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After mobilisation, do Russians still support the war?

Noah Carl
The Daily Sceptic
Tue, 01 Nov 2022 14:27 UTC
Vladimir Putin
Not long after Russian tanks rolled across the border into Ukraine, pollsters reported the 'surprising' result that most Russians supported the 'special military operation'. I say 'surprising' because some commentators assumed Russians would share the views of Westerners.

But that was before the withdrawal from Kiev; the assassination of Darya Dugin; the sabotage of the Nord Stream pipelines; the Ukrainian counter-offensive in Kharkiv; and most importantly, the announcement of partial mobilisation.

Faced with the prospect that they or their loved ones might be sent to the frontlines, do Russians still support the war? According to two respected pollsters, the answer appears to be 'yes'.

The Levada Center is an independent polling organisation, which provides the "most reputable public opinion data available in Russia". Each month since March, they have asked a representative sample of Russians whether they "personally support the action of the Russian military forces in Ukraine". Results are shown below.

Comment: When a military operation is legitimately necessary, people are understandably supportive.

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NPC

Biden's CDC replaces word 'woman' with 'pregnant person' in flu vaccine guidance

Mia Ashton
The Post Millennial
Wed, 02 Nov 2022 00:01 UTC
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The US Centers for Disease Control (CDC) has removed the word woman from sections of its safety guidance on flu vaccines during pregnancy.

According to the Daily Mail, gendered terms such as woman, women, mother and she/her pronouns were all erased from the Q & A section of the Flu Vaccine Safety and Pregnancy page in August of last year. The words were replaced with gender-neutral language such as "pregnant people" and the gender-neutral pronoun "their."

However, the words woman and mother still appear in other sections of the CDC website, such as the Vaccines During Pregnancy FAQ page.

Comment: They are, quite frankly, trying to erase women. And anyone who opposes this move is labelled a TERF (trans-exclusionary radical feminist), which is apparently intended as a slur.

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Pistol

2 New Jersey cops shot at close range in Newark, suspect still on loose

Tina Moore and Katherine Donlevy
New York Post
Tue, 01 Nov 2022 16:01 UTC
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© AP Photo/Seth WenigLaw enforcement at the scene where two officers were reported shot in Newark Tuesday.
Two Newark police officers were shot at close range Tuesday by a gunman they were trying to arrest outside an apartment building, officials said.

The suspect, who is wanted in connection to a shooting in the city last week, fired at the officers with a handgun around 2 p.m. in a residential neighborhood, Newark Mayor Ras Baraka said in an evening press conference.

One officer was shot in the leg while the other was shot in his shoulder and suffered a graze wound to his neck, CNN reported. Both were taken to area hospitals and are expected to recover.

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Bullseye

Ted Cruz calls on Elon Musk to let Jordan Peterson back on Twitter

Ari Hoffman
The Post Millennial
Tue, 01 Nov 2022 00:01 UTC
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Texas Republican Senator Ted Cruz has called on Twitter's new owner and CEO Elon Musk to reinstate Dr. Jordan Peterson to the platform.

The Texas Republican posted to Twitter Tuesday night, "It is TIME for Elon Musk to let Jordan Peterson back on Twitter."

Shortly after he acquired the social media giant, the billionaire revealed that people whose accounts were suspended for "minor and dubious reasons" would be have their accounts reinstated. "Anyone suspended for minor & dubious reasons will be freed from Twitter jail," Musk wrote.

Comment: Elon, we know you just took over the platform, and you're probably really busy, but we're all waiting. Chop chop.

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Palette

Attack of the Modern Art: Mount Kimbie art installation runs amok in Central London

Andrew Ryce
Resident Advisor
Wed, 02 Nov 2022 08:51 UTC
mount kimbie art installation
Kai Campos said he's "heartbroken" after high winds caused four giant orbs to tumble down Tottenham Court Road.

A Mount Kimbie art installation in Central London fell apart after a storm caused four giant orbs to tumble down Tottenham Court Road.

Created by the artist Tom Shannon and commissioned by Mount Kimbie's Kai Campos, "Four World Set" opened last Sunday and was due to remain in St. Giles Square for a week to coincide with the UK duo's new double album, which lands this Friday.

Comment: It's rather ironic that the art piece was called "Four Winds" and it was wind that ultimately lead to the piece's demise. Thankfully no one was reported as hurt.

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Network

SOTT Focus: Truth Cops: Leaked Documents Outline US Govt Plans to 'Police Disinformation'

Ken Klippenstein, Lee Fang
The Intercept
Mon, 31 Oct 2022 10:00 UTC
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© Rafael Henrique/SOPA Images/LightRocket via Getty ImagesThe U.S. Department of Homeland Security logo is seen displayed on a smartphone.
The Department of Homeland Security is quietly broadening its efforts to curb speech it considers dangerous, an investigation by The Intercept has found. Years of internal DHS memos, emails, and documents — obtained via leaks and an ongoing lawsuit, as well as public documents — illustrate an expansive effort by the agency to influence tech platforms.

The work, much of which remains unknown to the American public, came into clearer view earlier this year when DHS announced a new "Disinformation Governance Board": a panel designed to police misinformation (false information spread unintentionally), disinformation (false information spread intentionally), and malinformation (factual information shared, typically out of context, with harmful intent) that allegedly threatens U.S. interests. While the board was widely ridiculed, immediately scaled back, and then shut down within a few months, other initiatives are underway as DHS pivots to monitoring social media now that its original mandate — the war on terror — has been wound down.

Comment: From the Post Millennial:
After the release of a damning report from The Intercept on Monday that showed unequivocally that the Department of Homeland Security had been instructing big tech companies how to moderate content on their platform, #DHSLeaks began trending on Twitter, and quickly moved up the charts to be at number 5 on Twitter's trending charts in the US.

Prior to 2020, it was reported that DHS met with Twitter, Facebook, Wikipedia, and other platforms in order to coordinate "content moderation" operations. These meetings were part of an ongoing initiative that saw collusion and collaboration between DHS and big tech to determine how "misinformation" would be dealt with on those platforms.
One of the authors of the above piece appeared on Tucker Carlson recently:





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Star of David

Unmasking the former Israeli spies working top jobs at Google, Facebook and Microsoft

Alan Macleod
MintPress News
Mon, 31 Oct 2022 18:25 UTC
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© MintPress NewsThe IDF’s Unit 8200
A MintPress study has found that hundreds of former agents of the notorious Israeli spying organization, Unit 8200, have attained positions of influence in many of the world's biggest tech companies, including Google, Facebook, Microsoft and Amazon.

The Israeli Defense Forces' (IDF) Unit 8200 is infamous for surveilling the indigenous Palestinian population, amassing kompromat on individuals for the purposes of blackmail and extortion. Spying on the world's rich and famous, Unit 8200 hit the headlines last year, after the Pegasus scandal broke. Former Unit 8200 officers designed and implemented software that spied on tens of thousands of politicians and likely aided in the killing of Saudi journalist Jamal Khashoggi.

Google

According to employment website LinkedIn, there are currently at least 99 former Unit 8200 veterans currently working for Google. This number almost certainly underestimates the scale of the collaboration between the two organizations, however. For one, this does not count former Google employees. Nor does it include those without a public LinkedIn account, or those who do have an account, but have not disclosed their previous affiliations with the high-tech Israeli surveillance unit. This is likely to be a considerable number, as agents are expressly prohibited from ever revealing their affiliation to Unit 8200. Thus, the figure of 99 only represents the number of current (or extremely recent) Google employees who are brazenly flouting Israeli military law by including the organization in their profiles.

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NPC

Even Greenpeace finally admits that recycling plastic doesn't work

Will Jones
Daily Sceptic
Mon, 31 Oct 2022 15:09 UTC
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© Reuters / Eloisa Lopez
Recycling plastic has wasted vast sums on "an enterprise that has been harmful to the environment as well as to humanity, says John Tierney in City Journal, and now even Greenpeace has admitted the truth on this. He writes:
Now Greenpeace has seen the light, or at least a glimmer of rationality. The group has issued a report accompanied by a press release headlined, "Plastic Recycling Is A Dead-End Street - Year After Year, Plastic Recycling Declines Even as Plastic Waste Increases." The group's overall policy remains delusional - the report proposes a far more harmful alternative to recycling - but it's nonetheless encouraging to see environmentalists put aside their obsessions long enough to contemplate reality.

The Greenpeace report offers a wealth of statistics and an admirably succinct diagnosis: "Mechanical and chemical recycling of plastic waste has largely failed and will always fail because plastic waste is: (1) extremely difficult to collect, (2) virtually impossible to sort for recycling, (3) environmentally harmful to reprocess, (4) often made of and contaminated by toxic materials, and (5) not economical to recycle." Greenpeace could have added a sixth reason: forcing people to sort and rinse their plastic garbage is a waste of everyone's time. But then, making life more pleasant for humans has never been high on the green agenda.

Comment: For more on the global warming scam see the articles below:

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Quenelle

"You murderous hypocrites": Outrage ensues after 'The Atlantic' suggests 'amnesty' for pandemic authoritarians

Tyler Durden
ZeroHedge
Tue, 01 Nov 2022 16:59 UTC
atlantic magazine pandemic forgiveness
© The Atlantic
The Atlantic has come under fire for suggesting that all the terrible pandemic-era decisions over lockdowns, school closures, masking, and punishing an entire class of people who questioned the efficacy and wisdom of taking a rushed, experimental vaccine - for a virus with a 99% survival rate in most, should all be water under the bridge.

"We need to forgive one another for what we did and said when we were in the dark about COVID," writes Brown Professor Emily Oster - a huge lockdown proponent, who now pleads from mercy from the once-shunned.

"Let's acknowledge that we made complicated choices in the face of deep uncertainty, and then try to work together to build back and move forward," she continues.

Except, they weren't "in the dark" about Covid. There were numerous sources pointing out the actual science that ran contrary to the mandate claims, and they were deliberately silenced by a vast media campaign. Evidence suggests that media platforms worked in tandem with Big Tech, the CDC and the Biden Administration. It was not a simple matter of overreaction, there was collusion to remove all counter-information.

Nice try, Emily.
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Car Black

'Buy an EV they said': Electric car charging in Italy more expensive than gasoline


RT
Tue, 01 Nov 2022 16:47 UTC
electric cars italy
An electric car charger in Genoa, Italy
Skyrocketing electricity prices have pushed the costs higher for EV drivers, a study shows

Charging an electric car in Italy will cost 161% more than a year ago due to higher electricity costs, consumer portal Facile.it reported last week.

"Due to rising energy prices, in some cases, refueling an electric car is more expensive than a traditional one. And if you are recharging not at home but at a public rapid station, the prices would be even higher," the report stated.

Experts have calculated that the previous cost of charging an electric car in the country was 50-70% lower than for refueling gasoline or diesel models. Now, a full battery of a 'green car' can cost more than a full tank of petrol.

Comment: What a boondoggle. And so many fell for it.

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