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Following British warship incident, Moscow warns next foreign power to violate Black Sea borders 'will get a punch in the nose'

Jonny Tickle
RT
Wed, 07 Jul 2021 21:45 UTC
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Provocateurs who play games in the Black Sea risk "getting punched in the nose." That's according to Russia's deputy foreign minister, who has called on foreign ships to respect the country's borders or face severe consequences.

Speaking to the Moscow's International Affairs news outlet on Tuesday, Sergey Ryabkov was referring to last month's incident involving the British destroyer HMS Defender, which violated Russia's maritime borders near Crimea.

The senior official stressed that the Black Sea was not a place where "games are allowed," noting that such incursions across the Russian border could increase the risk of conflict in the region.

Comment: The UK gov't is still talking tough despite the reality that they would have no chance against the Russian military might. Speaking to the House of Commons Foreign Affairs Committee on Tuesday, British Foreign Secretary Dominic Raab defended the decision to chart course for the region. He described the foolish behavior as a show of "confidence" rather than a bid for "confrontation." Someone needs to whisper in the ear of Raab and remind him that the British military has long since been obsolete in world affairs.

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Attention

Unexpected development in Assange case again points to Kafkaesque criminalization of journalism

Eric Harvey
The Reframer
Tue, 06 Jul 2021 00:00 UTC
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Julian Assange • Sigurdur Thordarson
Recruited by The United States to build a case against Founder and former Editor-in-Chief of Wikileaks Julian Assange, hacker Sigurdur Ingi Thordarson has admitted to fabricating information used by The Department of Justice in the charges it has filed against the Australian-born publisher, Icelandic news outlet Stundin reported June 26, 2021. As a result, again attention should be drawn to how absurd the American government's criminalization of Assange is. He is a journalist once at the helm of a publishing platform, an entity falling under the umbrella of the constitutionally protected press.

The Stundin article catalogues Thordarson's lies extensively. According to the Icelandic publication, he falsely maintained that he had received direct instructions from Assange "to engage in computer intrusions in Iceland." At the same time, Thordarson was also engaging in "unauthorized communications with members of international hacking groups that he got into contact with via his role as a moderator on an open IRC WikiLeaks forum," the article reads. However, Stundin could not locate evidence of any awareness by Wikileaks staff of these communications. All the while, he was embezzling massive amounts of money from the anti-secrecy platform.
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Biden seeks to get more Americans vaccinated by taking message 'door-to-door' & mobilizing 'Covid surge response teams'


RT
Wed, 07 Jul 2021 00:41 UTC
Biden
© Reuters/Evelyn Hockstein
US President Joe Biden
Fresh from missing his Fourth of July goal for Covid-19 vaccinations, President Joe Biden plans to ramp up efforts to get more Americans inoculated by sending public health workers "door-to-door." Biden told reporters on Tuesday that adding that coronavirus "surge response teams" would also be mobilized to combat new outbreaks among the unvaccinated.
Biden's administration is aiming to make more localized efforts, especially in areas with relatively low vaccination rates, to get the jabs to more people. For instance, it will partner with local pharmacies and family doctors to promote Covid-19 vaccines, and it will boost access to the shots at pediatrician offices.

Comment: Better question: What is Biden going to do for COVID outbreaks within the already vaccinated, the multiple negative and life-threatening side-effects for hundreds of thousands, and the rising death toll from the jab?
Biden's comments reminded other observers of a famous statement by former president Ronald Reagan:



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Footprints

As US forces leave Afghanistan, Russia may find itself squaring off with the Taliban in defense of Central Asian allies

Paul Robinson
RT
Wed, 07 Jul 2021 09:39 UTC
US Soldiers
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US Soldiers • Korengal Valley Outpost, Afghanistan
After war in the Caucasus and unrest in Belarus, Moscow might see Tajikistan's growing border crisis as just another conflict on its doorstep. But the presence of the Taliban may well cement Russia's role in regional security.

Just over 22 years ago, on 15 February 1989, the last few troops of the "Limited Contingent of Soviet Troops in Afghanistan" crossed over the Bridge of Friendship linking Afghanistan and Uzbekistan, then a part of the USSR. With that, Moscow's military campaign in the mountainous nation came to an end.

This week, fighters were once again flowing northwards out of Afghanistan, although for somewhat different reasons. As the United States wraps up its own failed military operation in Central Asia, Taliban insurgent forces have been steadily advancing. In the past few weeks, they have captured more than 100 districts in Afghanistan. About half the country is now in Taliban hands.

Despite billions of dollars of support from American taxpayers, many Afghan government forces now seem to be giving up the fight. On Monday, news emerged that over 1,000 of Kabul's troops had crossed the border into neighbouring Tajikistan in order to "save their own lives."

Comment: See also: Over 1000 Afghan troops flee Taliban into Tajikistan

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The Fed's protection of "Oath Keepers" kingpin Stewart Rhodes breaks the entire Capitol "Insurrection" lie wide open


Revolver News
Wed, 30 Jun 2021 18:36 UTC
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Yale Law School '04 graduate Elmer "Stewart" Rhodes, III
Hey Republicans, you can crack open the entire story of January 6, 2021 ("1/6") with one simple question: what relationship do the FBI and Army Counterintelligence have with Stewart Rhodes?
Stewart Rhodes is the founder, boss and kingpin of the Oath Keepers.

The Oath Keepers, we are told, are America's largest militia, the most prominent antigovernment group in the United States, and the preeminent right-wing domestic extremist insider threat to the entire U.S. military.
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Eye 2

Injustice: UK court allows US to appeal denial of Assange's extradition despite FBI informant recanting testimony


The Independent
Wed, 07 Jul 2021 18:21 UTC
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© Ruptly
Julian Assange is dragged from the Ecuadorian embassy by British police
Britain's High Court has granted the U.S. government permission to appeal a decision that WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange cannot be sent to the United States to face espionage charges

Britain's High Court has granted the U.S. government permission to appeal a decision that WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange cannot be sent to the United States to face espionage charges.

The judicial office said Wednesday that the appeal had been granted and the case would be listed for a High Court hearing. No date has been set.

Comment: This, despite the fact that the US' star witness 'Siggy' Thorendenson has branded his previous testimony as lies. So much for the British judicial system. It can be bent any way its master requires. Both judges handling Assange's case have many shady political connections which appear to have been exploited to gain the outcomes the U.S.desires.

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Light Saber

China to tighten rules for firms listed overseas as part of cybersecurity campaign


GlobalTimes.cn
Tue, 06 Jul 2021 10:14 UTC
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© VCG
China will strengthen rules and regulations for domestic businesses listed in overseas exchanges to enhance protection of data security and toughen crackdown on securities violations, according to a top guideline issued on Tuesday, the latest step in China's widening campaign to protect cybersecurity.

Coming as Chinese regulators stepped up a probe of some US-listed Chinese firms such as Didi Chuxing over user data security, the guideline further underscored China's firm resolve to tackle cybersecurity risks posed by listings of Chinese firms in overseas exchanges, analysts said.

Specifically, China will improve rules and regulations for data security, cross-border data flow and management of classified information, according to the guideline jointly issued by the General Office of the Central Committee of Communist Party of China and the General Office of the State Council.

Comment: Considering the rather suspicious uptick in ransomware attacks that came shortly after a warning from the Build Back Better bunch that a 'cyber-pandemic' was upon us, this is a perspicacious move from China.

Taken together with China's move to ban institutions from speculating in cryptocurrencies, it would appear that China is ramping up its efforts to protect its economy, and thus its people, from the various avenues of attack from forces outside that have made it clear, particularly in recent years, that they're intent on bringing the country down.

See also:

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Fire

Eating their own: YouTube Left's bitter feud escalates as TYT's 'unhinged' Cenk Uygur suggests Glenn Greenwald 'not a journalist'


RT
Wed, 07 Jul 2021 17:28 UTC
cenk uygur glenn greenwald
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(L) Cenk Uygur (R) Glenn Greenwald
The Young Turks host Cenk Uygur suggested that Glenn Greenwald must have hidden evidence in past reporting after the Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist called him out for claiming that the Grayzone's Aaron Maté is paid by Russia.

An expanding mud storm engulfing non-legacy left-wing media in the US has claimed another participant. Greenwald has been accused by TYT's Uygur of committing all sorts of journalistic sins after he weighed in on the bitter conflict between the outlet and other prominent voices on YouTube's political Left, including Jimmy Dore and Aaron Maté.

Comment: More background, particularly on Jimmy Dore being targeted by the TYT lunatics:

The ugly Leftist YouTube wars highlights two common, toxic pathologies plaguing US politics

Aaron Maté, Jimmy Dore and Glenn Greenwald are noted for solid, fact-based reporting, whether on chemical weapons deployed by the White Helmets in Syria or the festering problem of Russiagate. Cenk? Not so much.

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Yoda

Trump files class-action lawsuit against Facebook, Twitter, Google for 'censorship of the American people'

Will Feuer
New York Post
Wed, 07 Jul 2021 16:37 UTC
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© Eva Marie Uzcategui/Getty Images
Former President Donald Trump was banned from Twitter, Facebook and other social media platforms earlier this year.
Former President Donald Trump, who was kicked off Twitter, Facebook and other social media platforms earlier this year, announced class-action lawsuits Wednesday against Facebook, Twitter and Google as well as their CEOs.

The legal effort will be supported by the America First Policy Institute, a nonprofit formed earlier this year by alumni of the Trump administration.

"Today, in conjunction with the American First Policy Institute, I'm filing as the lead class representative, a major class action lawsuit against the big tech giants including Facebook, Google and Twitter as well as their CEOs, Mark Zuckerberg, Sundar Pichai and Jack Dorsey. Three real nice guys," Trump said with a note of sarcasm from Bedminster, New Jersey.
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USA

20 questions for Nancy Pelosi about January 6

Julie Kelly
American Greatness
Mon, 05 Jul 2021 00:01 UTC
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No one has milked the events of January 6 more than House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.). She set the official narrative early and often, a storyline her scribes in the news media have dutifully repeated without question or scrutiny.

"[Y]esterday, the president of the United States incited an armed insurrection against America, the gleeful desecration of the U.S. Capitol, which is the temple of our American democracy," Pelosi lamented in a hyperdramatic press conference the day after the raucous protest. She accused President Trump of "sedition" and urged his cabinet to invoke the 25th Amendment to remove him just two weeks before he officially left the White House.

Nearly every word in her opening statement that day is untrue. The president didn't "incite" the violence; it was not an insurrection, armed or otherwise, and the only person who used a firearm was a still-unidentified Capitol police officer who killed an unarmed female veteran.

Comment: See also:

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