Polygraph
Wednesday 13 September 2023
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titan5151
TikTok user
Large lightning appears before earthquake in Morocco with unknown causes.
Read more...Social media users leverage videos of flashing lights in Morocco, some faked, to falsely pin Morocco earthquake on a U.S. weather weapon. -
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Vasily Golubev
Governor of Russia’s Rostov Oblast
“Zinaida Vasilievna Ermolyeva … who was called Madame Penicillin… invented penicillin."
Read more...Penicillin was discovered by Scottish bacteriologist Alexander Fleming, Australian pathologist Howard Florey and British biochemist Ernst Boris Chain, for which they received a Nobel Prize. -
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“China4Tech” and other pro-China influencers on X
“In China, this vlogger took apart a Huawei Mate 60 Pro smartphone, and all components are 100% developed/made by China (from Kirin9000S chip to the camera)! This shows that US tech blockade against Huawei failed!”
Read more...Huawei's new smartphone possesses 5G technology, which is beyond the threshold set by the U.S. The fact that it's on the market suggests China may be able to mass produce the restricted communications high tech. -
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Zabiullah Mujahid
Taliban spokesman
“The Islamic Emirate of Afghanistan does not interfere in the affairs of any institution to disrupt their work. We and our military are obliged to ensure their security.”
Read more...Taliban actions and policies, such as the exclusion of female humanitarian staff, inhibit the ability of aid to reach Afghans. -
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Sergey Naryshkin
Director of Russia’s Foreign Intelligence Service
“…in no country in the world, wherever the forces of the North Atlantic Alliance invaded, neither the elementary order nor the pre-war standard of living of the local population was restored.”
Read more...Since its creation, NATO has conducted military missions in six conflicts. In four countries, the quality of life and order has improved significantly. In two others — Libya and Afghanistan — the situation remains turbulent. -
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Ilya Tsukanov
Moscow-based correspondent for Sputnik
“The politician [Umerov] has played an active role in spreading blatant propaganda about the alleged mistreatment of the Crimean Tatar community by Russia in Crimea – claims that Crimean Tatar leaders actually living in the peninsula have repeatedly debunked.”
Read more...Russia’s oppression of the Crimean Tatars and systematic persecution of their leaders is well documented. -
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Vladimir Putin
Russian President
"And while Russia clearly provided security guarantees for shipping under this deal, the other side used humanitarian corridors for terrorist attacks against Russian civilian and military facilities."
Read more...There is no evidence that Ukraine ever used the Black Sea grain corridor for any military purposes. -
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Wang Wenbin
Chinese Foreign Ministry spokesperson
“[Releasing the map] is a routine practice in China’s exercise of sovereignty in accordance with the law. We hope relevant sides can stay objective and calm, and refrain from over-interpreting the issue.”
Read more...Beijing’s apparent claims to disputed territory in India, Southeast Asian neighbors’ maritime backyards and Russia’s half of a divided island has set off alarm bells across the region. -
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Global Times
“Japan has primarily focused its efforts on sensationalizing the issue of ‘safety of Japanese individuals in China’. … This is aimed at shifting the international spotlight away from the issue of nuclear pollution into the sea. ... This is about Japan committing a harmful act against all of humanity.”
Read more...Tokyo’s release of treated Fukushima radioactive wastewater into the Pacific Ocean has led to acts of harassment of Japanese citizens in China. Meanwhile, scientific studies suggest the release of the diluted radioactive wastewater will have a negligible effect on the oceanic environment. -
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Myanmar’s Ministry of Foreign Affairs
“Such irresponsible actions of the government of Timor-Leste are not only harming the bilateral diplomatic relations between the two countries but also encouraging the terrorist group to further committing their violations in Myanmar.”
Read more...Myanmar’s military is systematically targeting civilians by burning and bombing villages amid allegations of other atrocities and rights violations. -
US Sanctions on Chechen Leader’s Mother Target Involvement in Illegally Deporting Ukrainian Children
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Adam Delimkhanov
Russian State Duma member and close ally of Chechen leader Ramzan Kadyrov
"...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?”
Read more...Aymani Kadyrova is involved in illegally transferring children from Ukraine to a camp near Grozny, Chechnya, for "re-education." -
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Wang Wenbin
Chinese Foreign Ministry Spokesperson
"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."
Read more...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.
