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Korybko: Putin and Patriarch Kirill remind Russians that ethno-religious hate speech is unacceptable

Vladimir Putin and Patriarch Kirill
© Global Look Press / Kremlin PoolFILE: Vladimir Putin and Patriarch Kirill
Those migrants that refuse to assimilate and integrate threaten national unity by provoking a negative reaction from their hosts, while those Russians that spew ethno-religious hate speech (especially against Tajiks, migrants, and Muslims) threaten the same by provoking a negative reaction from non-Russians.

Last week's terroristattack at the Crocus City Hall venue in Moscow, which was carried out by radical Islamists but could have been ordered by Ukraine with Anglo-American assistance according to FSB chief Bortnikov, was one of the worst in Russian history. The fact that four Tajik migrants were most directly responsible for what happened raised the risk of an ultra-nationalist reaction among some members of society, which could threaten this historically cosmopolitan civilization-state's unity to its foes' benefit.

President Putin immediately reminded his people the day after the attack in his national address that "Terrorists, murderers, those inhumane individuals who have no nationality and cannot have one, face one and the same gloomy prospect - retribution and oblivion. They have no future. Our common duty now, shared by our comrades-in-arms at the front and all citizens of our country, is to stand united as one." This signaled that the state will be strictly enforcing Article 282 of the Russian Criminal Code.

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Soldiers fighting for Russia from Tajikistan speak out against attempts to stir up hatred:





Newspaper

Türkiye denies arms exports to Israel since October 7, reports overall drop in bilateral trade

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© ReutersA group of Turks carry Palestinian and Turkish flags and banners in a protest march against Israeli attacks on Palestine on the Galata Bridge in Istanbul, Türkiye, Dec. 24, 2023.
The bilateral trade volume between Türkiye and Israel has dropped by 33% between Oct. 7 and the present date, Trade Minister Ömer Bolat said Wednesday.

"Public institutions and state-owned companies never do business with Israel," Bolat told an interview with private broadcaster 24 TV.

Exports to Israel plunged 30%, while imports from this country declined 43% over the same period, according to the minister.

The minister also refuted claims and rumors on some social media platforms suggesting that Türkiye is allegedly selling arms to Israel.

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Eye 1

State department official's resignation highlights rifts over US Gaza policy: 'I no longer wanted to be affiliated with this administration'

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© APAImages/Rex/ShutterstockRelatives of a Yasmeen Abu Rkab, aged two, who died in Israeli attacks, receive her body from the morgue of Al-Aqsa hospital in Gaza on Wednesday.
Annelle Sheline says 'I no longer wanted to be affiliated with this administration,' claiming Biden is flouting US law over Israel.

A human rights official has resigned from the US state department over Gaza saying the Biden administration is flouting US law by continuing to arm Israel, and is hushing up evidence that the US had seen on Israeli human rights abuses.

Annelle Sheline, said she had hoped to have an influence on policy by staying at her post in the Near Eastern section of the bureau of democracy, human rights and labor, taking part in discussions, signing dissent cables and raising her concerns with her supervisor. But she had lost confidence she could do anything that would affect the flow of US arms to Israel.

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Map

Russia rejects US sea annexations

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© Getty Images / andykazieAn aerial view of a gold mining dredge along the Bering Sea in Nome Alaska.
American plans would violate international law, Moscow has said .

Moscow does not recognize Washington's attempt to illegally claim over a million square kilometers of maritime territory, including in the Arctic and the Bering Sea, the Russian Foreign Ministry has said.

Russian representatives informed the Council of the International Seabed Authority of this on Monday. The council is currently meeting in Kingston, Jamaica and operates under the 1982 UN Convention on the Law of the Sea (UNCLOS).

Comment: It's typical of pathological individuals to simply take what they want, with no concern for rules or how it may affect others. Why would governments be any different?

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Bad Guys

The never-ending Federal surveillance crime spree

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Last December, one of the most intrusive provisions in the federal statute book was set to expire. Section 702 of the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act (FISA) authorizes the National Security Agency to vacuum up trillions of emails and other data. A bevy of bipartisan members of Congress called for radically curtailing those nullifications of Americans' privacy.

But the effort to put a leash on the federal surveillance failed dismally. Congress voted for a four-month extension of FISA, which will likely be followed in April by a much longer extension. There was a bipartisan congressional conspiracy to entitle the Deep State to continue trampling the Constitution.

In 1978, Congress passed the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act to outlaw political spying (such as the FBI had committed) on American citizens. FISA created a secret court to oversee federal surveillance of suspected foreign agents within the United States, permitting a much more lenient standard for wiretaps than the Constitution permitted for American citizens.

The FISA court "created a secret body of law giving the National Security Agency the power to amass vast collections of data on Americans," the New York Times reported in 2013 after Edward Snowden leaked court decisions. The court rubber-stamped FBI requests that bizarrely claimed that the telephone records of all Americans were "relevant" to a terrorism investigation under the Patriot Act, thereby enabling National Security Administration (NSA) data seizures later denounced by a federal judge as "almost Orwellian." In 2017, a FISA court decision included a 10-page litany of FBI violations, which "ranged from illegally sharing raw intelligence with unauthorized third parties to accessing intercepted attorney-client privileged communications without proper oversight."

Comment: The more that gets revealed, the more emboldened these agencies seem to become. Both from desperation and hubris. But such things have a limit, and a camel's back can carry only so much straw.


Sherlock

Best of the Web: Link between Crocus terrorists & Ukraine found - Russian Investigative Committee

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© Scott Ritter ExtraTerrorists attacking the Crocus City Hall.
On Tuesday, Russian Federal Security Service (FSB) Director Alexander Bortnikov said the first information received from suspects in the Crocus City Hall terrorist attack proves a Ukrainian trace. He added that, while radical Islamists had prepared the terrorist attack on the Crocus City Hall, the Ukrainian special forces were involved.

The investigation has obtained evidence of the connection of the terrorists who carried out the attack on the Crocus City Hall concert venue with Ukrainian nationalists, the Russian Investigative Committee said on Thursday.

"The initial results of the investigation fully confirm the planned nature of the terrorists' actions, careful preparation and financial support from the organizers of the crime. As a result of working with detained terrorists, analyzing the technical devices seized from them, analyzing information about financial transactions, evidence of their connection with Ukrainian nationalists has been obtained," the Russian Investigative Committee said on Telegram.

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Wolf

Kate Starbird led the censorship efforts against Gateway Pundit in 2022

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© 60 Minutes/CBSBig Tech Anti-Free Speech censorship guru Kate Starbird on 60 Minutes
Her goal is to control your speech on X ...Update: and she was funded by Biden

On Sunday night 60 Minutes, a "news magazine", invited anti-free speech zealot Kate Starbird on to discuss the necessity to control thoughts and speech in America today.

Starbird went on 60 Minutes to argue the need to control free speech in America today so that only one viewpoint is allowed to reach the masses.
Lesley Stahl: Kate Starbird said the social media platforms often ignore the researcher's suggestions.

Kate Starbird: The statistics I've seen are just for the Twitter platform. But my understanding is that they responded to about 30% of the things that we sent them. And, I think on a majority of those they put labels.

Lesley Stahl: But just a third?

Kate Starbird: Just a third, yeah.

Star of David

Cannon fodder needed for the genocide: Israel will force Ultra-Orthodox Jews to serve as patience among seculars runs out

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The Ultra-Orthodox community of Israel is generally exempt from compulsory military service. Over the years, the state has tried to change this. These attempts have largely failed, in part because the country failed to pass a law that would regulate their service.

Yanki Farber, a Haredi journalist from the city of Bnei Brak, central Israel, is not a typical representative of the Ultra-Orthodox community, which currently stands at 1.25 million people, or roughly 12.5% of the population.

When he was 18, Farber enrolled into the IDF, and after his release around three years later, he has on occasion been called up to the reserves. When the events of October 7, 2023 took place - with Hamas militants launching a deadly attack on southern Israeli communities - he put on his military uniform again and went to serve.

But Farber is an exception, not the rule. Historically, Ultra-Orthodox Jews, who were a minority when the State of Israel was established in 1948, received exemptions from military service. Back then, it was agreed that they would serve the state by praying, even though some did enroll in the IDF, especially in times of war and in cities that were attacked by Arab armies.

In the 1990s, when their population started growing, Israel tried to encourage them to serve, but despite their efforts, the IDF only managed to recruit 31 individuals in 1999.

Comment: Israel only has the need for more soldiers because it wants to continue the genocide and the illegal land grab. The West supports it with all the bombs needed and if the West stopped supplying arms and money the war would be over tomorrow. Not unlike Ukraine where the war also only continues due to massive outside funds and arms.

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Bizarro Earth

UN expert is facing threats over report documenting Israel's genocide violations in Gaza

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© Denis Balibouse/ReutersFrancesca Albanese, UN special rapporteur on human rights in the Palestinian territories, attends a side event during the Human Rights Council at the United Nations in Geneva, March 26, 2024
Francesca Albanese had stated there were clear indications Israel has violated three acts in the UN Genocide Convention.

A United Nations expert who published a report saying there were reasonable grounds to believe Israel has committed genocide in its war on Gaza says she has received threats throughout her mandate.

Francesca Albanese, the special rapporteur on the human rights situation in the occupied Palestinian territories, presented a report entitled "Anatomy of a Genocide" to the UN Human Rights Council on Tuesday, which Israel said it "utterly rejects".

Comment: A German journalist recently asked Albanaese a rather facile question of whether Israel had explicitly stated in written documents their intention to commit genocide, to which she responded:
Albanese: "Do you think in Rwanda any gov't officials wrote a document saying: "I want to commit genocide." Have you seen anything like that? No. It doesn't work like that."

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Sherlock

'Corruption' protests in Hungary led by 'pro-EU' former minister who is embroiled in his own domestic abuse allegations

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© Denes Erdos/AP PhotoPeter Magyar gives a speech at a protest in Budapest, Hungary
Protests have erupted in Hungary as a leaked recording stoked a continuing scandal that has rocked the government.

The tape, released by former government insider turned critic Peter Magyar, who claims that it proves top officials are corrupt, brought thousands out onto the streets of Budapest on Tuesday evening. The episode extends the pressure on Prime Minister Viktor Orban's populist government, which critics have long accused of systemic corruption.

The protesters demanded the resignation of Orban, as well as his chief prosecutor. The nationalist leader, who has ruled since 2010, is facing one of the strongest public challenges to his tightening grip on power.

Comment: The headlines the Western press are running for this story are rather telling. And it's fairly obvious why the establishment are eager to depose Orban: