Comment: Of course actual harassment is to be condemned, and oftentimes those guilty of the more egregious behaviour are actually psychologically unstable people merely using popular topics and figureheads as an outlet for their personal issues.

However, lest we forget that during the contrived coronavirus crisis, MPs and public figures alike felt quite at liberty to propose the removal of freedoms for those who abstained from being swept up in the hysteria. And a smaller number of adherents online - although some were even given platforms on national TV - openly stated that those who did not comply 'deserved to get ill/die' or should be refused all manner of government essential services.

What is almost completely ignored in the study above is how the general public have valid and grave concerns regarding how their countries are run, and with the people tasked with doing it. And it's notable that New Zealand is the focus of this study, and that its findings highlight the lockdowns and mandates as being at the top of the list of grievances, because, just a few months ago, a whistleblower working for New Zealand's healthcare system came forward revealing that these concerns and grievances are well founded. And the sinister behaviour of their government towards said whistleblower further reveals that a significant number of MPs in government are, at best, failing to working in the public interest, and, at worst, knowingly corrupt, and likely guilty of heinous crimes: Admin who oversaw New Zealand's CoVaxx datasbase ARRESTED for leaking official numbers on high-mortality Covid 'vaccine' batches

Comment: As the Twitter/X files revealed, Big Tech is riddled with government agents, and both are largely working together towards the same agenda. One outlier appears to be X/Twitter, since Musk's takeover, because it has largely managed to defy government pressure; Telegram may be another:

• Capsule Summaries of all Twitter Files Threads to Date, With Links and a Glossary
• Musk lifts restrictions on X accounts in Brazil despite country's 'fake news' court orders

Some relevant snippets from Wiki on Durov:

In February 2023, Arabian Business named him the most powerful entrepreneur in Dubai.^[8]

For some years after his dismissal as CEO of VK in 2014,^[9] the Durov brothers travelled the world in self-imposed exile^[10] as citizens of Saint Kitts and Nevis.^[11]

In 2017, Pavel joined the World Economic Forum (WEF) Young Global Leaders as a representative of Finland.^[12][13] Durov was naturalized as French in August 2021 and now has European Union citizenship.^[2]

On 16 April 2014, Durov publicly refused to hand over the personal data of Ukrainian protesters to Russia's security agencies and to block Alexei Navalny's page on VK.^[9] Instead, he posted the relevant orders on his own VK page,^[30][31] claiming that the requests were unlawful.

Upon leaving Russia, he obtained Saint Kitts and Nevis citizenship by donating $250,000 to the country's Sugar Industry Diversification Foundation and secured $300 million in cash within Swiss banks. This allowed him to focus on creating his next company, Telegram, focused on an encrypted messaging service of the same name. Telegram was headquartered in Berlin and later moved to Dubai.^[11]

Durov is a self-described libertarian, teetotaler, and vegetarian.^{[43][44][45][46][47]} Durov claims to have an ascetic lifestyle, and promotes freedom from personal possessions.^[48][49][50] For his twenty-seventh birthday in 2011, he donated a million dollars to the Wikimedia Foundation,^[51] the founder and honorary chairman of which is fellow libertarian Jimmy Wales.^[52] In 2012, he published manifestos described by commentators as libertarian detailing his ideas on improving Russia.^[53]

Comment: It would appear as though Israel has been checkmated, for now; however, it has actually been covertly attacking Iran, and other nations, for years, and so perhaps Tel Aviv will resort to its tried and tested, less conventional methods, until it can find another way to drag the West into its contrived armageddon:

• Predatory Sparrow: The terrorist attacks of an Israel-linked hacker group
• Iran REJECTS US request to allow 'symbolic strike' by Israel
• Israel to delay Rafah offensive over Iran response, Israeli sources tell CNN

Comment:
1) See also: Russian oil plant suspends operations after drone attack (March 2024)
Best of the Web: Huge blast hits major oil refinery in latest hit to Russian infrastructure, fuels suspicions of sabotage (Dec 2022)
Why is NATO's, Neo-Nazi junta's cover-up for terrorist attacks in Russia so sloppy?
Russian intelligence official: 'US shielding itself by whitewashing Kiev role in Moscow terror attack'

2) It is odd, almost, that the US would prefer that the Ukrainian nationalists in Kiev abstain from bombing Russian oil refineries. The US and allies do not mind when a nuclear power plant is shelled, and are somehow unable to determine from where it came.
IAEA boss: No Russian heavy weapons at Zaporozhye plant

Russian UN Ambassador Vassily Nebenzia told the Security Council that Ukrainian forces have been "systematically" targeting the plant and surrounding areas. The Russian army has been "spotting and intercepting up to 100 drones per week,"

Comment: An alternative Crocus City Hall terrorist attack hypothesis has links to older articles about the attack.

From the same source:
13 Apr, 2024 19:58
Russia demands West help find Moscow terror attack masterminds

Attempts by the US and its allies to shield Kiev from the Crocus City Hall inquiry look suspicious, Vassily Nebenzia has said

Russia expects Washington and its allies to cooperate with its investigation aimed at identifying the masterminds behind the deadly Moscow terror attack that took place in March, the nation's ambassador to the UN, Vassily Nebenzia, said on Friday.

The attack on the Crocus City Hall concert venue, which is located just outside Moscow, claimed more than 140 lives. Four gunmen stormed the building, shooting everyone in sight before setting it on fire. A total of 11 suspects were arrested in the wake of the rampage, including the four alleged assailants.

Russian officials described the perpetrators as radical Islamists but stated that the crime may have been organized by Ukrainian security services, who used the terrorists as proxies. On Friday, Nebenzia said that the extensive effort made by the US and its allies to draw attention away from Ukraine only reinforces suspicions about Western involvement.

"Amid such relentless attempts to pin the blame on ISIS and shield Kiev at any cost... a question about Western security services' involvement in orchestrating this terrorist attack remains open," the diplomat said, referring to Islamic State (IS, formerly ISIS), an international terrorist group that claimed responsibility for the massacre. Western media repeatedly pointed to these claims while reporting on the incident.

Moscow has "no doubts" that Ukraine was "directly involved in this despicable and egregious crime," Russia's UN envoy said, adding that investigators already have enough evidence for such a conclusion.

Earlier in April, Russia's Investigative Committee said that a potential link between Ukrainian security services and the March attack had been uncovered. The statement cited "significant evidence" of Kiev's involvement but did not provide any specific details.

Investigators recently claimed to have found a money trail linking the alleged terrorists to Ukrainian nationalists. Russia's FSB security agency also released records of interrogations of the suspected gunmen, who claimed that they had been given instructions to flee towards the Ukrainian border after the strike.

"We expect our Western colleagues to cooperate on detaining the masterminds behind the Crocus City Hall terrorist attacks and bringing them to justice," Nebenzia said on Friday, adding that Moscow also would like to see the West aid its investigation of the Nord Stream pipelines explosions that took place in autumn 2022. After all, Western nations "unequivocally condemned" both attacks, the diplomat added.

See also: France rejecting antiterrorism cooperation - Moscow
Loose cannon: Macron's stance on Russia causing 'unease' among officials

For other instances of Western bias:
IAEA boss: No Russian heavy weapons at Zaporozhye plant

Although there are Russian "armored vehicles and some security presence at the plant," IAEA monitors did not see any prohibited weapons, such as multiple rocket launchers, tanks, and artillery, Grossi explained.

He added that the IAEA does not have the mandate to determine which side has been attacking the facility, and argued that "indisputable evidence" is needed to establish who is responsible.

Russian UN Ambassador Vassily Nebenzia told the Security Council [...]

"With the connivance of its Western sponsors, Ukraine is systematically carrying out irresponsible and reckless attacks on the Zaporozhye nuclear power plant and the adjacent territory. The Russian Armed Forces recorded and suppressed more than a hundred unmanned aerial vehicles in week.

Our Western colleagues, without noticing it themselves, spoke out today in the form of an ultimatum: "Transfer control of the Zaporizhia NPP, and then they will stop shelling it." Thus, they not only betrayed the Zelensky regime, but also actually admitted to complicity in these irresponsible attacks.

Western demands for UN to discuss Iran attack are 'hypocrisy' - Moscow

Failure to condemn the Israeli bombing of Tehran's consulate in Syria spurred the latest violence, Russia's ambassador has argued...

The UN Security Council helped give rise to Saturday's Iranian attack against Israel by hypocritically failing to take action over the illegal bombing that provoked the latest violence in the region, Russia's ambassador to the global body has claimed.
[...]
Nebenzia contrasted the council's concern over protecting Western nations and their allies with its inaction when Israel bombed Iran's consulate:

"We know very well that an attack against a diplomatic representation is a casus belli under international law. And if a Western representation had been hit, you would immediately have rained down reprisals.

"When it comes to other countries, their rights - including the right to self-defense - well, that's a different matter, as you like to say... What we're witnessing is a display of hypocrisy and double standards that is almost embarrassing to watch."

The US, UK, and France essentially declined to confirm that the basic principles of international law concerning diplomatic facilities apply equally to all states, Nebenzia said. At the same time, Israel has faced no consequences for disregarding UN resolutions, including last month's demand for a ceasefire in Gaza.

The ambassador said:

"We think it's urgent for the entire international community to undertake all efforts necessary to deescalate the situation. Otherwise, the region could be drawn into a vicious cycle of mutual attacks and violence."

Western business as usual since many years.

Comment: See also:

• Ukraine threatens to freeze draft dodgers' bank accounts
• War weary: Ukrainians voice resistance to new mobilization
• Caught between the Ukrainian people and the war for NATO expansion: Kiev's mobilization crisis
• To the last Ukrainian: Kiev begins doomed conscription scheme that includes people with significant disabilities
• Ukraine plans military draft due to plummeting volunteer figures
• Ukraine expands general mobilization

Comment:

• 'This is a flawed case': Legal expert pours cold water on NY DA's rumored plan to indict Trump as he explains why prosecution would likely fail
• Smoking gun? Letter from Michael Cohen claiming Donald Trump did NOT reimburse him for hush money paid to Stormy Daniels flies in face of the star witness's grand jury testimony
• Jury selection begins in Trump hush-money trial