Tag: retractions

Secret Intelligence Leaks vs. Basic Common Sense

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Historical Examples

During 1940 the determined efforts of President Franklin Roosevelt to involve America in the war against Hitler’s Germany were blocked by the overwhelming opposition of the American people, running at 80% according to some polls. A group of young Yale Law School peace activists had launched the America First Committee and it quickly attracted 800,000 members, becoming the largest grassroots political organization in our national history. The leadership of the AFC included many of our most prominent business and journalistic figures, and famed aviator Charles Lindbergh, one of our greatest national heroes, served as its top spokesman.

Secret Intelligence Leaks vs. Basic Common Sense

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Kremlin says Russian missiles did not target residential building in Dnipro

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Kremlin says Russian missiles did not target residential building in Dnipro:

The Ukrainian Air Force says the apartment complex was hit by a Russian Kh-22 missile, which Kyiv says it does not have the equipment to shoot down. Peskov suggested that the strike had been the result of Ukrainian “anti-aircraft counter-missiles” intercepting the Russian missile, saying that “some representatives of the Ukrainian side” had reached the same conclusion.

Oleksiy Arestovych, who advises the Ukrainian president’s office, said on Saturday evening that it looked as though the Russian missile had fallen onto the apartment building after being shot down by Ukrainian air defenses. The comment sparked anger in Ukraine, prompting him to apologize. He then retracted his online apology, saying that he had made clear in his initial comments that his conclusion was only a preliminary theory. Dnipro, a city of almost a million people which serves as a crucial supply hub for Ukrainian forces in the eastern Donbas region, has come under repeated bombardment from Russian missiles.

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At distance, two separate fires: An air defense missile, respectively a cruise missile shot down by it. And the 9-story building inflamed at the front (other side of the building in the picture, at the far right of the explosions)

Source: Prof. Marcello Ferrada de Noli on Twitter

Video confirms Oleksii Arestovych’s explanation on the regrettable #Dnipro missile disaster. via THE INDICTER Channel

YouTube – Arestovych: building destruction in Dnipro caused by Ukr air defence when shot down Russian missile via THE INDICTER Channel

Flash : daily Ukrainian terrorist shelling in Donbass + More

AP fired a reporter after a dangerous blunder. Slack messages reveal a chaotic process.

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A 10-minute miscommunication on Slack between journalists at the Associated Press resulted in an erroneous report last week that appeared momentarily to bring tensions between NATO and Russia to their highest point since the Cuban Missile Crisis.

AP fired a reporter after a dangerous blunder. Slack messages reveal a chaotic process.

Related (Pattern of Behavior?!:

Marine Corps bans journalist and veteran James LaPorta from Camp Lejeune base

On 5 February 2017, you participated in inappropriate and unethical activities by attempting to interview a victim of an alleged crime aboard Marine Corps base, Camp Lejeune, (MCB CAMLEJ); which is in violation of [a regulation], by gathering information/taking photographs/videotaping/exposing TV motion picture film within the Camp Lejeune area without prior approval of the Consolidated Public Affairs Office. Additionally, you violated [another regulation]; which states “Personal interviews and telephonic communications between prisoners and media representatives is not authorized, unless a determination is made that such an interview serves the legitimate public interest, or is in the best interest of the military.

Based upon the serious nature of your misconduct, you are being debarred from MCB CAMLEJ. I have determined that your presence aboard MCB CAMLEJ is detrimental to the security, good order and discipline of the Installation. Accordingly, you are hereby notified, upon the receipt of this letter, that you are ordered not to reenter, or be found within the limits of MCB CAMLEJ.

Why Is AP Still Protecting the Source Behind its False Russia-Bombed-Poland Story?

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AP’s source claimed Russian missiles hit Poland. This seemed calculated to set off a frenzy and trigger NATO articles to create a wider war. Why won’t the AP tell us who the falsifying source is?

Why Is AP Still Protecting the Source Behind its False Russia-Bombed-Poland Story?

No coincidence that Burns had been in Kiev the day that the missiles hit Poland. /s

The story hasn’t been corrected in the Apple News app nor on Reuters’ website, yet it was ‘corrected’ by AP.