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Russian soldiers 'not human' says Kiev's transgender military spokesperson


RT
Tue, 08 Aug 2023 18:43 UTC
Ukraine transgender spokesperson
© Screenshot Twitter / @SarahAshtonLV
Russian soldiers drastically differ from Ukrainian service members because they are not human, according to an American transgender journalist recently appointed as an official spokesperson for Kiev's territorial defense forces.

On Saturday, Sarah Ashton-Cirillo posted a 21-second clip on X (formerly Twitter) in which she is seen standing in front of a cardboard cutout of a Russian soldier. Pointing at the figure, the spokesperson asks: "Do you know the difference between us and them?"

While Ukrainians "are fighting for freedom," Russians "are fighting for tyranny and dictatorship," Ashton-Cirillo claimed, adding that the most distinctive feature is "pretty simple." "We are human, and those guys most definitely aren't," she said, concluding the speech with the slogan "Glory to Ukraine."

The video did not sit well with many social media users, with some describing it as "shockingly unpleasant" and "absolutely disgusting." Another commenter recalled that viewing Russians as non-humans did not end well for Nazi Germany in the 1940s.
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Ohio sees massive voter turnout on GOP ballot question to protect state constitution from liberal activists

Andrew Mark Miller
Fox News
Mon, 07 Aug 2023 18:26 UTC
Ohio voters constitution
© AP Photo/Darron CummingsOhio voters on Tuesday will decide on a ballot measure to make it harder to amend the state constitution.
Ohio voters on Tuesday will decide on a ballot measure to make it harder to amend the state constitution, a change conservatives say is needed to protect the state from a radical anti-gun, abortion and education agenda that could soon find its way to other states.

It's an issue that has already prompted a massive early vote turnout - one that has some election offices straining to manage the load.

"This is gubernatorial-level turnout," said Regine Johnson, deputy director of the board of elections in Stark County.

As of Wednesday, more than 533,000 people had voted by mail or in person since early voting began July 11, according to data collected by the Associated Press. That's nearly double the final early voting figures for Ohio's two previous midterm primary elections, which included races for governor and Congress.
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Attention

'Alarming' rise in kidnapping of Haiti children, women: UNICEF


yahoo!news, AFP
Mon, 07 Aug 2023 18:13 UTC
Hatian women children
Haiti's children and women increasingly are becoming targets of kidnapping in Haiti, where a spike in such abductions is raising alarms checked by doctors at the Fontaine Hospital Center in the Cite Soleil slum in Port-au-Prince on August 4, 2023. In Cite Soleil, the largest slum in the gang-infested Haitian capital, the early days of August have brought a grim flow of skeletally malnourished children to the Fontaine Hospital Center. The community clinic, a reassuring presence in this poorest corner of Port-au-Prince for more than 30 years, offers rare respite to inhabitants who now face daily threats from the armed groups controlling much of the city.
Some 300 women and minors were kidnapped in Haiti by criminal gangs in the first half of this year, UNICEF said Monday, warning of a disturbing rise in abductions that leave "deep physical and psychological scars."

That six-month number is close to the total registered for the entirety of last year and is triple the 2021 tally -- "an alarming spike in kidnappings," the United Nations children's agency said, adding that many women and children face "unthinkable terror" at the hands of the pervasive gangs.

"The stories we are hearing from UNICEF colleagues and partners on the ground are shocking and unacceptable," Garry Conille, the agency's regional director for Latin America and the Caribbean, said in a statement.
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Major US meat processor Tyson to shut 6 plants as market volatility takes its toll on food supply chain


CNN
Tue, 08 Aug 2023 17:18 UTC
Tyson Fresh Meats
© REUTERS/Adam Shrimplin/File PhotoThe exterior of the Tyson Fresh Meats processing plant is seen three days after a fire heavily damaged the facility in the Finney County town of Holcomb, Kansas, U.S. August 12, 2019.
Chicken prices are down. That's good news for chicken eaters, but bad news for Tyson Foods.

The meat processor, which supplies about a fifth of the beef, pork and chicken in the United States, said Monday that it is shutting down four chicken plants - — two in Missouri, one in Indiana and one in Arkansas — following declining chicken revenue. The Arkansas-based company previously announced two separate closures in the spring.

The company reported earnings for the quarter ending July 1 that showed chicken revenue fell about 3.5%.

Volumes actually rose, but prices dropped 5.5%.

Comment: A similar trend has been reported over in Europe, with significant declines in meat purchases as consumers have struggled to cope with high inflation and energy prices.

When one considers how fragile the food supply chain already is, and at all levels, from production to processing and shipping; and how most aspects of it have become even more vulnerable of late what with a convergence of issues, including extreme weather, high energy costs, supermarket extorting suppliers, and huge culls over alleged contagions; and with countries already banning exports of certain goods in order to stave off potential unrest at home; taken together, the food supply is looking precarious, businesses know it, and it's clear that it won't take much to cause prices to surge and for shortages to start to bite:

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Crime is unlike anything Canada's seen, and it's getting worse

Tristin Hopper
National Post
Tue, 08 Aug 2023 14:42 UTC
Toronto Police Forensics
© Jack Boland/Toronto SunToronto Police Forensics officer Det.-Const. Rhonda Haley takes images of bullet that pierced a window at a day-care centre as a result of a drive-by shooting.
In a recent public update on the state of crime in the City of Edmonton, Chief Dale McFee had the solemn work of informing reporters that everything was worse.

"While crime was higher in some categories back in the 1990s, the critical level of violence and weapons we are seeing today is beyond comparison," he said.

In May, McFee said publicly that the system had "once again failed" after a mother and child were randomly attacked and killed. The man apprehended by police, who died in hospital after being shot, had recently been freed despite a history of violence. And the interim three months have only yielded a cascade of additional murders and violent assaults. McFee called the trends "alarming" and spoke of families living "in fear" and unable to enjoy their communities.
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'Global pedophile ring' busted: 100 arrests, 13 children rescued, 2 FBI agents killed

Chantal Da Silva
NBC
Tue, 08 Aug 2023 16:46 UTC
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One of 19 Australian men charged in connection with a global paedophile ring is pictured.The Australian Federal Police announced Tuesday that at least 13 children were rescued from further harm as a result of a joint operation with the FBI, dubbed “Operation Bakis.”
Almost 100 people in the United States and Australia have so far been arrested over child sexual abuse allegations after the fatal shooting of two FBI agents led to the unraveling of a suspected international pedophile ring, officials announced Tuesday.

The Australian Federal Police (AFP) said that 19 men had been arrested on charges of sharing child abuse material online, while at least 13 children were rescued from further harm as a result of a joint operation with the FBI, dubbed "Operation Bakis."

The development brought the total number of people arrested as part of the joint probe up to 98, with at least 79 arrests so far carried out by the FBI, according to the Australian agency.

Comment: That's something; however, when one considers that the Epstein client list still hasn't been disclosed, the evidence of child sexual abuse on Hunter Biden's laptop that still hasn't been investigated, along with the litany of politicians implicated in child rape, both past and present, it's quite clear that this bust is merely the tip of the iceberg, and, as usual, these arrests are only of the low-level criminals:

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Singer Ne-Yo got canceled for saying men are men and women are women, his publicist apologized on his behalf, now Ne-Yo is taking back the apology

Cardinal Pritchard
Not the Bee
Tue, 08 Aug 2023 14:21 UTC
singer ne-yo
Crazy world we live in, folks. Yesterday, Grammy award-winning artist Ne-Yo got canceled by the rainbow mob after going off on a wild "anti-trans" rant during an interview. And let me be clear, this "anti-trans" (as they call it) rant went a little something like this:


Comment: See also:

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Bad Guys

Why Biden's plan to arm tankers in the Persian gulf is a bad idea

Trita Parsi
Responsible Statecraft
Mon, 07 Aug 2023 22:33 UTC
USS warship
Biden is charting a dangerous path in signaling to Saudi Arabia that Washington has its back in return for Israel normalization. According to Responsible Statecraft, Biden may not be aware of the repercussions of arming private vessels in the Persian Gulf.
According to Paul Pillar of Responsible Statecraft, the last time the United States deployed ready-to-fight weapons and military troops on ocean-going commercial boats was in the twentieth century during World War II. At the time, the US Navy established an armed guard on merchant ships, which were most of the time enemy targets.

Pillar remarks that hundreds of these ships were sunk, and around 2,000 members of the Armed Guard were killed. Since then, the US had only conducted something similar when escorting Kuwaiti oil tankers during the Iran-Iraq war's "tanker war" phase in the 80s but did not station their own troops on the vessels.

Still, Iran was capable of deploying mines and causing damage to the vessels, which forced the US to no longer lead the ships but rather sheepishly lag behind since they were unarmed and more vulnerable.

Comment: It's a sign of deranged US hubris that it thinks sending some warships and a couple of thousand troops is going to deter Iran and its allies from trade, especially where it's seizures of previous vessels has been met with retaliation, and its actions up to now have mostly come to nought. Increased provocations and chaos creation in the region will likely accelerate the strengthening ties between nations in the Middle East, whilst also confirming the need to further sideline the US:

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Banks have closed a million accounts in just four years, with rate of closures accelerating

Patrick Tooher
Daily Mail
Sun, 06 Aug 2023 01:25 UTC
natwest uk bank
More than a million bank accounts have been shut since 2019 - and the rate of closures is accelerating, The Mail on Sunday can reveal.

Figures obtained under a Freedom of Information request show that banks are on track to smash the previous record of 343,500 accounts closed last year.

The alarming news comes amid the continuing fall-out from the Nigel Farage affair.
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The US can no longer use its $110 million drone base in Niger

Jeff Schogol
Task & Purpose
Tue, 08 Aug 2023 09:56 UTC
Reaper drone
© (Senior Airman Haley Stevens/U.S. Air Force)An MQ-9 Reaper.
The U.S. military is unable to fly drones from a base in Niger because the country's airspace has been closed after a coup overthrew the government in late July, a U.S. official said.

Known as "Nigerien Air Base 201," the installation cost $110 million to build and it features a 6,200-foot runway for MQ-9 Reapers as well as manned aircraft. The U.S. military began conducting drone flights from the base in November 2019.

About 1,100 U.S. troops are currently deployed to Niger, according to the Defense Department. The country is an important partner in the U.S. military's efforts to counter the Islamic State group and other terrorist organizations in Africa. In October 2017, four U.S. soldiers were killed near the Nigerien village of Tongo Tongo after being attacked by more than 100 ISIS fighters.


Comment: The West backs these terrorist groups in order to keep the region destabilised, as well as to attack those entities who might choose to defy them - such as those groups who might dare to work for sovereignty in their country.


Politico first reported that U.S. military drones were unable to fly from a base near Agadez, Niger, after the country's armed forces ousted Niger's president in a July 26 coup.

Comment: See also: Nigeria cuts electricity to Niger following coup, cutting off 70% of its power supply

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