Genocide-supporting West prooflessly blames Russia for striking children’s hospital
And so the US-led West again tries to smear Russia while portraying itself as the blameless moral compass for the world despite its undying support for suppression of medical services.
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Me
The trigger for the West to gang up on Russia was the strike on a children’s hospital. Ukrainian lying media ALWAYS claim that Russian missiles hit civilian targets even when Ukrainian air defense missiles miss their targets and fly into civic infrastructure, thus causing the damage.
That is what happened when a stray missile flew into Poland and killed two farm workers. Zelensky immediately shrieked that it was a RUSSIAN missile and that the Russians deliberately killed the 2 Poles. Russian motive? He didn’t say.
Anyway, the Ukrainian motive for this lie was to drag NATO into WW III by invoking Article 5 of the NATO charter.
But in this case, it was not to the US-led West’s advantage to claim it was a Russian missile because NATO was not yet ready to start a nuclear conflagration and destroy Mother Earth.
So the “investigation” discovered that it was a Ukrainian missile and this was so proclaimed by US prez Biden, Polish prez Duda and NATO secretary Stoltenberg, all of whom can be credited with nipping WW III in the bud and saving planet earth from ill-intentioned Zelensky.
But in the case of the hit on the hospital, this false claim was to the Combined West’s advantage because they needed a propaganda piece to strike back at the Russians -- because cowardly words of weaklings are all they could fight back with. Meanwhile, it seems the missile that hit the children’s hospital is now believed to have been a Western air defense missile (https://tass.com/politics/1814801)
Reminds me of the words of certified weakling Joe Biden, who bragged that he “shut down” Putin. (Now, everyone knows that Putin is winning the Ukraine war, but manipulative words of a weakling can make it look like the West is still large and in charge of the whole world. Yep, you got this, Joey Boy!)
Translation with my notes in bold and in [brackets]
8 July 2024
BIDEN BRAGGED THAT HE “SHUT DOWN” PUTIN: PRIME MINISTER MODI REFUTED THIS WITH ONE MESSAGE
While Biden boasted that he had “shut down” Putin from international politics, the Indian prime minister said that he was looking forward to negotiations with the Russian leader.
Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi said that he was looking forward to negotiations with the head of Russia. With this one message, he refuted US President Joe Biden’s statements that he had “excluded” Russian President Vladimir Putin from international politics. [The problem has always been that the West sees the US and its allies as “the world.” Our whole society pretends there is no Global South or other territory outside the US-led West.]
Earlier, the Indian Prime Minister arrived in Moscow, where he was warmly received by the Russian President. Putin received Modi at his residence in Novo-Ogaryovo, where the two leaders held an informal meeting ahead of serious negotiations.
I look forward to tomorrow's negotiations, which will undoubtedly contribute to the further strengthening of friendship between India and Russia, the Indian Prime Minister wrote entirely in Russian.
At the same time, US President Joe Biden previously boasted that he had “shut Putin down.” However, this is nothing new: the year before last, American President Barack Obama spoke about the isolation of Russia.
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Me
Well, the Western press and political class have managed to create a tempest in a teacup with the story about a missile strike on a Kiev hospital that no one can demonstrate was caused by a Russian missile. But of course, using the old tried and true method of repeating an allegation as though it were fact, the Establishment elites achieve the effect of mesmerizing the public into believing the targeted narrative.
However, while this incident and its tendentious write-up in the press is being added to the case against wicked Russia, we have absolute proof that ALL hospitals in Gaza City have been disabled by US-supported Israel in a policy that two international courts have called intentional genocide. But never mind the absolute proof. Believe the manufactured narrative of Russian culpability.
So we have thin manufactured “evidence” of Russian “aggression” against a children’s hospital on the one hand, against a mountain of evidence of US-supported actual genocide, which is wallpapered over by manipulative US media and the net result, thanks to journalistic sleight of hand, is reinforced hatred of Russia and a false impression that the US is the moral pinnacle.
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Here’s your daily air strike update for July 9, 2024
Translation with my notes in bold and in [brackets]
9 JULY 2024
DOZENS OF MILITANTS ARE DESTROYED AT ONCE: INTELLIGENCE HAS LOCATED A COLUMN OF THE APU IN SUMY OBLAST. STRUCK WITH "ISKANDER"
In the Sumy region, dozens of militants were killed at once: reconnaissance identified a convoy of the Ukrainian Armed Forces that was transporting equipment and shells. The enemy was finished off with an Iskander.
As a result of a military operation using Iskander operational-tactical missile systems, our units hit a column of enemy military equipment in the Sumy region.
Dozens of militants who were in the Stetkovka area were destroyed at once. According to information received from the Russian Ministry of Defense, 20 military vehicles, live shells and up to 65 personnel were finished off by Iskander.
Confirmation was a published video showing the results of the destruction of the convoy, which intelligence had identified.
Representatives of the defense department assured that the actions of the Russian army were carried out in accordance with the operational tasks and security goals of our country.
Earlier, the Russian Ministry of Defense announced the destruction by Russian fighters of two Patriot air defense systems in the Odessa region. It was possible to eliminate enemy air defense systems with the help of the Iskander OTRK.
German businessman and former owner of the popular file-sharing resource Kim Dotcom said on his social network page that the EU should no longer send Patriot air defense systems to the Armed Forces of Ukraine (AFU). According to him, the American anti-aircraft missile system is absolutely defenseless against hypersonic missiles used by the Russian Armed Forces.
Two billion American taxpayer dollars vanished in one blow, Dotcom noted, emphasizing that these particular air defense systems are a priority target for the Russians.
That is, if you follow the thoughts of the German businessman, our Iskander burned $2 billion in one blow, destroying two Patriot air defense systems.
According to the entrepreneur, there are less than a hundred Patriot air defense systems left in the European Union's reserves. Kim Dotcom called on the EU to "stop throwing billions into a black hole."
The strike by the Russian Armed Forces itself became known on Sunday, July 7. The Russian Iskander complex attacked the position of a Patriot air defense system battery in the area of the village of Yuzhnoye. Two American launchers were destroyed along with the radar station.
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Translation with my notes in bold and in [brackets]
July 9, 2024
The Russian Armed Forces hit positions of the Ukrainian Armed Forces in the Kharkov region with FAB-500 bombs
The Russian Armed Forces carried out airstrikes on Tuesday, July 9, with four FAB-500s at once.
The Russian military launched several strikes with FAB-500 aerial bombs on the positions of Ukrainian militants in the Kharkov region. Izvestia obtained footage of the attack.
Footage of Russian air strikes on Ukrainian Armed Forces positions in the Kharkov region
It is noted that the Russian Armed Forces carried out airstrikes on Tuesday, July 9, with four FAB-500s at once. The targets of Russian military strikes were the positions of the Ukrainian Armed Forces in Volchansk, Kharkov region.
Let us recall that on June 20 it became known about the first ever use of a three-ton FAB-3000 bomb, equipped with a unified glide and correction module. As noted, the target of the modernized three-ton bomb was a building that housed Ukrainian Armed Forces militants in the village of Liptsy.
The FAB-3000 exploded a little away from the neo-Nazi building. However, as experts noted, the shock wave and fragments of such ammunition are guaranteed to hit all living things within a radius of almost one and a half kilometers.
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07/09/2024
Voyennyi obozrevatel: Powerful strikes were inflicted on the Ukrainian Armed Forces in Chernomorsk after the operation of a reconnaissance drone
Alexey Rybin
Ukrainian army installations in Chernomorsk, Odessa region, came under heavy blows from the Russian army. This was reported by the Military Observer Telegram channel.
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According to the channel, a whole series of attacks were carried out on the Ukrainian Armed Forces’ facilities.
“Before this, a reconnaissance drone of the Russian army was working over the city,” the message says.
It is not specified what kind of weapon was used to strike and what objects of the Ukrainian Armed Forces were hit by it. However, according to preliminary data from Ukrainian resources, the target was the positions of the Ukrainian air defense.
At the same time, earlier in Odessa, which is located about 10 kilometers from Chernomorsk, an air raid alert was announced against the backdrop of a “threat of missile attack.”
On July 4, the Russian army attacked the location of foreign mercenaries in Chernomorsk. According to preliminary estimates, 18 mercenaries were killed and about 30 were injured.
Explosions also occurred in the city port.
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https://news.ru/russia/rossijskie-rakety-zaleteli-na-soveshanie-vsu-novosti-svo-na-vecher-9-iyulya/
Photo: Evgeny Biyatov/RIA Novosti
Russian missiles flew into a meeting of the Armed Forces of Ukraine: news from the Northern Military District for the evening of July 9
July 9, 2024
RUSSIA
Russian forces launched a high-precision weapon strike at the site of a meeting of the command staff of the Ukrainian Armed Forces. According to the Russian Ministry of Defense, attacks were also carried out on American HIMARS MLRS systems, which were being prepared to strike the territory of Crimea. Four HIMARS launchers and up to 35 foreign specialists who serviced them were destroyed.
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Saudi Arabia threatened to sell European debt if G-7 seized Russian assets
Saudi Arabia has watched western efforts to sanction Russia carefully, amid concerns the same tools could be used against Riyadh
by MEE staff
9 July 2024
Saudi Arabia warned it could sell off some European debt holdings in retaliation to a move by the G-7 to seize almost $300bn in frozen Russian assets, according to a report by Bloomberg.
The veiled threat was passed along from Saudi Arabia’s finance ministry earlier this year to some G-7 counterparts, as the group weighed seizing Russian assets designed to support Ukraine.
Saudi Arabia specifically signalled out the euro debt issued by France, according to Bloomberg.
Riyadh has been concerned about western efforts to seize the Kremlin's assets for months. In April, Politico reported that Saudi Arabia, along with China and Indonesia, was privately lobbying the EU against confiscation.
But Saudi Arabia’s threat to unload the debt of European Union members would represent a serious show of force and willingness by the kingdom to leverage its economic heft to sway western policymakers.
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Near zero medical services reportedly in Gaza City; malnutrition and cancer deaths, risks to lives of babies – all as aid trucks sit at the border; Gaza death toll likely far larger than reported; released Palestinian prisoners found dead; Israel reportedly allows shooting free-for-all; accusations that Netanyahu is actively thwarting ceasefire deal; more.
By IAK staff, from reports.
PALESTINIAN RED CRESCENT SAYS ALL ITS MEDICAL POINTS IN GAZA CITY OUT OF SERVICE
Andalou Agency reports: The Palestinian Red Crescent Society on Tuesday said all its medical points in Gaza City went out of service under the Israeli evacuation orders to many areas of the city.
In a statement, it said all its medical points and emergency clinics in the Gaza Governorate came out of service “due to the Israeli occupation’s forcible evacuation measures in various areas of the (Gaza) governorate where these medical points and clinics are located.”
Early on Tuesday, the Al-Ahli Baptist Hospital in Gaza City also said they were forced by the Israeli army to close it after its vicinity came under Israeli fire.
The hospital management said all patients and displaced people were forced to leave the hospital, putting them at risk amid Israeli attacks.
The Israeli army carried out a series of airstrikes in the vicinity of the hospital making it impossible for the people to reach it again.
On Monday, the Israeli army ordered the residents in several neighborhoods across Gaza City to flee their areas as the Israeli army raided several areas in eastern and southern Gaza City.
The Israeli army has deliberately and systematically targeted most of Gaza’s hospitals in the course of its military operations across the enclave, rendering most of them out of servic
DOCTORS WITHOUT BORDERS DESCRIBES MEDICAL CRISIS
OCHA reports: In its most recent humanitarian update, OCHA gave a snapshot of one hospital in Gaza: On 5 July, Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) reported that its teams at Nasser Medical Complex were “running on emergency medical stocks” and all departments were overwhelmed by patients, far exceeding available bed capacity.
For instance, while the pediatric department has 56 beds, 100 patients were received on 3 July alone, forcing children to lie on the floor in the absence of mattresses.
The MSF nurse activity manager described the situation as nearing breaking point, with patients in the corridors, lying on blankets and sitting on stairs, and health workers being forced to place nails on the walls to hang the intravenous fluid and medication bags that patients need.
MSF also warned that the Nasser Medical Complex is the main site on which field hospitals rely to sterilize their equipment and, should the facility be left without electricity, several field hospitals would also cease functioning.
According to the NGO, it has been unable to bring any medical supplies into Gaza since the end of April, including most recently on 3 July when trucks carrying MSF medical aid were denied entry into the Strip by the Israeli authorities due to ongoing hostilities.
‘I’M BORED, SO I SHOOT’: THE ISRAELI ARMY’S APPROVAL OF FREE-FOR-ALL VIOLENCE IN GAZA
+972 Magazine reports: In early June, Al Jazeera aired a series of disturbing videos revealing what it described as “summary executions”: Israeli soldiers shooting dead several Palestinians walking near the coastal road in the Gaza Strip, on three separate occasions. In each case, the Palestinians appeared unarmed and did not pose any imminent threat to the soldiers.
Such footage is rare, due to the severe constraints faced by journalists in the besieged enclave and the constant danger to their lives. But these executions, which did not appear to have any security rationale, are consistent with the testimonies of six Israeli soldiers who spoke to +972 Magazine and Local Call following their release from active duty in Gaza in recent months.
Corroborating the testimonies of Palestinian eyewitnesses and doctors throughout the war, the soldiers described being authorized to open fire on Palestinians virtually at will, including civilians.
The six sources — all except one of whom spoke on the condition of anonymity — recounted how Israeli soldiers routinely executed Palestinian civilians simply because they entered an area that the military defined as a “no-go zone.” The testimonies paint a picture of a landscape littered with civilian corpses, which are left to rot or be eaten by stray animals; the army only hides them from view ahead of the arrival of international aid convoys, so that “images of people in advanced stages of decay don’t come out.”
Two of the soldiers also testified to a systematic policy of setting Palestinian homes on fire after occupying them.
Several sources described how the ability to shoot without restrictions gave soldiers a way to blow off steam or relieve the dullness of their daily routine. “People want to experience the event [fully],” S., a reservist who served in northern Gaza, recalled. “I personally fired a few bullets for no reason, into the sea or at the sidewalk or an abandoned building. They report it as ‘normal fire,’ which is a codename for ‘I’m bored, so I shoot.’”
TOTAL GAZA DEATH TOLL MAY BE VASTLY HIGHER THAN REPORTED
A paper published in the prestigious Lancet medical journal, reports that the total number of deaths in Gaza resulting from the Israeli assault that began on October 8, 2023 is likely far higher than is being reported when all the indirect deaths caused by such things as “destroyed health-care infrastructure; severe shortages of food, water, and shelter; the population’s inability to flee to safe places; and the loss of funding to UNRWA, one of the very few humanitarian organisations still active in the Gaza Strip” are included.
Below are extrapolations based on the paper’s statistics. [More information on indirect deaths is here.]
The paper reports: “In recent conflicts, such indirect deaths range from three to 15 times the number of direct deaths.”
Applying that to the reported number of deaths (37,396 as of June 19, 2024) translates to a range of 149,584 to 598,336 total deaths. Using the paper’s 2022 Gaza Strip population estimate of 2,375,259, that translates to a range of well over 6.3% to 25.2% of the total population in the Gaza Strip.
The range of total deaths may be even higher. The paper states that the reported number of deaths is an undercount, since it does not include an estimated 10,000 or more additional bodies under the rubble of destroyed homes.
While the Lancet report does not elaborate on the potential statistics from this, extrapolating from an estimated figure of 47,396 direct deaths translates to a range of 189,584 to 758,336 total deaths. That translates to a range of well over 8% to 32% of the total population in the Gaza Strip.
The paper points out that the number of deaths resulting from the Israeli assault will grow even larger in ensuing years:
“Even if the conflict ends immediately, there will continue to be many indirect deaths in the coming months and years from causes such as reproductive, communicable, and non-communicable diseases.”
INJURED PALESTINIANS FORCED TO EVACUATE AL-AHLI HOSPITAL
Andalou Agency reports: Medical staff at al-Ahli Arab Hospital in Gaza City have reportedly evacuated injured Palestinians from the facility after the Israeli military ordered residents of the city’s several eastern neighborhoods to flee their homes.
A medical source said the injured were taken to other hospitals in northern areas of the enclave, and that Israeli quadcopter drones were heavily present around the hospital, firing at civilians and prompting the medical teams to evacuate the hospital.
LACK OF TREATMENT KILLED 436 CANCER PATIENTS IN GAZA SINCE OCTOBER 7: SOURCE
A medical source has told Al Jazeera that 436 cancer patients have died due to the lack of treatment since October 7.
SIX-YEAR-OLD CHILD DIES OF MALNUTRITION IN GAZA
WAFA reports: Medical sources announced the death of a six-year-old child due to starvation and dehydration, bringing the number of victims of malnutrition in the Gaza Strip to 41.
The same sources said that a child from Deir al-Balah in the central Gaza Strip has died due to malnutrition, dehydration, and a lack of medical supplies at Al-Aqsa Martyrs Hospital.
The UN says that more than 50,000 children in Gaza require urgent medical treatment for acute malnutrition. The UN and international rights groups accuse Israel of blocking fuel and medical supplies
The UN says that more than 50,000 children in Gaza require urgent medical treatment for acute malnutrition. The UN and international rights groups accuse Israel of blocking fuel and medical supplies (screengrab)
BABIES AT NASSER HOSPITAL COULD DIE DUE TO FUEL CRISIS: REPORT
Al Jazeera Arabic says sources at Nasser Hospital in Khan Younis are warning that babies in the facility’s neonatal department could die if generators have to be switched off due to a lack of fuel.
PALESTINIAN DETAINEES FOUND NAKED, DEAD AFTER RELEASE FROM ISRAELI PRISON
Reuters reports: Israeli forces killed three Palestinian men shortly after their release from a detention camp in Israel.
The bodies were found still in handcuffs and without clothing on Sunday near the Kerem Shalom crossing between Gaza and Israel. One man was reportedly missing a leg, and his body was “in pieces.
When a relative of one of the men tried to retrieve the corpses, Israeli troops shot at him.
RECOMMENDED READING (Al Jazeera): One Samouni brother comes home in Gaza, recalls months of Israeli torture
STRANDED AID TRUCKS IN EGYPT DEEPEN GAZA’S HUMANITARIAN CRISIS
Reuters reports: Hundreds of trucks loaded with food, water and aid have been stranded on a scorching Egyptian road, some for nearly two months, awaiting permission to deliver humanitarian supplies into Gaza.
The truck drivers, parked on the outskirts of the Egyptian city of El Arish in the Sinai Peninsula, said they have been unable to deliver humanitarian supplies ever since Israel expanded its offensive on the Gaza-Egypt border in May. Some food has had to be discarded, they said.
“I swear to God, before this load, we came here and stood for more than 50 days, and eventually the load was returned because it had expired,” one truck driver said.
Thousands of people were forced to flee their homes in the northern Gaza City, in the early hours of Monday morning, during intense Israeli bombardment.
Thousands of people were forced to flee their homes in the northern Gaza City, in the early hours of Monday morning, during intense Israeli bombardment. (screengrab)
NETANYAHU ‘IS DOING EVERYTHING TO AVOID A DEAL’
Al Jazeera reports: Some in Israel’s political establishment have accused Netanyahu of trying to sabotage Gaza ceasefire negotiations by publishing a list of non-negotiable conditions even before a cabinet meeting was scheduled to convene to discuss the matter.
One of his demands said Israeli troops must be allowed to return to Gaza “and fight until all war’s objectives are achieved”.
“What is it good for? We are at a critical moment in the negotiations, the lives of the abductees depend on it, why issue such provocative messages? How does it contribute to the process?” opposition leader Yair Lapid said on X.
“It is quite clear that the prime minister is doing everything in his power to avoid a deal,” Israel Ziv, former head of the Israeli army’s operations, told the Maariv newspaper. “Whoever wants a deal does not publish his terms in the media, adds new conditions and publishes them,” he added.
Critics have long accused Netanyahu of trying to extend the conflict for his political survival.
The new demands come just as Hamas has made a huge concession in negotiations.
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Our thanks to JS
Years ago, I arrived at this conclusion:
A nation gets the leaders it resembles.
More recently, a friend showed me that I was not the first to come to that conclusion:
“At the age of 25 most people were finished. A whole god-damned nation of assholes driving automobiles, eating, having babies, doing everything in the worst way possible, like voting for the presidential candidate who reminded them most of themselves.”
-- Bukowski, Charles. Ham on Rye. Black Sparrow Press, Santa Rosa, 1991. p. 174
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ham_on_Rye#Themes
I also summarized my views in this poem:
Democraps! Republiscums!
All of you are liars and bought-out bums!
So screw your version of democracy
'Cause it's nothing but a two-party tyranny
That's funded by legalized bribery,
Legitimized by journalistic treachery,
Empowered by brain dead citizenry,
And engaged in mass murder with impunity!
This same old friend of mine directed me to his favorite poem on this topic:
Turning and turning in the widening gyre
The falcon cannot hear the falconer;
Things fall apart; the centre cannot hold;
Mere anarchy is loosed upon the world,
The blood-dimmed tide is loosed, and everywhere
The ceremony of innocence is drowned;
The best lack all conviction, while the worst
Are full of passionate intensity.
-- William Butler Yeats, The Second Coming (1919)
https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poems/43290/the-second-coming
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Our thanks to JS for this;
Harris will probably appoint some hack like Hillary as veep -- or Michelle Obama. Before the election. Then whoever the Evil Globalist Bastards want to put in the White House will win. That's just how it goes in "democratic" America.
Evil Globalist Bastards, zionists, Republi-Dems, the Federal Reserve con men, Neo-Cons -- they are all arms of the same octopus: People who will sell their souls for money and power (or have no souls at all). Some of them are Jewish. Some not. Lindsey Graham for instance. Soulless. WTF, er, I mean the WEF. No soul at all. Right now, it's the humans with heart and love and morals and compassion vs. the no-moral creeps.
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Newsletter - "Stigmatized, criminalized, attacked"
(Own report) - In a recent report, Amnesty International makes serious allegations against 21 European states, not least of which is Germany. The allegations relate to restrictions on the right to protest; according to this, peaceful demonstrators in Europe and not least in Germany are increasingly "stigmatized, criminalized and attacked". Amnesty has documented cases of serious police violence - for example at a demonstration in Frankfurt am Main -, states that anyone who engages in civil disobedience must expect to be defamed as a "terrorist" or "foreign agent" in Germany - even by high-ranking politicians - and criticizes the harsh repression that anyone who protests against the Gaza war is subjected to. In doing so, state authorities not only reinforce "stigmatizing and discriminatory stereotypes" about ethnic and religious minorities; their actions also reveal an "institutionalized racism" "targeting Arabs and Muslims". The Amnesty report is being published at a time when dissenting opinions are increasingly being marginalized in Germany. Critics are warning of an authoritarian turn. https://www.german-foreign-policy.com/news/detail/9612
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Niger officially kicks out the US (to be replace by Putin)
https://x.com/uncensorednewsw/status/1810217428288221589?s=43
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🇺🇸 🇳🇪 Footage of the withdrawal of the #US military forces from the base in #Niamey
The handover ceremony for Air Base 101 took place on Sunday evening The transfer of the site to the Nigerien authorities was signed by Niger's Chief of Staff Mamane Sani Kiaou and US official