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A climate activist who died after setting himself on fire in front of the Supreme Court on Earth Day is a buddhist who hinted at his future self-immolation with a fire emoji under a Facebook post from 2020. Wynn Bruce, 50, of Boulder, Colorado, lit himself on fire on the court's plaza at around 6.30pm Friday. He suffered critical burns and was pronounced dead at a local hospital on Saturday. On October 30, 2020, he shared a link to an online class on climate change offered by edX, a free online course platform created by Harvard and MIT. Last April,...

The University of Wisconsin campus is mourning the death of a beloved track and cross country star. Sarah Shulze, 21, died by suicide on April 13, her family announced. “Balancing athletics, academics and the demands of every day life overwhelmed her in a single, desperate moment,” Shulze’s family said. “Like you, we are shocked and grief stricken while holding on tightly to all that Sarah was.” The California-born runner was a junior and member of the cross country, indoor track and outdoor track teams at the University of Wisconsin. Wisconsin officials released a statement Friday regarding the beloved student, who...

Joe Biden had met repeatedly with Hunter Biden’s business partner Eric Schwerin while VP, even sharing financial recordsA couple of weeks ago we learned that Joe Biden was sharing his financial expenses and accounts with Hunter Biden through Hunter Biden’s business partner, Eric Schwerin. Schwerin had access to then Vice-President Joe Biden’s financial accounts and records, while at the same time aiding Hunter Biden in their corrupt business dealings overseas.Today, we learn that Shwerin made at least 19 visits to the White House, among other official locations, from 2009 to 2015, while Biden was VP. He even had a sitdown...

Very few parts of Russian society have drawn more interest than the so-called “oligarchs.” These are incredibly wealthy men with political connections to Putin’s inner circle because, in the totalitarian kleptocracy that is Russia under Vladimir Putin, if you don’t have political ties to Putin’s inner circle, wealth doesn’t bring you power; it brings you a one-way trip to a Siberian labor camp. The first generation of Russian oligarchs emerged from the 1991 collapse of the Soviet Union, whose state control over the economy began to loosen under Mikhail Gorbachev’s perestroika, or restructuring reforms. Gorbachev’s successor as president, Boris Yeltsin,...

Russian heavy weapons including missile systems have been seen moving towards the border with Finland, hours after Russia warned its northern neighbour against joining NATO. An unconfirmed video uploaded last night appears to show two Russian coastal defence missile systems moving along a road on the Russian side of the border that leads to Helsinki. The missile systems are thought to be the K-300P Bastion-P mobile coastal defence system, designed to take out surface ships up to and including aircraft carrier battle groups. The Russian deployment comes as Finnish Prime Minister Sanna Marin said she expects her government 'will end...

For over two weeks the financial capital of China, Shanghai, has been locked down tight. Some 26 million people languish in their apartments, staring at their now-empty refrigerators, unable to set foot outside to forage for food for fear of arrest and incarceration. Day 16 of our COVID lockdown in Shanghai today and food is the key thing on people’s minds. We aren’t allowed to leave home so delivery is the only way I was up at 6 am yesterday trying to get any kind of delivery but nothing was available all day. So far, same results today The unlucky...

If the US goal is to crush Russia’s economy with sanctions and isolation, why is Europe in an economic free fall instead?The stunning spectacle of the EU committing slow motion hara-kiri is something for the ages… Like a cheap Kurosawa remake the movie is actually about the Empire of Lies-detonated demolition of the EU, complete with subsequent rerouting of some key Russian commodities exports to the US at the expense of the Europeans. It helps to have a 5th columnist actress strategically placed, in this case astonishingly incompetent European Commission head Ursula von der Lugen, with a brand new vociferous...

TRIBUTES have been paid to a young student who died suddenly earlier this week. Popular Michael 'Mikey' Hynes, 22, passed away on Tuesday. His death notice reads: "The death has occurred of Michael (Mikey), age 22, at his home, predeceased by his grandparents J.J. Hynes, Larry and Annie Kerrigan (Belmullet, Co. Mayo). "Deeply missed by his heartbroken, loving family, parents Declan and Annette, sisters Katie, Alison and Corinna, his granny Teresa (Hynes), aunts, uncles, cousins, relatives and his beautiful bunch of friends. "Mikey will repose at the family home in Whitegate (V94 KH5X) on Saturday April 9th, from 12 noon...

Swiss police believe that four French family members committed suicide by jumping from their apartment balcony. Three adults and an eight-year old girl died last week after falling more than 20 metres from their flat in the lakeside city of Montreux. A 15-year old boy was also left seriously injured and remains in a coma in a stable condition in hospital. Police in Vaud said in a statement on Tuesday that they ruled out any third party involvement in their deaths. "The investigation into the tragedy that occurred in Montreux...suggests that all the victims jumped from the balcony one after...

The circumstances of the death of the Deputy General Director of the Unified Settlement Center of Gazprom for Corporate Security, whose body was found in the prestigious village of Leninskoye in the Vyborg District of the Leningrad Region, are being established. A note was found nearby, law enforcement officials told 47news. A month earlier, in the same village, the body of a top manager of another division from Gazprom's orbit was found. Both of the now deceased previously worked at Gazprom Transgaz. As it became known to 47news, in the early morning of February 25, the police received a message...

Back Again: German Bishops "Allow" Lethal InjectionGermany is in the process of enforcing assisted suicide ("euthanasia") after their Constitutional Court claimed in February 2020 that the ban on "businesslike euthanasia" contradicts a "right to self-determination".The bishops and protestants in Lower Saxony and Bremen published an "ecumenical declaration" on this on 16 March, signed by Bishops Bode (Osnabrück), Wilmer (Hildesheim) and Theising (Münster auxiliary bishop).They justify assisted suicide in individual cases [= always], "Whether in borderline and emergency situations an assisted suicide can be tolerated in church houses cannot be answered in a general way" [= it is allowed].Wilmer (Hildesheim) said...

"It’s the worst-ever excess mortality, I think, in history." Can you guess what caused it? I think I know...Steve Kirsch19 hr ago OverviewSomeone sent me this article: Edward Dowd on Future Recession, Shocking Findings in the CDC Covid Data and Democide which describes his appearance on War Room.That article says:“And the money chart is really Chart 4, which shows that the Millennial age group, 25 to 44 experienced an 84% increase in excess mortality into the fall. It’s the worst-ever excess mortality, I think, in history.I called Ed to clarify where he got the chart and then looked for...

A tough choice between Muslim Europe and Muslim Russia. Daniel Greenfield, a Shillman Journalism Fellow at the Freedom Center, is an investigative journalist and writer focusing on the radical Left and Islamic terrorism. Russia, with a birth rate of 1.5 children per woman, has invaded Ukraine, where the birth rate is 1.2 children per woman, to determine which nation with below replacement birth rates will go extinct the fastest. In the long run the only winners of the war to determine whether Ukraine will belong to the 1.2 or 1.5 people will be the Chechen and other Muslim soldiers doing...

Former Attorney General Bill Barr writes in his new memoir that surveillance footage he has viewed proves convicted pedophile Jeffrey Epstein really did kill himself. The sudden death of Epstein in August 2019, ruled a suicide by a New York medical examiner, prompted conspiracy theories that he was murdered because of the things he knew. But Barr said he has seen surveillance video from the prison that shows no one else entered his cell the night he died.

From Greg Burt, CFCSacramento, Calif. -- A Christian physician is suing the state of California in federal court lover a recently signed law that forces doctors to facilitate a terminally ill person’s desire to kill themselves. The lawsuit, filed last week by Alliance Defending Freedom and the Life Legal Defense Foundation, accuses the state of violating the First Amendment free speech and religious liberty rights of physicians by compelling them “to choose between abandoning their livelihoods or obeying government commands that violate their religious conscience and compel them to speak and act in ways that contravene their religious faith.” “California’s...

Aother J6 Protester Dead-This Makes 5 Trump Supporters Dead-Non Violent Defendent Commits Suicide Before Sentencing

The financial director for Gazprom, the largest publicly-listed natural gas company in the world and the largest company in Russia by revenue, has been found dead by suicide in St. Petersburg. SOURCE TRANSLATION FROM RUSSIAN TRANSLATION FROM RUSSIAN The circumstances of the death of the Deputy General Director of the Unified Settlement Center of Gazprom for Corporate Security, whose body was found in the prestigious village of Leninskoye in the Vyborg District of the Leningrad Region, are being established. A note was found nearby, law enforcement officials told 47news. A month earlier, in the same village, the body of a...

Financier and convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein died in a Manhattan prison in August of 2019 under very mysterious circumstances. He was awaiting trial on additional charges when he supposedly committed “suicide” by hanging himself, although he told a prison psychologist, he would never take his own life. To make matters even more suspicious, the video of his cell during the time of his death was conveniently “lost.” The prison guards on duty that night were reportedly playing video games and asleep, unaware that the most high-profile inmate in prison history was taking his own life. Since these revelations, speculation...

The family of Ghislaine Maxwell say they fear for her safety after model agent Jean-Luc Brunel was found hanged in his Paris prison cell on Saturday. Maxwell, who was convicted last year of sex trafficking, allegedly introduced Brunel to billionaire pedophile Jeffrey Epstein, who was found hanging in his Manhattan lockup in August 2019. “It’s really shocking,” Ian Maxwell, one of Ghislaine’s siblings, told The Post. “Another death by hanging in a high-security prison. My reaction is one of total shock and bewilderment.” In an interview from his home in London, Maxwell said the family “fears for her safety” at...

ABC News has learned that disgraced modeling agent and Jeffrey Epstein associate Jean Luc Brunel died by suicide in his prison cell Saturday night in Paris. The Paris prosecutor's office confirmed to ABC News that Brunel was found dead in his prison cell around 1:00 a.m. local time at La Sante Prison. Jean Luc Brunel's lawyers tell ABC News Brunel hanged himself. The prosecutor's office declined to confirm those details of Brunel's death. In December 2020, Brunel was charged with rape of minors over the age of 15 and sexual harassment -- a crime in France. In a statement on...