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Footage shows Ukrainian troops brutalizing captives


RT
Tue, 05 Apr 2022 13:30 UTC
ukrainian soldiers beating detanees
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Videos show officers kicking detainees in the head and mocking one scared man's weak bladder.

Footage published on Ukrainian social media on Tuesday appeared to show people in uniform beating up and harassing detainees. The mayor of the country's fourth largest city, Dnepr, close to where the incidents happened, justified the mistreatment on social media, branding the arrestees as "crime bosses" and claiming they previously attacked members of the region's militia.

The graphic footage includes two separate videos, showing armed people in military fatigues brutally arresting men in civilian clothes. The troops are wearing the same kind of blue armbands that Ukrainian soldiers often use to identify their allegiance.

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Elon Musk contacted The Babylon Bee before making significant Twitter acquisition

Ian Miles Cheong
Rebel News
Tue, 05 Apr 2022 05:56 UTC
Elon Musk
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Elon Musk, the world's richest man, contacted the satirical website The Babylon Bee, before making a significant acquisition of Twitter.

Musk, who has appeared on The Babylon Bee's podcast alongside its chief executive and writers, is a fan of the publication and has shared links to the page numerous times.

The Babylon Bee, which is currently suspended from Twitter over an article that jokingly referred to US Health and Human Services Assistant Secretary Rachel Levine as "Man of the Year," hosted Musk at the end of 2021.

Babylon Bee CEO Seth Dillon claims that Musk consulted with The Babylon Bee before purchasing a 9.2% stake in Twitter.

"Musk reached out to us before he polled his followers about Twitter's commitment to free speech," Dillon said on Twitter. "He wanted to confirm that we had, in fact, been suspended. He even mused on that call that he might need to buy Twitter. Now he's the largest shareholder and has a seat on the board."

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Documents expose how Australian government misled citizens


RT
Tue, 05 Apr 2022 15:59 UTC
australian flag
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Qatari state news outlet Al Jazeera has published previously unseen, and heavily redacted documents, on Tuesday, which paint a troubling picture of the closed-door conversations that preceded the implementation of Australia's Assistance and Access Act. It comes after the broadcaster grappled with the Canberra government for nearly five years over a Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) request in relation to the far-reaching legislation, announced in 2017, that became law the following year.

The law forces tech companies like Google, Facebook and Apple to grant police access to users' encrypted data. It includes steep fines to punish companies that refuse to turn over private data to police. Individual citizens who refuse to cooperate could face prison time under the uniquely harsh policy.

Revelations from the documents include a November 2015 letter in which Australia's Attorney-General's Department addressed the heads of intelligence and law enforcement agencies about "broader plans to improve the Telecommunications (Intercept and Access) Act 1979." It asked for input "to better understand the broader operational and technological context" ahead of advising legislators on how best to tackle encryption on behalf of law enforcement.
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New survey in UK finds major public concerns NOT addressed by Covid-19 Inquiry and the now infamous 'nudge unit'

Laura Dodsworth
lauradodsworth.substack.com
Tue, 05 Apr 2022 00:00 UTC
Covid in UK
The UK Covid-19 Inquiry, set up to examine the UK's pandemic response, is consulting on the draft terms of reference until the 7th April.

An independent new survey by opinion experts Yonder for grassroots organisation Recovery has revealed that the terms of reference fail to address major public concerns. Although the draft terms bullet-point no less than 32 separate areas of focus for the Inquiry, key areas of concern are missing.

Recovery found that:
  • 42% want the Inquiry to consider the use of behavioural psychology in influencing public behaviour during the pandemic
  • 40% want restrictions on the media examined, reflecting concern over whether the actions of Ofcom and the main broadcasters and social media platforms compromised freedom of speech
  • 60% want a specific focus on children to be included in the inquiry - there is currently no mention of impact of Covid measures on children.

Comment: For more on the blatant fear tactics and gross manipulation used on the mostly unsuspecting UK population to induce them to get the jab and stay home, see:

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Briefcase

Trial begins in West Virginia lawsuit against opioid makers

John Raby
ABC News
Mon, 04 Apr 2022 17:26 UTC
Attorney General Patrick Morrisey said in opening arguments at a trial that began Monday
Opening arguments have taken place in a West Virginia lawsuit accusing several drugmakers of misrepresenting the risks and benefits of opioids

Drug manufacturers misrepresented the risks and benefits of opioids in West Virginia and contributed to the state's opioid crisis, Attorney General Patrick Morrisey said in opening arguments at a trial that began Monday.

Morrisey asked a judge to hold Johnson & Johnson subsidiary Janssen Pharmaceuticals Inc., along with Teva Pharmaceuticals Inc., AbbVie Inc.'s Allergan and their family of companies accountable for their "unlawful, unreasonable, callous and destructive conduct."

The defendants "participated in a highly sophisticated scheme to mislead healthcare providers and consumers about the addictive nature of their products," Morrisey said.

Those efforts led to opioids becoming a common treatment for chronic pain and fueled substance abuse in West Virginia. The state has the nation's highest rate of drug overdose deaths. Morrisey said the companies' actions created a public nuisance and violating the state's Consumer Credit and Protection Act.

Comment: The horrific damage of the Big Pharma-fueled opioid scourge has already been done, so it seems like little consolation to see these mega wealthy companies get a financial slap on the wrist, if that:

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Bad Guys

Casualties feared after alleged Ukrainian attack on Lugansk chemical plant


RT
Tue, 05 Apr 2022 21:20 UTC
lughansk chemical plant explosion ukraine
© Dmitry Skorobutov/Readovka/TwitterOver 300 thousand people, living in Lugansk region of Ukraine and neighborhoods, are exposed to a chemical damage cause by a blast of the chemical plant "Zarya" in Rubezhnoe city.
Local authorities in Donbass are gathering information on casualties from the explosion

Retreating Ukrainian forces have allegedly blown up a tank allegedly containing hydrochloric acid, at a chemical plant in the Lugansk People's Republic (LPR) town of Rubezhnoe, which has emerged as a flashpoint in the ongoing military conflict.

The tank explosion was aimed at a populated area, controlled by local fighters, the LPR's militia claimed on Tuesday.

"[These] terrorist actions might lead to mass civilian casualties," the force warned on its Telegram channel, adding that authorities are currently collecting information about any casualties resulting from the incident.

Comment: Why would Russia attack a facility in a territory they are trying to liberate? They don't need the accusations of war crimes. This smacks of Kiev's desperation.

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FBI seizes $90 million yacht owned by Putin ally Viktor Vekselberg in Spain


Breaking 911
Mon, 04 Apr 2022 00:00 UTC
FBI seize yacht spain
Spanish law enforcement today executed a Spanish court order freezing the Motor Yacht (M/Y) Tango (the Tango), a 255-foot luxury yacht owned by sanctioned Russian oligarch Viktor Vekselberg.

Spanish authorities acted pursuant to a request from the U.S. Department of Justice for assistance following the issuance of a seizure warrant, filed in the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia, which alleged that the Tango was subject to forfeiture based on violation of U.S. bank fraud, money laundering, and sanction statutes. Separately, seizure warrants obtained in the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia target approximately $625,000 associated with sanctioned parties held at nine U.S. financial institutions. Those seizures are based on sanctions violations by several Russian specially designated nationals.

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Info

Officials bracing for 18,000 migrants per day if Title 42 is rescinded; Republicans slam Biden Admin for national security threats

Tim Meads
The Daily Wire
Tue, 05 Apr 2022 00:01 UTC
border patrol migrant searched
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House Republicans, led by Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy (R-CA), held a press conference on Monday blasting President Joe Biden's handling of the Southern Border and warned that the situation would get worse after Title 42, the public health-related immigration provision that allows expedited deportation for migrants who enter the country, is set to officially end on May 23.

Republican members of Congress told reporters Monday evening that the immigration crisis at the border is already a national security issue that is emboldening transnational drug cartels while making "every county a border county." McCarthy also revealed that when he and a group of GOP colleagues previously visited the border, illegal aliens told them they were coming across precisely because of President Joe Biden's words. Many Republicans — including McCarthy — blame the deluge of illegal aliens on Biden directly, in part, for undoing border measures instituted by former President Donald Trump.

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Bad Guys

Christopher Rufo reveals that Disney has a MASSIVE pedophile problem

Mia Cathell
The Post Millennial
Tue, 05 Apr 2022 05:27 UTC
Allen Treaster Disney concierge
Following the progressive mob's marching orders, Walt Disney Company has repeatedly opposed Florida's anti-grooming law intended to protect the state's young school-aged children and uphold parental rights in education.

It's not a surprise to many supporting the bill that the children's entertainment giant has been a longtime employer of pedophiles and child predators embedded among its staff, according to numerous reports in previous years.

Investigative journalist and activist Christopher Rufo, whose reporting has exposed critical race theory teachings in K-12 schools and at the corporate level, highlighted some of "the child-predators of Walt Disney Co." in a series of expository tweets.

Comment: Disney has massively miscalculated by siding with the woke mob over the 'Don't Say Gay' bill (which is wildly mis-labelled). All it has done is paint them as siding with child sexual predators over providing safety for children. It also implicates them, whether true or not, as being more complicit in their pedophile problem, rather than simply being negligent in their employee screening process. All this could possibly kill the company.

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Megaphone

Protests erupt in Sri Lanka over spiraling economic crisis, shortages, rolling power cuts

Uditha Jayasinghe
Reuters
Sun, 03 Apr 2022 05:44 UTC
sri lanka protest
© REUTERS/Dinuka LiyanawattePeople attend a protest against Sri Lankan President Gotabaya Rajapaksa in a residential area after the government imposed a curfew following a clash between police and protestors near the President's residence during a protest amid the country's economic crisis, in Colombo, Sri Lanka April 3, 2022.
Protesters in the Sri Lanka's largest city Colombo held numerous small, peaceful demonstrations over a severe economic crisis on Sunday, defying a nationwide curfew, while police used tear gas to disperse student protesters in the central city of Kandy.

A senior police official said officers used tear gas and water cannons to stop a protest of university students in Kandy.

"There were about 750 participants but no arrests were made," said Nihal Thalduwa, a police spokesman.

Thalduwa said over 600 people who were arrested in the Western Province on Saturday night for breaking curfew orders were released on bail given by police and charges will be filed against them later.

Comment: Discontent is rising everywhere, even in the so-called advanced economies. And, contrary to the comments from Western diplomats above, they're actually ramming through new anti-protest legislation in order to quell their own citizens:


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