From RT Telegram channel and going viral very fast: https://t.me/rtnews/27457 Chinese Army Posts “Ready For War” Message. The official account of the 80th Army of the People’s Liberation Army of China posted “备战!”, which means “Get ready for war” on its official Weibo account on Friday. The post received over 300,000 likes within 12 hours. It comes amidst heightened speculation that US House Speaker Nancy Pelosi may visit Taiwan despite warnings from Beijing not to meddle in One China affairs, and the 95th anniversary of the PLA’s founding on August 1.

Don’t say we didn’t warn you (Global Times)
How China Warns Of Pelosi's Taiwan Trip (Moon of Alabama)
USS Ronald Reagan Strike Group Enters South China Sea for Pelosi's Taiwan Visit
China Armor Headed To Fujian - Across from Taiwan; Navy Starts Live Fire Drills in Taiwan Strait
China’s Army posts “Get ready for war!” message over US visit to Taiwan
Did You Ever Imagine That Nancy Pelosi Might Start A Global War?
The Military Industrial Complex Is Going To Absolutely Love It When War With China Erupts

A new batch of US military forces has entered Yemen’s southeastern province of al-Mahrah, as Washington continues its aggressive attempts to establish control over oil reserves and plunder natural resources in the energy-rich province‼️

So Ukraine is in complete despair. Defeats on all fronts force prisoners of war to give their lives for the sake of "moral superiority". But the bets were made wrong.

According to preliminary information, the attack on the colony in Yelenovka near Donetsk was made using HIMARS MLRS. We are waiting for the results of the investigation and if this fact is confirmed, then Kiev has made another "shot in the foot", as in the case of Kramatorsk in April. It is obvious that Kiev is afraid of further confessions of "Azov" and other prisoners from Azovstal, who would tell a lot more interesting things on camera. Ukraine is also afraid of the trial of their "heroes", because it will be a terrible shame for the entire Ukrainian army. Today's murder of POWs is just a pathetic attempt by the Ukrainian side to preserve the morale of future reservists by exposing all the militants of the Azovstal dungeons as national heroes and "martyrs of the bloody Russian regime."

“Washington and Kyiv remove witnesses of their crimes” (Teller Report)
Kiev knew prison it shelled held Ukrainian POWs – DPR (RT.com)
Russia claims Ukraine had a reason to kill its own POWs (RT.com)
Ukraine Fires HIMARS Into Their Own Men - Hits P.O.W. Camp to Kill AZOV Nazis (Hal Turner)
The extraordinary story of Ukraine bombing own POWs to stop them surrendering and talking. Over 50 killed. Over 100 injured. + [ Donetsk Front ] Ukr HIMARS strike on "Mariupol" POW barracks in Olenivka (SW of Donetsk City)

In an article published last week, polar bear specialist Jon Aars is quoted as saying that Svalbard bears are “unexpectedly” thriving. However, he fails short of admitting that the bears don’t really need summer ice as long as they are well-fed in spring, which they have been for the last two decades—this year included.

💬 Aars said the sea ice in this area is declining more than twice as fast as anywhere else in the Arctic. But the polar bears here — unexpectedly — are thriving. [E. Haavik, Svalbard’s polar bears persist as sea ice melts — but not forever, 21 July 2022; my bold]

The suggestion by Aars that the Svalbard archipelago could one day be ice-free for the entire year is speculative hyperbole but even if that were to happen, it would only mean the permanent movement of 300 or so Svalbard bears to Franz Josef Land (still within the Barents Sea) where ice conditions are less volatile. This year is typical of most recent years in summer: Svalbard is devoid of ice but there is still plenty around Franz Josef Land to the east and to the north, where the Arctic pack ice begins (see ice chart below for 20 July 2022).

Dr Vernon Coleman | Comrade Susan Mitchie, who is a long-standing member of the communist party and a psychologist, has apparently been made chairman of the World Health Organisation’s Technical Advisory Group for Behavioural Insights and Science for Health. Phew. Think of the ink that’ll be wasted printing out the letter head for that one. Comrade Mitchie, who has no more medical qualifications than your nearest squirrel (at least, not the sort of qualifications that entitle you to remove an appendix, prescribe a morphine injection and ask a complete stranger to pop behind the screen and slip their things off), is on record as arguing that testing, border controls, social distancing and face masks should be kept going forever.

[H]iring so many ex-U.S. state officials to run Facebook’s most politically sensitive operations raises troubling questions about the company’s impartiality and its proximity to government power. Meta is so full of national security state agents that at some point, it almost becomes more difficult to find individuals in trust and safety who were not formerly agents of the state.

[T]his article is not claiming that any of the named individuals are nefarious actors, or even that they are anything but model employees. This is a structural problem. Put another way, if Facebook were hiring dozens of managers from Russian intelligence agencies like the FSB or GRU, everybody would recognize the inherent dangers. It should be little different when it hires individuals from the CIA, an organization responsible for some of the worst crimes of the modern era.

While Meta has not unmasked any nefarious U.S. government action, it regularly uncovers what it claims are foreign disinformation campaigns. According to a recent Facebook report, the top five locations of coordinated inauthentic behavior between 2017 and 2020 on its platform are Russia, Iran, Myanmar, the United States and Ukraine. However, it was at pains to note that American operations were driven by fringe far-right elements, white supremacists and conspiracy theorists, and not the government. This is despite the fact that it is now well-established that the Pentagon fields a clandestine army of at least 60,000 people whose job is to influence public opinion, the majority of them doing so from their keyboards.