Re: #98 - Main news thread - conflicts, terrorism, crisis from around the globe

[刘汉]

https://t.me/VanessaBeeley/6751

As predicted. Boris gone, Marburg begins.

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https://t.me/VanessaBeeley/6751?comment=34671

We could only hope it was just the Devil on his own, however remarks by C.S. Lewis is likely the sadder truth: "Of all tyrannies, a tyranny sincerely exercised for the good of its victims may be the most oppressive. It would be better to live under robber barons than under omnipotent moral busybodies. The robber baron’s cruelty may sometimes sleep, his cupidity may at some point be satiated; but those who torment us for our own good will torment us without end for they do so with the approval of their own conscience. They may be more likely to go to Heaven yet at the same time likelier to make a Hell of earth. This very kindness stings with intolerable insult. To be “cured” against one’s will and cured of states which we may not regard as disease is to be put on a level of those who have not yet reached the age of reason or those who never will; to be classed with infants, imbeciles, and domestic animals."

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I don't like C.S. Lewis. This former atheist was reconciled with Christianity by J.R.R. Tolkien, stole from him for his Perelandra- and Narnia-stories, and is praised by Christians. What a hypocrite!

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Austin Fisher
@austinfishernz
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11h
New Education Minister, gives a middle finger salute to members of the public outside Downing Street. If there is one image that captures everything that is wrong with this Government- it’s this.

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Spriteer
@spriteer_774400
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The President of Sri Lanka has fled the country

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Russian infantry fighting vehicles during the fighting in Donbass. pic.twitter.com/9cpbjgLYxH

— Prateek (@PrateekRoutray) July 9, 2022

[刘汉]

Ghost of the Z fella
@mdfzeh
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I love it when the Kiev regime talks about bringing Russia to the hague for war crimes. Because if investigated, 99% of them would turn out to have been made by UA.

https://apnews.com/article/russia-ukraine-united-nations-bears-government-and-politics-6d04e2ef9d873f98826264eb47ebc690

This depends how it is done. At Nürnberg it was forbidden to talk about US war crimes.

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That's rather funny but also speaks loud about credibility of the corporate media. And not just tabloids. Story about "general Pavel" was published evan by Czech newswebs as Novinky.cz or CNN...

https://cnn.iprima.cz/ji-pet-jidel-denne-a-proleva-je-vodkou-putin-vola-na-frontu-obezniho-generala-pavla-111510

So what's bahind this bullshit story? Let's take a look...:

Rien Emmery
@ArbiterOfTweets
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4h
Remember this "exclusive" story in the Daily Star about "general Pavel", who was supposedly "dragged out of retirement" by Putin and sent to Ukraine?

So yeah, turns out that's total bullshit.

@Lotte_Lambrecht
and I found out who's _actually_ in this photo. Follow along!

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Rien Emmery
@ArbiterOfTweets
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4h
The Daily Star quoted an anonymous "senior intelligence source" for the article.

It was picked up by virtually every other tabloid in the UK and by a lot of international newspapers. In Belgium
@HLN_BE
also ran the story: https://archive.ph/166h9

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Rien Emmery
@ArbiterOfTweets
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4h
Reverse Image Search didn't reveal much, apart from the fact that the earliest online version of the photo was a Russian fat joke on Twitter (June 5th) calling our chonky guy the "Commander-in-chief of the Canteen".

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https://twitter.com/ElectricReborn/status/1533351479641268224?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw%7Ctwcamp%5Etweetembed%7Ctwterm%5E1533351479641268224%7Ctwgr%5E%7Ctwcon%5Es1_&ref_url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.vrt.be%2Fvrtnws%2Fnl%2F2022%2F07%2F08%2Fcheck-generaal-pavel%2F

Rien Emmery
@ArbiterOfTweets
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4h
In June, the photo also circulated on Reddit, in the r/AbsoluteUnits and PhotoshopBattle-subreddits.

Meme-pages were also having a lot of fun with it.

But nobody mentioned anything about the actual context of the photo.

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https://reddit.com/r/AbsoluteUnits/comments/v615cv/this_russian_military_personel/




Rien Emmery
@ArbiterOfTweets
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4h
Also, a lot of people were sceptical of the Daily Star's story. 'Pavel' is only a first name, for instance, and some claimed that the camo worn by 'general Pavel' was actually Ukrainian instead of Russian.

So I became obsessed with finding out where this picture was taken.

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Rien Emmery
@ArbiterOfTweets
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4h
We resorted to PimEyes and its facial recognition search capabilities to identify the people on the photo.

We didn't find 'Pavel', but the people to his left turned out to be local administrators from the Yelansky district (Volgograd Oblast), some 800 km from Moscow.

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Rien Emmery
@ArbiterOfTweets
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4h
Could we find our 'Pavel' in the Yelansky district? Off to Google Maps!

Unfortunately, however, there's no Google Streetview available for Yelan, the largest town in the district. But there are some visitor's photos available for its 'Central Park'.

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Rien Emmery
@ArbiterOfTweets
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4h
At about the 50th photo, we spot a pretty distinctive war monument that's also visible in the background of the picture with 'general Pavel'.

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Rien Emmery
@ArbiterOfTweets
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4h
The pavement on our picture also matches the pavement in Yelan's central park.

Importantly, at that exact location, there also seems to be a smaller monument in the background, consisting of a red-green pole and a black memorial plaque.

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Rien Emmery
@ArbiterOfTweets
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4h
So we have confirmed a location: a park in Yelan, Volgograd Oblast, near some memorials.

But when was this photo taken? Who are the other people in it? And why would 'general Pavel' be there?

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Rien Emmery
@ArbiterOfTweets
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4h
It turns out those red-green posts are Russian border pillars.

But Yelan is not near the Russian border. So that leaves the possibility of a memorial for the Border Guard.

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Rien Emmery
@ArbiterOfTweets
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3h
And sure enough, the green hats worn by several people in the photo, including our 'general Pavel', turn out to be the (ceremonial) caps of the Russian border guard.

The Border Guard is part of the FSB, not the army.

Is 'Pavel' a border guard?

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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Border_Service_of_the_Federal_Security_Service_of_the_Russian_Federation



Rien Emmery
@ArbiterOfTweets
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3h
Cue my colleague
@Lotte_Lambrecht
, who - through some deep searches on Russian search engine Yandex - finds an article on local news site Elanskie-Vesti about a ceremony in Yelan's park on 27 May 2022, with... a larger, original version of our photo!

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https://elanskie-vesti.ru/news/media/2022/6/1/den-i-noch-nacheku/



Rien Emmery
@ArbiterOfTweets
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3h
It turns out to be a local ceremony celebrating "Border Guard Day", a holiday for (former) border guards in Russia.

On Yelansky district's official Telegram, we even find a picture of 'Pavel' at the microphone stand giving a military salute.

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https://kp.ru/family/prazdniki/den-pogranichnika/




Rien Emmery
@ArbiterOfTweets
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3h
But even though, at this point in our research, we know the exact location and date of the picture, and even though we have identified several other people in it, we still don't know anything about 'general Pavel'.

But that is about to change.

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Rien Emmery
@ArbiterOfTweets
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3h
On the Russian social network Odnoklassniki, Lotte finds a group for border guard veterans from Yelan.

And soon after, we find our elusive 'general Pavel'.

Who turns out... not to be a general named Pavel.

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Rien Emmery
@ArbiterOfTweets
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3h
Our '67-year old general Pavel' turns out to be the 58-year old Ivan Ivanovich Turchin, veteran of both the Russian military and the Border Guard.

He retired in 2011, after 20 years of service at the border in Uzbekistan.

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https://ok.ru/profile/530054681323/photos



Rien Emmery
@ArbiterOfTweets
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3h
His social media are absolutely packed with photos from his past, and several pictures of him attending Yelan's Border Guard Day ceremony, at least since 2013.

His recent posts include recipes, songs and inspirational quotes. Nothing indicates that he's in Ukraine.

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Rien Emmery
@ArbiterOfTweets
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3h
So this 'exclusive' story - first published by the Daily Star, and picked up by The Sun, The Daily Mail, the New York Post etc. - turns out to be entirely fictional.

We have reached out to the Daily Star for comment but have not received a reply, as of today.

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Rien Emmery
@ArbiterOfTweets
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3h
Many thanks to
@Lotte_Lambrecht
form
@Knack
for the collab on this fact-check.

You can read her (detailed) write-up of our research here:
https://knack.be/factcheck/factcheck-nee-deze-foto-toont-geen-russische-generaal-majoor/

Follow her on Twitter for more stellar fact-checks!

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https://www.knack.be/factcheck/factcheck-nee-deze-foto-toont-geen-russische-generaal-majoor/

Rien Emmery
@ArbiterOfTweets
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3h
My own article (also in Dutch, no paywall) can be found below.

In conclusion: always be skeptical of clickbaity tabloid stories. And let Ivan enjoy his retirement.

Thanks for following along!

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https://www.vrt.be/vrtnws/nl/2022/07/08/check-generaal-pavel/

Pretty impressive job...

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MI NEWS
@SNMilitary
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41m
BREAKING: Kaja Kallas announced her resignation as Prime Minister of Estonia. (Soon after expelling Russian diplomats, her coalition government collapsed) - Reuters.

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Luxury cars of the President of Sri Lanka pic.twitter.com/mODu9ClkOh

— Spriteer (@spriteer_774400) July 9, 2022

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The number of protesters in front of the residence of the President of Sri Lanka is growing

The protesters jumped the barricades, climbed over the fence and took control of the building. pic.twitter.com/18ZrwcUuEc

— Spriteer (@spriteer_774400) July 9, 2022

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Children of Dutch farmers demonstrate full solidarity with their parents' cause pic.twitter.com/5Fur1CxIMq

— AZ (@AZmilitary1) July 9, 2022

[Zambeezi]

UKRAINIAN ARMY MINES BORDER WITH BELARUS

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Putin: Sanctions on Russia “catastrophic” for global energy market, European households

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DPR frontline report (fearless John/@YouBlackSoul)

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Findings at oil refinery in Lisichansk, LPR

an abundance of prohibited landmines was discovered, which Kiev had vowed to dismantle in accordance with international treaties.
RT's Murad Gazdiev reports.

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The number of protesters in front of the residence of the President of Sri Lanka is growing

The protesters jumped the barricades, climbed over the fence and took control of the building. pic.twitter.com/18ZrwcUuEc

— Spriteer (@spriteer_774400) July 9, 2022

Protesters storm president’s home in Sri Lanka, hop into his pool

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does somebody knows if JA extradition is now confirmed and final? thanks

[Zambeezi]

does somebody knows if JA extradition is now confirmed and final? thanks

nothing has changed... JA attnys are 'asking for permission' to appeal.. they've exhausted the 'appeal processes'...
it's flat out begging now. spit.
Jul 7

The building where they killed journalism: the Royal Courts of Injustice. #Assange pic.twitter.com/2oONkqCvLg

— Richard Medhurst (@richimedhurst) July 7, 2022

Jul 6

I went to Belmarsh Prison where journalist and political prisoner Julian #Assange is being held. pic.twitter.com/V0JWN2qSfo

— Richard Medhurst (@richimedhurst) July 6, 2022

Jul 3

Julian Assange turns 51 today and will spend his 4th birthday in a UK jail without his wife and children.

His crime? Revealing the truth. pic.twitter.com/IAhPrx2C3m

— Double Down News (@DoubleDownNews) July 3, 2022

[Zambeezi]

Trump could have done the right thing... but he's a POS... just like good ol boy DeSantis.

Tucker Carlson reports that Mitch McConnell told the White House “if you pardon Julian Assange we are much more likely to convict you in an impeachment trial.”
pic.twitter.com/RKgykJfCAE

— Daily Caller (@DailyCaller) January 20, 2021

[刘汉]

https://www.rt.com/news/558588-norway-russia-cargo-dispute/

Norway and Russia settle cargo dispute
The two countries have found a way to deliver goods to Russian settlements on Norway’s Arctic archipelago of Svalbard

The statement comes after a week of tension between Moscow and Oslo, after Norway halted two cargo containers destined for Russian miners living on the archipelago on June 15, citing sanctions imposed on Moscow over its conflict with Ukraine.

Russia insisted that Norway’s “unacceptable” ban on supply deliveries was depriving Russian miners of “critical” goods, including food, medical equipment, building materials, and spare parts. Moscow threatened “appropriate retaliatory measures” if the issue was not resolved.

The Norwegian Foreign Ministry now claims that the containers were blocked because they were being transported on Russian vehicles, which were banned from bringing cargo over the Russian-Norwegian border. However, it noted that there would be no issue if these containers were brought to the miners using Norwegian vehicles instead.

[Zambeezi]

"Shockingly Naive": Bloomberg's Tom Keene Wrecks Biden Official Over Absurd Gas-Price Blame-Game
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In a recent interview on Bloomberg TV, Biden official Heather Boushey, who sits on the Council of Economic Advisers,
was asked by host Jonathan Ferro about economically illiterate comments from the administration regarding the price of gas at the pump.

"Where's that messaging coming from?" asked Ferro, to which Boushey returned word salad.

Unsatisfied with her bullshit, host Tom Keene held her feet to the fire - asking
"You didn't answer his important question - everyone in the nation wants to know the answer to the question Mr. Farro just asked you,
which is 'who is advising the president on shockingly naive price theory over a gallon of gas.'

To which Boushey robotically returned to the 'time of global crisis' talking points.

"Is this central planning now?" asked Ferro.

Answer? More word salad.

[刘汉]

Uzbekistan's breaking news: President Mirziyoyev fires his chief of staff Zaynilobiddin Nizomiddinov

https://centralasia.liveuamap.com/en/2022/8-july-uzbekistans-breaking-news-president-mirziyoyev-fires

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The President of Sri Lanka will step down from the presidency on July 13th. pic.twitter.com/YzriPTRubC

— Spriteer (@spriteer_774400) July 9, 2022

[刘汉]

Putin ordered negotiations on the creation of a joint air defense system of Russia and Kyrgyzstan.

https://centralasia.liveuamap.com/en/2022/8-july-putin-ordered-negotiations-on-the-creation-of-a-joint

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Spriteer
@spriteer_774400
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2h
The Turkish media captioned this photo as follows: Ukrainian servicemen are crying with happiness - they survived the ambush in which all the other members of their unit were killed. The location is indicated as Seversk.



Spriteer
@spriteer_774400
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2h
UA in Seversk

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Protesters set fire to the residence of the Prime Minister of Sri Lanka

Protesters in Sri Lanka set fire to the residence of Prime Minister Mahinda Rajapaksa, who announced his resignation, ANI News reported. pic.twitter.com/vAshN7wokC

— Spriteer (@spriteer_774400) July 9, 2022

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Mr. Rajitha Senaratne, a Member of Sri Lankan Parliament for the UNF/UNFGG party, was attacked by angry crowds on the streets of Colombo after he tried to "join" the protests. pic.twitter.com/KYCVBo7sHr

— Carlos Manuel Pimentel ☭ (@cpimentel986) July 9, 2022

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[Mr Badger]

Nice to see that a RUSSIAN (NOT "Russian-born") won the womens final at Wimbledon.

Now it'll be nice to see Djocovic win the mens final, after the disgusting treatment he's received in Australia and by the US over his refusal to comply with the criminal Scamdemic rules.

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After UN confirmed that Kiev troops used elders as human shields very rare article appears in our Czech MSM.

Elders as human shields. Ukrainians took positions and caused tragedy.

https://www.seznamzpravy.cz/clanek/zahranicni-seniori-jako-lidske-stity-ukrajinci-zaujali-pozice-a-zpusobili-tragedii-208539#dop_ab_variant=0&dop_source_zone_name=zpravy.sznhp.box&source=hp&seq_no=1&utm_campaign=&utm_medium=z-boxiku&utm_source=www.seznam.cz

We all know it's common practice of Banderowtsi. But it's really rare that truth being written by msm. Sometimes it's impossible to hide facts anymorel...

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Captured #Ukrainian equipment is being prepared for display at Patriot Park in Kubinka, #Moscow.
-Tank T-72AMT
-BTR-3E,BTR-4E
-Humvee
- Bogdan-2251
- Kazak-2
-Bayraktar TB2
-Bushmaster
-Project UMS-1000 Border Guard Boat pic.twitter.com/EPg4Msg39n

— Military Advisor (@miladvisor) July 9, 2022