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Trump shooting probe finds 'stunning' failures


RT
Mon, 21 Oct 2024 00:00 UTC
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© Anna Moneymaker / Getty ImagesRepublican presidential candidate and former US President Donald Trump is rushed offstage during a rally in Butler, Pennsylvania, July 13, 2024.
The US Congress task force investigating the July 13 attempt on the life of Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump has confirmed that the Secret Service and local law enforcement did not coordinate properly.

Trump was speaking at a rally in Butler, Pennsylvania when a bullet nicked his ear. One rally-goer was killed and two more seriously injured before the Secret Service neutralized the attacker on the roof of a nearby factory.

"Put simply, the evidence obtained by the Task Force to date shows the tragic and shocking events of July 13 were preventable and should not have happened," said the preliminary report published by the bipartisan body on Monday.
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Pepe Escobar: Date With Destiny - BRICS Offers Hope in a Time of War

Pepe Escobar
Sputnik News
Mon, 21 Oct 2024 19:51 UTC
BRICS in Kazan
This is it. A date with destiny. All set for the most crucial geopolitical/geoeconomic gathering of the year and arguably the decade: the BRICS Summit under the Russian presidency in Kazan, capital of Tatarstan, where Sunni Tatars coexist in perfect harmony with Orthodox Christians.

All the excruciating work by sherpas and analysts throughout 2024 - supervised by the lead Russian diplomat in charge of BRICS, Deputy Foreign Minister Sergey Ryabkov - converged to three final, separate key meetings in Moscow before the summit, grouping BRICS finance ministers and central bank governors, working groups, and the Business Council.

All that in a context that is now familiar for the Global Majority. The combined GDP of the current BRICS nations is over $60 trillion, way ahead of the G7; their average growth rate by the end of this year is projected to be 4%, higher than the 3.2% global average; and the bulk of economic growth for the near future will come from BRICS member-nations.

Even before the meeting of finance ministers and central bank governors, Russian Finance Minister Anton Siluanov was stressing that BRICS is keen to bypass "politicized" Western platforms - a subtle reference to the sanctions tsunami and the weaponization of the US dollar - as BRICS work to create their own, Global Majority-friendly international payments system.

The context for what will be decided in Kazan this week is no less than incandescent, as the uncontrolled chaos of the Hegemon's Forever Wars - from Ukraine to West Asia - has even materially affected the heavy work of BRICS and the necessity to build a new international system of geoeconomic relations practically from scratch.

Comment: The Western media is generally ignoring that this major summit is taking place and where no one from the Western globalists' - rules based order - G7 are present. Yet the meeting undermines the Western propaganda that Russia is isolated. Even the UN Secretary General is present as he mentioned the importance of being present since countries representing more than half the worlds populations are there.
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The EU doesn't need Moscow to interfere in its democracy - it has Brussels for that

Rachel Marsden
RT
Mon, 21 Oct 2024 17:12 UTC
Posters
© Horacio Villalobos/Corbis/Corbis via Getty ImagesPosters from Ukraine/ Putin looks like Adolf Hitler • protests near Russian Embassy • Lisbon, Portugal • February 24, 2022
Instead of trying to pin down Russia as the main threat to democracy, perhaps the bloc's officials should look in the mirror.

The EU superheroes did it, guys. They stopped Russian President Vladimir Putin from being elected to Brussels. And now they're telling us all about how they did it, before Marvel Studios' costume department comes knocking on the door of the EU clown tent to ask for their capes back.

The Russians and their "disinformation" didn't have any impact on the European Elections earlier this year. That's now the official word from the EU itself.

Vera Jourova, the Vice President of the European Commission for Values and Transparency, has emerged from an Orwellian novel to announce:
"Based on currently available information, no major information interference operation capable of disrupting the elections was recorded."
So much for the public freak out that European parliamentarians were having back in April 2024, demanding even more censorship of "Kremlin-backed media outlets" and "disinformation campaigns" in what they qualified as "Kremlin-backed attempts to interfere with and undermine European democratic processes."

Comment: Moscow doesn't need to meddle in US/EU/Brussels affairs. They sabotage themselves.

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Seven Israelis accused of giving info to Iran on targeted IDF bases

Tyler Durden
Zero Hedge
Mon, 21 Oct 2024 02:45 UTC
Tanks
© IDF/Middle East EyeTanks on the move...
In an unexpected and somewhat bizarre new development out of Israel, government authorities say they've busted up a significant spy network, arresting seven Israeli citizens for gathering information on behalf of Iranian intelligence, Israel's internal security agency Shin Bet announced Monday.

The detained have been identified as Jewish residents of Haifa and the north, even including an IDF soldier who had deserted the military. They have been named in Israeli press reports as Azis Nisanov, Alexander Sadykov, Vyacheslav Gushchin, Yevgeny Yoffe and Yigal Nissan - with the other two names not disclosed as they have been deemed minors.

Shin Bet has said the group conducted hundreds of small operations on behalf of Tehran, mostly focused on photographing and monitoring sensitive military sites, even the locations of where Iron Dome battery sites are positioned.

They reportedly spied on Kirya defense headquarters in Tel Aviv and the Nevatim and Ramat David air bases, along with other bases of the Israel Defense Forces.

Comment: Precursor to Israel's 9/11?

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Germany and UK to sign 'historic' defense pact


RT
Sun, 20 Oct 2024 17:49 UTC
Healey/Postorius
© Sean Gallup/Getty ImagesJohn Healey (C) meets German Defense Minister Boris Pistorius • Berlin, Germany • July 24, 2024
The agreement will reportedly set the scene for British and German forces to train on Russia's borders.

The UK and Germany will sign a bilateral defense agreement this week, paving the way for both nations to step up their military drills near Russia's borders, The Sunday Times has reported.

Under the terms of the deal, Britain and Germany will cooperate on arms procurement and development, with the agreement serving as a "first step" for a larger deal between the UK and EU next year, the British newspaper reported.

The pact "is expected to enable British and German forces to conduct joint military exercises on NATO's eastern border with Russia, most probably in Estonia and Lithuania," The Times noted, without offering further explanation.
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Trump attacks 'dumb war hawk' Cheney


RT
Mon, 21 Oct 2024 21:04 UTC
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© Jim Vondruska/Getty ImagesKamala Harris and Liz Cheney • campaign rally • Ripon, Wisconsin • October 3, 2024
The ex-lawmaker's presence on the campaign trail will anger Arab-Americans, the former US president has claimed.

Former US President Donald Trump has hammered Vice President Kamala Harris for campaigning with Liz Cheney, a prominent neoconservative whom Trump accused of wanting "to go to war with every Muslim country known to mankind."

Cheney, a former member of Congress and the daughter of former US Vice President Dick Cheney, endorsed Harris last month, and will tour the swing states of Michigan, Pennsylvania and Wisconsin this week in a bid to drum up establishment Republican support for the Democratic nominee. Michigan is home to around 250,000 Arab-Americans, who reportedly favor Trump, due to their opposition to Harris' position on the Israel-Hamas war.

In a post on his Truth Social platform on Monday, Trump predicted that Ms. Cheney's appearance will further infuriate the cohort:
"Arab Voters are very upset that Comrade Kamala Harris, the Worst Vice President in the History of the United States and a Low IQ individual, is campaigning with 'dumb as a rock' War Hawk, Liz Cheney, who, like her father, the man that pushed Bush to ridiculously go to War in the Middle East, also wants to go to War with every Muslim Country known to mankind.

"If Kamala gets four more years, the Middle East will spend the next four decades going up in flames, and your kids will be going off to War, maybe even a Third World War, something that will never happen with President Donald J. Trump in charge."

Comment: Cheney is more a lie-ability than an asset.

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Leaked US intelligence files show Israeli military plans


RT
Sun, 20 Oct 2024 03:41 UTC
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© Issam Rimawi/Anadolu/Getty ImagesFragment of an Iranian missile in Beit Al, near the West Bank city of Ramallah • Oct 1, 2024
The documents posted on Telegram describe IDF's alleged preparations to strike Iran.

The US has launched an investigation after highly classified intelligence reports about Israel's preparations for possible strikes on Iran were leaked online, CNN reported on Saturday, citing three people familiar with the matter.

The apparent security breach occurred amid an intense standoff between Iran and Israel - which has vowed to respond to a barrage of missiles fired by Tehran earlier this month.

On Friday, two documents were posted to the anonymous Telegram channel Middle East Spectator, which covers events in the region and is critical of Israel. The first of the files, apparently prepared by the Pentagon's National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency, says:
"The Israel Defense Forces (IDF) continued key munitions preparations and covert UAV activity on October 16 almost certainly for a strike on Iran."
The second document contains a detailed report about a "large-force employment exercise" conducted by the Israeli Air Force on October 15-16.

Comment: How many missiles does it take before said 'skirmish' turns to outright war? One more?

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Attention

Major national cybersecurity exercise to take place on election day

Jon Rappoport
jonrappoport.substack.com
Tue, 22 Oct 2024 16:17 UTC
Cybersecurity Exercise
© jonrappoport.substack.com
Background: "AFCEA [Armed Forces Communications & Electronics Association International] Atlanta [Chapter] Homeland Security Conference on Critical Infrastructure, November 6-7, 2024, with a large scale cybersecurity exercise on November 5, 2024" (link in footnote)

— On Nov. 5, ELECTION DAY, there will be a special cybersecurity exercise at the Conference.

Get this. The exercise is described as a large-scale interactive event, with participants from federal, state, county, city government agencies, academia, and industry.

The exercise will simulate a cyber-attack on "critical infrastructure."

That's right. It's a so-called "Jack Voltaic"-type exercise, which was developed to test responses to attacks on large infrastructures.

QUITE odd to schedule the exercise on Election Day.

QUITE odd to run an exercise simulating a cyber-attack on critical infrastructure ON ELECTION DAY, especially since electronic voting across the nation IS a piece of critical infrastructure.
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Fire

No really? France warns Lebanon could collapse


RT
Tue, 22 Oct 2024 15:12 UTC
French Defence minister Sebastien Lecornu
French Defense Minister Sebastien Lecornu pictured at the Elysee Palace in Paris on October 10, 2024
The Middle Eastern country risks sliding into civil war, the French Defense Minister has cautioned

Lebanon could collapse and slide into civil war, French Defense Minister Sebastien Lecornu said on Monday. The Middle Eastern country, which was administered by France for part of the 20th century, has become a battleground between Israel and armed group Hezbollah in recent weeks.

In an interview with LCI news channel, Lecornu said that a ceasefire in Lebanon was a "necessity for our collective security."

Israel and Hezbollah have sporadically exchanged fire since the former launched a military operation in Gaza in response to a deadly incursion by Hamas on October 7 last year. Israel escalated its campaign against Hezbollah in September, launching Operation Northern Arrows to attack the group in Southern Lebanon.

One million people have been forced to flee their homes in Lebanon in search of safety, according to the UN Refugee Agency. The Lebanese Health Ministry reported that nearly 2,500 people had been killed by Israeli attacks on the country as of Saturday.


Comment: Now who would have thought that destroying a country's infrastructure, part of its leadership, creating a huge refugee crisis, while continuing to bomb it to smithereens, would result in that country descending into chaos and collapse? No one could have even contemplated such an outcome. Well at least not the 38 year old French defence minister and his fellow juvenile colleagues.


Comment: There are plenty of examples of how destroying countries leads to chaos, instability, suffering and extremism. Afghanistan, Iraq, Libya and Syria comes to mind and again, that was the goal, so as to avoid having well functioning, civilised countries as neighbours who god forbid might be sovereign and independent. Better to rule by divide and rule in the chaos that ensues so as to be able to control those countries and steal their resources.

Europe will be the biggest loser and with a further massive influx of refugees from the Middle East AND Ukraine, then instability could follow in the EU garden.

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Kamala Harris whines that alleged 'disinformation' about her is 'confusing' voters

Catherine Salgador
Newsbusters
Fri, 18 Oct 2024 15:02 UTC
kamala harris
© CNNHarris was interviewed by Charlemagne Tha God on CNN
Kamala Harris, Vice President and 2024 Democrat presidential nominee, has repeatedly called for censorship of political opponents, and she just reinforced her anti-free speech platform.

During a CNN radio townhall this week with Charlemagne Tha God, Harris, who has an anti-free speech track record, complained about the alleged "challenges" of "disinformation." The presidential nominee defended her many policy failures, including economic issues, and labeled critiques of her work as disinformation. Leftists use the word to justify censorship.

Harris whined about those who challenged her policy positions. "One of the biggest challenges that I face is mis- and disinformation and it's purposeful, because it is meant to convince people that they somehow should not believe that the work that I have done has — has occurred and has meaning," she said.

Comment: The Harris campaign seems to be approaching its death spiral. Meanwhile:





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