Mac writes of the encounter.

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2 + 2 = 4

Los Angeles School District prepares to inflict lesson on 'privilege and intersectionality'

Spencer Lindquist
Breitbart
Tue, 09 Aug 2022 16:53 UTC
louden county protest critical race theory white privilege
© Andrew Caballero-Reynolds/AFP via Getty ImagesA rally against "critical race theory" (CRT) being taught in schools at the Loudoun County Government center in Leesburg, Virginia on June 12, 2021.
The Los Angeles Unified School District has prepared a lesson to teach children about privilege and intersectionality.

The lesson was prepared by the Los Angeles Unified School District's (LAUSD) Office of Human Relations, Diversity, and Equity. Titled "Privilege 101," the lesson is intended to advance the left's view of identity in the classroom.

The presentation claims that there are various different types of privilege, including "white privilege," "heterosexual privilege," "religious privilege," "gender privilege," "cisgender privilege," and "able-bodied privilege."

The presentation went on to discuss the concept of intersectionality, claiming that "people may experience privilege in some areas but lack privilege in others." It noted that there are various identity categories, highlighting race, sexual orientation, nationality, disability, and gender identity.

Comment: If you are at all able, homeschool your kids.

LA schools implement 'Queer Theory into K-12 pedagogy': Christopher Rufo

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Stock Down

Grocery prices increased 13.1% in July

Brooke DiPalma
Yahoo
Wed, 10 Aug 2022 16:32 UTC
inflation chart us july 2022
Americans can still expect sticker shock when they head to their local grocery stories due to inflation.

Despite inflation cooling down a bit in July, up 8.5%, Americans are still paying significantly more for food.

According to the Bureau of Labor Statistics' July Consumer Price Index (CPI), the cost of food rose 10.9% , with food in the at-home category rising 13.1%, higher than the year-over-year rise in recent months. For the overall food category, that's the highest increase since May of 1979, but for the food-at-home category, which is household groceries, it's the highest since March of 1979, according to Steve Reed, an economist at the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS).

Compared to June of 2022, the grocery category increased 1.4%

Comment: Transport costs are clearly not the only issue driving up food prices, because officials from across the planet have warned of looming global food shortages - this is not simply a logistics issue - and these shortages have been many years in the making, and Western governments in particular did little to avoid them. They have also been made many times worse by the lockdowns, and now any hopes of recovery are being destroyed with the establishments coordinated attacks on farmers:

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Megaphone

Sierra Leone rocked by deadly violence at cost of living protests


The Guardian
Fri, 12 Aug 2022 15:41 UTC
riot police sierra lione
© Umaru Fofana/ReutersRiot police patrol as they pass smoke rising from a roadblock during anti-government protests in Freetown, Sierra Leone.
At least 27 people have died in anti-government protests in Sierra Leone, police and other sources said on Thursday, sharply raising the death toll from the previous day's clashes as shocked citizens stayed mostly behind closed doors in the capital, Freetown.

Six police officers and at least 21 civilians were killed, the sources said, as hundreds took to the streets in frustration at economic hardship and a perceived failure by the government to cushion the impact of rising prices.

The unrest is highly unusual for Sierra Leone, especially in Freetown. A few people have been killed in isolated protests in other cities in recent years.

Comment: Countries like Sierra Leone and Malawi, were already vulnerable to even minor dips in the global economy, meanwhile others, like Sri Lanka, required gross government malpractice to wipe out its ability to be self sufficient; and the West too will suffer its reckoning as the various converging issues, from inflation to food shortages, are made infinitely many times worse by incompetent, and nefarious, government policy

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Nuke

Ukraine shells Zaporozhye nuclear plant - local authorities


RT
Thu, 11 Aug 2022 06:47 UTC
Zaporizhzhia nuclear power plant in Energodar Ukraine.
© Sputnik / Konstantin MikhalchevskyZaporizhzhia nuclear power plant in Energodar, Ukraine.
Latest attack comes as UN warns both sides to cease fighting near the facility.

Ten shells launched by the Ukrainian army landed near the Zaporozhye nuclear power plant on Thursday, according to regional authorities. The facility is located in southeastern Ukraine but is currently under the control of Russian troops.

Vladimir Rogov, a member of the Zaporozhye Region military-civil administration, explained that five explosives landed near the commandant's office at the plant, next to a welding site and a radioactive substance storage facility, causing grass in the area to catch fire.

Another five shells landed near the fire station beside the power plant, preventing a shift change.

Rogov said this was the second time the power plant had come under fire on Thursday and suggested that the strikes were being carried out by Ukrainian forces using multiple launch rocket systems and heavy artillery positioned in Dnepropetrovsk Region.

Comment: How can Russia target the plant when it is under their control since February this year? Slowly but surely, the truth about Ukraine will overpower the nasty PTB propaganda and misinformation.

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X

Netherlands to SHUT DOWN 11,200 farms to meet climate goals

Peter Imanuelsen
petersweden.substack.com
Sun, 07 Aug 2022 00:00 UTC
bales
© UnknownHay bales will become a thing of the past.
If you have followed my reporting you probably know about the protests happening in the Netherlands. Tens of thousands of farmers have taken to the streets to protest against new climate goals which will force farmers to shut down their farms. They have set hay bales on fire on motorways and dumped manure and even blocked supermarket distribution centers.
Around 1/5 of farms will be forced to shut down!

Comment: Targeting farmers is but one facet of the eve of destruction, its ramifications to last a lifetime (which is becoming shorter by the day).

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USA

Fargo School Board rescinds motion, will no longer recite Pledge of Allegiance at meetings

Andrew Haugland
Inform.com
Tue, 09 Aug 2022 09:31 UTC
Nix P.O.Allegiance
© Michael Vosburg/The ForumFargo School board declines Pledge of Allegiance
The Fargo School Board voted 7-2 in favor of rescinding a previous approved motion to begin their bi-weekly meeting with the Pledge of Allegiance. The board ruled that the Pledge of Allegiance didn't align with the Fargo Public School District's diversity code.

After passing a motion on March 22 to begin each Fargo School Board meeting by reciting the Pledge of Allegiance, the board has rescinded the motion, voting in favor of removing it.

In a 7-2 decision Tuesday, Aug. 9, the board voted in favor of removing the verse that has been a part of every school board meeting since April 12.

Board members Nikkie Gullickson and Robin Nelson voted in favor of keeping the Pledge of Allegiance at its bi-weekly meetings.

Board member Seth Holden asked the Governance Committee during its July 28 meeting that a removal of the previously passed motion, which was proposed by former board member David Paulson , should be voted on. The board agreed to put it on the agenda

Holden said the Pledge of Allegiance didn't align with the school's diversity, equity and inclusion values.
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