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Iran announces it has quadrupled its production of enriched uranium


RT
Tue, 21 May 2019 10:17 UTC
Iran Nuclear energy protest
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Making good on threats to pull back from its commitments under the 2015 nuclear pact with world powers, Tehran has quadrupled its production of enriched uranium, according to Iran's Atomic Energy Organization.

The increase was announced Monday by a spokesperson for Iran's nuclear authority, Behrouz Kamalvandi, who told Iranian media that the decision was made to "counteract offensive sanctions."

Kamalvandi clarified that Iran would not increase its number of centrifuges, and that the uranium would for now remain at its current level of enrichment, at just over 3.5 percent.
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Labour MP clashes with protester over LGBT+ curriculum row


RT
Mon, 20 May 2019 16:51 UTC
Jess Phillips
(Main) Anderton Park Primary School Google Maps (Bottom-right) Labour MP Jess Phillips AFP / Isabel Infantes
A Labour MP has confronted an anti-LBGT+ activist who is protesting against inclusive education lessons at an English primary school. The politician says she'll apply for an exclusion zone to "protect the 700 school children."

Jess Phillips, MP for Birmingham Yardley, was involved in a feisty exchange with the protester outside the gates of Anderton Park school in Birmingham, West Midlands.

The row, which has seen protests by parents and their supporters rage on for over two months, is over the school's 'No Outsiders' programme. The LGBT+ education programme aims to teach children about diversity of faith, ethnicity, gender and sexual orientation.

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Best of the Web: Russia emerges from Ukraine crisis with several grinding wins in Europe

Tom Luongo
Gold, Goats 'N Guns
Sun, 19 May 2019 00:00 UTC
Merkel and Putin
Europe is finally coming to its senses five years after the coup in Kiev started what is now the new Cold War between Russia and the West.

The first part of Russia's win comes from Italian leader Matteo Salvini. Speaking for the under-represented in European politics, Salvini declared this week, "I continue to believe that we don't need sanctions. The issue of their removal unites all decent people."

Salvini is tackling, head-on, the European political establishment in this week's European parliamentary elections. And his raising the issue of lifting sanctions on Russia imposed over the reunification with Crimea is a massive attack on them.

It means that Salvini is looking at using the extension of sanctions as a bargaining chip this summer. He is threatening to veto any extension with words this strong on the eve of an election.

The second victory for Russia, however, is far more significant. The Council of Europe has finally agreed to restore Russia's voting rights after suspending them over the unification with Crimea.
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Best of the Web: Missing legal step and MSM double-standards expose Assange prosecution as show-trial

Craig Murray
craigmurray.org.uk
Mon, 20 May 2019 22:10 UTC
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Julian Assange
In Sweden, prosecutors have applied to the Swedish courts to issue a warrant for Julian's arrest. There is a tremendous back story to that simple statement.

The European Arrest Warrant must be issued from one country to another by a judicial authority. The original Swedish request for Assange's extradition was not issued by any court, but simply by the prosecutor. This was particularly strange, as the Chief Prosecutor of Stockholm had initially closed the case after deciding there was no case to answer, and then another, highly politically motivated, prosecutor had reopened the case and issued a European Arrest Warrant, without going to any judge for confirmation.

Assange's initial appeal up to the UK Supreme Court was in large part based on the fact that the warrant did not come from a judge but from a prosecutor, and that was not a judicial authority. I have no doubt that, if any other person in the UK had been the accused, the British courts would not have accepted the warrant from a prosecutor. The incredible and open bias of the courts against Assange has been evident since day 1. My contention is borne out by the fact that, immediately after Assange lost his case against the warrant in the Supreme Court, the British government changed the law to specify that future warrants must be from a judge and not a prosecutor. That is just one of the incredible facts about the Assange case that the mainstream media has hidden from the general public.

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Pirates

US Navy continues to antagonize China with another South China Sea sail by

Luis Martinez
ABC News
Mon, 20 May 2019 06:00 UTC
US Navy
A U.S. Navy destroyer sailed within 12 miles of the disputed Scarborough Shoal in the South China Sea on Monday in a challenge to China's maritime territorial claims that will likely set off renewed Chinese complaints.

"The guided-missile destroyer USS Preble conducted a Freedom of Navigation Operation (FONOP) in the South China Sea, May 20. USS Preble sailed within 12 nautical miles of Scarborough Reef in order to challenge excessive maritime claims and preserve access to the waterways as governed by international law," said Cmdr. Clayton Doss, a spokesman for the Navy's Seventh Fleet.

Scarborough Reef, aka Scarborough Shoal, is an uninhabited reef in the South China Sea about 120 miles west of the Philippines surrounded by rich fishing grounds claimed by both China and the Philippines. China seized control of the reef from the Philippines in 2012 as part of an effort to claim control of South China Sea areas near the Spratly Islands and the Paracel Islands.

Comment: The US has a habit of antagonizing countries by encroaching on their borders: And yet when other countries go about their normal business: US media loses it when Russian 'spy' ship makes annual trip to the Caribbean

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Telephone

Skripal 'spies' received phone call following Salisbury visit - British security services won't disclose who called them

Nick Hopkins & Luke Harding
The Guardian
Sun, 19 May 2019 21:24 UTC

Comment: A minor 'update' to the Skripal Saga...


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'So. Here we are. Yep...'
The Russian men suspected of poisoning Sergei and Yulia Skripal in Salisbury received a phone call after returning to London on the day of the alleged attack, raising the possibility that a backup team played a role in the operation.

One theory being considered by investigators is whether the call, which has not been disclosed before, was a signal to tip them off that the operation had been a success.

Scotland Yard's counter-terrorism unit said the inquiry into the poisoning was ongoing and detectives would not be drawn on any specifics.

But it is understood that investigators are sifting other pieces of evidence which suggest that the suspects - Anatoliy Chepiga and Alexander Mishkin - may not have been acting alone.


Comment: You don't say! Those two numbskulls had no idea what they were getting into...


Comment: As we suspected at the time, the two hapless Russians were led to Salisbury under the pretext of meeting someone for a 'sports supplement trade'. This person was a no-show, twice, but was in contact with them throughout the weekend to ensure they stuck around, visited Salisbury, twice, and were captured by every CCTV between there and Heathrow...

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Ecuadorian government allows US prosecutors to 'help themselves' to Julian Assange's possessions


The Guardian
Mon, 20 May 2019 21:11 UTC
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© RuptlyJulian Assange is dragged from the Ecuadorian embassy by British police
Material from WikiLeaks founder's time in Ecuadorian embassy is said to include two manuscripts

Julian Assange's belongings from his time living in the Ecuadorian embassy in London will be handed over to US prosecutors on Monday, according to WikiLeaks.

Ecuadorian officials are travelling to London to allow US prosecutors to "help themselves" to items including legal papers, medical records and electronic equipment, it was claimed.

Comment: Sputnik adds:
Police are getting ready to seize the belongings of WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange and search for documents and possessions he left behind when he was arrested by police after Ecuador had revoked his asylum status on 11 April.

On Sunday, the newspaper El Pais reported that Ecuador would provide the US with Assange's mobile phones, computers, memory cards, and other data storage devices following a search of the room where he resided for almost seven years.

The office of Ecuador's attorney general informed Assange's lawyer Carlos Poveda about this decision.

In turn, the coordinator of his defence in court, Baltasar Garson, said that the decision of the Ecuadorian party completely violates the institution of asylum.

Washington, who is seeking Assange's extradition on charges of conspiracy to commit computer intrusion, has until 12 June to provide London with all the necessary documents on the issue.


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Al Jazeera pulls video that links Zionism with Nazism & calls Israel 'biggest winner' of Holocaust


RT
Mon, 20 May 2019 12:35 UTC
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An Al Jazeera video which accused Israel of exploiting the Holocaust to carry out a Nazi-like policy of "annihilation" against the Palestinians has been deleted following accusations of anti-Semitism.

Posted on the Arabic version of Al Jazeera's popular current events channel, AJ+, the short commentary video argued that while the Holocaust did in fact happen, the total number of Jews killed by the Nazis was "inflated by the Zionist movement" to create international support for the creation of Israel.

"The annihilation of any people because of their race, sex or religion is an unacceptable thing that deserves to be strongly denounced. Denouncing the Holocaust is a moral obligation," video's presenter, Muna Hawwa, said. "But Israel is the biggest winner from the Holocaust, and it uses the same Nazi justifications as a launching pad for the racial cleansing and annihilation of the Palestinians."
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Snakes in Suits

Illegal immigration: A criminal phenomenon


GEFIRA
Mon, 20 May 2019 00:00 UTC
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Italy: Human trafficking one of the lucrative businesses for foreign criminals.
AN INTERVIEW WITH FRANCESCA TOTOLO

"Never before has a criminal phenomenon enjoyed widespread international support by governments, political parties, religious and civilian organizations, popular opinion, and never before has a sovereign state renounced to exercise control over its borders."

These opening words by Gianandrea Gaiani are a fitting introduction to Francesca Totolo's latest book Inferno Spa. Gaiani is no stranger to the business of illegal immigration, being an author of several books on the subject. He was interviewed by Gefira in 2017 when the Italian government was then still a center-left pro-migrants coalition. Totolo has agreed to an exclusive interview for Gefira and we recently met her in Florence, where she was presenting her new book.

Francesca Totolo is a freelance investigative journalist and collaborates with a variety of Italian and international press agencies and websites. Her investigations have been published both in Italy and abroad. We could easily call Totolo a diligent - and outspoken - journalist as her new book, which she wrote with Dante's Inferno in mind, involves just that: solid, painstaking, diligent research and fact-checking. The result is the equivalent of an encyclopedia of who's who in the business (Spa is the Italian acronym for joint-stock company, equivalent of the German AG) of the immigrants' industry, an industry which moves an unending flow of human beings and money.

She has divided her book into different sections, entitling them with some of Dante's appellatives in his Divine Comedy: first the ferrymen or Charons who deliver thousands of human beings to the other bank, then the hypocritical NGOs followed by the traitors to the country at all levels, sided by the omnipresent politically correct mainstream media and well-funded organizations of all sorts.

All these infernal characters have in the end one Master Mind, who acts like a modern and nefarious Virgil: George Soros and his mind-boggling network. Totolo is ready to point out, at the conclusion of her book, that Soros is himself an actor, albeit of the highest level, lending his face to higher "movers and shakers behind the curtains", who have already decided that the original European population must be replaced.

Comment: Europe's migrant crises: Accidental or predesigned?
Countless investigations have shown that a vast network of none governmental organizations (NGOs), many with ties to unsavory figures such as George Soros and his "Open Society Foundation", are not only responsible for lobbying the European Union and its various governments for increased refugee admittance, but also in operating the rescue boat services that act as little more than ferries to taxi migrants across the Mediterranean where they arrived by the thousands per week. From that point, these NGOs, along with various religious and charitable institutions, have then proceeded to settle them in camps and social centers, all to the tune of large profits for the care and feeding of their human charge. Not only have migrants been given housing and meals, but even pay of €35 a week for their expenses (as well as free roam of cities and surrounding areas outside these camps under the pretext of seeking employment). As expected, this has generated more than its share of problems for those areas who have received this influx of human cargo.

Organized crime has also played its part well in arranging to smuggle many groups of migrants, either to their port of departure on the war-ravaged coasts of Libya, and even from a country of entry (where a migrant must reside for five years if they have claimed asylum), or even across these borders to wealthier nations with much more expansive social welfare benefits and economic conditions for them to take advantage of. Besides the usual groups of "Open Borders" and humanitarian advocates, these NGOs have also been accused of collaborating with organized criminal groups such as the Italian Mafia in order to speed up the migration process by smuggling them into other nations of Europe.[..]

One would be extremely naïve to believe that these recent events are just unplanned and sporadic coincidences. No, they are only the beginning of a culminated plan of many decades for the eventual merger of Europe and Africa into a single economic and eventually political union, all for the benefits of the elites who will have at their disposal an unlimited supply of mineral resources and human labor in which to process them.
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Oil Well

Venezuelan oil minister: Washington's sanctions are destabilizing global oil market


RT
Mon, 20 May 2019 10:47 UTC
Venezuelan oil facilities
© Reuters / Isaac UrrutiaVenezuelan oil facilities
Washington's war on Venezuela's economy undermines stability in the global market, the country's oil minister, Manuel Quevedo, told OPEC just days after the US placed him on a sanctions list alongside other Caracas officials.

American sanctions generate "disturbances in the flow of oil supply to the world market as well as serious economic damage and suffering to the Venezuelan people," Quevedo said on Sunday in Saudi Arabia, ahead of a ministerial panel meeting of top OPEC and non-OPEC oil producers.

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