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'There is a risk of a nuclear incident at the Kursk nuclear power plant,' warns IAEA, blames Ukraine for drone strikes on plant

Dénes Albert
ReMix
Wed, 28 Aug 2024 00:16 UTC
Grossi
© ROSATOM PRESS SERVICEIAEA Chief Rafael Grossi (L) and inspectors at Kursk nuclear power plant • Kurchatov, Kursk region, Russia • 27 August 2024
The IAEA head confirms that Ukraine has struck the Russian nuclear plant with drones.

As the expanding frontline inches within just a few kilometers of the Kursk nuclear power plant in Russia, there are fears there could be a major nuclear disaster.

"There is a risk of a nuclear incident at the Kursk nuclear power plant," said Rafael Grossi, Director General of the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA), after visiting the facility in Kurchatov, in the Kursk region bordering Ukraine, on Tuesday.

He added that he had seen evidence of drone strikes during his visit to the plant.
"I was told today that there have been several cases of drone attacks on the site (the site of the Kursk nuclear power plant), on the facilities. The fact that there is fighting a few kilometers away from the nuclear power plant raises great concerns and anxiety about the security system."
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© Roatom State Atomic Energy Corp./APIAEA chief Rafael Grossi, third left, visits Kursk Nuclear Power Plant near Kurchatov, Russia • August 27, 2024
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South Africa halts artillery shells to Poland over fears they will be used against Russia

Grzegorz Adamczyk
REMIX
Wed, 28 Aug 2024 10:24 UTC
artillery shells
© APArtillery shells
South Africa has suspended a major arms deal with Poland, leading to Poland canceling the contract.

South Africa has withheld the delivery of 155mm artillery shells to Poland, citing concerns that the munitions could be sent to Ukraine, according to Ezra Jele, head of the secretariat of the South African government body overseeing arms contracts. After two years of uncertainty, Poland has canceled the contract.

In early 2022, following Russia's invasion of Ukraine, Poland, along with several non-NATO countries, placed an order for 55,000 Assegai artillery shells from Denel Munition, a South African company and subsidiary of German arms manufacturer Rheinmetall. At the time, Jan-Patrick Helmsen, managing director of Denel Munition, expressed pride in the deal, noting NATO's continued trust in their globally recognized technology.

However, later that year, South Africa's National Conventional Arms Control Committee (NCACC) halted the contract's fulfillment. While export permits to Poland and other countries were not canceled, they were indefinitely suspended, with no clear timeline for resolution, according to Jele.

The deal, valued at approximately 190 million złoty (€44.5 million), was Poland's second-largest arms purchase from South Africa, with the United Arab Emirates placing the largest order. The NCACC also partially suspended arms exports to Turkey and Saudi Arabia.
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Attention

Switzerland urged to rethink its 500-year neutrality


RT
Sat, 31 Aug 2024 14:56 UTC
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© Sean Gallup/Getty ImagesSwiss soldier • Swiss flag
The Alpine country must cooperate more closely on security issues with the EU and NATO, Swiss experts have urged.

It is time for Switzerland, which has been neutral since 1515, to redefine its non-alignment status, a group of Swiss experts have said, in a report ordered by the defense ministry in Bern. Critics, in response, have accused the panel behind the paper of bias and insist that neutrality is forever enshrined in the country's constitution.

The study committee, which was set up a year ago, presented a paper on Thursday with 100 recommendations on how to boost the Alpine nation's security.

"The neutrality policy needs to be revised, more focused on its security function and applied more flexibly," the members of the panel, which is said to include politicians, economists and scientists representing different age groups and regions, suggest in the report.

Another key recommendation in it is that Switzerland's "cooperation with NATO and the EU must continue to be deepened with a view to achieving a common defense capability and becoming a genuine defense cooperation."

Comment: The Swiss would be most beneficial as unbiased observers and recorders. History and Truth have a hard time holding hands.

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NATO and Ukraine held top-secret Dresden meeting - Bild


RT
Sat, 31 Aug 2024 15:40 UTC
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© Global Look Press/IMAGO/SchoeningRheinmetall's Skyranger anti-aircraft system
The gathering organized by Berlin featured a display of German military hardware, according to the outlet.

Top-ranking military officials from NATO member states and Ukraine gathered in the German city of Dresden for secret talks this week, Bild has claimed. The host country reportedly used the opportunity to tout its arms manufacturers' latest innovations.

Earlier this month, Germany's leading defense company Rheinmetall announced that it had nearly doubled its operating profit in the first half of 2024. The arms giant said the Ukraine conflict was among the factors that "significantly improved business performance."

In an article on Thursday, Bild reported that ground force commanders of 35 European nations, as well as Ukraine and the US, had gathered for a closed-door meeting in Dresden, believed to have run from Tuesday through Thursday. According to the German tabloid newspaper, the event was shrouded in secrecy, with heightened security measures in place over spying concerns.

Among the topics discussed were NATO's new operational areas in Sweden and Finland, which both joined the US-led military bloc within the last 18 months, as well as threat analysis and lessons learned from the Ukraine conflict, the paper reported.
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Bad Guys

Is Kamala very very afraid?

James Howard Kunstler
jameshowardkunstler.substack.com
Mon, 02 Sep 2024 15:51 UTC
kamala harris interview cnn
© CNNTim Walz and Kamala Harris "interviewed" on CNN, August August 29, 2024
"On many subjects important to public life today, vast numbers of people know the truth, and yet the official channels of information sharing are reluctant to admit it." — Jeffrey Tucker
You might wonder, as I do, whether Kamala Harris can even stay in the race until November 5. Based on her grim appearance in last week's "interview" with Dana Bash, slumped at the table of a crummy Georgia café under poor lighting, her trademark cackle suppressed, she looked psychologically wilted. Don't be surprised if late this week she "catches Covid" and asks to "postpone" the September 10 debate with Mr. Trump.

Consider the depressing reality of her situation, lately cloaked by the farcical "joy" motif put out by her party's campaign spin doctors: First, the cabal running the White House bum-rushed "Joe Biden" out of the campaign, just hooked him offstage like a broke-down vaudevillian annoying the audience with his tired antics. Then, the same gang buffaloed Kamala onto center stage by some mystical process that disregarded her lack of preparation, her proven unpopularity in the 2020 primaries, and her near-invisibility in 3.5 years as veep.

For a couple of weeks her head must have been spinning with sheer intoxication at the amazing turn of events. Who wouldn't be amazed to find him or herself unexpectedly selected to run for president? But now, post the artificial hoopla of the convention, the dread steals in. If she was previously used to self-medicating with chardonnay during the irksome veep years, imagine the pressure now on those campaign bus trips.
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How the U.S. Enabled Netanyahu to Sabotage a Gaza Ceasefire

Jeremy Scahill
Drop Site News
Mon, 02 Sep 2024 05:57 UTC
Netanyahu and Kamala Harris
After the bodies of six more Israeli hostages of Hamas were found in the Gaza Strip, pressure in Israel is mounting on the government to secure a ceasefire deal and free the remaining hostages and soldiers taken captive on October 7. The announcement Sunday that the captives, including a dual citizen of the U.S., were discovered in a tunnel in Rafah has further fueled the rage toward Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, particularly from the families of those held in Gaza. They have accused the prime minister of sabotaging deals to free their loved ones, saying "their blood is on his hands."

Senior Israeli officials, most prominently the defense minister, have joined the public demands for Netanyahu to stop obstructing ceasefire negotiations, while Hamas has said they will not participate in any process until the U.S. convinces Israel to accept a negotiating framework Hamas agreed to in early July. Both Hamas and the families of Israeli captives still held in Gaza have stated that Netanyahu bears responsibility for continuing the war and preventing the exchange of prisoners.

The White House clearly hopes the events of the past 24 hours alter the current course. After being briefed on Saturday evening on the hostages found in Rafah, President Joe Biden, who is vacationing in Delaware, said, "I think we're on the verge of having an agreement," adding, "We think we can close the deal, they've all said they agree on the principles."

Comment: Israel is not interested in peace and now it is not 'just' Gaza but also the West Bank which Israel wants to erase.

See also:

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Bullseye

Medvedev believes he knows why Kiev wants Donbass


RT
Sun, 01 Sep 2024 23:07 UTC
Deputy head of Russia's Security Council and chairman of the United Russia political party Dmitry Medvedev.
© Sputnik/Ekaterina ShtukinaDeputy head of Russia's Security Council and chairman of the United Russia political party Dmitry Medvedev.
Ukraine and its sponsors only see Donetsk and Lugansk People's Republics as a source of money, the former Russian president has said

Ukraine is fighting for Donbass because of the region's vast natural resources, which Kiev and its foreign backers want to exploit, former Russian president Dmitry Medvedev said on Friday.

The Donetsk and Lugansk People's Republics, which officially joined Russia together with Kherson and Zaporozhye Regions in the fall of 2022, are "completely alien" to Ukraine in terms of culture, Medvedev wrote on Telegram. The reason why the Kiev authorities are trying to get them back so desperately, he explained, "is trivial: money is needed."

"The criminal clique" of Ukrainian leader Vladimir Zelensky, which "has stolen so heavily,"has led the country's economy to "disaster," while Kiev's backers in the US and the EU have also "spent a lot" on aiding Ukraine during conflict, which "irritates" their populations, Medvedev, who serves as deputy chair of the Russian Security Council, also pointed out.

Comment: Guess who's at the head of the line for all those resources:

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Nuke

Moscow: Ukraine blackmailing Zaporozhye nuclear plant staff


RT
Sun, 01 Sep 2024 21:12 UTC
Zaporozhye Nuclear Power Plant ZNPP
© SputnikThe Zaporozhye Nuclear Power Plant (ZNPP) in Russia’s Zaporozhye Region.
Employees are being pushed to commit terrorist acts or pass sensitive data to Kiev, Rodion Miroshnik has claimed

Ukraine is exerting pressure on staff at the Zaporozhye Nuclear Power Plant in Russia, with threats to kill their family members if they refuse to cooperate with Kiev, senior Russian diplomat Rodion Miroshnik has claimed.

"A lot of families have been separated" during the conflict between Russia and Ukraine, and Kiev is trying to take advantage of this, Miroshnik, who is tasked by the Moscow's Foreign Ministry with collecting evidence of Ukraine's war crimes, told RIA Novosti on Saturday.

Kiev's security agencies are deliberately looking for relatives of staff members at the power plant who remain on Ukrainian territory, Miroshnik said.

They then use threats against family members, "to put pressure [on the nuclear plant employees] or provoke them to commit a terrorist act or to pass on information in the interests of Ukraine," he claimed.

Comment: Terrorizing the staff of the plant is right in keeping with Ukraine's general behavior, These people are certifiably insane:

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Bullseye

Lavrov: Both Ukraine and Israel trying to spark major regional wars


RT
Sat, 31 Aug 2024 18:27 UTC
Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov
© Getty Images / Mert Gokhan Koc; dia imagesFILE: Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov. Both nations are apparently seeking to spark major regional wars, Russia's top diplomat has suggested
Ukraine and Israel are trying to spark major regional wars which they believe will solve their own problems at the expense of others, Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov has said.

The country's senior diplomat made the remarks in an exclusive interview with RT's Anna Knishenko, aired on Saturday. Asked about the prospects of the ongoing crisis in the Middle East devolving into a major regional war, Lavrov suggested Israel was effectively the only party seeking such conflict.

"It seems that the only one who wants such a development is Israel. Probably the Israeli government, which is rather hard politics-wise, and they do not even hide that," Lavrov stated.

Comment: It seems notable that Lavrov should make this comment, now, because this has been apparent for a while.

Furthermore, whilst Russia does call out Israel's diabolical actions for what they are, and it has been openly and diligently been working with the axis of resistance, it often seems as though there's some diplomatic restraint with regards to its commentary on, and its relationship with, Israel.

Some analysts think that this may be because of the hundreds of thousands of Russian-Jews who, in the event of a serious conflict, may wish to return.

Either way, it remains to be seen whether this marks the beginning a stronger Russian diplomatic stance towards the US-Israel's maleficent schemes for the Middle East:

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Legalise illegal immigrants: Nancy Pelosi says the quiet part out loud to Bill Maher

Tyler Durden
Zero Hedge
Sun, 01 Sep 2024 17:25 UTC
Illegal immigration into the US
The southern border invasion, fueled by the Biden-Harris administration's disastrous open border policies, has been a devastating blow to this nation.

Our borders have been flooded with millions of unvetted, unvaccinated illegal aliens (remember, 'trust the science' Democrats wanted to jail people for not being Covid vaccinated just a few years ago...), including ISIS terrorists. Iranian assassins are roaming freely, hunting ex-Trump admin officials, while cartel criminals and the Chinese Communist Party wage 'reverse opium wars' with fentanyl that has sent the drug death overdose catastrophe just north of 100,000 Americans per year.


Comment: Iranian assassins roaming freely? The source is the FBI, the same agency which supports the Biden administration. Par for the course there also has to be a dig at China to perhaps rally conservative voters towards a future war scenario with China.


In Colorado, armed Venezuelan prison gangs have seized control of entire apartment complexes, and the overwhelming number of illegal aliens across the country has pushed some local governments to the brink of chaos.


What's evident is that Democrats have abandoned the American people (hence why former Democrats, such as Elon Musk and Robert F. Kennedy Jr., jumped ship and now support Trump). Their top priority is to give amnesty to more than ten million illegal aliens.

Comment: In their desperate attempt to continue to lie to the American voters, the Democratic party is collapsing.

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