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US House votes to bar heavy water purchases from Iran to undercut nuclear agreement

RT
Thu, 14 Jul 2016 13:56 UTC

© STR / Reuters
An Interior view of Arak heavy water production facility in Central Iran 360 km (223 miles) south west of Tehran

The US House of Representatives has passed legislation barring dozens of tons of heavy water to be purchased from Iran as part of a landmark nuclear deal, despite President Obama's threats the law will be vetoed to keep the agreement with Tehran in place.

The legislation was passed on Wednesday by 249-176, with support mostly coming from the Republican majority.The 'No 2H2O from Iran Act' literally prohibits purchase or licensing of the purchase of heavy water produced in Iran.

Heavy water is an important by-product of producing nuclear weapons and energy, but it is not radioactive. In April, the US Department of Energy said it will buy 32 metric tons of heavy water from Iran worth $8.6 million.

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European countries seek to increase security measures following truck attack in Nice, France

RT
Fri, 15 Jul 2016 14:18 UTC

Countries across Europe are strengthening security following the Nice terror attack which claimed the lives of at least 84 people. It comes as France extends its state of emergency for an additional three months. In a Thursday television address following the fatal attack, French President Francois Hollande announced that the current state of emergency, which was set to expire on July 26, would be further extended.

Now other European Union countries - including Belgium, the UK, Italy, Spain, Germany and the Czech Republic - are taking measures in an attempt to combat the threat of terror. Belgian Prime Minister Charles Michel said following a morning meeting of the country's Security Council that additional "appropriate measures" would be taken for next week's National Day celebrations, scheduled to take place on July 21, AP reported.

"We have already taken a certain number of steps in connection with preparations for July 21, as you can imagine, and our security services are permanently evaluating the measures that are necessary,'' Michel said in a radio interview. "It's certain that our security services are going to include information resulting from this act committed last night in Nice in their analyses.''

Report identifies major flaws in US missile system, endangers country

RT
Thu, 14 Jul 2016 13:28 UTC

The US missile defense system deployed in Alaska and California does not work, suffers from "fundamental flaws," and endangers the country by encouraging reckless foreign policy, the Union of Concerned Scientists says.

In a new 60-page report, Shielded from Oversight: The Disastrous U.S. Approach to Strategic Missile Defense, the union takes aim at the Ground-based Midcourse Defense (GMD) system, set up under President George W. Bush but later embraced by the Obama administration.

The report, signed by UCS researchers Laura Grego, George Lewis and David Wright, "found fundamental flaws throughout the missile defense program, from its administration and oversight procedures to the tough technical realities of defending against a nuclear strike."

As part of the efforts to de-escalate the Cold War, the ABM treaty of 1972 outlawed missile defense research. In 2002, the US withdrew from the treaty and established the Missile Defense Agency. The GMD system was intended to defend the US from a "limited" nuclear attack by non-superpowers, such as North Korea or Iran, the report noted. To make it operational as quickly as possible, the MDA was exempted from Pentagon procurement and testing requirements, drawing funding from research and development budgets.

Comment: The US is not under any threat of nuclear attack from any country. This obscenely expensive and ineffective system is just another way for the power brokers to make money off their propaganda and fear industry.

Russia to deploy advanced S-400 missiles in Crimea next month

RT
Fri, 15 Jul 2016 12:39 UTC

Russian S-400 air defence missile system

Russia is to deploy its advanced long-range surface-to-air missiles S-400 in Crimea, beefing up Russia's anti-access/area-denial capabilities around the peninsula.

A full regiment system of S-400 Triumph is to be delivered to Crimea in August, told the media Lt. Col. Evgeny Oleinikov, deputy commander of the 18th missile air defense regiment of the 31 air defense division.

"After tests at a firing range... are complete, in August 2016 the accepted hardware will be transported to its permanent deployment site in the city of Feodosia," he said.

The equipment was manufactured by S-400 producer Almaz Antey this year under a contract with the Russian Defense Ministry. The regiment's personnel have been trained to use the new system earlier this year, the officer said.

South Front: Ukrainian Army initiates 'probing attacks' into the Donbass region

Chris Covert
South Front
Fri, 15 Jul 2016 11:18 UTC

Ukrainian ground forces have launched a total of five probing attacks on rebel positions in Donetsk since Tuesday, according to Russian language media and official rebel reports.

Meanwhile, Russian backed rebel forces and Ukrainian forces continue to exchange artillery fire all along the front in Donetsk and Lugansk.

All the probing attacks involved infantry, likely in platoon strength (30 effectives) , and all have been driven back with losses to the Ukrainians, according to news account posted on Russian Spring website. The attacks continue a now familiar pattern where Ukrainian forces nudge their forces closer to rebel lines in an effort to slowly push the rebels further back into their own territory. So far, only one of those types of attacks, at Yasinovataya last spring, have been successful. A second attack was tried at Logvinovo earlier this month, when Ukrainian forces launched a number of attacks on rebel strongholds and checkpoints, only to be driven back.

As previously reported, a July 11th probing attack by Ukrainian forces took place at the Donetsk airport. In the July 11th attack, according to data supplied by the Donetsk ministry of defense, a total of three Ukrainians were killed and another seven wounded, when rebel rifle counterfire drove them back.

The Donetsk airport has long been a strong point of contention between the two combatants, with rebel forces taking control of most of the airport grounds in brief, but bitter battles, January, 2015.

Comment: Further reading: Putin calls Obama & cancels regional visits amidst signs of full-fledged war in Donbass

Dallas police shootings: Social Engineering and the American Police State

Joe Quinn and Beau Christensen
Sott.net
Tue, 12 Jul 2016 22:05 UTC

Social tension in the US appears to be at a boiling point. In the span of a week we have seen the deaths of two civilians - Alton Sterling in Louisiana and Philando Castile in Minnesota - at the hands of cops. The two deaths were caught on video and have further enraged public opinion in the US, in particular among the black community, which has borne the brunt of police brutality for many years. Within a few days of the slaying of Sterling and Castile, five police officers were shot dead by "a sniper" during a 'Black Lives Matter' march in Dallas, held in protest against the police killing of the two men. Is someone trying to stir things up in the USA?

On Tuesday July 5th, Alton Sterling, 37, was selling CDs for cash outside a store in Baton Rouge, as he did most days. On this particular day he was approached by a homeless man who repeatedly asked him for money. Sterling told the man to leave him alone several times before resorting to showing the man that he was armed. The previous day Sterling had purchased the weapon for his own protection. "He didn't have a gun before that," barber Ronnie Harton, 50, told the New York Daily News. "He said he had to protect himself, because he had all this money on him [from selling CDs]. Around this area, you get robbed real quick."

Perhaps resentful that his requests for money were rebuffed by Sterling, the homeless man called 911 on his cell phone and told police that there was an "armed man in the parking lot." When police arrived and confronted Sterling, he was tackled to the ground, tased and, apparently because police were told he was carrying a firearm, publicly executed with two shots in the chest and four in the back.

Psychopaths are Destroying our World (VIDEO)

Sott.net
Mon, 11 Jul 2016 00:00 UTC

The harm and destruction caused by psychopaths in positions of power can now be felt everywhere. This world-wide problem worsens daily as the totalitarian whims of humanity's intra-species predators makes life increasingly unbearable for normal human beings.

Although they look and sound human, psychopaths feel no remorse, have no conscience, and have no concern or compassion for anyone but themselves. They prey upon our brothers, sisters and children; they lie to us and manipulate us. They poison us and tell us it is for our own good. They make life unlivable. They cause societies to fall, and oceans to die. While their greed consumes people and planet, they instigate hatred, and murder leaders of good will.

The psychopathic rulers and those that they command will stop at nothing. In these times, a true humanity can unite and emerge from the chaos. But people need to see the problem and share it.

History is repeating. Share this knowledge - for our future: the future of humanity.

Freedom for Saif al-Islam Gaddafi could mean freedom for Libya!

Eric Draitser
New Eastern Outlook
Thu, 14 Jul 2016 22:24 UTC

Saif al-Islam Gaddafi

The news that Saif al-Islam Gaddafi, the son of the assassinated leader of the Libyan Arab Jamahiriya Muammar Gaddafi, has been released from captivity is one of the most significant developments in Libya in some time. For while the Western corporate media would like people to believe that the Gaddafi name is dead and buried, the fact remains that Saif al-Islam Gaddafi, and the surviving members of the Gaddafi family, are seen as heroes by many in Libya. Moreover, Saif's release has the potential to transform the political situation in the country.

Although details are few and far between, what we do know is that according to his lawyer at the International Criminal Court (ICC), Saif Gaddafi "was given his liberty on April 12, 2016." Indeed official documents (which remain unverified) seem to support the assertion that Saif has, in fact, been released. Considering the statements from his attorneys that Saif is "well and safe and in Libya," the political ramifications of this development should not be underestimated. Not only is Saif Gaddafi the second eldest and most prominent of Col. Gaddafi's sons, he is also the one seen as the inheritor of his father's legacy of independent peaceful development and the maintenance of the Libyan Arab Jamahiriya.

This last point is of critical importance as his release is a clear signal to many Libyans that the resistance to the NATO-imposed chaos and war is alive and well. And while there have been isolated upsurges of pro-Gaddafi sentiments at various times in the last five years, they mostly remained underground. Perhaps it might soon be time for the resistance to once again become united as it moves to drive out the terrorists and opportunists who have torn the jewel of Africa apart these last five years.

Poor decisions: Moldova asks NATO for help in withdrawing Russian troops from Transdniestria

ITAR-TASS
Thu, 14 Jul 2016 21:43 UTC

Moldova's Defense Minister Anatoly Salary has asked NATO for help in withdrawing Russian peacekeeping troops from Moldova's unrecognized Republic of Transdniestria, Oleg Belyakov, the co-chairman of the Joint Control Commission for regulating the peacekeeping operation in Transdniestria, told journalists on Thursday.

"We constantly hear Moldovan officials speaking of the need to withdraw the Russian army [from Transdniestria] and disband the peacekeeping operation. The last call has recently come from Defense Minister Salaru. This is a source of our great concern because the peacekeepers' pullout will return things to the 1992 conflict when law enforcers from Transdniestria and Moldova stood one against the other ready to start military hostilities. Such calls reflect a desire to resolve the Transdniestria problem exclusively by force what must be prevented," Belyakov said.

Zakharova: Western 'obsession with Assad's personality incomprehensible'

ITAR-TASS
Thu, 14 Jul 2016 21:37 UTC

Syrian soldier near poster of Bashar al-Assad

Moscow considers Western obsession with the personality of Syrian President Bashar al-Assad incomprehensible, while rooting out terrorism should be the priority in resolving the Syrian crisis, Russian Foreign Ministry spokeswoman Maria Zakharova said on Thursday.

"We have said time and again, responding to relevant criticism that we do not support Mr. Assad personally, that we are concerned about the existence of Syria's statehood and the forces that will be able to counter the terrorist threat on the ground," she said. "This is important for both Syria itself and the international community. With all due sympathy for the Syrian people, a practical perspective is present here as well."

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Puppet Masters

US House votes to bar heavy water purchases from Iran to undercut nuclear agreement

European countries seek to increase security measures following truck attack in Nice, France

Report identifies major flaws in US missile system, endangers country

Russia to deploy advanced S-400 missiles in Crimea next month

South Front: Ukrainian Army initiates 'probing attacks' into the Donbass region

Dallas police shootings: Social Engineering and the American Police State

Psychopaths are Destroying our World (VIDEO)

Freedom for Saif al-Islam Gaddafi could mean freedom for Libya!

Poor decisions: Moldova asks NATO for help in withdrawing Russian troops from Transdniestria

Zakharova: Western 'obsession with Assad's personality incomprehensible'

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