Charity leaders and pro Palestinianactivists in Gaza have
condemned the crowdfunding website for blocking
withdrawals of funds raised by Palestine-related pages – and have accused Go Fund Me bosses of having “blood on their hands”.
Despite questions from Al Jazeera, the company has not revealed the
amount of money raised on its platform for Gaza that has been frozen in
its system or has been refunded to donors. but it has told Al Jazeera that more than $300m has been raised on
the platform for both Palestinians and Israelis since Hamas’s October 7 attacks on Israel in 2023 and the beginning of Israel’s war on Gaza.
Hala Sabbah, founder of mutual aid group The Sameer Project, said
that in September, more than $250,000 of donations to her organisation
was refunded. The London-based activist described the closure of her
GoFundMe page as a “disaster” for efforts to provide
emergency aid to people suffering from lack of food, shelter and medicines on the enclave. The Sameer Project is a much more professional and well organised effort than the ridiculous stunt staged by 'Saint; Greta Thunberg a few weeks ago.
The Sameer Project runs a camp for displaced Palestinians in Deir el-Balah,
providing healthcare and essentials to its residents, using money that, until now, had been raised through GoFundMe, totalling more
than $1m. It also funds food, water, shelter and clothing for people
across Gaza.
Sabbah said she was “treated like scum” by GoFundMe, despite her group’s pages having raised about $44,000 for it in transaction fees. “Our GoFundMe page had daily updates with complete cost breakdowns of
every single initiative we did – everything was well-documented, with
receipts,” she said.
GoFundMe now notifies page organisers that there will be a “review”
process after they launch fundraisers related to Palestine or “the
conflict in the Middle East”, as it is phrased by the company’s
compliance team in emails seen by Al Jazeera. The company claims this is
part of its “standard verification process”, but critics say it appears
to target Gaza-related pages with restrictions and sanctions rather than those for other
causes, such as Israel or Ukraine.
GoFundMe has so far failed to respond when requested to disclose figures showing how many Israel or
Ukraine fundraisers have been closed compared with those for Gaza.
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With the European farmers protest movement having entered a quiet phase after Brussels, in a partial (or phoney,) cave in offered farmers some concessions on taxes, fuel costs and 'net zero' fascism, to buy time in the run up to the European Parliament elections in June, although the farmer rebellion is not over, for the present we turn back to other stories in the news.
The war is still going on and though we have not reported it for a while nothing much has changed other than the media position: rather than feeding us the obvious lie that Ukraine is winning and just needed more weapons, humanitarian aid and western taxpayers money for a final push to victory as it had since Russian troops first crossed the border in 2022, the narrative has now changed, Ukraine is being crushed and needs more weapons, humanitarian aid and western taxpayers money to defend itself against aggression and survive as a nation.
Throughout the two years of war so far, European and American taxpayers have had little chance to hear Russia's case for prosecuting the war and what we have heard from the regime in Kiev has been so obviously propananda, little beyond the fact that the content was generated by the Ukrainian defence ministry could be believed. Now however, thanks to the diligence of the alt_news community, specifically a former Fox News anchor, Tucker Carlson who now runs an independent news channel on Elon Musk's 'X' platform, we have had a chance to hear Russia's side.
And what a contrast it was to the demented babbling of US President in name only, Joe Biden, the empty threats of EU leaders where, as we know, nations have little military strength to back up their leaders words, and bluster from British military leaders who still delude themselves that the UK is a world power.
Russian President Vladimir Putin in an interview
with Carlson released Thursday with journalist clearly wanted to
deliver a firm message as well as assuring ordinary punters that despite the scaremongering of NATO and The USA that if Ukraine is lost Russia will advance into the rest of Europe, The Kremlin does not even want to conquer the whole of Ukraine. At one point he stressed
that Kiev's allies must face up to the fact that it is "impossible" to defeat Russia in Ukraine.
"Up
until now, there has been the uproar and screaming about inflicting a
strategic defeat to Russia on the battlefield. But now they are
apparently coming to realize that it is difficult to achieve, if possible, at all. In my opinion, it is impossible by definition," he said according to the full transcript of the meeting as published on Tucker Carlson's X channel.
The
war is now only days away from reaching the two year-mark, on Feb.22, and
though frontlines have been remained almost static in spite of Ukraine's much hyped counter offensive in the summer of 2023, which resulted in the Ukies losing huge number of troops and more territory, Russia has
solidified its hold over much of the east and parts of the south. The
ferocity of the war hasn't lessened and hostilities appear to have moved to an more dangerous cross-border phase.
Ukraine
has not only launched several attacks on Russian oil
refineries and key installations of late, but its cross-border attacks
deep into Russian territory, made possible by the donation of expensive long range missiles from USA and UK, are coming almost daily at this point.
Russia's defense ministry said Friday its forces shot down 19 Ukrainian drones over four different regions and the Black Sea overnight.
"An
attempt by the Kyiv regime to commit a terrorist attack with 19 aerial
drones against sites on Russian territory has been thwarted," the
ministry said,
identifying intercepts over the Kursk, Bryansk, Oryol and Krasnodar
regions. One drone was sent to within 300 kilometers southwest of Moscow
and targeted the country's energy infrastructure.
The more the
conflict spreads into Russian territory the greater the risk of Russia finally unlesshing its big guns and heavy bombers on heavily populated parts of Ukraine, and utilizing Western
long-range weapons, and the greater the threat of direct Russian-NATO
conflict, which would be an unmitigated disaster for all sides with potential nuclear implications.
This
is why during the Tucker Carlson interview in Moscow, Putin's words on
the causes of the Ukraine war and the prospect for a future peace were
being closely watched both in Ukraine and the West. Below are some key
sections we have zeroed in on, in order to understand Putin's thinking
in his own words.
‘We’re Not At War With Russia,’ Germany's Chancellor Scholz tells Warmongering French Ouanqeur Macron Though Macron's recent posturing as a reincarnated Napoleon by calling on his fellow European leaders to send troops to fight alongside the Ukrainian military may have been nothing more than an ill - advised attempt to deflect attention from online conspiracy theories that his wife Brigitte is, or was at some time in the past, a man, the ploy, if that is what it was, has backfired.
Total Defeat Of Ukraine By Russia Is Only A Matter Of Time Financial Times columnist and founder member of the Vobblyvoddymyr Zelensky piano playing penis fan club, Gideon Rachman has a talent for stating the obvious which he displays in a recent article on the state of play in the Ukrainian conflict 'Ukraine and its backers need a credible path to victory - archived. As the Financial Times is behind a paywall with no monthly allocation of free articles, below is a sommary of the most importyant section:
Is The West About To Abandon Ukraine? n a fresh interview with Germany's national television service ARD on Saturday (2 December,) NATO Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg warned viewers to prepare for for more "bad news" from Ukraine. Asked for his opinion on whether the situation will worsen for Ukrainian as winter sets in, after the much hyped summer counteroffensive turned into a catastrophic failure he responded, "Wars develop in phases.
The War In Ukraine Is Entering A Significant Phase - SitRep With all the other troubles in the world its easy to overlook the news from Ukraine which suggests that conflict is entering a a crucial phase as the western allies find it inceasingly difficult to keep up with Kiev's demands for cash, weapons and ammo. Big Serge has a rather long situation report on Substack and it will not make happy reading for the Zelensky fan club in the west:
Game Over For Zelensky - NATO andEU Officials Urge Ukraine To Seek Peace As this blog predicted early last month, following the catastrophic failure of Ukraine's 'counter offensive' to push Russian troops out of their country, American and European leaders who have previously been solidly behind the doomed Ukrainian war with its powerful neighbour, are rapidly going cool on their pledges of unlimited support for puppet - president Zelensky and his far - right masters.
Ukraine's Military Commander Admits Counter - offensive Has Failed And The Battlefield Position Is Stalemate Since Russian troops crossed the border into Ukraine, back in February 2022, those of us who questioed the Russia bad, Ukraine goood narrative have been targeted by torrents of abuse hurled by pseudo - patriots and armchair soldiers, and called a 'Kremlin stooges', Russian agents', 'Putin supporters', and enemies of freedom. When anybody suggested that Russia's aim was not to conquer the whole of Ukraine and from there wage war on the rest on continental Europe ...
Ukraine Too Corrupt To Join The EU Says Former EU Leader Juncker Former EU Commission President and world class oenophile Jean-Claude Juncker, stated this week in unusually blunt terms that are perhaps a sign of the times, that Ukraine is not ready to join the EU due to its being "corrupt at all levels of society," the former European Commission president, said in unusually blunt language during an interview with Germany’s Augsburger Allgemeine newspaper this week.
There Is Only One Way Ukraine Can End The War As Ukraine's much hyped counterattack has failed to achieved the and momentum that hoped for by American and NATO leaders including President Volodymyr Zelensky who admitted it was "slower than desired", and a range of soldiers interviewed by BBC and Sky News television reporters t on different parts of the long (probably too long given the depletion of Ukrainian military manpower,) frontline have blamed minefields laid by Russian troops for that delay. Well as is often said, in any wartruth is the first casualty.
Who Blew Up The Nordstream Pipeline So whodunnit? Sabotage of undersea gas pipe will escalate tension and move the world closer to nuclear war, but who is behind it, Russia in a bid to put more presure on Europe, Ukraine in an attempt to drag NATO into direct action, or the USA using a CIA false flag event to advance its own agenda.
Has Putin Has Pushed Europe Into Economic Depression, Hyperrinflation and Currency Collapse? Though it was entirely predictable and indeed had been expected for some time, the news over the weekend that the Nord Stream 1 pipeline which feeds gas from Russia to northern Europe via The Baltic route had been shut down completely by The Kremlin in retaliation for the continued financial and military support given by NATO and EU member states to Ukraine in the conflict with Russia. The European Commission, governing body of the EU, immediately put the community on something close to a war footing, ... Continue reading >>>
Is Russia Selling Its Oil To The World Through An Obscure Egyptian Port? As this blog predicted when NATO and EU member states shot themselves in the foot by reacting to Russia's invasion of Ukraine with sanctions that prevented Russia from selling oil, gas and vital raw materials to the countries that needed them most, the NATO and EU member states, the Russians have had no problems finding alternative customers for their gas and oil and no problem getting oil into the world's commodity markets through the back door.
As the war in Ukraine grinds on and Russia steps up its economic war against the west and in particular The European Union, claims made recently by the idiotically 'woke' leaders of Europe's main economic and military powers that the West has a once-in-a–generation chance to severely weaken Russia’s capabilities, both militarily and geopolitically, look increasingly hollow. Putin's critics have cited 'Western unity' as one of the main reasons why Russia will be economically destroyed and politically humiliated when the Ukraine's military finally claim victory.
European Union Is Again Close To A Meltdown As Eurozone Economy Collapses Once more we return to the political instability and economic fragility of the European Union as the conflict in Ukraine combined with loonytoons Climate Change mitigation policies, the failure of 'sustainables' to meet ever increasing demand for electricity, fod shortages and rampant price inflation put economic and social pressure on governments of member states ...
Russian Long Range Missile Test Fuels Nuclear War Fears As NATO Pushed Ukraine To Escalate Conflict Russia tested its latest intercontinental ballistic missile yeserday, the Satan II has a range of 10,000 miles and can devastate an area of 250,000 square kilometers according to military experts. Bizarrely commentators in mainsteam and online news services portrayed this as a sign of weakness by Russia, though the same people cheered when Joe (Dementiaman) Biden threratened a nuclear response if Russia crossed his 'red lines' in Ukraine ...
We The Good Guys Versus They The Bad Guys Reporting Does Not Make Sense For The Ukraine Crisis Mainstream media reporting of the conflict in Ukraine has disappointed. Perhaps I was naive to suppose that lessons might have been learned from the hits their print sales and online traffic rates took as a result of their handling the COVID pandemic But instead of focusing on the most obviously newsworthy aspect of the build up to and escalation of the war, Russia’s view of NATO expansion into Ukraine and even further to Georgia and Kazakhstan, news reports have simply demonised Russia and portrayed Ukraine as the good guys.
Boris and Biden Can't Blame Ukraine War For Energy Crisis With typical arrogance and condescension towards the people who elected them Boris Johnson, Joe Biden and their respectiive presstitutes are trying to spin the energy crisis Europe and North America are currently facing as somehow being linked to the conflict in Ukraine and therfore blame is being attactched to Russia and Vladimir Putin. Do they really think we are stupid enough to believe such unmitigated bollocks? ...
Even If The War In Ukraine Ends, Sanctions Will Stay - So How Bad Will The Food Crisis Get? Western leaders, desperate to show their own countries they were taking a firm stance on Russia's invasion of Ukraine, were quick to impose economic sanctions ... so quick in fact that they acted before they had though things through. While freezing Russia out of the global finance system they have exacerbated the wests energy crisis, while Russia's retaliatory ban on raw materials (fertiliser) exports will create extra problems on top of those we already had ...
Europe's Depleted Gas Storage Might Not Get Refilled Ahead Of Next Winter While mainstream news reporting of the conflict in Ukraine continues to pump out a torrent of anri - Russia, pro - war propaganda the catastropic effects of this war that could so easily have been avoided are not mentioned. Well why would warmongering governments admit they have inflicted an energy crisis, food shortages and soaring living costs on their people for no good reason ...
EU Vows To Retaliate if Nord Stream Gas Pipeline Blasts Were Sabotage - But against whom, the USA? Yesterday's shocking news that the Nord Stream 1 & 2 gas poipelines between Russia and Germany immediately triggered speculation about who is responsible, but as the facts emerge the knee jerk blaming of Russia has failed to convince because the attack bears all the halllmarks of a false flag event engineered by the usual suspects ...
40% Without
Power, fuel. Government Not Doing Anything For People, No Generators, Tents,
Heat, Etc. Kyiv Blackout Tonight. Riots Could Ensue
Sources in Ukraine made the astounding claims above as mainstream media continued to assert the propaganda line that the Russian army is being routed by Ukrainian irregulars armed and trained by US, UK and EU non - combatants, and the Russian economy is rapidly collapsing. If you give your memory a workout you might recall that similar claims have been made regularly throughout the 8 month course of this war.
Our source for this story, Tsarizm has been reporting from inside Ukraine for a decade, and has developed a network of sources both in government and among Ukrainian citizens.
Tsarizm reports today that according to a trusted source 40% of Ukraine is
now without power. The Ukrainian people are very angry with officials
as the harsh winter approaches.This is a lot different from what we hear and read in mainstream news reports in the west, but can be corroborated by other independent sources such as Times of India and The Saker which are outside the reach of the NATO propaganda machine
If confirmed (and we have very little reason to doubt its veracity while Washington, London and The European Union are still asking us to believe Russia blew up the Nord stream pipeline, its own, economically vital asset, and attacked the Kerch Bridge, a strategically important link for road and rail transport between the Russian mainland and the annexed Crimean Peninsula, this would mean millions of Ukrainians face the winter without electricity, water, food and medical services.
Civil unrest is bound to follow but in provoking this war by their campaign of ethnic cleansing of Russian speakers in Ukraine, and their escalation of the level of conflict (with help and support from demented, geriatric US President 'Paedo Joe' Biden and his NATO allies,) the neo Nazi government in Kiev have shown they care nothing for their own people and are only interested in pursing their acient hatred of Russia. And as it is well known the Russians are no angels hand have always been ruthless in crushing anybody who pisses them off, we may understand that Ukraine is governed by lunatics.
Reports also suggest that the $£€billions in cash aid sent from
the West is not getting in large part to the Ukrainian
people or showing up in the official Ukrainian budget. It
is feared that much is being stolen by the neo Nazi nutters in Kiev.
Even mainstream media has reported that aid sent to Western NGO’s has seen 50% skimmed off the top, with additional losses as aid is distributed. It has also been widely reported that only 30% of military is hardware and humanitarian aid (tents, blankets, clothing, food and medicines,) donated by the west is reaching the Ukrainian military.
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Are US Supplied Long Range Missiles Really Winning The War For Ukraine? Since very soon after the start of the war between Russia and Ukraine western powers, USA, UK, EU and NATO have been doing everything possible to prolong and escalate the war. The latest move is to provide the Ukrainian military with long range HIMARS missile. Mainstream media are claiming this has tilted the balance in Ukraine's favour. But for what? To prolong the slaughter? ...
As the war in Ukraine grinds on and Russia steps up its economic war against the west and in particular The European Union, claims made recently by the idiotically 'woke' leaders of Europe's main economic and military powers that the West has a once-in-a–generation chance to severely weaken Russia’s capabilities, both militarily and geopolitically, look increasingly hollow. Putin's critics have cited 'Western unity' as one of the main reasons why Russia will be economically destroyed and politically humiliated when the Ukraine's military finally claim victory.
European Union Is Again Close To A Meltdown As Eurozone Economy Collapses Once more we return to the political instability and economic fragility of the European Union as the conflict in Ukraine combined with loonytoons Climate Change mitigation policies, the failure of 'sustainables' to meet ever increasing demand for electricity, fod shortages and rampant price inflation put economic and social pressure on governments of member states ...
Russian Long Range Missile Test Fuels Nuclear War Fears As NATO Pushed Ukraine To Escalate Conflict Russia tested its latest intercontinental ballistic missile yeserday, the Satan II has a range of 10,000 miles and can devastate an area of 250,000 square kilometers according to military experts. Bizarrely commentators in mainsteam and online news services portrayed this as a sign of weakness by Russia, though the same people cheered when Joe (Dementiaman) Biden threratened a nuclear response if Russia crossed his 'red lines' in Ukraine ...
We The Good Guys Versus They The Bad Guys Reporting Does Not Make Sense For The Ukraine Crisis Mainstream media reporting of the conflict in Ukraine has disappointed. Perhaps I was naive to suppose that lessons might have been learned from the hits their print sales and online traffic rates took as a result of their handling the COVID pandemic But instead of focusing on the most obviously newsworthy aspect of the build up to and escalation of the war, Russia’s view of NATO expansion into Ukraine and even further to Georgia and Kazakhstan, news reports have simply demonised Russia and portrayed Ukraine as the good guys.
Boris and Biden Can't Blame Ukraine War For Energy Crisis With typical arrogance and condescension towards the people who elected them Boris Johnson, Joe Biden and their respectiive presstitutes are trying to spin the energy crisis Europe and North America are currently facing as somehow being linked to the conflict in Ukraine and therfore blame is being attactched to Russia and Vladimir Putin. Do they really think we are stupid enough to believe such unmitigated bollocks? ...
Even If The War In Ukraine Ends, Sanctions Will Stay - So How Bad Will The Food Crisis Get? Western leaders, desperate to show their own countries they were taking a firm stance on Russia's invasion of Ukraine, were quick to impose economic sanctions ... so quick in fact that they acted before they had though things through. While freezing Russia out of the global finance system they have exacerbated the wests energy crisis, while Russia's retaliatory ban on raw materials (fertiliser) exports will create extra problems on top of those we already had ...
Europe's Depleted Gas Storage Might Not Get Refilled Ahead Of Next Winter While mainstream news reporting of the conflict in Ukraine continues to pump out a torrent of anri - Russia, pro - war propaganda the catastropic effects of this war that could so easily have been avoided are not mentioned. Well why would warmongering governments admit they have inflicted an energy crisis, food shortages and soaring living costs on their people for no good reason ...
Putin, Macron To Hold Urgent Talks To Halt Military Escalation In Ukraine Even though the leaders of Ukraine itself are talking down the threat of war with Russia over the breakaway region of Donbas, America and Britain are still beating the war drums and demonising Russian leader Vladimir Putin. Russia insists they have no plans to invade Ukraine and one western leader at least, France's Emmanuel Macron, seems to be listening to messages coming out of the East European trouble spot...
Germany News Mag. Spiegel Asks "Is Vladimir Putin Right?" About NATO Expansion As the confrontation along the border between Ukraine and Russia has escalated to actual shooting with ethnic Russian rebel separatists in Donbas reporting intensified shelling and initiating a "general mobilization" of military-age males, with Moscow denying they plan to invade and Ukraine's leaders accusing US, UK and French leaders of hysteria for talking up the threat of war, Germany's leading newspaper Spiegel asks the question fundamental to the entire conflict...
