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European gas prices jump to record highs amid drop in deliveries from Russia

RT
Fri, 06 Aug 2021 13:46 UTC

Natural gas prices spiked in Europe on Friday after an accident at the Gazprom plant in Russia forced the company to cut its supply to European underground storage facilities.

The cost of September futures on the TTF hub in the Netherlands jumped to $546.3 per 1,000 cubic meters by 8:30am GMT, according to Intercontinental Exchange data.

The price hike follows a temporary decrease in gas deliveries from Russia through the Yamal-Europe gas pipeline due to a fire that broke out at Russian energy giant Gazprom's Urengoy plant in Siberia. The fire was extinguished on August 5, but the volume of gas transferred from the facility has not yet been fully restored, with work on the site halted amid investigation procedures.

Wisconsin removes 205,000 voters from the rolls

Martin Walsh
Conservative Brief
Thu, 05 Aug 2021 00:00 UTC

Election officials in the battleground state of Wisconsin have removed more than 205,000 voters from the rolls as part of routine work to keep the state's registration lists as current as possible.

Conservatives filed lawsuits back in 2020 demanding that the Wisconsin Elections Commission remove voters from the rolls if they didn't respond to mailings within 30 days. Those lawsuits failed and Joe Biden took the state of Wisconsin over Donald Trump by about 20,000 votes.

On Wednesday, nearly nine months after the election, Wisconsin Commission officials deactivated 174,307 voter registrations because the voters hadn't cast a ballot in four years and didn't respond to a mailing. The commission also said they deactivated 31,854 registrations of voters who may have moved and didn't respond to a mailing.

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Video footage of Israeli army firing on Palestinian family's car, killing 11-year-old boy, contradicts IOF story

Yumni Patel
Mondoweiss
Thu, 05 Aug 2021 19:31 UTC

© Akram al-Waara
Moayyad al-Alami greets mourners at his son’s wake. His 11-year-old son Mohammed was shot and killed by Israeli forces while the family were in their car on the way home from grocery shopping in their town of Beit Ummar. July 29th, 2021

New video footage of the moment that Israeli soldiers opened fire on a Palestinian family's car, killing their 11-year-old son, shows soldiers firing on the car as it was reversing, contradicting the army's previous accounts of the events.

Last week Israeli forces shot and killed 11-year-old Mohammed al-Alami while he was in his father's car with his two younger siblings, as the family were on their way home from grocery shopping in their town of Beit Ummar in the southern occupied West Bank.

At the time Israeli forces claimed that they attempted to stop the vehicle by firing warning shots in the air, and firing at the vehicle's tires. The accounts of Mohammed's father, and several eyewitnesses at the time contradicted the army's statement, and said that the soldiers sprayed the car with bullets "out of nowhere," and with no prior warning.

Comment: Israeli soldiers killed an 11-year-old Palestinian boy, then attacked his funeral and killed someone else

Twitterati blast 'woke outrage' after classic UK comedy tagged with advisory for 'outdated' attitudes: 'Take a joke'

RT
Fri, 06 Aug 2021 18:40 UTC

Social media users have called out "retrospective woke outrage" after classic British sitcom 'Allo 'Allo' was hit with a viewer warning about potentially offensive "language and attitudes" in the popular show.

The BBC period comedy, which ran from 1982 to 1992, was centred around the various misadventures of an embattled French cafe-owner during WWII, whose business was both a front for the underground resistance and a favoured watering hole for occupying Nazi forces.

It featured a host of colourful characters speaking English in exaggerated German, French and Italian accents, and played on both British and European stereotypes. In addition to spawning still-popular catchphrases such as the greeting "Good Moaning," other running gags included bungled operations, double entendres and pantomime sexual humour.

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CNN fires 3 unvaccinated staffers, gets mocked for 'zero-tolerance' policies that allow masturbation on Zoom call with colleagues

RT
Fri, 06 Aug 2021 16:54 UTC

CNN is not only a leading promoter of Covid-19 orthodoxy, but also has put itself on the cutting edge of Covid-19 vaccine authoritarianism by firing three unidentified employees who came to work without getting their jabs first.

"In the past week, we have been made aware of three employees who were coming to the office unvaccinated," CNN president Jeff Zucker told staffers in a memo, which reporter Oliver Darcy posted Thursday on Twitter.

All three have been terminated. Let me be clear: We have a zero-tolerance policy on this.

Comment: Be prepared as these types of zero-tolerance policies make their way into more businesses and governments. It's going to be a bumpy ride.

Cori Bush spent $70,000 on private security, now she's doubling down on 'defunding the police'

Ben Zeisloft
The Daily Wire
Thu, 05 Aug 2021 16:31 UTC

Rep. Cori Bush (D-MO) stated that she will continue supporting "defunding the police" while paying tens of thousands of taxpayer dollars for private security.

During a Wednesday interview with CBS News about the CDC's recent eviction moratorium, Bush was briefly pressed about her choice to use one-third of her campaign funds for security guards while advocating for the removal of funding from law enforcement.

"You faced some criticism in recent weeks over your push to defund the police," noted one of the anchors. "Campaign records show that you spent roughly $70,000 on private security, and some critics say that move is hypocritical. What's your response to those critics?"

"I'm going to make sure I have security because I know I have had attempts on my life," replied Bush after alleging that she experiences death threats from white supremacists. "And I have too much work to do. There are too many people that need help right now for me to allow that. So if I end up spending $200,000, if I spend ten more dollars on it, you know what? I get to be here, to do the work. So suck it up. And defunding the police has to happen; we need to defund the police and put that money into social safety nets, because we're trying to save lives."

Comment: Tone-deaf hypocrisy is one of the many symptoms of ideological possession.

US ranks LAST in healthcare among 11 wealthiest countries despite spending most

Lauren Aratani
The Guardian
Thu, 05 Aug 2021 21:40 UTC

US spends 17% of GDP on healthcare but struggles with affordability and has the most administrative hurdles

The US is last on a ranking of healthcare systems among 11 of the wealthiest countries in the world, despite spending the highest percentage of its GDP on healthcare, according to a new report from the Commonwealth Fund.

The country struggles with deep problems in affordability of healthcare, which affects access and equity, and it is the country that has the most administrative hurdles when dealing with healthcare. This is despite the US spending 17% of its gross domestic product on healthcare, "far above" the other 10 countries, according to the report.

Comment: History is replete with examples of bloated empires that tend to become overwhelmed by corruption and riddled with incompetence, and the US is little different. Another prime example of how this system is nearing its end is its military budget that outspends the top countries combined whilst failing to win any wars or produce anything of value:

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Offspring band member booted for refusing COVID vaccine on doctor's orders, even though he has natural immunity

Children's Health Defense
Megan Redshaw
Wed, 04 Aug 2021 13:16 UTC

Pete Parada, drummer for the Californian rock band Offspring, said he was ousted from the band because he refused to get a COVID vaccine, despite having already had COVID and acquiring natural immunity.

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Six, including pilot, killed in crash of Alaska sightseeing plane

Yereth Rosen
Yahoo! News
Fri, 06 Aug 2021 12:04 UTC

Six people were killed on Thursday when a sightseeing plane crashed in a mountainous area of southeast Alaska, officials said, leaving no survivors.

The craft, a De Havilland Beaver, had been ferrying five cruise passengers from a Holland America Line ship stopping in the port town of Ketchikan, the officials said, adding that the pilot was among the dead.

"Poor visibility and deteriorating weather hampered aerial search efforts for part of the afternoon," the Alaska State Troopers said in a statement, adding that an emergency signal had been triggered shortly before noon.

The U.S. Coast Guard found the wrecked plane and the victims after a search that also involved the U.S. Forest Service and other agencies, the troopers said.

Three Walt Disney World cast members among 17 busted in predatory child sex sting operation

Christian Spencer
The Hill
Wed, 04 Aug 2021 00:01 UTC

© Getty Images
Walt Disney World. Three employees of Walt Disney World have been arrested in a massive child sex sting in Florida.

The suspects allegedly wanted to have sex with a 13-year-old girl.

Three Walt Disney World employees and a registered nurse in the Orlando, Fla., area were among the 17 people arrested in a six-day undercover child predator sting.

Under the name Operation Child Protector, authorities targeted people through the internet and ultimately arrested 17 people, nine of whom already had criminal records. In total, the group faces 49 felonies and two misdemeanors, NBC 8 reported.

Comment: For a detailed list of all the alleged acts of the accused and their charges, see this article from Fox 13.

How many more incidents need to happen like this before there's a realization that the Disney corporation is a writhing den of child sex predators? See:

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European gas prices jump to record highs amid drop in deliveries from Russia

Wisconsin removes 205,000 voters from the rolls

Video footage of Israeli army firing on Palestinian family's car, killing 11-year-old boy, contradicts IOF story

Twitterati blast 'woke outrage' after classic UK comedy tagged with advisory for 'outdated' attitudes: 'Take a joke'

CNN fires 3 unvaccinated staffers, gets mocked for 'zero-tolerance' policies that allow masturbation on Zoom call with colleagues

Cori Bush spent $70,000 on private security, now she's doubling down on 'defunding the police'

US ranks LAST in healthcare among 11 wealthiest countries despite spending most

Offspring band member booted for refusing COVID vaccine on doctor's orders, even though he has natural immunity

Six, including pilot, killed in crash of Alaska sightseeing plane

Three Walt Disney World cast members among 17 busted in predatory child sex sting operation

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