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Lol, with how things are going right now, China has lots of time to play with. Not to mention that they are working on these things was we speak.
I think SpaceX/starlink satellites will basically make US satellites communications uninterruptable during war time.
 

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Amnesty strips Navalny of ‘prisoner of conscience’ status​

Prominent rights group steps back from status having reviewed the Kremlin foe’s earlier ‘hateful’ comments.

Amnesty International has stripped Alexey Navalny of the “prisoner of conscience” status it had given him, saying some of the Kremlin critic’s past comments were akin to hate speech.

In a statement sent to Al Jazeera on Wednesday, the rights group said it would however continue to “fight for his freedom” – referring to the 44-year-old’s current imprisonment in Moscow.

“Amnesty International took an internal decision to stop referring to [Alexey] Navalny as a prisoner of conscience in relation to comments he made in the past. Some of these comments, which Navalny has not publicly denounced, reach the threshold of advocacy of hatred, and this is at odds with Amnesty’s definition of a prisoner of conscience,” the statement said, without specifying what those comments were.
Navalny has previously advocated for nationalist, anti-immigrant policies and is regularly accused by his critics on social media of being a white supremacist.

Fifteen years ago, Navalny filmed a pro-gun rights video in which he compared people from the North Caucasus, home to many Muslims, as “cockroaches” and then pretended to shoot one with a pistol.

“Navalny has not, to the best of our knowledge, made similar pronouncements in recent years, and this decision does not change our resolve to fight for his immediate release, and for an end to his politically motivated persecution by the Russian authorities,” Amnesty’s statement said.

A “prisoner of conscience”, Amnesty’s website says, is “someone has not used or advocated violence but is imprisoned because of who they are”.

The group’s move comes as tensions between the West and Russia mount.
This week, the European Union agreed to prepare further sanctions on Russia over the case.

Navalny was arrested on January 17, the same day Amnesty announced it would consider him a “prisoner of conscience”, as he arrived back in Moscow from Berlin.

He had been recovering in the German capital following an alleged poisoning attack he blames on the Kremlin. Russia denies those allegations and has dismissed Western criticism as meddling.

A Moscow court later jailed Navalny, ruling that he broke terms of a suspended sentence in a 2014 embezzlement case which the Kremlin foe says was politically motivated.

This month, he was also found guilty of slandering a World War II veteran.
Thousands in Russia have called for Navalny’s release since, but the protest movement has eased after huge numbers of people were arrested during rallies.
 

BlackWindMnt

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In case you would like to avoid taiwannews

I feel like there must be some political reason behind this approval. Perhaps France wants Chinese vaccine ahead of Germany?
Probably concessions for market or car semiconductor manufacturing access?
Or just signaling toward to Biden he needs to offer something better, all those words of friendship mean nothing if it doesn't generate jobs.
 

Gatekeeper

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Where is this from? Wonder how many porn stars they had to interview lol

Maybe English Vegetable has personal experience?

Lol. I just re-read that. And then realised who the 'star' was. Lol. His son is actually a TV star in the U.K. he's In outnumbered, my children's favourite. I also tell my children he went the college a mile from where we used to live and right next to my golf course in Epsom.

Of course, I keep they other details of his father quite! Lol
 
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