Polygraph
Tuesday 29 August 2023
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US Sanctions on Chechen Leader’s Mother Target Involvement in Illegally Deporting Ukrainian Children
"...The United States decided to impose sanctions against... Aymani Nesievna (Kadyrova). ...What kind of threat can a woman who has been doing charity work all her life, helping hundreds of thousands of people around the world, pose to the United States?”
Aymani Kadyrova is involved in illegally transferring children from Ukraine to a camp near Grozny, Chechnya, for "re-education." -
"The rights and freedoms of all ethnic groups, including the freedom of religious belief and the freedom to use and develop their ethnic groups' spoken and written languages, are fully protected … The boarding schools in Tibet are examples of human rights and cultural heritage protection. The so-called 'forced assimilation' is pure fabrication."
According to a U.N. Human Rights Office report published in February, about 1 million Tibetan children have been herded into state-run boarding schools as part of a push to forcibly assimilate Tibetans into China's majority Han culture. -
“They are throwing [Ukrainian soldiers] on our minefields, under our artillery fire, acting as if they are not their own citizens at all. It is astonishing.”
Unlike Russia’s winter offensive, which saw the use of “human wave attacks,” the pace of Ukraine’s counteroffensive has reflected a desire to stem combat casualties. -
"Navalny calls his supporters to actively participate in ‘elections in 40 regions of Russia’ this September. Needless to say, ‘elections’ will take place in 36 regions; other four are Ukrainian regions Donetsk, Luhansk, Kherson, and Zaporizhzhya."
In calling on his supporters in Russia to vote in the country’s regional elections on September 10, opposition leader Alexei Navalny posted a link to the Russian version of Wikipedia showing that elections will be held 45 Russian regions, including five partially occupied Ukrainian regions. -
"Today, the IRGC is the largest anti-terrorist organization in the world."
Through direct actions and via a network of proxy forces, Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps has engaged in global terrorism for decades. -
“[T]he two countries' military relations have set a model in non-alignment, non-confrontational cooperation that does not target any third party.”
China and Russia are aligning their foreign policies and military strategies to undermine the Western-led liberal-democratic world order. That alignment is confrontational in nature, given that Russia invaded Ukraine in 2022 and China is eyeing Taiwan. -
"Al-Harir base in Erbil, Iraq is overcrowded after the arrival of a new batch of troops from the US"
The video shows the August 2021 airlift at Hamid Karzai International Airport, Kabul, Afghanistan. -
“I am confident it should not be a worry as our intended legislation is NOT different from American laws in states like Florida and Kentucky. I believe the US Supreme Court agrees largely with Ghana's position.”
Proposed bill in Ghana would essentially criminalize living as an LGTBQ+ person. It bears no resemblance to controversial laws in U.S. states. -
"Now, criticism over the government’s lack of precautions and lack of rescue efforts might not be based on facts. For the most part, people are just venting."
Chinese netizens’ criticism is focused on the government’s decision to deliberately open flood gates and spillways causing devastation in seven low-lying flood control zones in Hebei province to prevent rivers in Beijing from overflowing. -
"The silence of European leaders over the burning of copies of the Quran is surprising, which amounts to their complicity in the crime."
European leaders have strongly condemned the Quran burnings while stressing that in democracies citizens have a constitutional right to free expression. -
“The trident, as a mark of slavery and a symbol of the conquest of Ukraine, was hoisted on the shield of the Motherland.”
The trident is an ancient universal symbol that has no history of slavery symbolism in Ukraine or beyond. -
"Converting the island of Taiwan into a ‘porcupine’ is a plan that benefits only the US, and selling such amounts of outdated yet overpriced weapons also brings huge profits to the US' military-industrial complex."
The U.S. has sent top-of-the-line equipment to Taiwan for many years, including new F-16s, HIMARS rockets and others. The Foreign Military Sales (FMS) system through which Taiwan obtains most of its U.S.-made weapons treats all foreign customer countries the same, including pricing.