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Russia fines internet giants like Facebook, Google, TikTok a combined $2.6M for failing to delete banned content

Jonny Tickle
RT
Mon, 01 Nov 2021 12:59 UTC
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So far this year, Russia has fined seven internet giants a combined total of $2.6 million for failure to remove prohibited information, including content that promoted the usage of drugs, the country's media watchdog has revealed.

In a post on its Telegram channel on Monday, Roskomnadzor outlined the penalties handed down to companies that refuse to abide by the watchdog's deletion requests.

The websites in question include US-based social networks Facebook ($998,000) and Twitter ($542,000), American search engine Google ($458,000), and Chinese video-sharing app TikTok ($58,000). Russian social media networks Odnoklassniki ($56,000) and VKontakte ($42,000) were also fined, alongside the popular messaging app Telegram ($494,000).

Whenever prohibited content is discovered online, Roskomnadzor files deletion demands. Any company that refuses to comply could be fined or even wholly banned, depending on the circumstances. As well as so-called 'pro-drug propaganda,' websites have been punished for refusing to remove other content such as child pornography, extremist materials, and calls for children to join illegal street protests.
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Pivoting from Russia to West has cost Kiev billions, Ukraine's ex-economy minister says


RT
Mon, 01 Nov 2021 14:11 UTC
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When Ukraine decided to reorientate towards the West in 2014, it lost billions of dollars in exports to Russia. Seven years later, despite close ties with the EU and the US, Kiev still hasn't been able to replace the lost income.

That's according to Viktor Suslov, who spoke on Sunday to the country's NewsOne channel. Suslov served as the country's minister of economy in the 1990s.

In Suslov's opinion, the West's plan to pull Kiev over to its side was supposed to inflict serious damage on Moscow. However, in the time since, while both sides have lost a lot, Russia has mainly recovered from its loss of access to the market of its neighbor, while Ukraine itself is still struggling.
"Dragging Ukraine to the Western side should have weakened Russia dramatically. In fact, this only partially happened. After Ukraine turned to the West, all this economic cooperation was curtailed. Ukraine lost tens of billions of dollars from its exports."
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US-trained Afghan spies & special forces are joining ISIS - Wall Street Journal

Tyler Durden
ZeroHedge
Fri, 01 Oct 2021 23:05 UTC
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Many former national Afghan forces who are now being hunted by the Taliban after their US military backers withdrew from the country in August are turning to the Islamic State for protection, a new investigative Wall Street Journal report finds.


Comment: It's rather telling that these same people who were willing to work for the Americans during their war on their own country were rather quick to defect to ISIS. Note that there has been an uptick in attacks by ISIS on Afghanistan since US withdrawal, and it just so happens that chaos creation and overthrowing the Taliban is in line with the US agenda in the region: ISIS claims responsibility for deadliest attack on Afghanistan since US withdrawal


Also among those joining the ranks of ISIS in Afghanistan, or ISIS-K, are members of Afghanistan's US-trained intelligence service. "The number of defectors joining the terrorist group is relatively small, but growing, according to people who know these men, to former Afghan security officials and to the Taliban," The Wall Street Journal writes.

Though this is said to be happening in small numbers, and is described as a move out of desperation, it could be a huge boon to ISIS-K's capabilities, given US-trained intelligence members bring their expertise and capabilities with them to the terrorist group. Critics of the Biden's administration's Afghan exit fiasco have long warned that "left behind" US assets would be swooped up by terror groups.

Comment: It may be that some of those that defected did so under direction from their masters in the US: Pepe Escobar: Blowback: The Taliban target US intel's shadow army

See also: The Great Game in central Asia is over - and America lost

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That Julian Assange's extradition show trial now boils down to exactly how suicidal he is, proves this has never been about justice

Richard Medhurst
RT
Mon, 01 Nov 2021 17:24 UTC
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A supporter of WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange posts a sign on the Woolwich Crown Court fence in London.
The US has put Assange's mental health in the spotlight, while offering worthless assurances. Now the conversation is no longer about criminalizing journalism, but whether Assange is healthy enough to be sent to his death.

This week, I attended the High Court hearing where US lawyers appealed against a UK judge's decision in January not to extradite Australian journalist and WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange. Judge Vanessa Baraitser previously blocked the extradition on the grounds that it would be oppressive to his health, and that US prison conditions are inhumane.

Appealing on five grounds, the two main elements of the appeal dealt with Assange's health, and diplomatic assurances that he wouldn't be placed in oppressive prison conditions in America. The United States lawyers attempted to downplay the severity of Assange's mental illness, arguing that he was not at high risk of suicide. The prosecutors argued that he did not meet the criteria for his extradition to be considered oppressive.
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'Must watch.Very Powerful': Members of the European Parliament protest vaccine passports


Off-Guardian.org
Sat, 30 Oct 2021 00:00 UTC
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In the latest editions of This Week in the New Normal, we mentioned a group of Members of the European Parliament who held a press conference where they opposed mandatory vaccination and the "Green Pass".

On the 28th five of those same MEPs held another press conference, and while the whole thing is worth watching (embedded above), the highlight is definitely German MEP Christine Anderson who speaks for two of the truest minutes in the EU's history:

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Rule by decree: Irish government 'climate advisory group' announces 'green new deal'

Jody Corcoran, Niamh Horan and Senan Molony
Irish Independent
Sun, 31 Oct 2021 12:23 UTC
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The Government's climate action plan contains a commitment to reduce greenhouse gas emissions across the agriculture sector by 22pc to 30pc — but the national livestock herd will not be cut, the Sunday Independent has learned.


Comment: That has to be what it's about - cutting the national livestock herd. How else could you 'reduce greenhouse gas emissions by 30%'??


The disclosure comes as leading climate scientist Tara Shine, who was appointed by the United Nations to work towards global climate goals, warns that Ireland must stop "demonising" farmers in the drive to reduce carbon emissions.

Yesterday Green Party leader Eamon Ryan said farmers will be given longer to adjust to climate changes. "All sectors must play their part, but some can go faster than others. Agriculture will take longer," Mr Ryan told the Sunday Independent.

However, confirmation today that agriculture emissions are to be reduced by up to 30pc will anger farmers.

Comment: These people have all drunk the kool-aid. They're in complete control of all Western capitals, and they cannot be stopped. They're going to cull the human herd, they believe, to 'save the species'.

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Group photo tells everything you need to know about Joe's G20 adventure


Team Tucker Carlson
Sat, 30 Oct 2021 00:01 UTC
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Welp, Joe Biden went full Joe Biden on Saturday, after first making a low-key entrance at his first G20 summit, as the leaders of the world's largest economies (sans China and Russia; the latter would be a third-world country were it not for nuclear weapons, and oil and gas reserves) gathered in Rome.

That said — Biden being Biden — we'll get to his foolishness in a bit.

Attending their first in-person summit in two years, due to the COVID pandemic, as reported by Reuters, G20 leaders backed calls to extend debt relief for impoverished countries and pledged to vaccinate 70 percent of the world's population against COVID-19 by mid-2022.
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Putin tells G20 that Russia fully committed to reducing carbon emissions & calls for global cooperation on climate change fight


RT
Sun, 31 Oct 2021 07:48 UTC
Vladimir Putin
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Russian President Vladimir Putin claimed his country is leading the way in switching to greener energy, calling on other nations to follow suit as part of a meeting of world leaders focused on tackling climate change on Sunday.
"We believe that G20 members should lead the world in creating universal, fair and, importantly, transparent rules for climate regulation, when implementing climate and environmental initiatives," Putin told the second day of this weekend's summit of states with large economies.
Putin commended what he believes is Russia's progress made over the past several years.
"The share of carbon-neutral sources of power - nuclear, hydropower, wind and solar plants - has surpassed 40% in Russia. If you count in natural gas, which among hydrocarbons has the lowest carbon footprint, that share would be 86%. It's one of the best results in the world," he said.

Comment: The centers of power that rule this world are much more powerful than any national state, including Russia and Putin as its leader.
Sometimes, when fighting with the wolves he must give them something to bite, to play their game. It is not about who will win the battle, it is about who will win the war in the end.

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Global blueprint exposed: The takeover of all genetic material on Earth

Patrick Wood
Technocracy News & Trends
Sun, 24 Oct 2021 00:00 UTC
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DNA modeling
STORY AT-A-GLANCE
> The major concern at the 1992 Convention on Biodiversity was "protecting the pharmaceutical and emerging biotechnology industries."

> The United Nations defined Biodiversity as "genetic resources", which meant that genetic material was to be owned, exploited, and controlled through genetic engineering performed by the Biotech industry.

> The Post-2020 Global Biodiversity Framework calls for digital genetic sequencing of all species, including humans, to be stored as a global common asset and made available for licensing by the biotechnology industry.

> It intends to "bring about a transformation in society's relationship with biodiversity and to ensure that, by 2050, the shared vision of living in harmony with nature is fulfilled."
Introduction

In 1992, the original UN Convention on Biological Diversity was conducted in parallel with the Agenda 21 Conference under the name of the UN Conference on Economic Development (UNCED). Both were held in Rio de Janiero, Brazil, and were sponsored by the United Nations Environmental Programme (UNEP), United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO) and the International Union for the Conservation of Nature (IUCN).

Agenda 21 was called "the agenda for the 21st century" and was centered around Sustainable Development, a resource-based economic system closely resembling historic Technocracy.[1]

Comment: Note from the TN editor:
Few people saw the real driving force behind Agenda 21 and the Biodiversity Convention in 1992. This article is necessarily long and detailed. Some may find it difficult to follow. However, the research is explosive and gives a new and poignant explanation of how and why the world was thrown upside down with a pandemic narrative orchestrated by Big Pharma and the biotechnology industries.

In the interest of space, I have purposefully left out other important areas that tie into this story. One is the Transhuman dream of creating Humanity 2.0 via genetic engineering. Another is how it ties into the World Economic Forum's Great Reset, which contains a rich narrative on Transhumanism and resetting the human race. Lastly, what is the full meaning of "Living in harmony with nature." These will be explored in future articles.

My sincere hope is that other investigative journalists and researchers will pick up the trail and blow the lid off the greatest story never (yet) told on planet earth.


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There's a Hole in the Minds of Democrats

Tom Luongo
Gold Goats 'N Guns
Fri, 29 Oct 2021 00:00 UTC
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Government's creatures!
To make a call back to the seminal 90's TV series Babylon 5, which I expect series creator JMS, now a complete shitlib, will destroy with his reboot (Definition: "to make worse and add diversity" — H/T Kevin Smith), the Democrats have a massive hole in their strategy to destroy capital formation in the US for the foreseeable future.

This week Sen. Joe Manchin (D?-WV) personally blew up no less than five terrible taxes that were signature pieces of the 'Build Back Better' bill attached to this year's budget. It was a masterful performance of standing up, being #ungovernable, and simply saying, "You know what? No."

Now, don't get me wrong, I fully expect Manchin to cave at some point, just like Kyrsten Sinema has on a few things. But now that Manchin has forced Democratic "leadership" to strip out everything the Progressives want, Speaker Nancy Pelosi is trapped in a hedge maze of her own design. And it left Biden going empty-handed for COP26 in Glasgow, the Climate Summit where the world's leaders get to harangue us about our selfishness for not wanting to freeze to death in winter or, you know, eat.
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