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US considering sending weapons to Ukraine, claims 'secret data shows Russian military build up'

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© Sean Gallup / Getty ImagesFILE PHOTO: Members of the US Army 173rd Airborne Brigade prepare weapons and equipment near Yavorov, Ukraine.
The United States is considering sending additional weapons and military advisers to Ukraine because of Russia's alleged military build-up on the border, CNN reported, citing "multiple sources familiar with the deliberations."

"The package could include new Javelin anti-tank and anti-armor missiles as well as mortars, the sources said," according to CNN. "Air defense systems, such as stinger missiles, are also under consideration, and the Defense Department has been pressing for some equipment that would have gone to Afghanistan - like Mi-17 helicopters - to instead be sent to Ukraine. The Mi-17 is a Russian helicopter that the US originally purchased to give to the Afghans. The Pentagon is now weighing what to do with them after the US withdrawal from Afghanistan in August," the news outlet said.

Comment: At the very least, Ukraine might just use these new arms to commit more crimes against humanity against the people of the breakaway regions of Donbas and Lugansk. Note this potential delivery of arms follows a $150million gift of military aid in June from the US with the stated intention of boosting "the lethality" of Ukraine's army: Also check out SOTT radio's: NewsReal: Why You Should Question Media Reports About China 'Causing Covid' And 'Invading Taiwan'




Light Sabers

Apple sues Israeli company behind Pegasus spyware

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© Reuters / Dado Ruvic
Apple is suing the NSO Group over its Pegasus spyware that specifically targeted iPhones, and seeking to permanently block the Israeli-based company from using any Apple device, software or service.

"State-sponsored actors like the NSO Group spend millions of dollars on sophisticated surveillance technologies without effective accountability. That needs to change," Craig Federighi, Apple's senior vice president of Software Engineering, said on Tuesday, announcing the lawsuit.

The complaint was filed in the federal court in San Jose, California and provides "new information" on how NSO infected thousands of iPhones with its Pegasus spyware, using an exploit called FORCEDENTRY that has since been patched.

Comment: As if Apple itself isn't guilty of spying on people and collecting data for the government!

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Bad Guys

Hunter Biden's firm helped China gain control of electric-car mineral: report

Hunter Biden
© Stephen YangHunter Biden's investment firm reportedly struck a deal to transfer the majority of Congo's Tenke Fungurum mine to a Chinese company in 2016.
Hunter Biden's investment firm helped broker a 2016 deal that gave a Chinese state-backed company control of a massive African mine rich in cobalt — a mineral essential for the production of electric car batteries.

The deal, first reported by the Washington Free Beacon during the 2020 presidential campaign, was spotlighted by the New York Times Saturday as Congress inches closer to approving President Biden's $2 trillion social spending plan, which earmarks billions of dollars to promote electric vehicles.

In 2016, an investment firm founded by Hunter Biden with several Chinese partners was cut into a complex $3.8 billion transaction that transferred 80 percent of Congo's Tenke Fungurum mine from an American company to Beijing-backed China Molybdenum.

Bad Guys

The Middle East: Who is setting fire to the entire region?

IDF forces
Representatives of Iran and the G4+1 (Britain, France, Germany, China, and Russia) are expected to hold the seventh round of discussions on lifting US sanctions against the Islamic Republic in Vienna on November 29. Negotiations were suspended in June when the Islamic Republic held presidential elections. Since then, the new Iranian administration has reviewed the details of six rounds of discussions held under the previous administration. Washington unilaterally withdrew from the nuclear deal in 2018 despite Tehran's full compliance with its nuclear commitments, as repeatedly confirmed by the UN nuclear agency. The USA then launched a vicious "maximum pressure" campaign against Iran that virtually deprived the country of all economic benefits from the deal.

Iran had been in full compliance with its nuclear obligations for an entire year before deciding to step up its nuclear work as a legal remedial measure in the wake of the US breach of the agreement and the egregious failure of other signatories. Particularly the E3's European allies, to guarantee its benefits. Joe Biden Administration has said it is willing to make up for former President Donald Trump's mistake and join the deal. Still, it has shown a prevailing inclination to maintain sanctions as a pressure tool. Tehran insists that all sanctions must first be lifted in a verifiable manner before it can lift its remedial measures.

Of course, the negotiations will be difficult, challenging, and time-consuming until all parties can arrive at some consensus. There will be a certain calming of the situation in the Middle East's vast and turbulent region.

Telephone

Russia & America's top generals speak by phone, follows US drills in E. Europe practicing 'ability to use nukes against Russia'

Gerasimov Milley
© Sputnik / Russian Defence MinistryRussian General Staff Сhief Valery Gerasimov, right, US Joint Chiefs of Staff Chairman Mark Milley pose for a photo during their meeting at the governmental residence in Vantaa, outside Helsinki, Finland.
Amid growing tensions in Europe, Russia's most senior military general, Valery Gerasimov, has discussed "pressing issues of international security" with his direct American counterpart Mark Milley, during a phone call on Tuesday.

The Pentagon confirmed that the two "military leaders discussed several security-related issues of concern." The phone call was part of efforts aimed at ensuring "risk reduction and operational de-confliction," its statement added.

Neither the Pentagon, nor the Russian Defense Ministry have revealed any additional details of the call in their respective statements. It came as Russian Defense Minister Sergey Shoigu said American nuclear-capable bombers had made dozens of sorties across Eastern Europe in recent weeks.

Comment: By, 'not far from Ukrainian territory', they mean Russia's military is in Russia...


Stock Down

Turkey's lira hits record low, Erdogan defends rate cuts, protests erupt in Istanbul

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© Miguel Angel Sanchez/BloombergLower rates will help spur economic growth and create jobs, Erdogan said late on Monday in Ankara
Overall, the lira has lost nearly 40 per cent of its value against the dollar since the start of the year.

The Turkish lira has hit a record low of 12.49 against the US dollar after President Recep Tayyip Erdogan defended recent sharp rate cuts. The Turkish currency crashed by eight percent on Tuesday.

The lira has lost 40 percent of its value this year, including a near 20 percent tumble since the beginning of last week. Against the euro, the currency weakened to a fresh record low of 13.4035.

Comment: Whilst Erdogan's policies may be aggravating the situation, it's worth noting that much of the planet is struggling to deal with soaring inflation, energy prices, and food prices:


Vader

SOTT Focus: Pathologized Totalitarianism 101

Germans Salute Hitler
© Off-GuardianGermans cheer Adolf Hitler on his 51st birthday as he stands on the balcony of the Reich Chancellory.
So, GloboCap has crossed the Rubicon. The final phase of its transformation of society into a pathologized-totalitarian dystopia, where mandatory genetic-therapy injections and digital compliance papers are commonplace, is now officially underway.

On November 19, 2021, the government of New Normal Austria decreed that, as of February, experimental mRNA injections will be mandatory for the entire population. This decree comes in the midst of Austria's official persecution of "the Unvaccinated," i.e., political dissidents and other persons of conscience who refuse to convert to the new official ideology and submit to a series of mRNA injections, purportedly to combat a virus that causes mild-to-moderate flu-like symptoms (or no symptoms of any kind at all) in about 95% of the infected and the overall infection fatality rate of which is approximately 0.1% to 0.5%.

Austria is just the tip of the New Normal spear. Prominent New-Normal fascists in Germany, like Der Führer of Bavaria, Markus Söder, and Minister of Propaganda Karl Lauterbach, are already calling for an allgemeine Impfpflicht (i.e., "compulsory vaccination requirement"), which should not come as a surprise to anyone.

The Germans are not going sit idly by and let the Austrians publicly out-fascist them, are they? They have a reputation to uphold, after all! Italy will probably be next to join in, unless Lithuania or Australia beats them to the punch.

But, seriously, this is just the beginning of the Winter Siege I wrote about recently. The plan seems to be to New-Normalize Europe first — generally speaking, Europeans are more docile, respectful of all authority, and not very well armed — and then use it as leverage to force the new pathologized totalitarianism on the USA, and the UK, and the rest of the world.

I do not believe this plan will succeed. In spite of the longest and most intensive propaganda campaign in the history of propaganda, there remain enough of us who steadfastly refuse to accept the "New Normal" as our new reality.

And a lot of us are angry, extremely angry ... militantly, explosively angry.

Health

Switzerland: The World's Last Bastion of Democracy?

Switzerland
In a lively rally under full autumn sun, Robert F. Kennedy Jr. addressed a crowd of about 10 to 20 thousand people in Bern. He talked about the covid lies in the US, as well as around the globe. He did not spare Europe, which allows kids being vaccinated from an age as low as 5 years - just like in the US, the Big Brother. He pointed out that the death rate in children from what they falsely call a vaccine was a multiple of the covid fatality in children.

The manifestation in Bern was organized by the Swiss Public Eye, an Association created in 1968, with the objective of demanding fairer relations between Switzerland and the world's poorest countries. Public Eye, with its currently 27,000 members, also stands for fairness in trade relations and defends human and civil rights in Switzerland and around the world.

Mr. Robert Kennedy Jr. came to Bern for a specific reason, and what he said to the Swiss is that Switzerland was the Last Bastion of Democracy in the World. The upcoming Referendum on 28 November 2021, where the Swiss have the opportunity to vote for or against a Covid Law - a Martial Law in disguise - that had quietly been ratified in September 2020 by Parliament, but had to be put on ice, because a referendum was immediately launched against it. This referendum collected in record time a record number of signatures - never seen before in Switzerland.

Biohazard

The US is preparing a biological time bomb in Kazakhstan

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The Open Regulations website and the website of the Ministry of Industry and Infrastructural Development of the Republic of Kazakhstan recently published information on the Kazakh government's intention to build a "BSL-4 laboratory and underground storage facility for a collection of dangerous and highly dangerous strains" in the south of the country in the Korday district of Zhambyl Region in the village of Gvardeisky. It is where the Research Institute for Biological Security Problems, now part of the Science Committee of the Ministry of Education and Science of the Republic of Kazakhstan, which now works mainly on Pentagon research programmes, has been located since Soviet times. The "Laboratory" is scheduled to start construction at the beginning of 2022 and be completed in the Q4 2025. Its code BSL-4 stands for Biosafety Level 4.

An explanatory note from Kazakh Minister Beibut Atamkulov states that Deputy Prime Minister Yeraly Tugzhanov gave the relevant instruction on October 25. Section 3 of the project document hints that no funds from the budget would be required to build such a hazardous facility, suggesting the involvement of the US Department of Defense's Defense Threat Reduction Agency (DTRA), which has already been allocated funds for this "project".

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Pirates

UK gov slips in bill allowing revocation of citizenship without notice, claims it's 'conducive to public good'

Priti Patel
© Rex/ShutterstockThe home secretary, Priti Patel, can revoke British citizenship when it would be 'conducive to the public good'.
People will no longer need to be notified that they are being stripped of their citizenship, thanks to a clause smuggled into the nationality and borders bill last week. This is an unfair and draconian measure that MPs ought to be ashamed to pass into law. How can a person challenge a decision that they do not know about? It is hard to imagine that the home secretary, Priti Patel, who has agitated for the death penalty, would lose any sleep over enacting such an unjust, authoritarian measure. But she should think again.

The principle of rule of law is that an individual has a right to know of a decision before their rights can be adversely affected. Currently, the Home Office has to make some effort to contact someone before depriving them of citizenship. Ministers think this legal requirement should be dropped in favour of executive discretion because of the threat, and crucially the fear, of terrorism.

The new power is exceptionally broad: notice will not be needed if it would not be "reasonably practicable" to give it; or in the interests of "national security" or diplomatic relations; or for other "public interest" reasons.


Comment: Terrorism and 'national security' are often used to justify totalitarian measures such as these, when it's almost certain that there are already laws on the books to deal with the very few, serious cases that this new bill aims to target.


Comment: The UK is sliding into a dystopian nightmare all under guise of the 'public good':

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