⚡️🇷🇺🇺🇦🇺🇳 On the Inclusion of the Old City of #Odessa in the List of UNESCO protected Sites⚡️
UNESCO Director-General Audrey Azoulay visited #Odessa a few days ago. The high-ranking UN representative presented a certificate confirming that the centre of the Old City of #Odessa has become a World Heritage Site under UN protection.
However, there is a nuance to this situation. The area designated by the UN Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization is much smaller than the actual boundaries of the historic centre of #Odessa, the socalled ‘South Palmyra’.
🔹Why did this happen?
The United Nations and its subordinate institutions have long ceased to act as independent bodies for the maintenance of international peace and security. The UN has definitively become a partisan structure that is totally ineffective and has lost its objectivity.
Specifically in the case of #Odessa, it should be noted which zone was selected by UNESCO for protection. The UN protection includes the Odessa Merchant Sea Port and the adjacent infrastructure, which includes Shipyard #2 and the railway station.
In addition, civilian infrastructure near the port, such as administration buildings, educational institutions and various hotels and hotels – all of which could be used to house certain people and store important cargo – has also been placed under protection.
🔹But why couldn’t the whole Old Town be put under guard?
Western countries are deeply indifferent to what happens to #Ukraine, its cities and population – they all act as bargaining chips in a global plan to weaken #Russia. The protection of #Odessa’s historical heritage is of little interest to the US-controlled United Nations.
The UNESCO head has only fulfilled her mission to symbolise the territory of Odessa port, which is important for the “Western partners” as a logistic hub from #Europe to #Ukraine and backwards.
Ships under the guise of a grain deal deliver essential military cargoes to #Ukraine via the corridor, and take out all the most valuable stuff in #Ukraine on the way back. And the rail link near the sea harbour makes it much easier to deliver both ways.
📌 As with the officially designated restrictions on 👉 media personnel in southern #Ukraine, such actions only highlight what the Ukrainian authorities and Western countries are trying to shield from outside scrutiny and protect from Russian military strikes.
Such actions on the part of UNESCO do not provide any guarantees of protection against missile attacks, but in case of strikes on the port infrastructure or any hotel in this area, the collective West will instantly accuse #Russia of purposeful destruction of “important for the whole world historical objects”.
The fact that these hotels are used for accommodation of foreign mercenaries and the seaport itself for transportation of arms and other important cargo is just a nuance that European and US average citizens are not particularly interested in.

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Posted by: Down South | Apr 9 2023 12:01 utc | 304

Norwegian | Apr 9 2023 8:00 utc | 282
The most surprising thing (if true) is that such polls may be published. I hope it is true, since Wagenknecht is the only German politician I have heard of recently that is not insane.

I don’t know about you but I don’t expect anything from elections (anymore). In this sense, Wagenknecht doing her stuff and getting mainstream media reports (including the usual smearing, just recently another one about her “outrageous income” from being a successful author) could be just fig-leafing. Good, moderate citizens can think, “oh, can’t be so bad if extreme opinions like Wagenknecht’s are still presented”.
Sarah Wagenknecht tried to set up a non-parliamentarian movement “Aufstehen” some years ago. The goal was to push the potentially “left” parties (The Left, SPD, Greens) to the left, mostly on social issues. I was active in our local group for the whole year that it lasted, and it was a failure.
There are some more prominent voices in Germany speaking up against the war, and Germany’s war contributions. Apart from some artists, authors etc., there are politician on the fringes: a few from Wagenknecht’s Left party (which may split up soon) and quite a few from the AfD (“Alternative für Deutschland”), usually stamped as right-wing, nationalist, populist etc. — many European countries have such parties. Party leader Tino Chrupalla gave one of the most convincing anti-war comments I’ve seen. It’s all a bit confusing because the old left/right patterns don’t work anymore.
Comparing with Norway: you’ve probably seen the reports about Rødt party members speaking up *against* getting out from NATO. I didn’t follow if that’s the official Rødt line these days but the German Left party was exactly like this: the only anti-NATO party in parliament, and they’ve slowly succumbed to “reality”. Gotta defend against Putin’s aggression etc., you all know the deal.

cirsium | Apr 9 2023 10:51 utc | 297
The Polish football club “Shlensk” was fined 15,000 zlotys because fans displayed a banner saying “To nie nasza wojna” (this is not our war) with Bandera symbols crossed out at a local match on 28 February. I saw a photograph of the incident. I also saw a brief clip of a Polish farmer throwing eggs at the public meeting of the Polish government with representatives of Czechia and Lithuania. He was protesting at the import of cheap Ukrainian grain.

Good to hear about that, thanks for telling us! Appoximately 3000€: much more than a symbolic fine. I don’t follow any sports but I’ve seen on several occasions that (supposedly uneducated / proletarian) football fans had a better grip on reality than intellectuals, students and so on. Not going all working class romanticism here but I can witness that Gleichschaltung is strong in the academic system.
Eggs thrown at the Polish minister for agriculture (who later resigned, right?) made it into my bubble. I concur. Needs more eggs.

Posted by: Konami | Apr 9 2023 13:20 utc | 306

Just watched a Lancet strike on a Gvozdika SPG that was in a hide, but it’s track marks clearly showed where it was hiding.
Posted by: Milites | Apr 9 2023 11:36 utc | 301
The positions perhaps are meant to be temporary only. One doesn’t have time to hose those marks off.

Posted by: Catilina | Apr 9 2023 14:24 utc | 308

@ Konami, §307:
Very important point, Konami!
The Voldemort Mafia are going for the proles – because they vote (ha! ha!)!
They mostly do it through press, telly and films.
Fool most of the people some of the time . . .

Posted by: John Marks | Apr 9 2023 14:46 utc | 310

Gleichschaltung is one of the Third Reich terms that’s sometimes used in English too. The wikipedia entry is good enough.
For a lot of people, comparing the current situation (now: war propaganda and Russia hate, before: Covid scare) to the darkest time of Germany is illegitime, immoral, populist etc. I disagree. I now believe that the underlying mass-psychological mechanisms are very similar, and that the West is far advanced in its current totalitarian spiral. Hence “Gleichschaltung”, the concept of subordinating all parts of society under one goal. This includes academia (we’ve seen this clearly during corona), the arts (pick your favourite actors/authors/musicians and check what they said about corona/Ukraine — the vast majority is in line), obviously the media and schools…
It’s gotten to the point that I dimly recall from Eastern times that were clearly authoritarian: if I meet persons I didn’t know before, such as new colleagues or neighbours, and I don’t know yet about their political backgound, then I will never say what I think. I’ll listen and I’m careful, and I have to assume that they (a) follow the party line [that’s wording from good old Eastern times but it fits very well today] and (b) wouldn’t even understand what I meant if I said my opinion. All I can do is try and inject tiny pieces of counter-information. (Example from yesterday: someone says “Macron is right and the French pension system needs this update”. I only mentioned the profits of the large French companies.)

Posted by: Konami | Apr 9 2023 15:51 utc | 312

Boeing is cranking out GPS + LG add-on bmob tailets, sensors and electronics for extending their strike range, even building ‘bmoblets’ similar to RPGs, but with tailets for wider-range drops. Ground-and-pound is moving back towards flying drop-kicks as retreat defense, because the central bank failures and woke economic collapse can’t allow Kyiv indulgences.
Meanwhile, Mexico’s being arm-twisted to allow GMOs, in the event Ukraine’s Bayer-Monsanto GMO agriculture leases as a trojan-horse EU-admission fails to subvert EU’s GMO rejection. Of course, Russia won’t allow Bayer-Monsanto GMO’s. Bayer will likely have to dump in South America, destroying local farm collectives, then increasing human migration to ‘El Norte’.
Imagine how the herstorians will twist this ‘War of GMOs & LNG Pipelines’ into papal dogma about Good vers Evil, and the Need to Obey through Dispensations of CBDC and Carbon Tithes. Then some ‘Red Line’ will be crossed in the the M.E. until 27 Minutes of Criss-Cross ICBMs makes the Southern Hemisphere suddenly more attractive as a Synthetic Investment Vehicle.

Posted by: Chip Herman | Apr 9 2023 18:38 utc | 314

@Chip Herman | Apr 9 2023 18:38 utc | 315
Uh, we can talk freely here. MSM isn’t censoring these posts. It’s easier to read “bomb” than “bmob.”

Posted by: barstool | Apr 9 2023 21:06 utc | 316