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Amnesty International report: Ukraine military endangers civilians by locating forces in residential areas


Amnesty International
Thu, 04 Aug 2022 14:54 UTC
injured civilians in Ukraine conflict
© countercurrents.orgCivilians caught in crossfire in War in Eastern Ukraine.
Schools and hospitals used as military bases by Ukrainian forces
'We have no say in what the military does, but we pay the price' - resident in city of Bakhmut

'Being in a defensive position does not exempt the Ukrainian military from respecting international humanitarian law' - Agnès Callamard
The Ukrainian military has endangered Ukrainian civilians by establishing bases and operating weapons systems in residential areas - including in schools and hospitals - as it has sought to repel the Russian invasion, Amnesty International said today.

Ukraine's tactics have violated international humanitarian law as they've turned civilian objects into military targets. The ensuing Russian strikes in populated areas have killed civilians and destroyed civilian infrastructure.

Not every Russian attack documented by Amnesty has followed this pattern. In certain locations in which Amnesty concluded that Russia had committed war crimes - including in some areas of the city of Kharkiv - Amnesty did not find evidence of Ukrainian forces located in civilian areas unlawfully targeted by the Russian military.

Comment: As usual, Amnesty is late to the party, as it was with defending Julian Assange. More likely, this (unusually truthful) report is part of the West setting up Zelensky to be removed, by making him the villain of the piece.

What they said then:

Amnesty International and Human Rights Watch publish biased report on eastern Ukraine, making them accomplices to human rights violations

What they're saying now: Background: Amnesty International's problematic collaboration with UK and US intelligence

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Sherlock

Taiwan official leading missile production found dead in hotel

Roman Meitac
Jerusalem Post
Sat, 06 Aug 2022 12:10 UTC
missile china taiwan
© Eastern Theatre Command/Handout via REUTERSThe Ground Force under the Eastern Theatre Command of China's People's Liberation Army (PLA) conducts a long-range live-fire drill into the Taiwan Strait, from an undisclosed location in this handout released on August 4, 2022.
The deputy head of Taiwan defense ministry's research and development unit was found dead on Saturday morning in a hotel room, according to the official Central News Agency.

Ou Yang Li-hsing, 57, who was the deputy head of the military-owned National Chung-Shan Institute of Science and Technology (NCSIST), was found dead in a hotel room in southern Taiwan on Saturday morning, CNA reported, adding that authorities were looking into the cause and circumstances of his death.

Authorities are currently saying that Ou Yang likely died of a heart attack and that the hotel room showed no sign of any 'intrusion.' His family said he had a history of heart disease and had a cardiac stent, according to police reports.
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Eye 2

Major escalation as Israeli airstrikes on Gaza kill several Palestinians, Tel Aviv claims it killed 'top member' of PIJ


RT
Sat, 06 Aug 2022 15:53 UTC
Israeli airstrike on Gaza, August 5th 2022
Israeli airstrike on Gaza, August 5th 2022
The Israel Defense Forces launched strikes on residential area in Gaza on Friday, in response to the alleged threat of assault by the Palestinian Islamic Jihad (PIJ). One of the group's top members was killed. Local officials also say that the IDF attack left several civilians dead and dozens injured.

Video footage shows smoke rising from a densely-packed residential area of the Palestinian enclave, after Israeli forces conducted airstrikes. In a statement, the IDF said that the attack was launched following "the direct threats posed by the Palestinian Islamic Jihad in Gaza."

The mission was named 'Operation Breaking Dawn' by the IDF.

Comment: Compare Western media's response to Israel's diabolical criminality against the Palestinians, with their reaction to Russia's incursion into Ukraine; which has gone to extreme lengths, including the loss of its own soldiers, to avoid civilian casualties. The contrast is even more stark when one considers Ukraine has one of Europe's largest armies, that is being funded and supplied by some of the richest and well equipped nations on the planet.

However there are signs that Israel may be ramping up its attacks on Palestine, and elsewhere, such as Syria, not only because they know they can get away with it, and thus are becoming ever more brazen, but it also seems as though it's becoming clear that their time to achieve their nefarious objectives is running out: Russia summons Israeli ambassador, says Israel using Ukraine to 'distract from Palestine'

UPDATE: 6th of August @ 13:50 CET

Times of Israel reports that Gaza has allegedly retaliated with a rocket barrage at border towns:
Rocket sirens sound in the southern cities of Ashkelon of Ashdod, as well as the town of Sderot and a number of Gaza border communities as a barrage of projectiles is fired from the Strip.
iron dome israel
© Yonatan Sindel/Flash90Iron Dome anti-missile system intercepts rockets fired from the Gaza Strip to Israel on August 6, 2022
Missile defense systems intercept at least two projectiles.

There are no immediate reports of casualties or damage.

Earlier on Saturday the Israel Defense Forces said at least 160 rockets have been fired at Israel since Friday afternoon, however dozens more have been launched from Gaza since that update.


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Bizarro Earth

Video shows shopkeeper defend store by repeatedly stabbing thief in Las Vegas

Marjorie Hernandez
New York Post
Fri, 05 Aug 2022 18:43 UTC
robbery
© Johnny NguyenNguyen stabbed the 17-year-old suspect at least seven times during the botched robbery.
A Las Vegas vape store owner repeatedly stabbed a crook who frightened him by jumping over his counter during a botched robbery, according to video and the worker's account of the incident.

Video footage showed the brazen broad-daylight heist on Wednesday, in which Johnny Nguyen, owner of Smokestrom Smoke Shop, stabbed the unidentified assailant at least seven times before the robber yelled, "I'm dead" and fell to the ground.

Las Vegas Metropolitan Police Department officials told The Post that cops responded Wednesday afternoon to a robbery incident at the vape business but would not release further details.

Comment: With the police rendered impotent by liberal laws that essentially allow theft to go unpunished; law enforcement chronically understaffed; soaring poverty, drug dependency, and inflation; it's little wonder that a crime wave is surging across the US.

Warning: Graphic content



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TV

CNN ratings collapse as network looks for 'new revenue'—including 'extending' the brand in China

Joshua Young
The Post Millennial
Thu, 04 Aug 2022 17:35 UTC
cnn stelter
Over at CNN the "hunt is on for new revenue" as the news network's "ratings plummet" and "profits slump" below nearly $1 billion.

On Tuesday, the New York Times reported that CNN's yearly profitability is expected to decline to $956.8 according to projections from S&P Global Market Intelligence.

CNN's annual profits haven't sunk below $1 billion since 2016, the year Donald Trump beat Hillary Clinton in the presidential election and subsequently became a prominent figure in their commentary. "Ratings are down from their Trump-era heights across cable news, but declines at CNN are particularly pronounced," the Times noted.

Comment: Is it even possible to turn around a brand with as little credibility and integrity as CNN?

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Beer

Craft breweries are facing tough decisions amid a nationwide carbon dioxide shortage

Rob Wile
NBC News
Wed, 03 Aug 2022 18:57 UTC
craft brewery
© Jeffrey Thompson/MPR News File
Breweries have already been facing higher costs for raw materials like aluminum and barley as a result of inflation.

Craft breweries across America have been on the front lines of businesses facing higher material costs because of inflation.

Now, many are confronting a shortage of a key ingredient: carbon dioxide, the gas that gives beer its crisp, effervescent taste.
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MIB

Most of the "fact-checking" organizations Facebook uses in Ukraine are directly funded by Washington

Alan Macleod
MintPress News
Sat, 06 Aug 2022 09:33 UTC
facebook ukraine factcheck
© MintPress News
Most of the fact-checking organizations Facebook has partnered with to monitor and regulate information about Ukraine are directly funded by the U.S. government, either through the U.S. Embassy or via the notorious National Endowment for Democracy (NED).

In light of Russia's invasion of Ukraine, an information war as bitter as the ground fighting has erupted, and Meta (Facebook's official name) announced it had partnered with nine organizations to help it sort fact from fiction for Ukrainian, Russian and other Eastern European users. These nine organizations are: StopFake, VoxCheck, Fact Check Georgia, Demagog, Myth Detector, Lead Stories, Patikrinta 15min, Re:Baltica and Delfi.

"To reduce the spread of misinformation and provide more reliable information to users, we partner with independent third-party fact-checkers globally," the Silicon Valley giant wrote, adding, "Facebook's independent third-party fact-checkers are all certified by the International Fact-Checking Network (IFCN). The IFCN, a subsidiary of the journalism research organization Poynter Institute, is dedicated to bringing together fact-checkers worldwide."

The problem with this? At least five of the nine organizations are directly in the pay of the United States government, a major belligerent in the conflict. The Poynter Institute is also funded by the NED. Furthermore, many of the other fact-checking organizations also have deep connections with other NATO powers, including direct funding.
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USA

Leftists dominate FBI top 10 domestic terror list, despite warnings about far right

Luke Rosiak
The Daily Wire
Thu, 04 Aug 2022 00:01 UTC
fbi most wanted leftists
© FBIMost Wanted Domestic Terrorists.
Many on list are associated with a leftist group that bombed the Capitol in 1983. Democrats pardoned or commuted the sentences of non-fugitives tied to that group.

The FBI has sounded the alarm about white supremacists and far-right extremists, but the bureau's own Top 10 "most wanted domestic terrorists" list includes at least two Communists, three black nationalists, one anti-war activist, and a vegan eco-terrorist.

While the diverse roster doesn't purport to capture the breadth of domestic terror, it seems at odds with federal law enforcement's claims that white supremacists pose the biggest threat facing the nation. Some skeptics are accusing the bureau of exaggerating the threat by adopting a misleading definition of such ideologies.

Comment: Could it be that American right-wing extremism has actually been exaggerated and that extremist leftists are actually more prevalent and dangerous? Nah. It must be that the most wanted list isn't reflective of domestic terrorist threats over all.

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Twitter censors Pfizer-injured Israeli covid vaccine director

KanekoaTheGreat
kanekoa.substack.com
Wed, 03 Aug 2022 09:16 UTC
Shmuel Shapira, M.D., MPH
Professor Shmuel Shapira, M.D., MPH, served as the Director General of the Israel Institute for Biological Research (IIBR) between 2013 and 2021, where he led Israel's effort to develop a coronavirus vaccine.

Prof. Shapira is also the founder and head of the Department of Military Medicine of the Hebrew University Faculty of Medicine and IDF Medical Corps. He is a Senior Research Fellow at the International Institute for Counter-Terrorism (ICT) at Reichman University in Israel.

Shapira previously served as Deputy Director General of the Hadassah Medical Organization and as the Director of the Hebrew University Hadassah School of Public Health. He is a Full Colonel (Res.) in the Israel Defense Forces (IDF) and served as the IDF Head of Trauma Branch.

He has published more than 110 peer-reviewed scientific articles and is the editor of Essentials of Terror Medicine, Best Practice for Medical Management of Terror Incidents, and Medical Response to Terror Threats.

Last week, Twitter censored Prof. Shapira — who was "physically injured" after his third Pfizer vaccine — and forced him to remove a post which said: "Monkey pox cases were rare for years. During the last years a single case was documented in Israel. It is well established the mRNA vaccines affect the natural immune system. A monkey pox outbreak following massive covid vaccination: *Is not a coincidence."
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Bad Guys

Twitter facilitates cyber terrorism and NATO-proxy war crimes in Ukraine

Vanessa Beeley
beeley.substack.com
Wed, 03 Aug 2022 00:00 UTC
Ukrainian Special Forces (SSO) sniper.
Ukrainian Special Forces (SSO) sniper.
Louise Mensch an online blogger, former UK Conservative MP, chick-lit author and committed Russophobe with a sizeable following on Twitter effectively called upon the Ukrainian Special Operations Forces to assassinate Canadian journalist Eva Bartlett.

Mensch whose Substack account includes titles such as "Yes Vladimir Putin has Parkinson's disease" a claim refuted by CIA Director William Burns responded to Bartlett's comment that she was on the ground in Donbass recording the Ukrainian criminal use of petal or butterfly mines in residential areas of Donetsk and surroundings.

Video - Eva Bartlett's on-the-ground report on butterfly mine deployment against Donetsk civilians:

Comment: Mensch tried to justify herself:


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