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Julian Assange hearing paused over Covid fears: Lawyer to get test

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Julian Assange
Julian Assange's extradition case has been paused until Monday so that a member of one of the legal teams can be tested for Covid-19 after potential exposure.

The judge Vanessa Baraitser granted an adjournment at the request of lawyers for the WikiLeaks co-founder and the US government.

"We should not really be here today. Covid would be in the courtroom," said Edward Fitzgerald QC, who is representing Assange in his struggle to resist extradition to the US, where he could face a prison sentence of up to 175 years if convicted on all charges.

His request for an adjournment was backed by James Lewis QC, acting for the US government, who addressed the Old Bailey via video link.

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Bad Guys

Moscow furious with Berlin over lack of cooperation on Navalny: 'Fraught with consequences for Russian-German relations'

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© Sputnik / Valery MelnikovRussian Foreign Ministry's building.
Russia's Foreign Ministry has issued a statement warning Germany and its allies within NATO and the EU will be held responsible for Berlin's actions in relation to the alleged poisoning of Russian opposition figure Alexey Navalny.

The extraordinary intervention arrived after Germany's ambassador to Moscow was summoned to lodge a protest over what the Ministry called Berlin's attempts to discredit Russia on the world stage following the alleged poisoning of the Russian opposition figure.

The comments came on a tumultuous Wednesday, in which Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov also blasted the Germans for snubbing Russian inquiries about the condition of the anti-corruption activist.

Comment: George Galloway said it best:
Wearisome though it may be to point out the bleeding obvious, I must do so.

If the Russian state had attempted to assassinate Navalny, they would never have allowed his stricken comatose body to be flown out of the country to Germany in the first place. He would have died on the operating table in Russia, where nobody could "detect traces of Novichok" in a NATO capital.

If the Russian state was responsible for trying to kill Navalny, surely the LAST weapon in the whole world it would have chosen with which to do so would be Novichok?

A butter knife, a gun, a speeding car, a car crash - any one of a hundred methods would surely have been preferable in the post-Skripal era. And more reliable, it would appear: Navalny, for now mercifully, is the THIRD Russian in a row to be attacked by a DEADLY "military-grade nerve agent" and mysteriously fail to die.

But just like with the Skripals, we come up against the question asked in every murder mystery: Cui Bono? Who benefits?

What conceivable gain would the Kremlin stand to make in the killing by Novichok of Alexey Navalny?



Nuke

New Woodward book claims Trump said the U.S. has an 'incredible' new secret nuclear weapons system

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© Doug Mills-Pool/Getty ImagesPresident Trump
President Donald Trump reportedly revealed the existence of and bragged about a supposedly secret nuclear weapons system during an interview with Bob Woodward, according to an excerpt published Wednesday from his new book "Rage."

Trump was speaking to Woodward about how close the U.S. had come to war with North Korea in 2017 when he brought up the nuclear weapons system, according to an excerpt published in The Washington Post.

"I have built a nuclear — a weapons system that nobody's ever had in this country before," Trump reportedly told Woodward, according to The Washington Post. "We have stuff that you haven't even seen or heard about."

Comment: The WaPo just couldn't resist getting in a dig at Trump over covid, could it. Sad.

More from The Hill:
The Trump administration called for the low-yield warhead as part of its 2018 Nuclear Posture Review.

In February, the Pentagon disclosed the warhead had been deployed for the first time after reports that it deployed on a submarine at the end of 2019. But the exact timing and location of its deployment are classified.

It's unclear from the excerpts when Trump made his comments on the weapons system to Woodward. Trump conducted 18 on-the-record interviews with Woodward from December to July.
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Reports later said Trump was referring to the U.S. military's hypersonic glide body and that the speed Trump disclosed referenced how much faster than the speed of sound the missile flew in a March test.

The Pentagon had announced the hypersonic missile test in March but did not disclose the speed.



Bug

Zuckerberg declares Trump will NOT be recognized President-Elect on election night - vows to censor election information

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Zuckerberg is very much tied for the title of 'Public Enemy Number 1', with Bill Gates and George Soros.


In a disturbing round of interviews that Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg conducted with two media outlets, he delivered an extraordinarily bizarre and outrageous message to the American public.

Zuckerberg came out in a dystopian Farenheit 451 uniform, with a brutalist white utilitarian background, projecting as much corporatist power as his low-T neurosis-stricken self could possibly muster.

Facebook, he says, has the authority to censor an announcement by the President-Elect that he has won the election on election night. He cites that this is because it may take 'days or even weeks' for the millions of unsolicited mailed-out ballots to be properly harvested and sent in by the post office, even as there has not yet been a determination that mailed-out ballots will be deemed admissible.

Zuckerberg Bribes the Post Office and Holds the Public Ransom to His Desired Election Result

To make sure the US Post Office knows which ballots to throw away and which ones to doubly-stuff, he has sent the USPS some $300 million while at the same time supporting an investigation into the Post Master General's potential corruption, to make sure the Post Master gets in trouble if he doesn't understand what that $300 million is supposed to purchase.

Eye 2

Israel's Netanyahu demands probe of investigators in his corruption trial

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© ALEX KOLOMIENSKY/POOL/AFP via Getty ImagesIsraeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu during his visit to the Israeli city of Beit Shemesh near Jerusalem on 8 September 2020.
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu called on Wednesday for an inquiry into the investigators who brought corruption charges against him, in a move that critics said was an attempt to distract from his handling of the COVID-19 pandemic, Reuters reports.

Amid a surge in coronavirus cases, opposition lawmakers have also accused Netanyahu of trying to discredit Israel's criminal justice system while he is on trial for bribery, fraud and breach of trust. He denies any wrongdoing.

Netanyahu's right-wing Likud party and allies voiced anger this week after Israel's Channel 12 news reported that police and prosecutors had failed to disclose alleged conflicts of interest by an investigator involved in the cases against him.

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Arrow Up

Trump orders withdrawal of over 2,000 US troops from Iraq and Afghanistan despite resistance from the Pentagon

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© Spc. Caroline Schofer/ArmyU.S. soldiers conduct a base defense exercise on Camp Taji, Iraq, Jan. 19, 2020.
The United States will pull thousands of troops out of Iraq and Afghanistan by November, the top American commander for the Middle East said Wednesday, as President Donald Trump tries to make good on his campaign promise to get America out of "endless wars."

During a visit to Iraq, Marine Gen. Frank McKenzie, the commander of U.S. Central Command, said the reduction in Iraq — from about 5,200 troops to about 3,000 — reflects the Trump administration's confidence in the ability of U.S.-trained Iraqi security forces to handle the militant threat from the Islamic State group.

Later, McKenzie said troop levels in Afghanistan would drop to 4,500 by November. He made the statement in a telephone call with a small group of reporters, according to officials at his Central Command office.

Comment: Fox News reports:
Marine Gen. Frank McKenzie, the commander of U.S. Central Command, said he believes the Iraqis welcome the U.S. and coalition troops, especially in the ongoing fight to keep IS fighters from taking hold of the country again.


Trump told reporters two weeks ago that "we look forward to the day when we don't have to be there." The comments came during an Oval Office meeting with Iraqi Prime Minister Mustafa al-Kadhimi. The move appears to be an attempt by Trump to make good on his promise to end U.S. participation in "endless wars."



Blue Planet

Kremlin rubbishes suggestion Putin & Lukashenko will discuss Belarus-Russia unification as poll shows most Russians are opposed

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© Pool via REUTERS / Sergei Chirikov
Contrary to some Western speculation, the upcoming meeting between Russian President Vladimir Putin and his Belarusian counterpart Alexander Lukashenko has nothing to do with the two countries merging, according to the Kremlin.

The comments come as a poll suggests only 17 percent of Russians want Belarus to become part of their country.

Speaking to journalists, Putin's press secretary Dmitry Peskov called the suggestion "absolute nonsense." "No mergers, acquisitions, or so on can happen as a result of the visit," he said.

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Star

Trump basks in praise as right-wing Norwegian lawmaker nominates him for 2021 Nobel Peace Prize

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U.S. Ambassador to Israel David Melech Friedman and White House senior adviser Jared Kushner applaud after U.S. President Donald Trump announced a peace deal between Israel and the United Arab Emirates from the Oval Office, August 13, 2020. Trump has now been nominated for the Nobel Peace Prize for his involvement in brokering the deal.
President Donald Trump has been nominated for the 2021 Nobel Peace Prize for helping to broker peace between Israel and the United Arab Emirates - and immediately went on a Twitter spree of self-congratulation Wednesday.

He was nominated by Christian Tybring-Gjedde, an ultra-conservative member of the Norwegian Parliament, who praised Trump for brokering a deal in which the UAE and Israel agreed to establish diplomatic ties and trade links and allow free travel between their countries for the first time.

Tybring-Gjedde is an immigration skeptic who previously nominated Trump in 2018 for his meeting with Kim Jong-Un in Singapore. Trump lost and the prize went to Nadia Murad, a Yazidi who survive ISIS in Iraq and now campaigns against sexual violence in war.

Star of David

Israeli Wexner fellows sue Yair Netanyahu over tweet that calls them 'cult of pedophiles'

Yair and Benjamin Netanyahu
© Alexei Nikolsky/TASS via Getty ImagesYair Netanyahu with his father, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, at the prime minister's residence in Jerusalem, Jan. 23, 2020.
Graduates of a fellowship for Israelis funded by the Wexner Foundation have filed a defamation lawsuit against Yair Netanyahu for a June tweet in which the prime minister's son called graduates of the program a "cult of pedophiles."

The tweet also called for the passage of legislation that would prevent the nearly 500 graduates of the program from working in any Israeli civil service position.

Wexner Foundation founder Leslie Wexner had a business association with the late financier Jeffrey Epstein, a convicted sex offender accused of sex-trafficking minor girls, and Epstein served on the foundation's board.

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Gates Foundation is also destroying Africa's food economy

food scarcity in Africa
The same Gates Foundation which is behind every aspect of the COVID-19 pandemic from financing much of the WHO budget, to investing in favored vaccine-makers like Moderna, is engaged in a major project in Africa which is destroying traditional small farmer production of essential food crops in favor of monoculture crops and introduction of expensive chemical fertilizers and GMO seeds that are bankrupting small farmers. The project, the Alliance for a Green Revolution in Africa (AGRA), is directly connected with key global institutions behind the World Economic Forum's Great Reset.

If we know the actual history of the Rockefeller Foundation and related tax-free undertakings of one of the world's most influential families, it is clear that in key areas the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation has inherited the Rockefeller agenda from the medical industrial complex to education to agriculture transformation.

The Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, working in tandem with the closely allied Rockefeller Foundation, is not only at the center of the orchestration of unheard-of severe economic lockdown measures for the much-disputed COVID-19 illness. The Gates foundation is also at the very center of the UN Agenda 30 push to transform world agriculture into what they call "sustainable" agriculture. A keystone project for the past 14 years has been Gates' funding of something called the Alliance for a Green Revolution in Africa or AGRA.