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Breaking News: P5+1 and Iran agree landmark nuclear deal at Geneva talks

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© Denis Balibouse/Associated PressU.S. Secretary of State John Kerry arrives at Geneva International airport in Geneva, Switzerland, Saturday, Nov.23, 2013 for the Iran nuclear talks.
The P5+1 world powers and Iran have struck a historic deal on Tehran's nuclear program at talks in Geneva on Sunday. Ministers overcame the last remaining hurdles to reach agreement, despite strong pressure from Israel and lobby groups.

No particular details of the deal have been immediately made public.

Under the agreement Iran will get access to $4.2 billion in exchange for halting its nuclear program, a Western diplomat told Reuters.

The French delegation has also confirmed the deal.

US President Obama is expected to deliver a speech on the historic resolution within the next hour.

The P5+1 and Iran arrived at the historic deal over Iran's nuclear program at approximately 3:00 AM local time in Geneva.

Before the assembly, the foreign ministers reportedly spent some time consulting with their capitals, a diplomatic source in the Russian delegation told Ria.

Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov stressed on Saturday that "for the first time in many years the six world powers and Iran have a real opportunity to reach agreement."

The tough discussions of the remaining sticking point of nuclear enrichment has stretched into the night, as the world powers were adamant to strike a deal.

According to Iranian Deputy Foreign Minister Abbas Araghchi, shortly before midnight, the talks were in "their 11th hour." He said that "98 percent of the draft" had already been agreed and the sides were discussing the remaining 2 percent, which was "very important" to the Iranian side.

During the day Iran once again reiterated it would not accept a deal which did not recognize in one way or another Iran's right to enrich uranium.

"Any agreement without recognizing Iran's right to enrich, practically and verbally, will be unacceptable for Tehran," Araghchi told journalists.

DETAILS TO FOLLOW

Radar

China now possesses nuclear submarines capable of widespread attack on U.S.

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© The Associated PressIn this photo taken on Oct. 26, 2010, and released by the Chinese Navy on Sunday, Oct. 27, 2013, a Chinese navy nuclear submarine takes part in a nuclear safety drill at the Qingdao submarine base in east China's Shandong province. In a sign of growing confidence, China's navy gave Chinese media on Sunday unprecedented publicity on its first nuclear submarine fleet, one of its most secretive military programs. China is devoting increasing resources to its naval forces to safeguard its maritime interests and assert its territorial claims.
Chinese state-run media revealed for the first time this week that Beijing's nuclear submarines can attack American cities as a means to counterbalance U.S. nuclear deterrence in the Pacific.

On Monday, leading media outlets including China Central TV, the People's Daily, the Global Times, the PLA Daily, the China Youth Daily and the Guangmin Daily ran identical, top-headlined reports about the "awesomeness" of the People's Liberation Army navy's strategic submarine force.

"This is the first time in 42 years since the establishment of our navy's strategic submarine force that we reveal on such a large scale the secrets of our first-generation underwater nuclear force," the Global Times said in a lengthy article titled "China for the First Time Possesses Effective Underwater Nuclear Deterrence against the United States."

The article features 30 photos and graphics detailing, among other things, damage projections for Seattle and Los Angeles after being hit by Chinese nuclear warheads and the deadly radiation that would spread all the way to Chicago.

China's sub fleet is reportedly the world's second-largest, with about 70 vessels. About 10 are nuclear-powered, and four or more of those are nuclear ballistic submarines capable of launching missiles.

Heavily influenced by Soviet naval models that stressed underwater forces, China's nuclear submarine development began with the reverse-engineering of a Soviet Golf-class conventional-powered sub in the 1950s.

Bad Guys

Now in mainstream media: Israel's role questioned in Arafat's mysterious death

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© Reuters/Mohamad TorokmanPresidential guards stand near the grave of late Palestinian leader Yasser Arafat in the West Bank city of Ramallah November 21, 2013.
President Yasser Arafat's spartan bedroom remains largely as he left it in 2004, when he flew off to France for treatment for a mystery illness only to return home two weeks later in a coffin.

More like a prison cell than the living quarters of an Arab leader, a single bed lies along one wall, a small fridge still contains some of his long-expired medicines and his old, khaki uniform, dotted with bright badges, hangs in a narrow wardrobe.

Giving an outsider a rare glimpse into a long-shuttered world, the door to the adjacent room is thrown open, revealing the wooden casket that brought his corpse back to Ramallah.

Arafat's body, wrapped in a Palestinian flag, was buried nine years ago, but conspiracy theories he was poisoned were never laid to rest, with accusations flying on all sides.

Should evidence emerge that Israel killed the Palestinian leader, a legacy of rancour could wreck the chances of peace for years to come. Proof that someone from Arafat's own inner circle did it could sweep away a generation of politicians who still hold sway in the occupied West Bank.

Gear

Mysterious San Diego man claims to be 'tramp' at JFK assassination

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A San Diego man claimed he was one of the three mysterious "tramps" near Dealey Plaza in Dallas the day President John F. Kennedy was assassinated.

Chauncey Holt had many skills -- guns, flying, accounting and more.

Holt said those skills made him valuable to organized crime and, eventually, the CIA.

"He was an artist and according to him, a forger for the CIA. His job was to forge documents," said former Union Tribune reporter Valerie Alvord.

Her article, a story in Newsweek magazine and Oliver Stone's docu-drama "JFK," all helped to propel Holt into the national spotlight.

Holt claimed to be one of the "three tramps," an important element in many conspiracy theories about the assassination of JFK.

Bad Guys

Is the gold market rigged?

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Every major metal you have invested in over the past few years likely wasn't worth the price you paid for it at the time. Does that bother you?

The puppet masters are controlling the commodity markets to best serve their own interests. This is nothing new, and has been going on for decades. In the book The Forgotten Man it was documented that FDR would determine the price increase or decrease in gold for the day, from his bed, based on what number he thought was lucky. A twenty-cent increase in the price of gold on a Wednesday was normal if FDR thought it would bring good luck and help his progressive agenda.

Nowadays, the world's most powerful institutions are creating false pricing, to the upside and down, on virtually every major metal that is traded globally.


Comment: It has been said that the futures markets aren't manipulated, they are the manipulation.


Comment: Related articles:

Chris Powell (GATA) on gold price suppression
Be your own central bank


Pistol

Strategy of Tension in Ireland: Sectarian 'divide & rule' was started, and is maintained by, British secret police

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© Reuters/Cathal McNaughtonAn Irish flag flies beside a mural in the Ardoyne area of North Belfast displaying an image of a I.R.A. gunman November 5, 2013.
Revelations about the British Army's collusion with Loyalist terrorists during the Northern Ireland 'troubles' went one step further this week with TV testimony from former soldiers that they had been part of a secret unit.

The secret Military Reaction Force (MRF) was tasked with conducting plainclothes 'drive-by' shootings of Republican IRA suspects.

It's taken 40 years for taxpayers to be told the truth about how their money was being spent by Edward Heath's 1972 Conservative government. Around Belfast's 'no-go' areas, under Nationalist control, at least one hidden firearm was thought to be held at every street barricade. Anyone manning or even walking past these piles of rubble blocking off side roads was seen by some in the MRF as a legitimate target to gun down.

Comment: Many examples of similar covert 'High Crimes' by intelligence agencies can be viewed in the excellent documentary Strategy of Tension.


Target

JFK: 'The CIA murdered me'

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JFK's commitment to pull out of Vietnam, his challenging the industry cartels, his instituting dramatic social and economic reform, his embracing and encouraging the Civil Rights movement, and his efforts to end the Cold War led to an "intra-administration war" which JFK revealed in the following NYT op-ed through journalist Arthur Krock, which specified that "if the US ever experiences an attempt at a coup to overthrow the Govt, it will come from the CIA. The agency represents a tremendous power and total unaccountability to anyone."


Stormtrooper

Britain's War of Terror in Northern Ireland: 'Military Reaction Force' murdered innocents at random (BBC Panorama full video)

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© Unknown.An account by BBC investigative journalist John Ware on what he learned about “Britain’s secret terror force”, the Military Reaction Force.
10 pm, May 7 1972, Belfast: a 16-year-old youth emerges from a school disco with his girlfriend. Like many other youths in this part of Catholic, nationalist west Belfast, he had previously thrown stones at the British army.

Suddenly there is a burst of machine gun fire from a car. As it speeds off, the boy writhes in agony from bullets in the stomach and arm.

A few weeks later a car cruises into view of a bus stop. The driver is said to have waved a friendly wave, only for a machine gun to flame into life from a rear window, cutting down three men chatting to each other.


USA

Stupid government policy is more dangerous than terrorism

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The Shocking Reasons that Americans Are Right to Be More Afraid of Bad Government Policy than Terrorism

Preface: I am not so much anti-government as anti-stupid policy. (Moreover, the problem is not solely "bad government" or "corrupt corporations". The deeper problem is that the two have become intertwined in a malignant, symbiotic relation.)

Multiple polls show that Americans are more afraid of our own government than of terrorists.

Sure, the government - not Al Qaeda - is taking away virtually all of our Constitutional rights. And that includes reserving to itself the right to assassinate or indefinitely detain American citizens.

But stupid government policy is threatening us in other ways, as well.

The Police

You are approximately 9 times more likely to be killed by a police officer than a terrorist. This is a result of bad policy: the over-the-top militarization of American police forces.

Financial Crisis

The financial crisis will also lead to quite a few early deaths. The government - together with Wall Street - caused the financial crisis ... not Al Qaeda.

Government policy has also redistributed wealth from the average American to the super- rich. (Indeed, the government and big banks - not Osama - have destroyed free market capitalism in the U.S.)

Wolf

India's Minister for Justice, Law & Order and Communications Kapil Sibal blames food price hikes on poor people eating more than one choice of vegetable

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In an insensitive statement which seems like pouring salt on the wounds of the poor, Union Law Minister Kapil Sibal has said that price of vegetables has risen because the poor are able to purchase vegetables...