Also on today’s menu:
Swedish Missile Malfunctions; Norway Upset
Wellington Boat Ramp Closed Today
F&G Drone Finds Skeletal Remains
The Threat Of ‘Anti-Disinformation’
United States officials say they have “high confidence” that the mastermind in the August 2021 bombing at Kabul International Airport — that killed 170 civilians and 13 U.S. soldiers while people were trying to flee Afghanistan as the Taliban took control — has died. The U.S. government learned of the Islamic State leader’s death in early April but it took time to confirm his death.
It is unclear whether the unnamed IS figure was targeted by the Taliban or whether he was killed during ongoing fighting between the Taliban and the Islamic State. U.S. officials also did not provide details on how they learned that the individual was responsible for the bombing.
The blast on August 26, 2021, came hours after Western governments had warned their citizens to stay away from the airport because of the danger of an attack by IS-K, the Afghanistan branch of the Islamic State group. A suicide bomber walked into the middle of the crowd and detonated the device.
The U.S. carried out a drone strike against another suicide bomber in Kabul days later, but the missile killed 10 civilians, including seven children.
Swedish Missile Malfunctions; Norway Upset
Norwegian officials are upset that Sweden failed to formally let them know that a Swedish research rocket had malfunctioned and landed in a Norwegian mountain range.
The rocket, launched from the Esrange Space Center on April 24, reached an altitude of 155 miles, making it to zero gravity in order to carry out research into carbon-free fuels and more efficient solar cells, before falling to earth. The Swedish Space Corporation said the first-stage motor of the rocket landed close to the Esrange base site in Sweden but the second stage motor and the 853-pound payload parachuted into Norwegian territory in the far northern area of Malselv that is roughly 10 kilometers from the closest inhabited area.
Sweden contacted Norway’s armed forces shortly after the incident, and local authorities said they were informed and asked if a helicopter could be sent to retrieve the rocket. Norway's foreign ministry, however, said it received no formal notification, either of the rocket’s landing or of the recovery of its payload.
Wellington Boat Ramp Closed Today
The public boat access at Wellington State Park is scheduled to be closed today to allow for the installation of a floating dock and pilings at the boat ramp, although the work may be delayed by inclement weather.
During the installation, the car-top carry-in and trailer ramps, as well as the parking area for the ramps, will be closed, so there will be no opportunity to launch or retrieve motorized boats, sailboats, canoes, kayaks, or other self- propelled watercraft. The fee-based parking area for the beach at Wellington State Park will remain open.
The New Hampshire Fish and Game Department’s Statewide Public Boat Access Program is funded through boat registration fees and federal Wildlife and Sport Fish Restoration funds.
F&G Drone Finds Skeletal Remains
A New Hampshire Fish and Game conservation officer discovered human skeletal remains in a swamp in Hampstead near where John Matson had last been seen in July 2022. An extensive search for Matson at the time had failed to find him, and the remains have not been positively identified as his, but they have been forwarded to the New Hampshire Medical Examiner’s Office in hopes of obtaining a positive identification.
The discovery on April 22 came when the officer was training with the department’s newly acquired aerial drone, allowing for a search of the swamp that was nearly impossible for ground crews to access.
The Hampstead Police Department and Fish and Game officers removed the remains the next day, April 23.
The Threat Of ‘Anti-Disinformation’
It is important to share the revelations from the “Twitter Files” which are being ignored by much of the American media, which has come to accept the need to censor facts and opinions that do not fit in with mainstream beliefs. The reporters who have spent hours going through the material have been denigrated.
Andrew Lowenthal has responded with “An Insider’s Guide to ‘Anti-Disinformation’ in which he makes the following observations:
Government and philanthropic oligarchs have colonized civil society and proxied this censorship through think-tanks, academia, and NGOs. Tell this to the sector, however, and they close ranks around their government, military, intelligence, Big Tech, and billionaire patrons. The field has been bought. It is compromised. Pointing that out is not welcome. Do so, and into the “basket of deplorables” for you….
In days gone by the digital rights field would have paid close attention to the #TwitterFiles, as we did with the Wikileaks or Snowden revelations. Much of the same field that once lauded Wikileaks and Snowden are now the ones who have become compromised. The Files make plain egregious acts of censorship were enabled or ignored by NGOs and academia, often not because they were wrong, but because the ideas came from the wrong people….
By legitimizing wide-ranging government intervention in the speech of everyday citizens, the anti-disinformation field and its ideological allies including Canada’s Justin Trudeau, America’s Joe Biden, and former New Zealand Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern, have given authoritarian regimes much greater license to do the same to their own citizens….
Weaponizing anti-disinformation to censor and smear their opponents is resulting in exactly what the expert class feared: diminished trust in authority. The moral depravity of the Virality Project protecting BigPharma by advocating for the censorship of true vaccine side effects is beyond astounding. Imagine doing this for a car company whose airbags were unsafe, because it might cause people to stop buying cars.
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