Subversive activity is likely behind Sunday's railway bridge collapse in Russia's Kursk Region, the local governor, Roman Starovoyt, has claimed. The area borders Ukraine. There have been no reports of casualties linked to the incident, but it disrupted a rail line linking two Russian towns located near the frontier.

Russian's Investigative Committee has launched a probe into the suspected act of terrorism, after authorities said the bridge was apparently damaged by an explosion.

"The information has been confirmed. That was an act of sabotage," Starovoyt said in a video address published on Telegram, promising to provide further details at a later date. Russian investigators and security services are currently working to establish the identify of those involved, as well as the power and type of explosive device used.

Don't mention the Australian vaccine: The TGA bans Aussie Professor from talking about his work

Australia has a mini Ministry of Truth already. It's called the TGA.

Australians can probably still get a Pfizer vaccine in chemists and carparks across Australia, but they still need to fly to Iran to get an Australian-made vaccine. The good news is that at least this week it's legal for Australians to finally fly to Tehran without taking Pfizer or Moderna shot first — as long as they don't fly on an Australian airline. (Not mentioning any names, Qantas!)

The people mostly responsible for this situation are the TGA (Therapeutic Goods Association). They're supposed to be looking after Australians health but somehow all their decisions happen to be exactly what a Pfizer CEO would want. Spooky eh? The TGA rushed the approval for the Pfizer vaccines, but still, millions of doses later, won't release the procurement contracts, even under FOI. Signed on our behalf, and for our own good, yes? Did they even read the documents that Pfizer AND the FDA tried to hide for 75 years?

Now meet Professor Nikolai Petrovsky from Flinders University, Australia, who had already developed protein based vaccines against the original SARS in 2003 and MERS in 2012, so he was the obvious choice to develop an old fashioned protein based vaccine in Australia. (Hey, but it's not like we want to develop our own vaccine industry, eh?).

So he went on to make a protein vaccine against SARS-2 and has got approval to use it in Iran. Last I heard (months ago) they had sold 6 million doses to Iran, apparently with great results.

With all the makings of a Great Banana Republic Australia promptly sacked Petrovsky for taking his own vaccine instead of one of the foreign ones approved by The Sacred T.G.A committee. We can't have vaccine experts at uni picking their own vaccines can we?

Somehow the Australian government spent something like $6 billion on foreign vaccines but asked the small Australian company to pay $300,000 to get approved here. So Petrovsky ran a GoFundMe, and it was so popular it raised a million dollars. Finally he has permission and funding to run Australian trials, but now he doesn't have permission to talk about it. Who knew he needed that? Apparently the TGA says it will fine him $13,000 or maybe one million (convenient, eh?) if he does. (Updated: I hear it's an $11m threat now).

If only Australians were smart enough to hear the words of Professors without "protection" by unaccountable committees?

The head of Belgorod Region, which borders Ukraine, has reassured local residents that the two alleged "massive explosions" overnight were not the result of shelling from Ukraine.

In the early hours of Monday, Vyacheslav Gladkov wrote on Telegram that he had been woken up by two "massive blasts." Citing preliminary information, he said there were no casualties or destruction as a result.

The governor promised to provide further details and did so later in the morning.

"I would like to dispel the region's residents' fears that someone or something had flown to us from the territory of Ukraine. This is not true," Gladkov wrote.

Authorities should "comprehensively" investigate a spike in deaths in Cyprus during 2021 that is not explained by COVID-19 but occurred concurrently with the vaccination campaign, a study has concluded.

The peer-reviewed study in the journal Cureus analysed information reported by the Cyprus Ministry of Health to the European Statistical Office (Eurostat), which includes weekly all-cause mortality for 2016-2021, and data collected by the European Centre for Disease Prevention and Control regarding daily reported COVID-19 infections and deaths.

The researchers observed an increase of 9.7% in all-cause mortality in Cyprus in 2021 compared to 2020, with an overall mortality increase of 16.5% in 2021 compared to the mean mortality of the previous five years. In particular, they found a sharp increase over the third and fourth quarters of 2021 - see charts above, on which I have highlighted the key areas.

More than 200 sailors have moved off the USS George Washington aircraft carrier after multiple deaths by suicide among the crew, including three in less than one week in April, according to the Navy.

The sailors are moving to a local Navy installation as the nuclear-powered aircraft carrier continues to go through a years-long refueling and overhaul process at the shipyard in Newport News in Virginia. Over the past 12 months, seven members of the crew have died, including four by suicide, prompting the Navy to open an investigation into the command climate and culture on board the Nimitz-class carrier.

The tools of psychology are dangerous in the hands of the wrong men. Modern educational methods can be applied in therapy to streamline man's brain and change his opinions so that his thinking conforms with certain ideological systems.

— Joost A. M. Meerloo, The Rape Of The Mind, 1956.

Since the declaration of the Covid-19 Pandemic in March, 2020, the phenomenon of "mass formation psychosis", essentially hypnosis at population level, has become a major subject for discussion, due largely to interviews of psychiatrist Mattias Desmet. Becoming aware of it, one begins to recognize the effects of the cultivation of anxiety and mental confusion, of the steady diet of terrifying data, of constantly changing and conflicting information, of enforced compliance to shifting policies demanding physical and visual isolation.

Joost Meerloo, in Rape Of The Mind, described totalitarian methods throughout the ages used to force obedience. Modern society, with its refined techniques in marketing and mass communication, he wrote, "tends to robotize and automatize man." Where competing interpretations of reality are censored, what is constantly repeated "fixes patterns of thought", which patterns assume realities of their own. "He who dictates and formulates the words and phrases we use, he who is master of the press [and TV], is master of the mind."

Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas claimed Sunday that his department's Orwellian "Disinformation Governance Board" will not monitor US citizens — and vouched for the "eminently qualified" agency czar who has been blasted by critics for being too partisan.

Mayorkas defended Nina Jankowicz amid questions from conservatives over her ability to ferret out disinformation when she doubted the credibility of The Post's series of reports in October 2020 about Hunter Biden's laptop — information that has since been confirmed by other newspapers and media outlets.

Jankowicz was also mocked when a wacky TikTok video surfaced of her singing a rendition of the Mary Poppins tune "Supercalifragilisticexpialidocious" to address the spread of disinformation.

Mayorkas praised Jankowicz on CNN as "eminently qualified" and a "renowned expert in the field of disinformation."

Asked by host Bret Baier during an appearance on "Fox News Sunday" about Jankowicz's objectivity, Mayorkas said he had no reservations.

Spanish Prime Minister Pedro Sánchez and Defense Minister Margarita Robles were targeted with Pegasus spyware that surveilled their mobile phones, the government said Monday.

During an emergency press conference on a public holiday in Spain, the minister of the presidency, Félix Bolaños, said there was a complete intrusion of the government leaders' mobile communication by an "external" force in May and June 2021.

Sánchez's phone has been infected twice and large amounts of data were extracted from both phones, the government said.

"When we say external intrusions, we mean that they are alien to state agencies and do not have judicial authorization from any official agency. That is why we classify them as illegal and external," Bolaños said, adding that the government was currently investigating whether other senior members were hacked.

Even though there have been so many problems with the economy over the last 12 months, many Americans continued to believe that everything would eventually be okay because stock prices remained stubbornly high. But now that stock prices are crashing, the cold, harsh reality of what we are facing is starting to set in for millions upon millions of people. Trillions of dollars in paper wealth has already been wiped out, and many experts are warning that the worst is still yet to come. I have always warned my readers that you only make money in the stock market if you get out in time, and unfortunately there are a whole lot of investors out there that didn't get out in time.

On Friday, the financial carnage that we witnessed was quite impressive...

The tech-heavy Nasdaq Composite fell nearly 4.2% to 12,334.64, weighed down by Amazon's post-earnings plunge. The S&P 500 retreated by 3.6% to 4,131.93. The Dow Jones Industrial Average shed 939.18 points, or close to 2.8%, to 32,977.21.

Russia will see its income from the oil sector rise sharply this year and reach more than $180 billion, despite production cuts related to international sanctions, suggests a report published by independent research house Rystad Energy on Monday.

Thanks to the rising oil prices, Russia's tax revenues will be 45% higher than last year and a whopping 181% higher than in 2020, Rystad Energy says.

"Europe's dependence on Russian energy has been a deliberate and decades-long and mutually beneficial relationship. In this early phase of sanctions and embargoes, Russia will benefit as higher prices mean tax revenues are significantly higher than in recent years." says Daria Melnik, a senior analyst at Rystad Energy.