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Russia reveals number of captured Ukrainian POWs


RT
Tue, 03 May 2022 07:07 UTC
Russian military truck
© Sputnik / Russian Defence Ministry
Many Ukrainian servicemen see resistance as "futile" and prefer to lay down arms, Russia's top investigator told RT

Russia is holding about 2,000 Ukrainian servicemen "who have voluntarily laid down their arms," including five brigade commanders who "were fighting against the Donbass population," the head of the Investigative Committee Alexander Bastrykin announced on Tuesday.

In an interview with RT, Bastrykin said that investigators were working with prisoners of war and were getting "many details about the circumstances of the Ukrainian regime's crimes."
"Everyone sees that Ukrainian servicemen, no matter how it sounds in the Western media and propagandist social media, prefer to surrender when a good opportunity arises. They understand the futility of resistance," Bastrykin claimed.
The testimonies of those captured have provided the Russian authorities with information about the Ukrainian forces' work with foreign advisors, as well as about foreign mercenaries, the Investigative Committee's head revealed.

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Sheriff

'No restrictions on unvaccinated' decrees India's Supreme Court, orders gov't to make side effect data public


India.tv
Mon, 02 May 2022 20:02 UTC
india supreme court
© PTINobody can be forced to undergo COVID-19 vaccinations: Supreme Court
The Supreme Court on Monday said that no person can be forced to get vaccinated against COVID-19 and directed the Central government to make public adverse effects of vaccination.

A bench of Justices L Nageswara Rao and BR Gavai said bodily autonomy and integrity are protected under Article 21 of the Constitution. The top court said the current COVID-19 vaccine policy cannot be said to be manifestly arbitrary and unreasonable.

"Till numbers are low, we suggest that relevant orders are followed and no restriction is imposed on unvaccinated individuals on access to public areas or recall the same if already not done," the bench said.

Comment: Meanwhile in Europe tens of thousands of people have lost their jobs for not suffering the jab, whilst many more did so only under a bombardment of propaganda and extreme coercion, despite the variety of possible serious side effects, including death, due to the injections: Also check out SOTT radio's: NewsReal: NAZI Redux - Covid Camps in Australia, Mandatory Vaccinations in EU



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Arrow Up

Bulgarian industry prepares to protest over gas costs


RT
Tue, 03 May 2022 11:01 UTC
Bulgaria gas
© Getty Images/Juan Silva/KJN
Bulgarian industry workers are preparing to protest the rising gas prices, the executive director of the Bulgarian Federation of Industrial Energy Consumers (BFIEC), Ivaylo Naydenov, said on Monday following the recent suspension of Russian gas supplies.

In an interview with Radio Bulgaria, Naydenov said the federation has called on the government to take measures to reduce prices or at least keep them at current levels. "Otherwise, we will have no choice but to organize protests, as announced by the employers' organizations."

He revealed that Prime Minister Kiril Petkov has already been informed by the BFIEC of the potential protests.

The Bulgarian government earlier announced that Petkov and two of his deputies would hold a meeting on May 5 with the representatives of employers' organizations to discuss "prices on natural gas and electricity, as well as the measures required in response."

This follows remarks by the head of the BFIEC board, Konstantin Stamenov. Speaking on Monday to Nova News, he said members of the federation "definitely cannot accept a new price of gas," and if there is no compensation, they are going to stage a protest - and the same warning applies to electricity.
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Elon Musk: Champion of free speech or wolf in sheep's clothing?

Ryan Matters
Off-Guardian
Wed, 04 May 2022 18:06 UTC
Musk at Party
© Off-Guardian
Recently, the news broke that Elon Musk (now the world's richest man) acquired Twitter. Musk claims that he's a "free speech absolutist" and his takeover of the company was motivated by his passion for open discourse.

Musk called Twitter "the digital town square where matters vital to the future of humanity are debated". He feels that free speech is "the bedrock of a functioning democracy" and that's why he just couldn't bear to witness the tech platform engage in such brash censorship.

Sounds good, right?

After all, many of us have been voicing our concerns about the Orwellian rise in censorship over the last few years, and here's a billionaire siding with us (for once).

In fact, mere days after Musk's offer was accepted by Twitter's board, previously banned accounts began to return to the platform.

It seems almost too good to be true...and maybe it is.

WHO IS ELON MUSK?

Before hopping aboard the Musk express, we'd do well to remind ourselves exactly who this man is and what he represents.

Patrick Wood of Technocracy.news recently wrote a great article on this very topic in which he identifies Musk as having four distinct identities - "Transhumanist", "Technocrat", "Space Pioneer" and "Eccentric Father".
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Black Magic

Democrat-run states 'redirected' COVID-19 relief funds to implement CRT in public schools

Ari Hoffman
The Post Millennial
Wed, 04 May 2022 17:28 UTC
Chuck Schumer and Nancy Pelosi classroom crt
Left: Chuck Schumer and Nancy Pelosi
Democrat controlled states across the US have been using billions of taxpayer dollars from President Joe Biden and the Democrats' $1.9 trillion American Rescue Plan (ARP) COVID-19 relief package to enact critical race theory curricula in public schools.

The Democrats claimed that the ARP, which was passed in March 2021 without any Republican support, was a necessity for reopening schools during the coronavirus pandemic, despite many private schools already having opened safely.

The legislation also provided over $122 billion for the Elementary and Secondary School Emergency Relief Fund (ESSER), which many blue states used to implement "anti-racism" and "implicit bias" training.
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PayPal's IndyMedia wipeout

Matt Taibbi
Substack
Tue, 03 May 2022 17:37 UTC
paypal indy media
In the last week or so, the online payment platform PayPal without explanation suspended the accounts of a series of individual journalists and media outlets, including the well-known alt sites Consortium News and MintPress. Each received a variation of the following message:

paypal block
Unlike many on the list, Consortium editor Joe Lauria succeeded in reaching a human being at the company in search of details about the frozen or "held" funds referenced in the note. The PayPal rep told him that if the company decided "there was a violation" after a half-year review period, then "it is possible" PayPal would keep the $9,348.14 remaining in Consortium's account, as "damages."

"A secretive process in which they could award themselves damages, not by a judge or a jury," Lauria says. "Totally in secret."

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Bullseye

Best of the Web: Fiction disguised as science to promote hatred

Dr. Byram W. Bridle
Substack
Wed, 27 Apr 2022 06:32 UTC
If you only have a few minutes, jump to the section below entitled "Proof that the Paper by Fisman, et al. Should be Retracted Immediately".

why would my unvaccinated kids
The legacy media has been like pigs at a trough today and yesterday with the publication of an atrocious 'peer-reviewed' 'scientific' article by Dr. David Fisman, Dr. Ashleigh Tuite, and a graduate student. After all, with raw public health data unable to support the only COVID-19 narrative that has been deemed acceptable, fresh fuel was apparently needed. Lots of media outlets have been reporting on this study; one of them being CTV News. Here is the headline for their article:
"Being with unvaccinated people increases COVID-19 risk for those who are vaccinated: modelling study"
This kind of messaging will only fuel hatred and segregation and the potential development of harmful policies. And it is all in the name of bad science. As a researcher who has published and reviewed many scientific papers, I can tell you that the article by Fisman, et al. is the worst one that I have ever seen. The 'peer reviewers' of this article should be ashamed of themselves for allowing this to be published, and the editor even more so. If the Canadian Medical Association Journal does not promptly retract this article, they will have made themselves an embarrassment among scientific publishers.

This paper by Fisman, et al. is only thinly veiled hate speech under the guise of science. Before I walk you through the numerous massive errors in this paper, let me first show you one example of the messaging regarding the impact and relevance of the paper.
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Scores of protesters detained in Armenia over unfounded claims PM may compromise on Karabakh


RT
Tue, 03 May 2022 14:44 UTC
protest armenia
© AP / Vahram BaghdasaryanPolice detain a demonstrator during a protest rally in Yerevan, May 2, 2022.
More than 200 protesters have been detained on Monday in the Armenian capital of Yerevan during mass protests sparked by recent remarks by the country's prime minister, Nikol Pashinyan, about the longstanding Nagorno-Karabakh conflict.

The weekend saw thousands of opposition supporters gather in central Yerevan as part of a campaign to oust Pashinyan. As a reason for discontent, they cite the prime minister's recent statements which they believe show a willingness to compromise on the Karabakh issue, up to even giving the disputed territory away to Azerbaijan. Armenia and Azerbaijan fought a bloody war over control of Nagorno-Karabakh in 2020, which has seen periodic flare-ups ever since, the most recent being this past March.

Comment: From 2020: Nagorno-Karabakh war could've ended weeks ago - Putin

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Bizarro Earth

600,000 birds to be culled in Canada as bird flu outbreak spreads to 3 more communities


CBC
Tue, 03 May 2022 12:40 UTC
bird flu
© David Mdzinarishvili/ReutersThe highly pathogenic H5N1 strain of avian flu has been spreading through flocks across Canada in recent weeks.
The Canadian Food Inspection Agency says bird flu has been found in three more communities in Alberta.

The H5N1 strain of avian influenza was confirmed Sunday in a small flock in the County of Two Hills, 145 kilometres east of Edmonton.

The flu was also confirmed in commercial flocks in the Municipal District of Wainwright and in Lethbridge County, the Canadian Food Inspection Agency (CFIA) said in an update on its website.

Comment: The situation has become such that in the UK no eggs can no be classified as 'free range' because owners of bird flocks are currently required for to keep them indoors, and over in the US 12 MILLION birds are destined to be culled.

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Black Cat

Two British fighters captured by Russians in Ukraine could face the death penalty: prosecutor

Will Stewart and Adam Solomons
The Daily Mail
Mon, 02 May 2022 17:51 UTC
Shaun Pinner Aiden Aslin mercenaries british ukraine
© east2west newsCaptive Shaun Pinner, 48 (left), pictured in the past few days, is a Royal Anglian Regiment veteran. Right: ex-care worker Aiden Aslin, 28, went to Ukraine in 2018 after fighting with Kurds in Syria
Two Brits who fought for Ukraine could face the death penalty at the hands of their Russian captors.

Ex-care worker Aiden Aslin, 28, and Royal Anglian Regiment veteran Shaun Pinner, 48, were captured in mid-April while fighting in Mariupol, eastern Ukraine.

The breakaway Donetsk People's Republic prosecutor smirked as he informed a TV crew that his British hostages could be executed.

Andrei Spivak said: 'They are charged with a number of crimes against civilians of the Donetsk People's Republic.

'The maximum punishment for these crimes is the death penalty.'
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