Cuban President Miguel Díaz-Canel: "The "Yes" vote won. Justice has been done. Approving the family code is doing justice. It is paying off a debt with several generations of Cuban men and women, whose family projects have been waiting for this Law for years. Starting today, we will be a better nation. Love is already law.

:diaz-canel-troll:

This pipeline shit is unreal. Happens deep under the sea, where only anyone with highly technical navy experience would be able to access. Deep in the territory of the western hegemony. Russia loses its leverage, EU is committed to its doom without any exit now. Reagan had the same plan in the 80s, and we literally have Biden on tape saying they'll blow up the fuckin thing if Russia invades... and the twitterati are falling over themselves speculating how if it's not Russia it must be Iran or some shit.

it's funny seeing on reddit everyone saying "wow, it makes no sense for Russia to blow up the pipeline, wonder why they did it anyways, just goes to show how stupid and irrational they are".

CNN: US warned European allies this summer that Nord Stream pipelines could be attacked

The warnings were based on US intelligence assessments, but they were vague, the people said – it was not clear from the warnings who might be responsible for any attacks on the pipelines or when they might occur.

The CIA declined to comment.

The US definitely did it.

Former Polish Foreign Minister, MEP Radoslaw Sikorski removed from Twitter his statement thanking the United States for damaging the pipes of the Nord Stream and Nord Stream 2 gas pipelines.

:what-the-hell:

It's probably already been mentioned here, but all the Xi conspiracy stuff was started because he wasn't in public for ten days - the ten days immediately following SCO, as is standard COVID protocol for China.
Americans cannot convince of this and assume his demise. Death to America, of course

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I think there is one suspect who could have blown open the pipeline that few have considered.

What Nord Stream 1 and 2's removal means is that Ukraine, which has gas pipelines running through it - some of which that, if I recall correctly, Ukraine has disabled - has more power over gas getting into Europe. And Ukraine has previously offered up some of its gas reserves to Germany, but this requires that Ukraine be a functional state for the foreseeable future. Of course, Ukraine itself doesn't have the ability to do this - aside from one man. One semi-mythical individual who has always come to Ukraine's aid. That's right - the Ghost of Kiev.

ASB says...

The “sabotage” on the NS 1 & NS 2 pipelines:

We’ve studied this for the last 14 hours.

There are 3 things you need to understand about these pipelines:

1. These pipelines were Russia’s leverage over Europe. Massive leverage. Russia doing this is effectively political self-destruction. Not only in terms of economic profit, but in terms of strategic leverage over the EU bloc amid the conflict in Ukraine.

2. These pipes are built with concrete reinforced steel. They are made to withstand an impact from aircraft carrier anchors. They are basically indestructible without explosive charges.

3. The only realistic way this could have been carried out is via submarine/ship launched underwater drones.

There are only 3 countries that actively use this technology: USA, Russia & possibly China.

This means that there are gonna be fragments in the area, fragments of the explosives / drones used to destroy those pipelines.

US Navy warships and submarine were active in those exact areas a few days ago.

Spiegel reports that in summer, USA notified Germany about a possible Ukrainian attack on the NS pipelines.

There’s currently no evidence against the US, Russia nor — Ukraine (Ukraine does not have the capability to carry out such an operation)

Make your own conclusion

(Obviously it was the Dutch)

Cuba Ratifies Family Code

Cuba’s Código de las Familias (‘Families Code’) has been ratified by the population in Sunday’s referendum, receiving 66% of the ‘Yes’ vote according to preliminary figures reported by the Consejo Electoral Nacional (National Electoral Council – CEN).

The president of the CEN, Alina Balseiro Gutiérrez, reported that the Family Code was ratified by the Cuban people, providing preliminary results of the vote abroad and in Cuba.

She indicated that 6,251,786 voters went to the polls, representing 74.01% participation in the referendum. 8,447,467 voters were eligible to vote.

The ‘Yes’ option received 3,936,790 (66.87%) of the vote while the ‘No’ option received 1,950,090 (33.13%) of votes cast.

Meanwhile, Balseiro Gutiérrez affirmed that although the count remains pending in some constituencies of three provinces, the CEN validates these results as valid and irreversible. Final results will be announced later but the electoral authority has said that it can already be confirmed that the Family Code has been ratified.

HUGE W for lgbtq+ and minorities in Cuba. Common W for Miguel Diaz-Canel and the cuban people. :diaz-canel-troll:

Hurricane Update: I lived, birches.

Seriously, though, things are bad here. Power lines are down everywhere, no one has running water, and phone signals are touch and go. My place got flooded, so I'm staying with my parents right now. They have a generator, so things could be worse.

Thanks for all you do here, you’re basically running a news site inside this one. It’s awesome, and it’s inspirational that you’re still improving. :solidarity:

Russia to boycott Oscars as cultural isolation deepens

Pretty fucking rich that they're putting this "cultural isolation" on Russia given it was the West that started tearing down Soviet war memorials, banning the works of Russian authors from the 19th century and putting literal content warnings on TV shows that featured Russians being portrayed as anything other than subhuman barbarians. Mind numbing propaganda from Britain's leading "progressive" newspaper once again.

NATO condemns Russian annexation of Ukrainian territory, but alliance is not party to conflict - NATO Secretary General Stoltenberg

edit:

Now we cannot accept Ukraine into NATO - Stoltenberg

Holy shit, sanity prevails, at least for today. I hope.

It looks like the discussion is about the pipelines. Then it moved onto a short discussion about what NATO is doing to help Ukraine and stop Putler after some dipshit from the WSJ asked Stoltenberg a question, I kinda zoned out tbh. The press conference is now over.

Personally, I don't think it would be fair to say that NATO has blinked in response to the annexations, they haven't reduced their escalation, they just aren't increasing it.

It would be pretty fucking embarrassing for NATO if Russia did manage to hit a pipeline in the middle of the Baltic Sea, presumably without being detected as nobody appears to have any direct evidence that Russia did it.

Like, there's no way of hitting that (drone, missile, bomb, whatever) which doesn't look bad. What else could they secretly hit if they can strike things undetected in the middle of NATO?

I'm reminded of that stupid NATO Sea article.