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Ukrainian energy giant Naftogaz defaults on debt, fails to make payments on Eurobonds

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Ukraine's state-run energy company Naftogaz has defaulted on its foreign debt, the firm announced on Tuesday.

Naftogaz was unable to make payments on Eurobonds before a grace period expired, the company said a statement on Telegram, adding that it "has not received consent from the cabinet of ministers of Ukraine to make the necessary payments".

The Ukrainian government earlier prohibited payments, due on July 19, on its Eurobonds maturing in 2022 and 2024, citing the country's need to accumulate natural gas in sufficient quantities before the upcoming heating season.

Crusader

Cincinnati federal judge blocks Air Force, Air National Guard globally from discharging religious vaccine refusers

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© Attorney Chris WiestA federal judge in Cincinnati on Wednesday halted the Biden administration for the foreseeable future from enforcing the COVID-19 vaccine mandate globally on any servicemembers in both the Air Force, Space Force and Air National Guard who requested religious exemptions.
A federal judge in Cincinnati on Wednesday blocked the Biden administration for the foreseeable future from enforcing the COVID-19 vaccine mandate globally on any servicemembers in the Air Force, Space Force and Air National Guard who requested religious exemptions.

U.S. District Court Judge Matthew McFarland's preliminary injunction stops the military from discharging or disciplining servicemembers in this local lawsuit that now has an international impact on the military and class-action status as it heads toward trial.

Judge McFarland has criticized the Air Force, writing that they sweepingly rejected each exemption request and failed to carefully consider the merits of each.

"Members face the same injury: violation of their constitutional freedom by defendants' clear policy of discrimination religious accommodation requests," he wrote two weeks ago when he issued the temporary injunction.

Doster v. Kendall comes down to this: Do the rights of those defending our country to exercise their religious freedom and eschew the vaccine supersede the Air Force's insistence that allowing them to do so will irreparably harm the military's ability to do its job?

So far, the judge has sided all the way with the servicemembers and now he has included the Air National Guard in the litigation.

Comment: The actual court documents can be found here.


Bad Guys

Police admit wrong to warn activist against being 'untoward about pedophiles'

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© Jake Lindley/SOPA Images/LightRocket via Getty ImagesPosie Parker speaks at the Anti-Trans Protest, May 15, 2022
A British police force, already in special measures over its long-term failures to protect people, has admitted to have not acted in a "wholly proportionate" manner after officers visited a feminist campaigner at home for being "untoward about paedophiles".

On Sunday, British YouTuber and feminist campaigner Kellie-Jay Keen, also known as Posie Parker, said that two police officers from the Wiltshire force came to her home to relay that there had been a complaint levied against her for one of her videos, saying: "Somebody's phoned up because one of your videos you're being untoward about paedophiles."

According to Keen, the officer admitted that he had not even watched the video in question, yet, because someone had been offended, they recorded it as a "hate crime". Keen said that the officer was unable to tell her if it was in fact recorded as a crime or the controversial "non-crime hate incident" category.

Christmas Lights

Warsaw mulls cutting down on Christmas lights

Christmas lights, Warsaw
© JANEK SKARZYNSKI / AFPA picture taken on December 3, 2016 shows Street artists performing in front of Christmas lights in Warsaw.
The Warsaw city administration is mulling the idea of limiting the number of decorative lights this Christmas or even turning them off completely to encourage Poles to save energy, local media reported on Wednesday, citing the mayor, Rafal Trzaskowski.

"We want to symbolically show the people of Warsaw that energy needs to be saved," Trzaskowski told Radia ZET, adding that this would not solve the energy crunch, but would demonstrate that Poland is serious about saving energy.

The festive lighting is usually placed along the Royal Route, which features many of the city's historic landmarks, including several palaces and churches.

Comment: These moronic politicians should symbolically, or maybe not so symbolically, pull their heads out of their backsides. Turning off Christmas lights isn't going to make a lick of difference in energy prices or availability. What it will do is make a cold, and likely hungry, population even more desperate to lash out at those they perceive as being responsible for their misfortunes. The West may think their narrative making media machines can reshape reality and protect them, but no amount of spin will protect them from an angry mob.


Eye 1

Indonesia foot and mouth outbreak cues NZ, Australia to call for border closures & restrictions

Jacinda Ardern
© SAPHORE AFP/FileNew Zealand Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern has warned of the dangers of foot and mouth disease on her country after an outbreak in Indonesia Steven
Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern warned an outbreak of foot-and-mouth disease in Indonesia could cost thousands of New Zealand jobs, as her nation and neighbouring Australia stepped up border biosecurity restrictions.

"While not a threat to humans, it would devastate our national herd. Essentially, all animals that are of cloven hoof are at risk," Ardern told reporters in Wellington.

Ardern warned that the disease, first detected in Indonesia in April, has the potential to threaten up to 100,000 jobs in New Zealand's agriculture sector.


Comment: It hasn't been detected in New Zealand yet, it has barely spread through Indonesia; Ardern's rhetoric seems a little over excited.


Comment: One could be forgiven, as per the video below, for finding the fearmongering response to this development rather suspicious. Because farmers across much of the West, and beyond, are being forced out (and bought out) of business by their own governments, and this is looking like yet another possible avenue of attack that will be used against farmers, and ultimately, consumers.

For a few years now, swine herds and chicken flocks have already been devastated by their own outbreaks, and the resulting culls. And that's not taking into account crop failures, soaring inflation, lockdown created backlogs and staff shortages, and the West's war on Russia via its proxy Ukraine, that have all contributed to a catastrophic reduction in the food supply: Considering New Zealand's response to the coronavirus, one can safely assume their response to any other concern will be draconian, out of proportion, and the consequences will be deadly:



Bulb

England's only children's transgender clinic Tavistock to be shut down by NHS after review finds it is "not safe" for children

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The Tavistock transgender clinic is to be shut down by the NHS after a review found it is "not safe" for children. The Telegraph has more.
NHS England will move young people who believe that they are trans into regional centres which will take a more "holistic" approach to treatment and look at other mental health or medical issues they may have.

The decision is a response to the interim Cass Review, which warned that medics in the Tavistock had felt "under pressure to adopt an unquestioning affirmative approach" to gender identity rather than going through the normal process of clinic assessment with young people.

Dr. Hilary Cass, the consultant paediatrician who is leading the independent review, found earlier this year that the clinic as the only provider of gender identity services for young people in England was "not a safe or viable long-term option".

Announcing their response to Dr. Cass's recommendations, NHS England said that "given the urgent requirement to stabilise current service provision" they will establish two "Early Adopter services" run by specialist children's hospitals.

The centres, one in London and one in the North West, will take responsibility for all of the Tavistock clinic's patients and waiting lists with the aim to shut down the clinic by next spring.

NHS England have also committed to follow Dr. Cass's recommendation that they carry out "rapid" research on the use of puberty blockers by young people after it was noted there is currently "insufficient evidence" on their impact.

The Cass review was commissioned by NHS England in 2020 amid concerns that there was "scarce and inconclusive evidence to support clinical decision making" which saw children as young as 10 given puberty blockers.

There were concerns over a sharp rise in referrals to the Gender Identity Development Service (GIDS) run by the Tavistock and Portman NHS Foundation Trust - over 5,000 in 2021/2 compared to 250 a decade earlier and long waiting lists.

Comment: As we've been saying here for many months, institutionalized social programming via "education", propaganda and political policy has had a hugely negative impact on children in the Western world - to the point where gender dysphoria has quite literally been induced, encouraged and abetted by criminal organizations like Tavistock. See also:


Eye 2

In Portland, the sexual revolution starts in kindergarten

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The city's public schools teach K-5 students to subvert the sexuality of "white colonizers" and begin exploring "the infinite gender spectrum."

Portland Public Schools has launched a war against the "gender binary" and adopted a radical new curriculum teaching students to subvert the sexuality of "white colonizers" and begin exploring "the infinite gender spectrum."

I have obtained a cache of documents from a source inside Portland Public Schools that exposes the nature of this curriculum. The lessons seek to turn the principles of academic queer theory into an identity-formation program for elementary school students; it has been adopted in many of the district's K-5 classrooms.

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Convenience store spy cameras face legal challenge

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© Science Photo LibraryBiometric Scanning individuals compares with a database of offenders Science Photo Library
The Southern Co-Op chain is facing a legal challenge to its use of facial recognition technology to cut crime. Big Brother Watch has complained to the Information Commissioner's Office about biometric surveillance at its shops.

The privacy campaign group says the system at the convenience stores breaches data protection and people may end up on a watch-list without knowing. But Southern says it is only using the Facewatch system in shops with a history of crime, to protect its staff. The co-operative runs 200 convenience stores across southern England, of which 35 have the system installed.

A single camera captures the faces of people who enter the shops, and the images are analysed and converted into biometric data. This is then compared with a database of people the co-operative says have stolen from its shops, or been violent.

A spokeswoman said the watch-list was not a list of people with criminal convictions, but of people for which the business had evidence of criminal or anti-social behaviour. Any shopper previously banned would be asked to leave, and others would be approached by staff with an offer of "how can I help?" to make it clear their presence had been detected.

Attention

Germans warned of toilet paper shortage

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© Philipp von Ditfurth/picture alliance/Getty Images
Germany may face shortages of such staples as toilet paper and cardboard if Russian gas supply dwindles in the coming months, German outlet Zeit Online reported on Wednesday.

Operating paper plants may become unprofitable if they are forced to produce at reduced capacity because of gas shortages, the publication cites Jürgen Schaller, Chairman of the Board of the Bavarian Paper Associations, as warning. Producing paper requires a lot of water, electricity and gas, Schaller explained, adding that the technology is tried and tested and cannot be changed quickly.

Shaller told Zeit Online:
"Many employees in my company are already very worried. I can't blame them. Because if we can only produce 50 or 60 percent, the operation is not worthwhile for us. To be honest, I worry too."
Germany and the EU as a whole have recently seen a reduction in natural gas supplies from Russia, which led to numerous warnings of possible industrial shutdowns. The Nord Stream 1 pipeline is currently operating at 20% capacity due to technical issues with turbines at the Portovaya compressor station. Gazprom is unable to use another transit route, via Ukraine, to full capacity because, according to the Russian energy giant, Ukraine's gas transport network has been rejecting its transit applications.

Attention

Mayor of Donetsk: Ukraine 'bombarding' city with banned landmines

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© Alexey Kulemzin / TelegramThe small butterfly-shaped PFM-1 landmines are banned under the 1997 Ottawa Convention
The Donbass official urged residents to stay vigilant for banned explosive devices

Ukrainian forces airdropped banned PFM-1 anti-personnel landmines on the capital of the Donetsk People's Republic on Wednesday night, Mayor Aleksey Kulemzin said.

The mayor wrote on his Telegram channel that mines were discovered on several streets in the northwestern part of the city.

"A bomb squad and rescuers have been working on the site since the early morning. A vehicle equipped with a loudspeaker is alerting local residents," Kulemzin said, urging people to be vigilant and not approach the mines.