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  1. In the days and weeks after the 2020 elections, the Fox News Channel repeatedly broadcast false claims that then-President Donald Trump had been cheated of victory. Off the air, the network's stars, producers and executives expressed contempt for those same conspiracies, calling them "mind-blowingly nuts," "totally off the rails" and "completely bs" - often in far earthier terms. The network's top primetime stars - Tucker Carlson, Laura Ingraham and Sean Hannity - texted contemptuously of the claims in group chats, but also denounced colleagues pointing that out publicly or on television. https://www.npr.org/2023/02/16/1157558299/fox-news-stars-false-claims-trump-election-2020
  2. That was before illegal invasion of a sovereign nation Sting warns during Warsaw concert of threats to democracy https://apnews.com/article/russia-ukraine-poland-democracy-2fe088ff013ca94db255c8ceeb57a092
  3. Actually a lot of British nurses went to help in Ukraine.
  4. More than 30,000 Wagner fighters have been wounded or killed in Ukraine, US estimates The US government estimates the private military company Wagner Group has suffered more than 30,000 casualties, including roughly 9,000 fighters killed, since Russia's invasion of Ukraine. About half of those 9,000 have been killed since mid-December, US National Security Council spokesperson John Kirby said and about 90% of those killed in December were recruited from Russian prisons. The group has relied heavily on convicts to fill out its ranks, "that doesn't show any signs of abating," Kirby said Friday, though Wagner leader Yevgeny Prigozhin claimed last week that he will no longer recruit from prisons. https://edition.cnn.com/europe/live-news/russia-ukraine-war-news-2-17-23/h_a21a4198e8d6ba18d87d128cf0605524
  5. 'Not the time for dialogue' with Russia's Putin, Macron says at Munich summit https://www.france24.com/en/europe/20230217-live-zelensky-to-open-munich-conference-with-spotlight-on-arms-supplies-to-kyiv
  6. The consequences of those lies Fox knowingly peddled are still being felt today. From the top down, rotten to the core. There was another topic running recently on Google publishing videos to tell users how to spot fake news. Fox would make an excellent case study for them. Hows Trump going to carry out a speech now and deride the fake news media................lol A questionable source exhibits one or more of the following: extreme bias, consistent promotion of propaganda/conspiracies, poor or no sourcing to credible information, a complete lack of transparency, and/or is fake news. https://mediabiasfactcheck.com/fox-news-bias/
  7. US supports Ukrainian strikes on Russian military facilities in occupied Crimea – Nuland “Russia has built a lot of military facilities in Crimea, these are legitimate targets that Ukraine is attacking, and we support it,” Nuland said. “Ukraine will not be safe until Crimea is at least demilitarized.” Nuland said that even after the end of the war, the United States will continue to provide military aid to Ukraine, as there is no certainty that Russia will not renew the conflict. https://news.yahoo.com/us-supports-ukrainian-strikes-russian-085200485.html
  8. Don't think he should be written off just yet, he's suffering depression, that's treatable, all indications are that he's expected to make a recovery. "former Obama adviser Tommy Vietor said Fetterman was “incredibly brave … to talk about his mental health challenges publicly, especially knowing that people will try to exploit it for political purposes." “But his decision to come forward will undoubtedly help encourage others to seek help.” https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2023/feb/16/senator-john-fetterman-hospital-clinical-depression
  9. There were probably some fish that died too but these were dolphins.................
  10. Musk has a history of making promises that cannot be kept and even promoting false claims. This from back in 2016 but just made public last month. Tesla video promoting self-driving was staged, senior engineer testifies A 2016 video that Tesla used to promote its self-driving technology was staged to show capabilities like stopping at a red light and accelerating at a green light that the system did not have, according to testimony by a senior engineer. The video, which remains archived on Tesla’s website, was released in October 2016 and promoted on Twitter by Elon Musk as evidence that “Tesla drives itself”. https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2023/jan/17/tesla-self-driving-video-staged-testimony-senior-engineer
  11. Wagner chief slams 'bureaucracy' slowing Russian offensive The head of Russia's mercenary outfit Wagner said on Thursday it could take months to capture the embattled Ukraine city of Bakhmut and slammed Moscow's "monstrous bureaucracy" for slowing military gains. Russia has been trying to encircle and capture the battered industrial city ahead of February 24, the first anniversary of what it terms its "special military operation" in Ukraine. "I think it's (going to be in) March or in April," Wagner head Yevgeny Prigozhin said in one of several messages posted online. https://www.france24.com/en/live-news/20230216-wagner-chief-says-russia-s-monstrous-bureacracy-impeding-ukraine-fight
  12. oooops, Fox News, what a unique damaging role it plays in the US media peddling lies
  13. Why Team Trump's response to the partial Georgia grand jury report is nonsense We finally got the very limited portion of the Georgia special grand jury report Thursday, and Donald Trump's team wasted little time putting out a statement in response. The problem with this statement, which came from a spokesman for Trump's 2024 campaign, is that it's nonsense. Here's how it starts: The long awaited important sections of the Georgia report, which do not even mention President Trump’s name, have nothing to do with the President because President Trump did absolutely nothing wrong. https://www.msnbc.com/deadline-white-house/deadline-legal-blog/trump-response-georgia-grand-jury-report-rcna71042
  14. I thought the majority had gone, I saw estimates from Ukraine of 5,000 left a couple of weeks ago but that was unconfirmed on a twitter post and in this link form 20th Jan only around 2,000 left. Bakhmut's pre-war population was about 70,000. Today, an estimated 2,000 civilians remain in the city; https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2023/1/20/mapping-the-battle-for-bakhmut Its a flattened town/city nowhere for civilians. This from just 3 days ago: Source
  15. Covid lockdowns and why they were in place is not the topic here so I won't bother with the most logical reply to that and derail the topic further
  16. Seems a lot of the pro Russians in Bakhmut have switched sides and are fighting for Ukraine............ Hundreds of Russians are fighting on the side of Ukraine in the battle for Bakhmut, The New York Times reported.
  17. If my son or one of my daughters had been ruthlessly murdered by him I'm not sure I could hold back in court either. Emotions are powerful when its our own loved ones.
  18. Exactly, there is a wide shared responsibility for the whole system. Pete Buttigieg blames Trump for Ohio train derailment amid criticism: Transportation Secretary Pete Buttigieg shifted part of the blame for the recent derailment of a train carrying toxic chemicals in Ohio on the Trump administration reversing a little-known safety rule. "We’re constrained by law on some areas of rail regulation (like the braking rule withdrawn by the Trump administration in 2018 because of a law passed by Congress in 2015), but we are using the powers we do have to keep people safe," the transportation secretary added, "and of course, I’m always ready to work with Congress on furthering (or in some cases, restoring) our capacity to address rail safety issues." https://www.foxnews.com/politics/pete-buttigieg-blames-trump-ohio-train-derailment-were-constrained Involved in the responsibilities are: The Surface Transportation Board, The Pipeline and Hazardous Materials Safety Administration, National Transportation Safety Board (NTSB) conducts the accident investigation and the EPA monitors contamination. "the government’s oversight is split confusingly among several agencies" https://www.vox.com/policy-and-politics/23597778/ohio-train-east-palestine-trainwreck-accident-chemical-norfolk Trains are becoming less safe. Why the Ohio derailment disaster could happen more often The effort to create a new safety rule was fought by industry lobbyists, including Norfolk Southern Corp., the Atlanta-based company whose train derailed Feb. 3 in eastern Ohio and spilled chemicals, leaving residents in East Palestine worried about their air, soil and water quality. When the safety rule was issued in 2015, however, it was narrowly crafted and required only electronically controlled brakes – which applies braking simultaneously across a train rather than railcar by railcar over a span of seconds – to be installed by 2023. The Trump administration repealed the rule three years later, stating that its cost exceeded the benefits. https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/2023/02/14/norfolk-southerns-ohio-train-derailment-emblematic-rail-trends/11248956002/
  19. Some compelling fact checks in that string of tweets, totally discrediting many aspects of the conspiracy nonsense by Hersh. Here's a few more facts. Claim That US Blew up Nord Stream Pipelines Relies on Anonymous Source This story, when deconstructed, is merely a pile of purported second-hand information allegedly collected by someone connected in some unknown way to deliberations of a highly secret, multi-agency task force. Such a story falls prey to the same criticisms of other more recent work published by Hersh, which has relied on similarly questionable anonymous sources. If the U.S. did conspire to destroy the Nord Stream pipeline, Hersh's reporting has not proved that case, Hersh has, instead, made a very successful blog post that essentially transcribes a compelling story someone unknown to the general public told him. https://www.snopes.com/news/2023/02/10/hersh-nord-stream-sabotage/
  20. Trying to shift blame on Trump, too funny. I'm sure Pete Buttigieg will look into it. If "you say so" but my post speaks for itself and is related to the topic
  21. "The Norwegian Ministry of Foreign Affairs told Insider: "These allegations are nonsense." The claim by a discredited journalist that the US secretly blew up the Nord Stream pipeline is proving a gift to Putin A journalist's heavily disputed claim on Wednesday that the US government blew up the Nord Stream 2 pipelines sparked a flat rejection from the White House — and glee from the Kremlin. Seymour Hersh alleged in a self-published article that the Biden administration partnered with Norway in a top-secret operation targeting the pipelines under the Baltic Sea, which were destroyed in June 2022. The White House, contacted by Hersh for comment, called the story "false and complete fiction" and issued a further denial after the article was published. https://www.businessinsider.com/russia-embraces-hersh-claims-biden-blew-up-nord-stream-2-2023-2
  22. That has absolutely zero to do with my post which is about fact checking the Russian disinformation. Try again or try adding something of value rather than constant deflection and trolling
  23. Good to see some Thai media is picking up on the lies being spread by the Russian trolls and officials. A year of disinformation around the war in Ukraine The war in Ukraine has been accompanied by a ferocious battle of disinformation, waged in particular by pro-Russian agitators seeking to distort and shift the blame for many atrocities on the ground. These agitators have sought to depict the Ukrainian side as Nazis or suggest that Western support for Kyiv is evaporating. Here are some of the main narratives, false or misleading, that have been fact-checked over the past year by AFP’s digital verification teams. https://www.thaipbsworld.com/a-year-of-disinformation-around-the-war-in-ukraine/
  24. "We need competent leadership immediately, and get on with NEGOTIATING for PEACE before it is too late. " Could have had one much sooner before the slaughter of civilians by the terrorists: Exclusive: As war began, Putin rejected a Ukraine peace deal recommended by aide Vladimir Putin's chief envoy on Ukraine told the Russian leader as the war began that he had struck a provisional deal with Kyiv that would satisfy Russia's demand that Ukraine stay out of NATO, but Putin rejected it and pressed ahead with his military campaign, according to three people close to the Russian leadership. https://www.reuters.com/world/asia-pacific/exclusive-war-began-putin-rejected-ukraine-peace-deal-recommended-by-his-aide-2022-09-14/ Zelensky: We won't join NATO if that brings peace President Volodymyr Zelensky has offered to not join NATO in an attempt to broker peace. https://nypost.com/2022/03/22/zelensky-we-wont-join-nato-if-that-brings-peace/
  25. Who said he had won an award? & what makes you think that's just all he's done? I can assure you there is plenty more.
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