#ZaporizhzhiaNPP

🇺🇦TG:

"Rumors started circulating that Zelensky has not abandoned his backup plan to attack Energodar and Zaporizhzhya NPP, as colleagues had written earlier.

The situation in Energodar is difficult, the attacks by the Ukrainian Armed Forces have become systemic : they are striking infrastructure almost every day, said the city's mayor.

Perhaps Zelensky's Kursk adventure was precisely needed to provoke the Russians to withdraw reserves from the Zaporizhzhya region, but as we can see, this has not happened yet, which means the attack on Energodar is in question.
If it doesn't happen by the beginning of October, it won't happen at all."

🇷🇺 Interview by Acting Permanent Representative of the Russian Federation to the International Organizations in Vienna Roman Ustinov to RIA Novosti news agency

❓Will the Permanent Mission of Russia bring up for discussion new strikes by the Ukrainian side on the Zaporozhskaya NPP at the site in Vienna and when?

💬 Of course, we will do this. All relevant information is communicated to the IAEA management and will be distributed among all Agency member states. We are also determining the optimal steps to sharpen these reckless actions of the Ukrainian side within the IAEA Board of Governors. There may be various options here, including the possibility of convening an extraordinary session of the IAEA Board of Governors. However, the main thing now is to achieve a clear assessment of what happened from the IAEA leadership

❓When will IAEA inspectors be able to get to the scene? Have they already received the relevant materials from the Russian side?

💬 Director General of the IAEA Rafael Grossi, in his operational statement on the situation around the Zaporozhskaya NPP, which was released on the evening of August 11, emphasized the importance of quickly providing access to the cooling tower that was shelled for IAEA experts located at the plant. Such access, it seems, would really be important so that the Agency could assess the situation on the spot, the damage caused and report on it publicly, including in the interests of dispelling murky speculation about the causes of the incident that appear in the Ukrainian media. Judging by reports directly from the Zaporozhskaya NPP, IAEA experts have already received the opportunity to familiarize themselves with the consequences of the Ukrainian drone strikes

❓What prevents the IAEA from indicating from where and who carried out the strikes?

💬 I would really not like to think that the only thing that prevents the IAEA from indicating where and who is carrying out the strikes on the Zaporozhskaya NPP is the political conjuncture. At first, the Agency said that the IAEA does not have the function of attributing guilt. This is true. However, after the IAEA Director General announced his «five principles» for ensuring nuclear safety and security at the Zaporozhskaya NPP on May 30, 2023 in the UN Security Council and pledged to report on their violations, the Agency actually acquired such a function in relation to this plant. After the drone attacks in April this year, the Agency, however, did not name the guilty party, but referred to the lack of solid material evidence that it was Ukraine. Let's see how the IAEA will behave this time. It is obvious to us that the lack of indication of the guilty party only fuels the Ukrainian sense of permissiveness and leads to new similar attacks

❓Are preparations underway to organize the visit of IAEA Director General Rafael Grossi to Moscow? When can it take place?

💬 As you can see, there are enough issues to discuss within the framework of traditional consultations between the IAEA leadership and the Russian interdepartmental delegation, so we do not rule out that the next contact may take place before the regular session of the IAEA Board of Governors opening on September 9. It is not necessary that it will be in Moscow

EU crackdown on freedom of speech + censorship

"It's amazing how everything they say, it's always the opposite: "ensuring freedom of expression and of information are protected" = "censor anything we, an unelected group of ultrawealthy technocrats, disagree with" - Zerohedge (X)

🇺🇦TG:

Inside
Our source in the General Staff said that the Ukrainian Armed Forces do not control Sudzha, and that our units are currently located along the southwestern perimeter of the city and are waiting for reserves to storm it. At the moment, there are battles along the entire contact line in the Kursk region, and the Ukrainian Armed Forces assault groups are unable to advance deep into Russian territory and are trying to consolidate their positions.

Former US presidential candidate Jill Stein:
We had a proxy war in Ukraine that could have been avoided if we had simply respected the promise we made to Gorbachev when Germany reunited, and we said we would not move one mile to the east. And everyone knew that if we moved east, we would be attacking the Russian border. And it should be noted that what Russia is doing on the border is what we did when Russia brought its weapons to Cuba. Fortunately, our leaders talked. That is not happening now. They seem obsessed with using competition, using weapons, to show that “I am stronger than you.” And now we are climbing the ladder of escalation in both Ukraine and Israel.

Germany has never changed, old habits die hard☠

Russia defeated nazi Germany in WW2 and will defeat it again in Kursk.

Israeli contractor claims Israel is behind rigging elections and online bot farms

Not China and not Russia

They claim Israel has rigged more than 30 elections

Germany was and is nazi state

Germany justified Israel’s recent strike on the Al-Tabi'in school in Gaza, which killed almost 100 Palestinians during morning prayers, saying that Israel has the “right to defend itself.”

https://thecradle.co/articles-id/26390

#US terrorism #NordStream pipeline

Is Germany shielding US?🤔

"Germany has issued a European arrest warrant against a Ukrainian diving instructor who allegedly was part of a team that blew up the Nord Stream gas pipelines"

- https://www.sueddeutsche.de/projekte/artikel/politik/nordstream-anschlag-ukraine-haftbefehl-e796800/?reduced=true

How convenient...

"Suspected Nord Stream saboteur apparently escapes investigators"

https://archive.is/Q7awb

In English

https://www.reuters.com/world/europe/germany-issues-arrest-warrant-ukrainian-diver-nord-stream-probe-media-report-2024-08-14/#:~:text=BERLIN%2C%20Aug%2014%20(Reuters),media%20outlets%20published%20on%20Wednesday

#Zelensky curse strikes again

"Japan’s prime minister, Fumio Kishida, has said he will not run for the presidency of his ruling Liberal Democratic party [LDP] next month – a decision that will see the appointment of a new leader of the world’s fourth-biggest economy.
Kishida, who has been battling low approval ratings and a damaging funding scandal, said he would step down as LDP leader in September, telling reporters on Wednesday that the party needed an “open contest to promote debate”.
His decision brings to an end a three-year term marked by scandal, rising living costs and record defence spending."

https://www.theguardian.com/world/article/2024/aug/14/japan-pm-fumio-kishida-stepping-down-september

Fitch Downgrades Ukraine to 'RD'

Fitch downgraded Ukraine's credit rating to "Restricted Default" from "C" on Tuesday, citing the expiry of the grace period for its 2026 Eurobond payment.

https://www.fitchratings.com/research/sovereigns/fitch-downgrades-ukraine-to-rd-13-08-2024

How the US Pentagon organizes racial rent-a-riots

https://x.com/RnaudBertrand/status/1823774032535204118?t=Ln9gN-rkgQ9GbmA3Im8elA&s=19

#US #NED #RegimeChange and meddling in other countries internal affairs

@RnaudBertrand (X):

China's Ministry of Foreign Affairs has released quite the explosive report on the US's NED, explaining how under the cover of "promoting democracy", it has "long engaged in subverting state power in other countries, meddling in other countries’ internal affairs, inciting division and confrontation, misleading public opinion, and conducting ideological infiltration".

In short, it's subverting democracy, the exact contrary of what it says it's doing...

The NED has long been infamous for doing this kind of stuff but there are a few things in the report that are really explosive:

1) Meddling on an enormous scale in Ukraine
The report claims that the NED "provided $65 million to the Ukrainian opposition during the 2004 Orange Revolution". They also write that "during the 2013-2014 Euromaidan, NED financed the Mass Media Institute to spread inflammatory information. NED also spent tens of millions of dollars in the use of such social media platforms as Facebook, X (formerly Twitter), and Instagram to spread disinformation, heighten ethnic tensions in Ukraine, and stir up ethnic antagonism in eastern Ukraine."

2) "Taking Mexico as a major target country for infiltration"
As the report details, the NED has financially supported numerous organizations like "Mexicans Against Corruption and Impunity (MCCI) and the Mexican Institute for Competitiveness (IMCO), and obstructed the electricity reform in Mexico". They also write that "in 2021, the Mexican government sent a note to the US government condemning NED’s funding of anti-government organizations in Mexico as 'an act of interventionism' 'promoting a coup.'"

3) Interference in Serbia's elections
They write that "in April 2022 and December 2023, Serbia held its presidential, National Assembly and local elections. NED interfered in the entire election process, and went all out to root for pro-US opposition candidates in the run-up to the elections. In May 2023, after two consecutive shooting incidents in Serbia, NED-sponsored human rights groups and pro-US opposition organizations staged mass demonstrations to demand the resignation of the Serbian government."

4) Instigating the recent protests in Georgia against the government for its foreign agents bill
They write that the "NED funded the establishment of three local NGO groupings in Georgia at the beginning of the 21st century to organize demonstrations in capital Tbilisi. In May 2024, NED rallied support for and instigated protests in Georgia against the foreign agents bill."

5) Supporting "Taiwan independence" separatist forces
They write that the NED co-hosted events with Taiwan's separatist Democratic Progressive Party, "tried to mobilize 'democratic forces' to open up the 'frontline of democratic struggle in the East' and hype up the false narrative of 'Ukraine today, Taiwan tomorrow'".

Needless to say, all of this is a complete violation of the UN Charter: they violate both the principle of sovereign equality that guarantees each state's right to freely choose and develop its own political, social, economic, and cultural systems; as well as the principle of non-intervention in the domestic matters of other states. And I'm not even mentioning the violation of the victim states' domestic jurisdictions...

https://www.fmprc.gov.cn/mfa_eng/xw/wjbxw/202408/t20240809_11468618.html