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Amnesty Sweden Co-Founder Resigns over Ukraine Report

Per Wastberg, who co-founded the Swedish branch of Amnesty International, resigned from the organization on Wednesday.

The Swedish activist said his departure was due to Amnesty’s report about the conflict in Ukraine, and that the organization has gone beyond its original mandate to advocate for political prisoners.

“From its inception, Amnesty worked for the freedom of political prisoners everywhere in the world,” said Wastberg, who co-founded the Swedish branch in 1964. “It has since gradually, sometimes debatably, expanded its mandate” and become a different kind of organization, Wastberg told the newspaper Svenska Dagbladet, where he is an occasional columnist.

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FORCED BLACKOUTS: UK Plans for Worst-Case Energy Scenario – report

Cold weather combined with gas shortages is expected to force UK authorities to enact a “reasonable worst-case scenario,” providing for four days of blackouts during the upcoming winter, Bloomberg reports, citing people familiar with the govt’s planning.

The probable outages may affect not only industry, but also the country’s households, as a result of an electricity capacity shortfall amounting to about a sixth of peak demand – even after emergency coal plants have been fired up.

The first stage of the UK’s emergency plan reportedly involves the network operator directing flows of gas on the system, temporarily overriding commercial agreements, while the second stage includes halting supplies to gas-fired power stations, triggering planned power cuts for industrial and domestic users.

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 Has America’s Patience With George Soros Finally Run Out?
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“If you would know who controls you,” Tacitus, the Roman historian and politician once advised, “see who you may not criticize.”

“If you would know who controls you,” Tacitus, the Roman historian and politician once advised, “see who you may not criticize.” For a long time that unspeakable persona was none other than the billionaire financier George Soros, and despite the fact that his political protégés have gone on to radically alter the political landscape of the country. Now, as cracks are beginning to appear in the foundation of his vast franchise, dissenting voices are becoming more commonplace.

Last week, for example, in a move torn from the playbook of the Democratic Party, Florida Governor Ron DeSantis sent state police to physically remove Soros-supported State Attorney Andrew Warren from his office, “with access only to retrieve his personal belongings, and to ensure that no files, papers, documents, notes, records, computers, or removable storage media are removed from the Office of the State Attorney…”

The Florida Governor explained his strong-armed tactics as a way of punishing Warren for “neglecting his duties as he pledges not to uphold the laws of the state.” DeSantis was speaking in reference to Warren’s stated refusal to uphold a state abortion ban in the wake of the Supreme Court’s decision to overturn Roe v. Wade, as well as laws forbidding child sex-change surgeries.

“The constitution of Florida has vested the veto power in the governor, not in individual state attorneys,” DeSantis said. “So, when you flagrantly violate your oath of office .. when you make yourself above the law, you have violated your duty and you have neglected your duty, and you are displaying a lack of competence to be able to perform those duties,” he continued.

Meanwhile, Warren has vowed to fight back against DeSantis’ ‘abuse of powers.’

Although the mainstream media has gone to tremendous lengths to conceal it, the real story here was not the political career of the Hillsborough County DA, but rather that somebody dared to defy the political will of Mr. Soros.

By way of introduction, if one is actually needed, we are talking about a global serial meddler who spent almost half a billion dollars in 2015 convincing Europeans that diversity, in the form of millions of illegal migrants, was somehow in their best interests. Of course it wasn’t. Violent crime has exploded across Western Europe since Soros pried open the continent’s doors, with the end result that those once dazzling European capitals – from Paris to Berlin to London – have become crime-infested hellholes. Only those ‘authoritarian’ holdouts that kicked Soros out of their territories years ago, including Turkey, Russia, Poland and Hungary, the very place of his birth, have been spared the descent into chaos.

After effectively laying waste to the European continent, Soros moved on to the United States where he suddenly developed an interest in ‘law and order’ as the philanthropist spent tens of millions of dollars supporting district attorney races across the country. Here’s how the New York Post described it.

“For the last several years, billionaire philanthropist George Soros has been quietly financing a revolution in criminal justice reform, doling out tens of millions of dollars to progressive candidates … amid movements to abolish bail and defund the police.”

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 Who Speaks Today of the Annihilation of the Armenians?
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What is to be done so that we may speak up about the ongoing annihilation of the Armenians, the Palestinians and the Syrians?

When Adolf Hitler rhetorically asked his minions “Who, after all, speaks today of the annihilation of the Armenians?”, he had one eye on the Armenians’ past and another on his future plans, which entailed liquidating the Slavs of Central and Eastern Europe, so that his alleged master race might thrive at the expense of their victims.

Though Perfidious Albion and her allies had promised retribution for The Great War’s slaughter of the Armenians (Assyrians and Pontic Greeks) by the Ottomans and their Kurdish sidekicks, Albion’s post-War realpolitik made such empty promises even hollower than they were when the Anglo American media first broadcast them. The irony of it, and one I pointed out at the 100th anniversary of the Armenian Holocaust in Damascus, is that the Syrians, Iraqis, Lebanese and Palestinians, who risked their own lives to save so many of those Armenians continue, for the same grubby reasons, to suffer their own Holocausts to this very day.

As do the Armenians who settled in Syria but who have recently fled, for the sake of their children, to Nagorno-Karabakh, where the Muslim Brotherhood, the world’s most dangerous terrorist cult, continue to slaughter them with NATO supplied weaponry.

East Europe’s Armenians are far from alone in their suffering. As NATO’s Ukrainian and Syrian commands recruited their key operatives from Georgia’s Kist ( a subset of the Nakh ethnie which includes Chechens, Ingush, and Kists) which, despite numbering less than 6,000 and being by far the smallest of Georgia’s three major Muslim groupings (which number no more than 40,000 in toto), one must suspect the guiding hands of the CIA and MI5 in helping the Kists “hit back at Russia” by slaughtering civilians in Syria, Ukraine, Afghanistan and Armenia.

Returning to Herr Hitler’s question as to who today remembers the Armenians, well, I do for a start as my family name means, in Armenian, that I am Armenian. And I did say, at that same Damascus conference, that the only prominent world leader who deserved to be in Yerevan to commemorate the Armenian Holocaust was Russian President Putin, as it was the Russians, along with the aforementioned Arabs, who stood by the Armenians in their darkest hour and it is the Russian military which currently underwrites Armenia’s security.

But there, in Armenians’ desire to live peaceably, is the rub. Whether we are talking about Eastern Ukraine, Eastern Syria or Armenia, NATO simply cannot abide that and thus, in their efforts to rip apart Southern Russia and Western China, they encourage their hired assassins with their empty dreams of pan Turkism, a NATO controlled pipe dream for which Armenian civilians must continue to die as they have continued to die over the last decade in Aleppo, Kesab and Deir Ez-Zor.

So, where is my problem on Europe’s Western shores of defying today’s Hitlers by speaking today “of the annihilation of the Armenians” and the allied peoples of Eastern Europe and beyond? Sabina Higgins, Ireland’s First Lady, found out the answer to that puzzle when the fanatically pro NATO Irish Times published her let...

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 CBS Wanted to Do Critical Reporting on Ukraine’s Government but Ukraine’s Government Said No
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By Caitlin JOHNSTONE

Following objections from the Ukrainian government, CBS News has removed a short documentary which had reported concerns from numerous sources that a large amount of the supplies being sent to Ukraine aren’t making it to the front lines.

The Ukrainian government has listed its objections to the report on a government website, naming Ukrainian officials who objected to it and explaining why each of the CBS news sources it dislikes should be discounted. After the report was taken down and the Twitter post about it removed, Ukrainian Foreign Minister Dmytro Kuleba said this was a good start but still not enough.

“Welcome first step, but it is not enough,” Kuleba tweeted. “You have misled a huge audience by sharing unsubstantiated claims and damaging trust in supplies of vital military aid to a nation resisting aggression and genocide. There should be an internal investigation into who enabled this and why.”

The CBS News article about the documentary was renamed, from “Why military aid to Ukraine doesn’t always get to the front lines: ‘Like 30% of it reaches its final destination’” to the far milder “Why military aid in Ukraine may not always get to the front lines.” An editor’s note on the new version of the article explicitly admits to taking advisement on its changes from the Ukrainian government, reading as follows:

“This article has been updated to reflect changes since the CBS Reports documentary ‘Arming Ukraine’ was filmed, and the documentary is also being updated. Jonas Ohman says the delivery has significantly improved since filming with CBS in late April. The government of Ukraine notes that U.S. defense attaché Brigadier General Garrick M. Harmon arrived in Kyiv in August 2022 for arms control and monitoring.”

CBS News does not say why it has taken so long for this report to come out, why it didn’t check to see if anything had changed in the last few months during a rapidly unfolding war before releasing its report, or why it felt its claims were good enough to air before Kyiv raised its objections but not after.

Someone uploaded the old version of the documentary on YouTube here, or you can watch it on Bitchute here if that one gets taken down. It was supportive of Ukraine and very oppositional to Russia, and simply featured a number of sources saying they had reason to believe a lot of the military supplies being sent to Ukraine aren’t getting where they’re supposed to go.

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 The Ukrainian Boondoggle as a Black Hole
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W.J. ASTORE

Back on June 1st, I noted that Ukraine couldn’t possibly absorb more than $54 billion in U.S. aid, most of it related to weaponry and munitions, given the country’s lack of infrastructure as well as the chaos inherent to a shooting war.

As I wrote back then:

The entire defense budget of Ukraine before the war was just under $6 billion. How can Ukraine possibly absorb (mostly) military “aid” that represents NINE TIMES their annual defense budget? It simply can’t be done…

From a military perspective, the gusher of money and equipment being sent to Ukraine makes little sense because there’s no way Ukraine has the infrastructure to absorb it and use it effectively. The U.S. approach seems to be to flood the zone with weaponry and assorted equipment of all sorts, irrespective of how it might be used or where it might ultimately end up. I can’t see how all this lethal “aid” will stay in the hands of troops and out of the hands of various criminal networks and black markets.

And so it goes. Recent reports suggest that only 30-40% of U.S. military aid is actually reaching Ukrainian troops. The rest is being siphoned off, lost, stolen, what-have-you. The response in U.S. media is to suppress this truth, per dictates from Ukraine!

Caitlin Johnstone does an excellent job of summarizing the case, and since she generously encourages her readers to share her posts, I thought I’d avail myself of her generosity. Without further ado:

Caitlin Johnstone, CBS Tries Critical Journalism; Stops After Ukraine Objects

Following objections from the Ukrainian government, CBS News has removed a short documentary which had reported concerns from numerous sources that a large amount of the supplies being sent to Ukraine aren’t making it to the front lines.

The Ukrainian government has listed its objections to the report on a government website, naming Ukrainian officials who objected to it and explaining why each of the CBS news sources it dislikes should be discounted. After the report was taken down and the Twitter post about it removed, Ukrainian Foreign Minister Dmytro Kuleba said this was a good start but still not enough.

“Welcome first step, but it is not enough,” Kuleba tweeted. “You have misled a huge audience by sharing unsubstantiated claims and damaging trust in supplies of vital military aid to a nation resisting aggression and genocide. There should be an internal investigation into who enabled this and why.”

The CBS News article about the documentary was renamed, from “Why military aid to Ukraine doesn’t always get to the front lines: ‘Like 30% of it reaches its final destination’” to the far milder “Why military aid in Ukraine may not always get to the front lines.” An editor’s note on the new version of the article explicitly admits to taking advisement on its changes from the Ukrainian government, reading as follows:

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