'For more terrorist attacks?'
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I "love" Reuters (Bloomberg, BBC and others), those little liars."BEIJING, Nov 4 (Reuters) - Chinese President Xi Jinping and German Chancellor Olaf Scholz on Friday condemned threats to use atomic weapons in Ukraine, with Scholz warning that Russia risked "crossing a line" in the international community by resorting to nuclear force."
"In the first visit by a G7 leader to China since the pandemic, Scholz pressed Xi to prevail on Russia to end the war in Ukraine, saying Beijing had a responsibility as a major power to do so."
"Xi agreed that both leaders "jointly oppose the use or threat of use of nuclear weapons", according to a readout by the state-run Xinhua news agency, though he refrained from criticising Russia or calling on Moscow to withdraw its troops."
"Scholz arrived in Beijing on a one-day visit that is testing the waters between China and the West after years of mounting tensions, with talks touching on reciprocal market access, climate change and COVID-19 vaccines."
I don't know where to put this, but it should probably get up to sott.
Ex-Pakistan PM Imran Khan Shot During Political Rally In Assassination Attempt
ZeroHedge
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Hmmm. Seems I have heard that one before...There are conflicting reports that a second shooter was firing an automatic weapon, but the investigation is ongoing.
A full evacuation was carried out, a round-the-clock curfew was announced today. All this is under the guise of caring for peaceful lives, but I think that not only.
In a half day of intense action, the Third Committee (Social, Humanitarian and Cultural) approved eight draft resolutions covering a range of human rights issues, from the right to literacy and protection of children from sexual exploitation to matters of crime prevention and criminal justice as well as efforts to combat the glorification of Nazism.
Amid spirited debate, the Committee approved a draft resolution on combating the glorification of Nazism by a recorded vote of 105 in favour to 52 against, with 15 abstentions, following the approval of an amendment to the draft - proposed by Australia, Japan, Liberia and North Macedonia - by a recorded vote of 63 in favour to 23 against, with 65 abstentions. The draft resolution would have the Assembly express deep concern about the glorification of the Nazi movement, neo-Nazism and former members of the Waffen SS organization, including by erecting monuments and holding public demonstrations in glorification of the Nazi past.
Introducing the text, the Russian Federation’s delegate voiced concern over an increase in racist and xenophobic rhetoric, calls to deport migrants and refugees, Islamophobia, Afrophobia and antisemitism.
Several delegates took to the floor to express concerns over Moscow’s attempt to exploit the pretext of combating neo-Nazism to justify its brutal war against Ukraine, with Ukraine’s delegate asserting that the draft has nothing in common with the genuine fight against Nazism and neo-Nazism. Echoing his concerns, the United Kingdom’s delegate stressed that the resolution is part of Moscow’s attempt to justify its aggression against Ukraine by furthering lies and distorting history.
The United States’ delegate called the resolution “a cynical attempt” of Moscow to further its geopolitical aims by invoking the Holocaust and Second World War. In the same vein, Australia’s delegate called Moscow’s weaponization of the Holocaust and Nazism unacceptable.
Meanwhile, several delegates disassociated from the amendment, which notes with alarm that the Russian Federation seeks to justify its territorial aggression against Ukraine on the purported basis of eliminating neo-Nazism. Rejecting the amendment, as it politicizes the issue of elimination of racism while introducing a narrow, country-specific approach, the delegate of the Russian Federation said that “this is a thematic resolution, not a country-resolution". In a similar vein, Malaysia’s delegate cautioned that the amendment has shifted the focus of the text away from a thematic resolution to attack specific countries.
That last part from Belarus, was not that clear to me.Nicaragua’s delegate rejected attempts to politicize the resolution, citing double standards. The delegate of Belarus, recalling that more than 60 million citizens of the anti-Hitler coalition gave their lives to defeat fascism, criticized the amendment as an attempt to erode memory of the victory over fascism.
That last part from Belarus, was not that clear to me.
Ukrainska Pravda
Fri, November 4, 2022 at 7:17 PM·2 min read
Serhii Kyslytsia, Ukraine’s Permanent Representative at the UN, has said that the amendments to the UN’s resolution on combating the glorification of Nazism [Draft Resolution on Combating glorification of Nazism, neo-Nazism and other practices that contribute to fuelling contemporary forms of racism, racial discrimination, xenophobia and related intolerance – ed.] have essentially condemned Russia’s military aggression against Ukraine.
Source: Serhii Kyslytsia, on Facebook and Twitter
Quote: "Over the course of many years (since 2005), Russia has been attempting to secure the UN General Assembly’s vote on the resolution which allegedly seeks to combat the glorification of neo-nazism. Who wouldn’t join this cause?
But the draft resolution has been twisted and manipulated by the Russians. That’s why Ukraine and the US have always voted No. Russian propaganda would then falsely claim that ‘Ukraine and the US do not condemn Nazism.’
It’s a cheap trick for the Russian audience."
Details: Kyslytsia noted that things were different this year.
Russia introduced the draft resolution during the session of the Third Committee (Social, Humanitarian and Cultural) of the UN General Assembly.
Quote by Kyslytsia: "Thanks to the work of Ukraine’s Foreign Ministry and Permanent Representatives at the UN, we were able not only to shift the balance of votes in favour of the misleading resolution, but also to introduce a powerful new addition. It speaks for itself:
‘[The UN] [n]otes with alarm that the Russian Federation has sought to justify its territorial aggression against Ukraine on the purported basis of eliminating neo-Nazism, and underlines that the pretextual use of neo-Nazism to justify territorial aggression seriously undermines genuine attempts to combat neo-Nazism.’
Ah!... Understandable. Thank you for the clarification.I think what happened was the original anti-Nazi resolution was put forward, and then debated, and then amended to include some good old fashioned Russophobia:
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I think that this garbage is what Belarus was objecting to.
US wants official of Ukrainian descent at helm of NATO – NYT
A granddaughter of WWII Ukrainian Nazi collaborator, Chrystia Freeland, is reportedly Washington’s “prime” pick for the job
Chrystia Freeland. © Global Look Press / Keystone Press Agency / Justin Tang
The “prime candidate” favored by Washington to replace outgoing NATO Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg is Chrystia Freeland, currently Canada’s Finance Minister and Deputy Prime Minister, the New York Times reported on Friday.
The bloc reportedly aims to install a woman at its helm for the first time, with other likely contenders being Estonian premier Kaja Kallas, Slovakian President Zuzana Caputova and Kolinda Grabar-Kitarovic, former president of Croatia, who was also that country’s ambassador to Washington. The “strong contenders” list provided by the NYT corresponds with earlier media reports this year.
The selection of a new NATO Secretary General, however, is still months away and “the names that surface first” may not survive the bargaining among the bloc’s members, unnamed NATO officials told the NYT. Incumbent head of the bloc Stoltenberg was set to leave his post on September 30, but his term was prolonged to late 2023 amid the conflict in Ukraine. The NATO boss might ultimately end up having his tenure extended for another year, one of the officials reportedly suggested.
Still, Freeland is believed to be the “prime candidate” for the post of NATO chief, favored by the US itself.
“Where any of the candidates come down on support for Ukraine in the war against Russia will be a critical factor,” the paper writes.
Freeland, whose mother was Ukrainian, is known to have a strong pro-Ukrainian stance. She is the granddaughter of Michael Chomiak, described by the NYT as a “grateful immigrant to Canada” who was during World War Two a “younger man involved with a Ukrainian nationalist movement that saw the Nazis as useful foils to counter the Soviets.”
The paper didn’t mention, however, that Chomiak was a prominent Ukrainian Nazi collaborator and the editor-in-chief of a Ukrainian-language propaganda daily Krakivs'ki Visti. The outlet, published between 1940 and 1945, was funded directly by Nazi Germany and described by Canadian historian – and Chomiak’s son-in-law – John-Paul Himka as a “vehemently anti-Semitic” publication.
Freeland has been extremely ambiguous on her ancestry, not only refusing to condemn her maternal grandparents but somewhat endorsing them instead. In 2015 she wrote an essay called “My Ukraine,” stating that her Nazi collaborator grandparents “saw themselves as political exiles with a responsibility to keep alive the idea of an independent Ukraine.”
“That dream persisted into the next generation, and in some cases the generation after that,” Freeland wrote in the essay.
Solid German business sources completely contradict the "message" delivered by the German Council on Foreign Relations on the trip to China.
According to these sources, the Scholz caravan went to Beijing to essentially lay down the preparatory steps for working out a peace deal with Russia, with China as privileged messenger.