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There's no such thing as a free-ish ride. Elon Musk and SpaceX will no longer be able to fund Starlink internet in the Ukraine, citing a deteriorating relationship with Kyiv. The company claims it cannot push any more resources to assist the Ukrainian war effort at a rate approaching pro bono status, and has looked to the Pentagon to pick up the tab. “We are not in a position to further donate terminals to Ukraine, or fund the existing terminals for an indefinite period of time,” SpaceX’s director of government sales wrote in a communique to news media. On Friday,...

A group of House Republicans are calling on the FBI to investigate funding behind riots throughout the U.S., saying whoever is funding the rioting should be held accountable. In a letter to FBI Director Christopher Wray, Republicans called for justice to be given to the people and groups providing funding for the destruction of cities and towns across the country since the death of George Floyd. The letter was signed by around two dozen House Republicans, and calls out antifa and argues the group’s actions classifies as “domestic terrorism.” “The Department of Justice and FBI’s leadership is needed to bring...

Matthew G. Whitaker, President Trump’s pick to temporarily helm the Justice Department, provides Trump with the leader he has long sought at the law enforcement agency: a political loyalist critical of the special counsel probe. Before Whitaker joined the Trump administration as a political appointee, the Republican lawyer and legal commentator complained that special counsel Robert S. Mueller III’s investigation of Russian interference in the election and of the Trump campaign was dangerously close to overreaching. He suggested ways it could be stopped or curtailed and urged his followers on Twitter to read a story that dubbed the investigators “Mueller’s...

The West sets shahids on Russia Shortly before the last acts of terrorism, Russia was warned that it would have troubles if Moscow will not hand over Caucasus to the western powers. We have already got used to that the western mass media and policies are sympathetic to the insurgents attacking Russia ostensibly struggling for independence of the Chechen Republic. There is nothing new that the European and American mass-media only casually mention innocent victims of attacks of terrorists and are interested only in telling about sufferings of shahids and their just revenge. Thus they actually paint themselves as instigators...