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Volunteers helping Donbass refugees shine a light on the human cost of war


RT
Wed, 16 Mar 2022 14:05 UTC
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© Dmitry Romanov
In just a few weeks, the UN estimates that over 2.5 million refugees have fled Ukraine. Prompted by Russia's military attack, this is the second great exodus from the country in under a decade. The first came after the events of the 2014 Kiev 'Maidan,' which led to the Western-backed overthrow of a democratically elected government, Moscow's reabsorption of Crimea and an attritional civil war in the Donbass.

Back then, most of those seeking to escape the turmoil chose Poland or Russia, depending on their ethnic, political or traditional leanings. However, at this moment, European Union countries are overwhelmingly the destinations of choice. Nevertheless, a significant amount of people have sought refuge in both Russia itself and in the Donetsk (DPR) and Lugansk (LPR) People's Republics, which were officially recognised as states by Moscow, last month.

There they receive accommodation, meals, and medical help. But not everybody can leave towns and villages that are under fire right now. Those who have ended up behind the Donbass front lines are also suffering. They have survived shelling and fighting in their towns, and now they are facing a life in ruins. In some places, the new authorities have already restored basic utilities, but there are remote areas that are still desperate for help. These are the places where volunteers go, bringing basic necessities to people.

RT asked Dmitry Romanov to go to the Mariupol area with the TYL (Rear)-22 volunteers. He saw with his own eyes how Donbass residents are trying to go back to their normal lives after yet more trauma.
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Car Black

Europe's car plants halted by lack of low-cost Ukrainian component

Peter Campbell and Joe Miller
Financial Times
Thu, 17 Mar 2022 09:07 UTC
ukraine car harness production
© Rainer Jensen/dpa/AlamyWorkers construct a wiring harness, which is critical to the production of a car.
Factories idled because harness used to hold together electric cabling is harder to secure from war-hit country.

Inside every car sits almost three miles of electric cabling. The snaking wires carry instructions, from steering the wheels to opening the boot.

This jumble of motoring spaghetti is held together by the harness, a low-cost part that, until the invasion of Ukraine, vehicle manufacturers almost took for granted.

Both BMW and Volkswagen have both been forced to idle plants across Europe after Russia's invasion forced Ukrainian wiring plants to shut.

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Brick Wall

Jussie Smollett ordered released from jail after serving less than a week of 5 month sentence pending appeal

Ryan Saavedra
The Daily Wire
Thu, 17 Mar 2022 00:01 UTC
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Convicted felon Jussie Smollett was ordered to be released from jail on Wednesday pending appeal of his 150-day sentence that went into effect last week for staging a hate crime hoax against himself and lying to law enforcement about it.

"The one-page order issued by the Illinois Appellate Court on Wednesday afternoon stated that Smollett was to be released from the Cook County Jail after signing a $150,000 recognizance bond, which would not require him to post any money," the Chicago Tribune reported. "The only explanation offered in the order was that Smollett has never been convicted of a violent offense and would have completed his sentence of incarceration well before his appeal is decided."

Smollett was sentenced on Thursday of last week to 150 days in jail, followed by 30 months on probation, and ordered to pay $120,000 in restitution and $25,000 in fines during his sentencing.

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Best of the Web: The root causes of the war in Ukraine

Guy Mettan
Arrêt sur info
Tue, 15 Mar 2022 07:57 UTC
Guy Mettan, Swiss journalist and writer
Guy Mettan, Swiss journalist and writer
In troubled times, when no one knows what is going on and packs of indignants and pseudo-experts overwhelm the public space with pathos and idle theories, it is necessary to return to the fundamentals. In this case, in Montesquieu. Who said two important things. The first is that in matters of war one should not confuse the apparent causes with the root causes, and the second that one should not confuse those who triggered it with those who made it inevitable.

For the vast majority of the public and media intoxicated by decades of anti-Russian propaganda and for tv-set experts who have forgotten any strategic culture, the case of this war is heard: Putin is crazy. He is insane, paranoid, isolated in his Kremlin, a war criminal, a satrap sold to the oligarchs, a cynical megalomaniac who dreams of restoring the empire of the tsars, a reincarnation of Ivan the Terrible, an unbalanced and capricious dictator who attacked for no reason an innocent nation led by a democratic and courageous president supported by virtuous Europeans. The framework thus set - the Great Bad Guys on one side, the Good Guys on the other - the narrative of the war can unfold: the Russians bombed Babi Yar and a nuclear power plant, they massacre civilians, genocide is underway while the Ukrainians resist heroically.

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6 years of being manipulated by manufactured waves of outrage with no end in sight

Michael Snyder
The Most Important News
Mon, 14 Mar 2022 00:00 UTC
manufactured outrage
Are you starting to notice a pattern by now? For the past six years, the American people have been emotionally manipulated by what I call "manufactured waves of outrage". Once the corporate media identifies a trigger, it will obsessively focus on it for weeks or months on end, and the narrative that develops will be echoed and magnified by millions upon millions of social media denizens. Before too long, much of the population is whipped up into an irrational emotional frenzy, and that frenzy is used to move certain agendas forward.

To me, this new era began in 2016. Donald Trump was a political candidate like no other, and the elite absolutely hated the fact that he did not follow their rules and that they could not control him.

So when he actually won, it truly was a catastrophic event for them.

From that moment forward, most corporate media outlets relentlessly demonized Trump. Never before in U.S. history had a sitting U.S. president been treated in such a fashion, and we may never see anything like it ever again.

The anti-Trump narratives which were being pumped out by the corporate media were constantly fed to social media influencers on both sides of the political spectrum, and that ultimately created extremely deep political divisions in this country which still exist to this day.
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Kiev gov't publishes racist theory that Ukrainians are Slavic while Russians engaged in ethnic mixing


RT
Wed, 16 Mar 2022 19:49 UTC
ukraine flag
© Getty Images / Anna Koberska
A Ukrainian state body for historic research has published nine arguments on Monday for why Ukrainians and Russians cannot be called brotherly nations, including one that stated that Ukrainians are pureblood Slavs, while Russians count people from Ugro-Finnish tribes among their ancestors.

The Ukrainian Institute of National Remembrance released a series of info cards making the case for a profound historic difference between the Ukrainian and Russian peoples. The cards, with text in Ukrainian and in English, were posted on its social media accounts. Some of them were later deleted, but not before being retained by web archiving algorithms.

One of the cards explained how the two Slavic peoples actually have different ethnic origins.
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Boston SJW, hubby scammed at least $185K from donors

Yaron Steinbuch and Bruce Golding
New York Post
Wed, 16 Mar 2022 20:18 UTC
Monica Cannon-Grant BLm scam fraud embezzlement
© Matt Stone/MediaNews Group/Boston HeraldMonica Cannon-Grant and her husband have been charged with using a $6,000 grant for at-risk youth for a getaway to Maryland, restaurants and a shopping spree.
A high-profile social justice activist in Boston and her husband used a nonprofit they founded to scam at least $185,000 from donors who included a Black Lives Matter chapter and the local district attorney's office, federal authorities allege.

Monica Cannon-Grant and Clark Grant allegedly treated their Violence in Boston organization as a personal piggy bank to pay for rent, shopping sprees, delivery meals, visits to a nail salon and a summer vacation trip to Maryland.

Cannon-Grant, 41, and Grant, 38, established the nonprofit in 2017, the same year she made headlines for helping organize a "Fight Supremacy" march in Boston following the deadly "Unite the Right" rally in Charlottesville, Va.
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NPC

Obsessed: UK government wants Russian athletes banned unless they denounce Putin


RT
Wed, 16 Mar 2022 11:09 UTC
wimbledon
© Jonathan Brady / PA Images via Getty Images
Russian tennis players who support Vladimir Putin or want to fly their national flag will be banned from playing at major sporting events in the UK under plans being discussed by the country's government, its sports minister has warned while calling Russia a "pariah on the world stage".

Nigel Huddleston, UK Prime Minister Boris Johnson's top sports chief, said Russian President Putin was "in control" of how long his country would be sanctioned by leading sporting organizations and voiced confidence that English football would "manage" without investment from Russians such as Roman Abramovich.

When he was asked about Daniil Medvedev, the US Open tennis winner who is vying with Novak Djokovic for the men's world number one spot, Huddleston said talks with the All England Lawn Tennis Club - the organizers of London Grand Slam tournament Wimbledon - were underway over possible new entry requirements specific to Russians.

Comment: Remember when this happened to Americans after Iraq? Oh yeah...

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Clock

US Senate moves to keep daylight savings time permanent

Audrey Carleton
Vice
Wed, 16 Mar 2022 17:35 UTC
Daylight Savings
© Getty Images
The U.S. Senate just voted to eliminate the biannual practice of springing forward and falling back with the passage of the Sunshine Protection Act.

Sponsored by a bipartisan group of senators that includes Ed Markey (D - MA) and Marco Rubio (R-FL), the bill moves to keep the U.S. in Daylight Savings Time — the time zone that we're currently in after losing an hour of sleep on Sunday morning.

Should the bill pass in the House of Representatives, the entire country would abolish Standard Time — the period between November and March — and thus the need to move our clocks back an hour every fall. Daylight savings would become permanent starting in November 2023 — though the legislation affords states and localities the individual power to reinstate clock-changing locally.
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Bullseye

BlackRock whistleblower on future recession, shocking findings in the CDC Covid data and democide

Alexandra Bruce
Forbidden Knowledge TV
Thu, 10 Mar 2022 00:00 UTC
Edward Dowd
Fresh off a 7-day suspension from Twitter, BlackRock Whistleblower, Ed Dowd is back, with a horrifying report on Steve Bannon's War Room.

Ed enlisted the help of an insurance industry expert to parse out the CDC Excess Deaths data. He says, "We were looking for other things but what we found was pretty shocking...He broke it down by age and he created a baselines for each age group to come up with excess mortality.

"And the money chart is really Chart 4, which shows that the Millennial age group, 25 to 44 experienced an 84% increase in excess mortality into the fall. It's the worst-ever excess mortality, I think, in history.

Millennials actually saw the highest increase in excess deaths of any other age group, due to the mandates imposed upon them, in order to keep their jobs, 7 times higher than the Silent Generation, (those aged 85+).

"Just to give you an idea, when you look at Chart 4, you see when mandates and boosters hit, the acceleration into the fall and then it re-accelerated into the end of the year. The drop-off in that data we see there's reporting issues. It takes time for Millennial-aged deaths to be reported, because they're usually not hospital deaths, so that data's going to be updated and it's probably gonna show that continued disturbing trend.


Comment: The above referenced insurance expert isn't the only individual in that particular industry to notice the excess mortality rate coinciding with the Covid jab...

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