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Borrell opposes full visa ban for Russians


RT
Mon, 22 Aug 2022 10:27 UTC
Borrell
© European Commission SpainJosep Borrell in Spain
Josep Borrell, the EU's most senior diplomat, has said he did not support banning all Russian citizens from visiting the bloc, an idea that some member states have supported.

Speaking during a political forum in Spain on Monday, he called the proposal "controversial" and said the EU should be more targeted in its sanctions against Russia.

"Forbidding entrance to all Russians would not be a good idea. We have to be more selective. Of course, we must not open the doors to the oligarchs," the official said, pointing out that wealthy Russian individuals were free to buy real estate in the EU. "But there are also many Russians who want to flee their country, because they don't want to live there. Are we going to close the door to those Russians?"

The Ukrainian leadership has been vocally advocating punishing Russia by ceasing the issuance of most visas to Russian citizens. Ukraine's President Vladimir Zelensky has gone further, suggesting that Russian nationals should be expelled from the EU regardless of their attitude toward the policies of their government. Those who fear returning to their home country could apply for asylum, he said.

Comment: Doubling down on a bad idea, Borrell further commented. Zakharova responded:
The EU is considering establishing a major program to train Ukrainian troops in neighboring nations, Josep Borrell, has said. EU defense ministers will discuss the matter during a meeting in Prague on August 29.

Borrell, on the sidelines of a forum in Santander, Spain said on Monday:
"I hope it will be approved. The training program has to be up to the level of the conflict. It seems reasonable that a war that is lasting and looks set to last requires an effort not only in terms of supplies of material but also training and help to organize the army."
The US and Britain are already training Ukrainian soldiers in the use of Western-supplied weapons and are also teaching them battle tactics. The news agency Euractiv quoted EU sources as saying that Ukraine's foreign and defense ministers wrote a letter to Borrell last summer asking for a training program, and the bloc has since "drawn up several options."

Moscow has insisted that the Western military assistance to Ukraine will lead to more casualties but will not change the course of the conflict. Foreign Ministry spokeswoman Maria Zakharova wrote on social media on Monday:
"We should call a spade a spade: the EU will set up bases to train terrorists and Nazi militants for the Kiev regime. A hundred years ago, the Europeans also didn't immediately realize what fascism is like. They realized later, but it was too late."


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Blue Pill

Working from home is causing worrying rise in porn addiction

Ian Miles Cheong
Rebel News
Mon, 22 Aug 2022 19:20 UTC
man on computer
Working from home, a sometimes-fad that has become a full-time lifestyle for many since the pandemic lockdowns, is fueling a worrying rise in porn addiction.

The Laurel Centre in London, which treats sex and porn addiction, and is the largest of its kind in Britain, is reporting a record number of patients seeking help for their newfound addiction. Some patients, who identify themselves as working from home, report watching up to 14 hours of porn a day.

Speaking to the Daily Mail, the center's clinical director, Dr. Paula Hall, said that working from home means that more and more people are spending time alone in front of their computers with no human contact.

"It means you've got more opportunity, you don't have to wait until you get home at night, you can be more impulsive during the day," she said.

In the first six months of 2022, the clinic administered 750 porn addicts — a steep rise from the 950 seen in the entirety of 2019. Worse still, the doctor said that patients seeking help this year require more intensive treatment.

To treat the porn addicts, therapists at the clinic spend 600 hours a month helping those with porn addictions, in comparison to just 360 hours per month in 2019.

The clinic's report is backed up by Sex Addicts Anonymous UK, which told the publication that the lockdown and stress from the pandemic had eroded people's mental health and driven them to seek out porn.
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Network

Whistleblower says Twitter lied to Musk about spam bots, with possible implications for trial

Tom Ozimek
The Epoch Times
Tue, 23 Aug 2022 19:13 UTC
elon musk
A whistleblower who served as Twitter's security chief said in regulatory filings obtained by The Epoch Times that the social media company misled tech entrepreneur Elon Musk about the number of bots on the platform, with possible implications for the legal battle between the Tesla chief and Twitter.

Peiter Zatko, who has publicly come forward as the whistleblower, made a series of explosive allegations regarding Twitter's cybersecurity policies in a disclosure filed in July with federal regulators (pdf), including the claim of Twitter "lying about bots to Elon Musk."

Zatko's disclosure alleges that Twitter uses an "opaque metric" called monetizable daily active users (mDAU), rather than an earlier metric of total monthly users that was subject to big swings, including when spam and bot accounts were removed.

"From Twitter's perspective, 'mDAU' was an improvement because it could internally define the mDAU formula, and thereby report numbers that would reassure shareholders and advertisers," the disclosure states, adding that executive bonuses — which could be in excess of $10 million — are tied to mDAU growth.

The disclosure alleges that Twitter executives are "incentivized to avoid counting spam bots as mDAU" in order for the platform to be more appealing to advertisers. It also claims there are "many millions" of active accounts that aren't part of the mDAU calculations because they're spam bots or Twitter doesn't think they can monetize them, but their presence on the platform still affects user experience.
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Germany plans 'climate lockdown'...Forbidden to leave doors open...Washcloths instead of showers!

P Gosselin
NoTricksZone
Tue, 23 Aug 2022 18:25 UTC
Climate Emergency
© The Hill
The future in Germany is lockdown after lockdown. After the COVID lockdown, Germany now moving to impose a climate lockdown, says German Editor in Chief.

Germany's Bild TV YouTube site here looks at the latest Socialist-Green government's initiatives to combat the country's deepening energy crisis.

The latest initiatives have been drawn up by Economics Minister Robert Habeck (Green Party). Among the new rules, according to BILD TV: Shops are no longer allowed to keep the entrances continuously open (in order to prevent energy from being wasted by excess heating or air conditioning).

In the video, BILD TV asks its Editor in Chief, Claus Strunz, what's behind the new regulation, commenting that essentially what we have is a government that is increasingly encroaching ever deeper into our private lives. "Something that nutty could only be conjured up by some crazy bureaucrats," Strunz comments. "That's precisely what we don't want: the government ruling the area of retail."
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Black Cat

Portland church abandoned as congregation flees Antifa violence

Joshua Young
The Post Millennial
Mon, 22 Aug 2022 18:01 UTC
antifa portland church closed rioting crimie
The Portland Stake Tabernacle congregation has been driven out by antifa riots and the breakdown of social order
Bishop Dave Noble said Mormons are fleeing Portland due to rioting and politics.

A nearly 100-year-old Portland, Oregon church has been abandoned and is currently up for sale due to "Mormon flight" from the area, as members of the Church of Latter-day Saints are fleeing because of the city's historic crime, homelessness, and collapse of social norms.

Bishop Dave Noble told the Willamette Week that attendees were scared away by rioting, politics, and are moving to Utah and Idaho. This "Mormon flight" has caused Oregon to lose 1.5 percent of its Mormon residents.
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Bullseye

CNN is being gutted because leftist media is not as appealing as they fantasize

Tyler Durden
ZeroHedge
Tue, 23 Aug 2022 17:46 UTC
brian stelter
Brian Stelter, latest causality in CNN's woke purge
One thing about leftist culture that never ceases to amaze is their ability to take a failure and pretend that it was actually a success. This attitude is perhaps an extension of their penchant for propaganda - They lie so much about everything that they end up falling victim to their own disinformation. They tell their enemies they are winning even when they are losing, and then they actually start to believe it themselves.

It's a bit like the old rule for drug dealers - Everything falls apart when you start smoking the drugs you sell.

For CNN and outlets like them, the problem is that you can't run from reality forever. If no one wants to watch your content then you can't force them to do so. Leftists wish they could use force, but they can't, so instead they try to use gaslighting and shame. This has translated into the typical tactics we see today from the media, which include race baiting and accusations of bigotry, misogyny, homophobia, fascism, etc. These tactics really took center stage from 2016 onward and they haven't worked yet, but the political left continues to beat that dead horse in the hopes that it will one day win the Kentucky Derby.

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NPC

MSNBC says US already in civil war; repeatedly calls GOP a "fascist" party

Steve Watson
Summit News
Mon, 22 Aug 2022 00:01 UTC
msnbc civil war
Remember, Fox News, OAN and Newsmax are the extremist propagandists though.

MSNBC host Tiffany Cross declared that the U.S. is already in a civil war, and blamed conservative news organisations for stoking violence, then in a subsequent broadcast brought on a guest who repeatedly claimed that the Republican Party is "fascist."

Cross made the comments while filling in for race baiter Joy Reid last week, stating "At this point, I do think we have to have serious conversations around preparing for actual violence. People keep saying a civil war is coming. I would say a civil war is here. And I don't mean to be hyperbolic."

Comment: Rather than warning about a coming civil war, MSNBC appears to be stoking it. By smearing conservatives as "fascist" and "extremist," and painting them as the enemy of democracy, they're only encouraging divisiveness. But whatever gets the clicks.

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Better Earth

Despite sanctions Moscow says Russian Arctic shipping will thrive as it plans 153 new ice-class ships & 10 icebreakers

Atle Staalesen
The Barents Observer
Tue, 23 Aug 2022 10:52 UTC
russia ice ships
© Sovcomflot.ruRussia wants to build a big number of new ice-class ships, among them nuclear powered icebreakers.
The development plan that was adopted by the federal government on the 4th of August has grand ambitions for the Russian Arctic. Over the period until 2035, a total of 1,8 trillion rubles (€30,1 billion) is to be invested in 152 regional projects.


Comment: Clearly Russia does not believe the demonstrably false claims that the arctic will be 'free of ice' due to man-made global warming; it wouldn't risk such massive investments without good reason to think otherwise: Two icebreakers sent to rescue TWENTY ice-locked ships on Northern Sea Route in the Arctic


Among them is the building of 153 new ice-class ships, including ten icebreakers, twelve new seaports, twelve satellites, thirteen helicopters, several hospitals and search and rescue units.

All of this will allow Russia to transport up to 100 million tons of goods per year by 2025 and 200 million tons by 2030, the federal Ministry of the Far East and Arctic informs.
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Mr. Potato

LA Public Health Department faces backlash after offering COVID-19 test to animals, including seals

Katabella Roberts
The Epoch Times
Mon, 22 Aug 2022 00:01 UTC
dog mask
© Chris Delmas/AFP via Getty ImagesZiggie the dog wearing a mask put on her face by her owner in Los Angeles, on April 5, 2020.
The Los Angeles Public Health Department is facing growing criticism over its decision to offer free COVID-19 testing for animals, despite there being no positive cases reported among animals in the area.

LA Public Health announced the initiative on Aug. 20 and said it has received funding from the Council of State and Territorial Epidemiologists and the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) to monitor COVID-19 in animals in Los Angeles County.

"This project will help us to learn more about COVID-19 from a One Health perspective, meaning that we can learn more about the significance of COVID-19 in human, animal, and environmental relationships," the public health body said.

Comment: That they're being mocked on social media seems appropriate. They're basically spending taxpayer money to see if people's pets have the flu.

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Cross

Black Christian denied student government role after quoting Bible

Jack Shields
The College Fix
Mon, 22 Aug 2022 00:01 UTC
Mya Little
© Mya Little/LinkedIn
Speaker of the senate criticized 'preaching about religion' in the post-Roe era.

A black Christian female will not serve on the University of Houston student government's judicial branch this year after she quoted the Bible while interviewing for a position.

Mya Little (pictured) opened a speech at an interview session over the summer with a Bible quote, according to The Cougar, the campus newspaper. Little had applied to be an associate justice on the SGA Supreme Court.

Comment: It would seem anti-Christian sentiments are now acceptable form of discrimination at all levels of society. It's to the point where officials don't even try to hide their blatant bigotry.

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