US CIA Torture Queen Now A Beauty And Life Coach

'I see the eels behind your eyes and the skulls inside your smile; in your heart you are still torturing, and you love it.'

By Caitlin Johnstone: The news man tells me the CIA’s “Queen of Torture” now runs a life and beauty coaching business which helps midlife women “look good, feel good, and do good.”

“HI, I’M FREDA, A CERTIFIED BEAUTY AND LIFE COACH READY TO HELP YOU OWN YOUR BEAUTY FROM THE INSIDE OUT AND FEEL INVINCIBLE IN MIDLIFE,” her website reads in all caps.

And I can only sit here and wonder, twiddling my pockmarked heart in my hands, how one is meant to react to such information?

Does one fall to one’s knees and weep hot tears for her victims, whose screams still haunt soulless fluorescent echoing corridors and whose hurts will never heal?

"So Not Even A Fly Can Escape": Putin Declares Mariupol 'Liberated' - Orders Besieged Steel Plant Sealed Off

"Block off this industrial area so that not even a fly can escape." ...Those trapped in the plant will be offered a chance to surrender, and they can keep their lives and receive "dignified treatment."

By Tyler Durden: Weeks ago Russian forces had already captured and besieged much of the southeast Ukrainian port city of Mariupol, which began a process of the majority of civilians emptying out - though there could still be tens of thousands remaining. Within the past days an estimated couple thousand Azov fighters have been surrounded and holed up at the large, cavernous Azovstal steel plant, reportedly including some civilians, resulting in a standoff situation where those inside are fast running out of supplies.

Previously it was thought that Russian troops were preparing to storm the sprawling complex, but instead on Thursday President Vladimir Putin indicated to his Defense Minister Sergei Shoigu that this course of action must be scrapped and instead the plant should be completely sealed off.

Special Report On Gonzalo Lira - UK Column News

"They knew that they were peddling complete lies about a pandemic, the lockdown wasn't needed. Boris Johnson is mocking the whole nation, showing that he's duplicitous, a man who's betrayed his whole family, so will he betray the nation, absolutely! Now we're supposed to have confidence as he deals with Ukraine, or Indian politicians. The man is not fit for office."

  

"4.5 BILLION of the WORLD POPULATION are either abstaining, or SUPPORTING the RUSSIAN MISSION in UKRAINE."

Julian Assange Extradition

"Julian Assange is a great human being and an American hero!"

Judge Napolitano: UK Court Formally Issues Order To Extradite Julian Assange To US The decision now rests with interior minister Priti Patel, although Assange's lawyers may still appeal to the High Court if she approves the extradition.

Travesty: UK Judge Green-Lights Assange Extradition To US

Dr. Ron Paul: In a blow to press freedom and decency, a UK judge has today approved Julian Assange's extradition to the US to face espionage charges for his role in exposing US war crimes in Iraq and elsewhere. Also today: Biden wants to send ANOTHER $800 million in weapons to Ukraine! Also: Pentagon admits there is no way to track weapons once delivered to Ukraine - Europe is about to face a major terrorist threat due to US negligence!

This Could Be A Good Time

Computing Forever

America Cries About War Crimes While Imprisoning The World's Best Journalist For Exposing Her War Crimes

If the highest form of journalism is exposing the darkest secrets of the most powerful people in the world, then Julian Assange is the highest form of journalist.

By Caitlin Johnstone: In what his lawyers have described as a “brief but significant moment in the case,” a British magistrates’ court has signed off on Julian Assange’s extradition to the United States, bringing the WikiLeaks founder one step closer to a US trial under the Espionage Act which threatens press freedoms worldwide.

The extradition case now goes to UK Home Secretary Priti Patel for approval, which will likely be forthcoming as Patel is a reliably loyal empire manager. After that point, Assange’s legal team will be able to launch an appeal.

This is happening at the same time the United States and the United Kingdom are loudly demanding accountability for alleged war crimes by the Russian military in Ukraine, which is interesting because attempting to bring accountability for war crimes is precisely why Julian Assange is in prison.

“He is a war criminal,” President Biden said of Vladimir Putin following allegations of war crimes in Bucha, Ukraine earlier this month. “I think it is a war crime. … He should be held accountable.”

The American Dream Is Dead: For The First Time, Less Than Half Of Americans Believe They'll Ever Own A Home

Housing becomes even less affordable, and more people end up renting, and so rents go up,… until something breaks or is broken.

By Michael Every of Rabobank: US stocks decided to stage a hefty rally yesterday “because stocks”. That’s not that unusual for said market, but the excuse for why this happened was intellectually lazier than usual.

Apparently it was housing starts data that did the trick at 0.3% m/m rather than -1.6% expected. If so, we hardly have firm foundations for such optimism. First, it’s a volatile series. Second, builders reported soaring prices for the stuff needed to construct homes across the board. Third, starts of single-family homes --you know, the American dream-- were -1.7% m/m, while starts of multi-family units --you know, the American nightmare-- were up 7.5%. In short, fewer houses and far more luxury condos and low-end rental housing to squeeze all the people into who, despite living in a land with nothing but land, can no longer afford a home.

From Russian MoD Telegram Channel

We warn the countries of the “civilized West” led by the United States in advance that the Russian Federation has an operational evidence base about the upcoming next terrible crimes of the Kiev regime.

Emergency statement of the Joint Coordination Headquarters of the Russian Federation for Humanitarian Response in Ukraine (April 19, 2022)

According to the available reliable information, the Security Service of Ukraine (SSU) is preparing another provocation to accuse the servicemen of the Russian Federation of so-called war crimes with the mass destruction of civilians in the Odessa region.

To this end, in the near future it is planned to dress one of the SSU units in the uniform of Russian servicemen and make a demonstrative shooting of local residents.

Photo and video footage of this action with alleged “Russian atrocities” will be published by Ukrainian and Western news agencies to immediately promote fakes.

Energy Execs Tell Boris Johnson "Fuel Poverty" Will Crush Households Into Debt & He Sends Our Money To WW3 Nazis

Whilst the British people sink further into poverty and starvation due to the same wars he's stoked for a foreign power PM Boris 'Shabbos Goy' Johnson sends our much needed tax money to fund Israel's man Zelensky and his neo-Nazis overseas!

By Tyler Durden: Living standards in Britain continue a death spiral as a large number of customers will go into debt due to soaring power bills, according to Bloomberg. 

European electric utility executives told MPs on the business, energy, and industrial strategy select committee in parliament that emerging signs show an alarming number of customers have trouble paying their power bills. 

European electric utility E.ON SE's chief executive officer Michael Lewis told lawmakers that customer borrowings would increase by 50%.  

"We are expecting a severe impact on customers' ability to pay.

"That will see a significantly larger number of people moving into fuel poverty ... and a consequent significant increase in bad debt.

"Government action won't be nearly enough to mitigate the full impact of the price increase," Lewis said.

The Associated Press Have Been Caught Whitewashing A Little Palestinian Toddler’s Death For The Jews

AP shows yet again its affinity for whitewashing the Jewish apartheid regime Israel’s crimes: this time, downplaying the death of a toddler at the whims of The Jews' harsh racist permit system. AP rarely covers Palestinian deaths in detail – it’s disappointing that when they did report on one, they used the classic propaganda technique of misrepresenting the context.

By Kathryn Shihadah: The Associated Press (AP) reported on the tragic death of the Palestinian toddler Fatma al-Masri in an article that failed to capture the true context of the story. Without accurate framing, the article is flawed and misleading.

This is not the first time AP has buried the brutality of Israel’s siege over Gaza (see reading list below) – and won’t be the last – but for Fatma’s sake, IAK wants to set the record straight.

Cognitive Biases: Three Common Types Illustrated

By Jono Hey:

In a world of information overload, we can fall victim to all sorts of cognitive biases. Since they can lead us to generate false conclusions, Visual Capitalist's Jamie Robinson notes that it’s particularly important to understand what these biases are and how they work, as the consequences can become quite drastic.

Confirmation bias, sampling bias, and brilliance bias are three examples that can affect our ability to critically engage with information. Jono Hey of Sketchplanations walks us through these cognitive bias examples, to help us better understand how they influence our day-to-day lives.

Confirmation Bias