Ukraine rolls out system to auto-block ‘malicious’ websites

Officially, the system will be used to target scammers, while critics warn that it may result in even tighter online censorship

Ukrainian authorities have rolled out an automatic system to "filter out" malicious websites, used for online scamming and phishing schemes. The system was introduced on January 30 and enforced on Thursday, with all the Internet providers in the country obliged to use it.

The new system is expected to provide every 15 minutes a list of malicious websites for providers to block. The system is designed to target only scammers, its creator, Ukraine’s National Center for Operating and Management of Telecommunication Networks, insists.

The 12th “Middle East Conference” at the Valdai Club in Moscow offered a more than welcome cornucopia of views on interconnected troubles and tribulations affecting the region.

But first, an important word on terminology – as only one of Valdai’s guests took the trouble to stress. This is not the “Middle East” – a reductionist, Orientalist notion devised by old colonials: at The Cradle we emphasize the region must be correctly described as West Asia.

 

BY PEPE ESCOBAR

 

The military aircraft billed as America’s latest and greatest fighter jet, the F-35, has been recalled globally to fix an engine problem that led to the grounding of some planes and the halting of new deliveries.

The Pentagon’s F-35 Joint Program Office (JPO) ordered the fix earlier this week, calling for all of the jets to be retrofitted within 90 days. The order applies to all of the nearly 900 F-35s that defense contractor Lockheed Martin has delivered worldwide, including those that have been grounded since a December 15 crash at the Naval Air Station Joint Reserve Base Fort Worth in Texas.

Russian diplomats have poked fun at White House spokeswoman Karine Jean-Pierre after she made a mess of their country’s official name during a press briefing on Friday.

Jean-Pierre made the gaffe while previewing the upcoming meeting between US President Joe Biden and European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen at the White House.

The press secretary said the leaders would discuss “our work together to address the challenges posed by the People’s Republic of Russia.” The country’s official name is the Russian Federation.

According to the official transcript from the briefing, Jean-Pierre misspoke and was actually referring to the People’s Republic of China.

The only lesson of history is that we learn nothing from history except for a short period called human life.

Once this human life has passed, the next generation has echoes, and the one after, is totally ignorant. 
The US intervention in Ukraine is one of them. The various Anglo-Saxon shenanigans in European politics are picrocholine wars, with grandiose goals and contradictory effects.

 

by Patrick Raymond

 

One dreams of reconstituting the universal empire, and one fails in front of a wall surrounding a field, far from any conquest. 

Australia has insisted it will keep US nuclear propulsion technology under tight lock and key after it gains access to sensitive information, with Canberra’s envoy to Washington pledging to safeguard America’s “crown jewels.”

Speaking to an audience at a US think tank on Thursday, outgoing Ambassador Arthur Sinodinos said much progress had been made on the three-way AUKUS deal signed between the US, Australia, and the UK in 2021, the details of which are set to be unveiled later this month.

 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fsun8e4E4Gk

 

Letter to the Prime Minister of Australia,

The Honourable Anthony Albanese

I accuse!

First Published: NEW DAWN of yourdemocracy.net, 30 October 2022.

By Gus Leonisky

Sir,

Would you allow me, grateful as I am for the kind reception you once extended to me, to show my concern about maintaining your well-deserved prestige and to point out that your star which, until now, has shone so brightly, risks being dimmed by the most shameful and indelible of stains?

AN ARTICLE APPEARED IN THE SCIENCE MAGAZINE, 23 DECEMBER, 2022. 

TO US, GUS LEONISKY AND HIS LOONY MATES, IT WAS LOADED FROM THE START: 

Russia’s unprovoked attack on Ukraine has destroyed civilian infrastructure….

 

BY THEN — AND WAY BEFORE THE RUSSIAN INTERVENTION IN UKRAINE — WE HAVE KNOWN THAT THIS CONFLICT WAS NOT UNPROVOKED. IT IS HIGHLY UNSCIENTIFIC TO QUALIFY THIS CONFLICT THUS.

SERIOUSLY WELL-INFORMED JOURNALISTS — ALL OF THEM ON THE SIDELINE OF THE PROPAGANDIST MAINSTREAM MEDIA BECAUSE THEY DON’T TOW THE “OFFICIAL” LIES — HAVE EXPRESSED OPINIONS RANGING “FROM THIS WAS PROVOKED BY NATO TO WHICH RUSSIA SHOULD NOT HAVE RESPONDED MILITARILY” TO “RUSSIA WAS CORRECT IN PROTECTING RUSSIAN POPULATIONS IN UKRAINE” UNDER UNITED NATIONS #2202. 

Bioterrorism expert and whistleblower alleges that CIA secretly collaborated in supporting unethical gain of function research that resulted in the manufacture of the COVID-19 virus, which was then leaked from the Wuhan Institute of Virology.

 

Dr. Andrew G. Huff is an Iraq War veteran and infectious disease epidemiologist with a Ph.D. from the University of Minnesota who, in September 2014, went to work for EcoHealth Alliance, an NGO that received over $118 million in grants from federal agencies whose mission was to protect the public from infectious diseases.

“We are fighting a war against Russia,” German Foreign Minister Annalena Baerbock told the Council of Europe on January 24. The next day German Chancellor Olaf Scholz and U.S. President Joe Biden announced plans to send high-powered tanks to Ukraine, in a major escalation of the conflict.

“Germany has really stepped up,” Biden said, “and the chancellor has been a strong, strong voice for unity…and for the level of effort we’re going to continue.” 

A good way to determine if you are still alive is to ask yourself if you can still feel wonder and amazement as you watch the changes sweeping through the world. Most of these changes are gradual and difficult to detect in your daily experience. It is therefore useful for an important person to stand in front of you for an hour, as Putin did today in front of the Federal Assembly of Russia, and explain to you exactly what happened and what will happen.

 

by Dmitry Orlov

 

The Atlantic Alliance magnifies Ukraine on the occasion of the first anniversary of the Russian military intervention on its territory. Before our very eyes, we see it resorting to the most deceptive propaganda, handling with skill omissions and sometimes lies. Contrary to what she claims, this war was never illegal, even if today it no longer seems necessary and should be stopped. However, the causes of the war remain and the Kremlin anticipates a second round, not to annex Ukraine or Moldova, but to save Transnistria.

 

The Ukrainian conflict with regard to the responsibility of the rulers

 

I BELIEVE THAT IN ORDER TO DISTRACT US FROM THE REALITY THAT RUSSIA IS WINNING THE WAR IN UKRAINE, THE BBC INVESTS SOME SILLY TIME IN EXPLAINING THAT THERE ARE IDIOTS ON THE NET WHO DISPUTE THAT THE WAR IS ACTUALLY HAPPENING. (https://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-64789737)

THIS IS THE FIRST TIME THAT I HAVE HEARD/READ ABOUT SUCH DENYING OF THIS WAR. THESE MORONS REPRESENT A MINUSCULE AMOUNT OF INFORMATION/DISINFORMATION/MISINFORMATION RUBBISH — BUT THE BBC IN HER GRAND WISDOM CHOSES TO PAINT THEM AS EQUAL TO HER VIEWS THAT RUSSIA IS LOOSING. 

IT’S NOT EVEN PAINFUL TO WATCH, OR SEE. IT’S JUST RIDICULOUS.

WHEN I WAS A CHILD, ONE OF OUR NEIGHBOURS (A FRIEND — CALLED SAY TUTU) HAS BEEN BORN WITH A DISTORTED FACE. SHE WAS IN HER TWENTIES AND MANAGED TO LIVE WELL DESPITE HER DISFIGURATION. NOW, IF YOU HAVE A SMART-IDIOTIC PHONE, YOU MIGHT HAVE AN APP THAT TAKES PORTRAIT AND DISTORT FACES. IT'S FUN AND YOU CAN MAKE PEOPLE SCREAM WHEN THEY SEE THEMSELVES LIKE A PICASSO PORTRAIT.

THE PHOTO APP MIGHT ACTUALLY SHOW TUTU WITH A NORMAL FACE. IS THIS APP AN INSENSITIVE INSTRUMENT TO PEOPLE LIKE TUTU, BY SHOWING ALL THE PEOPLE WITH FACE LIKE HERS? WOULD IT BE A REMINDER OF THE TRAUMA SHE HAD ENDURED ALL HER LIFE?

WE CARTOONIST DO HORRIBLE THINGS TO PEOPLE, ESPECIALLY THE RICH, THE POLITICIANS AND POWERFUL. AND WE HAVE A DUTY TO PROTECT THE WEAK AND DOWNTRODDEN. 

PRESENTLY THERE IS A CONTROVERSY ABOUT WHITE PEOPLE BECOMING THE REJECT OF SOCIETY.

Could kyiv be the new fashionable diplomatic destination? In any case, the Western dignitaries take turns there with application and after Biden or Von Der Leyen, it is the turn of the Spanish Prime Minister to go there. Apparently, the Ukrainian capital would be the essential place to show up to hope to be entitled to a photo in the mainstream media…