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The mass media won’t print this news, “Turkey is our NATO friend”. Imagine if Russia did this! Turkey can bomb five countries, abolish women’s and LGBT rights, send jihadi mercenaries, arm the Syrian forever war, blitz 8 of its own Kurdish cities, close the media, jail the journalists, occupy, genocide and Turkify Afrin, …. NOT NEWS.. but if Russia arrests some neo-nazi dissident.. BIG TIME MEDIA
.@SecBlinken SILENCE only EMBOLDENS Turkey's President Erdogan to attack Kurds & Yazidis
Please speak out publicly against Turkey's multiple drone missile strikes against Yazidi defence fighters struck by missiles both in a convoy & later in a medical centre in a Sinjar village. pic.twitter.com/csFfsoO9Ju
At least 18 militants from the…Kurdistan Workers’ Party (PKK) were killed on Tuesday in an airstrike by a drone near the town of Sinjar in northern Iraq, a Kurdish security source said.
This Yazidi Womens Brigade joined the SDF coalition as they closed in on the ISIS HQ in Raqqa in 2018.”We can not remain impassive in the face of the genocide committed by Erdogan and his fascist state against the Kurdish people…. Let’s attack those who are profiting and are financing this genocide”.
The airstrike took place in the afternoon when a Turkish drone bombed a school building used by PKK members as a clinic in a village near the town of Sinjar, some 100 km west of Nineveh’s provincial capital Mosul, Luqman Gally, commander of the Kurdish Peshmerga security forces in the area, told Xinhua.
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The airstrike is the second in two successive days, as an aircraft bombed a vehicle in the old market in the center of Sinjar, killing Saeed Hassan Saeed, a leading figure in the Sinjar Protection Units (YBS), also known as Shingal (Sinjar) Resistance Units, and two of his aides, along with wounding two of Saeed’s sons at the scene, according to Gally on Monday.
The YBS is a Yazidi militia formed in Iraq in 2007 to protect the Yazidi community in Iraq….
By Rachel Marsden, columnist, political strategist and host of an independently produced French-language program that airs on Sputnik France. Her website can be found at rachelmarsden.com
France has gone authoritarian in inept fashion, as its bid to control the movement of its citizens failed TWICE in a week when the platform that generates government QR codes was overwhelmed. The result, predictably, was chaos.
France and other budding authoritarian countries with ambitions to lord over their citizens’ movements by introducing health passes have eyes that are bigger than their stomachs. They have proven repeatedly that they’re far too incompetent to practice proper authoritarianism. Events last week are a case in point.
This is by far the WORST shock study we’ve seen yet, predicting the possible deaths of hundreds of millions of us from the experimental vaccines. Though the mechanism now seems proven, mainly for those with Delta, we don’t know what percentage would suffer.
We republish to add a grain of hope that current vaccines will be abolished or replaced with safer ones..We have no way of assessing the accuracy of the study : Infection-enhancing anti-SARS-CoV-2 . The context is: .. its via Mike Adams at Natural News and comes amid the assortment of dire warnings and studies and the litany of changing often provable lies by authorities and media.
VAXXED TO DEATH: Alarming study confirms vaxxers may face catastrophic Antibody Dependent Enhancement injuries and deaths
Economic Sanctions continue. War Exercises proliferate in the Black Sea and newly NATO puppet states on Russia’s borders.
new US base in Bulgaria
And there is a new twist to the escalating insane attacks on Russia….
Only 15% of the population of Crimea are Tatars and just four of them have been sentenced and 5 more ARRESTED and accused of ‘extremism’- Oh horror this is Genocide!- screams the western press and politicians.
The ultra nationalist Tatars claim to be the original inhabitants of the Crimean peninsula, which voted 96.77% to rejoin Russia after the 2014 coup in Ukraine, though there have always been many other ethnic minorities.
Crimean Tatars hold ATR TV station flags during a support rally in Simferopol, Crimea, March 31, 2015... (Voice of America propaganda photo) АТР is a Ukrainian TV Channel whose target audience is Crimean Tatars. It was broadcasting in Crimea, Ukraine from 1 September 2006 until 1 April 2015 when it was forced to shut down by Russian authorities after failing to register under Russian law. In mid-June 2015 the channel resumed its broadcasting in Ukraine and has since then been located in Kyiv.
So what?.. This is called the ANNEXATION of Crimea in the west, (although Crimea was a part of Russia until gifted to Ukraine by Stalin in 1954) and deserving of World War Three to return it to Ukraine, though we would all be dead ‘many times over’ by then.
It’s not that the totalitarian Russian state cares that much about Crimea, though it has their biggest naval base, one of just a handful outside Russia, while the US has hundreds.
It’s that Russia must set a red line somewhere as NATO has recruited more and more client states and nuclear bases are threatened just ‘minutes by megadeath’ from Moscow.
Veteran socialist and popular filmmaker Ken Loach was expelled from the Labour Party as part of the ongoing purge of leftists and supporters of Jeremy Corbyn within the party
Ken Loach. (Photo: via Facebook)
Leftist and progressive sections across the UK expressed shock and outrage at the expulsion of veteran socialist and filmmaker Ken Loach from the Labour Party. On Saturday, August 14, Loach tweeted about his expulsion from the party. Left-wing sections denounced the Labour leadership’s decision to expel socialists like Loach. Thousands, including MP Jeremy Corbyn, extended support and solidarity to Loach.
In the US it sometimes seems the fossil fuel corporations and far right nationalists OWN the state. It’s no secret that climate-lethal US methane emissions have been hidden for generations, only now its admitted in the official media. Finally under Obama a regulation law came in, but it was just VOLUNTARY monitoring.
And Trump reverted to pampering the Oil and Gas Cowboys by blocking even that and ignoring all types of methane leaks, including from over a million abandoned fracking wells, the Bakken Frack Rush, the maze of new pipelines, the Great Plastics Bubble and the giant LNG export plants, etcetera!
Methane emissions from oil and gas are ‘even worse than previously thought’ admits CBS News at last
Posted on AUG 18, 2021 / 8:30 AM / MONEYWATCH b y BY IRINA IVANOVA
“Recent research indicates that the fossil fuel industry is responsible for far more methane than previously believed”. CBS NEWS MoneyWatch
Not surprising. When Harvard studies exposed the great methane crime and huge clouds of methane were observed 10 years ago from satellites over the Fracking Fields it was claimed without evidence to be natural and ignored.
“Now experts say slashing methane emissions is essential to staving off the worst effects of global warming, with the United Nations calling it “the strongest lever we have to slow climate change.”
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Report: Oil companies are burning off natural gas — and leaving regulators in the dark Billions of cubic feet of natural gas are burned off in U.S. oil and gas fields every year, wasting the fossil fuel and emitting greenhouse gases without actually generating energy. In Texas alone, state regulators have permitted companies to burn more than a million cubic feet of gas every day since 2019. Combined, that would be enough natural gas to supply 15 million homes’ annual gas needs.
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Fossil fuel companies choose to burn natural gas instead of capturing and selling it for a variety of safety and economic reasons. Most commonly, oil fields have a gas glut and insufficient pipeline capacity to move it to refineries and markets. The solution to the logjam is to burn excess natural gas — which is primarily composed of methane, a potent planet-warming pollutant — with the permission of state regulators.
The Texas Railroad Commission, or RRC, is the state agency tasked with regulating the oil and gas industry and overseeing companies’ flaring practices. When fossil fuel companies want to flare, they’re required to request a permit from the agency. But a new analysis by Earthworks, an environmental nonprofit, has found compelling evidence that they often don’t bother to. In fact, more than two-thirds of the 227 flares observed during three months in 2020 were not permitted by the state, according to the group, potentially leaving the RRC in the dark.
Yet a new analysis of satellite data shows that fossil fuel companies — which contribute up to half of human-caused methane emissions around the globe — are falling far short of their pledges to eliminate the environmentally destructive hydrocarbon”.
Venting methane to increase quick fracking profits is considered patriotic in West Texas
Ken Loach. (Photo: via Facebook)
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