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Links — 18 Jan 2021

RT — Question More (Doh)Despair, depression, and the inevitable rise of Trump 2.0Chris Hedges interviews Glenn GreenwaldSlate (Russia!)FBI Investigating if Capitol Rioter Stole Laptop From Pelosi’s Office to Sell to RussiaDaniel PolitiMintPress News (Speading freedom and democracy? No way)By ‘Force and Fraud’: Is This the End of the US Democracy Doctrine?Ramzy Baroud Sputnik InternationalLavrov: West's Reaction to Navalny Detention Meant to Distract Attention From Crisis of LiberalismSlate...

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Iran blames bitcoin miners for blackouts

Iran has launched a crackdown on cryptocurrency miners who it claims are responsible for power blackouts that are blighting the country.Parts of Tehran, the capital, and the cities of Mashhad and Tabriz have been repeatedly plunged into darkness in recent weeks, causing production lines in industrial areas to grind to a halt.Tavanir, the state electricity company, has temporarily closed all known cryptocurrency mines, including a huge Chinese-Iranian operation in the city of Rafsanjan that...

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US makes aggressive opening move on Russian chessboard — M.K. Bhadrakumar

US and allies make move to destabilize Russia using Navalny affair. Move to destabilize China already underway with HK, Uighurs, and Taiwan.A regime change project in Russia was launched on Sunday with the return of political activist Alexei Navalny to Moscow. It was a highly symbolic event — except that Navalny was travelling by an aeroplane from Germany and not in a sealed train [as Germany sent Lenin to Russia]....Top Kremlin officials had alleged in September that Moscow had definite...

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Rebekah Jones – Whistle-blower

 ‘Censored By The State Of Florida’: Fired COVID-19 Data Scientist Rebekah Jones Tweets On Day She Is Set To Turn Self In To Face New ChargeFlorida Department of Law Enforcement officials said Rebekah Jones has been under investigation since early November after someone illegally accessed the state’s emergency alert health system, warning employees “to speak up before another 17,000 people are dead. You know this is wrong. You don’t have to be a part of this. Be a hero.”Rebecca Jones...

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Bill Mitchell — US labour market – things are getting worse again as the virus spreads

US Department of Labor’s latest unemployment claimant data is worrying with the claimants in the week to January 9, 2021 rising to 1,151,051 a shift of 231,335. This is the highest level since the week ending July 25, 2020 and confirms what we now know – that unless a nation deals with the health crisis and gets the virus infections under control (preferably to the point of zero community transmission), it cannot hope for a sustainable economic recovery. The data is the result of lockdowns...

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