In early May, the announcement that Bill and Melinda Gates would be divorcing after 27 years of marriage shocked both those that praise and those that loathe the "philanthropic" power couple. Less than a week after the initial announcement of the.
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Myanmar’s military junta has drawn up a list of more than 1,200 online services and domain names to which it plans to grant the public access under its embryonic system of internet controls. A copy of this “whitelist,” which was given recently to local internet service providers and telecoms companies, was obtained by Nikkei Asia and published yesterday.
Since seizing power on February 1, Myanmar’s military has drastically tightened its controls over the internet in a bid to quash the rising protests against its coup. It has ordered the blocking of websites and the virtual private networks that are used to circumvent such blocks. It has also instituted nightly internet blackouts and cut off mobile data.
Can Sanctions Work in Myanmar?
Sanctions and mass boycotts have hurt the junta and driven investors away. Could stronger steps actually bring about regime change?
May 21, 2021
Anti-coup protesters flash the three-finger salute during a demonstration in Yangon, Myanmar, Friday, May 14, 2021.
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More than 100 days after the February coup in Myanmar, and with no sign of action from a divided U.N. Security Council, international sanctions and boycott campaigns have assumed an ever greater importance in denying any legitimacy to the new military junta.
Western governments responding to global outrage at the mounting bloodshed have expanded sanctions to target the vast labyrinth of the Myanmar military’s economic assets, which are based on two conglomerates: Myanmar Economic Holdings Limited (MEHL) and Myanmar Economic Corporation (MEC).
Not everyone knew that Epstein started working for the Israelis since the 1980s. Philip Giraldi, a former CIA agent, has done it again. Some readers may have known some of the things that Giraldi will point out in the article below, but there is no doubt that Giraldi has been attacking the Zionist superstructure.
That’s one reason why he was fired at the American Conservative, a magazine which progressively internalized the commends of their oppressors.
Wherefore Art Thou Ghislaine Maxwell…by Philip Giraldi
It is now going on a year and a half since “financier” and pedophile Jeffrey Epstein died, allegedly by hanging himself in a New York City prison. Since that time it has surfaced that there were a number of “administrative” errors in the jail, meaning that Epstein was not being observed or on suicide watch even though he had reportedly attempted to kill himself previously.
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