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Putin expresses regret over Donbass


RT
Fri, 25 Nov 2022 18:15 UTC
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© Sputnik/Alexey KudenkoResidents walk in Mariupol, Donestsk People's Republic
The Donbass republics should probably have rejoined Russia sooner, Russian President Vladimir Putin said at a meeting with the mothers of troops involved in the military operation in Ukraine on Friday. In such a case, fewer lives might have been lost, the president stressed.
"There might not have been so many casualties among civilians, there would not be so many children killed."
He maintained, however, that back in 2014, Russia did not have a full understanding of the situation in Donbass nor of the true sentiments of the locals.
"[We] believed that we might still be able to reach an agreement and ... reunify Donetsk and Lugansk with Ukraine within ... the Minsk Agreements. Russia was genuinely working towards that."
Commenting on the matter further, the president blamed the 2014 coup in Kiev for the subsequent crisis in Donbass and the conflict between Russia and Ukraine.
"If not for the coup d'état in Ukraine in 2014, none [of this] would have happened."
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Fauci bids farewell with a predictable final plea: Get vaccinated

Krista Mahr and Adam Cancryn
Politico
Tue, 22 Nov 2022 14:13 UTC
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In last White House briefing, Fauci said he wants to be remembered for never leaving "anything on the field."

Anthony Fauci, the president's chief Covid-19 adviser, offered Americans one final warning as he prepares to leave government, ending a tumultuous turn in the national spotlight that earned him enduring affection from some and unrelenting hostility from others.

"Please, for your own safety, for that of your family, get your updated Covid-19 shot as soon as you're eligible to protect yourself, your family and your community," Fauci said.

Comment: What a lying tool.

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Bad Guys

Epstein victims sue JPMorgan and Deutsche Bank for profiting from late pedophile's activities


RT
Fri, 25 Nov 2022 09:26 UTC
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© The William J. Clinton President/ MEGAFILE PHOTO: Epstein's lawyer Darren Indyke tried to scrub links between Bill Clinton and Epstein during Hillary Clinton's presidential campaign
Civil lawsuits filed in a New York court accuse JPMorgan and Deutsche Bank of turning a blind eye to the sexual predation of their former client, Jeffrey Epstein, several media outlets reported on Thursday. Both managed his accounts after his 2008 conviction and allegedly ignored "red flags" in financial transactions.

Two unnamed victims of the late disgraced financier, who filed separate lawsuits, are seeking class-action cases against the financial institutions, according to the reports. Both claimants are being represented by David Boies, a lawyer who represented Epstein victim Virginia Giuffre in a case against one of Epstein's associates, Britain's Prince Andrew.

The claims against JPMorgan are based to a degree on revelations about Epstein's relationship with its former executive, Jes Staley. The British financial authorities launched a probe their affairs in 2020, with Staley consequently resigning as the CEO of Barclays last year.

Comment: 'Everyone knew' what Epstein was doing:



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Sheriff

Putin meets mothers of Russian troops


RT
Fri, 25 Nov 2022 14:21 UTC
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Russian President Vladimir Putin meets with mothers of Russia's servicemen participating in the military operation in Ukraine, ahead of Mother's Day at the Novo-Ogaryovo state residence, outside Moscow, Russia.
Russian President Vladimir Putin held a personal meeting on Friday with the mothers of Russian soldiers. He said that the country's leadership, and he personally, regards their sons as heroes.

Putin revealed that he proposed the meeting with the mothers of soldiers because he wanted to hear their opinions, their firsthand experiences and information they have received from the frontlines. "A lot of information comes to me from various sources, but your assessments, your opinions, ideas and suggestions - that's a completely different matter," Putin said, adding that he will try to make sure that everything discussed during the meeting is taken into account and used in real life "to the maximum."

"We will do all we can so that you do not feel abandoned and will do everything that depends on us so that you feel a shoulder beside you," the president stated.
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The red line: Biden and Xi's secret Ukraine talks revealed

Owen Matthews
The Spectator
Sat, 26 Nov 2022 00:00 UTC
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© UnknownThe Red Line
Since the beginning of Russia's invasion of Ukraine, China has played a decisive - though publicly low-profile - role in strategic decision-making in both Washington and Moscow. As I report for the first time in my new book Overreach, it was a back-channel intervention approved by Beijing that caused the US to scupper a deal for the Poles to provide Soviet-made MiG-29 jets to the Ukrainian Air Force back in March. And since September a flurry of personal diplomacy by Chinese foreign minister Wang Yi with NATO and the US has led to a rare moment of public agreement over Russia, when Xi Jinping said that the world 'needs to prevent a nuclear crisis on the Eurasian continent' in a meeting with Joe Biden at the G20 summit in Bali.

Throughout the war, China's true position on the Russia-Ukraine conflict has been hard to pin down - not least because Beijing has been telling both sides what they want to hear. In March, Wang implicitly appeared to be blaming the US for 'stoking tensions' and 'sowing discord' with Russia. Last month he told his Russian counterpart, Sergei Lavrov, that 'China will also firmly support the Russian side, under the leadership of President Putin, to unite and lead the Russian people', according to state broadcaster CCTV. Wang also promised that 'China is willing to deepen contacts with the Russian side at all levels'. Yet in September, on the sidelines of the UN General Assembly, Wang had told NATO Secretary-General Jens Stoltenberg that China 'stays open-minded to dialogues and exchanges with NATO and is willing to jointly promote the sound and steady development of bilateral relations ... in the spirit of honesty and mutual respect'.

Comment: From a US perspective, China is playing everyone. From a strategic perspective, it is a balance that offers the most positive options and the least alienation...a concept with which the US is decidedly unfamiliar. And, unlike Western leadership, Putin is no dummy.

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Zelensky's Crimea threat proves Ukraine isn't seeking peace - Kremlin


RT
Fri, 25 Nov 2022 15:45 UTC
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© Hans Neleman/Getty ImagesMoscow says it reserves the right to respond to Ottawa's stated goal of toppling the country's government
Recent comments by Ukrainian President Vladimir Zelensky on "returning" the Russian region of Crimea show that Kiev has no desire to seek a peaceful settlement to the ongoing conflict, Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov has said.

Speaking to reporters on Friday, Peskov claimed that Western media outlets have sugarcoated Zelensky's words. On Thursday, speaking to the Financial Times, Zelensky claimed:
"If someone is ready to offer us a way regarding the de-occupation of Crimea by non-military means, I will only be in favor. If any potential peace deal with Russia does not involve 'de-occupation' of the peninsula, it would not even be worth talking about."
Peskov described Zelensky's statement as
"nothing more than a discussion on the dispossession territory of the Russian Federation. There is no other way to interpret it, this is out of the question. The Ukrainian side is unprepared, unwilling and unable to be ready to resolve the problem by non-military means."

Comment: 'Kiev could capture Crimea as early as the end of this year' should this 'improbable' and 'unexpected' event be underwritten and supported by Ukraine's Western daddies.

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Elon Musk promises 'all internal discussions' over censorship of NY Post's Hunter Biden story will be made transparent

Joshua Young
The Post Millennial
Thu, 24 Nov 2022 00:00 UTC
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© New York PostHunter Biden • Elon Musk
A poll released in March indicated that 16 percent of voters who were unaware of the laptop scandal would have not voted for Biden had they known about it at the time.

On Wednesday, Elon Musk promised that he would make public the behind-the-scenes conversations at Twitter in 2020 regarding the social media giant's decision to censor the New York Post's bombshell report on the contents of Hunter Biden's laptop, material that has been verified by establishment media in recent weeks.

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Putin issues AI appeal


RT
Thu, 24 Nov 2022 15:15 UTC
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© Sputnik/Pavel BednyakovRussian President Vladimir Putin
Russia needs to significantly expand its use of artificial intelligence over the coming decade, President Vladimir Putin said on Thursday.

While the country is already "a step ahead of some" when it comes to AI, more needs to be done in this field, Putin told attendees at the Artificial Intelligence Journey (AIJ) conference in Moscow.

The task for the coming ten years is "to ensure the mass introduction of artificial intelligence. It should cover all sectors of the economy and the social sphere, as well as the government system," the president said.

According to Putin, the country needs to achieve "genuine technological, digital, and to a large extent cultural, educational, value-based sovereignty."
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Stormtrooper

Meta claims US military link to pro-US online propaganda on Facebook

Vishwam Sankaran
Yahoo Finance
Thu, 24 Nov 2022 01:13 UTC
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Facebook parent company Meta claims individuals associated with the US military were behind accounts spreading pro-US propaganda abroad.

Meta had taken down these accounts in August, saying they exhibited "coordinated inauthentic behaviour" after the profiles were flagged by independent researchers.

These profiles had been posting content promoting the US and opposing countries like Russia, China and Iran, according to a report published in August by the analytics firm Graphika and the Stanford Internet Observatory (SIO).

The network's activity was found across Meta's platforms, including 39 Facebook accounts, 16 Pages, two Groups and 26 Instagram accounts. About 22,000 accounts followed one or more of these pages and about 400 accounts on Facebook joined at least one of these Groups. Around 12,000 accounts followed one or more of the 26 flagged Instagram accounts, Meta noted.

In the latest report, the social media giant noted that the network behind these accounts originated in the US and focused on a number of countries, including Afghanistan, Algeria, Iran, Iraq, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Russia, Somalia, Syria, Tajikistan, Uzbekistan and Yemen.
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Mr. Potato

New Fauci emails reveal lab leak cover-up happening in real time

Will Jones
The Daily Sceptic
Fri, 25 Nov 2022 19:08 UTC
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There has been renewed interest in the origins of Covid and the lab leak theory this week following the release of further emails between senior U.S. Government health official Dr. Anthony Fauci and others as they conspired in early February 2020 to counter the theory and suppress it.

The first thing to note is that the emails confirm that those involved - Fauci, Jeremy Farrar of the Wellcome Trust and CEPI, U.K. Chief Scientist Patrick Vallance, Kristian Andersen from Scripps, Germany's Christian Drosten and more - were not aware prior to late January that the virus was likely to be of lab origin. The question appears to be raised with Fauci by Kristian Andersen via Jeremy Farrar on January 31st 2020. Fauci responds that a group of evolutionary biologists should get together "as soon as possible" to examine the data carefully and that "if everyone agrees with this concern, they should report it to the appropriate authorities". Notably, Fauci does not seem to know who that is, but says he "would imagine that in the USA this would be the FBI and in the U.K. it would be MI5". There is no indication here of cover-up instructions having previously been received.

On February 2nd, Fauci writes that, "like all of us, I do not know how this evolved", and Farrar writes, "on a spectrum if 0 is nature and 100 is release - I am honestly at 50". On February 4th, Farrar clarifies that in his view it's "probably not" engineered but it might have come from lab work in other ways:
"Engineered" probably not. Remains very real possibility of accidental lab passage in animals to give glycans... Eddie [Edward Holmes] would be 60:40 lab side. I remain 50:50...
Christian Drosten, on February 9th, wonders where the idea came from in the first place: "Who came up with this story in the beginning? Are we working on debunking our own conspiracy theory?" He adds that he thought the aim of their discussions was to challenge a "certain theory": "Didn't we congregate to challenge a certain theory, and if we could, drop it?" The "certain theory" is understood by the others to be the linking of the virus to HIV as found in a January 2020 pre-print.
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