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The Guardian carried a very strange piece yesterday under the heading "Stamps celebrating Ukrainian resistance in pictures". This was the first image shown:
The Ukrainian Insurgent Army (UPA) was, without any shadow of a doubt, responsible for the slaughter of at least 200,000 Polish civilians; they liquidated whole Polish communities in Volhynia and Galicia, including the women and children. The current Polish government, which is as anti-Russian and pro-NATO as they come, nevertheless has declared this a genocide. It certainly was an extremely brutal ethnic cleansing. There is no doubt either that at times between 1942 and 1944 the UPA collaborated with the Nazis and collaborated in the destruction of Jews and Gypsies. It is simplistic to describe the UPA as fascist or an extension of the Nazi regime; at times they fought the Nazis, though they collaborated more often. There is a real sense in which they operated at the level of medieval peasants, simply seizing local opportunities to exterminate rural populations and seize their land and assets, be they Polish, Jew or Gypsy. But on balance any reasonable person would have to conclude that the UPA was an utterly deplorable phenomenon. To publish a celebration of it, disguised as a graphic art piece, without any of this context, is no more defensible than a display of Nazi art with no context.
© File/AFP/SANASyrian air defence intercepts a missile in the sky over Damascus.
The missiles flew from the Israeli-occupied Golan Heights region, Syrian state media reported, pinning the blame for the attack on Tel Aviv.
Brigadier-General Abu Al-Fadl Shukarji
Brigadier Shikarji added that only 8 Iranian advisers have found martyrdom under Israeli strikes during the 9 years of their legal presence in Syria, while stressing that Iranian forces have retaliated to Zionist attacks: he pointed out that when an Iranian adviser found martyrdom under Zionist fire 6 years ago, the Resistance retaliated by killing 5 Zionist soldiers in Palestine.
See Nasrallah: Syria triumphs, Israel is waging an imaginary war
Brigadier Shikarji added that when the Zionists targeted the T-4 base in Syria, the Resistance responded by targeting their bases in the Golan with 50 missiles and shells.
© Reuters/Mike BlakeDonald Trump and Hillary Clinton in the final 2016 presidential debate at UNLV in Las Vegas.
"I have to see. Look...I have to see," Trump told Chris Wallace in a Fox News interview aired Sunday morning. "No, I'm not going to just say yes. I'm not going to say no, and I didn't last time, either."
Trump's comments stirred a troubled reaction by the Associated Press, which reported that the president was going back to his "insurgent playbook of four years ago," when he made a similar comment in the final debate before the 2016 election. His answer also seemed to corroborate months of media speculation that Trump might refuse to accept defeat to Democrat challenger Joe Biden.
"It is remarkable that a sitting president would express less than complete confidence in the American democracy's electoral process," the AP said.
The mainstream media have apparently not found it remarkable that nearly four years on from the last presidential election, Trump's opponent, Hillary Clinton, still hasn't acknowledged the result as valid. Although she officially conceded her loss on election night, she has said repeatedly that the presidency was stolen from her.
© 4 News, YouTube
The admission that the Test and Trace was deployed without a DPIA and that there is still no DPIA in place now, means that the Government's entire Test & Trace programme has been operating unlawfully since its launch on 28th May 2020.
Comment: It ultimately comes down to which is more enforceable: Legality of the monitor or the integrity of the people.
© Reuter/Kevin LamarqueEx-governor of Ohio, John Kasich, oozing charisma from every pore...
Kasich, whose corporate-friendly centrism makes him an ideally noncontroversial figure (at least on the surface) for cross-partisan outreach, was recently approached by the Democratic Party and has agreed to speak at the convention next month, according to a source involved in the matter who spoke to the AP on Monday.
While Biden's campaign declined to confirm whether it specifically reached out to Kasich, a representative admitted to working with Republicans, claiming Biden had a long history of "being able to work across the aisle," and bringing anti-Trump GOPers into the tent was totally in character.
But Kasich's white-bread image masks a rather more controversial political record, and Democrats - many of whom have already been asked to compromise their principles to back the problematic Biden - aren't necessarily lining up to shake the hand of the failed 2016 presidential candidate turned never-Trumper.
Comment: Shocker: Without real and competent leaders, 'we the people' may be forced to take back responsibility and govern ourselves. Do we remember how?
© Jim Watson/AFP/Getty.jpgPresumptive Democratic presidential nominee Joe Biden
"Arizona is very much in play in 2020, so we appreciate you taking some time and talk to the people of our state," anchor Mark Curtis said.
"Oh, you're an important city. You guys are going through hell right now, are ya?" Biden responded.
"We really are with the pandemic," Curtis said.
Biden then said Curtis was "breaking up a little bit" and the candidate was having trouble hearing him.
Biden made the blunder just moments into an appearance on NBC 12:
Comment: A case of: "I'm daft and so am I..."
© Reuters/Peter NichollsLondon billboard spoof of Putin's 'role' in Brexit
The background to the report is clear. Russian interference in Brexit has become a mythical mantra for hardcore Remainers as they sought to try to discredit the result in any way they could.
The narrative that the Russians were behind the victory of Donald Trump in 2016 and Brexit gained currency on both sides of the pond.
Comment: The West just can't seem to give it up! It is so much easier to have a convenient 'other' to blame. Such a waste of energy that could have been put to use addressing their problems. It doesn't take a genius to see the US and UK are undermining themselves and both the threat and ineptitude is within.
© Reuters/Nathan HowardA smoke grenade burns in front of federal law enforcement officers, deployed to protect federal monuments and buildings, in Portland, Oregon, July 17, 2020.
After Oregon's largest city was subjected to its 50th straight night of violent unrest, Dean focused his ire on acting Department of Homeland Security (DHS) chief Chad Wolf. "This guy needs to be arrested, prosecuted and, if convicted, imprisoned for a very long time," Dean tweeted on Saturday.
Comment: Society allowed to run amok! Trump rebukes Portland's leadership for: dodging accountability, taking umbrage with federal agencies doing their jobs, and permitting protesters to continue on their tirade of destruction. Time for tough love with Portland's leadership who should have been doing the same regarding the protesters.
Trump wrote on Twitter:See also:"We are trying to help Portland, not hurt it. Their leadership has, for months, lost control of the anarchists and agitators. They are missing in action. We must protect Federal property, AND OUR PEOPLE. These were not merely protesters, these are the real deal!"His remarks came just hours after a mob broke into the office of the Portland police union and caused a small fire to the building's interior. Officers were able to extinguish the blaze and disperse the crowd.
Mayor Ted Wheeler banned federal officers from sharing headquarters with city police after personnel from the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) and other agencies were accused of seizing and detaining protesters without probable cause.
Governor Kate Brown and Senators Ron Wyden and Jeff Merkley have also criticized federal agents operating in the city and have called for a probe into their tactics.
- Homeland Security Chief Wolf blasts Portland city leaders for failing to quell 'violent mob,' protect citizens
- US: Occupy Portland Protests: Evicted By 1984 Police State!
- Wave of anarchy: Antifa has taken over the streets in Portland, Oregon
- The riots will continue: Portland prosecutors drop charges & release BLM, Antifa rioters
- Fights break out between conservatives and Antifa demonstrators at Portland rally
© Marva Brown/FacebookFootage of the incident, posted on Facebook by a user named Marva Brown, shows Waters on the side of the road explaining her actions before going to speak with deputies from the Los Angeles Sheriff's Office who had made the traffic stop
The black Democrat told the person filming her that the cops had 'stopped a brother,' and that she was going to check on the situation.
Waters claims that the deputies threatened her with a ticket for pulling over the way she did.
The Los Angeles Sheriff's Office later told DailyMail.com that the motorist had been pulled over as part of a burglary investigation.
Comment: Trump also won the popular vote in 2016, a fact manipulated and suppressed. The only thing that counts is an accurate count -- and then maybe the recount.
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