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'Unthinkable' number of mercenaries gathered in Zaporozhye - authorities


RT
Sun, 09 Oct 2022 16:54 UTC
Ukrainian servicemen
© Anatolii Stepanov / AFPUkrainian servicemen stand near a mortar launcher at their position on the front line with Russian troops in the Donetsk region on October 5, 2022.
Ukraine has amassed a sizeable amount of foreign fighters on the frontline in Zaporozhye Region, which recently voted to join Russia, Vladimir Rogov, a member of the local administration's chief council, told RIA Novosti on Sunday.

"The Kiev regime has accumulated an unthinkable number of mercenaries on the line of contact. We know about representatives from more than 30 different countries," Rogov said.

He went on to say that Ukraine has been deploying to the area both mercenaries and troops from the western part of the country in order to instill terror in local residents who voted in the recent referendums.

In late September, Zaporozhye, along with Kherson Region and the two Donbass republics, voted overwhelmingly in referendums to join Russia. On Wednesday, President Vladimir Putin signed into law unification treaties with the former Ukrainian territories, officially making them part of Russia.
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Passport

Canada: Liberal gov confesses to $105M World Economic Forum Digital ID contract

Cosmin Dzsurdzsa
True North
Wed, 05 Oct 2022 06:12 UTC
wef forum économique mondial
The Liberal government has admitted in writing that they have an ongoing $105.3 million contract with the World Economic Forum to introduce digital identities for travel to Canada.

Conservative MP Leslyn Lewis published an Inquiry of Ministry she sent to Transport Minister Omar Alghabra in June.

The Inquiry focuses on the federal government's Known Traveller Digital Identity (KTDI) program first introduced in 2018.


Lewis demanded that the government provide information on how many Canadian travellers" have opted into the program, what data was collected and how much has been spent on the pilot among other things.

Comment: See also: Papers, please: Airline groups embrace 'digital health passports' over quarantines, Covid shutdowns continue to cripple industry

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X

How the EU is forcing Twitter to censor (and Musk can't stop it)

Robert Kogon
Brownstone Institute
Fri, 07 Oct 2022 05:39 UTC
european union
Twitter is obviously at the center of what is commonly known as "Big Tech censorship." It has been busily using the censorship tools at its disposal - from removing or quarantining tweets to surreptitiously "deboosting" them (shadow-banning) to outright account suspension - for at least two years now. And those who have managed to remain on the platform will have noticed a sharp upturn in its censorship activities starting last summer.

For most of this time, the main focus of Twitter censorship has, of course, been supposed "Covid-19 disinformation." By now, almost all the most influential advocates of early treatment or critics of Covid-19 vaccines on Twitter have had their accounts suspended, and most have not made it back.

The list of the permanently suspended includes such prominent voices as Robert Malone, Steve Kirsch, Daniel Horowitz, Nick Hudson, Anthony Hinton, Jessica Rose, Naomi Wolf, and, most recently, Peter McCullough.

And myriad smaller accounts have met the same fate for committing such thought crimes as suggesting that the myocarditis risk of both mRNA vaccines (Moderna and BioNTech/Pfizer) outstrips any benefit or pointing to mRNA instability and its unknown consequences for safety and efficacy.
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Megaphone

France's energy workers on strike, production falls 60% causing chaos at the pump

Joanna York
France 24
Sat, 08 Oct 2022 18:10 UTC
france petrol fuel shortage
© REUTERS/Pascal Rossignol/File PhotoCar drivers queue to fill their fuel tanks at gasoline pumps at Auchan gas station in Petite-Foret, France, October 6, 2022.
Petrol pumps have been running dry in France as striking energy workers disrupt deliveries. As frustration mounts among motorists, businesses and beyond, President Emmanuel Macron has called for calm.

On Friday morning a queue hundreds of metres long snaked out from a petrol station in the suburbs of Paris.

"We've been waiting for an hour," said one motorist, whose car was already running on empty. "The queue hasn't moved at all. I don't know what we are supposed to do."

Comment:

Translation:
The fuel shortage continues to spread in France. 20% of the country's stations are affected by outages, in particular due to strikes in the refineries of TotalEnergies and ExxonMobil to demand wage increases #carburant #penuriecarburant


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Eye 1

Boston Children's Hospital: "A good portion of children do know as early as seemingly from the womb" that they are transgender

Cardinal Pritchard
Not the Bee
Tue, 16 Aug 2022 23:11 UTC
Boston Children's Hospital transgender
This is not satire. This is a psychologist at Boston Children's Hospital whose job it is to assist in the gender transition of young kids.

Watch (don't worry about that sensitive content warning):

"Most of the patients that we have in the GeMS clinic actually know their gender usually around the age of puberty, but a good portion of children do know as early as seemingly from the womb and they will usually express their gender identity as very young children, some as soon as they can talk."
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Stop

Rep. Issa to Newsmax: 150K illegal immigrants should be NYC's 'fair share'

Charles Kim
NewsMax
Sat, 08 Oct 2022 00:00 UTC
Eric/Darrell
© Jeenah Moon/New York Times/AP/Matthew McDermott/KJNNew York City Mayor Eric Adams • Republican Congressman Darrell Issa
Rep. Darrell Issa, R-Calif., told Newsmax Friday that New York City should take in 150,000 illegal immigrants as its "fair share" instead of declaring an emergency over the 17,000 sent there from border states.

"There's 320 million Americans, plus or minus and New York City has about 2% of them," Issa said during "Rob Schmitt Tonight" Friday:
"So if you take, let's say 3 million, you get 150,000 people. [That] would be sort of be my arithmetic as their fair share."
Issa was reacting to New York City Mayor Eric Adams declaring an emergency and criticizing the governors in Texas and Arizona for sending an estimated 17,000 illegal immigrants to his city this summer.

Adams, in a televised address Friday, announced a state of emergency in the city as its shelter capacity jumped above 100,000 for the year:
"This is a humanitarian crisis that started with violence and instability in South America and is being accelerated by American political dynamics. Thousands of asylum seekers have been bused into New York City and simply dropped off, without notice, coordination, or care — and more are arriving every day.

"This crisis is not of our own making but one that will affect everyone in this city, now and in the months ahead. New Yorkers deserve to know why this is happening and what we plan to do."

Comment: See also:

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Dollars

New PayPal policy lets company pull $2500 from users' accounts if they promote 'misinformation'

Ben Zeisloft
The Daily Wire
Fri, 07 Oct 2022 00:00 UTC
paypal
© Avishek Das/SOPA Images/LightRocket/Getty ImagesPayPal
A new policy update from PayPal will permit the firm to sanction users who advance purported "misinformation" or present risks to user "wellbeing" with fines of up to $2,500 per offense.

The financial services company, which has repeatedly deplatformed organizations and individual commentators for their political views, will expand its "existing list of prohibited activities" on November 3. Among the changes are prohibitions on "the sending, posting, or publication of any messages, content, or materials" that "promote misinformation" or "present a risk to user safety or wellbeing." Users are also barred from "the promotion of hate, violence, racial or other forms of intolerance that is discriminatory."

The company's current acceptable use policy does not mention such activities. The Daily Wire reached out to PayPal for definitions of the added terms, although no response was received in time for publication.

The policy applies to actions taken using PayPal's platform.

Comment: Now, it seems, PayPal is backpedaling and reversing course:
A spokesman for the company stated:
"An AUP notice recently went out in error that included incorrect information. PayPal is not fining people for misinformation and this language was never intended to be inserted in our policy... We're sorry for the confusion this has caused."
One is forced to wonder how "language [that] was never intended to be inserted in our policy" nevertheless found its way... into their policy. Certainly, it didn't materialize out of thin air.

Someone thought it a worthwhile enough idea to draft the language. Just one more indicator of the troubling impulses in much of corporate America when it comes to curtailing speech — or "wrongthink."

As Bonchie rightly notes:
"Regardless, it is an egregious attack on the principle of free speech for a payment processor to start fining its users because those users might disagree with the broader left politically. And don't kid yourself, that's exactly what this is about. Today's "misinformation" is tomorrow's confirmed fact, a dynamic that has played out many times during the COVID pandemic.

"The scourage of woke-ness in corporate America is only getting worse, and we can reasonably look at this PayPal move as a test run for far worse sanctions to come. Major banks will be next in line to try this stuff (they already have when it comes to guns). The censorship regime is real, and Democrats have successfully gained influence via crony captialism over the last decade."
The good news is: PayPal has reversed course on this proposed policy change. For now.
This issue was framed by PP as 'misinformation'. Was it really? Twitter chorus says the language is there in the policy including all the ways to be fined. Bottom line: As a private company, PayPal will do whatever it wants.

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Black Magic

Unscrupulous surgeons and clinics make bank on sex change surgeries - at tremendous cost to taxpayers and children

Dylan Housman
Daily Caller
Fri, 07 Oct 2022 17:10 UTC
drag queen parade transgender children
© Beate Oma Dahle/NTB/AFP via Getty ImagesA drag queen parade in Helsinki, Norway
Demand for sex change operations is booming, lining the pockets of surgeons and sapping money away from taxpayer healthcare systems and young, uninsured patients.

The number of sex reassignment surgeries conducted in the U.S. surged by more than 150% from 2016 to 2017 and has continued to rise since then. In 2020, more than 16,000 "gender confirmation" surgeries were performed nationwide.

Those surgeries can be especially expensive for uninsured patients, ranging from up to $15,000 for just a genital reconstruction, to $50,000 for genital reconstruction, facial alteration and breast removal, according to Transgender Map.
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Fire

Huge fire at Eram Park Lake in Tehran, Iran

Matthew Roscoe
Euro Weekly News
Fri, 07 Oct 2022 16:43 UTC
iran fire park
© @vahid/TwitterHUGE structure fire near Eram Park Lake in Tehran, Iran.
A HUGE structure fire has reportedly broken out near Eram Park Lake in Tehran, Iran on Friday, October 7.

Videos circulating on social media show the extent of the HUGE fire near Eram Park Lake in Tehran, Iran, which is reminiscent of the fire that broke out at the high-rise Telecom building in Changsha China last month.


Comment: The incidence of major fires across the planet, a number of them rather suspicious, is soaring: Another US food factory fire in the US, poultry processor burns in Los Angeles


The video, shared by Twitter user @Vahid, has since gone viral having been shared over 300 times.

Comment: See also:

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Bizarro Earth

Dad 'stabbed with a screwdriver' outside East London primary school


My London News
Sat, 08 Oct 2022 23:43 UTC
school dad fight
A man was arrested for grievous bodily harm
A parent was 'stabbed with a screwdriver' outside an East London primary school during the afternoon school run. A group of people were seen fighting the school in footage circulating on social media.

Police and paramedics rushed to Old Palace Primary School in Bow after being called at around 3.30pm to reports of three men fighting. The man's injuries were found to be not life-threatening. A 44-year-old man was arrested on suspicion of grievous bodily harm, and he remains in police custody.

Comment: Also in the UK in the last few days:


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