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Ukrainians tired of 'state propaganda' on TV - NYT


RT
Sat, 06 Jan 2024 18:16 UTC
zelensky
© AFP / Liselotte Sabroe
Ukrainian viewers are turning away from Telemarathon United News, a round-the-clock multi-channel broadcast set up as single source of televised information about the conflict with Russia, because it has turned into a "little more than a mouthpiece for the government," the New York Times has reported.

Telemarathon United News was created on the order of Ukrainian President Vladimir Zelensky and gets 40% its funding from the government. Opposition channels have been denied participation in the project.

The broadcast has been jointly produced by Ukraine's six leading networks since the start of the fighting between Moscow and Kiev in early 2022. The NYT report this week described the 24/7 broadcast as "a major tool of Ukraine's information war," which was "crucial... for holding the country together."

But, after two years of conflict, "Ukrainians have grown weary of Telemarathon," the paper acknowledged. Viewers now increasingly complain that it "often paints too rosy a picture of the war, hiding worrying developments on the frontline and the West's eroding support for Ukraine," it said.
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California law banning firearms in public places blocked once again as judge says it violates 2nd Amendment


RT
Sun, 07 Jan 2024 18:07 UTC
gun range
© AP
A new California law that bans people from carrying firearms in most public places was once again blocked from taking effect Saturday as a court case challenging it continues.

A 9th Circuit Court of Appeals panel dissolved a temporary hold on a lower court injunction blocking the law. The hold was issued by a different 9th Circuit panel and had allowed the law to go into effect Jan 1.

Saturday's decision keeps in place a Dec. 20 ruling by U.S. District Judge Cormac Carney blocking the law. Carney said that it violates the Second Amendment and that gun rights groups would likely prevail in proving it unconstitutional.
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Why Lloyd Austin's secrecy about his hospital stay undercuts a top Biden campaign message

Michael Collins , Tom Vanden Brook
USA TODAY
Thu, 11 Jan 2024 19:00 UTC
Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin
© Maya Alleruzzo, APDefense Secretary Lloyd Austin kept his hospitalization secret from the White House for three days after he was admitted.
WASHINGTON - The White House promised on President Joe Biden's first day in office that the new administration would bring transparency and trust back to government.

But the secrecy surrounding Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin's hospitalization is casting doubts on whether the administration is living up to that promise.

Austin was hospitalized Jan. 1 for what the Pentagon has described complications following an elective medical procedure, but the Defense Department didn't alert the White House about Austin's condition until Thursday, three days after he was admitted. Neither the Pentagon nor Austin has provided any details about why he is in the hospital or what medical procedure he underwent.

Comment: What reasons could Austin have for keeping his illness a secret? Would disclosure be a reason to lose his job? All in all, the American government around Joe Biden certainly seems incompetent and deceptive, which does not reflect well on the promised transparency and credibility towards the public.

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Best of the Web: 'The govt is trying to take our land': German farmers & truckers block major highways in huge protest over subsidies cut

Ruth Wright
Euronews
Mon, 08 Jan 2024 09:46 UTC

Comment: This is like the Canadian trucker convoy and the French farmers' protests rolled into one...


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The protests are set to last all week.

Commuters around Germany are facing severe disruption as a massive protest by farmers blocks roads across the country.

In the coordinated action, farmers have driven their tractors onto highways, slip roads and smaller roads and stopped traffic from getting through.

Protesters in front of the Brandenburg Gate in Berlin had signs attached to their tractors with signs like 'No farmer, no future'.

Comment: While the establishment's attacks on farmers have been going on for many years now, and have included everything from paying them to 'rewild' land and ensuring they became dependent on subsidies just to stay afloat, these attacks have become ever more hurried and brazen in the last couple of years, with demands that farmers massively reduce herd sizes and that land be given over to the government.

Notably, there's also been a surge in suspicious food-plant and egg-farm fires, price fixing, and bird flu outbreaks.

The inevitable results of these attacks are that farmers will be thrown out of business, never to return, and the supply chain will be devastated, ultimately resulting in a worsening of global food shortages:


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260,000 Israeli settlers apply for unemployment benefits as Gaza genocide plunges economy further into crisis


Al Mayadeen
Mon, 08 Jan 2024 13:50 UTC
Israel unemployed
© AFPBillboard in Tel Aviv shows (R to L) Israeli PM Netanyahu and Security Minister Benny Gantz with a sign reading in Hebrew "Stop" and the number of Israeli unemployed 855,380, in occupied Palestine on July 2020.
An Israeli report reveals the sheer impact of the Israeli war on Gaza on the Israeli economy, which has been engulfed in deep crises.

About 260,000 Israelis applied for unemployment benefits since the beginning of the Israeli war on the Gaza Strip, Israeli news website Davar reported.

The Israeli outlet revealed that 142,500 of these applicants are currently on unpaid leave, as the private Israeli sector continues to cut off staffers due to the economic crisis, resulting from the Israeli government's aggression on the Gaza Strip.

Comment: Whilst Israel's economy was faltering even before Oct 7th, it's likely that the multipolar alliance will continue to withdraw their support through economic means, and Tel Aviv, like their brethren in the Nazi-aligned Kiev-junta, will be increasingly reliant on handouts from the American tax-payer:


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Elon Musk's drug use concerns Tesla and SpaceX leaders, WSJ says


The Straits Times
Sun, 07 Jan 2024 10:57 UTC
Elon Musk
© NYTIMESMr Elon Musk had said in August he has a prescription to use ketamine as an antidepressant.
Mr Elon Musk's drug use has worried executives and board members at businesses he runs, The Wall Street Journal reported, citing unidentified people familiar with the billionaire and the companies.

Mr Musk has used LSD, cocaine, ecstasy and psychedelic mushrooms, often at private parties, the Journal said, citing unnamed witnesses and others with knowledge of the matter.

People close to the Tesla and SpaceX chief executive officer told the newspaper his drug use is ongoing, and that in particular he is consuming ketamine. Mr Musk said in August he has a prescription to use the drug as an antidepressant.

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Why Russia is enormously under-rated

Eric Zuesse
The Duran
Mon, 08 Jan 2024 08:26 UTC
Russian President Vladimir Putin
© Sputnik / Mikhail MetzelRussian President Vladimir Putin.
The speculations in the U.S. and its colonies ('allies') that Ukrainian troops and NATO weapons and guidance will achieve victory against Russia in the battlefields of Ukraine are receding (if not already disappearing) down the memory-hole of U.S-empire propaganda; and, so, the time has arrived for an analysis of that memory-hole itself, to see what has been forgotten or else never known to the public.

As I have previously documented, Russia has achieved, ever since Putin came into power in 2000, a rate of economic growth that is almost as steep as China's, and vastly higher than America's or any of America's colonies. The stagnation now is in The West, not in The East. And the growth is especially in China and Russia. But the U.S. regime resolutely refuses to acknowledge Russia's success. Even more, it refuses to acknowledge America's decline (which is blatant). And even more than that: it hides the fact that the imperial regime, U.S. Government itself, is doing as well as it is, only by exploiting its European colonies and Japan (America's biggest colony in The East), which are therefore doing even worse than America itself is. This is the traditional result in any empire — exploitation of its colonies — and it's certainly the case regarding every one of America's colonies except South Korea (whose economy is unique in the American empire, for performing better than America's does — though still not as well as the global average).
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NHS asks patients to choose from 12 genders, 10 sexual preferences and 159 religions

Laura Donnelly
The Telegraph
Sat, 06 Jan 2024 17:58 UTC
nhs rainbow
NHS patients are being asked to choose from 159 religions, 12 genders and 10 sexual preferences before they attend hospital appointments.

Critics said the data collection was "bizarre" and "confusing" with those trying to navigate the health service being asked if they are a Goddess, Satanist or Druid before they access care.

Patients' groups described the system as "wokery to the nth degree" saying the "complex and intrusive" questions would leave users baffled, and raise concerns about personal security.

The questions are asked when patients register with an online portal which enables them to access their hospital appointment details, test results and medical records, before attending NHS outpatient appointments.

Patients are directed to a section on their personal information to fill in their details, with repeated reminders for those who do not oblige.

Comment: Exactly how does not knowing whether one is "genderfluid, questioning, agender, non-binary, demiboy and demigirl" lead to adverse health outcomes?

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Your wallet isn't lying: Biden's economy is in bad shape


The Daily Caller
Sun, 07 Jan 2024 21:10 UTC
Joe Biden
© AP Photo / Alex BrandonJoe Biden
"While future forecasts may look promising with many economists predicting a 'soft landing,' that in itself cannot make up for the fact that the average consumer pays significantly more for daily products now than they did in 2021,"

Consumers are right to be dissatisfied with the current state of the economy despite claims of a booming economy from U.S. officials and the media, experts told the Daily Caller News Foundation.

Consumer sentiment, meaning Americans perception of the economy, is expected to improve in December following a mid-month reading of 69.7 index points, which is far from the high under Biden of 88.3 in April 2021 and even further from the 90 to 100 range that was common during the Trump presidency, according to the University of Michigan's Survey of Consumers. Politicians and the media have insisted that consumers are wrong to be unenthusiastic about the state of the economy, but experts told the DCNF that consumer perceptions are more in line with the true state of the country.

Comment: Shadowstats gives the real picture on unemployment rates, Note the spike during the Covid scamdemic:
shadowstats unemployment rate us
© Shadowstats.com
"The seasonally-adjusted SGS Alternate Unemployment Rate reflects current unemployment reporting methodology adjusted for SGS-estimated long-term discouraged workers, who were defined out of official existence in 1994. That estimate is added to the BLS estimate of U-6 unemployment, which includes short-term discouraged workers. The U-3 unemployment rate is the monthly headline number. The U-6 unemployment rate is the Bureau of Labor Statistics' (BLS) broadest unemployment measure, including short-term discouraged and other marginally-attached workers as well as those forced to work part-time because they cannot find full-time employment."


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Prickly Jewish publication whines about 'growing number of issues' around WaPo's Israel-Hamas reporting

Brian Flood
Fox News
Sun, 07 Jan 2024 20:40 UTC
the washington post
The Washington Post was scolded by a Jewish publication on Friday "over a growing number of issues connected to its reporting" the ongoing Israel-Hamas war.

The Jewish Insider published a piece, "Washington Post under fire for repeated anti-Israel bias, systemic sloppiness in Middle East coverage," which put a spotlight on the paper's recent issues.

The Post recently added a lengthy correction to a month-old news story, admitting it had "mischaracterized" some aspects of its story about Palestinian mothers being separated from their babies in the Israel-Hamas war.

The Nov. 17 article, "Israel's war with Hamas separates Palestinian babies from their mothers," described how Israel gave mothers with high-risk pregnancies from Gaza a special permit to travel to Israel to receive potentially life-saving treatment for themselves and their babies. The previous version of the story stated that Israeli rules forced all mothers to travel back to Gaza to renew their permits if their newborns stayed in the hospital for longer than a few weeks.
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