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Documentary: Ukraine - The Masks of the revolution
by Paul Moreira,
English Subs
Ukraine’s authorities have urged a French broadcaster to take a documentary titled 'Masks of Revolution' off the air. They claim the movie misrepresents Maidan events, and have a list of their own suggestions for what needs to be shown.
Ukrainian authorities say that Moreira’s Masks of Revolution is “deception” and not an example of “media pluralism,” as it provides a “misrepresented view on the situation in Ukraine.”
"The version of events in the Ukraine offered in the film is pleasing to the ears of conspiracy theories’ supporters and of pro-Russian propagandists. This pamphlet is a documentary made in the worst tradition of misinformation,” the statement adds.
The diplomats went on to urge Canal+ “to reconsider the possibility of airing the film on TV.”
Also, the embassy gave a list of suggestions about what the French broadcaster should show about 2014 Maidan events, “hoping that one day these movies will be presented on Canal +”
The filmmaker, Paul Moreira, has responded to the accusations, saying his film was “contrary to the commonly accepted narrative” but the reaction still shocked him.
It seems obvious from the very beginning of this documentary that Moreira is no friend of Russia, but a friend of the truth.
This video published for the viewers opinion ONLY! No propaganda here!
U.N. report: Myanmar military targeting women and children
in 'gravest' crimes
By Thomas Maresca
Myanmar's military junta has committed systematic crimes against humanity including the abuse and torture of women and children, a new report by U.N. experts said. File Photo by EPA-EFE
Aug. 10 (UPI) -- Myanmar's military is torturing children and sexually assaulting women, United Nations investigators said in a new report that outlines evidence of what it calls "systematic crimes against humanity."
The report, released Tuesday by the U.N.'s Independent Investigative Mechanism for Myanmar, documents accounts of children being tortured, conscripted and arbitrarily detained, sometimes as proxies for their parents.
Attacks on civilians by the military junta, which seized power in a coup in February 2021, have also targeted women with sexual violence including rape, the report said.
"Crimes against women and children are amongst the gravest international crimes, but they are also historically underreported and under-investigated," Nicholas Koumjian, head of the IIMM, said in a statement.
"Our team has dedicated expertise to ensure targeted outreach and investigations so that these crimes can ultimately be prosecuted," he said.
The IIMM, which began operations three years ago, has collected more than 3 million pieces of information from almost 200 sources including interviews, videos, photographs, geospatial imagery and social media content.
Civil disobedience and nationwide protests sprung up immediately after the coup, which the junta brutally suppressed and have since hardened into an internal conflict that some describe as a full-fledged civil war.
Members of the lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender and intersex community have also been severely impacted by the ongoing conflict, which has "exacerbated their already vulnerable situation," the IIMM report said.
"Since the military takeover in February 2021, crimes have been committed in Myanmar on a scale and in a manner that constitutes a widespread and systematic attack against a civilian population," the report said.
The U.N. investigators noted that the scope of the junta's crimes have also expanded with the execution last month of four anti-coup activists, including a former lawmaker.
"Perpetrators of these crimes need to know that they cannot continue to act with impunity," Koumjian said. "We are collecting and preserving the evidence so that they will one day be held to account."
The IIMM is sharing its evidence to support proceedings at the International Court of Justice and International Criminal Court, it said.
According to the Thailand-based Assistance Association for Political Prisoners, the junta has arrested more than 15,000 civilians and killed 2,171.
Earlier this month, the military announced that it would extend a state of emergency in the country for another six months, claiming that it must stabilize the country before holding elections next year.
The country was stable before the coup. Now, it's not! The military is too stupid to see that they are the cause of the unrest. Either that or they don't care.
Nuclear war between the US and Russia would cause a global famine
and kill more than 5 BILLION people, study finds
By SAM TONKIN FOR MAILONLINE
PUBLISHED: 12:07 EDT, 15 August 2022
A nuclear war between Russia and the US would trigger a global famine that would wipe out almost two-thirds of the world's population, a new study suggests.
More than five billion people would die of hunger during the fallout from a full-scale conflict, researchers say, with computer simulations showing that firestorms would release soot into the upper atmosphere and block out the sun.
This would in turn spark crop failure across the world.
Lead author Professor Lili Xia, of Rutgers University in New Jersey, said: 'The data tell us one thing. We must prevent a nuclear war from ever happening.'
Of course, America and NATO know this already, but they still push Russia to the brink because there is money to be made.
Catastrophic: A nuclear war between Russia and the US would trigger a global famine that would wipe out almost two-thirds of the world's population, a new study suggests
Dreadful: More than five billion people would die of hunger during the fallout from a full-scale conflict, researchers say, with computer simulations showing that firestorms would release soot into the upper atmosphere and block out the sun. These graphs show how air and sea surface temperatures would change in the immediate aftermath of nuclear war
Russia warns Europe will 'disappear' in a nuclear apocalypse
if the West gives Ukraine missiles
Last month, Russia warned that Europe would 'disappear' in a nuclear apocalypse in the Kremlin's latest doomsday threat for supplying Ukraine with missiles.
Viacheslav Volodin, the head of the State Duma, lashed out after Poland's former foreign minister Radoslaw Sikorski said Western allies could send more weaponry to besieged Kyiv.
Sikorski claimed Vladimir Putin had violated the Budapest Memorandum on Security Assurances of 1994, which justifies the Western delivery of nuclear weapons.
He told Ukrainian channel Espreso TV the supplies would 'give Ukraine the opportunity to defend its independence'.
Ukraine agreed to give up all its nuclear weapons left over from the fall of the Soviet Union, and joined the Treaty on the Nonproliferation of Nuclear Weapons.
Volodin slammed the remarks, writing on Telegram: 'With such deputies, the Europeans will have much more serious problems than those they have already faced today (refugees, record inflation, energy crisis).
'Sikorski is provoking a nuclear conflict in the centre of Europe.'
The modelling sheds fresh light on what would happen under six war scenarios — five smaller India-Pakistan conflicts and a large US-Russia war.
Such threat has been brought to the fore following Vladimir Putin's invasion of Ukraine.
Researchers based their calculations on the size of each country's nuclear arsenal. Nine nations, including the UK, currently control more than 13,000 nuclear weapons.
Even a clash between new nuclear states would decimate food production and result in widespread starvation, the experts found.
A climate forecasting tool called the Community Earth System Model enabled effects to be estimated on maize, rice, spring wheat and soybean country-by-country.
The researchers also examined projected changes to livestock pasture and marine fisheries.
In the event of a localised war between India and Pakistan, the global average caloric production decreased seven per cent within five years under the modelling.
In the worst case scenario – involving the US and Russia – this would rise to 90 per cent three to four years after the fighting ended.
The experts said crop declines would be the most severe in the mid-high latitude nations, including major exporters such as Russia and the US.
It could also trigger restrictions and cause severe disruptions in import-dependent countries in Africa and the Middle East, which would induce a catastrophic disruption of global food markets.
Even a seven per cent decline would exceed the largest since records began in 1961.
Under the largest war scenario, more than 75 per cent of the planet would be starving within two years and more than five billion people would die.
The world's current population stands at around eight billion.
Using crops fed to livestock as human food or reducing waste would have minimal benefits, the researchers wrote.
Prof Xia said: 'Future work will bring even more granularity to the crop models.
'For instance, the ozone layer would be destroyed by the heating of the stratosphere, producing more ultraviolet radiation at the surface, and we need to understand that impact on food supplies.'
Climate scientists at Colorado University are creating detailed soot models for specific cities — such as Washington DC. Inventories of every building will provide a more accurate picture of how much smoke would be produced.
There is more to this story at Mail Online.
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