More Than 1 Million COVID Vaccine Injuries, Nearly 27,000 Deaths Reported to VAERS, CDC Data Show

https://www.medalerts.org/vaersdb/findfield.php?TABLE=ON&GROUP1=CAT&EVENTS=ON&VAX=COVID19

Facebook briefly suspends Palestinian news page following al-Aqsa raid coverage

Al-Qastal says suspension came after its extensive coverage of the violent Israeli raid, when two of its reporters were wounded

acebook briefly suspended the page of a Palestinian news site following its rolling coverage of the violent Israeli raid on al-Aqsa Mosque on Friday.

The Al-Qastal news site said on Saturday that Facebook had deleted its page without warning or explanation, causing it to lose thousands of followers. Hours later, however, the page announced it has been reinstated.

"Al-Qastal page is finally back after great efforts from its friends and lovers of al-Aqsa and al-Quds, who did not abandon it," it said in a statement to Twitter.

Earlier, the news site said that its Facebook page had been deleted "without any introductions or advance warning… due to its extensive coverage of events of Jerusalem and al-Aqsa Mosque, despite the strict adherence to Facebook publishing standards".

It remains unclear why Facebook had suspended Al-Qastal's Arabic news page. The bilingual Jerusalem-based outlet accused the social media platform of yielding to pressure from Israeli authorities who aim to "silence the voices of Jerusalemites," according to its intitial statement.

Earlier on Friday, Al-Qastal confirmed that Israeli forces had targeted two of its reporters during the unrest in East Jerusalem's al-Aqsa Mosque.

More than 150 people were wounded and at least 400 arrested by Israeli forces who attacked worshippers inside the mosque in a four-hour raid.

Al-Qastal confirmed that Israeli forces had shot a stun grenade at the head of one of its reporters, Nesreen Salem, during her coverage of the assaults. Reporter Mohammed Samreen was also wounded, with a rubber-coated steel bullet in the leg. He was later detained in the mosque's courtyard then taken to the Al Mascobiya interrogation centre, al-Qastal said.

It added that Facebook had previously imposed restrictions on its page without any explanation.

Censorship of Palestinians

Meta, the California-based multinational conglomerate that owns Facebook and Instagram, has often been accused of censoring the experiences of Palestinians and their narrative on its platforms.

Hours after the Israeli raid on Friday, Dutch-Palestinian supermodel Bella Hadid claimed she was "shadow banned" by Instagram for posting about Palestine. Omar Suleiman, a prominent American-Muslim preacher, also claimed on Friday that his account was restricted.

Earlier this year, a Palestinian news page with over a million-and-a-half followers on Facebook was forced to shut down its operations in Jerusalem after the social media giant banned its account.

The Maydan al-Quds news network covered stories from Jerusalem for more than 18 months.

https://www.middleeasteye.net/news/israel-palestine-facebook-suspends-news-page-aqsa-raid-coverage

Boston University Professor Ibram X. Kendi declares Republicans 'The Party of White Supremacy' and claims conservative efforts to limit teaching of critical race theory are really 'grooming' children to become racist

A professor at Boston University called Republicans 'the party of white supremacy' and not the 'party of parents,' despite the GOP 'branding' themselves as such.

Ibram X. Kendi, Boston University's Andrew W. Mellon professor in the Humanities and Director of the Center for Antiracist Research, took aim at the GOP in an op-ed for The Atlantic, citing Republican opposition to critical race theory as a reason why they're 'clearly' not the party of parents.

'This Republican Party is not the party of any group of parents, but the party of white supremacy,' Kendi wrote.

'The Republican Party is clearly not the party of parents. The Republican Party is certainly not the party of parents of color. But is the Republican Party even the party of white parents?'

'(They are) not the party of parents raising white kids. The Republican Party is not the party of parents raising girls, raising trans kids, raising kids of color, raising queer kids, raising poor kids, raising immigrant kids.'

'The Republican Party is making it harder for all of these kids to learn about themselves and their histories,' Kendi went on to write.

'(The GOP) is stripping parents and educators of their collective ability to protect vulnerable children from being indoctrinated by—or victimized by—the scourge of white supremacy.'

Kendi called Republican efforts to 'brand' itself as the 'party of parents' a 'myth,' on the scale of 'the great lie that the 2020 presidential election was stolen from Donald Trump.'

He added that the party has built that reputation on 'false conceptual building blocks.'

Kendi also noted in his editorial that it's a common refrain among Democrats that 'Republican politicians care about white children,' though he claims that '[banning] anti-racist education is harmful to white children' as well.

According to Kendi, if Republican politicians indeed care about white children, 'they would not be ignoring or downplaying or defending or bolstering the principal racial threat facing white youth today.'

That threat, according to Kendi? 'White supremacy.'

'Instead of focusing on this very real threat, Republican politicians—to justify Florida’s ‘Don’t Say Gay’ law—have cited QAnon conspiracy theories about public schools being overrun by child predators who are "grooming" children to be gay,' Kendi wrote.

'A spokesperson for Governor Ron DeSantis reframed the "Don’t Say Gay" bill as an "anti-grooming" bill. But if QAnon Republicans really cared about white children, then they would be worried about white-supremacist grooming.'

'This is the grooming that parents of all children should be worried about.'

http://www.stationgossip.com/2022/04/boston-university-professor-ibram-x.html

Oil Mogul Bankrolls Attempt To Buy Democratic Primary

To crush Nina Turner, oil mogul taps strategic petroleum reserve of cash for Shontel Brown.

A super PAC bankrolled by a fossil fuel magnate is launching last-minute ads to try to crush the congressional candidacy of a leading proponent of a Green New Deal as scientists warn that oil and gas emissions are making the planet unlivable. If successful, the gambit would deliver an intimidating message from the fossil fuel industry to other Democratic candidates pressing the government to address the climate crisis.

One month after Samson Energy mogul Stacy Schusterman poured $2 million into DMFI PAC, the group purchased TV ads starting Monday to boost Rep. Shontel Brown (D-Ohio) in her primary campaign rematch against former Ohio State Sen. Nina Turner in a newly redrawn Cleveland congressional district. The primary election date is May 3.

Last year, DMFI PAC spent $1.9 million attacking Turner and promoting Brown, helping the latter win the seat in a special election. The group also spent $1.4 million attacking Sanders during his 2020 campaign.

Turner, who co-chaired Sen. Bernie Sanders’ (Ind.-Vt.) 2020 presidential campaign, has been campaigning for a Green New Deal and pressing the Biden administration to ban fracking. Brown has declined to co-sponsor some of House Democrats’ most high-profile climate legislation, including the Climate Emergency Act — even after United Nations scientists’ recent dire warning about the crisis.

While Brown’s campaign website says she supports “the principles laid out in the Green New Deal,” she has not co-sponsored the measure in Congress.

Schusterman chairs Oklahoma-based Samson Energy, whose website describes it as a company that “was formed to allow the Schusterman family to remain in the oil and gas exploration and production business following their sale of Samson Investment Company in 2011.” The company has been one of the country’s largest per-well emitters of greenhouse gas emissions.

https://www.levernews.com/oil-mogul-bankrolls-attempt-to-buy-democratic-primary/

Lawsuit alleges Otonomo Inc. secretly collects and sells real-time GPS data from more than 50 million cars

Last year as part of a Motherboard investigation, experts said Otonomo could face legal issues. Now the company is facing a class action lawsuit.

A new class-action lawsuit filed in California targets Otonomo, a data broker that harvests location data from tens of millions of vehicles around the world and then sells access to that information.

Otonomo says it has systems in place that protect peoples’ privacy. But in June last year, Motherboard published an investigation based on a set of Otonomo data and used the information to find where people likely lived, worked, and where else they drove. At the time, experts said that Otonomo could face legal consequences because of how it handles consent and its data. The new lawsuit focuses specifically on those issues.

“Defendant Otonomo Inc. is a data broker that secretly collects and sells real-time GPS location information from more than 50 million cars throughout the world, including from tens of thousands in California. This data allows Otonomo—and its paying clients—to easily pinpoint consumers’ precise locations at all times of day and gain specific insight about where they live, work, and worship, and who they associate with,” the lawsuit, filed by lawyers from Edelson PC, reads. Courthouse News first reported on the lawsuit.

The plaintiff in the case is Saman Mollaei, a citizen of California. The lawsuit does not explain how it came to the conclusion that Otonomo is tracking tens of thousands of people in California. Otonomo originally started in Israel and has an office in California.

Mollaei drives a 2020 BMW X3, and when the vehicle was delivered to him, it contained an electronic device that allowed Otonomo to track its real-time location, according to the lawsuit. Importantly, the lawsuit alleges that Mollaei did not provide consent for this tracking, adding that “At no time did Otonomo receive—or even seek—Plaintiff's consent to track his vehicle’s locations or movements using an electronic tracking device.”

https://www.blacklistednews.com/article/82376/lawsuit-alleges-otonomo-inc-secretly-collects-and-sells-realtime-gps-data-from-more-than-50-million.html

https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/21615185-otonomo-class-action

Swiss ‘banker of the year’ who put strip club visits on expenses jailed in high-profile fraud case

Ex-Raiffeisen Switzerland CEO Pierin Vincenz’s misuse of company expenses was exposed as he faced charges for pocketing millions through illicit deals

He claimed the strip club bill was business-related, as was a claim for his dinner with a woman he met on Tinder

Former Raiffeisen Switzerland Chief Executive Pierin Vincenz was jailed for nearly four years on Wednesday at the end of a fraud trial which exposed his huge strip club bills and misuse of company expenses.

After one of Switzerland’s highest-profile corporate crime trials in decades, Zurich’s district court convicted Vincenz, a former Swiss “banker of the year” who was charged with making millions through illicit deals while he was CEO of the bank.

Vincenz, who was acquitted on several counts, was fined 840,000 Swiss francs (US$900,600) and ordered to pay nearly 1.6 million francs in damages to compensate firms in which he was involved, as the court also found the 65-year-old guilty of using business expenses for private purposes.

His lawyer said that Vincenz, who denies any wrongdoing, would appeal the verdict after he was sentenced to 3¾ years in prison.

Vincenz had told the court that a near 200,000 Swiss franc expenses bill for strip club visits was largely business-related, while a 700 franc dinner with a woman he met on dating app Tinder was justified because he was considering her for a real estate job.

But Judge Sebastian Aeppli told the court that the expense claims went too far and were not in his employer’s interests.

“[His] understanding, whereby practically all expenditures of a business person fall under disposable company expenses so long as any remote connection to the business activity exists, clearly went too far,” Aeppli said.

“The relationship maintenance he carried out in cabarets, strip clubs and contact bars was no longer in the primary interest of Raiffeisen,” the judge said, adding prudent handling of Raiffeisen’s money would have meant limiting tabs to 1,000 Swiss francs or less per occasion.

The trial, which was moved from a courthouse to Zurich’s Volkshaus theatre due to the intense public interest, centred around conflicts of interest on deals between a number of firms in which Vincenz and another defendant were involved.

All seven defendants in the trial, which began in January, had denied the allegations against them.

https://www.scmp.com/news/world/europe/article/3174180/swiss-banker-year-who-put-strip-club-visits-expenses-jailed-high

Is the Shanghai Lockdown Being Broadcast to Make America's Future Lockdowns Seem Less Evil?

The people of Shanghai are suffering tremendously over a disease that has an extremely high survival rate. Is this just China being bad or is there more to it that involves the whole world?

An extremely interesting video was dropped recently by Greg Reese at Banned.Video. Titled, "Forced Lockdowns Are Coming Back To America," it suggested that the reason we're seeing so much coverage of the Shanghai lockdown that's causing mass starvation, psychological damage, and countless deaths, is because American media is preparing us for lockdowns of our own.

The theory is by seeing how bad things are in Shanghai, we won't feel so badly about having to stay in our homes or shut down our businesses when Pandemic Panic Theater rears its ugly head again. Moreover, the video suggests that we've seen something like this before in the early days of the pandemic when video out of China showed people literally falling over while simply walking in the streets.

That didn't happen in the United States. Yes, people got sick but what we were seeing in "leaked" videos from China regarding Covid-19 didn't match our experience here at all. Is this all a propaganda campaign?

One piece of circumstantial evidence that does make sense is the fact that we're seeing the videos from Shanghai at all. China does not let information get out very easily. In fact, one would assume they could essentially lockdown the internet completely, making it nearly impossible for any videos of what's being done in Shanghai to see the light of day. Instead, we're seeing fresh videos come out constantly.

By no means am I suggesting, nor is Reese suggesting, that the suffering of the people of Shanghai is staged. The Chinese Communist Party has no qualms with letting their people suffer for effect. It's conspicuous that the coverage is so widespread. Not only are the videos making it out of Shanghai, but American corporate media is broadcasting it instead of taking their standard China-Owns-Us-So-Do-Not-Hate-On-China approach to "journalism."

IF world governments are planning another massive lockdown and IF they want to soften the blow for maximum compliance, this is exactly the type of propaganda they would allow to be shown from Shanghai.

https://endmedicaltyranny.substack.com/p/is-the-shanghai-lockdown-being-broadcast?s=r

U.S. Bioweapons expert speaks out about US biolabs in Ukraine

Bioweapons expert Francis Boyle believes it's true that Ukraine is conducting U.S.-funded bioweapons research.

For decades, Boyle has advocated against the development and use of bioweapons. In fact, he was the one who called for biowarfare legislation at the Biological Weapons Convention of 1972. He then went on to draft the Biological Weapons Anti-Terrorism Act, which was passed unanimously by both houses of Congress and signed into law by then-president George Bush Sr. in May 1989.

While the U.S. has vehemently denied Russia’s accusations, Boyle says that based on what he’s discovered so far, the labs in Ukraine are all conducting biological warfare research — including ethnic-specific biological weapons — at the behest of the U.S. Pentagon, just as Russian authorities are claiming.

“The Pentagon does not do missionary work,” he says. “They kill people, and that’s why they are there.” He also points out that everyone involved is subject to life in prison under the Biological Weapons Anti-Terrorism Act of 1989, which explains the mad scramble to project these labs as something other than what they are.

Ever-changing narrative reveals the lies

As noted by Shroyer, the official narrative surrounding the Ukraine biolabs has undergone multiple iterations over the past few weeks. It began with a flat denial of there being U.S. biolabs in Ukraine.

But within days, Under Secretary of State for Political Affairs Victoria Nuland blew a hole in that denial by admitting before Congress that “biological research laboratories” in Ukraine have been funded and operated under the direction of the U.S., and that she was “very concerned” about the contents of those labs being used as bioweapons by the Russians.

Despite Nuland’s concern about the pathogens being used in warfare, the Western media have tried to claim the labs were set up to destroy bioweapons from the Soviet era, or to “secure” old Soviet bioweapons, or that they’re diagnostic labs, “health labs,” biodefense laboratories, or that they’re used for vaccine development. The story changes depending on who’s telling it.

https://www.lifesitenews.com/opinion/bioweapons-expert-speaks-out-about-us-biolabs-in-ukraine/?utm_source=top_news&utm_campaign=usa

https://www.lifesitenews.com/opinion/bioweapons-expert-speaks-out-about-us-biolabs-in-ukraine/?utm_source=top_news&utm_campaign=usa

Bordering Ukraine: NATO deploys German-Dutch missile task force to Slovakia

A binational, Dutch-German Air and Missile Defence Task Force is deploying PATRIOT systems near Sliač airbase, Slovakia in April to reinforce NATO’s defence capabilities on the Eastern flank….

[F]ollowing a decision by the Governments of Germany and the Netherlands, additional PATRIOT systems are deploying to Slovakia, where they will to contribute to NATO’s Integrated Air and Missile Defence System (IAMDS). These ground-based defensive systems will strengthen the integrated shielding of NATO’s borders….

…”For the last two years we have conducted tactical live firings together with Dutch PATRIOT units and we are well prepared to strengthen the air defence of our NATO ally Slovakia….”

_Prior to deploying to Slovakia, elements of the Dutch-German Air Missile Defence Task Force were briefed by their military leadership. The Task Force, which will arrive in Slovakia later this month along with the PATRIOT systems, was deployed to reinforce NATO’s defence capabilities on the Eastern Flank of the Alliance….

The deployment of the German-led bi-national Task Force will involve a number of steps, with the first phase already completed. Close cooperation between the Task Force and the Host Nation is essential and underlines the importance of Alliance cohesion and the requirement to frequently train together to enhance interoperability.

https://antibellum679354512.wordpress.com/2022/04/16/bordering-ukraine-nato-deploys-german-dutch-missile-task-force-to-slovakia/

Bordering Ukraine: NATO deploys Ground Air Ground module to Romania

On April 15, 2022, NATO’s Deployable Air Command and Control Centre (DACCC) in Poggio Renatico, Italy, deployed one of its Ground Air Ground (GAG) communications modules to Campia Turzii, Romania, to support Allied Air Operations in its eastern Allies’ airspace.

“Our first priority is to contribute to NATO’s effort to draw on a robust and capable military posture….”

Overseen by Allied Air Command in Ramstein, the deployment of GAG radio equipment enhances the Recognized Air Picture further bolstering NATO Control and Reporting Centres’ execution of enhanced Air Policing and enhanced Vigilance activities.

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“We have been able to deploy the GAG module already in the past, demonstrating we are fully committed and ready to do whatever is required to operate effectively with other NATO and Partner Nations demonstrating military capability and cohesion of the Alliance”, he added.

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The DACCC provides NATO’s Allied Air Command a capability for deployable surveillance and control of Alliance Air Operations. Its mission is to prepare elements for worldwide operational deployment. Supporting delivery of air and space power for the Alliance on behalf of the Supreme Allied Commander Europe.

https://antibellum679354512.wordpress.com/2022/04/16/bordering-ukraine-nato-deploys-ground-air-ground-module-to-romania/

WHO silent about neo-Nazis’ use of hospitals for combat operations - top brass

Ukrainian armed forces and nationalist battalions deploy their firing positions and heavy weapons to nursery and secondary schools, municipal and medical facilities throughout Ukraine, Colonel-General Mikhail Mizintsev, the chief of Russia’s National Defense Management Center, said

MOSCOW, April 16. /TASS/. The World Health Organization (WHO) has not yet assessed the facts that neo-Nazis transform medical facilities across Ukraine into their strongholds, Colonel-General Mikhail Mizintsev, the chief of Russia’s National Defense Management Center, said on Saturday.

According to the general, Ukrainian armed forces and nationalist battalions deploy their firing positions and heavy weapons to nursery and secondary schools, municipal and medical facilities throughout Ukraine, including in the Dnepropetrovsk, Zaporozhye, Kiev, Odessa, Sumy, Kharkov and Chernigov regions.

"The World Health Organization has not yet given a proper assessment to the facts when medical institutions are not used by neo-Nazis for their genuine purpose, such as medical care, but as strongholds and firing points for conducting military operations," said Mizintsev, who heads the Russian Joint Coordination Headquarters for Humanitarian Response in Ukraine.

https://tass.com/defense/1438733

22 Air Force Academy cadets kicked out for cheating

The U.S. Air Force Academy kicked out 22 of its cadets last week after they were reportedly caught cheating.

According to Air Force Magazine, Air Force Academy Superintendent Lt. Gen. Richard M. Clark informed the academy’s Board of Visitors of the expulsions on Wednesday. In addition to the 22 cadets who have been kicked out of the academy, another 210 had been placed on probation.

The separations come after 249 students were accused of cheating in a range of different ways in Spring 2020, during an eight-day period in which the cadets were sent home and transitioned to an at-home curriculum.

The expulsion and probation decisions resolve nearly all of the cheating cases. The academy concluded no violation had occurred in seven of the cases, while another three cases were dropped for unspecified reasons. Other accused cadets have resigned and three cadets’ cases are either on hold or have a decision pending, according to Air Force Magazine.

Those placed on probation will typically lose the privileges of leaving campus, wearing civilian clothes, participating in sports or other clubs and holding jobs, according to Air Force Times. They are also typically required to complete journal entries and attend meetings for honor code-related discussions. The probation period typically lasts about six months.

231 of the accused cadets had ultimately admitted to cheating, according to information Clark shared with the Board of Visitors and reported by Air Force Times.

“We had some that were using unauthorized websites, some that plagiarized on papers, some that collaborated on tests when they weren’t authorized to do so,” Clark said. “It wasn’t just one group. It was just a bunch of different actions that we were made aware of.”

Clark said the cheating incident also prompted the academy to examine its honor code policies overall.

“First, we realized that we weren’t emphasizing the ‘why’—why is this important that our Cadets own the mantra of living honorably?” Clark said.

Clark also said, “We realized there was a lack of trust in the system, that they didn’t see the consistency in the way the honor code was administered.”

Clark said the academy has increased its staffing and curriculum for teaching and maintaining its honor code following the 2020 cheating episode.

Honor code violations have reportedly dropped from 311 cases in the 2020-2021 school year to 44 in the 2021-2022 year, according to Air Force Times. The 2020-2021 year represented the highest number of honor code violations in a year since 2009. The 2021-2022 period saw the lowest number of honor code violations in that same time period.

https://americanmilitarynews.com/2022/04/22-air-force-academy-cadets-kicked-out-for-cheating/

Infowars Alex Jones’ Files for Bankruptcy for Multiple Companies

Infowars has filed Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection as the websites fonder Alex Jones faces defamation lawsuits over his comments that the Sandy Hook Elementary School shooting was a hoax.

The bankruptcy filing happened on Easter Sunday in Texas puts civil litigation on hold while the business reorganizes its finances.

In its court filing, Infowars said it had estimated assets of $50,000 or less and estimated liabilities of $1 million to $10 million. Creditors listed in the bankruptcy filing include relatives of some of the 20 children and six educators killed in the 2012 school massacre in Connecticut.

According to the case against Jones’ the plaintiffs claim they have been subjected to harassment and death threats from Jones’ followers because of the hoax conspiracy that Jones promoted. Jones has since conceded that the shooting did happen.

The families have already won defamation lawsuits against Jones in court.

“Alex Jones is just delaying the inevitable: a public trial in which he will be held accountable for his profit-driven campaign of lies against the Sandy Hook families who have brought this lawsuit,” said Christopher Mattei, who represents the families in a Connecticut lawsuit against Jones.

Last month Jones was fined $75,000 for failing to appear for a deposition in a defamation case but a judge last week ordered the return of the money because Jones eventually showed up.

Yet another lawsuit trying to silence Jones has been filed and accuse him of hiding millions of dollars in assets, but an attorney for Jones has said the allegation was “ridiculous.”

Jones was sued in Texas and Connecticut by 13 different plaintiffs who rejected Jones’ settlement offers of $120,000.

“I could have done a better job on Sandy Hook,” Jones said in an Infowars video after testifying. “Some of the anomalies that we reported were not accurate, and I admitted it YEARS before I was sued”

Jones in a 2019 deposition said, “almost had like a form of psychosis back in the past where I basically thought everything was staged, even though I’m now learning a lot of times things aren’t staged.” He added that “the media and the corporations lying so much” was to blame.

https://thedcpatriot.com/infowars-alex-jones-files-for-bankruptcy-for-multiple-companies/

UAE used Israeli-made spyware to hack UK PM Johnson’s official residence — report

Researchers at Toronto-based Citizen Lab say Pegasus was also used to hack British Foreign Office at least five times in 2020-21

Hackers used software made by the Israeli spyware company NSO Group to infiltrate the official residence of UK Prime Minister Boris Johnson, the New Yorker reported on Monday.

According to the report, which cited researchers from Toronto-based Citizen Lab, On July 7, 2020, hackers using NSO’s Pegasus spyware tried to hack into a device connected to the network at 10 Downing Street.

A UK government official confirmed the attempted hacking to the New Yorker, but did not confirm that Pegasus was used.

NSO’s Pegasus product allows operators to stealthily invade a target’s mobile device, giving them access to contacts, messages, and movement history.

The company says that Pegasus is sold only to foreign governments after approval by the Defense Ministry as a tool for catching criminals and terrorists. Although it says it has safeguards in place to prevent abuse, it has also acknowledged that it cannot control whom its clients monitor and it does not have access to the information that is collected.

According to the source, the National Cyber Security Centre, which is under the jurisdiction of the British Defense Ministry, investigated several devices at 10 Downing Street, including Johnson’s.

The source said that officials were not able to locate the infected device.

“When we found the No. 10 case, my jaw dropped,” John Scott-Railton, a senior researcher at Citizen Lab, told the New Yorker.

“We suspect this included the exfiltration of data,” Bill Marczak, another senior researcher there, said.

The researchers also showed that based on the servers to which the information was transmitted, it is likely that the UAE was behind the hack.

According to researchers, Pegasus was also suspected of having infected the Foreign Office on at least five occasions between July 2020 and July 2021.

This was linked to operators in the UAE, India, Cyprus, and Jordan.

Responding to the New Yorker article, NSO denied that its software was used in the alleged attack.

NSO Group has faced mounting scrutiny since a consortium of news outlets revealed in July last year that its Pegasus software had been used to spy on the phones of journalists, politicians, activists, or business leaders in many countries.

https://www.timesofisrael.com/uae-used-israeli-made-spyware-to-hack-uk-pm-johnsons-official-residence-report/

Judge strikes down CDC mask mandate for travel

A federal judge in Florida on Monday struck down the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention’s (CDC) mask mandate for travel on planes, trains and buses.

Judge Kathryn Kimball Mizelle, an appointee of former President Trump, wrote that the CDC exceeded its statutory authority with the order.

The CDC had recently extended the order for 15 days, through May 3, amid some discussion of whether to end it. But the agency decided more time was needed to monitor an uptick in cases from the BA.2 subvariant of omicron.

Mizelle added that the CDC had also failed to follow the rulemaking processes laid out in law and provide a sufficient justification for its mandate.

The move adds to the legal fights over pandemic mitigation measures from the Biden administration. The White House’s vaccine-or-test mandate for large employers previously suffered defeat in the courts.

Steve Vladeck, a law professor at the University of Texas, tweeted that airports and travel should be at the core of the CDC’s legal authority to prevent the spread of disease.

“This is both a big deal and a truly preposterous (nationwide) injunction,” he wrote of the order. “The CDC’s statutory authority is specifically directed at preventing the spread of communicable diseases across state lines. Where else is such spread more likely to occur than transport hubs like airports?”

The ruling can be appealed, but there could be confusion in the short term.

The travel mask mandate was one of the few remaining mask orders, as states and localities across the country have largely lifted mask mandates for the general public. Philadelphia is a rare exception in reinstating a more general mask mandate in recent days due to the uptick in cases.

https://thehill.com/policy/healthcare/3271907-judge-strikes-down-cdc-mask-mandate-for-travel/

Vladimir Putin: Economic sanctions hurt West more than Russia

Russian inflation, economy "stabilizing" • Bulgarian embassy staff expelled from Moscow

Russian President Vladimir Putin said on Monday that Western countries had scored an own goal by imposing sanctions against Russia over Ukraine which he said had led to a "deterioration of the economy in the West."

Speaking on the state of Russia's domestic economy, Putin said that inflation was stabilizing and that retail demand in the country had normalized.

Western countries have imposed unprecedented sanctions on Russia's corporate and financial system since it sent troops into Ukraine on February 24 in what it calls a "special military operation."

Russia should use its budget to support the economy and liquidity in conditions of contracting lending activity even though the central bank's rate cuts will make lending cheaper, President Vladimir Putin said on Monday.

Speaking to top government officials by a video link, said Russia should speed up the process of using national currencies in foreign trade under the new conditions.

Russia's foreign ministry said on Monday that it had declared some employees of the Bulgarian embassy in Moscow "personae non grata" in retaliation for Sofia's decision to expel 10 Russian diplomats in March.

The move was announced in a brief statement that did not say how many Bulgarians were being told to leave.

International aid

Ukraine will receive a total of $500 million in aid from allies Canada and Japan in the coming days, Ukrainian prime minister Denis Shmygal announced on Monday.

The aid, which consists of $400 million from Canada and $100 million from Japan, will go towards reducing Ukraine's budget deficit.

Shmygal said on Sunday that the deficit could soon reach $5 billion due to military expenses in an interview with ABC News. Shmygal also called on the West to give financial assistance as it is "needed more than ever."

https://www.jpost.com/breaking-news/article-704501

The Pirate Bay, YouTube-DL And More 'Removed' From DuckDuckGo Search Results, Reinstated After Report

DuckDuckGo on Friday was found to have "removed" The Pirate Bay, 1337x, YouTube-DL and other "pirate" sites from their search results.

"Privacy-centered search engine DuckDuckGo has completely removed the search results for many popular pirates sites including The Pirate Bay, 1337x, and Fmovies. Several YouTube ripping services have disappeared, too and even the homepage of the open-source software youtube-mp3 is unfindable," TorrentFreak reported.

When doing some research earlier today we noticed that several popular pirate sites were no longer showing up in DuckDuckGo's results globally. Initially, we thought that some popular pages had been removed following DMCA takedown notices, but there is clearly more going on than that.

For example, searching for "site:thepiratebay.org" is supposed to return all results DuckDuckGo has indexed for The Pirate Bay’s main domain name. In this case, there are none.

The lack of results is not tied to a specific country and manually fiddling with the region settings didn't change anything either. Apparently, DuckDuckgo has simply removed all thepiratebay.org URLs from its index.

This whole-site removal isn't limited to The Pirate Bay either. When we do similar searches for 1337x.to, NYAA.se, Fmovies.to, Lookmovie.io, and 123moviesfree.net, no results appear. For RarBG.to and Fitgirl-repacks we only get one result, instead of the hundreds of thousands we see on other search engines.

The absence of results doesn't only apply to pirate sites themselves. For example, there are no results for the streaming portals Flixtor and Primewire. In addition, the associated status pages, which merely include links to the official domains, are not indexed either.

Even several popular stream-rippers have been completely wiped from the search results. That includes 2conv.com, Flvto.bid, and several others.

The most surprising omission, by far, is that the official site for the open-source software youtube-dl is not indexed by DuckDuckGo. This site certainly doesn't host or link to any copyright-infringing material.

DuckDuckGo CEO Gabriel Weinberg denied "purging" search results on Sunday and blamed unspecified "issues" with the "site:" operator for the sites disappearing.

http://www.informationliberation.com/?id=63025

https://twitter.com/DrTedros/status/1516038355674230784

First published October 5, 2015

Elon Musk is supposed to be worth 13.6 billion. He is supposed to be the CEO of Tesla Motors. He is

supposed to be the founder of SpaceX. He is supposed to be the founder of Solar City. He is supposed

to be the inventor of Hyperloop. I for one don't believe any of it. Elon Musk looks to me like a person

totally manufactured by Intelligence as the fake human front for all these fake projects. In this way he

is exactly like Mark Zuckerberg, another person I have outed as a probable manufactured entity. When

I wrote that paper on Zuckerberg, he was also alleged to be worth 13.6 billion. Coincidence? Nope.

Why do I think that? I think it because Musk's entire Wikipedia page and bio reads like a red flag. It is

nothing but transparent BS from top to bottom. We'll start with his family. His mother's maiden name

is Haldeman. That is a prominent Jewish name. Elon is also a Jewish name, meaning “oak” in

Hebrew. Kimbal, Elon's brother, also has a Jewish name. So why not just admit they are Jewish? I

don't know. Maybe they plan on running him for Governor of California or something.

11 pages

http://mileswmathis.com/musk.pdf

Syria Sends Letter to UN About US-Led Coalition's War Crimes in Raqqa in 2017

Syria sent a letter to UN Secretary General Antonio Guterres and to the UN Security Council about the war crimes of the US-led international coalition in the city of Raqqa in 2017, the Syrian Foreign Ministry said in a statement released by the state agency SANA.

"In an official letter sent to the UN Secretary General and the President of the Security Council about the war crimes committed by the so-called international coalition in the city of Raqqa in 2017, the Ministry of Foreign Affairs made it clear that the US military operation carried out by the forces of the illegitimate international coalition in Raqqa in period from June to October 2017, led to the almost complete destruction of the city and thousands of its civilians," the Syrian Foreign Ministry said.

The ministry's statement stressed that the goal of the coalition's operation was to destroy infrastructure, public and private property, and target civilians.

In 2014, Raqqa was captured by militants of the Daesh* terrorist group. In October 2017, the city was liberated after a months-long military operation by the Arab-Kurdish formations of the Syrian Democratic Forces with the support of the international coalition's aviation. During the massive bombardments and actions of the pro-US Kurdish formations, Raqqa was actually destroyed.

The US military illegally controls territories in the north and northeast of Syria in the provinces of Deir ez-Zor, Al-Hasakah and Raqqa, where the country's largest oil and gas fields are located. Damascus has repeatedly called the presence of the US military on its territory occupation and state piracy with the aim of outright theft of oil.

https://sputniknews.com/20220418/syria-sends-letter-to-un-about-us-led-coalitions-war-crimes-in-raqqa-in-2017-1094868671.html

Playing the Role: The Story of Ukraine’s Volodymyr Zelensky

Many in the western media are now openly admitting how it makes perfect sense that Hollywood has rallied around the Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky. “After all, he’s one of their own,” proclaimed CNN.

Following his smash hit Ukrainian TV series, “Servant of the People,” the comedian moved straight into politics, and during the last presidential election garnered what is perhaps the biggest-ever ‘protest vote’ in modern political history.

Despite his lack of depth and experience, Zelensky went on to defeat incumbent and Ukrainian oligarch Petro Poroshenko, winning in an electoral landslide as ‘the lesser of two evils.’

This far, he seems to be winning the public relations war in the eyes of western audiences and politicians, but is he fairing as well with Ukrainians?

To date, his policy positions seem to be mirroring that of the US State Department and NATO, as he refuses to seriously negotiate or give any concessions to the Russian government – a stance which has all but guaranteed this war will drag on through the duration of 2022.

Not surprisingly, his synchronization with Washington and Brussels has led many to believe that Zelensky is a full-fledged western puppet.

Indian media outlet WION analyzes the rise, and potential fall, of Ukraine’s mercurial ‘acting president.’ Watch:

https://21stcenturywire.com/2022/04/18/playing-the-role-the-story-of-ukraines-volodymyr-zelensky/

Manchester United soccer star Cristiano Ronaldo’s baby boy dies

The soccer legend, 37, told the world about his and Georgina Rodriguez’s heartbreak on Instagram this morning.

Cristiano Ronaldo has revealed that one of his twin babies has died after his girlfriend gave birth.

The soccer legend, 37, told the world about his and Georgina Rodriguez’s heartbreak on Instagram this morning, The Sun reported.

Cristiano and Georgina announced they were expecting twins - a boy and a girl - in October last year.

But the Manchester United ace tonight revealed that their baby boy has sadly passed away.

He said that his newborn daughter is “giving us the strength to live.”

Ronaldo tragically wrote on social media: “It is with our deepest sadness we have to announce that our baby boy has passed away.

“It is the greatest pain that any parents can feel.

“Only the birth of our baby girl gives us the strength to live this moment with some hope and happiness.

“We would like to thank the doctors and nurses for all their expert care and support.

“We are all devastated at this loss and we kindly ask for privacy at this very difficult time.

“Our baby boy, you are our angel. We will always love you.”

https://www.news.com.au/sport/football/epl/manchester-united/manchester-united-soccer-star-cristiano-ronaldos-baby-boy-dies/news-story/a44b8465c3840a08348bdeb4c6e85bda

>>16101087

yeah that is what I was thinking

>>16101129

not my meme

Zionist Robinson doing his part for Albert Pikes WW3

Along with this dumbass