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Another Russian tycoon dies under strange circumstances


RFE/RL
Mon, 09 May 2022 00:00 UTC
Subbotin
© VerseDaily/Reuters/Maxim Shemetov/File Photo/KJNRussian magnate Alexander Subbotin • LUKOIL
A former top manager of LUKoil, Aleksandr Subbotin, has reportedly died under strange circumstances, the latest in a series of mysterious deaths of Russian businessmen since Moscow launched its unprovoked invasion of Ukraine on February 24.

Citing sources close to the Moscow regional police on May 9, media reported that forensic tests were held to find possible drugs in Subbotin's body, which was found in a basement in a house in the town of Mytishchi near the Russian capital on May 8.

According to the sources, the owner of the house where the billionaire's body was found, Aleksei Pindyurin, also known as Shaman Magua, testified to police that Subbotin came to his house under the influence of alcohol and drugs seeking a ritual he often asked Pindyurin to perform to relieve hangover symptoms.

Comment: Who has the motive, intent and ability to 'execute' these results?

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Israeli High Court greenlights forcible expulsion of more than 1,000 Palestinians in Masafer Yatta

Yumma Patel
Mondoweiss
Fri, 06 May 2022 00:00 UTC
Carrying off woman protesting
© Mosab Shawer/APA ImagesPalestinians protest demolition
The Israeli High Court on Wednesday greenlit the forcible expulsion of 1,200 Palestinians in the Masafer Yatta area of the southern occupied West Bank, ending a more than two-decade battle in the courts.

The Israeli government claims the residents of eight herding communities in an area of the South Hebron Hills, known as Masafer Yatta, are residing "illegally" in a military firing zone, and has been attempting to expel them from the area for decades.

The residents of Masafer Yatta, however, date their presence in the area several decades ago, before the area was occupied by Israel in 1967, and declared a firing zone by the military in the 1980s.

Late Wednesday night, the High Court rejected an appeal by the residents against their expulsion, paving the way for the Israeli military to demolish their homes and forcibly expel them from their land, a crime under international law.

Comment: Violating international law never stopped Israeli confiscation and demolition of Palestinian residences. It won't now.

Israel's Supreme Court upholds expulsion order:
"Without warning in the middle of the night, the Israeli High Court of Justice published a verdict with unprecedented consequences," the Association for Civil Rights in Israel, which has represented the residents throughout the process, said in a statement.

"The High Court has officially authorized leaving entire families, with their children and their elderly, without a roof over their heads," it said.

Roni Pelli, an attorney at the association, said the verdict is final and it's not clear if there are any further legal steps that can be taken. The forcible displacement of the communities could happen at any time.

The families say they have been there for decades, from long before Israel captured the West Bank in the 1967 Mideast war. They practice a traditional form of desert agriculture and animal herding, with some living in caves at least part of the year, but say their only homes are in the hardscrabble communities now at risk of demolition.
"The occupation court just decided: My community will be destroyed," tweeted Basel Adra, a prominent activist from the area. "The army can now place us on trucks, 2,400 people, and expel us from our ancient villages, one by one."
The West Bank has been under Israeli military rule for nearly 55 years. Masafer Yatta is in the 60% of the territory where the Palestinian Authority is prohibited from operating. The Palestinians want the West Bank to form the main part of their future state.


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Civilians celebrating Victory Day killed in Donetsk shelling


RT
Tue, 10 May 2022 17:55 UTC
ukraine shell donetsk may day parade
© Donetsk People's Republic/TelegramUkraine shelled Donetsk civilian areas over two days, May 8-10, 2022
The Donbass republic said Ukrainian forces have been striking residential areas

More civilians have been killed and hurt in Donetsk after two straight days of shelling by Ukraine, officials from the Donetsk People's Republic (DPR) said on Tuesday.

Two people were killed and five wounded, including a child, in the city's northern Kievsky district, DPR officials said. They added that four people were also injured during shelling of the Kirovsky district in the western part of Donetsk.

Videos from the scene show missile parts lying on the ground.

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Truth Hurts

John Carter
barsoom.substack.com
Mon, 09 May 2022 17:33 UTC
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Pain is weakness leaving the body, and truth entering the mind.

I don't think I'm alone in my continuous incredulity over the last two years, watching what seems like most of the human species throw reason to the wind as they fall for the largest psychological warfare operation in recorded history. For those of us who have retained our wits, one of the questions we find ourselves asking is - how did this happen?

That question is especially pressing when it comes to our intellectual classes - the academics, scholars, and scientists who get paid to do the bulk of humanity's abstract thinking. With a few notable exceptions, they've dropped the ball something fierce, and we've all paid the price for it. Since starting this substack I've been writing a post-mortem debrief on the DIEing1 academy, the most recent entry in which you can find here. I've been doing that as a sort of therapy. Frankly, if you're a vaguely sane human being trapped in the Stalinist bedlam of the modern Western university, you're in need of a bit of therapy now and then.

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The truth about Roe & Casey

Josie Glabach
Timcast
Sat, 07 May 2022 00:01 UTC
norma mccorvey gloria allred
© Laurie Shaull/Flickr
Strike down Roe? Casey already kind of did that.

Since the leak of Justice Alito's Roe and Casey opinion, I've noticed a trend of Americans who seem to have no idea what they are talking about. I'm not saying this to be crass. I'm saying this as someone who reads case law for fun — and I don't blame these people. They haven't been told "no" in a decade by anyone with power or influence and those with power and influence have spent years affirming their own confirmation biases that led them astray — whether by feigning consensus, unity, and popular opinion or validating feelings over evidence.

Being right all the time makes a person feel good, but now we have a generation of dopamine addicts and the truth is, when it comes to Roe — arguably the most controversial ruling in the last 50 years — no one seems to have ever read it. Nor does it seem anyone has read Casey, for that matter. If they had, we likely wouldn't be up to our necks in The Handmaid's Tale. So let me break it down for you.

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Beloved child star Fred Savage fired from 'Wonder Years' reboot amid allegation of misconduct

Michael Robison
Timcast
Sat, 07 May 2022 00:01 UTC
fred savage
On Friday, actor Fred Savage was fired as executive producer and director of ABC's reboot of The Wonder Years after allegations of inappropriate conduct, according to a spokesman for 20th Television.

The production company, 20th Television, did not disclose the details of the allegations.

Savage starred in the original series in the late '80s and early '90s. He was known for playing the main character, Kevin Arnold. He has served as the executive producer and director of the show's reboot, which debuted last year.
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Chicago Mayor Lori Lightfoot issues 'CALL TO ARMS' over US Supreme Court

Ari Hoffman
The Post Millennial
Tue, 10 May 2022 05:35 UTC
lori lightfoot tweet
Chicago Democrat Mayor Lori Lightfoot issued a "call to arms" in reaction to the leak of the US Supreme Court draft ruling which could overturn Roe v Wade.


Comment: It seems so easy to amp people up based on a misunderstanding of what bills and legal motions actually mean. We saw this with the infamous "Don't Say Gay" bill which had absolutely nothing to do with what almost everyone who protested it thought it meant. And now we see it with the possible overturning of Roe vs. Wade. All this does is return the decision of the legal status of abortion to the state rather than have it enforced at the federal level. How many people out there protesting are aware of this?

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"This is apartheid": An interview with outgoing UN human rights official Michael Lynk on Israel

David Kattenburg
Mondoweiss
Tue, 03 May 2022 00:01 UTC
michael lynk UN
© UNMichael Lynk briefs reporters at UN headquarters in New York on October 26, 2017.
Outgoing UN Special Rapporteur Michael Lynk on how Israel is practicing apartheid, and the steps the international community can take to force Israel to abandon its "fever-dream of settler-colonialism."

For those who keep track, a new chapter has opened in the chronicling of Israeli Apartheid.

The idea that Israel is guilty of this gravest of crimes is now officially published at the website of the Office of the UN High Commissioner on Human Rights, set forth in a flurry of reports and statements authored by Canadian human rights lawyer Michael Lynk in the closing days of his six-year tenure as 'Special Rapporteur on the situation of Human Rights in the Palestinian territories occupied since 1967'.

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Nonprofit watchdog uncovers $350 million in secret payments to Fauci, Collins, others at NIH

Mark Tapscott
The Epoch Times
Mon, 09 May 2022 07:55 UTC
NIH Director Dr. Francis Collins
© Sarah Silbiger/Pool via APNIH Director Dr. Francis Collins holds up a model of the coronavirus as he testifies before a Senate Appropriations Subcommittee looking into the budget estimates for the National Institute of Health (NIH) and the state of medical research, on Capitol Hill on May 26, 2021.
An estimated $350 million in undisclosed royalties were paid to the National Institutes of Health (NIH) and hundreds of its scientists, including the agency's recently departed director, Dr. Francis Collins, and Dr. Anthony Fauci, according to a nonprofit government watchdog.

"We estimate that up to $350 million in royalties from third parties were paid to NIH scientists during the fiscal years between 2010 and 2020," Open the Books CEO Adam Andrzejewski told reporters in a telephone news conference on May 9.

"We draw that conclusion because, in the first five years, there has been $134 million that we have been able to quantify of top-line numbers that flowed from third-party payers, meaning pharmaceutical companies or other payers, to NIH scientists."

The first five years, from 2010 to 2014, constitute 40 percent of the total, he said.
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UK train worker sues after being fired for questioning "white privilege" training

Paul Joseph Watson
Summit News
Fri, 06 May 2022 00:00 UTC
train uk
© ChrisHepburn Getty Images
A train worker is suing a company who fired him for questioning "white privilege" diversity training during a conversation with his wife.

60-year-old Simon Isherwood, who works as a train conductor, was fired by West Midlands Trains for gross misconduct.

"After the diversity training held in March 2021, Isherwood forgot his microphone was still on and, speaking to his wife, some colleagues heard him questioning white privilege," reports Reclaim the Net. "He was then reported by colleagues who were "angered" by the comments."
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