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Russian Foreign Ministry says 'occupation' of Russian diplomatic properties in US 'blunt act of hostility'


RT
Sun, 03 Sep 2017 11:32 UTC
The Consulate General of Russia
© Stephen Lam / ReutersThe entrance to the building of the Consulate General of Russia is shown in San Francisco
The "occupation" of Russian diplomatic properties in the US is merely a "blunt act of hostility," the Russian Foreign Ministry said in a statement, adding that Washington is violating international law and the Vienna Convention by the move.

Searches of the Russian premises began on Saturday, after the US State Department ordered the foreign ministry on August 31 to vacate the premises by September 2.

The FBI arrived in at least two vehicles to search the San Francisco Consulate. The minute the deadline expired, agents entered the Russian-owned diplomatic property, which in 2016 alone issued more than 16,000 tourist visas to American citizens.

Comment: See also: US actions against Russian diplomatic and consular property are illegal, violates Vienna Conventions on Diplomacy

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Merkel's pre-election poker face: 'Peace order in Europe can only be achieved with Russia'


RT
Sun, 03 Sep 2017 11:00 UTC
Angela Merkel
© Hannibal Hanschke / ReutersGerman Chancellor Angela Merkel
A stable European security architecture only can be built by involving Russia in the process, German Chancellor Angela Merkel has said. She also called on the West to honor its obligations under treaties signed with Moscow.

Despite current tensions between the West and Moscow, "we can establish a European peace order only with Russia," the chancellor said in her Saturday video podcast published on the German government's website. She went on to say that, "in the field of the European defense and security policy, we should do our best to improve our contact with Russia."

The German leader noted that she has always advocated for keeping an open "dialog between NATO and Russia" and "honoring" the respective treaties despite the differences over the Ukrainian crisis.

The implementation of the Minsk Agreements is a key pre-condition for the improvement of relations between Russia and Europe. "If it [the implementation of the Minsk Agreements] were successful, we would have a starting point for an even more intensive dialog," Merkel said.

Comment: See also: Recharging the batteries and preparing for more lies: Just as German election heats up, Merkel takes holiday break

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Russian Foreign Ministry spokeswoman Zakharova: US security services to search Russian consulate in San Francisco on Saturday


RT
Fri, 01 Sep 2017 21:25 UTC
Consulate General of the Russian Federation
© Justin Sullivan / AFP
Russia's foreign ministry has said US security services intend to conduct searches in the building of the Russian consulate in San Francisco on September 2.

"Alongside the yet another raid on expensive objects of Russian state property, which [the US] have blocked and are now persistently offering us to put on sale, this time the orders of the US authorities pose a direct threat to security of Russian citizens" in the US, the ministry spokeswoman Maria Zakharova said in a statement.

The searches will not only be carried out at Russia's consulate offices, but also at the apartments of staff who live in the building and who have immunity, she said.

Comment: See also: Update (Sept. 03): The searches at Russian diplomatic facilities in the United States were "an infernal buffoonery" that insulted the dignity of those ordered to conduct them in the first place, the Russian Foreign Ministry's official spokeswoman said on Sunday.
"Looking at the footage of searches at Russian diplomatic missions, I realize that this was some kind of an infernal buffoonery - foolish, illegal and senseless," Maria Zakharova said.

"Maybe they wanted to insult us. Surely they did, no doubts about that. However, it's the US law enforcers whose dignity was insulted, who had to pry into other people's corners, poke about in their closets and fake a smile while turning their faces away from cameras," she added. "I feel sorry for them."


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Former MI5 intelligence officer: US raid of Russian diplomatic sites a meaningless parade of power to reassert claim for global dominion

Annie Machon
RT
Sun, 03 Sep 2017 08:35 UTC
People on the rooftop
© Stephen Lam / ReutersPeople are seen on the rooftop at the Consulate General of Russia in San Francisco, California, U.S., September 2, 2017
The shutting and subsequent searches of Russia's diplomatic sites are a meaningless show of power and domination by the US, which, however, could help push through controversial new intelligence related legislation, believes Annie Machon, a former MI5 intelligence officer.

It's part of efforts to push through the Intelligence Authorization Act that would recognize actors, such as WikiLeaks, as a"non-state hostile intelligence service," Machon told RT.

RT: The State Department is saying the trade mission has been stripped of its immunity, that it was essentially lifted when that consulate was shut down. The Vienna Convention which governs consular relations says otherwise. Which do you think has got this right?

AM: The international law lays it down really clearly. The 1961 Vienna Convention on Diplomatic Relations says that any diplomatic and affiliated premises in a foreign country are inviolable. And any incursion on that territory is therefore seen as an attack on the country that is hosting that diplomatic mission.
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Japanese Foreign Ministry claims Pyongyang conducted nuclear test, after 'artificial earthquake' strikes N. Korea


RT
Sun, 03 Sep 2017 08:02 UTC
Military vehicles carry missiles
© Damir Sagolj / ReutersMilitary vehicles carry missiles during a military parade marking the 105th birth anniversary of country's founding father in Pyongyang
A 6.3 magnitude earthquake has struck North Korea near a known nuclear test site - Punggye-ri. The Japanese Foreign Ministry claims that according to its data, "it was a nuclear test."

"After examining the data we concluded that it was a nuclear tests," Foreign Minister Taro Kono said at a briefing following a meeting of Japan's National Security Council, Reuters reports.

North Korea's state television said it would carry an important announcement at 06:30 GMT.

An allegedly artificial quake was detected at 12:36pm in North Hamgyeong Province, according to the Korea Meteorological Administration (KMA), Yonhap reports.

Comment: The Japanese government said it recorded a 6.1-magnitude earthquake, with an epicenter at the depth of less than 1 km, at 6:29 Moscow time.
An emergency panel was set up at the Japanese Prime Minister's Office. Its experts are currently involved in gathering and analyzing all available information.

Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe told reporters that his country would maintain close contact with the United States, South Korea, China and Russia on the issue.

"We are gathering and analyzing all the required information. I have already ordered to maintain close contact with the United States, South Korea, Russia and China," he said.

North Korea, in its turn, said it was National Security Council will convene to analyze the matter, the Yonhap news agency reported.
According to a Korean Central News Agency (KCNA) statement Pyongyang can now deploy a powerful hydrogen bomb small enough to be mounted atop one of its recently developed ICBMs, capable of striking the US mainland in minutes, cited by Yonhap.
The KCNA Sunday announcement,asserted that DPRK leader Kim Jong Un observed the miniaturized nuclear weapon while visiting Pyongyang's Nuclear Weapons Institute."The institute recently succeeded in making a more developed nuke, true to the strategic intention of the [Workers' Party of Korea] for bringing about a signal turn in nuclear weaponization," stated KCNA.

"[DPRK leader Kim viewed] an H-bomb to be loaded into new ICBM," cited by BNOnews.com

If true, the development will increase tensions in the region already near the breaking point as Washington has postured toward military intervention with the isolated nation, against the advice of China and Russia, and many other nations in the region.
North Korea claims to have conducted a hydrogen bomb test in TV announcement


See also: Suspected nuclear test in North Korea after 5.3 magnitude 'earthquake' recorded

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Antifa is being maneuvered right in the direction the Police State would have them

Michael Krieger
Liberty Blitzkrieg
Fri, 01 Sep 2017 00:00 UTC
antifa
Many people involved in politics swear by the notion that "the ends justify the means," which is typically the sign of a self-serving actor attempting to justify questionable if not downright evil action in order to get what he or she wants. While pursuit of "the greater good" is often put up for public consumption, the driving force behind this sort of action is almost always personal gain of some sort. This is what most politicians do for a living, which is why they are justifiably hated by the general public.

The moment you justify one very wrong action to achieve a noble goal, what's to stop you from next even more unethical action, or the next and the next? Nothing. This is what's so dangerous about going down such a path. Indeed, those who fight monsters often end up becoming the exact thing they claim to be fighting. The world doesn't benefit from this, only the person who has gained power as a result does, at least superficially. Ultimately, even that person doesn't benefit when all is said and done. A person who attains their goal by sacrificing principles is a tormented, miserable person. They may seem to "have it all" from the outside, but deep down they hate themselves and what they've become. There is no peace. I believe karma eventually catches up to everybody one way or the other.

- From May's post: Do Ends Justify the Means?
One of the primary motivating factors that drove me to start writing publicly on a daily basis, was a recognition that the chaos and cultural lack of cohesion resulting from the thievery of the financial crisis and the increasingly corrupt, socioeconomic paradigm we live under would provide the pretext for "the state," whether governed by a Democrat or Republican, to further dismantle civil liberties and usher in a country increasingly defined by less freedom. This was a motivating concern under Obama and it remains a motivating concern under Trump.

Comment: FBI and Homeland Security warn of more 'antifa' attacks to come

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Benjamin Netanyahu: Chicken Little posing as a world leader

Robert Fantina
Counterpunch
Fri, 01 Sep 2017 00:00 UTC
Netanyahu
Israeli Prime Murderer Benjamin Netanyahu is once again doing his Chicken Little act. It is not the sky that is falling, but big, bad Iran that is, he claims, "...turning Syria into a base of military entrenchment", and "wants to use Syria and Lebanon as war fronts against its declared goal to eradicate Israel".

We keep hearing this tired refrain from Netanyahu; Iran is always 'just about' to do something that would destroy sacred Israel (the Prime Murderer never mentions his own actions to 'eradicate' Palestine, something that is not a myth, but is actually happening). Since 1992, he has been accusing Iran of being oh-so-close to having nuclear weapons. That year, he said that Iran was three-to-five years away from obtaining them. Twenty years later, after making dire predictions every couple of years, he proclaimed that Iran was "a few months away". It seems that Iran wasn't trying very hard during those years.
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MSM bashes Trump for Harvey tweets, ignores his successful management of crisis

Eddie Scarry
The Washington Examiner
Sat, 02 Sep 2017 20:36 UTC
Donald Trump
Of all the things journalists hate about President Trump, that he doesn't cry every time there's a tragedy seems to be at the very top.

Nothing brings cramps to the New York Times opinion pages like a Trump tweet that isn't fully inconsolable.

As Hurricane Harvey began battering the Texas shoreline last weekend, reaching land as a Category 4 storm, Trump posted several notes on Twitter observing its intensity.

"Wow - Now experts are calling #Harvey a once in 500 year flood!" he said in one. "We have an all out effort going, and going well!"
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Hungary sends $476mn border fence bill to EU after being threatened for 'not accepting refugees'

Jacob Bojesson
The Daily Caller
Sat, 02 Sep 2017 20:32 UTC
Hungary Border Wall refugee
© Getty ImagesHungarian border police patrol along a barbed wire fence at the Hungarian border with Serbia near the town of Horgos
Hungary wants the European Union to pay half the bill for the razor-wired fence it erected in 2015 to keep migrants out, Prime Minister Viktor Orban's administration announced Thursday.

The fence has virtually erased illegal immigration into Hungary less than two years after it was considered the primary route for migrants attempting to enter the EU. Janos Lazar, Orban's chief of staff, claims the 400 million euro ($476 million) figure is justified since the fence is "protecting all the citizens of Europe from the flood of illegal migrants."

"If we talk about European solidarity, then we must also discuss the protection of borders. Solidarity must be applicable there, too," Lazar said at a press conference. "That burden must also be shared."
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Gideon Levy calls out Israel's fundamental and racist religion: Zionism

Jonathan Ofir
Mondoweiss
Sat, 02 Sep 2017 20:25 UTC
Gideon Levy
Gideon Levy published a column in Haaretz yesterday that goes to the furthest extent I have seen in Israeli mainstream media in challenging Zionism. He calls it a movement that "contradicts human rights, and is thus indeed an ultranationalist, colonialist and perhaps even racist movement, as proponents of justice worldwide maintain".

His piece, titled "Minster of Truth", was a typically sarcastic one, set against the background of Justice Minister Ayelet Shaked, who had said earlier in the week that:
"Zionism should not - and I'm saying here that it will not - continue to bow its head to a system of individual rights interpreted in a universal manner".
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