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UPDATE: Suspected nuclear test in North Korea after 5.3 magnitude 'earthquake' recorded


ITV News
Fri, 09 Sep 2016 03:26 UTC
suspected North Korean nuclear test
© ReutersA South Korean soldier watches a TV report on the suspected North Korean nuclear test.
North Korea is suspected of carrying out its fifth test of a nuclear bomb after a 5.3-magnitude earthquake was recorded near to its test site.

It happened at 9.30am local time on Friday and had a zero depth, with an epicentre 11 miles from Sungjibaegam in the northeastern part of the county.

South Korea's president was holding a National Security Council meeting as the country's military convened a crisis management team.

Japan's Prime Minister Shinzo Abe said that a suspected nuclear test by North Korea could not be tolerated and that Japan would protest strongly to Pyongyang if confirmed.

Meanwhile China's environment ministry said it has begun emergency radiation monitoring along border regions in northeastern China.

Comment: Comment: Update

RT:
North Korea has confirmed it has conducted its fifth nuclear test, announcing it is now capable of mounting nuclear warheads on ballistic rockets. The statement came just hours after a powerful explosion was reported near the country's secretive nuclear test site.

"The standardization of the nuclear warhead will enable the DPRK [North Korea] to produce at will and as many as it wants a variety of smaller, lighter and diversified nuclear warheads of higher strike power," a statement from Pyongyang, posted on the website of the Korean Central News Agency, reads.

Pyongyang also claimed that no leakage of nuclear material had occurred in the test, and that there was no negative environmental impact.

A video released by North Korea appeared to show a tremor taking place near the test site.

Earlier, a powerful explosion measured 5.3 in magnitude was reported at the site of North Korea's bomb tests by the US Geological Survey (USGS), triggering reports of an apparent nuclear test.

In January this year, North Korea carried out its fourth nuclear test at the Punggye-ri Nuclear Test Site, which was registered as a 5.1-magnitude tremor by seismological organizations.

The latest test appears to be the most powerful one in the history of North Korea's nuclear program, South Korea's Defense Ministry said, adding that the yield of the previous January test was about 6 kilotons. Earlier tests were conducted in 2013 (6-9 kilotons), 2009 (2-4 kilotons) and 2006 (1 kiloton).



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Cell Phone

Released emails reveal Colin Powell advised Killary to use private email to avoid "nonsense" State Dept. security rules


RT
Fri, 09 Sep 2016 15:21 UTC
clinton powell
© Jim Watson / AFPFormer US Secretaries of State Colin Powell (L) and Hillary Clinton
Colin Powell advised Hillary Clinton, his successor as US Secretary of State, to use a private email "without going through State Department servers" and avoid basic security rules he described as "nonsense," their seven-year-old exchange reveals.

The complete email exchange between Colin Powell and Hillary Clinton - full of stunning details - was released late Wednesday by Elijah Cummings, top Democrat of the House Oversight and Government Reform Committee.

"I hope to catch up soon [with] you, but I have one pressing question which only you can answer! What were the restrictions on your use of your blackberry?" Clinton asked Powell in her first email sent two days after she took office in 2009.

Clinton apparently wanted to keep using her BlackBerry smartphone, once famous for its encryption capabilities.

Powell, who served as Secretary of State under the George W. Bush administration, said that he did not own one, adding that he used instead an "ancient" system allowing him to reach addressees in the US and beyond, bypassing his own agency's servers.
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Vader

24 hours of destruction in Yemen: UN, US, UK Devastation, Complicity and Double Standards

Felicity Arbuthnot
Katahon
Fri, 09 Sep 2016 14:47 UTC
Yemen battle map
Yemen
"Let me ask you one question. Is your money that good? Will it buy you forgiveness? Do you think that it could?" (Bob Dylan, b 1941, Masters of War.)

On Tuesday 6th September, twenty-four hour monitoring by the country's Legal Centre for Rights and Development (LCRD) recorded the bombings by the Saudi led "coalition", armed by the US and UK and advised by their military specialists, thus collusion and co-operation of both countries render them equally culpable for the carnage.

Yemen has a population of just 24.41 million (2013 figure) and according to the Rural Poverty Portal: " ... is one of the driest, poorest and least developed countries in the world. It ranks 140 out of 182 countries on the United Nations Development Programme's Human Development Index (2009). An estimated 42 percent of the people are poor, and one Yemeni in five is malnourished. Poverty is endemic, particularly in more remote and less accessible areas."

In the one day and night period covered here, attacked were the capital Sana'a and Sa'dah, Marib, AlJawf, Hajjah, Hodeidah.

Comment: Yemen is a strategically important area with respect to the West's ability to control access to Middle East oil resources. Profits run a close second to this goal. Despite the massive assault by the US vassal states, Yemen continues to bravely resist.

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Wall Street

Looking at 9/11 in the context of the 2008 Wall Street bailout

Pam Martens
Wall Street On Parade
Thu, 08 Sep 2016 14:33 UTC
BBC Correspondent Jane Standley Reported the Destruction of WTC 7
© Courtesy of Architects and Engineers for 9/11 TruthBBC Correspondent Jane Standley Reported the Destruction of WTC 7 Before It Collapsed – Even Though the Building Could Be Seen Behind Her.
This Sunday will mark the 15th anniversary of the 9/11 tragedy - one of those seminal events in human memory that is seared forever on the brain. Because of the emotional toll 9/11 took on the human psyche — watching U.S. commercial airline planes converted to killing machines on U.S. soil — America's collective memory of exactly what happened on 9/11 has more to do with repetitive TV clips of the Twin Towers collapsing and a rush to war than specific details of the actions of those pulling the monetary levers on Wall Street.

The day's events were so bizarre and triggered such cognitive dissonance that millions of Americans did not realize for years that a third World Trade Center skyscraper had collapsed in lower Manhattan that day. World Trade Center Building 7, a 47-story skyscraper not hit by a plane, collapsed at 5:20 p.m. on 9/11 in an almost identical fashion as World Trade Centers One and Two had collapsed in the morning. The organization, Architects and Engineers for 9/11 Truth, which consists of more than 2,000 licensed architects and engineers, do not believe the official version of how these buildings collapsed and have signed a petition calling for a new, independent investigation of 9/11 by a body with full subpoena power.
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Rocket

UK complicit in murder through participation in illegal drone warefare

Medea Benjamin
RT
Fri, 09 Sep 2016 14:12 UTC
drone program
© Efren Lopez / U.S. Air Force photo / Reuters
The US likes to get the UK directly involved in its activities so at the UN and other international agencies it will have the support of European allies, says Medea Benjamin, co-founder of the anti-war group Code Pink, and author of a book on drone warfare.

Newly released documents from whistleblower Edward Snowden have shed light on US spying operations from a base in the UK. The leaks include details of how surveillance data gathered there was used in American targeted killings in the Middle East and North Africa.

RT: How significant is the role of the NSA's British base at Menwith Hill, in US 'targeted killing' operations?

Medea Benjamin: We always knew the UK was working together with the US on these drone operations. But now we have much more information that details how Menwith Hill has been used to collect vast amounts of data that is used not just for surveillance, but actually given over for military operations. So, that's directly linked the UK complicity with drone warfare that many of us think is illegal and violates international law. So, I think that people who have been protesting the way the UK has been working hand in glove with the US in the drone program have a lot more direct questions now to ask of their elected officials.
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Attention

G4S admits it guards Dakota Pipeline as protesters get attacked by dogs


teleSUR
Fri, 09 Sep 2016 13:59 UTC
Federal agents guarding against protesters
© Standing Rock Dakota Access Pipeline Opposition
G4S, a U.K.-based security multinational, admitted to having personnel deployed at "remote sites" where Native Americans are defending their lands from the planned US$3.8-million Dakota Access pipeline that they say would pollute the drinking water of millions.The actions have brought together over 200 tribes in solidarity and faced a heavy offensive by private security companies and state officers deployed under a state of emergency.

The security company has been under fire for providing services to Israeli prisons and settlements, expanding across the Middle East including Afghanistan and Iraq and operating juvenile detention centers and handling deportations from the U.S.

In an email to teleSUR, G4S Communications Director Monica Lewman-Garcia wrote, "G4S Secure Solutions is providing fewer than 10 security officers, assigned to remote sites, providing limited short-term unarmed patrol services."

G4S recently published a new job opening for an armed custom protection security officer in Mandan, North Dakota—next to the campsites—which was reposted on Facebook by Lakota Sioux Tribe member Olowaan Plain.

Comment: $3.8 billion Dakota Access pipeline: Iowans sue, while North Dakota calls in National Guard

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Chess

China's AIIB is establishing a new international financial order

Ariel Noyola Rodriguez
Global Research
Thu, 08 Sep 2016 12:58 UTC
AIIB IMF
© Konstantin Maler
During the first Annual Summit organized by the Asian Infrastructure Investment Bank (AIIB) in Beijing, China has shown her intention to take over the global leadership in infrastructure investment. By the end of this year, AIIB would have more than 100 members, making it the first lending institution in multilateral loans in history, under the control of the most important emerging countries. Yet, it is expected that it makes the decision of dropping off the Dollar, as it is the only way to break away from US hegemony in international finance.

China is already ahead of the US in the race of financing infrastructure at the global level. International finance is going through transformation, in spite of the strong resistance by the powerful American controlling power. Last year, high officials from Washington had tried to sabotage the launch of the Asian Infrastructure Investment Bank - AIIB, but failed to do so.

In fact, countries that had formerly declared their allegiance to the US government, namely Germany, France, Italy, UK, had, at the end of the day, taken the decision to join the new multilateral lending institution promoted by Beijing. President Barack Obama could not imagine that the AIIB would have got the support of more than fifty countries within a few months.

Without a doubt, China is accelerating US decline across the globe. In April 2015, Larry Summers, former Secretary of Treasury under Bill Clinton, declared that the successful call made by the AIIB represented the most dreadful blow to the US hegemony. "Last month will be remembered as the time where US have lost their role as gatekeeper of the World Economic System", he said.

Comment: The AIIB will likely wait to drop the dollar until it is absolutely necessary. Although China has done much to diversify and strengthen their currency, it is not wholly independent from the US dollar and will still be impacted from its collapse. If and when the AIIB does move away from the dollar, that'll be a pretty big sign that the climax of US economic collapse is underway.

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Info

Mirziyoyev is Uzbekistan's new leader: Relations with Russia set to grow closer

Alexander Mercouris
The Duran
Fri, 09 Sep 2016 12:03 UTC
Putin and Mirziyoyev
Uzbekistan's parliament has now confirmed Shavkat Mirziyoyev's appointment as Acting President of the country in place of the recently deceased Islam Karimov.

This comes just 2 days after Mirziyoyev's meeting with Putin in Samarkand when he spoke of Russia as an "allied country".

Mirziyoyev's appointment as Acting President coming on top of his previous appointment as chairman of the commission which organized Karimov's funeral and his meeting with Putin in Samarkand 2 days ago, all but confirms that he is Uzbekistan's new leader. Presumably his position will be formalized once national elections to the Presidency take place, as will doubtless happen shortly. Needless to say, in Uzbekistan such elections are essentially a technicality.

Comment: Now that Uzbekistan's Islam Karimov is dead, China's LNG imports could be threatened

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Propaganda

The NYT tries to ridicule Gary Johnson about Aleppo but fails by making multiple errors in describing the city


Moon of Alabama
Thu, 08 Sep 2016 19:09 UTC
aleppo map
© Peto Lucem
The U.S. election campaigns and their news coverage are generally embarrassing. But this incident of miss-coverage by the acclaimed paper of record beats many others. While attempting to criticize a candidate's lack of awareness or knowledge the NYT author and his editors demonstrate four times that they have neither.

The libertarian candidate Gary Johnson was asked a question of foreign policy relevance and did not know the answer. The question was about a city in Syria but, like it or not, no city in Syria has significant relevance in the general context of the U.S. presidential elections.
"What is Aleppo?" Mr. Johnson asked after he did not get some question about it.
The New York Times, which mocks any candidate but Hillary Clinton, found that small lapses remarkable enough to write a whole piece about it. But its reporter and his editors show a bigger lack on knowledge than Johnson did. The headline: 'What Is Aleppo?' Gary Johnson Asks, in an Interview Stumble. The reporter, one Alan Rappeport, did not know either. Here is the first version he and his editors put out:
"What is Aleppo?" Mr. Johnson said when asked on MSNBC how, as president, he would address the refugee crisis in the Syrian city that is the de facto capital of the Islamic State.
No. Aleppo is not the de facto capital of the Islamic State.
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Stormtrooper

'Russian doping scandal': IPC revokes accreditation of Belarus official who carried Russian flag in solidarity with banned Paralympics athletes


RT
Fri, 09 Sep 2016 10:39 UTC
belarus russian flag
© Iliya Pitalev / Sputnik Belarus Paralympics official Andrei Fomochkin
The International Paralympic Committee (IPC) has rescinded the accreditation of a member of Team Belarus who carried a Russian flag during the opening ceremony of the 2016 Paralympic Games in Rio de Janeiro.

The Belarus delegation carried their home flag at the front of their entourage at the ceremony, but in an apparent show of support for their neighbors, Belarusian Sport and Tourism Ministry member Andrey Fomochkin held aloft the Russian flag at the back of the group.

Russia's Paralympic team were given a complete ban from the event by the IPC in the wake of an alleged state-sponsored sports doping program in the country.

Comment: This is further evidence that the 'Russian state doping scandal' is a political attack against Russia for thwarting US global hegemony.

See also:

Belarusian Paralympic team carries Russian flag in support of banned athletes
Cultural war against Russia: Pole vault champion says Russian athletes being targeted in 'doping scandal'
Russian Olympic doping scandal: A 'sexed-up' McLaren Report implicated clean athletes - see you in court
Cultural warfare: US attempt to ban Russia from Olympics for 'cheating' is rank hypocrisy

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