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Polynesia takes France to International Criminal Court for 'crimes against humanity' and 'nuclear colonialism'


Sputnik
Wed, 10 Oct 2018 15:34 UTC
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France conducted 193 nuclear tests on islands of the Tuamoutu Archipelago in French Polynesia, namely the Mururoa and Fangataufa atolls, between 1960 and 1996, until President Jacques Chirac suspended the program.

Oscar Temaru, former president of French Polynesia and current leader of the Tavini Huiraatira Party, announced on Tuesday that France was being taken to the International Criminal Court (ICC) for carrying out nuclear tests in the overseas territory.

"It's with a great sense of duty and determination that we filed a complaint at the International Criminal Court on October 2 for crimes against humanity. This case aims to hold all the living French presidents accountable for the nuclear tests against our country. We owe it to all the people who died from the consequences of nuclear colonialism," Temaru said at the UN.
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Water

It's back! Crooked Hillary and her uncontrollable cough attend a UK college event

Cristina Laila
The Gateway Pundit
Mon, 08 Oct 2018 13:57 UTC
Hillary coughing
What is wrong with Hillary Clinton?

Hillary Clinton was spotted Monday ahead of the unveiling of a statue of Eleanor Roosevelt outside the Bonavero Institute in Mansfield College.

Clinton unveiled a statue of Eleanor Roosevelt at Mansfield College in England Monday afternoon.

The twice-failed presidential hopeful sputtered her way through Mansfield College earlier Monday coughing up a lung.

Clinton was coughing so uncontrollably, she requested a glass of water.

Hillary Clinton was plagued with this same mysterious cough during the 2016 presidential election.

Comment: Catch historical highlights of Hillary and her cough in the following articles:

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Arrow Up

3 Russian S-300PM battalion sets delivered to Syria free of charge - Military source


TASS
Mon, 08 Oct 2018 19:30 UTC
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Russia has donated to Syria three battalion sets of S-300PM missile systems of eight launchers each, a military diplomatic source told TASS on Monday.

"On October 1, three battalion sets of S-300PM systems of eight launchers each were delivered to Syria," the source said.

"These systems were previously deployed at one of the Russian aerospace forces' regiments which now uses the S-400 Triumf systems. The S-300 systems underwent capital repairs at Russian defense enterprises, are in good condition and are capable of performing combat tasks," the source said, adding that the S-300PM systems were handed over to the Syrian side free of charge.

According to the source, along with the launchers Russia delivered more than 100 surface-to-air guided missiles for each battalion.

Comment: See also: Also check out SOTT radio's: NewsReal: Israeli-French Deception Downs Russian Spy Plane Off Syria, US Escalates 'Regime Change' Against Iran

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Gift 2

Best of the Web: China is offering 'no-strings-attached aid' to Africa. Here's what that means

Xiaojun Li
Washington Post
Thu, 27 Sep 2018 12:09 UTC
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This month, Chinese President Xi Jinping announced a new package of aid and loans to more than 50 African leaders visiting Beijing for the Seventh Forum on China-Africa Cooperation (FOCAC). Much of the domestic and international reaction has fixated on the $60 billion price tag.

Yes, $60 billion seems like a lot of money - but it's about 0.49 percent of China's gross domestic product, which is below the 0.7 percent target that OECD countries have set for development aid. Furthermore, closer examination of the figures reveals that only a portion of the $60 billion may qualify as official "development assistance," as defined by the OECD.

There's another important dimension of this aid package. This featured prominently in Xi's keynote speech, when he stressed that China's aid and loan to Africa will not "come with any political conditions attached." This promise of unconditional aid is in contrast to most aid from traditional donors - who usually require the recipient to undergo changes in governance structure and adhere to international "best practices."


Comment: Or 'structural conditionalities' and other newspeak for 'do as we say, not as we do'.

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Propaganda

Reporter says she ran with baseless accusations against Kavanaugh to 'prove there was a pattern'


Free Beacon
Wed, 10 Oct 2018 10:31 UTC
Jane Mayer
New Yorker reporter Jane Mayer suggested in a new interview that she and Ronan Farrow reported on Deborah Ramirez's uncorroborated accusation of misconduct by Supreme Court Justice Brett Kavanaugh out of eagerness to show a "pattern" of such behavior.

The veteran journalist told Elle her recollections of the Clarence Thomas hearings, the treatment of Anita Hill by the Senate, and the public informed her judgment regarding Kavanaugh.

"So having watched this before, I knew that key issues would be whether the judge had a pattern of similar behavior, since that helps establish who is telling the truth when there is a standoff, and whether there were credible corroborators on either side," she said. "Knowing this is why Ronan Farrow and I were so alert to the significance of other accusers, such as Deborah Ramirez. Her allegation showed that, if true, yes, there was a pattern of misconduct, and likely another side of the judge."
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Sherlock

Fifteen facts & a few logical conclusions on the Skripal case

Neil Clark
Sputnik
Wed, 10 Oct 2018 10:31 UTC
Skripal police investigation cops UK
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The curious case of the poisoning of Sergei and Yulia Skripal in Salisbury continues to puzzle. So let's get the key, undisputed facts down and approach it logically, without fear or favor, and see what conclusions we come to...

Here are fifteen facts in relation to the Salisbury poisonings case:

1. We haven't seen any photographs or heard anything from Sergei Skripal since 4th March.

The last confirmed images we have of Skripal is CCTV footage of him in a shop in Salisbury at 12.47pm on 27th February.

Comment: Also see: Russian 'Agents' Accused of Salisbury Poisonings: Just Tourists, or Framed?

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Snakes in Suits

FBI lawyer testifies that Rosenstein was serious about 'wiring Trump'

Catherine Herridge
Fox News
Wed, 10 Oct 2018 10:31 UTC
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Rod Rosenstein, United States Deputy Attorney General
Two senior FBI officials told the bureau's top lawyer they believed Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein was "serious" when he discussed secretly recording President Trump and invoking the 25th Amendment to remove him from office last year, according to sources close to a congressional investigation - an account that conflicts with claims from Rosenstein and others that the comments either were inaccurately reported or made in jest.

Former FBI General Counsel James A. Baker told congressional investigators during a closed-door deposition last week that then-FBI Acting Director Andrew McCabe and FBI lawyer Lisa Page came to Baker "contemporaneously" after Trump fired FBI Director James Comey in May 2017. Baker said Page and McCabe relayed details of the meeting where Rosenstein made the comments.

Though he wasn't personally in that meeting, Baker told congressional investigators he took McCabe and Page's account "seriously," the sources said. Further, Baker told congressional investigators he suspected "Rosenstein was coordinating with two people in the administration to invoke the 25th Amendment," a source said.
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Propaganda

Study finds MSM's Trump coverage just hit 92% negative ahead of midterms


News Busters
Wed, 10 Oct 2018 10:31 UTC
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In four weeks, Americans go to the polls for the midterm elections that the news media are casting as a referendum on the Trump presidency. Over the summer, the broadcast networks have continued to pound Donald Trump and his team with the most hostile coverage of a President in TV news history - 92 percent negative, vs. just eight percent positive.

For this report, MRC analysts reviewed all 1,007 evening news stories (1,960 minutes of airtime) about the Trump administration on ABC, CBS and NBC from June 1 to September 30, tallying the coverage of each topic and all evaluative comments made by anchors, reporters and non-partisan sources (such as voters or experts).

The results show that, over the past four months, nearly two-thirds of evening news coverage of the Trump presidency has been focused on just five main topics: the Russia investigation; immigration policy; the Kavanaugh nomination; North Korea diplomacy; and U.S. relations with Russia. The networks' coverage of all of these topics has been highly negative, while bright spots for the administration such as the booming economy received extremely little coverage (less than one percent of the four-month total).
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Yoda

Newsflash, Westernizers: 'China-Africa relationship is NOT colonialism' - Ghanaian leader tells UN


African Leadership Magazine
Thu, 27 Sep 2018 12:00 UTC
President Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo
Ghanaian president Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo patiently explains to the world at the UN last month that there's no equivalence between Western colonialism and Chinese trade/investment projects. Not that anyone in Western media even noticed...
President Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo mounted the podium at the United Nations (UN) Headquarters in New York yesterday and told the world to discard any notion that the movement of Ghana and some African countries towards China would result in the recolonisation of the continent by a new power.

"This is not a uniquely Ghanaian or African phenomenon. It has not been lost on us that the developed, rich and well-established countries have been paying regular visits to China and seeking to open new economic ties and improve upon existing ones," he noted.

Addressing the 73rd UN General Assembly meeting, the President opined that Ghana, like many countries in Africa, was forging relations with China to make arrangements to help address infrastructure deficit back home.

"We in Ghana must build roads, bridges, railways, ports, schools and hospitals and we must create jobs to keep our young people engaged," he said.

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Vader

Empire Strikes Back: US, Australia, Japan team up to block China from building internet infrastructure in 'our' Papua New Guinea

Tom Westbrook and Colin Packham
Reuters
Fri, 28 Sep 2018 11:43 UTC
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The United States is working on a counter-offer to stop Chinese telecom giant Huawei Technologies Co Ltd from building internet infrastructure in Papua New Guinea (PNG), its top diplomat to Australia said on Friday.

The bid comes two years after Huawei first agreed to build a network there, and as the United States and its allies mount a vigorous campaign to check China's rising influence in the region by deepening their own diplomatic ties and boosting aid.

It also follows Australia shutting Huawei out of contracts to build a national mobile network on security grounds, and blocking it from laying a subsea communications cable from Sydney to PNG and the Solomon Islands.


Comment: Wow! So we take it then that it's no longer conspiracy theory that the Western Empire - mostly staffed by Anglo-Saxons - rule the world?


"We are working on a counter-offer," U.S. Charge d'Affaires James Caruso said on Australian Broadcasting Corp. radio, when asked about reports that Australia, Japan and the United States were looking to trump Huawei's PNG project.

"The whole idea is to give alternatives. This is not to say: 'Don't do business with China.' China's offers are out on the table; it's up to us to be competitive," he said, without elaborating on the offer's details.


Comment: Eh, that's exactly what it is: DON'T DO BUSINESS WITH CHINA. WE OWN YOU.


Comment: Desperate times call for desperate measures! Can't have savages and barbarians leveling the playing field in a way we don't control, now can we!

Undersea comms cables are BIG BUSINESS in elite circles. Knowledge is power and all that. You-know-who has been going around sabotaging them for years as part of their 'influence operations' against friends and foes alike:

Undersea Internet Cables Cut AGAIN!

NATO's renewed fear mongering over "Russian threat" to undersea cables is cover to monitor and subvert Chinese trade routes

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