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Ukrainian attack led to spike in Russian enlistment - Putin


RT
Mon, 12 Aug 2024 13:34 UTC
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© Sputnik / Alexey SuhorukovFILE PHOTO: An instructor works at a contract enlistment station in Tambov, Russia
Ukraine's incursion into Russia's Kursk Region has increased the stream of volunteers willing to sign contracts with the military and join the fight to defend the Motherland, President Vladimir Putin has said.

Speaking at a meeting of top officials on Monday, Putin noted that Kiev's attack in Kursk - the largest assault on a Russian border region since the start of the conflict - had been aimed at undermining the morale of the population.

Ukraine wanted to "sow discord and division... to intimidate people, to undermine unity and solidarity" in Russian society, but has failed, Putin said. "Russian citizens have already responded: they unanimously expressed willingness to help those in trouble and support for the army," he added.

"What is important, the number of those who are willing to join our men, our fighters, who defend Russia heroically with a weapon in hand, has increased."

Putin said that, by attacking Kursk, Kiev had sought to divert attention from Donbass, where Russian forces have been steadily gaining ground in recent months. However, he added, offensive operations there have not slowed down, and have instead increased.

Comment: Nothing about the conflict is going the way the Ukrainians hoped or wanted.

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DOJ mulls push for historic break up of Google after landmark antitrust ruling

Thomas Barrabi
New York Post
Tue, 13 Aug 2024 20:32 UTC
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The Justice Department is reportedly considering a push for a historic breakup of Google's business empire after a federal judge ruled the Big Tech giant has an illegal monopoly over online search.

DOJ attorneys could ask Judge Amit Mehta to order Google to sell portions of its business - with potential candidates for divestment including its Android operating system, Chrome web browser and advertising platform AdWords, Bloomberg reported.

A potential sell-off of Android - the world's most widely-used operating system - has generated the most discussion among the DOJ attorneys crafting the agency's plan, the outlet said, citing sources with knowledge of the agency's discussions.

Comment: About time. The company has been throwing its weight around for far too long.

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Former Kansas police chief formally charged over Marion newspaper raid

Minyvonne Burke
NBC News
Tue, 13 Aug 2024 19:21 UTC
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© Marion County RecordStill image of surveillance video from the Marion County Record as authorities from the Marion, Kansas, Police Department served as search warrant on Friday, Aug. 11, 2023.
Gideon Cody, who resigned from the Marion Police Department, is charged with one count of interference with the judicial process.

A former Kansas police chief linked to the Aug. 11, 2023, raid of a local newspaper was formally charged with one count of interference with the judicial process.

Gideon Cody, who resigned from the Marion Police Department less than two months after the raid, is accused of inducing a witness to withhold information in a felony case, according to a complaint filed Monday.

The charge comes a year after the offices of the Marion County Record were searched in a raid that also targeted the homes of its publisher and a co-owner, Eric Meyer and City Council member Ruth Herbel.

Meyer's 98-year-old mother, Joan Meyer,also a co-owner of the newspaper, lived with him and was home at the time of the raid. She collapsed and died the day after the raid, and Meyer blamed her death on the stress of the raid.

Comment: More background:

Media giants raise First Amendment concerns over raid on Kansas paper

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Iranian banks hit by major cyber attack, reportedly one of largest in history


i24NEWS2
Wed, 14 Aug 2024 19:23 UTC
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© kaptnali/GettyImagesFILE: The last major cyber attack struck the Islamic Republic's fuel infrastructure, with Tehran blaming Israel and the US for out-of-service gas stations.
A massive cyber attack targeted the Central Bank of Iran on Wednesday, according to a report in the Saudi-affiliated Iran International.

Other banks were also hit, with major disruptions to the banking system of the Islamic Republic. This is reportedly one of the largest hacks in the country's history.

Hackers stole information belonging to account holders in Iran's largest bank, as well as others, the report said.

Comment: Given the West-Israel's expertise in this field; their previous cyberattacks on the country; their attempts to provoke Iran into retaliating via variety of other actions - including the most recent assassinations - it seems reasonable to suppose that they are responsible: There is rather odd footage doing the rounds, claiming to be related to the cyber attack - a piece of paper attached to an ATM - and, whilst it is silly enough to be dismissed (because surely a cyberattack would have the note digitally showing on the computer screen), it's included below for reference:
"Dear Customers, It is not possible to withdraw money from this ATM. This is because all of Iran's budget and national resources have been allocated to wars and the corrupt religious leaders of the Islamic Republic regime. We deeply apologize." This follows the massive cyber attack on Iran's central bank.


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UK: 11-year-old girl stabbed 8 times in tourist spot, Romanian attacker disarmed by security guard of Pakistani descent

Tara Cobham
Independent
Wed, 14 Aug 2024 17:59 UTC
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A man has appeared in court charged with attempted murder after an 11-year-old girl was stabbed in Leicester Square.

Ioan Pintaru was also charged with possession of a bladed article early on Tuesday and was remanded in custody.

The 32-year-old appeared at Westminster Magistrates' Court later on Tuesday morning, wearing a grey prison-issue sweatshirt.

The court heard Pintaru, of no fixed address, is a Romanian citizen, and the charges were read to him through an interpreter during the 10-minute hearing.

Comment: The Standard reports:
A security guard has told how he "jumped on" and took a knife from the knifeman.

The guard, who gave his name as Abdullah, 29, said he had worked in security at the TWG Tea shop for the past "seven to eight months".

"I heard a scream, at that moment I saw there was one person, roughly mid-30s or early 30s, and he was like stabbing a kid - I jumped on him, held the hand in which he was (carrying) a knife, and just put him down on the floor and just held him and took the knife away from him," he said.

"Then a couple of more people joined as well, and we just held him until the police came, it took maybe three to four minutes for the police to arrive and then they just took him into custody."

He and his colleagues gave first aid to the child before the police joined in, he said.

"I just saw a kid getting stabbed and I just tried to save her. It's my duty to just save them," he added.

The square and the surrounding area have an estimated 2.5 million visitors every week and are home to shops, theatres, cinemas and restaurants.
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With the near week of riots that followed the stabbing of 3 young girls, the atmosphere in the UK has certainly been tense. Also, judging by the bizarre happenings with the Queen's guard's horses, there are signs that something has been 'in the air' for a while now.

Notably, whilst this attacker is clearly an unstable, susceptible person, perhaps even a copy cat criminal, the heroes of the day rather serendipitously undermine the establishment's divide and conquer tactics:

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ICE finds, arrests Haitian migrant who was released on $500 bond after being charged with raping child in MA

Anders Hagstrom , Bill Melugin
Fox News
Tue, 13 Aug 2024 00:00 UTC
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© Fox NewsCory B. Alvarez allegedly raped a teenage girl at a motel he lived at, which housed migrants. Alvarez entered the United States lawfully in 2023 in New York City and is being held without bail.
Agents with U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement have located and arrested a Haitian immigrant who had previously been released on a $500 bond despite facing charges of raping a child in Massachusetts.

ICE had issued a detainer on the suspect, Cory Alvarez, but the local sheriff's office ignored it and released the 26-year-old on a low bail number. A detainer is a request by which authorities alert ICE about an individual they believe to be subject to deportation so they can take the individual into federal custody and deport that person.

Alvarez was arrested in a so-called sanctuary city and the detainer was therefore ignored.
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Russia, the ugly duckling, and France's WOKE Olympics

Declan Hayes
Strategic Culture Foundation
Wed, 14 Aug 2024 10:36 UTC
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France's recent WOKE Olympics was overshadowed in many ways by NATO's International Olympic Committee's (IOC's) war on Russia and on traditional Olympic practices, which are being jettisoned to serve NATO's global WOKE agenda. Although Russia has been one of the powerhouses of the Olympics ever since Avery Brundage finally persuaded the Soviet Union to sign up to his project, because Russia's presence has been particularly prominent both in and out of the ring in boxing, NATO is fixated on ending that influence, even if it means scrubbing boxing from the 2028 Los Angeles Olympics altogether.

One of the major controversies at Paris concerned the gender of Algerian boxer Imane Khelif, who won gold in the women's welterweight division, but whose gender had been called into question because she failed an earlier test, and because opponents and former boxing champions had all questioned whether she was a male or a female (she seems to have Swyer Syndrome which is concerned with XX-XY chromosone irregularities). Although I tend to the Swyer Syndrome view that she is a female with some very distinct and easily enhanced male advantages, the IOC and NATO's media have blamed this entire fracas on Russia not, it has to be said, to achieve fair play for Khelif or those women she mercilessly battered in the ring, but to drive Russia bag and baggage out of the boxing world. Though the obvious solution would be to subject those like Khelif to rigorous testing, because that might not help NATO achieve its WOKE aims, it is much better for the IOC and its affiliated media to scream about Russia, Putin and all their other cat calls.
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Gym allegedly allowing biological male into women's locker room faces criminal probe from Missouri AG

Hannah Grossman
Fox News
Sun, 04 Aug 2024 23:00 UTC
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A St. Louis branch of Life Time Fitness could be facing civil and criminal liabilities after it allegedly "adopted a policy" allowing transgender women into the female locker rooms, the state's attorney general announced Friday.

Missouri AG Andrew Bailey told the CEO of Life Time Fitness in a letter that while allowing biological males to enter whatever restroom they choose is popular in corporate policy books, he would not tolerate it under his jurisdiction.

"While it might be considered fashionable in certain corporate boardrooms to pretend that biology is irrelevant, the American heartland still lives in reality," he said. "Missourians recognize that allowing adult men to openly invade and disrobe in spaces set aside for women and young girls is indefensible and places political correctness above public safety."

The investigation followed an incident where a 52-year-old transgender woman entered the women's locker room, to the outrage of some of Life Time's customers. Some of the staff corrected customers, instructing them to use certain language when discussing the trans person.

Comment: Good on Missouri AG Andrew Bailey for putting a stop to this madness.

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Best of the Web: The Academic Culture of Fraud

Ben Landau-Taylor
The Palladium Letter
Fri, 02 Aug 2024 21:15 UTC
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In 2006, Sylvain Lesné and seven coauthors published a paper on Alzheimer's disease, "A specific amyloid-beta protein assembly in the brain impairs memory," in Nature, the world's most prestigious scientific journal. This was a major paper in the development of the "amyloid hypothesis," a proposed mechanism for how Alzheimer's disease afflicts its victims. About 50 million people suffer from Alzheimer's disease, more than the entire population of California, making it the world's most common cause of dementia. This population will grow as the world's average population gets older. There is no effective treatment for Alzheimer's disease, and its pathology is poorly understood. Any progress in understanding this disease represents a massive humanitarian victory. Encouraged by this paper and other promising studies, funding and talent poured into investigating the amyloid hypothesis. By 2022, such research had received over $1 billion in government funds.

That year, neuroscientist Matthew Schrag discovered doctored images in this and many of Lesné's other papers, including others purporting to provide evidence for the amyloid hypothesis. These images had been manually edited and cropped together to falsely show support for the papers' hypotheses. Notably, these frauds all made it through the formalized "peer review" processes of Nature and six other academic journals undetected, before eventually being uncovered by unrelated channels.
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Election fraud travesty: Former Mesa, CO Clerk and election patriot Tina Peters found guilty on 7 of 10 charges

Jim Hᴏft
The Gateway Pundit
Tue, 13 Aug 2024 20:57 UTC
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© Tina Peters/[S]election CodeFormer Mesa County Clerk and gold star mom Tina Peters
Former Mesa County Clerk and gold star mom Tina Peters was found guilty on seven of ten charges for preserving critical election data.

The Gateway Pundit's Brian Lupo attended the trial and will post an update on Tuesday.

Tina Peters is the Election Clerk from Mesa County, Colorado. She made a copy of her machines' information before performing the action requested by Griswald, who demanded that all voting machines' election data should be erased (which is against the law) after the 2020 election.

Ms. Peters was attacked for her actions.

Mesa County District launched a criminal investigation against Peters for allegedly posting election system passwords on the internet.

Comment: More background on Ms. Peter's fight:

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