SO MUCH FOR FREEDOM OF SPEECH as Twitter - or, sorry, X - users to be thrust in Orwellian nightmare as social media platform unveils latest verification system requiring a govt issued ID and a selfie to be uploaded to proceed keeping an account - with Israeli company AU10TIX gatekeeping user accounts.

Users must also consent to having their personal info stored for 30 days - but it's not like they'll be wiped off by then as Elon Musk's libertarian dudebro facade slips further to reveal the US govt tool he is.

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☣️ BIO-BLUFF: Biohazards, bioweapons, biolabs - you don't need China to tell you that Washington's bio-warmongering is unprecedented worldwide as Beijing slams recent Pentagon report lists China as "key long-term threat to the world", due to alleged threat of biological weapons.

WMD's are soooo 2003 - biological weapons are the in-vogue pretext to engage in warmongering hypocrisy!

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⚡️ Russian air defenses thwart Ukrainian attempt at drone terror attack in Istra, Moscow region.

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🇪🇨 Ecuador, where candidates were assassinated shortly before election, will either get its first female president or the youngest leader in its history.

The second round elections on October 15, includes Luisa Gonzalez from the left-wing Civil Revolution party, as well as 35-year-old Daniel Noboa, from the National Democratic Action alliance, who also heads parliamentary friendship group of Russia and Ecuador.

These elections will be for a transitional government that will operate only until the end of May 2025 - when new elections are held.

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🇮🇷🇿🇦 Iranian President Raisi will travel to South Africa on Wednesday to participate in the annual meeting of the BRICS group of emerging economies.

The Iranian president will also meet with a number of leaders in attendance.

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⚡️ Half of the F-16s that the Netherlands and Denmark promise to Ukraine are unairworthy.

...In general, the aircraft of these countries are already outdated and are unsafe equipment according to US and NATO standards, says Scott Ritter, former US Marine Corps intelligence officer.

Pictured - Zelensky with latest NATO provided equipment.

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🚀 Ukrainian drone attack thwarted on the territory in Kirovsky district of the Kaluga region, Southwest of Moscow.

There are no casualties and no damage from attack attempt.

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🇨🇳 China is striving for a peaceful settlement of the conflict in Ukraine and considers the information of some Western media about the supply of Chinese products to Russian companies, allegedly for production of weapons for Special Operation, to be false - Chinese FM Wang Wenbin.

According to the official, China maintains regular trade and economic contacts with all countries, including Russia, on a mutually beneficial basis.

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🇺🇸🔪 NOT SO FUN, NOT SO FAIR incident at funfair in German city of Wittlich where 2 US soldiers stabbed a German civilian to death during an altercation and then fled the scene before getting arrested and sent to US authorities, who will take charge of case, in accordance with rules Washington set over their NATO puppets.

Spreading democracy and stabbings around the world. 🦅

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🇮🇪 Ireland will send 30 instructors to train Ukrainians in firearms training.

Good way to get out of stockpiling Ukraine with weapons - which Dublin's govt says they explicitly "do not intend to supply Ukraine with a single piece of weaponry."

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💥 Ukraine's army attempts to take village of Rabotino in the Zaporozhye region (ex-Ukraine) entering it from the flanks, but suffering heavy losses.

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🌍 More than 40 foreign leaders will participate in the BRICS summit, which will be held August 22-24 in Johannesburg.

Western Atlanticism on suicide watch.

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🇺🇦💀 "APPARENTLY HE OVERDOSED" says Russian FM spokeswoman about Cocainesky's idiotic statement "Will exchange Belgorod pre-war West Russia for Ukraine's NATO membership".

Not only all the signs are there, his begging also perfectly resembles those inflicted with an addiction.

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