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Turkiye requests to join BRICS, first NATO member to apply


Middle East Monitor
Mon, 02 Sep 2024 22:41 UTC
BRICS
© BRICS/Handout – Anadolu AgencyA general view of the 15th BRICS summit in Johannesburg, South Africa on August 22, 2023
In a significant move that could reshape its international alliances, Turkiye has officially applied to join the BRICS group — an economic coalition comprising Brazil, Russia, India, China and South Africa. The application signals Ankara's intent to diversify its foreign policy and economic partnerships amid shifting global dynamics.

The BRICS group, which represents some of the world's largest emerging economies, has been gaining influence on the global stage, advocating for a multipolar world order and seeking to challenge the dominance of Western-led institutions. Turkiye's interest in joining BRICS aligns with its broader strategy to assert a more independent role in global affairs, particularly as it navigates complex relationships with both the West and other global powers.

Turkish officials have highlighted the potential benefits of BRICS membership, including enhanced economic cooperation, access to new markets and opportunities for collaboration in key areas such as infrastructure, technology and energy. Turkiye's strategic location, bridging Europe and Asia and its growing economy, make it a valuable addition to the BRICS bloc.

Comment: It seems that Turkey is finally willing to risk the wrath of the ailing unipolar powers, for the myriad of potential benefits that BRICS promises.

Notably, it seems unlikely that the group will tolerate any of its members who facilitate genocide, or who blatantly foment regional wars, and so one can appreciate just why the pathocrats in the West-Israel find its existance so threatening:

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Bullseye

Harris attempt to attack Trump's Arlington visit backfires spectacularly after Gold Star families respond

Reagan Reese
The Daily Caller
Sun, 01 Sep 2024 20:54 UTC
Trump arlington wreath laying Afghanistan soldiers
© Fox News/PoolFormer President Trump participated in a wreath-laying ceremony August 26, 2024, at Arlington National Cemetery on the third-year anniversary of the Abbey Gate bombing that killed 13 U.S. service members during the Afghanistan withdrawal.
Gold Star families spoke out against Vice President Kamala Harris after she weighed in on the controversy surrounding former President Donald Trump's visit to Arlington Cemetery to honor the 13 soldiers killed in the Biden administration's Afghanistan withdrawal.

Harris posted a tweet Saturday slamming Trump for filming videos while honoring the fallen soldiers, adding that she, unlike the former president, "will always honor the service and sacrifice of all of America's fallen heroes." Eight Gold Star families took to Twitter to rebuke Harris's comments, explaining that they invited Trump to the cemetery for the ceremony and have never heard from the vice president in the three years since they lost their children in the August 2021 terrorist attack in Kabul.

Comment:
biden checks watch
© Saul Loeb/AFP via Getty ImagesPresident Biden apparently checking his watch as he and Jill Biden attend the dignified transfer of the remains of a fallen service member at Dover Air Force Base in Delaware, Aug. 29, 2021.


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Arrow Down

Climate Science goes full-bore witchcraft: Your beefsteak makes bridges fall like Tinker-Toys

Jo Nova
joannenova.com.au
Mon, 02 Sep 2024 20:40 UTC
Climate Propaganda
© NYT
The Modern West is regressing to 8th Century occult science

Today the supposed "newspaper of record" for the most powerful nation on Earth is effectively telling people that the steak they eat, the car they drive and the heater they use could cause bridges to collapse "'like Tinkertoys". But you'll have to join the dots yourself, because they never do. No one asks the experts: How many Tofu-burgers does it take to save Brooklyn Bridge? How many bus trips will we need to save the Golden Gate?

The worlds leading journalists never ask the obvious questions. They just leave a trail of breadcrumbs: Man makes CO2, CO2 causes Spooky weather and Spooky weather eats bridges. So good people drive EV's!

Each breadcrumb looks like bread, like it might be real, but no one sees the whole loaf and before you know it, everyone is lost in the woods, installing solar panels to save their bridges.

Two days ago the breadcrumbs said "good people go without air conditioners".

Things are so bad the New York Times tells us that on a 95 degree day in summer, one bridge in Manhattan got stuck open "for hours". (The tragedy). Another time a railway bridge in Iowa got washed away and some pavement buckled in Maine.

The truth is that US bridges are a miracle. There are, seriously, more than 600,000 bridges across the country and yet this was all the catastrophe they could find in the leading paragraph. We're supposed to believe that we're in a bridge crisis, and that "extreme" heat, floods and "snap weather changes" are new, and worse, and we're causing it.
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Big Bomb

Tit for tat: Russian missile attack rocks Kyiv, other parts of Ukraine following massive Ukraine drone attack on Belgorod


New York Post
Mon, 02 Sep 2024 20:26 UTC
russia missile attack kiev
© REUTERSFILE: An explosion after a Russian missile strike is seen in the sky over the city during a Russian missile attack, amid Russia’s attack in Kyiv, Ukraine on Sept. 2, 2024.
Loud explosions rocked Ukraine's capital, Kyiv, early on Monday as Russia launched a barrage of missiles, sparking fires and damaging homes and infrastructure, officials said.

Residents across the city were awoken by a quick succession of bangs and the sound of air defense missiles blasting off skyward to intercept targets.

The air force said it had destroyed 22 out of 35 missiles and 20 of 23 attack drones. It listed several types of cruise and ballistic missiles used by Russia.

Air raid alerts sounded across Ukraine for nearly two hours before the air force declared the skies clear at 6:30 a.m. (0330 GMT).

Comment: Note the actual article never mentions the Belgorod drone attack just two days before:

Russia says five killed, 46 injured in Ukraine strike on Belgorod

The Korea Times adds this information on Kharkiv. At least they had the decency to mention the earlier Ukraine attack.
Earlier in the day, Russia said Kyiv had launched one of the biggest drone attacks against it since the full-scale war began, targeting power plants and an oil refinery, while Moscow's forces made further gains towards a key town in eastern Ukraine.

The Kharkiv attack prompted Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskiyy to renew calls on allies to allow Kyiv to fire Western-supplied missiles deeper into enemy territory and reduce the military threat posed by Russia.

[...]

Earlier, Russian officials said air defense units had destroyed 158 drones launched by Ukraine overnight, and that debris caused fires at the Moscow Oil Refinery and at the Konakovo Power Station in the neighboring Tver region.

Kyiv has yet to comment on the drone barrage. Russia rarely discloses the full extent of damage inflicted by Ukraine's air attacks.

[...]

Kyiv's allies are wary of how Russian President Vladimir Putin would respond if their weapons were used against targets far inside Russian territory.

[...]

In eastern Ukraine, where the heaviest fighting of the war is concentrated, Russian forces continued to advance towards Pokrovsk, a vital military hub and transport link to towns and cities further north.

Ukraine had hoped that its surprise incursion into Russia's Kursk region launched last month would force Russia to re-deploy troops and take pressure off besieged forces in the east, but so far it does not appear to have had this effect.

[...]

Ukraine's army chief, Oleksandr Syrskyi, described the situation as "difficult" around Russia's main line of attack in eastern Ukraine.

Also on Sunday, Ukrainian forces shelled Russia's southern Belgorod region, injuring 11 people, including two children who were seriously hurt, regional governor Vyacheslav Gladkov said. (Reuters)
Russia explains its latest targeting goals:

Full text:

The Russian Defence Ministry provides details regarding the night missile attack on Ukraine. It was stated that the strike was carried out:
  • "on energy and defence industry facilities" where "aircraft and missile weapons were being manufactured and repaired";
  • on "UAV assembly and storage sites";
  • "temporary deployment points for nationalist groups and foreign mercenaries".
The ministry states that all designated facilities were hit.

Ukraine has not yet reported where the strikes were carried out, but the head of the OP Yermak wrote that "there will be an answer for everything. The enemy will feel it," further indicating that the strikes were successful


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'There is a risk of a nuclear incident at the Kursk nuclear power plant,' warns IAEA, blames Ukraine for drone strikes on plant

Dénes Albert
ReMix
Wed, 28 Aug 2024 00:16 UTC
Grossi
© ROSATOM PRESS SERVICEIAEA Chief Rafael Grossi (L) and inspectors at Kursk nuclear power plant • Kurchatov, Kursk region, Russia • 27 August 2024
The IAEA head confirms that Ukraine has struck the Russian nuclear plant with drones.

As the expanding frontline inches within just a few kilometers of the Kursk nuclear power plant in Russia, there are fears there could be a major nuclear disaster.

"There is a risk of a nuclear incident at the Kursk nuclear power plant," said Rafael Grossi, Director General of the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA), after visiting the facility in Kurchatov, in the Kursk region bordering Ukraine, on Tuesday.

He added that he had seen evidence of drone strikes during his visit to the plant.
"I was told today that there have been several cases of drone attacks on the site (the site of the Kursk nuclear power plant), on the facilities. The fact that there is fighting a few kilometers away from the nuclear power plant raises great concerns and anxiety about the security system."
Group
© Roatom State Atomic Energy Corp./APIAEA chief Rafael Grossi, third left, visits Kursk Nuclear Power Plant near Kurchatov, Russia • August 27, 2024
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South Africa halts artillery shells to Poland over fears they will be used against Russia

Grzegorz Adamczyk
REMIX
Wed, 28 Aug 2024 10:24 UTC
artillery shells
© APArtillery shells
South Africa has suspended a major arms deal with Poland, leading to Poland canceling the contract.

South Africa has withheld the delivery of 155mm artillery shells to Poland, citing concerns that the munitions could be sent to Ukraine, according to Ezra Jele, head of the secretariat of the South African government body overseeing arms contracts. After two years of uncertainty, Poland has canceled the contract.

In early 2022, following Russia's invasion of Ukraine, Poland, along with several non-NATO countries, placed an order for 55,000 Assegai artillery shells from Denel Munition, a South African company and subsidiary of German arms manufacturer Rheinmetall. At the time, Jan-Patrick Helmsen, managing director of Denel Munition, expressed pride in the deal, noting NATO's continued trust in their globally recognized technology.

However, later that year, South Africa's National Conventional Arms Control Committee (NCACC) halted the contract's fulfillment. While export permits to Poland and other countries were not canceled, they were indefinitely suspended, with no clear timeline for resolution, according to Jele.

The deal, valued at approximately 190 million złoty (€44.5 million), was Poland's second-largest arms purchase from South Africa, with the United Arab Emirates placing the largest order. The NCACC also partially suspended arms exports to Turkey and Saudi Arabia.
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Attention

Switzerland urged to rethink its 500-year neutrality


RT
Sat, 31 Aug 2024 14:56 UTC
soldierflag
© Sean Gallup/Getty ImagesSwiss soldier • Swiss flag
The Alpine country must cooperate more closely on security issues with the EU and NATO, Swiss experts have urged.

It is time for Switzerland, which has been neutral since 1515, to redefine its non-alignment status, a group of Swiss experts have said, in a report ordered by the defense ministry in Bern. Critics, in response, have accused the panel behind the paper of bias and insist that neutrality is forever enshrined in the country's constitution.

The study committee, which was set up a year ago, presented a paper on Thursday with 100 recommendations on how to boost the Alpine nation's security.

"The neutrality policy needs to be revised, more focused on its security function and applied more flexibly," the members of the panel, which is said to include politicians, economists and scientists representing different age groups and regions, suggest in the report.

Another key recommendation in it is that Switzerland's "cooperation with NATO and the EU must continue to be deepened with a view to achieving a common defense capability and becoming a genuine defense cooperation."

Comment: The Swiss would be most beneficial as unbiased observers and recorders. History and Truth have a hard time holding hands.

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Tank

NATO and Ukraine held top-secret Dresden meeting - Bild


RT
Sat, 31 Aug 2024 15:40 UTC
tankthing
© Global Look Press/IMAGO/SchoeningRheinmetall's Skyranger anti-aircraft system
The gathering organized by Berlin featured a display of German military hardware, according to the outlet.

Top-ranking military officials from NATO member states and Ukraine gathered in the German city of Dresden for secret talks this week, Bild has claimed. The host country reportedly used the opportunity to tout its arms manufacturers' latest innovations.

Earlier this month, Germany's leading defense company Rheinmetall announced that it had nearly doubled its operating profit in the first half of 2024. The arms giant said the Ukraine conflict was among the factors that "significantly improved business performance."

In an article on Thursday, Bild reported that ground force commanders of 35 European nations, as well as Ukraine and the US, had gathered for a closed-door meeting in Dresden, believed to have run from Tuesday through Thursday. According to the German tabloid newspaper, the event was shrouded in secrecy, with heightened security measures in place over spying concerns.

Among the topics discussed were NATO's new operational areas in Sweden and Finland, which both joined the US-led military bloc within the last 18 months, as well as threat analysis and lessons learned from the Ukraine conflict, the paper reported.
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Bad Guys

Is Kamala very very afraid?

James Howard Kunstler
jameshowardkunstler.substack.com
Mon, 02 Sep 2024 15:51 UTC
kamala harris interview cnn
© CNNTim Walz and Kamala Harris "interviewed" on CNN, August August 29, 2024
"On many subjects important to public life today, vast numbers of people know the truth, and yet the official channels of information sharing are reluctant to admit it." — Jeffrey Tucker
You might wonder, as I do, whether Kamala Harris can even stay in the race until November 5. Based on her grim appearance in last week's "interview" with Dana Bash, slumped at the table of a crummy Georgia café under poor lighting, her trademark cackle suppressed, she looked psychologically wilted. Don't be surprised if late this week she "catches Covid" and asks to "postpone" the September 10 debate with Mr. Trump.

Consider the depressing reality of her situation, lately cloaked by the farcical "joy" motif put out by her party's campaign spin doctors: First, the cabal running the White House bum-rushed "Joe Biden" out of the campaign, just hooked him offstage like a broke-down vaudevillian annoying the audience with his tired antics. Then, the same gang buffaloed Kamala onto center stage by some mystical process that disregarded her lack of preparation, her proven unpopularity in the 2020 primaries, and her near-invisibility in 3.5 years as veep.

For a couple of weeks her head must have been spinning with sheer intoxication at the amazing turn of events. Who wouldn't be amazed to find him or herself unexpectedly selected to run for president? But now, post the artificial hoopla of the convention, the dread steals in. If she was previously used to self-medicating with chardonnay during the irksome veep years, imagine the pressure now on those campaign bus trips.
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Star of David

How the U.S. Enabled Netanyahu to Sabotage a Gaza Ceasefire

Jeremy Scahill
Drop Site News
Mon, 02 Sep 2024 05:57 UTC
Netanyahu and Kamala Harris
After the bodies of six more Israeli hostages of Hamas were found in the Gaza Strip, pressure in Israel is mounting on the government to secure a ceasefire deal and free the remaining hostages and soldiers taken captive on October 7. The announcement Sunday that the captives, including a dual citizen of the U.S., were discovered in a tunnel in Rafah has further fueled the rage toward Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, particularly from the families of those held in Gaza. They have accused the prime minister of sabotaging deals to free their loved ones, saying "their blood is on his hands."

Senior Israeli officials, most prominently the defense minister, have joined the public demands for Netanyahu to stop obstructing ceasefire negotiations, while Hamas has said they will not participate in any process until the U.S. convinces Israel to accept a negotiating framework Hamas agreed to in early July. Both Hamas and the families of Israeli captives still held in Gaza have stated that Netanyahu bears responsibility for continuing the war and preventing the exchange of prisoners.

The White House clearly hopes the events of the past 24 hours alter the current course. After being briefed on Saturday evening on the hostages found in Rafah, President Joe Biden, who is vacationing in Delaware, said, "I think we're on the verge of having an agreement," adding, "We think we can close the deal, they've all said they agree on the principles."

Comment: Israel is not interested in peace and now it is not 'just' Gaza but also the West Bank which Israel wants to erase.

See also:

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