(2023-09-02). Defriending Canada: Natural Disasters and Facebook's Information Scrub. dissidentvoice.org Australia experienced this in February 2021. Facebook had gotten nastily stroppy, wishing to dictate public policy to the Commonwealth government. To teach Canberra mandarins a lesson, it literally unfriended the entire country, scrubbing all news platforms of content and making any posted links through the platform inaccessible. It mattered not that the content involved the …
(2023-09-02). Citywalks boost domestic demand, unleash consumption potential. ecns.cn Citywalk is gaining popularity this summer, with social media and short video platforms deluged with related guides and shares.
(2023-09-01). $22 Billion Worth of Venezuela's Assets Remain Frozen by Sanctions. orinocotribune.com The Venezuelan Anti-Blockade Observatory has reported that over $22 billion belonging to Venezuela remains blocked in various international financial systems, due to the unilateral sanctions imposed by the United States. | The information, published via social media this Wednesday, August 30, was released by the Venezuelan Deputy Minister of Anti-Blockade Policies, William Castillo, who pointed out that this amount currently resides "in private banks and in multilateral organizations." | Castillo added that of this amount, $5 billion was supposed to be part of Venezuela's special drawing rights—an internati…
(2023-09-01). UK's New Defense Minister Shapps Vows Not to Bring TikTok Into Government Buildings. sputnikglobe.com UK Prime Minister Rishi Sunak's pick to head the Defense Ministry, Grant Shapps, has vowed not to bring devices with the TikTok social media app into government buildings or to put the app on government-owned devices.
(2023-09-01). United States Is A Victim Of Its Own Propaganda In Ukraine War. popularresistance.org The whitewashing of the historical context for the war in Ukraine has resulted in a profoundly embarrassing episode for the United States embassy in Prague. | An Aug. 21 Tweet from the embassy with a message roughly translated from Czech to mean "Aggression always comes from the Kremlin," showed two photographs: the first displayed Soviet tanks in the streets of Prague in 1968. The second showed fire burning in front of a building and was marked "Odesa 2023." | Twitter users were quick to point out the embassy's error. "The bottom photo is from 2014 Odessa Clashes where pro federalism (mostly pro Russian) got bur…
(2023-09-02). Nikole Hannah-Jones, Frederick Douglass, and the Left. dissidentvoice.org Twitter conversations with public intellectuals are rarely worthy of note, but a recent exchange I had with Nikole Hannah-Jones, famed mastermind of the New York Times' 1619 Project, was symptomatic of widespread tendencies in left-liberal culture and brought up important issues. Hannah-Jones is a spokeswoman for wokeness, the cultural phenomenon that, as I've written elsewhere, …
(2023-09-02). Elon Musk Believes President Biden Destroying Legitimacy of US Democratic System. sputnikglobe.com MOSCOW (Sputnik) – US billionaire and owner of X, formerly known as Twitter, Elon Musk said on Saturday that US President Joe Biden is destroying the legitimacy of the country's democratic system.