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Israel's UN envoy insists West Bank annexation is 'not off the table'


The Times of Israel
Wed, 16 Sep 2020 10:56 UTC
Netanyahu/Erdan
© Amit Shabi/Pool/Flash90Israeli PM Benjamin Netanyahu • Public Security Minister Gilad Erdan
Israel's new ambassador to the United Nations said Wednesday that plans to annex parts of the West Bank were still on the table, despite officials from the United States and United Arab Emirates indicating the move has been called off for the foreseeable future as part of the normalization deals Jerusalem signed this week with the UAE and Bahrain.

Gilad Erdan, a former top member of Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's Likud party who is also set to take over as ambassador to the US, said that he had spoken to the premier about the matter.

"The annexation is not off the table. It can be discussed again after the US elections," Erdan told Army Radio, referring to the November 3 vote in which US President Donald Trump faces Democrat Joe Biden.

"The annexation hasn't been canceled, but it is off the Americans' priority list," he added. "We knew this can't happen without cooperation from the Trump administration."

Netanyahu had for months promised to annex large parts of the West Bank as early as July 1, but that plan was suspended as part of the normalization agreement with the UAE, as specified in the countries August 13 joint statement. Trump said last month that the matter has been "taken off the table," though Netanyahu insists that it remains "on the table."
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Arrow Up

Washington deploys armored vehicles to Syria, steps up air patrols after dust-up with Russian forces


RT
Fri, 18 Sep 2020 23:24 UTC
Americans/Military trucks
© Reuters/Rodi Said
The Pentagon has sent a number of armored vehicles, radar systems and additional troops to Syria in a show of force, bolstering the US military presence in the country following a run-in with Russian forces last month.

The deployments, accompanied by increased air patrols over eastern Syria, were announced by US Central Command on Friday. CENTCOM spokesman Captain Bill Urban said in a statement:
"The United States has deployed Sentinel radar, increased the frequency of US fighter patrols over US forces, and deployed Bradley Fighting Vehicles to augment US forces in the Eastern Syria Security Area (ESSA) to "ensure the safety and security of coalition forces.

"These actions are a clear demonstration of U.S. resolve to defend Coalition forces in the ESSA, and to ensure that they are able to continue their Defeat-ISIS mission without interference."
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Mr. Potato

CNN's Sanjay Gupta ridiculed over claim 'source' told him Trump could have 'saved' 80-90 percent of people who died of Covid-19


RT
Fri, 18 Sep 2020 17:50 UTC
gupta
© REUTERS/Lucas Jackson
The chief medical correspondent for CNN, who questioned the value of wearing masks in March, is being blasted for claiming that a "source" told him Donald Trump could have "saved 80 to 90 percent" of Covid-19 victims in the US.

Discussing a recent report that a plan for the US Postal Service to send five masks to every American earlier in the year was scrapped, Sanjay Gupta threw out comments on CNN on Friday blasting the White House's coronavirus response, crediting them all to a mysterious "source."

Gupta, a neurosurgeon, claims his source told him that the White House knew Covid-19 could be spread "asymptomatically," but chose not to promote this information and continues to "ignore basic health measures."

"This is what my source said: Every step along the way, this guidance that could have saved, you know, 80-90 percent of the people who have died could have been saved if this guidance had been abided by. Every step of the way, that guidance has been buried, and then minimized, then ignored, and now ridiculed," Gupta said.


Considering there is no way to mathematically quantify how many lives would have been saved or lost based on going back in time and putting into place the various policies Gupta is talking about, his "80 to 90 percent" comment is getting plenty of pushback - with some critics even bringing up Gupta's own controversial past regarding Covid-19 information.
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Black Cat

Opposition figurehead Tikhanovskaya pulls a Guaido: Demands immediate foreign intervention in Belarus at UN appearance

Jonny Tickle
RT
Sat, 19 Sep 2020 16:40 UTC
Belarus Svetlana Tikhanovskaya
© Sputnik / Viktor TolochkoPresidential candidate of Belarus Svetlana Tikhanovskaya at a press conference in Minsk.
Exiled Belarusian presidential candidate Svetlana Tikhanovskaya has urged the "international community" to intervene in her country, claiming the actions of the Minsk authorities are in contradiction of "all international norms."

The Lithuania-based opposition figurehead spoke at the 45th session of the UN Human Rights Council, via a short recorded video message.

"The situation in Belarus demands immediate international attention," she said. "Peaceful protesters are being illegally detained, beaten, and raped. Some of the protesters have been found dead."

Comment: Tikhanovskaya is drawing from the same playbook as failed coup figurehead Juan Guaido, without having the full-throated support he enjoyed from the West. At least she actually participated in the election, though with a seemingly dismal showing. Her moves after her election loss are suspicious

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Radar

Arctic tensions rise as Britain leads show of force against Russia in the Barents Sea

Paul Antonopoulos
InfoBrics
Fri, 18 Sep 2020 00:00 UTC
submarine in Arctic
In the first such operation of its kind in 20 years, the British Navy were joined by American, Danish and Norwegian forces to supposedly demonstrate freedom of navigation against "Russian attempts" to control the Barents Sea in the Arctic, the British Ministry of Defense said in a statement.

"The ships undertook training with each other to further develop their Navies' interoperability while asserting our nations' commitment to upholding peace in the region," the British Ministry of Defense added.

This is a rather curious claim to make, not only because the Arctic is already one of the most peaceful regions in the world, but Britain, unlike Russia, the US, Denmark (Greenland) and Norway, is not an Arctic country. Defence Secretary Ben Wallace said Britain intends to "re-engage more" in the Barents Sea in the future. This suggests that London is not motivated by "upholding peace," but in pressurizing Russia and securing its own influence in the Arctic via not only NATO, but also the British-led Joint Expeditionary Force (JEF) that was created in 2012 and includes Denmark, Finland, Sweden, Norway, the Netherlands, Estonia and Finland.
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Snakes in Suits

FBI Director and Deep State puppet Christopher Wray says Russia 'very active' in 2020 election; Antifa not a terror group

Kevin Johnson
USA Today
Thu, 17 Sep 2020 16:59 UTC
FBI Director Chris Wray
FBI Director Chris Wray
Less than two months before the presidential election, FBI Director Chris Wray told lawmakers Thursday that Russia remains "very active" in its effort to disrupt the vote, primarily by denigrating Democratic nominee Joe Biden.

"The intelligence community's consensus is that Russia continues to try to influence our election," Wray told the House Homeland Security Committee, adding that the Kremlin's effort has focused on sowing discord and disparaging the candidacy of the former vice president.


Comment: UNbelievable! That Wray would double down on the "Russian interference" nonsense after the dismal failure that was the Mueller report - and everything that's come out since - really shows what team Wray is working for. The guy is a despicable Deep State shill of the first order.


Wray's assessment tracked an earlier analysis published in August by the National Counter-Intelligence and Security Center, which called out pro-Russia Ukrainian parliamentarian Andriy Derkach for spreading false corruption claims to undermine Biden's bid and the Democratic Party.

Comment: Again Wray shows where his allegiance lies in ruling out that Antifa is anything less than a terror group. Why? Because Antifa's terror tactics are part of the larger (failing) strategy to oust Trump at all costs. Which Wray would seem to be on board with given the narratives he's feeding into.

Have a look:

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Attention

Senior Biden campaign cybersecurity expert participated in racist internet troll group


Washington Examiner
Fri, 18 Sep 2020 08:00 UTC
Joe Biden Andrew Auernheimer
Joe Biden/Andrew Auernheimer
A senior cybersecurity adviser to Joe Biden's presidential campaign spent years affiliating with a hacking organization and boasted on a personal blog about breaking into her neighbor's computers.

Jackie Singh, who joined the Biden campaign in July as a senior cyber incident responder and threat analyst, was an affiliate of the hacking organization the Gay N----- Association of America, once headed by white nationalist Andrew Auernheimer.

Logs obtained by the Washington Examiner from various Internet Relay Chat rooms, a messaging platform dating back to the 1980s that is popular with hackers, show Singh to be a contributor to a toxic culture of overt racism. In August, Singh wrote on Twitter that her role with the Biden campaign focused on "working tirelessly to ensure the digital safety of this campaign."
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Info

Trump admin to block TikTok and WeChat downloads starting Sunday

Ryan Lovelace
The Washington Times
Fri, 18 Sep 2020 00:01 UTC
tiktok
© AP Photo/FileThis Feb. 25, 2020, file photo, shows the icon for TikTok in New York. TikTok's owner has chosen Oracle over Microsoft as its preferred suitor to buy the popular video-sharing app, according to a source familiar with the deal, Sunday, Sept. 13, 2020.
The Department of Commerce said Friday that it would start banning U.S. transactions with TikTok and WeChat beginning on Sunday.

The Commerce Department said it will implement the ban of the China-owned social media apps under authority provided by President Trump's August 2020 executive order and will do so to safeguard Americans' national security.

"Today's actions prove once again that President Trump will do everything in his power to guarantee our national security and protect Americans from the threats of the Chinese Communist Party," Secretary of Commerce Wilbur Ross said in a statement. "At the president's direction, we have taken significant action to combat China's malicious collection of American citizens' personal data, while promoting our national values, democratic rules-based norms, and aggressive enforcement of U.S. laws and regulations."

Comment: See also:

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Water

Latest Navalny Novichok water bottle poisoning claim stretches all credibility, but Western media swallows it without question

Bryan MacDonald
RT
Fri, 18 Sep 2020 13:41 UTC
Alexei Navalny
© Getty Images / Evgeny Feldman for Alexei Navalny's Campaign /Anadolu AgencyAlexei Navalny's campaign shows Russian opposition leader Alexei Navalny attending a meeting of an action group to support his nomination as a candidate for Russian presidency in Moscow, Russia, 24 December 2017
We are now expected to believe that Kremlin assassins used a new, even more powerful, Novichok poison on Alexey Navalny, and his aides brought a water bottle laced with it to Germany, but nobody suffered any side effects.

At this point, Western reporters covering the story are either completely high on the Kool-Aid or they are going to intense lengths to suppress their skepticism, because so much of the narrative simply doesn't add up.

The opposition figure's condition when he was first hospitalized, in Siberia, was clearly very grave. He was placed into an induced coma and attached to a ventilator. The situation was so serious that his wife and associates demanded he be moved abroad, to Germany, for treatment. A request Russian authorities acquiesced to the following evening, after a tense day when the doctors treating him in Omsk stated that they felt he was too unwell to travel, and his associates alleged they were stalling.

Since Navalny's arrival in Berlin, things have become politicized, and there has been talk of sanctions and other diplomatic and economic penalties being directed at Russia. Germany insists that its experts found traces of the extremely lethal Novichok poison in the activist's system. Angela Merkel herself has more-or-less accused the Russian government of being behind what she has described as an "attempted murder."

Comment: If they can sell the Skripal story, why not an even more ridiculous version? See also:

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Document

Julian Assange held back 15,000 documents to prevent harm to US government

Bill Goodwin
Computer Weekly
Wed, 16 Sep 2020 15:58 UTC
John Goetz/Assange supporters
© Ard-Hauptstadtstudio, UnknownSenior Editor of Investigations NDR John Goetz • Assange supporters
WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange held back 15,000 documents from publication at the request of the US government, a court heard today.

John Goetz, senior editor of investigations at NDR in Germany, told the court that WikiLeaks and its media partners took measures to make sure no one was harmed by the release of the documents. Goetz was speaking on the seventh day of the extradition hearing against Assange at the Old Bailey in London.

Assange has been charged with 17 offences under the US Espionage Act after WikiLeaks published a series of leaks from Chelsea Manning, a former US Army soldier turned whistleblower. The 49-year-old defendant faces a further charge of conspiracy to commit computer intrusion and is alleged to have encouraged hacking groups to obtain information for WikiLeaks

The US government has accused Assange of purposely publishing classified documents containing the unredacted names of innocent people who risk their lives to provide information to the US and its allies.

Goetz, who previously worked at Der Spiegel, said he was asked to meet with The Guardian and Assange in June 2010 to work on tens of thousands of leaked documents on the Afghan war obtained by WikiLeaks. "They were a first-hand eyewitness diary of what was happening in Afghanistan as it was happening," said Goetz.

Comment: As per this testimony, Assange and Wikileaks worked in conjunction with the US Gov and other mainstream news outlets.

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