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Israeli spy chief slams Iran's nuclear 'charade'


RT
Mon, 12 Sep 2022 22:42 UTC
Iran reactor
© Atomic Energy Organization of Iran/APIran's Arak heavy water reactor
Israel will not feel constrained by a possible renewal of the nuclear deal with Iran and intends to continue targeting the "state terrorism" of the Tehran "regime," Mossad Director David Barnea said in a speech on Monday.

Barnea, at the Reichman University in Herzliya in his first public address since he took over the reins at Mossad last year, said:
"We will not take part in this charade. We will not close our eyes to the proven truth. The deal is based on Iranian lies. Iran has sought to build a nuclear weapon that endangers Israel's existence. The deal will easily help them reach this goal under international legitimization. Even if a deal is signed, it will not provide immunity from Mossad operations."
Barnea accused Tehran of masterminding "planned, systematic, and strategic terror" perpetrated by the intelligence agencies and the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC), which he said has only become worse in recent months. Mossad, he claimed, has thwarted "dozens" of planned Iranian attacks against Israelis and Jews abroad, in places including Cyprus, Colombia and Turkey. Barnea also cited the recent US allegations that Iran plotted the assassination of John Bolton and Mike Pompeo, two former officials in the Trump administration.
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Ukraine slams 'disappointing' Germany


RT
Tue, 13 Sep 2022 14:41 UTC
Kuleba
© Global Look Press/Marcus BrandtUkrainian FM Dmitry Kuleba
Berlin's 'excuses' for not sending battle tanks to Kiev are irrational, Foreign Minister Dmitry Kuleba has said.

Germany has failed to offer a single substantive argument justifying its "disappointing" decision not to send battle tanks to Ukraine, Foreign Minister Dmitry Kuleba said on Tuesday.

Writing on Twitter, the foreign minister said Germany had not given a "single rational argument as to why these weapons cannot be supplied" and accused Germany of offering "only abstract fears and excuses."

Kuleba's tweet comes after German Defense Minister Christine Lambrecht said on Monday that the German Army's military aid capacities had reached their limit having already "handed over an unbelievable amount from the reserves of the Bundeswehr."

Kuleba blasted Lambrecht's words as "disappointing signals" and insisted Ukraine "needs Leopards and Marders now," referring to the German Leopard 2 battle tank and Marder Infantry Fighting Vehicles.

Comment: If allowed, Ukraine will bleed NATO allies dry and that would be their fault from start to finish.

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Russia conducting 'massive strikes' in Ukraine


RT
Tue, 13 Sep 2022 17:26 UTC
russia airstrike electrical plant
© AP Photo/Kostiantyn LiberovUkrainian State Emergency Service firefighters put out the fire after a Russian rocket attack hit an electric power station in Kharkiv, Ukraine, Sunday, Sept. 11, 2022. The Kharkiv and Donetsk regions have been completely de-energised in the rocket attack.
Kiev's forces have lost hundreds of troops to Russian artillery and missile fire, the Ministry of Defense has claimed

Russian forces have unleashed a heavy barrage on the Ukrainian army on all fronts, with Kiev's casualties amounting to more than 800 in one day, the Russian Ministry of Defense said on Tuesday.

"The Russian Air Force, missile troops and artillery are conducting massive strikes on units of the Ukrainian Armed Forces across all operational areas," the ministry said.

Russian high-precision attacks have targeted the deployment areas of units of the 95th Airborne Assault Brigade near the towns of Slavyansk and Konstantinovka in eastern Ukraine, the statement read. The ministry went on to say that its forces had also bombarded the 115th Mechanized Brigade near Artemovsk, and the 53rd Mechanized Brigade near Kurdyumovka, both in Donetsk Region.

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Flashlight

Lavrov: Hybrid war against Russia is 'unprecedented'


RT
Tue, 13 Sep 2022 15:54 UTC
lavrov
© Global Look Press / Russian Foreign Ministry
The hybrid war that the West has been waging against Russia for many years has now scaled up to an "unprecedented" level, Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov said on Tuesday.

"The aim [of the hybrid war] is being declared openly", Lavrov explained during the ministry's Business Council meeting. The goal is "to destroy the economy, push our country to the backyard of the world politics. Recently, they've been calling to openly use sanctions to undermine stability in Russia," he stated.

Lavrov stressed that the ministry's priority is to promote sustainable relations "with all interested foreign partners" based on mutual respect and cooperation.

The Russian Foreign Ministry warned in August that the ongoing hybrid war raises the threat of a nuclear conflict, in which there can be no winners. However, according to Igor Vishnevetsky, the Foreign Ministry's non-proliferation department deputy head, Russia remains "committed to... building a world free of nuclear weapons."
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Armenian PM calls Putin and Macron over 'Azerbaijani aggression'


RT
Tue, 13 Sep 2022 17:56 UTC
pashinyan and putin
© Valery Sharifulin / TASS via AP
Armenian Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan spoke with Russian President Vladimir Putin and French President Emmanuel Macron in the early hours of Tuesday, after Azerbaijan opened fire with artillery and drones on several areas along the border.

In separate phone calls, Pashinyan told Putin and Macron about the "provocative, aggressive actions of the Azerbaijani armed forces against the sovereign territory of Armenia, which began at midnight," and "stressed the importance of an adequate response from the international community," the government in Yerevan said.

The Armenian Defense Ministry claimed that military and civilian infrastructure in Sotk, Vardenis, Goris, Kapan, Artanish and Ishkhanasar have been shelled, and that there were reports of casualties. Azerbaijani claims that the shelling was started by Armenia were "completely false," Yerevan added.
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Best of the Web: Ukrainian officials drew on US intelligence to plan counteroffensive

Julian E. Barnes and Helene Cooper
The New York Times
Sat, 10 Sep 2022 00:01 UTC
ukraine drones
© Jim Huylebroek for The New York TimesFILE PHOTO: Ukrainian soldiers operate a drone near the Kherson front in Ukraine on Monday.
Overcoming a reluctance to share their strategy, the Ukrainians were able to use U.S. resources to identify key Russian targets.

Senior Ukrainian officials stepped up intelligence sharing with their American counterparts over the summer as they began to plan the counteroffensive that allowed them to make dramatic gains in the northeast in recent days, a shift that allowed the United States to provide better and more relevant information about Russian weaknesses, according to American officials.

Throughout the war, the United States has provided Ukraine with information on command posts, ammunition depots and other key nodes in the Russian military lines. Such real-time intelligence has allowed the Ukrainians — who U.S. officials acknowledge have played the decisive role in planning and execution — to target Russian forces, kill senior generals and force ammunition supplies to be moved farther from the Russian front lines.

Comment: Given that this is the New York Times, nothing in here about how Russia or Urkaine are doing in the confrontation can be believed. But if you ever needed any more evidence that this is nothing more than a US proxy-war, here it is.

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Attention

'Assassinated' pro-Russian official rises from the 'dead'


RT
Mon, 12 Sep 2022 12:30 UTC
vitaly gura
© Russia's Channel OneVitaly Gura, deputy head of the town of Novaya Kakhovka.
A top administrator in Ukraine's Kherson region, who's death had been announced, claims it was staged to save his life.

Vitaly Gura, deputy head of the town of Novaya Kakhovka in Ukraine's Kherson Region, has revealed that his death was staged by Russia's Federal Security Service (FSB) in order to save him from an assassination attempt by Kiev.

Reports of the pro-Russian official's murder emerged on August 6, with local authorities saying he was shot by Ukrainian forces near his home in Novaya Kakhovka, and died on his way to hospital.
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Flashback Best of the Web: Revealed: Prince Charles has received confidential cabinet papers for decades

Robert Booth
The Guardian
Tue, 15 Dec 2015 16:14 UTC
prince charles
© Richard Wainwright/AFP/Getty ImagesPrince Charles was described by one senior MP as ‘Britain’s best informed lobbyist’.
Revelation that heir to throne is routinely sent confidential papers comes after three-year freedom of information battle.

Prince Charles has been receiving confidential cabinet papers for decades, giving him access to the inner workings of British government, according to a Whitehall manual released after a three-year freedom of information battle.

The heir to the throne, who has previously been criticised for "meddling" in politics, is sent all cabinet memoranda, alongside the Queen and ministers in charge of departments, including secret proposals for new legislation and other discussion documents that have only been released to the public after 30 years.

Comment: So apparently Charles was acting like the King long before he actually was one.

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Bad Guys

For want of a nail the Kingdom was lost - English Pathologist Guy Rutty faces challenges to the reliability of his Novichok evidence

John Helmer
Dance With Bears
Sun, 11 Sep 2022 00:00 UTC
Guy Rutty
The weakest link in the British government's four-year long story of Russian Novichok assassination operations in the UK - prelude to the current war - is an English medical expert by the name of Guy Rutty (lead image, standing).

A government-appointed pathologist advising the Home Office, police, and county coroners, Rutty is the head of the East Midlands Forensic Pathology Unit in Leicester, he is the author of a post-mortem report, dated November 29, 2018, claiming that the only fatality in the history of the Novichok nerve agent (lead image, document), Dawn Sturgess, had died of Novichok poisoning on July 8, 2018. Rutty's finding was added four months after initial post-mortem results and a coroner's cremation certificate stopped short of confirming that Novichok had been the cause of her death.

Rutty's Novichok finding was a state secret for more than two years. It was revealed publicly by the second government coroner to investigate Sturgess's death, Dame Heather Hallett, at a public hearing in London on March 30, 2021. In written evidence it was reported that "on 17th July 2018, Professor Guy Rutty MBE, a Home Office Registered Forensic Pathologist conducted an independent post-mortem examination. He was accompanied by Dr Phillip Lumb, also an independent Home Office Registered Forensic Pathologist. Professor Rutty's Post-Mortem Report of 29th November 2018 records the cause of death as Ia Post cardiac arrest hypoxic brain injury and intracerebral haemorrhage; Ib Novichok toxicity."

Comment: It has been an interesting case for those paying attention, with Mr. Helmer and others certainly helping to keep it from falling into a dark memory hole, wherein it would be conveniently forgotten.

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New Zealand finally drops most lockdown restrictions, PM Ardern who mercilessly enforced them says 'we just need to respect people's decisions'


The Guardian
Mon, 12 Sep 2022 06:32 UTC
Jacinda Ardern
© Phil Walter/Getty ImagesNew Zealand prime minister Jacinda Ardern has announced relaxation of most of the country's Covid-19 restrictions.
Jacinda Ardern has declared it "time to safely turn the page" on New Zealand's Covid-19 restrictions, scrapping all but a handful of remaining rules.

New Zealand, which once eliminated the virus through the toughest pandemic rules in the world, has made relaxations similar to Australian or European conditions.

Mask-wearing will no longer be mandatory in public places, and the last vaccine mandates will be ditched in two weeks under sweeping changes announced by the prime minister on Monday.

However, the government is sticking by a seven-day isolation period for people with virus, defying calls to shorten isolation to five days.

Comment: 'Certainty'? In the coming months?? One could be forgiven for thinking that Arden was more than a little duplicitous.



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