.Indigenous are appealing to the United Nations in Geneva today, as the Indigenous-led movement in Peru again protests in defense of Mother Earth and the water and against the current government. Indigenous women and youths are appealing to the UN Expert Mechanism on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples in Geneva.Indigenous Peoples Under Attack by Militarized Forces: Native Hawaiians want the US

By Ahmed Adel | July 20, 2023

US officials are concerned that Ukraine is not making enough progress in its much-heralded counteroffensive, The Washington Post reported on July 18, citing unnamed sources. According to the media outlet, the US is urging Kiev to commit to a decisive breakthrough as Ukrainian commanders are, supposedly, yet to employ the full-scale offensive tactics Western instructors taught them.

A US official explained on condition of anonymity to the newspaper that the West had trained Ukrainian forces in integrated offensive manoeuvres and provided them with mine clearance equipment. The source stressed that it was critical for Kievs troops to apply these capabilities to break through Russian defences quickly.

Western officials have reportedly criticised Ukraines armed forces for taking an attrition-based approach by firing artillery and missiles at command, transport, and logistics locations at the rear of Russian positions rather than using Western-style combined arms that involve large-scale attacks with tanks, armoured vehicles, infantry, artillery, and the air force.

Analysts at the Institute for the Study of War explained that Ukrainian commanders chose to adopt more discreet advances, involving groups of 15 to 50 soldiers to preserve the military contingent.

Russian defensive operations in southern Ukraine follow a pattern in which one echelon of Russian forces slows and degrades attacking Ukrainian forces until a second echelon counterattacks from prepared defensive positions to roll back the Ukrainian advances, the journal wrote.

In this way, Ukrainian forces are being methodically neutralised by the Russian military as they have turned the battlefield into a meatgrinder.

This situation will not improve for Ukraine, especially following the acknowledgment by the head of the US Joint Chiefs of Staff that Kiev will have a long, difficult, and bloody fight against Russian forces, even if he did go on to sell an illusion that Ukraine can still win the war and that the offensive had not failed.

It is far from a failure I think that its way too early to make that kind of call, US General Mark Milley said on July 18. I think theres a lot of fighting left to go and Ill stay with what we said before: This is going to be long. Its going [to] be hard. Its going to be bloody.

Although he sold Kiev, once again, an illusion, he did have to begrudgingly acknowledge that it would take years and billions of dollars for the Ukrainian Air Force to gain parity with their Russian competitors.

Ten F-16s are $2 billion. So, the Russians have hundreds of fourth and fifth-generation airframes. If they [the Ukrainians] are going to try to match the Russians, one f......

From the Ukrainian Pravda, July 20, 2023 (machine translation): The Ukrainian military in the south is advancing hundreds of meters every day - the National Guard Every day, the Ukrainian military makes a gradual movement several hundred meters to the...

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• On July 20, the Russian Ministry of Defense recorded no cases of hostilities and ceasefire violations in Idlib region in the past 24 hours;
• On July 19, HTS reportedly arrested 11 of their own security and military officers in the town of Maarrat Misrin and Kafraya;
• On July 20, Turkish authorities deported 180 people to Syria via Tel Abyad and Ras al-Ain border crossing.

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Het is goed dat u vertrekt mevrouw Halsema. Als burgemeester was u nooit geliefd. Een bitse mond,  opgetrokken wenkbrouwen, en liefdeloze ogen. Daar houden hoofdstedelingen niet van. U bent geen bestuurder maar een politica. Zelfs uw echtgenoot hield het niet meer bij u uit. Tijd om naar de corrupte politiek terug te keren.

Sputnik 20.07.2023

WASHINGTON Two-thirds of Americans do not support sending cluster munitions to Ukraine, according to a joint poll conducted by The Economist and YouGov.

According to the survey, 42% of respondents oppose such a move, while only 33% support it. In addition, about half of respondents would like the United States to either maintain the same level of assistance to Kiev (29%) or increase it (23%). On the other hand, one-third of respondents said that the level of assistance to Ukraine should be reduced.

The poll found that Americans are more skeptical than in the past about the good idea of potential NATO membership for Ukraine; 42% of respondents supported such a prospect, which is 10% less than in April.

The survey was conducted on July 15-18 among a random sample of 1,500 US adults using interview-based methods, with a margin of error not exceeding 3 percentage points.

Earlier in July, Washington unveiled a new military assistance package for Ukraine that includes cluster munitions, claiming they will provide useful battlefield capabilities.

Yet these weapons are banned by the Convention on Cluster Munitions, which has been ratified by 123 countries, excluding the US and Ukraine. Russian officials stressed that US actually admitted committing a war crime by supplying Kiev with this type of ammo.

Your Smartphone Is Worse Than a Spy in Your Pocket: Edward Snowden

By Lucas Leiroz | July 20, 2023

In the last few days, the armed forces of the Russian Federation have launched a series of massive attacks against the Ukrainian ports in Odessa, destroying several strategic targets. Western media are reporting the strikes as terrorism and trying to link them to the fact that Moscow recently suspended its participation in the Black Sea Grain Deal. However, these narratives are biased and ignore the fact that Kiev maintains several arms depots in the ports.

Russian attacks began on 18 July, hitting several Ukrainian port facilities in the Odessa region overnight. Among the targets hit were depots of weapons, ammunition and fuel used to supply Ukrainian troops and carry out terrorist attacks against Russian territory. The next day, a new wave of attacks was carried out. Russian forces have used cruise missiles launched from their Black Sea positions. Moscows officials said all targets were appropriately neutralized with high precision strikes. New raids are expected for the coming days.

Among the military objectives of this operation is the destruction of several maritime drone bases that were detected by Russian intelligence in the ports of Odessa. As well known, the recent attack on the Crimean Bridge, which resulted in the death of a couple and the injury of their orphaned daughter, was carried out using maritime drones. Evidence suggests that the vehicles used came from the ports of Odessa, which explains the reasons why Russia decided to launch several missiles at enemy naval facilities. Russian authorities had promised retaliation for the attack on the Bridge.

In addition to the retaliation for the incident on the Bridge, it must be remembered that there were lately many other drone incursions against Crimea. For example, on July 18 dozens of Ukrainian drones were neutralized by Russian forces with artillery and electronic warfare measures, avoiding the death of numerous civilians. Furthermore, on the 20th, Crimean government confirmed that a teenage girl died during a drone strike in the morning, which certainly will be retaliated soon.

Another important point is that these Ukrainian ports were being used by the enemy side to receive weapons from abroad and store them among grains. Intelligence data shows that Western weaponry was arriving in Ode......

If you touch it, you die.

Thats the supposed result for politicians who confront highly contentious issues. Likened to grasping the third rail, the one that provides the electricity that powers a train or subway, the result is political suicideat least that was the metaphor attributed to U.S. House Speaker Thomas Tip ONeill when discussing the topic of Social Security in the early 1980s, as any politician attempting to reform the largest social safety net for retired American workers would later cost them their political careers at the ballot box.

Pita Limjaroenrat, the prime ministerial candidate of the progressive Move Forward Party, which upset Thailands conservative military-backed parties in the May 14 election, also touched on a sensitive national issue: lse-majest. In the end it was responsible in part in ending his chances at becoming prime minister, as Thailands Constitutional Court suspended his duties as a member of Parliament, and was blocked from a second parliamentary vote. Two lingering questions remain after a month of post-election drama: whether pushing for Article 112 reform so soon was worth it, and whether Move Forward had the foresight to predict this outcome.

Known in Thailand as Article 112 of the Criminal Code, lse-majest (royal insult) dates back to 1908 and warns that anyone who defames, insults or threatens the king, the queen, the heir-apparent or the regent is punishable by up to 13 years in prison. The vaguely worded law provides a wide interpretation as to what constitutes an insult, giving those who weaponize it great flexibility. With anyone being able to file a complaint and the police mandated to investigate claims, Article 112 is not only worrisome for Thais, but has become an issue of international concern. Many have fallen victim, even children, as the military government of Prayut Chan-ocha sought to crack down on dissent. In 2020, he vowed in 2020 to use all laws, all articles, to take action against protesters who broke the law, referring then to protesters who defied police use of water cannons and tear gas.

Move Forward first signaled it would call for the repeal of Article 112 in January 2021, taking up a popular challenge from anti-coup and pro-reform protests that began in 2020, and a day after four prominent protest le...

On Monday, while delivering the keynote address at the annual China Business Summit held in Auckland, New Zealand Prime Minister Chris Hipkins weighed in on the power dynamic in the Indo-Pacific.  New Zealands estimation matters because it is a small country in the Southern Pacific heavily dependent on trade with China for preserving its prosperity and yet Continue reading Multipolar Maneuvering in Indo-Pacific

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By Milan Sekulovic, Save Sinjajevina, July 20, 2023

Defending Sinjajevina with Knowledge and Beauty

From July 12th to 16th, a successful educational-recreational camp under the slogan Everyone to Sinjajevina was held on the Sinjajevina mountain. This significant event was organized by the citizens initiative Save Sinjajevina and gathered numerous participants from different parts of Montenegro and the region at the locations of Savina Voda and Margita.

The camp commenced on July 12th with the traditional katun assembly at Savina Voda, during which representatives of the citizens initiative Save Sinjajevina, President Milan Sekulovi, Vice President Mileva Gara Jovanovi, and Vice President of the Parliament Stanija Cana Braunovi, emphasized the importance of preserving the Sinjajevina mountain as a clean and undisturbed area without military activities. They stressed that Sinjajevina should remain a place where people can live freely and engage in agriculture, and that any form of military activity is not welcome and will never be allowed.

After the assembly, the participants set up a tent camp, providing conditions for staying in nature. During the camp, various educational workshops were organized. On Montenegros Statehood Day, workshops were held on the traditional cuisine of Sinjajevina and Montenegro, where homemade bread and kaamak were prepared. Rosa udovi led these workshops, and Stanija Cana Braunovi gave a lecture on the medicinal herbs of Sinjajevina. Following the lecture on teas, the participants took part in a practical workshop that included an excursion to the locations of Strnjaci and Savina Voda. During the outing, participants collected medicinal herbs with detailed explanations on safe tea gathering.

As part of the cultural program, the participants had the opportunity to learn more about the film The Last Nomad, which showcased Sinjajevina with all its natural beauty and distinctive population. Petar Glomazi and Eva Kraljevi presented the film, followed by a movie night held for the first time in the history of Margita, which, for two hours, transformed from pasture to a cinema hall.

The following day, the participants had an excursion to Jablanov Vrh in the early morning hours. In the afternoon, a panel on environmental issues in Montenegro and the region was organized. The panel disc...

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Kevin Hughes Natural News July 18, 2023

A well-known German economist has revealed that central banks around the world are planning to introduce central bank digital currencies (CBDCs) in the form of microchips implanted under the skin. This technology will enable complete government control over personal finances of its citizens.

I was taught by a central banker [that] the CBDCs look like a small grain of rice that they want to put under your skin, said Richard Werner in an interview with podcaster Ivor Cummins. Werner is known for developing the now commonly used bank practice of quantitative easing.

CBDCs, in comparison to other forms of digital currency used at present, demand that individuals open bank accounts directly with central banks such as the Federal Reserve, granting governments control over citizens access to money.

You have to think of CDBCs as a control system [or a permit system], not a currency, Werner said, adding that peoples money would no longer be truly their own. (Related: Expert warns CBDCs could lead economies to a dark path where governments dictate what you can purchase.)

Werner considers implanted CBDCs a violation of human dignity, noting that central bankers themselves know that this common opinion among the masses is a hurdle.

They say theres a problem of trust because people suspect that governments and central banks are just trying to roll this out in order to monitor and control and restrict transactions. Theyre absolutely right, said Werner.

Cummins noted that while implanted CBDCs may sound like a conspiracy theory to some, thousands of people have already agreed to have microchips implanted under their skin to ease financial transactions and access to select areas. Late last year, the first British implanted with a bank card microchip was able to make purchases with only the tap of his hand.

Meanwhile, several Christian commentators have indicated that if such technology becomes a requirement for access to goods and services, it will lead to authoritarianism of biblical magnitude.

Central banks will convince people to adopt CBDC microchip implants

According to Werner, CBDCs will be brought in through phone-based apps during the initial phase. Why hasnt it been rolled out yet? Theres no actual need for it. That need has to be cr...

Robert Clark The Telegraph July 18, 2023

Donated by the West, Ukrainian Army tanks on the battlefields of Ukraine. Click to enlarge

Since Putins tanks crossed into Ukrainian territory last year, three options have been on the table for how this war would end: victory for one side or the other, a frozen conflict or a negotiated settlement. The public comments made this week by Oleksiy Arestovych, a former advisor to Volodymyr Zelenskys chief of staff, appear to indicate the last may be more likely than previously thought.

Arestovych raised the prospect of Ukraine making territorial concessions in return for the rest of the country receiving the most cast-iron security guarantee there is: Nato membership. These comments have proved highly controversial. Not only would such an outcome be unpalatable to many in Kyiv and other European capitals, raising it as a possibility highlights a growing uncertainty about the long-term sustainability of the war particularly amongst Ukraines western backers.

Arestovychs suggestion comes at a crucial time. The long-planned counter-offensive, now in its second month, has run into several problems not least that Kyiv is still waiting for approximately half of the western military equipment promised earlier in the year. Meanwhile, its forces are under increasing pressure to commit its reserves as Russian troops despite reports of low morale across the front remain dug-in, seemingly committed to defending every inch of Ukrainian ground captured since last year.

As Russian minefields take their toll on western-supplied tanks and Ukrainian sappers, their forces have so-far retaken approximately five miles of the sixty miles they need to split the land-bridge connecting Russia to Crimea. The land between Mariupol in the east and Melitopol to the west is seen as the vital ground to achieving this.

It is incredibly tough going for the Ukrainians. They lack the air cover and advanced jets to protect their ground forces from Russian attack helicopters and fighters. Their soldiers, meanwhile must negotiate miles of minefields, tank-traps and then ultimately the heavily dug Russian trench networks.

This gruell...

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Rolo Slavskiy The Slavland Chronicles July 19, 2023

Funny enough, the only guy who might end up with his head still on his shoulders after all this purging is done is the guy who launched the mutiny in the first place, Evgeniy Prigozhin, on account of his lawyer blood and inner circle oligarch privilege.

You have already probably heard all about the officers that have been fired so far. All of them were somehow related to Surovikin or had critiqued Shoigus disastrous handling of the Not-War. The Western media is happy to report on this, because it makes the Kremlin look like incompetent cretins, but the reality of the matter is that theyre actually quite competent at what their primary task actually is: destroying Russia. Based on this criteria, theyre actually doing a great job.

Keep that in mind as you read on:

Russia sacked two generals in the past week, as Moscows Ministry of Defense reportedly continues to purge its top officers, pointing to a growing disarray in the military leadership following the aborted rebellion by the Wagner mercenary group.

Russian Minister of Defense Sergei Shoigu canned Maj. Gen. Vladimir Seliverstov, commander of the Tula Airborne Division, this week, according to Belarusian news outlet Charter97.

The governor of the Tula region, which borders Moscow, Alexei Dyumin, tried to stand up for Seliverstov, who was involved in the battles in Bakhmut, but to no avail, according to the Russian publication VChK-OGPU.

Seliverstovs reported firing comes days after Maj. Gen. Ivan Popov was sacked following a recorded tirade he went on against the Russian government, in which he raised questions about high casualty rates and lack of artillery support, echoing the themes of some of the tirades posted by Wagner Group chief Yevgeny Prigozhin in the weeks leading up to last months short-lived mutiny.

Popov, 48, claimed in a voice recording published by Russian Politician Andrew Gurulyov that he was fired as head of the 58th Combined Arms Army in retaliation for his criticism.

I had no right to lie in the name of you, in the name of my fallen comrades in arms, so I outlined all the problems which exist, he said in the recording.

Major General Vladimir Seliverstov was removed from the post of commander of the Tula 106th Airborne Division.

The Ukrainian army could not break through our ranks at the front but our senior chief hit us from the rear, viciously beheading the army at the most difficult and intense moment, he continued.

Popov...

Reflections in a Petri Dish July 19, 2023

God Poet Transmitting.

Step away from the cellphone. Turn around. Put your hands in your back pockets. Now pretend you are wearing high heels shimmy to the left shimmy to the right and you do the tranny-humanism shuffle all night.

Listen to what that internal radio station is playing. The one youve been hearing ever since you got the genetically targeted vaccine, or was that The Virus? Virus? Vaccine? Virus? Vaccine? Dont you listen to that bad Kennedy man if you dont want any men in black on your own grassy knoll.

A culture rises and falls on the quality of its art. A culture is defined by the quality of its art. When I say art, I mean music visual graphic expressions inspired poetry and prose; what you hear and what you see and what inspires thee. Does it lift you up or does it bring you down? Dont bring me down! Dont bring me down

Does Cardi B and Megan The Gelding lift your spirits with WAP? Would you rather hear, All You Need is Love? Something by Mozart? Does Taylor Swift remind you of Joni Mitchell? Not even a little bit? Do contemporary visual arts make you think of Titian? Raphael? Goya? Rembrandt? Are you sad that Andy Warhol went away to the vapid nothing he emerged from with Basquiat in tow?

Ask yourself who made them famous. Who owns all the art galleries? Go ahead. Look it up. Who makes all of these painted ponies famous? Who owns the industries that tell you who to follow and fail to mention anyone else?

Does it bother you that todays musical artists cant sing or play their instruments outside of a kind of tedious redundancy that would make a tree hang itself? That modern artists cant draw a recognizable character? That there are no more poets? That there are so few decent writers? Do you like living in a box working in a cubicle and spending all your free time on your cellphone? Are you glancing back and forth at its tiny screen even now? Probably not. (grin) Not here anyway.

Ecstasy or Molly or whatever you call it has a very powerful impact on sexual behavior. At least it does now. Once like LSD it was pure. I know. I had the original Sandoz in the ampules and multiple multiples of everything Owsley and The Brotherhood of Love ever made. I had bags of Orange Sunshine Window Pane plenty of Mr. Natural blotters.

I also had plenty of the original MMDA from The University of Kalifornia, back when it wasnt illegal. Then like the LSD, Sarumans people got their hands on it. It wasnt long before the entire...

Back in April we noted that a BBC News website report by Lucy Williamson on the topic of violent rioting by Israelis in Huwara two months earlier promoted extensive quotes from the executive director of the political NGO Yesh Din but failed to inform readers that some of those who rioted in Huwara on February 26^th had been placed in administrative detention and two people had been indicted in connection with a later incident in the same town.

BBC NEWS WEBSITE PUBLISHES FOURTH HUWARA REPORT IN TWO MONTHS

Since then visitors to the BBC News website have found references in multiple articles to what the BBC refers to using the broad term settler violence and on June 21^st the BBC Jerusalem bureaus Tom Bateman reported on incidents f...

Via: Reclaim the Net: The use of AI in law enforcement is becoming commonplace globally. A 2019 study by the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace revealed that 52 out of the 176 nations surveyed were incorporating AI tools into their policing strategies, Nikkei Asia reported. The National Police Agency plans to carry out tests []

HenryMakow.com July 19, 2023

Humanity agrees to go extinct peacefully.

Modest Proposal Humanity acknowledges that it is comatose and agrees to pull the plug. It agrees to be sterilized in exchange for a truce from Communist Jews and their Freemason flunkies. (i.e. Satanists, Zionists, Liberals, Antifa, Transsexuals, Feminists.)

Within a short century, the planet will be rid of useless eaters (us) and become a playground for sick Satanists/Communists and their preferred number of perverts.

People today are obviously too selfish, venal, cowardly, and feeble-minded to unite and defend themselves. They were too stupid to figure out that a pandemic with a 00.25% death rate was not a pandemic, and a disease without symptoms was not a disease. Already, slaves, they will gratefully embrace this peaceful, easy compromise. Emphasis is on easy.

 Sterilization should not be an issue. People obviously no longer care about their children or the world they will inherit.

Updated from July 21, 2021, and Nov 11, 2022

 by Henry Makow PhD

I have a solution to mankinds problems that should satisfy everyone.

Humanity volunteers to be sterilized in exchange for the satanist Jewish bankers and Freemasons (Communists) ending their war against God and man.

This means that within a short century, the planet will be rid of useless eaters (us) and become a playground for sick Satanists/Communists and their preferred number of perverts.

Humanity agrees to go peacefully

What does mankind get out of this?

1. Satanists/Communists call off their vaccine and climate change hoaxes, chemtrails, geo-engineering, cbdcs, 15-min cities, CRT, lockdown lunacy, and vax passports.

They will curb their Antifa/BLM goons before whom we cower in fear like little girls. We avoid violent Dark Winter dystopia and enjoy relative peace an...

Twitter July 18, 2023

Registered nurse Zandra Lewis states she was instructed to euthanise patients with midazolam + morphine and withdraw water.

#midazolam Registered nurse Zandra Lewis states she was instructed to euthanise patients with midazolam + morphine and withdraw water. NHS guideline NG163 #NG163 @JacquiDeevoy1 @MaajidNawaz @ABridgen @VigilantFox @Jikkyleaks @TuckerCarlson @BernieSpofforth @ClareDalyMEP @pwleaks pic.twitter.com/VNACSnnm9N

NG16322 (@ng16322) July 18, 2023

The shameful government narrative rag, Popular Mechanics, is running a limited hangout related to the JFK assassination and UFOs: One of the newly released documents revealed the name of the CIA official who intercepted Oswalds mail in the months before JFKs killing: Reuben Efron. It turns out Efron had a UFO encounter in 1955 when []