At Kaeson Youth (amusement) park, speaking with a group of 14 year olds about the park, whether they'd come there prior (yes, many times), if it was affordable (yes, inexpensive) and what their favourite ride was. Later in the week I saw another amusement park. Seems like DPRK authorities actually provide affordable entertainment to youths (and adults) in addition to the (free) impressive extra-curricular education/cultural/sports programs at the Children's Palace.
Carlos has been living in Syria much of the past three years. He gave his thoughts on the current situation.
https://ingaza.wordpress.com/my-published-articles-and-other-musings-from-and-on-syria-20142015/
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fFrsi5ub8p4
*Apologies for repeating the below info, but it pertains to this new video, too.
I filmed these scenes on March 15, but until now have been too busy and also lacking good enough internet to upload.
My objective in filming is not to say there is no poverty in Venezuela, nor to imply there is no hunger or shortages anywhere. However, when corporate media is flat out saying shelves are empty all over Caracas and the city is in crisis, well this is false. The scenes I'm seeing are much like I saw in 2010. I know there are differences since then and now, of course, but there isn't the pandemonium MSM is attempting to claim is happening here.
Also, this is not a wealthy area of Caracas, its perhaps lower middle class. I'll film the wealthy areas where typically opposition live in coming days.
Further, in the days since filming this, power has fully returned to Caracas and most of Venezuela, metro is running, things are as they were before the power cuts.
I have had the opportunity to visit organized communities growing massive amounts of produce, also breeding rabbits (apparently a high source of protein)...and also one of the cities urban garden initiatives. I'll upload more on that when time allows, but for now, day 1, no "crisis", but people were dealing with the effects of the nation wide power outage, one believed most likely due to US acts of sabotage on the electricity grid.
Articles related to that:
http://misionverdad.com/MV-IN-ENGLISH/venezuela-under-attack-7-notes-on-electric-shock-special-report
https://consortiumnews.com/2019/03/12/us-regime-change-blueprint-proposed-venezuelan-electricity-blackouts-as-watershed-event/
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QA4gTZvZYPU
On Friday, I went with a few friends to this incredible festival. We opted for tickets in seats that would give the best view. We were not disappointed. Absolutely lovely festival, amazing music & light show.
It's a shame that much of the Western world is hates Russia, told to by corporate owned media (the media that whitewashes the crimes of the Imperialists, Zionists, Saudis...and which has blatantly lied about every major issue I can remember), because my experiences in Russia have been positive, and I'm delighted and honoured to have moved here.
Enjoy this brief compilation of what was a 2.5 hour concert.
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Unrelated to the festival, this is a very important video:
"2019 RAND Paper Warned US of Failure During Ukraine Conflict"
"As far back as 2019, US Army-commissioned studies examined different means to provoke and antagonize Russia who they acknowledged sought to avoid conflict.
However, they also warned that if Russia was pushed too far, it could trigger an escalation that would spiral out of Washington's control.
Today we are watching this conflict unfold. ..."
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uqVPM0KSUpo
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I4fRKGZBifY
After one week of Israel's declared war on Gaza (Nov 14th), a cease-fire was allegedly reached between Hamas resistance and Israel. Yet 10 minutes after the 9pm cease-fire began, an Israeli warplane bombed a media office in Gaza's southern Khan Younis, and drones and Israeli F-16 warplanes continue to fill Gaza's skies. Late into the night, 2 am, the drones and warplanes continue to pollute Gaza's skies, psychological terror on a terrorized people who had more than 160 killed and over 1000 injured by Israeli bombing in the span of a week.
https://ingaza.wordpress.com/2012/11/22/zionist-drones-and-warplanes-pollute-gazas-skies-immediately-after-9-pm-cease-fire/
https://ingaza.wordpress.com/2012/11/23/killing-before-the-calm-israeli-attacks-on-palestinian-civilians-escalated-before-cease-fire/
https://ingaza.wordpress.com/2012/11/26/zionists-violated-cease-fire-from-the-start-and-still-are/
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=djZJFwWLMsU
Prof. Mila Aleckovic-Bataille is a Serbian professor of psychopathology and psychology, with a doctorate from Sorbonne University.
She is the author of over 100 scientific papers in several languages, as well as several books.
Professor Aleckovic-Bataille is a member of the World Society of Psychopathology of Expression and Art Therapy,(Société Internationale de Psychopathologie de l'Expression et de l'Art Thérapie), Paris(Saint -Anne Hôpital).
In 2015 she was the president of the International Congress of Psychopathology.
She speaks Serbian, French, Russian, English, and Spanish, and reads Polish, Bulgarian, Italian, and German.
I met with Professor Aleckovic-Bataille to hear her thoughts—as an expert in psychopathology—on the draconian measures taken by governments and global bodies under the pretext of fighting of a "deadly pandemic", Covid19.
*Please excuse any errors in subtitling, my french is rusty after a couple of decades disuse.
Note: I found her description of Black Psychiatry and related very informative and appropriate to measures taken under the pretext of fighting Covid19.
However, I don't know that mask wearing causes autism, vaccines certainly seem the more likely culprit.
And, regarding the existence of the virus, I have read convincing argument against the existence of a Sars Cov2 virus, primarily that it has never been isolated.
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m_D1kR3lUQ8
Abu Mohammed is from Aleppo. I hired him to drive me from Damascus to Aleppo. As we drove around the city, he wanted to make some points about his love for his country.
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H43oanu7MyQ
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qN-yNU_7lLU
Robert Inlakesh recently spent three months in various parts of the West Bank, occupied Palestine, living with Palestinian families and witnessing the crimes of the Zionist occupiers. In this conversation, we discuss his experiences and some of my own ten years prior.
His biography notes:
"Robert is a journalist, political analyst and human rights activist who specialises in delivering insight into the geo-political scene of the Middle East, specialising in the political and humanitarian situation in Palestine. Robert is a regular writer for 'Al-Masdar news' - and also appears frequently on 'Press TV' as an analyst and researcher."
Robert's writings can be found at:
http://www.balkanspost.com/author/18
https://www.almasdarnews.com/article/author/robertinlakesh47/
His Facebook page is:
https://www.facebook.com/RobertInlakesh
Robert's article on Susiya: "NAKBA 2017: The Never-Ending Ethnic Cleansing of Palestine"
http://21stcenturywire.com/2017/10/24/nakba-2017-never-ending-ethnic-cleansing-palestine/
My own blog entries on Susiya can be seen here:
https://opt2007.wordpress.com/2008/06/13/susiya-palestinians-suffer/
My 2007 writings from occupied Palestine can be found:
https://opt2007.wordpress.com/category/my-entries-from-occupied-palestine-apr-dec-2007/
https://personalpalestine.wordpress.com/
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YTNt0jvW0r0
"In a conversation with Eva Bartlett, Brian Gerrish (UK Column) learns what takes a young woman from Canada to travel to explore the world.
Bartlett (2007) paid for herself to go to the West Bank and the Gaza Strip (2008-2013) to understand what was really happening.
Eva paid a price for her courage on the front lines: she suffered physical harm from Israeli soldiers & from illegal Jewish colonists; she endured arrest, shackling and custody by the Israeli police; and she experienced the trauma of being in the firing line when Israeli troops targeted live rounds against unarmed Palestinian protestors—a frequent occurrence.
Eva visited Syria (2014-2021, 15 times), rather than relying on the reports of others while observing from a distance. Western media reports on the Syrian war were heavily distorted to meet what she clearly regards as a US-UK-NATO official line.
In more recent years, Eva went to see and experience the reality of life in both the Crimea and in the Donbass.
It was in the Donetsk environs that Eva was to understand the horrors of the Ukrainian shelling and rocket attacks that the Russian civilian population has endured for nearly a decade. She spoke with local families, she witnessed the destruction, and she filmed and reported the reality of the dead bodies and parts of bodies of those killed in recent attacks.
Placing herself at risk on the front line of conflict zones, Eva Bartlett has then had to defend herself against vile and dangerous social media and related attacks. Abuse ranges from accusations of cowardice by armchair social media warriors to her being placed on Myrotvorets (‘Peacemaker’), the supposedly non-official Ukrainian death list
Canadian state-aligned media (CBC), clearly intent on undermining her Donbas reporting in whatever manner they could, smeared her, drawing from the kill list entry...
Related:
https://ingaza.wordpress.com/about-me/
https://opt2007.wordpress.com/category/my-entries-from-occupied-palestine-apr-dec-2007/
https://opt2007.wordpress.com/2007/08/13/reflections-on-accountability/
https://opt2007.wordpress.com/2007/10/17/illegal-colonists-assault-palestinian-farmers/
https://opt2007.wordpress.com/2007/09/05/arrested-for-protesting-illegal-roadblock/
Israeli Military Shoot Gaza Farmer
https://youtu.be/zSECq3kxT4I?si=nkVj9UD-EFD3hqin&t=88
https://ingaza.wordpress.com/2014/01/01/observations-from-occupied-palestine-in-gaza/
My Gaza playlist: https://odysee.com/$/playlist/ce33a0a4910ada76a21dffe25319f136eb6e96f6
https://ingaza.wordpress.com/syria/syria-my-published-articles-from-and-on-syria-2014-2022/
https://ingaza.wordpress.com/2015/10/13/deconstructing-the-nato-narrative-on-syria/
https://ingaza.wordpress.com/2019/10/10/return-to-russia-crimeans-tell-the-real-story-of-the-2014-referendum-and-their-lives-since/
https://ingaza.wordpress.com/the-donbass-my-articles-videos-interviews-from-on-the-donetsk-lugansk-peoples-republics-2019-present/
https://ingaza.wordpress.com/2022/08/10/what-ive-seen-of-ukraines-war-crimes-against-civilians-in-the-donbass-over-the-years/
https://ingaza.wordpress.com/2021/06/12/im-on-a-hit-list-kiev-allows-to-silence-dissent-journalism-thats-all-you-need-to-know-about-ukrainian-democracy/
https://ingaza.wordpress.com/2022/07/17/government-funded-cbc-smears-me-interview-with-maverick-media-cbc-fake-news-hit-piece-targets-journalists-eva-bartlett/