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Several Russian servicemen seek help avoiding Ukraine war – lawyers

LONDON, March 30 (Reuters) – Several Russian servicemen are seeking legal help to avoid being sent to fight in the war in Ukraine, two lawyers said, after 12 members of Russia’s National Guard were fired for refusing to go.

Lawyer Mikhail Benyash said around 200 people had been in contact to ask what they should do in a similar situation.

Pavel Chikov, another Russia-based lawyer, wrote on Telegram that there were “analogous stories from Crimea, Novgorod, Omsk, Stavropol… The workers are appealing for legal help.”

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted in"Ukraine - Russia", WTF?

Class-action lawsuit filed in Quebec against meat-packing companies for price fixing

meat and guns

A class-action lawsuit has been filed against the largest beef suppliers in Canada for allegedly conspiring to restrict competition and raise prices on beef sold in Quebec.

The lawsuit was filed by the Belleau Lapointe law firm on March 24 in Quebec Superior Court.

It alleges that various companies related to Cargill Inc., JBS Canada ULC, Tyson Food Inc. and National Beef Packing Co LLC acted in concert to “unduly restrict competition related to the production, supply or sale of beef” in the province since Jan. 1, 2015.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted inCanada, WTF?

Quebec media pen letter denouncing criminal trial held in secret, kept off docket

The heads of major Quebec newsrooms penned an open letter Wednesday denouncing a criminal trial involving a police informant held entirely in secret and kept off the official court docket.

The existence of the trial only became public because the police informant accused in the case appealed his or her conviction, and the appeals court issued a heavily redacted ruling in late February critical of the lower court proceedings.

A letter signed by the newsroom leaders of the province’s major media outlets, including The Canadian Press, stated their indignation and deep concern over the “shadow trial” revealed in a judgment rendered by the Quebec Court of Appeal, which was first published by La Presse.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted inCanada, WTF?

FEC fines DNC and Clinton for Trump dossier hoax

The Federal Election Commission has fined the Democratic National Committee and Hillary Clinton’s 2016 campaign for lying about the funding of the infamous, and discredited, Russian “dossier” used in a smear attempt against Donald Trump weeks before he shocked the world with his 2016 presidential victory.

The election agency said that Clinton and the DNC violated strict rules on describing expenditures of payments funneled to the opposition research firm Fusion GPS through their law firm.

H/t Mauser

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted inTrump Derangement Syndrome, WTF?

NY taxpayers will pay $850 million for Buffalo Bills’ new stadium

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Taxpayers would be on the hook for $850 million in construction costs for a new Buffalo Bills stadium under a deal announced by New York Gov. Kathy Hochul on Monday, which would make it the largest direct public subsidy for a National Football League stadium in history.

Hochul’s office on Monday unveiled a three-way agreement between the state, Erie County and the football club to build a new $1.4 billion stadium with at least 60,000 seats in the town of Orchard Park, the team’s longtime home.

Anybody touting a study purporting to show that tax payer “investment” in a Rich Man’s stadium to house a Rich Man’s sports team is a win win is a liar liar.

h/t Mauser

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted inUSA, WTF?

Ford government appeals to Canada’s top court to keep premier’s mandate letters secret

The Ontario government has asked Canada’s top court to weigh in on the province’s nearly four-year fight to keep Premier Doug Ford’s mandate letters to his cabinet ministers secret.

Mandate letters traditionally lay out the marching orders a premier has for each of his or her ministers after taking office — and have been routinely released by governments across the country.

Ford’s government, however, has been fighting to keep his mandate letters from the public since shortly after the premier took office in June 2018.

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Amy Schumer ‘triggered and traumatised’ by Will Smith Oscars slap incident

I’m still traumatized from this.

Two days on from Will Smith slapping presenter Chris Rock at the 94th Academy Awards, following a joke about his wife, Jada Pinkett Smith, and Hollywood appears united in feeling Smith deserves substantial reprimand for his actions.

One of the three hosts for this year’s ceremony, Amy Schumer, has said she is still “triggered and traumatised” by the incident, and “waiting for this sickening feeling to go away from what we all witnessed”.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted inCelebrity Idiots, WTF?

Ukrainian President Zelenskyy pushes for Europe to transition to “green energy”

I’m hoping this is a deep fake but suspect no such luck. Sure give up Ruuskie oil but there’s no need to go suicidal green.

H/t RM

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted in"Ukraine - Russia", Green-Scam, WTF?

Russia reportedly using ISIS-style pickup trucks in Ukraine

Some of Russia’s armed forces have reportedly been reduced to using pickup trucks mounted with machine guns in Ukraine, an attack vehicle popular with jihadi militants in the Middle East.

In a video shared on social media on Monday, a small caravan of six Mitsubishi and Toyota pickup trucks, outfitted with heavy machine guns and marked with the letter “Z,” can be seen reportedly driving around in Mariupol.

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Biden contradicts aides and reaffirms his call for Putin’s overthrow

President Biden contradicted his own staff Monday by insisting he did not regret or retract his call from over the weekend for Russian President Vladimir Putin to be removed from power in response to his invasion of Ukraine.

“I’m not walking anything back,” the president told reporters at the White House. “The fact of the matter is I was expressing the moral outrage that I felt.”

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted in"Ukraine - Russia", WTF?