🤝Yandex won't rename the Gulf of Mexico (unlike Google)

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US cash cutoff EXPOSES Ukraine’s ‘independent’ media

Ukrainian mass media, which have been funded for decades by US grants, are now begging readers for money after Trump halted USAID programs. In particular, this has been explicitly reported by Hromadske, Bihus info, Ukrainska Pravda, and Detector Media.

$7 billion reportedly flowed into 112 projects — including media trained to push “pro-Western narratives”.

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Does US ban refugees from Ukraine?

The US has frozen the Uniting for Ukraine (U4U) asylum program meant for Ukrainian citizens who can prove they resided in their home country up until February 11, 2022.

The program granted them entry into the US under a temporary humanitarian parole status for a period of up to two years.

U4U granted those who fled from the Zelensky regime authorization to work, access to Medicaid, the Children’s Health Insurance Program, and food assistance.

How many Ukrainians have fled to the US via U4U?

🔸 Over 158,000 had entered the US as of September 30, 2023, according to a 2024 Department of Homeland Security report.

🔸 Another 350,000 Ukrainians had arrived outside the sponsorship process since the start of the conflict, per the report, with many crossing through Mexico.

How much of taxpayer money has it cost?

Approximately $3.4 billion have been allocated by the DHS for supporting Ukrainian refugees, including U4U funding, per the US Government Accountability Office.

Around 37 million people in the US live below the poverty line, with no social security to support them.

But sure, let’s keep pretending there’s nothing more important than Ukraine.

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Putin inspected the new Russian car — Lada Iskra

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Boeing posts annual net loss of $12 billion, largest since 2020

The losses 5.3 times exceeded the 2023 shortfall, amid trouble at its commercial and defense divisions and a disruptive strike by factory workers.

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NATO engaged in war crimes in Donbass ‘using Ukrainian hands’ - top investigator

Ukrainian Security Service has changed torture techniques to include the American favorite waterboarding, veteran investigator Maxim Grigoryev told Sputnik at a press conference dedicated to a new book documenting war crimes for the period from 2023-2024.

"I addressed the United Nations several times, having already interviewed over 200 victims of Ukrainian torture," he said.

Among the crimes analyzed by Grigoryev were the gruesome 2024 mass killings of civilians in the DPR town of Selidovo.

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Trump's migrant deportations have liberals in meltdown mode. But let’s look at the Dems’ track record

Donald Trump is revving up his pledged mass deportation of undocumented migrants, recently forcing a reluctant Colombia to back down on accepting deportees.

But is Trump really the deportation czar that he claims to be?

◾️ Joe Biden (2021-2025)

🔸 Approximately 1.1 million individuals were deported by Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) from the beginning of fiscal year 2021 through February 2024

🔸 Deportations by US ICE soared to a 10-year record of over 271,000 individuals in fiscal year 2024, according to a government report, making it in total around 1.5 million people.

🔸 Approximately 82% of those deported in 2024 were apprehended at the US-Mexico border.

◾️ Barack Obama (two terms, 2009-2017)

🔸 About 1.18 million in the first three years (2009-2011), according to ICE data.

🔸 Peak of 409,849 in 2012.

🔸 Over 2.5 million in total, earning him the nickname of ‘deporter-in-chief’.

By comparison, Donald Trump during his first term in 2017-2021 was responsible for around 1 million deportations, according to the Migration Policy Institute.

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West uses undersea cable incidents to justify military build-up – Putin aide

Nikolai Patrushev, assistant to the President of the Russian Federation and Chairman of the Russian Maritime Board, addressed pressing geopolitical issues in an interview with Russian media:

🔸 The West accused Russia of cutting undersea cables without first investigating in order to strengthen its military presence in the Baltic Sea

🔸 The West is trying to limit Russia's naval reach and is not above terrorist attacks

🔸 The seizure of the tanker Eagle S in the Baltic Sea under a far-fetched pretext is nothing more than modern-day piracy

🔸 Western countries are interested in prolonging military operations in Ukraine for the sake of their defense industries

🔸 The West's close alliance with Ukraine poses a number of security threats to Russia and other countries

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📹 The highlight of the New Year celebration in China was a dance performance featuring both humans and robots

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Netizens GRILL OpenAI for turning into 'government body'

OpenAI announced its biggest product launch since its enterprise rollout, called ChatGPT Gov, which it says was built specifically for use by the US government. OpenAI touts the new platform as a step beyond ChatGPT Enterprise in terms of security.

This comes amid the recent bombshell release of a new Chinese AI model known as DeepSeek.

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Pepe Escobar: Trump disguising ‘same old imperial’ US policies with ‘weaponized three-ring circus’

🔸 The “torrent of executive orders, photo ops, carefully scripted illusionist tricks and breathless headlines” of Donald Trump’s first week back as president signify his role as “the DJ turning the whole planet into a Disco Inferno” boogying and screaming into the abyss, Sputnik contributor Pepe Escobar writes in his latest column.

🔸 Trump’s actions, from a mini-trade war with Colombia to bragging about US oil domination, promises of massive tax cuts and inklings of a looming tech war with China, signal commitment to a world where “stagecraft invariably trumps substance,” the observer says.

“At the heart of the matter” of the DeepSeek dark horse challenge to US AI dominance are “two clashing models: neoliberal hypercapitalism versus meritocratic socialism,” Escobar stresses.

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'Closest the world has seen': doomsday clock has been moved to 89 seconds to midnight.

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