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Western media have finally change course. They are now admitting that the much promoted Ukrainian counter-offensive has failed. In fact, the acknowledge that it never had a chance to win in the first place.

The Hill, the Washington Post and CNN now agree that the Ukrainian army will never achieve its aims.

western MSM has a rare encounter with reality!

That makes it difficult for the Biden administration to get Congress approval for $24 billion in additional 'aid' to Ukraine. It does not make sense to pay for a cause that is evidently lost.

b seems overly hopeful regarding the rationality of US congress, but i think hes right- why would we throw more money at them, US politicians have made it clear they do not support bringing Ukraine into NATO if they do not win this conflict. of course, US politicians are prone to lying and misleading

Nothing has come from the 'peace conference' which Saudi Arabia arranged on Ukraine's behalf

lol. lmao even. props to big dog MBS for trying

Despite the onslaught of bad news the Ukrainian army is still trying to take Russian positions in the south and east of Ukraine. But it simply does not have enough in men and material to break through the lines.

Even if they would manage to get a local breakthrough there are not enough reserves to push for the necessary follow up. Just one of the NATO trained brigades has still been held back. All others have been mauled in their various deployment zones.

nothing has changed it seems

In the northeast around Kupyansk the Russians have started their own offensive which has the Ukrainians on the run. Ukraine has ordered the evacuation of the area

But Kupyansk is a Russian city and people refuse to leave.

show this to the libs claiming Russians are committing genocide in the regions they capture. curious that these civilians are content with Russian occupation when you believe what western media claims

The Russian campaign is slowly speeding up. As the Ukrainian Strana.news reports (machine translation):

Also in Ukraine, it is recorded that from Kupyansk to Bakhmut, Russia has increased the number of attacks.

"Over the past month, the total number of attacks in the Kupyansk, Limansky and Bakhmut directions has grown significantly. In July, during the week there were 6-6.5 thousand attacks, during the last week-9 thousand attacks, " - said the representative of the National Guard Ruslan Muzychuk.

According to him, the Russian Federation does not experience "shell hunger".

Aviation is also actively used, and over the past few weeks, more than 50 air attacks have been taking place every day, and sometimes more than 80.

That is bad news for the Ukrainian side which lacks the reserves to counter the Russian onslaught. There are also less weapons coming in from the West. F-16 fighter jets will be delayed for another nine months due to training issues. Tanks and other material are in short supply.

these supply issues sure bode well for the west’s performance in WW3

Strana also report of an interview with a knowledgeable Ukrainian soldier (machine translation):

Continuing the topic of the situation at the front, an interesting interview was given by a Ukrainian sniper fighting near Bakhmut with the call sign "Grandfather". On the air of political scientist Yuri Romanenko, he was introduced as Konstantin Proshinsky (this is a pseudonym).

The fighter spoke in detail about his vision of the situation of the Armed Forces of Ukraine and the Russian army.

1. Mobilization. In his opinion, it is conducted incorrectly. Recruits are sent to the front who have never been trained, and they are often over 50 years old and with a whole bunch of diseases.

2. No rotation. The soldier says that "the same brigades" are fighting at the front, and people are not taken out of the front line for six months or more. Whereas by Western standards, they can be kept in a war zone for no more than three months.

3. Behavior of mid-and high-level commanders. According to Proshinsky, many of them are trying to arrange a "mini-Stalingrad" on the positions, forcing them to go into frontal assaults on well-fortified Russian positions.

4. The Russian Army began to fight better.

5. Proshinsky believes that Russia has not yet used much of what it has against Ukraine.

The soldier thinks that the Russians will not move from their positions and that a stalemate peace like in Korea would be the end result.

UAF in real dire times— recruiting the elderly, poor logistics, engaging the enemy at inopportune times, and Russia has yet to waver

I believe that to be wrong. Russia's aim is to liberate at least the four regions that it has claimed for itself. For political reasons it can not stop before that is done.

Should the Ukraine continue to fight after that, Russia is likely to set new aims and take more land.

more editorializing, but it doesnt seem unreasonable. i thought Russia would stick to its original goal of Donetsk and Luhansk, but if Zaporizhzhia and Kherson are receptive to Russian governance, it would be foolish for Russia to give them up

Tokyo Electric Power Company (TEPCO) conducted a probe after higher-than-usual levels of radioactive material were detected in rainwater in the dike around a storage tank

An inspection found that some water had leaked from cracks of about four centimeters on a hose being used for transferring radioactive wastewater

TEPCO analyzed water in the dike around the tank and detected up to 67,000 becquerels of tritium per liter, which exceeded 60,000 becquerels, the standard set by the Japanese government for releasing tritium into the environment

okay, so were they lying abt the water being “safe” to discharge? or did it concentrate by 12%+ in the past couple months?

TEPCO said that someone caused the cracks with a cutter blade while removing the packaging around the hose after it was delivered

great QC standards!

TEPCO added that the leak would not affect the plan to discharge the radioactive wastewater from the plant into the ocean

oh really? sure, release water that isnt safe even by the arbitrary standards your own government put in place. im sure the government will step in and stop this

Despite strong opposition from neighboring and Pacific island countries, as well as local fishermen over the irreversible impacts on the marine environment and public health, the Japanese government and TEPCO have been pushing for release of the radioactive wastewater from the Fukushima nuclear power

Canadian industries are pushing back against the country's planned January launch of the Modern Slavery Act, intended to fight forced labour and child labour in supply chains, as mining and apparel trade groups say the government has failed to spell out the details of the law's requirements.

The act, which passed in May, seeks to push corporations to provide greater transparency about their supply chains in order to avoid abetting what critics say amounts to modern slavery. The new measure takes effect on Jan. 1, 2024.

However, lobby groups, including mining companies and apparel manufacturers, are warning that a perceived lack of clarity about the rules could lead to unwanted penalties and prevent critical goods from entering Canada.

Oh they just want clarification on what counts as slavery so they aren't unduly punished for "borderline slavery"

Under the new law, companies found to be in violation face penalties of up to $250,000, reflecting an increasing emphasis by global investors on ethical and social governance issues (ESG).

Jfc talk about a slap on the wrist!

The libs try to pass the most limpdick anti-slavery laws and these fucking ghouls are quibbling over what counts as slavery. Not to mention there's essentially 0 punishment if they're caught, $250k is nothing to these companies. No mention of jail time or any consequences for those perpetrating these crimes

Iran has managed to secure the release of more than 10 billion worth of funds that have been illegally blocked in South Korea and Iraq for several years because oof US sanctions, a source has told official IRNA news agency.

The source made the statement on Thursday after media reports said Iran and the US had reached a prisoner swap deal that also included the release of Iranian funds held in South Korea.

The source said the release of the funds under the deal include $6 billion worth of assets blocked in South Korea as well as a “significant amount of Iranian funds held in the Trade Bank of Iraq”.

The statement said the funds in South Korea had already been changed into euro in a bank in Switzerland and were ready to be transferred to an account in the central bank of Qatar as agreed under the prisoner swap deal with the US.

The source confirmed reports that the prisoners had been transferred “to a place outside prison” for the purpose of exchange, adding, however, that they would not be freed until the funds were transferred to accounts designated by Iran.

It came after reports by US media outlets including the New York Times and the CNN quoted sources as saying that Washington will allow the transfer of nearly $6 billion of Iran’s assets in South Korea to an account in the central bank of Qatar where Iran can use them for purchases of food and medicine.

They said the US will also release several Iranian prisoners as part of the deal which will see Iran free five American prisoners.

They claimed that four of the prisoners had been already released from a prison in Tehran into house arrest. The report said the fifth American prisoner was already under house arrest in the country.

Despite having no diplomatic relations with the US, Iranian officials have said in the past that they will be open to prisoner exchange talks with the US out of respect for humanitarian issues.

However, Iran has denied reports that it will accept any restricted access to its blocked funds in other countries, including for humanitarian purchases.

The Iranian government started a procedure earlier this month to refer the dispute with South Korea over the blocked funds to international arbitration.

A lawmaker in the Iranian parliament said earlier this week that Iran will have many options to force South Korea pay back the debt it owes to Iran for purchases of energy products in the past.

Fuck these people. Does US bankruptcy code allow courts to approve deals, as part of a Chapter 11 filings, that extinguish claims against third parties that aren't bankrupt?

One Nation leader Pauline Hanson has used a misleadingly edited viral video to claim a Yes vote in the Voice to Parliament referendum will lead to increasing conflict between Indigenous and non-Indigenous Australians.

WARNING: This story contains language that is hate speech.
Key points:

• A viral clip shared by the One Nation leader had been shortened and was missing context
• Both families in the video say they are extremely distressed after the edited footage went viral
• The video was quietly removed from Ms Hanson's Facebook page after her office was approached by ABC Investigations

The video shows a confrontation between an Indigenous mother and daughter and an elderly white woman in the coastal Queensland town of Poona. It has accrued more than 1.5 million views across Facebook, Twitter and TikTok.

In the 48-second clip, the woman filming is heard shouting at a white woman to leave a stretch of foreshore which belongs to the Butchulla people and saying they "owned these lands to the exclusivity of all others which comes under federal native title".

"You might not like it, but guess what? Times are changing. You don't own the land, we do. Get off it, please," the woman filming is heard saying.

Ms Hanson shared the video on her official Facebook page with the caption: "This is just a taste of what is to come if Australians don't stop [Prime Minister Anthony] Albanese's race-based Voice and its Treaty".

However, the viral clip is not what it seems.

ABC Investigations can reveal the footage shared by Ms Hanson was less than half of the original length, removing context of the incident.

The original version, posted 2.5 years ago by Butchulla woman Samala Cronin and her mother and elder Gemma Cronin, showed the argument actually began when the elderly woman's husband had confronted them for filming.

"We started walking along the foreshore and people started coming out of their houses … next thing I hear this guy coming towards us and talking at us," Samala Cronin told the ABC.

In Samala Cronin's video, a man approaches the pair, who ask him: "Can I help you?" After a brief exchange, he lunges at the camera and yells: "Don't do that! Don't take photos."

Gemma Cronin is seen pushing him away and yelling: "Don't f***ing touch my daughter."

"When he lunged at the camera … my mum just went into protection mode," Samala Cronin told the ABC.

She said they had "every right to be there" after the stretch of land they were standing on was exclusively granted to the Butchulla people in a 2019 native title decision.

At the end of the unedited version, Samala Cronin is heard telling her mother to stop shouting because of young children nearby.

ABC Investigations has chosen to not broadcast the video and it has confirmed none of the people who appear in it were aware the incident had resurfaced as part of the referendum debate.

RMIT FactLab editor and misinformation researcher Esther Chan said the incident had no connection to the Voice referendum and claims about Australians having to surrender their land had already been debunked.

"The edit is highly misleading as it leaves out important context and was perhaps designed to evoke an emotional reaction," she said, adding much of that reaction had been racially charged.

The edited version has been widely shared by anti-Voice campaigners and conservative figures without proper context. One of the most prominent channels spreading the footage (which is the version Ms Hanson republished) is a TikTok account called @notothevoice23.

The account blocked ABC News on TikTok when it was approached for comment.

Many of the comments on Ms Hanson's post of the video contain vitriolic abuse directed towards the Indigenous women, including a call for genocide against First Nations Australians.

The edited video was first published by former One Nation candidate Brett Johannsen on August 4, but among those who shared it, Ms Hanson had the largest audience.

Mr Johannsen said he did not edit the video himself but was sent a shortened version by a friend, who he declined the name, and added text calling for a No vote.

He denied the video was misleading and said he would not remove it from his Facebook page.

The video and post were quietly removed from Ms Hanson's Facebook page after her office was approached by ABC Investigations. One Nation declined to answer questions.

Meanwhile, both families in the video say they are extremely distressed that the incident has gone viral.

Samala Cronin said she was overseas when the edited footage began picking up steam. Her Facebook and inbox have in the past few days been inundated with hateful and racist comments.

The other couple declined to comment. A relative told ABC Investigations the family had "already been crucified" and were being "crucified again".

Ms Chan said videos like this were easy to weaponise, and elected officials, with their large platforms, had a responsibility to be more diligent about what they publish.

"[These videos] cost nothing to share and are very damaging to confidence in the Voice. It worked to promote a false, debunked narrative about the Voice's impact on land rights and ownership," she said.

"While they may want to make use of materials like this to promote against the Voice, they should consider carefully whether there's the need to share a video that stokes racial division such as this one."

shes alive guys!

“I could have been relaxing at Mar-a-Lago or in the south of France ― which I would prefer to being in this country, frankly.”

Conservatives are calling Ken Klippenstein an intelligence asset because he foia’d the UFO guy