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Russia preparing to be cut off from Internet, but doesn't want to disconnect - Kremlin


RT
Mon, 11 Mar 2019 18:03 UTC
internet freedom protesters Moscow
© Reuters / Shamil Zhumatov
"This is the web prepared by the authorities for us," reads a banner, carried by protesters at the rally for freedom of internet freedom in Moscow on Sunday.
Russian authorities support online freedom, just like those who rallied in Moscow on weekend, and only want to protect the Russian web from foreign intrusion, Dmitry Peskov, the presidential press secretary, said.

Some 6,500 people took to the streets in the Russian capital on weekend to decry the draft law regulating autonomous operations of the Russian segment of the internet, according to police estimations.

But Peskov insisted that fears of the protestors that the legislation will put the web under strict state control were misplaced because "everybody stands for internet freedom - the authors of this law; the presidential administration; the government."

"In this regard, the position of the participants of the rally should be supported. But there can be no support for their misunderstanding and misconception that the draft law is in some way aimed at limiting online liberties."
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Mr. Potato

Twitter mercilessly roasts Rubio for blaming Venezuelan power outages on explosion at imaginary 'German dam'


RT
Mon, 11 Mar 2019 16:52 UTC
marco rubio
© Reuters / Carlo Allegri
Senator Marco Rubio (R-FL)
Sen. Marco Rubio was besieged by social media mockery after declaring that power outages in Caracas were caused by an explosion at a 'German Dam' - the name of journalist who reported on the blackouts.

The Florida lawmaker and devout Juan Guaido supporter took to his Twitter podium on Saturday to once again proselytize about the evils of Nicolas Maduro's government. Commenting on the recent waves of blackouts in Venezuela, which Caracas has blamed on US-backed sabotage, Rubio shared some insightful Senate intelligence.

"Today another transformer explosion at the German Dam in Bolivar State caused another massive blackout. The result? Critically ill patients have died, the #Caracas metro remains out of service & few if any flights have arrived at or departed from Caracas in over 20 hours," he tweeted.

Comment: Whom the gods would destroy, they first make mad? Rubio is becoming more unhinged by the day. His tweet linking Gaddhaffi's horrific murder to Maduro, which many saw as a veiled threat was particularly heinous.

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Dollars

Liberal dark money org Fund for a Better Future funneled $2m to group working with Trump dossier fabricators Fusion GPS, Steele

Chuck Ross
The Daily Caller
Sun, 10 Mar 2019 16:16 UTC
Christopher Steele
© Press Association
Christopher Steele, the former MI6 agent who set-up Orbis Business Intelligence and compiled a dossier on Donald Trump
A dark money group with links to several high-profile liberal activists contributed $2 million to The Democracy Integrity Project, an organization founded by a former Dianne Feinstein staffer that has contracted with Fusion GPS and Christopher Steele to investigate President Donald Trump.

Fund for a Better Future (FBF) donated $2,065,000 to The Democracy Integrity Project (TDIP) in 2017, according to IRS filings reviewed by The Daily Caller News Foundation.

TDIP was founded on Jan. 31, 2017, by Daniel Jones, a consultant who worked for Feinstein, a California Democrat, when she controlled the Senate Intelligence Committee. Jones has disclosed to the FBI that he hired Fusion GPS and Steele, the author of the anti-Trump dossier, to continue an investigation into Russian meddling in the 2016 election.
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Better Earth

Nasrallah on the end of hegemony: 'Trump will leave Middle East and abandon US allies'

Sayed Hasan
Resistance News
Sun, 10 Mar 2019 13:44 UTC
trump syria sand death
Interview with Sayed Hassan Nasrallah, Hezbollah Secretary-General, with Ghassan Ben Jeddou, founder of the pan-Arab and anti-imperialist Al-Mayadeen channel, January 26, 2019. Nasrallah provides astute geopolitical analysis of the situation in Syria and the wider Middle East.

This live interview, much anticipated in Israel and the Arab world, lasted for more than 3 hours.



Translation: unz.com/sayedhasan
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NewsReal #29: What Israeli Lobby? Anti-Semitism Hysteria Hits US, UK, France


Sott.net
Mon, 11 Mar 2019 00:00 UTC
newsreal israeli lobby anti-semitism
Three capitals, three countries, three tales of Jews maligned. At the same time.

Mania for 'anti-anti-semitism' hit all-time highs in the US recently thanks to uproar over comments made by freshman congresswoman Ilhan Omar suggesting that pro-Israel lobby groups exert undue influence on American politics. Whether contrived or spontaneous, public debate led to a concerted effort - for now canned - to legally conflate anti-semitism with criticism of Israel.

It's remarkable enough that proscribed speech may be instituted in the USA, but what's even more remarkable is that the French government just last month announced its intention to likewise broaden the legal definition anti-semitism to include criticism of Israel, and that it did so in response to the 5-month-long Yellow Vest anti-government protest movement.

Finally, politics and media coverage in the UK has of late been all but saturated by endless claims that opposition party leader Jeremy Corbyn is an anti-semite because he does not specifically condemn Israel's Middle East foes Hamas and Hezbollah. Remarkably, this occurs at a time when the UK is undergoing a profound constitutional crisis due to 'Brexit' and its ramifications for the unity of the UK as such.

In this NewsReal, Joe & Niall discuss the highly dangerous strategy Western governments are taking in pushing Jews front and center of fractious national debates.


Running Time: 01:14:03

Download: MP3 - 67.9 MB

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Stock Down

UK ideal for money laundering on a massive scale - MP's report

Hilary Osborne
Guardian
Fri, 08 Mar 2019 00:01 UTC
Canary Wharf financial financial district in London
© Reinhard Krause / Reuters
Canary Wharf financial financial district in London
Hundreds of billions of pounds could be being laundered through the UK every year, but the government is unable to give a precise figure of the scale of the problem, MPs have found.

In a report on economic crime, the Treasury committee said the scale of the problem in the UK was very uncertain, with estimates ranging from tens of billions of pounds upwards.

It called on the government to provide a more precise estimate in order to formulate more effective strategies to tackle the problem.

It said the UK government should regularly review its efforts to crack down on money laundering, and should not compromise on supervision when securing post-Brexit trade deals.

Comment: Despite the report, UK (and US) financial institutions and government have become one and the same and, even following the catastrophic banking collapse of 2008, nothing has or will change, and so the future promises only more economic turmoil, and mostly suffering for the masses:

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Eye 1

EU politicians tell Hungarian PM Orban to 'calm his rhetoric' or his party will get expelled from European People's Party


Sputnik
Mon, 11 Mar 2019 09:31 UTC
Viktor Orban
© AFP 2018 / THIERRY CHARLIER
Earlier this week, MEP Manfred Weber told the Bild newspaper that Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban must stop his anti-EU rhetoric if he wants his Fidesz Party to remain in the conservative European People's Party (EPP).

"The dispute between Hungary's Prime Minister Viktor Orban and the EU is in fact a struggle between the old EU countries (Western Europe) and the new ones (Middle and Eastern Europe)", Frank Creyelman, honorary Belgian MP and former chairman to the Committee on Foreign Policy, European Affairs and International Cooperation, told Sputnik.

He claimed that one of the main stumbling blocks in Brussels is "the most symbolic issue" of mass immigration, in which "Orban took a leading and even provocative role".

Comment: Also see:

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Bad Guys

India accuses Pakistan of 'hiding information' by blocking access to bombing site

Krishna N. Das
KFGO
Mon, 11 Mar 2019 09:31 UTC
Pakistan army soldier

Pakistan's army soldier stands at the edge of a crater, after Indian military aircrafts struck on February 26, according to Pakistani officials
India said on Saturday Pakistan had "plenty to hide" by preventing journalists from accessing the site of an air strike by Indian fighter jets inside Pakistan.

Citing "security concerns", Pakistani security officials on Thursday barred a Reuters team from climbing a hill in northeastern Pakistan to the site of a madrasa, or religious school, and a group of surrounding buildings that was targeted by Indian warplanes last week.

"The fact that Pakistan has now refused access to journalists from visiting the site means that they have plenty to hide," Indian foreign ministry spokesman Raveesh Kumar told reporters.
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Bad Guys

Washington backs off, says 'no timeline' for regime change in Venezuela


RT
Mon, 11 Mar 2019 09:31 UTC
Venezuela opposition protest
© Reuters / Carlos Garcia Rawlins
Opposition supporters take part in a rally to commemorate the Day of the Youth and to protest against Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro's government in Caracas, Venezuela February 12, 2019.
After weeks of insinuating that Nicolas Maduro's ouster was imminent, Washington now insists that there's "no timeline" for regime change in Venezuela. RT looks at how the US' best laid plans haven't panned out.

When Vice President Mike Pence released a video statement in January pledging full US support for Juan Guaido's claim to the Venezuelan presidency, many assumed that an operation to install the opposition leader in Caracas was just around the corner. But more than a month later, and with Maduro still firmly in power, Washington seems to be out of ideas: Not only has the US failed to deliver its "humanitarian aid" to Venezuela, but Washington's allies have unanimously ruled out military action.

The Trump administration now asserts that there's "no timeline" for regime change in Venezuela - what RT's Igor Zhdanov described as a "thinly veiled admission of failure." Washington still contends that "all options are on the table" - but how many options are left?
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Bad Guys

UK bans jihadi bride but gives 'warm welcome' to more than 100 White Helmets

Finian Cunningham
Sputnik
Mon, 11 Mar 2019 09:31 UTC
white helmets
© AFP 2018 / AMER ALMOHIBANY
Talk about getting your in-laws and outlaws mixed up. This week, the British government banned a British-born jihadi wife returning from Syria. Meanwhile in the same week it emerges that British authorities have taken in over 100 so-called White Helmet members from Syria.

The case of 19-year-old Shamima Begum and her newborn child stranded in a refugee camp in Syria has sparked controversy and soul-searching. Some say she should be left to the wilderness of Syria as retribution for consorting with terrorists when she eloped from her London home four years ago. Others say she should be brought back to her native Britain to face possible prosecution for taking up with a member of the ISIS terror group.

This week the British government stripped Begum of her citizenship and is refusing to take her back. The fate of her newborn baby, who has British citizenship, remains unclear. There will be immense legal wrangling to resolve the case, and Begum's family in London are appealing for her return to face justice. They condemn her involvement with Daesh*, but nevertheless want her to be dealt with as a British citizen.
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