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Lost Radioactive Capsule Recovered in Australia After Six-Day Search

Authorities have found a tiny radioactive cesium 137 capsule that mining firm Rio Tinto lost in mid-January while transporting it to the city of Perth, Australia.

The 6-mm by 8-mm capsule was searched for along a 1,400-kilometer road and was discovered near the town of Newman two meters from the curb. Authorities used detection equipment to assist their efforts.

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Truth Too Big to Hide: How Washington Fails to Sweep Ukraine's Biolab Revelation Under Rug

National Security Council Strategic Communications Coordinator John Kirby admitted that the US worked with Ukrainians on "some pandemic prevention research" prior to Russia's special military operation in Ukraine, adding that research facilities had been "safely deactivated."

Earlier this week, the Russian Ministry of Defense (MoD) released a new batch of information pertaining to the Pentagon's biological programs in Ukraine. The information was obtained in the course of Moscow's special military operation that was launched on February 24, 2022.

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⚡️ UNSC will hold meeting on Ukraine on February 24

Turkish President Says Ankara 'Positive' About Finland's NATO Membership Bid

Turkey is positive about Finland's membership of NATO but cannot approve Sweden's bid as long as Swedish authorities allow protesters to desecrate the Quran under police protection, Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan said on Wednesday.

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❗Biden's attorney says no documents with classified markings found during search of his Rehoboth residence

Beijing Says AUKUS Fuels Asia-Pacific Arms Race, Undermines Nuclear Non-Proliferation

The AUKUS trilateral security alliance between Australia, the United Kingdom and the United States fuels the arms race in the Asia-Pacific, undermines the nuclear non-proliferation and threatens regional stability, Chinese Foreign Ministry spokeswoman Mao Ning said on Wednesday.

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Credit Suisse: US Dollar Hegemony May Be Replaced by 'More Multipolar Monetary System'

The global monetary system centered on the US dollar may undergo fundamental changes in the coming years, a new report issued by financial firm Credit Suisse has suggested.

“Changes in the global economy” and the “economic policy responses” that occurred in recent years are some of the factors which the report’s authors suggested raise a question about the future of the international monetary system and the world’s premiere reserve currency.

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📊 A poll from the Pew Research Center has shown that four times as many Americans now think that their country gives too much assistance to Ukraine compared to ten months ago

The latest poll shows that the percentage of US citizens growing disillusioned with Washington’s latest military gambit has increased from 7% to 26% over the last ten months. The number of those who believe that the US is supplying "too much" to Ukraine now outweighs those who believe it is providing "too little." There is a clear partisan divide among respondents, with Republicans more likely to oppose further military assistance and Democrats three times more likely to agree with the position they expressed in March.

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What are the "peaceful" laboratories hiding behind them and what did they really do?

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Project Veritas broadcast the scandalous confession of the Pfizer director at the company's headquarters

Last week, Project Veritas released a new video in which Pfizer's director of research admitted that the company is secretly growing new strains of the coronavirus through "directed evolution."

Although the company agreed that this was true, YouTube immediately blocked the video for "misinformation."

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💬 "Before this all began, we were told Ukraine was the most corrupt government in Europe. And I wouldn't say the things have improved. The standard of living, people there are not prospering and certainly not now. And there's all kinds of stories, including drugs, including I just read a horrific piece by Deborah Armstrong about traffic organ transplants, which sound really scary. And then the question of also not reporting people dead or letting their families know because the government doesn't want to pay the benefits out for a soldier lost in combat. So I think that's absolutely the case. And then, of course, here on this end of things, I find it very bizarre and you probably noticed that how many Ukrainians are with the news media? It is really peculiar. They clearly did a big job to get in there somehow." says Diane Sare, political organizer and 2024 candidate for the New York US Senate.

🎧 Listen to more of Diane’s views in our podcast Fault Lines: Russian MoD Has US Biowarfare Docs; Tehran Warns of Retaliation; Russia Gate Hoax Revealed

The EU’s Embargo on Russian Diesel Fuel: What are the ‘Potential Effects?

Brussels’ embargo on Russian diesel fuel takes effect on February 5. The embargo comes following the EU’s restrictions on crude imports from Russia that were introduced as part of the bloc’s sanctions against Moscow over its ongoing special military operation in Ukraine.

The upcoming EU embargo on diesel from Russia will have "potential effects" on the lives of many people across the globe, as it will likely lead to further increases in prices, a US media outlet has warned.

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What are Longer-Range GLSDB Rockets that the US May Soon Send to Ukraine?

Ukraine has already received a wide assortment of advanced military hardware from the US and its allies, including multiple launch rocket systems and armored vehicles. Now, as Kiev is about to receive M1 Abrams and Leopard 2 tanks, the Ukrainian leadership also seeks to get its hands on long-range rockets capable of striking deep within Russia.

What is a Ground Launched Small Diameter Bomb? What is Their Range? How Much Does a GLSDB Cost?

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Man Launches $3 Million Lawsuit Against Woman Who 'Friendzoned' Him

A Singapore resident has sued a woman over her refusal to engage in a relationship with him, according to local media reports.

Having originally met in 2016, K. Kawshigan and Nora Tan initially became friends but their relationship turned sour a few years later when Kawshigan started desiring more. While Kawshigan regarded Tan as his “closest friend”, she was content to remain just friends.

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💬 "The thing that really breaks my heart, actually, is that I was just reading excerpts of an interview by Viktor Medvedchuk, one of the opposition party leaders. He's saying there's a lot of people in Ukraine who are not Nazis, who don't support Azov Battalion or C14 or the Svoboda Party, or they might be members of the Ukrainian Orthodox Church, which is now under attack. And people are terrified to speak against the regime because the tactics that they use are torture and humiliation and beatings. And I think that this is actually going to be one of the stories when this thing ends and we all survive, I knock on wood, what comes out of an underground resistance in Ukraine? What these people are probably going through right now and the truth is going to come out about what's going on there." says Diane Sare, political organizer and 2024 candidate for the New York US Senate.

🎧 Listen to more of Diane’s views in our podcast Fault Lines: Russian MoD Has US Biowarfare Docs; Tehran Warns of Retaliation; Russia Gate Hoax Revealed

FBI Reportedly Investigating George Santos for Stealing $3,000 From Homeless Veteran

Last week, a man named Richard Osthoff spoke to the media and told them Santos, who is already facing a myriad of scandals, helped him raise funds to save his dying service dog in 2016 through GoFundMe. Osthoff, who was homeless at the time, said Santos had been using the name “Anthony Devolder.”

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Record Number of Satanists Are Living in a Sleepy Suffolk Town, Census Reveals

Bungay, which is north of London, is a town that dates back to the Anglo Saxon era and is lined with quaint Georgian buildings.

Due to the high number of Satanists in Bungay and its nearby villages, the historic town has been labeled as the United Kingdom’s capital for devil-worshippers. However, some residents are suspicious about how legitimate the census was.

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North Korea Vows ‘Toughest Reaction’ Possible After US Military Pledges More Weapons to Peninsula

The North Korean government has pledged it will respond with the “toughest possible” measures to any US military provocation against the country, after the US pledged to deploy more weapons to the Korean peninsula.

Following recent “reckless military confrontational maneuvers and hostile acts of the US and its vassal forces,” the Foreign Ministry of the Democratic People's Republic of Korea (DPRK) said Thursday that the Biden regime brought the “military and political situation on the Korean peninsula and in the region” to an “extreme red line.”

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Mission Impossible? Why NATO is Failing to ‘Ukrainize’ South Korea & Japan

Tanks, artillery, armored personnel carriers, and even jet fighters and submarines are all produced and actively exported by South Korea. Japan also has significant military-industrial potential. NATO could use this to prolong the ongoing conflict in Ukraine.

However, the NATO Secretary General's visits to Seoul and Tokyo have done little to inspire optimism in Kiev and Brussels: no offensive weapons supplies from South Korea and Japan are on the table.

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