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Russian nuclear firm Rosatom wins contract to clean up Fukushima


RT
Mon, 14 Jan 2019 12:45 UTC
Workers at Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant
© Reuters/Toru Hanai
Workers, wearing protective suits and masks, are seen near the No. 3 and No.4 reactor buildings at Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant.
Russian state nuclear corporation Rosatom will help Japan in handling the crippled Fukushima nuclear power plant (NPP) and will be engaged in the nuclear control plan, according to the company's CEO Aleksey Likhachev.

"We have been engaged by Japan to implement the nuclear accident management plan at the Fukushima NPP. We have won two tenders and are going ahead," Likhachev told Russia-24 news channel.

In September 2017, Rosatom's First Deputy CEO Kirill Komarov said that Rosatom offered their Japanese counterparts assistance in cleaning up at the Fukushima NPP and in decommissioning other unsafe nuclear power plants.

That followed Russian President Vladimir Putin's announcement that Russia and Japan will start joint efforts to clean up after the accident.
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Bellingcat activist fails to ban blogger who exposed his ties to UK propaganda outfit on Twitter


RT
Mon, 14 Jan 2019 12:07 UTC
twitter
© Global Look Press / Jaap Arriens
An activist of the controversial investigative site Bellingcat has tried to make Twitter ban a Canadian blogger, who highlighted his links to a UK-backed covert influence network.

A recent Twitter post by a Canadian blogger, Stephen McIntyre, apparently did not sit well with Dan Kaszeta, an active contributor to the self-styled "citizen journalism" investigative website Bellingcat. The Canadian apparently drew the ire of the activist by highlighting some of his connections to the Integrity Initiative (II), a clandestine propaganda outlet funded by the UK government.

McIntyre posted an invoice sent by Kaszeta's firm, Strongpoint Security, billing II's parent organization, the Institute for Statecraft, for about $800 for an article penned by the man. The document is part of a trove of II's data leaked online. The former US Marines veteran apparently got pretty annoyed and turned to the Twitter administration, demanding that the blogger be banned for exposing his personal data. He argues that posting personal data is banned by Twitter rules.

Comment: Considering that Twitter has banned user for much less, it's interesting that they let his post stay. See also:

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Star of David

Netanyahu: Israel determined to take further action against Iran in Syria


TASS
Mon, 14 Jan 2019 11:48 UTC
Benjamin Netanyahu
© EPA-EFE/RONEN ZVULUN / POOL
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu
Israel is prepared to take further action against Iranian targets in Syria to prevent Iran's gaining a military stronghold in that country, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said on Sunday.

"Just in the last 36 hours the air force attacked Iranian warehouses with Iranian weapons at the international airport in Damascus. The accumulation of recent attacks proves that we are determined more than ever to take action against Iran in Syria, just as we promised," he said as quoted by his office.

"Overnight, the air force also attacked on the southern front against Hamas targets in Gaza and this morning we announced the exposure of an additional tunnel, a main tunnel, perhaps the most important, that crossed the border into our territory. We are thus approaching the completion of the goal we set at the outset of Operation Northern Shield - the eradication of Hezbollah's tunnels weapon," he said.

Comment: Also see:

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Arrow Down

Greek government in 'political turmoil' over Macedonia name deal

Helena Smith
The Guardian
Mon, 14 Jan 2019 11:48 UTC
Alexis Tsipras

Alexis Tsipras
Greece has been plunged into political turmoil after the defence minister, who heads the coalition government's nationalist junior partner, resigned, citing the landmark accord aimed at settling the decades-long dispute over Macedonia's name.

With resolution of the row closer than ever before, Panos Kammenos said his Independent Greeks party was no longer able to support prime minister Alexis Tsipras's leftist administration. His withdrawal ends an alliance that stunned many when the anti-establishment Syriza agreed to join forces with the right-wing populists after narrowly failing to obtain an overall majority in 2015.

"The issue of Macedonia, an issue for which thousands died, does not allow me not to sacrifice the minister's chair," Kammenos announced after holding talks with Tsipras on Sunday. Six ministers from his party would immediately withdraw from the government, he said.
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Map

Trump's wall would improve current border situation

Byron York
Washington Examiner
Mon, 14 Jan 2019 11:48 UTC
Trump wall
One remarkable feature of the debate over the situation on the U.S.-Mexico border is how little some commentators seem to know about what the Trump administration is doing. Pundits regularly get facts wrong. Talking heads engage in passionate arguments over dubious premises. Confusion reigns.

Much of the blame goes to the commentators themselves, who do not appear to have tried very hard to find out what is going on. But some blame also goes to the administration, starting with President Trump himself, which has often been unclear about its plans. So here, in the interest of clarity, is what officials say is happening:

First, the Department of Homeland Security says there is currently some sort of barrier on 654 miles of the 1,954-mile border. Some of it is high-quality fencing that greatly discourages illegal crossing. But some of it is so old and dilapidated that it is not really a barrier at all. Some is fencing designed to stop vehicles but allow pedestrians to walk right through.
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Pistol

Dianne Feinstein wants to ban 205 commonly owned semiautomatic firearms

AWR Hawkins
Breitbart
Mon, 14 Jan 2019 11:48 UTC
Sen. Dianne Feinstein
© Aaron Bernstein / Reuters
Sen. Dianne Feinstein
Sen. Dianne Feinstein (D-CA) is pushing to ban 205 commonly owned semiautomatic firearms.

The various firearms, pistols among them, are to be prohibited under the Assault Weapons Ban of 2019, introduced by Dianne Feinstein.

On January 10, 2019, Breitbart News reported that the ban was focused on commonly owned semiautomatic firearms and "high-capacity" magazines.
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Eye 2

Linguist explains Macron's hidden message to Yellow Vests


Sputnik
Sat, 12 Jan 2019 11:36 UTC
Macron
© Sputnik / Alexei Vitvitsky
A stylistic and linguistic analysis of French President Emmanuel Macron's speeches conducted by linguist and author Helios Jaime indicates that the president is trying to calm the yellow vests down without offering any specific promises in response to their demands for reform.

Speaking to Sputnik France, linguist and author Helios Jaime expressed doubt that French President Emmanuel Macron will pursue any changes in his domestic policies in the wake of the yellow vests protests.

Jaime carried out a stylistic and linguistic analysis of Macron's three speeches concerning the yellow vests protests: the one he delivered on 1 December 2018 in Argentina, his 10 December speech, as well as his response to the petition on fuel prices published on 20 December 2018 on Change.org.

Before examining each of Macron's statements in detail, the linguist remarked that although the expression "yellow vests" had already entered the lexicon of the French, neither of these two words was used by the president in the aforementioned speeches.

Comment: Of course he would. If anything he's doing the exact opposite and cracking down even harder. See also:

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Attention

How America's global Deep State maintains its secret logistics

Eric Zuesse
The Strategic Culture Foundation
Mon, 14 Jan 2019 10:39 UTC
American Embassy Baghdad
© John Moore/Getty Images
The American Embassy in Baghdad, Iraq
Why is America's Baghdad Embassy the world's largest embassy - and the largest by far?
"It's as if the US Embassy is there not only to protect American interests, but to manage the entire world from the heart of the capital, Baghdad." -- Iraqi Sheikh Qassim Al Ta'ee, as quoted on 27 December 2011 in Al Iraq News and translated by Ibrahim Zaidan from the original Arabic by Nicholas Dagher
Zaidan's article went on to say:
The world's largest embassy is situated in the Green Zone and fortified by three walls, another barrier of concrete slabs, followed by barbed wire fences and a wall of sandbags. It covers an area of 104 acres, six times larger than UN headquarters in New York and ten times larger than the new embassy Washington is building in Beijing - which is just 10 acres.
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NPC

The war-crazy left's big problem with Tulsi Gabbard

Michael Tracey
Spectator
Sat, 24 Nov 2018 10:23 UTC
Tulsi Gabbard

US representative for Hawaii Tulsi Gabbard
Few contemporary American political figures generate such unique disdain as Tulsi Gabbard, the Democratic congresswoman from Hawaii. The disdain is not unique for its tenacity - plenty of figures are on the receiving end of bitter criticism - but for its political composition. Gabbard straddles an ideological fissure that spans the Democratic and Republican party coalitions in ways that are difficult to pin down. Despite being an avowed progressive on policy issues and a frequent critic of President Trump, her most committed antagonists appear on the left.

The consternation perhaps began in earnest during the 2016 presidential cycle, when she resigned as a Vice Chair from the Democratic National Committee to endorse Bernie Sanders - and in so doing cast stark aspersion on Hillary Clinton's foreign policy judgment. This created seeds of doubt among liberals that she was a double agent of sorts, operating within the Democratic party for the stealth purpose of undermining its cohesion and causing problems. It wasn't just that she supported Sanders, which was well and good, but that she drilled down so specifically on one of the eventual nominee's most searing vulnerabilities: the fact that Clinton had supported every major American military misadventure of the past 15 years, and showed no signs of penitence or personal evolution. Though Gabbard later conceded she would vote for Clinton in the general election, her support was always tepid and even slightly pained.

Comment: Tulsi Gabbard has something so rare in high profile politicians nowadays: a brain that works.

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Eye 1

Upping the ante: France deploys police with semi-automatic weapons to Yellow Vest protests

Sophie Law
Daily Mail
Sun, 13 Jan 2019 17:12 UTC
semi-automatic weapon yellow vest

French riot police are now using semi-automatic weapons with live ammunition against Yellow Vest protestors as Macron's law and order crisis spirals
French riot police have deployed semi-automatic weapons with live ammunition against Yellow Vest protestors for the first time.

Officers were filmed brandishing Heckler & Koch G36 weapons by the Arc de Triomphe in Paris on Saturday afternoon.

The presence of semi-automatic rifles at a demonstration by unarmed French citizens shows how President Emmanuel Macron's law and order crisis spirals.

It comes after former conservative minister Luc Ferry called for live fire to be used against the 'thugs' from the Yellow Vest movement who he says 'beat up police'.

French riot police have deployed semi-automatic weapons with live ammunition against Yellow Vest protestors for the first time

Comment: While officers carrying semi-automatic weapons has become an increasingly common sight around much of Europe - albeit at particular locations, such as airports - considering the numerous documented incidents of France's police brutally beating protesters, and even shooting to injure with flash bomb launchers, arming some of them with these deadly weapons in such chaotic situations is asking for trouble.

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