`Use tampons to staunch bullet wounds', Russian army recruits told

A video shows a female military doctor advising the young men they need to bring their own first aid supplies - or the next best thing

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— Telegraph World News (@TelegraphWorld) September 28, 2022

TASS | Russian-issued Mastercard, Visa to keep functioning in Russia -- Central Bank, 5 Mar
"However, trans-border operations will not be available."

RFERL | Credit Card Tourism: Russians Avoid Sanctions By Flying To Uzbekistan For VISA, Mastercards, 31 Mar VEDI Group tours
"The clients are free to open an [debit] account in the local currency [UZS], the som [KGS], or choose dollar [USD] or euro [EUR] accounts"

US Treasury | Treasury Targets Additional Facilitators of Russia's Aggression in Ukraine, 15 Sep central booking

Today, as part of its continued response to Russia's HORRIFIC war of aggression against Ukraine, the U.S. Department of the Treasury's Office of Foreign Assets Control (OFAC) designated 22 individuals and 2 entities, including   multiple individuals who have furthered the Government of the Russian Federation's (GoR) objectives in Ukraine, both prior to and during Russia's further invasion of Ukraine in 2022. Also included among those being designated is Task Force Rusich, a neo-Nazi < eyebrow > paramilitary group that has participated in combat alongside Russia's military in Ukraine, as well as two of its senior leaders.

Today's action is being taken in coordination with those taken by the U.S. Department of Commerce, which is imposing additional export control measures to further align with partners and allies, as well as by the U.S. Department of State, which is targeting Russia's defense and high-technology industries, as well as proxy authorities. ...

FURTHER ISOLATING RUSSIA'S FINANCIAL SYSTEM AND COUNTERING EVASION

In response to Russia's February 2022 further invasion of Ukraine, the United States and an international coalition of allies and partners took swift action to substantially sever Russia's access to the world's financial infrastructure. In response, Russia has scrambled to find new ways to process payments and conduct transactions. Directly and indirectly, Russia's financial technocrats have supported the Kremlin's unprovoked war. Today's designations target those efforts. OFAC is also publishing a Frequently Asked Question (FAQ) to provide additional guidance on the heightened risk of facilitating Russia's efforts to evade sanctions through the ["]expanded use["] of the National Payment Card System (NSPK) or the Mir National Payment System, given the broad sanctions imposed on Russia's financial system this year.
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PROHIBITION ON QUANTUM COMPUTING SERVICES AND EXPANSION OF SANCTIONS AUTHORITIES

Treasury is also taking additional action to cut off Russia's access to a key service from U.S. companies. Today, OFAC issued a determination pursuant to E.O. 14071 prohibiting the exportation, re[-]exportation, sale, or supply, directly or indirectly [CHIP 4 Indo-Pac supply chain?], from the United States, or by a United States person, wherever located, of quantum computing services to any person located in the Russian Federation.
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In parallel with this action, OFAC has identified the quantum computing sector < eyebrow > of the Russian Federation economy pursuant to E.O. 14024. This determination allows for sanctions to be imposed on any individual or entity determined to operate or have operated in this sector of the Russian Federation economy and, thereby, expands the United States' ability to swiftly impose additional economic costs on Russia for its WAR OF CHOICE in Ukraine....

KIRBY-CONTENT CLOAKING DEVICE: "China's 'questions and concerns' over Ukraine"

ill-conceived headline w/e 1 Oct

1. 'Iranian women are furious' over headscarf death

2. Federal court finds 3rd Iowa ag-gag law unconstitutional

Mercouris

... She became queen in 1952. This was a time when Britain was still an empire, Britain still had huge numbers of imperial possessions. It was a very homogeneous society. It was very socially disciplined. It was very christian. It was extremely honest. I mean, corruption was almost unheard of in British public life at that time. Where the leadership, people who occupied positions of authority, did so with a very strong sense of responsibility. I mean, this is something that developed over a long time, hadn't always existed, but in 1952 people in positions of authority did feel responsible for, you know, what happened and what they did.

There's a very famous case around the time when the queen became queen in 1952 when a British minister went to the House of Commons, said something in complete good faith. He gave a report to the House of Commons about something his ministry had done which was in complete good faith. It then turned out that it was wrong, and the House of Commons had been misled, and that minister felt obliged to resign. He decided that because he said something to the House of Commons that wasn't true, he felt that he had to resign. Well, that is inconceivable today. The queen in a kind of a way, she remained that. She continued [GESTICUALTING] to follow the ethos of the world that Britain, the kind of Britain, that she became queen of in 1952. She never evolved, if you like, out of it....

What Was The Mau Mau Uprising?, 1952 - 1960
How Nigeria gain independence, 1960
Remembering Nigeria's Biafra war that many prefer to forget, 1967-1970
Cameroon-A controversial independence, 1959, 1961, 1972
Fiji from 1844 to 1970, 1987-2013 "coup cycle"
France24 | 'Colonialism wasn't the Queen's fault': Our Observers react to Elizabeth II's death
Fiji, Nigeria, Cameroon, Canada: "mixed feelings"

express & star | Woman arrested after protester holds anti-monarchy sign in Edinburgh, 9/11

She held a sign saying "f*** imperialism, abolish monarchy". Officers appeared behind her and took her away, prompting the crowd to applaud. One man shouted: "Let her go, it's free speech," while others yelled: "Have some respect."
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During the first proclamation of Charles, the Lord Lyon King of Arms gave a speech before declaring "God save the King", which the crowd repeated.

Newsqueak | King Charles Protesters Arrested in U.K.--'Outrageous Assault on Democracy', 12 Sep

Two anti-royalist protesters were arrested in the U.K. over the weekend amid King Charles III's ascension to the throne, with one activist calling the moves "an outrageous assault on democracy"
[...]One anti-royalist protester who got arrested on Sunday was close to a remembrance ceremony at Mercat Cross in Edinburgh, by St Giles' Cathedral, where the Queen's coffin will lie on Monday.
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Symon Hill, 45, was also arrested for shouting "who elected him?" during a reading of a proclamation in Oxford, England on Sunday. ...Speaking to The Guardian, Hill said: "I don't think I've ever seen anyone arrested on such threadbare grounds, let alone experienced it myself.
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A Thames Valley police spokesperson said: "A 45-year-old man was arrested in connection with a disturbance that was caused during the county proclamation ceremony of King Charles III in Oxford.

archived Tue Mar 16th, 2021, BoJo Parliament, retrieved 17 Aug 2022

"He has subsequently been de-arrested < wipes tears > and is engaging with us voluntarily as we investigate a public order offense. The man was arrested on suspicion of a public order offense [under section 5 of the Public Order Act 1986]."

I was arrested today in #Oxford after I voiced my opposition to the proclamation of "#CharlesIII". Can we be arrested simply for expressing an opinion in public? I was arrested under the Police Bill passed earlier this year. This is an outrageous assault on democracy.#NotMyKing

— Symon Hill (@SymonHill) September 11, 2022

They cancelled all the football in the UK on Saturday. That alone gave Charles the Third a bad start in public opinion.

They also saddled him with an unpopular name : the first was executed; the second teed up the Glorious Revolution which curtailed royal power.

So the king-in-waiting got his revenge on the world by naming his sons William (II being that Orange fellow) and Henry (the ninth?)

_{It is rightly acknowledged that people of faith have no monopoly of virtue - Queen Elizabeth II}

Kenyan TV is undefeated pic.twitter.com/X5sWuEykHx

— Joel Sati (@realesttheorist) September 9, 2022

hmm, yes, well, IT CAN BE REVEALED: my Z-informant tells me trending twitter hashtags have been multiplying like stars, so to speak, all weekend.

APsplainin Leaky pen and staff job cuts: King Charles under scrutiny, 14 Sep patronage bin

The Public and Commercial Services Union called the royals' decision to inform staff of job cuts during a period of mourning "nothing short of heartless."

"While some changes across the households were to be expected, as roles across the royal family change, the scale and speed at which this has been announced is callous in the extreme," the [hereditary Public and Commercial Services UnionPublic and Commercial Services Union] general secretary, Mark Serwotka, said

UK Burke's Peerage
US The Social Register aka "Black Book"

SATAN!!!

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DW | UN report: Venezuela committing crimes against humanity to crush opposition, 21 Sep

In an effort to quash political opposition in the beleaguered Latin American country.

Complied by the UN's Independent International Fact-Finding Mission on the Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela, the report outlines the extensive use of arbitrary arrest and torture in Venezuela since 2014.

Findings were based on interviews with 471 victims, their families and their legal representatives, as well as another 50 individuals who worked for Venezuela's General Office of Military Counterintelligence (DGCIM), National Intelligence Service (SEBIN), and other government entities.
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Maduro personally involved in abuses

The report clearly condemns President Maduro's hands-on role in the well-organized system designed to crush dissent. It also rebukes Venezuelan authorities for failing to hold abusers accountable.

"The Venezuelan authorities have failed to hold perpetrators to account and provide reparations to victims in a context where judicial reforms announced from 2021 have failed to address the justice system's lack of independence and impartiality," the UN mission said.
[...]
Tuesday's report was the third published on Venezuela to date. The mission is scheduled to share its findings with the UN Human Rights Council (UNHRC) in the coming weeks.

OHCHR | Biographies of the members of the Independent International Fact-Finding Mission on the Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela, ICC alum + 2
• Marta Valiñas (Portugal)
• Francisco Cox Vial (Chile)
• Patricia Tappatá Valdez (Argentina)
• Paul Seils (United Kingdom)
Hearts on Venezuela | Statement by Marta Valiñas, Chair of the Independent International Fact-Finding Mission on the Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela, at the 49th session of the Human Rights Council, 28 Mar 2022
CRS | Venezuela: Background and U.S. Relations, 28 Apr 2021
OAS | FACT SHEET: OAS General Secretariat2 Dec 2020

gov.uk | PM meeting with Prime Minister Mette Frederiksen: 1 October 2022

... The leaders stressed the need to stay united in the face of Russia's despicable actions in Ukraine.

Prime Minister Frederiksen updated the Prime Minister on the damage caused to the Nord Stream pipelines last week. They agreed the incidents were clearly an act of sabotage. The Prime Minister offered the UK's support for the ongoing investigation.

The leaders agreed that the safety and security of the Baltic Sea is in everyone's interest, and welcomed increased cooperation through the Joint Expeditionary Force....