Gazprom Halts Gas Shipments To Europe Via Critical Pipeline
After European nations imported the most gas from Russian sources yesterday in months, scrambling to stock up on supplies as Russian President Vladimir Putin's deadline to either pay for gas in rubles (or be cut off) came and went, Russian gas giant Gazprom has officially halted all deliveries to Europe via the Yamal-Europe pipeline, a critical artery for European energy supplies.
Instead of flowing toward Germany and the EU, gas supplies on Friday and Saturday started flowing in the opposite direction, according to Gascade, the network operator.
In recent months, the EU has already boosted imports of LNG from the US...
White House won’t rule out Biden’s pardon for son or brother
Presidential spokesperson dodges questions about Hunter Biden probe after laptop info resurfaces
The White House repeatedly refused on Friday to rule out the possibility that President Joe Biden could pardon his son Hunter Biden or brother James Biden if suspected financial crimes related to business dealings in China are proven in court, despite questions from multiple journalists and a growing volume of articles on the subject.
Kazakh Counterintel Detains 'Foreign Agent' Who Planned Assassination of Country's President
So far, the Kazakh authorities have not specified where the suspect is from. According to the counterintelligence, the agent had a sniper rifle, a large sum of money, and some drugs.
"On 25 March 2022, in the city of Nur-Sultan, the counterintelligence of the National Security Committee detained a foreign intelligence agent, a citizen of Republic 'A', who was planning the assassination of the president of Kazakhstan and a number of high-ranking civil servants", the authorities stated.
The National Security Committee also noted that the detained agent was pushing anti-Russian propaganda and inciting anti-Russia sentiment on the internet.
The suspect has admitted the offences, and an investigation into terrorist activities was launched, the authorities noted.
Sri Lanka Blocks Social Media as Protesters Violate Curfew Over Worsening Economic Situation
Around 22 million people in Sri Lanka face a severe shortage of essential commodities, including fuel and medicines. As protesters pressed for the resignation of President Gotabaya Rajapaksa, the government declared a state of emergency on Friday.
Tightening the noose around widespread protests, the Sri Lankan government blocked access to social media on Sunday and imposed strict laws allowing the military to arrest and detain anyone venturing into public places without permission.
The stringent laws have been enforced ahead of planned mass protests by non-political citizens' groups against the Gotabaya Rajapaksa government over the worsening economic crisis in the country.
"As directed by the Telecommunications Regulatory Commission of Sri Lanka (TRCSL), access to Facebook, Messenger, YouTube, WhatsApp, Viber, Twitter, IMO, Instagram, Telegram, Snapchat, and TikTok is restricted with immediate effect until further notice", Dialog Axiata, Sri Lanka's largest telecom service provider said on Sunday.
Powerful blast rocks nightclub
Multiple casualties reported in the capital of Azerbaijan, Baku
A massive explosion has devastated a nightclub in Baku, Azerbaijan, causing dozens of injuries, according to local media reports.
The blast rocked the venue in the center of the capital late on Saturday night. According to photos and videos circulating on social media, the explosion was so powerful it completely destroyed the entrance to the club and caused a fire inside.
The health ministry said 24 people had been hospitalized with burns and other injuries as of 4:20am local time, with as many as 35 ambulance crews dispatched to tend to the wounded at the scene of the incident.
Travelers face surge of flight delays, cancellations at Orlando International Airport
Travelers at Orlando International Airport faced massive delays and flight cancellations Saturday.
The airport alerted passengers that it was experiencing delays and cancellations due to the severe storms that move through most of the afternoon, but some said the wait times seemed out of control.
Short of pilots, Alaska Airlines cancels dozens more weekend flights
Alaska Airlines canceled 92 flights around its network Saturday, 46 more flights Sunday and three Monday as a pilot shortage continued to wreak havoc with its schedule.
In addition, the airline said 18 Saturday flights were significantly delayed, “primarily due to a mix of weather, mechanical and other standard issues.”
At Seattle-Tacoma International Airport on Saturday, the airline canceled 27 departures and 32 arriving flights were canceled.
"A Paradigm Shift Western Media Hasn't Grasped Yet" - Russian Ruble Relaunched, Linked To Gold & Commodities
With Russia’s central bank having just profoundly altered the international trade and monetary system by linking the Russian ruble to both gold and commodities, journalists in Moscow asked me to write a Q and A article on what these developments mean, and the ramifications of these changes on the Russian ruble, the US dollar, the gold price and the global system of currencies. This article has been published on the RT.com website here.
Since RT.com is now blocked and censored in many Western locations such as the EU, UK, US and Canada, and since many readers may not be able to access the RT.com website (unless using a VPN), my Questions and Answers that are in the new RT.com article are now published here in their entirety.
US central bank warns of housing bubble
Surging home prices are “unhinged” from market fundamentals, but correction won’t be as devastating as 2007-2009 crisis, Fed says
The Federal Reserve Bank’s Dallas branch has warned of a “brewing US housing bubble,”saying that prices have surged beyond levels justified by market fundamentals, creating risk of a market collapse.
“There is growing concern that US house prices are again becoming unhinged from fundamentals,” Fed economists said in a research report posted earlier this week. “Our evidence points to abnormal US housing market behavior for the first time since the boom of the early 2000s,” they added.
Biden Admin Vows to Push Life-Altering Sex-Change Surgeries for Children
Democrat Joe Biden's administration is pushing for children to have their genitals removed and altered with life-changing sex-change surgeries.
The White House has released a series of documents encouraging the use of gender reassignment surgery, puberty-blocking drugs, and hormone therapy for "transgender" minors.
On Thursday, Biden's Department of Health and Human Services' (HHS) Office of Population Affairs quietly released a document titled "Gender Affirming Care and Young People."
On the same day, another subset of the HHS, the Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration's National Child Traumatic Stress Network, published a parallel document titled, "Gender-Affirming Care Is Trauma-Informed Care."
China Introduces Robot Arms for Coronavirus Throat Swabs
China’s state-run Global Times on Thursday triumphantly announced the deployment of intimidating robot arms to perform throat swab coronavirus tests “with reasonable sampling accuracy and efficiency.”
The Global Times envisioned these robots replacing humans entirely in the coronavirus testing process, but for now they have been deployed on a test basis in the eastern Shandong province. The developers said the fully tested robot arms will be handed over to local officials for live deployment within a few days.
“There is demand from some local governments and hospitals in Shanghai, East China’s Anhui Province and Jiangsu Province, Central China’s Hunan Province and South China’s Guangxi Zhuang Autonomous Region,” the Global Times reported, quoting developers at the Advanced Mechanism and Roboticized Equipment Lab of Tsinghua University.
CDC Admits to Teen Mental Health Crisis it Helped Create
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention admitted there is an adolescent mental health crisis due to the draconian coronavirus protocols it recommended.
According to new survey data released Thursday, more than 44 percent of American teens reported “persistent feelings of sadness or hopelessness” while nearly 20 percent seriously considered suicide, and nine percent actually did attempt suicide in 2020.
“These data echo a cry for help,” Debra Houry, a CDC deputy director, told the Washington Post. “The COVID-19 pandemic has created traumatic stressors that have the potential to further erode students’ mental well-being.”
The survey results were collected between January and June 2021 — at the height of coronavirus measures — from 7,705 ninth- through twelfth-graders in a nationally representative sample of private and public schools.
UK: NHS Service Hits ‘Breaking Point’ with Ambulance Wait Times Over 70 Minutes for Stroke and Heart Attack Victims, Receptionists Being Trained to Do Blood Tests
Stroke and heart attack sufferers across England are having to wait 70 minutes as ambulance services hit ‘breaking point’.
Response times for category two ambulance calls — which also covers sepsis and burn victims — should be no longer than 18 minutes under current NHS rules.
But this week they took more than three times longer, leaked figures show. In the worst-affected regions, response times were around two hours.
And nationally paramedics took more than 10 minutes to show up to category one calls — those with life-threatening conditions, such as cardiac arrest — compared to the seven-minute deadline.
Clown World: UK Hospitals Are Now Being Encouraged to Ask ALL Men Under 60 if they are PREGNANT Before Getting Medical Procedures
It’s 2022 – up is down, right is wrong, the sky is green, and, yet, men still cannot become pregnant – but don’t tell that to the so-called ‘medical professionals in the UK.
Hospitals across England are embracing the woke new age and are now being encouraged to ask everyone – MAN or woman – if they are pregnant or not before they can get certain medical procedures.
Welcome to the clown world.
New guidance from several National Health Service trusts, which are similar to US State Hospital Associations, is telling UK hospitals to ask the pregnancy question to “all patients under the age of 60, regardless of how [they] may identify [their] gender,” before treatment for certain conditions, according to the UK Telegraph.
Foo Fighters drummer Taylor Hawkins dead at 50: The inside story on what likely caused his death
The public evidence, as well as information from insiders, shows that the most likely cause of his death was vaccine-induced myocarditis. Drug use may have exacerbated the problem to some extent.
Vaxxed By Machines, Tracked By Machines: Humanity To Be Augmented One Cell At A Time
Moderna’s co-founder created a quantum dot tattoo to track the vaxxed. The company is now using AI to generate endless mRNA jabs. Welcome to Transhumanism, Inc.
UK TO LAUNCH NEW DIGITAL ID TECHNOLOGY NEXT MONTH AS PART OF NATIONWIDE DIGITAL ID PUSH
The UK government is pushing ahead with its nationwide digital ID plans, despite half of the responses to its public consultation on digital identity opposing the idea.
On April 6, 2022, new digital identity document verification technology (IDVT) that enables data sharing between public bodies and businesses for the purpose of identity verification will be introduced. It will be made available to UK employers, landlords, and letting agents who can use it to digitally carry out pre-employment criminal record checks, right to work checks, and right to rent checks.
The introduction of this digital IDVT is part of the government’s far-reaching digital ID plans which were announced in March. The government has framed these digital ID plans as a way for UK citizens to “easily and quickly prove their identity using digital methods instead of having to rely on traditional physical documents.”
Canada Is a Partner in the “Known Traveller Digital Identity” Project, a World Economic Forum Initiative
If you wonder why the travel restrictions were not lifted, wonder no more.
Buried Halfway Into a 40-Page Report, WHO Reveals New Vaccine Side-Effect Many Have Yet to Recover From
Amid pushes for a fourth dose of COVID-19 vaccines, the World Health Organization has said it is looking into reports of hearing problems stemming from the vaccines.
According to NBC News, the WHO has reported 367 cases of tinnitus among people who had received a COVID-19 vaccine.
The condition is characterized by ringing in the ears, and it usually occurred within one day of the vaccine being administered to patients who reported it. '
JUST IN: Google says it will demonetize websites which report Ukrainian government attacks on its own citizens.
WHO Covid warning: New mutant 'XE' Omicron variant could be most transmissible yet
THE WORLD Health Organisation (WHO) has issued a warning against a new mutant 'XE' variant of Omicron, that may be more transmissible than any strain of Covid seen before.
This new variant is a recombinant strain, meaning it's a mutant hybrid of the two previous versions Omicron variant, BA.1 and BA.2, which spread across the world when it first became a variant of concern. According to reports, the new variant is 10 percent more transmissible than the BA.2 subvariant, which is already the most contagious.
The next pandemic could be insect-borne disease, WHO warns risk of a new arbovirus outbreak is ‘increasing’
World Health Organization has sounded the alarm on the next potential pandemic – which could be spread by insects. On Thursday, the WHO launched the Global Arbovirus Initiative in an effort to implement an “integrated strategic plan to tackle emerging and re-emerging arboviruses with epidemic and pandemic potential focusing on monitoring risk,
pandemic prevention, preparedness, detection and response, and building a coalition of partners.” The WHO warns that risks of a new insect-borne outbreak is “increasing.” “The next pandemic could, very likely, be due to a new arbovirus,” Dr. Sylvie Briand – director of the global infectious hazard preparedness team at the WHO – said on Thursday.
ELECTRIC LOVE. I’m an ethics expert and I think sex robots will be GOOD for society as humans ‘advance with variety’
AS Artificial Intelligence technology continues to advance, many may be wondering about the moral implications of sex robots, and how they would affect society.
But an ethics expert has claimed that sex robots will actually be good for society, as humans advance when presented with a variety of options.
In a piece for Men's Health, Center for Professional and Applied Ethics at the University of Manitoba director Neil MacArthur explains that sex robots will help address "intimacy and sex inequality."
MacArthur believes sex robots would help people who don't have access to sexual partners because of a variety of factors such as age, health, or "level of conventional attractiveness."
So HOW DOES the WHO KNOW NEXT DISEASE WILL BE INSECT BOURNE????
Southwest Airline too is having "computer issues" this weekend: https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-10680257/Southwest-Airlines-apologizes-delays-cancellations-2-000-flights-blaming-technology-issues.html