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Amnesty Sweden co-founder resigns after org releases report documenting Ukraine military's use of citizen areas for deployment


RT
Wed, 10 Aug 2022 19:13 UTC
amnesty
© Getty Images / Stephen McCarthy
Per Wastberg, who co-founded the Swedish branch of Amnesty International, resigned from the organization on Wednesday. The Swedish activist said his departure was due to Amnesty's report about the conflict in Ukraine, and that the organization has gone beyond its original mandate to advocate for political prisoners.

"I have been a member for over 60 years. It is with a heavy heart that, due to Amnesty's statements regarding the war in Ukraine, I am ending a long and fruitful engagement," Wastberg told the newspaper Svenska Dagbladet, where he is an occasional columnist.

"From its inception, Amnesty worked for the freedom of political prisoners everywhere in the world," said Wastberg, who co-founded the Swedish branch in 1964. "It has since gradually, sometimes debatably, expanded its mandate" and become a different kind of organization, he added.
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Bad Guys

Progressive Gestapo: Hard-left academics 'plotted gender ID witch-hunt' on colleagues

James Beal
The Times
Wed, 10 Aug 2022 13:35 UTC
gender identity
A group of hard-left academics has been accused of stifling free speech on university campuses by plotting a witch-hunt against colleagues on gender identity.

University and College Union (UCU) members pledged to compile a list of university backroom staff suspected of holding gender-critical beliefs, the minutes from a meeting leaked to The Times reveal.

The plan was to use this information to "inform" UCU university branches of their colleagues' views, accusing them of being "transphobes" and "gender-critical activists".

Academics said members of UCU, the lecturers' union that represents more than 120,000 academics on UK campuses, were amplifying attacks on gender-critical feminists, with those speaking about sex-based rights compared to Holocaust deniers.

The findings come amid concern that British universities are damaging their reputations by restricting free speech on campuses.
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Star of David

But there's no apartheid: Palestinians forced off Israeli bus to make way for Jewish passengers


Middle East Eye
Tue, 09 Aug 2022 19:03 UTC
bus station west bank israel soldier apartheid
© Agence France-PresseAn Israeli soldier on guard at a bus station near the Jewish settlement of Ariel in the occupied West Bank on 14 October 2021
A man pretending to be a transport ministry official manipulated the driver into removing around 50 Palestinian workers from the bus

Three Jewish passengers, one impersonating a transport ministry official, have forced dozens of Palestinians off a bus heading to the occupied West Bank, according to Haaretz.

The incident happened last Thursday, when about 50 Palestinians workers left the bus in the city of Bnei Brak, after the Jewish passengers demanded that the driver tell them to disembark.

Tnufa Transportation Solutions, the bus owner, operates routes between Tel Aviv and the West Bank settlement of Ariel, taking Palestinian workers with work permits from Israel back to the occupied West Bank.

Comment: What does it say about the mindset of the average Israeli citizen when they so easily succumb to social pressure? At least the bus company took some action, though it's unlikely anything will come of it.

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Book

Neil Oliver: '...they are trying to make us forget what is ours....'

Neil Oliver
YouTube
Fri, 05 Aug 2022 11:54 UTC
Magna Carta
Magna Carta
'...governments and the would be powerful want us to think Magna Carta and the truths it contains do not matter anymore...'

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Bullseye

Djokovic wife slams magazine as vaccine row swirls


RT
Tue, 09 Aug 2022 10:26 UTC
Jelena Djokovic
© Simon Hofmann / Getty Images for LaureusJelena Djokovic came out in support of her husband.
Jelena Djokovic, the wife of 21-time Grand Slam winner Novak, has hit out at Racquet Magazine for penning an editorial piece critical of her husband's vaccine stance as the Serbian star looks increasingly likely to miss out on this month's US Open.

Djokovic appears almost certain to be absent for what would be a second Grand Slam event of the year, this time due to US rules forbidding unvaccinated non-citizens from entering the country.

In January, Djokovic was deported from Australia in a row over vaccine rules, in an incident which sparked a mini international incident between Australia and Serbia.

Comment: See also:

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Eye 1

Ottawa police detective faces misconduct charges for allegedly seeking links between COVID vaccine and child deaths

Matthew Lapierre
Ottawa Citizen
Mon, 08 Aug 2022 09:13 UTC
ottawa police station
© Ashley Fraser/Files Photo by Ashley Fraser /PostmediaAn Ottawa police service detective is facing misconduct charges for checking the vaccination status of the parents of deceased children.
Between June 2020 and January 2022, Grus allegedly accessed nine child or infant death cases in which she had no investigative role.

An Ottawa police officer is facing misconduct charges for allegedly inserting herself into child death investigations looking for connections to the COVID-19 vaccine.

Investigators with the Ottawa Police Service's professional standards unit allege Const. Helen Grus committed discreditable conduct when she took on a private investigative project to find the vaccination status of parents whose infants or children had died.

Comment: Some questions you are not allowed to ask, under any circumstances.





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Fire

Supply chain problems will persist because the system is being sabotaged

Brandon Smith
Alt-Market.us
Fri, 05 Aug 2022 00:00 UTC
empty supermarket shelf
In a recent interview with Bloomberg, the executive vice president of UPS asserted that "regionalization" of the supply chain is critical to economic stability as geopolitcal conflicts expand. The word "regionalization" is basically a code word to describe decentralization, a concept which the UPS representative obviously did not want to dive into directly. Almost every trade expert and industry insider is admitting that supply chain problems are going to persist into the foreseeable future, and some are starting to also admit (in a roundabout way) that localized production and trade models are the key to survival.

This is something that I and many other alternative economists have been talking about for a decade or more. The globalist dynamic of interdependency is a disaster waiting to happen, and now it's happening. Without decentralized mining of raw materials, local manufacturing, locally sourced goods, local food production and locally integrated trade networks there can be no true stability. All it takes for the system to implode is one or two crisis events and the economy's ability to meet public demand stagnates. The system doesn't completely stop, but it does slowly shrivel and degrade.
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Colosseum

UK gov't plans for blackouts, gas cuts, doubling of energy costs, come January

Alex Wickham
Bloomberg
Tue, 09 Aug 2022 16:50 UTC
Caracas blackout
© bangkokpost.comFILE PHOTO: Caracas, Venezuela during blackout
The UK is planning for several days over the winter when cold weather may combine with gas shortages, leading to organized blackouts for industry and even households.

Under the government's latest "reasonable worst-case scenario," Britain could face an electricity capacity shortfall totaling about a sixth of peak demand, even after emergency coal plants have been fired up, according to people familiar with the government's planning.

Under that outlook, below-average temperatures and reduced electricity imports from Norway and France could expose four days in January when the UK may need to trigger emergency measures to conserve gas, they said. The government Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy didn't immediately respond to a request for comment.
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Propaganda

Too much truth? CBS partially retracts documentary about Ukraine war and missing military weapons

Alyssa Blakemore
Daily Caller
Tue, 09 Aug 2022 18:11 UTC
american military aid ukraine
© REUTERS/Serhiy TakhmazovUS military aid being shipped to Ukraine
CBS issued a partial retraction Monday after a documentary aired suggesting the bulk of weapons sent to Ukraine fails to reach the front lines.

"We removed a tweet promoting our recent doc, 'Arming Ukraine,' which quoted the founder of the nonprofit Blue-Yellow, Jonas Ohman's assessment in late April that only around 30% of aid reached the front lines in Ukraine," CBS stated in a tweet. The news outlet added a similarly worded "editor's note" to the top of its written coverage of the documentary.

Ohman cited numerous logistical challenges in the delivery of needed equipment, CBS noted. Quotes from other figures in the documentary who are involved in the provision of Ukraine-bound supplies alluded to corruption and a lack of accountability of U.S. aid, CBS reported.

Comment: How can anyone believe that with such a geyser of weaponry being directed at a corrupt country like Ukraine, that some (or most) inventory would find its way on to the black market?

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Airplane Paper

Great reset: Amsterdam's Airport becomes world's first to cap flights in its bid to cut pollution


Schengen Visa Info
Thu, 30 Jun 2022 00:00 UTC
netheralands
© Koorengevel | Unsplash
The Netherlands' Schiphol airport has become the first in the world to cut the number of flights by 12 per cent in its bid to reduce pollution and make the industry and aviation more sustainable.

The decision has been taken by the country's government cabinet and the same has been made known to the House of Representatives through a letter signed by the Dutch Minister of Infrastructure and Water Management Mark Harbers, SchengenVisaInfo.com reports.

"Minister Harbers informs the House of Representatives about the cabinet's decision to reduce the maximum number of permitted aircraft movements to and from Schiphol to 440,000 per year. This instead of the 500,000 aircraft movements from the draft Airport Traffic Decree (LVB)," the government notes in a statement published alongside the letter sent to the House of Representatives.

Comment: If the elites had it their way the plebs wouldn't be allowed to fly or drive, they'd be on a nutritious diet of bugs and beyond burgers, jabbed up the wazoo, and taking cold showers, all while clapping for the NHS and shouting "Take that Putin". See also:

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