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Army reservist accused of spying for China arrested by US

Benjamin Haas
The Guardian
Wed, 26 Sep 2018 10:03 UTC
Illinois Institute of Technology
© B.O'Kane / Alamy/AlamyJi Chaoqun came from China to the US in 2013 to study at the Illinois Institute of Technology in Chicago.
A Chinese national who came to the US on a student visa and enlisted in the army reserves has been arrested in Chicago and accused of helping Beijing attempt to recruit American scientists and engineers.

Ji Chaoqun was allegedly tasked with providing Chinese intelligence with information from background checks on about eight American citizens - some of whom were US defence contractors.

The arrest comes as the US and China are locked in a high-stakes trade war and US counter intelligence step up efforts to combat Chinese espionage. China's ministry of state security operates a large network of spies both inside China and around the world, and Chinese student groups in the US have been accused of coordinating with government departments.

The 27-year-old, who first arrived in Chicago in 2013 to study electrical engineering on a student visa at the Illinois Institute of Technology, was charged with violating the Foreign Agents Registration Act, which requires individuals working for foreign governments to register with the US Attorney General.

"By collecting this information for an arm of the Chinese government while in the United States, Ji knowingly and unlawfully acted as an agent of a foreign power," Andrew McKay, an FBI agent, wrote in an affidavit.

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Kavanaugh's 1982 calendar entries don't support Ford's allegations

Benjamin Arie
Conservative Tribune
Sun, 23 Sep 2018 09:57 UTC
Brett Kavanaugh, Christine Blasey Ford, Deborah Ramirez
The last-minute attempt to derail Brett Kavanaugh's confirmation as the next Supreme Court justice has just hit a serious snag.

Facing damaging but almost completely unsubstantiated claims that he acted improperly with a girl back when he was a teenager, the conservative nominee has dug into his personal archives to defend himself.

Up until now, the vague accusations made by Christine Blasey Ford had only resulted in a "he said, she said" stalemate. Liberals insisted that Blasey Ford's story of a bad encounter at a drunken party be believed, while conservatives have pointed out that the nearly 40-year-old claim is impossible to verify.

Finally, Kavanaugh has presented tangible evidence that the accusation doesn't hold up.

On Sunday, The New York Times reported that the judge has found old calendars from the period when the unproven groping allegedly took place - and they appear to support his claim that the incident didn't happen.

"Kavanaugh has calendars from the summer of 1982 that he plans to hand over to the Senate Judiciary Committee that do not show a party consistent with the description of his accuser, Christine Blasey Ford," explained The Times.

"The calendar pages from June, July and August 1982, which were examined by The New York Times, show that Judge Kavanaugh was out of town much of the summer at the beach or away with his parents," the newspaper continued.

"When he was at home, the calendars list his basketball games, movie outings, football workouts and college interviews. A few parties are mentioned but include names of friends other than those identified by Dr. Blasey."

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Trump on Israel: "They are aggressive - but have no choice"


PressTV
Wed, 26 Sep 2018 09:43 UTC
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© AFP photosUS President Donald Trump (R) meets with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu on September 26, 2018 in New York on the sidelines of the UN General Assembly.
US President Donald Trump acknowledges the fact that the Israeli regime is "aggressive" at a meeting with Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu.

"It's great to be with Benjamin Netanyahu, the prime minister of Israel, and his representatives. Obviously we have much to discuss," Trump said at the meeting with the Israeli premier in New York Wednesday on the sidelines of the UN General Assembly.

He further claimed falsely that his measure to move the US embassy from the Israeli capital Tel Aviv to al-Quds Jerusalem has had many positive consequences.

"The prime minister was just thanking me again for what we did in Jerusalem with respect to the embassy; that's been something that I guess was controversial, but it's turned out to be very positive in many ways. And a lot of progress has been made in many other areas. We're talking trade, we're talking military, we're talking defense. And we are very much in favor of what Israel is doing as far as their defense is concerned," said the president.

Trump also justified Israel's brutal policies and actions against Palestinians, suggesting that the Tel Aviv regime is obliged to resort to violence.

"They are aggressive and they have no choice but to be aggressive: it's a very difficult part of the world," Trump said.


Comment: He's right, but not in the way he intends to be. The founders of Israel realized that the only way they would be able to steal Palestine would be through terrorism, ethnic cleansing, and genocide, and so that's what they have been doing for the last 70 years. They have no choice, because those are the only means by which to take over land inhabited by people who don't want to leave.

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Google celebrates 20th birthday while its corruption, manipulation and censorship go unchecked

Kit Klarenberg
Sputnik
Thu, 27 Sep 2018 09:08 UTC
Google mirrored
© REUTERS / Mike Blake
When histories of the 21st century are written, it's certain Google will loom large. In but two decades, the company - which began life as the research project of Stanford University students Larry Page and Sergey Brin in a Menlo Park, California garage - has shaped the internet and the modern world like no other.

Company executives and staff alike have much to celebrate on Google's 20th birthday, September 27. Its search engine has long-enjoyed a nigh-on total monopoly in the market, while key sister products - including Chrome, Drive, Gmail, Maps, Play, and YouTube - boast over a billion users each worldwide. Smartphone operating system Android, developed by Google, also has well over two billion active users, making it the world's largest.

Such unprecedented multi-channel growth has produced a vast cash pile for the firm's holding company Alphabet, which is rapidly nearing a US$1 trillion market cap, an echelon previously only ever inhabited by Amazon and Apple - if it were a country, its GDP would rank among the world's 15 largest.

Mainstream news organizations have spent much of September applauding these achievements - the numerous controversies, criticisms and scandals that have buffeted the firm almost since its inception have gone largely if not totally unmentioned.

Comment: Will we see regulation enacted for Google? Being a tool of the Deep State, it's not likely to happen, at least not in the US. The amount of data they collect from almost all sectors is unparalleled and not something they would give up easily. See also:

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Israel's Yom Kippur Syndrome and Syria's delivery of S-300s

Gilad Atzmon
gilad.co.uk
Tue, 25 Sep 2018 12:00 UTC
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Russian Defense Minister Sergei Shoigu announced yesterday that Moscow will supply S-300 anti-missile systems to Syria within two weeks. This development followed the downing of a Russian reconnaissance plane by Syrian forces, who hit the plane when they tried to repel an Israeli Air Force attack.

Just a week ago, Israel shamelessly bragged that in the past two years it has carried out more than 200 strikes on Iranian-affiliated targets in Syria. This will change now. The Jewish State will think twice before it orders its pilots to carry out an attack on Syrian land.

A few days ago I published an article on the Yom Kippur Syndrome. The Syndrome, as I define it, is the chain of events that drives Jewish societies towards an extreme irrational sense of pride, arrogance, hubris, blindness toward others and the tragedy that inevitably follows. The Yom Kippur war (1973), that is perceived by Israelis as the lowest moment in their young history, was a direct outcome of the post 1967 'euphoria.' Tragically enough, Jewish history is an endless story of 'Golden Ages' followed by 'sudden' havocs, pogroms and shoas.

Comment: See also: And check out SOTT radio's: The Truth Perspective: Identity Politics on Steroids: How Zionism Outdoes Them All

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Groningen, Netherlands working on banning smoking on the streets

Janene Pieters
NL Times
Thu, 20 Sep 2018 08:58 UTC
Smoking ban in Groningen, NL
© Wikimedia Commons/Oxfordian Kissuth
The city of Groningen is working on banning smoking in open areas and on the street in certain places in the city. The municipality's Management and Traffic Committee discussed this ban on Wednesday evening, AD reports.

The city wants to change its General Local Regulation to declare parts of the public space smoke-free. The initiative for declaring smoke-free areas will lie with institutions in the city, and not the municipality itself. For example, a hospital can submit a request to the municipality to ban smoking on the square in front of its entrance. The municipality can then, on the basis of the adapted General Local Regulation, prohibit smoking on that spot.

The enforcement of the smoking ban will also be primarily the institution's responsibility. But if a smoker lights a cigarette in a smoke-free area and refuses to leave, the police can be called in. What penalty the smoker will face, is not yet clear.
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From Idlib to Xinjiang: Turkey's imported Uyghur fighters trained for terror

Steven Sahiounie
21st Century Wire
Wed, 26 Sep 2018 19:53 UTC
Uyghur militants
© Uighur.nlUyghur militants
It all began in 1995, when Recep Tayyip Erdogan, who was then mayor of Istanbul, named a section of the Sultan Ahmet Park in honor of Alptekin. At the official opening of the park, he declared, "Eastern Turkestan is not only the home of the Turkic peoples but also the cradle of Turkic history, civilization and culture. To forget that would lead to the ignorance of our own history, civilization and culture. The martyrs of Eastern Turkestan are our martyrs".

These people are known by the name Uyghur, and they live in the far Western province of Xinjiang, China. They are Chinese citizens, but from an ethnic minority. In 2009 deadly violence erupted there; however, the Chinese authorities had mentioned earlier in 2002, that a radical Islamic terrorist group, which was supported by foreign sources and under the umbrella of al Qaeda, had been carrying out terrorist attacks in China.

Who are these terrorists and how did they manage to form a base of operations in Idlib, Syria?

Comment: This is the reason China is coming down so hard in its western province, it fears, as Russia does, the return of battle-hardened, radical jihadists to their country.

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Flashback Now THAT is a speech! Ahmadinejad does 9/11 Truth at UN in 2010


Reuters
Wed, 26 Sep 2018 20:47 UTC
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Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad told the United Nations Thursday most people believe the U.S. government was behind the attacks of September 11, 2001, prompting the U.S. delegation to leave the hall in protest.

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Russian Deputy PM: Work on latest S-500 air defense system almost complete


Sputnik
Wed, 26 Sep 2018 20:21 UTC
s-400
© Sputnik / Vitaliy Ankov
Work on the latest Russian S-500 air defense system is almost complete, and their serial production will begin soon, Russian Deputy Prime Minister Yury Borisov said on Wednesday.

"Our S-300, S-400 and S-500 systems, which are close to serial production, do have better specifications in comparison with all competitors, be it either [US-produced] Patriot, or French and Israeli systems," he said during the Revunov Award ceremony, annually held for young engineers at the Bauman Moscow State Technical University.

The S-500 Prometey ("Prometheus") is a new generation surface-to-air missile system with a range of 400-600 kilometers (250-370 miles), designed for intercepting and destroying intercontinental ballistic missiles, as well as hypersonic cruise missiles and aircraft.

On May 15, Russian President Vladimir Putin said that development and preparation for the serial production of the newest S-500 air defense system should be completed as quickly as possible. The deliveries of S-500 systems to Russia's Aerospace Forces are expected to start around 2020.
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S-300s in, Patriots out: US to withdraw missiles from 3 Middle East countries


RT
Wed, 26 Sep 2018 20:17 UTC
Patriot missile launcher
© ReutersPatriot missile launcher
The Pentagon will remove four batteries of PAC-3 Patriot missiles from three Middle-Eastern countries, according to the Wall Street Journal. The report said the missiles are needed elsewhere to counter China and Russia.

The US newspaper said Jordan and Bahrain will lose one battery of US long-range anti-aircraft missiles next month, while Kuwait will part with two. The systems are not meant to be replaced, so the withdrawal would permanently reduce the defensive capabilities of the three nations. The systems are already offline and are being prepared to be moved, a military source told the WSJ.

The report would not disclose where the Patriot missiles would be redeployed, but said it was part of the Pentagon's strategy of changing focus from the Middle East towards China and Russia, which were named as the main threats to US global interests in the Trump administration's defense strategy review.
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