The Most Powerful Man in Porn? Meet Prague’s Porn Pharaoh - VSquare.org
Prague has been Europe’s unofficial porn capital for decades. For the past 20 years, one company and one man has dominated Europe’s porn industry.
🔎📽️NEW INVESTIGATION: Prague has long been Europe’s porn capital, with hundreds of films shot yearly and more porn stars per capita than anywhere else. For 20 years, one man and his companies have dominated the industry — but new laws may end that. By @octopaul.bsky.social vsquare.org/the-most-pow...
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The report I've been waiting for! Congrats @lawrencesec.bsky.social
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1/ Today, we published “One Step Ahead: Stark Industries Solutions Preempts EU Sanctions,” revealing how hosting provider #StarkIndustries executed a multi-phase restructuring of its operations, beginning up to a month before #EU sanctions.
27.08.2025 14:21 — 👍 7 🔁 4 💬 1 📌 4
How a Czech Supply Chain Feeds the Global Spyware Machine - VSquare.org
Several people living in the Czech Republic have worked for Intellexa, the spyware company, representatives of which have been accused of assisting with human rights violations and are currently on…
From @vsquare.bsky.social: Several people living in the Czech Republic have worked for Intellexa, a spyware company highlighted by ICIJ’s #CyprusConfidential. Intellexa figures accused of assisting with human rights violations are currently on trial in Greece.
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💥A senior Trump administration official told the Guardian a Putin–Zelensky meeting could happen in Hungary.
Did Trump or this senior official hear that Hungarian PM Viktor Orbán thinks Trump is “not strong enough” — and that this is why the war keeps dragging on?
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Russia tried to influence Germany's election. Which country is the next target? - VSquare.org
Russia's disinformation campaigns are growing across Europe, using social media to support far-right parties like Germany's AfD, but their actual impact remains unclear.
🇷🇺🤖 Russia's disinformation campaigns are growing across Europe, using social media to support far-right parties like Germany's AfD, but their actual impact remains unclear. Read this great expert interview by @investigacecz.bsky.social on @vsquare.bsky.social.👇
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Abgasskandal: Doch noch Vergleich für VW-Dieselkunden
Abbruch der Verhandlungen, gegenseitige Schuldzuweisungen - und nun doch eine Einigung. Volkswagen und Verbraucherschützer haben eine gemeinsame Lösung zur Entschädigung von Hunderttausenden Diesel...
“in the context of the difficult negotiations, the result is the maximum achievable," said Board member Klaus Müller. VW's offer is within the scope of the compensation sums achieved so far in German courts in similar proceedings.”
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… in Germany there were “260,000 customers who have registered with the Federal Office of Justice in the register of Law,” for whom “VW offers a one-time payment between 1350 and 6257 euros depending on the vehicle. This corresponds on average to around 15 percent of the original purchase price.”
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And the timeline since is hardly satisfactory, according to cleanenergywire: https://www.cleanenergywire.org/factsheets/dieselgate-timeline-car-emissions-fraud-scandal-germany
15.07.2023 12:16 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0
The #dieselgate fix was deemed inadequate in 2019 https://www.greencarreports.com/news/1124676_vw-diesel-fix-deemed-inadequate-in-germany
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As a recap of #dieselgate, the vehicles were found to have “emitted 40 times more NO2 in real driving” than VW claimed.
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“The Federal Environment Agency (UBA) in May confirmed that the main source of nitrogen oxides in German cities is road traffic, especially diesel vehicles. “
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The nitrous in the air is also linked to greater susceptibility and more deaths from COVID: https://www.azocleantech.com/news.aspx?newsID=31811
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Germany has been found to be consistently in breach of EU air quality regulations: https://www.euractiv.com/section/air-pollution/news/germany-convicted-for-breaching-eu-air-quality-law/ since #dieselgate
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I discover this fact as a VW TDI leaves its engine on whilst parking in front of me. A Frenchman on crutches eventually screams “pollution!” at the owner, whilst the cafe’d Germans stare at him, bewildered.
Is Berlin’s nitrous oxide problem a legacy of #dieselgate?
15.07.2023 12:07 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0
Today there are warnings in #Berlin of dangerous levels of nitrous oxide in the air destroying the air quality metrics (when the others are in line with standards).
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