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'Torture machine': Russian rights defender shares shocking prison videos


RFE/RL
Tue, 05 Oct 2021 15:50 UTC
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Prison No. 19 in Russia's Irkutsk region.
A prominent Russian human rights defender says his team has obtained a large batch of videos that he claims show prison inmates being tortured by agents of the Federal Security Service (FSB) and Federal Penitentiary Service (FSIN).

Vladimir Osechkin wrote on Facebook on October 4 that the videos "prove" that FSB and FSIN members are using rape and other forms of torture to force inmates to cooperate with them and that they "themselves become part of the torture machine" by snitching on other inmates or by signing false testimonies prepared by investigators.

Russian prosecutors said on October 5 that they had launched a preliminary investigation into the videos already released by Osechkin, while Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov promised a "serious" probe if the incidents depicted in the clips turn out to be genuine.
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Woman charged with attempted murder in Times Square subway shove

Amanda Woods
New York Post
Tue, 05 Oct 2021 07:07 UTC
Anthonia Egegbara arrest
© Robert MillerAnthonia Egegbara allegedly shoved a straphanger from behind as a No. 3 train approached the platform.
A woman with a lengthy rap sheet is facing attempted murder charges for allegedly shoving a female straphanger into the side of an arriving train at Times Square, authorities said Tuesday morning.

Anthonia Egegbara, 29, was taken into custody at the same station where she allegedly pushed the 42-year-old victim from behind just as a No. 3 train pulled in a day earlier, police said.

Surveillance footage released by the NYPD late Monday shows the bandanna-wearing suspect sitting on a bench on the platform just after 8 a.m. — and getting up to perfectly time her push as the train rolled in.

Comment: This woman is clearly mentally unstable and a danger to the general public. Why is she still on the streets?

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Hardhat

Why people don't want to go back to work anymore

Tim Burke
Pahrump Valley Times
Wed, 16 Jun 2021 07:00 UTC
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© Getty Images"The closing of public schools during the pandemic has also affected the labor market," writes Pahrump Valley Times freelance columnist Tim Burke. "For many families, school closures, hybrid models of partial in-person schooling and partial virtual learning, and limited day care options have necessitated at least one adult home to supervise and care for children."
"No one wants to work anymore" is what employers are saying in response to a large number of job openings with no takers. Businesses from small "mom and pop" establishments to major hotel/casino corporations are having difficulty filling open jobs.

I walked into a family-owned restaurant in Las Vegas last week, and half of the dining room was closed off. I asked why and was told, "we can't get anybody in here to wait on tables and bus dishes."

Many businesses in Pahrump have help wanted signs prominently displayed at their business entrances. Some Pahrump businesses have decreased their hours open to the public to offset their labor shortage.

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Snowflake Cold

Gender pay gap results from women choosing wrong degrees, heavily-criticized British report claims


RT
Tue, 05 Oct 2021 15:49 UTC
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© Getty Images / Peter Cade
A report by the Institute for Fiscal Studies (IFS) was condemned by Twitter users on Tuesday after it blamed the gender pay gap on women picking the wrong degrees despite female graduates being more likely to gain a better result.

Ahead of the deadline for big UK companies to report their gender pay gaps, the London-based IFS argued that "men and women choose to study very different subjects at university, with men being more likely to study subjects which lead to highly paid jobs," blaming that on the growing gap in annual earnings.


Social media users were quick to slam the report, claiming that it "feels ludicrous" to suggest women are simply "unequipped to choose the 'right' degree," rather than addressing "the house of issues that discourage women from going into those degrees."

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Syringe

Double-vaccinated Emmy award winning artist dies after contracting Covid

Samantha Ibrahim
NY Post
Mon, 04 Oct 2021 13:48 UTC
Marc Pilcher
Hair and makeup artist Marc Pilcher died of COVID-19 on Sunday at the age of 53. He was double vaccinated and had no underlying health conditions, according to his agency Curtis Brown.

"It is with the deepest of hearts we confirm that Marc Elliot Pilcher, Academy Award Nominee and Emmy Award winning hair and makeup designer/stylist, passed away after a battle with Covid-19 on Sunday 3rd October 2021," his family told Variety in a statement via Curtis Brown.

Pilcher recently scored the Creative Emmy for Outstanding Period And/Or Character Hairstyling on Sept. 11 for his work on Netflix's "Bridgerton."

Comment: Listen to this talk by Peter McCullough, who goes into great detail on the state of Covid treatment plans and how totally backwards it is to rely on a vaccine that's novel and experimental, all the while ignoring and shutting down the use of more robust, longstanding and grounded treatment plans which includes certain drugs and supplementation to fight the infection and recover.

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Best of the Web: YouTube changes policy and deletes Mercola.com channel within HOURS

Dr. Joseph Mercola
Mercola.com
Mon, 04 Oct 2021 20:21 UTC
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© Infowars.comYouTube has banned and deleted Dr. Joseph Mercola's channel
September 29, 2021, YouTube banned and deleted our channel, and the channels of several others, including Robert F. Kennedy Jr., for violating its community guidelines. This despite the fact that much of our content has been up for over a decade and never had any complaints from YouTube.

As you will see below, this is a blatant example of how government, technocratically-led nongovernmental organizations, social media platforms and media collude and coordinate attacks to censor people and organizations with whom they do not agree, or who pose a threat to their highly effective propaganda narrative.
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'Who broke the internet?!' Major outages hit Bank of America, Southwest Airlines, Zoom, Snapchat & others following FB crash


RT
Tue, 05 Oct 2021 01:35 UTC
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© Reuters / Dado Ruvic; Reuters / Carlo Allegri; Reuters / Loren ElliottFILE PHOTOS.
Many of the world's largest apps and websites, including for banks and airlines, faced a cascade of outages all in the space of a few hours, prompting panic among netizens as some demanded to know who broke the internet.

While the glitches affected a number of popular social media platforms - among them Twitter, Reddit, Facebook, Instagram and SnapChat - other more significant institutions also faced major tech issues on Monday, such as Bank of America, Southwest Airlines, the professional networking site LinkedIn and the cryptocurrency exchange Coinbase, all according to outage tracker DownDetector.

The tracking website noted that the problems at Facebook marked the "largest outage we've ever seen on DownDetector," with more than "10.6 million problem reports from all over the globe." However, the platform and Facebook-owned Instagram appear to have come back to life since, having been down for around six hours.

Comment: It's rather curious that just over a year ago at the World Economic Forum's Cyber Polygon 2020 event, the Great Reset pushers were warning of a 'cyberpandemic', and, since then, there's been a surge in ransomware attacks, hacks against infrastructure and major business systems; and note that these are just the ones that have been reported:

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Yoda

Project Veritas Part 4: Pfizer scientist says 'your antibodies are probably better than the vaccination'


Project Veritas
Tue, 05 Oct 2021 19:18 UTC
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© Project Veritas
Project Veritas released the fourth video in its COVID vaccine investigative series today which exposed three Pfizer officials saying that antibodies lead to equal, if not better, protection against the virus compared to the vaccine.

Nick Karl, a scientist who is directly involved in the production of Pfizer's COVID vaccine, said that natural immunity is more effective than the very vaccine he works on, and Pfizer produces.

"When somebody is naturally immune -- like they got COVID -- they probably have more antibodies against the virus...When you actually get the virus, you're going to start producing antibodies against multiple pieces of the virus...So, your antibodies are probably better at that point than the [COVID] vaccination," Karl said. Notwithstanding, Karl still believes that vaccine mandates are positive for society.

Comment: James O'Keefe follow up:

Project Veritas' ongoing series on the Covid vaccine parts 1-3:

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Drones begin falling from sky onto audience below watching synchronized light show in China

James Robinson
Daily Mail
Sat, 02 Oct 2021 23:07 UTC
drones fall
Other drones begin to descend slowly, seemingly still under control from their operators
Brightly lit flying machines descending from the sky as people below scatter in panic is the sort of scene you might expect from a sci-fi film.

However the pedestrians seen running in fear in this video aren't escaping from invading aliens. Instead, they are running from falling drones.

The bizarre footage, taken from the Chinese city of Zhengzhou, shows the machines, lit up with bright blue lights, plummeting from the sky to the streets below.

Comment: This is at least the third time that this has happened, with another incident reported in June 2021 in Shanghai.

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UK's Sarah Everard murder: Met to launch review of standards and internal culture

Jamie Grierson
The Guardian
Mon, 04 Oct 2021 17:49 UTC
Cressida Dick
© Reuters/Gareth FullerMetropolitan Police Commissioner Dame Cressida Dick
Leading figure will challenge force on corruption and sexual misconduct, vows Cressida Dick

The Metropolitan police is launching a review of professional standards and internal culture within the force, led by a high-profile anti-sleaze adviser, following the rape and murder of Sarah Everard by a serving officer.

Writing in the Evening Standard, the Met commissioner, Cressida Dick, committed to appointing a "high-profile figure" to lead the review and to work alongside her on "standards, corruption [and] sexual misconduct".

Dick has faced calls to resign since Wayne Couzens was sentenced to spend the rest of his life in prison last week for the kidnap, rape and murder of 33-year-old Everard in March.

Comment: RT reports on the wider situation:
Nearly a thousand police officers and staffers from several forces across the UK have reportedly been investigated since 2015 after allegedly sharing abusive social media content, including sexist, racist, and homophobic material.

Despite the severity of the alleged offences, the majority - including several senior members - received only disciplinary action, according to an investigation by the Daily Mail. But the paper noted that the actual figure was likely to be far higher, since only 32 of the 44 police forces in England, Wales, and Scotland responded to its Freedom of Information requests.

According to the report, only a small fraction - 53 individuals - of at least 999 police force officers and employees accused by colleagues or members of the public over the past six years are no longer on the job. Nearly three quarters of the allegations were reportedly judged to be serious enough to warrant some type of disciplinary action.

Hundreds were reported for allegedly posting disturbing material on social media platforms like Facebook and Twitter, while others were accused of sending explicit photos to colleagues, and even sharing sexual content with underage and vulnerable victims.

The Met recorded the highest number of allegations, registering 277 complaints against its personnel, despite only providing the newspaper with data for the past year. The UK's largest police force has come in for increased scrutiny following the conviction of former Met officer Wayne Couzens for the kidnapping, rape, and murder of Sarah Everard.

Chief Constable Craig Guildford, the standards spokesman for the National Police Chiefs' Council, told the paper that the body was "aware of rare cases" where inappropriate material had been shared, but noted that only a "very small number of staff think this is acceptable."

The figures come in the wake of revelations that Couzens had exchanged degrading content with colleagues on WhatsApp before he attacked Everard in March. The serving police officers - apparently including three from the Met Police - who shared messages with Couzens are now under criminal investigation.

Former Met Police Detective Superintendent Paige Kimberley recently accused UK Home Secretary Priti Patel and Met Police Commissioner Cressida Dick of ignoring her reports about a "vulgar and sexist" WhatsApp group apparently similar to the one used by Couzens.

Kimberly had said the group was "aggressive and inappropriate" and included graphic images which displayed "very misogynistic and sexist" attitudes towards women. She also claimed to have raised her concerns of a "flourishing sexist environment" in the force with Cressida Dick in March.

In July, a total of 12 misconduct or gross-misconduct notices were handed to serving police officers by the Independent Officer for Police Conduct in relation to the investigation on Couzens. Three officers received gross-misconduct notices after sharing an "inappropriate graphic" via social media before manning the cordon on the scene of the search for Everard.

The police watchdog had also issued another notice for gross misconduct and an additional six notices for misconduct to officers who allegedly "breached standards of professional behaviour" by sharing details related to Couzens' prosecution in private messages.

Meanwhile, a recent investigation by the iNews outlet found that a total of 771 Met Police officers and staff have faced sexual misconduct allegations over the past 11 years. Over the same period, 163 Met officers were apparently arrested for various sexual offences - with 38 convicted in court.

However, the news outlet reported last week that only 83 of the accused officers have been dismissed since 2010 - citing data, obtained through a Freedom of Information request, from January 1, 2010 to May 31, 2021. The sexual misconduct allegations reportedly range from sexual harassment to sexual assault, rape, and using a position of power for sexual gain.
The problem of 'lad culture' in the British police forces is a real and serious issue. But efforts to correct it must not be allowed to become an opening for an even worse "solution":

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