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What’s scarier than racists and Russian trolls on Instagram? Why, ‘Russian-influenced racist trolls,’ of course! The mainstream media censors have hit a brick wall smearing their quarry as “racists” - the overused term no longer packs much of a punch. To really work up a good scare, they're calling the erstwhile racists “Russian-inspired.” The 2020 US election is just around the corner and social media is crawling with wrongthink, according to the Daily Beast. This time, it’s not Russian trolls - it’s worse. The Russian trolls’ ideas have infected so-called “American neo-confederates” and created an unholy hybrid of racist Russian trolls who are unstoppable by the usual mass-deplatforming solutions used to wipe out entire nests of foreign-origin troll...

From trash talk to a broken jaw: What next for UFC loudmouth Colby Covington? Colby Covington's relentless trash talk is over for the time being at least after he suffered a fifth round TKO loss - and a broken jaw - to Kamaru Usman in the UFC 245 headliner. Where does the UFC's bad boy go from here? After months of heated buildup and back-and-forth insults, Colby Covington's pre-fight prophecy failed to come to fruition late on Saturday night in the highly-publicized welterweight title bout in Las Vegas. The challenger, in his own words the uncrowned king of the 170lbs frame, pushed Usman about as far as anyone has in his UFC run to date but ultimately succumbed to a late TKO in the fifth round, ending indefinitely talk of his candidacy as the divis...

I WILL return, vows Olympic champ Zagitova as rumors rumble over decision to take career break Russian Olympic figure skating champion Alina Zagitova has vowed she WILL return to competitive action, despite recently announcing she would be taking a career break. Zagitova, 17, stunned the figure-skating world when she appeared on Russian television on Friday to announce that she was putting her career on ice and would be skipping the upcoming Russian championships – which automatically meant missing out on a place at the European and World Championships. READ MORE: ‘I want my desire to compete back’: Champion skater Zagitova ‘suspends’ career Amid rumors that she may be quitting the sport for good in favor of lucrative exhibition shows, Zagitova clar...

Boris Johnson cannot force Scotland to stay in UK ‘against its will’: Sturgeon signals independence referendum on horizon Scotland’s first minister, Nicola Sturgeon, has cautioned British Prime Minister Boris Johnson against trying to block a second independence referendum, asserting that her country cannot be kept in the United Kingdom by force. Johnson and his Tory government have stated that they will not permit another vote on Scotland leaving the union, but Sturgeon – whose Scottish National Party (SNP) won 48 of Scotland's 59 seats in the UK parliament in the recent snap general election – said that the matter isn’t up to the prime minister. You cannot hold Scotland in the union against its will ... If the United Kingdom is to continue it can...

China vows to retaliate if Germany closes door on Huawei under US pressure Beijing's envoy to Berlin has warned Germany against siding with the US on Huawei, saying that China will retaliate if the telecom company is excluded from the German market, according to national media and Bloomberg reports. "If Germany were to take a decision that leads to Huawei's exclusion from the German market, there will be consequences," Ambassador Wu Ken said on Saturday at a Handelsblatt event. "The Chinese government will not stand idly by." Read more German telecom chooses China’s Huawei to build its 5G network despite US pressure The diplomat reportedly pointed out that the German automobile industry accounted for a quart...

Turkey to carry on buying ‘vital’ S-400 from Russia ‘whatever the consequences’ – FM Cavusoglu Ankara will make no U-turn on purchasing the much talked about S-400s from Russia, as these air defense systems are vital for protecting Turkish airspace, Foreign Minister Mevlut Cavusoglu explained. "Whatever the consequences,” Turkey will not cancel the multibillion deal it signed with Russia over the S-400 anti-aircraft systems, Cavusoglu told a conference in Doha, Qatar. Turkey is in acute need of shielding its territory against incoming threats. We are very desperate for an air defense system. We tried to procure it from the US and others, but it didn't work. This is a defense system that is vital for us. Addressing the same event, Turkish Defense M...

‘Journalism is dying’: US govt ‘has its tentacles’ in every part of media, reporter who quit over ‘suppressed’ OPCW story warns Stories that challenge establishment narratives go unreported because the media has been co-opted by the US government, a former Newsweek reporter has alleged, after his editors blocked him from writing about recent OPCW leaks. Tareq Haddad announced his resignation from Newsweek last week, claiming that his editors had shot down his attempt to report on a leaked email which casts doubt on the OPCW’s findings regarding an alleged chemical attack in Douma, Syria, in April 2018. In a lengthy article posted to his personal website, Haddad disclosed internal emails and messages in which he pressed his superiors about the issue,...

‘Normally people do their f*cking in the bedroom’: Colby Covington slams referee for stoppage after TKO defeat to Usman UFC supervillain Colby Covington claimed he was the victim of an early referee stoppage in his fifth-round TKO defeat to Kamaru Usman in their welterweight title slugfest at UFC 245 in Las Vegas. With the clock ticking down in the fifth round of a pulsating fight, welterweight champion Usman dropped Covington twice in quick succession, the latter time swarming him with a salvo of ground strikes that forced referee Marc Goddard to end the contest with 50 seconds remaining. Despite most observers believing Usman would have taken the decision had the fight gone the distance anyway, the judges’ scorecards later showed it may have been ...

US Treasury chief says sanctions ALTERNATE military conflicts...but it hardly goes well with those sanctioned Sanctions imposed on some stubborn countries are a better option than military conflicts, Steve Mnuchin claimed, just as the US rolled out fresh penalties against Iran and EU firms helping build a German-Russian pipeline. “The reason why we’re using sanctions is because they are an important alternative for world military conflicts. And I believe it’s worked,” Mnuchin told CNBC’s Hadley Gamble at the Doha Forum in Qatar on Saturday. He singled out North Korea and Iran or “other places in the world” where, in his view, such tactics did “work.” Also on rt.com ‘The masks are off’: Moscow says ‘occupier’ US o...