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Nuke

Iran activates 40 advanced uranium-enrichment centrifuges in latest erosion of nuclear deal

Behrouz Kamalvandi
© Wana News Agency / ReutersBehrouz Kamalvandi, spokesman for the Atomic Energy Organization of Iran speaks during news conference in Tehran.
Iran has started up 40 advanced centrifuges at its uranium enrichment facility, an Atomic Energy Organisation spokesman said Saturday, in a third step to scale back its commitments under the threatened nuclear deal.

"We have started lifting limitations on our research and development imposed by the [nuclear] deal," Behrouz Kamalvandi told reporters, adding it would include the "development of more rapid and advanced centrifuges."

Kamalvandi said "all these steps are reversible if the other side fulfills its promises" set out in the 2015 nuclear agreement, or JCPOA (Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action) with China, France, Germany, Russia, the UK, and EU.

Shopping Bag

Singapore to join Russia-led Eurasian free-trade zone in October

Singapore
© Global Look press / Valentin Wolf
One of the leading Asian economies, Singapore, is set to ink a free trade agreement with the Russian-led Eurasian Economic Union (EAEU) next month, Russia's deputy minister of economic development has revealed to RT.

In an interview to RT during the Eastern Economic Forum (EEF) Timur Maksimov said that talks with Singapore on the free trade deal had already been finished.

"A meeting of the Supreme Eurasian Economic Council is scheduled for October 1, where the document [free-trade deal] is expected to be signed," the official said.

Bizarro Earth

Denmark to make military deployment to Northeast Syria - Pentagon

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© AFP 2019
The Danish military will deploy soldiers to northeast Syria to assist the US-led coalition in the fight against Daesh, Chief Pentagon Spokesman Jonathan Hoffman said in a statement on Friday.

"The United States welcomes the announcement by the Danish Government to make a military deployment to Syria in support of Operation Inherent Resolve and to continue to share the burden and responsibilities of this important mission," Hoffman said. "Our Danish partners will work with the residual US military force in northeast Syria to support stability and security."

Earlier this year, the US admitted that forces of the coalition had killed at least 1,319 civilians during operations against terrorists in Syria and Iraq since August 2014.

Comment: If the US (and Israel) continues to supply terrorists with arms, is there any hope for 'stability and security' in the region? Islamic State Weapons in Yemen Traced Back to US Government: Serbia Files (part 1)

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House

Home invader attacks head of Russian Election Commission with stun baton on eve of election

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© Sputnik / Ilya PitalevFILE PHOTO. Ella Pamfilova.
Russian Central Election Commission chief Ella Pamfilova was attacked at her home with a stun baton by an unknown assailant. The incident, believed to be a botched burglary, occurred two days before local elections.

The incident occurred early on Friday, when Pamfilova was at home in Moscow Region. Later in the day, she recounted her experience on TV.
At first, I was frightened, then pulled myself together and began hitting him with all my might. Then I grabbed a chair, began to shout at him very loudly. I did not even know that I could do it that loudly.
According to media reports, the official was roused by her cat, which wanted to go inside. As she went downstairs to let the cat in, she ran into a masked individual who attacked her with a stun baton. However, she fought back, hitting and scratching him until he fled.

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Evil Rays

9/11 and Jeffrey Epstein: Media silence amounts to complicity

Larry Silverstein
Larry Silverstein
As the 18th anniversary of 9/11 approached, the arrest and alleged suicide of Jeffrey Epstein made headlines โ€” and raised questions about the credibility of official narratives. As Eric Rasmusen writes: "Everybody, it seems, in New York society knew by 2000 that Jeffrey Epstein and Ghislaine Maxwell were corrupting teenage girls, but the press wouldn't cover it." Likewise, everybody in New York society has long known that Larry Silverstein, who bought the asbestos-riddled white elephant World Trade Center in July 2001 and immediately doubled the insurance, is a mobbed-up friend of Netanyahu and a confessed participant in the controlled demolition of Building 7, from which he earned over 700 million insurance dollars on the pretext that al-Qaeda had somehow brought it down. But the press won't cover that either.

The New York Times, America's newspaper of record, has the investigative talent and resources to expose major corruption in New York. Why did the Times spend almost two decades ignoring the all-too-obvious antics of Epstein and Silverstein? Why is it letting the absurd tale of Epstein's alleged suicide stand? Why hasn't it used the work of Architects and Engineers for 9/11 Truth โ€” including the brand-new University of Alaska study on the controlled demolition of WTC-7 โ€” to expose the biggest scandal of the 21st century, if not all of American history?

The only conceivable answer is that The New York Times is somehow complicit in these monstrous crimes. It must be protecting its friends in high places. So who are those friends, and where are those high places?

Whistle

China slams Washington for 'abusing concept of national security' in crusade against Huawei

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A Chinese foreign ministry spokesperson has condemned VP Mike Pence's calls for further international cooperation in US ongoing crusade against tech giant Huawei.

Beijing sharply criticized Washington after Pence called on "Iceland and other freedom-loving nations to find alternatives to essentially China's state-based 5G operation" in a meeting with Iceland's Prime Minister Katrin Jakobsdottir.


"This is a typical hegemonism and the politicization of economic and trade issues," said Chinese foreign ministry spokesperson Geng Shuang, AP reports.

American leaders are making "irresponsible remarks" and continue "abusing the concept of national security" to target Chinese companies, Geng maintained.

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Newspaper

German policy on China trade won't be decided by 'people who throw Molotov cocktails' in Hong Kong

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© Reuters / Tobias Schwarz
Germany takes its own approach to relations with China and won't bow to US demands and pressure over unrest in Hong Kong, analysts told RT, as Chancellor Angela Merkel heads to Beijing to talk trade. f

Merkel arrives in China for a three-day visit on Thursday. Accompanied by a large trade delegation, she is seeking to close on the EU-China Comprehensive Agreement on Investment - but with anti-Beijing protests still raging in Hong Kong, the chancellor has been warned by the US that this is no time to do "business as usual."

The Trump administration has been waging a trade war against China, with the president constantly slapping new tariffs on Chinese imports and declaring that China's economy will "crumble" when he "wins."

Policy not dictated by US or Hong Kong protesters

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Recycle

Revealed: US government is blowing billions of dollars on pointless crap

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© Infowars
Taxpayer money is subsidizing frog mating studies in Panama, Pakistani 'woke' films, and a 'Green New Deal' in Peru

Senator Rand Paul is waging battle against waste. In his latest 'waste report', the Senator reveals how the government is adding to the $22 trillion national debt by subsidizing all manner of pointless activities, including $48 billion in improper Medicare and Medicaid payments.

All in all, Senator Paul totaled up $50 BILLION in wasted dollars, and he could have found a lot more had he scratched beneath the surface.

Comment: Sure, some of these expenses are 'pointless', but many can also serve the interests of the establishment in some way, for example 'promoting democracy' in Tunisia now may just come in handy if a colour revolution is needed later, and any kickbacks that can be concealed during the renovation of the new Homeland security building could pay dividends come a scandal or an election. However, in the end, it is a damning indictment of just how corrupt the US government has become, and profligate waste is often a biproduct. It's nothing new but it is becoming increasingly worse:


Passport

Now it's official: US Gov can deny your Visa if you (or even your friends) are critical of American policies

Visa control
There have been several interesting developments in the United States government's war on free speech and privacy. First of all, the Department of Homeland Security's (DHS) Customs and Border Protection Agency (CBP), which is responsible for actual entry of travelers into the country, has now declared that it can legally access phones and computers at ports of entry to determine if there is any subversive content which might impact on national security. "Subversive content" is, of course, subjective, but those seeking entry can be turned back based on how a border control agent perceives what he is perusing on electronic media.

Unfortunately, the intrusive nature of the procedure is completely legal, particularly as it applies to foreign visitors, and is not likely to be overturned in court in spite of the Fourth Amendment's constitutional guarantee that individuals should "...be secure in their persons, houses, papers, and effects, against unreasonable searches and seizures." Someone at a port of entry is not legally inside the United States until he or she has been officially admitted. And if that someone is a foreigner, he or she has no right by virtue of citizenship even to enter the country until entry has been permitted by an authorized US Customs and Border Protection official. And that official can demand to see anything that might contribute to the decision whether or not to let the person enter.

Propaganda

Broadcaster exposes 'secret' US military base in Estonia

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Map showing location of Estonia
A "secret" US Army Special Forces base has been operating in Estonia since 2014, an Estonian media reported after allegedly having access to the facility.

Although the presence of a NATO contingent in Estonia, a Baltic country on Russia's northwest border, was never a secret, the presence of US troops in an alleged secret base was apparently well-kept confidential information.

However, the "secret" of the site was uncovered by Estonian broadcaster ERR after one of its journalists simply analyzed the US Department of Defense's public records.

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