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An Army vet's realization in Ukraine: 'So horrible or heartbreaking that you can't continue'

Jeff Schogol
Task and Purpose
Tue, 22 Mar 2022 08:32 UTC
army veteran Hieu Le
© Facebook photoHieu Le, an Army veteran who deployed to Afghanistan in 2012, came to Ukraine as a volunteer but decided to leave nearly two weeks later.
'Physically I feel fine, but I also feel like I have these invisible wounds on my soul.'

After spending 13 hours hiking into enemy territory and back to retrieve the body of a Georgian soldier who had been killed near Irpin, Ukraine, U.S. Army veteran Hieu Le knew that his war was over.

Not long after recovering the fallen soldier, Le resigned from Ukraine's legion of international volunteers. "My team was very supportive since they saw how deeply affected I was by recovering his body," he told Task & Purpose. "Physically I feel fine, but I also feel like I have these invisible wounds on my soul."

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Kid Rock: Trump asked for advice on ISIS, North Korea

Dominick Mastrangelo
The Hill
Tue, 22 Mar 2022 11:05 UTC
kid rock concert
Kid Rock says former President Trump asked him for messaging advice on foreign policy, including the fight against ISIS and diplomacy with North Korea, during his time in the White House.

During a wide-ranging interview with Fox News host Tucker Carlson that aired this week, Kid Rock recounted a conversation he says he had with Trump on a golf course around the time Trump had ordered a series of attacks on ISIS targets in the Middle East.

"I mean, I was there with him one day when he ended the caliphate. He wanted to put out a tweet. And it was like — I don't like to speak out of school. I hope I'm not. But he said something like, he was like, tell him like — yes, the tweet was — and I'm paraphrasing — but it was like, if you ever joined the caliphate, and trying to do this, you're going to be dead," the rocker said. "He goes, what do you think? I go, awesome. ... Like, yes, tweet that out. I was like, I can't add anything better than."

Comment: Although this will likely be spun as Trump using a rock star as an unofficial advisor, it seems rather doubtful that he was turning to Kid Rock for political strategy. It's more likely he was bouncing ideas off of him to get a perspective from a demographic he's not as familiar with to see how particular political moves would play out among the populace.

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Roma tied to lamp posts and sprayed with dye in Ukraine - reports


RT
Tue, 22 Mar 2022 11:27 UTC
Ukrainian Territorial Defense Forces
© AFP / Felipe DanaMembers of Ukrainian Territorial Defense Forces.
The harsh treatment is reportedly punishment for robbery or persecution based on nationality.

Photos of people in Ukraine being tied to lamp posts and sprayed with green antiseptic dye appeared on social media on Monday. According to reports, they were taken in the western city of Lviv. The victims are reportedly Roma (also known as Gypsies).

Several people, including teenagers and families with women and children, were reportedly tied to lamp posts with duct tape, their faces sprayed with antiseptic dye known as 'zelyonka' in former Soviet countries. The green-colored substance is very difficult to wash away and can cause chemical burns to the eyes.

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Vaccine Effectiveness and Excess Mortality in Singapore

Noah Carl
The Daily Sceptic
Tue, 22 Mar 2022 07:48 UTC
The official mascotte of Singapore - Merlion
In several previous posts, I've noted that excess mortality data from Europe and Israel suggests that vaccine effectiveness against death has been overestimated. For example, the chart below plots excess mortality over time in Israel:


Comment: The vaccine effectiveness against death from Covid was not just overestimated. The mRNA vaccines are dangerous and experimental injections that significantly increased the death rate especially among the young population.


Israel excess mortality compared to projections based on previous years

Comment: All countries with significant percentage of vaccinated population have increased mortality rates.
Are these excess mortality rates connected with the mRNA vaccines?

If vaccines do not stop spreading of the infection, or reduce the mortality rate from the virus (they actually increased it), we must ask ourselves what are they designed to do in our bodies?

Is there a nefarious agenda behind this massive planetary experimental vaccination program?

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Oscar

Ron DeSantis recognizes Emma Weyant as winner of NCAA swimming championship, not biological male Lia Thomas

Hannah Nightingale
The Post Millennial
Wed, 23 Mar 2022 03:38 UTC
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On Tuesday, Florida Governor Ron DeSantis slammed the NCAA for allowing biological male swimmer Lia Thomas to compete against women, and proclaimed that the second place finisher, Sarasota Olympian Emma Weyant, was the true winner of the 500 yard freestyle race.

"If you look at what the NCAA has done, by allowing basically men to compete in women's athletics. In this case, the swimming you had, the number one woman who finished was from Sarasota. She won the silver medal. She's been an absolute superstar, her whole career. She trains, I mean, to compete at that level is very, very difficult. And you don't just roll out of bed and do it. That takes grit, that takes determination. And she's been an absolute superstar and she had the fastest time, of any woman in college athletics," DeSantis said.

"Now the NCAA is basically taking efforts to destroy women's athletics. They're trying to undermine the integrity of the competition and they're crowning somebody else, the woman's champion and we think that's wrong. And so this is a Floridian who I think deserves to be recognized," he added.

DeSantis continued on to proclaim that Emma Weyant is the best female swimmer in the 500 freestyle, and slam the NCAA for allowing Lia Thomas to compete.


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Arrow Up

Fertiliser prices hit new highs as multiple problems affect global supplies

Edward Helmore
The Guardian
Mon, 21 Mar 2022 19:56 UTC
fertiliser warehouse
© Tingshu Wang/ReutersA fertiliser warehouse in China in 2021. Last year, China tightened its controls on exports of fertilisers, exacerbating a shortage of global supplies. Photograph: Tingshu Wang/Reuters
Fertiliser prices have broken new records as global supplies are hit by multiple factors including reduced supplies from Russia and Belarus, disruptions to the supply chain, a China export ban and a Canadian rail strike.

"It's a series of events we've never seen before and it continues to look like it's going to get worse than better," said Josh Linville, the director of fertiliser at the US commodity trader StoneX. "People thought the Russia-Ukraine war would be quick and Russia would be back out in the market and that's not been the case."

Prices for raw materials that make up the crop nutrient commodity market - ammonia, nitrogen, potash, urea, phosphates, sulphates and nitrates - have risen 30% since the start of the year, and are now higher than the levels reached during the food and energy crisis when prices jumped in 2008, according to CRU, a UK-based commodity consultancy.

Prices of Nola urea, one of the easiest fertiliser commodities to track, is trading at a 34-year high of $880 a US ton - in 2020 the price was $182. Prices are up 60% since Russia's invasion of Ukraine on 24 February.

Comment: Statement from Foreign Minister Miltiadis Varvitsiotis:
Greece's First Deputy Foreign Minister Miltiadis Varvitsiotis said on Tuesday that the country and the EU as a whole should brace for a grain deficit as the result of the conflict in Ukraine and anti-Russia sanctions.

The shortage could mean, "Firstly, a significant increase in prices and, secondly, it could mean that we will see unrest in the wider region and especially in North Africa and the Middle East," he said at a meeting in Brussels.

Russia's military operation in Ukraine has affected grain supplies from the two countries, which are major global exporters. The crisis has sent wheat prices soaring in recent weeks to the highest point since 2008. Global food prices have also hit historic highs amid supply concerns.
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Best of the Web: Aviation experts baffled by crash of China Eastern Airlines flight MU5735

Tyler Durden
ZeroHedge
Tue, 22 Mar 2022 01:00 UTC
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Monday's devastating crash of a Boeing 737 operated by China Eastern Airlines has gripped the US aviation industry (aka Boeing) in what's shaping up to be another major scandal barely a year after the plane manufacturer had finally managed to move beyond the disastrous rollout of the 737 MAX 8, which left hundreds dead as a design flaw led to two crashes, one in Ethiopia and the other in Indonesia.

Those crashes prompted global groundings and an extensive investigation which revealed that the FAA had essentially abdicated its oversight responsibility - while one internal Boeing email blasted the MAX 8 for being designed by "clowns who were overseen by monkeys".

As if the crash itself wasn't embarrassing enough for the jet-maker, footage of the incident showing the plane essentially falling out of the sky has been seen by thousands, if not millions, of people, many of whom are already hoping for answers.

Chinese airlines haven't bought any new Boeing planes for years at this point, and Monday's crash raises the possibility that Boeing could be barred from the world's second-largest market for air travel.

Local Chinese media reported shortly afterward that the crash had been caused by an electrical failure, but whether this is actually true remains unclear. At this point, little is known for certain about the circumstances surrounding the crash (and it will take investigators days, if not weeks, to examine the data from the plane's "black box", which must be recovered from the crash site in a mountainous region in Guangxi Province.

Comment: See also: Horrifying moment Boeing 737 passenger jet carrying 132 people plummets 30,000ft to the ground before bursting into flames in remote Chinese mountains

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Snakes in Suits

Tucker Carlson: We have a right to know what's going on in Ukraine, but our leaders are lying

Tucker Carlson
Fox News
Mon, 21 Mar 2022 11:49 UTC
Zelensky
© Ukrainian Presidential Press Office via APFILE PHOTO: Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy speaks in Kyiv, Ukraine.
What exactly is democracy? Well, pluralism is the hallmark of it. In a democracy, citizens can have any opinion they want to have. They can express any opinion they want in public whenever they care to express it, including through mass media. If citizens are dissatisfied with their political leadership, they can challenge their leaders for office. Now, all of these things are true in every free country, in any period, always.

These are not just features of democracy. These are prerequisites for democracy. So, with that in mind, you should know about a political party in Ukraine called Opposition Platform for Life. With 43 seats in parliament, it is the largest opposition party in that country. Over the weekend, the president of Ukraine, Volodymyr Zelenskyy, banned that party. Opposition Platform for Life is now prohibited from "all activity within Ukraine."

So, with a single command, Zelenskyy made it impossible for anybody to run against him for president. He did this not just to Opposition Platform for Life, but to ten other political parties that he believed were insufficiently loyal to him. They're all illegal now. Obviously, there's a war underway in Ukraine, and on that basis, Zelenskyy has declared martial law, but we must tell you, there is no evidence that the opposition parties he banned were aiding Russia in its war against Ukraine.

Comment: The above article is adapted from Tucker Carlson's opening commentary on the March 21, 2022 edition of Tucker Carlson Tonight:



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Attention

Ukrainian refugees spare no words on Zelensky gov't, Moldova local calls 1st wave of refugees 'oligarchs'

Fergie Chambers
Toward Freedom
Mon, 21 Mar 2022 18:45 UTC
Ukraine refugees
© Fergie ChambersAn array of people TF contributor Fergie Chambers interviewed in Moldova
Nestled above the Black Sea, between the war zone in Ukraine and the eastern limits of NATO territory in Romania, sits the tiny, oft-forgotten landlocked nation of Moldova. Among the poorest countries in Europe by just about any relevant metric, it has been overwhelmed by Ukrainian refugees in the three weeks since the outset of what Russia calls its "special military operation" (спецоперация) in Ukraine.

More than 359,000 people of the 3.38 million who have fled Ukraine since February 24 have passed in and out of the country, according to the United Nations Commissioner for Refugees. Roman Macovenco of the Moldovan Consular Directorate confirmed at least 300,000 Ukrainians had crossed through Moldova. The vast majority came through the border town of Palanca, just 57 kilometers (or 35 miles) from Ukraine's Odessa. Many wound up in Chisinau, the tiny country's capital. As of March 14, roughly 100,000 remained in Moldova.
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Feminist groups mum as transgender swimmer Lia Thomas' dominates at NCAA championships

Timothy Nerozzi
Fox News
Tue, 22 Mar 2022 17:53 UTC
lia thomas transgender swimmer
© Justin Casterline/Getty ImagesTransgender woman Lia Thomas (L) of the University of Pennsylvania stands on the podium after winning the 500-yard freestyle as other medalists (L-R) Emma Weyant, Erica Sullivan and Brooke Forde pose for a photo at the NCAA Division I Women's Swimming and Diving Championship on March 17, 2022, in Atlanta, Georgia.
As controversy continues to build around biological male collegiate athlete Lia Thomas' domination at the NCAA women's swimming competition last week, prominent women's groups have been largely silent.

Fox News Digital reached out to the Women's Sports Foundation, Black Women in Sport Foundation, the National Organization for Women, Champion Women and other advocacy groups for their opinions on the transgender athlete's recent domination in races against biological females.

None of the organizations responded to Fox News Digital's request for comment.

Comment: RT reports the head of World Athletics stark warning over trans competitors :
"I think that the integrity of women's sport if we don't get this right, and actually the future of women's sport, is very fragile," Coe said, with the National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA) handing over the responsibility to individual bodies to determine their own policies for trans athletes in line with the International Olympic Committee's (IOC) stance.

"There is no question to me that testosterone is the key determinant in performance," Coe went on, as USA Swimming updated its rules for elite swimmers in February which will see testosterone tests for trans athletes 36 months before competitions in a bid to reduce any unfair advantages.

At World Athletics, transgender athletes must prove low testosterone levels across a 12-month period to be allowed to take part in their events.

"Look at the nature of 12 or 13-year-old girls," Coe suggested. "I remember my daughters would regularly outrun male counterparts in their class but as soon as puberty kicks in that gap opens and it remains. Gender cannot trump biology," he claimed.

"You can't be oblivious to public sentiment, of course not. But science is important," Coe stressed. "If I wasn't satisfied with the science that we have and the experts that we have used and the in-house teams that have been working on this for a long time, if I wasn't comfortable about that, this would be a very different landscape."

Meanwhile one of Thomas' rivals has spoken out against the UPenn swimmer, who was on the Ivy League college's men's team for three years prior to beginning hormone replacement therapy in 2019.

In a letter sent to the leading college sports organization, Hungary's Reka Gyorgy accused the NCAA of denying her a "spot in the final" in one of its swimming championships through allowing Thomas to compete.

"It hurts me," Gyorgy allegedly wrote, after failing to make the consolation final by one spot in her last ever college meet with a 17th place showing in the preliminary races for the 500-yard freestyle event, which also left her feeling "frustrated".

"It feels like that final spot was taken away from me because of the NCAA's decision to let someone who is not a biological female compete," said the 25-year-old, who starred at the Rio 2016 Olympic Games and has featured on Virginia Tech's swimming team for the past five years.

While Gyorgy noted that Thomas was "doing what she is passionate about and deserves that right", Gyorgy said she wanted "to critique the NCAA rules that allow her to compete against us".


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