i'm frequently surprised when things like this are displayed. what's good for the goose ain't accepted by the opponent;

Amnesty International has in a surprise shift placed its human rights scrutiny on Ukraine in a fresh report released Thursday. It immediately sparked a firestorm of criticism as both Western pundits and Kiev officials themselves blasted the findings as "unfair". 

The Amnesty report said investigators had "found evidence of Ukrainian forces launching strikes from within populated residential areas, as well as basing themselves in civilian buildings in 19 towns and villages" in three war-torn regions of the country from April through July.

The report detailed that schools and hospitals, as well as people's homes, were put in harm's way, suggesting 'human shields' type tactics utilized by the Ukrainian military.

"Such tactics violate international humanitarian law and endanger civilians, as they turn civilian objects into military targets. The ensuing Russian strikes in populated areas have killed civilians and destroyed civilian infrastructure," Amnesty continued, saying this resulted in Russian attacks on said civilian infrastructure.

The report detailed further that in 22 of 29 schools visited by an Amnesty team between April and July, investigators found evidence of prior military activity. Additionally, five instances of Ukrainian troops using hospitals as bases were documented. The report went so far as to stress Amnesty was "not aware" of instances where Ukrainian troops first tried to evacuate civilians from these locations.

Despite being under pressure to refrain from investigating the Ukrainian side and to not criticize it for human rights abuses, Secretary General of Amnesty International Agnès Callamard said in releasing the report:

"Being in a defensive position does not exempt the Ukrainian military from respecting international humanitarian law."

Naturally, that so respected a premier human rights organization based in the West condemned these practices of the Ukrainian army resulted in backlash from Kiev leaders, as well as some Western pundits who went so far as to level the usual "Putin-sympathizers!" charge...........more........

 knowledgeable lawyers speak;

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 kamala is the joke that keeps on telling itself;

Vice President Kamala Harris was accused of hypocrisy after she decried Brittney Griner’s conviction by Russia on cannabis smuggling charges — despite Harris prosecuting thousands of similar marijuana possession cases in her earlier career as a prosecutor.

Griner, 31, was sentenced on Thursday to nine years in prison after she admitted to bringing vape cartridges containing cannabis oil into the country. The WNBA star said she had been prescribed the oil to help relieve pain related to her chronic injuries and had accidentally packed them in her luggage.

The verdict was met with universal condemnation from US diplomats and government officials, led by President Biden, who called the sentence “unacceptable” and demanded that Russia release both Griner and a second jailed American, Paul Whelan, “immediately.”

Harris released a separate statement on Twitter condemning Griner’s conviction........more..........

i ain't one who follows particular politicians but this one seems to be more in favor of citizens and less in favor of corrupt special interests, though that conclusion ain't the result of in depth study. this removal of a soros tool is great;

“Our government is a government of
laws, not a government of men. And
what that means is that we govern
ourselves based on a constitutional
system and based on the rule of law.”

There is perhaps no greater executive initiative that Gov. Ron DeSantis has ever taken than the recent suspension of Hillsborough County’s utterly corrupt State Attorney Andrew Warren.

DeSantis Suspends Corrupt State’s Attorney Andrew Warren
for Pursuing His Own Woke Agenda (Video)

Warren is yet another rogue Soros-funded prosecutor whose primary purpose is to transform Tampa, Florida into a dystopian, crime-infested, post-apocalyptic wasteland.

After all, the destruction of America’s cities is the pivotal piece of a patently treasonous strategy around which the Democrat Party’s agenda of Cultural Marxism revolves.

First, the Democrats systematically destroy (politically, socially and economically) the major metropolitan areas in a targeted state; then they fan out across that state enacting the same devastating policies and unconstitutional laws at the local level.  In this way, ultra-liberal politicians are planted across the state, by funding from George Soros’ subversive foundations, who then radically liberalize all rules and regulation within the taken-over jurisdictions which advance their cataclysmic cultural marxist agenda........more.........

 this author, mr sowell, always has well reasoned thoughts about what ever comes his way and this is certainly one, even when i don't fully agree with his destination;

This is an election year. But the issues this year are not about Democrats and Republicans. The big issue is whether this nation has degenerated to a point of no return — a point where we risk destroying ourselves, before our enemies can destroy us.

If there is one moment that symbolized our degeneration, it was when an enraged mob gathered in front of the Supreme Court and a leader of the United States Senate shouted threats against Supreme Court Justice Brett Kavanaugh, saying “You won’t know what hit you!”

There have always been irresponsible demagogues. But there was once a time when anyone who shouted threats to a Supreme Court Justice would see the end of his own political career, and could not show his face in decent society again.

You either believe in laws or you believe in mob rule. It doesn’t matter whether you agree with the law or agree with the mob on some particular issue. If threats of violence against judges — and publishing where a judge’s children go to school — is the way to settle issues, then there is not much point in having elections or laws........more........