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27 cops injured in Kiev amid protest against court decision to lock up far-right nationalist Sternenko

Jonny Tickle
RT
Wed, 24 Feb 2021 16:03 UTC
kiev
© Getty Images/NurPhotoRally Near The Presidential Administration In Kyiv
Twenty-seven Ukrainian policemen have been injured in clashes on Kiev's Bankova Street after a demonstration against the imprisonment of far-right Odessa activist Sergey Sternenko descended into violence.

According to media reports, more than a thousand people gathered near the Presidential Administration and were met with tear gas.

Sternenko is the former leader of the Odessa branch of the Right Sector, an association of radical anti-Russia Ukrainian nationalist organizations. Founded in 2013 as a conglomeration of groups at the Euromaidan revolt in 2013, the group has been described as neo-fascist and even neo-Nazi. In November 2014, the Russian Supreme Court ruled that the association is an extremist organization and banned its activities in Russia.

Comment: See also: 'Death to our enemies!' Ukrainian Nazis protest new President's roadmap to peace with Russia

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Biohazard

'Ecological disaster': Mysterious oil spill covers Israel's coastline in toxic tar balls, judge places gag order on press

Harry Baker
Live Science
Tue, 23 Feb 2021 12:00 UTC
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© JACK GUEZ/AFP via Getty ImagesAn Israeli soldiers displays a tar ball during cleanup operation at the Sharon Beach National Park, north of Tel Aviv city, on Feb. 22
More than 100 miles (161 kilometers) of Israel's normally pristine Mediterranean coastline have been stained with thick globules of tar that washed up after an oil spill off the coast of the country last week. Authorities have yet to identify the culprit, but they say it is harmful to both humans and marine life.

Israel's Nature and Parks Authority (INPA) called the spill "one of the most serious ecological disasters" the country has ever seen and warned it could take years to completely remove the waste from beaches, according to the BBC.

The tar was first noticed on Israel's beaches on Wednesday (Feb. 18) after a heavy winter storm battered the coastline. Israel's Environmental Protection Ministry estimates that as much as 1,100 tons (1,000 metric tons) of tar have already washed ashore, according to Aljazeera.

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Pills

Traces of designer drugs found in several countries wastewater

Dr. Deborah Devis
Cosmos Magazine
Wed, 24 Feb 2021 17:40 UTC
Synthetic drugs
© Peter Dazeley / GettySynthetic drugs were consumed in high amounts at 2019/2020 New Years parties around the globe.
Australians may be partying harder than previously thought, according to our water.

Researchers from the University of South Australia, led by Richard Bade, found that wastewater samples contained evidence of high drug use by over the summer season, including use of designer drugs in eight countries, including Australia.

Australia, along with New Zealand, the USA and the Netherlands had the highest consumption of designer party drugs during the 2019/2020 New Year period, according to the study, published in Water Research.

The team tested for 200 synthetic drugs in sites across Australia, New Zealand, China, The Netherlands, Spain, Italy, Norway and the United States. They found that the Netherlands was the only country that didn't have samples of new psychotic substances - drugs that mimic other illicit drugs, such as cannabis, Cocaine, MDMA and LSD.
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Arrow Up

Michael Burry warns Weimar hyperinflation is coming


Zerohedge
Mon, 22 Feb 2021 08:11 UTC
Michael Burry
One week ago, Bank of America hinted at the unthinkable: the tsunami of monetary and fiscal stimulus, coupled with the upcoming surge in monetary velocity as the world's economy emerges from lockdowns, would lead to unprecedented economic overheating... or rather precedented as BofA's CIO Michael Hartnett reflected back on the post-WW1 Germany which he said was the "most epic, extreme analog of surging velocity and inflation following end of war psychology, pent-up savings, lost confidence in currency & authorities" and specifically the Reichsbank's monetization of debt, and extrapolated that this is similar to what is going on now.

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There is, of course, another name for that period: Weimar Germany, and because we all know what happened then, it is understandable why BofA does not want to mention that particular name.

Comment: Burry isn't the only one warning of hyperinflation:

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Amnesty revokes Navalny's 'prisoner of conscience' status over 'hate speech'


Radio Free Europe / Radio Liberty
Wed, 24 Feb 2021 06:54 UTC
Aleksei Navalny
Aleksei Navalny waves from inside a glass cell during a court hearing in Moscow on February 20.
Amnesty International has confirmed the withdrawal of its recent designation of Russian opposition politician Aleksei Navalny as a "prisoner of conscience" over his alleged advocacy of violence and discrimination and comments that included hate speech, but reiterated its determination to keep fighting for his release.

"Amnesty International took an internal decision to stop referring to Aleksei Navalny as a prisoner of conscience in relation to comments he made in the past," Denis Krivosheev, deputy director of Amnesty's Europe and Central Asia office, confirmed to RFE/RL in an e-mailed response.

"Some of these comments, which Navalny has not publicly denounced, reach the threshold of advocacy of hatred, and this is at odds with Amnesty's definition of a prisoner of conscience," Krivosheev said, adding that Navalny "has not publicly denounced" his past comments.

Comment: Keep in mind that Navalny is a western-backed stooge and a petty criminal and Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty is a western propaganda outfit. The only news in the above piece is that Amnesty International has revoked Navalny's prisoner of conscience status. The rest is PR and spin.

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Fire

Daphne Caruana Galizia murder: Vincent Muscat jailed for 15 years after guilty plea

Jon Sharman
Independent
Tue, 23 Feb 2021 19:38 UTC
Daphne Caruana Galizia
© AFPThe investigative journalist was killed while driving in 2017.
Proceedings against two co-accused set to continue.

A man has been jailed for 15 years after pleading guilty to the murder of reporter Daphne Caruana Galizia in Malta.

Vincent Muscat changed his plea to guilty on Tuesday and was immediately sentenced at the courtroom in the capital Valletta.

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Cork-based nuns breach Covid guidelines to attend exorcism of the Dáil

Paul Hosford
Irish Examiner
Mon, 22 Feb 2021 09:11 UTC
nuns ireland
© Dan LinehanSr Irene Gibson and Sr Anne Marie attended the exorcism on December 8 at a time when inter-county travel was banned.
A pair of nuns who have so far raised over €77,000 in crowdfunding after being ordered to leave a site in West Cork broke Covid guidelines to attend an exorcism of the Dáil before Christmas.

Mother Irene Gibson, of a group called the Carmelite Sisters of the Holy Face of Jesus, has been ordered to leave the compound at Corran South near the village of Leap in West Cork by next June.

That followed a 2019 conviction for breaching planning regulations in relation to the premises which she set up as a religious retreat in 2016.

Comment: Welcome to the age of the tattle tail press.

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CPAC cancels musician Young Pharaoh, who said Judaism is a lie

Gabrielle Fonrouge
New York Post
Mon, 22 Feb 2021 18:35 UTC
Young Pharaoh
© FacebookYoung Pharaoh, a speaker who was originally scheduled to speak at the 2021 CPAC.
The Conservative Political Action Conference has scrapped musician Young Pharaoh's appearance at its annual conference over a report that he called Judaism a "complete lie" and said it was "made up for political gain," it was revealed Monday.

The Buffalo, New York-based artist, who has also propagated QAnon conspiracy theories and falsely claimed COVID-19 vaccines will "alter your DNA," previously called Jewish people "thieving fake Jews," Media Matters reported.

He also claimed that "all the censorship" and "pedophilia on social media is being done by Israeli Jews" and wrote Big Tech companies, the media and social media platforms are controlled by the Chinese Communist Party and Israel "through Jewish CEO[s]."

Comment: The irony of cancelling Pharaoh's appearance at the "America Uncancelled" event is rather on the nose.

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Pharaoh was slated for a late Sunday time slot, typically a lull in the yearly CPAC event, though his appearance would have come just an hour before that of former President Donald Trump.

While it is unclear exactly what prompted the decision, CPAC's announcement followed a story in Media Matters chronicling some of Young Pharaoh's more hot-button statements, including his description of Judaism a "complete lie," arguing that "Israeli Jews" are responsible for "censorship and pedophilia on social media" as well as a number of conspiracy-minded claims about Covid-19 and vaccines.

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Though many netizens found it ironic that an event themed around opposition to cancel culture had canceled one of its speakers, others wondered why the lecturer was invited in the first place, especially given that his comments were not kept secret and aren't difficult to find on his Twitter handle.




Some users joked that a "hotep-MAGA alliance" would simply be "too powerful" and had to be stopped - referring to a broad Afrocentric movement that often combines black nationalism with new age spiritual views and unorthodox historical claims about Egypt and the ancient Israelites, in line with much of Pharaoh's commentary. Podcaster and YouTuber Uncle Hotep, meanwhile, accused CPAC of deliberately stirring up a scandal to generate attention for itself.





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Stock Down

UK unemployment hits five-year high

Tom Batchelor
Independent
Tue, 23 Feb 2021 12:38 UTC
grocery store worker
© APThe ONS data showed the UK employment rate for the three months to December was 75 per cent, 1.5 percentage points lower than a year earlier
The unemployment rate rose to 5.1 per cent last month - a five-year high - as Covid continued to inflict damage on the UK economy, new figures show.

The Office for National Statistics (ONS) said the jobless rate was up 0.4 percentage points on the previous quarter and up 1.3 percentage points on a year earlier.

Around 1.74 million people were unemployed in the three months to December, up 454,000 from the same period in 2019.

The unemployment rate now sits at the highest level since the autumn of 2015 - and saw the biggest annual rise since the financial crisis.

In a sliver of good news, the ONS said there were 83,000 more people in payrolled employment in January compared with December - the second consecutive monthly increase - but this was still down 726,000 since the start of the pandemic.

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Propaganda

The Vaccine (Dis)Information War

CJ Hopkins
Consent Factory
Tue, 23 Feb 2021 07:13 UTC
baby vaccine
© UNICEF
So, good news, folks! It appears that GloboCap's Genetic Modification Division has come up with a miracle vaccine for Covid! It's an absolutely safe, non-experimental, messenger-RNA vaccine that teaches your cells to produce a protein that triggers an immune response, just like your body's immune-system response, only better, because it's made by corporations!

OK, technically, it hasn't been approved for use — that process normally takes several years — so I guess it's slightly "experimental," but the US Food and Drug Administration and the European Medicines Agency have issued "Emergency Use Authorizations," and it has been "tested extensively for safety and effectiveness," according to Facebook's anonymous "fact checkers," so there's absolutely nothing to worry about.

This non-experimental experimental vaccine is truly a historic development, because apart from saving the world from a virus that causes mild to moderate flu-like symptoms (or, more commonly, no symptoms whatsoever) in roughly 95% of those infected, and that over 99% of those infected survive, the possibilities for future applications of messenger-RNA technology, and the genetic modification of humans, generally, is virtually unlimited at this point.

Comment: See also: One-Third of Deaths Reported to CDC After COVID Vaccines Occurred Within 48 Hours of Vaccination

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