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A Russian draft officer has been shot by a man angry at his friend’s conscription and another man has set himself on fire in a protest as opposition to Vladimir Putin’s announcement of a partial mobilisation for the war in Ukraine grows.

We must fight not against each other, but against real threats.”

It also published a video of the man covered in a medical blanket being led away by police officers.

Protests are planned for Monday afternoon in major cities in Dagestan, an minority ethnic region in Russia’s northern Caucasus from where a disproportionate number of young men have been sent to fight and die in Ukraine.

There are cases when the [mobilisation] decree was violated … governors are actively working to rectify the situation,” the Kremlin spokesperson Dmitry Peskov told reporters. “

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committee members Schiff and Cheney spoke about the Capitol riot investigation on Sunday.

Two of the most senior members of the House Jan. 6 committee said they believe Donald Trump committed wrongdoing in relation to the riot, but said that the committee will act unanimously when it decides whether or not to refer the former president for prosecution.

Rep. Adam Schiff, a Democratic member of the committee; and Rep. Liz Cheney, a Republican, discussed the investigation in separate interviews over the weekend.

"I do agree there have been several laws broken and it is, I think, apparent that there is evidence that Donald Trump was involved in breaking several of those laws," Schiff continued.

"I think we will be unanimous," she said. "

When the committee concludes its investigation, which was launched more than a year ago, it will decide whether or not to refer Trump for prosecution by the Justice Department.

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Canadian nurse facing disciplinary hearings for supporting JK Rowling, believing there are only 2 sexes A Canadian nurse is facing a disciplinary hearing from a national medical board that could result in her losing her job after she publicly supported author J.K. Rowling's views about the harm gender identity ideology inflicts on women and children.

The first hearing was in June, with the second set of three-day hearings held last Wednesday through Friday.

As Hamm noted in her piece published in Quillette back in April, the J.K. Rowling billboard prompted two BCCNM members to complain to the organization and accuse her of being “transphobic” and incapable of “provid[ing] safe, non-judgemental care to transgender and gender diverse patients.”

Speaking the truth should not be a punishable offense.”

Critics of the bill noted that it enables authorities to fine or imprison people whose beliefs run contrary to the law.

At the time, Peterson was a professor at the University of Toronto.

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Trump slammed DeSantis in private, wrote New York Times reporter Maggie Haberman in her new book.

He also said Chris Christie, another rival, had a "weight problem," per Haberman's book.

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During the meeting, she spoke with Trump about Christie, one of his 2016 election rivals.

He also called Christie an "opportunist."

She also recalled learning from sources that Trump had called DeSantis "fat," "phony," and "whiny" while also taking credit for the latter clinching the governor's seat in 2018.

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Servicemen stand in front of a tank during the 'Vostok-2022' military exercises at the Sergeevskyi training ground outside the city of Ussuriysk on the Russian Far East on September 6, 2022.

Kirill Kudryavtsev/AFP via Getty Images Russia has called up 300,000 reservists to be drafted to Ukraine.

Horrible leadership by "drill sergeants" Hertling, who for a time also commanded all basic and advanced soldier training for the US Army, said that during two visits to Russia he found the army's training to be "awful."

The issue of Russian army training, according to Hertling, starts "in basic training, and doesn't get better during the [Russian] soldier's time in uniform."

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A 90-year-old Hong Kong cardinal will go on trial alongside four fellow democracy supporters on Monday over their role in running a fund to help defend people arrested in anti-government protests.

Police have not yet charged Zen with a national security offence, which can carry up to life in jail.

We abandoned him,” Mueller told the Italian newspaper Il Messaggero earlier this month, saying he was disappointed that a recent consistory – a gathering of cardinals in Rome – did not speak in support of Zen.

China responded to those protests with a sweeping crackdown on dissent.

Some groups have been prosecuted for funding and registration irregularities, even though several had functioned without incident for years, including the alliance that used to organise the city’s annual Tiananmen crackdown vigils.

Zen’s 612 Humanitarian Relief Fund is charged with not properly registering under the Societies Ordinance, a colonial-era law from 1911.

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(CNN) That the United States should be forced to warn Russia publicly , and in more strident terms privately , not to use nuclear weapons is a mark of how dangerous the battle for Ukraine has become -- and how much more risky it might get.

But White House national security adviser Jake Sullivan issued an ominous public caution to Putin on Sunday.

The United States will respond decisively," Sullivan said on NBC's "Meet the Press."

"It's very important that Moscow hear from us and know from us that the consequences would be horrific," Blinken said.

There are no public reports that the Kremlin is readying its stock of battlefield nuclear weapons for use or that it has changed the posture of its international strategic missiles.

A stark US message It is in this dangerous atmosphere that Washington issued its warning, designed to deter Putin from a cycle of escalation that could raise the risk he might consider, or at least threaten the use, of a limited yield tactical nuclear weapon in Ukraine to compensate for his military's failure in a conventional conflict.

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TOKYO (Reuters) - Japan has decided to ban exports of chemical weapons-related goods to Russia in an additional sanction against Moscow over its invasion of Ukraine, and is “deeply concerned” about the possible use of nuclear weapons, Chief Cabinet Secretary Hirokazu Matsuno said on Monday.

Japan also added 21 Russian organisations such as science labs as the target of existing export bans, according to a government statement released after Monday’s cabinet meeting, which formally approved the new sanction measures announced by the foreign minister at a Group of Seven meeting last week.

“Japan is deeply concerned about the possibility of nuclear weapons used during Russia’s invasion of Ukraine,” Matsuno also said in a media briefing, adding Japan will continue to work with the international society in supporting Ukraine and sanctioning Russia.

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CNN — Marnette Gordon was doing laundry at home in Minneapolis one summer morning last year when a call came from her 36-year-old son.

Residents take matters into their own hands Among them is Dorothy Royston, a 26-year-old healthcare professional who said she spent weeks proactively feeding police information shortly after her unarmed younger brother, Charles Royston Jr., was gunned down on a snowy street in north Minneapolis on a January night in 2021, according to police reports.

Dave Bicking, a board member of the Minneapolis-based Community United Against Police Brutality, goes so far as to suggest the police since Floyd’s death may have engaged in a “sickout” — that is, that officers are purposefully sluggish to respond to or investigate certain crimes.

So when Jacob Frey talks about only White people want to defund or whatever … I think that he is perhaps shaping the narrative to benefit his political goals.”

In April, the Minnesota Department of Human Rights released a report, two years in the making, charging that the Minneapolis department’s officers have engaged in a pattern or practice of race discrimination when conducting traffic stops or using force.

“When I got to the hospital, the doctors were like, ‘Well, you’re some lucky lady and you must be somebody special because you have no metal fragments in your body,’” Howard said.

According to Michael Baxter's (((source ))), DDR's "The Storm is Coming!" lapel pin is subliminal messaging for the mass arrests which are happening soon

Trump’s wearing the pin, he added, sent a subliminal message to the White Hat partition of the U.S. military—You now have carte blanche, if you will, to pursue mass arrests instead of singling out specific individuals that betrayed their oath of office or engaged in criminal malfeasance in contravention of the Constitution of the United States.

Thousands of arrests are going to be happening and they've all been hand-picked by the orange man himself

Trump’s message marks a reversal in posture. Earlier this year, he had asked White Hat commanders to abstain from mass arrests until after the midterm elections. Now, with proof the Deep State has a plan in place to steal the midterms, Trump is asking the military, empowered by his invoking the Insurrection Act of 1807 prior to January 20, 2021, to take whatever steps are needed to capture and incarcerate “several THOUSAND primary targets” whose names appear on sealed indictments that Trump had helped author.

The comments are filled with many things including

From DJT’s lips to God’s ears.

Make it happen, White Hats!!!

“We’ll make the storm a hurricane.” That’s quite the comment, and coming from a man like General Berger, you can be sure he will deliver. Clearly, General Berger like many others, understands the evil that must be eradicated.

We also have fedposts

The ‘hurricane’ implies forceful assistance from We the People who have some things to settle with the black hats.

Yeah, you and billions of others. Think Ukraine, Russia, all of Africa, China, India, pretty much the whole world…. except the small number of cabal members…

“You now have carte blanche, if you will”

Oh we most definitely will, Mr Trump. So the rule is any legal US citizen can levy a Pristine Citizen’s Arrest on any ATF, DHS, FBI, TSA, CIA, NSA representative? If they resist does the IA confer authority on any non-LEO to apprehend an illegal LEO now operating under species authority?

If IA ceded authority to military, why was Berger deferring to Trump this entire time?

And some schizoposts

Also, those who are vaxxed irradiate others , it’s not spike protein shedding apparently, it’s irradiation! Buy Geiger counters and see for yourself. Ricardo Delgardo from La Quinta Columna commented and put English subtitles on a video presentation made by someone, It’s on their site.

Also, the Simpsons predicted the 24th as a major event day for an EMP strike that wipes out everything electronic and also predicted zombies on a meteorite. According to off-world sources , the origin of bacteria on this planet came from a deliberate meteorite strike, so who knows? Another attack, this time with prions on the meteorite? I’m only half joking. Just prepare as best you can.

Marseys for readability I think

[+25] Question I have, is how much of the ‘other’ army will he have to fight? How big is it, what weapons does it have access to, who’s running it, the planning, logistics, etc.

[-25] b0fa. b0fa these nuts in your mouth

[+42] Your thinking of the “known to the public”, conventional style, with the military’s bombs, guns and other implements of destruction type of warfare; the sheep’s standard programmed by the govt. thinking. WW III is being fought by a joint Galactic and white hat operation. The galactics are currently in Phoenix, AZ with creating heavy rains to flush out a rather nasty Dracon ET, that created satanism for child sacrifice and now, then forcing them down to lower level DUMB’s and create a high level shaker to crush the farging shit out of them. The Reptilians are the Rothshitters and Rockefukkers in disguise and they are the kingpin Hitleresk corksukkers that tried to pull it off.

Ummm

[-31] America has gone too insane for God to heal our land. The healing process will include a purging of all who rejected Him and then the Tribulation/Armageddon cleansing then healing the land by the new dispensational Millennial Reign of the Lord Jesus Christ who shall show ALL how we should have lived the life HE commanded. The Indians didn’t listen to HIM so HE sent a fierce people to conquer them. Same gonna happen here!

[+26] Nothing on this tiny planet is ever too insane for our Lord God to handle.

Those who wander enough in the comment section will also find some people who post a lot. Are they , , , or ? You decide!

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Tanya Cousins and Rick Mason were scammed out of $36000 and are now having to live in a house bus.

What the couple didn't know at the time was that McKinley was just one of 15 different aliases for John Sinclair - a man now on home detention after scamming 28 victims out of $284,000 to fuel his gambling addiction.

Retiree Graeme Saxton and his wife lost $18,000 when they tried to buy a caravan to use to visit their only grandchild in 2021.

Shade advocated for Sinclair to receive a sentence of home detention so he could continue providing for his young family.

He struggles to believe the apology Sinclair gave during the sentencing "We've become collateral damage to his greed," he said.

"Unless you've been through it you don't really know how cruel it was ... it does feel good talking to people," Cousins said.

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Pauline Billard via AP) TORONTO (AP) — Hundreds of thousands of people in Atlantic Canada remained without power Sunday and officials said they found the body of a woman swept into the sea after former Hurricane Fiona washed away houses, stripped off roofs and blocked roads across the country’s Atlantic provinces.

“Living in coastal communities we know what can happen and tragically the sea has taken another from us,” said Gudie Hutchings, the Member of Parliament from Newfoundland.

“People listened to the warnings and did what they were supposed to do and this was the result,” she said Prince Edward Island Premier Dennis King said that over 100 military personnel would arrive Sunday to assist in recovery efforts.

As of Sunday, about 45% of Puerto Rico’s 1.47 million power customers remained in the dark, and 20% of 1.3 million water customers had no service as workers struggled to reach submerged power substations and fix downed lines.

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Intro The ADL Center on Extremism (COE) has identified 40 white supremacist artists with a presence on Spotify, the world’s largest music streaming platform.

More on the three most popular white supremacist sub-genres on Spotify: Fashwave: A musical sub-genre of the Vaporwave movement (a non-extremist genre of electronic music), Fashwave was created to spread white supremacist ideology (Fashwave is derived from the word “Fascism.”)

The movement started in the British punk scene in the late 1970s.

As in the case of Wiking 1940, verified extremist artists are eligible for inclusion on Spotify’s curated playlists, which can introduce unknowing listeners to extremist music.

A public playlist curated by Spotify for Wiking 1940, note the inclusion of Kushfrost, a Rock Against Communism band mentioned earlier.

Cover photos of Fashwave playlists on Spotify, many of which display white supremacist imagery including Pepe the Frog, the Iron Cross, and a Red Pill Despite adding explicit anti-extremist guidelines to their content policy, Spotify allows extremist content to flourish.

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The Washington Post and its journ*lism lecturers like Margaret Sullivan have strongly denounced "both-sidesism" in covering American politics, insisting Donald Trump and his supporters should be treated like destroyers of democracy.

In retirement, she became the labor editor at a Communist Party-affiliated newspaper.

Now the grandmother of eight children, she’s a party spokesperson.

Wood has never been to the museum, but, “judging from its website,” she says, “this museum could be the basis of a whole other museum called ‘Lies About Communism.’ ”

You could put the Nazis in every spot in this "balancing" passage to note how sick it sounds: Nazism "inspired generations of activists," being a lifelong Nazi is a "really wonderful life," and then maybe the Holocaust Museum could inspire another museum devoted to "Lies About Nazism."

She didn't even have to go to the museum.

In a state-of-the-nation address earlier this month, I announced I would seek a democratic mandate to implement a vision for a fairer, more open Kazakhstan. And as my country heads to the polls in the coming months, I believe we must resist the instinct to turn inward amid these turbulent global times.

There is simply no viable alternative to globalization, interdependence and the international rules-based order. And while efforts to reduce dependence and improve resilience are wholly understandable --- and in many cases sensible --- there's a delicate line to tread, as this mustn't lead to a broader reversal of all that has enabled global prosperity in past decades.

We have a duty to mitigate risk and reduce fragility in the global system, and we must seek to achieve this by strengthening cooperation --- not rejecting it.

I say this as the leader of a country that finds itself on the front line of the threats posed by global fragmentation.

Kazakhstan has always been a bridge between East and West, lying at the heart of the Silk Road. We have a 7,600-kilometer border with Russia, an 1,800-kilometer border with China, and extensive trading links with Europe and the rest of the world.

Throughout our history --- and particularly since our independence --- we've always taken the view that disagreements with neighbors must be approached constructively, and they need not lead to a breakdown in communication, cooperation or trust.

As a result, Kazakhstan, and Central Asia more widely, provide a strong case study of major powers' ability to work in alignment, in pursuit of their interests that are to the benefit of the region's people.

Moreover, we believe that such principles of openness and cooperation are just as valuable in the international sphere as they are domestically. Indeed, this spirit has defined the path of internal reform that my administration has set out.

And even in the face of major international pressures, which have created difficulties in our country --- and others --- we won't turn inward or opt for isolation.

Instead, we are doubling down on the liberal, international, open policies that have driven such a dramatic increase in standards of living around the world.

My country is at a crossroads. If we fail to answer the critical questions that face us at this juncture, we risk falling into the "middle income trap" and, in the process, disappointing an entire generation of optimistic, energetic and ambitious young citizens.

Two weeks ago, I put forward a plan to parliament for a "Just and Fair Kazakhstan." The plan aims to decentralize decision-making, strengthen rule of law, increase international competitiveness, and ensure equal opportunities for every citizen.

It aims to fundamentally reshape our political order and leave behind the "super-presidential" system, which is no longer the most effective governance model for our nation's ambitions.

Instead, we are decentralizing and distributing power throughout the nation, strengthening the role of parliament and local authorities.

We're ushering in a new era of pluralism by abolishing constraints on the registration and formation of political parties.

And I have also initiated a single 7-year presidential term, as I believe this is a real breakthrough in developing democracy in Kazakhstan and modernizing it as an advanced country. To date, no state in our part of the world has taken this bold step.

All of these changes are helping us move toward a new model --- a model of a presidential republic with a stronger parliament and more accountable government.

This is nothing less than a full transformation of our national politics. Therefore, to move forward with this reform, a strong mandate is needed.

This is why I've decided to call a presidential election this autumn and to introduce legislation preventing all future presidents from serving more than one term.

Some observers will question whether we can implement such ambitious reforms. However, all historic change has required political courage and sacrifice. And I am well aware of the scale of this challenge.

I also believe that our national mindset has undergone a dramatic shift in recent years, driven by deep social change, by the economic and security crises we have found ourselves at the center of and, most of all, by the recognition that we must build a country that is fairer and serves every citizen.

We've realized that if we want to avoid stalling, we must accelerate and move full speed ahead toward reform.

This doesn't mean we will be reckless or naive --- quite the opposite. We're moving forward at speed, but in a considered and deliberate way. And this applies to both our domestic and international approaches.

I believe we can only move forward by recognizing that every problem --- whether from a state or global perspective --- is a shared problem. And we can only respond to these common challenges with cohesive, participatory responses.

Just as we are tackling the issues of fair distribution, national development, and economic diversification through greater openness and the decentralization of power in Kazakhstan, we must also work together internationally to meet the challenges of climate change, food security and energy security. Kazakhstan can and will play a part in addressing all these global issues, as I will set out in my address to the U.N. General Assembly.

At this critical turning point, both nationally and globally, we must draw the right lessons from recent crises, and seek to renew and strengthen our current path --- not abandon it in favor of a close-minded, inward-looking approach.

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Listen 8 min Comment on this story Comment Gift Article Share ROME — Italy seemed poised on Sunday for a norm-breaking election that would give the country its first-ever female prime minister — and its farthest-right government since the fall of Mussolini.

She promises to maintain Italy’s Atlantic alliances and says the country won’t take an authoritarian turn.

On the campaign trail, the leader of Italy’s left-center party, Enrico Letta, argued that if Italians hand power to the right, they would be doing a favor for Russian President Vladimir Putin, who has tried increasingly to sow strife in Europe — primarily by withholding energy exports — as his invasion of Ukraine has faltered.

But she and her allies would have leeway on the issue of immigration.

At that point, Italian President Sergio Mattarella will begin consultations with the new parliamentary leaders and representatives from the parties, on forming a cabinet and selecting a prime minister.

The rapid turnover of governments — generally before leaders have time to follow through on promises — has amplified a sense of alienation.

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CNN — Vladimir Putin’s announcement of increased military conscription to bolster Moscow’s invasion of Ukraine shows that the Russian President “has been outsmarted” by Kyiv, UK Prime Minister Liz Truss told CNN in an exclusive and wide-ranging interview.

“I think he has been outsmarted by the Ukrainians.

“If Putin is allowed to succeed, this wouldn’t just send a terrible message in Europe, and of course huge threats to the Ukrainian population themselves, but it also would send a message to other authoritarian regimes around the world that it’s somehow acceptable… to invade a sovereign nation,” Truss said.

Even though Biden and Johnson were ideologically split – the former once described his UK counterpart as the “physical and emotional clone” of Trump – both were deeply aligned in their approach to Russia, the climate crisis, and vaccine distribution during the coronavirus pandemic.

“So what I want to do is find a way forward, and my preference is a negotiated solution with the EU, that protects that North-South relationship, but also protects the East-West relationship.

‘The Commonwealth is a force for good’ Within the first week of her premiership, Truss was faced with the death of Queen Elizabeth II.

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A twelve-year-old girl in Weatherford, Texas allegedly shot both herself and her father on Tuesday night in an alleged murder pact she made with another girl to kill their families and pets, the Parker County Sheriff's Office said in a Facebook post.

Police allegedly found the girl's father, 38, inside the house with a gunshot wound to the abdomen.

Investigators believe the girl allegedly shot her father, fled the scene and then shot herself, according to the sheriff's office.

Emergency medical personnel transported the man and girl to local hospitals by ambulance.

The sheriff's office did not release the name of the man in order to protect the girl's identity, given that the office does not identify juvenile suspects, according to the Facebook post.

A truism of the internet, central to the work of researchers who study the spread of dangerous trends and misinformation, holds that attempting to discourage bad behavior can, if clumsily handled, reinforce the bad behavior by amplifying it to people who would have otherwise never considered it.

Which leads us to the NyQuil chicken.

In recent weeks, some people on TikTok, Twitter and other sites discovered years-old videos and images of people pouring blue-green NyQuil, a nighttime cold medicine, over chicken breasts in a pan or pot. It was, to be clear, a dangerous idea that no one should do --- it could lead to consuming unsafe levels of the product, and over-the-counter medicines should be used only as directed.

But it was not clear if people were actually trying it themselves in significant numbers; most people commenting were expressing horror at the concept or making jokes about it. There have been no reports of hospitalizations or deaths related to NyQuil chicken, a tongue-in-cheek recipe that first surfaced in the notorious 4chan forum in 2017 and also received a spike of attention in January.

Still, the new flurry of interest in recent weeks caught the attention of the Food and Drug Administration, which issued a straight-faced notice on Sept. 15 advising against participating in what it called "a recent social media video challenge."

"The challenge sounds silly and unappetizing --- and it is," the agency warned. "But it could also be very unsafe."

It laid out the science behind why it was dangerous, concluding that "someone could take a dangerously high amount of the cough and cold medicine without even realizing it."

The F.D.A.'s alert directly drew renewed attention to the dangerous dish. The next day, a few TV stations reported on the F.D.A.'s advisory, repeating the assertion that a dangerous trend was playing out. Days later, some of the nation's biggest media organizations followed.

And on Tuesday, it was a trending topic on Twitter, with reaction videos spreading on TikTok and links to news articles aplenty on Facebook.

The whole affair left NyQuil, which is produced by Procter & Gamble, on the defensive. Responding to people on Twitter who appeared to be treating the concept, also called sleepy chicken, as a joke, the company's Twitter account urged people not to try the recipe, declaring, "We do not endorse inappropriate use of our product."

According to Know Your Meme, a website that chronicles the origins of internet phenomena, the first known reference to NyQuil chicken came when someone documented their apparent cooking experience in 2017 on 4chan, an often noxious message board where trolling was common and few things were to be taken too seriously. A few others on YouTube and TikTok recorded videos of the stunt in the following years.

Janet Yang, a professor of communication at the University at Buffalo, first heard about NyQuil chicken after being contacted by The New York Times on Wednesday. She said the volume of coverage could inadvertently make more people think they should pay attention to the issue and divert attention from more immediate health threats, such as Covid-19 and monkeypox.

"Once it has that certain degree of volume or attention, basically you are making this more a real thing than it truly is," Professor Yang said.

The F.D.A. alert was unlikely to reach adolescents considering this behavior and was "clearly" written more as a warning to parents, said Corey Hannah Basch, a professor of public health at William Paterson University in Wayne, N.J.

"The F.D.A. took a certain step to raise awareness, but has it gone too far to be helpful at this point?" Professor Basch said. "Most likely because it's just brought many people to think about something they were not thinking about before."

It was unclear how many more people had tried it because of the recent attention. On Twitter, most of the images being shared in recent days were taken from the small number of videos recorded years ago. On TikTok, searches for #nyquilchicken, before the app limited access to that content, revealed mostly people newly reacting to the same years-old videos.

The F.D.A. did not immediately respond to questions about what prompted the warning or whether it had received reports of people falling ill from the practice.

On some of the most popular reaction videos, TikTok appended a warning: "Participating in this activity could result in you or others getting hurt."

"Content that promotes dangerous behavior has no place on TikTok," a TikTok representative said in an email. "This is not trending on our platform, but we will remove content if found and strongly discourage anyone from engaging in behavior that may be harmful to themselves or others."

In a grim precedent, some people really did eat laundry detergent packets in 2018 after a similar "challenge" based on Tide pods took off. And the F.D.A. cited a "Benadryl challenge" from 2020 that reportedly caused at least one teenager's death.

But no, despite news reports every year, people aren't putting razor blades or THC in Halloween candy.

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A lawsuit filed in Massachusetts federal court on Monday has accused the United States Department of Defense, the United States Navy, and contractors Raytheon Technologies Corporation and Lockheed Martin Corporation of a cover-up of the 1996 aviation incident resulting in the death of all 230 passengers and crew members aboard Trans World Airlines (TWA) Flight 800.

The wrongful death suit claims that Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) evidence has ” emerged proving that TWA 800’s explosion was not caused by any defect in the airplane, but instead by an errant United States missile fired at aerial target drones flying nearby. “

The suit, brought by the survivors of those onboard, explains that TWA 800 took off from New York’s John F. Kennedy International Airport at around 8:20 p.m. on July 17, 1996 bound for Paris. “Within twelve minutes of takeoff, the plane exploded and crashed into the Atlantic Ocean off the coast of Long Island, New York,” the suit says.

Thereafter, the federal government issued a report finding that the explosion “was the result of an electrical fire in the airplane’s center fuel tank.” According to FOIA information uncovered by physicist Dr. Thomas Stalcup, the report was false, the complaint says.

Instead, the lawsuit claims that the cause of the explosion was the testing of the Aegis Weapons System developed and managed by Raytheon and Lockheed Martin. It explains that the defense system fired SM-2 missiles with live warheads from warships at aerial missile targets off the coast of New York in close proximity to commercial flight paths.

The filing states claims for negligence, wrongful death and survivorship, and against the contractor defendants, product liability for failure to warn and manufacturing defect. The complaint specifies that the contractor defendants’ missile defense system suffered from “system-specific software problems.”

The complaint lists “failure to accept changes in mislabeled data identifying a friendly aircraft as a hostile aircraft … excess messages overloading systems, causing system crashes and the loss of command and control resources during critical periods … improper track identification … and duplicate tracks distorting the joint tactical picture, denying vital information to battle managers and shooters,” as some of those shortcomings.

The plaintiffs are represented by Bailey & Glasser LLP and Watson Burns PLLC.

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Roger Waters performs at the United Center on July 26, 2022, in Chicago.

Rob Grabowski/The Associated Press Pink Floyd co-founder Roger Waters has cancelled concerts planned in Poland amid outrage over his stance on Russia’s war against Ukraine, Polish media reported Saturday.

An official with the Tauron Arena in Krakow, where Waters was scheduled to perform two concerts in April, said they would no longer take place.

“Roger Waters’ manager decided to withdraw … without giving any reason,” Lukasz Pytko from Tauron Arena Krakow said Saturday in comments carried by Polish media outlets.

He also criticized the West for supplying Ukraine with weapons, blaming Washington in particular.