Re: #76 - Main news thread - conflicts, terrorism, crisis from around the globe

[Abacus]

(June 9, 2020) Hong Kong’s ‘pro-democracy’ movement allies with far-right US politicians that seek to crush Black Lives Matter
A leading Hong Kong “pro-democracy” figure, Jimmy Lai, has denounced nationwide protests in the United States against police brutality and systemic racism,
which were sparked by the police killing of an African-American man, George Floyd.
Hong Kong’s “pro-democracy” activists have gone so far as to derail the efforts
of an African-American woman who attempted to organize a Black Lives Matter demonstration in the city,
accusing her of being an agent of the police and Communist Party of China.
thegrayzone.com/2020/06/09/hong-kongs-far-right-us-politicians-crush-black-lives-matter/

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Alan MacLeod
@AlanRMacLeod (August 4, 2021)

That Facebook is recommending I watch content from the far-right QAnon-pushing Trump-loving conspiracy website the Epoch Times
(founded by a very weird Chinese cult) goes to show how little they actually care about fake news and bad information.

twitter.com/AlanRMacLeod/status/1422986961472610309

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Knock Knock Who's There?
web.archive.org/web/20201016220456/twitter.com/Qtah17/status/1317224773215166464

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Alan MacLeod
@AlanRMacLeodi (August 6, 2021)

First the New York Times made the Chinese medals in their pic smaller
so it looked like they werent as far ahead. Then they created an entirely new medal scoring system
(where bronze is worth the same as gold) so the US could get ahead.

The copium levels are off the charts

twitter.com/AlanRMacLeod/status/1423760693107597318

[Abacus]

(August 7, 2021) Report: US forces move ISIS fighters from prison to northern Syria
The Syrian Arab News Agency (SANA) reported on 7 August that at least 40 Islamic State (ISIS) terrorists were relocated
from a Kurdish-run prison to a US base in Ash Shaddadi in northeastern Syria.

The terrorists, including a spy commander and an explosives-making expert, were reportedly moved there by US troops.

The report comes just a few weeks after a high-ranking officer in Iraq’s Popular Mobilization Units said that thermal cameras recorded US military helicopters
transferring ISIS terrorists to different locations in the country.
thecradle.co/Article/news/850

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Ben Norton
@BenjaminNorton (June 28, 2021)

While the US military illegally bombed Iraq and Syria in an act of aggression,
ISIS fascists used the airstrikes as cover to launch a terror attack on Iraq's power grid.

The US once again shows itself to be ISIS' air force

twitter.com/BenjaminNorton/status/1409529196129492997
presstv.ir/Detail/2021/06/28/661045/Iraq-Samarra-power-station-Daesh-rocket-attack-US-bombing

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Max Blumenthal
@MaxBlumenthal (August 7, 2021)

A Chinese-Pakistan investigation revealed the Uyghur separatist East Turkestan Islamic Party (ETIM)
helped conduct an attack that killed nine Chinese engineers in Pakistan this July.

The US delisted ETIM last year on the grounds that it does not exist.

twitter.com/MaxBlumenthal/status/1424048342024196103

[Böhse Tante]

(July 26, 2021) Fascism, newnormalism and the left
winteroak.org.uk/2020/07/26/fascism-newnormalism-and-the-left/

Thanks for posting that. Very interesting.

Thanks, I almost missed it. Besides learning some things about Italian fascism and its beginnings and the parallels to that in Germany, I see the correspondence with my thinking to today's vitaphobic "left". I will continue to make this pearl of article known, there are former defenders of the measures, which are now waking up (even if they are still afraid of the virus).

[刘汉]

رئيس وزراء إسرائيل: نظام إيران يمارس الإرهاب في ممرات الملاحة الدولية #العربية_عاجل https://t.co/a1vIGVFnOW

— العربية عاجل (@AlArabiya_Brk) August 8, 2021

Israeli Prime Minister: The Iranian government practices terrorism in international shipping lanes

[刘汉]

Reports that the Taliban have captured the provincial capital cities of Kunduz and Sar-e Pol.

Total chaos’ as Taliban clash with Afghan forces in bid to take key city of Kunduz

https://www.france24.com/en/asia-pacific/20210808-total-chaos-as-taliban-clash-with-afghan-forces-in-bid-to-take-key-city-of-kunduz

It looks like Taliban have captured the 4 biggest cities in North Afghanistan which they did not manage even in the 1990s against Northern alliance, The reason Taliban are successful in non pashtun areas is because 20% of Taliban are now Tajiks 10% uzbek and 70% pashtun so its no longer just a pashtun movement.

Bad for Dostum and Erdogan, good for China.

[刘汉]

Jawzjan: Head of Provincial Council Joined The Talibanhttps://t.co/y1jsNDWdRC pic.twitter.com/xzluZRfAnq

— ShamshadNews (@Shamshadnetwork) August 8, 2021

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Glenn Greenwald
@ggreenwald (August 6, 2021)

The Jake-Sullivan-led Biden delegation that met Bolsonaro
in Brasilia this week offered Bolsonaro *membership in NATO*
in exchange for him not using Huawei for Brazil's 5G,
reports Brazil's largest paper, @Folha: all this as Bolsonaro increases his threats to cancel elections.

twitter.com/ggreenwald/status/1423715674510221313

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Springprincess
@TamrikoT (August 7, 2021)

This Israel gymnast made a mistake, dropped the ribbon and guess what- she won #gold at #Tokyo2020
when #Russian Flag of Russia gymnast Dina Averina, did not make a single mistake
was misjudged deliberately and deprived of the gold medal.

Shame on all the judges and Thomas Bach @Olympics !

twitter.com/TamrikoT/status/1424035156617318407

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السودان يعلن استدعاء سفيره في إثيوبيا للتشاور بعد اتهامات إثيوبيا بالتدخل في أزمة تيغراي #العربية_عاجل https://t.co/a1vIGVFnOW

— العربية عاجل (@AlArabiya_Brk) August 8, 2021

Sudan announces recalling its ambassador to Ethiopia for consultations after accusing Ethiopia of interfering in the Tigray crisis

[刘汉]

China-flagged YONG LE (9623257) completed her loading yesterday at the Jose Terminal in Venezuela. She is laden with 1.9 million barrels of crude oil for China. A @planet sat pic caught her as she left the berth. China does not officially import VE oil yet AIS is on. #OOTT pic.twitter.com/xLKPzQoAQ7

— TankerTrackers.com, Inc. (@TankerTrackers) August 7, 2021

Now lets wait for the pirates.

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https://www.german-foreign-policy.com/news/detail/8676/

(from August 3)

"Illegally occupied islands

The frigate Bayern stops at Diego Garcia on its East Asia voyage. The island, site of a U.S. military base, is illegally occupied by Britain, according to UN courts.
...
According to the German Defense Ministry, the frigate Bayern, which departed from Wilhelmshaven yesterday, will first sail to the Mediterranean Sea, where it will take part in NATO's Operation Sea Guardian; after continuing through the Suez Canal and the Red Sea, it will then join the EU's Operation Atalanta in the Horn of Africa. It is then scheduled to travel to the Pakistani port city of Karachi before cruising the Indian Ocean and calling at Diego Garcia. Any criticism of "territorial claims according to the law of the strongest" (Kramp-Karrenbauer) and a constant refusal to "comply with international law" (Maas) is not something Berlin has with regard to Diego Garcia."

Translated with www.DeepL.com/Translator (free version)

[KneelB4Zod!]

Prisoners waiting to leave jail in Taloqan #Takhar #Afghanistan pic.twitter.com/c7whwVMFZ3

— Dr. Drexluddin Khan Spiveyzai Kayani (Drexy Baba) (@RisboLensky) August 8, 2021

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Firefighters from Qatar on the way to Greece... ( that was unexpected to be honest but ofc we thank them) pic.twitter.com/32gfaKByCT

— TIGER (@wrongname46) August 8, 2021

[KneelB4Zod!]

It seems Kunduz is still contested:

Pamir Corps posted video of military unit near Abdul Raziq square, about 3 hrs. ago #Kunduz pic.twitter.com/2z0qKieSEE

— Dr. Drexluddin Khan Spiveyzai Kayani (Drexy Baba) (@RisboLensky) August 8, 2021

[KneelB4Zod!]

Hope they're thoroughly probed pic.twitter.com/W4RkEHMaQ8

— Carl Zha (@CarlZha) August 8, 2021

[KneelB4Zod!]

One of the important things any credible journalist should do before addressing the Syrian issue is to put the conflict in a proper context. Without contextualizing the Syrian war, alternative media journalists will look like mainstream journos.

WATCH: https://t.co/70AMmwyZ65

— Syriana Analysis (@SyrianaAnalysis) August 8, 2021

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ASB News / MILITARYPart
@ASBMilitary
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Interesting: A drone saved a swimmer’s life in Russia’s Black Sea resort city for the first time ever - drowning alert was registered by a specialized monitoring system which deployed a drone with a life vest to the drowning swimmer who overestimated his swimming stamina.

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Bosni
@Bosni_94
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some gas turbines from Iran arrived recently. to be used for the Rastan power plant project in the Lattakia governorate

Iranian Mapna Group is constructing the power plant pic.twitter.com/Vc0hspfXqu

— Bosni (@Bosni_94) August 8, 2021

[KneelB4Zod!]

US sent bombers to Afghanistan to stop Taliban...:

Airstrikes in Kunduz city causing heavy damage to civilian infrastructure and lives. American B-52 and Afghan Airforce commenced an indiscriminate bombing campaign against urban centers. pic.twitter.com/nUp7yv2Hqr

— Documenting Afghanistan (@DocumentingAFG) August 8, 2021

Great recruitment campaign for Taliban...

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Human Rights Watch Watcher
@queeralamode (August 7, 2021)

The CIA follows 35 accounts on Instagram, 24 of which are other US government organizations.
The other 11 accounts are…rather interesting.

- Melissa McCarthy
- Claire Danes
- Ryan Reynolds
- John Krasinski
- Jessica Chastain
- Jennifer Garner
- Bryan Cranston
- Ben Affleck
- Tom Hanks
- Pierce Brosnan
- James Bond 007

twitter.com/queeralamode/status/1424066236980207620

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Human Rights Watch Watcher
@queeralamode (August 7, 2021)

Bill Clinton: bombed both Afghanistan and Somalia

George W. Bush: bombed both Afghanistan and Somalia

Barack Obama: bombed both Afghanistan and Somalia

Donald Trump: bombed both Afghanistan and Somalia

Joe Biden: bombed both Afghanistan and Somalia

twitter.com/queeralamode/status/1424094445318721538

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vanessa beeley
@VanessaBeeley (August 7, 2021)

Timeline of #CIA #MI6 intervention in #Syria or context to demonstrate dishonesty of narratives
that maintain talking points used to sustain economic & military war against #Syrian people:

twitter.com/VanessaBeeley/status/1424048638242836484

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vanessa beeley
@VanessaBeeley (August 7, 2021)

Timeline of #CIA #MI6 intervention in #Syria or context to demonstrate dishonesty of narratives
that maintain talking points used to sustain economic & military war against #Syrian people:

- 1956 CIA plot to overthrow the Syrian government
- 1983 CIA document and plans to obliterate Syria to enable pipeline
- 1986 CIA document discussing Syria and role of Muslim Brotherhood in a possible civil war fueled by Sunni-Shiite conflict

- 2001 Wesley Clark told that USA will take out 7 countries in 5 years
- 2001-3 Bush/Blair emails released during Chilcot Enquiry into mythical #Iraq WMD reveal that BB already had plans to target Syria & Iran
but favoured incentivisation over coercion as initial step.

- 2005 CNN Interview. Christiane Amanpour tells Assad that Western governments are plotting a regime change in #Syria
- 2005-2007 US funded opposition leaders within Syria to defeat Assad in the 2007 election.
US also funded anti-Assad Muslim Brotherhood groups based out of Washington.

- 2006 State Dept cable: Detailed discussion of various strategies to enable regime change
- 2006 TIME published article "Syria in Bush's crosshairs" "The Bush Administration has been quietly nurturing individuals
and parties opposed to the Syrian government in an effort to undermine the regime of President Bashar Assad"

- 2009 US and UK spend millions to start a satellite TV channel (“Barada TV”) to broadcast anti-Assad programs
- 2009 State Dept Email: Saudi Arabia is worried that a Shiite crescent is turning into a full moon
(referring to a possible Iran-Iraq-Syria-Lebanon coalition). Saudi Arabia, therefore, wanted to remove Assad
and turn Syria into a Sunni/Salafist-dominated country

- 2009 State Dept Cable: Saudi Arabia is the #1 source of funding of terrorism worldwide
- 2011 Special Ops from US/UK/Turkey were inside Syria, training the armed groups
- 2011 Weapons shipped from Libya to Syria after the fall of Gaddafi
- 2011-2013 160 military cargo planes full of US weapons were sent to Syria
(Sent from Saudi Arabia and Qatar to Turkey; then sneaked into Syria across the border).
- 2011-2017: 10 links that show collusion between “Moderate Rebels” (FSA) and Al Qaeda or ISIS

- 2012 CIA spending $100,000 per “moderate rebel” for training to fight in Syria. $1 billion per year in training terrorists. #CIA Timber Sycamore
- 2012 State Dept Email: Conquest of Syria means a weakened Iran and this is important for Israel
- 2012 State Dept Email: Use Saudi Arabia, Qatar and Turkey to arm/train armed groups dominated by #AlQaeda
- 2012 Saudi Arabia demands that Assad be overthrown using all means available
- 2012 Hillary Clinton receives an email: “Al Qaeda is on our side.”

- 2012 DIA (Pentagon) memo: Al Qaeda, Muslim Brotherhood and Salafists (Wahhabi extremist Sunnis) are the main forces trying to overthrow Assad
- 2012 NY Times and others report that most US weapons sent to Syria were ending up in the hands of Jihadists #ISIS #AlQaeda
- 2012 Experienced Al Qaeda leaders from all over the world go to Syria to overthrow the #Syrian government
- 2012 Laurent Fabius, French FM, "Al Qaeda are doing a good job in #Syria"

- 2014 Hillary Clinton writes about Saudi Arabia and Qatar funding ISIS
- 2014: 4-Star General Martin Dempsey – Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff – said during a Senate hearing,
“I know many Arab allies who fund ISIS.”

- 2014 Oops, USA accidentally drops weapons right in ISIS’ hands
- 2015 Top ISIS commander used to be a “star pupil” of CIA in the country of Georgia
- 2015 By 2015, more than 30,000 foreign terrorists were fighting in Syria. This is not a civil war!
- 2015 NATO Commander Gen. Wesley Clark said, “our friends and allies funded ISIS.”
- 2015 Joe Biden says Saudi Arabia and Qatar arming/funding Al Qaeda in Syria

- 2015 Turkey-ISIS connections: oil and arms trade
- 2015 Amnesty report: Most ISIS’ weapons are from America.
- 2016 Israeli Defense Minister, Ya’alon: “We prefer ISIS to Assad in Syria.”
- 2016 Israel’s Intelligence Chief, Herzi Halevy: “We will do everything to make sure ISIS does not lose in Syria.”
- 2016 UN closed session - John Kerry admits US allowed #ISIS to flourish to overthrown the Syrian government

- 2016 Oops, I did it again! US drops tons of weapons into ISIS’ hands again. By mistake, of course!
- 2016 Al Qaeda (Al Nusra) leader brags about getting weapons from the US
- 2016 White Helmets receive multi-million funding fm western coalition regimes invested in #Syria war
- 2016 Presidential candidate Evan McMullin tweeted that his role in CIA (in 2011-2012) was to convince Al Qaeda in Syria/Iraq to work with the U.S.
- 2016 Chapter 10 of the book “WikiLeaks Files” that explains the efforts behind regime change in Syria
- 2017 & 2015: Thomas Friedman of The New York Times wrote two pieces asserting that ISIS is better than Assad
- 2017 Brett McGurk "Idlib is the largest #AlQaeda haven since 9/11"
- 2019 Israel Offence Forces’ Chief of Staff, Lieutenant General Gadi Eisenkot
admits #Israel directly supported armed extremist groups to overthrow #Syrian government.

- 2021 Ambassador James Jeffrey admits that #AlQaeda "offshoot" is a US asset in #Syria.


twitter.com/VanessaBeeley/status/1424048638242836484

[KneelB4Zod!]

vanessa beeley
@VanessaBeeley (August 7, 2021)

Timeline of #CIA #MI6 intervention in #Syria or context to demonstrate dishonesty of narratives
that maintain talking points used to sustain economic & military war against #Syrian people:

- 1956 CIA plot to overthrow the Syrian government
- 1983 CIA document and plans to obliterate Syria to enable pipeline
- 1986 CIA document discussing Syria and role of Muslim Brotherhood in a possible civil war fueled by Sunni-Shiite conflict

- 2001 Wesley Clark told that USA will take out 7 countries in 5 years
- 2001-3 Bush/Blair emails released during Chilcot Enquiry into mythical #Iraq WMD reveal that BB already had plans to target Syria & Iran
but favoured incentivisation over coercion as initial step.

- 2005 CNN Interview. Christiane Amanpour tells Assad that Western governments are plotting a regime change in #Syria
- 2005-2007 US funded opposition leaders within Syria to defeat Assad in the 2007 election.
US also funded anti-Assad Muslim Brotherhood groups based out of Washington.

- 2006 State Dept cable: Detailed discussion of various strategies to enable regime change
- 2006 TIME published article "Syria in Bush's crosshairs" "The Bush Administration has been quietly nurturing individuals
and parties opposed to the Syrian government in an effort to undermine the regime of President Bashar Assad"

- 2009 US and UK spend millions to start a satellite TV channel (“Barada TV”) to broadcast anti-Assad programs
- 2009 State Dept Email: Saudi Arabia is worried that a Shiite crescent is turning into a full moon
(referring to a possible Iran-Iraq-Syria-Lebanon coalition). Saudi Arabia, therefore, wanted to remove Assad
and turn Syria into a Sunni/Salafist-dominated country

- 2009 State Dept Cable: Saudi Arabia is the #1 source of funding of terrorism worldwide
- 2011 Special Ops from US/UK/Turkey were inside Syria, training the armed groups
- 2011 Weapons shipped from Libya to Syria after the fall of Gaddafi
- 2011-2013 160 military cargo planes full of US weapons were sent to Syria
(Sent from Saudi Arabia and Qatar to Turkey; then sneaked into Syria across the border).
- 2011-2017: 10 links that show collusion between “Moderate Rebels” (FSA) and Al Qaeda or ISIS

- 2012 CIA spending $100,000 per “moderate rebel” for training to fight in Syria. $1 billion per year in training terrorists. #CIA Timber Sycamore
- 2012 State Dept Email: Conquest of Syria means a weakened Iran and this is important for Israel
- 2012 State Dept Email: Use Saudi Arabia, Qatar and Turkey to arm/train armed groups dominated by #AlQaeda
- 2012 Saudi Arabia demands that Assad be overthrown using all means available
- 2012 Hillary Clinton receives an email: “Al Qaeda is on our side.”

- 2012 DIA (Pentagon) memo: Al Qaeda, Muslim Brotherhood and Salafists (Wahhabi extremist Sunnis) are the main forces trying to overthrow Assad
- 2012 NY Times and others report that most US weapons sent to Syria were ending up in the hands of Jihadists #ISIS #AlQaeda
- 2012 Experienced Al Qaeda leaders from all over the world go to Syria to overthrow the #Syrian  government
- 2012 Laurent Fabius, French FM, "Al Qaeda are doing a good job in #Syria"

- 2014 Hillary Clinton writes about Saudi Arabia and Qatar funding ISIS
- 2014: 4-Star General Martin Dempsey – Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff – said during a Senate hearing,
“I know many Arab allies who fund ISIS.”

- 2014 Oops, USA accidentally drops weapons right in ISIS’ hands
- 2015 Top ISIS commander used to be a “star pupil” of CIA in the country of Georgia
- 2015 By 2015, more than 30,000 foreign terrorists were fighting in Syria. This is not a civil war!
- 2015 NATO Commander Gen. Wesley Clark said, “our friends and allies funded ISIS.”
- 2015 Joe Biden says Saudi Arabia and Qatar arming/funding Al Qaeda in Syria

- 2015 Turkey-ISIS connections: oil and arms trade
- 2015 Amnesty report: Most ISIS’ weapons are from America.
- 2016 Israeli Defense Minister, Ya’alon: “We prefer ISIS to Assad in Syria.”
- 2016 Israel’s Intelligence Chief, Herzi Halevy: “We will do everything to make sure ISIS does not lose in Syria.”
- 2016 UN closed session - John Kerry admits US allowed #ISIS to flourish to overthrown the Syrian government

- 2016 Oops, I did it again! US drops tons of weapons into ISIS’ hands again. By mistake, of course!
- 2016 Al Qaeda (Al Nusra) leader brags about getting weapons from the US
- 2016 White Helmets receive multi-million funding fm western coalition regimes invested in #Syria war
- 2016 Presidential candidate Evan McMullin tweeted that his role in CIA (in 2011-2012) was to convince Al Qaeda in Syria/Iraq to work with the U.S.
- 2016 Chapter 10 of the book “WikiLeaks Files” that explains the efforts behind regime change in Syria
- 2017 & 2015: Thomas Friedman of The New York Times wrote two pieces asserting that ISIS is better than Assad
- 2017 Brett McGurk "Idlib is the largest #AlQaeda haven since 9/11"
- 2019 Israel Offence Forces’ Chief of Staff, Lieutenant General Gadi Eisenkot
admits #Israel directly supported armed extremist groups to overthrow #Syrian government.

- 2021 Ambassador James Jeffrey admits that #AlQaeda "offshoot" is a US asset in #Syria.


twitter.com/VanessaBeeley/status/1424048638242836484

[Böhse Tante]

Human Rights Watch Watcher
@queeralamode (August 7, 2021)

The CIA follows 35 accounts on Instagram, 24 of which are other US government organizations.
The other 11 accounts are…rather interesting.

- Melissa McCarthy
- Claire Danes
- Ryan Reynolds
- John Krasinski
- Jessica Chastain
- Jennifer Garner
- Bryan Cranston
- Ben Affleck
- Tom Hanks
- Pierce Brosnan
- James Bond 007

twitter.com/queeralamode/status/1424066236980207620

- James Bond 007