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Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis signs bill that bans children under 14 from having social media accounts

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The bill is expected to face legal challenges.

Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis signed a bill on Monday that will prohibit children younger than 14 from joining social media in the state. Those who are 14 or 15 will need a parent's consent before they join a platform.

The bill, HB3, also directs social media companies to delete the existing accounts of those who are under 14. Companies that fail to do so could be sued on behalf of the child who creates an account on the platform. The minor could be awarded up to $10,000 in damages, according to the bill. Companies found to be in violation of the law would also be liable for up to $50,000 per violation, as well as attorney's fees and court costs.

Comment: There's little question that social media can have a negative impact on children in multiple ways. The question is whether banning it outright for them would be a viable or effective means of protection.

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Putin would've prevented NATO bombing of Yugoslavia - Serbia's president

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© AFP / Shamil ZhumatovRussian President Vladimir Putin and his Serbian counterpart Aleksandar Vucic give a joint press conference following their talks in Sochi in 2019.
Belgrade was attacked in 1999 because there was no counterweight to the West on the global stage back then, Aleksandar Vucic has said.

Serbia's President Aleksandar Vucic has said that he stands by his earlier claim that Vladimir Putin would not have allowed NATO to bomb Yugoslavia in 1999 if he had been in power in Moscow at that time.

During talks with his Russian counterpart in Sochi in 2019, Vucic said "we in Serbia value Putin more than other leaders [of Russia]... If Putin was making decisions in Russia in 1999, nobody would've bombed us."

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Ukraine using US-made chemical weapons - Russian diplomat

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© Getty Images / Nikos Oikonomou/AnadoluVladimir Tarabrin, Russia's Ambassador to the Netherlands
Ukraine has repeatedly used chemical weapons provided by the US against the Russian military, a senior diplomat claimed on Monday in an interview with the newspaper Izvestia.

Vladimir Tarabrin, Moscow's Permanent Representative to the Organisation for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons (OPCW) and Ambassador to the Netherlands, noted that the use of chemical weapons is a flagrant violation of international law.

"Over the course of the special military operation, we have recorded cases of Ukraine's Armed Forces deploying chemical weapons manufactured in the US," Tarabrin said, saying that the deliveries are part of a well-established and illegal scheme of sending non-lethal chemical weapons to Kiev.

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'Kill them all' - Medvedev enraged by Moscow terror attack

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The perpetrators and masterminds of Friday's deadly terrorist attack at a Moscow concert venue must be killed without mercy, former Russian President Dmitry Medvedev has claimed.

At least 137 people have been killed and over 180 were wounded when several men armed with assault rifles opened fire inside the Crocus City Hall and then proceeded to set the concert venue ablaze. Four men suspected of carrying out the attack have been captured. Two of them have confessed in court, and are set to remain in custody until late May. They all face life in prison.

"Everyone asks me. What to do? ... Should they be killed?" wrote Medvedev, currently deputy chair of the National Security Council, in a Telegram post on Monday.

"It should and will be done," he stressed, adding: "It is much more important to kill everyone involved. Everyone. Who paid, who sympathized, who helped. Kill them all."

Comment: Moscow is done playing nice. They are taking the gloves off and will no longer hold their tongue.


Light Saber

West lying about Moscow terrorist attack - British MP Galloway

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Washington and London were too quick to pin the blame on Islamists, George Galloway has said

The claim by the US, UK and their Western allies that the deadly terrorist attack at Crocus City Hall outside Moscow was carried out by Islamic State (IS, formerly ISIS) is most likely a "lie," British MP George Galloway said on Sunday.

On his Mother of All Talk Shows (MOATS), he questioned the narrative propagated by Washington and its allies immediately after four gunmen stormed the concert venue outside the Russian capital, killing over 130 people and leaving more than 180 injured.

US National Security Council spokesman John Kirby, who commented on the tragedy almost immediately after the attack, said Washington had seen "no indication" that Ukrainians were involved. Later, some Western media, including Reuters and CNN, reported that IS had claimed responsibility for the terrorist attack.

"When the US and the UK and others swiftly tried to reassure me that it was only ISIS [that] carried out this mass murder in Moscow, I knew automatically that they were lying," Galloway said.

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Thiel, Bezos and Zuckerberg join list of insiders selling tech stocks, hundreds of millions sold this quarter

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© FT montage/Bloomberg/DreamstimeLeft to right: Peter Thiel, Jeff Bezos and Mark Zuckerberg
Peter Thiel, Jeff Bezos and Mark Zuckerberg are leading a parade of corporate insiders who have sold hundreds of millions of dollars of their companies' shares this quarter, in a signal that recent stock market exuberance could be peaking.

As markets hit record highs, the ratio of corporate insider selling to insider buying is at the highest level since the first quarter of 2021, according to Verity LLC, which tracks insider trading disclosures.

Stock sales at the beginning of a calendar year are normal, with pent up demand in early 2024 being exacerbated by shareholders avoiding sales last year because of depressed company valuations.

Comment: It's perhaps no surprise that some of these same people have also constructed their own 'doomsday bunkers':


Attention

The West will get a lesson for memory that it is bad to fight with Russia

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It would be nice to think that all we have to do is get out and vote to rid ourselves of these warmongers. But they control the elections, and they are in their glory. I do not see how we can avoid this war. They are doing everything in their power to prevent RFK from being on the ballot and to destroy Donald Trump, all so they retain their power with their hand puppet, Joe Biden.

Before Biden was Vice President, I was at a dinner many years ago, and I was not impressed with him. In fact, the rumor was that he would not pay his bills and stiffed many local businessmen. So much so that he applied to be a member of the Wilmington Country Club and was rejected because he stiffed so many local people.

Joe Biden is the BIG GUY they need in office, for they can do as they please, and he will never defend the people or our nation. Between the climate change nuts who are happy to reduce the world population to save the planet from the CO2 we breathe out by just existing and the NEOCONs who just hate Russians, Chinese, or anybody else that crosses their path, we are headed into what our computer has been forecast all along for 2032.

Any mainstream press that starts off calling the Russian election a "sham" or that the Russian invasion to protect the Donbas was "unprovoked" is cheering the end of our world as we know it. They are disgusting journalists who, as the old saying goes, if they were on fire, nobody should dare urinate on them until they are dead. They are the promoters of World War III and will have so much blood on their hands that it will be impossible to ever wash it off like Punius Pilot.

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Shadows and Ashes: The Crocus City Hall massacre and the covert war's phantom menace ISIS, cui bono?

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As the dust settles on the ruins of Crocus City Hall, a venue once echoing with the anticipation of music, now a silent witness to a horrific massacre claiming 137 lives, a chilling narrative unfolds, revealing more than the mere act of terror. Before the ashes could cool, before the world could grasp the magnitude of the atrocity, unsolicited denials from the US and Ukraine pierced the air, their haste betraying a foreknowledge disturbing in its implications. Their rush to disclaim responsibility, even as Russia had yet to cast blame, paints a damning picture of awareness and complicity in a tragedy that Moscow hadn't even attributed to them — how revealing their swiftness, how telling their fear.

The narrative, meticulously woven with the threads of premature denials, is laid bare against the backdrop of a tragedy that saw gunmen storm the Crocus City Hall, transforming a night of revelry into a nightmarish inferno. The attackers, armed with Kalashnikovs and combat ammunition, claimed the lives of innocents, including three children, leaving a trail of 180 wounded. The swift seizure of 11 suspects by Russia's FSB, some detained near the Ukrainian border, only deepens the intrigue, pointing towards a web of complicity pointing towards the US via neo-nazi puppet Ukraine.
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© The IslanderPeople gather at a makeshift memorial for the victims of a shooting attack set up outside the Crocus City Hall concert venue.
It was quite instructive how quickly the client media in the West assigned at the behest of their government masters, blame to ISIS. Operation Timber Sycamore, the brainchild of the CIA in 2013, painted a facade of liberty while orchestrating a theatre of chaos and constant tension. Under the pathetic guise of nurturing democracy in Syria, the CIA, with MI6 and Mossad et. al, engaged in a calculated charade, peddling "moderate rebels" as a smokescreen and middleman for their real agenda. This not-so elaborate ruse was not just about arming purported freedom fighters; it was an orchestrated pipeline funneling lethal aid and vast sums of black budget money to the very epicenters of radicalism. ISIS and Al-Nusra, draped in the banners of Wahhabi extremism, were not mere byproducts of conflict but the beneficiaries of a coldly calculated Western strategy that saw their barbarism as a necessary evil in the pursuit of hegemonic dominance.

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Baltic leaders urge NATO to bring back conscription, suggest 'defence tax' and doubling of defence spending

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© Fadel Senna/AFP via Getty ImagesFILE: Presidents of Latvia and Estonia say European states in alliance should do more to prepare for Russian threat
Two Baltic presidents have urged other European countries to do more to prepare for a possible armed confrontation with Russia by looking at everything from conscription and a special defence tax to significantly increasing military spending.

Latvia's Edgars Rinkēvičs told the Financial Times that European countries needed to return to "cold war-era spending" levels and should discuss the return of compulsory military service to boost defence forces' manpower.

"There is a need for serious discussion about conscription," Rinkēvičs said.

Western officials have repeatedly warned in recent months that Moscow could challenge the military alliance's mutual defence clause with hybrid or military attacks on Estonia, Latvia or Lithuania — the three Baltic states on Nato's eastern flank — in the coming years, following Russia's 2022 full-scale invasion of Ukraine.


Comment: Russia's SMO in Ukraine has proven that it will only act when directly threatened.


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Kosovo War at 25: Blair's secret invasion plot to 'topple Milosevic' revealed

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Tony Blair with KLA leader and now-indicted war criminal Hashim Thaci
Top secret papers reviewed by The Grayzone reveal Tony Blair demanded strikes on civilian targets in Yugoslavia days before NATO attacked them. While the UK military acknowledged a NATO strike on Hotel Jugoslavia would mean inflicting "some civilian casualties," it insisted the deaths were "worth the cost."

Declassified British Ministry of Defence (MOD) files reviewed by The Grayzone reveal that officials in London conspired to embroil US troops in a secret plan to occupy Yugoslavia and "topple" President Slobodan Milosevic during NATO's 1999 war on the country. Though the crazed scheme was never implemented, details of the plot reveal precisely how British officials successfully shaped Washington into a blunt force instrument of their vanquished empire in years to come.

March 24 marks the 25th anniversary of Operation Allied Force, NATO's 78-day-long bombing campaign against Yugoslavia. Still venerated in Western mainstream as a successful "humanitarian intervention" conducted to prevent an impending "genocide" of Kosovo's Albanian population, the war was in fact a wantonly destructive, illegal assault on a sovereign, multiethnic country, based on lies and atrocity propaganda. Belgrade had in fact been engaged in a counterinsurgency battle against the CIA and MI6-backed Kosovo Liberation Army (KLA), an Al Qaeda-linked extremist group.

The KLA — funded by the narcotics trade and organ harvestingexplicitly sought to maximize civilian casualties, in order to precipitate Western intervention. In May 2000, a British parliamentary committee concluded all purported abuses of Albanian citizens by Yugoslav authorities occurred after NATO's bombing began, finding that the alliance's intervention had actually encouraged Belgrade to aggressively neutralize the KLA. Meanwhile, in September 2001, a UN court in Pristina determined that Belgrade's actions in Kosovo were not genocidal in nature, or intent.

These findings are largely overlooked today. A February Politico investigation into the West's post-war pillage of Kosovo axiomatically asserted that NATO intervened in Yugoslavia "to halt an unfolding genocide against the ethnic-Albanian population." Similarly forgotten is just how close leading NATO states came to invading Belgrade during that chaotic spring.

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