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'Unfair competition': Moscow blasts US move to enable sanctioning of Nord Stream 2 and TurkStream pipelines


RT
Wed, 15 Jul 2020 17:17 UTC
Nord Stream 2
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The US' decision to remove sanctions exemption for the two pipelines under construction to deliver gas to Europe and Turkey is a textbook example of "unfair competition" through political means, Moscow has said.

The move, which allows the further sanctioning of Russian natural gas projects, has clearly shown the "weakness of the American system," Russia's Foreign Ministry spokeswoman Maria Zakharova said on Wednesday.
"This is the use of political pressure for sake of unfair competition. Except for raw power, they don't have any effective tools."
Earlier in the day, US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo announced the decision to lift a provision that exempted the pipelines from the 2017 anti-Russian sanctions package, and threatened investors with consequences:
"It's a clear warning to companies that aiding and abetting Russian malign influence projects will not be tolerated. Get out now or risk the consequences."
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UK, US & Canada's baseless claims that 'Kremlin-linked' hackers targeting Covid-19 vaccine research


RT
Thu, 16 Jul 2020 15:25 UTC
coronavirus vaccine hacker
© Global Look Press/Cadu Rolim/Keystone Press AgencyGetty Images / PM Images
An online hacker group known as 'The Dukes' or 'Cozy Bear', which is "almost certainly" linked to the Kremlin, have targeted researchers working on a Covid-19 vaccine, the UK's National Cyber Security Centre (NCSC) and allies say.

The UK's NCSC, in conjunction with Canada's Communications Security Establishment (CSE), have assessed that a cyber espionage group called APT29 is guilty of an ongoing campaign of "malicious activity" that began in February or March to target critical Covid-19 research projects at Oxford University and Imperial College London.


Comment: Who would want research from the repeatedly discredited ICL? Pandemic pushers, economy destroyers and sold out science: Imperial College are still open for business


Security officials claim that the group is "almost certainly" part of the Russian intelligence services, and its target was - "highly likely" - Covid-19 vaccine research or research into the virus itself.

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British FM Dominic Raab is 'almost certain' Russians interfered in election, but you'll have to take his word for it


RT
Thu, 16 Jul 2020 16:51 UTC
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© AFP / Tolga Akmen and Reuters / Hannah McKayA photograph of the leaked documents, alongside Foreign Secretary Dominic Raab
British Foreign Secretary Dominic Raab claimed that Russians meddled in last year's election by "amplifying" leaked documents that revealed a potential post-Brexit trade deal with the US. No evidence was served with his claims.

"It is almost certain that Russian actors sought to interfere in the 2019 General Election through the online amplification of illicitly acquired and leaked Government documents," Raab said on Thursday.


Comment: Almost certain = not certain.


The documents in question sketched out several rounds of trade talks between British and American representatives, during which the US side supposedly pushed for access to the National Health Service for high-priced American pharmaceutical companies, and to lower health and safety standards in the British food industry. The papers were leaked in the runup to last December's general election and disseminated on Reddit, a popular news aggregation and discussion site.

Note that Raab didn't accuse Russia of actually acquiring and leaking the documents, only blaming a vague group of "Russian actors" for their "online amplification." What this likely means is that the British government is treating social media accounts who spread the documents as 'Russian trolls' - a nebulous group accused of everything from spreading racial division in the US to 5G conspiracy theories in Sweden.

Blaming Russia for domestic scandals is a well-thumbed chapter of the liberal establishment's playbook. However, politicians like Raab are often backed up by an array of anti-Russia think tanks and media outlets. When the trade deal documents were first leaked, the Atlantic Council - a think-tank funded by NATO - got together with Graphika - an analytics firm funded by the US Department of Defense - to declare the leak a Russian operation.
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Iran Claims General Soleimani Was in Possession of Video, Audio Files of Pentagon-ISIS Talks

Drago Bosnic
Fort Russ
Wed, 15 Jul 2020 00:00 UTC
ISIS reality
Special Advisor to Iran's Parliament Speaker for International Affairs Hossein Amir Abdollahian said that former Commander of the IRGC Quds Force Lieutenant General Qassem Soleimani had possessed footages and audio files which prove collaboration between the US military commanders and ISIS terrorists in Iraq.
"He (General Soleimani) told me that he was in possession of footages which show that 5 American logistical planes landed at Mosul airport which was under the ISIS occupation at the time and the US generals got off the plane and entered Mosul airport. They negotiated with the ISIS leaders for 5 hours," Amir Abdollahian quoted General Soleimani as saying.

"General Soleimani said that he had the video and audio files of the talks and that he would release it whenever he deemed proper," he added.

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CDC no longer to control COVID-19 data, hospitals to send data to Washington

Venus Upadhaya
The Epoch Times
Wed, 15 Jul 2020 12:37 UTC
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© Jason Koerner/Getty Images for BioReference LaboratoriesCOVID-19 (Coronavirus) Antibody Testing Collection Event at the Miami International Mall in Doral, Fla., on June 18, 2020.
Hospitals from across the country will no longer send CCP virus or COVID-19 related data to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention and are instead required to send it to a central database in Washington beginning July 15, according to an HHS statement released Friday.

HHS said Vice President Mike Pence sent a letter to hospital administrators across the country asking them to send daily pandemic data on "testing, capacity, utilization, and patient flow" to the federal government.

"The objective is to allow states and hospitals either to leverage existing data reporting capabilities or, where those capabilities are insufficient, to provide guidance in how to build upon existing capabilities," said the HHS in a statement.

The federal administration said it needs daily information to plan, allocate, and for allocating resources during the public health emergency.

"This data will be used to inform decisions at the federal level, such as allocation of supplies, treatments, and other resources," said the HHS.

Comment: Watch the number of confirmed cases drop drastically now that the Trump Admin. is in control of the numbers and not the Deep State's puppet org, the CDC.

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What is the real purpose of the Lockdowns?

Renee Parsons
Off-Guardian
Fri, 10 Jul 2020 00:00 UTC
set us free
From masks to lockdowns to "social distancing", do these anti-Covid measures serve another purpose?

If given the choice between maintaining a toxic world of fear, pollution and violence controlled by the State or a society of prosperity and compassion based on freedom and individual rights, there is little doubt that the majority of Americans would want the old paradigm of synthetic events to take a hike; except that choice has been distorted under the guise of what the World Health Organization (WHO) has mislabeled the most deadly virus in history.

The coronavirus crisis arrived in a flash with little time to analyze exactly WTF was going on. Americans struggled to process what is real, trustworthy and authentic as the unraveling of deep political decay revealed a behind-the-scenes subterranean power struggle that has surfaced with the intent on disintegration of American Society.
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Ron Paul: Will the Federal Reserve cause the next riots?

Ron Paul
Ron Paul Institute
Mon, 13 Jul 2020 00:00 UTC
Fed in the red
Federal Reserve Chair Jerome Powell and San Francisco Fed President Mary Daly both recently denied that the Federal Reserve's policies create economic inequality. Unfortunately for Powell, Daly, and other Fed promoters, a cursory look at the Fed's operations shows that the central bank is the leading cause of economic inequality.

The Federal Reserve manipulates the money supply by buying and selling government securities. This means that when the Fed decides to pump money into the economy, it does so by putting it in the pockets of wealthy, and oftentimes politically-connected, investors who are able to spend the new money before the Fed's actions result in widespread inflation. Wealthy individuals also tend to be among the first to invest in the bubbles that form when the Fed distorts interest rates, which are the price of money. These investors may lose some money when the bubble bursts, but these losses are usually outweighed by their gains, so they end up profiting from the Fed-created boom-bubble-bust cycle.

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Turkey's Hagia Sophia: 'like turning Saint Peter's into a mosque'

Giulio Meotti
Gatestone Institute
Sun, 12 Jul 2020 05:00 UTC
hagia sophia
© Sputnik / Burcu Okutan
"The city that Constantine had protected for more than a thousand years... has now undergone, in this unfortunate year, the destruction by the Turks. I suffer at the thought that the temple of Saint Sophia, famous all over the world, has been destroyed or desecrated. This is a second death for Homer, a second passing for Plato". These words by the great humanist, Enea Silvio Piccolomini, who became Pope Pius II, were written five centuries ago, after the great Christian city of Constantinople fell to the Ottomans.

Last week, Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan issued an unprecedented decree converting Hagia Sophia once again into a mosque. Erdogan's decree is a gesture of immense symbolism and historic meaning. "A threat against Hagia Sophia," said the Russian Orthodox Patriarch Kirill, "is a threat for the whole of Christian civilization".

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Greece says Turkey is being 'petty' over Hagia Sophia

Greece on Tuesday described Turkey's decision to convert the Hagia Sophia in Istanbul to a mosque as "unnecessary and petty" and called for tougher European Union action over Ankara's gas exploration activities in the Mediterranean.

Greece, whose relations with Turkey are fraught with historical tensions, says the matter is not a bilateral dispute.

"With this backward action, Turkey is opting to sever links with western world and its values," Greek Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis said.

"Confronted with this unnecessary, petty initiative from Turkey, Greece is considering its response at all levels," Mitsotakis said, in a reference to Hagia Sophia.

A Turkish court ruled last week that Hagia Sophia's conversion to a museum in 1934 was unlawful. Declaring the building a mosque, Erdogan said prayers would be held there within two weeks, in a move that drew international criticism.

Relations between Greece and Turkey are often tense over Cyprus, divided between its Greek and Turkish Cypriot populations after an abortive Greek-inspired coup which triggered a Turkish invasion in 1974.

Moves by the island's Greek Cypriot-led government to explore for offshore natural gas have been countered by Turkish attempts at gas exploration in the same areas.

"Europe should once and for all draft a specific list of actions, and sanctions against a country which seeks to be a regional troublemaker, and which is evolving into a threat to the stability of the whole south-east Mediterranean region," Mitsotakis said.


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Russian lawmakers seek to ban gay marriage & adoption of children by LGBT couples following approval of constitutional changes

Jonny Tickle
RT
Wed, 15 Jul 2020 12:13 UTC
russia marriage
© Sputnik / Evgenii Odinokov
Seven Russian senators have introduced a package of bills that would prohibit same-sex marriage, ban gay couples from adopting children, and prevent people from getting married after gender reassignment.

Led by Senator Elena Mizulina, the head of the Senate's committee on updating the country's 'Family Code', the proposals follow in the footsteps of Russia's constitutional amendments which officially defined marriage as a union between a man and a woman.

In March, the country's Constitutional Court deemed the changes to be lawful, but insisted that it does not remove the state's obligation to respect differences, including in regards to sexual orientation.

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America, you've been blacklisted: McCarthyism refashioned for a new age

John W. Whitehead
The Rutherford Institute
Tue, 14 Jul 2020 00:00 UTC
Statue of Lib
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"If we confuse dissent with disloyalty — if we deny the right of the individual to be wrong, unpopular, eccentric or unorthodox — if we deny the essence of racial equality then hundreds of millions in Asia and Africa who are shopping about for a new allegiance will conclude that we are concerned to defend a myth and our present privileged status. Every act that denies or limits the freedom of the individual in this country costs us the confidence of men and women who aspire to that freedom and independence of which we speak and for which our ancestors fought." — Edward R. Murrow

For those old enough to have lived through the McCarthy era, there is a whiff of something in the air that reeks of the heightened paranoia, finger-pointing, fear-mongering, totalitarian tactics that were hallmarks of the 1950s.

Back then, it was the government — spearheaded by Senator Joseph McCarthy and the House Un-American Activities Committee — working in tandem with private corporations and individuals to blacklist Americans suspected of being communist sympathizers.

By the time the witch hunts carried out by federal and state investigative agencies drew to a close, thousands of individuals (the vast majority of them innocent any crime whatsoever) had been accused of communist ties, investigated, subpoenaed and blacklisted. Regarded as bad risks, the accused were blacklisted, and struggled to secure employment. The witch hunt ruined careers, resulting in suicides, and tightened immigration to exclude alleged subversives.

Seventy years later, the vitriol, fear-mongering and knee-jerk intolerance associated with McCarthy's tactics are once again being deployed in a free-for-all attack by those on both the political Left and Right against anyone who, in daring to think for themselves, subscribes to ideas or beliefs that run counter to the government's or mainstream thought.
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