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Israel says Iran smuggles dual-use items for Hezbollah arms by sea into Beirut port


The Times of Israel
Thu, 23 Jul 2020 10:25 UTC
Dannon, Netanyahu
© Israel Mission to the UN/AFP/Timothy A Clary/KJNAbove: Israel's Ambassador to the United Nations Danny Danon speaks to the Security Council in New York, July 23, 2019 showing Iran's alleged transfer of weapons to Hezbollah in Lebanon. Below: PM Benjamin Netanyahu addresses the General Assembly UN on September 27, 2018 holding a placard detailing alleged Hezbollah missile sites in Beirut.
Israel's ambassador to the United Nations on Tuesday accused Iran of exploiting civilian companies and maritime channels to smuggle weapons manufacturing equipment to its Lebanese proxy group, Hezbollah.

In the quarterly meeting on the Middle East, Ambassador Danny Danon told the Security Council that Israeli intelligence has uncovered evidence showing Iran's Quds Force has been using the port of Beirut to ship items to the terror group since last year.
"In the years 2018-2019, Israel found that dual-use items are smuggled into Lebanon to advance Hezbollah's rocket and missile capabilities. Iran and the Quds Force have begun to advance the exploitation of the civilian maritime channels, and specifically the Port of Beirut. The Port of Beirut has become the Port of Hezbollah."
In a statement, the Israeli mission said "Syrian agents" purchased the dual use items from foreign companies under false pretenses, and handed it over to the terrorist group after picking up the shipments from the port.

Danon presented the Security Council with a map of the Hezbollah transfer routes that included major hubs at the Damascus airport, Beirut's port and airport and the official border crossings between Syria and Lebanon, such as the Masnaa crossings.

Comment: The above article came out on July 23, 2020 for Israeli readership and perception management.

It includes Hezbollah's reported 'Friday' statement (from more than a year ago): "growing pressure from US sanctions on Tehran could trigger such a conflict sooner rather than later." (see above for inaccuracies)

And this, actually presented in 2018 (not last year): "Hezbollah was hiding precision missile production facilities underneath Beirut. He [Netanyahu] revealed satellite photos purporting to show the secret facilities, located within close proximity of Beirut's international airport."

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Black Magic

NATO'S appalling failure in Afghanistan has fueled a drug explosion across Europe

Kevin Hurley
RT
Wed, 05 Aug 2020 05:44 UTC
Kandahar province
© NurPhoto via Getty Images / Aziz SanaKandahar province
I recently spent 12 months in Kabul as an adviser on policing. After seventeen years of NATO's mission to bring peace and security, it's sad to say that the country's probably in a worse state than ever.

Our terrible failure in Afghanistan, with lives wasted despite billions spent, has produced only one winner: organised crime. A senior Hungarian career detective friend of mine recently told me there has never been so much cheap, pure heroin in Budapest. Another Turkish Police colleague of mine told me a similar thing about Istanbul this week.

Last year, I worked in Afghanistan with a small number of International Police Experts. My US, German, Australian, Hungarian, Turkish colleagues, like me, each had 30 or more years' experience, and many had years of extra experience in Afghanistan and in other conflict zones.

But just like in our home countries, the many politicians, military leaders, diplomatic staff and NGOs there would not listen to us experts in policing. NATO, just like the Soviet Union before it, has been resoundingly beaten in Afghanistan, and the country will almost certainly continue in chaos. The story is little different to the West's failures in Iraq and Libya, and, probably before too much longer, Mali and a few other places in Africa.

Comment: The West's bogus "war on terror" was the justification for occupying and infesting Afghanistan with its corrupt and corrupting personnel. What the article doesn't mention is that it is the Western intelligence agencies, and their allies, who are quite likely the ones profiting from the massive growth in heroin production and distribution coming out of the plagued Middle Eastern country.

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Control Panel

The true face of Covid-19: Fear and "shock therapy" to impose a totalitarian society

Dr. Pascal Sacré
Global Research
Wed, 29 Jul 2020 00:00 UTC
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"Fear is only reverse faith; it is faith in evil instead of good." Florence Scovel Shinn

After several months of the COVID-19 crisis, relevant elements of analysis of this crisis are becoming clearer.

1. The enormous pressure to convince 7 billion people of the need to be vaccinated against a virus [1] whose mortality has been inflated [2] and which is said to be ubiquitous while it is disappearing or has even disappeared.

It reminds us of the 2009 operation, with the fake H1N1 pandemic [3]: same tactics, same complicity (media, political, government), same "experts", same scenarios, same narratives with an emphasis on fear, guilt, haste and always the same stench of this omnipresent money in the form of huge profits on the horizon for the Big Pharma vaccine producing industry.

It is as if the H1N1 episode of 2009 has been used as a rehearsal.

This time, the COVID-19 episode of 2020 is poised to turn the trial into a success?
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Bomb

Best of the Web: July 31: Israeli defense minister threatens to bomb Lebanon infrastructure

Yoni Weiss
hamodia.com
Wed, 05 Aug 2020 11:23 UTC
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© Ariel Hermoni / Defense MinistryDefense Minister Benny Gantz with IDF Chief of Staff Lt. Gen. Aviv Kochavi, threatening just 5 days ago to 'attack Lebanese infrastructure'
Defense Minister Benny Gantz on Thursday instructed the IDF to bomb Lebanese infrastructure if Hezbollah harms IDF soldiers or Israeli civilians.

A senior defense official told Yisrael Hayom that Gantz issued the order to prepare such a response during meetings on Thursday with IDF Chief of Staff Lt. Gen. Aviv Kochavi and other members of the general staff.

Tensions have rapidly escalated between Israel and the terrorist organization since the death of Hezbollah terrorist Ali Kamel Mohsen Jawad, along with two other terrorists, during an airstrike on Damascus International Airport earlier this month.

Hezbollah has vowed revenge for Jawad's death, leading the IDF to move reinforcements to the northern border in preparation for an attack by the Shiite terror organization.

In Thursday's meetings, Kochavi presented the IDF's position on the matter, saying Israel must hold Hezbollah and the Lebanese government responsible for any future attack and its consequences.

Comment: 4 days later:

Lebanon Braced For High Number of Casualties as Absolutely Gargantuan Explosion Obliterates Port Area of Beirut​​​​​​​

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Star of David

Best of the Web: Netanyahu rattles the saber some more: Lebanon's 'Hezbollah is playing with fire'

Lahav Harkov
The Jerusalem Post
Tue, 28 Jul 2020 17:46 UTC
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© IDF Spokesperson's UnitPrime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and Alternate Prime Minister and Defense Minister Benny Gantz hold discussions after IDF thwarts Hezbollah terror cell infiltration along border with Lebanon on July 27, 2020
Netanyahu warned that Israel will hold Hezbollah and Lebanon responsible for any attacks from Lebanon into Israel.

Any attack from Hezbollah will have a strong response, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said hours after the IDF thwarted an attack on northern Israel by the Lebanese terrorist organization.

"Hezbollah has to know it's playing with fire," Netanyahu warned in a statement to the press. "Any attack will be met with great force. [Hezbollah leader Hasan] Nasrallah is greatly mistaken about Israel's determination to defend itself, and Lebanon has paid a heavy price for this mistake."

Comment: Hezbollah had denied Israel's claim that it breached Israel's borders
In a statement the Hezbollah movement has officially denied earlier allegations it made an unsuccessful attempt to "infiltrate" Israel from Lebanon that resulted in border clashes with the IDF, the Tasnim News Agency reported. The group also dismissed reports of them sustaining casualties as a result of Israeli air raids, calling them "absolutely not true".

The exchange of fire was followed by the crash of an Israeli military drone on Lebanese territory on 26 July, which was reportedly caused by a malfunction. The following day, armed clashes happened along the border between the two countries, with Israel reportedly shelling the settlement of Kfarchouba in the country's south. On the same day, the IDF claimed that it thwarted an "infiltration attempt by a Hezbollah terror squad" without sustaining casualties. Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, in turn, warned Lebanon against "playing with fire" on the border.
Lebanon in turn highlighted the fact that Israel violates Lebanese borders and airspace on a nearly daily basis:
"Yesterday, Israel violated the sovereignty of Lebanon one more time and breached the UN Resolution 1701, by carrying out dangerous military escalation", Diad said, addressing to the country's Supreme Defence Council.

The prime minister also warned that the relations between the two countries may "deteriorate in light of the severe tensions on our borders.

"The government will file a complaint with the Security Council tomorrow to hold [Israel] and the international community accountable for what happened yesterday, as there is a clear [act of] aggression", Hitti said in a statement to media following the cabinet session. "We adhere to the UN Resolution 1701 [issued by the UNSC in 2006] and Lebanon's right to protect itself".

The announcement is taking place after the incident occurred on Monday on the Israeli-Lebanese border in the vicinity of the disputed lands of Shebaa farms, with explosions and exchanges of gunfire being heard.



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Eye 2

Best of the Web: Boris Johnson gives wide range of powers to local councils to demolish contaminated buildings, even homes, to stop second coronavirus 'wave'

Gordon Rayner
The Telegraph
Tue, 04 Aug 2020 21:29 UTC
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© Andrew Parsons/EPA-EFE/Shutterstock
Local authorities will be able to order the demolition of buildings at the centre of coronavirus outbreaks under draconian powers to contain a potential second wave.

Cars, buses, trains and aeroplanes could also be destroyed subject to the approval of magistrates.

Boris Johnson remains determined to avoid a second nationwide lockdown and has given a broad range of powers to local councils to contain outbreaks as soon as they are detected.

Councils will be able to draw on six separate Acts of Parliament to impose lightning closures of public buildings, order mass testing, ban events or shut down whole sectors of the economy.

Comment: The British govt is apparently REALLY serious about 'resetting the economy'.

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Bizarro Earth

German officials warn of "virtue terror" after Stuttgart mayor calls for gender-neutral vocabulary


RT
Tue, 04 Aug 2020 14:02 UTC
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© REUTERS/Mike Segar
Stuttgart's Mayor Fritz Kuhn has been rebuffed by his state's ministers, after rolling out gender-neutral language protocols for city employees, according to German media reports.

The new guidelines would urge those who work in Stuttgart City Hall to forgo gender-identifying titles such as "Mr." when addressing colleagues. The new rules also stipulate that in written communications, "Dear Sir or Madame" should be replaced with "Dear people."

As a general rule, terms that use gender "clichés" should be avoided, Kuhn, a member of the Greens, decreed.

His decree comes amid a wave of politically correct posturing in the United States and Europe, but it appears that other politicians in the state of Baden-Wurttemberg thought the mayor had gone too far.

Comment: See also: And check out SOTT radio's: The Truth Perspective: Radical political correctness, liberal ideologies and the decline of modern civilization

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Dollar Gold

'We want to delete more!' Facebook must choose freedom of speech over censorship, if it still pretends to be 'a platform'

Guy Birchall
RT
Tue, 04 Aug 2020 20:29 UTC
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© NurPhoto via Getty Images / Jaap Arriens
Facebook's moderators have called on advertisers to keep boycotting the site, over the way it deals with "hate speech," but they really just want to stop Trump winning again.

Keen observers of the ins and outs of Silicon Valley's complicated relationship with freedom of expression may remember that last month a host of big corporations, including Disney, Ford and Adidas, pulled their adverts from the site in the biggest boycott ever of its kind.

This was sparked by a campaign called Stop Hate for Profit set up by several US civil rights groups in the wake of George Floyd's killing. The group accuses Facebook of "profiteering from hate and misinformation" and has branded their policy on hate speech "vexing." Now, as the month-long July boycott is due to end, some of Facebook's own employees have urged companies to keep the pressure on their employer. Yes, Facebook's own employees want the company to make less money to make themselves feel better.
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Horse

Joe Biden is a Trojan Horse: Inside is the Democrats' new right wing coalition

Russell Dobular
Due Dissidence
Wed, 29 Jul 2020 00:00 UTC
Joe Biden
© Eric Thayer/ReutersPotential presidential candidate and former VP Joe Biden
In spite of what you might have heard, Democrats aren't stupid. Nor are they spineless, cowardly, incapable of messaging, or any of the other things offered as explanations for their decades-long failure to win most elections in most places, or to secure meaningful policy reforms for their voters. In the now famous words of Marco Rubio, spoken during his campaign-ending broken robot moment on the 2016 debate stage, "Lets dispel with this fiction that Barrack Obama doesn't know what he's doing. He knows exactly what he's doing."

Yes, he does. And so does the rest of the Democratic Party.

If you understand the Democrats as a party whose first priority is to win elections and then serve their voters once in office, then you have to look for far-fetched explanations for their actions, which often appear to be completely at odds with those objectives. What party eager to win over the middle of the country would repeatedly vote to make a wealthy San Francisco doyenne like Nancy Pelosi their Speaker? She's a walking advertisement for the image of Democrats as a party of out of touch elites, more concerned with arcane speech codes than labor laws. But if you understand the Democrats as a party primarily concerned with raking in big bucks from wealthy donors, while drawing enough superficial distinctions with their opponents to maintain their identity as a separate party, then everything they do is pretty frikkin' brilliant. Like forcing Joe Biden on their voters.

Comment: Like horse races, elections are on a narrow and circular track. It doesn't matter if you are Trojan or Trump. The finish line may be the decider, but the quality of the race also matters.

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Shoe

'You're fired!' Trump sacks federal bosses for outsourcing jobs as he clamps down on visas for foreigners


RT
Mon, 03 Aug 2020 20:36 UTC
Trump
© Carlo Allegri/ReutersUS President Donald Trump
President Donald Trump has signed an executive order preventing federal agencies from hiring foreign workers via H-1B visas. In addition, Trump fired two federal executives for outsourcing US jobs and "betraying" Americans.

Trump's order, signed on Monday, requires federal agencies to prioritize US citizens and Green Card holders before outsourcing labor to foreign workers - who can come to the US on H-1B visas. Use of these visas is common in the tech sector, and 180,000 of them were issued last year, according to State Department statistics. Government agencies will now be required to conduct an internal audit to make sure "only United States citizens and nationals are appointed to the competitive service," per a White House statement.

Furthermore, Trump announced the firing of Tennessee Valley Authority (TVA) chairman James Thompson and another board member, after it emerged that the federally-owned utilities company plans on replacing more than 200 American tech workers with foreign contractors on H-1B visas. Trump also slammed TVA CEO Jeff Lyash for taking an annual salary of $8 million amid the outsourcing push.

"Let this serve as a warning to any federally-appointed board. If you betray American workers then you will hear two simple words: 'You're fired,'" Trump said, after signing the order, in a throwback to his 'Apprentice' catchphrase.
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