veteranstoday--2020-06-08--UN SG Hammarskjold Killed Twice by DEEP STATE. UK Intel Hinders the International Inquiry

Dag Hammarskjold , the former UN Secretary who passed away 58 years ago in a plane crash that has become increasingly suspicious of any declassification of documents , was killed a second time a few days ago .
Today as then , the killer is the phantom and notorious Deep State , the world potentate between politics , high finance , masonry and obviously military intelligence .
According to numerous journalistic investigations and even recent international inquiry it seems now clear that the disaster that occurred on September 18 , 1961 in southern Africa in which he died with 15 @ @ @ @ @ @ @ .
Those who killed him at the time have not yet found out why for over half a century the truth has been sidetracked , hidden and covered up with the usual response of the secret services to the UN ’ s investigator ’ s request for documents : “ classified – top secret – reserved – undisclosed “ .
Today those who have virtually killed the memory of Hammarskjold by placing a granite gravestone on the possible discovery of the truth have a name and a face instead : their name is @ @ @ @ @ @ @ Office ( ICO ) of the United Kingdom who can boast the authoritative CBE title , Commander of ( the Order of ) the British Empire , received by Queen Elizabeth in 2018 .
ICO is the high commissioner of the “ very ” democratic United Kingdom which must determine whether there are reasons to keep classified documents secret that British intelligence does not intend to unseal before the legitimate requests of promoters of authoritative and accredited international investigations such as United Nation Association Westminster .
This is the London branch of a @ @ @ @ @ @ @ that has focused the last years of its activity on the massacre that took place in Ndola , in the then Belgian Congo today Zambia .
Well , on May 28 the President of Westminster UNA David Wardrop published a disturbing update in which he communicates that with a sentence issued in that month the ICO declared that « concluded in respect of one of the five exemptions under the Act that the FCO had cited , that “ by a relatively narrow margin the public interest favours maintaining the exemption ” » @ @ @ @ @ @ @ Commonwealth Office ( FCO ) .
In practice , he gives reason to FCO , the British national institution responsible for assessing the need for secrecy of Intelligence acts , which previously « claimed it had already shared all it knows ( response , UK Permanent Representative , 10 June 2015 ) but refused to extend that assurance to the records of MI5 , MI6 , and GCHQ , all operating in or around the Congo at the time of the plane crash » .
The maintenance of the exemption authorizes it to @ @ @ @ @ @ @ safes of the intelligence of Her Majesty that just in these days , through the mouth of the ex MI6 chief Richard Dearlove has instead confirmed that the SARS-CoV-2 virus of the mortal pandemic was built in the laboratory as demonstrated by Gospa News ’ s 12 WuhanGates reports .
The detailed narration of the facts in all their technical and bureaucratic folds is left to the official press release of Professor Wardrop , expert in diplomacy , geopolitics and intelligence and speaker at the famous Kings College London , which we report @ @ @ @ @ @ @ to the point .
Hammarskjold , a devout Lutheran Christian and loved by all his collaborators who with the help of the famous Franco-Russian painter Marc Chagall dedicated the artistic Peace Window to him inside the UN headquarters in New York , was going to Belgian Congo to settle a question concerning the “ secession of Katanga , the prey of the Union Minière ” for the rich underground deposits existing .
That ’ s why his death is more suspicious than ever… The refusal to open the archives of MI5 ( internal @ @ @ @ @ @ @ ) and GCHQ ( Government Communications Headquarters ) the command of the British secret services , has been opposed to the association of Westminster , composed of independent jurists , since it intervened in support of Tanzanian judge Mohamed Chanda Othman , appointed by the United Nations Secretary General Antonio Guterres to shed light once and for all on the tragedy .
Nine countries first and then five others opened counter-espionage wardrobes to facilitate the investigation by the authoritative African magistrate .
As already reported in the previous report on the death of @ @ @ @ @ @ @ tasked to report progress and obstacles encountered before October 2018 , after which the UN would prepare a new report .
All countries responded except the UK which neither even acknowledged the UN ’ s request , nor the follow-up from the UN Secretary-General » recalled Wardrop in his note .
In the overflowing statement of bitterness and sadness , the President of Westminster UNA explains why they will not « appeal the Information Commissioner ’ s adverse decision even though public interest will be the loser » , as in the cases @ @ @ @ @ @ @ in Ustica and the Malaysian flight in Ukraine .
The United Kingdom has not yet answered the heavy question raised by the journalist Maurin Picard , New York correspondent for Le Soir ( Brussels ) and Le Figaro ( Paris ) , who most of all investigated the tragedy , then relaunched from the UNA website as from Gospa News .
« Great Britain needs to explain why the top diplomats in charge of Ndola refused to acknowledge the sudden disappearance of Albertina and turned off the airport lights .
He also needs @ @ @ @ @ @ @ were doing that night near the airport » recalled Picard .
Given the complexity of the story , we refer to the reading of our previous report to understand all the background and anomalies in the midst of the mysteries still open such as the role of the Belgian mercenary pilots , the German plane Dornier 28 , delivered weeks before the crash to the secessionist government of the Katangese , the location of a former Nazi night fighter pilot named Heinrich Schaefer , and the “ lost ” South African apartheid documents @ @ @ @ @ @ @ designed to kill Hammarskjold .
Uncleared puzzles that include the disconcerting confessions of two American employees of the National Security Agency , now deceased , who , by their listening stations , accidentally heard an air attack against Albertina and reported it to the White House .
Now , however , UNA Westiminster also renounces being a thorn in the side of British Intelligence to try to bring out the truth and in fact delivers the victory to the Deep State which always relies precisely on bureaucracy , oppressive even for the most @ @ @ @ @ @ @ fades the memories of intrigues and plots .
Here is President David Wardrop ’ s explanation : « Knowing all this , why are we not appealing the Commissioner ’ s judgement ?
Firstly , because our government ’ s performance can be clearly judged against that of Russia , Zimbabwe , the D.R.C , Angola and other UN Member States .
Such exposure to international scrutiny shames us as a nation » .
« Secondly , as a small organisation , we can not match the power of a battery of State-funded @ @ @ @ @ @ @ to support the hammarskjöldinquiry information service which sets out to report the progress of the continuing UN inquiry and associated developments » .
We have a well-founded fear that there will be few further sensational news given that the rubber wall of British intelligence has placed a boulder in front of the tomb where the truth was buried .
Gospa News will however try to support UNA Westminster and the cause of Hammarskjold not only by highlighting any new developments of the UN investigation , an organization more impotent than ever in the @ @ @ @ @ @ @ , but by periodically publishing the photo of Commissioner ICO alongside that of the UN secretary who passed away : killed by a military Deep State ‘ s plot first and then by a bureaucratic one .
David Wardrop is Chairman of the Westminster United Nations Association which hosts the hammarskjoldinquiry.info website which has posted informed updates on the Hammarskjöld Inquiry process since 2014 .
28 May – Dag Hammarskjöld ’ s death : Westminster UNA Chairman explains why we will not appeal the Information Commissioner ’ s adverse decision even though public @ @ @ @ @ @ @ ’ s death : Westminster UNA Chairman explains why we will not appeal the Information Commissioner ’ s adverse decision even though public interest will be the loser This COVID-free story has three parts and a coda summarised in its title .
Firstly , whilst the current UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres seeks unity amongst the Security Council ’ s Permanent Members in this new 21st century challenge , and not re-kindle one from the previous century , the fate of his predecessor Dag Hammarskjöld who died in a plane crash in 1961 while @ @ @ @ @ @ @ has continued to puzzle us over these near sixty years .
The incident puzzled the UN General Assembly at the time .
It agreed to leave the inquiry verdict open pending further data .
Fifty years later , analysis of much of that needed data prompted the UN to re-open the inquiry which then took evidence from eyewitnesses and experts , diplomats , and governments .
Well , from many governments but not the UK .
Why ?
The UK ’ s Foreign & Commonwealth Office ( FCO ) claimed it had already @ @ @ @ @ @ @ UK Permanent Representative , 10 June 2015 ) but refused to extend that assurance to the records of MI5 , MI6 , and GCHQ , all operating in or around the Congo at the time of the plane crash .
The UN ’ s inquiry team suspected that some other countries were being similarly coy .
In May 2018 , the UN asked initially nine countries ( adding five later ) to grant access to all relevant records , including security and intelligence records , to an ‘ independent and high-ranking official ’ @ @ @ @ @ @ @ official was tasked to report progress and obstacles encountered before October 2018 , after which the UN would prepare a new report .
All countries responded except the UK which neither even acknowledged the UN ’ s request , nor the follow-up from the UN Secretary-General .
Only when the closing date for responses had passed did it reply , stating that it would not appoint anyone to the role , although some months later it did do so .
How could the UK act this way , at the time it claims @ @ @ @ @ @ @ Global Britain identity ?
If it had nothing to hide , as claimed in 2015 , why that delay ?
So , to the story ’ s second part .
In March 2019 , we submitted a Freedom of Information Request seeking records documenting the FCO ’ s decision .
Its initial response , refusing to provide the information , rested on its narrow interpretation of the Freedom of Information Act , much of which we rejected as we did its second response .
We appealed the matter to the Information Commissioner , @ @ @ @ @ @ @ favour of disclosure .
After acknowledging similar difficulty extracting information from the FCO , the Information Commissioner relayed her judgement in May 2020 .
She ‘ accept ( ed ) that there is a clear public interest in understanding more about the decision-making process ’ , noting ‘ potential consequences on the UK ’ s relationship with the UN ’ but concluded in respect of one of the five exemptions under the Act that the FCO had cited , that ‘ by a relatively narrow margin the public interest favours maintaining the exemption.
@ @ @ @ @ @ @ ?
Not quite , and so to the third part .
In assessing the public interest , the Information Commissioner has taken a very narrow interpretation of the public interest , under that and one other exemption .
However , the FOI Act requires government departments , and the Information Commissioner in deciding appeals , to consider “ all the circumstances of the case ” in assessing the public interest .
The Information Commissioner did not look at all of the circumstances .
There is a powerful public interest in knowing why the @ @ @ @ @ @ @ both the UN ’ s initial request for cooperation and the Secretary-General ’ s personal follow-up , or even the timing of its appointment of an independent and high ranking individual , a full seven months after the UN commenced preparing its report .
There is a public interest in knowing why the FCO adopted such an unhelpful , even cynical approach , and those public interests should have been properly weighed by the Information Commissioner .
So , to the coda .
Knowing all this , why are we not appealing the @ @ @ @ @ @ @ because our government ’ s performance can be clearly judged against that of Russia , Zimbabwe , the D.R.C , Angola and other UN Member States .
Such exposure to international scrutiny shames us as a nation .
Secondly , as a small organisation , we can not match the power of a battery of State-funded lawyers .
However , we will continue to support the hammarskjöldinquiry information service which sets out to report the progress of the continuing UN inquiry and associated developments .
David Wardrop is Chairman of the Westminster United @ @ @ @ @ @ @ which has posted informed updates on the Hammarskjöld Inquiry process since 2014 .

by Fabio Giuseppe Carlo Carisio for VT Italy
Versione originale in Italiano
Dag Hammarskjold, the former UN Secretary who passed away 58 years ago in a plane crash that has become increasingly suspicious of any declassification of documents, was killed a second time a few days ago. Today as then, the killer is the phantom and notorious Deep State, the world potentate between politics, high finance, masonry and obviously military intelligence.
According to numerous journalistic investigations and even recent international inquiry it seems now clear that the disaster that occurred on September 18, 1961 in southern Africa in which he died with 15 other people was caused by an attack.
Those who killed him at the time have not yet found out why for over half a century the truth has been sidetracked, hidden and covered up with the usual response of the secret services to the UN’s investigator’s request for documents: “classified – top secret – reserved – undisclosed “.
Today those who have virtually killed the memory of Hammarskjold by placing a granite gravestone on the possible discovery of the truth have a name and a face instead: their name is Elizabeth Denham, since 2016 Information Commissioner Office (ICO) of the United Kingdom who can boast the authoritative CBE title, Commander of (the Order of) the British Empire, received by Queen Elizabeth in 2018.
ICO is the high commissioner of the “very” democratic United Kingdom which must determine whether there are reasons to keep classified documents secret that British intelligence does not intend to unseal before the legitimate requests of promoters of authoritative and accredited international investigations such as United Nation Association Westminster. This is the London branch of a NGO legally recognized as a UN partner that has focused the last years of its activity on the massacre that took place in Ndola, in the then Belgian Congo today Zambia.
Well, on May 28 the President of Westminster UNA David Wardrop published a disturbing update in which he communicates that with a sentence issued in that month the ICO declared that «concluded in respect of one of the five exemptions under the Act that the FCO had cited, that “by a relatively narrow margin the public interest favours maintaining the exemption”» espressed by UK’s Foreign & Commonwealth Office (FCO).
In practice, he gives reason to FCO, the British national institution responsible for assessing the need for secrecy of Intelligence acts, which previously «claimed it had already shared all it knows (response, UK Permanent Representative, 10 June 2015) but refused to extend that assurance to the records of MI5, MI6, and GCHQ, all operating in or around the Congo at the time of the plane crash».
The maintenance of the exemption authorizes it to keep the files well kept in the safes of the intelligence of Her Majesty that just in these days, through the mouth of the ex MI6 chief Richard Dearlove has instead confirmed that the SARS-CoV-2 virus of the mortal pandemic was built in the laboratory as demonstrated by Gospa News’s 12 WuhanGates reports.
The detailed narration of the facts in all their technical and bureaucratic folds is left to the official press release of Professor Wardrop, expert in diplomacy, geopolitics and intelligence and speaker at the famous Kings College London, which we report below. We try to get straight to the point.
Hammarskjold, a devout Lutheran Christian and loved by all his collaborators who with the help of the famous Franco-Russian painter Marc Chagall dedicated the artistic Peace Window to him inside the UN headquarters in New York, was going to Belgian Congo to settle a question concerning the “secession of Katanga, the prey of the Union Minière” for the rich underground deposits existing. That’s why his death is more suspicious than ever…
The refusal to open the archives of MI5 (internal intelligence), MI6 (foreign intelligence) and GCHQ (Government Communications Headquarters) the command of the British secret services, has been opposed to the association of Westminster, composed of independent jurists, since it intervened in support of Tanzanian judge Mohamed Chanda Othman, appointed by the United Nations Secretary General Antonio Guterres to shed light once and for all on the tragedy.
Nine countries first and then five others opened counter-espionage wardrobes to facilitate the investigation by the authoritative African magistrate. As already reported in the previous report on the death of the UN secretary «the official was tasked to report progress and obstacles encountered before October 2018, after which the UN would prepare a new report. All countries responded except the UK which neither even acknowledged the UN’s request, nor the follow-up from the UN Secretary-General» recalled Wardrop in his note.
In the overflowing statement of bitterness and sadness, the President of Westminster UNA explains why they will not «appeal the Information Commissioner’s adverse decision even though public interest will be the loser», as in the cases of the massacre of the DC-9 Itavia in Ustica and the Malaysian flight in Ukraine.
The United Kingdom has not yet answered the heavy question raised by the journalist Maurin Picard, New York correspondent for Le Soir (Brussels) and Le Figaro (Paris), who most of all investigated the tragedy, then relaunched from the UNA website as from Gospa News.
«Great Britain needs to explain why the top diplomats in charge of Ndola refused to acknowledge the sudden disappearance of Albertina and turned off the airport lights. He also needs to explain what intelligence service activities they were doing that night near the airport» recalled Picard.
Given the complexity of the story, we refer to the reading of our previous report to understand all the background and anomalies in the midst of the mysteries still open such as the role of the Belgian mercenary pilots, the German plane Dornier 28, delivered weeks before the crash to the secessionist government of the Katangese, the location of a former Nazi night fighter pilot named Heinrich Schaefer, and the “lost” South African apartheid documents concerning a certain Celestial Operation, apparently designed to kill Hammarskjold.
Uncleared puzzles that include the disconcerting confessions of two American employees of the National Security Agency, now deceased, who, by their listening stations, accidentally heard an air attack against Albertina and reported it to the White House.
Now, however, UNA Westiminster also renounces being a thorn in the side of British Intelligence to try to bring out the truth and in fact delivers the victory to the Deep State which always relies precisely on bureaucracy, oppressive even for the most motivated opponents, and on time which fades the memories of intrigues and plots.
Here is President David Wardrop’s explanation: «Knowing all this, why are we not appealing the Commissioner’s judgement? Firstly, because our government’s performance can be clearly judged against that of Russia, Zimbabwe, the D.R.C, Angola and other UN Member States. Such exposure to international scrutiny shames us as a nation».
«Secondly, as a small organisation, we cannot match the power of a battery of State-funded lawyers. However, we will continue to support the hammarskjöldinquiry information service which sets out to report the progress of the continuing UN inquiry and associated developments».
We have a well-founded fear that there will be few further sensational news given that the rubber wall of British intelligence has placed a boulder in front of the tomb where the truth was buried.
Gospa News will however try to support UNA Westminster and the cause of Hammarskjold not only by highlighting any new developments of the UN investigation, an organization more impotent than ever in the face of the most shady international affairs, but by periodically publishing the photo of Commissioner ICO alongside that of the UN secretary who passed away: killed by a military Deep State‘s plot first and then by a bureaucratic one.
Fabio Giuseppe Carlo Carisio
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David Wardrop is Chairman of the Westminster United Nations Association which hosts the hammarskjoldinquiry.info website which has posted informed updates on the Hammarskjöld Inquiry process since 2014.
28 May – Dag Hammarskjöld’s death: Westminster UNA Chairman explains why we will not appeal the Information Commissioner’s adverse decision even though public interest will be the loser
Dag Hammarskjöld’s death: Westminster UNA Chairman explains why we will not appeal the Information Commissioner’s adverse decision even though public interest will be the loser
This COVID-free story has three parts and a coda summarised in its title. Firstly, whilst the current UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres seeks unity amongst the Security Council’s Permanent Members in this new 21st century challenge, and not re-kindle one from the previous century, the fate of his predecessor Dag Hammarskjöld who died in a plane crash in 1961 while seeking to bring peace to the Congo has continued to puzzle us over these near sixty years.
The incident puzzled the UN General Assembly at the time. It agreed to leave the inquiry verdict open pending further data. Fifty years later, analysis of much of that needed data prompted the UN to re-open the inquiry which then took evidence from eyewitnesses and experts, diplomats, and governments. Well, from many governments but not the UK. Why?
The UK’s Foreign & Commonwealth Office (FCO) claimed it had already shared all it knows (response, UK Permanent Representative, 10 June 2015) but refused to extend that assurance to the records of MI5, MI6, and GCHQ, all operating in or around the Congo at the time of the plane crash. The UN’s inquiry team suspected that some other countries were being similarly coy. In May 2018, the UN asked initially nine countries (adding five later) to grant access to all relevant records, including security and intelligence records, to an ‘independent and high-ranking official’ which the countries would appoint.
The official was tasked to report progress and obstacles encountered before October 2018, after which the UN would prepare a new report. All countries responded except the UK which neither even acknowledged the UN’s request, nor the follow-up from the UN Secretary-General. Only when the closing date for responses had passed did it reply, stating that it would not appoint anyone to the role, although some months later it did do so. How could the UK act this way, at the time it claims to be establishing a new post-Brexit, Global Britain identity? If it had nothing to hide, as claimed in 2015, why that delay?
So, to the story’s second part. In March 2019, we submitted a Freedom of Information Request seeking records documenting the FCO’s decision. Its initial response, refusing to provide the information, rested on its narrow interpretation of the Freedom of Information Act, much of which we rejected as we did its second response. We appealed the matter to the Information Commissioner, arguing that public interest arguments weighed in favour of disclosure.
After acknowledging similar difficulty extracting information from the FCO, the Information Commissioner relayed her judgement in May 2020. She ‘accept(ed) that there is a clear public interest in understanding more about the decision-making process’, noting ‘potential consequences on the UK’s relationship with the UN’ but concluded in respect of one of the five exemptions under the Act that the FCO had cited, that ‘by a relatively narrow margin the public interest favours maintaining the exemption.’ Is that the end of it?
Not quite, and so to the third part. In assessing the public interest, the Information Commissioner has taken a very narrow interpretation of the public interest, under that and one other exemption. However, the FOI Act requires government departments, and the Information Commissioner in deciding appeals, to consider “all the circumstances of the case” in assessing the public interest. The Information Commissioner did not look at all of the circumstances.
There is a powerful public interest in knowing why the UK was alone in failing to acknowledge both the UN’s initial request for cooperation and the Secretary-General’s personal follow-up, or even the timing of its appointment of an independent and high ranking individual, a full seven months after the UN commenced preparing its report. There is a public interest in knowing why the FCO adopted such an unhelpful, even cynical approach, and those public interests should have been properly weighed by the Information Commissioner.
So, to the coda. Knowing all this, why are we not appealing the Commissioner’s judgement? Firstly, because our government’s performance can be clearly judged against that of Russia, Zimbabwe, the D.R.C, Angola and other UN Member States. Such exposure to international scrutiny shames us as a nation. Secondly, as a small organisation, we cannot match the power of a battery of State-funded lawyers. However, we will continue to support the hammarskjöldinquiry information service which sets out to report the progress of the continuing UN inquiry and associated developments.
David Wardrop is Chairman of the Westminster United Nations Association which hosts the hammarskjoldinquiry.info website which has posted informed updates on the Hammarskjöld Inquiry process since 2014.


veteranstoday--2020-06-08--Stealth Frigate: Russia’s Admiral Kasatonov Completes Sea Trials

# ВМФ 🇷🇺 # Russian # Navy The second warship of project 22350 the RFS 431 ‘ Admiral Kasatonov ' , a Admiral Gorshkov Class frigate completed of sea trials and returned to Severnaya Verf ( 'Northern Shipyard ' ) in # SaintPetersburg on 6th June 2020. pic.twitter.com/Cwc3OxwSyp The Admiral Kasatonov frigate is capable of destroying surface ships , convoys and airborne military units , along with searching and targeting submarines and providing anti-aircraft , anti-submarine and anti-missile defence .
The Russian Project 22350 warship , the ‘ Admiral Flota Kasatonov ’ , created using stealth technologies , has completed @ @ @ @ @ @ @ soon be commissioned to the Russian fleet , according to a statement from the shipbuilding company .
“ The first Project 22350 warship , ‘ Admiral Flota Kasatonov ’ , having completed the marine part of state tests , returned to the North Shipyard .
During June , the warship will undergo revision , and will then be transferred to the Russian Navy ” , the statement said .
During final trials in the Baltic Sea , all characteristics of the frigate were tested , including weapon system operations .
Testing interactions with @ @ @ @ @ @ @ with rescue and evacuation exercises .
“ We reached the finish line and are approaching the main event for the ship – the raising of the St. Andrew flag .
For ten months , the ship has passed the test phases in two fleets – the Northern and Baltic , working in different weather conditions and in rough seas .
The commissioning team , together with the crew and fleet support services , carried out a thorough check of the frigate , and now we can confidently say that the Kasatonov is a @ @ @ @ @ @ @ sea zone that will strengthen the Russian fleet ” , said the Northern Shipyard ’ s director general , Igor Ponomarev .
The Kasatonov warship was created with the use of stealth technologies , providing radar invisibility during warfare in the far sea zone .
The frigate will be a part of the Northern Fleet , as well as its predecessor , the project ’ s flagship frigate ‘ Admiral of the Fleet of the Soviet Union Gorshkov ’ .
The Project 22350 frigate is designed to perform a wide range of tasks @ @ @ @ @ @ @ and ground targets , along with targeting surface ships , convoys and airborne troop units , while also providing anti-aircraft , anti-submarine and anti-missile defence .

The Admiral Kasatonov frigate is capable of destroying surface ships, convoys and airborne military units, along with searching and targeting submarines and providing anti-aircraft, anti-submarine and anti-missile defence.
#ВМФ 🇷🇺 #Russian #Navy The second warship of project 22350 the RFS 431 ‘Admiral Kasatonov', a Admiral Gorshkov Class frigate completed of sea trials and returned to Severnaya Verf ('Northern Shipyard') in #SaintPetersburg on 6th June 2020. pic.twitter.com/Cwc3OxwSyp
The Russian Project 22350 warship, the ‘Admiral Flota Kasatonov’, created using stealth technologies, has completed state trials in the sea and will soon be commissioned to the Russian fleet, according to a statement from the shipbuilding company.
“The first Project 22350 warship, ‘Admiral Flota Kasatonov’, having completed the marine part of state tests, returned to the North Shipyard. During June, the warship will undergo revision, and will then be transferred to the Russian Navy”, the statement said.
During final trials in the Baltic Sea, all characteristics of the frigate were tested, including weapon system operations. Testing interactions with submarines and aircraft were conducted, along with rescue and evacuation exercises.
“We reached the finish line and are approaching the main event for the ship – the raising of the St. Andrew flag. For ten months, the ship has passed the test phases in two fleets – the Northern and Baltic, working in different weather conditions and in rough seas. The commissioning team, together with the crew and fleet support services, carried out a thorough check of the frigate, and now we can confidently say that the Kasatonov is a modern, powerful ship in the far sea zone that will strengthen the Russian fleet”, said the Northern Shipyard’s director general, Igor Ponomarev.
The Kasatonov warship was created with the use of stealth technologies, providing radar invisibility during warfare in the far sea zone. The frigate will be a part of the Northern Fleet, as well as its predecessor, the project’s flagship frigate ‘Admiral of the Fleet of the Soviet Union Gorshkov’.
The Project 22350 frigate is designed to perform a wide range of tasks, including search and destruction of submarines and ground targets, along with targeting surface ships, convoys and airborne troop units, while also providing anti-aircraft, anti-submarine and anti-missile defence.


veteranstoday--2020-06-08--Basic Grammar: What is a Diphthong?

Basic Grammar: What is a Diphthong?

The word “ diphthong ” comes from the Greek and means “ two voices ” or “ two sounds.
” In phonetics , a diphthong is a vowel in which there is a noticeable sound change within the same syllable .
( A single or simple vowel is known as a monophthong . )
The process of moving from one vowel sound to another is called gliding , which is why another name for a diphthong is a gliding vowel but they are also known as compound vowels , complex vowels , or moving vowels .
The sound change that @ @ @ @ @ @ @ is called diphthongization .
Diphthongs are sometimes referred to as “ long vowels ” but this is misleading .
While vowel sounds do change in a diphthong , they do not necessarily take more time to say than a monophthong .
How many diphthongs are there in the English language ?
It depends on which expert you ask .
Some sources cite eight , others as many as 10 .
Even syllables containing a single vowel can contain a diphthong .
The rule of thumb is : If the sound moves , it @ @ @ @ @ @ @ ’ s static , it ’ s a monophthong .
Each of the following diphthongs is represented by its phonetic symbol .
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veteranstoday--2020-06-09--COVID 19 will Devastate Indonesia, already collapsing under dictatorship

In Jakarta , doctors are dying , while common people do not know which data to believe , anymore .
It appears that even some government officials do not trust government statistics .
People in the slums are attacking ambulances , preventing patients infected with COVID-19 from being taken to hospitals .
The novel coronavirus is a stigma .
Tests are resisted , death certificates falsified .
Social distancing , even basing norms of it , is ignored .
At the beginning of the pandemic , for weeks , the Indonesian government was pretending that there is no problem whatsoever @ @ @ @ @ @ @ zero , thanks to prayers and divine intervention .
While talking about God and prayers , the President was advising to drink traditional herbal medicine as prevention .
Well , at least he was not pitching detergent or disinfectant , for oral consumption .
In February , after I finished filming in Borneo ( Indonesian part of the third largest island on earth where it is called Kalimantan ) , my Garuda Indonesia flight from Pontianak to Jakarta was full of people coughing , apparently sick ; very sick .
While other countries @ @ @ @ @ @ @ and introducing comprehensive measures to curtail the pandemic , Indonesia was shockingly but determinately doing absolutely nothing .
As always , in the fourth most populous country on Earth , there was no budget , no willingness , no enthusiasm , and zero know-how how to tackle the emergency .
It goes without saying that even without pandemic , the entire country is one huge health hazard .
It has one of the lowest numbers of beds and doctors per thousand citizens , anywhere on Earth .
Since the 1965 U.S.-sponsored coup , @ @ @ @ @ @ @ neglecting everything public , from sanitation to garbage collection , but especially education and health .
“ If it does not bring profits right away , then why to bother dealing with it ” , could be the regime ’ s motto .
Quite the opposite of what could be observed in two socialist super-stars : China and Vietnam .
After the last visit to Borneo , my guts were , for weeks , destroyed , and I experienced temporary near-blindness , as my eyes were attacked by some parasites .
While the @ @ @ @ @ @ @ known in Indonesia by his nickname “ Jokowi ” ) is getting ready to abandon Jakarta ( which is overpopulated , unplanned , plundered of almost all green areas , full of misery and health-hazards ) and move the capital to Kalimantan , at the cost of tens of billions of dollars , the medical facilities of the country are desperately inadequate , and on par with the poorest countries of sub-Saharan Africa .
Since March , my friends in Indonesia have written to me that there has been an absolutely unprecedented number @ @ @ @ @ @ @ local mosques .
Everybody knew someone , usually at least a few people , who either died from the COVID-19 or were suspected by relatives of dying from it .
An anonymous , man , 34 years old ( a researcher/student , living in Jakarta ) , wrote to me : “ Here , people die for nothing .
Our government treats human beings only as numbers , be it in connection with the presidential elections last year , or with the corona outbreak .
People are angry and have lost their trust @ @ @ @ @ @ @ the coronavirus outbreak , the central government interference only makes the situation worse .
Our government has never felt guilty neither apologizes to its own people for incompetence in managing the country ; for the 1965 genocide , the May 1998 riots , or now , for the mismanagement during the coronavirus disaster .
One day , this will be all written in history books.
” Almost all disasters in Indonesia have an extremely devastating character .
Tsunamis kill an unacceptably high number of people , because the early warning systems get stolen @ @ @ @ @ @ @ planning of coastal communities , as well as corruption .
Earthquakes , volcano eruptions : all the same – no planning , no support for the poor .
Lethargy , acceptance of fate , and sluggishness .
Fear of COVID-19 triggered at least some initiatives among Indonesian citizens .
“ Indonesia ’ s spiraling coronavirus crisis has citizens taking matters into their own hands , with networks of volunteers compiling data that shows the death rate in the world ’ s fourth-most populous nation may be three times higher than what the government @ @ @ @ @ @ @ s low testing rate means virus deaths were going unrecorded spurred citizens , health workers and scientists to set up LaporCovid-19 and KawalCOVID19 , two open-source data platforms that allow people around Indonesia to report suspected Covid-19 deaths via WhatsApp and Telegram .
More than 4,000 deaths among suspected Covid-19 patients since early March haven ’ t been included in the official numbers , according to data collected by the platforms .
That ’ s on top of the government ’ s tally of 1,520 fatalities , which already gives Indonesia the highest @ @ @ @ @ @ @ But even the estimates of extra 4,000 deaths seem to be extremely low .
Some experts believe that both the number of cases , as well as fatalities , might be 15 times higher than the official numbers .
That would be in line with the estimates for Brazil , yet another country which is governed by the extreme right-wing regime .
In a stark departure from the common Western mass media rule of not criticizing submissive , anti-left , and pro-market Indonesia , several mainstream publications in North America and Europe decided @ @ @ @ @ @ @ is news .
On May 28 , 2020 , The New York Times fired a detailed and very accurate report on the COVID-19 which has been devastating the archipelago : “ In an alarming glimpse at what could be runaway transmission , a random sampling of 11,555 people in Surabaya , the country ’ s second largest city , found last week that 10 percent of those tested had antibodies for the coronavirus .
Yet the entire province of East Java , which includes Surabaya , had 4,313 officially confirmed cases as of @ @ @ @ @ @ @ happened , ” said Dono Widiatmoko , a senior lecturer in health and social care at the University of Derby and a member of the Indonesian Public Health Association .
“ This means it ’ s too late.
” Yet even as the country ’ s caseload accelerates , the Indonesian government has said that national coronavirus restrictions , already a scattershot effort , must be relaxed to save the economy.
” Indonesian leaders collaborate , in the most embarrassing and servile way , with all U.S. administrations .
Democrats or Republicans , @ @ @ @ @ @ @ But the current President Joko Widodo ( Jokowi ) , is doubling his back in front of President Trump and his market fundamentalism .
It is done in the most embarrassing and , for Indonesia , a destructive manner .
That may be the reason why the “ liberal ” press in the United States , generally hostile to Mr. Trump and his allies , is now ready to provide objective reporting about the dire state of the collapsed Indonesian state , which includes misery in which more than half of the population @ @ @ @ @ @ @ , or the COVID-19 disaster .
“ There is widespread concern among public health experts , however , that Indonesia ’ s health care system will break down if the coronavirus spreads as intensely as it did in the United States or Europe .
Worryingly , more than half of Covid-19 deaths in Indonesia were of people below age 60 .
In the United States , most deaths have been among the elderly .
The relative youth of the victims in Indonesia , health experts say , hints at hospitals that are unable @ @ @ @ @ @ @ offered in other countries .
And epidemiologists fear an even bigger surge in cases next month .
Last week , in a country with the largest Muslim population in the world , millions of Indonesians gathered to pray and travel at the end of Ramadan , the Islamic holy month .
In the capital , Jakarta , more than 465,000 vehicles left the capital during the holiday period , according to a toll operator .
While the Indonesian government announced some coronavirus travel restrictions in late April , they have not been enforced @ @ @ @ @ @ @ .
Airport staff have complained about entire families , including children , flying under exemptions meant for business travelers .
Modeling by epidemiologists at the University of Indonesia forecasts that up to 200,000 Indonesians may require hospitalization for the virus because of Ramadan-related activity.
” “ Indonesia ’ s testing rates are the worst among the 40 countries most affected by the virus — 967 per 1 million people , compared to 46,951 per 1 million people in the United States , as of Wednesday — Indonesians , especially those with asymptomatic or @ @ @ @ @ @ @ virus , infectious disease experts warn.
” And then , predictable and correct punch : “ The disaster is still coming , ” said Dr. Pandu Riono , an epidemiologist who led the University of Indonesia ’ s modeling effort .
“ Even after many months , we still have leaders who believe in miracles rather than science .
We still have terrible policies.
” For weeks , Jokowi ’ s government lied about the number of cases .
“ Not to cause panic ’ , he ‘ explained ’ later .
As @ @ @ @ @ @ @ that there were no infections , because of the “ prayers ” , and prayer is what was suggested by the Minister of Health , to avoid getting infected by the virus .
It was also advised , by the President , that people drink traditional herbal drinks , and exercise , as prevention .
For months , at least until March , the Indonesian government had been lying to the world and its citizens .
Or , as some put it mildly , the government “ was in denial ” .
While @ @ @ @ @ @ @ , were combating virus since January , Indonesia was sweeping facts under the carpet until March .
Hospitals in Java were overflowing with pneumonia cases , but as many experts now suggest , the bodies were buried and coronavirus tests discouraged .
Consequences are often grotesque .
Truth comes in bizarre ways .
A university professor recently wrote to me that her husband , government official and city planner , was told to return to his office .
She elaborated : “ He went back to work but lasted there only for a @ @ @ @ @ @ @ colleagues , in one single building , fell ill with COVID-19 .
So , it was back to work from home .
The government really does not know what it is doing.
” Lying virtually about everything is a remarkable feature of the Indonesian regime .
It lies about its past ( whitewashing all about the 1965 fascist US-backed coup in which 2-3 million people were slaughtered ) , about its social collapse ( much more than half of its citizens live in misery , but the government acknowledges only around 10 % @ @ @ @ @ @ @ people who actually reside in the country .
Ten years ago , I worked with the top U.N. statisticians who insisted that more than 300 million people were living in Indonesia , while the government claimed it was around 250 million at that time .
Why ?
So , the most deprived people would not be scarring those lovely reports which have been glorifying extreme-capitalist country .
And so that the budgets could easily disappear in deep corrupt pockets of government officials and corporate bosses , instead of feeding the poor .
Now @ @ @ @ @ @ @ to “ open the country again ” , in order to improve the economy .
Pandemic will now , after Ramadan , most likely explode , but that does not seem to matter .
Things can always be hushed , in a unique Indonesian way .
The Minister of Finance is already talking about the fight against poverty being pushed back , by many years .
She is preparing people for upcoming suffering .
That , while big Indonesian business is getting billions of dollars in bailouts and support .
She is an @ @ @ @ @ @ @ the poor can get robbed efficiently .
After all , Ms. Sri Mulyani Indrawati used to be Managing Director of the World Bank .
So far , despite social collapse ( which goes so far unreported at home and abroad ) , environmental disasters , and on-going COVID-19 fiasco , one of the most heartless systems on Earth is surviving .
The logic is simple , but only if one is ready to see : If a country can deny the existence of over 50 millions of its citizens if it refuses to @ @ @ @ @ @ @ its people is forced to subsist if the ‘ elites ’ are allowed to steal endemically from the nation , then why wouldn ’ t regime just write-off tens of thousands of mainly poor people who are dying , undiagnosed and with hardly any help , from the COVID-19 or any other disease ?
Indonesian blood-lettings are historically massive ; millions of people , or at least tens of thousands at each time .
Nobody remembers .
Truth is never told .
Communism and socialism are banned .
Religions are obligatory .
People @ @ @ @ @ @ @ Nothing new !
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He has covered wars and conflicts in dozens of countries .
Six of his latest books are “ New Capital of Indonesia ” , “ China Belt and Road Initiative ” , “ China and Ecological Civilization ” with John B. Cobb , Jr. , “ Revolutionary Optimism , Western Nihilism ” , a revolutionary novel “ Aurora @ @ @ @ @ @ @ non-fiction : “ Exposing Lies Of The Empire ” .
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In Jakarta, doctors are dying, while common people do not know which data to believe, anymore. It appears that even some government officials do not trust government statistics.
People in the slums are attacking ambulances, preventing patients infected with COVID-19 from being taken to hospitals. The novel coronavirus is a stigma. Tests are resisted, death certificates falsified. Social distancing, even basing norms of it, is ignored.
At the beginning of the pandemic, for weeks, the Indonesian government was pretending that there is no problem whatsoever, insisting that number of cases was zero, thanks to prayers and divine intervention.
While talking about God and prayers, the President was advising to drink traditional herbal medicine as prevention. Well, at least he was not pitching detergent or disinfectant, for oral consumption.
In February, after I finished filming in Borneo (Indonesian part of the third largest island on earth where it is called Kalimantan), my Garuda Indonesia flight from Pontianak to Jakarta was full of people coughing, apparently sick; very sick.
While other countries in the region were already measuring temperature and introducing comprehensive measures to curtail the pandemic, Indonesia was shockingly but determinately doing absolutely nothing.
As always, in the fourth most populous country on Earth, there was no budget, no willingness, no enthusiasm, and zero know-how how to tackle the emergency.
It goes without saying that even without pandemic, the entire country is one huge health hazard. It has one of the lowest numbers of beds and doctors per thousand citizens, anywhere on Earth.
Since the 1965 U.S.-sponsored coup, Indonesia has been in turbo-capitalist mode, neglecting everything public, from sanitation to garbage collection, but especially education and health. “If it does not bring profits right away, then why to bother dealing with it”, could be the regime’s motto. Quite the opposite of what could be observed in two socialist super-stars: China and Vietnam.
After the last visit to Borneo, my guts were, for weeks, destroyed, and I experienced temporary near-blindness, as my eyes were attacked by some parasites.
While the present administration of President Joko Widodo (known in Indonesia by his nickname “Jokowi”) is getting ready to abandon Jakarta (which is overpopulated, unplanned, plundered of almost all green areas, full of misery and health-hazards) and move the capital to Kalimantan, at the cost of tens of billions of dollars, the medical facilities of the country are desperately inadequate, and on par with the poorest countries of sub-Saharan Africa.
*
Since March, my friends in Indonesia have written to me that there has been an absolutely unprecedented number of funerals, broadcasted by loudspeakers of local mosques.
Everybody knew someone, usually at least a few people, who either died from the COVID-19 or were suspected by relatives of dying from it.
An anonymous, man, 34 years old (a researcher/student, living in Jakarta), wrote to me:
“Here, people die for nothing. Our government treats human beings only as numbers, be it in connection with the presidential elections last year, or with the corona outbreak. People are angry and have lost their trust in the government. In dealing with the coronavirus outbreak, the central government interference only makes the situation worse. Our government has never felt guilty neither apologizes to its own people for incompetence in managing the country; for the 1965 genocide, the May 1998 riots, or now, for the mismanagement during the coronavirus disaster. One day, this will be all written in history books.”
Almost all disasters in Indonesia have an extremely devastating character. Tsunamis kill an unacceptably high number of people, because the early warning systems get stolen, but also due to lack of planning of coastal communities, as well as corruption. Earthquakes, volcano eruptions: all the same – no planning, no support for the poor. Lethargy, acceptance of fate, and sluggishness.
*
Fear of COVID-19 triggered at least some initiatives among Indonesian citizens.
Bloomberg reported on May 29, 2020:
“Indonesia’s spiraling coronavirus crisis has citizens taking matters into their own hands, with networks of volunteers compiling data that shows the death rate in the world’s fourth-most populous nation may be three times higher than what the government says.
Concern that the country’s low testing rate means virus deaths were going unrecorded spurred citizens, health workers and scientists to set up LaporCovid-19 and KawalCOVID19, two open-source data platforms that allow people around Indonesia to report suspected Covid-19 deaths via WhatsApp and Telegram.
More than 4,000 deaths among suspected Covid-19 patients since early March haven’t been included in the official numbers, according to data collected by the platforms. That’s on top of the government’s tally of 1,520 fatalities, which already gives Indonesia the highest virus death rate in Southeast Asia.”
But even the estimates of extra 4,000 deaths seem to be extremely low. Some experts believe that both the number of cases, as well as fatalities, might be 15 times higher than the official numbers. That would be in line with the estimates for Brazil, yet another country which is governed by the extreme right-wing regime.
In a stark departure from the common Western mass media rule of not criticizing submissive, anti-left, and pro-market Indonesia, several mainstream publications in North America and Europe decided not to remain silent. That itself is news. On May 28, 2020, The New York Times fired a detailed and very accurate report on the COVID-19 which has been devastating the archipelago:
“In an alarming glimpse at what could be runaway transmission, a random sampling of 11,555 people in Surabaya, the country’s second largest city, found last week that 10 percent of those tested had antibodies for the coronavirus. Yet the entire province of East Java, which includes Surabaya, had 4,313 officially confirmed cases as of Thursday.
“Massive infection has already happened,” said Dono Widiatmoko, a senior lecturer in health and social care at the University of Derby and a member of the Indonesian Public Health Association. “This means it’s too late.”
Yet even as the country’s caseload accelerates, the Indonesian government has said that national coronavirus restrictions, already a scattershot effort, must be relaxed to save the economy.”
Indonesian leaders collaborate, in the most embarrassing and servile way, with all U.S. administrations. Democrats or Republicans, it does not seem to matter. But the current President Joko Widodo (Jokowi), is doubling his back in front of President Trump and his market fundamentalism. It is done in the most embarrassing and, for Indonesia, a destructive manner.
That may be the reason why the “liberal” press in the United States, generally hostile to Mr. Trump and his allies, is now ready to provide objective reporting about the dire state of the collapsed Indonesian state, which includes misery in which more than half of the population has to live, tremendous environmental devastation, or the COVID-19 disaster.
The New York Times report continued:
“There is widespread concern among public health experts, however, that Indonesia’s health care system will break down if the coronavirus spreads as intensely as it did in the United States or Europe.
Worryingly, more than half of Covid-19 deaths in Indonesia were of people below age 60. In the United States, most deaths have been among the elderly. The relative youth of the victims in Indonesia, health experts say, hints at hospitals that are unable to provide the kind of lifesaving treatment offered in other countries.
And epidemiologists fear an even bigger surge in cases next month. Last week, in a country with the largest Muslim population in the world, millions of Indonesians gathered to pray and travel at the end of Ramadan, the Islamic holy month. In the capital, Jakarta, more than 465,000 vehicles left the capital during the holiday period, according to a toll operator.
While the Indonesian government announced some coronavirus travel restrictions in late April, they have not been enforced rigorously, critics say. Loopholes abound. Airport staff have complained about entire families, including children, flying under exemptions meant for business travelers.
Modeling by epidemiologists at the University of Indonesia forecasts that up to 200,000 Indonesians may require hospitalization for the virus because of Ramadan-related activity.”
“Indonesia’s testing rates are the worst among the 40 countries most affected by the virus — 967 per 1 million people, compared to 46,951 per 1 million people in the United States, as of Wednesday — Indonesians, especially those with asymptomatic or mild cases, are unknowingly spreading the virus, infectious disease experts warn.”
And then, predictable and correct punch:
“The disaster is still coming,” said Dr. Pandu Riono, an epidemiologist who led the University of Indonesia’s modeling effort. “Even after many months, we still have leaders who believe in miracles rather than science. We still have terrible policies.”
For weeks, Jokowi’s government lied about the number of cases. “Not to cause panic’, he ‘explained’ later. As mentioned earlier, the government was bragging that there were no infections, because of the “prayers”, and prayer is what was suggested by the Minister of Health, to avoid getting infected by the virus. It was also advised, by the President, that people drink traditional herbal drinks, and exercise, as prevention.
For months, at least until March, the Indonesian government had been lying to the world and its citizens. Or, as some put it mildly, the government “was in denial”. While neighboring countries, like Singapore and Malaysia, were combating virus since January, Indonesia was sweeping facts under the carpet until March. Hospitals in Java were overflowing with pneumonia cases, but as many experts now suggest, the bodies were buried and coronavirus tests discouraged.
Consequences are often grotesque. Truth comes in bizarre ways. A university professor recently wrote to me that her husband, government official and city planner, was told to return to his office. She elaborated:
“He went back to work but lasted there only for a couple of days. Several of his colleagues, in one single building, fell ill with COVID-19. So, it was back to work from home. The government really does not know what it is doing.”
Lying virtually about everything is a remarkable feature of the Indonesian regime.
It lies about its past (whitewashing all about the 1965 fascist US-backed coup in which 2-3 million people were slaughtered), about its social collapse (much more than half of its citizens live in misery, but the government acknowledges only around 10%), even about the number of people who actually reside in the country.
Ten years ago, I worked with the top U.N. statisticians who insisted that more than 300 million people were living in Indonesia, while the government claimed it was around 250 million at that time. Why? So, the most deprived people would not be scarring those lovely reports which have been glorifying extreme-capitalist country. And so that the budgets could easily disappear in deep corrupt pockets of government officials and corporate bosses, instead of feeding the poor.
Now, Jokowi’s government is ready to “open the country again”, in order to improve the economy. Pandemic will now, after Ramadan, most likely explode, but that does not seem to matter. Things can always be hushed, in a unique Indonesian way.
The Minister of Finance is already talking about the fight against poverty being pushed back, by many years. She is preparing people for upcoming suffering. That, while big Indonesian business is getting billions of dollars in bailouts and support.
She is an “expert”. She knows how the poor can get robbed efficiently. After all, Ms. Sri Mulyani Indrawati used to be Managing Director of the World Bank.
So far, despite social collapse (which goes so far unreported at home and abroad), environmental disasters, and on-going COVID-19 fiasco, one of the most heartless systems on Earth is surviving.
The logic is simple, but only if one is ready to see: If a country can deny the existence of over 50 millions of its citizens if it refuses to admit misery in which the majority of its people is forced to subsist if the ‘elites’ are allowed to steal endemically from the nation, then why wouldn’t regime just write-off tens of thousands of mainly poor people who are dying, undiagnosed and with hardly any help, from the COVID-19 or any other disease?
Indonesian blood-lettings are historically massive; millions of people, or at least tens of thousands at each time. Nobody remembers. Truth is never told.
Communism and socialism are banned. Religions are obligatory. People are conditioned to accept their fate. Nothing new!
*
[First published by NEO – New Eastern Outlook – a journal of the Russian Academy of Sciences]


veteranstoday--2020-06-08--Disgusting Pig: Joseph Bolognia, 54, Philly Police Inspector off the streets, facing possible attemp

Disgusting Pig: Joseph Bolognia, 54, Philly Police Inspector off the streets, facing possible attempted murder charge

When we thought we had seen it all , we then get this pig faced motherfucker and his Trumpist Nazi friends .
Watch him bash the head of a teenage ( white ) girl during an attack on peaceful demonstrators .
This guy has a lifetime history of far more than the complaints on record , it goes much further with allegations yet to be proven of a police “ special squad ” working with human traffickers and drug dealers , keeping them safe and protecting them from prison for cash .
Time that was looked into and a couple @ @ @ @ @ @ @ to do a few decades of federal time including for felony murder , what they do when the camera ’ s aren ’ t out .
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When we thought we had seen it all, we then get this pig faced motherfucker and his Trumpist Nazi friends. Watch him bash the head of a teenage (white) girl during an attack on peaceful demonstrators. This guy has a lifetime history of far more than the complaints on record, it goes much further with allegations yet to be proven of a police “special squad” working with human traffickers and drug dealers, keeping them safe and protecting them from prison for cash. Time that was looked into and a couple of dozen Philly boys in blue sent to do a few decades of federal time including for felony murder, what they do when the camera’s aren’t out.
NEW: High-ranking PPD Staff Inspector Joseph Bologna, who's been linked to past scandals, was caught on video roughing up protesters on two separate occasions this week — both now under investigation. Bologna confirmed he's off street duty right nowhttps://t.co/DwbCZOvpmY — Max M. Marin (@MaxMMarin) June 5, 2020
https://twitter.com/tippedminimum/status/1268001268406136832?s=20
Update: Police sources say the baton-wielding officer in the white shirt is a high-ranking member of the force, Staff Inspector Joseph Bologna, who earns $126,339 a year. We will likely have more information later today. https://t.co/4uc0mZxGg5 — William Bender (@wbender99) June 5, 2020 Supporting and monetizing the beating of an unarmed Temple student at a protest last week exemplifies what is wrong with the FOP in #Philly. Philly Police Union Doubles Down, Selling Joseph Bologna Shirts https://t.co/gL27NLrlHD — Victoria Brownworth #NoJusticeNoPeace (@VABVOX) June 8, 2020 Philadelphia Police Staff Inspector Joseph Bologna Jr. is expected to turn himself in today to face aggravated assault and other charges stemming from a series of viral videos depicting him beating a Temple University student and other protesters last week.https://t.co/ZccNCT8y0m — Amee Vanderpool (@girlsreallyrule) June 8, 2020
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veteranstoday--2020-06-08--My home town drops a knee for George Floyd

“ To put your knee on a man ’ s neck until he is dead is the same as putting a noose around his neck until he is dead or to put him in a chokehold until he is dead ” – Dennis Powell , NAACP [ Editor ’ s Note : Great Barrington earned these kudos for putting 1000 people in front of the Colonial era town hall when the town ’ s population is 2500 , and this may be a hint as to why it was chosen as the best small town in the US for 2012 @ @ @ @ @ @ @ its “ big city smarts and its New England sensibilities ” , and that was certainly on display on June 6th , as it joined Americans in putting on its best face to tell the world it is time for real change in law enforcement and race relations .
The town embodies New England Heritage , and we had recently celebrated George Washington ’ s historic passing through the town with his captured cannon from Fort Ticonderoga on his way to lay siege to the British in Boston .
Cofounder of the NAACP @ @ @ @ @ @ @ ) was born in Great Barrington , a mere two miles from my house , and his mother was a member of my mother ’ s Congregational Church .
The church provided funding for DuBois ’ college years at Fisk University .
I shared this anecdote with Dr. Henry Lewis Gates when he was our guest at the Sons of Confederate Veterans Convention in Concord , North Carolina , when the Convention was shooting footage for his “ Looking for Lincoln ” PBS film .
Gates had been invited as an honored guest @ @ @ @ @ @ @ was being honored at the Convention .
The presentation being made by the African American director of the Georgia State archives , who had been astonished to find the material at the insistence of the soldier ’ s granddaughter that her ancestor had been a Confederate Soldier .
Gates had gone on record claiming that the stories about Black Confederates were hoaxes , but I have to give him credit .
As he was stepping into his limousine to leave , he hesitated , turned to us and said , “ Fellas , @ @ @ @ @ @ @ lied to ” .
It was a special , but hitherto unknown movement , in American race relations , which starts with having an open mind and the ability to listen .
The mix of the Great Barrington George Floyd crowd was similar to the rest of the country over the weekend , with lots of young people , plus a mixture of all ages and all levels of society .
The town joined hands with hundreds of other towns and cities , and across the world , to stand together for real @ @ @ @ @ @ @ a weekend that saw Donald Trump ’ s attempt to divide the country via his threat to invoke the Insurrection Law to put the US military on the streets of America without a governor ’ s request , which ran into a brick wall .
He and Attorney General Barr possibly joined Derek Chauvin , Floyd ’ s murderer , in being the most hated men in America , against a backdrop where ex-Justice Department , ex-generals , and past top Defense Department officials spoke out to deplore Trump ’ s threats to @ @ @ @ @ @ @ play America ’ s great defender in an election year political stunt .
The American people nailed the door shut on that happening this past weekend , and what VeteransToday believes will be any chance of Trump being reelected in November .
I had written a tour guide of my native Berkshire county in 2012 in appreciation of what a fabulous place it was to grow up , and it still is , so it was a kick for me to find this article , forwarded by a VT reader .
At the @ @ @ @ @ @ @ watch Eoin Higgin ’ s video of Great Barrington joining hands with hundreds of communities across the country in sharing a great day and making some history … Jim W. Dean ] Great Barrington – Joining Black Lives Matter demonstrations nationwide , upwards of 1,000 people gathered in front of the historic Town Hall Saturday afternoon ( June 6 ) – a crowd so large that it spilled into Main Street — to proclaim its outrage at the deadly mistreatment of black citizens at the hands of police , and to listen to @ @ @ @ @ @ @ seeping into the fabric of American life .
In part organized by 18-year-old Calista Nelson and her friend Langston Stahler , the protest was prompted by the death of 46-year-old George Floyd , who died May 25 as a white Minneapolis policeman , Derek Chauvin , ground his knee into Floyd ’ s neck , after he had been handcuffed and was lying on the pavement , for 8 minutes , 46 seconds , asphyxiating him as he pleaded that he could not breathe .
A video recording of his death went viral @ @ @ @ @ @ @ in cities and towns across the U.S. His murder at the hands of police – so vividly recorded – instantly came to symbolize not just racial injustice but also a broader sense that our country is being victimized by an authoritarian mindset that is infecting and afflicting our institutions .
“ It has taken a long time , but I think we can now all agree that there is racism in our system of justice , ” declared State Sen. Adam Hinds , in his remarks to the rally .
“ I think @ @ @ @ @ @ @ you have extreme income inequality and you enter a recession — as we have right now — it is black and brown workers who are hit first , hit hardest , and will feel the downturn longest .
“ I think we can now all agree that when you have unequal social determinants of health , people of color end up dying at greater numbers during a health crisis as we are watching right now with COVID-19 .
“ I also think we can all agree we have not seen a moment with @ @ @ @ @ @ @ , I haven ’ t seen an opportunity like this to address inequity in my lifetime .
This is a moment pass we can not let pass .
“ But there is something I am not convinced we can agree on .
Can we all agree that we commit to being committed anti-racists ?
“ Are we all willing to monitor closely our thoughts , words and actions ?
Will we take the difficult and uncomfortable actions to stand up to others , or make the deliberate choices in how we educate our @ @ @ @ @ @ @ hiring decisions if you are a manager ?
“ There is one more thing .
Will you stand up for changing state laws ?
This is the time to commit ourselves to endorse anti-racist legislation that protects the rights of Black and Latino citizens .
Last week , the Black and Latino Legislative Caucus stood in front of the Massachusetts State House and outlined an agenda for action .
It includes critical action , such as removing the use of choke holds by police .
As legislators face difficult votes and conversations , @ @ @ @ @ @ @ for change ?
“ Thank you for being here and thank you for being a committed anti-racist .
“ No justice , no peace.
” Berkshire District Attorney Andrea Harrington explained that she had sent condolences on behalf of her office to the parents of George Floyd .
“ It sickens me that the prosecutors in this case didn ’ t immediately seek murder charges , until there was intense public pressure , ” she said .
“ But I have the hope of seeing this current generation bring racial justice to this @ @ @ @ @ @ @ big structural change in law enforcement.
” Dennis Powell , president of the Berkshire NAACP chapter , had a far harsher assessment .
He termed the murder of George Floyd equivalent to the practice of lynching inflicted upon blacks by white racists .
“ In the 1700s it was the bondage of slavery ; in the 1820s it was the lynching rope that terrified the black communities , and in 2010 it was the bullets .
Here we are in 2020 and we ’ re back to lynching , ” he said .
@ @ @ @ @ @ @ a man ’ s neck until he is dead is the same as putting a noose around his neck until he is dead or to put him in a chokehold until he is dead.
” But Powell insinuated that Israelis may have been , in a roundabout way , responsible for Floyd ’ s death , offering the theory that the techniques used by the Minneapolis Police to subdue Floyd were the result of training by Israeli security forces who use similar methods to subdue Palestinians .
“ The training of U.S. police @ @ @ @ @ @ @ ” Powell asserted , identifying Jewish organizations as sponsoring such training .
He called on “ Jewish brothers and sisters ” to urge these organizations to call a halt to sponsorship .
“ Tell them to stop funding and training our police in terrorist techniques because our American citizens are young , old , middle age , Black and Brown people who are not terrorists .
It ’ s got to stop , and it ’ s got to stop yesterday !
” Still , Powell also predicted a political evolution in this @ @ @ @ @ @ @ The White House in our nation ’ s capital was built by the blood , sweat and pain of Black people .
I stand here today to serve notice that we ’ re coming for the keys .
The White House was not built to house its present occupant ; the safety net put in place because of the COVID-19 pandemic which protects individuals from being evicted from their home does not apply to the occupant of the White House ; we are coming for the keys because we ’ re going to @ @ @ @ @ @ @ this November .
We are coming for the keys , get ready , pack your bag , your reign is over .
For the Bible that you held and never opened will not save you !
” The following video of the protest was created by Eoin Higgins : Henry Louis Gates interviewed by Jim W. Dean in Looking for Lincoln , PBS

…from The Berkshire Edge, Great Barringtion, Mass
“To put your knee on a man’s neck until he is dead is the same as putting a noose around his neck until he is dead or to put him in a chokehold until he is dead” – Dennis Powell, NAACP
[ Editor’s Note: Great Barrington earned these kudos for putting 1000 people in front of the Colonial era town hall when the town’s population is 2500, and this may be a hint as to why it was chosen as the best small town in the US for 2012.
Smithsonian Magazine cited the town for its “big city smarts and its New England sensibilities”, and that was certainly on display on June 6th, as it joined Americans in putting on its best face to tell the world it is time for real change in law enforcement and race relations.
The town embodies New England Heritage, and we had recently celebrated George Washington’s historic passing through the town with his captured cannon from Fort Ticonderoga on his way to lay siege to the British in Boston.
Cofounder of the NAACP, the notable W.E.B DuBois (1868–1963) was born in Great Barrington, a mere two miles from my house, and his mother was a member of my mother’s Congregational Church. The church provided funding for DuBois’ college years at Fisk University.
I shared this anecdote with Dr. Henry Lewis Gates when he was our guest at the Sons of Confederate Veterans Convention in Concord, North Carolina, when the Convention was shooting footage for his “Looking for Lincoln” PBS film.
Gates had been invited as an honored guest because the family of a black Confederate was being honored at the Convention. The presentation being made by the African American director of the Georgia State archives, who had been astonished to find the material at the insistence of the soldier’s granddaughter that her ancestor had been a Confederate Soldier.
Gates had gone on record claiming that the stories about Black Confederates were hoaxes, but I have to give him credit.
As he was stepping into his limousine to leave, he hesitated, turned to us and said, “Fellas, I’m sorry, I was lied to”. It was a special, but hitherto unknown movement, in American race relations, which starts with having an open mind and the ability to listen.
The mix of the Great Barrington George Floyd crowd was similar to the rest of the country over the weekend, with lots of young people, plus a mixture of all ages and all levels of society. The town joined hands with hundreds of other towns and cities, and across the world, to stand together for real change in race relations.
It was a weekend that saw Donald Trump’s attempt to divide the country via his threat to invoke the Insurrection Law to put the US military on the streets of America without a governor’s request, which ran into a brick wall.
He and Attorney General Barr possibly joined Derek Chauvin, Floyd’s murderer, in being the most hated men in America, against a backdrop where ex-Justice Department, ex-generals, and past top Defense Department officials spoke out to deplore Trump’s threats to use US troops on American streets to play America’s great defender in an election year political stunt.
The American people nailed the door shut on that happening this past weekend, and what VeteransToday believes will be any chance of Trump being reelected in November.
I had written a tour guide of my native Berkshire county in 2012 in appreciation of what a fabulous place it was to grow up, and it still is, so it was a kick for me to find this article, forwarded by a VT reader.
At the end of this Berkshire Edge article, watch Eoin Higgin’s video of Great Barrington joining hands with hundreds of communities across the country in sharing a great day and making some history … Jim W. Dean ]
– First published … June 06, 2020 –
Great Barrington – Joining Black Lives Matter demonstrations nationwide, upwards of 1,000 people gathered in front of the historic Town Hall Saturday afternoon (June 6) – a crowd so large that it spilled into Main Street — to proclaim its outrage at the deadly mistreatment of black citizens at the hands of police, and to listen to speakers decry the seeming sanction of racism seeping into the fabric of American life.
In part organized by 18-year-old Calista Nelson and her friend Langston Stahler, the protest was prompted by the death of 46-year-old George Floyd, who died May 25 as a white Minneapolis policeman, Derek Chauvin, ground his knee into Floyd’s neck, after he had been handcuffed and was lying on the pavement, for 8 minutes, 46 seconds, asphyxiating him as he pleaded that he could not breathe.
A video recording of his death went viral, prompting worldwide condemnation and instigating demonstrations in cities and towns across the U.S.
His murder at the hands of police – so vividly recorded – instantly came to symbolize not just racial injustice but also a broader sense that our country is being victimized by an authoritarian mindset that is infecting and afflicting our institutions.
“It has taken a long time, but I think we can now all agree that there is racism in our system of justice,” declared State Sen. Adam Hinds, in his remarks to the rally.
“I think we can now all agree that when you have extreme income inequality and you enter a recession — as we have right now — it is black and brown workers who are hit first, hit hardest, and will feel the downturn longest.
“I think we can now all agree that when you have unequal social determinants of health, people of color end up dying at greater numbers during a health crisis as we are watching right now with COVID-19.
“I also think we can all agree we have not seen a moment with this energy and widespread action in generations, I haven’t seen an opportunity like this to address inequity in my lifetime. This is a moment pass we cannot let pass.
“But there is something I am not convinced we can agree on. Can we all agree that we commit to being committed anti-racists?
“Are we all willing to monitor closely our thoughts, words and actions? Will we take the difficult and uncomfortable actions to stand up to others, or make the deliberate choices in how we educate our children if you are a parent, hiring decisions if you are a manager?
“There is one more thing. Will you stand up for changing state laws? This is the time to commit ourselves to endorse anti-racist legislation that protects the rights of Black and Latino citizens. Last week, the Black and Latino Legislative Caucus stood in front of the Massachusetts State House and outlined an agenda for action. It includes critical action, such as removing the use of choke holds by police. As legislators face difficult votes and conversations, will you be there to stand up for change?
“Thank you for being here and thank you for being a committed anti-racist. “No justice, no peace.”
Berkshire District Attorney Andrea Harrington explained that she had sent condolences on behalf of her office to the parents of George Floyd.
“It sickens me that the prosecutors in this case didn’t immediately seek murder charges, until there was intense public pressure,” she said. “But I have the hope of seeing this current generation bring racial justice to this country at last. We need a big structural change in law enforcement.”
Dennis Powell, president of the Berkshire NAACP chapter, had a far harsher assessment. He termed the murder of George Floyd equivalent to the practice of lynching inflicted upon blacks by white racists.
“In the 1700s it was the bondage of slavery; in the 1820s it was the lynching rope that terrified the black communities, and in 2010 it was the bullets. Here we are in 2020 and we’re back to lynching,” he said. “Because to put your knee on a man’s neck until he is dead is the same as putting a noose around his neck until he is dead or to put him in a chokehold until he is dead.”
But Powell insinuated that Israelis may have been, in a roundabout way, responsible for Floyd’s death, offering the theory that the techniques used by the Minneapolis Police to subdue Floyd were the result of training by Israeli security forces who use similar methods to subdue Palestinians.
“The training of U.S. police officials by Israeli forces is widespread,” Powell asserted, identifying Jewish organizations as sponsoring such training. He called on “Jewish brothers and sisters” to urge these organizations to call a halt to sponsorship. “Tell them to stop funding and training our police in terrorist techniques because our American citizens are young, old, middle age, Black and Brown people who are not terrorists. It’s got to stop, and it’s got to stop yesterday!”
Still, Powell also predicted a political evolution in this year’s November elections:
“The White House in our nation’s capital was built by the blood, sweat and pain of Black people. I stand here today to serve notice that we’re coming for the keys. The White House was not built to house its present occupant; the safety net put in place because of the COVID-19 pandemic which protects individuals from being evicted from their home does not apply to the occupant of the White House; we are coming for the keys because we’re going to get out in unbelievable numbers — come this November. We are coming for the keys, get ready, pack your bag, your reign is over. For the Bible that you held and never opened will not save you!”
Great Barrington Selectboard member Leigh Davis, the daughter of civil rights activist Lloyd Davis who led the Martin Luther King Center in Atlanta, Georgia, delivered a rousing message: “What are you going to do?” she asked her audience. “How have you been touched by racism? We can do better. We cannot let this end here. I’m going to stand up and say, ‘no more’.”
The following video of the protest was created by Eoin Higgins:
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Henry Louis Gates interviewed by Jim W. Dean in Looking for Lincoln, PBS
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veteranstoday--2020-06-08--China Defends Its Response to Coronavirus

China defends its coronavirus response in new report BEIJING ( AP ) — Senior Chinese officials released a lengthy report Sunday on the nation ’ s response to the coronavirus pandemic , defending their government ’ s actions and saying that China had provided information in a timely and transparent manner .
China “ wasted no time ” in sharing information such as the genome sequence for the new virus with the World Health Organization as well as relevant countries and regional organizations , according to the report .
An Associated Press investigation found that government labs sat on releasing @ @ @ @ @ @ @ more than a week in January , delaying its identification in a third country and the sharing of information needed to develop tests , drugs and a vaccine .
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China defends its coronavirus response in new report
by Ken Moritsugu/AP News
BEIJING (AP) — Senior Chinese officials released a lengthy report Sunday on the nation’s response to the coronavirus pandemic, defending their government’s actions and saying that China had provided information in a timely and transparent manner.
China “wasted no time” in sharing information such as the genome sequence for the new virus with the World Health Organization as well as relevant countries and regional organizations, according to the report.
An Associated Press investigation found that government labs sat on releasing the genetic map of the virus for more than a week in January, delaying its identification in a third country and the sharing of information needed to develop tests, drugs and a vaccine. National Health Commission Chairman Ma Xiaowei did not address the specific findings in the AP report, but said it “seriously goes against the facts.” He added that there were many unknowns in the early stage of the outbreak and that it took time to gather evidence and figure out the characteristics of the new virus. “The Chinese government did not delay or cover up anything,” he said. “Instead, we have immediately reported virus data and relevant information about the epidemic to the international community and ...read more:
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veteranstoday--2020-06-08--Half of New COVID-19 Cases in Singapore are Symptomless

Health Editor ’ s Note : Just as we have known all along , during this pandemic , people who are infected with COVID-19 may have no symptoms of being ill , but still spread the virus .
Singapore is seeing that half of their newer cases have no symptoms…Carol Exclusive : Half of Singapore ’ s new COVID-19 cases are symptomless , taskforce head says SINGAPORE ( Reuters ) – At least half of Singapore ’ s newly discovered coronavirus cases show no symptoms , the co-head of the government ’ s virus taskforce told Reuters on Monday , @ @ @ @ @ @ @ ease lockdown restrictions very gradually .
Tiny Singapore has one of the highest infection tallies in Asia , with more than 38,000 cases , because of outbreaks in cramped dormitories housing thousands of migrant workers .
It reopened schools and some businesses last week after a near two-month lockdown , but many residents are still required to work from home and mix socially only with their families .
“ Based on our experience , for every symptomatic case you would have at least one asymptomatic case , ” said Lawrence Wong , adding @ @ @ @ @ @ @ weeks as Singapore ramped up testing .
“ That is exactly why we have been very cautious in our reopening plans , ” Wong said .
Singapore has not previously disclosed how many asymptomatic cases it has recorded .
Wong did not reveal the number of asymptomatic cases in Singapore , which has reported 6,294 infections in the last two weeks , mainly among migrant workers .
China said 300 symptomless COVID-19 carriers in its central city of Wuhan , the pandemic epicentre , had not been found to be infectious .
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Health Editor’s Note: Just as we have known all along, during this pandemic, people who are infected with COVID-19 may have no symptoms of being ill, but still spread the virus. Singapore is seeing that half of their newer cases have no symptoms…Carol
Exclusive: Half of Singapore’s new COVID-19 cases are symptomless, taskforce head says
by John Geddie/Reuters
SINGAPORE (Reuters) – At least half of Singapore’s newly discovered coronavirus cases show no symptoms, the co-head of the government’s virus taskforce told Reuters on Monday, reinforcing the city-state’s decision to ease lockdown restrictions very gradually.
Tiny Singapore has one of the highest infection tallies in Asia, with more than 38,000 cases, because of outbreaks in cramped dormitories housing thousands of migrant workers. It reopened schools and some businesses last week after a near two-month lockdown, but many residents are still required to work from home and mix socially only with their families. “Based on our experience, for every symptomatic case you would have at least one asymptomatic case,” said Lawrence Wong, adding that the discovery was made in recent weeks as Singapore ramped up testing. “That is exactly why we have been very cautious in our reopening plans,” Wong said. Singapore has not previously disclosed how many asymptomatic cases it has recorded. Wong did not reveal the number of asymptomatic cases in Singapore, which has reported 6,294 infections in the last two weeks, mainly among migrant workers. China said 300 symptomless COVID-19 carriers in its central city of Wuhan, the pandemic epicentre, had not been found to be infectious. Read More:
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veteranstoday--2020-06-08--Government’s Supply of Antiviral Remdesivir Runs Out at End of June

The US government ’ s supply of the only proven Covid-19 drug runs out at the end of the month The US government ’ s current supply of remdesivir , the only drug known to work against Covid-19 , will run out at the end of the month , Dr. Robert Kadlec , a US Department of Health and Human Services official , told CNN .
The government ’ s last shipment of the drug will go out the week of June 29 .
Gilead Sciences , the company that makes the drug , is ramping up to make more @ @ @ @ @ @ @ much will be available this summer .
“ Right now , we ’ re waiting to hear from Gilead what is their expected delivery availability of the drug as we go from June to July , ” Kadlec said .
“ We ’ re kind of not in negotiations , but in discussions with Gilead as they project what the availability of their product will be.
” Last month , the US Food and Drug Administration gave emergency authorization for remdesivir , an intravenous antiviral medication studied to treat Ebola but now used @ @ @ @ @ @ @ a blockbuster drug , a study shows it shaves four days off a hospital stay , from 15 to 11 days .
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The US government’s supply of the only proven Covid-19 drug runs out at the end of the month
By Elizabeth Cohen and Arman Azad/CNN
(CNN) The US government’s current supply of remdesivir, the only drug known to work against Covid-19, will run out at the end of the month, Dr. Robert Kadlec, a US Department of Health and Human Services official, told CNN.
The government’s last shipment of the drug will go out the week of June 29. Gilead Sciences, the company that makes the drug, is ramping up to make more, but it’s unclear how much will be available this summer. “Right now, we’re waiting to hear from Gilead what is their expected delivery availability of the drug as we go from June to July,” Kadlec said. “We’re kind of not in negotiations, but in discussions with Gilead as they project what the availability of their product will be.” Last month, the US Food and Drug Administration gave emergency authorization for remdesivir, an intravenous antiviral medication studied to treat Ebola but now used on hospitalized Covid patients. While not a blockbuster drug, a study shows it shaves four days off a hospital stay, from 15 to 11 days. Read More:
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