Israeli Military Forgot At Least 5 Merkava Battle Tanks At Golan Heights

Hikers in the Israeli-occupied Golan Heights found at least 5 armed and unguarded Merkava Mk. IV battle tanks. Doors of the battle tanks were open with equipment and munitions left completely unguarded inside.

“This is an exceptional and serious malfunction that does not meet the standard expected by the IDF,” the Israeli Defense Forces said in response to the incident.

“The issue will be investigated immediately by the commanders and will be presented up to the level of the regional commander. Lessons will be learned and those responsible will be prosecuted and severely punished. After the incident, security around the vehicles was tightened and procedures were sharpened for all soldiers and commanders.”

The video was published online amid the growing tensions between Hezbollah and the Israeli Defense Forces in both the Golan Heights area and the Israeli-Lebanese contact line. So, if Israeli sources do not know how to explain this failure, they can easily blame Hezbollah.

https://southfront.org/israeli-military-forgot-at-least-5-merkava-battle-tanks-at-golan-heights/

German Court Overturns Protest Ban - Tomorrow's Massive Anti-Lockdown March To Go-Ahead

Earlier in the week, we reported that authorities in Berlin had banned a series of planned demonstrations against the country's COVID-19 lockdown measures - claiming they were organized by "right-wing extremists" and would lead to the spread of the virus.

The city said it would deploy several thousand police around the German capital this weekend, citing threats.

Notably, the German city did not ban a June Black Lives Matter protest in which approximately 15,000 people turned out.

Meanwhile, the Assembly for Freedom had 17,000 registered demonstrators for the August 29 event before Berlin shut it down.

"We are still in the middle of a pandemic with rising infection figures," said Berlin Interior Minister, Andreas Geisel.

"This is not a decision against freedom of assembly, but a decision in favor of infection protection," he continued, adding that Berlin should not be "misused as a stage for corona deniers… and right-wing extremists."

https://www.zerohedge.com/political/german-court-overturns-protest-ban-tomorrows-massive-anti-lockdown-march-go-ahead

'Big Cable' Lost Over $55 Million In Q2 Despite Lockdown-Driven Couch-Surfing

One would imagine, with tens of millions of Americans quarantined at home during the second quarter, that years of cord-cutting would not just subside but reverse. However, according to the website Kill The Cable Bill, people canceling their pay-TV subscriptions during the lockdown period accelerated.

https://www.zerohedge.com/markets/big-cable-lost-over-55-million-q2-despite-lockdown-driven-couch-surfing

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A few months back there was a release of tech that made tanks useless, if you were ordered to man a sitting duck would you?

Abandoned tanks, weapons found by hikers in Golan Heights

"Lessons will be learned and those responsible will be prosecuted and severely punished."

"This is an exceptional and serious malfunction that does not meet the standard expected by the IDF," said the IDF Spokesperson Unit in response to the incident.

"The issue will be investigated immediately by the commanders and will be presented up to the level of the regional commander. Lessons will be learned and those responsible will be prosecuted and severely punished. After the incident, security around the vehicles was tightened and procedures were sharpened for all soldiers and commanders."

The incident comes amid heightened tensions in northern Israel after Hezbollah terrorists fired at IDF soldiers along the Lebanon-Israel border on Tuesday night.

https://www.jpost.com/israel-news/abandoned-tanks-weapons-found-by-hikers-in-golan-heights-640253

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'Black Panther' Star Chadwick Boseman Dies at 43

According to an official statement, Chadwick Boseman, a leading actor in the Marvel universe movie 'Black Panther', had been diagnosed with stage 3 colon cancer in 2016.

Chadwick Boseman, a Marvel's "Black Panther" star, passed away after a four-year fight with colon cancer that progressed to stage 4.

https://sputniknews.com/world/202008291080310380-black-panther-star-chadwick-boseman-dies-at-43/

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Everyone is sorry, no one is responsible: COVID exposes lack of ministerial accountability

We may not have eradicated the virus but Australia seems to have done a thorough job of eradicating any remaining shred of the accountability of government ministers. Just about everyone is being asked to make sacrifices for the public good. The front-line health workers who risk their own health for the health of the country are the people who bear the heaviest burden.

Millions of other citizens are expected to accept loss of income, loss of personal liberties, loss of wellbeing. And just about everyone is held to account. Those who don't are admonished, fined and, in the case of the woman who snuck across the border into Western Australia by hiding on a truck, jailed for six months.

Just about everyone, that is, except those at the very top. We have three glaring failures.

One. Who was the NSW Minister for Health before the Ruby Princess plague event? Brad Hazzard. His department made multiple "serious", "inexplicable" and "basic" errors in handling the disembarkation of passengers from the cruise ship, according to the special commission of inquiry into the event.

Those errors led to the biggest source of infection in Australia to that point. Sixty-two people caught the virus due to those who disembarked.

The Premier, Gladys Berejiklian, said she was sorry for the "horrible mistakes" made by NSW Health. "I want to apologise unreservedly to anybody who is continuing to suffer, or has suffered unimaginable loss because of mistakes that were made within our health agencies."

So who is the NSW Minister for Health today? It's the very same Brad Hazzard.

Two. Who was the federal Minister for Aged Care when the Royal Commission into Aged Care Quality and Safety published its interim report titled with the single word "Neglect" in October last year? Richard Colbeck.

The royal commission described Australia's aged care system as "a shocking tale of neglect". It found "a sad and shocking system that diminishes Australia as a nation". It went so far as to say "many people receiving aged care services have their basic human rights denied".

More

https://www.theage.com.au/politics/federal/everyone-is-sorry-no-one-is-responsible-covid-exposes-lack-of-ministerial-accountability-20200828-p55qdt.html

Judge Denies Qualified Immunity for Kentucky Child Welfare Workers Who Illegally Strip-Searched Children

U.S. District Judge Justin Walker issued a blistering ruling against qualified immunity for a Kentucky Cabinet of Health and Family Services caseworker and a deputy on July 18. They participated in the illegal strip-search of children whose mother went to get muffins while her children slept in her car on a cool day in 2017. He wrote:

Act One: An “attentive and loving” mother gets muffins for her children. Act Two: There’s a knock on her door and a threat by the government to take away her children. Act Three: Her children are strip searched without cause. America’s founding generation may never have imagined a Cabinet for Health and Family Services. But they knew their fair share of unwelcome constables. And they added a Fourth Amendment to our Constitution to protect against this three-act tragedy.

The children were harassed by child welfare agents after Holly Curry ran into a store to get muffins on the way to karate class and she left her children in a locked car for five to ten minutes. A do-gooder called the police, and when Curry returned to her car, she was informed by the officer that child welfare would be called and a report made. Then the nightmare began. Caseworker Jeanetta Childress and Deputy Michael Furnish forced their way into a private home, without a warrant, under threats of harm to the family, which ended in all six of the Curry children being strip-searched by strangers to “inspect their genitals.”

The judge’s ruling detailed the horror.

Childress and Furnish entered the home.Childress made “inappropriate” comments about the Currys’ family size and religious beliefs. Childress interviewed the two oldest children in a bedroom, separately, while Furnish waited in the hallway. Holly stayed with the rest of the children in another part of the house. At one point, Holly tried calling her husband, but Childress sat on her phone. After the interviews, Childress told Holly that she needed to examine the children for signs of physical injury. Holly and many of the children were crying. Holly and Furnish were present when Childress conducted the searches. Furnish talked to some of the children as Childress examined them. This examination included inspecting each child’s genitals. Of course, state actors cannot target people for extra scrutiny based on their sincerely held religious beliefs.

The initial report was marked “unsubstantiated.” Nonetheless, Childress called both Holly and Josiah when she finished the investigation. Childress told Josiah, “If we ever get a call against your family again, bad things will happen to you and we’ll take your children.”Then, she called Holly and again threatened to remove the children.

Judge Walker was not amused by the illegal behavior of the Kentucky child welfare worker and sheriff’s deputy.

https://pjmedia.com/news-and-politics/megan-fox/2020/08/28/judge-denies-qualified-immunity-for-kentucky-child-welfare-workers-who-illegally-strip-searched-children-n861686