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Beijing warns that Biden-Xi talks might not happen


RT
Sun, 29 Oct 2023 18:15 UTC
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© Chinese Foreign MinistryChinese Foreign Minister Wang Yi meets with US President Joe Biden
China's Foreign Ministry has pointed out that hopes for talks next month between US President Joe Biden and Chinese President Xi Jinping may be dashed unless Washington can start abiding by an agreement that the two leaders reached last year.

At issue is a proposed Biden-Xi summit on the sidelines of the Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation leaders meeting in San Francisco, which is scheduled to begin on November 14. White House officials have told US media outlets that the talks are "expected" to happen, but the Chinese government has not yet confirmed that Xi has committed to meeting with Biden.

The road to a San Francisco summit will not be "smooth sailing," and the two governments cannot rely on "autopilot" to make it happen, the Chinese Foreign Ministry said on Sunday in a statement. "To this end, the two sides must effectively return to Bali," the ministry added, referring to the consensus that Xi and Biden reached when they met last November in Indonesia.

The ministry issued its statement following Chinese Foreign Minister Wang Yi's visit to Washington for meetings on Friday and Saturday with Biden, US Secretary of State Antony Blinken and US National Security Advisor Jake Sullivan. Wang said that although Beijing attaches "great importance" to stabilizing Sino-US relations, the two governments must put into practice their past commitments to "remove interference, overcome obstacles, enhance consensus and gather outcomes."
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Israeli approach to ground war in Gaza aligns with U.S. Advice, officials say

Eric Schmitt
The New York Times
Sat, 28 Oct 2023 08:03 UTC
Israeli armored vehicles near the border with southern Gaza on Saturday.
© Tamir Kalifa for The New York TimesIsraeli armored vehicles near the border with southern Gaza on Saturday.
The initial decision to undertake limited ground incursions rather than a full-scale invasion appears to follow guidance from top U.S. military officials.

Israel's apparent decision to hold off on a full-scale invasion of the Gaza Strip and instead conduct more limited ground incursions, at least initially, aligns with suggestions that the U.S. defense secretary, Lloyd J. Austin III, made to his Israeli counterparts in recent days, American officials said on Saturday.

Biden administration officials warned that it was hard to tell what Israel would eventually do, since increased airstrikes and expanded ground incursions in the past three days indicated a more aggressive posture.

Comment: See also:

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US says Netanyahu has to rein in 'extremist' settlers in West Bank

Lauren Sforza
The Hill
Sun, 29 Oct 2023 20:01 UTC
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The United States is warning Israel Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu to rein in "extremist" settlers in the West Bank in the wake of reports of violence against Palestinians.

"Well, we believe that Prime Minister Netanyahu does have a responsibility to rein in the extremist settlers on the West Bank who are, as President Biden put it a few days ago, pouring fuel on the fire," National Security Adviser Jake Sullivan said on CNN's State of the Union.

"And it is totally unacceptable to have extremist settler violence against innocent people in the West Bank. That is something that we will continue to press on," he added.

Settler violence against Palestinians in the West Bank has escalated since militant group Hamas launched a surprise deadly attack on Israel on Oct. 7, prompting Israel to declare war on the group.

Comment: Bibi's shock troops, the lunatic illegal settlers, have been waiting for just this chance. They know the eyes of the world are focused elsewhere:







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Surveillance personnel warned of Hamas activity on Gaza border for months before Oct. 7

Shira Silkoff
Times of Israel
Thu, 26 Oct 2023 18:09 UTC
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© ScreenshotHamas members pictured at the border a month before the terror group's October 7 onslaught
The brutal Hamas massacre on October 7 was preceded by months of warning signs noted by IDF surveillance soldiers and disregarded as unimportant by intelligence officials, according to eyewitness accounts given in recent days.

At least three months prior to the attack, surveillance soldiers serving on a base in Nahal Oz reported signs that something unusual was underway at the already-tumultuous Gaza border, situated a kilometer from them.

The activity reported by the soldiers included information on Hamas operatives conducting training sessions multiple times a day, digging holes and placing explosives along the border. According to the accounts of the soldiers, no action was taken by those who received the reports.

IDF surveillance soldiers, referred to in Hebrew as tatzpitaniyot, belong to the Combat Intelligence Corps and operate along the country's borders, as well as throughout the West Bank.

Comment:

(Ignore the sensitive content warning. Israel is embarrassed.)

Another data point for the LIHOP ("Let It Happen On Purpose") theory?

NewsReal: Hamas 'Invasion' of Israel: Surprise or LIHOP?

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'Putin has died of a heart attack': Inside the Western media's 'intelligence sources' and their fake news about Russia

Christina Sizova
RT
Fri, 27 Oct 2023 20:30 UTC
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Where does the Anglo-American propaganda machine get its nonsense stories about the president's health?

Western media is again spreading rumors about a sudden deterioration in the health of Russian President Vladimir Putin, and even his possible death. The source of these rumors is an anonymous Telegram channel allegedly linked to Valery Solovey, a notorious conspiracy theorist.

The Kremlin regularly dismisses such statements as false and the president appears to be in good shape. Moreover, no one can find any proof that Putin's health is in danger. Meanwhile, as the scandalous "insider information" continues to spread, its sources fail to become any more credible.

So how did a Russian hoaxer and conspiracy theorist become a source of "sensational world news?"
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Video: "Wiping Gaza Off The Map": Big Money Agenda. Confiscating Palestine's maritime natural gas reserves

Felicity Arbuthnot, Professor Michel Chossudovsky
Global Research
Fri, 27 Oct 2023 00:00 UTC
Flagoil
© FlipboardIsraeli Flag • Palestinian Reserves
Introduction

Israel has launched an invasion (October 7, 2023) of the Gaza Strip.

As outlined by Felicity Arbuthnot with foresight 10 years ago in a December 30, 2013 article: "Israel is set to become a major exporter of gas and some oil, "If All Goes to Plan".

In the current context, Israel's "All Goes to Plan" option consists in bypassing Palestine and "Wiping Gaza off the Map", as well confiscating ALL Gaza's maritime offshore gas reserves, worth billions of dollars.

The ultimate objective is not only to exclude Palestinians from their homeland, it consists in confiscating the multi-billion dollar Gaza offshore Natural Gas reserves, namely those pertaining to the BG (BG Group) in 1999, as well the Levant discoveries of 2013.

Video: Michel Chossudovsky, Interview with Caroline Mailloux, Lux Media


Comment: Chossudovsky offers a few insights to Hamas. Israel's motives have always been clear.
Felicity Arbuthnot had a few more things to say back in 2013:

The giant Leviathan natural gas field, the most prominent field ever found in the sub-explored area of the Levantine Basin, which covers about 83,000 square kilometres of the eastern Mediterranean region, coupled with the Tamar field (same location) are an energy bonanza for Israel, for Houston, Texas based Noble Energy and partners Delek Drilling, Avner Oil Exploration and Ratio Oil Exploration. Also involved is Perth, Australia-based Woodside Petroleum.

"We estimated a mean of 1.7 billion barrels of recoverable oil and a mean of 122 trillion cubic feet of recoverable gas in this province using a geology based assessment methodology."

That the US in the guise of Vice President Joe Biden, as honest broker, acting peace negotiator in the maritime border dispute would be laughable, were it not potential for Israel to attack their neighbour again. In a visit to Israel in March 2010, Biden announced:
"There is absolutely no space between the United States and Israel when it comes to Israel's security- none at all", also announcing on arrival in Israel: "It's good to be home."
Given US decades of "peace brokering" between Israel and Palestine, this is already a road of pitfalls, one sidedness and duplicity, well traveled. There is trouble ahead.


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Experts fear Ukraine will run out of ammo in 2024 - Le Monde


RT
Fri, 27 Oct 2023 16:01 UTC
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© Kin Cheung/APUkrainian soldiers fire an AS90 self-propelled artillery gun • England • March 24, 2023
Russia has a distinct arms production advantage, multiple European analysts told the newspaper...

The Ukrainian military will run out of ammunition next year, and Kiev's Western backers won't be able to fully restock it until 2025, European military experts told Le Monde on Friday. With Russian arms production in full swing, Moscow is better prepared for a war of attrition, the analysts warned.

In a lengthy article dissecting the failure of Ukraine's summer counteroffensive, the French newspaper highlighted three key factors:
- Russia's decision to voluntarily withdraw from Kherson and construct an elaborate line of defenses in late 2022,
- Ukraine's insufficient tactical prowess, and
- Russia's "greater strategic depth" - or its ability to replace lost men and materiel.
Risk consultant Stephane Audrand told Le Monde:
"2024 is going to be fraught with danger for the Ukrainians. The equipment that has already been delivered to them will be depleted, but they will only be able to partially reconstitute it, as Western production capacities will not be optimal until 2025."

Comment: Quit now or prolong the war to the last bullet...Ukraine still thinks it has choice.

See also: First battalion of former Ukrainian soldiers to join Russian forces - media

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Israel has permanently lost the argument

Caitlin Johnstone
Caitlin's Newsletter
Thu, 26 Oct 2023 00:00 UTC
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© irishmirror.ieIsraeli Bombardment • Before and After
Notes From The Edge Of The Narrative Matrix

I'm sorry if this makes me an evil terrorist-loving baby-raping sieg-heiling Nazi, but in my humble opinion genocidal massacres are bad.

Israel and its allies get away with a lot by marketing this as a "war". It's not a war. Israel launches high-tech military explosives at civilian buildings in a huge concentration camp while Hamas fires back with glorified fireworks which do light property damage. That's not a war, it's a massacre.

I was upset when I saw that Israel has killed seven thousand people in its Gaza bombing campaign but then a really smart Israel apologist told me Hamas might be exaggerating those numbers and maybe it's more like four thousand, so now I think it's fine.

What kind of drooling, knuckle-dragging, tapioca-brained moron can look at the satellite images of the damage caused by Israeli airstrikes and believe Gaza is lying about its death toll?


Comment: As the world we know ceases to be, we, as well, become a figment of the past.

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SOTT Focus: NewsReal: Israel and US Implementing 'Final Solutions' to End Palestine and Multipolar World


Sott.net
Sun, 29 Oct 2023 18:54 UTC
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© Sott.net
Last week the American 'president', Joe Biden, gave a TV address in which he declared that he was sending half of America's sea power to 'protect Israel', part of Washington's plan to usher in a "new, new world order." While it's scarily obvious what Israel's attempting to do - ethnically cleanse Gaza and the West Bank of Palestinians - it's not so obvious what the USA is trying to do.

This week on NewsReal, Joe & Niall sketch how 'Armageddon' might play out in the coming months, with the US-led West apparently seeking to start a 'controlled burn' in the Middle East with a 'limited war' that would disrupt global energy supplies just enough to hinder its rivals and thus maintain American global hegemony. You know what they say about wishful thinking...

* Starts at 03:20 *


Running Time: 01:41:16

Download: MP3 — 69.5 MB

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CIA-linked agency shot former Ukrainian MP - BBC


RT
Fri, 27 Oct 2023 23:14 UTC
Oleg Tsarev
© Sputnik / Maksim BlinovFormer Ukrainian Verkhovna Rada deputy Oleg Tsarev.
Kiev's SBU has told multiple outlets that it had targeted Oleg Tsarev in Crimea.

The Security Service of Ukraine (SBU) was behind the assassination attempt on former lawmaker Oleg Tsarev, the BBC and several Ukrainian outlets reported on Friday, citing a source from the agency.

"Tsarev is an absolutely legitimate target. He is not just a fanatic of the 'Russian world', but personally came together with Russian tanks to seize Kiev," the SBU source told the BBC's Ukrainian service.

Comment: See also:

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