Сегодня день памяти жертв одного из ставших гласным преступлений саддамовского режима - 35 лет назад иракские ВВС сбросили на курдский город Халабджа гремучую смесь зарина, табуна, иприта и горчичного газа. Этой бомбардировкой было истреблено по разным данным до 5 тыс. собственных нелояльных граждан. Шел последний, 8й, год затянувшейся ирано-иракской войны, которая задумывалась как маленькая/победоносная. Не последний пример того, как неудача на фронте развязывает диктаторам руки для насилия против своего же населения. И стоит добавить сюда десятки тысяч полегших солдат на полях бессмысленной бойни.
Сегодня день памяти жертв одного из ставших гласным преступлений саддамовского режима - 35 лет назад иракские ВВС сбросили на курдский город Халабджа гремучую смесь зарина, табуна, иприта и горчичного газа. Этой бомбардировкой было истреблено по разным данным до 5 тыс. собственных нелояльных граждан. Шел последний, 8й, год затянувшейся ирано-иракской войны, которая задумывалась как маленькая/победоносная. Не последний пример того, как неудача на фронте развязывает диктаторам руки для насилия против своего же населения. И стоит добавить сюда десятки тысяч полегших солдат на полях бессмысленной бойни.
The War on Fakes channel has repeatedly attempted to push conspiracies that footage from Ukraine is somehow being falsified. One post on the channel from February 24 claimed without evidence that a widely viewed photo of a Ukrainian woman injured in an airstrike in the city of Chuhuiv was doctored and that the woman was seen in a different photo days later without injuries. The post, which has over 600,000 views, also baselessly claimed that the woman's blood was actually makeup or grape juice. Telegram was co-founded by Pavel and Nikolai Durov, the brothers who had previously created VKontakte. VK is Russia’s equivalent of Facebook, a social network used for public and private messaging, audio and video sharing as well as online gaming. In January, SimpleWeb reported that VK was Russia’s fourth most-visited website, after Yandex, YouTube and Google’s Russian-language homepage. In 2016, Forbes’ Michael Solomon described Pavel Durov (pictured, below) as the “Mark Zuckerberg of Russia.” Crude oil prices edged higher after tumbling on Thursday, when U.S. West Texas intermediate slid back below $110 per barrel after topping as much as $130 a barrel in recent sessions. Still, gas prices at the pump rose to fresh highs. On February 27th, Durov posted that Channels were becoming a source of unverified information and that the company lacks the ability to check on their veracity. He urged users to be mistrustful of the things shared on Channels, and initially threatened to block the feature in the countries involved for the length of the war, saying that he didn’t want Telegram to be used to aggravate conflict or incite ethnic hatred. He did, however, walk back this plan when it became clear that they had also become a vital communications tool for Ukrainian officials and citizens to help coordinate their resistance and evacuations. Unlike Silicon Valley giants such as Facebook and Twitter, which run very public anti-disinformation programs, Brooking said: "Telegram is famously lax or absent in its content moderation policy."
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