There was no tripartite meeting of the presidents
Last week’s session of the United Nations (UN) General Assembly was accompanied by a lie born out of carelessness.
After the meetings of President Gitan Nausėda with his colleagues from Ukraine and Poland Volodymyr Zelenski and Andrzej Duda, the news started to spread on social networks that they sat down together to quell their emotions.
The leader of Lithuania really volunteered to be an intermediary between these countries, due to disagreements over Ukraine’s grain exports. But there was no tripartite meeting of the leaders, he and his colleagues had met separately.
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The news about the tripartite meeting was announced on Thursday afternoon. She appeared on the news channel just a few minutes apart „Nexta“ and news aggregator “Visegrad 24” accounts on the social network Twitter.
Both posts were illustrated with photographs of all three presidents in different places and at different times. Although the footage was not identified as being from a trilateral meeting in New York, it would appear so at first glance.
Mr. Nausėda had indeed met with the leaders of Ukraine and Poland, but they communicated separately – no tripartite meeting took place.
This was also confirmed by the president’s press representative Ridas Jasiulionis: “There was no such meeting. The president had a separate meeting with both A. Duda and V. Zelenski, and conveyed his position to them.”
The Lithuanian leader told his colleagues that disagreements between the countries should be resolved as fast as possiblethe Presidency announced. He suggested simplifying the procedures for grain transportation through Poland and increasing transit through our country.
That there was no tripartite meeting, denied and the Ukrainian news agency UNIAN: “V. Zelensky was not at the joint meeting with A. Duda and G. Nausėda.”
The war of neighbors is a fiction of propagandists
As Poland and Ukraine try to resolve their differences, Russian propagandists are not sleeping. In social networks, lies have been actively spread about the explosion that allegedly took place in Poland and the Third World War started as a result.
“3 minutes ago hit Poland, many casualties, World War III started?” Polish troops will enter Ukraine tonight”, – published on a fake news site.
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The text mentions an incident when Poland in early August reported about the two Belarusian helicopters that violated its airspace. This prompted Warsaw to send more troops to the border.
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This is a lie. The publication does not contain any evidence of such explosions or that this country intends to send troops into Ukraine. The headline is frankly manipulative and misleading.
Russian propaganda aimed at driving a wedge between the two nations. constantly tells its audience the story that Poland is about to annex part of Ukraine. It is explained that Poland want to conquer Western Ukraine,
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Flies will not cure, but will make you sick
In autumn, when many Lithuanians go to the forests to pick mushrooms, the related disasters increase – poisoned people end up in hospitals, where doctors sometimes even have to fight for their lives.
However, not everyone catches a glimpse of poisonous mushrooms by accident. Some take advice on the supposedly miraculous healing effects of fly myrrh, so they try to self-medicate by making bitters or simply eating them.
Although folk medicine is full of advice on how to treat with preparations made from fly agaric, they are unable to cure the ailments mentioned on social networks. In addition, there is a serious risk of poisoning with these mushrooms or damage to the mucous membrane when applying bitters.
Alvydas Januševičius / 15min photo/Musmirė
A video shared on Facebook shows an elderly woman holding a pot of fly swatter in her hands. She tells you how to make this solution and then use it orally. When asked what ailment the fly myrrh tincture helps with, the old woman quickly answers that it cures cancer.
Also read: You can also make money from fly agarics: a kilogram of dried ones costs 160 euros
The Internet is abundant advicehow to use various fly ash preparations – it is claimed that they treat thyroid diseases, paralysis, rheumatism, even oncological diseases.
Quite a few Internet users have been sharing links to Russian-language websites recently websiteswhich publish information about the alleged healing properties of fly myrrh, which has already reached a new level of pseudo-medicine.
It is claimed that even tuberculosis, epilepsy, cancer, retinal diseases and even climax can be cured with the decoctions and tinctures of fly myrrh.
Also read: News of the mushroom season: fly agarics are bought both to treat cancer and to get drunk cheaply
However, doctors warn that such attempts at home, without consulting a specialist, trying to cure serious diseases or refusing to go to doctors can end sadly.
Screenshot/Flying flies are bought on advertising portals
About 400 types of mushrooms grow in Lithuania, of which about 40 are considered poisonous. It is easy to confuse all poisonous mushrooms with edible ones, and then the consequences are inevitable.
Read more: Expert on mushrooms: where to collect, which are deadly poisonous and how to grow your own
How can you help a loved one with mushroom poisoning? read here.
Scary again with scanning QR codes
Even after the suppression of the COVID-19 pandemic, the topic of manipulations limiting people’s freedom keeps appearing.
Recently, such accusations have been received by the German low-price retail chain Aldi, which is said to be being forced into a “digital prison” and is even depriving people of the opportunity to obtain basic food items.
Passion is fueled by sharing on social media a videoin which an English-speaking man visits the store and films the security systems.
He demonstrates that when entering the store, it is necessary to scan a digital code, the system of which is installed on the turnstiles at the entrance.
This is a new way to shop at Aldi stores, other than scanning QR codes for customers
The video received tons of shares and even more outrage. Aldi SHOP&GO, a supermarket in Greenwich, London, is part of the “initial phase” of a “digital prison”, according to commentators.
Indeed, the mall has not turned into a “digital prison”, nor has it declared any plans to “starve” visitors who do not have a QR code.
A closer look at the video shows that the person filming is not going to a traditional Aldi store. Visible signs placed in front of the entrance suggest a certain sequence of actions, which also indicates the need to scan the QR code.
Also read: Stores are accused of turning into a digital prison: why do they need QR codes?
However, this is not because of “total control”, as some commentators claim, but because Aldi SHOP&GO stores operate without cashiers.
BBC Pegthe first such store opened in the UK last January. In a store controlled by artificial intelligence, the buyer goes through the entire user journey independently – he chooses goods, loads them into his bag and pays for them.
Such a store already operates in Lithuania.
Also read: Without cash registers and cashiers: “Iki” opened its first stand-alone store
Aliens were not shown
A briefing for Mexican lawmakers, which heard reports of unidentified anomalous phenomena and showed two alleged extraterrestrial bodies, sparked a flurry of talk online. But this does not mean that the existence of aliens and UFOs has already been confirmed – neither the parliament nor the government has recognized this.
Congress to demonstrate the alleged alien bodies have elongated heads and only three fingers on their hands. The greyish colored mummies with human facial features were brought in by controversial Mexican journalist and researcher Jaime Maussan.
The man said he found the bodies in Peru in 2017 and that they were clear evidence of extraterrestrial life. The National Autonomous University of Mexico has determined that the creatures are between 700 and 1,800 years old.
He confirmedthat performed the tests. However, the radiocarbon dating analysis carried out at the National Accelerator Mass Spectrometry Laboratory only determined the age of the samples and “did not in any way infer the provenance of the said samples”.
Photo by Reuters/Scanpix/The remains of alleged aliens are shown in the Mexican Congress
Although before the public hearing, MP Sergio Gutierrez saidthat it will be held “to hear different points of view” on UFOs from scientists in the United States and other countries, on social networks messages appearedwhich claim that the Mexican government has acknowledged the existence of aliens.
Also read: Alleged alien remains discovered on display in Mexico Congress: NASA reacts
Congress session was broadcast live on the official YouTube channel. It showed two mummies of small stature, with only three fingers and elongated heads – quite similar to how aliens are depicted in fantasy films.
©CGP Gray (CC BY 2.0) | commons.wikimedia.org/Extraterrestrial life won’t necessarily look like this
According to „Live Science“ and „San Diego Tribune“ publications, scientists have questioned Mr. Maussan’s claims about the displayed samples. According to the researchers, these exhibits could be made from parts of human mummies, as some DNA tests have shown that they contain human genetic material.
After the wave of information about the alleged alien bodies, Mexican scientists began to say they regretted that such a “show” could have been held in the country’s Congress at all.
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