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Zaporozhye nuclear power plant press secretary admitted he gave false info about "Russian attacks" at the request of western media


Stalker Zone
Thu, 23 Jun 2022 00:00 UTC
andrey tuz
The press secretary of the Zaporozhye Nuclear Power Plant Andrey Tuz admitted that he had given false information about "Russian attacks" by order of the Western media.

"Now I understand that the information was untrue... after my appeal, I received a call from the international media, but the Kiev authorities forbade me to comment <...> This was information commissioned by the BBC. I voiced it at the command of the general director of the station Igor Murashov."
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Reporter says Democrats in Congress told her 'nobody gives a bleep about Jan. 6'

Daniel Chaitin
Washington Examiner
Wed, 22 Jun 2022 23:09 UTC
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Two congressional Democrats conceded that voters don't care about the Jan. 6 committee hearings, according to a reporter who spoke with them.

Politico national correspondent Betsy Woodruff Swan shared what she heard as Capitol Hill gears up for the 2022 midterm elections during a segment Wednesday on the streaming service NBC News NOW. The exchange took place as the Jan. 6 committee is in the midst of holding a slate of summer hearings in which members are working to tie former President Donald Trump's efforts to overturn the 2020 election results to the Capitol riot.

"Does the Jan. 6 hearing break through at all?" anchor Chuck Todd asked after he noted polling that shows most Republicans think Trump truly believed there was widespread fraud in the 2020 election.

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NH Poll: DeSantis 39 percent, Trump 37 percent

Rich Lowry
National Review
Wed, 22 Jun 2022 16:22 UTC
RDeSantis
© Ellen Schmidt/Las Vegas Review-Journal/APFlorida Governor Ron DeSantis
I've been thinking the chances are high that Trump runs again and wins the nomination, but this is an encouraging poll:


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Bad Guys

Ukraine Interior Ministry adviser lauds soldier bearing 'swastika'


RT
Thu, 23 Jun 2022 07:04 UTC
Ukrainian female soldier
© Twitter / Anton Gerashchenko
Ukraine Interior Ministry adviser Anton Gerashchenko has shared footage of a Ukrainian female soldier, bearing a swastika-like symbol.

The soldier, who apparently returned from the frontlines of the ongoing conflict with Russia, is seen reunited with her daughter and is giving her toy unicorns. Amid the emotional reunion, a swastika-style patch - a rounded solar cross with additional elements - can be clearly seen on the woman's backpack. Similar emblems were used by several Waffen-SS units in Nazi Germany during WW2.

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Red Flag

Rex Murphy: How ridiculous is it for universities to sideline sonnets? Let me count the ways

Rex Murphy
National Post
Sat, 21 May 2022 00:00 UTC
Shakespeare
A painting believed to date from around 1610 depicts Shakespeare in his mid-forties. Sonnets by Shakespeare, Milton and other great authors have been branded “products of white western culture” and sideline by the University of Sanford. PHOTO BY OLI SCARFF / GETTY IMAGES
Politics offers such sparse opportunities to talk about poetry that when even a sliver of a chance to do so blinks into view I will seize it.

I know in doing so I am missing the opportunity to join the ever swelling chorus of sage pundits warning of the horrible dangers to the Confederation of the Poilievre campaign — it's another truckers' convoy! — but there will be other days, other columns.
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Bizarro Earth

Will my kitchen be designated a 'safe space'?

Toby Young
The Spectator
Sat, 25 Jun 2022 02:11 UTC
safe space
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As the father of four children who will be entering higher education in the next few years, I'm worried that my home will shortly start to resemble a university campus. In other words, I'll be forced to declare my preferred gender pronouns, the kitchen will be designated a 'safe space' and the collected works of J.K. Rowling will be burnt on the garden lawn. You may think I'm joking, but a new poll from the Higher Education Policy Institute lays bare just how thin-skinned today's students are.

For instance, 61 per cent of undergraduates say that 'when in doubt' their university 'should ensure all students are protected from discrimination rather than allow unlimited free speech' and 79 per cent believe 'students that feel threatened should always have their demands for safety respected'. You may think it was ever thus - haven't the long-haired opium-eaters always been zealous enforcers of progressive orthodoxy? But the same questions were asked of students six years ago and they've become even less tolerant since then.
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Oil Well

Only 11% of Americans blame Putin for gas prices - poll


RT
Tue, 21 Jun 2022 22:22 UTC
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© AP/Jeff Chiu/ThomasCOEX/AFP/KJNCalifornia gas prices Menlo Park, California • March 21, 2022
Just 11% of Americans believe Russian President Vladimir Putin is to blame for record high gas prices in the US, according to a Rasmussen poll published on Tuesday. The majority instead have pointed the finger at US President Joe Biden.

More than half (52%) of respondents to the Rasmussen poll conducted last week cited Biden's poor energy policies as the reason gas has become unaffordable, meaning the administration's "Putin's price hike" narrative does not appear to be catching on.

Those who blame neither Biden nor Putin mention the oil companies, with 29% of respondents suggesting the industry is leveraging the current geopolitical instability to jack up its prices.

Perhaps aware that his "Putin's price hike" narrative no longer holds water, Biden has been leaning toward blaming oil and gas companies for the ruinous costs of fueling up, recently accusing the industry of "making more money than God." The president has insisted that oil companies are deliberately holding back from drilling "because they make more money not producing more oil."

While the US banned imports of Russian oil and gas in March, Moscow supplied just two percent of its oil before that and the US is a net gas exporter, leaving little support for the claim that Russia is responsible for the record highs at the pump.

Comment: 'Blame and Deflection' are Biden's strong suits. They come right after 'Lie, Cheat, Sniff and Steal'.
The future of the USA is on shaky ground as the substrates that have held it up are all but dissolved. It will not go gently.

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Happy 'Juneteenth': Want to know what the new CRT-inspired federal holiday is really all about?

Gothix
gothix.locals.com
Mon, 20 Jun 2022 00:00 UTC
Juneteenth
Critical Race Theory, or Race Marxism as James Lindsay would put it, is being ideologically institutionalized in the US. We knew about the CRT trainings that have made their way into government, private, and academic organizations - but this insidiously virulent and destructive mode of indoctrination has taken the form of a Federal holiday in the US. Now one year old.

Watch Youtuber Gothix's insightful deconstruction of 'Juneteenth' and learn why the holiday does exactly opposite of what it purports to support.

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Einstein

How to Kill the Incompetocracy

John Carter
Postcards From Barsoom
Tue, 21 Jun 2022 00:00 UTC
sci-fi scene
Ruling class legitimacy is built on academic prestige. That's a fatal weakness ripe for disruption.

There's a misconception out there that the source of the ruling class' legitimacy is the consent of the governed. The idea is that they derive their right to hold power from obeying some form of constitutional contract, which requires them to periodically seek the approval of the masses at the ballot box. The people having approved, they have their mandate and can do as they will (provided they follow the stipulations of the contract under which they gained it).

This is really only a very partial answer, and is relevant only to elected officials. It has nothing to do with the bureaucrats, corporate executives, university presidents, media moguls, and so on that compose the rest of the ruling class - indeed the bulk of it.

Others would say that it is ultimately money that is the source of power. Money is usually decisive in political campaigns; money distinguishes between what gets talked about and what doesn't in mass media; money chooses what gets funded (and what doesn't) in the universities. In this frame the ruling class is the bourgeoisie, the wealthy industrialists and financiers who direct society from their dark-panelled board rooms.
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NPC

US navy releases bizarre training video urging recruits to create pronoun "safe space"

Paul Joseph Watson
Summit News
Tue, 21 Jun 2022 00:01 UTC
navy training video safe space pronouns
China and Russia are laughing.

The US Navy has released a training video which looks like a children's TV show encouraging sailors to announce their pronouns in order to create a "safe space" and avoid "misgendering" people.

No, this isn't the Babylon Bee.

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