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George Galloway sues Twitter in Dublin over 'Russian state-affiliated' label

Simon Carswell
The Irish Times
Wed, 25 May 2022 16:21 UTC
Former British MP George Galloway
© Gareth Fuller/PA WireFormer British MP George Galloway is suing social media network Twitter in the High Court in Dublin for labelling his account 'Russian state-affiliated media'
Former British Labour MP George Galloway has taken a High Court action in Dublin against Twitter for defamation after it labelled his account "Russian state-affiliated media".

The politician and broadcaster is also claiming in the legal proceedings that the social media company unlawfully processed his personal data by labelling and censoring his account.

The 67-year-old presented The Mother of All Talkshows on the Russian state-owned Radio Sputnik service, and also presented Sputnik: Orbiting the World with George Galloway on the Kremlin-linked RT network, formerly known as Russia Today, until it was shut down with British government sanctions in March over the Russian invasion of Ukraine. Mr Galloway's talkshow continues to be broadcast on YouTube.

The "Russian state-affiliated media" designation by Twitter appears on Mr Galloway's profile and on tweets posted on the network. Mr Galloway said in a statement that Twitter's "unjust labelling of honestly held political views is the New McCarthyism and it must be held accountable".
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Mr. Potato

"Sick son of a bitch": Beto O'Rourke crashes school shooting press conference


Zerohedge
Wed, 25 May 2022 13:58 UTC
Beto O'Rourke
Former Democratic presidential candidate Beto O'Rourke crashed a press conference by Texas Governor Greg Abbott on Wednesday, interrupting the event to push for gun control following the massacre of 19 students and two teachers at Robb Elementary school in Uvalde, Texas.

"This was totally predictable" O'Rourke can be heard shouting, adding "The time to stop the next shooting is now, and you are doing nothing."

"This is on you," he exclaimed.

To which Uvalde Mayor Don McLaughlin shouted back: "You're out of line.. I can't believe you're a sick son of a bitch who would come to a deal like this to make a political issue."

Watch:

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Chess

Financial analyst: US engineering artificial Russian default


RT
Wed, 25 May 2022 16:31 UTC
red sqaure
The latest US decision to not extend the general license waiver that allows Russia to make sovereign debt payments is an attempt to force the sanctions-hit nation into an "artificial default," according to Kyle Shostak, the director & CEO at Navigator Principal Investors.

The move will "effectively turn Russia's liabilities to the category of default as it is commonly understood and interpreted by international rating agencies," Shostak said in an interview with TASS.

"This situation can be called nothing but enforcement of an artificial default, as Russia now has enough funds to service its external debt."
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Bizarro Earth

One billion people at risk of power blackouts as global grids stretched


Zerohedge
Tue, 24 May 2022 23:45 UTC
global power grid
This summer, power grids worldwide won't produce enough electricity to meet the soaring demand, threatening more than one billion people with rolling blackouts. Grids are stretched thin by fossil fuel shortages, drought and heatwaves, commodity disruptions and soaring prices due to the war in Ukraine, and the failed green energy transition where grid operators retired too many fossil fuel generation plants. Combine this all together, and a perfect storm of blackouts threatens much of the Northern Hemisphere.

The power crisis, affecting a large swath of the world and top economies, could be less than a month away when summer begins on June 21. Regions that concerned Bloomberg are Asia, Europe, and the US, where there's not enough power to go around when cooling demand is set to surge as households crank up their air conditions to escape the sweltering heat.
Asia's heatwave has caused hours-long daily blackouts, putting more than 1 billion people at risk across Pakistan, Myanmar, Sri Lanka and India, with little relief in sight. Six Texas power plants failed earlier this month as the summer heat just began to arrive, offering a preview of what's to come. At least a dozen US states from California to the Great Lakes are at risk of electricity outages this summer. Power supplies will be tight in China and Japan. South Africa is poised for a record year of power cuts. And Europe is in a precarious position that's held up by Russia — if Moscow cuts off natural gas to the region, that could trigger rolling outages in some countries. --Bloomberg
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Black Magic

The NHS just edited their Monkeypox page...to make it scarier


OffGuardian
Tue, 24 May 2022 08:47 UTC
NHS England
A few days ago the UK's National Health Service (NHS) edited their Monkeypox page to alter the narrative in a few key ways.

Firstly, they removed a paragraph from the "How do you get Monkeypox?" section.

Up until a few days ago, according to archived links, the Monkeypox page said this, regarding person-to-person tranmission [emphasis added]:
It's very uncommon to get monkeypox from a person with the infection because it does not spread easily between people.
...this has now been totally removed.

Comment: See also:

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Arrow Down

Americans have lost $20 Trillion since the start of 2022


Zerohedge
Mon, 23 May 2022 06:55 UTC
economic collapse
Citing estimates from JPMorgan, over the weekend Bloomberg wrote that courtesy of a Biden administration terrified of what soaring inflation will mean for the Democrats in the midterms, and a Fed that is determine to do anything - even crash the market and spark a recession - to do Joe Biden's "kill inflation" bidding, the US faces a new scary threat: a plunge in wealth which JPM estimates at least $5 trillion, and could reach $9 trillion by year-end.

In short, the world's richest nation is waking up to an unpleasant and unfamiliar sensation: It's getting poorer... and worst of all, it's getting poorer at the behest of its own leaders.
Since the start of the year, the S&P 500 Index is down 18%, the Nasdaq 100 has lost 27% and a Bloomberg index of cryptocurrencies has plunged 48%. That all amounts to "a wealth shock that is set to drag on growth in the coming year," JPMorgan economists led by Michael Feroli wrote in a note Friday.
Of course, this is not news to regular readers who have known about this one unpleasant side-effect of Biden's phobia for higher prices: we pointed out as much almost two weeks ago.
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Eye 2

Fauci's NIH division caught trying to spend almost $2M on MORE puppy experiments

Asher Notheis
Washington Examiner
Tue, 24 May 2022 02:57 UTC
Fauci
FILE PHOTO: Dr. Anthony Fauci
Dr. Anthony Fauci may feel the bite from the reveal that the National Institutes of Health is seeking to spend almost $2 million on more puppy experiments.

NIH's National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases allocated $1,836,453 in taxpayer dollars to test an experimental hay fever drug on mice, rats, and dogs, including 6-month-old puppies. Symptoms of hay fever, also known as seasonal allergies, include a runny nose and sneezing, according to funding documents recovered by the White Coat Waste Project.

"Fauci's white coats at NIAID have forced taxpayers to pay millions to debark and poison puppies, infest beagles with ticks and flies, and, now, needlessly torture puppies to test a new drug to treat a runny nose," Devin Murphy, White Coat Waste Project's public policy and communications manager, told the Washington Examiner. "The FDA has stated clearly that it doesn't mandate dog testing for human drugs, and even NIAID's own contractor acknowledges that the dog testing demanded by Fauci's agency is unnecessary because alternative animal models are available."

Comment: See also: Fauci's institute funded 'deadly & unnecessary' experiments on DOGS, animal research watchdog says

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Pistol

Best of the Web: Texas terror: 18-year-old shoots own grandmother, slaughters 19 children and two teachers in elementary school

Nakia Cooper
Click2Houston
Tue, 24 May 2022 22:09 UTC
uvalde
Deadly shooting at Texas elementary school
An 18-year-old man shot his own grandmother before storming into a West Texas elementary school and opening fire Tuesday morning, just two days shy of the end of the school year. During the rampage, 14 students and one teacher were killed, Texas Governor Greg Abbott said.


Comment: The death toll has since climbed to 19 children and two adults. Elementary school pupils, by the way, are between the ages of 5 and 11.


Abbott has identified the gunman as 18-year-old Salvador Ramos, who was shot and killed by law enforcement. Two officers were also struck by gunfire, but they were not seriously injured.

According to authorities, Ramos, who was armed with a handgun and possibly a rifle, shot his grandmother before entering Robb Elementary School in Uvalde, Texas around 12 p.m.

The school, which is about 85 miles west of San Antonio, has an enrollment of just under 600 students. Terrified children, ranging from second to fourth graders, were reportedly trying to climb out of windows to escape the building.

Comment: Brief audio of the shooting, as filmed from a nearby location:


The gunman's profile pic:



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Sherlock

43 rail cars carrying potash fertilizer derailed in Canada, occurs amidst global fertilizer shortage

Dominika Lirette
CBC
Tue, 24 May 2022 22:01 UTC
potash train derailment
© Rhonda SauerbergAbout 43 CP Rail cars carrying potash were derailed northeast of Fort Macleod on Sunday, said RCMP.
About 43 westbound Canadian Pacific (CP) Rail cars carrying potash derailed northeast of Fort Macleod, Alta., Sunday morning, RCMP say.

At 8:15 a.m., Mounties responded to a train derailment between Range Roads 251 and 252, near Highway 3. Fire crews and CP Rail also came to the scene, according to police.

There are no injuries or concerns to public safety, RCMP say.

The cause of the derailment is under investigation, a spokesperson for CP Rail told CBC News.

Comment: LibertyWire provides more details:
From the Government of Canada:
Potash is the common name given to a group of minerals and chemicals that contain potassium (chemical symbol K), which is a basic nutrient for plants and an important ingredient in fertilizer. Most potash is produced as potassium chloride (KCl). However, we often measure and refer to it in terms of potassium oxide (K2O) equivalence for consistency because deposits can have different percentages of potassium.
Potash is primarily used to produce fertilizer.

After this incident, expect fertilizer costs to continue soaring through the roof.
This incident hasn't received much publicity, even though it is rather curious, and has occurred amidst what numerous world leaders have called a looming 'global famine'. Recall also that, just a few weeks ago numerous food processing plants in the US were going up in flames: Multiple large food processing & distribution plants in US have recently exploded or burned down

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Biohazard

How convenient: Gene-edited crops sped up to guarantee food supplies

Danielle Sheridan
The Telegraph
Sun, 22 May 2022 22:30 UTC
wheat
© NurPhotoThese products can be freely bought, transferred, and insured, Foreign Policy Chief, Josep Borrell says
The production of gene-edited crops is to be sped up to help guarantee British food supplies in the wake of the conflict in Ukraine.

Russian blockades are preventing the export of key goods such as wheat from the country, leading to rising food prices and shortages globally.

Amid concern over the UK's food self-sufficiency, the Government will this week introduce a Bill which will allow farms to grow more crops by planting variants that have been edited to be more resistant to disease or need less water or fertiliser.

Comment: See also:



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