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Israel has 90 nukes (at least) - but our leaders won't say so because the US would be legally required to cut off aid

Philip Weiss
Mondoweiss
Thu, 23 Dec 2021 19:17 UTC
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© Israeli government videoJake Sullivan, national security adviser, expresses his support for Israel’s security needs in meeting with Israeli Prime Minister Naftali Bennett, Dec. 22, 2021.
Any realistic discussion of Iran's nuclear program ought to include the glaring fact that Israel has 90 nukes. But acknowledging as much would trigger US laws against giving foreign aid to a country with unauthorized weapons.

It is really hard to believe, but: The United States has a keen interest in getting the Iran nuclear deal back in place, and it can't do so because one small country doesn't want us to. Our dear friend Israel says Iran is an "existential" threat, and our leaders listen to their leaders, who urge us to take military action against Iran over its nuclear program.

And meantime everyone in the American establishment hides the fact that Israel has nukes. At least 90 of them, according to experts.
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Eye 1

Puppy killing goblin urges Americans to ban unvaxxed family members from holidays


RT
Thu, 23 Dec 2021 19:21 UTC
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© Reuters / Evelyn HocksteinAnthony Fauci (C) and other White House officials meet with President Joe Biden, in the White House in Washington, DC, December 16, 2021.
Speaking on MSNBC, Fauci said people should avoid seeing their unvaxxed relatives for the holiday season, suggesting get-togethers could resume at "another time," when the Covid-19 pandemic is "all over." He did not offer any estimate for when that might occur.

"I think we're dealing with a serious enough situation that if there's an unvaccinated person, I would say, 'I'm very sorry, but not this time,'" he said on Tuesday night, warning ominously that the coronavirus Omicron variant "is going to find [those]" who have not received the jab.

"It's the best thing for you and your family but also your societal responsibility to not allow yourself to be a vehicle for [spreading] to someone else who might be very vulnerable."
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Kremlin lashes out at unvaccinated 'dangerous fools'

Jonny Tickle
RT
Thu, 23 Dec 2021 19:01 UTC
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© RIA / Maxim Bogodvid
Dmitry Peskov was speaking to a special TV program about the second year of living with Covid-19, alongside other government officials. When asked his opinion about anti-vaxxers, Putin's spokesman did not equivocate.

"Dangerous fools. That's two words. Just one word cannot express it," he told the TV host Nailya Asker-Zade.

The country's Minister of Health, Mikhail Murashko, dubbed those who refuse to be vaccinated "unreasonable," while Anna Popova, head of Russia's health watchdog Rospotrebnadzor, suggested that opponents of the jab are "stricken with fear."
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Broom

Why the West cannot leave Hong Kong alone

Tom Fowdy
RT
Wed, 22 Dec 2021 10:23 UTC
Hong Kong
© Reuters / Lam YikLegislative Council election in Hong Kong, China, December 20, 2021.
The Anglophone countries' critical reaction to elections in Hong Kong reveals their inability to accept that the city is no longer under their influence - the result of an Imperialist mindset they cannot leave in the past.

Last week saw the first legislative council elections in Hong Kong since the beginning of the pandemic. This was a significant event, as earlier this year China's National People's Congress had overhauled the electoral system, reducing the number of seats and the number of candidates, and vetting those who wanted to stand to ensure their loyalty to China.

Beijing had deemed the measures necessary to restore stability and order to the city, following a year of violent US-backed protests in 2019, which were brought to an end with the introduction of a national security law.

Comment: See also: And check out SOTT radio's: NewsReal: Why You Should Question Media Reports About China 'Causing Covid' And 'Invading Taiwan'



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Brick Wall

Defiant Orban says Hungary won't change migration policy, despite EU court ruling


RFE/RL
Thu, 23 Dec 2021 18:40 UTC
Viktor Orban
Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban
Budapest will stick to its immigration laws despite a European court ruling, Prime Minister Viktor Orban said on December 21, as his nationalist FIDESZ party is bracing for what promises to be a closely fought national election due early next year.

"The government decided that we will not do anything to change the system of border protection," Orban told a news conference in Budapest. "We will maintain the existing regime, even if the European court ordered us to change it. We will not change it and will not let anyone in."

Last month, the Court of Justice of the European Union (CJEU) ruled that Budapest broke EU law by allowing police to physically "push back" asylum seekers across the Serbian border.

When Orban's justice minister asked Hungary's Constitutional Court to review the CJEU ruling, the court ruled that Budapest has the right to apply its own measures in areas where the European Union has yet to take adequate steps for common implementation of EU rules.
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Bad Guys

Berlin 'illegally' forces EU satellite operator to take RT's German TV broadcast off air


RT
Thu, 23 Dec 2021 13:22 UTC
RT production news
© Sputnik / Vladimir AstapkovichEuropean satellite operator Eutelsat has removed the 24-hour German-language RT DE channel from its platform under pressure from Berlin. RT has called the move illegal.
German media regulator MABB (Medienanstalt Berlin-Brandenburg) has forced European service Eutelsat to remove the broadcast of RT's new Moscow-based German-language channel RT DE from its 9B satellite on Wednesday.

"It is inappropriate for the German regulator, MABB, to overreach and ignore the European Convention on Transfrontier Television, under which it is subject, thereby forcing Eutelsat to remove RT DE from the carrier solely due to the unsubstantiated and factually flawed claims of the German regulator," RT's press service pointed out.

"We believe this amounts to illegal pressure and are confident this action will be redressed by the courts. We will be seeking all possible remedies against the German regulator, and our audience can continue to access our content across multiple platforms and online," it said.

Comment: This is just the latest in an onslaught of maneuvers by Germany against Russia, at the behest of the Western establishment, that further damages relations between the two countries, and to the detriment of the German people:

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Russia tired of smug lectures from Germany - Lavrov


RT
Thu, 23 Dec 2021 10:28 UTC
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© Daniel Schwen, Creative CommonsReichstag
Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov has said relations with Germany face serious challenges because the EU's leading state acts as though the world's problems are created by Moscow, while those in Berlin do nothing wrong.

In an exclusive television interview with RT on Wednesday, Lavrov was asked to comment on deteriorating relations between the two countries, and to respond to German accusations that the impasse is Russia's fault.

"They say they want to have normal relations with Russia, but first Russia has to change its behavior, full stop," the diplomat replied. He reported that he had recently met with Annalena Baerbock, the German Foreign Minister, and that she had accepted an invitation to visit Russia.

Comment: With NATO's unrelenting belligerence in Ukraine; Germany's blockage of Nord Stream II despite soaring gas prices at home; Germany's expulsion of Russian diplomats; the mysterious death of a Russian diplomat in Berlin; Germany's ban of Russian media; and, in response, Russia's increasingly frustrate and frank rhetoric - to name but a few of the recent news reports - it seems that the West is hell bent on further souring relations with Russia (and China), and so any hope that the situation will improve anytime soon seems rather unlikely.

What with the West's war on its own citizens under guise of Covid, it seems that this distraction can serve a number of agendas:

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Sherlock

10 Israelis set to be indicted for illegally exporting missiles to China


The Times of Israel
Mon, 20 Dec 2021 20:16 UTC
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© Shin BetA photo said to depict illegal missile development for an unnamed Asian country, released February 11, 2020.
The Financial Department of the State Prosecutor's Office informed 10 individuals and three companies on Monday that they would be indicted on serious security offenses linked to selling missiles to China without approval.

According to the State Prosecutor's Office, the deal in question was brokered by Ephraim Menashe, an Israeli drone entrepreneur and founder of the Solar Sky company, who then hired Tzvika and Ziv Naveh, owners of the Innocon drone company, and other unnamed suspects.

"The suspects were investigated as part of a large-scale security case in which it was suspected that they manufactured, brokered and exported cruise missiles for military use, without a permit," said prosecutors.

Comment: These developments are already a few years in the making and it seems that there's more to the story that isn't immediately clear; and, notably, there's been no official statement from China. One wonders why China, that excels in technological endeavours, would need to source Israeli/US products? Were these deals sanctioned by Chinese officials?

The story could reveal just how unregulated and/or prolific Israel's sales of deadly armaments to other countries is - an issue that, usually, goes largely unreported by the international community - or it could be that this is yet another dodgy deal, that went ahead with a nod from these admittedly secretive authorities, that is simply being revealed now because its an opportune time to smear China?

It's likely that, as this story continues to develop, the agenda driving these revelations will become a little clearer.

See also: And check out SOTT radio's: NewsReal: Why You Should Question Media Reports About China 'Causing Covid' And 'Invading Taiwan'



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Gold Coins

The U.S. government has a massive, secret stockpile of bitcoin — Here's what happens to it

MacKenzie Sigalos
CNBC
Sun, 19 Dec 2021 09:00 UTC
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© Chesnot/Getty Images
For years, the U.S. government has maintained a side hustle auctioning off bitcoin and other cryptocurrencies. Historically, Uncle Sam has done a pretty lousy job of timing the market.

The 500 bitcoin it sold to Riot Blockchain in 2018 for around $5 million? That's now worth north of $23 million. Or the 30,000 bitcoin that went to billionaire venture capitalist Tim Draper for $19 million in 2014? That would be more than $1.3 billion today.

The government has obtained all that bitcoin by seizing it, alongside the usual assets one would expect from high-profile criminal sting operations. It all gets sold off in a similar fashion.

"It could be 10 boats, 12 cars, and then one of the lots is X number of bitcoin being auctioned," said Jarod Koopman, director of the Internal Revenue Service's cybercrime unit.

One of the next seizures up on the auction block is $56 million worth of cryptocurrencies that authorities confiscated as part of a Ponzi scheme case involving offshore crypto lending program BitConnect. Unlike other auctions where the proceeds are redistributed to different government agencies, the cash from this crypto sale will be used to reimburse victims of the fraud.

The government's crypto seizure and sale operation is growing so fast that it just enlisted the help of the private sector to manage the storage and sales of its hoard of tokens.
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Briefcase

The curious Clinton development in the case against Igor Danchenko

Nick Arama
RedState
Mon, 20 Dec 2021 03:45 UTC
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© Twitter/CNN/YouTube/nbcnews.com/KJNIgor Danchenko • Special Counsel John Durham • Hillary Clinton
Special Counsel John Durham obtained an indictment against Igor Danchenko about a month and a half ago.

Danchenko is a Russian national who worked for the Brookings Institution and was the main source for the Steele dossier making the false claim of Russia collusion. The indictment against Danchenko claims that he lied to them when they interviewed him in 2017 when they were investigating the dossier.

Mostly [sic] notably, the Russian hid the extent that he was working with a Democratic public-relations executive with ties to Hillary Clinton. Press reports have identified the executive as Charles Dolan, a Clinton associate who in 2016 was actively working to make Hillary the president. The indictment suggests Mr. Dolan was behind several of the salacious and derogatory claims about Mr. Trump that Mr. Danchenko fed to Mr. Steele. Mr. Dolan's attorney told the New York Times that his client could not comment on an ongoing case.

The purpose was to present the FBI with oppo-research that masqueraded as "intelligence," and it worked. Mrs. Clinton lost the election, but the Russia tale sabotaged an incoming President with relentless media assaults and a special counsel investigation. The country spent years obsessing over the Trump conspiracy that didn't exist — rather than the Clinton conspiracy that did.
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