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A Ukrainian-crewed bulker has rescued a disabled Russian sailing vessel on the high seas of the Pacific, the sailboat's skipper told U.S.-funded Russian news outlet Sibir Realii.

 
And here I thought we were against Nazi's... 🤔

US Votes Against UN Adopted Anti-Nazi Resolution, While Australia Abstains​

The UN just passed a resolution banning the glorification of Nazism and neo-Nazism. But several nations weren’t in favour.


By Victoria Jakubowski
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The 76th session of the UN General Assembly last week adopted a resolution on “combating glorification of Nazism, neo-Nazism and other practices that contribute to fuelling contemporary forms of racism, racial discrimination, xenophobia and related intolerance”.

Initiated by the Russian Federation, the resolution saw 130 nations vote in favour of curbing a global rise in neo-Nazism on 16 December.

But two countries notably voted against it – the US and the Ukraine – while 49 others abstained, with one of those being Australia.

Russian Ministry of Foreign Affairs special representative Grigory Lukiantsev explained in November that since a similar resolution was passed last year, not only do the issues remain unresolved, but “racist and xenophobic rhetoric” has worsened against the backdrop of the COVID-19 pandemic.

However, US permanent mission to the UN representative Nicolas Hill last month explained that while his nation condemns Nazism, it was voting against the resolution as it impinges upon the US First Amendment protection of the right to freedom of expression.

Moscow has long condemned Ukraine and the Baltic States for permitting the glorification of Nazism, while Washington claims this is a Russian disinformation campaign, which the resolution propagates. And the vote occurred as tensions between the two nations are rising over the Ukraine.

Rising neo-Nazism​

 
No military targets here...

Ballistic Missiles & American Rockets Hammer Donetsk Russia Ukraine Warzone​

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any news anywhere about if the UK depleted uranium ammo ever made it to the front lines?

this would cause an immediate and very harsh response from Vladdy if one shell is fired
 
any news anywhere about if the UK depleted uranium ammo ever made it to the front lines?

this would cause an immediate and very harsh response from Vladdy if one shell is fired
Not yet. It just came out the UK was planning on using them... probably already are using them?
 

Stalin, Ukraine and European security w/ Geoffrey Roberts, Alexander Mercouris and Glenn Diesen​

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Sunak, one step closer to nukes. Hungary, no to ICC, Borrell & NATO. Elensky, call me, maybe. U/1​

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Why did US use Depleted Uranium weapons in Syria? (2015)​

vanessa beeley

Doug Weir

Doug Weir Coordinates the International Coalition to Ban Uranium Weapons, ICBUW campaigns for a ban on the use of uranium in all conventional weapons and weapon systems and for monitoring, health care, compensation and environmental remediation for communities affected by their use. @ICBUW

February 2017:

The recent confirmation by the US that DU ammunition was used in two attacks in Syria in late 2015 raises a number of troubling questions.
Firstly, why was DU used? Has it been used again? Will it be used again?

Secondly, and no less important, what will happen next in order to mitigate any health or environmental risks the contaminated sites may pose?

 
DU mainly emits alpha particle radiation. Alpha particles don't have enough energy to go through skin. As a result, exposure to the outside of the body is not considered a serious hazard. However, if DU is ingested or inhaled, it is a serious health hazard. Alpha particles directly affect living cells and can cause kidney damage.

In the 1970s, the U.S. Department of Defense (DOD) began making bullets and mortar shells out of DU given its high density. DU was also used to create armor for tanks and as weights to balance aircrafts. The U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) was operating facilities that produced DU as a waste byproduct, making DU plentiful and inexpensive.

DU is still used to make bullets and mortar shells. DU contamination of spent shells and s
 

New Study Documents Depleted Uranium Impacts on Children in Iraq​

A new study shows an association between depleted uranium, used by the US during the Iraq war, and the risk of birth defects in Iraqi children.


By David Swanson

A new study shows an association between depleted uranium, used by the US during the Iraq war, and the risk of birth defects in Iraqi children.

In the years following 2003, the U.S. military dotted Iraq with over 500 military bases, many of them close to Iraqi cities. These cities suffered the impacts of bombs, bullets, chemical and other weapons, but also the environmental damage of open burn pits on U.S. bases, abandoned tanks and trucks, and the storage of weapons on U.S. bases, including depleted uranium weapons. Here’s a map of some of the U.S. bases:

US Bases in Iraq


This map and the other illustrations below have been provided by Mozhgan Savabieasfahani, one of the authors of a forthcoming article in the journal Environmental Pollution. The article documents the results of a study undertaken in Nasiriyah near Tallil Air Base. Nasiriyah was bombed by the U.S. military in 2003 and in the early 1990s. Open-air burn pits were used at Tallil Air Base beginning in 2003. See a second map:

Tallil Air Base, Nasiriyah, Iraq

Now take a look (do not turn away) at these images of infants who were born between August and September of 2016 to parents who had continuously lived in Nasiriyah. The visible birth defects include: anencephaly (A1 and A2 , B), lower limb anomalies (C), hydrocephalus (D), spina bifida (E), and multiple anomalies (F, G, H). Imagine if these tragic birth defects had been caused by a natural disaster or the misdeeds of the next government targeted by the United States for “regime change” — would not the outrage be widespread and thunderous? But these horrors have a different cause.


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Die for your country and you won't get compensated.


Ukrainian trade unions have demanded the resignation of Member of Parliament Galina Tretyakova following a sickening speech in which she said that poor people should be sterilized to reduce the country’s welfare bill.

Tretyakova, a member of President Volodymyr Zelensky’s Servants of the People Party, made the remarks at a seminar in the Kiev School of Economics last month, as footage recently circulating on social media has revealed.

The MP, who is head of the Ukrainian parliament’s social policy and veterans’ rights protection committee, claimed that social benefits were wasted on the unemployed.
“When we provide funds, which are used by the family, and the birth of a child is not for the purpose of giving him or her equal education and rights but for the purpose of receiving material assistance, then we will receive—I will put it bluntly—children of very poor quality. This leads to the fact that they are also living at the expense of public funds,” she said.

She went on to cite former British Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher approvingly and spoke of Britain as an example of a country that is tough on the unemployed. Tretyakova also referred to Singapore, praising the policy of former Prime Minister Lee Kuan Yew, who “sterilized women who did not have higher education.”

Using such an approach “uprooted elements of the nation who are not family defenders or breadwinners,” she said.

Her remarks have drawn an angry response, with the Federation of Ukrainian Trade Unions demanding her resignation and removal as head of the committee overseeing social policy.
In a statement, the union blasted Tretyakova’s “inhumane and anti-social speech,” which, it said, violated the basic provisions of the United Nations Declaration of Human Rights, the constitution of Ukraine, and other parts of international law.

Political scientist Vladimir Katsman drew comparisons with the Nazis’ eugenics program.
“It turns out that in our country there are, so to speak, first-class children and second-class children, and families without social protection just give birth … to children of the class that does not suit Ms. Tretyakova. And, generally speaking, she pointed out that it would be a good idea to apply measures such as sterilization or other measures to these parents,” he said.

“What’s the next step: measuring skulls or comparing certain genetic characteristics? Haven’t we had enough yet?” he concluded, citing the methods used by the Nazis.
 
When Ukraine successfully deployed self-driving “drone” boats for a major attack on the Russian navy at Sevastopol in Crimea in September 2022 it was a defining moment that changed the future of naval warfare. Uncrewed surface vessels (USVs) have been used before, but this was the first instance of multiple, armed USVs, used simultaneously in combination with aerial drones for a successful, offensive naval operation on a military target.

 
When Ukraine successfully deployed self-driving “drone” boats for a major attack on the Russian navy at Sevastopol in Crimea in September 2022 it was a defining moment that changed the future of naval warfare. Uncrewed surface vessels (USVs) have been used before, but this was the first instance of multiple, armed USVs, used simultaneously in combination with aerial drones for a successful, offensive naval operation on a military target.

Drones in general are changing the way wars are fought. They drop grenades and chemical agents from above and nobody below knows when they arrive.
 
Drones in general are changing the way wars are fought. They drop grenades and chemical agents from above and nobody below knows when they arrive.

Came across an article yesterday about some country in the middle east either converting a ship or building a ship just for drones. It'll be an aircraft carrier for drones. If I come across it again I'll link it here.
 
Drones in general are changing the way wars are fought. They drop grenades and chemical agents from above and nobody below knows when they arrive.

Found it:

 
sanctions are verking...

John and Mike go to Depo Food Mall in Moscow!​

 


 
As if we don't also...

Remember, it's a two way street....
 
^^^^^ Every country does it. Would love to hear / read some of the communications coming from operations like this.
 

PUTIN: THE US DID IT - HISTORIC SUMMIT - PUTIN & XI SET THE GLOBAL AGENDA​

Costas Isichos from Greece, Hendrik Weber from Norway, and Bruce Gagnon from the USA discuss Putin's statement, "I agree with the conclusion of Sy Hersh;" details of the Summit: 14 major agreements, nuclear weapons, no militarization of space, and the Chinese 12 point peace plan.
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The United States on Tuesday threw support behind a special international tribunal to try Russia for "aggression" against Ukraine, building momentum to prosecute the crime for the first time since the aftermath of World War II.

 
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