Alan MacLeod Online Censorship of Ukraine Dissent Is Becoming the New Norm by Editor April 28, 2022 Big Tech and the corporate media are ushering in an ominous era of intense censorship over Ukraine. By Alan Macleod | MintPress News Mountain View, California – Google has sent a warning shot across the world, ominously informing media outlets, bloggers, and content creators that it will no longer tolerate certain opinions when it comes to Russia’s invasion of Ukraine. Earlier this month, Google AdSense sent a message to a myriad of publishers, including MintPress News, informing us that, “Due to the war in Ukraine, we will pause monetization of content that exploits, dismisses, or condones the war.” This content, it went on to say, “includes, but is not limited to, claims that imply victims are responsible for their own tragedy or similar instances of victim-blaming, such as claims that Ukraine is committing genocide or deliberately attacking its own citizens.” This builds on a similar message Google’s subsidiary YouTube released last month, stating, “Our Community Guidelines prohibit content denying, minimizing or trivializing well-documented violent events. We are now removing content about Russia’s invasion in Ukraine that violates this policy.” YouTube went on to say that it had already permanently banned more than a thousand channels and 15,000 videos on these grounds. Journalist and filmmaker Abby Martin was deeply troubled by the news. “It is really disturbing that this is the trend that we are on,” she told MintPress, adding: It is a preposterous declaration considering that the victim is whoever we are told by our foreign policy establishment. It really is outrageous to be told by these tech giants that taking the wrong side of a conflict that is quite complicated will now hurt your views, derank you on social media or limit your ability to fund your work. So you have to toe the line in order to survive as a journalist in alternative media today.” The most prominent victim of the recent banning spate has been Russian state media such as RT America, whose entire catalog has been blocked throughout most of the world. RT America was also blocked from broadcasting across the U.S., leading to the network’s sudden closure. “Censorship is the last resort of desperate and unpopular regimes. It magically appears to make a crisis go away. It comforts the powerful with the narrative they want to hear, one fed back to them by courtiers in the media, government agencies, think tanks, and academia,” wrote journalist Chris Hedges, adding: More...
Maybe Little Rocket Man will show up. That is one of the next steps in this Russian game isn't it? To suddenly go buddy-buddy with him - I mean moreso- and help each other to play rocket games.
Probably a good idea to print off current bank statements. I always find if I don't ready for contingency there's a problem, but if I do prepare it rarely happens perceptual bias flaw but hey..
The amazing thing about this stuff is that the drones are just commercial drones, modified by private citizens, with explosives that were hand-rigged with fins printed on a 3-d printer.
Russia admits firing submarine-launched missiles at Ukraine Moscow says Kalibr cruise missiles were fired from Black Sea fleet A Russian diesel-electric submarine similar to this one fired cruise missiles at Ukraine. EPA Tim Stickings Apr 29, 2022 https://www.thenationalnews.com/wor...iring-submarine-launched-missiles-at-ukraine/ Russia said on Friday it had fired missiles at Ukraine from a submarine in the Black Sea, the first time it has admitted using its underwater fleet to strike its neighbour during the two-month war. A barrage of Kalibr cruise missiles was launched from a diesel-electric submarine at Ukrainian military targets, the Russian Defence Ministry said. News agency Interfax said it was the first such report after Russia described previous strikes on Ukraine as coming from frigates, aircraft and land-based missile systems. However, Ukraine’s military had reported four days ago that missile strikes were coming from submarines, after analysts said there was evidence of Kilo-class subs loading up with weapons in the Black Sea. Military spokesman Igor Konashenkov said sea-based Kalibr missiles had hit substations near the railway junctions Fastiv, Krasnosilka and Polonne, although he did not specify whether those were submarine strikes. Ukraine has said that railway junctions were targeted to thwart the transport of military aid from European allies. Ukraine says railway substations are being targeted to thwart weapons deliveries from European allies. AFP Kalibr missiles have been in service since the 1990s and are believed to have previously been used in submarine-launched strikes by Russian forces on Syria. Russia lost its Black Sea flagship Moskva in uncertain circumstances two weeks ago. Mr Konashenko separately claimed Russian strikes on Kyiv on Thursday had been “high-precision, long-range” attacks that destroyed a rocket and space industry compound in the city. But Radio Free Europe, a US-funded broadcaster, said one of the missiles hit a residential building and that one of its journalists, Vira Hyrych, had been found dead in the rubble. And Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy suggested the strikes had been timed to coincide with a visit to Kyiv by UN Secretary General Antonio Guterres, who toured sites of alleged Russian atrocities near the capital. “This says a lot about Russia's true attitude to global institutions … about the efforts of the Russian leadership to humiliate the UN and everything that the organisation represents,” Mr Zelenskyy said. Kyiv's mayor Vitali Klitschko stands in front of a damaged building following Russian strikes in the capital. AFP Both sides claimed to have inflicted heavy losses on the other. Ukraine said Russia was continuing its assault in the eastern Donetsk and Luhansk regions as it tries to gain full control of the Donbas region. Britain said in a regular intelligence update that what it called the “Battle of Donbas” was Russia’s main strategic focus but that territorial gains had been limited due to stiff Ukrainian resistance. Russian President Vladimir Putin is widely believed to be seeking a military victory of some sort by the time of a symbolic military parade in Moscow on May 9, commemorating the former Soviet Union’s victory over Nazi Germany. UK Defence Secretary Ben Wallace said this week that Mr Putin might use the opportunity to rally support by declaring Russia to be at war, dropping the terminology of a “special military operation” used by the Kremlin until now.
The Russians use a new tactic now, one that was unknow till today:you see them and then suddenly they disappear. https://www.youtube.com/shorts/xeUd6PEwEfo Per the radio intercepts, it's still Russian military slang to call the dead "200", as in "We had four 200s, shit sucks."