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EU envoy upbeat on Iran nuclear talks, European powers prudent

Francois MurphyJohn Irish
Reuters
Wed, 19 May 2021 16:20 UTC

The EU official leading talks to revive Iran's nuclear deal said on Wednesday he was confident a deal would be reached as the negotiations adjourned, although European diplomats said success was not guaranteed with very difficult issues remaining.

The talks resumed in Vienna on May 7 with the remaining parties to the deal - Iran, Russia, China, France, Britain and Germany - meeting in the basement of a luxury hotel, and the United States based in another hotel across the street.

Iran has refused to hold direct talks with the United States on how to resume compliance with the 2015 deal, which former President Donald Trump abandoned in 2018, prompting Tehran to begin violating its terms about a year later.

"I am quite sure that there will be a final agreement. ... I think we are on the right track and we will get an agreement," Enrique Mora, who is coordinating indirect talks between Iran and the United States, told reporters at the end of a fourth round of negotiations.

Report: Joe Biden to ditch student loan forgiveness from budget, breaking campaign promise

Wendell Husebø
Breitbart
Mon, 24 May 2021 00:01 UTC

President Joe Biden will reportedly ditch student loan forgiveness from the budget this week, breaking a campaign promise to far-left Democrats.

"The idea that you go to Penn and you're paying a total of 70,000 bucks a year and the public should pay for that? I don't agree," Biden said to the New York Times on May 20 about his suspicion over college debt forgiveness.

The report of Biden reneging on his campaign promise to cancel $10,000 in school loans may infuriate the likes of Sens. Elizabeth Warren (D-MA) and Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer, along with Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (R-NY), who have pushed Biden to forgive up to $50,000 in debt.

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German parliamentarians suggest that Berlin sanction US in retaliation for boycotting Nord Stream 2

Lucas Leiroz
Infobrics
Tue, 25 May 2021 00:00 UTC

Once again, tensions are increasing in bilateral relations between the US and Germany due to Nord Stream 2. The pipeline project is unacceptable for Washington, but it serves European and Russian interests, ensuring energy security and lowering costs. The Biden government is not willing to back down in its decision to prevent the project from being completed and still taking coercive measures, which will be responded by Berlin.

Last week US State Department spokeswoman Jalina Porter said the Biden government will use all available tools to try to prevent Nord Stream 2 from completing. In response, Steffen Kotre, an affiliate of Alternative for Germany (AfD) and a member of the German Parliament's energy committee, said that Berlin needs to think about countermeasures to be taken if new American sanctions are implemented. These are his words:

"It's common knowledge that the construction of the pipeline is coming to a close. (...) Given the German government is opposing US' aggressive actions against Nord Stream 2 only rhetorically, there is a growing concern about the project not be completed, so it would be politically correct to initiate countersanctions".

Kotre says that with the abandonment of coal industry and Merkel's disdain for nuclear energy, Nord Stream 2 becomes an even more necessary project for German energy security, as the country is currently under strong threat in this sector - in addition to other European nations. The pipeline, Kotre points out, "[will] help to mitigate the consequences of this". This means that all possible measures to guarantee the completion of the gas pipeline must be taken by Berlin, considering that it is a highly strategic topic.

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The Zionists on the defensive: Israel's friends overwhelm Capitol Hill

Philip Giraldi
Unz Review
Tue, 25 May 2021 00:00 UTC

Yes folks, there is an international conspiracy and it is all about "protecting" Israel. It operates through front and lobbying groups that uniquely promote the interests of a foreign country, Israel, even when those interests do serious damage to the host country where the lobbyists actually live. In Britain, for example, there are a Conservative Friends of Israel and a Labour Friends of Israel, comprising together 216 members of parliament and party officials. British Prime Minister Boris Johnson has been silent about Gaza apart from expressing "deep concern" and blaming both sides while Labour leader Keir Starmer, who has also been under pressure to say something, has focused on how four car loads of alleged Palestinian supporters in London may or may not have driven around shouting out "anti-Semitic" comments. Starmer, one recalls, ran on a leadership campaign pledging to root out "anti-Semitism" in the party as a response to previous leader Jeremy Corbyn's apparently ill-advised public recognition that Palestinians are human beings. Also in Britain, contesting details of the standard narrative of the so-called holocaust can result in a large fine and even some jailtime.

Prince Harry's navel gazing narcissism in 'The Me You Can't See' is no help to his, or anyone's, mental health

Michael McCaffrey
RT
Mon, 24 May 2021 13:46 UTC

The Me You Can't See is a five-part documentary about mental health issues produced by Oprah Winfrey and Prince Harry that premiered on May 21 on the streaming service Apple TV.

The uneven series features interviews with Oprah and Harry, Lady Gaga, Glenn Close, and a plethora of regular people. Thankfully, unlike the parts featuring thirsty celebrities, the segments featuring non-famous participants and unconventional approaches to mental health hold some value.

The most compelling of these regular folk are the parents at the Selah Care Farm, who have lost children to suicide. Their brutal honesty and unfathomable, gut-wrenching grief are deeply moving and profound.

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Major tech CEO slams woke capitalism

Foundation for Economic Education
Fri, 21 May 2021 12:00 UTC

© Flickr, Wikimedia Commons Brad Polumbo
Here's hoping more CEOs follow Shopify's lead and rediscover the fundamental morality of free-market capitalism.

It seems like every day a new viral story crops up featuring a major company's latest woke initiative or a major executive's latest politically charged stance. But in a refreshing twist, a top tech CEO just stood up for old-fashioned, profit-focused business — and spoke out against woke capitalism.

Business Insider reports that the CEO of the e-commerce platform Shopify, Tobi Lütke, recently sent a letter to the entire staff reasserting the company's commitment to competitive enterprise and rejecting calls for it to embrace social activism. In an age when woke politics are increasingly infecting corporate America, he wanted to "remind everyone that we are a business," and, "more importantly, a hugely ambitious one."

"We are trying to create a world class product that gives superpowers to the merchants that we are obsessed over," Lütke wrote. "Everything Shopify does is to accomplish this, and everyone at Shopify should be able to describe how their job, through a series of direct or indirect steps, furthers this mission."

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Top US diplomat admits 'stable' relations with Russia would be good for world

RT
Mon, 24 May 2021 21:22 UTC

© Reuters / Saul Loeb
FILE PHOTO: US Secretary of State Antony Blinken meets with Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov in Reykjavik, Iceland, on May 19, 2021.

Better relations between Moscow and Washington would benefit them both, together with the rest of the world, US Secretary of State Antony Blinken has admitted, adding that the US would never hesitate to "defend its interests."

"A more stable, predictable relationship with them [Russia], I think, would be good for us [the US], good for them, and I'd even argue good for the world," Blinken told CNN's Fareed Zakaria GPS on Sunday following his recent talks with Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov.

The secretary of state lauded the talks with the Russian top diplomat as a "constructive, very business-like conversation," adding that he made it clear that Washington "would prefer to have a more stable, predictable relationship with Russia."

Comment: Stable can be interpreted in a number of ways - and that's probably intentional - but from the US perspective, it most likely involves Russia (and China) being subservient and allowing the US to continue with its attempts to dominate and destroy the planet. Russia and China won't agree to that kind of relationship, and there's reason to believe that some influential people within the US that are unhappy with the direction the US is rapidly sliding, either:

Cummings claims that UK government's original plan WAS 'herd immunity by September'

Noah Carl
Lockdown Sceptics
Sat, 22 May 2021 17:01 UTC

In early March of 2020, there was rising public concern that the UK was taking an altogether different approach to its neighbours, leading some people to joke that Britain was the world's "control group". To allay public fears, the health Secretary Matt Hancock wrote an op-ed in The Telegraph on March 15th, in which he claimed that "herd immunity" was not part of the government's plan. Here's the full quote:

We have a plan, based on the expertise of world-leading scientists. Herd immunity is not a part of it. That is a scientific concept, not a goal or a strategy. Our goal is to protect life from this virus, our strategy is to protect the most vulnerable and protect the NHS through contain, delay, research and mitigate.

Comment: From Orwell's 1984:

And if all others accepted the lie which the Party imposed - if all records told the same tale - then the lie passed into history and became truth. "Who controls the past," ran the Party slogan, "controls the future: who controls the present controls the past." And yet the past, though of its nature alterable, never had been altered. Whatever was true now was true from everlasting to everlasting. It was quite simple. All that was needed was an unending series of victories over your own memory. "Reality control," they called it: in Newspeak, "doublethink."

Israeli Mossad agents reportedly 'tampered' with Hamas rockets so hundreds 'misfired'

Svetlana Ekimenko
Sputnik
Mon, 24 May 2021 13:41 UTC

During the course of the most deadly spiral of violence the region had seen in years, Hamas was estimated to have fired more than 4,000 short-range rockets at the territory of Israel, with the IDF launching airstrikes on the Gaza Strip before the sides accepted an Egyptian initiative for an unconditional ceasefire, which came into force on 21 May.

Tel Aviv reportedly enlisted its agents to carry out covert operations to "sabotage" hundreds of Hamas rockets before they were fired from Gaza during the recent escalation of Israeli-Palestinian violence, reported The Mirror. A source cited:

"Israel probably has the most penetrative espionage capability in the world. Its intelligence community has pulled off some breathtaking operations deep inside enemy territory, including assassinating Iranian scientists. It is very likely a number of those rockets were intercepted and altered."

Israel's national intelligence agency, Mossad, is claimed to have targeted the rockets, either as they were smuggled in parts from Iran to Gaza, or directly inside the Palestinian enclave itself, according to a senior Western intelligence source, cited by the outlet.

Israeli spies "spiked" hundreds of rockets by tampering with the guidance systems, motors, warheads or explosive material inside the missiles, alleged the report.

Accordingly, it was claimed that as many as 16 percent of the estimated over 4,000 launched by Hamas had misfired in Gaza or fell short of the Israeli border. The 680 misfires amid the 11-day cross-border missile exchange purportedly resulted in numerous civilian deaths in Gaza.

Israeli police rounding up hundreds of Palestinians to 'settle scores' in mass arrest campaign

Yumna Patel
Mondoweiss
Mon, 24 May 2021 00:00 UTC

Israeli forces are rounding up Palestinians en masse inside Israel and the occupied Palestinian territory as part of what Israeli police are calling "Operation Law & Order", following two weeks of Palestinian uprisings over Israeli aggressions in Jerusalem, Sheikh Jarrah, and Gaza.

Shortly after midnight on Monday the Israeli police announced plans to "launch an extensive arrest operation across the country," targeting Palestinian citizens of Israel over the next 48 hours in order to "settle scores" and "close accounts."

Israeli Hebrew-language media sites reported that the operation was approved by Israel's Minister of Internal Security Amir Ohana and Police Commissioner Major General Kobi Shabtai, the latter of which instructed thousands of active officers and reservists to arrest a target goal of 500 Palestinians.

Ynet news reported that "a few days after recovering, mostly from the trauma in Lod (Lydd)," Israeli police realized that their "deterrence" policy had been "severely damaged."

Comment: Israel's goal is a Palestinian purge of mammoth scale, a despicable postlude to an already costly human extermination campaign.

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Puppet Masters

EU envoy upbeat on Iran nuclear talks, European powers prudent

Report: Joe Biden to ditch student loan forgiveness from budget, breaking campaign promise

German parliamentarians suggest that Berlin sanction US in retaliation for boycotting Nord Stream 2

The Zionists on the defensive: Israel's friends overwhelm Capitol Hill

Prince Harry's navel gazing narcissism in 'The Me You Can't See' is no help to his, or anyone's, mental health

Major tech CEO slams woke capitalism

Top US diplomat admits 'stable' relations with Russia would be good for world

Cummings claims that UK government's original plan WAS 'herd immunity by September'

Israeli Mossad agents reportedly 'tampered' with Hamas rockets so hundreds 'misfired'

Israeli police rounding up hundreds of Palestinians to 'settle scores' in mass arrest campaign

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