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China shrugs off US blacklisting its nuclear companies

Haley Zaremba
OilPrice.com
Mon, 09 Sep 2019 16:47 UTC
China General Nuclear Power Corporation
© CGNChina General Nuclear Power Corporation has launched a new generation nuclear reactor.
Last month the United States made the controversial decision to blacklist one of China's most significant state-owned nuclear power companies. According to an announcement on the United States Federal Register, China General Nuclear Power Group (CGN) and three of its subsidiaries were placed on the U.S. Department of Commerce's "entity list", meaning that CGN will no longer be able to obtain technology, parts or materials from the United States, unless they are able to secure a (very rarely-granted) license to do so.

This move comes in response to accusations that Chinese nuclear power companies including CGN have been stealing United States technology and misappropriating it for military use. CGN is a considerable force in the Chinese nuclear industry, with nine running nuclear power plants with 28 reactors mostly centered around the Guangdong province, making the blacklisting of the company a real blow to the Chinese energy sector. According to reporting by the Asia Times, a U.S. Commerce Department probe "concluded that the advanced US technology and components for civilian use transferred to the Shenzhen-based nuclear energy juggernaut had fallen into the clutches of the People's Liberation Army."

Comment: Perhaps. But two (or more)can play the game. Every country and company is looking for an advantage:

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Stormtrooper

Europe's full-blown Stockholm Syndrome in face of US bullying

Finian Cunningham
RT
Mon, 09 Sep 2019 16:50 UTC
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© Andrew Parsons/Pool via Reuters
The psychological condition known as Stockholm Syndrome, in which hostages irrationally sympathize with their captors, could well be applied to European leaders when it comes to US bullying.

The US has always been the dominant -and domineering- party in the transatlantic relationship. But past administrations in Washington have been careful to indulge European states as "partners" in a seemingly mutual alliance.

Under President Donald Trump, the Europeans are pushed around and hectored in a way that shows their true status as mere vassals to Washington.

Take the Nord Stream 2 project. The 1,220-kilometer-long undersea pipeline, which will significantly increase delivery of gas to Europe, is due to be completed by year's end. The new supply stands to benefit the European Union's economy, in particular Germany's, by providing cheaper energy fuel to drive businesses and heat homes.
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Star of David

Netanyahu corruption case: Sheldon Adelson and wife claim Israeli PM's 'crazy' wife Sara 'decides everything'


Sputnik
Mon, 09 Sep 2019 16:12 UTC
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© AP Photo / Francois Mori
Netanyahu is facing accusations of bribery and fraud, which he denies; as two key witnesses in the case expressed doubts over his wife's mental health and told police she chooses the people who work for the prime minister. Netanyahu's office has dismissed their statements as false.

Sheldon and Miriam Adelson, the Israeli American billionaire couple questioned in Benjamin Netanyahu's ongoing corruption case, have painted an unflattering portrait of Israel's first lady.

"She's completely crazy," Sheldon Adelson, 86, a casino mogul and publisher of the Israel Hayom newspaper, told police of Sara Netanyahu, according to a translation of the couple's questioning provided by Haaretz.

"She was compulsive about photos of herself and how she looked. She said 'I'm the first lady, I'm a psychologist and I teach children about psychology.' ... She would tell my wife that if Iran attacked it would be her fault ... because we didn't publish good pictures of her," Mr Adelson, a top donor to the US Republican Party and Israeli causes, added.


Comment: Hide your kids!


According to the transcripts, Miriam Adelson, 73, told police that Sara handpicks the people who work with the prime minister, including staffers and secretaries, and suggested that she might even have an influence over government appointments.

Comment: Sounds in character to us:

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Judicial Watch sues FBI for documents on Comey's alleged 'spies' at Trump White House

Ivan Pentchoukov
The Epoch Times
Fri, 06 Sep 2019 15:51 UTC
James comey
© Chip Somodevilla/Getty ImagesFormer Federal Bureau of Investigation Director James Comey leaves the Rayburn House Office Building after testifying to the House Judiciary and Oversight and Government Reform committees on Capitol Hill December 07, 2018 in Washington.
A conservative watchdog group filed a lawsuit on Sept. 4 seeking the communications of alleged "spies" who purportedly served as former FBI Director James Comey's sources inside the White House.

The American Center for Law and Justice (ACLJ) sued the FBI after the bureau failed to turn over communications between Comey and Anthony Ferrante, Jordan Rae Kelly, and Tashina Gauhar.

In a statement accompanying the lawsuit, the ACLJ refers to an anonymously sourced report by RealClearInvestigations (RCI), which claims that in early 2017, Ferrante maintained a position at the White House and reported back to the FBI as part of the Russia investigation.

Comment: Back in July, the Gateway Pundit reported:
Yesterday a report was released that corrupt and fired former FBI Director James Comey had a spy in the Trump White House. We know he stole information and shared it with Comey, the question is, did he try to frame the President as well?

As of yesterday we now know that corrupt former FBI Director James Comey had an agent inside the White House reporting back to the FBI about Trump and his aides. It's clear that Comey's spy, Anthony Ferrante, was feeding information that he stole back to Comey. That is what spies do. But what is not yet clear is whether Ferrante, who now works for CNN, attempted to frame the President as well, from within the White House.

In March 2019 CNN reported that their cyber expert Anthony Ferrante was used by Buzzfeed as an expert in the lawsuit against them by Aleksej Gubarev. Gubarev denied the allegations and Buzzfeed used Ferrante as an expert in their defense.

If corrupt Comey and his spy Ferrante tried to frame the President, it wouldn't be the first time that the Obama - Comey Deep State gang was accused of attempting to frame President Trump through a cyber crime..


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Bizarro Earth

Google's 'dramatic bias' may have swayed millions of voters to Hillary Clinton in 2016 - US researcher

Egor Efimchik
Sputnik
Mon, 09 Sep 2019 21:04 UTC
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© AP Photo / Mary Altaffer
Hillary Clinton claims the study has been debunked, but its author, a one-time Clinton supporter, insists he has adhered to high standards of integrity.

Psychology researcher Dr. Robert Epstein claims he has found a "dramatic" bias in Google search results that may have shifted millions of undecided voters to Hillary Clinton in the 2016 campaign.

His study focused on election-related searches from a "diverse group of American voters" - a total of 95 people across 24 states.

"I looked at politically-oriented searches that these people were conducting on Google, Bing and Yahoo," he said in an interview with Fox News. "I was able to preserve more than 13,000 searches and 98,000 web pages, and I found very dramatic bias in Google's search results - not on Bing and Yahoo, just Google's - favoring Hillary Clinton, whom I supported strongly."

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Eye 1

Google & Facebook are meddling in Russian elections - watchdog


RT
Mon, 09 Sep 2019 09:06 UTC
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US tech giants have been disseminating political advertising during local election day in Russia, despite having being warned that it would be illegal to do so, telecom watchdog Roskomnadzor has said.

"Those actions can be viewed as interference in the sovereign affairs of Russia and obstruction of the democratic elections," Roskomnadzor said, slamming the behavior of the foreign companies as "unacceptable."

The violations by Google, Facebook and YouTube were committed not only on Election Day on Sunday, but also on the Day of Silence, a media moratorium that precedes the day of the vote.
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Attention

SOTT Focus: How The CIA, Mossad And 'The Epstein Network' Are Exploiting Mass Shootings to Create an Orwellian Nightmare

Whitney Webb
MintPress News
Fri, 06 Sep 2019 06:33 UTC
epstein mossad
© Claudio Cabrera
Following the arrest and subsequent death in prison of alleged child sex trafficker Jeffrey Epstein, a little-known Israeli tech company began to receive increased publicity, but for all the wrong reasons. Not long after Epstein's arrest, and his relationships and finances came under scrutiny, it was revealed that the Israeli company Carbyne911 had received substantial funding from Jeffrey Epstein as well as Epstein's close associate and former Prime Minister of Israel Ehud Barak, and Silicon Valley venture capitalist and prominent Trump backer Peter Thiel.

Carbyne911, or simply Carbyne, develops call-handling and identification capabilities for emergency response services in countries around the world, including the United States, where it has already been implemented in several U.S. counties and has partnered with major U.S. tech companies like Google. It specifically markets its product as a way of mitigating mass shootings in the United States without having to change existing U.S. gun laws.

Yet, Carbyne is no ordinary tech company, as it is deeply connected to the elite Israeli military intelligence division, Unit 8200, whose "alumni" often go on to create tech companies — Carbyne among them — that frequently maintain their ties to Israeli intelligence and, according to Israeli media reports and former employees, often "blur the line" between their service to Israel's defense/intelligence apparatus and their commercial activity. As this report will reveal, Carbyne is but one of several Israeli tech companies marketing themselves as a technological solution to mass shootings that has direct ties to Israeli intelligence agencies.

Comment: It's not just that they take advantage of the crises of mass shootings: they carry them out, then profit from them and step up the implementation of their 'solutions'...

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Attention

3 ex-envoys claim the drafting of US-Taliban deal is dangerous and damaging to Afghanistan. Is it?


RFE/RL
Fri, 06 Sep 2019 20:01 UTC
Taliban talks
© mashaalradio.comTaliban-Afghan talks in Kabul
Three former U.S. envoys to Afghanistan warn that a draft U.S.-Taliban agreement on the withdrawal of all foreign troops from the country is a mistake that could unleash a "more dangerous" civil war.

"It is a very dangerous and damaging agreement," Ryan Crocker, the U.S. ambassador to Afghanistan from 2011 to 2012, said in an interview with RFE/RL on September 6.

Separately, James Cunningham, the U.S. ambassador to Afghanistan from 2012 to 2014, and James Dobbins, the U.S. special representative for Afghanistan from 2013 to 2014, told RFE/RL the draft deal did not create the conditions for peace and that foreign forces should remain in Afghanistan until an agreement between the Afghan government and the Taliban is implemented.

Crocker, Cunningham, and Dobbins are among nine former U.S. ambassadors who penned a joint statement earlier this week in which they said that "a major troop withdrawal must be contingent on a final peace."


Comment: Military involvement by the West was never meant to resolve 'the Afghan problem'. The US wants troops in Afghanistan for proximity to other targets as part of its own imperial obsession and will find or create 'excuses' to be there. In fact, Trump just got one:

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Stop

'No power to negotiate'? Trump cancels Afghan talks after Taliban attack for decades more war?


RT
Sat, 07 Sep 2019 23:01 UTC
queue for chopper
© 1st Lt. Verniccia Ford/US Army/handout via Reuters
The blast in Kabul that killed a dozen of people, including an American soldier, shows that there is no point in negotiating with the Taliban who can't even uphold a ceasefire during important talks, President Trump has claimed.

"If they cannot agree to a ceasefire during these very important peace talks, and would even kill 12 innocent people, then they probably don't have the power to negotiate a meaningful agreement anyway," Trump said in a tweet, announcing his decision to call off peace negotiations and cancel the meeting with the Taliban leaders scheduled for Sunday at Camp David.

How many more decades are they willing to fight?

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USA

Who are Hong Kong's heavyweights and what are their ties to Washington?


RT
Sat, 07 Sep 2019 19:56 UTC
Lee and Lai
© Reuters/Tyrone SiuHong Kong politician Martin Lee and Founder of Next Media Jimmy Lai march during a protest to demand authorities scrap a proposed extradition bill with China, in Hong Kong, China, on March 31, 2019.
Massive protests which gripped Hong Kong this summer have been portrayed as leaderless. Yet, there were people who held clear sway over the crowds. But who directs them?

As 'leaderless' as the crowds of protesters clashing with police on the streets of China's Special Administrative Region may have seemed, they still were largely influenced by a whole group of public figures, politicians, parties and organizations. And it turns out that some key figures behind the unrest had longstanding ties with the global "beacon of democracy" - Washington, DC.

One of the men at the center of the protest movement is a Hong Kong tycoon, Jimmy Lai, whose company owns one of the most-read local papers, a tabloid called the Apple Daily. Another one is politician and barrister, Martin Lee, the founding chairman of the local Democratic Party. Both men visited Washington at the height of the protests to meet with some high-ranking US officials including State Secretary Mike Pompeo.


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