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France lost Africa. Macron just can't accept it

Rachel Marsden
RT
Tue, 26 Sep 2023 16:31 UTC
macron
© Ludovic MARIN / AFP
In a wide-ranging interview last weekend that aired as much of France was conveniently glued to the Paris Saint Germain vs. Olympique Marseille football match, President Emmanuel Macron was asked about his recent bad breakup. He was only too happy to spill all his feelings about the relationship, like he was talking with Oprah Winfrey rather than TV news anchors.

He said that France was ending its military cooperation with Niger and repatriating France's ambassador to Niamey and around 1,500 troops. It's about time, since he was already dumped a month ago and Niger has been threatening to get France's tent off its lawn.

France's military presence in some of its former African colonies, including Niger, was to combat terrorism, he said, adding that without France's presence, "most of these countries would have already fallen prey to territorial caliphates and jihadists."

Indeed, thank goodness for France, whose anti-terrorist mission was such a resounding success that the UN's own peace operations advised the Security Council in May 2023 that "insecurity in the tri-border area of Burkina Faso, Mali and Niger continues to grow." 'Rampant jihadists are spreading chaos and misery in the Sahel', a headline in The Economist read in April, while the Wilson Center reported that same month that "The Sahel Now Accounts for 43% of Global Terrorism Deaths." All of that was going on right under France's nose.
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Eye 1

EU state used Israeli spyware on Russian journalists - editors


RT
Mon, 25 Sep 2023 16:25 UTC
Galina Timchenko
© AP / Alexander ZemlianichenkoGalina Timchenko
An unnamed EU state used Israeli malware to hack the mobile phone of Galina Timchenko, a Russian media editor based in Latvia, Timchenko told The Guardian on Monday. Authorities in Riga have denied any role in the incident.

Timchenko, who founded the Meduza news site, in 2014, told The Guardian that she received a message from Apple earlier this year informing her that her phone had been hacked prior to a meeting of Russian media workers in Berlin. According to the newspaper, at least four other Russian journalists - three of whom used Latvian SIM cards in their phones - were similarly targeted.

Timchenko said that she initially suspected that the Kremlin was behind the hack, but an investigation by the University of Toronto and Access Now found that the likely culprit was an EU state agency using Pegasus, a spyware program developed by Israel's NSO Group.

Comment: A Dutch MEP responded to this news, calling the hacking "totalitarian," while saying that governments across Europe were utilizing Pegasus to monitor the communications of reporters "with no oversight or remedy." More from her:
"People have often said this whole spyware story compares to the European version of Watergate. It's not. It's more like 'The Lives of Others'," she said, referring to a German film depicting the pervasive surveillance of the East German Stasi.

"I'm not saying Europe is already descending into totalitarianism, but these are totalitarian methods," she continued. "If it is true that the Latvian government or other European states did this, then there is no way to find out. There is no remedy, and no oversight."

"[EU] governments are using it for political purposes, just like undemocratic ones do. In some very exceptional cases the use of spyware might be legitimate...the point is that we have no way of knowing if the use is proportionate and legitimate," in 't Veld concluded.


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Oil Well

The hypocrisy of sanctions and the piousness of following orders

Peter Koenig
Dissident Voice
Tue, 26 Sep 2023 00:00 UTC
russia oil
Some days ago, Belgian Energy Minister Tinne Van der Straeten requested the European Union to reduce importing Russian gas and get rid altogether of fossil fuels by 2027. This after the Global Witness NGO released data showing that Belgium is currently the third-largest importer of Russian liquefied natural gas (LNG).

Belgium accounts globally for 17% of Russia's exports, behind only China and Spain.

Later in an interview with the Financial Times, Van der Straeten said she was "not happy" about the fact that Russian gas kept flowing into Europe. She then understated Belgium's share of Russian gas, indicating it was merely 2.8% of Europe's imports that remained in Belgium, the rest was "in transit". How wrong or misleading her statement was is revealed by the Global Witness NGO.

She admitted, though Belgium supports sanctions on Russian fuel, it was unlikely to happen. It would require the unanimous support of all EU members.
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Vader

Canada saluting a Ukrainian Nazi was no accident

Eva Bartlett
RT
Mon, 25 Sep 2023 07:31 UTC
Ukrainian President Vladimir Zelensky (C) and Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau (C, R)
© Sean Kilpatrick / POOL / AFPUkrainian President Vladimir Zelensky (C) and Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau (C, R) in the House of Commons in Ottawa on September 22, 2023
Ottawa has a history of covering for far right extremists, from World War II to present-day Kiev

The stomach-churning scene of the Canadian parliament giving a standing ovation three days ago to a former Waffen SS Nazi has by now made the rounds on the internet.

During Ukrainian President Vladimir Zelensky's visit to Canada, and following his predictably bombastic pan-handling speech, House Speaker Anthony Rota went on to gush praise over a Ukrainian-Canadian in parliament that day: Yaroslav Hunka, a World War II-era Nazi, calling him "a Ukrainian hero, a Canadian hero" and thanking him for his service.

Two days later, Rota issued an apology for lauding the man, saying he had "recognized an individual in the gallery" and had subsequently become aware of "more information which causes me to regret my decision to do so."

Just to be clear - since Rota was not - the individual he meekly referred to was Yaroslav Hunka, and the information which made Rota remorseful was that Hunka had been a voluntary member of 1st Galician Division of the Waffen SS - you know, the one accused of mass murdering Poles, Jews and Ukrainians in Ukraine and Poland, as well as committing other atrocities.

Comment: See also:

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Sherlock

'CIA cutouts', big money grants and biolabs: The depth of US interference in Armenia explained


RT
Tue, 26 Sep 2023 20:23 UTC
Pashinyan
© AP / Tigran MehrabyanUSAID Administrator Samantha Power (L) and Armenian Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan meet in Yerevan, Armenia, September 25, 2023
Within days of the ceasefire in Nagorno-Karabakh, US Agency for International Development (USAID) Administrator Samantha Power touched down in Yerevan with promises of "support for Armenia's sovereignty." RT explores how USAID is attempting to reshape the country with the aid of its pro-Western prime minister.

How did we get here?

In the face of a military onslaught by Azerbaijani forces, the ethnic Armenian leadership in the disputed province of Nagorno-Karabakh agreed last week to lay down arms and allow the territory to be subsumed into Azerbaijan.

Although Armenian Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan accused Russian peacekeepers of failing to prevent the Azerbaijani attack, he had already recognized the territory as Azerbaijani, and sought to distance himself from his traditional allies in Moscow and ingratiate himself with the US by holding military exercises with American forces and sending aid money to Ukraine.
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Black Magic

Moscow: Armenian leader Pashinyan 'making huge mistake' in turning towards the West


RT
Tue, 26 Sep 2023 19:58 UTC
Pashinyan i Putin
Armenian Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan and Russian President Vladimir Putin
It is Yerevan's "inconsistent" and "irresponsible" approach that has led to the escalation in Nagorno-Karabakh, the Russian Foreign Ministry has said

The political course outlined by Armenian Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan in his Independence Day address is deeply flawed, the Russian Foreign Ministry said on Monday, a day after the speech was published. The prime minister's remarks were merely an attempt to avoid responsibility for his government's mistakes by blaming them on Russia and flirting with the West, the ministry added.

On Sunday, Pashinyan questioned the "goals and motives of the Russian peacekeeping contingent in Nagorno-Karabakh" amid a recent escalation in the disputed region that saw Azerbaijan take control over it in a swift military operation.

Pashinyan also accused "the allies we relied on for many years" of "setting a goal of exposing our weakness and justifying the Armenian people's inability to have an independent state," without mentioning any specific nation. He also said that the escalation in Nagorno-Karabakh and the dangers faced by the ethnic Armenians there "have nothing to do" with his government.

Comment: The West has been working towards this result for quite a while. What will Armenia do when it wakes up and realizes it cannot rely on its Western "friends" (who are too far away to project any real power into the area) and has alienated all its neighbors?

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Vader

NATO blames its failure to protect children from sex trafficking on Chinese social media apps

Declan Haye
Strategic Culture Foundation
Wed, 20 Sep 2023 19:58 UTC
child trafficking
As part of the EU's drive to make Big Tech march in lockstep with it, the Vichy Ireland regime recently fined TikTok an impressive €345m for not sufficiently protecting children with its algorithms. As this is the same American controlled Irish regime which refused to collect €13 billion, plus interest, in unpaid Irish taxes Apple owed them, one can only conclude it is one rule for the American-owned Apple outfit, and another for Chinese firm TikTok.

Though that Sinophobia first attracted me to the story, it is the faux concern for children the fine represents that particularly concerns me. Although TikTok and similar social media platforms are particularly addictive to children, children's autonomy is being undermined so much on line and in schools and other gatherings that it is hard to believe our EU and U.S. bosses think of them as anything else but lambs to their psychological and sexual slaughter.

According to America's National Center for Missing and Exploited Children, there are close to one million registered sex offenders in the United States, with creepy Joe Biden's power base of Wilmington, Delaware having an astounding one sex offender for every 107 residents.
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Magnify

NYT says 'evidence suggests' Ukrainian missile misfire to blame for market tragedy


RFE/RL
Tue, 19 Sep 2023 19:42 UTC
Missile strike in Kostiantynivk
© AFPMissile strike in Kostiantynivk
The New York Times has published a report suggesting a deadly bombing at an outdoor market in eastern Ukraine earlier this month was likely caused by an errant missile fired by Ukraine's armed forces.

Kyiv rejected the September 19 report by the U.S. daily, again stating that the September 6 blast in Kostyantynivka that killed at least 15 people and injured 30 more was caused by a Russian missile.

The report cites "evidence collected and analyzed by The New York Times, including missile fragments, satellite imagery, witness accounts and social media posts, strongly suggests the catastrophic strike was the result of an errant Ukrainian air defense missile fired by a Buk launch system."

It shares security footage appearing to show a missile flying at the market "from the direction of Ukrainian-held territory, not from behind Russian lines," and images of scarring on the ground near the impact.
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Brick Wall

Hunter Biden's prosecutor worried about lack of help from other federal prosecutors, IRS official says

Betsy Woodruff Swan
Politico
Wed, 20 Sep 2023 19:19 UTC
hunter biden tax charges
© Anna Moneymaker/Getty ImagesHunter Biden departs the J. Caleb Boggs Federal Building on July 26, 2023, in Wilmington, Del. |
In closed-door testimony, the IRS official described how jurisdictional friction complicated the decision of whether to charge the president's son with tax crimes.

Potential tax charges against Hunter Biden hit a snag last year when the top federal prosecutor in Delaware didn't get help from his counterparts in other jurisdictions, an IRS law enforcement official told congressional investigators.

The official, director of field operations Michael Batdorf, described in closed-door testimony how federal prosecutors in California and Washington, D.C., declined to assist U.S. Attorney David Weiss of Delaware in charging the president's son. The lack of cooperation caused Weiss, who has long overseen the Hunter Biden investigation, to fret about how to move forward, according to a transcript of Batdorf's testimony obtained by POLITICO.

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Chess

Poland no longer arming Ukraine, says PM Morawiecki; Defense Minister issues warning to Ukrainian oligarchs over grain supplies


RFE/RL
Thu, 21 Sep 2023 19:35 UTC
Mariusz Blaszczak
© Getty Images / Mateusz Wlodarczyk; NurPhotoPolish Minister of National Defense Mariusz Blaszczak
Poland says it will no longer arm Ukraine and will instead focus on its own defense, as the two allies clashed at a key moment in Kyiv's fightback against invasion by Russia. In a mounting row over grain exports from Ukraine, Poland summoned the Ukrainian ambassador on September 20 to protest remarks at the UN by President Volodymyr Zelenskiy.

The Ukrainian leader said some countries were only pretending to support his nation. Asked about the dispute, Polish Prime Minister Mateusz Morawiecki said, "We are no longer transferring weapons to Ukraine, because we are now arming Poland with more modern weapons."
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