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The company announced the decision in its Telegram channel on Wednesday, adding that "the three former workers of the Zaporozhye Nuclear Power Plant can now make any other institution or organization happy with their presence."
Energoatom stated that while it honors the memory of those who defeated Nazism with "infinite respect" it considers any joint celebrations with "those who are killing Ukrainians today" to be "unacceptable."

Deb Walker visits the grave of her daughter, Brooke Goodwin, Thursday, Dec. 9, 2021, in Chester, Vt. Goodwin, 23, died in March of 2021 of a fatal overdose of the powerful opioid fentanyl and xylazine, an animal tranquilizer that is making its way into the illicit drug supply. According to provisional data released by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention on Wednesday, May 11, 2022, more than 107,000 Americans died of drug overdoses in 2021, setting another tragic record in the nation’s escalating overdose epidemic.
The provisional 2021 total translates to roughly one U.S. overdose death every 5 minutes. It marked a 15% increase from the previous record, set the year before. The CDC reviews death certificates and then makes an estimate to account for delayed and incomplete reporting.
Dr. Nora Volkow, director of the National Institute on Drug Abuse, called the latest numbers "truly staggering."
The White House issued a statement calling the accelerating pace of overdose deaths "unacceptable" and promoting its recently announced national drug control strategy. It calls for measures like connecting more people to treatment, disrupting drug trafficking and expanding access to the overdose-reversing medication naloxone.

Soldiers at a checkpoint in Colombo on Wednesday. Fears grow path is being laid for a military takeover, although this was denied by top defence official
The crisis turned volatile earlier this week after pro-government supporters began attacking a camp of peaceful demonstrators who had been protesting against the government and the devastating economic crisis that has engulfed the island of 22 million people.
As footage emerged on Wednesday of armoured military vehicles in Colombo and military checkpoints being set up across the country , fears grew that the path was being laid for a military takeover.
Dan Primack, Axios business editor, tweeted on Tuesday:
Dorsey responded in his own tweet, writing:
"I do agree. There are exceptions (CSE, illegal behaviour, spam or network manipulation, etc), but generally permanent bans are a failure of ours and don't work, which I wrote about here after the event (and called for a resilient social media protocol)."
Kevin Morris, an entertainment attorney and novelist who earned a fortune representing the co-creators of South Park and won a Tony Award as the co-producer of The Book of Mormon, footed Hunter Biden's overdue taxes totaling over $2 million — more than twice what was previously reported, a source familiar with conversations between the two told The Post.
Morris, whom Hunter Biden's friends call his latest "sugar brother," has also been funding the 52-year-old's lifestyle in Los Angeles — including his rent and living expenses, the source said.
The attorney has also been advising the president's son on how to structure his art sales, according to the source.
Comment: Shysters hire shysters.
According to Fox News, the "Copyright Clause Restoration Act of 2022" would cap copyrights granted to corporations by Congress to 56 years, and would retroactively implement this change on corporations, which would include Disney.
Hawley told Fox that "woke corporations" like Disney had raked in billions of dollars due to these special copyright protections. He said:
"The age of Republican handouts to Big Business is over. Thanks to special copyright protections from Congress, woke corporations like Disney have earned billions while increasingly pandering to woke activists. It's time to take away Disney's special privileges and open up a new era of creativity and innovation."Hawley's office said that Congress had used the "Mickey Mouse Protection Act," which amended the Copyright Act of 1976 in 1998, to extend copyrights for corporations up to 120 years. The act, officially called the "Copyright Term Extension Act," increased the duration of copyrights by 20 years.
Comment: Disney and the US Congress live in fantasyland and that is no amusement park!
Ottawa Police Service (OPS) says it seized only 41 items when it cracked down on convoy demonstrations between Feb. 17 and 20. Among these are generators, heaters and barbecues which were either purchased by the protesters themselves or donated by supporters.
OPS claims that six of the 41 items have been returned but that 35 pieces of equipment remain locked up and in their possession.
OPS told CBC News:
"As with any property, the owner can provide proof of ownership to retrieve their item. Receipts, serial numbers, and photos of items are acceptable means of identifying the property."According to several protesters, the OPS have blocked attempts to retrieve equipment and materials worth thousands of dollars. Organizer David Paisley, who hosts Live from the Shed responded:
"As best we can tell, everything was kind of thrown in trailers and taken out of there as quick as possible. Time was the overarching priority, so everything was very rushed. If they truly only have 41 items in their possession, then either a significant amount of items were thrown out, or there's some contractor somewhere sitting on a large number of items."

A woman walking her dog in East Hollywood on May 7, 2022, found a box of more than 100 mail-in ballots for the upcoming election just sitting on the sidewalk.
The LA County Registrar is investigating
The Los Angeles County Registrar's Office and the United States Postal Service are investigating after 104 ballots were found unopened on the sidewalk in East Hollywood.
The ballots were found by Christina Repaci, who was walking her dog Saturday evening.
"I turned the corner and I just saw this box of envelopes, and it was a USPS box. I picked some envelopes up and I saw they were ballots," said Repaci.
Repaci said she took them home for safekeeping while trying to figure out what to do next. She sent videos of the ballots to popular social media accounts to share the content and ask for guidance on next steps. Repaci said she called several politicians and the LA County Sheriff's Department.

Russian ambassador to Latvia Mikhail Vanin lays flowers at the memorial to Soviet Soldiers, in Riga, Latvia.
Police in Latvia have blocked access to the Liberators of Riga monument as Prime Minister Krisjanis Karins expressed his frustration at city residents twice creating a carpet of flowers, despite authorities' attempts to prevent and remove it.
Latvian police announced on Wednesday that "in order to prevent endangering public safety" and to avoid "possible provocations" they had decided to close public access to Victory Park where the monument is located. It was explained, that following "the events of May 9 and especially May 10," when a crowd gathered near the monument. In the opinion of the Latvian authorities, the site "is most directly related to the continuation of Latvia's occupation after the Second World War and is actually perceived by society as a symbol of the Soviet regime."
On May 9, when former Soviet republics celebrate Victory Day, flowers brought in by the city's residents were removed by a tractor.
Comment: Apparently Latvia's "leaders" are deaf to the sentiments of their people.
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Incoming White House press secretary Karine Jean-Pierre described Fox News as a "racist" network during an appearance on MSNBC's "AM Joy" in March 2020
"[Fox News] was racist before coronavirus, they are racist during the coronavirus, Fox News will be racist after the coronavirus," Jean-Pierre said during a March 15 appearance on MSNBC's AM Joy.
"So there is nothing new here," she continued. "I think the difference is they are all-in on being state TV for Donald Trump, and so they will continue to give misinformation."
At the time, Jean-Pierre worked as a political analyst for the left-wing network before joining the Biden campaign a couple of months later. She tweeted out the clip from her personal account and it was still up as of Tuesday afternoon.
Comment: Sri Lanka is likely to be just the first of many casualties of the looming global economic crisis: