On Friday, a colossal blast tore through the facility in the Amur region, a key waypoint on the ‘Power of Siberia’ pipeline, which supplies both the Russian Far East, as well as China. Beijing has requested emergency support from Moscow in recent days as it struggles to tackle an energy …
Read More »Russian prison sexual abuse scandal: Guards in Saratov encouraged inmates to beat & extort each other, former convict tells RT
The revelations come after human rights group gulagu.net published video evidence presumably showing the rape of three inmates at the hospital, on Tuesday. A day later, the regional Russian Investigative Committee announced the start of seven different criminal investigations surrounding reports of physical and sexual abuse against inmates. In an interview …
Read More »Europe needs to understand root causes of rising gas price ‘phenomenon’ to avoid energy crisis – AEB
According to Tadzio Schilling, Wednesday’s gas price surge on the TTF hub in the Netherlands, which saw it hit an unprecedented $1,936 per 1,000 cubic meters, made both European market participants and politicians “nervous.” Schilling added that everyone expressed great “relief” when the price started dropping after Russian President Vladimir Putin …
Read More »Long-serving editor of Russia’s Novaya Gazeta Muratov wins 2021 Nobel Peace Prize for ‘efforts to safeguard freedom of expression’
The decision, announced by committee chair Berit Reiss-Andersen on Friday, was accredited due to Muratov and Ressa’s commitment to free speech, which was described as “a precondition for democracy and lasting peace.” According to the official Twitter account of the Nobel Prize committee, Muratov has “defended freedom of speech in …
Read More »Now scientists have confirmed that natural immunity is more effective than vaxxed immunity, why can’t I have my freedoms back?
As someone who has recovered from Covid-19, I’m tired of spending the better part of a year now contending with brainwashed sheeple glued to every word of our flip-flopping, agenda peddling, manipulative government authorities trying to sell us on the idea that if you’ve already had the virus, you still …
Read More »Hungary’s Orban blames Brussels & its climate change policies for soaring EU gas prices
Energy bills have been spiking for customers across Europe because of bad decisions made by “bureaucrats in Brussels,” who are fighting for ecology by continuously raising the price of energy generated from coal and gas, Orban insisted in a radio interview on Friday. “These decisions must be withdrawn… at present …
Read More »A cold winter could send oil prices soaring past $100
The spike in oil prices to the highest in years after OPEC+ said it will not add more barrels than the initially agreed 400,000 bpd monthly was expected. The forecasts by bank analysts that oil could go higher before the year is over were also expected. Now, some are expecting …
Read More »Poland does not accept being treated as ‘second class’, PM says after Warsaw rules its laws take superiority over Brussels’
Taking to Facebook on Friday, Polish PM Mateusz Morawiecki praised the recent conclusion by the country’s Constitutional Tribunal, claiming it “confirmed what is literal” – that “constitutional law has superiority over other sources of law,” which he said many other EU member states have also realized. He made it clear, …
Read More »Beijing warns Australia’s ‘provocative actions’ on Taiwan could be ‘cataclysmic’ for bilateral ties, after former PM visits island
Tony Abbott, who headed the Australian government between 2013 and 2015, delivered a speech at a conference in Taipei on Friday, urging the international community to show “solidarity” with the island. Beijing considers Taiwan to be a part of its territory under its ‘One China’ policy and does not recognize …
Read More »Kidd on the deck: US Navy ship’s Facebook page streams ‘Age of Empires’ in apparent hacking incident
A Facebook page of the USS Kidd (DDG-100) which typically posts updates from the ship’s deployments in international waters, such as its most recent mission in the Indo-Pacific, treated followers to far more entertaining content, albeit for only a few days. Until Thursday morning, the page featured a series of …
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