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Russia offers to be Cuba's strategic partner in nuclear power industry, if Havana decides to do so

Paul Antonopoulos
FRN
Thu, 03 Oct 2019 00:00 UTC
Sergei Prikhodko
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Sergei Prikhodko
Russia is ready to become Cuba's strategic partner in the peaceful use of atomic energy if Havana so decides, said the first deputy head of the Russian government office, Sergei Prikhodko.

Russian Prime Minister Dmitri Medvedev will visit Cuba on today and tomorrow with a broad agenda of bilateral cooperation. Priikhodko told reporters, on the eve of the Russian Prime Minister's trip:
"As Cuban colleagues report, they do not plan to create the country's nuclear power industry. But if that decision is revised, it is clear that Russia will be ready to become Cuba's strategic partner in this area."
According to the senior official, the Caribbean country has everything to advance in this sector:
"including highly trained personnel, professional Cuban physicists and nuclear engineers, who graduated from Soviet and Russian universities.

"Several interesting projects are currently being discussed about the so-called non-energy uses of the peaceful atom. Specifically, we are talking about the use of nuclear technology in medicine and agriculture."
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Bullseye

The Ukraine firestorm is damning, but not in the way we're told to think

Nebojsa Malic
RT
Fri, 04 Oct 2019 23:50 UTC
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US Vice President Joe Biden after addressing Ukraine's Verkhovna Rada in Kiev, flanked by President Petro Poroshenko and Speaker Vladimir Groisman, August 12, 2015.
Democrats say texts and transcripts involving US officials dealing with Ukraine prove President Donald Trump should be impeached. What they actually confirm, however, is the extent to which the US treats Ukraine as a vassal.

At the heart of the latest media firestorm are the text messages between US diplomats and Trump's personal attorney Rudy Giuliani. House Democrats seeking to impeach Trump have already sent a subpoena to the White House seeking more documents, and their allies in the media have proclaimed the texts to be "damning."

Much of the brouhaha centers on messages from Bill Taylor, charge d'affaires at the US Embassy in Kiev, who is the only one to suggest the military aid to Ukraine and President Volodymyr Zelensky's meeting with Trump are being "conditioned" on investigations of Hunter Biden and Ukraine's role in 2016 meddling in the US election.

In one of the exchanges with US ambassador to the EU, Gordon Sondland, dated September 9, Taylor spells out what would become the Democrats' argument for impeachment:
"As I said on the phone, I think it's crazy to withhold security assistance for help with a political campaign."
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Snakes in Suits

Dems seeking leakers? Pompeo warns against harassing his employees over impeachment probe


RT
Sat, 05 Oct 2019 17:07 UTC
Pompeo
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Mike Pompeo says the State Department will cooperate with a congressional probe seeking the impeachment of Donald Trump - but he will not allow his employees to be coerced into leaking documents as part of a "silly gotcha game.

Pompeo said on Saturday that his department had responded in writing to a congressional request for documents linked to the probe into whether US President Donald Trump tried to pressure Ukraine to investigate the son of a top political rival, Democratic presidential candidate Joe Biden.

"We will obviously do all the things we are required to by law," Pompeo said on Saturday. However, he insisted that there were "clearly politics" involved in the Democrats' probe, and vowed to protect his colleagues from any improper tactics that might be used by lawmakers.

Pompeo noted that there had been congressional inquiries in the past that tried to contact State Department employees directly, in the hopes that they would provide documents and records. "That's harassment and I will never let that happen to my people," he warned.

Comment: See also:

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Yoda

Tucker Carlson rips US intel community: 'Not very good at what they do', 'furious' Trump refused to bow


The Duran
Sat, 05 Oct 2019 17:47 UTC
Tucker Carlson
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Tucker Carlson
Tucker Carlson is not known for being a timid newsman at any time. But recently, as the massive exposure effort that is being cast across the Western world as "Donald Trump's impeachment process" gains traction, the globalist elite is being forced out of the woodwork, and their fury is backed by great power due to the positions many of these people hold. Tucker Carlson is not backing down to this any more than President Trump is; in fact, he is calling the elites out as they show themselves.

Take a look:
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Stop

The inglorious revolution of 2019: When Britain ceased to be a Constitutional Monarchy

Rob Slane
The Blogmire
Fri, 04 Oct 2019 17:47 UTC
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At 10:30am, on 24th September 2019, Britain unofficially ceased to be a Constitutional Monarchy. I say unofficially, since no debate was held, no vote was conducted, no announcement was made. In fact, it appears to have gone almost entirely unnoticed across most of the media, Parliament and nation as a whole.

I refer to the extraordinary, and frankly revolutionary decision of the "Supreme" Court to declare unlawful the Prime Minister's decision to prorogue Parliament for what was — in effect — a period of ten days.

The first thing to say is that Mr Johnson's decision to ask the Queen to give her assent to his plan to prorogue Parliament was not unlawful under any convention within the British Constitution that existed prior to the judgement. One of the basic questions to ask is this: if it was unlawful, what law did it break? I have not seen a proper answer to that question, neither in the judgement itself, nor in the commentary I have read since then.

The reason for this is that there was no statute governing such a thing. And the reason there was no statute governing such a thing is that Parliament — by which is included the Crown — had passed no such law. And if Parliament had not passed such a law, then there cannot have been one, because — and here is the really important point — it is Parliament, not the "Supreme" Court that makes law — at least it was until 24th September 2019.
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Dollar

Can the US starve Hezbollah of funds?

Elijah J. Magnier
ejmagnier.com
Thu, 03 Oct 2019 17:37 UTC
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Over the years, researchers have copied and parroted inaccurate declassified US intelligence reports on Hezbollah's sources of income around the world. These documents claim Hezbollah lives off selling smuggled cigarettes and illegally copied CDs or on income generated by selling drugs in Latin America and around the world. The US also accuses Hezbollah of profiting from commercial or business projects abroad and of having bank accounts worldwide. These claims were pretexts for the US to impose sanctions on the group and confiscate foreign accounts that, in reality, did not belong to Hezbollah. When all attempts to curb Hezbollah's finances failed, a few options remained to the US government.

One was to prevent Khums (tithes, a religious obligation referring to one fifth, or 20%, of acquired wealth at the end of a fiscal year) paid by Shia immigrants from reaching Hezbollah. Another was to impose heavy sanctions on Iran, Hezbollah's main ally and financial provider. And the last was to impose sanctions on Shia individuals and banks in Lebanon dealing with Hezbollah ministers or members of parliament or other wealthy Shia with close ties to the organisation.

The objective was to push Shia society - which represents a third of the entire Lebanese population - to distance itself from Hezbollah. The US aims to break the policy of unity approved by the parliament, the council of ministers and the President, which calls for the solidarity of "the Army, the People and the Resistance" against any Israeli aggression on Lebanon. Can the US succeed in undermining the status of Hezbollah in Lebanese society, and in neutralising its finances?
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Star of David

'Mightiest army in Mideast': Iran TROLLS IDF after officer filmed slapping soldiers taking cover from Palestinian youths


RT
Sat, 05 Oct 2019 17:16 UTC
IDF soldiers
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IDF soldiers
The candid moment in which an Israeli officer slapped and scolded his subordinates, after taking cover from stone throwing Palestinian youths, was caught on camera and the footage is being widely shared online.

The Israel Defense Forces officer can be seen rebuking his soldiers after they hid behind a wall to avoid stones hurled by young Palestinians in the West Bank village of Kafr Qaddum on Friday, the Palestinian news agency Sama reports.
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Dollars

Just ask Trump? Netanyahu tells Knesset Israel needs 'many billions' to fight Iran


Sputnik
Sat, 05 Oct 2019 16:38 UTC
Netanyahu
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Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu delivers a speech to supporters of his Likud party after polls closed in the Israeli parliamentary elections.
Netanyahu called Iran an "enormous security challenge" and accused the country of attacking US aircraft and Saudi oil facilities. Iran denies any wrongdoing. Fears of a large-scale military confrontation in the Middle East have grown recently amid ever-increasing tensions between the US and its Gulf allies on one side, and Iran on the other.

Israel must inject billions of shekels into its defence budget to fight a growing threat from Iran, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu told the newly sworn-in Knesset as he upped the ante in his struggle for a unity government and the future of his prime ministership.

Speaking to lawmakers on Thursday, Netanyahu said that defence spending must increase by "many billions immediately and then many billions every year".


Comment: Take a hint from the Americans' experience: this isn't going to work.


According to Netanyahu, the rationale behind this is the growing strength of Iran: "We are facing an enormous security challenge, which only intensifies from week to week. It increased profoundly in the last month or two, and, in particular, in the last few weeks. This isn't spin, it's not a whim, this is not 'Netanyahu trying to scare us'".


Comment: Well, yes and no. Iran is a huge security threat, i.e., not an easy target. But this is still definitely Netanyahu trying to scare us. Iran poses no actual threat, as long as the Israelis behave themselves. The problem is, the Israelis don't plan on behaving themselves. When have they ever?

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Arrow Up

Russia's largest oil company Rosneft ditches dollar for Euro

Tsvetana Paraskova
Oil Price
Sat, 05 Oct 2019 11:00 UTC
Rosneft
Russia's largest oil company Rosneft has set the euro as the default currency for all new exports of crude oil and refined products, as the state-controlled giant looks to switch as many sales as possible from U.S. dollars to euros in order to avoid further U.S. sanctions against it.

As of September, Rosneft is seeking euros as the default option of payment for its crude oil and products, Reuters reported on Thursday, quoting tender documents the Russian firm has published.

"Rosneft has recently adjusted all the new contracts for export supplies to euros," a trader at a company that regularly procures oil from Rosneft told Reuters, adding that buyers have already been notified of the change.

Comment: Encouraging Euro based trade might also encourage cooperation from those in the European establishment particularly those who are fearful of US retribution:

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Star of David

Blackmailing America: The Epstein-Maxwell Racket Began in The 1980s

Zev Shalev
Narativ
Thu, 26 Sep 2019 07:17 UTC
An ex-Israeli intelligence agent reveals Jeffrey Epstein and Ghislaine Maxwell were not only Israeli intelligence assets, they were allegedly entrapping U.S. politicians with minors. The sexual victims have come forward, but why have none of the blackmail targets?
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It has been six weeks since Jeffrey Epstein died in his jail cell at the Metropolitan Correctional Center (MCC) in Manhattan.

"Let me assure you this case will continue on against anyone who was complicit with Epstein. Any co-conspirators should not rest easy". Despite assurances from Attorney General Bill Barr - who presides over prisons and justice in the U.S. - we are no closer to knowing the truth about Epstein, his money, or his crimes than we were the day he mysteriously died.

I've reported before that Epstein was an intelligence asset for Israel. This was confirmed by two independent sources. Now, one of those sources, a former senior member of the Israeli intelligence community, has gone on the record to confirm this about Epstein and is making significant claims about Epstein's human trafficking operation.

Ari Ben-Menashe is an Iranian-born Israeli consultant and former arms dealer who also served as a senior executive for Israel's Directorate of Military Intelligence (1977 to 1987). This puts Ben-Menashe in a unique position to know about Epstein and also Ghislaine Maxwell. He met them both 40 years ago, when Ben-Menashe when he worked for Israel alongside Maxwell's father, Robert Maxwell.

Comment: The point of blackmail is that it doesn't ever see the light of day. You just hint - publicly or privately - that you have it, and your mark starts dancing.

In any event, while there may be no physical evidence of blackmail, the circumstantial evidence is strong: the investigating cops in New York and Palm Beach found Epstein's pads rigged for video surveillance and DVDs in safes marked 'Young [redacted] + [redacted]'...

See also: Former Israeli Intel Official Claims Jeffrey Epstein, Ghislaine Maxwell Worked for Israel

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