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Latvia launches criminal investigations over V-Day celebrations


RT
Fri, 13 May 2022 19:03 UTC
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© Sputnik / Sergey Melkonov
Three criminal cases and 20 administrative ones have been launched against people who laid flowers at the World War II memorial in the Latvian capital, Riga, on May 10, the police said on Friday. A young man who brought Russia's national flag to the monument to Soviet soldiers has been charged with justifying genocide, crimes against humanity, crimes against peace and war crimes.

In video clips uploaded online, he was filmed addressing the crowd on the importance of remembering and celebrating the legacy of those who gave their lives in the battle against the Nazis, and urging the people not to be afraid to voice their stance. Alexander Stefanov's mother confirmed to news agency Sputnik that her son had been detained. She also said that Latvian law enforcement officers had arrived to search her home. The charges Stefanov faces could carry up to 15 years behind bars, according to the Baltic nation's laws. Several other people who came to the monument have been accused of resisting the police.

The Latvian authorities have declared May 9 - when Russia celebrates its Second World War victory over the Nazis - a day of mourning for those who died or were wounded during Moscow's military offensive in Ukraine.

Comment: Making laws against freedom of expression, always a good sign for the citizens of a state. Enjoy your freedom while it's still there Latvians.

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Foreign military volunteers share their experiences of fighting in Ukraine


RT
Fri, 13 May 2022 17:30 UTC
Borodyanka, Ukraine
© AP Photo/Vadim Ghirda
According to Ukrainian officials, over 20,000 foreign nationals from 52 countries have arrived in the country to participate in the ongoing military conflict between Russia and Ukraine. However, some have shared their experiences claiming that they had been asked to take part in suicide missions, others complain of corrupt commanders and little or poor equipment.

Mamuka Mamulashvili, who serves as the commander of the Georgian Legion - an international brigade set up in Ukraine in 2014 - told the UK's Telegraph newspaper that he estimates that "70% of people who've come out to join the International Legion have already turned back," adding that those who are coming into the country are too impatient to see combat. "This isn't war tourism," he says.

A volunteer from the UK, Matt Robinson, who serves as a military trainer in Kiev, noted that many of the foreign nationals coming into the country are severely unprepared for what awaits them as some of the recruits have nothing but simple hunting experience and basic survival skills.

"You're likely to get hit by shelling long before you'll ever get the chance to exchange fire with anybody, which is what most people want to do," he warned, noting that the Russia-Ukraine conflict is primarily an artillery war, where soldiers spend most of their time taking cover rather than shooting at each other.
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Eggs Fried

Tesco customers 'are asking staff to stop scanning their food' when budget limit is hit as boss says windfall taxes needed on energy companies

Ellie Kemp
Manchester Evening News
Wed, 11 May 2022 15:14 UTC
Tesco express
© Tolga Akmen / AFP
John Allan said customers are "extremely stretched" as costs soar

A Tesco boss has said that customers have been asking check out staff to stop scanning their grocery shop once their bill hits a certain amount, as households continue to feel the cost of living squeeze.

Talking on BBC Radio 4 Today's show, John Allan, chairman of Tesco, said there is an "overwhelming need" for a windfall tax on energy companies after seeing the supermarket's customers "extremely stretched". On a recent visit to a Tesco store, John said he witnessed customers asking staff to stop scanning items "for the first time in years."

He said: "I was hearing for the first time for many years of customers saying to check out staff, 'stop when you get to £40,' or something, 'I don't want to spend a penny over that.' You know, as opposed to having everything checked out and settling the bill at the end.

"So I think a lot of people are feeling something of a pinch and lots of people are actually feeling extremely stretched. "
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Evil Rays

Rise of the New Normal Reich

CJ Hopkins
Consent Factory
Mon, 09 May 2022 00:00 UTC
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I told you this part wasn't going to be pretty. I didn't think it would get to the point where the Wall Street Journal would go full Buck Turgidson and call on the United States to "show it can win a nuclear war," but I wasn't entirely off the mark either. Back in January (i.e., a million years ago), in The Last Days of the Covidian Cult, I wrote:
" ... we are getting dangerously close to the point where GloboCap will need to go full-blown fascist if they want to finish what they started. If that happens, things are going to get very ugly. I know, things are already ugly, but I'm talking a whole different kind of ugly. Think Jonestown, or Hitler's final days in the bunker, or the last few months of the Manson Family."
I don't know about you, but I kind of feel like the threat of global thermonuclear war qualifies as a "different kind of ugly." And, OK, before you accuse me of exaggerating the danger of the ungodly mess that GloboCap has made in the Ukraine, I'd like to point out that even Thomas Friedman is starting to sound the alarm. Thomas fucking Friedman, folks ... a man with no moral conscience whatsoever, who has never met a GloboCap war of aggression that he could not support, and who has justified the gratuitous barbecuing of millions of men, women, and children without so much as a second thought throughout his long and lucrative career as an A-List mouthpiece for the ruling classes. When The Stash gets nervous, I start to get nervous.
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War Whore

Moscow reacts to deadly cross-border attack


Source
Fri, 13 May 2022 10:19 UTC
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© Sputnik/Taisia LiskovetsA view shows a damaged fence of a residential house after a shelling as Russia's military operation in Ukraine continues, in the village of Solokhi in Belgorod region bordering Ukraine, Russia.
The Kremlin is calling for additional measures to strengthen security at the Ukraine border.

Additional steps will be necessary to strengthen security in Russia's regions bordering Ukraine because of repeated shelling by Kiev's forces, President Vladimir Putin's spokesman Dmitry Peskov said on Thursday.

This comes after a Ukrainian artillery strike on Solokhi, a village in Belgorod Region located about 11 kilometers from the Ukrainian border, left seven Russian civilians injured and one dead on Wednesday.

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Biohazard

North Korea reports first positive Covid-19 case, declares emergency


France24
Thu, 12 May 2022 03:59 UTC
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© KCNA via ReutersNorth Korean leader Kim Jong Un at a military parade to mark the 90th anniversary of the founding of the Korean People's Revolutionary Army. Photo undated.
North Korea has confirmed its first-ever case of Covid-19 and declared a "severe national emergency", with leader Kim Jong Un vowing to "eliminate" the virus, state media said Thursday.

The impoverished, nuclear-armed country has never admitted to a case of Covid-19, with the government imposing a rigid coronavirus blockade of its borders since the start of the pandemic in 2020.

But samples taken from patients sick with fever in the capital were "consistent with" the virus' highly transmissible Omicron variant, the official Korean Central News Agency reported.

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War Whore

Fatal shelling from Ukraine shakes Russian village


Source
Fri, 13 May 2022 08:34 UTC
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© Telegram / @rybar
One killed, seven wounded, including a teenager, in an artillery attack on Belgorod Region.

One Russian civilian was killed on Wednesday in a Ukrainian artillery strike on Solokhi, a village near the border in the Belgorod Region. Seven more people have been injured, the regional governor said on social media. The area is being evacuated.

"The village of Solokhi, Belgorod Region, has been hit by shelling from the Ukrainian side," Governor Vyacheslav Gladkov said on Telegram on Wednesday evening.

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Toys

The Roe v Wade decision is not about abortion. It's about preserving a republic

Memoree Joelle
RT
Thu, 12 May 2022 12:40 UTC
Anti-abortion and abortion rights demonstrators
© Yasin Ozturk / Anadolu Agency via Getty ImagesAnti-abortion and abortion rights demonstrators during a protest outside the US Supreme Court in Washington, DC, US, on Tuesday, May 3, 2022.
It's about time we Americans remembered we are supposed to govern our own lives.

While feminists and left-wing activists nationwide decry the leaked Roe v. Wade Supreme Court decision draft as an attack on women's rights, the real issue is not about women or even about abortion. What happens next with Roe v. Wade could help steer the US back toward what the founding fathers intended - a Court that keeps majoritarianism in check as it upholds the Constitution.

When debating issues such as Roe v. Wade, it is important that we all first and foremost understand that America is a constitutional republic, not a democracy. In a democracy, the minority of a population are always subject to majority rule - no matter how morally bankrupt that majority may be or may become. The founders feared that very scenario, and thanks to the wisdom and foresight of men like James Madison, our system of government doesn't function that way. Instead, we have a system of checks and balances under republican governance, where the minority is not at the mercy of the majority. Over time, this essential characteristic of our government has been diluted and sometimes outright ignored, as with the original Roe v. Wade decision. If the judges in 1973 had respected the role of the Court in relation to the Constitution, abortion law would have stayed at the state level. For a small group of judges to make Roe's case the law of the land, was, in fact, anti-Constitutional.

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Attention

Whistleblowers: FBI probed parents under counterterrorism 'threat tag' for protesting school boards

Susan Ferrechio
The Washington Times
Thu, 12 May 2022 00:01 UTC
Attorney General Merrick Garland
© AP Photo/Patrick SemanskyAttorney General Merrick Garland attends a news conference to announce actions to enhance the Biden administration's environmental justice efforts, Thursday, May 5, 2022, at the Department of Justice in Washington.
The FBI used "threat tags" created by the bureau's counterterrorism division to launch dozens of investigations into parents who had protested at school board meetings, whistleblowers disclosed.

The probes targeted parents who were reported on a new Justice Department "snitch line."

The FBI investigations included a father opposed to mask mandates and a mother deemed a threat for "owning guns" and belonging to a group called "Moms for Liberty."

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Bizarro Earth

Blinded by gender

Lisa Selin Davis
Substack
Wed, 11 May 2022 05:09 UTC
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This story is according to Michele's testimony. I have verified aspects of the story and looked at court documents that support it. I am using the child's legal name and pronoun associated with her sex, for clarity.

The FBI found 15-year-old Sage on Sept. 2, 2021. She had been kept in a locked room, where she'd been held captive and trafficked for sex after running away from home just over a week before. When the authorities called her mother, Michele, they told her she and her husband Roger could pick her up the next day at Waxter Children's Center, a girls' detention facility in Laurel, MD, where she'd been sent after she was kept in the hospital overnight to administer a rape exam.

So Michele and Roger, overwhelmed with relief, drove from Virginia to Maryland to get her first thing in the morning, their car stuffed with blankets, pillows, her favorite stuffed animals and snacks.

They arrived at the detention center ("a nice term for 'jail'," Michele said, noting there were no criminal charges against Sage), but were told they would not be allowed to see their child, let alone hold her in their arms, with no explanation. Instead, they'd have to appear in court at 4:00PM.

They had no idea why.

In court, Michele and Roger were deemed abusive and denied custody, informed that they couldn't bring the child home. The reason? They had been inconsistent about using Sage's preferred pronouns, or the name she'd been going by for three weeks.
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