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Another train derails in Ohio


RT
Sun, 05 Mar 2023 07:17 UTC
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© AFP / Luke SharretFILE PHOTO: A Norfolk Southern Corp. freight train.
A Norfolk Southern cargo train derailed near Springfield, Ohio in the US on Saturday. The incident comes a month after another train operated by the same company came off the tracks in East Palestine, Ohio, causing a major toxic spill.

This time there were no hazardous materials on the train, Norfolk Southern noted in a statement. "Our teams are en route to the site to begin cleanup operations," the company said. There were no deaths or injuries as a result of the incident, it added.

Residents within 300 meters (1,000 feet) of the crash site have been told to shelter in place "out of an abundance of caution," the local emergency management agency said.

Between 20 and 30 cars out of 212 on the train derailed at around 5 pm by State Route 41, the Springfield News-Sun reported, citing on-site emergency officials.

Electricity was reportedly out in parts of Springfield as power lines were damaged in the crash.
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Twitter Files: GEC, new knowledge, and state-sponsored blacklists

Matt Taibbi
Racket News
Thu, 02 Mar 2023 07:59 UTC
global engagement center
A new #TwitterFiles thread will be dropping in a few hours, at noon EST. It follows up the Hamilton 68 story of a month ago with examples of state-funded digital blacklisting campaigns run amok. It's self-explanatory, but some advance context might help:

In 2015-2016, during the brief, forgotten period when Islamic terrorism was fading as a national obsession and Trumpian "domestic extremism" had not yet become one, Barack Obama made a series of decisions that may yet prove devastating to his legacy.

The short version is he signed Executive Order 13271, establishing a "Global Engagement Center" ("GEC") to "counter the messaging and diminish the influence of international terrorist organizations." This act got almost no press and even within government, almost no one noticed.

In the bigger picture, however, a lame duck president kick-started the process of shifting the national security establishment's focus from counterterrorism to "disinformation." Whether by malfunction or design, this abrupt course change of Washington's contracting supertanker would have dramatic consequences. In fact, the tale of how America's information warfare mechanism turned inward, against "threats" in our own population, might someday be remembered as the story of our time, with collective panic over "disinfo" defining this generation in much the same way the Red Scare defined the culture of the fifties.

Comment: See Twitter Files #17 below:



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Eye 1

Britain was failed by a pro-lockdown clique incapable of admitting its errors

Fraser Nelson
The Telegraph
Thu, 02 Mar 2023 21:00 UTC
Matt Hancock
© Steve Parsons/PA
Very rarely do we come across a cache of documents giving an unvarnished glimpse of the personalities, as well as the policies, which shape our lives. Britain's 30-year rule shows us memos and scribbled comments, but with no hint of the conversations behind them. Richard Crossman's posthumous diaries were so explosive that ministers tried to suppress publication, but even that was just one man's view. Matt Hancock won't be thanked for it, but he has done the nation a great service by keeping perhaps the richest documentary source disclosed in recent years.

Conversations in and around 10 Downing Street would never normally be recorded. But Hancock's WhatsApp messages offer a real-time record of decision-making - complete with gossip, reactions, documents, conversations and emojis. They have several stories, to be sure, but the real value lies in something greater: a psychological profile of a group of men who had untrammelled power over the lives of millions. How would any group behave, in such circumstances? The Lockdown Files let us find out.

After reading thousands of these messages, the big theme is far more than the sum of the scandals. There's no end of those. At one stage we see that a convicted sex offender is suggested to bankroll a Matt Hancock leadership bid - which, it's explained, would be fine because he's a "lovely" chap who went to St Paul's and is "regarded fondly". There's plenty more chaos and skullduggery to be exposed in coming days. But the real value in The Lockdown Files lies in far more than the sum of the headlines.

Comment: See also: Hancock's lockdown files show there was no COVID 'plandemic'

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Thousands in Slovakia rally against NATO & military aid to Ukraine


News Front
Sat, 04 Mar 2023 12:00 UTC
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© zviestki.info
For more than a month, numerous rallies, demonstrations and processions of citizens opposing the existing policy of their country. On March 3, another march took place in Bratislava in support of Russia and for peace - against NATO and military assistance to Ukraine.

Thousands of local residents gathered in front of the palace of Slovak President Zuzana Čaputov, a well-known pro-American activist, defender of "justice" (in the interpretation of Washington), liberal and non-traditional values, "environmentalist" and fighter against corruption. People marched through Bratislava to the US embassy, ​​chanting pro-Russian and anti-American slogans. In front of the American diplomatic mission, the Slovaks, who were frankly tired of the rampant Russophobia, began to sing Russian songs.

Comment: Protest movements against NATO's proxy war are growing: Europe protests against arms supplies to Ukraine: 10,000 rally in Berlin, port workers march in Italy

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Gas tanker truck crashes and explodes in Maryland

Timothy H.J. Nerozzi
Fox News
Sat, 04 Mar 2023 02:46 UTC
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© Twitter/@jman87530075 via Fox NewsA huge fireball and heavy smoke were seen after a reported tanker explosion on Interstate 15 in Frederick, Maryland, Saturday.
A gas tanker caught fire Saturday in Frederick, Maryland, after a fiery crash, causing three nearby homes to be engulfed in flames.

The tanker truck exploded around 12:40 p.m. ET on U.S. Route 15 near a residential area. The truck driver was killed during the explosion.

Emergency services immediately responded to the scene of the disaster. Both sides of the highway were closed.

Frederick County Fire Chief Tom Coe said the tanker truck was carrying "a flammable liquid" before becoming completely engulfed in flames.

Comment: Whilst this incident may have been an accident, the numerous other highly suspect disasters of late tells of a concerted effort by the establishment to disrupt critical supplies and foment an atmosphere of chaos:

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Sherlock

'Computer glitch' hits Paris airport's border control causing long delays


Times Malta
Sun, 05 Mar 2023 01:02 UTC
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© Geoffroy Van Der Hasselt / AFPParis airports crippled by technical failure causing long queues at passport control.
A computer glitch at Paris' main Charles de Gaulle and Orly airports hobbled border controls on Saturday, causing long queues for passengers.

"A national breakdown of border police currently affects checkpoints at the departure and arrival of Paris-CDG and Paris-Orly. An extension of the waiting time is to be expected," Paris Airports tweeted.

It was not immediately clear if other airports or sectors were affected.

Comment: It's notable that in just the last few months airports elsewhere suffered similar technical issues: See also: Dutch gov't to cut Schipol airport flights by 60,000 by 2023, claim they want to cut noise & air pollution

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Scotland bans anaesthetic because of its 'impact on the climate', EU to follow

Angela Symons
Euronews
Fri, 03 Mar 2023 16:20 UTC
anaesthetic surgery
© Canva
Scotland has banned the inhaled anaesthetic desflurane due to its devastating impact on the climate. It is the first country in the world to do so.

The gas, which is used to put patients to sleep safely during surgery, has a global warming potential 2,500 times greater than carbon dioxide, according to the UK's National Health Service (NHS).

Various hospitals in other parts of the UK have already begun phasing out the anaesthetic. NHS England plans to stop using desflurane completely by early 2024, except in exceptional circumstances.

Comment: Human life was already being relegated to being of less import than the establishment's CO2 agenda, this is just one of the more recent, and glaring, examples. And, as we saw with the lockdowns, it's only a matter of time before other human activities from those that sustain life, to those that bring joy to life, are restricted, ostensibly, because of CO2 emissions: Thousands of farmers protest in Brussels over nitrogen limits that will cause 'socio-economic carnage'

With the above in mind, remember all the hysteria in the 90's over hairsprays and refrigerators that, we were told, were causing the Earth's ozone hole, and were subsequently banned? Ozone hole of 2021 finally closing, 3rd longest-lasting & 11th largest on record

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61% of all voters—including 57% of Democrats—believe 'it is likely' that Feds 'helped provoke' Jan 6 riot

Libby Emmons
Post Millennial
Fri, 03 Mar 2023 00:00 UTC
capitol
© UnknownJanuary 6th at the Capitol
Rasmussen has a new poll out showing that a whopping 61 percent of all voters, including a stunning 57 percent of Democrats, believe that federal agents played a role in inciting the Capitol riot of January 6, 2021.

In answer to the question "How likely is it that undercover government agents helped provoke the Capitol riot," 61 percent of likely voters said it was either very likely (39 percent) or somewhat likely (22 percent) that they had done so.

59 percent of men and 63 percent of women believed that federal agents had "helped provoke the Capitol riot." This major majority of voters who believe the Capitol riot was not simply naturally occurring breaks down among political party affiliation as well, with 57 percent of Democrats saying it is either very likely (34 percent) or somewhat likely (23 percent) while for Republicans the numbers are 51 percent saying very likely, and 19 percent saying somewhat likely.

Many across the media of the new right have stated their belief, based on photos and eye witness accounts, that federal agents had been encouraging Trump supporters to enter the Capitol building. Tucker Carlson is one of many who has questioned the idea that Trump supporters, watching then President Donald Trump speak, had taken it upon themselves, with no provocation, to walk from the Ellipse to the Capitol and demand entry.
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'One of Europe's top right-wing extremists': Who is the Neo-Nazi behind this week's Ukrainian attack in Russia's Bryansk region?


RT
Fri, 03 Mar 2023 18:57 UTC
nazis ukraine
© Social network
On Thursday morning, a group of armed operatives crossed the border from Ukraine into Russia's Bryansk Region. The so-called Russian Volunteer Corps (RDK; or Russkiy dobrovol'cheskiy korpus), consisting of Russians fighting for the Ukrainian Armed Forces, claimed responsibility for the incursion. President Vladimir Putin branded the incident "yet another terrorist attack, another crime... they entered the border territory and opened fire at civilians."

A video has been released by the RDK, claiming responsibility for the crime, featuring Denis Nikitin, a Neo-Nazi with wide international connections. Known as 'WhiteRex' in far-right circles, he called on Russian citizens to switch sides and join the Ukrainian army. Nikitin claimed his group only targets Russian soldiers and never attacks civilians.

Who is this man? What is his connection to Ukraine and its armed forces? And how did a football hooligan become a prominent figure in the European and American neo-Nazi underworld?

Comment: Photos from the attack:


Below is the original video, with the translation in the tweet below.



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UK Russophobia: Russians assaulted, threatened and abused as hate crimes linked to Ukraine war surge

David Mercer
Sky News
Sat, 04 Mar 2023 18:14 UTC
anti russia grafitti britain
© Maureen McLean/ShutterstockGraffiti reading 'Kill Putin' was painted on a wall in Slough.
Russians in the UK have been subjected to violent assaults, threats and vandalism in the last year, as new figures suggest a surge in hate crime linked to the war in Ukraine.

A Sky News investigation has found details of dozens of race hate crimes against Russian nationals in Britain since 24 February 2022, the date Vladimir Putin began his invasion.

One large police force in England saw anti-Russian offences more than double in the last year compared to 2021, while a charity revealed that children of primary school age have been victims.

An expert has warned that the number of recorded offences is likely to be the "tip of the iceberg" as many go unreported, and the spike is expected to continue for the duration of the war.
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