As promised from Amnesty International, their brutal report on "War Crimes in #Mozambique" the title says all you need to know about the players on all sides in #CaboDelgado. amnesty.org/en/latest/news…
photos from Cabo Delgado. Showing machine gun rigging and homemade bombs used in operations by the Dyck group against ISCAP.
more photos of homemade bombs and rigging from the Dyck Advisory Group. Note the "Get Some" which is a quote from Full Metal Jacket
You can note the lack of aiming devices which were a constant complaint of the pilots working the low budget job. The civilians commented on "bombs" being dropped by the mercenaries out of small helicopters.
The Amnesty International report will be followed by another NGO investigation on human rights abuses in Cabo Delgado. DAG's contract has been re-upped and Paramount and Burnham Global are moving into this space there is a lack of transparency. thetimes.co.uk/article/mercen…
The modified propane canisters in the photos are a modified version of the much larger barrel bombs seen in Syria. @bellingcat takes you through the history of homemade WMDs: bellingcat.com/news/mena/2015…
Why not add the recipe for the WMDs?
At at time when more reporting is needed in Cabo Delgado, the government of Mozambique oppresses reporting. voanews.com/press-freedom/…
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Bolton wasn't fired until September 2019: "Mr. Trump bristled at what he viewed as Mr. Bolton’s militant approach, to the point that he made barbed jokes in meetings about his adviser’s desire to get the United States into more wars." nytimes.com/2019/09/10/us/…
US/Iran War Theater: US "Sent secret messages through Swiss intermediaries urging Iran not to respond so forcefully..Iran firing 16 missiles at bases housing American troops without hurting anyone as a relatively harmless show of force" nytimes.com/2020/01/11/us/…
Trump approved the killing of Qasem Soleimani in June 2019 seven months before he was murdered by a drone in Iraq. June 2019 was when America was almost twin-tanker-attack-tricked into starting a war with Iran but we blinked. Or were we being conned? nbcnews.com/politics/natio…
Bolton wasn't fired until September 2019: "Mr. Trump bristled at what he viewed as Mr. Bolton’s militant approach, to the point that he made barbed jokes in meetings about his adviser’s desire to get the United States into more wars." nytimes.com/2019/09/10/us/…
The US media is conflating Iranian missile attacks to revenge the Soleimani murder with Katushya/Grads/Urgans fired remotely from parked and sterile trucks in Iraq. A common false flag trick. Note the launch tubes hidden in the rear bed. nbcnews.com/news/world/roc…
"katyushas...are small, easily transportable firing systems, capable of being fired remotely. The firing mechanism also puts off little-to-no heat, which helps prevent the detection of the launcher using live video or thermal imagery from circling drone" atlanticcouncil.org/blogs/menasour…
In some cases militias take credit through their news services. Some don't But this important difference is being ignored by US media who simply report the Pentagon version rather than research the source of the attacks. Great thread from @CalibreObscura
"The Electrical Retribalization of the West" Yes we were warned half a century ago by Marshall Mcluhan on the negative impact of pervasive communication environments.
"Demassification" came to be a synonym for democracy, while democracy drifted farther and farther away from a common well of fact, data, implications and interpretation of public service and political oversight. ncronline.org/news/opinion/w…
Access to technology should have made education better but access to communications has damaged American children. TV/iPad kids who suffer from full faculty sensory education. In 1966 the future looked bright.
"From 4 p.m. to 5 p.m., the antifa falsehood was mentioned about 8,700 times across cable television, social media and online news outlets, according to Zignal Labs," Paging Andy Ngo and Lara Logan. nytimes.com/2021/03/01/us/…