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Say hel­lo to the OSCE report! Ok, wrong tone, lets start over…

Here is the OSCE report, and its get­ting worse and worse, and worse, …

a. MARIUPOL MATERNITY HOUSE AND CHILDREN’S HOSPITAL

On 9 March 2022 the Mariu­pol Mater­ni­ty House and Children’s Hos­pi­tal with 390 beds was serious­ly dama­ged by an attack, which resul­ted in 3 deaths and some 17 inju­ries (at least one inju­red pregnant woman and her sub­se­quent­ly deli­ve­r­ed baby later died of the­se injuries).371

All non-Russian sources indi­ca­te that the hos­pi­tal was clear­ly iden­ti­fia­ble and ope­ra­tio­nal at the time it was hit.372

[372 See e.g. Kat­ie Polgla­se, Gian­lu­ca Mez­zo­fio­re and Liv­vy Doh­erty, ‘Ana­to­my of the Mariu­pol hos­pi­tal attack’,
CNN, 17 March 2022, at:
https://edition.cnn.com/interactive/2022/03/europe/mariupol-maternity-hospital-attack/index.html
[Acces­si­ble as of 24.11.2023

Con­tent:

Nota­ble Points include:
March 9, 12:05 pm.
Just a cou­p­le if hours befo­re the attack, Rus­si­an For­eign Minis­try spo­kes­wo­man Maria Zak­ha­ro­va said hos­pi­tal No.3 was empty of staff and pati­ents and being used as a firing position.

CNN has found no evi­dence to sup­port Russia’s alle­ga­ti­ons that the­re were mili­ta­ry posi­ti­ons set up at Hos­pi­tal No. 3 on the after­noon of March 9, and it was civi­li­ans who emer­ged from the bombed-out buildings.

CNN then shows one of the befo­re images shared by the Twit­ter account men­tio­ned later, this time inclu­ding a time­code (March 9, 10:16 am) iden­ti­fy­ing four cars.

CNN then indi­ca­tes that this means, that the hos­pi­tal was ful­ly operational.

The other “befo­re” shot pos­ted on the Twit­ter account refe­ren­ced later, showing noti­ce­ab­ly more cars, is not shown on CNN.

CNN refe­ren­ces one wea­pons expert tel­ling CNN that this was undoub­ted­ly an air drop­ped muni­ti­on, and a big one weig­hing at least 450kg.

CNN sta­tes, that Rus­si­an For­eign minis­ter Lav­rov went back to “his ori­gi­nal line” that this attack was jus­ti­fied at the UN Secu­ri­ty Coun­cil the day after the attack. He alle­ged, that the hos­pi­tal was a base for the Azov batal­li­on which is inte­gra­ted into the Ukrai­ni­an armed for­ces but was form­er­ly an inde­pen­dent ultra-nationalist militia.

[Con­text, the Azow Mili­ta­ry aca­de­my is in clo­se vicini­ty to the Mater­nal Hos­pi­tal building.]]

Back to the OSCE report:

See also https://www.reuters.com/world/mariupol-hospital-bombing-killed-three-people-including-child-ukraines-president-2022-03-10/ ;

[Acces­si­ble as of 24.11.2023

Con­tent in full:

“LVIV, Ukrai­ne, March 10 (Reu­ters) - Three peop­le inclu­ding a child were kil­led in Wednesday’s air strike on a mater­ni­ty and children’s hos­pi­tal in the Ukrai­ni­an city of Mariu­pol, Pre­si­dent Volo­dym­yr Zelens­kiy said on Thursday.

In a tele­vi­sed address, he said Russia’s asser­ti­on that the hos­pi­tal had no pati­ents was not true. “Like always, they lie con­fi­dent­ly,” he said.

Repor­ting by Pavel Poli­ty­uk, Wri­ting by Ales­san­dra Pren­ti­ce, Edi­t­ing by Timo­thy Heritage”

Refe­ren­cing hear­say from Pre­si­dent Zelenskiy.].

https://ukranews.com/news/840022-rossijskie-okkupantysovershili-aviaudar-na-detskuyu-bolnitsu-i-roddom-v-mariupole.

[Acces­si­ble as of Fri­day 24.11.2023, Con­tent: Rus­si­an tro­ops car­ri­ed out an air strike on the cen­ter of Mariu­pol: a mater­ni­ty hos­pi­tal, a hos­pi­tal, a children’s depart­ment and a the­ra­py depart­ment were des­troy­ed. The head of the Donetsk regio­nal mili­ta­ry admi­nis­tra­ti­on, Pavel Kiri­len­ko, announ­ced this on March 9 on his Face­book page.
“Just now, a Rus­si­an pilot, who pro­bab­ly does not hesi­ta­te to call hims­elf a human being, pul­led the trig­ger again, knowing exact­ly whe­re the bomb will fly. Rus­si­ans! You have not only cros­sed the limit of unac­cep­ta­ble rela­ti­ons bet­ween sta­tes and peo­p­les. You have cros­sed the limit of huma­ni­ty. Stop cal­ling yourself peop­le!” he noted.]

The ori­gi­nal face­book pos­ting the arti­cle refers to, is not avail­ab­le any­mo­re and was taken down. Also -- none of what is acces­si­ble in the third arti­cle is “pro­of that the hos­pi­tal was still ope­ra­tio­nal” - as the OSCE alle­ges, nor is anything in the second arti­cle. Remem­ber this is the foot­no­te with all the con­text that appar­ent­ly pro­ves this for the OSCE.]

This has been veri­fied by the HRMMU373 and several tes­ti­mo­nies on social and other media, and the geo­lo­ca­ti­on of the accom­pany­ing images con­firm this.374

[373 UN, Office of the High Com­mis­sio­ner for Human Rights, ‘Update on the Human Rights Situa­ti­on in Ukraine’,
Repor­ting peri­od: 24 February–26 March 2022, 28 March 2022, at: https://www.ohchr.org/sites/default/files/2022-03/HRMMU_Update_2022-03-26_EN.pdf, para 18.

Acces­si­ble as of 24.11.2023, here is the refe­ren­ced para­graph 18:

HRMMU has veri­fied the dest­ruc­tion of Mariu­pol hos­pi­tal No. 3 by a Rus­si­an air strike that took place on 9 March. Several sources in Mariu­pol, inclu­ding local aut­ho­ri­ties, repor­ted that the hos­pi­tal was clear­ly iden­ti­fia­ble and ope­ra­tio­nal at the time it was hit. Seven­te­en civi­li­ans (inclu­ding health­ca­re workers, child­ren, and pregnant women) were inju­red, one of whom was a woman at a very late sta­ge of pregnan­cy. Neit­her the woman nor her unborn child could be saved.

Con­tent: Hear­say from local aut­ho­ri­ties, and several other unna­med sources.]
[374 Sput­nik News ATO (@SputnikATO), Twit­ter, 9 March 2022, at: https://twitter.com/SputnikATO/status/1501570825803161610?s=20&t=qwvZoLqRXce2VC0cAkVOog;

Con­tent not acces­si­ble as of 24.11.2023, but archi­ved on archive.org: Video accord­ing to the tweet descrip­ti­on and the archi­ved video thumb­nail shows the Mater­ni­ty hos­pi­tal after the bombing.]

In addi­ti­on images taken just befo­re and after the attack pro­ve that it was an ope­ra­tio­nal hos­pi­tal and that it was severely dama­ged by the attack.375

[375 Mike Eckel (@Mike_Eckel), Twit­ter, 12 march 2022, at: https://twitter.com/Mike_Eckel/status/1502735991379042315 .

Twit­ter post acces­si­ble as of 24.11.2023

Con­tent: In the twit­ter post by a repor­ter named Mike Eckel, working for Radio free Europe/Radio liber­ty -- we see two befo­re images. Only one with “more than 4 cars” which is the only indi­ca­ti­on that could be used as a refe­rence point for the hos­pi­tal still being ope­ra­tio­nal at that point. 

The one with more than four cars is a satel­li­te image image from MAXAR, with no time code in the image visi­ble, or in its meta­da­ta whatsoever. By refe­ren­cing images theguardian.com used to do the same com­pa­ri­son, which were goog­le maps images from 2021, it would seem that the “Befo­re image” was not taken in the same mon­th as the after images, jud­ging by the sun­light reflec­ting from buil­dings roofs, as well as the amounts of cars in the streets. At no point in the twit­ter mes­sa­ge does it sta­te, that the “befo­re images” were taken recent­ly. Nor any date, actually…]

Rus­sia first qua­li­fied this inci­dent as a fake news376 

[376 Eli­z­a­ve­ta Luka­schu­ko­va, ‘The bom­bing of a mater­ni­ty hos­pi­tal in Mariu­pol tur­ned out to be a fake. Here are all the pho­to and video blun­ders and incon­sis­ten­ci­es’, Yamal News, 11 March 2022, at: https://yamal-media.ru/narrative/roddom-v-mariupole.

Acces­si­ble as of 24.11.2024.

Con­tent:

The bom­bing of a mater­ni­ty hos­pi­tal in Mariu­pol tur­ned out to be a fake. Here are all the pho­to and video mista­kes and inconsistencies

[…]

What’s wrong with pho­tos and videos?
The inde­pen­dent pro­ject “War on Fake News” noted that infor­ma­ti­on about the airstrike appeared in the midd­le of the day, and pho­tos and vide­os from the sce­ne, inclu­ding foo­ta­ge of pregnant women, appeared in the media and social net­works later , on the evening of March 9.

Among others, the pho­to­graphs were publis­hed by the famous Ukrai­ni­an pho­to­gra­pher Evge­niy Malo­let­ka. In one pro­fes­sio­nal pho­to, a pregnant woman walks down the stairs with bags in her hands as she lea­ves the buil­ding. It can be assu­med that if the­re real­ly were women in labor in the alle­ged­ly shel­led hos­pi­tal, res­cuers and eye­wit­nes­ses would have immedia­te­ly pos­ted pho­to­graphs from the sce­ne of the emer­gen­cy, rather than wai­t­ing for the pho­to­gra­pher to arri­ve, and living and unin­ju­red peop­le would have alrea­dy left the hospital.

In the pho­to­graph whe­re a woman in labor is wal­king down the stairs, the­re was a Ukrai­ni­an model and beau­ty blog­ger Mari­an­na, who is now real­ly pregnant. Accord­ing to the aut­hors of the pro­ject, the girl posed for three high-profile pho­tos with women in labor from this hos­pi­tal. Insta­gram users also drew atten­ti­on to Marianne’s par­ti­ci­pa­ti­on in the pro­duc­tion; in the comments, they con­dem­ned the model for par­ti­ci­pa­ting in news stories.

Accord­ing to experts, the shape and size of the cra­ters do not cor­re­spond to the dama­ge to the hos­pi­tal buil­ding and cars , the Rea­dov­ka por­tal repor­ted . The­re are no pene­tra­ti­on holes in the walls, that is, holes cha­rac­te­ris­tic of airstrikes. The­re are no signs of fire in the hos­pi­tal buil­dings, and the frames are not bro­ken. The trees around one of the cra­ters are inta­ct, which means that it appeared as a result of an explo­si­on from under­ground of an explo­si­ve char­ge weig­hing up to 100 kg in TNT equi­va­lent, buried 1.5-2 meters deep.

The­re are still incon­sis­ten­ci­es. In the video insi­de the buil­ding that Zelen­sky publis­hed, a house across the road with a yel­low cor­ner can be seen through the win­dow. Jud­ging by Gogg­le Maps, this is a house at 84 Mira Ave­nue. Oppo­si­te it is not a mater­ni­ty hos­pi­tal at all, but a children’s oph­thal­mo­lo­gy depart­ment . The mater­ni­ty hos­pi­tal - a two-story brown buil­ding - is loca­ted 500 meters from the “explo­si­on site”, and it is not in the video.

Offi­cial denial
On March 7, Rus­si­an Per­ma­nent Repre­sen­ta­ti­ve to the UN Vasi­ly Neben­zya spo­ke about the plight of civi­li­ans in Ukrai­ni­an cities who are dying at the hands of radi­cals. They cap­tu­re civi­li­ans and hide behind them, like a living score, the words of the per­ma­nent repre­sen­ta­ti­ve to TASS were repor­ted . Neben­zya said that the Ukrai­ni­an Armed For­ces expel­led the staff of one of the mater­ni­ty hos­pi­tals in Mariu­pol , set up a firing posi­ti­on the­re, and also com­ple­te­ly des­troy­ed the kindergarten.

The Rus­si­an Minis­try of Defen­se also denied infor­ma­ti­on that an airstrike was car­ri­ed out on the Mariu­pol mater­ni­ty hos­pi­tal. It fol­lows from the department’s state­ment that on March 9, a regime of silence was decla­red for the evacua­ti­on of civi­li­ans along huma­ni­ta­ri­an cor­ri­dors. The offi­cial repre­sen­ta­ti­ve of the depart­ment, Major Gene­ral Igor Konas­hen­kov, noted that the explo­si­ons were staged.

Pho­to­graphs of the hos­pi­tal grounds con­tain evi­dence of two sepa­ra­te sta­ged explo­si­ons near the hos­pi­tal. A buried under­ground one and ano­t­her one of low power direc­ted into the hos­pi­tal buil­ding. The natu­re of the exter­nal and inter­nal dama­ge to the buil­ding may mis­lead the mass non-professional audi­ence in Euro­pe and the USA, for whom this pro­duc­tion was made. But not experts. A high-explosive air­craft muni­ti­on, even of les­ser power, would sim­ply lea­ve not­hing behind the exter­nal walls of the building

Igor Konas­hen­kov

offi­cial repre­sen­ta­ti­ve of the Rus­si­an Defen­se Ministry

Accord­ing to the Minis­try of Defen­se, medi­cal insti­tu­ti­ons in Mariu­pol stop­ped working at the end of Febru­a­ry, and natio­na­lists disper­sed doc­tors and pati­ents. Hos­pi­tal No. 3 was tur­ned into a strong­hold of the Azov natio­nal bat­tali­on*, ban­ned in the Rus­si­an Fede­ra­ti­on. The fact that the hos­pi­tal was not working is con­fir­med by the comments [link for that is dead alrea­dy, archive.org didnt cap­tu­re the ori­gi­nal mes­sa­ge, and the account is dele­ted by now. First archive.org cap­tu­re was on March 10th so after the inci­dence.] of Mariu­pol resi­dents them­sel­ves in Tele­gram channels.]

and accu­sed Ukrai­ne of having sta­ged it.

Later Rus­sia argued that the buil­ding was used by the Azov Batal­li­on and that all pati­ents had been evacua­ted, inter alia fol­lowing a warning given by Russia.377

[377 Valen­tin Alfi­mov, ‘Who actual­ly bom­bed the children’s hos­pi­tal in Mariu­pol’, KP.ru, 9 March 2022, at:
https://www.kp.ru/daily/27374/4556142/.

Con­tent: Is acces­si­ble as of 24.11.2023. A fluff pie­ce refer­ring to a state­ment of the son of one of the mater­ni­ty hos­pi­tals employees alle­ged­ly having repor­ted in an inter­view with lenta.ru (sto­ry not lin­ked), that the ukrai­ni­an mili­ta­ry disper­sed the per­so­nal from the hos­pi­tal in the last days of febru­a­ry, then alle­ging, that the mili­ta­ry had set up firing posi­ti­ons the­re from then on. Cross refe­ren­cing poten­ti­al offi­cial state­ments of the rus­si­an government -- in the form of a fluff piece.]

This warning alle­ged­ly con­sis­ted of a decla­ra­ti­on by the Rus­si­an repre­sen­ta­ti­ve in the Secu­ri­ty Coun­cil on 7 March 2022.378

[378 ‘Poly­an­sky poin­ted to a fake about a strike on civi­li­ans in a hos­pi­tal in Mariu­pol’, RIA News, 10 March 2022,
at: https://ria.ru/20220310/mariupol-1777388570.html.

Con­tent: Acces­si­ble as of 24.11.2023, here it is in its entirety:

“At a UN Secu­ri­ty Coun­cil mee­ting on March 7, Russia’s per­ma­nent repre­sen­ta­ti­ve to the orga­niz­a­ti­on, Vasi­ly Neben­zya , said that resi­dents of Mariu­pol repor­ted: “having expel­led all the per­son­nel of mater­ni­ty hos­pi­tal No. 1 of Mariu­pol, the Armed For­ces of Ukrai­ne have equip­ped a firing posi­ti­on in it”; In addi­ti­on, the radi­cals com­ple­te­ly des­troy­ed one of the city kindergartens.”]

A media report try­ing to cor­rob­ora­te this mili­ta­ry use shows a pho­to­graph of a tank and armed per­sons in front of a buil­ding alle­ged to have been the mater­ni­ty hos­pi­tal, 379

[379 Valen­tin Alfi­mov, ‘Who actual­ly bom­bed the children’s hos­pi­tal in Mariu­pol’, KP.ru, 9 March 2022, at:
https://www.kp.ru/daily/27374/4556142/.

Same con­tent as abo­ve. The state­ment in the OSCE report is not cor­rect though. The image in the fluff pie­ce is just used for illus­tra­ti­on. Nowhe­re in the arti­cle does it say that it would depict the Mater­ni­ty hos­pi­tal in Mariupol.

Nor did it on the the 9th of march see: archive.org but it gets better…]

but this buil­ding does not align with any of the buil­dings wit­hin 1 km of the hos­pi­tal when com­pa­red with satel­li­te image­ry. The shape of the buil­ding is qui­te uni­que and would be detec­ta­ble from above.

Congrats is due for the OSCE debun­king what was never sta­ted in the arti­cle. The shape of the buil­ding is a cross with elon­ga­ted bits at the top, so it would be qui­te easy to spot it in aeri­al photos.

Like­wi­se, a video embed­ded in the article380

[380 War­Gon­zo, You­tube cha­nel, at: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s4-zYV_6Tgk .]

depic­ting what appears to be a sol­dier with an anti­tank gui­ded mis­si­le on the roof of a buil­ding does not match any buil­dings wit­hin 1 km of the hospital.

Like­wi­se, the arti­cle, a jour­na­listic fluff­pie­ce from a dis­tinct­ly non qua­li­ty media out­let never sta­tes, that the video depicts the Mariu­pol Mater­ni­ty ward. But good on the OSCE inves­ti­ga­ti­on team for debun­king that regard­less… The video abo­ve is not online any­mo­re eit­her btw.

The Per­ma­nent Repre­sen­ta­ti­ve of Rus­sia to the UN, howe­ver, show­ed on 11 March pic­tures of the hos­pi­tal clai­ming that it could not have been hit by a rocket: he show­ed a pho­to of a cra­ter, “which by all indi­ca­ti­ons was for­med as a result of the explo­si­on of a mine plan­ted in the ground”. 381

[381 Per­ma­nent Mis­si­on of the Rus­si­an Fede­ra­ti­on to the UN, State­ment by Per­ma­nent Repre­sen­ta­ti­ve Vas­si­ly Neben­zia at UNSC brie­fing on bio­lo­gi­cal labo­ra­to­ries in Ukrai­ne, 11 March 2022, at:
https://russiaun.ru/en/news/110322n_u .]

Refe­ren­cing:

Think of Raq­qa and Mosul that were razed to the ground. The US-led coali­ti­on buried thousands of civi­li­an lives under the ruins of the­se cities. Dead bodies lay under the rub­ble for several mon­ths, and I can’t remem­ber our col­leagues spil­ling their righ­te­ous anger on that mat­ter. We repeated­ly rai­sed it at UNSC mee­tings, but the topic sim­ply died out and no one would get back to it. Howe­ver not a day goes by without spe­cu­la­ti­ons about atro­ci­ties of Rus­si­an for­ces, dai­ly attacks on hos­pi­tals, kin­der­gar­tens, schools, mater­ni­ty cli­nics, use of clus­ter bombs, which our Defen­se Minis­try refu­t­ed repeatedly.

Mater­ni­ty hos­pi­tal #1 in Mariu­pol has beco­me pro­ver­bi­al in this respect. Let me ask – did you lis­ten to what we said here on Mon­day, 7 March? It was about mili­tants and radi­cals tur­ning this buil­ding in a gun post. We war­ned about it back then, but you would not lis­ten, and you do not want to lis­ten to what we say. You saw pic­tures of the mater­ni­ty hos­pi­tal alle­ged­ly hit by a bomb or mis­si­le. I also have them here. They show a buil­ding, win­dow­less but not rui­ned. I bet you can ima­gi­ne what should have hap­pen­ed to a buil­ding hit by a bomb or mis­si­le strike, and also to ever­yo­ne insi­de. I have pho­to and video foo­ta­ge from insi­de the buil­ding. It shows a mess, fur­ni­tu­re scat­te­red upsi­de down, and inta­ct chairs.

Let me ask again: can you ima­gi­ne what sort of dama­ge would have been inflic­ted by a bomb or mis­si­le strike? Mili­ta­ry experts could tell you. As a mat­ter of fact, they alrea­dy have. They demons­tra­ted a pho­to of the cra­ter next to the buil­ding. By all indi­ca­ti­ons, it was cau­sed by an under­ground explo­si­on. In the mean­ti­me, we are told about 17 peop­le inju­red in this buil­ding, and none kil­led. As a pro­of, we are sup­po­sed to accept sta­ged pho­tos of Ukrai­ni­an blog­ger Mari­an­na Pod­gurs­ka­ya taken by AP strin­ger Evge­niy Malo­let­ka. By the way, web users alrea­dy dis­co­ve­r­ed that she role­plays dif­fe­rent women in dif­fe­rent photos.

We are appal­led by the vile and dir­ty cam­pai­gn bes­mirch­ing the Rus­si­an mili­ta­ry, who are accu­sed of attacking civil faci­li­ties on pur­po­se. You bla­me us for fakes and pro­pa­gan­da, but you igno­re an over­whel­ming amount of fakes, repli­ca­ted by Ukrai­ni­an and Wes­tern cen­ters for spe­cial psy­cho­lo­gi­cal ope­ra­ti­ons. At the same time, you keep shame­ful­ly silent about the fact that you almost cut off access to Rus­si­an sources of infor­ma­ti­on. Over the­se days, we have learnt much about the free­dom of speech which you belie­ve your­sel­ves to be cham­pions of.

src: click

Back to the OSCE report:

The Mis­si­on the­re­fo­re con­clu­des that the hos­pi­tal was des­troy­ed by a Rus­si­an attack. Based upon Rus­si­an explana­ti­ons, the attack must have been deli­be­ra­te. No effec­ti­ve warning was given and no time-limit set. This attack the­re­fo­re con­sti­tu­tes a clear vio­la­ti­on of IHL382 and tho­se respon­si­ble for it have com­mit­ted a war crime383.

[382 GC I, Arts 19, 21 and 35; AP I, Arts 12 and 13]
[383 ICC Sta­tu­te, Art. 8(2)(b)(ix).]

Hey, may­be I should start to work for the OSCE, I could wri­te half assed reports like that…

In addi­ti­on -- here is more that the OSCE report didnt capture.

Remem­ber the son of the mater­ni­ty ward employee who alle­ged­ly sta­ted, that it was emp­tied and taken over by ukrai­ni­an mili­ta­ry at the end of febru­a­ry 2022?

We mana­ged to find infor­ma­ti­on on tur­ning the Mariu­pol mater­ni­ty hos­pi­tal into a mili­ta­ry base befo­re March 9 on the Rus­si­an news web­site Lenta.ru. Accord­ing to a March 8 publi­ca­ti­on, Igor, the son of one of the mater­ni­ty hos­pi­tal staff, noted that peop­le in mili­ta­ry uni­forms, who were eit­her mem­bers of the Ukrai­ni­an armed for­ces or mem­bers of the Azov group, visi­ted the mater­ni­ty hos­pi­tal in late Febru­a­ry. Accord­ing to Igor, the lat­ter “expel­led the staff from the mater­ni­ty hos­pi­tal, clai­ming that they were going to turn it into a base”.

src: click

The­re the ori­gi­nal source is linked:

https://lenta.ru/articles/2022/03/08/mariupol/

Oh, and that site was cap­tu­red by archive.org on March 7th of 2022:

Sta­ting:

Behind the num­bers the­re are always human tra­ge­dies. A man walks near the tents whe­re refu­gees are recei­ved. He’s on edge and doesn’t let go of the pho­ne; you can see from his face that he’s been without sleep for several days now. His name is Igor, he spent about a day on the road to get to Bezy­men­noye from Cri­mea . He con­stant­ly approa­ches the mili­ta­ry, employees of the Minis­try of Emer­gen­cy Situa­tions, asking to see the lists to find out whe­ther his elder­ly par­ents were able to evacua­te from Mariu­pol. He tri­es to go with the sol­di­ers towards the front line, clo­ser to the city.

Igor said that in the last days of Febru­a­ry, peop­le in uni­form came to the mater­ni­ty hos­pi­tal whe­re his mother works. He does not know whe­ther they were figh­ters of the Ukrai­ni­an Armed For­ces or the natio­na­list Azov bat­tali­on ( ban­ned in the Rus­si­an Fede­ra­ti­on ). The mili­ta­ry kno­cked down all the locks, disper­sed the mater­ni­ty hos­pi­tal staff, and set up firing points in the buil­ding so that, as they exp­lai­ned to the doc­tors, they would pre­pa­re the “Mariu­pol fort­ress” for defense. 

So if the­re was an infor­ma­ti­on ope­ra­ti­on befo­re­hand, the OSCE cer­tain­ly did not explo­re the alle­ged pro­of, and the rus­si­an infor­ma­ti­on ope­ra­ti­on is deci­ded­ly better.

Also - all that for three dead, 17 inju­red, and a hole in the ground.

Oh, and a CBS Front­li­ne Docu­men­ta­ry by Mstys­lav Cher­nov and Evge­niy Malo­let­ka, pre­mie­ring at the sundance film fes­ti­val in Novem­ber of 2023 of course.

I final­ly could source a 1080p copy of “20 days in Mariupol”.

… fea­turing Vla­di­mir, the hand­ler of the (wait for it) -

Mstys­lav Cher­nov wider­spricht sich erneut

Che­vron shopping!

Wis­sen sie noch in Mariupol!?

- Cher­nov crew.

So lets count spe­cial unit bad­ges and appearan­ces of peop­le with the Donezk regi­on poli­ce head­quar­ters emblem on their jackets, why not?

Nor­mal poli­ce unit guy, and his buff nor­mal poli­ce unit friend (you know, the one with a head­lamp), tel­ling the jour­na­lists were to go to get to the mater­ni­ty ward (they saw smo­ke, so they went. First up a sky­s­cra­per to film the smo­kes source of cour­se, then to the mater­ni­ty hospital).

First Donezk regi­on poli­ce head­quar­ters badge:

Beau­ti­ful badge, ori­gin 501st Sepa­ra­te Bat­tali­on of the Mari­ne Infan­try of the Ukrai­ni­an Navy:

Unknown badge, ori­gin still to be determinded:

Second unknown badge, ori­gin still to be determined:

Shoul­der patch of the patrol poli­ce of Mariu­pol:

Ah, hi, whos that? We know her!

She feels fine.

So does this lad next to her with the nor­mal ukrai­ni­an poli­ce emblem on his head:

Oh, also the lad with the second “Donezk regi­on, poli­ce head­quar­ters” emblem on his shoulder!

Oh look, its the crater!

[CUT]

[Below] Third Donezk regi­on, poli­ce head­qua­ters badge at the sce­ne. Its a litt­le hard to see, zoom in if you have to. Tho­se guys are real­ly eager first responders!

Oh look! Its Vla­di­mir! The Cher­nov Crew hand­ler in Mariu­pol! Who was on the Mater­ni­ty ward bom­bing site!

The guy who will later dri­ve the Cher­nov Crew out of Mariu­pol in his Hyun­dai! The guy that accord­ing to two Cher­nov inter­views they met at the sce­ne “by acci­dent!” The guy that the Cher­nov crew didnt know befo­re then! The guy that pro­bab­ly dro­ve them [on the same day] to whe­re they could find inter­net! To upload the mater­ni­ty ward bom­bing videos!

Look, he has some­thing to say into the came­ra! On the day of the Mater­ni­ty Hos­pi­tal bombing!

[Coin­ci­dent­ly also, the Mater­ni­ty Ward hos­pi­tal, not exact­ly in the cen­ter of Mariu­pol. But hey what gives. Vla­di­mir then swit­ches to eng­lish, addres­sing what they need from the inter­na­tio­nal com­mu­ni­ty at lar­ge. Vla­di­mir of cour­se only being a ran­dom poli­ce offi­cer with the Poli­ce head­qua­ters, Donezk regi­on badge on his shoulder.]

“Rus­si­an tro­ops com­mit warcri­mes. Our Fami­ly. Our women, our child­ren, need help. Our peop­le, need help from inter­na­tio­nal socie­ty. Plea­se, help Mariupol.”

(He has to search for the word warcri­mes during the state­ment, so it doesnt seem excep­tio­nal­ly staged/prepared - may­be just asked for by the jour­na­lists, becau­se he alrea­dy gave a state­ment in ukrainian.)

TWO DAYS LATER:

Look its the Vla­di­mir guy again! With the Donezk regi­on poli­ce head­qua­ters emblem on his jacket!

In a dif­fe­rent hos­pi­tal! Whe­re, accord­ing to Cher­nov in the initi­al Al Jaze­e­ra Inter­view in march of 2022 was just “some poli­ce offi­cer”, pro­tec­ting the inter­net on the seventh floor of the hos­pi­tal the mater­ni­ty ward women were evacua­ted to! Whe­re Cher­nov and Crew found him by acci­dent! Again!

To then film the intro of the 20 Days in Mariu­pol docu­men­ta­ry the­re! Isnt that convenient?!

The same guy who later dro­ve Cher­nov and crew out of Mariu­pol in his Hyundai!

Through 15 rus­si­an check­points! To Freedom!

Which Cher­nov in two inter­views mis­re­pre­sen­ted by say­ing, that they were poin­ted “by a poli­ce offi­cer, in a cel­lar to which they were evacua­ted” towards some cars, that “were about to dri­ve out of the city” whe­re they -at random- found a fami­ly with which they escaped. End­an­ge­ring the fami­ly mem­bers lives! With their mate­ri­al. Which the poli­ce offi­cers never copied. Alt­hough it alrea­dy was a topic of dis­cus­sion in the UN secu­ri­ty coun­cil. Which the edi­tor which Cher­nov was in con­ta­ct with told Cher­nov. Through 15 rus­si­an checkpoints!

Look, he still has got his Poli­ce Head­qua­ters Donezk regi­on badge on!

edit:

Final pro­c­lai­med pro­gres­si­on of the events, after watching all avail­ab­le sources.

- Jour­na­list are in Mariu­pol “alo­ne”, alt­hough every jour­na­list team in Ukrai­ne by that point needs to be accredi­ted by the Ukrai­ni­an Patrol Poli­ce, see click.
- Jour­na­lists see smoke
- Jour­na­lists go up a mul­ti floor buil­ding to film the source of the smo­ke, see - its a hospital.
- Jour­na­lists go there.
- Jour­na­lists first meet Vla­di­mir (their poli­ce hand­ler in Mariu­pol, also the most pro­mi­nent per­son with a Donezk poli­ce head­qua­ters badge on his jacket) the­re “by acci­dent”. Vla­di­mir over­he­ars them talking -

Our bat­te­ries were almost out of juice, and we had no con­nec­tion to send the images. Cur­few was minu­tes away. A poli­ce offi­cer over­he­ard us tal­king about how to get news of the hos­pi­tal bom­bing out.

“This will chan­ge the cour­se of the war,” he said. He took us to a power source and an inter­net connection.

src: click
- Vla­di­mir makes a state­ment “what this was, and what we need from the inter­na­tio­nal com­mu­ni­ty now” into the camera.
- Vla­di­mir takes the Jour­na­lists to “the only spot in Mariu­pol whe­re the­re is still internet:

“This will chan­ge the cour­se of the war,” he said. He took us to a power source and an inter­net connection.

src: click
- Jour­na­lists lea­ve Vla­di­mir, whom they met by accident:

In the dark, we sent the images by lining up three mobi­le pho­nes with the video file split into three parts to speed the pro­cess up. It took hours, well bey­ond cur­few. The shel­ling con­ti­nued, but the offi­cers assi­gned to escort us through the city wai­ted patiently.

Then our link to the world out­side Mariu­pol was again severed.

We went back to an empty hotel base­ment with an aqua­ri­um now fil­led with dead gold­fi­sh. In our iso­la­ti­on, we knew not­hing about a gro­wing Rus­si­an dis­in­for­ma­ti­on cam­pai­gn to dis­credit our work.

src: click Noti­ce also that by then they “had offi­cers assi­gned to them”.
- On the next day they meet Vla­di­mir again and film the last fire bri­ga­de sta­ti­on bom­bed by rus­si­ans in Mariu­pol. Then they return to the only spot in Mariu­pol with inter­net AGAIN, to upload the foo­ta­ge. The­re in the movie the line “its post the cur­few, so Vla­di­mir had to come with us” is men­tio­ned (see Docu­men­ta­ry (20 Days in Mariupol)).
- On the next day they meet Vla­di­mir again, who now is only with them, becau­se now the hos­pi­tal they want to go to on this day, to catch up with and film the women from the mater­ni­ty ward again - is in “the red zone”, so Vla­di­mir [their ran­dom acquaintance/their hand­ler in mari­pol] has to come. (see Docu­men­ta­ry (20 Days in Mariupol))

On March 11, in a brief call without details, our edi­tor asked if we could find the women who sur­vi­ved the mater­ni­ty hos­pi­tal [attack] to pro­ve their exis­tence. I rea­li­sed the foo­ta­ge must have been power­ful enough to pro­vo­ke a respon­se from the Rus­si­an government.

We found them at a hos­pi­tal on the front line, some with babies and others in labour. We also lear­ned that one woman had lost her baby and then her own life.

src: click

The­re in that hos­pi­tal, they try to find the mater­ni­ty ward - but the­re is no mater­ni­ty ward. They find some of the women having been trans­fe­red from the ori­gi­nal mater­ni­ty ward, and a doc­tor who can con­firm the death of the women (and her child) they filmed being trans­por­ted on the stret­cher, two days before. 

They try to lea­ve, with their escort asking for a way out, also having a Poli­ce Head­quar­ters of Donezk emblem on his jacket - pro­bab­ly Vladimir:

But they cant lea­ve, becau­se in front of the hos­pi­tal the­re is a sni­per that had been seen, and the­re is an ongo­ing fire­fight, while peop­le are whee­led into the hos­pi­tal on stret­chers, by mili­ta­ry personal.

Then they hear a rum­ble. Tanks?

So now they go to the 7th floor of that hos­pi­tal, to their “obser­va­ti­on point” (see: Docu­men­ta­ry (20 Days in Mariu­pol)) OR - AGAIN “to send the video” (see Al Jaze­e­ra Inter­view from March 2022), from a dif­fe­rent spot, other than the only spot, whe­re they have a inter­net con­nec­tion in Mariu­pol (the spot Vla­di­mir show­ed them befo­re, which wasnt in that hos­pi­tal), whe­re they all of a sud­den have inter­net again, and all of a sud­den are with Vla­di­mir again -- going by this Al Jaze­e­ra interview:

We found them at a hos­pi­tal on the front line, some with babies and others in labour. We also lear­ned that one woman had lost her baby and then her own life.

We went up to the seventh floor to send the video from the tenuous inter­net link. From the­re, I wat­ched as tank after tank rol­led up along­side the hos­pi­tal com­pound, each mar­ked with the let­ter “Z” that had beco­me the Rus­si­an emblem for the war. 

src: click

Pick one of the nar­ra­ti­ves, whiche­ver you like best, really…

Or pick the one from the docu­men­ta­ry, becau­se in the docu­men­ta­ry, the­re is a voice over line “we need to send the foo­ta­ge, the­re is no con­nec­tion the­re, and we cant get to our car”.

Well too bad for the 10 news­out­lets that pushed the actu­al inter­view with Cher­nov that sta­ted other­wi­se (went to the 7th floor to send the video using the inter­net in the hos­pi­tal), in march of 2022.

But that was befo­re the movie released at Sundance, in Novem­ber of 2023, of course.

To then, on the seventh floor - film the intro of 20 days of Mariupol.

Its tanks!

Then the­re is a time­cut in the docu­men­ta­ry - whe­re an insert is pla­ced about night­ma­rish fever­dreams of the past.

At just the moment whe­re in the initi­al Al Jaze­e­ra inter­view Vla­di­mir vanis­hes for a while…

The Ukrai­ni­an sol­di­ers who had been pro­tec­ting the hos­pi­tal had vanis­hed. And the path to our van, with our food, water and equip­ment, was cove­r­ed by a Rus­si­an sni­per who had alrea­dy struck a medic ven­tu­ring outside.

src: click

To see the vanis­hing sol­di­ers, look at the screen­shot befo­re, whe­re you see three soldiers.

The para­graph abo­ve also mis­re­pres­ents that time­li­ne wise, becau­se when they heard about the sni­per, right befo­re they tried to exit, Vla­di­mir was still with them, and so were ukrai­ni­an sol­di­ers (see pre­vious screen cap­tu­re), and Vla­di­mir was still with them later, when they first went to the 7th floor - but no big­gy. Vla­di­mir vanis­hed later that night.

Or actual­ly - in the docu­men­ta­ry, Vla­di­mir didnt vanish. Becau­se in the docu­men­ta­ry - Vla­di­mir used the last of his radi­os bat­te­ry, to con­ta­ct a spe­cial mili­ta­ry task for­ce, which res­cued them from the hospital.

Voice over line at 1:18:00 into the docu­men­ta­ry. (see: Docu­men­ta­ry (20 Days in Mariupol))

Which is inte­res­ting, because…

In ano­t­her Cher­nov inter­view - they were in the area, becau­se they were alrea­dy going through the battle­field, also… 

Has Vla­di­mir cal­led the 12 peop­le taskfor­ce to the hospital?

Well, who can say exact­ly… Not Chernov.

src: click , well - they alrea­dy were going through the battle­field and took us out. Is how this sen­tence ends.

Again, pick any nar­ra­ti­ve you like…

Becau­se in the Docu­men­ta­ry they - voice over line again, said “we were alrea­dy behind enemy lines” when they ent­e­red the hos­pi­tal -- with a hearty:

Sud­den­ly at dawn, a dozen sol­di­ers burst in, “Whe­re are the jour­na­lists, for f***’s sake?”

I loo­ked at their arm­bands, blue for Ukrai­ne, and tried to cal­cu­la­te the odds that they were Rus­si­ans in dis­gui­se. I step­ped for­ward to iden­ti­fy mys­elf. “We’re here to get you out,” they said.

The walls of the sur­ge­ry shook from artil­le­ry and machine-gun fire out­side, and it see­med safer to stay insi­de. But the Ukrai­ni­an sol­di­ers were under orders to take us with them.

src: click

Becau­se in the Al Jaze­e­ra Inter­view Vla­di­mir by then had vanis­hed, and Cher­nov - in a moment of prac­ti­cal heroi­cism had to iden­ti­fy hims­elf, which is why in the video inter­view lin­ked abo­ve the inter­view­er asked him (befo­re Novem­ber 2023), who had sent the res­cue team.

So pick any nar­ra­ti­ve you like, really.

Becau­se in the Al Jaze­e­ra Inter­view, the res­cue team also HAD THE ORDER to take them with them:

I loo­ked at their arm­bands, blue for Ukrai­ne, and tried to cal­cu­la­te the odds that they were Rus­si­ans in dis­gui­se. I step­ped for­ward to iden­ti­fy mys­elf. “We’re here to get you out,” they said.

The walls of the sur­ge­ry shook from artil­le­ry and machine-gun fire out­side, and it see­med safer to stay insi­de. But the Ukrai­ni­an sol­di­ers were under orders to take us with them.

src: click

So with Vla­di­mir at his side and also vanis­hed, the res­cue team that was alrea­dy in the area, burst into the hos­pi­tal with a “whe­re the fuck are the jour­na­lists”, becau­se they had the order to take them with them, becau­se Vla­di­mir who was with the jour­na­lists had radio­ed them with the last of the bat­te­ry in his radio and also stood right bes­i­de the journalists.

Again, you pick any nar­ra­ti­ve you like.

In the docu­men­ta­ry the­re is a time­cut (remem­ber?) so we see none of it. After the time­cut the­re is 5 minu­te of shaky cam foo­ta­ge of the extrac­tion though, so thats a plus. Which ends when they reach a van.

Then again helicopter/drone shots with poe­tic voice over. “The city is slow­ly dying, like a human being”.

Then in the docu­men­ta­ry they were dri­ven “to an area still under ukrai­ni­an con­trol”, which in the Al Jaze­e­ra inter­view was a dar­ken­ed base­ment, and in the other video inter­view lin­ked abo­ve an area in the city center.

Then the voice over sim­ply cuts to -- “then for days we tried to find a way to get out of the city” -- while in the Al Jaze­e­ra inter­view they meet ano­t­her poli­ce offi­cer! (Poli­ce offi­cer not a mili­ta­ry guy from their res­cue unit, important for later.)

Very likely Vla­di­mir, becau­se its the poli­ce­man that had said to them befo­re “show the world my dying city”, but also very likely not Vla­di­mir, in the Al Jaze­e­ra Inter­view its just “a poli­ce offi­cer” they met in the base­ment, because -

We reached an ent­ry­way, and armou­red cars whis­ked us to a dar­ken­ed base­ment. Only then did we learn from a poli­ce­man why the Ukrai­ni­ans had ris­ked the lives of sol­di­ers to extract us from the hospital.

“If they catch you, they will get you on came­ra and they will make you say that ever­ything you filmed is a lie,” he said. “All your efforts and ever­ything you have done in Mariu­pol will be in vain.”

The offi­cer, who had once beg­ged us to show the world his dying city, now plea­ded with us to go. He nud­ged us toward the thousands of bat­te­red cars pre­pa­ring to lea­ve Mariupol.

It was March 15. We had no idea if we would make it out alive.

[…]

It didn’t feel like a res­cue. It felt like we were just being moved from one dan­ger to ano­t­her. By this time, nowhe­re in Mariu­pol was safe, and the­re was no reli­ef. You could die at any moment.

I felt ama­zin­gly gra­te­ful to the sol­di­ers, but also numb. And asha­med that I was leaving.

We cram­med into a Hyun­dai with a fami­ly of three and pul­led into a five-kilometre-long (3.1-mile-long) traf­fic jam out of the city. Appro­xi­mate­ly 30,000 peop­le made it out of Mariu­pol that day — so many that Rus­si­an sol­di­ers had no time to look clo­se­ly into cars with win­dows cove­r­ed with flap­ping bits of plastic.

- becau­se Vla­di­mir who was with them all night, accord­ing to the docu­men­ta­ry, appar­ent­ly didnt tell them, why he had radio­ed in a res­cue team befo­re. Which took them in the morning, with orders to take “the Jour­na­lists”, but with Vla­di­mir (Poli­ce head­quar­ters Donezk regi­on) still bes­i­de them, alt­hough he also had vanis­hed (see Al Jaze­e­ra interview).

With the last of his radi­os battery.

Pick any nar­ra­ti­ve you want.

Then in the docu­men­ta­ry, Vla­di­mir still “insis­ted” that they should lea­ve Mariu­pol entirely.

But they go to the last func­tio­n­ing hos­pi­tal in the city first, on yet ano­t­her day, and film some more foo­ta­ge of peop­le in a hospital.

And a doc­tor unwrap­ping a dead baby in the hos­pi­tals basement.

With Vla­di­mir of course -

- who is STILL with them all­t­hough in the initi­al Al Jaze­e­ra Inter­view, they last spo­ke to him in the base­ment they were evacua­ted to by the spe­cial mili­ta­ry task force:

We reached an ent­ry­way, and armou­red cars whis­ked us to a dar­ken­ed base­ment. Only then did we learn from a poli­ce­man why the Ukrai­ni­ans had ris­ked the lives of sol­di­ers to extract us from the hospital.

“If they catch you, they will get you on came­ra and they will make you say that ever­ything you filmed is a lie,” he said. “All your efforts and ever­ything you have done in Mariu­pol will be in vain.”

The offi­cer, who had once beg­ged us to show the world his dying city, now plea­ded with us to go. He nud­ged us toward the thousands of bat­te­red cars pre­pa­ring to lea­ve Mariupol.

It was March 15. We had no idea if we would make it out alive.

src: click
They lear­ned that from a poli­ce­man, not a sol­dier, mind you.

Then they “need to lea­ve” (accord­ing to the voice over).

“We need to catch up with a con­voy. Vla­di­mir says, he can try to take us with his car. I tell him, that its dan­ge­rous, but he wants to help to get us and our mate­ri­als out. And he still hopes, that if the world saw ever­ything that hap­pen­ed in Mariu­pol, it would at least give some mea­ning to this horror.”

Then foo­ta­ge of them lea­ving the city through 15 rus­si­an check­points in Vla­di­mirs Hyun­dai, came­ras and hard­dri­ves hid­den under seats.

Then the­re is ano­t­her voice­over in the documentary:

“Yes­ter­day I told one of the offi­cers who extrac­ted us from the hos­pi­tal - “Thank you for saving us.” He said: “Thank you for tel­ling the sto­ry of this city.”

Which is kind of stran­ge, becau­se -- again, in the Al Jaze­e­ra interview:

“We reached an ent­ry­way, and armou­red cars whis­ked us to a dar­ken­ed base­ment. Only then did we learn from a poli­ce­man why the Ukrai­ni­ans had ris­ked the lives of sol­di­ers to extract us from the hospital.

If they catch you, they will get you on came­ra and they will make you say that ever­ything you filmed is a lie,” he said. “All your efforts and ever­ything you have done in Mariu­pol will be in vain.”

The offi­cer, who had once beg­ged us to show the world his dying city, now plea­ded with us to go. He nud­ged us toward the thousands of bat­te­red cars pre­pa­ring to lea­ve Mariupol.

That was a poli­ce offi­cer. Not a spe­cial mili­ta­ry task for­ce offi­cer. A poli­ce offi­cer, they see­med to know from befo­re (“who had once beg­ged us to show the world his dying city”), and the fol­lowing points in the CBS Front­li­ne Docu­men­ta­ry are ALL attri­bu­t­ed to Vla­di­mir exclu­si­ve­ly, again, all via voice over:

1. “They will get you on came­ra and they will make you say that ever­ything you filmed is a lie” said Vladimir
2. “All your efforts and ever­ything you have done in Mariu­pol will be in vain.” … you have to lea­ve the city, said Vladimir.
3. “He nud­ged us toward the thousands of bat­te­red cars pre­pa­ring to lea­ve Mariu­pol.” Vla­di­mir did. In the docu­men­ta­ry. More than once.

Oh well, you pick any nar­ra­ti­ve you like.

Which all is so gre­at to begin with, becau­se in this other inter­view, the Cher­nov crew is also dri­ven around Mariu­pol “by the patrol poli­ce”, and also dri­ven to the “patrol poli­ce head­quar­ters” (which the Docu­men­ta­ry never shows):

src: click

Which only beco­mes excep­tio­nal­ly gre­at, once you know, that the patrol poli­ce is the sec­tion of ukrai­ni­an poli­ce that holds clas­si­cal con­certs in their head­qua­ters around christ­mas, to which they invi­te jour­na­lists to, and also the insti­tu­ti­on that you need to be accredi­ted by, to film in the Ukrai­ne at all. Star­ting two days after the begin­ning of the invasion.

See:

Embed­ded Repor­ting == Front­li­ne Journalism

So in essence, it real­ly is so very gre­at, that they found their Vla­di­mir at the mater­ni­ty hos­pi­tal by accident.

Lie­be Grü­ße an das VERFICKTE ARSCHLOCH VON PSYCHOTHERAPEUTEN, der mich bei einem “Ent­las­tungs­ter­min” mit “jetzt hör ich mir das schon seit einer Stun­de an, hören sie mit dem Blöd­sinn auf” und “wie wärs mit einer Kur” aus der Betreu­ung getre­ten hat, mich dann an die Psych­ia­te­rin neben an ver­wie­sen hat, wo ich dann eine Stun­de spä­ter so aus­ge­zuckt bin, dass sie mir die WEGA nach Hau­se geschickt hat, die mir dann die Tür auf­ge­tre­ten hat, weil ich mich von ihr mit dem Spruch, “ich schließ mich jetzt zu Hau­se ein, und die ers­te Per­son die mir die Tür ein­tritt ***** ich ab” aus der Stun­de ver­ab­schie­det habe. Klei­ner Tipp, bis heu­te kei­ne psych­ia­tri­sche Dia­gno­se (also kei­ne psy­chi­sche Krank­heit außer einer mitt­le­ren Depres­si­on dia­gnos­ti­ziert) - die­se Gesell­schaft ist das abso­lut gro­tesk und abar­tigst Allerletzte.

Lie­be Grü­ße auch an Armin Wolf, der beim Inter­view des Pro­fils mit dem Rus­si­schen Bot­schaf­ter per Twit­ter alle Kol­le­gen ange­schrien hat, dass “die Behaup­tung das Atten­tat auf eine Kli­nik sei ges­ta­ged gewe­sen” die tiefs­te Pro­pa­gan­da gewe­sen wäre, die Armin Wolf in sei­nem bis­he­ri­gen Leben gese­hen habe.

Lie­be Grü­ße an die Kol­le­gen vom Pro­fil, die dar­auf hin nicht nur den rus­si­schen Bot­schaf­ter in Wien dis­kre­di­tiert haben, son­dern ver­laut­bart haben, die­se Äuße­rung des Bot­schaf­ters, die offen­sicht­lich Pro­pa­gan­da wäre - sei der Grund dafür, dass man in den öster­rei­chi­schen Medi­en, seit exakt die­sem Zeit­punkt die rus­si­sche Per­spek­ti­ve voll­kom­men raus­hal­ten müs­se -- denn selbst der rus­si­sche Bot­schaf­ter in Öster­reich ver­brei­te öffent­lich nur schwar­ze Propaganda.

Ach­ja, und lie­be Grü­ße an alle mei­ne zukünf­ti­gen Arbeit­ge­ber, ich bin nach einer Ein­sicht aller Quel­len auf der Sei­te des rus­si­schen Bot­schaf­ters in Öster­reich. Der rus­si­sche Bot­schaf­ter hat­te Recht. Das war gestaged.

Und Cher­nov lügt in sei­nen Inter­views. Nach­weis­lich. Und bekommt dafür Aus­zeich­nun­gen im EU Par­la­ment. Wäh­rend die Vic­tor Pin­chuk Foun­da­ti­on und das Pin­chuk Art Cen­ter Web­sei­ten (russianwarcrimeshouse.org) regis­triert und betreibt auf denen Pho­to­aus­stel­lun­gen der Cher­nov Crew bewor­ben werden: 

Embed­ded Repor­ting == Front­li­ne Journalism

Und die DREI Begeg­nun­gen Cher­novs mit Vla­di­mir sei­nem Hand­ler vom Poli­ze­haupt­quar­tier Donezk Regi­on waren kein Zufall. Also - nicht drei mal (Geburts­kli­nik Mariu­pol, ande­res Kran­ken­haus (beim Inter­net bewa­chen) in Mariu­pol) Zufall. An zwei (nein, drei) ver­schie­den Orten. (Nach dem ers­ten Tref­fen haben sich die Jour­na­lis­ten ja von den Poli­zis­ten den sie dort getrof­fen haben, und sie zufäl­lig über das Video reden hat hören ja noch ver­ab­schie­det - weil er war ja nur eine Zufalls­be­geg­nung…”) Und dann noch im Hyun­dai der sie aus der Stadt gefah­ren hat (sie­he Inter­view Cher­novs beim Sundance Film Fes­ti­val), an drei ver­schie­de­nen Tagen. Was Cher­nov zuerst in allen Inter­views ver­schwie­gen und aktiv miss­re­prä­sen­tiert hat.

Und jetzt sterbt ihr fuck­ing Schweine.

Der öster­rei­chi­sche Jour­na­lis­mus ist das abgrund­tief Allerletzte. 

Lie­be Grü­ße auch an die Stif­tung Concordia.

Die­se Gesell­schaft ist das abso­lut gro­tesk und abar­tigst Allerletzte.

Das ist das Letz­te was ich in die­sem Blog jemals schrei­be - and thanks for all the fish.

Nach­dem es jetzt bereits Krei­se zieht, mach ich einen eige­nen Bei­trag draus:

Der Ver­fas­sungs­ge­richts­hof hat der aktu­el­len deut­schen Bun­des­re­gie­rung unter­sagt mit Gel­dern aus den Coro­na­fonds ihr Bud­get zu sanie­ren. Jetzt fehlt das Geld. Mit einem Blick dar­auf wofür das Geld bereits allo­ziert war, springt beson­ders ein Punkt ins Auge - die geplan­te Gleis­sa­nie­rung der Bahn. Die zuvor als Teil des Klima- und Trans­for­ma­ti­ons­fonds geear­markt war. Die Sanierung.

Gleis­sa­nie­run­gen sind das Para­de­bei­spiel das immer wie­der dafür ins Tref­fen geführt wird, war­um es öffent­li­che Ver­wal­tung gesell­schafts­theo­re­tisch braucht. Da der­art hohe lang­fris­tig akku­mu­lie­ren­de Einmal-Kosten, von kei­nem Unter­neh­men der Welt adäquat gema­na­get wer­den, da die­se über meh­re­re Manag­ment­ge­nera­tio­nen gebün­delt und dann auf ein­mal anfal­len und dies­be­züg­li­che Inves­ti­tio­nen daher ger­ne auf die nächs­ten Genera­ti­on abge­scho­ben wer­den. Also das Mus­ter­bei­spiel unter den “not under my watch” Pro­ble­ma­ti­ken der frei­en Markt­wirt­schaft. Also muss dafür seit jeher die Öffent­lich­keit her­hal­ten. Und da hat sich die­se deut­sche Bun­des­re­gie­rung gedacht, ver­schie­ben wir das (also die Sanie­rung der bestehen­den Bahn­in­fra­struk­tur) doch ein­fach mal in den Trans­for­ma­ti­ons­fond (einen “Zukunfts­fond”). Und zah­len den dann mit Covid Geld. Und als dann alles schon fer­tig ver­plant war -- bleibts halt lei­der beim Ver­fas­sungs­ge­richts­hof hängen…

HA.

Ehm. Gut, das kann unter einem Finanz­mi­nis­ter Lind­ner schon mal pas­sie­ren.. 😉 Infra­struk­tur brauchts in Deutsch­land ja eh kaum.

(via fefe)

A few moments later…

Nach Haus­halts­ur­teil
Esken will Schul­den­brem­se aussetzen
Stand: 18.11.2023 05:34 Uhr

SPD-Chefin Esken hat erneut dafür plä­diert, die Schul­den­brem­se für zwei Jah­re aus­zu­set­zen. Dies wür­de mehr Spiel­raum für staat­li­che Aus­ga­ben schaf­fen. Weder beim Kli­ma­schutz noch beim Sozi­al­staat wer­de man Ein­spa­run­gen zulassen.

src: click

So if you ever wan­ted to know how the pol­ling indus­try works in line with US for­eign poli­cy think­tanks to gene­ra­te public messaging - well, here is a bewil­de­ring example:

Here is the ent­i­re quote:

Shi­bley Tel­ha­mi: Let’s look at the next sli­de um which is what is “your impres­si­on of the per­for­mance of the fol­lowing par­ties in the Ukrai­ne war” and this is about Rus­sia is fai­ling and Ukrai­ne is uh suc­cee­ding. Let me tell you why - we have this mea­su­re, of cour­se the public does­n’t real­ly know whe­ther Rus­sia is is fai­ling or suc­cee­ding, but the the public forms a per­cep­ti­on, based on the coverage from the Press, what poli­ti­ci­ans say - um what the Ukrai­ni­ans say, what the Rus­si­ans say, and that impres­si­on we found throughout our pol­ling, to be high­ly cor­re­la­ted with the degree of sup­port. The more they think Rus­sia is fai­ling, the more they want to sup­port Ukrai­ne, the more they think Ukrai­ne is suc­cee­ding, the more they want to sup­port Ukrai­ne. So tho­se two mea­su­res about Rus­sia fai­ling and Ukrai­ne suc­cee­ding have been essen­ti­al. So to the extent that the­re is a chan­ge here, it is inte­res­ting not in the over­all, becau­se when you look at the total public uh all respondents there’s no chan­ge wit­hin the mar­gin of error, the chan­ges wit­hin the mar­gin of error, but the­re is a bit of a troub­ling shift wit­hin Demo­crats. So if you look at yeah um uh you know drop from 48 to 43% about Rus­sia is fai­ling and a big drop in Ukrai­ne is suc­cee­ding uh from 39 to 31% in Sep­tem­ber to Octo­ber and then one final sli­de I’ll show befo­re I ask you to react - which is a ques­ti­on that we only asked this time, becau­se it was about the coun­ter offen­si­ve we knew actual­ly in the spring, that a lot of peop­le were expec­ting a coun­ter expen­si­ve to see um, what - how it impacts you know the the cal­cu­lus of peop­le in terms of suc­cess of fail­u­re of Ukrai­ne. And I was obvious­ly -- initi­al­ly peop­le were hope­ful that the coun­ter offen­si­ve was going to be more suc­cess­ful, it it see­med to have bog­ged down may­be more than peop­le were expec­ting, uh befo­re at least, the public, but sur­pri­sin­gly it’s not uh as bad as I may have expec­ted, becau­se actual­ly it loo­ks like a plu­ra­li­ty of the public, 38%, say been some­what effec­ti­ve, only 5% say very inef­fec­ti­ve and 9% say some­what inef­fec­ti­ve, so obvious­ly a lot of don’t knows that you expect a ques­ti­on like that about 30%, but - you know the per­cep­ti­on about the coun­ter offen­si­ve is more - that it’s more suc­cess­ful than not suc­cess­ful, inclu­ding among Repu­bli­cans -- so that’s inte­res­ting and and obvious­ly pro­mi­sing from the point of view of sup­por­ting Ukrai­ne.

Any reac­tions you had?

Fio­na Hill: Yeah there’s a num­ber of reac­tions and I mean I know that you you know del­ve into a lot of the details in this I mean you just said yourself that a lot of it is shared by wha­te­ver peop­le are hea­ring poli­ti­ci­ans say and that might you know, very well you know, um uh I think um under­li­ned some of the you know issu­es and dif­fe­ren­ces bet­ween Repu­bli­cans and Demo­crats, obvious­ly given you know the the fact that we’­re right in the midd­le now of um our pre­si­den­ti­al elec­tion cam­pai­gn and this has beco­me a domestic poli­ti­cal issue just like you know we alrea­dy said it is in Poland, or has been in Slo­va­kia and you know in Hun­ga­ry and you know else­whe­re whe­re you know ine­vi­ta­b­ly this is part of the fab­ric of uh poli­tics -- also in the media, I mean you know um the­re is a lot of um selec­ti­vi­ty in the way that um this is cove­r­ed by uh dif­fe­rent orga­niz­a­ti­ons some um news­pa­pers that peop­le are rea­ding have cor­re­sponds on the ground, others get it from wire feeds, a lot of peop­le par­ti­cu­lar­ly in youn­ger genera­ti­ons, and I know that you’­ve got some kind of age bra­cket, you know get­ting their infor­ma­ti­on from You­Tube and Insta­gram, you know…

Yeah, never mind that the majo­ri­ty of peop­le pol­led in the US got both of tho­se ques­ti­ons wrong - just - well, just com­ment that the fact that they did is -- obvious­ly pro­mi­sing from the point of view of sup­por­ting Ukrai­ne.

The­re is this say­ing in the pol­ling indus­try, that its not the results of the polls that are tel­ling about socie­ties pre­fe­ren­ces, its the chan­ging of the numbers.

So never­mind, that more peop­le got this wrong than right, the important part is that this loo­ks “obvious­ly pro­mi­sing from the point of view of sup­por­ting Ukraine”.

This (the strong cor­re­la­ti­on part) is then used to craft the public nar­ra­ti­ve, which media most­ly just copies, at least, when it comes from the Broo­kings Insti­tu­ti­on, which is being brie­fed here.

The cor­re­la­ti­on in its­elf is not that asto­nis­hing here (peop­le tre­at wars like a sports event), its more the bla­sé atti­tu­te in which “having a public that gets all of this objec­tively wrong” can be “obvious­ly pro­mi­sing from the point of view of sup­por­ting Ukraine”.

So, that more peop­le on the demo­cra­tic side got this right, is tal­ked about as a pro­blem, becau­se the num­bers fell.

Die­se Gesell­schaft ist das abso­lut gro­tesk und abar­tigst Allerletzte.

Jeru­sa­lem
CNN
—
Isra­el has drop­ped leaf­lets across parts of sou­thern Gaza cal­ling on civi­li­ans to evacua­te and “head towards known shel­ters,” indi­ca­ting Isra­el could soon expand its ground ope­ra­ti­on against Hamas to the south of the enclave.

Leaf­lets were drop­ped Wed­nes­day on four com­mu­nities to the east of Khan You­nis, the lar­gest city in sou­thern Gaza, warning peop­le living the­re to “evacua­te your resi­dence immediately.”

The com­mu­nities – Al Qar­rah, Khuza’a, Bani Suhai­la, and Absa­an – are near the peri­me­ter fence sepa­ra­ting the Gaza Strip from Isra­el, sug­ges­ting pos­si­ble new incur­si­on points by the Isra­el Defen­se For­ces (IDF) loo­king to take con­trol of the south.

src: click

edit: Es gibt aber natür­lich auch wie­der gute Nach­rich­ten, das hier ist das was der Stan­dard zum sel­ben Zeit­punkt berichtet:

[Zwei Tank­las­ter pro Tag sind sehr wahr­schein­lich zu wenig um den Mobil­funk in Gaza auf­recht­zu­er­hal­ten. Geschwei­ge denn das Internet.]

Die­se Gesell­schaft ist das abso­lut gro­tesk und abar­tigst Allerletzte.

edit: Die NZZ hat dazu auch einen net­ten Angle:

Der Erfolg der israe­li­schen Ope­ra­ti­on im Gaza­strei­fen hängt von der Umsicht jedes ein­zel­nen Kom­man­dan­ten ab
Je mehr Gelän­de die Boden­trup­pen gewin­nen, des­to bes­ser ist die Zivil­be­völ­ke­rung geschützt. Der Ope­ra­ti­ons­plan kom­bi­niert des­halb mili­tä­ri­sche Kraft mit bewuss­ter Zurückhaltung.

src: click

Je mehr Land­raub, des­to bes­ser, da siche­rer für die Bevöl­ke­rung in Gaza und die Ver­ant­wor­tung für Völ­ker­rechts­ver­stö­ße hän­ge von der Umsicht jedes ein­zel­nen Kom­man­dan­ten ab und kön­ne nicht auf betei­lig­te Füh­rer von Staa­ten pro­ji­ziert werden.

I can’t belie­ve its not Neoimperialism!

I have resi­gned as poe­try edi­tor of the New York Times Magazine.

The Israe­li state’s U.S-backed war against the peop­le of Gaza is not a war for anyo­ne. The­re is no safe­ty in it or from it, not for Isra­el, not for the United Sta­tes or Euro­pe, and espe­cial­ly not for the many Jewish peop­le slan­de­red by tho­se who claim fal­se­ly to fight in their names. Its only pro­fit is the dead­ly pro­fit of oil inte­rests and wea­pon manufacturers.

The world, the future, our hearts—everything grows smal­ler and har­der from this war. It is not only a war of mis­si­les and land inva­si­ons. It is an ongo­ing war against the peop­le of Pales­ti­ne, peop­le who have resis­ted throughout deca­des of occup­a­ti­on, for­ced dis­lo­ca­ti­on, depri­va­ti­on, sur­veil­lan­ce, sie­ge, impr­i­son­ment, and torture.

Becau­se our sta­tus quo is self-expression, some­ti­mes the most effec­ti­ve mode of pro­test for artists is to refuse.

I can’t wri­te about poe­try amidst the ‘rea­son­ab­le’ tones of tho­se who aim to accli­ma­ti­ze us to this unre­a­son­ab­le suf­fe­ring. No more ghoulish euphe­misms. No more ver­bal­ly saniti­zed hell­scapes. No more war­mon­ge­ring lies.

If this resi­gna­ti­on lea­ves a hole in the news the size of poe­try, then that is the true shape of the present.
—Anne Boyer

src: click
Pri­ma­ry source: click

… ob es mehr von so Pau­sen ein­le­gen kann, siehe -

Tac­ti­cal Pau­ses? Die haben wir doch gemacht.

Der­weil hat sich der UN Sicher­heits­rat mitt­ler­wei­le dazu hin­rei­ßen las­sen doch eine Reso­lu­ti­on zu ver­ab­schie­den, die ist seit dem recht­lich bindend:

Der Uno-Sicherheitsrat hat eine völ­ker­recht­lich bin­den­de Reso­lu­ti­on mit der For­de­rung nach tage­lan­gen huma­ni­tä­ren Pau­sen im Gaza­strei­fen ange­nom­men. Nach lan­gem Rin­gen einig­te sich das mäch­tigs­te Uno-Gremium auf den gemein­sa­men Beschluss. Isra­el lehnt eine huma­ni­tä­re Pau­se ohne Frei­las­sung der Gei­seln ab.

src: click

Da hat sich Isra­el dazu ent­schie­den den Prüf­vor­gang zu beschleu­ni­gen, und ist zu fol­gen­dem Ent­schluss gekommen: 

Isra­el lehnt UN-Forderung nach “huma­ni­tä­ren Pau­sen” im Gaza­strei­fen ab

src: click

Ah. Na aber gut, dass sies geprüft haben!

Könn­ten wir viel­leicht in Öster­reich jetzt noch irgend­wel­che Demos absa­gen und Slo­gans durch Anlass­ge­setz­ge­bung ver­bie­ten? So zum Spass?

Die­se Gesell­schaft ist das abso­lut gro­tesk und abar­tigst Allerletzte.

Israel’s offi­cial Ara­bic account affi­lia­ted with the Minis­try of For­eign Affairs pos­ted a sel­fie video of a Pales­ti­ni­an nur­se con­dem­ning Hamas for taking over al-Shifa hos­pi­tal in the Gaza Strip on Nov. 11.

But some things about the video didn’t add up.

Ever­ything about it sma­cked of high school theater—from the bot­ched accent that sound­ed like it was strai­ght out of an Israe­li soap ope­ra to the per­fect­ly scrip­ted IDF tal­king points rol­ling off her tongue.

Hamas were ste­aling the fuel. Check.

Hamas were taking mor­phi­ne. Check.

Then the­re was the pris­ti­ne white lab coat loo­king like it had just come back from the dry clea­ner, the audio track of bombs fal­ling that sound­ed like sam­ples from a late-’80s Casio key­board, and the con­tri­ved stethoscope-waving you‘d expect from an extra on Grey’s Anatomy.

Hamas hadn’t sto­len her make­up though, which was immaculate.

The Pales­ti­ni­an Minis­try of Health logo slap­ped stra­te­gi­cal­ly in the back­ground but visi­ble over her shoul­der loo­ked like an OSINT honeytrap.

“This video must be authen­tic right, I can see the Health Minis­try logo”—at least that’s what whoever made it would hope the bur­geo­ning army of sket­chy anony­mous OSINT (open source intel­li­gence) rese­ar­chers might say.

The only thing mis­sing was a degree han­ging in the back­ground say­ing Tel Aviv Ups­tairs Medi­cal College.

Oh, and perhaps I should have men­tio­ned this first, no one at al-Shifa had ever seen the nur­se before.

Soon, the volu­me of ridi­cu­le direc­ted at tho­se sharing it reached such a pitch that the Isra­el Ara­bic account dele­ted their tweet. I guess they didn’t know the source either.

src: click (Dai­ly Beast)

Schon schei­ße, wenn man das im deutsch­spra­chi­gen Jour­na­lis­mus nicht erwäh­nen darf nicht?

Here is the gist of it, Fio­na Hill is still very much nume­ro­lo­gy obsessed.

So in the past 3 hours I tried to find out if what Fio­na Hill pre­sen­ted in a Broo­kings Insti­tu­ti­on talk, as the rea­so­ning for why “the Finns joi­ned NATO”, was a one off laps in arguing that reli­ed hea­vi­ly on an actu­al argu­ment popu­lar in fin­nish socie­ty, or if Fio­na Hill is inde­ed a fan of numerology.

Turns out Fio­na Hill, VERY MUCH a fan of numerology.

So here is the initi­al state­ment again, that was made by Fio­na Hill on the 16th of Sep­tem­ber 2023 in this Broo­kings insti­tu­ti­on video.

(See also: click)

[…] why the Finns joi­ned NATO, becau­se they’­re all in they know whe­re this is hea­ding 1989 for them, did seem like an aberra­ti­on and alt­hough the Finns were embra­cing the Euro­pean Uni­on and basing their embra­cing, their inde­pen­dence - they always had in the back of their minds that histo­ry would come back again - with ano­t­her nine [thats the num­ber 9] like 1939. So they were always rar­ing to go - so I think that we ought to our­sel­ves take a pau­se, you know, when we look through our own lens at 1989, and whe­re we’­ve been and you know how we feel about the war in Ukrai­ne, a lot of other coun­tries are all in, becau­se as uh Timo­thy said they have a dif­fe­rent year zero though they have a dif­fe­rent year nine - they think about a lot of the­se, uhm dates in dif­fe­rent his­to­ri­cal patterns[…]

Now in my mind the ques­ti­on still per­sis­ted, if she real­ly tal­ked about “how Finns think today”, or if she attri­bu­t­ed delu­sio­nal thin­king onto an ent­i­re natio­na­li­ty of peop­le here.

Well, what can I say.…

Not only the Finns are hea­vi­ly into nume­ro­lo­gy accord­ing to Fio­na Hill, the who­le of euro­pe is:

Refe­ren­cing this video deba­te from a Uni­ver­si­ty of Ida­ho Panel, uploa­ded on the 9th of Octo­ber 2023, at about 9 Minu­tes in:

[…] and Sena­tor Borah was of cour­se someo­ne who famous­ly wan­ted to end an out­law war um which was a very Noble ide­al and of cour­se this was after the the May­hem of World War I and he sad­ly you know um pas­sed away in 1940, alt­hough perhaps for­tu­n­a­te­ly -- becau­se he did­n’t live to see uh the United Sta­tes drag­ged into World War II um after the attack on uh Pearl Harbor.

But all of this repe­ti­ti­on of War, a 100 years cycle of wars in Euro­pe, is also col­li­ding with major uh Inter­na­tio­nal cri­ses uh cli­ma­te chan­ge and cli­ma­te dis­as­ters uh which are um cer­tain­ly nota­ble uh around around the world uh, very fast demo­gra­phic chan­ge uh I was tal­king to someo­ne ear­lier about thin­king who would have thought and perhaps who would have thought if you were sit­ting here 50 years ago as an under­gra­dua­te that the world would go from two bil­li­on peop­le to 8 bil­li­on, … […] also very fast rapid tech­no­lo­gi­cal chan­ge uh and all of the con­cerns - I was mee­ting with stu­dents ear­lier who were asking about you know whe­re are we hea­ded with AI you know for examp­le, I’m sure that’s ano­t­her of the the­mes that will spin them­sel­ves out over um in the Borah sym­po­sia in the future and it cer­tain­ly feels like with the tit­le that you’­ve picked, that we’­re in one of the­se apo­ca­lyp­ti­cal uh moments, but I would sug­gest as a his­to­ri­an we’­ve been the­re befo­re - many times - uh Sena­tor Borah’s who­le um expe­ri­ence as the per­son that this com­me­mo­ra­tes would have he would have felt the same for sure, uh back in the the 1920s when he was, you know, part of the Kel­logg Bri­and pact, try­ing to sta­bi­li­ze a world…

src:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BfmWBWG3zd0 (at about 9 Minu­tes in.)

So here the ENTIRE thought pat­tern is again. But now its not the Finns, its “us euro­peans”. And its not Nato we are aiming for, but a “bet­ter, more sta­ble world, with less change”.

So here are the mar­kers of the men­tal image:

1. Pro­po­sed lack of struc­tu­ral safe­ty in the self per­cep­ti­on of ent­i­re coun­tries populations

2. 100 years cycle of war in Europe

3. And both cou­pled to desas­ter moti­ves (cli­ma­te chan­ge, demo­gra­phic chan­ge), then moved into ano­t­her desas­ter moti­ve, with over­po­pu­la­ti­on at the 8 bil­li­on peop­le mark occu­ri­ning at the same time.

And the way she got the­re was through an asso­cia­ti­on with nega­ti­ve emo­ti­ons, per­cei­ved his­to­ric cycles, and numbers.

Coin­ci­dence? I don’t think so.

Mea­ning its Fio­na Hill who­se got a litt­le Covid 19 iso­la­tio­ny, not so much.. like, you know… the rus­si­an guy…

So turns out the lady is cra­zy. At least in part. Lets say she has a spleen.

Well, very well then - and gre­at - becau­se Fio­na Hill was the one that inven­ted the “Putin thinks like a czar” nar­ra­ti­ve for the who­le of Europe.

Which in its ent­i­re­ty goes as fol­lows: “Putin thinks like a czar becau­se of his­to­ri­cal pat­terns he fol­lows, in the stone sta­tu­es Fio­na saw in his office after diner years ago - and not only one but like five sta­tu­es, whe­re the one named Vla­di­mir, which is the only one in front of the Krem­lin and not his office, which she also noti­ced becau­se he was named Vla­di­mir, is dou­bly important, becau­se its Vla­di­mir Putin, and Vla­di­mir the czar, so “Dou­ble Vla­di­mir” (thats a quo­te), and dou­ble Vla­di­mir, is very important - for why Putin inva­ded Ukraine”.

Not joking, see Fio­na Hills arguing here:

Oh, the four stone sta­tu­es theo­ry now got two types of Vla­di­mir on top

So apart from being the main pro­pa­gan­dist for euro­pes war nar­ra­ti­ve, what does the Lady do cur­r­ent­ly - you know job wise?

Fio­na Hill is a seni­or fel­low in the Cen­ter on the United Sta­tes and Euro­pe wit­hin the For­eign Poli­cy pro­gram at Broo­kings. She also holds the pres­ti­gious posi­ti­on of chan­cellor at Durham Uni­ver­si­ty in the United King­dom and was recent­ly elec­ted to the Har­vard Uni­ver­si­ty Board of Overseers.

src: click

Ah. Gre­at.

Die­se Gesell­schaft ist das abso­lut abar­tigst, ver­lo­genst und hin­ter­trie­benst Allerletzte.

G: If I should choo­se today bet­ween hell and Shi­fa I would choo­se hell. I got a report yes­ter­day from the minis­ter of health that 20 out of the 23 ICU pati­ents had died, 17 other pati­ents died becau­se of lack of sup­plies oxy­gen and water and three if not five of the 38 pre­ma­tu­re new­borns have died becau­se of this slow suf­fo­ca­ti­on that the Israe­li occup­a­ti­on Army is expo­sing all the hos­pi­tals to, by cut­ting electri­ci­ty, oxy­gen and medi­cal sup­plies. And it’s, it’s you know it’s bey­ond descrip­ti­on. I’m, I’m out of words to descri­be this sys­te­ma­tic man-made slaugh­te­ring of pati­ents in civi­li­an hos­pi­tals and, when I heard the crowd in the United Sta­tes shout - you know no, no cease­fire, I think that’s the only place on earth whe­re peop­le are sup­por­ting Isra­el and the other streets of the world are sup­por­ting a cease­fire, a human solu­ti­on, a lift of the sie­ge and a sup­port for the peop­le of Gaza - so this is a deeply divi­ded world, and the lies are fly­ing around like never befo­re - in any war - and I think we need to keep our heads and our hearts calm now and under­stand that what we are see­ing is an unpre­ce­den­ted attack on the civi­li­an socie­ty occu­p­ied by one of the most bru­tal and ruth­less armies in in the world, exer­cis­ing a sys­te­ma­tic attack on civi­li­an health­ca­re, com­ple­te­ly against inter­na­tio­nal law and the stan­dards that we want to app­ly and being back pat­ted all the time by the US pre­si­dent, I mean - we’­re in the dar­kest time of modern histo­ry now so far, if you look at the UN num­bers - the UN num­bers that are com­ing out every day in their fact she­ets -- 40,000 Pales­ti­ni­ans have been kil­led or are mis­sing under the reu­bel or have been inju­red. For four weeks, 40,000. 6,000 of the kil­led and mis­sing are child­ren. When did that beco­me defen­se of a coun­try, when did it beco­me decent to drag neo­na­tes out of their incu­ba­tors and kill child­ren you know. [Con­text: The neo­ni­tes had to be relo­ca­ted, becau­se Isra­el for­ced the relo­ca­ti­on of all peop­le in the inten­si­ve care ward. So hos­pi­tal staff star­ted to evacua­te ever­yo­ne inclu­ding pre­ma­tu­re­ly born babies.] The only explana­ti­on for this is a deep roo­ted and very frigh­tening racism, becau­se you don’t do the­se things to peop­le you con­si­der your equal. I’m extre­me­ly dis­tur­bed, I’m extre­me­ly upset and I bla­me the Euro­pean lea­ders and your pre­si­dent for this bloo­dy bloo­ds­hed of peop­le who are being com­ple­te­ly defen­seless. And I tal­ked to a col­league in Mus­ta­fa Al-Aqsa in the South yes­ter­day, he told me they were see­ing inf­lux of pati­ents com­ing wal­king from the north, having fol­lo­wed the Israe­li com­mand to lea­ve the North and they were being shot in the legs and they were trea­ting gunshots in the legs from peop­le try­ing to escape the north…

I: Dr. Gil­bert I wan­ted to ask you what uh the Israe­li government con­ti­nues to insist that Hamas is using the hos­pi­tals in Gaza as com­mand cen­ters and as under­ground head­quar­ters of sto­ring wea­pons and even hos­ta­ges, what is your respon­se to the­se claims?

G: Two­fold - why are you in the media con­vey­ing the­se fal­se claims con­ti­nuous­ly and taking the atten­ti­on away from what is the real pro­blem, name­ly the con­ti­nuous bom­bing and kil­ling of peop­le in Gaza. The­re is abso­lute­ly no pro­of so far that I know of neit­her from US intel­li­gence nor from Israe­li intel­li­gence and we’­ve heard the­se accu­sa­ti­ons for 16 years. Show us the pro­of show us the evi­dence and don’t for­get that the Gene­va Con­ven­ti­on, the fourth con­ven­ti­on is tel­ling the figh­t­ing par­ties to make both dis­tinc­tion and pre­cau­ti­on. If it’s a mixed mili­ta­ry and civi­li­an tar­get the civi­li­an pre­cau­ti­on takes prio­ri­ty over the mili­ta­ry gain and they have been bom­bing not only Shi­fa and Al-Quds but lots of hos­pi­tals with[out] even bothe­ring to claim that the­re is any mili­ta­ry acti­vi­ty in that hos­pi­tal. They bom­bed the Tur­kish they bom­bed Al-Rantisi pediatric hos­pi­tal and we all seen the­se ridi­cu­lous vide­os whe­re they say oh here are Pam­pers in a pediatric hos­pi­tal it’s got to be the ter­ro­rists, so I think this is a big sham and I’m a bit worried that you in the media are so uh easi­ly - are con­vey­ing the­se unsub­stan­tia­ted accu­sa­ti­ons and regard­less, they don’t have the right to bomb hos­pi­tals that’s very clear and now it’s not only Shi­fa now the Al-Quds hos­pi­tal are - is being evacua­ted with all the pati­ents and all the staff and it is real­ly a con­voy of shame to the Wes­tern World and United Sta­tes to see the­se hos­pi­tals, the last resort in a dra­ma­tic ass­ault on the civi­li­an popu­la­ti­on in Gaza who have done not­hing wrong other than being born Pales­ti­ni­ans in Gaza. And this con­voy of mise­ry is the result of a leni­ent atti­tu­de to the Israe­li vio­la­ti­ons of inter­na­tio­nal law. Through many, many years the Israe­li impu­ni­ty has reached a new level and we are all sin­king into that Abyss of dis­re­gard for human life and huma­ni­ty as as we are see­ing this going on without any­bo­dy try­ing to stop the Israe­li Army.

Die­se Gesell­schaft ist das abso­lut gro­tesk und abar­tigst Allerletzte.

France24 will have a legal expert on air this evening to talk about the legal rami­fi­ca­ti­ons. (edit: Here: click)

Jetzt gibts aber in Öster­reich wahr­lich wich­ti­ge­res zu tun, wie uns die Neos hier vorführen:

Meinl-Reisinger: “Wer das Kali­fat aus­ru­fen will, hat bei uns nichts verloren”

src: click

War das nicht mal ein FPÖ Wahlslogan?!

Nor­ma­li­sie­rung durch Hass­pro­pa­gan­da. Heu­te auf Posi­ti­on Eins im Standard.

Die­se Gesell­schaft ist das abso­lut gro­tesk und abar­tigst Allerletzte.

The Isra­el Defen­se For­ces says tro­ops have found wea­pons and Hamas assets insi­de Shi­fa Hos­pi­tal, which indi­ca­tes the pre­sence of the ter­ror group.

The­re is no indi­ca­ti­on of hos­ta­ges cur­r­ent­ly being held in Shi­fa, but the IDF belie­ves the ope­ra­ti­on may bring intel­li­gence infor­ma­ti­on on the captives.

The mili­ta­ry says the­re has been no “fric­tion” bet­ween tro­ops and pati­ents and medi­cal staff at Shi­fa Hos­pi­tal during the ongo­ing operation.

At least five Hamas gun­men were kil­led by tro­ops during a gun batt­le out­side the hos­pi­tal. No sol­di­ers were hurt.

src: click (Times of Israel)

Das Are­al rund um Al Shi­fa war seit Tagen umkämpft - dass man dort und nicht inner­halb des Kran­ken­haus Kom­ple­xes ohne Ver­lus­te 5 Ter­ro­ris­ten aus­ge­schal­tet hat. Wow.

Dann geht man für acht Stun­den, und sie waren für acht Stun­den drin, in ein Are­al von 9 Hekt­ar (Al Shi­fa Hos­pi­tal has beco­me much more than just a hos­pi­tal during this war. It is Gaza’s big­gest hos­pi­tal, a spraw­ling com­plex of 22 acres, src: click)

9 Hekt­ar ent­spre­chen 13 Fuß­ball­fel­dern. Im unter­tun­nel­ten Gaza Stadt. Wie­viel das in Bade­wan­nen ist, kann ich noch nicht sagen.

Und fin­det dort nach 8 Stun­den ein paar Waffen.

Mei­ne Hochachtung.

Und zuvor woll­te das israe­li­sche Mili­tär mobi­le Brut­käs­ten nach al Shi­fa brin­gen, aber nur wenn die Babies dann weg­kom­men, aber irgend­wie woll­te das arme Mili­tär mit den mobi­len Brüt­käs­ten nie­mand vorlassen.

HAUPTQUATIER MY ASS.

Aber sie kön­nen ja noch eins finden!

In nur noch­mal acht Stunden.

edit: Oh, der Stan­dard hat einen Angle:

src: click

Noch bevor das Israe­li­sche Mili­tär auf das Are­al des Kran­ken­hau­ses ein­drin­gen konn­te war es AN DER GRENZE EINER 9 HEKTAR GROSSEN FLÄCHE MIT SPRENGFALLEN KONFRONTIERT! Die waren sicher “beim Ein­gang” der 13 Fuß­ball­fel­der. Und neben den Spreng­fal­len saßen 5 Terroristen!

edit: Es gibt aber auch wie­der gute Nach­rich­ten, die­se miss­feu­ern­den Rake­ten der Hamas, die noch in Gaza run­ter­ge­hen, die sind ja hocheffizient!

Accord­ing to the Israe­li mili­ta­ry, bet­ween 7 and 21 Octo­ber, 550 Pales­ti­ni­an rockets fell short in Gaza, kil­ling Palestinians. 

The Gaza Minis­try of Public Works and Housing repor­ted the dest­ruc­tion of 16,441 housing units and the ren­de­ring of 11,340 other units unin­ha­bi­ta­ble, as of 23 Octo­ber. About 150,000 housing units sus­tai­ned minor to mode­ra­te dama­ge. The total num­ber of housing units repor­ted as des­troy­ed or dama­ged accounts for at least 45 per cent of all housing units in the Gaza Strip. Ent­i­re neigh­bour­hoods have been des­troy­ed, par­ti­cu­lar­ly in Beit Hanoun, Beit Lahia, and Ash Shuja’iyeh, the area bet­ween Gaza and Ash Shati’ Refu­gee Camp, and Abbassan Kabeera. 

src: click (United Nati­ons Office for the Coor­di­na­ti­on of Huma­ni­ta­ri­an Affairs)

edit: Hier, ganz neu und brand­ak­tu­ell, Waffen-Bilder aus dem Hamas “Haupt­qua­tier” in Al Shifa!

A Waun­sinn!

Die AK (?) war übri­gens bereits so mit Maga­zin drin­nen, quer rein­ge­wursch­telt und auf die Kame­ra zei­gend im mit gel­ben Schaum aus­ge­pols­ter­ten Kof­fer, als der israe­li­sche Kom­mu­ni­ka­ti­ons­spe­zia­list den Kof­fer öff­net. Man kennt das ja.

Ach­ja und die­ses “Grab Bag” war hin­ter einem (defek­ten?) Magnet­re­so­nanz­to­mo­gra­phen ver­steckt. Der eben­falls im Hamas Haupt­qua­tier in Al Shi­fa stand. Man kennt das ja.

Und wenn sie kei­ne Waf­fen gefun­den hät­ten, wäre es ein Kriegs­ver­bre­chen gewesen.

edit2: W00t? Refe­ren­ced: click