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Fire

10 dead after explosion rips through amateur football game in Baghdad

Sean Seddon
Metro
Sat, 29 Oct 2022 21:31 UTC
iraq explosion
The tragedy happened at an amateur football stadium in the east of Iraq’s capital
Ten people were killed when a blast tore through an amateur football stadium in Iraq.

The explosion happened near a cafe and community pitch where a game was taking place.

Shrapnel tore through the residential area and damaged nearby homes, according to reports.

It was earlier believed the explosion may have been caused by a device which was attached to a vehicle but that is disputed by some sources.

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Sheriff

Russian father who forced paedophile to dig his own grave & kill himself after being caught abusing his 6-year-old daughter freed from jail after serving just 6 months

Will Stewart
Daily Mail
Fri, 28 Oct 2022 09:31 UTC
Svirdov
Matrosov, 35, whose daughter was a victim of Svirdov, has been freed from jail early after just six months. Matrosov is pictured with his wife Natalya Matrosova and his two daughters.
A distraught father who forced his best friend to kill himself when he discovered the man had sexually abused his daughter has been freed from jail after only six months.

Vyacheslav (Slava) Matrosov, 35, was jailed for 18 months but now has been allowed home a year early.

There was a wave of sympathy in Russia for the father who forced child sex abuser Oleg Sviridov, 32, to dig his own grave in a forest.

Matrosov, 35, whose daughter was a victim of Svirdov, has been freed from jail early after just six months.

Comment: It seems that there are numerous incidences where, increasingly, justice is getting a hearing on our planet. And one can imagine that many Westerners would appreciate such reasonable judgements to be doled out in their own communities, rather than the lenient sentences for paedophiles and child rapists that have become so commonplace.

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Biohazard

UK pop-up Covid vaccine clinic gives 36 children wrong dose


BBC
Sat, 29 Oct 2022 21:24 UTC
covid clinic
The children, aged between five and 11 years old, were vaccinated at a children's only pop-up jab clinic at Start Point in Sholing on Wednesday
A group of 36 children have been given a higher-than-normal dose of the Covid vaccine by mistake.

The children, aged between five and 11, were vaccinated at a children's only pop-up jab clinic at Start Point in Sholing, Southampton, on Wednesday.

Solent NHS Trust apologised, said it was taking the issue "very seriously" and that an investigation had begun.

Comment: This is what happened to children who were given the correct dose of Pfizer's experimental covid jab: 3 children DEAD & 120 hospitalized in just 1 week due to Pfizer jab, Vietnam province suspends batch but 'may use it later on adults'

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Attention

Best of the Web: 120 dead after street stampede during Halloween celebrations in Seoul, South Korea

Elizabeth Haigh
Daily Mail
Sat, 29 Oct 2022 20:30 UTC

Comment: Update 30 Oct 2022

Final death toll: 153 dead.


korea stampede
Dozens of people have reportedly died after a huge crush in the South Korean capital Seoul
A massive stampede has left at least 120 people dead and hundreds more injured after a fatal crush amongst a 100,000-strong crowd on a narrow street during Halloween festivities in the South Korean capital Seoul.

An official from the National Fire Agency initially said around 100 people were injured during the deadly crowd surge on Saturday night in the Itaewon leisure district of Seoul.

It is believed that hundreds of thousands had gathered in Itaewon, Seoul to attend the city's 2022 Halloween Festival, but a crush occurred shortly after 10pm local time.

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Alarm Clock

Journalists in the firing line

Sharmine Narwani
The Cradle
Wed, 26 Oct 2022 17:09 UTC
fake montage soliemani pompeo Sharmine Narwani
© The CradleThe Industry of Fakes: no longer can words, pictures, video, or audio be trusted, thanks to the deceptive capabilities of new technologies. We made this fake picture in one hour flat.
Discrediting journalists who buck the dominant narratives of corporate media is becoming a cottage industry. Last week, it was my turn.

Last week, a cache of around 17,000 documents allegedly hacked from Iranian media outlet Press TV, began making their rounds on social media. Among them are documents which bear my name, passport photo, and signature.

For the past six days, I have been subject to ceaseless attacks on Twitter by supposed "Iranian" accounts accusing me of being a paid propagandist of the Iranian government and the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC), based on a scurrilous piecing together of fragments of information to create a false perception of my journalism.

In the main, these social media "warriors for women's rights" latch onto my posts and followers, and spew derogatory slurs related to my gender. "Whore," and more colorful versions of that word, seem to be their favorite refrain, but many threaten my life and safety too. In Persian, this manner of language feels even more heavy, shameful, and menacing.
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USA

The United States of schizophrenia

Karen Hunt
American Greatness
Tue, 18 Oct 2022 00:00 UTC
Redblue
© Houston Public Media/KJN
The Right needs to be realistic about the likelihood of Big Pharma or Fauci or anyone else being brought to justice. We are the ones in danger. Not them.

We now have two opposing realities in this country. Both sides are sure their reality is correct and the other one isn't. It's turning us all into schizophrenics. Both sides fervently believe they are winning the COVID propaganda battle.

Liberals generally believe what the mainstream media tells them: The reason COVID is disappearing, they insist, is because lockdowns, masks and vaccine mandates worked.

Conservatives generally believe what "alternative media" tells them. That pharmaceutical companies colluded with the Biden regime to bilk the American people out of billions of dollars so they could line their own pockets and gain unparalleled power.

Lately, the alternative media is abuzz with new revelations about the vaccines and Pfizer. There is a euphoric feeling that the widely accepted narrative is going to change for the better. Surely, with the latest bombshell revelations, Pfizer CEO Albert Bourla will at last be prosecuted for crimes against humanity.
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Attention

Pentagon faces human trafficking accusations - WaPo


RT
Fri, 28 Oct 2022 11:44 UTC
Camp Arifjan
© Gustavo Ferrari/Getty Images for VH1US troops at Camp Arifjan base, south of Kuwait City, Kuwait.
American military bases in the Persian Gulf region use the services of subcontractors whose staff could be classed as victims of human trafficking, the Washington Post reported on Thursday. US federal law bans paying taxpayer money to contractors that allow such practices.

Foreign workers in Arab nations including Qatar and Kuwait are employed under the controversial "kafala system", which requires a citizen, usually the employer, to take legal charge of the employee. Critics say the scheme is prone to abuse, making workers unable to leave jobs when they want to, and otherwise puts them at a disadvantage.

According to the Washington Post, US military contractors hiring menial and low-skilled staff for the Pentagon's bases in the Arab world are involved in such abuses. It cites the accounts of dozens of workers, reporting that their passports were taken away to limit their movements or that they paid a hefty entry fee to get a job at a US facility, which could take years to repay.

US federal law against human trafficking requires contractors to investigate claims of such abuses, but workers believe US military officials, defense contractors and Gulf recruiting agencies have agreed to turn a blind eye.

Comment: Human abuse costs very little to the abusers.

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Arrow Up

Australian inflation spirals


RT
Fri, 28 Oct 2022 10:20 UTC
Aussie inflation
© ShutterstockAussie Inflation
Consumer prices in Australia jumped 7.3% annually, marking the highest since 1990 and almost three times the pace of wage growth, data by the bureau of statistics (ABS) showed on Wednesday.

The prices rose 1.8% in the last quarter, topping market forecasts of 1.6%, driven by skyrocketing food and energy costs.

According to the report, gas and other household fuel costs soared almost 11% for the quarter. Food prices in the country were already climbing at an annual pace of 9.0%, with the third quarter seeing a surge of 3.2%. Annual inflation for essential goods and services leaped to 8.4% during July-September, the ABS said.

"Whether it's food, whether it's electricity, whether it's rent, inflation is public enemy number one. Inflation is the dragon we need to slay," the treasurer of Australia, Jim Chalmers, said, addressing the report.

There are also fears that recent flooding across eastern Australia will lift food prices even higher, with supermarket chain Coles already warning of declining volumes in fresh food.
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Toys

Is the Bird Freed? Elon Musk to welcome Trump back onto Twitter and fires executives

Harriet Alexander & Arthur Parashar
Daily Mail
Thu, 27 Oct 2022 00:00 UTC
Elon Musk
© twitterMusk posted a video of himself marching into Twitter's San Francisco headquarters carrying a porcelain sink on Wednesday
Elon Musk has formally taken over Twitter, triumphantly posting 'the bird is freed' and immediately firing several top executives.

His next move will be to restore users who have been handed lifetime bans from the platform - including former US president Donald Trump.

Twitter's CEO Parag Agrawal, the chief financial officer Ned Segal and the top lawyer for the firm, Vijaya Gadde, were culled just hours after Musk finalized the $44 billion acquisition last night.

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Popcorn

Pigs have flown: Snopes actually fact-checks Biden gas price claim, rates FALSE

Jordan Liles
Snopes
Thu, 27 Oct 2022 16:00 UTC
biden ice cream cone gas prices
Claim:

The national average for U.S. gas prices was above $5 per gallon when U.S. President Joe Biden took office in January 2021, and $3.39 in late October 2022.

Rating:
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© SnopesThis rating indicates that the primary elements of a claim are demonstrably false.
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