Anonymous ID: 00dc2c Aug. 13, 2024, 5:48 a.m. No.21404852   🗄️.is 🔗kun   >>5319 >>5505 >>5613

12 Aug, 2024 09:30

Nuclear plant ‘seriously damaged’ in Ukrainian attack – Moscow

Two drone strikes started a fire that devastated a cooling tower at Russia’s Zaporozhye power plant, Rosatom has said

 

A Ukrainian drone strike on Russia’s Zaporozhye nuclear power plant (NPP) started a fire at the facility and caused serious damage to one of its cooling towers, nuclear power agency Rosatom has said. Its CEO Aleksey Likhachyov also noted that the attack represented “a completely new level of targeted aggression aimed at the infrastructure of nuclear facilities.”

 

In a statement on Monday shared by Russian media, Rosatom said one of the cooling towers at the Zaporozhye NPP had been hit by two Ukrainian attack drones on Sunday evening. The strikes resulted in a fire that burned internal structures, it added.

 

While the fire was mostly extinguished by first responders within a couple of hours, “the internal structures of the cooling tower suffered serious damage. The risk of the structure collapsing will be assessed by specialists as soon as possible, Rosatom stated.

 

The agency accused Ukraine of “nuclear terrorism,” arguing that the strike had targeted crucial cooling equipment, adding that Zaporozhye NPP, the largest facility of its kind in Europe, as well as the city of Energodar have frequently been attacked by Kiev in the past.

 

Commenting on the incident, Ukraine’sVladimir Zelensky claimed that “Russian occupiers started a fire” at the facility, without mentioning any drone strikes=. He also shared footage showing a large blaze in the lower levels of the tower, with plumes of smoke rising hundreds of meters into the sky. (Stupid Z, why would Russia sabotage the plant they saved from Ukraine's destruction? Anons remember that was Russia's first target for days, we had all kinds of theories why the took it. We considered there were top secret documents held there, etc)

 

The International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA), which has a mission at Zaporozhye NPP, said that its experts heard “multiple explosions” at the facility, without attributing responsibility to either Russia or Ukraine. The watchdog stated that “no impact has been reported for nuclear safety.”

 

IAEA Director General Rafael Grossi also condemned what he called “reckless attacks” that “endanger nuclear safety at the plant and increase the risk of a nuclear accident.”

 

Meanwhile, Russian Foreign Ministry spokeswoman Maria Zakharova blasted the IAEA for its apparent inaction. “Where is Rafael Grossi and the rest of the IAEA? Is there at least an imitation of the work of this UN body in this critical area?” she asked, adding that the “terrorists in Kiev, under the leadership of the collective West, destroyed their country… andnow they have begun the nuclear terror of the continent.”

 

Zaporozhye NPP was seized by Russian forces in 2022, several days after the start of the conflict. While Zaporozhye Region joined Russia in a public referendum in the autumn of 2022, the facility itself is located not far from the front line. Against this backdrop, Ukraine and Russia have often traded accusations over who was behind attacks on the facility.

 

(This plant is a major source of energy for European countries, Ukraine has attacked it over and over to blame Russia for more aggression from NATO and EU, and Zelensky gets more support from them.)

 

https://www.rt.com/russia/602477-zaporozhye-nuclear-plant-damaged-ukraine/

Anonymous ID: 00dc2c Aug. 13, 2024, 8:16 a.m. No.21405444   🗄️.is 🔗kun

WAPO going to the bottom on the Barrel to attack Trump Supporters

Sad. Theyran out of Russiagate lies

 

The skate park was thriving. Then a right-wing YouTuber bought it.

Mon, August 12, 2024 at 5:54 PM EDT

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MARTINSBURG, W.Va. - For 10 years, skateboarders in Martinsburg ollied and tre-flipped in peace on an empty concrete slab, hidden behind trees on an embankment near a busy highway. After the closure of a city-run skate park in 2013, the skaters used wood and cinder blocks to build their own ramps and jumps, with permission from the property’s owner.

 

A skateboard nailed to a tree, graffiti of grimacing monsters and numerous empty energy-drink cans point to a place that was wholly the skaters’ in spirit - though not legally.

 

“It takes a lot of work and effort to maintain your own space,” said Chace Amos, a skater who frequented the skate park. “There’s a camaraderie around it.”

 

Then Tim Pool - a deep-pocketed right-wing video sensation - got in a dispute with the skaters and bought the land the skate park sits on. Skateboarding in Martinsburg has never been the same.

 

Pool’s purchase of the improvised skate park has riled skateboarders in West Virginia’s eastern panhandle - where he lives - and sparked a debate about both how much politics and how much of Pool’s money belongs in skateboarding.

 

Pool downplayed the controversy in an email to The Washington Post.

 

“The issue seems to be solely with a few people who don’t like me personally,” Pool wrote, pointing to some repairs he’s made to the concrete since the purchase. He claims most of his detractors live outside the town.

 

For critics of Pool - a former Vice reporter who rose to prominence during the Occupy Wall Street movement - the skate park purchase represents just his latest heel turn.

 

Pool is now a pro-Trump YouTuber, with a combined 4.4 million subscribers spread across three channels on the site.

 

He’s perhaps best known for his lengthy nightly YouTube show, which features current events discussions with Pool and members of his entourage, typically joined by controversial conservative internet personalities such as Laura Loomer. Pool’s show has also featured white nationalist leaders and, once, a chaotic interview with Ye, the rapper formerly known as Kanye West, amid his high-profile meltdown.

 

Even among pro-Trump commentators, Pool stands out for his heated rhetoric, often claiming that the United States is on the verge of a second civil war. On July 25, Pool tweeted that Vice President Kamala Harris is “Hitler and Stalin combined but times 200.”

 

When he isn’t hobnobbing with internet extremists, Pool rides his skateboard. A lot. He has made a skater-esque beanie into his trademark fashion choice, even wearing it to formal locations such as the Trump White House and Mar-a-Lago, and has built skate ramps at a Maryland compound he’s dubbed the “Skate Mansion.”

 

Pool’s clashes with the Martinsburg skate park set began in August 2023, when its organizers announced plans for a party to celebrate the park’s 10th anniversary.

 

Pool, without consulting the organizers of the Martinsburg event, announced on Instagram that he would offer $20,000 in prize money for the event. Loathe to associate with Pool’s politics, some skaters posted on Instagram that Pool wasn’t invited to the event and would be removed if he showed up.

 

“It wasn’t even like we were leftist or anything,” Amos said. “We didn’t want to be associated with that hateful stuff.”

 

Amid opposition from the skaters, Pool dropped his plans to offer the prize. But a few months later in November 2023, he quietly bought the skate park’s land, purchasing the slab and a nearby building through a limited liability company for $850,000.

 

“They don’t own the spot,” Pool later said on his show in July 2024, explaining the purchase. “By what right do they have to tell me I can’t stand on a derelict piece of property where they’re squatting?”

 

Pool has floated using the land to build a much larger skate park,but he made few immediate changes to the property, and he hasn’t banned anyone from skating there. Because nothing but the ownership had changed, skaters realized only belatedly that he had bought the land.

 

Still, tensions over Pool’s purchase spilled into public view in late June, when Instagram accounts associated with skaters who used the skate park before Pool’s purchase complained about the purchase.

 

“You may be able to buy out our land, but you can not buy out our scene,” one Instagram user wrote…. (wapo put them up to this)

 

https://www.yahoo.com/news/skatepark-thriving-then-wing-youtuber-130947236.html

Anonymous ID: 00dc2c Aug. 13, 2024, 8:30 a.m. No.21405523   🗄️.is 🔗kun   >>5613

THE MOST DANGEROUS ANTI-FREE SPEECH MOVEMENT IN OUR HISTORY: Jonathan Turley

 

Attorney and law professor Jonathan Turley, discusses free speech under Joe Biden's presidency with Mark Levin on "Life, Liberty & Levin." #foxnews

 

8:33

 

https://youtu.be/d1e6FGwdO88