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Maksim Artemyev: Public opinion seems to be turning against the military draft in Ukraine, how will the Zelensky regime respond?

Maksim Artemyev
RT
Mon, 25 Jul 2022 18:10 UTC
Zelensky
© AFP/Sergei SupinskyUkrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky
Five months into Russia's military offensive in Ukraine many in the latter state are starting to vocalise their objection to the draft imposed by the regime in Kiev. Especially as the propaganda about victory, any day now, starts to lose its power.

Popular Ukrainian blogger and activist Yury Kasyanov recently made a post on his Facebook page, in which he complained:
"Let's stop the mobilization, open the borders, and dissolve all the military recruitment offices... Let the professionals do the fighting - after all, they get paid for it - and let the volunteers join in, because they want to fight. But I am an untrained civilian, unfit for war; I'm going to get myself killed. And I pay my taxes, too!"
With this provocative post, Kasyanov intended to spark a discussion about mandatory conscription in Ukraine. But the results of the debate came as a shock to the blogger:
"Judging by the comments on the previous post, nine out of ten Ukrainians have no intention to fight; they oppose nationwide mobilization, as well as the ban on men leaving the country."
It should be noted that Kasyanov's followers, like himself, are fierce supporters of the idea that Ukraine must fight Russia to the bitter end. And yet, even among them, the vast majority have no desire to die for the glory of Ukraine.
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SOTT Focus: What Is a Woman?

L.P. Koch
luctalks.substack.com
Thu, 04 Aug 2022 19:25 UTC
Virgin Mary Statue
 Definitions don't help. And this makes gender ideology even more dangerous.
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Blake Masters, other Trump-backed candidates win key primaries Tuesday

Tyler Durden
Zero Hedge
Wed, 03 Aug 2022 10:44 UTC
Masters
© unknownBlake Masters
Blake Masters, who was backed by both former President Trump and his old boss, venture capitalist Peter Thiel, won Tuesday's Republican primary for the US Senate race in Arizona, according to the Associated Press.

With around 80% of ballots counted, Masters had 39% of the vote vs. challengers Jim Lamon (29%) and state AG Mark Brnovich (18%). As the Wall Street Journal notes, Arizona Republicans see the Senate race as one of their best chances to snatch a seat from the Democrats.

Thiel, a billionaire, pumped $15 million of his own money into a super PAC that boosted Masters, who will take on incumbent Democratic Sen. Mark Kelly, a former astronaut, in the November general election.

Elsewhere in Arizona, Trump-backed Mark Finchem - who says there was fraud in the 2020 election in Arizona's Pima County, won the Republican nomination for Secretary of State. Another candidate, former TV anchor Kari Lake who had Trump's backing, held a slight edge early Wednesday over real estate developer and AZ Board of Regents member Karrin Taylor Robson, who was endorsed by former VP Mike Pence.
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Moscow court jails Griner for nine years in drug trial


RT
Thu, 04 Aug 2022 17:23 UTC
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© AP /NZ HeraldBrittney Griner stands in a Moscow courtroom listening to the verdict.
US women's basketball player Brittney Griner has been handed a nine-year prison sentence after being found guilty in her drugs trial at a court just outside Moscow.

The sentence is only slightly more lenient than the one demanded by prosecutors earlier on Thursday, after they had requested a nine-and-a-half-year term for Griner.

In addition, the presiding judge ordered Griner to pay a fine of 1 million Russian rubles ($16,200) as part of the case, after she was found guilty of attempting to smuggle illegal narcotics into the country.

Griner's legal team immediately said they would appeal the sentence, according to reports from Khimki City Court.

Comment: Russian Foreign Ministry says US is disrespecting law in Brittney Griner case

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UK law chief Suella Braverman says ditch the woke 'witch trials'

Martin Beckford
Daily Mail
Thu, 04 Aug 2022 17:12 UTC
Suella Braverman
© AFP 2022 / Justin TallisUK Attorney General Suella Braverman
The Attorney General today launches a fightback against woke 'witch trials'.

Suella Braverman brands the diversity industry a 'new religion' in which zealots seek to punish unbelievers while others are too scared to speak out.

In an article for the Daily Mail, she reveals she has scrapped equality training in her department after learning that staff had spent almost 2,000 hours on the courses last year.

They were being given lectures on 'micro-incivilities' and 'how to be a straight ally'.

Mrs Braverman, who stood for the Tory leadership last month, says it is 'downright dangerous' for Whitehall lawyers to be taught they cannot challenge anyone who says they have been offended by a particular phrase.
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Germany: Fire, explosions at Berlin police munitions facility


DW
Thu, 04 Aug 2022 16:34 UTC
Berlin fire
Berlin's fire department said that more than 100 personnel were on the scene early on Thursday
Firefighters have responded to a blaze in the upscale Grunewald forest in the west of the German capital. A munitions storage facility was affected and emergency services reported explosions at the scene.

A fire broke out in Berlin's Grunewald forest early on Thursday following an explosion at a munitions storage site, with the German capital still facing searing summer temperatures.

The threat of further explosions and flying debris meant firefighters were hampered from systematically extinguishing the fire. Personnel were forced to keep a distance of a kilometer (more than half a mile) from the flames.

Berlin fire department spokesman James Klein explained to DW the challenge that was facing firefighters.

"What we have here is an ordnance site. So ordnance is stored and also fireworks and other objects that can also explode, detonate."

"There are different items stored there, so there can be smaller and larger explosions. We are optimistic, because the heavy ordnance also located there, is stored accordingly, cooled and in steel containers, so that we can protect them."
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FOIA request reveals school district hid library database that has pornographic material


Libs of TikTok
Fri, 29 Jul 2022 00:00 UTC
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Richland School District Two in South Carolina has been exposed for removing guest access to the school district's online library catalog because of the "current political climate" and "scrutiny." The move made it impossible for parents to access the catalog and view what books were being made available to their children. Parents who were already outraged over the material in the library submitted a Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) request last month which revealed an email from Richland School District officials demanding the library be locked.

The now-disclosed email (shown below) was sent by Richland's Library Media Specialist, Amy Whitfield. The email states that RSD's Chief Academic Officer, Nancy Gregory, had requested the district "remove guest access to our library catalogs" to hinder anyone "who may have malicious intent in searching our library collections." Whitfield directed RSD staff to "do this as soon as possible."

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Amnesty International: Ukraine violates laws of war by placing weapons at schools


TASS
Thu, 04 Aug 2022 04:31 UTC
War in Ukraine is Imminent soldiers tank flag
Ukraine violates the laws of war and puts the lives of civilians at risk by deploying combat vehicles and weapons at schools and hospitals, according to an Amnesty International report released on Thursday.

"We have documented a pattern of Ukrainian forces putting civilians at risk and violating the laws of war when they operate in populated areas," said Agnes Callamard, Amnesty International's Secretary General.

According to the report, human rights activities reported cases when Ukrainian troops launched strikes from residential areas and deployed weapons at civil infrastructure facilities in 19 Ukrainian settlements, including in Donbass, the Kharkov and Nikolayev regions. "In the cases it documented, Amnesty is not aware that the Ukrainian military asked or assisted civilians to evacuate nearby buildings - a failure to take feasible precautions to protect civilians," Amnesty International said.
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Reporter tells White House security coordinator 'You gave a whole country to extremists'

Steve Watson
Summit News
Wed, 03 Aug 2022 19:00 UTC
John Kirby
"What did you think was going to happen?"

White House Coordinator for Strategic Communications at the National Security Council John Kirby was confronted Tuesday by Fox News correspondent Peter Doocy over the revelation that Al Qaeda has reestablished itself in Afghanistan following the Biden administration's botched withdrawal from the country, handing it back to Taliban extremists.

Doocy first raised the issue of the administration claiming they knew Al Qaeda has a presence in Afghanistan despite Joe Biden's claim last year that the terrorist organisation was "gone" from the country.

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How Canada stupidly bet its border economy on ArriveCAN — a glitchy $25M app

Tristin Hopper
National Post
Wed, 03 Aug 2022 14:43 UTC
arriveCan border crossing
© John Richardson
Right now, nobody gets into Canada without first uploading a cornucopia of needlessly complex personal details to ArriveCAN, a federally mandated smartphone app (that has had an annoying penchant to routinely sentence innocent people to house arrest). There are estimates that ArriveCAN has singlehandedly kneecapped foreign tourism by as much as 50 per cent, it has somehow managed to destroy a 100-year-old golf club, and the federal government has never really adequately explained why we need it.

By the mid-summer of 2022, a lot of tourism businesses near the Canadian border started to notice something: Where is everybody?

Pandemic restrictions are lifted, but there aren't nearly as many Americans blowing money at Niagara Falls casinos. In May 2020, just before COVID started, almost a million people crossed the border near Buffalo, N.Y. In May 2022, it was about half a million.

If you ask basically any politician whose constituency is near the U.S./Canadian border, they know exactly what to blame for all this: The ArriveCAN app.
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