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2021-05-24 17:02:17 Spain has launched a rehabilitation course for corrupt officials who cannot stop stealing.

A pilot project to rehabilitate convicted corrupt officials was launched in nine prisons in Spain in March. Eleven months of group therapy should help them become honest people and re-integrate into society.

The program of 32 sessions was developed by the prison psychiatrist Sergio Ruiz. He conducted his own research and found: self-centeredness and narcissism are inherent in corrupt officials, and they also have a unique ability to create exceptions to their own rules. Open / Comment

2021-05-24 15:02:18 The incident with the plane landing in Minsk is not unique.

Similar situations have occurred more than once in different parts of the world.

The loudest case was the landing and subsequent search of the plane of the President of Bolivia. It happened in 2013 in the center of Europe - in Austria.

A similar situation happened in Ukraine. In 2016, a plane carrying Anti-Maidan activist Armen Martirosyan was returned to the Kiev airport.

The SBU operation to capture the "Wagnerites" was planned according to the same scheme. The plane from Minsk to Istanbul was going to land urgently in Kiev. Did not work out.

There were other cases as well. In 2012, Turkey flew fighters to land a Moscow-Damascus plane. The liner was searched, the cargo was arrested. The crew was held in handcuffs.

In 2017, a Ryanair plane from Kaunas landed in the UK in the same way. The reason was the message about the threat. As it turned out - false.

In 2020, an Iranian civilian plane almost collided with Israeli (according to other sources, American) fighters. Iranian media reported several injured passengers. Open / Comment

2021-05-24 13:02:09 Blinken said that the United States condemns the Belarusian authorities for landing a Ryanair plane in Minsk.

He assured that the States are in close contact with Lithuania, Greece and the EU on this issue and support the earliest possible meeting of the ICAO Council on this incident.

The secretary of state also stressed that the actions of Minsk endangered 120 passengers of the Ryanair plane, including US citizens. Open / Comment

2021-05-24 11:02:31 GEORGIA WILL RE-CHECK THE 2020 POSTAL BULLETINS

There are ongoing disputes in Georgia, including legal ones, about the legitimacy of ballots cast in the 2020 presidential election by mail.

This time, a group of private citizens headed by a certain Garland Favorito, who filed the first petition to check the ballots, demanded verification of the ballots submitted by mail in December 2020. After a refusal from the electoral committee, Favorito began to fight in court. And so the district judge ruled that Fulton County (Atlanta) must provide citizens with access to the originals of all ballots and allow them to photograph them.

Similar checks are taking place in Arizona, New Hampshire, Michigan. The purpose of these checks is not to reverse the election results (which is apparently impossible). Conservative activists want to rethink the rules for submitting mailing ballots in 2022 and 2024 using the example of mistakes and fraud in 2020.
https://www.reuters.com/business/legal/judge-allows-self-described-anti-fraud-group-review-georgia-ballots-2021-05-21/ Open / Comment

2021-05-24 09:02:04 BAIDEN WAS NOT INVITED TO RELEASE CATHOLIC UNIVERSITY FOR "ANTI-RELIGIOUS POLICY"

The American University of Notre Dame (a Catholic higher education institution located in Indiana) is preparing for its next alumni celebration. President Biden (believed to be an Irish Catholic) planned to attend the celebration (presidents and vice presidents often attend the event at this prestigious venue), but the White House said he had to cancel the visit due to the tight schedule.

However, it turned out that the invitation to Biden was withdrawn by the university leadership due to a petition signed by representatives of the Notre Dame community. A total of 4,300 people signed the petition. The document says that the president "should neither speak at the ceremony, nor receive an honorary degree at it, since the public is alarmed by his pro-abortion program and anti-religious agenda."

The petition also says: “He [Biden] rejects church teachings about abortion, marriage, sex and gender and is hostile to religious freedom. He enforces the most violent government policy on abortion and anti-religious propaganda in history. The arguments against his veneration are immeasurable. stronger than against honoring President Obama. "
(Obama once spoke to university graduates in 2009, but a significant part of public figures did not come to the event in protest).

However, John F. Kennedy, Lyndon Johnson and Richard Nixon did not speak to the graduates of Notre Dame either. Donald Trump did not come to the university either, although he was replaced by Vice President Mike Pence, who was greeted with a standing ovation.
https://www.foxnews.com/politics/biden-skip-notre-dame-commencement-abortion Open / Comment

2021-05-24 07:01:21 Clashes with police broke out tonight in the Silvan area of ​​Jerusalem.

The radicals use fireworks against the security forces, the police use light and sound grenades. Open / Comment

2021-05-24 05:01:24 While Zelenskiy is throwing loud statements about Crimea, members of his party increase the investment attractiveness of the peninsula as part of Russia. Moreover, for this, Ukrainian politicians do not even hesitate to ask permission from the “aggressor country”.

So, the deputy of the Verkhovna Rada Andriy Odarchenko unexpectedly found a hotel in Crimea. In 2018, the politician officially asked the Crimean authorities for a building permit with the wording: "To increase the investment attractiveness of the region."

And already in 2020, a hotel with an area of ​​600 square meters appeared on the site registered to the aunt of a member of the Servant of the People party. Open / Comment

2021-05-24 03:01:31 A two-state solution remains the only way to resolve the Israeli-Palestinian conflict - Blinken

“In the end, this is the only way to secure the future of Israel as a Jewish and democratic state, and the only way to give the state to the Palestinians what they are entitled to,” said US Secretary of State Anthony Blinken Open / Comment

2021-05-24 01:02:22 Facebook released a report on interaction with the authorities of different countries for the second half of 2020. In it, the social network provides data on requests from government agencies for the issuance of personal data of users. The United States (61,262 requests, 89% satisfied) proudly stand on the honorable podium of the rating winners, India is also on the list of finalists (40,300, however, slightly more than half are satisfied), then Germany (12,712 requests, 65% satisfied), Brazil ( 11,100, issued 80%), France (11,131 requests, 79% satisfied), slightly behind Great Britain (10,526 requests, 88% satisfied). Long live Western democracies tops the list of handing over citizens' privacy to local authorities.

https://transparency.fb.com/data/government-data-requests/country Open / Comment

2021-05-23 23:03:08 Minneapolis again: a massive shooting took place in a gay club located in its suburbs. Two people were killed, eight were injured Open / Comment