Reporters Without Borders Barred from Visiting Julian Assange
April 7th, 2023Via: Peoples Dispatch:
Two leaders from NGO Reporters Without Borders (RSF) were barred from visiting imprisoned journalist Julian Assange on April 4 in Belmarsh Prison. RSF Secretary-General Christophe Deloire and Director of Operations Rebecca Vincent were not able to carry out their visit with Assange, a visit which had taken months to secure. Belmarsh Prison Governor Jenny Louis denied their visit at the last minute because she had “received intelligence” that the two were journalists.
“We followed all of the prison’s procedures and rules. We arrived early with all documents. But we were told at reception that we would not be allowed in,” tweeted Vincent.
The RSF leaders have made it clear that they are not in fact journalists. “[RSF] defends journalists. Some of my colleagues have journalistic backgrounds. But we work as an NGO to support journalists,” wrote Vincent. “Our prison visit would be as an NGO, not journalistic.”
“A 200,000-Light-Year-Long Chain of Young Blue Stars Located Over Halfway Across the Universe”
April 6th, 2023Via: Hubble Site:
The universe is so capricious that even the slightest things that might go unnoticed could have profound implications. That’s what happened to Yale astronomer Pieter van Dokkum when he was looking through Hubble Space Telescope images and noticed a suspected blemish that looked like a scratch on photographic film. For Hubble’s electronic cameras, cosmic rays skimming along the detector look like “scratches.” But once spectroscopy was done on the oddball streak van Dokkum realized it was really a 200,000-light-year-long chain of young blue stars located over halfway across the universe! van Dokkum and his colleagues believe that it stretches between a runaway monster back hole and the galaxy it was ejected from. The black hole must be compressing gas along its wake, which condenses to form stars. Nothing like it has ever been seen anywhere else in the universe before.
Report Shows ‘Astonishing’ Depravity in Sexual Abuse of More than 600 in Baltimore’s Catholic Archdiocese
April 6th, 2023Via: Baltimore Sun:
A four-year investigation of Baltimore’s Catholic archdiocese reveals the scope of 80 years of child sex abuse and torture and how church officials often covered it up and, in some cases, paved the way for further abuse.
Among the accounts: A deacon who admitted abusing more than 100 children. A priest who chained and whipped boys for his gratification. Another priest who, after receiving psychiatric treatment, went on to abuse 20 students at a Baltimore boys’ school.
J&J to Pay $8.9 Billion to Settle Talc-Cancer Lawsuits
April 5th, 2023Via: Bloomberg:
Johnson & Johnson said it agreed to pay $8.9 billion to resolve all cancer lawsuits tied to its talc-based powders and will make a fresh attempt to contain the liability within a bankruptcy filing by one of its units.
Twitter Labels NPR “State Affiliated Media”; Elon Musk Says “Seems Accurate”
April 5th, 2023Via: Summit News:
Twitter placed a label on NPR’s account Tuesday describing the outlet as “State-affiliated media,” with owner Elon Musk commenting that the description “seems accurate.”
Twitter’s guidelines state “Labels on state-affiliated accounts provide additional context about accounts that are controlled by certain official representatives of governments, state-affiliated media entities, and individuals associated with those entities.”
Well-Known Crypto Tech Exec Murdered In San Francisco Stabbing
April 5th, 2023Via: ZeroHedge:
Well-known crypto tech executive Bob Lee was stabbed to death early Tuesday morning near downtown San Francisco.
The 43-year-old Lee was perhaps best known for starting Cash App, and as former CTO of Square. He was the chief product officer of San Francisco-based crypto startup MobileCoin.
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San Francisco police responded at around 2:35 a.m. to a report of a stabbing in the city’s relatively safe Rincon Hill neighborhood, where they found Lee still alive.
He was taken to a local hospital where he succumbed to his injuries, CBS News reports.
AstraZeneca Clot Shot Is No Longer Available In Australia
April 5th, 2023In other news from Australia: ‘Excess Deaths’ Are the Highest Since World War II
Via: Dr. John Campbell:
The Decades of Evidence That Antidepressants Cause Mass Shootings
April 4th, 2023Via: The Forgotten Side of Medicine:
Prior to the Covid vaccinations, psychiatric medications were the mass-prescribed medication that had the worst risk-to-benefit ratio on the market. In addition to rarely providing benefits to patients, there is a wide range of severe complications that commonly result from psychiatric medications.
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There are many serious issues with psychiatric medications. For brevity, this article will exclusively focus on their tendency to cause horrific violent crimes. This was known long before they entered the market by both the drug companies and the FDA. While there is a large amount of evidence for this correlation, it is the one topic that is never up for debate when a mass shooting occurs. I have a lot of flexibility to discuss highly controversial topics with my colleagues, but this topic is met with so much hostility that I can never bring it up. It is, for this reason, I am immensely grateful to have an anonymous forum I can use.
Live: Trump Circus in New York
April 4th, 2023Via: Al Jazeera:
Finland Joins NATO
April 4th, 2023Via: Reuters:
Finland formally joined NATO on Tuesday, its flag unfurling outside the military bloc’s Brussels headquarters, in a historic policy shift brought on by Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, drawing a threat from Moscow of “counter-measures”.
Finland’s accession, ending seven decades of military non-alignment, roughly doubles the length of the border that the North Atlantic Treaty Organization shares with Russia and bolsters its eastern flank as the war in Ukraine grinds on with no resolution in sight.
