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Hamas, Fatah agree to join forces against Israel in wake of UAE peace deal, according to senior official


Sputnik
Wed, 09 Sep 2020 16:16 UTC
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Flags of Fatah and Hamas, West Bank city of Jenin
The rival Palestinian political entities, Fatah a secular, social democratic party, and Hamas an Islamic nationalist, radically anti-Zionist force, have been at odds since the mid-2000s, with their conflict leading to a de-facto split of the Palestinian Authority between the Fatah-controlled West Bank, and Hamas-controlled Gaza, in 2007.

Recent events, including the United Arab Emirates' decision to normalize relations with Israel, have prompted Hamas and Fatah to agree to join forces to confront Tel Aviv, Hamas deputy political head Saleh al-Arouri has announced.

Speaking to Lebanon's Al-Mayadeen TV on Monday night, [Hamas leader Saleh] al-Arouri, said that Palestinians had been 'stabbed in the back' three times in 2020, with the first time being the Trump administration's announcement of a lopsided Israeli-Palestinian peace proposal in January, the second being Israel's announcement of plans to annex wide swathes of the West Bank and the Jordan Valley this spring, and the third being Abu Dhabi's move to normalize ties with Tel Aviv in August.
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Russia protests Germany's 'unfounded accusations' in Navalny poisoning case


RFE/RL
Wed, 09 Sep 2020 19:20 UTC
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Alexei Navalny
Russia says it has protested strongly to Berlin's envoy to Moscow over "unfounded accusations and ultimatums" purportedly made by Germany over the illness of poisoned Kremlin critic Aleksei Navalny.

During a meeting at the Russian Foreign Ministry on September 9, the German ambassador was warned that a refusal by Berlin to provide Moscow information in the case would be seen as a "hostile provocation" that would be "fraught with consequences," a ministry statement said.

The ministry also protested what it called Berlin's "obvious use of the situation as a means to discredit our country on the international stage."

In Berlin, the government said the test results showing that Navalny was the victim of a nerve-agent attack had been handed over to the Organization for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons (OPCW).

Comment: 'Kremlin opponents' make themselves the most available victims of poisoning, assassination, or whatever. However, none of these people ever actually pose a threat to Russia, and so it's highly unlikely Russia has any interest in swatting at flies. And then there's the entire history showing data of how various Western intel agencies have been involved. These 'opponents' serve a much greater use as unwitting martyrs in Deep State information war games against Russia.

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Belarusian opposition figurehead Maria Kolesnikova is officially under arrest

Jonny Tickle
RT
Wed, 09 Sep 2020 14:45 UTC
Maria Kolesnikova
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Prominent Belarusian opposition figure Maria Kolesnikova has been jailed in a Minsk pre-trial detention center after being accused of making public calls to seize power, according to her lawyer Lyudmila Kazak.

On Monday, it was reported that she had been kidnapped by unknown men on the city's streets. Along with Svetlana Tikhanovskaya and Veronika Tsepkalo, Kolesnikova was one of the troika of women leading the opposition campaign against long-time Belarusian leader Alexander Lukashenko, and is the last of the three to have remained in the country.

Reports of Kolesnikova's arrest broke early on Wednesday morning, when her father, Alexander Kolesnikov, told Belarusian news portal tut.by that he had been called by the country's Investigative Committee with confirmation of her arrest.

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Was Russiagate actually Israelgate? Israel cited often in Senate report but media ignore connection

Philip Weiss
Mondoweiss
Tue, 08 Sep 2020 18:21 UTC
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PRESIDENT DONALD TRUMP TALKS WITH ISRAEL PRIME MINISTER BENJAMIN NETANYAHU AND JARED KUSHNER IN JERUSALEM, MAY 22, 2017.
Quick show of hands. How many of you have heard of Guccifer 2.0? Good- all of you. Guccifer was of course the on-line identity of the hackers allegedly connected to Russian intelligence who shared emails from the Democratic National Committee with Wikileaks during the 2016 presidential campaign, embarrassing Hillary Clinton.

Now, how many of you know that Guccifer 2.0's phone was registered in Israel? Wait- I don't see any hands!

That juicy fact is in the Senate's Select Intelligence Committee report on Russian interference that came out last month. The committee says that Guccifer registered a twitter account to communicate to the media in June 2016 and the email address on the account "was connected to an Israeli phone number." Gosh!

Guccifer's phone is one of many Israel connections in the near-thousand-page Senate report that documents Russian attempts to interfere in the 2016 election.

The implication of these references is that Israelis with intelligence connections were facilitating links between Trump aides and Russian interferers.


Comment: Clarification: largely if not wholly fictional Russian interferers.


But you never read about these efforts in our mainstream media, apart from coverage on investigative sites. Our media are not interested in the appearance that Israel also sought to interfere in the 2016 election.
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UN shares quote linking coronavirus with "patriarchy", draws ire online


RT
Tue, 08 Sep 2020 05:38 UTC
Antonio Guterres
© Reuters / Lucas Jackson; Global Look Press / Jannis Grosse
The United Nations has come under fire for pushing a political "agenda" after the agency's social media managers shared a quote from Secretary-General Antonio Guterres connecting the coronavirus pandemic with "patriarchy."

Guterres delivered the opening remarks at a virtual town hall event with women's civil society organizations late last month. While his lengthy speech hit on a number of complex issues - including disparities in the healthcare workforce, gender-based violence and protections for workers in the informal economy - the UN's social media account chose to elevate a remark about "patriarchy," citing it in a tweet.

"The Covid-19 pandemic is demonstrating what we all know: millennia of patriarchy have resulted in a male-dominated world with a male-dominated culture which damages everyone - women, men, girls and boys," the UN tweeted last weekend, quoting a passage from Guterres' speech.

Comment: The coronavirus hysteria is revealing the true colors of many governments and supposedly independent organizations:

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Zach Fuentes, a top aide to John Kelly, denies Atlantic story about Trump

Matthew Boyle
Breitbart
Wed, 09 Sep 2020 17:25 UTC
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Trump attends the return of fallen soldiers
Former Deputy White House Chief of Staff Zach Fuentes denied to Breitbart News The Atlantic's account of President Donald Trump's comments about troops in Europe.

Fuentes unequivocally denied The Atlantic's report last week, a huge blow to the establishment media narrative. Fuentes personally briefed President Trump on the weather situation that led to the trip being canceled. He is also a close personal confidante of former White House Chief of Staff John Kelly.

"You can put me on record denying that I spoke with The Atlantic," Fuentes told Breitbart News on Monday. "I don't know who the sources are. I did not hear POTUS call anyone losers when I told him about the weather. Honestly, do you think General Kelly would have stood by and let ANYONE call fallen Marines losers?"

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Craig Murray: Day 6 of the Assange Hearing - Railroaded

Craig Murray
craigmurray.org.uk
Tue, 08 Sep 2020 16:21 UTC
Assange

Julian Assange
I went to the Old Bailey today expecting to be awed by the majesty of the law, and left revolted by the sordid administration of injustice.

There is a romance which attaches to the Old Bailey. The name of course means fortified enclosure and it occupies a millennia old footprint on the edge of London's ancient city wall. It is the site of the medieval Newgate Prison, and formal trials have taken place at the Old Bailey for at least 500 years, numbering in the hundreds of thousands. For the majority of that time, those convicted even of minor offences of theft were taken out and executed in the alleyway outside. It is believed that hundreds, perhaps thousands, lie buried under the pavements.

The hefty Gothic architecture of the current grand building dates back no further than 1905, and round the back and sides of that is wrapped some horrible cheap utility building from the 1930's. It was through a tunnelled entrance into this portion that five of us, Julian's nominated family and friends, made our nervous way this morning. We were shown to Court 10 up many stairs that seemed like the back entrance to a particularly unloved works canteen. Tiles were chipped, walls were filthy and flakes of paint hung down from crumbling ceilings. Only the security cameras watching us were new - so new, in fact, that little piles of plaster and brick dust lay under each.
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Ice Age Farmer Report: Amazon bans international seed sales: Problem, Reaction, Famine: Technocrats take control of seeds


Ice Age Farmer
Tue, 08 Sep 2020 12:53 UTC
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Throughout human history, people have brought seed of their favorite foods -- but no longer. The technocrats are now banning international sales of SEEDS on Amazon/Wish, due to the "dangerous Chinese Mystery Seeds" false flag -- even as parts of the US experience seed shortages! This "Problem/Reaction/Famine" dialectic is actively being used in many areas to engineer food shortages ahead, in order to further a technocratic, transhumanist rewrite of our food system and takeover of society.


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'An insult to our country': Trump recoils at idea of Kamala Harris as first female president because 'nobody likes her'

John T. Bennett
Independent
Wed, 09 Sep 2020 09:39 UTC
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Donald Trump took a hard shot at Democratic vice presidential nominee Kamala Harris, saying "nobody likes her" and declaring "it would be an insult to our country" if she one day became the first female American president.

"Ka-ma-la," the president said over and over during a campaign rally at an airport in Winston-Salem in battleground North Carolina, saying she is "farther left" than progressive hero Senator Bernie Sanders. "Ka-ma-la. Ka-ma-la," he said as a crowd of supporters laughed and cheered.

As he moves the state of the US economy to a secondary issue, Mr Trump said Democratic presidential nominee Joe Biden opposes law enforcement and supports "rioters" and "looters" causing trouble in major US cities during protests against racial inequality.

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Trump blasts Biden, Harris for 'anti-vaccine rhetoric'

John Bowden
The Hill
Mon, 07 Sep 2020 18:31 UTC
President Donald Trump
President Trump on Monday took aim at his Democratic opponent, former Vice President Joe Biden, and Biden's running mate, Sen. Kamala Harris (D-Calif.), over remarks by Harris that she would not take Trump's word on the efficacy of a coronavirus vaccine without assurances from top health officials.

During a press conference Monday at the White House, the president pledged that a vaccine for the coronavirus would be available in "record time," and swiped at Harris in particular over the remarks, calling her "the most liberal person in Congress."

Biden and Harris, Trump said, "should immediately apologize for the reckless anti-vaccine rhetoric that they are talking right now, talking about endangering lives. It undermines science, and what happens is all of the sudden you'll have this incredible vaccine and because of that fake rhetoric, it's a political rhetoric ... that's all that is."

Comment: What makes this so entertaining is watching the media and various talking heads defend someone questioning vaccine safety in order to bash Trump. We're wondering when some of their heads are going to explode from the cognitive dissonance.

'Apologize!' Trump implies Kamala Harris is an 'ANTI-VAXXER' as Biden's team walks straight into Covid-19 vaccine trap
US President Donald Trump has lashed out at Kamala Harris, the VP pick of Joe Biden, for what he said was "anti-vax rhetoric," demanding an apology, as he turns the charge of "politicizing the vaccine" against his rivals.

The president condemned Harris and her running mate's stated distrust of Operation Warp Speed, the Trump administration's record-time Covid-19 vaccine rollout. "Biden and his very liberal running mate" - whom Trump initially did not mention by name - "should immediately apologize for this reckless anti-vaccine rhetoric that they are talking right now," he said.


"She's talking about disparaging a vaccine, so that people don't think [the Covid-19 vaccine] was a great achievement!" Trump later replied to a reporter's question that did name Harris after he finished his Labor Day remarks.

Claiming he'd spoken to the heads of Pfizer, Johnson & Johnson and "the greatest medical companies in the world," Trump insisted a vaccine for the coronavirus would likely be rolled out before Election Day.

"If this were the Obama administration, you wouldn't have this vaccine for three years! In fact, you likely wouldn't have it at all," Trump bragged. The usual vaccine development timeline in the US is about 10 years, and the record (according to even the nation's biggest vaccination cheerleaders) is about four years. However, Trump's "Warp Speed" jab, developed under the leadership of the man behind the UK's disastrous 2009 swine flu jab, would be developed in under 8 months if it came out in October as the president is already hinting.

Harris and Biden's sudden pivot from suggesting the country should remain closed until the emergence of a Covid-19 vaccine to casting doubt on Trump's version mirrors the about-face the president's own health officials have done when confronted by Russia becoming the first to approve a mass-market vaccine against the virus. A study published on Friday indicated recipients of the Russian formula exhibited an antibody response to the vaccine, though several test subjects experienced mild side effects.

Interestingly, when Trump discussed his meetings with the pharma companies, he did not mention Moderna, the newbie firm working on a controversial RNA vaccine - most of whose test subjects reportedly suffered nasty side effects.

Harris told CNN on Saturday that she "would not trust Donald Trump" regarding a vaccine rolled out before Election Day in November, insisting there would have to be a "credible source of information that talks about the efficacy and reliability of whatever he's talking about."


"I will not take his word for it," she continued. Harris, Biden, and others backing his campaign have accused the president of "politicizing" the vaccine development initiative, even as both sides attempt to wrangle the Covid-19 pandemic into a winnable election.


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