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Blinken threatens China over Russia ties (VIDEO)


RT
Fri, 26 Apr 2024 12:39 UTC
US Secretary of State Antony Blinken speaks to journalists, 26 April 2024, Peking, China.
© Johannes Neudecker / picture alliance via Getty ImagesUS Secretary of State Antony Blinken speaks to journalists, 26 April 2024, Peking, China.
The US Secretary of State says Washington is prepared to impose more sanctions on Beijing over the alleged transfer of military components.

Washington is ready to introduce more sanctions against China over its alleged transfer of dual-use goods and components, which can supposedly be used by the Russian military industrial complex, US Secretary of State Antony Blinken said on Friday.

Speaking at a press conference in Beijing following his meeting with Chinese President Xi Jinping, the US official recalled that Washington has already imposed sanctions against more than 100 Chinese entities and is "fully prepared to act" and "take additional measures."

Blinken claimed that China's alleged support for the Russian defense industry raises concerns not only about the situation in Ukraine, but also about a "medium to long-term threat that many Europeans feel viscerally that Russia poses to them."
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Radar

US nuclear weapons in Poland would be priority military target - Moscow


RT
Thu, 25 Apr 2024 07:29 UTC
Russian Deputy Foreign Minister Sergey Ryabkov.
© Sputnik/Gavriil GrigorovRussian Deputy Foreign Minister Sergey Ryabkov.
Warsaw wants to host NATO arms under the bloc's sharing scheme.

Russia would consider foreign deployments of nuclear weapons in Poland a primary military target, Deputy Foreign Minister Sergey Ryabkov has warned.

Warsaw is in talks with Washington on potentially hosting nuclear arms as part of a NATO program. President Andrzej Duda reiterated Poland's willingness to host the weapons in an interview this week.

Moscow considers any expansion of NATO's nuclear-sharing arrangement as "deeply destabilizing" in nature, "and in fact threatening" Russia, Ryabkov was quoted as saying by TASS on Thursday. This applies to joint missions, where non-nuclear members of the US-led bloc are trained to use American hardware, and even more so to the permanent stationing of such weapons "which hotheads in Warsaw are talking about," he said.

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HAL9000

Ukraine conflict 'a bonanza' for US military - NYT


RT
Tue, 23 Apr 2024 07:20 UTC
Ukrainian drone operator.
© Getty Images / AnadoluUkrainian drone operator.
The conflict has become a "laboratory" for the US military, a senior American general told the newspaper.

The US military is reportedly using the Ukraine conflict to test a new artificial intelligence technology that helps detect targets on the battlefield using drone footage, the New York Times reported on Tuesday.

Dubbed Project Maven, research into the technology was initially picked up as a government contract by Google six years ago, according to the outlet. However, after pushback from engineers and employees, who did not want to take part in building an AI tool for military use, the tech giant stepped away from the project, which was picked up by other contractors.
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Bullseye

The Middle East crisis has made one thing clear about the US

Bradley Blankenship
RT
Mon, 22 Apr 2024 21:17 UTC
RwooD
© Angela Weiss/AFPUS Deputy Ambassador to the UN Robert Wood votes against Palestinian UN membership at United Nations • April 18, 2024
The veto on Palestinian statehood and Israeli strikes on Iran are signs of irreversible decline in American soft power.

So-called Western values, especially those touted by the United States, have long revealed themselves to be hollow and contradictory. The country's Declaration of Independence from Great Britain famously stated that "all men are created equal," while instituting brutal chattel slavery on Africans and committing a horrific genocide against the Native people of the Americas.

Yet, it could still be argued - in terms however trite - that the US was somehow on the right side of history at various junctures. Today, recent actions by the administration have shown that this is undeniably no longer the case. On Thursday, the US vetoed a draft UN Security Council resolution that would grant Palestine full UN membership despite Washington's official position being in favor of the two-state solution.

Comment: More evident each day, the US no longer has international, intrinsic nor face value.

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Gavel

Supreme Court to hear arguments in Trump presidential immunity case

Brooke Singman
Fox News
Thu, 25 Apr 2024 04:00 UTC
Trump
© Win McNamee/Getty ImagesRepublican presidential candidate and former President Donald Trump • Mar-a-Lago • March 5, 2024 • West Palm Beach, Florida
The U.S. Supreme Court will hear arguments Thursday on whether former President Donald Trump is immune from prosecution in Special Counsel Jack Smith's election interference case.

The high court agreed it would review whether Trump, the presumptive Republican presidential nominee, has immunity from prosecution. Arguments at the Supreme Court are expected to begin at 10 a.m. Thursday, but the former president will not be present for the proceedings.

Instead, Trump will be in New York City for the seventh day of his criminal trial stemming from charges out of Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg's investigation. Trump has pleaded not guilty to all 34 counts of falsifying business records in the first degree.

Trump, a criminal defendant, is required to be present for each day of his trial. He requested, though, to attend Supreme Court arguments on presidential immunity, but Judge Juan Merchan, who is presiding over the trial, rejected that request. Requiring the former president to be in his Manhattan courtroom, Merchan said last week:
"Arguing before the Supreme Court is a big deal, and I can certainly appreciate why your client would want to be there, but a trial in New York Supreme Court... is also a big deal."
A ruling from the Supreme Court on the issue of presidential immunity is expected by late June.

Comment: In the national crosshairs: More than 'Trump' is at stake.

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Cruise Missle

US secretly shipped ATACMS missiles to Ukraine - media


RT
Wed, 24 Apr 2024 19:00 UTC
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© South Korean Defense Ministry/AFPArmy Tactical Missile System (ATACMS) in action
Washington secretly sent Kiev an unspecified number of longer-range ATACMS missiles last month, multiple US outlets reported on Wednesday, citing an anonymous US government official.

The Army Tactical Missile Systems (ATACMS), with a range up to 300 kilometers, were included in the $300-million package of military aid approved by President Joe Biden on March 12, according to the official, who spoke with Reuters, Politico and the New York Times, among others.

Speaking on condition of anonymity, the source said that Ukraine used the missiles for the first time last Wednesday, targeting a Russian airfield about 165 kilometers (103 miles) from the front line.

On the morning of April 17, Ukrainian President Vladimir Zelensky said his forces had attacked the airbase in Dzhankoy, Crimea. The Russian Defense Ministry has not commented on that claim.

Zelensky has long clamored for longer-range missiles. According to the anonymous official cited in Reuters' report, the Pentagon was initially opposed, but changed its mind after Russia used ballistic missiles allegedly supplied by North Korea and began targeting Ukraine's energy infrastructure.

"We warned Russia about those things," the official said. "They renewed their targeting."

Comment: Russia is playing the long game watching all the US touches self-destruct.

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Star of David

Israel failed to prove UN agency was complicit in terrorism


RT
Mon, 22 Apr 2024 21:19 UTC
damaged UNRWA
© AFPDamaged headquarters of UNRWA for Palestinian refugees in Gaza City • February 15, 2024
West Jerusalem's allegations triggered an exodus of Western money from a critical relief agency. It gave no evidence to support its claims that UN Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees in the Near East (UNRWA) staffers aided Hamas' October 7 attack on the Jewish state, an independent review commissioned by the UN has found.

The Israeli government claimed in January that a dozen UNRWA employees took part in the attack, in which the militant group killed around 1,100 people in Israel and took around 250 hostages to Gaza. West Jerusalem also claimed that 190 UNRWA staffers provided intelligence and logistical support to the attackers, and allowed Hamas to use the agency's facilities as safehouses.

An independent committee led by former French Foreign Minister Catherine Colonna found no evidence to support these claims, according to a report published on Monday.

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Vader

Humorless Australian PM wants to ban memes of himself


RT
Wed, 24 Apr 2024 17:32 UTC
Anthony Albanese
© Getty ImagesAustralian Prime Minister Anthony Albanese
Australian Prime Minister Anthony Albanese has once again lashed out at social media, insisting the platforms should be accountable for the content that its users post.

The PM's remarks come in the wake of a spat with tech billionaire Elon Musk over the reluctance on the part of the Tesla and Space X tycoon to remove footage of the stabbing of a cleric from X (formerly Twitter).


Comment: See: Elon Musk blasts Australia's 'censorship' after court orders X to take down terror attack video


"Social media platforms have a responsibility to make sure that misinformation isn't got out there," Albanese told reporters on Wednesday. "I noticed today, for example, on the way up here, they've removed various sites that were up containing fake images of myself superimposed on other people," the PM stated.

"Social media has a responsibility to do the right thing here," Albanese reiterated.
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Colosseum

Washington has lost touch with reality. If it doesn't adapt, the world will pay

Marco Carnelos
Middle East Eye
Wed, 24 Apr 2024 16:49 UTC
biden
In a failing quest to maintain its 'primacy', the US has cast China, Russia and Iran as global villains
The US intelligence community recently released its annual threat assessment, which focuses on worldwide threats to the country's national security. The document reflects the collective analyses and insights of the Central Intelligence Agency, National Security Agency, Federal Bureau of Investigation and more than a dozen other agencies.

The report's foreword provides a clear sense of this community's dystopian and self-referential thinking: "During the next year, the United States faces an increasingly fragile global order strained by accelerating strategic competition among major powers, more intense and unpredictable transnational challenges, and multiple regional conflicts with far-reaching implications."
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Bad Guys

Cashless society: WEF boasts that 98% of central banks are adopting CBDCs


Zerohedge
Thu, 25 Apr 2024 05:45 UTC
cbdcs
Whatever happened to the WEF? One minute they were everywhere in the media and now they have all but disappeared from public discourse. After the pandemic agenda was defeated and the plan to exploit public fear to create a perpetual medical autocracy was exposed, Klaus Schwab and his merry band of globalists slithered back into the woodwork. To be sure, we'll be seeing them again one day, but for now the WEF has relegated itself away from the spotlight and into the dark recesses of the Davos echo chamber.

Much of their discussions now focus on issues like climate change or DEI (Diversity, Equity, Inclusion), but one vital subject continues to pop up in the white papers of global think tanks and it's a program that was introduced very publicly during covid. Every person that cares about economic freedom should be wary of Central Bank Digital Currencies (CBDCs) as perhaps the biggest threat to human liberty since the attempted introduction of vaccine passports.
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