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NOVEMBER 2024

U.S. Department Of Justice Acknowledged Seizure Of Dozens Of Domains, Including PressTV, Al Masirah

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U.S. Department Of Justice Acknowledged Seizure Of Dozens Of Domains, Including PressTV, Al Masirah

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On June 22nd, the United States seized 33 websites used by the Iranian Islamic Radio and Television Union (IRTVU) and three websites operated by Kata’ib Hizballah (KH), in violation of U.S. sanctions. The fact was later acknowledged by the U.S. Department of Justice.

“On Oct. 22, 2020, the Office of Foreign Assets Control (OFAC) designated IRTVU as a Specially Designated National (SDN) for being owned or controlled by the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps Quds Force (IRGC). SDNs are prohibited from obtaining services, including website and domain services, in the United States without an OFAC license. OFAC’s announcement explained that components of the government of Iran, to include IRTVU and others like it, disguised as news organizations or media outlets, targeted the United States with disinformation campaigns and malign influence operations. Thirty-three of the websites seized today were operated by IRTVU. The 33 domains are owned by a United States company. IRTVU did not obtain a license from OFAC prior to utilizing the domain names,” the statement by the US Department of Justice said.

These website seizures were investigated by the U.S. Department of Commerce’s Bureau of Industry and Security, Office of Export Enforcement and the FBI. The National Security Division’s Counterintelligence and Export Control Section prosecuted the seizure.

Visitors to leading Iranian media sites such as Press TV and Al-Alam, the country’s main English language and Arabic language broadcasters, as well as the Al-Masirah TV channel of Yemen’s Houthis (as Ansar Allah movement is known), were met with single-page statements, declaring the website “has been seized by the United States Government” accompanied by the seals of the Federal Bureau of Investigation and the US Commerce Department.

Both IRTVU and IRGC have been placed on the US sanctions blacklist, making it illegal for Americans, US companies, and foreign or non-American companies with US subsidiaries to have business with them or their subsidiaries.

The US government also took over the domain name of the news website Palestine Today, which reflects the viewpoints of Gaza-based groups Hamas and Islamic Jihad, redirecting the site to the same notice.

Bahrain’s LuaLua TV, a channel run by opposition groups with offices in London and Beirut, was also seized by the US.

IRIB accused the United States of repressing freedom of expression and joining forces with Israel and Saudi Arabia “to block pro-resistance media outlets exposing the crimes of US allies in the region”.

On the website of their political wing, the Houthis branded the action “American piracy and copyright confiscation.”

“The government of the United States of America is banning the Al-Masirah website without any justification or even prior notice,” they said.

The move comes just days after the election victory of Iran’s hardline judiciary chief, Ebrahim Raisi, known for his hostility to western countries.

Raisi took a hardline position in his first news conference. He ruled out the possibilities of meeting US President Joe Biden or negotiating over Tehran’s ballistic missile programme and support for regional militias – concerns the Biden administration wants to address in future talks.

Press TV, launched in June 2007, is perhaps the most well known of the seized sites. It is the state-run Islamic Republic of Iran Broadcasting’s (IRIB) English-language service.

This also presents a precedent, in which the United States can choose any website, at all, and deem it ‘harmful’, seize it and impose censorship for arbitrary reasons.

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BLT

https://www.presstv.ir

Balloz

https://www.presstv.com/

Obviously they cannot seize domains under the control of Iran’s registration authority. But they can seize domains controlled by ICANN.

A clown like you

Get a VPN…not just because most countries can block websites but overall it is good. Also, Iran learning more and more from the past…looking good. “Iran foils ‘act of sabotage’ against atomic organization building”

Dave

Curious, the message is in Arabic rather than Persian.

Arch Bungle

Makes sense. Gringos don’t know the difference.

Marco Polo

Oh so you’re a spic?

Charity Colleen Crouse

They are not “seizing.” Yesterday in the Federal Register they announced a program for some sort of “Global Media” project at the behest of…whom? Last night my youtube account was suspended for seven days presumably because I put information that contradicted WHO regarding COVID-19 in a video; that is not what I did in that video. BUT it justifies talking my youtube channel offline for seven days unless I “appeal.” They are using my youtube channel as a derivative action for something else. I suspect they are using these “domains” and their content as financing or underwriting on whatever this alleged “Global Media” project is. They have done this before.

There was announced that the Palestinian Authority took 12 websites offline in 2016 around the time of the terrorist attack in Dhaka, Bangladesh. I believe those sites had been hacked by not just the Israeli or American governments, but rather in accordance with illicit cryptofinance that backend codes people’s sites in manners that they are often incapable of changing, and used those sites and had to “divert” from their illicit use by others when they were taken down. Not one bank or financial regulatory agency that I had tried to discuss this with in five years has done anything; neither did the Senate or the Congressional finance/banking committees do anything when I contacted them. It appears that the Senate Committee on Banking, Housing and Urban Development used to be the Committee on Banking and Currency. That says something very important about what they are not telling us at this time.

KnowTheJew

Most ominous is that the Jews did not do this to the domains of torrent sites–yet. Seems to me the Jews are shutting down Iran’s communication channels to the world in preparation for the Jews’ coming war, destruction, of Iran.

TruthSeekerJack

http://www.twpter.com/user/?at=cali&scid=2021-0623-1508-4451-f-hoodie

US Losers are desperate

US is in rapid decline and desperate to control truthful independent media and is using mass censorship and bullying to lock out Iranian, Russia, Chinese or any free media. It is time that Jew free nations develop their own internet as US thuggery and police state tactics will only grow more desperate as the deadbeat Americunt losers go down the tubes.

Marco Polo

Russia isn’t “jew free”!

The president of Russia is a crypto Jew. Since Putin’s mother was Jewish, he is also Jewish. The current Prime Minister of Russia is Mikhail Mishustin, he is openly Jewish. Dmitry Medvedev was Prime Minister before him.

Putin raised by his jewish grandmother: https://worldtruthvideos.org/watch/putin-raised-by-a-jewish-grandmother_muSDjdPQRuUs7Jp.html

Raised by jewish grandparents, had jewish role models and jewish friends growing up. His career in the KGB was made possible because of a jewess mentor.

It’s not a secret. For those, who didn’t know – his mother’s last name is Shelomova (jewish surname), it’s even written in his official bio:

http://en.putin.kremlin.ru/bio/page-0

P.s. Take a look at this photo, see how similar V.P. looks to this jew from the beginning of the XX century:

https://bit.ly/3gmv8Hl

https://www.timesofisrael.com/putin-says-he-considers-israel-a-russian-speaking-country/amp/

https://files.catbox.moe/q6mixg.png

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Marco Polo

“the backward racist incarcerate more people”

Learn to spell properly, you literally claim Sub-Saharan Africans are more “civilized”. Clearly you live in a very different world than reality, I can tell you lived your life under a rock and don’t have much of an understanding of jewish influence. You fall for the left-right paradigm and believe in the false god of “equality”, whilst you ironically projecting your own prejudice onto others in your dream world where you think “racism” among Whites is common.

You seem only capable of regurgitating your Pavlovian conditioning with little independent thought outside of the controlled parameters.

All of history until today directly refutes your equality myth, intelligence and good intent are not equally distributed. Your perception of the “west” is no different than Communist propaganda, you do not possess the background knowledge and why things turned out the way they have. All you are really interested in is the Kalergi plan, demonizing “Whitey” to justify White genocide.

“mainly black and Latino”

Honduras is among several Latin American countries with higher crime rates than the United States, most of these crimes are committed by members of those racial groups. ‘Mestizo’ is a more accurate term than Latino or Hispanic; there are black and white hispanics, it is a very obscure term.

https://worldtruthvideos.org/watch/the-facts-about-racism-share-to-show-support-for-black-lives-matter_So89vPSlHjYNmOx.html

Racial Crime Statistics – Documentation of globally consistent trends [+PDF version]: https://thuletide.wordpress.com/2020/08/01/racial-crime-statistics-lots-of-infographics/

[Contents

1) 13 do 50 is a worldwide phenomenon 2) Interracial violence is mostly unidirectional 3) Criminality does not correlate with poverty, but does correlate with race 4) Homicide directly correlates with diversity 5) Homicide does not correlate with gun ownership 6) Non-Whites over-represented in mass shootings, Whites underrepresented 7) Racial breakdown of gun-related death causes 8) Terrorism correlates with diversity (and Islam) 9) Slavery correlates with diversity 10) Rape correlates with diversity 11) “Hate crimes” 12) Racial bias in policing 13) Important supplementary information]

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Arch Bungle

“Correlation is not Causation”

A basic Data Science principle every STEM graduate should know, fyi …

As for the rest of your vague, poorly reasoned, pseudo-scientific statements: This is the domain of ‘Social Science’ and Liberal Arts people, not solid, scientific reasoning.

Tommy Jensen

Keep going Arch ;-).

Marco Polo

“As for the rest of your vague, poorly reasoned, pseudo-scientific statements”

I can tell English is not your forte.

“This is the domain of ‘Social Science’ and Liberal Arts people, not solid, scientific reasoning.”

I said nothing about social science or liberal arts, that blog is dedicated to debunking such lies with reason and evidence which you unwittingly confuse with neo-Marxist pseudoscience known as “social sciences, liberal arts”:

https://archive.org/details/CultureOfCritiqueForNormiesPartIIIJewsAndTheLeft_201803/Culture+of+Critique+for+Normies+-+Part+I+-+Replacing+Race+in+Anthropology.mp4

Police “Racism” – Manufactured Crisis: https://altcensored.com/watch?v=RPAeYpl3Vhc

I can tell you have no idea what I just said, nor are you able to prove anything I said as factually incorrect. Then you go on about social liberal sciences being pseudoscientific, which they are.

This entire “anti-racist” agenda is a major component of the unscientific “social” liberal sciences, nothing I stated bares any relation to what you stated.

https://www.amren.com/the-color-of-crime/

Your communist nonsense is unscientific itself: https://soundcloud.com/user-748364735/narshal-ironsides-antimaterialism-king-of-the-fascist-virtues

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Marco Polo

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Marco Polo

Typical Russian Apartment Tour: https://youtu.be/JrJg4LP5E0E

Another Blogger: https://youtu.be/mqBn6ts-Srk

Karabash: https://youtu.be/wa35Vx_07fQ?t=582

Chelyabinsk: https://youtu.be/g42o1rLPq0A

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Marco Polo

Your anti-White arguments wrongly conflate the whole of the residents of these countries with their shabbos goy and the hidden hand belonging to a certain ethno-religious minority ruling behind the curtain (Wizard of Oz reference). It would be as if I accused all Russians of being savages because of Stalin and Bolshevism, it would be another anti-White argument.

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Marco Polo

In Russia you can be arrested for making a parody video playing Pokemon Go, or for “offending” the feelings of religious “believers”, namely cutthroat desert slave religions that have done more harm than good.

Or for criticizing its president, then arrested upon return to Russia after “violating bail” (bailed out of jail in 2013) after his unconscious comatose body was transported to a different country to receive medical treatment.

Since the charge didn’t stick, they slapped on another charge that he “disrespected” the dignity of a Red Army veteran (of which there is no proof) and potential rapist. He was subsequently sentenced to 3 years imprisonment for allegedly violating a law in place to cover up the truth about what happened in the war.

https://twitter.com/IntellectEmbarg/status/1379652333597044739 “I think I remember Mr Ali saying something like this.”

Enoch Powell’s Rivers of Blood speech: https://worldtruthvideos.org/watch/enoch-powell-039-s-rivers-of-blood-speech_zWhqWeQeRdOtGvz.html

Muhammad Ali’s Unapologetic Race Realism: https://worldtruthvideos.org/watch/muhammad-ali-039-s-unapologetic-race-realism_DpbjOgiOYoRtzNG.html

Muhammad Ali Puts BBC Anti-White Parkinson in his place (1960s or 70s): https://odysee.com/@LoveandDivision:9/WhitekidsblackkidsMuhammadAli:f

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Tommy Jensen

All these obsolete undermining tricks from the Empire are today well known to educated people outside the Nato paradigm. Try something new because its about to be boring.

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Marco Polo

You are clearly all bots whose responses bare no correlation to my comments. One encounter with me in person would leave you hesitant to ever lie again.

Marco Polo

Putin considers foreign slave religions of the east to be Russia’s “traditional religions”, rather than the native “Slavic” pagan religions their ancestors practiced before Christianity took over to be one of their traditional religions, Orthodox Christian patriarchs go as far as condemning such a past as “dangerous”.

The Slavic Pagan Art of Boris Olshansky: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ALNz0O510Sc&list=PLGMRH5u9RafoG6N0GXfV88pq6BMtww_HA&index=2

Post-Communist Russia has promoted Tengriism, et cetera but never Balto-Slavic paganism. And will go as far as allowing Asians to appropriate ancestry to Scythians and Sarmatians who lived on the Pontic-Eurasian steppe prior to being invaded by Huns, Turks, and Mongols that ultimately replaced the bulk of the original inhabitants.

Today they believe they were “always there”, similar to how an ungrateful Arab and Negro migrants to Europe or North America hypocritically condemn the White demographic of being “colonizers”.

They blame the behaviour of the ruling class on ordinary people who did not decide national policy.

https://twitter.com/not_thuletide/status/1391774239708139521

immigration when it happens to brown people: “colonialism, ethnic cleansing, genocide, etc”

immigration when it happens to animals: “invasive species cause biodiversity loss of native wildlife”

immigration when it happens to white people: “diversity is our greatest strength”

you can find thousands of scholarly articles and media pieces on invasive species causing biodiversity loss by displacing native species btw

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Marco Polo

They ride you like donkeys: https://youtu.be/_FHiTNdypgA?t=202

Marco Polo

The character of your arguments are no different, Dugin completely ignores the fact that Russia and China have gay bars and legalized sexual perversion. You can sound as nasty as you want, when “Whitey” says or does anything you misconstrue it as a “hate crime”.

He has conflated jewish perversion with their subversion of White culture. https://worldtruthvideos.org/watch/the-jewish-pioneers-of-degeneracy_B5uOhbcrrkDGv8n.html

https://thuletide.wordpress.com/2020/04/08/aleksandr-dugin-part-1/

[“I am a supporter of blacks. White civilization; their cultural values, false, dehumanizing model of the world, built by them – did not pay off. Everything goes to the beginning of the anti-white pogroms on a planetary scale. Russia saved only by the fact that we are not pure white. Predatory multinational corporations, oppression and suppression of all others, MTV, gays and lesbians – this is the fruit of white civilization, from which it is necessary to get rid of. So I am for reds, yellows, greens, blacks – but not for whites.”

“He notes that the New World Order will not come about by means of] “aging gentlemen meeting in seminars.” [He advises the following:] “You must take a knife, put on a mask, go out of the house in the evening and kill at least one Yank.”

West is geographical Satan, geographical Antichrist. The West should pay for everything. It would be best to settle it with Chinese, Tatars, Muslims, all this Eurasian nomadism. […] The West is dead land. He will revive only when he is settled by Cossacks, Tajiks, and Kazakhs. They will bring life with them.”

Here’s a supplementary quote from Kalergi (who is the “the man of the future will be a Eurasian-negroid” guy that founded the European Union with the Rothschilds and Federal Reserve crew):

• Kalergi, Praktischer-Idealismus, Wien/Leipzig: Pan-Europa-Verlag, 1925, p. 23 “The precursor of the planetary man of the future is the Russian Slavic-Tatar-Finnish mongrel of modern Europe; because he, among all the peoples of Europe, is the race of the typical multi-soul people with a wide ranging, encompassing soul”]

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Marco Polo

Since you quoted Ebola on a few occasions:

https://odysee.com/@SurvivingWeimerika:f/Julius-Evola-on-American-Civilization:3

https://odysee.com/@Cultured-Thug:c/FRANCIS-P.-YOCKEY-ON-AMERICA:0

Fascism Viewed from the Right (Julius Evola): https://odysee.com/@DigitalAlexandria:5/Fascism-Viewed-from-the-Right:d

* One of his main complaints is Fascism doing away with class privilege, the Sicilian Baron Giulio Cesare Andrea Evola is a reactionary Roman and class elitist.

https://odysee.com/@Zolt:b/SurvivingWeimerikaZoltanousHNonCorporatism:8

Communism, Fascism and National Socialism explained in 15 minutes: https://worldtruthvideos.org/watch/communism-fascism-and-national-socialism-explained-in-15-minutes_Nxf5KJBfvqSbc1u.html

Julius Evola: The World’s Most Right Wing Thinker (Johnathan Bowden): https://worldtruthvideos.org/watch/julius-evola-the-world-039-s-most-right-wing-thinker_qsIV5pIxpRISYlE.html

Evola’s Racism of Three Degrees is similar to Serrano’s without the “Hitler Esotericism”:

https://worldtruthvideos.org/watch/evola-on-race_czJSloYOBiXb2h4.html

https://counter-currents.com/2011/02/julius-evolas-concept-of-race/

http://volkish.org/2020/01/12/a-talk-with-miguel-serrano/

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Tommy Jensen

What people dont understand is, that each day 80 million Iranians are kneeling down toward Mecca, kissing their $42 trillion gas and oil reserves, while farting all Americans straight up in their faces.

Each day – 80 million green house gasses – farting against America. This is war, and a question about our green planet’s survival and our way of living. THAT is why we are being doing it.

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Marco Polo

“from a nation of mean bitter racists”

I.e. a country that institutes affirmative action policies that favour non-whites over whites in job applications?

A country that has completely transitioned away from the 1950s-60s in favour of reverse-racism against the White population, in much the same way a reverse-apartheid is being implemented against the White population in South Africa.

The West’s “Anti-Racism” is a lot more extreme than Soviet and post-Soviet “Anti-Racism”.

But since you lived under a rock your whole life in one of innumerable backwater areas in your backward country that has yet to fully modernize.

You don’t know what you’re talking about, nor the fact that in the country in which you live (presumably Russia) the bulk population demographic is more or less racially homogeneous compared to the US of A as Borat that slimy jew (Sacha Baron Cohen) puts it.

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