Translated from French by Tom Winter

The anesthesiologist Alexander Chernov, who worked in the city of Ienakievo in the Donbass, said that in providing emergency care to veterans of the Donetsk People's Republic (DNR) he did whatever he could to cause maximum damage to patients.

In an interview with the online channel Ukrlife.tv, anesthesiologist Alexander Chernov told the chilling story of his "achievements" during fighting in eastern Ukraine. The video was posted on YouTube. According to Mr. Chernov, he only used standard resuscitation drugs.

"I inflicted maximum damage to enemy patients with medication. At first glance, it would look like a heart attack, a stroke, or simply something incomprehensible. Only careful and costly expertise can discover a person's true cause of death," said the doctor/murderer.

The Ukrainian resuscitator added that he had sent in all personal data and diagnoses of patients to the Ukrainian Security Service (SBU) by email and Skype.

"Many of my colleagues, unfortunately, believe that doctors are out of politics. But I continue to assure everyone that the Hippocratic oath should not be an excuse to help the enemy," said Alexander Chernov.

Chernov said that after leaving the DNR he continued to practice medicine in the territories under the control of Kiev.

I wrote this piece in 2012, in the wake of the Sandy Hook shooting. I re-post it now, because it equally applies to the Orlando shooting.

No, I'm not talking about the flicker of the television picture. I'm talking about an on-off switch that controls information conveyed to the television audience.

The Sandy Hook school murders provide an example.

First of all, elite media coverage of this tragedy has one goal: to provide an expanding narrative of what happened. It's a story. It has a plot.

In order to tell the story, there has to be a source of information. The topflight television anchors are getting their information from...where?

Their junior reporters? Not really. Ultimately, the information is coming from the police, and secondarily from local officials.

In other words, very little actual journalism is happening. The media anchors are absorbing, arranging, and broadcasting details given to them by the police investigators.

A French woman who left her baby daughter to drown on a beach said Monday she had no other explanation but "witchcraft". Fabienne Kabou, 39, went on trial for the murder of 15-month-old Adelaide which shocked the country in November 2013.

The French woman of Senegalese origin described her well-off childhood in Dakar before she moved to Paris to study philosophy and architecture and fell in love with a sculptor 30 years her senior, Michel Lafon. "In 2011 I fell pregnant with Adelaide, she was born in August and I ended up killing her, 15 months after her birth," she told the court in the northeastern town of Saint-Omer.

Kabou travelled with her daughter from their home in Paris to the northern resort town of Berck-sur-Mer where she enquired about the local tides before heading to the beach. She said goodbye to her sleeping daughter and placed her near the water on a wintry night.
The baby's lifeless body was discovered early the next morning by prawn fishermen.

Teenage recruits into the Australian military were subjected to horrendous physical and sexual abuse by their senior officers, a new inquiry has found.

On Tuesday, the Royal Commission into Institutional Responses to Child Sex Abuse started an inquiry into the conduct of the Australian military and its treatment of apprentices at its facilities in the course of the past five decades.

The inquiry revealed that the victims were sexually abused during their first six months at the Leeuwin base, in Perth's south, in 1967.

The survivors told the commission that their senior officers forced them to rape each other and perform horrific sex acts, causing some the recruits to commit suicide, according to the inquiry.

A former Navy cadet, who served in in 1967, told the commission that he was "repeatedly" raped and forced to perform horrific sex acts on his fellow recruits.

Graeme Frazer, one of 14 survivor witnesses giving evidence at the commission, said he suffers serious health problems, including crippling anxiety.

Frazer said there were some people in military "who still think it is OK to break people down by whatever means necessary."

This news-report consists of a compilation of accounts that Crimeans have given to human rights groups or directly posted to the internet, regarding their experiences when the freely elected President of Ukraine, Viktor Yanukovych, who had received 75% of the votes of Crimeans, was violently overthrown during January and February of 2014.

On 20 February 2014, eight busloads of people from Crimea, who had come into Ukraine's capital Kiev and were holding signs there demonstrating in opposition to the "Maidan" movement, which was seeking to oust Yanukovych, were violently attacked by "Right Sector" people who were leading the Maidan movement; and those terrified Crimeans then scrambled back into their buses, which promptly sped southward, toward home in Crimea.

An organization "Ukraine Human Rights" created and posted to the internet, on 14 August 2014, a 25-minute video, with English subtitles, telling these people's stories. It's titled "The Pogrom of Korsun", and it reports, with testimony and some of the videos from survivors, the attacks against those buses when a gang of Ukraine's Right Sector members caught up with those escaping Crimeans, near the Ukrainian town of Korsun.

Private cellphone videos that were taken of these incidents were shown in the compilation by Ukraine Human Rights, but one other striking cellphone video, which was posted to youtube on 15 August 2014, isn't fully available anymore, and it showed the view from the rear seat of a car as it was approaching a blockage, and the blocked buses, some of which were aflame. A few car-drivers were standing watching at a distance, while the Right Sector people beat and killed Crimeans alongside their buses.

Pagans and astronomers are headed for the hills for the "strawberry moon," a rare appearance of earth's only natural satellite in full glory during the summer solstice, for what promises to be a glorious sky show.

Unfortunately, the lunar orb won't turn bright red as its nickname suggests. Instead it comes from the Algonquin tribe who believed it signaled the beginning of strawberry picking season.

Thousands of people around the world will celebrate at ancient stone circles and other structures built for the solstice by their pagan ancestors. This year's solstice can be celebrated from anywhere, but Stonehenge always attracts the most color on the day with hundreds expected Monday night.

Druids looking to pay tribute to the sun at the iconic site are faced - for the first time ever - with a £15 ($22) so-called 'pay to pray' parking fee.

Unfortunately for those who do manage to get to Stonehenge, the weather forecast is not looking favorable, with some rain and cloud to hide the sun from its worshippers.

A massive blaze killed 5,000 pigs after two pig barns caught fire in Canada's Saskatchewan - a west-central province known for its prairies and boreal forests.

Footage from the scene shows heavy gray smoke rising from the barns, which are located near the town of Leroy in Saskatchewan about 160 kilometers east of Saskatoon, the largest city in the province.

The UN's annual List of Shame is supposed to blacklist countries and groups "engage(d) in the recruitment and use of children, sexual violence against children, the killing and maiming of children, attacks on schools and/or hospitals and attacks or threats of attacks against protected personnel, and the abduction of children."

It consistently fails the test of fairness. Syria's freedom-fighting military was disgracefully blacklisted - courageously combating US-supported terrorists, imported from scores of foreign countries.

No nations more demand blacklisting than America, Israel, Turkey and Saudi Arabia, along with their rogue allies.

Rice harvested in Japan's Fukushima region, heavily affected by a nuclear meltdown in 2011, is returning to the EU, starting with Britain next month, the Japan Times reports. A total of 1.9 tons of Fukushima rice called Ten no Tsubu will be sold in London, making the UK the first EU nation to import the region's produce after the nuclear disaster.

The sale became possible after a long campaign from Fukushima natives in London to fend off rumors about the potential danger of the crops, the media said. "With the UK as a foothold, we hope to expand the sale of prefecture-produced rice to other EU member countries,"said Nobuo Ohashi from Japanese farmers group Zen-Noh. Brussels requires rice from Fukushima to undergo a radiation test in Japan or the importer country.

"It's bright news for Fukushima, which has been struggling with the import restrictions. We will make further efforts so the restrictions will be lifted entirely," said a spokesperson for a prefectural office.

The disaster at the Fukushima-Daiichi Nuclear Plant was caused by a tsunami that resulted in the meltdown of three nuclear reactors and the release of radioactive material. It was the largest nuclear disaster since the Chernobyl accident in 1986, and the second to receive the highest level classification on the International Nuclear Event Scale.

A March report by the US National Academy of Sciences said that five years following the disaster, most seafood caught off the coast of Japan is now safe to be consumed, adding, "the overall contamination risk for aquatic food items is very low."

A 22-year-old man was shot dead in Palm Bay, Florida, by an off-duty Brevard County Sheriff's deputy in a fit of uncontrolled road rage late Sunday morning, marking the latest in incidents involving police coming unhinged and targeting civilians.

Deputy Yousef Hafza, a veteran cop with 11 years in law enforcement, shot Clarence Mahogany X. Howard in an apparent case of road rage, though details about what took place remain murky, unnamed investigators told local ABC affiliate, WFTV 9.

"There were no witnesses to the exact incident other than the person who was in the vehicle," stated Brevard County Sheriff Wayne Ivey. He added without clarifying, "There was somebody who came up right after."

WFTV 9 reported Howard had followed the Hafza for a time prior to the shooting, though the deputy was not injured in the apparent confrontation.