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Notorious pranksters snare chess official as he discusses Russian ban

FIDE Director General emil sutovsky
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The chess official claimed he initiated the ban on Russian star Sergey Karjakin.

A pair of Russian pranksters have tricked FIDE Director General Emil Sutovsky into confessing that he instigated the current ban on Russian grandmaster Sergey Karjakin by the chess governing body and wants to see it extended.

Although FIDE has not prohibited Russian players from taking part in international competitions, Karjakin was hit with a six-month personal ban by FIDE in March after voicing his support for Russia's military operation in Ukraine.

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Transhumanism is pure eugenics

Yuval Harari
Transhumanism, boiled down to its bones, is pure eugenics. It calls itself "H+," for more or better than human. Which, of course, is what eugenics is all about.

Alarmingly, transhumanist values are being embraced at the highest strata of society, including in Big Tech, in universities, and among the Davos crowd of globalist would-be technocrats. That being so, it is worth listening in to what they are saying under the theory that forewarned is forearmed.

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Stock Down

Twitter's earnings report shows missed revenue projections, overstated users

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New report reveals missed goals, lower than expected user growth and an error in previous reporting on active daily users.

Twitter just reported earnings for the first quarter of 2022, in what may be its last report as a public company after the Board agreed to sell to Elon Musk for $44 billion this week.

According to the report, the company missed the expected revenue of $1.23 billion, making only $1.2 billion instead. However, it reported a 16% gain in advertising sales. The gain is the worst pace of growth in six quarters and is in line with reports from Snap Inc. and Meta Platforms Inc., which are also facing lower advertising spending due to issues such as struggling supply chains and inflation.

The company reported 229 million Monetizable Daily User Accounts known as mDUAs. The number was slightly higher than the expected 226.9 million, representing a 15.9% increase from the same period last year. The U.S. mDUAs were up 6.4% from the prior year's quarter, at 39.6 million. International mDUAs were at 189.4 million, an increase of 18.1% from the year before.

Comment: There's something fishy going on with these numbers. While they're trying to portray the new mDUAs as organic growth, it seems like there has actually been some kind of numbers fudging behind the scenes.
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Eye 1

Police arrest juvenile suspect in killing of 10-year-old Wisconsin girl

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lliana "Lily" Peters was a fourth-grader at Parkview Elementary.
Police investigating the death of a 10-year-old girl in western Wisconsin arrested a juvenile suspect known to the victim, they announced Tuesday evening.

The body of Illiana "Lily" Peters was found Monday morning near a walking trail in Chippewa Falls. Police said her death was a homicide.

Chippewa Falls Police Chief Matthew Kelm during a brief news conference declined to provide the age or sex of the suspect, whether the suspect was related to the girl or where the arrest occurred. He said there was no longer any danger to the public.

Comment: Tragically, "prosecutors say was killed by an eighth grader in Wisconsin, suffered strangulation and blunt force trauma" CNN reported. Other reports state the victim was also sexually assaulted.


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Eva Bartlett: Here's what I found at the reported 'mass grave' near Mariupol

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© Eva Bartlett
According to recent Western media, Russian forces have buried up to 9,000 Mariupol civilians in "mass graves" in a town just west of the Ukrainian city. These reports use satellite imagery as supposed evidence and repeat the claims of officials loyal to Kiev that "the bodies may have been buried in layers" and "the Russians dug trenches and filled them with corpses every day throughout April."

I went to the site in question and found no mass graves.

Comment: See also: NewsReal: UK Govt Now Says Russia Might Win in Ukraine After All


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Chronic shortages of a few items now will evolve into chronic shortages of hundreds of products later in 2022

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What we have witnessed so far is just the beginning of the story. The global response to the COVID pandemic during 2020 and 2021 created the most epic supply chain crisis in modern times, and now "black swan events" such as the war in Ukraine and the bird flu pandemic are making that supply chain crisis even worse. Unfortunately, more global difficulties are coming. There will be more war, there will be more pestilences, there will be more natural disasters, and even the United Nations is admitting that we are heading into the worst global food crisis since World War II. So if you think that global supply chain problems are severe now, just wait until you see what is coming next.

If you go into most major retailers today, you will notice that stock levels are lower than usual and there are some empty shelves.

But most items are still available most of the time, and that is good news.

Of course there are certain product categories that have been experiencing chronic shortages for an extended period of time. For example, supplies of canned pet food have been extremely tight for months on end...

Comment: Don't miss: Biden cynically uses Ukraine to cover food sabotage


Stop

Cancel Culture's anti-white crusade risks canceling Western civilization altogether

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Rather than belabor America's turbulent history, while vilifying just one race, the United States needs to find a way to turn the corner on this cancel culture madness that exists as a malignant cancer on the body politic.

Liberal indoctrination in the United States has gotten so out of control that math textbooks, based on the work of some dead white men, among others, are no longer safe from the virtue-signaling Inquisition. Let's be clear: no society can survive such insanity for long.

As difficult as it is to fathom, in the span of a single generation the patron saints of Western civilization - towering historic figures like Shakespeare, Washington, Voltaire and Copernicus - have been systematically dispatched to the local garbage dump primarily due to their hideous whiteness.

Indeed, the pale-faced tribe of 'Caucasians', to employ a more outdated racial categorization, has become so offensive to liberal sensitivities that with each passing year the mainstream media reports, with thinly disguised delight, the latest precipitous decline among the White population.

By the year 2045, and possibly before then, Whites are expected to comprise just 49.7 percent of the population, a drop of some 20 percent from the current figure.

TV

Most in US fear Ukraine war misinformation, mistakenly believe Russian gov't is to blame - poll

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© AP Photo/Efrem Lukatsky, FileFILE - Ukrainian soldiers collect multiple Russian 'Uragan' missiles after recent fights in the village of Berezivka, Ukraine, April 21, 2022. A majority of U.S. adults say misinformation around Russia's invasion of Ukraine is a major problem, and they largely fault the Russian government for spreading those falsehoods. A new poll from The Associated Press-NORC Center for Public Affairs Research shows 61% of Americans say the spread of misinformation about the war is a major problem, with only 7% saying it's not a problem.
A majority of U.S. adults say misinformation around Russia's invasion of Ukraine is a major problem, and they largely fault the Russian government for spreading those falsehoods.

A new poll from The Associated Press-NORC Center for Public Affairs Research shows 61% of people in the United States say the spread of misinformation about the war is a major problem, with only 7% saying it's not a problem. Older adults were more likely to identify the wartime misinformation as an issue, with 44% of those under 30 calling it a problem, compared with 65% of those 30 or older.


Comment: This might reveal how the current generation of youth are even less capable of critical thinking, less aware of events more generally, and are more likely to believe their government than ever before; so much for a rebellious youth. It's likely that indoctrination schooling plays is partly to blame.


Misleading social media posts, fake pictures or videos and propagandized headlines have proliferated on websites, from TikTok to Facebook, since Russia's assault on Ukraine began in February. In recent weeks, Russian state media and social media accounts have operated in lockstep to push tweets, TV reports and posts that claim photos of bombed buildings and bodies across Ukraine have been staged or faked.

Comment: What with the White House launching their Orwellian titled: Declaration for the Future of the Internet (DFI) initiative, this poll highlighting the dangers of disinformation is rather timely.

Also check out SOTT radio's: NewsReal: UK Govt Now Says Russia Might Win in Ukraine After All




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Scientific publishing is a scam fed by the government

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It may surprise you to know that there has been an embargo against scientists with UK grants publishing in Britain's premier scientific journal, Nature. At root was a dispute about the cost of publishing scientific papers, who has the rights to see them, and at what price. In the case of Nature, that price was €9,500, about $11,300.

The episode reveals more than just a haggle over price, however. Deep troubles are roiling the seemingly calm surface of scientific publishing. The dustup over Nature is newsworthy because it brought those troubles to the surface, for all to see. Beneath the surface, though, the culture and practice of science and scientific discourse has been being transformed - radically. It's a complicated story, with a complicated history.

Historically, science journals were the bailiwick of science "guilds", associations of like-minded scholars that managed communication among its members. I offer an example close to my professional heart. When I was a graduate student, forty years ago, an American biologist interested in animals would become a dues-paying member of the venerable (founded in 1902) American Society of Zoologists (ASZ). The ASZ was the first professional society I joined. My annual dues were $28, which got me a subscription to a quarterly periodical, American Zoologist, and the right to submit abstracts for the ASZ's annual meeting. I recall that the ASZ was particularly friendly to graduate students like myself.

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Oklahoma governor signs ban on nonbinary gender markers on birth certificates

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© Getty ImagesOklahoma Gov Kevin Stitt
Oklahoma Gov. Kevin Stitt signed a bill Tuesday explicitly prohibiting the use of nonbinary gender markers on state birth certificates, a ban experts say is the first of its kind in the nation.

The bill followed a flap last year over the Oklahoma State Department of Health's agreement in a civil case allowing a nonbinary option. The birth certificate in that case was issued to an Oklahoma-born Oregon resident who sued after the agency initially refused the request. People who are nonbinary do not identify with traditional male or female gender assignments.

News of the settlement prompted outrage among Republicans, including Stitt, and his appointee to lead the agency abruptly resigned the next day. Stitt then promptly issued an executive order prohibiting any changes to a person's gender on birth certificates, despite the settlement agreement. A civil rights group has challenged the executive order in federal court, but the state has not yet responded.

Many states only offer male or female gender options on birth certificates, but Oklahoma is the first to write the nonbinary prohibition into law, according Lambda Legal, the civil rights group suing Oklahoma.