Russia may be in Ukraine to stay after 100 days of war

When Vladimir Putin sent troops into Ukraine in late February, the Russian president vowed his forces would not occupy the neighboring country. But as the invasion reached its 100th day Friday, Russia seemed increasingly unlikely to relinquish the territory it has taken in the war.

The ruble is now an official currency in the southern Kherson region, alongside the Ukrainian hryvnia. Residents there and in Russia-controlled parts of the Zaporizhzhia region are getting offered Russian passports. The Kremlin-installed administrations in both regions have talked about plans to become part of Russia.


And – Oil Execs Cash Out Like Crazy While Gas Prices Soak Americans

Gas prices have skyrocketed to record highs, forcing some families to choose between filling their tank and putting food on the table. But for the oil execs whose stock holdings have soared, these are happy days—and some of them are cashing in their shares at unusually high rates.

I swear the purpose of this war was to condition us to accept the uninterrupted flow of commerce between belligerents. What next? War profiteering is declared patriotic? A win for the elites.

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Nightclub needle attacks puzzle European authorities

PARIS (AP) — Across France, more than 300 people have reported being pricked out of the blue with needles at nightclubs or concerts in recent months. Doctors and multiple prosecutors are on the case, but no one knows who’s doing it or why, and whether the victims have been injected with drugs — or indeed any substance at all.

Club owners and police are trying to raise awareness, and a rapper even interrupted his recent show to warn concert-goers about the risk of surprise needle attacks.

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Toronto’s $13M in hotel shelter overspending could have paid for 52,000 room nights for homeless people

The City of Toronto overspent by $13.2 million over two years on emergency hotel shelters, according to a fiscal audit by the city’s auditor general.

Money intended for housing support instead went to pay a host of hotel fees, the auditor general says, including one earmarked for tourism. That’s despite the fact the contracts preclude such fees.

In two years, $5.4 million was spent on hotel room vacancy fees, $5.3 million was spent on facility surcharges on meal invoices, and $2.4 million came out of a voluntary three per cent tax that the Greater Toronto Hotel Association uses to promote tourism.

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Canadian military veterans play outsized role in extremist anti-government movements: report

Canadian military veterans play an outsized role in anti-government movements, a shift exacerbated by pandemic restrictions, according to a report by an extremist monitoring organization that tracks online activity.

The influence of former military status within anti-government movements is so strong that some adherents falsely claim to be veterans to bolster their status as leaders, the report says.

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Taco Bell: Come for the Diarrhea, Stay for the Drag Show

Taco Bell is hoping that attention-deprived, lip-synching chicks with d***s will help you get that breakfast burrito down.

The Taco Bell Drag Brunch show is hitting the road and delivering taped weiners and gyrating man-hips to a Taco Bell Cantina (they have booze) location near you if you live in Chicago, Nashville, Fort Lauderdale, Las Vegas, and New York City, through the months of May and June.

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Stop the Spread by Not Having Sex, UK Tells Monkeypox Sufferers

Monkey’s never listen.

British officials have told those suffering from monkeypox that they should abstain from sex in the hopes of curbing the spread of the disease.

Those showing symptoms of the monkeypox virus should avoid having sex with other people, government experts have advised those suffering from the disease.


Monkeypox warnings ‘went ignored,’ and now world must brace for more outbreaks: scientists

For years, African scientists tracked a steep rise in monkeypox cases.

More than 2,800 suspected cases were reported in 2018 in the Democratic Republic of the Congo alone. The year after, there were nearly 3,800.

By 2020 — half a century after the first human infection was found in the central African country, then known as Zaire — the total tally of suspected annual cases neared 6,300, including 229 deaths.

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Small-scale possession of illicit drugs will be decriminalized in B.C. starting next year: federal government

Adults in British Columbia will be allowed to possess small amounts of some illicit drugs starting next year, the federal government announced Tuesday.

The federal government says Canadians 18 years of age and older will be able to possess up to a cumulative 2.5 grams of opioids, cocaine, methamphetamine and MDMA within British Columbia. The announcement is in response to a request from the province for an exemption from the law criminalizing drug possession.

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‘Tragically ugly’ school textbook causes social media outcry in China

China’s education ministry has ordered a state-owned publisher to rectify a school textbook that went viral owing to what social media users described as “tragically ugly” and inappropriate depictions of children.

The mathematics books published by the People’s Education Press contain illustrations of people with distorted faces and bulging pants. Boys are seen grabbing girls’ skirts and one child appears to have a leg tattoo.

Legalized sex with children is socialism’s endgame.

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Sussmann found not guilty in blow to John Durham’s investigation

Democratic lawyer Michael Sussmann was found not guilty Tuesday on the false statements charge of concealing his representation of Hillary Clinton’s presidential campaign from the FBI when he pushed since debunked Trump-Russia claims to the bureau in 2016.

The verdict is a significant loss for John Durham’s investigation of the investigators, with the special counsel losing the first case that he has brought to trial.

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‘That sounds disgusting’: Disturbing allegations at B.C. undercover police training course

One of B.C.’s police watchdogs says it wants to go outside the province to find an investigator into an astonishing series of allegations about what happened in a course that trains undercover police officers.

CTV News has learned that course, the B.C. Municipal Undercover Program, was shut down abruptly earlier this month following allegations several officers went to extreme lengths in a course scenario to prove they are not a cop.

Those actions are alleged to include exposing genitalia, defecating on another officer, penetrating an officer using a vegetable, and removing feminine hygiene products, multiple sources confirmed to CTV News.

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Many Border Patrol Agents, Cops Who Responded to Uvalde School Shooting Uninvited from Biden Event

Biden administration officials uninvited many of the Border Patrol agents and other law enforcement officers who responded to the Robb Elementary School shooting from a meeting with the president scheduled for Sunday in Uvalde. Despite the event being planned for a large open-space facility, administration officials cited space as a reason for the retracted invitations.

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