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Moscow 'doesn't give a damn' that Japan is upset over islands - Medvedev


RT
Tue, 30 Jan 2024 14:40 UTC
Medvedev
© Sputnik/Ekaterina ShtukinaDeputy head of Russia's Security Council and chairman of the United Russia party Dmitry Medvedev
The Kurils are part of Russia and a legitimate base for its military, the former president has said...
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Moscow is not against signing a peace treaty with Japan, but Tokyo must understand that the Kuril Islands are and will remain part of Russia, former president Dmitry Medvedev has said.

Medvedev, who now serves as deputy chairman of the Security Council, was responding after Japanese Prime Minister Fumio Kishida stated that his country "remains firmly committed to the course aimed at resolving the territorial issue and concluding a peace treaty" with Moscow, despite continuing to support sanctions against Russia over the Ukraine conflict.

Moscow and Tokyo have for decades been locked in a territorial dispute over four Kuril Islands (known as the 'Northern Territories' in Japan), which were captured by the Soviet Union at the end of World War II. Russia has argued that its sovereignty over the Kurils is guaranteed by post-war agreements, while Japan has said they do not cover some of the islands.

Against this backdrop, the two countries ended a formal state of war in the mid-1950s but never signed a peace treaty.

Comment: Wishful thinking meets bold reality.

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Brick Wall

Texas border conflict: Programmed civil war, martial law? Suspended November 2024 US presidential elections?

Peter Koenig
Global Research
Wed, 31 Jan 2024 00:00 UTC
Tijuana
© WikipediaA small fence separates the southern border of California, USA (L) and Tijuana, Mexico (R)
Remember, a commentator at the WEF Davos24 some ten days ago, asked something to the extent: "How to avoid an undesired person being elected President?" No names were named, but it was obvious, the undesired person for the globalist crowd was the non-globalist, nationalist, "Make America Great Again" (MAGA), former President Donald Trump.

Everybody knows, he is the anti-globalist elephant in a room of a globalist cabal. Perhaps the answer to the question was prepared in a closed-door session - and is unfolding rather fast, as we follow the happenings at the Texas-Mexican border.

Is there a false flag in the making?

If we believe the mainstream media, "Republican" Governor Greg Abbott from Texas sent the State National Guard to defend the Texan 2,000 km (1,200 miles) border with Mexico. Did he really?

Unlikely. He sent his National Guard only to defend the official border entry at Eagle Pass and maybe one or two others along the 2,000 km long border.

The influx of illegal Mexicans into Texas is not new. Abbott could have started with border protection already in 2021 - a record year of illegal Central American immigrants (not just Mexicans) into the US via Texas. That record was exceeded in 2023 with as many as 2.5 million illegal immigrants (official stats) into Texas. See this.

Unofficial figures are quoted as high as 6 million.

Comment: Just when we think 'we know something', a scrape of the surface reveals a deeper layer of tyranny and manipulation - worse than the last.

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Wolf

Building unity and trust? German president compares AfD party supporters to "rats"

Robert Kogon
The Daily Sceptic
Fri, 02 Feb 2024 20:03 UTC
German President Frank-Walter Steinmeier
© consilium.europa.auGerman President Frank-Walter Steinmeier
Barely two weeks after a leading member of a party in Germany's governing coalition compared supporters of the opposition Alternative for Germany (AfD) party to "flies on a pile of shit", German President Frank-Walter Steinmeier has now compared them to "rats". The AfD was the only party represented in the German Bundestag to oppose Covid-measures, including mass vaccination, and it is persistently polling around 20%, and as high as 24%, in the latest public opinion surveys. President Steinmeier's Social Democratic party (SPD) is polling around 15%.

Alluding to the AfD at a meeting with business and trade-union leaders at the presidential palace, Schloss Bellevue, in Berlin on Monday, President Steinmeier said:
When our democracy is attacked... the democratic centre, the great majority of our society, must take a stand and make clear that we are committed to our democracy, we defend this Germany, and we will not allow this country to be ruined by extremist rat-catchers.

Comment: The AfD has it's share of loons, just as any political party does. But they seem to be the only one articulating the views of the common German citizen, among them limiting immigration and reestablishing ties with Russia. In short, putting a policy of looking after Germans and Germany first.

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Attention

The West: Guilty of genocide - Doing Goebbels proud

Julian MacFarlane
News Forensics
Fri, 02 Feb 2024 18:09 UTC
The moral vacuity of the collective West

Gaza Demolished
© News Forensics
A successful politician in a liberal democracy requires certain gifts. A lack of conscience is one, glib deception is another, hypocrisy, still another.

Political policy is for the benefit of the politician who makes it - not for the people who think he represents them. A politician has a constituency of one - himself.

Shark and Remora Fish
© News Forensics
Fortunately for politicians, there are many kindred spirits in the media whose interest is not the truth, but their own advancement. Western politicians and the media have a symbiotic relationship like sharks in the symbiotic the Remora fish that attach themselves to scavenge scraps.

And ordinary people?

They are prey.

Some see the contradictions between what the teachers taught them about the political process in their country in high school - and what it really is. But it is hard for them to stir from their Comfort Zone. And if they really wanted to change things - that would mean a revolution - which would mean their world would get worse before it got better.

Ordinary people just shrug. They do not completely lack conscience as politicians do. But their conscience is atrophied from lack of exercise. They remain within that narrow circle of awareness.

As a result, there are no real democracies in the Collective West. Not one.

This is what is really behind the current decline of the Collective West — a moral blindness which distorts reality — and staggering hypocrisy.
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MIB

Israel's Mossad agents in 28 countries exposed by Iran's intelligence ministry, 4 agents executed


TASS
Fri, 02 Feb 2024 09:49 UTC
Iran court
© CopyrightFILE: Tehran says it has thwarted several Mossad operations this year, including assassination plots, sabotage attempts, and large-scale bombings. The ministry also gained "data on secret military facilities, weapons factories, and strategic civilian infrastructure" in Israel.
"Following the largest multistage intelligence and counterintelligence operation against the spy organizations of the [Israeli] regime of occupation, unique and unprecedented information about them was obtained and immediately put to use," a statement uploaded to the ministry's official website reads. It is claimed that thanks to the obtained information, dozens of agents linked to Mossad had been identified in 28 countries. The ministry also gained "data on secret military facilities, weapons factories, and strategic civilian infrastructure" in Israel.

Comment: Amidst the escalation of hostilities by the West and Israel numerous countries seem to be taking advantage of the rapidly shifting balance of powers to not only retaliate with unusually bold strikes of their own, but they're also cleaning up the dregs of the hegemon's intel agencies in their respective nations.

Although, as one recent investigative report revealed, it seems that cyberattacks linked to Israel, operating outside of the target country, are already proving to be an equally significant threat to national security:

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Red Pill

How NATO brainwashes Western society with its anti-Russia wargames

Tarik Cyril Amar
RT
Thu, 01 Feb 2024 19:01 UTC
british soldiers
© Leon Neal / Getty Images
NATO has launched its largest exercise since the Cold War ended. Steadfast Defender 2024 will last several months and involve about 90,000 troops, over 50 naval vessels, 1,100 ground vehicles (including at least 133 tanks and 533 armored troop carriers), and 80 aircraft of various kinds (planes, helicopters, and drones).

All 31 alliance members will participate, as will Sweden, which is in the process of joining. However, it's not only a matter of numbers and duration. The massive event is also special for two more reasons, one fairly straightforward, the other more complicated and worthy of serious scrutiny.

In simple terms, the exercise will test regional defense plans, which NATO has not done since the end of the Cold War. A political benefit of returning to such detailed plans is that they provide leverage, in essence to Washington through NATO's SACEUR office, to make European governments toe the line by committing troops, gear, and money. That is what The Economist pointed out, with satisfaction, at the time of last year's Vilnius summit, when all of this was set in motion.

Russian Deputy Foreign Minister Alexander Grushko's observation is correct: The maneuver marks an "irrevocable return" of the alliance to Cold War mode, although, this, too, is only a new peak of a long period of aggressive development. Hence its no surprise either that the enemy targeted in this imaginary fight is Russia (even if appearing only as a "near-peer adversary" in Steadfast Defender's official announcement).
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Megaphone

Alberta proposes parental consent for name changes in schools, age limits on gender affirmation care

Paula Tran
Global News
Thu, 01 Feb 2024 08:05 UTC
Danielle Smith
Alberta will be requiring schools to notify and gain parental consent if their child changes their name and pronouns in school.

In a social media post on Wednesday afternoon, Alberta Premier Danielle Smith said the government will require parental notification and consent if a child 15 years or younger changes their name and pronouns at school.

In the video on X, formerly known as Twitter, Smith said parents of children aged 16 and 17 will not need to consent to the changes but will need to be notified.


Alberta Premier Danielle Smith shared the province's proposed rules regarding parental consent for student names and pronouns, as well as age restrictions for gender affirmation medical care. The premier also mentioned restrictions on transgender athletes in her video posted to social media. Ina Sidhu reports.

Comment: See also:

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Star of David

Israel accepts ceasefire deal - Al Jazeera


RT
Thu, 01 Feb 2024 13:48 UTC
Israeli protesters, hostage deal, Israel war
© AP / Oded BaliltyIsraeli women demand their government strike a deal to free hostages held in Gaza by Hamas in Tel Aviv, Israel, February 1, 2024
Israel has agreed to a ceasefire proposal that would halt its war with Hamas, Al Jazeera reported on Thursday, citing the Qatari Foreign Ministry. Hamas has reportedly responded to the plan in a "positive atmosphere."

The ceasefire plan was hashed out in Paris over the weekend, with Qatari and Egyptian diplomats mediating between Israel and the Palestinian militant group. Delegations from West Jerusalem and Gaza had left the French capital promising to study the proposal and negotiate further, and by Thursday evening, a deal was apparently within reach.

"Israel agreed to the ceasefire proposal and we have initial positive confirmation from Hamas," a spokesman for the Qatari Foreign Ministry said on Thursday evening, according to Al Jazeera. "We are awaiting their response," the spokesman added.

The proposed ceasefire will be implemented in three stages, according to a Hamas statement shared with Reuters earlier this week. The first phase would see fighting stop for 40 days as Hamas hands over the female civilians, children, and elderly people it is still holding captive. During this time, large-scale deliveries of food and medicine into Gaza would resume.

Comment: Are the Israelis being brought to heel due to international pressure, or are they playing along because they know some new false-flag attack is in the works that will rally support behind their cause?

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Penis Pump

Pentagon chief Austin reappears and admits attempt to hide illness from Biden


RT
Fri, 02 Feb 2024 12:22 UTC
Lloyd Austin and Biden
Lloyd Austin has acknowledged that he did not handle his cancer diagnosis properly

US Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin has apologized for attempting to hide his bout with cancer from the American people and even the president himself, after returning to the Pentagon earlier this week following a lengthy hospital stay.

Speaking to reporters at a press briefing on Thursday - his first at the Pentagon in two years - Austin admitted that he had attempted to keep his illness private, and that his staff made efforts to cover up his health status as he went in for surgery in December.

"I want to be crystal clear, we did not handle this right. I did not handle this right," he said. "I should have told the president about my cancer diagnosis. I should have told my team and the American people, and I take full responsibility."


Comment: So that was all it was? Just a man wishing for a little privacy?


Comment: So according this story some of his staff knew, yet the key person, his deputy defense minister was not aware of it as she was vacationing in Puerto Rico. Did he trust his other staff to know about it but not her? Again, the lies only compounds into absurdity.

So what really happened with Lloyd Austin? Did he happen to be in Ukraine just at the time around New Year when the Russians hit some key targets with alleged very high ranking NATO officers present? If so, it would make a lot more sense that the lies which has come out since.

See also: Lloyd Austin has now resurfaced for the first time in public. From the way he is limping it appears as if the doctors used the knife rather than just antibiotics which is the common way to treat a urinary tract infection:

The mind boggles.

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Bad Guys

Biden has made Americans complicit in Ukrainian POW deaths - Moscow


RT
Thu, 01 Feb 2024 12:03 UTC
Russian Ministry of Foreign Affairs Spokeswoman Maria Zakharova
© Sergey Guneev; RIA NovostiFILE: Russian Ministry of Foreign Affairs Spokeswoman Maria Zakharova. Maria Zakharova also said the Kiev regime "continues to cleanse the media space and introduce total censorship in the country".
The Russian Foreign Ministry has responded after investigators concluded that a plane carrying Kiev's troops was downed by a Patriot missile system

The US and its citizens are complicit in the deaths of the Ukrainian POWs who were killed last week when the Russian Il-76 military aircraft transporting them was shot down by Kiev's troops, Moscow's Foreign Ministry spokeswoman, Maria Zakharova, has said.

On Thursday, Russia's Investigative Committee released a report stating that the cargo plane was destroyed using two US-made MIM-104A missiles fired by a Patriot air-defense system. The Il-76 came down in Russia's Belgorod Region last Wednesday. All of those on board - 65 Ukrainian POWs, three Russian troops, and six crew members - were killed.

Russian investigators stated that Ukrainian troops fired the missiles from a staging area in Kharkov Region, not far from the village of Liptsy, some 10km from the Russian border. They based their conclusion on 116 missile fragments found at the crash site.

Comment: The response from the West reveals what they care about: See also: Plane carrying Ukrainian POWs was shot down by Patriot - Putin which has links to earlier articles about the downing of the plane.

And from the same source:
1 Feb, 2024 10:05
US-supplied missile shot down plane carrying Ukrainian POWs - investigators (VIDEO)
Kiev used two foreign-made missiles to destroy the Il-76 last week, authorities have said
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The Investigative Committee said that Ukraine fired two missiles from a staging area in Kharkov Region, not far from the village of Liptsy, some 10km from the Russian border.

Officials said that during the investigation they found 116 missile fragments bearing inscriptions in English, with one of them reading: "CONFIDENTIAL classified by PATRIOT SECURITY CLASSIFICATION GUIDE DATED: 9/22/83 ADDENDA DATED 11/28/83 8/8/84 CONTRACT NO/DAAH01-86C-A018."
Fragment of missile
Source: Russia’s Investigative Committee
1 Feb, 2024 11:56
All victims of Ukrainian POW plane crash identified - investigators
In a statement on Thursday, Russia's Investigative Committee said that it had identified the remains of the deceased as part of the ongoing criminal case. It noted that it had found and recovered more than 670 body fragments in the area of the crash as well as some surviving personal documents.

Officials added that Moscow takes required samples of genetic material from Ukrainian POWs, which means it has the necessary information to identify the crash victims. As a result, they said, investigators were able to confirm that the remains indeed belonged to 65 Ukrainian captives as well as Russian crew members and military personnel.

The agency also released a heavily censored video showing an operative scouring the snow-covered crash site. Investigators can be seen gathering evidence into packages, with the rest of the clip showing what appear to be blood-stained body parts with conspicuous tattoos.
1 Feb, 2024 13:57
Americans likely part of crew that shot down Ukrainian POWs - TASS
Russia's Investigative Committee previously concluded that the Il-76 aircraft was destroyed with a US-made Patriot missile system
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On Thursday, Russia's Investigative Committee released a report claiming that the plane was brought down using two MIM-104A surface-to-air missiles launched from a Patriot missile system deployed at a staging area in Kharkov Region, Ukraine near the village of Liptsy, around 10km from the Russian border.

Following the Investigative Committee's report, a source within Russia's security services told TASS that it is very likely that the crew operating the Patriot system represented a mix of Ukrainian and American specialists.

The agency's source explained that Ukrainian officers are likely placed in lower positions while "Western specialists, including Americans, sit at the control and missile guidance stations." They added that Ukrainian servicemen are often only allowed to be involved with these systems as drivers or operators of transport-loading vehicles.
1 Feb, 2024 14:49
Western countries refusing to cooperate with probe into Ukrainian POW plane crash - Kremlin
States are afraid of "finding that they themselves are the answer" by taking part in an international investigation, Dmitry Peskov has said
Update February 3, 2024: French military agrees with Russia on downed plane - AP

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