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US town suffers FOURTH train derailment in 10 months


RT
Wed, 22 Feb 2023 21:04 UTC
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© jesseambler/TwitterFILE: A train reportedly flew off its tracks February 21,2023, continuing a recent spate of derailments across the US heartland
Crews with Union Pacific were called to clean up the scene after 31 cars carrying coal came off the rails in Nebraska

A Union Pacific train carrying coal suffered a catastrophic derailment on the eastern edge of Gothenburg, Nebraska on Tuesday morning, in the fourth such accident to befall the small town in just 10 months. Emergency and railroad crews were sent to the scene for cleanup after 31 cars carrying coal tumbled into a twisted wreck.

"It seems to happen all the time," local resident Jesse Ambler told the Daily Mail. "The rail company keeps laying people off and building longer and longer trains, but with less people to maintain the tracks," he explained, describing the disaster-plagued stretch of tracks as "one of the busiest railways in America."

Comment: The Daily Mail adds:
Around thirty train cars were seen off the track following the overnight derailing in Gothenburg, around 50 miles from the Nebraska state capital of Lincoln.

Law enforcement and a hazmat team were on the scene as authorities deal with yet another derailment on the nation's railways.
Crews with the Union Pacific Railroad were also called to the site Tuesday morning to attempt the cleanup.

Local resident Jesse Ambler told DailyMail.com that train derailments have occurred numerous times in the area in recent months, which has caused significant disruption to the local town of roughly 3500 people.
'It seems to happen all the time,' he said. 'I don't know what the deal is.'

'This is the fourth one in the last 10 months, it must be one of the busiest railways in America.

'The rail company keeps laying people off and building longer and longer trains, but with less people to maintain the tracks. It's a problem.'
He added that around 20 vehicles and an excavator were quickly on the scene following the wreck, as authorities attempt to quickly cleanup the site. Footage of the wreck shows numerous carriages laid on their side while workers organize around it.

According to 1011Now, train derailments have hit the same area in May, June and November of last year.

Union Railroad said in a statement: 'At about 1:45a.m. CST today, approximately 31 Union Pacific train cars carrying coal derailed near Gothenburg, Nebraska.

'No one was injured. The incident occurred about three miles southeast of Gothenburg. Cleanup has begun, with heavy equipment on site.

'One of the three mainline tracks near the derailment site reopened to train traffic at about 8 a.m. CST. The cause of the incident is under investigation.'


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Under siege: How has Donbass lived through its first year of official separation from Ukraine?

Vladislav Ugolny
RT
Tue, 21 Feb 2023 08:48 UTC
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© Ilya Pitalev/SputnikResidents of Donetsk People's Republic and Luhansk People's Republic
On the evening of February 21 of last year, Russian President Vladimir Putin delivered a speech officially recognizing the independence of the Donetsk People's Republic (DPR) and the Lugansk People's Republic (LPR).

It stunned the world, and set the course for events which have dominated the headlines since.

Agreements on friendship, cooperation, and mutual assistance were signed on the same day. This historical event has ultimately changed the lives of the residents of both republics, prefaced Moscow's military offensive in Ukraine and the entry of four new regions into the Russian Federation at the end of September. However, for Donbass residents, the year was marked not just by events of global importance, but also by a series of perhaps less well-known developments.

The background story

When the Western-backed coup (directed against Russia, among other things), took place in Kiev on February 23, 2014, it launched counter-processes in what was then eastern Ukraine. This marked the beginning, of what was known as the 'Russian Spring' - a series of pro-Moscow protests in Crimea and Novorossiya [a largely historical term for an area comprising eight regions of southeastern Ukraine - RT]. Supporters of the movement originally advocated the creation of an independent state recognized by Moscow or the direct accession of the territories to the Russian Federation.
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State Department explains cutting ties with Soros-funded group that attacked conservative and libertarian media sites


RT
Wed, 22 Feb 2023 20:26 UTC
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© AFP / Fabrice Coffrini
The US State Department said on Tuesday that it has pulled funding from the George Soros-backed Global Disinformation Index (GDI), after it was revealed that the organization was working to deprive conservative media outlets of advertising revenue.

GDI is a UK-based nonprofit that describes its mission as "disrupting the business of disinformation." It does this by compiling lists of "high-risk" news and information outlets - predominantly right-leaning and anti-liberal - and passing these on to advertisers, which in turn refuse to run ads on the sites.

According to a recent investigation by the Washington Examiner, GDI received more than $200,000 from the National Endowment for Democracy and around $100,000 from the Global Engagement Center, both entities of the US State Department. The funding is in addition to undisclosed amounts from billionaire financier Soros and the UK Foreign Office, both of which are listed as donors on its website.
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Clown world: Serial offender Gaige Grosskreutz sues Kyle Rittenhouse for shooting him during 2020 Kenosha riots

Emma Colton
Fox News
Wed, 22 Feb 2023 19:42 UTC
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Gaige Grosskreutz and Kyle Rittenhouse
Rittenhouse says he will prove innocence again after he was acquitted on homicide charges

A man who was shot in the arm by Kyle Rittenhouse during the Kenosha riots in 2020 has filed a lawsuit against Rittenhouse and Wisconsin police and officials, Fox News Digital has learned.

Gaige Grosskreutz, who testified that he pointed a firearm at Rittenhouse before the then-teenager shot Grosskreutz and two others, is seeking economic losses, "damages for emotional distress, humiliation, loss of enjoyment of life, and other pain and suffering on all claims," and punitive damages.

"Astonishingly, the Kenosha Police Department, Kenosha County Sheriff's Department, their supervising officials and police officers, and law enforcement officers from surrounding communities did not treat Defendant Rittenhouse or any of the other armed individuals patrolling the streets as a threat to the safety of themselves or the citizens they were sworn to protect," states the lawsuit, which was obtained by Fox News Digital.

Comment: Tucker Carlson interviewed Rittenhouse in December 2021. The trailer for that show:


As the trailer states, were it not for independent journalists on the scene, Rittenhouse would be rotting in jail for the crime of defending himself.



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US military email server left exposed for 2 weeks, allowing internal emails to leak

Jennifer Griffin and Adam Sabes
Fox News
Tue, 21 Feb 2023 20:12 UTC
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A U.S. Department of Defense server was left exposed for the past two weeks, allowing internal emails to be accessed, a senior U.S. defense official confirmed with Fox News.

A misconfiguration with a Department of Defense server hosted on Microsoft Azure's government cloud allowed the server to be accessed with a password, according to Tech Crunch, which reported that anyone with internet access could access mailbox data if they knew the server's IP address and were using a web browser.

The server contained around three terabytes of military emails, with many related to the U.S. Special Operations Command, which is a military unit that conducts special operations.
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Epstein-linked Clinton advisor allegedly hanged himself from tree after shooting himself in chest with shotgun

Olivia Rondeau
The Post Millennial
Wed, 22 Feb 2023 00:01 UTC
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The sheriff's report on the disturbing scene where a top Bill Clinton advisor with ties to Jeffrey Epstein was found shot and hanged from a tree has finally been released, prompting sleuths to question why the death was ruled a suicide.

Mark Middleton, 59, was a special advisor to the former president in the 1990s, authorizing Epstein's visits to the White House seven out of the 17 times the infamous pedophile met with top government officials there. Additionally, he was also on the flight logs of Epstein's private jet. According to the Perry County sheriff's office, Middleton was found dead on May 7, 2022 with a gunshot wound to his chest and an extension cord tying his neck to a tree in Perryville, Arkansas.

As obtained by the Daily Mail, Sheriff's Deputy Jeremy Lawson's firsthand report on the mysterious death claims that "I could see what at first appeared to be a man sitting near a tree, as my eyes focused better, I could see a rope of some type going from the tree limb to the male."

Comment: See also:

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It's insane that colleges still mandate vaccines

Yasmina Palumbo and Lucia Sinatra
New York Post
Sun, 19 Feb 2023 16:33 UTC
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Headlines last week declared natural immunity better protection than vaccines, based on a Lancet study that backed up a groundbreaking Israeli study from August 2021.

Yet vaccine mandates continue to block a full return to normalcy, and it's taking a particularly hard toll on college kids.

Three years in — and well after COVID-19 ceased to be a deadly, nationwide threat — many institutions are still reluctant to let go of pandemic restrictions.

Comment: See also: UK Universities and Colleges Admissions Service is still imposing vaccine mandates on students applying for nursing and social care courses

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Bullseye

French party leader blasts Biden's 'Hollywood speech'


RT
Wed, 22 Feb 2023 19:26 UTC
Joe Biden, Royal Warsaw Castle Gardens
© Wojtek Radwanski / AFPUS President Joe Biden delivers a speech at the Royal Warsaw Castle Gardens in Warsaw, Poland on February 21, 2023.
US President Joe Biden's vow to defend "freedom" in Ukraine was pure propaganda, the leader of French political party 'The Patriots' (Les Patriotes), Florian Philippot, said on Tuesday. The comments came after Biden made a speech on the Ukraine-Russia conflict during a visit to Poland on the same day.

"Can you stop feeding us with Hollywood speeches?!" Philippot wrote on Twitter. "'The freedom of people and democracy' just like in Libya, Kosovo, Iraq...?! Stop it."

The politician claimed that "the level of war hysteria on French TV is terrible," and compared the rhetoric to that of the US media when American troops invaded Iraq in 2003 under President George W. Bush. "Same stupid propaganda, same lies," added Philippot.

The conservative politician is known for strongly opposing the French government's decision to supply Kiev with weapons. Philippot has argued that Washington's support for Ukrainian troops is edging the world closer to a global conflict.
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The trans-activists are throwing tantrums at the New York Times

Jenny Holland
spiked
Wed, 22 Feb 2023 19:09 UTC
The New York Times office in the Manhattan
© REUTERS / Carlo AllegriThe New York Times office in Manhattan, New York City.
Hundreds of staffers have denounced their paper for daring to cover both sides of the trans debate.

The NYT's crime? It has published, in the words of the open letter, 'over 15,000 words of frontpage Times coverage debating the propriety of medical care for trans children'.

Allow me to translate for any readers not fluent in the language of woke tyrants: the New York Times has dared to publish a range of views on the policy of giving children puberty-blocking drugs and cross-sex hormones, and allowing doctors to cut off their healthy body parts. Journalists reporting both sides of a highly controversial and experimental medical treatment for adolescents? How very dare they!

'Both sides' is now an absolute no-no for vast numbers of people who somehow still consider themselves to be journalists. I genuinely don't understand why these people want to be journalists at all. It would be better for everyone if they just admitted that they were activists, commentators or political operatives.

Comment: The toddlers are running amok in the Grey Lady's staff (nursery) room. Anything that undermines their quasi-religious belief in trangenderism is attacked with all the ferocity of the Inquisition. Good on the NYT executives shutting this manifestation down, at least for now.

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British sitcoms 'Yes Minister' and 'The Thick of It' were among the satire programs flagged by Orwellian state policy for 'encouraging far-right sympathies'

Sam Merriman and Chris Hastings and David Barret
The Daily Mail
Fri, 17 Feb 2023 22:02 UTC
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The flagship Prevent scheme, recently the subject of a scathing audit, singled out comedies Yes Minister and The Thick Of It, the 1955 epic war film The Dam Busters, and even The Complete Works Of William Shakespeare as possible red flags of extremism
Some of Britain's most popular sitcoms and greatest works of literature were flagged as potential signs of far-Right extremism by a counter-terror programme.

The flagship Prevent scheme, recently the subject of a scathing audit, singled out comedies Yes Minister and The Thick Of It, the 1955 epic war film The Dam Busters, and even The Complete Works Of William Shakespeare as possible red flags of extremism.

It said the works of fiction were 'key texts' for 'white nationalists/supremacists'.
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