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Russian court sentences ex-police officers to up to 12 years behind bars for planting drugs in attempt to frame Meduza journalist


RT
Fri, 28 May 2021 16:54 UTC
Ivan Golunov
© RIA
Journalist Ivan Golunov (R) at the meeting of the Moscow City Court, where the verdict of former police officers in the case of his illegal detention is being announced.
Five former detectives have been handed lengthy jail terms in Russia for their roles in fabricating evidence against a reporter in a case that sparked outrage across the country, with President Vladimir Putin wading into the row.

Moscow City Court passed down the judgement on Friday, sentencing Igor Lyakhovets, the former deputy head of the drugs division in the west of the capital, to a 12-year spell in prison. His then-subordinates Akbar Sergaliev, Roman Feofanov and Maxim Umetbaev received eight years each, while a fifth, Denis Konovalov, took a deal to plead guilty and received a five-year term. Each was fined one million rubles ($13,600 USD), stripped of their ranks and given bans from holding public service roles.

The ex-officers arrested Ivan Golunov in June 2019, claiming he had been in possession of the recreational drug mephedrone while he was working as a correspondent for Meduza, a Latvia-based news site registered as a 'foreign agent' by Russia's Ministry of Justice over links to overseas funding.

However, the reporter was released only five days later, after a large-scale public outcry that saw Russian news outlets rally together to protest his innocence. Hundreds even took to the streets to demonstrate against the arrest in Moscow and cities across the country. Several leading newspapers also published identical front pages to show solidarity with the detained journalist.
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US Mint delays silver shipments due to 'global silver shortage'

Tyler Durden
ZeroHedge
Fri, 28 May 2021 12:45 UTC
silver coins
Interest in silver is soaring (both for industrial use and financial investment), echoing 2013's crisis, as a recent report from the Silver Institute, silver demand for printed and flexible electronics is forecast to increase 54% over the next 10 years.

Demand for silver in this rapidly developing sector is forecast to come in at 48 million ounces this year. By 2030, the demand is expected to surge to 615 million ounces.

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Defund the police... wait, no, my car's been stolen, help! Woke political figures see their ideology falter as reality sets in

Micah Curtis
Source
Sat, 29 May 2021 13:27 UTC
defund the police street art
© Washington, DC. AFP / Jose Luis Magana
Whether it's a 'Marxist' co-founder of Black Lives Matter investing millions in real estate, or an Atlanta politician calling cops when his Mercedes is taken, all the cute slogans go out the window when reality sets in.

The term, "when the rubber hits the road" is used whenever an idea that seems good in theory meets practical application - basically, whenever you try to apply your own perceived genius to everyday life. Sometimes this works wonderfully, at other times the proverbial rubber explodes and everything you thought that was going to work doesn't. Such is the way that the woke ideology goes, because it seems more and more that those who follow these ideas end up either abandoning them or seeing the error of their ways.

Black Lives Matter (BLM) co-founder Patrisse Cullors is a good recent example. Just yesterday, she resigned from her position as the executive director of the BLM foundation. The "trained Marxist" was recently outed as having spent $3.2 million on real estate. "From each according to his ability, to each according to his needs" seems to go out the window pretty quickly once you have a certain number of zeros in your checking account. She blamed those darn right-wingers for making it into news, of course.

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Brick Wall

Pennsylvania denies convicted rapist Bill Cosby's request for parole


Breitbart
Sat, 29 May 2021 12:23 UTC
Bill Cosby
© AP/Matt Rourke
The Pennsylvania Parole Board on Thursday denied Bill Cosby's petition to be released from prison on parole.

A letter released by the board Thursday stated that Cosby, 83, failed "to develop a parole release plan" and must participate in and complete additional programs including a "treatment program for sex offenders and violence prevention."

Cosby was sentenced to three years to 10 years in state prison in 2018 after he was convicted of aggravated sexual assault for drugging and molesting Andrea Constand at his home near Philadelphia.

The parole board said that Cosby also received a negative recommendation from the department of corrections.

The board's decision can be reconsidered if Cosby can obtain a positive recommendation, complete the required programs and keep a clean record of conduct.

A representative for Cosby said in a statement that it was "not a surprise" that his parole request was denied.

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Facebook's censorship of Wuhan lab story shows 'its true ugly colours': Tech giant is condemned for 'ingratiating itself to China'

Martin Robinson and James Tapsfield
Daily Mail
Thu, 27 May 2021 17:13 UTC
facebook false information
Facebook was today accused of 'showing its true and ugly colours' and smothering free speech as it scrapped its ban on posts debating whether Covid-19 could be man-made - but only after Joe Biden ordered the CIA to probe if the virus came from a Wuhan lab.

Mark Zuckerberg's global policy chief Nick Clegg, the former British MP and Liberal Democrat leader, has also been branded 'feeble' for allowing months of censorship on the social network.

Critics branded Facebook's behaviour 'contemptible' and begged them to respect free speech rather than 'ingratiating' themselves with states such as China, which has banned the website but remains a $5billion-a-year ad market.

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Attention

The UK government wants to sell your GP medical records- Here's how to opt-out

Phil Booth
Byline Times
Wed, 19 May 2021 00:00 UTC
MATT HANCOCK
© PA Images
Health and Social Care Secretary Matt Hancock.
NHS patients' GP records are the most detailed and sensitive medical records that exist, containing the history of events in an individual's lifetime impacting their physical and mental health.

But, from 1 July, NHS Digital has announced that "data may be shared from the GP medical records about... any living patient registered at a GP practice in England when the collection started".

NHS Digital - the health and social care system's information and technology partner - will be able to take the following from GPs' records: "Data about diagnoses, symptoms, observations, test results, medications, allergies, immunisations, referrals, recalls and appointments, including information about physical, mental and sexual health." This will also include data about "staff who have treated patients", and data "on sex, ethnicity and sexual orientation", as well as other sensitive data.

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Pope Francis sending team to investigate whether German diocese mishandled sexual abuse allegations, amid public anger


RT
Fri, 28 May 2021 16:03 UTC
Rainer Maria Woelki
© Ina Fassbender / AFP
Archbishop of Cologne Rainer Maria Woelki at the cathedral in Cologne, Germany, April 2021.
Pope Francis will dispatch a team to investigate if the Archbishop of Cologne mishandled sexual abuse claims in the Catholic Church. Parishioners have been protesting against the diocese and demanding accountability.

Investigators from the Vatican will visit the Archdiocese of Cologne, Germany in the first half of June to check whether its leader, Cardinal Rainer Maria Woelki, had made "mistakes" in the addressing of the sexual abuse cases, the archdiocese said in a statement on Friday. They will also look at possible failings by Stefan Hesse, the archbishop of Hamburg, who was the former head of personnel in Cologne.

Woelki has been slammed by parishioners for not releasing a report detailing abuse allegations and failing to inform the Vatican about a particular case involving a priest. The cardinal himself had requested an investigation last year and had promised to support the probe. He said he welcomed the fact the Pope wanted "to get his own picture" of the affairs in the archdiocese.

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Bullseye

Stop trusting the experts!

Bruce Abramson
Real Clear Politics
Tue, 25 May 2021 00:01 UTC
dr fauci
© Jim Lo Scalzo/Pool via AP
Every now and then, I'm lucky enough to meet someone who "follows the science." I count on such folks to teach me some science that I do not yet know. Being scientifically literate, I like to start by asking them some basic questions:

How are key data terms defined? How are data collected and reported? What theories guided the design of the models that process the raw data? What studies validated the models? How sensitive are the models to variations in inputs? How well do the models perform using historical data? Do the models have a track record at prediction — and if so, how well have they done? What alternative hypotheses were considered? How were the hypotheses tested?

Anyone surprised by such questions can't plausibly claim to understand the science, much less to follow it. Most likely, they've confused "the science" with a selected scientist, a claimed scientific consensus, or the scientific establishment. Or, worse, partisan politics masquerading as science.

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Mr. Potato

Paul Joseph Watson: The Uglification of the World

Paul Joseph Watson
Sott.net
Wed, 26 May 2021 13:45 UTC
uglification
As if many social, cultural, political and economic developments weren't bad enough, our public spaces are now being made ugly. And worst of all, we're paying for it (in more ways than one!) - by allowing those who hold office to do as they please.

Watch Paul Joseph Watson speak about this phenomenon in this crude but truthful video:

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Arrow Up

Syrians filled the polling stations to defend their sovereignty and now fill the streets to celebrate the result

Eva Bartlett
RT
Fri, 28 May 2021 10:48 UTC
Celebrators Syria
© Reuters/Omar Sanadiki
Celebrating Syria's election
The Western leadership and establishment media have once again derided the Syrian presidential vote, but the people don't care. They're too busy celebrating the outcome of the election and the defeat of terrorism in their country.

The irony of media outlets and pundits from America tweeting about what they view as the failure to hold free and fair elections in Syria was not lost on some. I wrote yesterday of the jubilation I saw in eastern Ghouta, where Syrians were celebrating the arrival of election day and proudly voting. I also noted that people "in eastern Ghouta were put through a hell that most of us, living safely far from war, cannot begin to fathom." Back in 2018, I had seen their tortured faces shortly after their liberation. That made seeing them this week smiling incredibly moving.

Just ahead of the vote, I predicted there would be Western cynicism if President Assad won again, which would mean the West had failed in its regime-change project. I was right.

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