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Putin slams restrictions against RT DE as an attack on 'freedom of speech' but warns against any counterproductive retaliation

Jonny Tickle
RT
Thu, 21 Oct 2021 18:44 UTC
Putin
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Russian President Vladimir Putin • Valdai Discussion Club in Sochi, Russia, October 21, 2021
The removal of two YouTube channels of RT's German language service (RT DE), once described by its editor-in-chief as a "declaration of media war against Russia," is an infringement on freedom of speech, Vladimir Putin has said.

Speaking on Thursday to gathered experts and journalists at the Valdai Discussion Club in Sochi, the Russian president noted that RT DE has been prevented from working in Germany in numerous ways, but warned against any retaliation that could cause more issues.

"As far as a response is concerned, we have to be careful," Putin said, calling the restrictions against RT DE a "mistake," but appearing to suggest that it could be worked out and rejecting the idea of an immediate response.

"Reciprocal measures should not be counterproductive," he said.

In September, RT DE's main YouTube channel, as well as another channel of the service called Der Fehlende Part (DFP), were deleted after the social media giant accused them of trying to circumvent community guidelines.

Comment: Again 'coronavirus misinformation' is the control lever to eliminate news outlets offering alternates to MSM messaging.

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WH tries to spin as Biden loses more support than anyone in office since WWII

Nick Arama
RedState
Sat, 23 Oct 2021 12:15 UTC
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US President Joe Biden
It's always something to see the White House spin on any given topic — it so deviates from the truth and reality, sometimes stunningly so, with what they would have you believe or accept. But they have a lot to try to argue away with the recent job approval polls on Joe Biden.

It's not just one poll, but he's been cratering now since August in all kinds of polls, across all groupings and categories of concerns. The latest Gallup poll has him with the biggest drop in approval of any one in the office since World War II. In that poll, his approval ratings in his first nine months have nosedived by 11 percent, as independents throw him over and just 42 percent of Americans think he's doing a good job.

White House Press Secretary Jen Psaki had a truly novel take on why Joe Biden's approval ratings are so incredibly low, and it shows what disdain the White House has for the opinion of the American people.

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Russian Lockdown Lite: Moscow mayor decrees another two weeks of 'non-working days' to 'lower Covid infection rates'


RFE/RL
Fri, 22 Oct 2021 15:47 UTC
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© Alexander Zemilianichenko/AP
Medics with special suits in Moscow City Clinical Hospital No. 52
"You deal with your lockdowns first, then we can shake hands."

Those were the words with which Valentina Matviyenko, speaker of Russia's upper house of parliament, greeted a group of European delegates last June at the St. Petersburg International Economic Forum, an event hailed as a grand ceremony to signal Russia's emergence from the pandemic. Four months later, infections and deaths from COVID-19 have skyrocketed in Russia amid intractable vaccine hesitancy and pandemic fatigue, and various stay-at-home measures have been introduced across the country to curb the rapid spread of the virus.

And on October 21, Moscow announced it was imposing the kind of lockdown that Matviyenko, and many other Russian officials, had publicly ridiculed.

The announcement by Mayor Sergei Sobyanin -- who avoided the word "lockdown" but ordered so-called "nonworking days" and the closure of most indoor public spaces between October 28 and November 7 -- came the same day authorities reported a record 36,339 new coronavirus cases throughout Russia and 1,036 deaths from the illness in the previous 24 hours.

Sobyanin wrote in a message posted to his website:
"The situation in Moscow is developing according to the worst-case scenario. In coming days we will reach historical peaks in terms of COVID infection."Calling a paid holiday "the most effective way to lower the infection and fatality rates from COVID. Spend more time breathing fresh air in the park, among other things."
Previous experiments with "nonworking days" show that Russians sometimes take such advice quite literally. In March 2020, a weeklong holiday aimed at curbing community transmission prompted hundreds to flood Sochi and other Black Sea resort towns and gather at parks to grill kebabs and enjoy time off work.


Comment: That journalist is confused: lockdowns and mandatory vaccinations and medical apartheid have resulted in an EXPLOSION of hospitalizations in those countries most ardently applying such.

The Russian government isn't worried about overloaded hospitals because it knows that such doesn't happen UNLESS you go full-Covid with medical apartheid.

Putin et al are apparently trying to balance appeasement of whatever forces 'up there' are demanding Full-Spectrum Covid against not triggering mass popular unrest.

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Putin Warns Wokeness is Destroying West: "It Happened in Russia 100 Years Ago, it's Evil, and it Destroys Values"

Ryan Saavedra
The Daily Wire
Fri, 22 Oct 2021 18:26 UTC
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Russian President Vladimir Putin slammed during a speech on Thursday the far-left woke ideology that he said is causing societal ills throughout the Western world, saying that it is no different than what happened in Russia during the 1917 revolution.

Putin made the remarks during a plenary session of the 18th annual meeting of the Valdai International Discussion Club in Sochi where the topic was "Global Shake-up in the 21st Century." Putin's remarks were translated by an interpreter and that video was uploaded to the Russian government's website.

"We see with bemusement the paralysis unfolding in countries that have grown accustomed to viewing themselves as the flagships of progress," Putin said during an event where he spoke for a few hours. "Of course, it's none of our business what is happening - the social and cultural shocks that are happening in some Western countries. Some believe that aggressive blotting out of whole pages of your own history, the affirmative action in the interest of minorities, and the requirement to renounce the traditional interpretation of such basic values as mother, father, family, and the distinction between sexes are a milestone ... a renewal of society."

Putin said that Western nations had a right to do whatever they wanted to do but that "the overwhelming majority of Russian society" rejected these new ways of thinking.

Comment: Putin is right.

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Trump to form own media company, social platform to counter censorship

Samuel Chamberlain
New York Post
Wed, 20 Oct 2021 17:41 UTC
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Former President Donald Trump announced the formation of 'TRUTH Social' social media platform on October 20, 2021
Former President Donald Trump announced Wednesday that he is launching a new media company — complete with a social media platform that will begin rolling out in November.

Trump Media & Technology Group (TMTG) said in a statement that its mission was to "create a rival to the liberal media consortium and fight back against the 'Big Tech' companies of Silicon Valley, which have used their unilateral power to silence opposing voices in America."

The new company's first project is its social network, dubbed TRUTH Social, which is set to launch in beta for "invited guests" next month and come online nationwide in the first three months of 2022. A web page inviting people to sign up to be part of the beta launch describes TRUTH Social as "America's 'Big Tent' social media platform that encourages an open, free, and honest global conversation without discriminating against political ideology."
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Uptick in Israeli illegal settler attacks serves Bennett government policy: Terrorize Palestinians and steal more land

Philip Weiss
Mondoweiss
Mon, 18 Oct 2021 15:24 UTC
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© B’Tselem/screenshot
B’Tselem image from May 14, 2021 of a masked settler wearing military trousers invading the Palestinian village of ‘Urif in the occupied West Bank and firing on Palestinians as an Israeli soldier watches.
There are more than two settler attacks on Palestinians a day this year on average. According to two Israeli human rights experts, the violent settlers are working with the cooperation of the army and the Israeli government.

Settler violence against Palestinians in the occupied West Bank is rising rapidly this year, with more than 2 attacks a day on average, per the Israeli military- a far greater rate than a year ago.

According to two Israeli human rights experts, the violent settlers are working with the cooperation of the army and the Israeli government to take over more and more land for Jewish settlement under a policy of pushing Palestinians out of Area C. Just what Naftali Bennett said he wanted.

"Settler violence is a tool for achieving political aims. It's a tool that serves the government, serves the government policy of taking over land, and therefore it is flourishing; therefore it is successful," says Lior Amihai, executive director of the human rights group Yesh Din.

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Sinister Rockefeller food system agenda - They created it, and now want to destroy it

F. William Engdahl
New Eastern Outlook
Thu, 21 Oct 2021 00:00 UTC
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No one group has done more to damage our global agriculture and food quality than the Rockefeller Foundation. They began in the early 1950s after the War to fund two Harvard Business School professors to develop vertical integration, which they named "Agribusiness." The farmer became the least important. They then created the fraudulent Green Revolution in Mexico and India in the 1960s and later the pro-GMO Alliance for a Green Revolution in Africa - since 2006. Money from the Rockefeller Foundation literally created the disastrous GMO genetically-altered plants with their toxic glyphosate pesticides. Now, again, the foundation is engaged in a major policy change in global food and agriculture - and it's not good.

In their latest report, True Cost of Food: Measuring What Matters to Transform the U.S. Food System, the Rockefeller Foundation is deeply engaged in a coordinated effort to radically change the way we produce food and how we calculate its true cost. They claim it is part of a global consensus, through the UN, to create "sustainable" agriculture amid the ongoing Covid breakdown crisis. Far from being a positive change, it is intended to radically change our access to healthy food and our choice of what we eat. The foundation, which has just released the second food report in two years, is partnering with the Davos World Economic Forum and big agribusiness to lead the drive. Their new slogan is "True Cost of Food."

Comment: It's certainly one aspect of the conspiracy. Ultimately though, much of these grand designs are just PR masking the fact that food shortages have already kicked in due to crop failures and mass die-offs of cattle. They WANT you to believe they're fully in control, but actually their control is slipping away. Hence the recent surge in draconian measures to 'lock people in' to the elites' deadly embrace...

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Biden: Police, emergency responders should be fired if they won't get vaccinated

Pam Key
Breitbart
Thu, 21 Oct 2021 00:01 UTC
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During a town hall on CNN on Thursday, President Joe Biden said police officers and emergency responders should be let go if they refuse their employers ' mandates to get vaccinated against COVID.

Anchor Anderson Cooper said, "Mr. President, let me ask you a follow-up about that. As many as one in three emergency responders in some cities like Chicago, Los Angeles, right here in Baltimore, are refusing to comply with city vaccine mandates. I'm wondering where you stand on that. Should police officers, emergency responders be mandated to get vaccines? And if not, should they be stay at home or let go?"

Biden said, "Yes and yes. By the way, by the way, I waited until July to talk about mandating because I tried everything else possible. The mandates are working. All this stuff about people leaving and people getting it, you have everyone from United Airlines to Spirit, all these airlines all 96, 97% of the people have gotten the vaccine. All the talk about all these folks who are going to leave the military if they're mandated. Not true. You got about a 90 some percent vaccination rate."

Comment: Also at the town hall, Biden said he was open to altering filibuster process for Democrats' voting rights bill 'and maybe more'. From Just the News:
President Biden said Thursday night he would be open to altering the filibuster to pass voting rights legislation "and maybe more," a shift in the president's position on the Senate voting rule.

Biden made the comment during a televised CNN town hall in Baltimore when asked about Democrats' voting rights bills being blocks by Republicans in the evenly divided Senate.

CNN host Anderson Cooper asked: "When it comes to voting rights, just so I'm clear though, you would entertain the notion of doing away with the filibuster on that one issue, is that correct?"

Biden replied: "And maybe more." However he also said attempting to do so now would hurt his ability to pass his economic agenda, considering Democratic Sens. Joe Manchin of West Virginia and Kyrsten Sinema of Arizona have expressed opposition to altering the filibuster, which would effectively allow Senate Democrats to pass legislation without a single Republican vote.

"I lose at least three votes right now to get what I have to get done on the economic side of the equation, the foreign policy side of the equation," Biden said.

The president said he would propose an intermediate return to the so-called "talking filibuster," which requires senators to speak continuously on the floor to hold up votes, according to CNN.


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UK minister claims MPs can make "informed" choice over mask wearing, lockdown threatened if public do not take precautions


RT
Thu, 21 Oct 2021 14:28 UTC
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© Reuters
Tribute to MP David Amess in the House of Commons in London.
UK Health Minister Edward Argar has defended MPs who fail to wear masks in Parliament, claiming they can make an "informed view" on whether to follow guidance despite the health secretary asking the public to wear face coverings.

Speaking on Thursday, Argar rebuffed criticism that MPs are not following government guidance by claiming that politicians are entitled to adopt an "informed view" about whether advice to wear one in enclosed places applies to Parliament.

"There's clearly a leadership role for members of Parliament on all sides," Argar said, adding, "I think it's for those individual members of Parliament to read the guidance, consider it, bear in mind what Sajid [Javid] has said, and reach their own views."


Comment: Apparently many in parliament think the public aren't capable of making the same "informed" choice. That's because a significant number of them think that they're smarter than the average citizen, it's also likely because many of them are well aware that the coronavirus is not the deadly plague that they, and their propaganda media, have made it out to be.


Comment: It's telling of the psychological state of those in positions of power that they routinely flout the very restrictions that they subject the rest of the population to; below are just some of the most recent examples, but the last 19+ months of lockdown have made it very clear that there is one rule for us, and another for the 'elite'.

For an idea of just what's going on with the establishment, check out:






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Ukraine's President Zelensky sees huge drop in popularity amid increasingly authoritarian rule

Jonny Tickle
RT
Thu, 21 Oct 2021 11:27 UTC
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© REUTERS / Kevin Lamarque / Pool
Ukraine's President Volodymyr Zelensky speaks during a joint news conference with US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo in Kiev, Ukraine January 31, 2020.
The popularity rating of Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky has plummeted almost 10% in just one month, and his party Servant of the People would come in second place if an election were held today, a poll has shown.

The fall in the favorability of both Zelensky and his faction comes as the politician has been slammed from many sides for what some see as growing authoritarian tendencies, including purging party members for disagreements and organizing a vote against the speaker of the parliament.

The poll, conducted by the Kiev International Institute of Sociology (KIIS), found that just 24.7% of Ukrainians would vote for Zelensky, a significant drop from the 33.3% in September. Zelensky is still ahead of the pack, however, beating out former president, Petro Poroshenko (15.6%), and former prime minister, Yulia Timoshenko (12.2%).

Comment: Similar stats can be seen in politics throughout numerous European countries, with elections suffering low voter turnout and weak majorities that often lead to coalitions, it's notable that this also comes amid rising corruption in the country as well as a number of suspect murders:

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