Independent British Journalist John McEvoy On Normality, Not "Humanitarian Crisis", in Caracas
John McEvoy has spent the past 6 months on Colombia and as of March 15 is in Venezuela. Although I recorded him in a hotel, he is actually staying in one of Caracas poorer areas and has already observed quite a lot of the reality on the ground here, including most notably the lack of a humanitarian crisis.
Shop owner in Qamariya, Old Damascus, explains why he's laid the flag on the ground outside his shop.
Remember: israel occupies Syrian land; israel supports terrorists in Syria; israel has bombed Syria more times than I can count...
*from October 2019
Relevant Links:
- Welcome to Hadar: A Village Under Siege by al-Qaeda and Israeli Forces Alike [June 2018]
The village of Hadar, in Southern Syria, is buttressed on one side by Israeli watchtowers and walls – and endures deadly attacks from jihadist Syrian "rebels" from the other three.
https://www.mintpressnews.com/welcome-to-hadar-a-village-under-siege-by-syrian-rebels-and-israeli-forces-alike/244569/
"When the area of Ma`raba [near al-Tal, a suburb of Damascus] was targeted by the Israeli enemy, cameras were focused on the targeted area even before the missiles hit."
"Everything that has taken place in Syria and in the region — all the blaze erupting in the region, under what they falsely called the Arab Spring — serves the interests of Israel. These are not my own conclusions; rather, it is the Israeli media who talk about this. The Israeli prime minister appeared on television when he visited wounded terrorists, injured while fighting the Syrian army, being treated in Israeli hospitals. This is number one.
The other issue is that every time the Syrian Arab Army is making an apparent advance, Israel conducts an aggression [airstrike]. When Israel is unable to achieve its objective, it seeks the help of the United States, just as it did when the U.S. Air Force targeted the Tharda Mountains in Deir ez-Zor as the Syrian army was en route to clear Deir ez-Zor of terrorists.
I hope that you underscore the following statement: Those who sponsor terrorism don’t fight it. Israel is an entity based on both killing and falsehood. When Palestine was already inhabited, they claimed that Palestine was a land without people and wanted to give it to people without a land. Thus, the United Kingdom’s Foreign Secretary, Arthur Balfour, gave what the U.K. didn’t own to those who didn’t deserve it."
https://www.mintpressnews.com/syria-interview-with-syrian-arab-army-general-hassan-hassan/261146
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MGYieyOLS_Y
In the early hours of January 15, the Israeli army which had invaded and occupied the Tel el Hawa region, began shelling and firing heavily on the al Quds hospital and surrounding apartment buildings and shops. Residents of that newest region to be attack were sent fleeing, to join hoards of displaced, sheltering with families -if lucky-or in schools, if truly desperate. Medics and volunteers inside the hospital report at least 150 calls that were not being answered because medics' and ambulances' movement had been halted by the presence of tanks and snipers outside
Ambulances from Gaza city and Jabaliya were called at 10:30 pm January 15, called to race to the burning hospital with patients still inside. The hundreds of patients had been prevented by Israeli tanks and snipers from evacuating to safer grounds. Just before 11pm, when our ambulance arrived, it was to a scene of scrambling vehicles and medics, trying to cram as many patients as quickly as possible into an ambulance before screaming off to Shifa, overcrowded with patients, overcrowded now with ambulances and new arrivals.
The fleet of vehicles managed to get the patients out, with those patients able to wait longer being wheeled on their cots and on stretchers two blocks down the street, away from the flames, but not yet away from the tanks and snipers. All the while, the very real danger of being sniped or shelled was on our minds.
http://ingaza.wordpress.com/2009/01/17/burning-al-quds-one-of-gazas-remaining-functional-hospitals-destroyed-in-israels-war-on-gaza/
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_zdKAthLhRU
Death fills the air, the streets in Gaza: updates from Gaza’s north
The numbers slaughtered and injured are so high now –521 and 2,700 as of this morning, Gaza time — that sitting next to a dead or dying person is becoming normal. The stain of blood on the ambulance stretcher pools next to my coat, the medic warning me my coat may be dirtied. What does it matter? The stain doesn’t revolt me as it would have, did, one week ago. Death fills the air, the streets in Gaza, and I cannot stress that this is no exaggeration.
The Israeli army occupied areas in the north, shelled houses, demolishing them, many injuries, dead, many off-limits to the ambulances.
Beit Hanoun is occupied by the Israeli army, which is now controlling the entry points to the northern region, cutting it off. One small, sub-par hospital without an ICU is staggering under the influx of injured from house demolitions, shellings, shootings… Two ambulances serve this region, I don’t have any information on their condition, the amount of petrol they have, or what areas of the Beit Hanoun region are accessible or not.
Entering via an ambulance to take an emergency case to Gaza’s Shifa hospital, I see the Beit Hanoun hospital crammed, with a frenzied air, families desperate to get their injured care…those who have been able to get to the hospital. Mohammed Sultan, 19, stands dazed with a gunshot graze to the back of his head. From Salateen, northwestern Gaza, he had to walk 1 km before a car could reach him and take him here.
The man we transfer to Shifa has been shot in the face. He is about 35, is a civilian, was in or near his house. His face has exploded, and we move as fast as possible over torn up roads, ambulance jarring as we move and as the medics try to administer delicate care. It’s on everyone’s mind that the army is present here, that our safety is not.
Beit Lahia and beyond, in the northwest, are mostly off-limits to ambulances, leaving the wounded and dead where they are. The calls from there for help, for evacuation, have been non-stop and now go ignored....
https://ingaza.wordpress.com/2009/01/05/death-fills-the-air-the-streets-in-gaza-updates-from-gazas-north/
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tfxlERszouk
First published:
https://youtu.be/7e3RXkskHX4
narrator:
"... while we have been imprisoned in our homes they have been preparing the new fear infrastructure out there.
All this for what?..."
Dr. Jay Bhattacharya:
"...the numbers we've seen are consistent with a very, very, wide range, from a from an epidemic that will kill two to four million people on one end, and an epidemic that will kill 50-50,000 to
100,000 people on the other.
That's a that's an incredibly broad range, and the policies you do to avoid two to four million deaths are very, very, different than the policies you do to avoid 50,000, 100,000 deaths."
narrator:
"They say it's a new disease, and it's uncharted territory. Yet
when it comes to the lockdown, they seem to be a hundred percent certain and adamant that the steps they are enforcing are the only way forward until a solution is produced in 18 months, a time frame that has been echoed around from day one. Which makes me wonder..."
Dr. Dan Erickson:
"100s of years we relied on herd immunity viruses kill people end of story the flu kills people Covid kills people, but for the rest of us we develop herd immunity. And when we look at people that have locked down and people that haven't locked down, we have massive data it is not statistically significant whether you lock down or not. So why are we doing it?"
narrator:
"What about the non-Covid related deaths in the UK? In the first 2 weeks in April, there were 6,000 extra deaths recorded that are non covid related. Sick people, cancer patients, people waiting for surgeries...all not getting treatments.
Elderly are getting sick, but suffering quietly with fear of going to hospitals and contracting the virus and they are dying slowly.
Why are the mainstream media not talking you out of these cases? I thought this whole thing was to protect the elderly."
What do we say to all those scientists that have been speaking
out against the official version?"
Dr. Annie Bukacek:
"History-changing decisions are being made due to these figures, despite the fact that they are flat-out wrong, based on data that is insufficient and often inaccurate.
When it comes to Covid19, there is the additional data skewer that is, get this, there is no universal definition of Covid19 death. The Center for Disease Control updated from April 4th
still states that mortality "data" includes both confirmed and presumptive positive cases Covid19, that's from their website.
Translation: the CDC counts both true Covid19 cases and speculative guesses of Covid19 the same, they call it death by Covid19. They automatically overestimate the real death numbers by their own admission."
Dr. Erickson:
"If you studied the numbers in 2017 & 2018, we had 50-60 million with the flu. And we had we had a
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Gyu2ZR7a_A0
Walking around Old Damascus, revisiting sites where mortars rained down in previous years, seeing the difference now with peace in and around Damascus.
See also:
Patriotic Syrian Insisted to Stay in Syria, Despite Terrorists' Bombings
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v6baOT7vTvA
Mortars Which Terrorized Damascus Residents Fall No More
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h3dDmv1VbM8
Terrorist Mortars on Damascus, Apr 2014
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aTNYsjSXUyk&list=PLqtiZC-4QZC3skdIAvOxsXwZm0jeM-mz6&index=135
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GZVpyZP8wyU
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qN-yNU_7lLU
This is an informal conversation I had with a Syrian cab driver in Damascus on evening in September, heading towards Bab Touma.
I'm sharing because his words in the last minute (on secular Syria) are the words of Syrians I've met throughout extensive travels around the country since 2014...
Also, to give you a glimpse of normal streets with normal activities, without terrorist presence.
Hope that Idlib will return to peace soon.
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BSphHNFwSH4
Zafar Bangash is Director of the Institute of Contemporary Islamic Thought (ICIT) and on the Editorial Board of Crescent International. [https://crescent.icit-digital.org/authors/zafar-bangash], and author of numerous books.
We discuss Indian-administered Kashmir, the question of whether journalists can access it, the 700,000 heavily armed Indian troops (and around 300,000 paramilitary forces) there, and the very serious crimes against Kashmiri civilians perpetrated by Indian forces, which include: rapes, torture (including torture to death), murders, disappearing people, and pellet gunshots to faces--including those of children and infant.
According to Bangash, in 2018, over 400 people have been killed, almost 1000 people--mainly children--have been blinded by "non-lethal" pellet guns which fire 100s of lead pellets into people's faces... the youngest was a child 1.5 years old a few weeks ago.
Also according to Bangash, citing Indian & Kashmiri human rights organizations [collated on https://kmsnews.org/news/], more than 11,000 Kashmiri women have been raped since 1989.
"We find a deafening silence from the Western world, their governments and media outlets. Here in Canada, I've been to so many media outlets talking to them about Kashmir. They just treat this whole thing with a big yawn..."
Bangash notes that even the UNHCR has issued a damning report on human rights violations [https://www.ohchr.org/EN/NewsEvents/Pages/DisplayNews.aspx?NewsID=23198 ]
[https://www.ohchr.org/Documents/Countries/IN/DevelopmentsInKashmirJune2016ToApril2018.pdf]
India dismissed the report by smearing Zafar Bangash and claiming the UNHCR report was Pakistani-authored.
Related:
"“Nefarious conspiracy”, “Pakistan-authored report”, “fallacious”, “mala fide” – these are some of the accusations levelled by numerous Indian media outlets against the UN Human Rights Office for our publication last month of the first-ever UN human rights report on Kashmir.
The report was developed through remote monitoring, after the Indian and Pakistani authorities failed to grant us unconditional access to the region. Since the report was published, we have been deeply disappointed by the reaction of the Indian authorities, who dismissed the report as “fallacious, tendentious and motivated” without examining it and responding to the very serious concerns about the human rights situation in Indian-administered Kashmir and Pakistan-administered Kashmir as laid out in the report.
In recent days, a surprising number of Indian media organizations have seized unquestioningly upon a claim by someone reported to be a Canada-based imam of Pakistani descent, named Zafar Bangash, that the High Commissioner was in constant contact with him, with the inference being that Mr
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YHzf9zWSR3Q
"4 months ago "rebels" burned evacuation buses meant for Foua/Kafraya & can be heard saying "We will burn anyone who comes to transport them"" https://twitter.com/Souria4Syrians/status/853316719573700608
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wxjvAIZKYBU