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#Usefulkremlinidiot „Max Blumenthal [1] [...] he is a regular contributor to Russian state-owned Sputnik and RT, and has frequently used his various platforms to spread Russian propaganda.
@ShabanianAram @EliotHiggins @MaxBlumenthal 2).
In 2023, he was invited by Russia to address a UN Security Council briefing about arms supplies to Ukraine [2].”
„Blumenthal has increasingly become a Chinese state media darling, giving interviews with Chinese state broadcaster CGTN and the Chinese tabloid Global Times.
@ShabanianAram @EliotHiggins @MaxBlumenthal 3).
He often claims that evidence of crimes against humanity in Xinjiang is exaggerated or manufactured as part of a U.S. government attempt to discredit China [3].”
@ShabanianAram @EliotHiggins @MaxBlumenthal 4).
„[Blumenthal] [...] questions and negation Chinaʼs campaign of cultural and demographic genocide of the Uyghur people in China [4], denies of war crimes committed by Bashar al-Assad in Syria [5],
@ShabanianAram @EliotHiggins @MaxBlumenthal 5).
including chemical attacks against civilians, and also Russian war crimes committed in Ukraine [6].”
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„Japan to provide Ukraine with USD 6B in financial support [1]”
@EuromaidanPress @michaeldweiss 2).
The national anthems of Japan and the US [2] performed by the @BostonSymphony Orchestra [3] [4] in 1960 at NHK Hall [5] under the direction of Charles Munch (1891–1968) [6] as part of their tour of the Far East [7].
@michaeldweiss 1).
„It is hard to pinpoint a moment in history when businessmen have held such direct sway over matters of war and peace. Since the end of WWII, Washington's relationship with Moscow was its most carefully calibrated, helmed by spy agencies who knew their rival intimately.
@michaeldweiss 2).
Seasoned diplomats rehearsed rigid protocols to prevent misunderstandings between two nuclear powers poised like scorpions in a jar.
Today, those structures are virtually absent. America has had no ambassador in Moscow since June.
@michaeldweiss 3).
There is no assistant secretary of state for European and Eurasian affairs. @SteveWitkoff has declined multiple offers from the @CIA for a briefing on Russia.
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SophieScholl, 22-year-old activist of the German anti-Nazi organization „White Rose” [1] [2]. On Feb. 18, 1943, she was arrested by the Gestapo.
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On Feb. 22, 1943, the presiding judge of the bench Karl Roland Freisler (1893–1945) [3] [4], President of the Peopleʼs Court of the Greater Germanic Reich, sentenced her to death. On the same day, at 5 p.m., she was guillotined.
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The executioner, Johan Reichart (1893–1972) [5] later said that he had never seen anyone die as boldly as Shophie Scholl [6] [7].
@alex_kokcharov @Talk_2_Sammy @clashreport 1).
On May 2, 2014, 42 people died in a fire at the Odessa of Trade Unions House. Pootin’s disinformation portrays the incident as an illustration of the alleged genocide of the Russian people in Ukraine,
@alex_kokcharov @Talk_2_Sammy @clashreport 2).
as well as one of the justifications for a full-scale Russian invasion of Ukraine in 2022. [1]. In addition, Kremlin propaganda almost immediately began to compare this tragedy to the German crime in the Belarusian Khatyn (Хатын) [2] during World War II [3] [4].
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„A protest chant, Islamic State flags and other »hateful« symbols and slogans will be criminalised in NSW under proposed laws in response to last weekend’s Bondi massacre.
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Announcing the legislation on Sat., @ChrisMinnsMP said the legislation will outlaw the public display of symbols associated with banned terrorist organisations in the state. These include Al-Qaeda, Al-Shabab, Hamas, Boko Haram, Hezbollah, Islamic State and Nazi groups.”