SOTT (News) FULL 1062 by newskids Disabled Canadian veteran & Paralympian blasts gov't for offering to EUTHANIZE her when she complained about chairlift installationOn 4, December 2022A disabled veteran in Canada has slammed her government for offering to euthanize her when she grew frustrated at delays in having a wheelchair lift installed in her home. Retired Army Corporal Christine Gauthier, a former Paralympian, testified in Parliament on Thursday that a Veterans Affairs Canada (VAC) caseworker made the assisted suicide offer. After years of frustrating delays in getting the home lift, Gauthier says the caseworker told her: 'Madam, if you are really so desperate, we can give you medical assistance in dying now.' The worker who made the offer hasn't been named, but they are feared to have offered three other veterans who contacted VAC with problems the same 'solution', Global News reported.… Read moreVideo shows Bitcoin millionaire kidnapped from his Bentley in MoscowOn 4, December 2022A Russian businessman has made a statement to police, claiming that masked men kidnapped him from his luxury car and intimidated him into revealing the key to his digital wallet with 250 bitcoins (around $17 million) on it, a law enforcement source has said. The victim told the officers that the incident happened in Moscow on Thursday, with the perpetrators jumping out of a van, apprehending him, putting a bag on his head and driving him to an unknown location, a source who talked to RIA-Novosti news agency revealed. "According to the claimant, the criminals took his mobile phone, on which an app was allegedly installed, allowing access to the so-called digital wallet. On it, there were 250 bitcoins. The attackers forced the man to reveal the password to this wallet," he said.… Read moreProtesters rally near derailed train carrying NATO tanks in GreeceOn 4, December 2022A group of Greek protesters gathered near a train carrying NATO equipment that derailed on Friday. The demonstrators were rallying against the presence of US military bases in Greece and the involvement of Western countries in the Ukraine conflict. The train went off the tracks near the port of Alexandroupolis in northeastern Greece. According to local media, it was heading to the Balkan and Baltic states as part of NATO's campaign to ramp up defenses against Russia. It was transporting tanks, armored vehicles, and a number of containers.… Read moreUS Senators with unlimited sick days vote down paid leave for railway workers, strike action loomsOn 4, December 2022The Senate voted against a measure on Thursday that would have provided rail workers with seven paid days of sick leave as Congress, members of which notably do not have paid sick day limits, intervenes in an effort to prevent a potential nationwide rail strike. Though a slight majority of senators, 52, did vote in favor of the measure, it failed to reach the 60-vote threshold it would have needed in order to pass. Forty-three senators voted against it. The House did manage to pass the sick leave measure on Wednesday in a 221-207 vote. All Democrats voted in the affirmative and were joined by three Republicans: Representatives Don Bacon of Nebraska, Brian Fitzpatrick of Pennsylvania and John Katko of New York.… Read moreFrance BANS short haul domestic & connecting flights as part of 2021 Climate Law, hopes for it to be mandated across EUOn 4, December 2022France has been given the green light to ban short haul domestic flights. The European Commission has approved the move which will abolish flights between cities that are linked by a train journey of less than 2.5 hours. The decision was announced on Friday. The changes are part of the country's 2021 Climate Law. France is also cracking down on the use of private jets for short journeys in a bid to make transport greener and fairer for the population. Transport minister Clément Beaune said the country could no longer tolerate the super rich using private planes while the public are making cutbacks to deal with the energy crisis and climate change. Comment: But does this new law does identify whether the plane is private, or flown by the 'super rich'?… Read moreNATO expands but original anti-Russia mission is static 73 years onOn 3, December 2022The organization is the heir to the throne that was vacated after Nazi Germany's defeat. The foreign ministers of the NATO military alliance met this week for a summit in the Romanian capital Bucharest for what was a celebration of the bloc's expansion. The anti-Russia rhetoric and hostility were also effervescent. "Russia does not have a veto," crowed the delegates who swore to "not back down" in supplying even more deadly weaponry to Ukraine in order to strike Russia's heartlands. It's astounding how such ghoulish warmongering can be projected as upholding international law, democracy and human rights. The North Atlantic Treaty Organization was formed in 1949 and arguably marked the initiation of the Cold War when the world was demarcated into a U.S.-led camp and the Soviet Union. Remark… Read moreSOTT FOCUS: MindMatters: The Big Questions, Consciousness, and Gurdjieff - A Talk with Alan FrancisOn 3, December 2022What is the purpose of esotericism? How might we view humanity's trajectory in light of the many seemingly negative developments we see on a more or less daily basis? What are the personal challenges in raising consciousness and awareness in oneself - and how may those be seen against the backdrop of a world gone backwards? And what does it even mean to be living in these times in the larger and even cosmic sense? This week as we are once again joined by Gurdjiffian student and teacher Alan Francis (International School of the Fourth Way) who discusses these themes in both broad and personal terms, bringing his astute observations to the fore to answer the questions many of us have right now about where we may be, collectively and individually. Running Time: 01:10:54 Download: MP3 — 97.4 M… Read moreFact check: IRS watchdog destroys media claim that Trump ordered audits of James Comey and Andrew McCabeOn 3, December 2022Liberal media outlets like the New York Times and MSNBC claimed former President Donald Trump ordered audits of former FBI chiefs James Comey and Andrew McCabe for political payback. According to the Internal Revenue Service's internal watchdog, that's not true. The Treasury Inspector General for Tax Administration determined that the IRS randomly selected Comey and McCabe for audits of their tax returns from 2017 and 2019 as part of a program the IRS uses to refine its technology, according to a report released Thursday. The watchdog found no evidence of malfeasance on the part of Trump or any Trump-appointed officials. It's the latest media-propelled narrative disproved by federal watchdogs. The Department of Homeland Security's inspector general exonerated border patrol agents who were… Read moreAnalysis: Joe Biden's 'wide open' border expected to bring 2.6M illegal aliens to US next yearOn 3, December 2022For 2021, Steven Kopits with Princeton Policy Advisors accurately projected that about two million border crossers and illegal aliens would be apprehended. By this year's end, Kopits projects about 2.3 million will have been apprehended. These estimates do not include the hundreds of thousands, potentially millions, who will successfully cross the southern border. Now, Kopits projects that Biden's policies will see 2.6 million border crossers and illegal aliens apprehended along the border in 2023 — another record-shattering annual level of illegal immigration. If the projections pan out, some 6.9 million border crossers and illegal aliens will have been apprehended at the border since 2021 to 2023 under Biden. This is a foreign population just two million short of New York City's resident… Read moreExclusive: Biden DHS has no plan after Title 42 ends, says sourceOn 3, December 2022A senior source within Customs and Border Protection tells Breitbart Texas that the Department of Homeland Security is not engaged in any substantive planning to confront the expected surge in migration once Title 42 is lifted per court order. Meanwhile, the source says Mexican immigration authorities are already at work to dismantle migrant camps set up along the border. The source adds that Border Patrol sector leaders have been instructed to prepare for a surge in migrant crossings by exploring additional detention facilities and working with non-government agencies to increase shelter space. The source says most of those resources along the border are already exhausted and warns the time given during a temporary stay in the court order was squandered. On November 15, District Judge Emm… Read moreInternational blood bank for the unvaccinated has been formed with members from at least 16 countries - demand for "pure blood" skyrocketsOn 3, December 2022Unvaccinated patients who require transfusions can now access "pure blood" thanks to a new service called "SafeBlood Donation," which was launched by a Swiss naturopath named George Della Pietra. SafeBlood Donation, which currently has members in at least 16 countries, has the long-term goal of opening blood banks that provide its members with unvaccinated plasma, VICE reported. According to George Della Pietra, the demand for "pure blood" has skyrocketed globally. The Gateway Pundit previously reported that a peer-reviewed study in Italy found that 94% of people who experienced side effects after receiving mRNA vaccines had abnormal blood and contained foreign matter one month after vaccination. The surgeons believed that the vaccine makers should provide an explanation as to what is with… Read moreJudicial Watch: Secret Service finds Hunter Biden gun probe documents it denied havingOn 3, December 2022The Secret Service has found hundreds of documents it previously denied having in relation to the probe into Hunter Biden's alleged gun violations, conservative watchdog Judicial Watch revealed Thursday. Judicial Watch has been investigating if the Secret Service protected Hunter from scrutiny after the president's son revealed in a 2019 text message the FBI got involved in the case of a missing firearm tossed in a Delaware dumpster by Hunter's former sister-in-law-turned-lover. Nobody was charged with wrongdoing, according to reports. Text messages purportedly from Hunter reveal what appears to be a contradiction in an official Secret Service statement, which claims the agency had "no involvement" in an alleged case involving Hallie Biden finding a gun "inside of Hunter Biden's pickup" an… Read moreUkraine charges priests for 'praising Russia'On 3, December 2022Several Orthodox Christian clergy from the Kiev Pechersk Lavra have been charged with "glorifying Russia," the Ukrainian security service SBU said on Thursday. The announcement comes just days after a raid on the 11th-century monastery that the Moscow Patriarchate called an attempt to intimidate the faithful. The SBU said it had received a tip that the priest and several "accomplices" had spoken words of praise about the "Russian world" during a church service. The service then established the "fact of illegal activity" through the subsequent "expert investigation," it said in a statement. Kiev city prosecutors will charge the clergymen with "justification, recognition as legitimate, or denial of" Russian "aggression" against Ukraine or "glorification of its participants," the SBU added. S… Read morePhiladelphia city counsel approves permanent curfew for teensOn 3, December 2022Philadelphia implemented a curfew for teens amid a rise in crime during the COVID-19 pandemic lockdown. Now, City Council has approved a measure to make the nighttime restrictions for young people permanent. The curfew requires those under 18 to be inside by 10 p.m. Councilmember Katherine Gilmore Richardson said there are exceptions for teens who are working after 10 p.m. and for those who do not have a permanent address. "Those youth would not be penalized in any way because of them going to and from work. In addition to that, we met with the Juvenile Law Center and there would not be penalties for homeless youth." New Councilmember Anthony Phillips, who comes from a non-profit that works with young people, supported the bill. "At a time when there seems like there is no limit of the sen… Read moreA power law keeps the brain's perceptions balancedOn 3, December 2022Researchers have discovered a surprising mathematical relationship in the brain's representations of sensory information, with possible applications to AI research. The human brain is often described in the language of tipping points: It toes a careful line between high and low activity, between dense and sparse networks, between order and disorder. Now, by analyzing firing patterns from a record number of neurons, researchers have uncovered yet another tipping point — this time, in the neural code, the mathematical relationship between incoming sensory information and the brain's neural representation of that information. Their findings, published in Nature in June, suggest that the brain strikes a balance between encoding as much information as possible and responding flexibly to noise,… Read morePutin to Scholz: More Ukraine energy strikes 'inevitable' due to West pumping in weaponsOn 3, December 2022Ukraine is bracing for further stepped-up Russian airstrikes targeting its energy infrastructure, with President Vladimir Putin on Friday confirming the next wave is imminent, telling his German counterpart Olaf Scholz that new attacks are "inevitable" due to the West's "destructive" policies. "It was noted that the Russian Armed Forces had long refrained from precision missile strikes against certain targets on the territory of Ukraine," a Kremlin readout of the telephone call begins. "But now such measures have become a forced and inevitable response to Kyiv's provocative attacks on Russia's civilian infrastructure." The statement emphasizes NATO's weapons pipeline into Kiev: "Attention was drawn to the destructive line of Western states, including Germany, that are pumping the Kyiv regi… Read moreCrooked FBI Lawyer James Baker of Spygate fame, also involved in Twitter decision to spike Post's 'Hunter Biden Laptop From Hell' storyOn 3, December 2022Elon Musk Friday evening released Twitter's internal discussions that led to its decision to block any links exposing Hunter's laptop from hell. The New York Post released damning and explosive contents from Hunter Biden's laptop in October 2020 several days before the general election. Twitter banned The New York Post at the time for their reporting on crackhead Hunter and his illegal dealings. Musk released the internal emails from Twitter executives regarding the tech giant's decision to block links to Hunter Biden's laptop.… Read moreEurope begins to realize that US is leading them to the slaughter - What will they do?On 3, December 2022Adoption by the NATO Assembly of a resolution recognizing Russia as a "sponsor of terrorism" would allow the US to throw some of its NATO obligations onto the shoulders of Europeans. While everybody laughed at the marasmus of sleepy Grandpa Biden, America under his "restless leadership" was able to take advantage of the Ukrainian crisis and achieved stunning results in nine months of the SMO. The Biden administration managed to accomplish what Donald Trump had previously unsuccessfully pursued. Namely: Increasing European NATO allies' defense spending up to 2 percent, as required by the alliance's charter; Strengthening the national economy, including through the repatriation of industrial production; Revitalizing the US oil and gas industry. It is unfair, Trump cried out loudly, that the… Read moreShape of the future Ukraine armistice? How the UDZ of 2023 will separate the armies like the 1953 Korean DMZOn 3, December 2022For the buffer zone to achieve the demilitarization of the Ukraine, Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov warned in July that military factors, not politics, will decide. "I see no reason to question what President Vladimir Putin announced on February 24, 2022, and reaffirmed a few days ago," Lavrov said. "Our goals remain the same. And they will be met. There is a solution to this problem. The military know this." In case the distinction Lavrov was making between political negotiations and military operations, between soldiers and civilians, wasn't clear enough, Maria Zakharova, the Foreign Ministry spokesman, made it the target of her irony last Thursday. In her regular briefing for reporters, Zakharova was asked to comment on US weapons supplies to the Ukraine. "Something is wrong with… Read moreHypocrites and Psychopaths: EU's Russia war crimes tribunalOn 3, December 2022Ursula von der Leyen presides over a criminal organization responsible for the death and destruction of manufactured "enemies" that do not threaten Europe. On November 30, the European Commission, the executive of the European Union, proposed "options to Member States to make sure that Russia is held accountable for the atrocities and crimes committed during the war in Ukraine." Ursula von der Leyen, president of the EU Commission, in selective condemnation, tweeted "Russia must pay for its horrific crimes." The hypocrisy displayed by von der Leyen and the EU is nothing short of remarkable. It would seem the EU collective of unelected bureaucrats suffers from amnesia. Twenty-four years ago, Bill Clinton and NATO mercilessly bombed Yugoslavia, targeting civilian infrastructure.… Read moreBEST OF THE WEB: December kicks off with over 3 feet of snow and strong winds gusting at 123-mph in mountains of CaliforniaOn 3, December 2022It was a snowy start to meteorological winter across the mountains of California Thursday as a winter storm tracked across the state, and AccuWeather forecasters say that more snow is on the way. The storm arrived in Northern California late Wednesday and continued throughout Thursday, delivering much-needed rain to the lower elevations. San Francisco International Airport measured 0.71 of an inch of rain on Thursday, nearly half of the 1.58 inches of rain that fell in all of November. A yardstick was needed to measure the snow in the higher elevations with snow causing travel-related headaches for drivers across the region. Interstate 80 at Donner Pass and Highway 50 at Echo Summit were closed periodically throughout the storm due to vehicles stuck on the snowpacked roads, but the roads h… Read moreMassive dust storm in KansasOn 3, December 2022A powerful but dry cold front moved through northwest Kansas on Friday and it carried a lot of dust. "Advancing walls of dust like this created by strong synoptic gradient winds are called haboobs," said Storm Team 12 Meteorologist Cassie Wilson. The dust could be seen from space as it moved across the state.… Read morePack of dogs viciously maul man to death as he checked electricity meter in Queensland, AustraliaOn 3, December 2022A contractor for an energy company has died after he was attacked by multiple dogs at a home in Greenbank, Queensland. Emergency services were called to a home on Ison Road about 10.45am on Saturday morning, where paramedics located a 42-year-old Marsden man with critical injuries. He died at the scene despite the best efforts of emergency services. The man is understood to have been a contractor for Energex and was sent to read a meter box at a house when he was set upon by three Bull Arabs.… Read moreMassive lying about the war in UkraineOn 3, December 2022The chief purpose of the Western sanctions against Russia, after Russia invaded Ukraine on 24 February 2022, has been to stop Russia's sales of energy — mainly pipelined Russian gas — to Europe. Russia had been the top supplier of energy to Europe, because its energy was by far the cheapest in Europe. It was the least expensive to produce and sell to Europe, largely because it was pipelined into Europe whereas other suppliers needed to containerize and ship their gas and oil to Europe — which is far costlier to do. In all of Europe, virtually the only energy that is pipelined comes from Russia. Therefore, the sanctions that prohibited Russian energy to be supplied to Europe caused energy-prices in Europe to soar. However, Western 'news'-media don't blame the sanctions for Europe's soaring… Read moreHunter Biden laptop bombshell: Twitter invented reason to censor Post's reportingOn 3, December 2022That is "f — ed." Twitter "just freelanced" its baseless decision to censor The Post's bombshell Hunter Biden laptop scoop in the run up to the 2020 election — with top-level workers at the social media giant agreeing that controversial decision was "f-ked," damning insider communications released by CEO Elon Musk Friday reveal. The chaos and confusion behind closed doors at Twitter in the immediate aftermath of the October 2020 Hunter Biden expose show that a small group of top-level execs decided to label the Post's story as "hacked material" without any evidence — behind the back of then-CEO and founder Jack Dorsey. Musk tweeted a link to the account of independent journalist Matt Taibbi shortly after 6 p.m., who shed light on Twitter's shady censorship decision by posting what appeared… Read moreWhy Has the Government Never Apologised to Those Who Took the Vaccine 'To Protect Others' via a Herd Immunity That Never Came?On 3, December 2022From the very start the UKHSA Vaccine Surveillance Reports delighted in telling us all how many millions of people had been vaccinated. Clearly, it was considered an important aspect of the message that Government wanted to send to the population. Week by week, the numbers vaccinated climbed ever higher, indicating that increasing numbers were now protected from infection by the tried, tested, safe and effective vaccines... And the nation waited with baited breath for the moment that we would achieve the much heralded herd immunity that would mean that our nation would be free from the scourge of Covid. This aspect of the report was discontinued in April of this year, a month that saw a Covid wave peaking at around 7% of the population of the U.K. concurrently infected with Covid. The UKHS… Read moreChina further relaxes Covid-19 restrictions after nationwide protestsOn 3, December 2022Cities across China further unwound Covid restrictions Friday, loosening testing and quarantine rules in the wake of nationwide protests calling for an end to lockdowns and greater political freedoms. Anger and frustration with China's hardline pandemic response spilled out onto the streets last weekend in widespread demonstrations not seen in decades. In the wake of the unrest across China, a number of cities have begun loosening Covid restrictions, such as moving away from daily mass testing requirements, a tedious mainstay of life under Beijing's stringent zero-Covid policy. At the same time, authorities are continuing to seek to contain protests with heavy security on the streets, online censorship in full force, and surveillance of the population heightened.… Read moreUS won't let China take Taiwan chip-makers 'intact'On 3, December 2022Speaking at the Richard Nixon Foundation's Grand Strategy Summit on 10 November, former US National Security Advisor Ambassador Robert O'Brien appeared to lend credence to reports the US will disable Taiwan's semi-conductor chip manufacturing capabilities if China attempts to reunify the island with the mainland. "If China takes Taiwan and takes those factories intact - which I don't think we would ever allow - they have a monopoly over chips the way OPEC has a monopoly, or even more than the way OPEC has a monopoly over oil," said O'Brien. Scorched-earth strategy The US Army War College Press published a paper in November 2021 recommending that the US make credible threats to destroy Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company (TSMC) facilities, eliminating the most important supplier of m… Read moreThe Inquiry: Everything mattered except the truckers and millions of peaceful supportersOn 3, December 2022There was one critical thing Prime Minister Justin Trudeau and the premiers apparently neglected to discuss during a teleconference hours before the Liberals hammered Canadians with martial law. That would be the right Canadians have to exercise their democratic freedom to protest and assemble on Parliament Hill. It appears that none of these premiers stood up to Trudeau on behalf of the Freedom Convoy protesters in any significant way, according to minutes of the confidential meeting obtained by Blacklock's Reporter. Most did object, for other reasons, to him invoking the War Measures Act, now referred to as the Emergencies Act. Same menacing thing. But all Canadians — pro-Freedom Convoy or not — needed, deserved, to have at least one premier howling and beating his/her chest in outraged… Read moreMassive fire at historic flour mill in OhioOn 2, December 2022VIDEOS emerged on social media of a huge fire at the historic Star of the West flour mill in Kent Ohio (USA). Videos began circulating on Twitter on Friday, December 2 showing the fire at the historic Star of the West flour mill in Kent Ohio (USA). Prominent Twitter account @rawalerts tweeted a video of the fire alongside the caption: "Right now multiple Firefighters are currently battling a extremely large fire at a flour mill plant in Kent Ohio the exact cause is currently unknown. Police say there are no reported injuries at this time."… Read moreUkrainian shelling kills civilians in DonetskOn 2, December 2022Kiev's forces have shelled the city of Donetsk, killing at least three people and wounding five civilians, local authorities said on Friday. The Ukrainian military fired ten rockets from a Soviet-made Grad launcher, according to officials. The shelling targeted the Kiev district in the north of the city, the territorial defense HQ of the Donetsk People's Republic (DPR) reported on Telegram.… Read moreBrits 'eating pet food' and heating meals on radiators as inflation soarsOn 2, December 2022A community worker with 20 years' experience said people are being forced to eat pet food while others are heating their food on radiators due to the ongoing cost of living crisis. Mark Seed, who heads a community food project in Trowbridge, Cardiff, is urging for people in struggling households to be given adequate support, even when they do not appear in areas associated with poverty. He suggests that as a result of the rise of inflation that policies need to focus on people, not places. Mr Seed spoke of how people are constantly feels the burden of the rising cost of living.… Read moreTragic and pointless: US mercenary's death exposes the bleak reality of service with Ukraine's 'International Legion'On 2, December 2022Grim accounts from surviving volunteers are forgotten as Western media favors fantasy narratives about Ukrainian heroism and success It's been confirmed that Trent Davis, a 21-year-old US citizen who travelled to Ukraine to fight in the International Legion, has been killed in combat. The tenth American known to have met their end in the conflict, his premature death highlights the enormous dangers facing foreigners joining Kiev's fight. Davis was an army veteran, having enlisted at just 17. However, he had no actual combat experience, having served as a chemical, biological, radiological and nuclear (CBRN) defense specialist, before leaving in December 2021.… Read moreZelensky launches crackdown against Ukrainian Orthodox ChurchOn 2, December 2022Ukrainian President Vladimir Zelensky has said that the National Security and Defense Council (NSDC) decided to launch a crackdown against the Ukrainian Orthodox Church (UOC). Among other things the executive body issued instructions to submit a bill to parliament banning "religious organizations affiliated with Russia's centers of influence" and to intensify measures to combat Russian "intelligence agents" in the Ukrainian church. In a video message uploaded to a Telegram channel early on Friday, Zelensky announced five measures. The National Security and Defense Council instructed the government to submit to the Verkhovna Rada "a bill on the impossibility of activities in Ukraine of any religious organizations affiliated with centers of influence in the Russian Federation."… Read moreA little late: Twitter ex-safety chief Yoel Roth finally admits mistake of censoring Post's Hunter Biden scoopOn 2, December 2022Took him long enough. The former Twitter executive and safety chief who played a key role in censoring The Post's October 2020 exposé on Hunter Biden's infamous laptop has admitted it was a mistake — more than two years later while his onetime boss, Elon Musk, acknowledged Wednesday that the social media giant "has interfered in elections.". Yoel Roth, who was Twitter's head of trust and safety until he quit in November in the wake of Elon Musk's $44 billion takeover, confessed Tuesday that the company erred in restricting people from sharing the scoop. In an interview with journalist Kara Swisher, Roth appeared to deflect the blame — insisting that even though he had concerns about the authenticity of the first son's device, it never got to the point where he thought the story should be s… Read moreFederal appeals court halts special master review in Trump Mar-a-Lago documents caseOn 2, December 2022A federal appeals court halted a former Brooklyn federal judge's review of documents seized from former President Donald Trump's Florida resort by FBI agents in August. In a major blow to Trump, the three-judge panel ruled unanimously that Florida federal judge Aileen Cannon had erred in appointing Raymond Dearie to scrutinize the documents for privileged information over the objections of the Biden Justice Department. The judges wrote: "The law is clear. We cannot write a rule that allows any subject of a search warrant to block government investigations after the execution of the warrant. Nor can we write a rule that allows only former presidents to do so." Cannon's Sept. 5 order had slowed the pace of the probe into whether Trump violated federal law governing the retention of sensitive… Read morePutin tells Scholz why Russia is targeting Ukrainian infrastructureOn 2, December 2022Russian precision attacks against Ukrainian infrastructure are a necessary response to Ukrainian sabotage on Russian soil, including the bombing of the Crimean Bridge, President Vladimir Putin has told German Chancellor Olaf Scholz. The two leaders spoke by phone on Friday at Berlin's request, according to a statement released by the Kremlin. Putin explained the logic behind Russia's military operation against Ukraine and stated that the Western policy of arming and training Ukrainian troops was "destructive," according to the readout. The Kremlin said: "It was noted that the Russian Armed Forces had been refraining from conducting precision missile strikes on certain targets in the Ukrainian territory for a long time, but now such measures have become necessary and unavoidable as a reacti… Read moreUS troops are combat ready on Russian border - Lithuanian commanderOn 2, December 2022The US forces stationed in Lithuania have switched their stance from deterrence of Russia to combat readiness, Lithuanian Chief of Defense Lieutenant General Valdemaras Rupsys has said. The country shares a border with Russia's Kaliningrad exclave on the Baltic Sea, as well as with Belarus and Latvia. Rupsys told radio LRT on Friday: "The main factor used to be deterrence, the demonstration that they were here and could increase our forces at any time. And now the situation has changed: those units are being deployed so that they can fight immediately. It's a seamless ... transition from one mode to another. "At least until 2025, we will have rotating US units that will carry out military training and serve as a factor of deterrence, but also will be ready to carry out defensive actions to… Read moreChris Whitty warns Britain faces 'prolonged period' of excess deaths NOT caused by Covid due to collateral effects of lockdownOn 2, December 2022Britain will face a 'prolonged period' of excess deaths due to the pandemic — but not from coronavirus itself, Sir Chris Whitty and the Government's top virus advisers said today. England's chief medial officer has claimed the nation faces a rising death toll from heart disease and cancer cases due to pleas to protect the NHS. Knock-on effects of dealing with Covid, which saw thousands of routine treatments and appointments delayed, will also fuel a surge in excess deaths. The comments came from a 'technical report' published on the pandemic, advising health chiefs in the future on how to deal with similarly disruptive viral threats. The report was also authored by Sir Patrick Vallance who, with Sir Chris, became a household name during the pandemic, appearing next to then-Prime Minister B… Read moreBiden administration described by AMAC as the most destructive for senior citizens in 50 yearsOn 2, December 2022The Biden administration has been the most destructive to the lives of America's senior citizens than any in the last half century, according to the Association of Mature American Citizens (AMAC). Chief Executive Officer Rebecca Weber was invited by Florida GOP Sen. Rick Scott to testify before Congress in a field hearing regarding the Biden administration and its impact on senior citizens. Andrew Mangione, AMAC Action's senior Vice President, on the John Solomon Reports podcast, said: "She described this administration, rightfully so, as the most destructive to seniors regarding their longevity, their prosperity and their legacy in the last 50 years." According to the written testimony that Weber presented, a million senior citizens have begun living in poverty since Biden has been in off… Read moreState of Florida removes $2B from BlackRock in anti-ESG divestment: "Using our cash to fund BlackRock's social-engineering project isn't something Florida ever signed up for"On 2, December 2022Environmental, social and governance (ESG) investing is a favored strategy by woke companies focused on making the world "a better place." Forbes describes the criteria for the ESG strategy as: Environment. What kind of impact does a company have on the environment? This can include a company's carbon footprint, toxic chemicals involved in its manufacturing processes and sustainability efforts that make up its supply chain. Social. How does the company improve its social impact, both within the company and in the broader community? Social factors include everything from LGBTQ+ equality, racial diversity in both the executive suite and staff overall, and inclusion programs and hiring practices. It even looks at how a company advocates for social good in the wider world, beyond its limited s… Read moreMarauding bands of looters are stealing billions of dollars worth of merchandise as America descends into lawlessnessOn 2, December 2022Three years ago, I bet that 99 percent of my readers had never heard of ORC. Of course by now almost everyone knows that ORC stands for "organized retail crime", and it is prompting retailers to permanently shut down stores all over the nation. Right now, retail theft is happening from coast to coast on a scale that we have never seen in our entire history. Marauding bands of looters are barging into stores, grabbing as much merchandise as they can possibly carry, and then loading it into their vehicles. Online marketplaces make it easier than ever to turn stolen goods into cash, and at this point organized retail crime has become a multi-billion dollar business. As I have repeatedly warned my readers, America is descending into lawlessness. The thin veneer of civilization that we all depe… Read moreUnderage students performing in drag for staff at invite-only school event sparks outrageOn 2, December 2022It's bad enough that drag performances for "families" are popping up all over the country with adults performing for children but a New Jersey High School has taken it to the next level - underage students performing in drag for adults. On October 27th, Hunterdon Central Regional High School in Flemington, NJ did just that. Student club P.U.L.S.E. (People Understanding Love Serves Everyone) led by faculty advisor Heather Baldwin, held a student-performed drag show on school property in secret. The event was brought to the community's attention three days later when an email was leaked to The New Jersey Project, an organization that advocates for parents' rights in public schools, which wrote about the event on its blog, Chaos and Control.… Read moreThink-tank blasts Justice Minister over assisted suicide commentsOn 2, December 2022A think-thank is calling for Liberal Justice Minister David Lametti to explain his recent comments stating that doctor-assisted suicide "provides a more humane way" for Canadians to end their lives. Executive vice-president of Cardus Ray Pennings accused the minister of dehumanizing those who seek to end their lives. "Minister Lametti's remarks about suicide are dehumanizing both for those who seek death and for the medical professionals who are called upon to cause it," said Pennings. "While the minister acknowledges it is 'difficult when you lose a loved one to suicide,' he fails to recognize all suicides as tragedies or as evidence of our collective failure to meet the needs of some of the most vulnerable people in Canada."… Read moreChinese anti-lockdown protesters earn the praise that eluded their Western peersOn 2, December 2022"It's really important that citizens be able to make themselves heard, that they are protesting on a specific issue that touches on so many others - of government control of authoritarian states - we, of course, stand with those protesters," Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau said this week in response to the ongoing protests in China against the government's zero-Covid policy. Where was Trudeau's support when those of us living in France back in March 2020 were ordered into our homes for over two months under the threat of hefty fines, and allowed only to go out with a personal-trip certificate that entitled the bearer to leave home for one of a few select reasons? Either you were performing a professional activity that couldn't be done remotely, going to a grocery store (where lineup… Read moreSwitzerland unveils raft of lockdown-style restrictions to conserve power when energy crisis bites, includes BAN on electric carsOn 2, December 2022Switzerland will ban the use of electric cars for 'non-essential' journeys if the country runs out of energy this winter, the government has announced. Emergency plans drawn up in the event the Swiss are hit by blackouts also call for shop opening hours to be reduced by up to two hours per day, heating systems in nightclubs to be turned off, and other buildings to be heated to no more than 20C. Comment: It was only a few months ago that people were uneasy at being asked just to restrict their heating. Crisis measures could see streaming services and games consoles banned, Christmas lights turned off, and all sports stadiums and leisure facilities closed.… Read moreNew fossil find overturns more than a century of knowledge about the origin of modern birdsOn 2, December 2022Fossilised fragments of a skeleton, hidden within a rock the size of a grapefruit, have helped upend one of the longest-standing assumptions about the origins of modern birds. Researchers from the University of Cambridge and the Natuurhistorisch Museum Maastricht found that one of the key skull features that characterises 99% of modern birds -- a mobile beak -- evolved before the mass extinction event that killed all large dinosaurs, 66 million years ago. This finding also suggests that the skulls of ostriches, emus and their relatives evolved 'backwards', reverting to a more primitive condition after modern birds arose. Using CT scanning techniques, the Cambridge team identified bones from the palate, or the roof of the mouth, of a new species of large ancient bird, which they named Janav… Read moreDeadly flooding in parts of BrazilOn 2, December 2022Several regions in Brazil's north and south have been hit by devastating flooding, due to heavy rains in recent days. Thousands of people have been displaced and at least three fatalities have been confirmed. Two people are known to have died when a landslide hit the BR-376 highway in Paraná state, and dozens more are missing. Local authorities in Sergipe state, in northeast Brazil, also reported a fatality.… Read morePathocrat: WEF's Yuval Harari says we 'don't need the vast majority of the population'On 2, December 2022Yuval Noah Harari, historian, futurist, and World Economic Forum (WEF) adviser, said, "We just don't need the vast majority of the population" in the early 21st century given modern technologies' rendering human labor economically and militarily "redundant." Harari's remarks were made in an interview with Chris Anderson, the head of TED, published on Tuesday. He assessed widespread contemporary disillusionment among "common people" as being rooted in a fear of being "left behind" in a future run by "smart people." Such fears are justified, he added, given his projection that emerging technologies will displace economic needs to many categories of existing work:… Read moreDR Congo - More landslides in east leave at least 9 deadOn 2, December 2022More heavy rainfall in eastern parts of Democratic Republic of the Congo has triggered yet another deadly landslide. At least 57 people have now died as a result of landslides in the region since mid-November. Comment: Deadly floods, landslides in Eastern DR Congo and Rwanda claim at least 40 lives The landslide occurred Kalehe Territory in South Kivu Province. Local media, quoting local officials, said at least 9 people had lost their lives and a further 20 were injured. Heavy rain late on 29 November 2022 caused several rivers and streams to break their banks, which in turn triggered a landslide in the village of Murambi. As many as 50 houses are thought to have been destroyed, leaving dozens homeless. As of 30 November, search and rescue operations were continuing in search for other vi… Read more
