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Adult entertainers in Russia have been blocked from OnlyFans amid financial sanctions imposed upon the country following its invasion of Ukraine.
Several kinky content creators spoke out on Sunday saying that they were unable to share new videos and access money earned via their OnlyFans accounts.
h/t Mauser
Rogers and Bell said Sunday they will no longer be carrying Russian state-controlled network RT in their TV channel lineups in the latest action against Russian entities following Russia’s invasion of Ukraine.
Bell confirmed it is no longer carrying RT as of Sunday, while Rogers said it will pull the TV network on Monday. It was not immediately known if the moves are permanent.
Seriously the CBC is no different, in fact it’s worse.
Call this one the Mother Of All Signals, if true. China’s financial entities have cut off credit for Russian energy sales, Bloomberg reports, following an avalanche of Western sanctions over Vladimir Putin’s invasion of Ukraine…
Vladimir Putin’s ‘propagandist-in-chief’ has threatened the West with nuclear destruction just hours after the Russian leader put his deterrent forces on ‘alert’.
Speaking on nation-wide TV amid a frenzy of anti-Western rhetoric, TV anchor Dmitry Kiselyov told viewers: ‘Our submarines can shoot more than 500 nuclear warheads.
‘This would guarantee destruction of the USA, and all other NATO countries.
Russian rocket attacks killed dozens of people in the eastern Ukrainian city of Kharkiv as ceasefire talks between Kyiv and Moscow got under way, with the Kremlin facing unprecedented international sanctions that have created “a new economic reality” for Russia.
After four days of fighting and a slower Russian advance than many expected, the Ukrainian interior ministry adviser Anton Herashchenko said Kharkiv had been “massively fired on”, leaving “dozens of dead and hundreds of wounded”.
The news came hours after the Ukrainian presidency said it had begun negotiations with a Russian delegation on the border with Belarus, aimed at achieving “an immediate ceasefire and the withdrawal of Russian forces”.
Ukraine invasion: Would Putin press the nuclear button?
Let me begin with an admission. So many times, I’ve thought: “Putin would never do this.” Then he goes and does it.
“He’d never annex Crimea, surely?” He did.
“He’d never start a war in the Donbas.” He did.
“He’d never launch a full-scale invasion of Ukraine.” He has.
I’ve concluded that the phrase “would never do” doesn’t apply to Vladimir Putin.
Ukrainian sailor sinks Russian boss’s $7.7 million luxury superyacht
A Ukrainian sailor sunk his Russian boss’ $7.7 million luxury superyacht in Spain before accusing him of selling weapons to Vladimir Putin.
The yacht, named the Lady Anastasia, is owned by businessman Alexander Mijeev.
Mijeev took over Rostec, a Russian state-owned weapons supplier, in 2016.
Kharkiv.
Russian BM-21 Grad liberate Ukrainians from their lives and properties#Ukraina #Kharkiv #RussiaGoHome
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Ont. reporting 849 COVID-19 patients in hospitals, 3 more virus-related deaths
Ontario is reporting another week-over-week drop in the number of COVID-19 patients receiving care in Ontario hospitals as the province prepares to lift most public health restrictions on Tuesday.
Provincial health officials say they are currently 849 patients with COVID-19 in hospital, up slightly from 842 on Sunday but down from 1,064 one week ago. This number includes 279 patients in intensive care, down from 320 last Monday.
Most of Ontario’s COVID-19 restrictions are lifting on March 1. Here’s what you need to know
Nearly all of Ontario’s major COVID-19 restrictions will lift this week, bringing the province the closest it’s been to pre-pandemic life.
Since Premier Doug Ford announced a state of emergency in March 2020, the province has been in and out of lockdown. The latest round of public health measures went into effect just after the Christmas holidays, shuttering restaurants and gyms yet again while severely restricting social gathering limits.
Russia has more than doubled its interest rate to 20% in a bid to halt a slump in the value of its currency.
The Bank of Russia raised the rate from 9.5% after the rouble sank 30% after new Western sanctions. The currency then eased back to stand 20% down.
The collapse in value erodes the currency’s buying power and could wipe out the savings of ordinary Russians.
Amid pictures at the weekend of queues at cash machines, Russia said it had the resources to ride out sanctions.
Shocking new video shared online shows Ukraine’s controversial Azov fighters dipping bullets in pig fat to shoot at Chechen Muslims set to invade their country on behalf of Russia.
The Azov fighters are linked to a neo-Nazi volunteer militia that became part of the Ukrainian National Guard in 2014 after Russia seized Crimea and moved into the Donbas region. In the clip, they smear the bullets with pig fat, which would be considered unclean to the Chechen fighters Vladimir Putin’s henchman and Chechen strongman Ramzan Kadyrov is sending in to help try to conquer Ukraine.
Here’s a brutal irony about regulating hate speech: Such laws often end up hurting the very people they are supposed to protect.
That’s one of the central lessons in Jacob Mchangama’s important new book, Free Speech: A History from Socrates to Social Media. Mchangama heads up the Danish think tank Justitia. He’s worried about a proposal that would make hate speech a crime under European Union (EU) law and give bureaucrats in Brussels sweeping powers to prosecute people spewing venom at religious and ethnic minorities, members of the LGBT+ community, women, and others.
… Putin was reluctant to make his moves while Trump was in office. He respected Trump. He feared Trump.
As he was all-Russian, so Trump was all-American. A terrible clash was inevitable; which Putin preferred to avoid. He considered Trump’s grit. He knew he’d lose.
Then came the election that seated Biden in the White House and for Putin, this was an answer to godless prayer.
That American voters would choose as their leader a man so lacking, was just the stroke of luck he needed.
Two new studies released on Saturday point to the Huanan Seafood Wholesale Market in Wuhan, China as the origin location of the SARS-CoV-2 coronavirus responsible for the worldwide pandemic that has killed nearly 6 million.
…When was the last time the New York Times or any media outlet of note published a non-peer-reviewed study before it appeared in a scientific journal?
All that Swift Boat experience has made Jean-François even bolder.
On February 23, 1967, the 23rd Star Trek episode, “A Taste of Armageddon,” first aired on television. I saw it as a kid.
Precisely 65 years later, on February 23, Russia invaded Ukraine. No doubt for the 23rd time.
The ‘anti-imperialism of idiots’ meant people turned a blind eye to Russia’s actions
Iam writing these lines in Kyiv while it is under artillery attack.
Until the last minute, I had hoped that Russian troops wouldn’t launch a full-scale invasion. Now, I can only thank those who leaked the information to the US intelligence services.
Yesterday, I spent half the day considering whether I ought to join a territorial defence unit. During the night that followed, the Ukrainian president Volodymyr Zelenskyi signed a full mobilisation order and Russian troops moved in and prepared to encircle Kyiv, which made the decision for me.
By abandoning fracking, they didn’t give up fossil fuels; they just imported more from the east.
… We all saw this coming. Europe’s supposed “green” energy transition disregarded energy security and common sense, and Ukraine is now paying the price. The world will never tackle climate change if it’s in a constant state of geopolitical energy insecurity, relying on authoritarian regimes like Russia and China to meet its basic needs.
Russia is certainly getting very good at making threats. Today, President Vladimir Putin threatened nuclear war or something. He put Russia’s nuclear forces on “high alert,” according to media reports.
I cannot for the life of me figure out why Putin invaded. He was winning without it.
Now it seems there is something in the water and Putinitis is spreading.
