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Cubans Finally Allowed to Have Internet at Home, Socialist-Style: Expensive, Slow, Censored
Previously, Internet in Cuba was not allowed in private homes except in the rare case of some professionals such as doctors, lawyers, journalists and senior government officials. Private citizens of Cuba can now obtain Internet services at a high cost and rationed speed. Cheapest Internet US $15 will be 256 kilobits per second, similar to internet services in the United States in late 1990s. The fastest connection price offers download speed of four megabits per second, cost US $70. That’s two and half times the average Cuban salary. The same price would get a household in Miami 1,000 mbps. Internet will go through the servers of ETECSA, which censors websites critical of the Cuban dictatorship.
CNN Reporter: “These Country Music Supporters Were Likely Trump Supporters”
CBS fired one of its network executives, Hayley Geftman-Gold, after she took to social media to explain why she was “not even sympathetic” to victims of the Las Vegas shooting because “country music fans often are Republican.”
US Senate pressures social media over 'foreign ads' as it hunts for 'chaos-creating Russians'
Link: https://www.rt.com/usa/405706-senate-social-media-ads/
Facebook, Google and Twitter need to tell Americans what they will do to make sure ads paid for by “foreign entities” like Russia are labeled as such, the senior Democrat on the Senate Intelligence Committee said ahead of a public hearing with the social media giants.
Americans need to know whether a source of an ad on social media is a foreign entity, and whether it was generated by real individuals rather than false accounts, Senator Mark Warner (D-Virginia), ranking member of the Senate Intelligence Committee, said at a news conference Wednesday. Facebook announced it is increasing authenticity requirements for advertisers, adding over 1,000 people to its ad review staff after claiming it found paid postings on “divisive” social issues that “appeared” to stem from a “Russian entity.”
Occupational Therapy: Spanish National Police, Civil Guard to Stay in Catalonia
Link: https://sputniknews.com/europe/201710041057944137-national-police-civil-guard-catalonia/
Spanish Interior Minister Juan Ignacio Zoido has said that the units of the country's National Police and Civil Guard, which were involved in clashes with pro-independence protesters in Catalonia amid the referendum, will remain in the autonomous region to ensure that the law is observed.
Catalan leader vows to proclaim independence within days as King Felipe VI blasts ‘disloyalty’
Link: https://www.rt.com/news/405611-catalonia-leader-independence-days/
The president of Catalonia has said he will put the results of the independence referendum, deemed illegal by Madrid, into effect by next week, and urge Madrid not to intervene. It comes as Spain’s King Felipe VI has vowed to uphold constitutional order. The president of Catalonia has said he will put the results of the independence referendum, deemed illegal by Madrid, into effect by next week, and urge Madrid not to intervene. It comes as Spain’s King Felipe VI has vowed to uphold constitutional order.
Russian airstrikes wipe out 300 IS militants on Euphrates eastern bank
Link: http://tass.com/defense/968565
Aircraft of Russia’s Aerospace Forces continued destroying the Islamic State group on eastern bank of the Euphrates River. Confirmed terrorists casualties; 304 killed, 170 wounded. Seven field commanders of different levels killed, airstrike also destroyed a training center of the IS foreign mercenaries, including 40 militants from the North Caucasus, a mobile sniper group of terrorists, eight tanks, three artillery systems, 17 off-road vehicles with large-caliber weapons (ZU-23 anti-aircraft mounts, B-10 recoilless rifles, DShK heavy machine guns), four ammunition depots also destroyed.
Museums Closed, Taxis Aren’t Running: Strike Grips Barcelona After Referendum
Link: https://sputniknews.com/europe/201710031057915866-museums-tourists-catalonia-strike/
A general strike, announced on Tuesday in Catalonia, has affected tourists’ plans, getting a taxi to the airport became impossible, most of the streets in the center of Barcelona are blocked, popular tourist sights are closed. Public transport is almost completely on strike, the underground trains do not run.
Deadliest US shooting: 58 killed, and 527 injured at Las Vegas music fest Live updates
Link: https://www.rt.com/usa/405321-las-vegas-shooting-panic/
At least 59 people were killed, and 527 were injured in a mass shooting during an open-air music festival in Las Vegas, near the Mandalay Bay Resort and Casino on Sunday night. Police recovered 47 firearms belonging to suspected Las Vegas shooter Stephen Paddock from three different locations, Jill Snyder, the special agent in charge at the ATF, said at a press conference on Tuesday night. She said that dozens of rifles, shotguns and pistols had been recovered from Paddock's hotel room, his home in Mesquite, Nevada, and from another, undisclosed location.
Trump says Puerto Rico’s debt needs to be wiped out
Link: https://www.rt.com/usa/405602-trump-puerto-rico-debt-wipe-out/
US President Donald Trump said that Puerto Rico’s $74 billion debt would have to be wiped out to help the island recover from the catastrophic damage caused by Hurricane Maria that he witnessed during his visit.
“We’re going to work something out. We have to look at their whole debt structure. You know they owe a lot of money to your friends on Wall Street and we’re going to have to wipe that out. You’re going to say goodbye to that, I don’t know if it’s Goldman Sachs but whoever it is you can wave goodbye to that,” Trump told Fox News, according to Reuters.
Trump visited Puerto Rico on Tuesday, nearly two weeks after Hurricane Maria destroyed the island’s infrastructure, leaving the majority of the 3.5 million residents without access to power.
700k protest Spain's referendum crackdown in Barcelona – local police (PHOTO, VIDEO)
Link: https://www.rt.com/news/405586-thousands-protest-barcelona-catalonia/
700,000 people have taken to the streets of Barcelona in the wake of Sunday’s controversial Catalonia independence referendum, municipal police announced. Huge crowds rallied Tuesday against the violent crackdown on voters by Spanish police.
Roads and traffic was blocked throughout the city on Tuesday, as protesters marched, chanting, “Independence!” and “The streets will always be ours!” Thousands gathered outside the offices of Spanish Prime Minister Mariano Rajoy’s People’s Party (PP) in Barcelona and the Catalonia regional HQ of the national police as police stood guard. A protest strike was also called by major trade unions as government workers walked out and businesses and universities shut for the day. Metro stations were empty as services were drastically cut back, while the usually busy Boqueria market was deserted
South Korea joins cryptocurrency crackdown
Link: https://www.rt.com/business/405024-south-korea-cryptocurrencies-banned/
South Korea's financial regulator said on Friday it will ban money raising through all forms of virtual currencies. Earlier this month, Beijing outlawed trading and usage of all cryptocurrencies, including bitcoin.
90% of voters said ‘Yes’ to independence from Spain – Catalan government - Video
Link: https://www.rt.com/news/405303-catalonia-independence-referendum-results/
The overwhelming majority of Catalans who participated in the banned referendum have voted in favor of independence from Spain, the Catalan government has announced. The Catalan government said the result reflects only the ballots that “were not seized” during police raids on polling stations throughout the day. “What kind of a democracy steals ballot boxes?” asked Vice President Oriol Junqueras
Ballot box seizures, crying cops & beaten firefighters: Catalonia vote in 10 groundbreaking videos
Link: https://www.rt.com/news/405311-catalonia-referendum-police-voters/
With the referendum declared illegal by Madrid, special police units drafted in from across Spain smashed into polling stations at dawn to seize ballot boxes. Police actively used rubber bullets and truncheons to forcibly remove voters and disperse crowds of pro-independence demonstrators, injuring at least 840 people across Catalonia. In the southern Catalan town of Mont-roig del Camp, demonstrators forced a squadron of the civil guard to retreat. Local Catalonian firefighters also formed human shields on several occasions to protect people from federal law enforcers.
Multiple injuries reported after shooting near Mandalay Bay in Las Vegas
Hundreds of police responded late Sunday to reports of gunfire near the Mandalay Bay casino in Las Vegas during a country music festival. One witness told KSVN that he heard “hundreds of shots.” The gunfire was rapid and reportedly confused with firecrackers.
ECB President Admits Central Banks Have No Power To Regulate Bitcoin “It’s Outside Of Our Jurisdiction”
The president of the European Central Bank (ECB), Mario Draghi, admitted that Bitcoin and other cryptocurrencies used worldwide do not fall under the regulatory powers of the ECB.
“It Would Not Be Within Our Power to Prohibit or Regulate Bitcoin,” Mario Draghi, President of the European Central Bank
Whole Foods pushes TOXIC blood-clotting canola oil in more than 50% of their packaged products and at the prepared food bar
Most of the signature Whole Foods brand “365” products contain rapeseed oil (also known as Canadian Low Acid Oil or “canola. Most canola is chemically extracted using hexane, a highly flammable and carcinogenic solvent that’s a constituent of gasoline. 90 percent of canola oil in the USA is genetically modified. Even if canola oil is “expeller-pressed” and organic, it still coagulates in your blood like margarine.
Central bank moves to ban ‘golden parachutes’ for bankrupt insurance companies
Link: https://www.rt.com/politics/404870-central-bank-moves-to-ban/
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The Russian Central Bank and Finance Ministry have prepared a bill that would ban senior executives of insolvent insurance companies being rescued by the state from receiving large compensation payouts, known as ‘golden parachutes’. In particular, the new bill would introduce “a ban on certain financial operations preventing the insolvent company’s managers from pulling the funds out of their corporations at the very last moment” and qualify any attempt to do so as embezzlement.
Getting Nasty: Sexually Transmitted Diseases Hit Record High in US
Link: https://sputniknews.com/us/201709271057740185-us-stds-record-rates/
New figures from the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) for 2016 show a disturbing rise in sexually transmitted diseases, including record rates of chlamydia, gonorrhea, and syphilis, particularly among young and pregnant women, gay and bisexual men.
Colombia’s FARC leader warns government against violation of peace deal
Link: http://www.presstv.ir/Detail/2017/09/26/536589/Colombia-FARC-peace-deal
In a letter published by FARC on its website on Monday, Rodrigo Londono accused the government of breaching the "minimum guarantees" of the Havana peace accords and called on President Juan Miguel Santos to fully comply with the pact inked last November to put an end to Latin America's oldest conflict.
Londono noted that the government has failed to release all FARC inmates and suspend arrest warrants for FARC members.
"There are thousands of ex-combatants...who do not receive the monthly payment of 90 percent of the minimum wage" which had been agreed under the pact, and they still have no access to health care, he said.
Russia to Focus on Blockchain in Future - Deputy Minister
Link: https://sputniknews.com/russia/201709261057703030-russia-finance-ministry-blockchain/
Russian authorities have decided not yet to introduce the regulation of cryptocurrencies, but will instead focus on legalizing the blockchain technology, Deputy Finance Minister Alexei Moiseev.
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