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Colombia's Presidential helicopter comes under fire


Deutsche Welle
Sun, 27 Jun 2021 11:14 UTC
Duque

The helicopter carrying Duque was flying over Colombia's troubled Catatumbo region
President Ivan Duque and other top Colombian officials were flying near the country's border with Venezuela during the attack. No one was hurt in the incident.

The helicopter carrying Duque was flying over Colombia's troubled Catatumbo region

Colombian President Ivan Duque said Friday that a helicopter carrying him and other top officials was hit with bullets as the aircraft flew near the country's border with Venezuela.

What did Duque say about the attack?

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Russia warns US against military drills in Black Sea as destroyer enters region amid multinational exercise


TASS
Sun, 27 Jun 2021 21:39 UTC
USS Ross
© REUTERS/Yoruk Isik
USS Ross
Black Sea Fleet forces are monitoring the operations of the US guided missile destroyer USS Ross, which entered the Black Sea on Saturday, the National Center for Defense Management of the Russian Federation told reporters on Saturday.

"The forces of the Black Sea Fleet have begun to keep a close watch on the actions of the US Navy destroyer Ross, which entered the Black Sea on June 26," the center said in a statement.

Earlier, the US Navy's Sixth Fleet announced that the US destroyer entered the Black Sea on Saturday, where it will take part in the Sea Breeze 2021 multinational military exercise. According to the fleet, Ross will join the 31 ships during the naval part of the exercise," the statement said. The plan involves the unification of armed forces from the Americas, Europe, Africa, Asia and Australia to conduct various military disciplines at sea, land and air, including combat operations on land, against ships and air defense, as well as the establishment of weapons clearance skills."

Comment: This comes on the heels of a provocative and rather embarrassing British maneuever in the region: That sinking feeling: Bojo's decision to send a warship to Crimea shows lonely Brexit Britain is lost at sea

See also: Russian troops on Ukraine border 'ready to defend country' in event of war says Defense Minister Shoigu, warns of NATO buildup at Russia's borders

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America's social order is unraveling

Charles Hugh Smith
oftwominds.com
Fri, 25 Jun 2021 00:00 UTC
denouncing officials in China
The unraveling of America's social order is accelerating, and denial will not save us from the consequences of the plundering of the social contract.

What kind of nation boasts a record-high stock market and an unraveling social order? Answer: a failed nation, a nation that has substituted artifice for realism for far too long, a nation that now depends on illusory phantoms of capital, prosperity and democracy to prop up a crumbling facade of "wealth" that the populace now understands is largely in the hands of a few families and corporations, most of which pay little to support the citizenry they dominate politically and financially.

The social order sounds abstract, but it is all too real. The social order has two primary components: social cohesion, the glue of common purpose and shared sacrifice binding the social order, and the social contract, the implicit contract between the ruling elite, the state (government) and commoners (the middle class, the working poor and state dependents) that their labor, taxes and sacrifices will nourish a society with a level playing field, broad-based opportunity and security.

America's social cohesion has been lost, ground under the heel of soaring inequality, a two-tiered economic/political order, systemic unfairness and the elite's divide-and-conquer manipulation of the political and cultural orders.
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Iran tells IAEA to check entitlement after agency demands 'immediate response' over inspection deal

Ilya Tsukanov
Sputnik
Sat, 26 Jun 2021 13:33 UTC
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© AP Photo
The International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) complained on Friday that it received no reply from Tehran on the extension of a temporary agreement on the recording and collection of data from Iranian nuclear facilities after the deal expired on Thursday, with agency chief Rafael Grossi demanding "an immediate response" from Iran on the issue.

Iran's decision to continue the collection of data on its nuclear facilities for the IAEA under an interim deal reached in February was voluntary, and the nuclear watchdog shouldn't consider this information as something it's automatically entitled to, Kazem Gharibabadi, Iran's ambassador to the IAEA, has indicated.

Comment: See also: The United States rejoining the Iran nuclear deal is a good thing, right? Well, not necessarily

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Russian Deputy Foreign Minister plans to meet with US ambassador to 'normalize' diplomatic work


RFE/RL
Sat, 26 Jun 2021 21:31 UTC
Sergei Ryabkov
© RFE/RL
Russian Deputy Foreign Minister Sergei Ryabkov
Russian Deputy Foreign Minister Sergei Ryabkov has said he plans to meet soon with U.S. Ambassador John Sullivan, who returned to Moscow this week after two months away from the post.

"Next week, I will hold a meeting with Ambassador Sullivan," Ryabkov told TASS on June 26. "Of course, the main issues include normalizing the work of Russian missions in the United States and U.S. missions in Russia."

Ryabkov also said the two sides were already following up on recent agreements to cooperate on cybersecurity issues, with the aim of beginning "full-fledged and all-embracing dialogue."
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That sinking feeling: Bojo's decision to send a warship to Crimea shows lonely Brexit Britain is lost at sea


RT
Sat, 26 Jun 2021 07:28 UTC
boris navy hms
© AP Photo/Matt Dunham/REUTERS/Sergey Smolentsev
(L) Boris Johnson ; (R) British Royal Navy's Type 45 destroyer HMS Defender is docked in the Black Sea port of Odessa, Ukraine June 18, 2021. Picture taken June 18, 2021.
Earlier this week, Russia and the UK clashed after London dispatched a heavily-armed destroyer, HMS Defender, to disputed waters off Crimea. Moscow considers the region its sovereign territory, and its navy fired warning shots.

Fortunately, the British ship passed through and nobody was hurt. At least not yet. Britain's post-Brexit global strategy, it seems, is both puzzling and worrying, driving potential conflicts not only in the Black Sea, but with its plans to needle China as well.

The Russian and British governments' different stances over who the waters belong to are well-known. Russia maintains that its 2014 absorption of Crimea was legal, while Ukraine and its Western patrons do not. However, this dispute is not the driving factor behind this particular incident, despite what the colorful British Prime Minister and Tory Party leader Boris 'BoJo' Johnson is claiming, complete with mock-Churchillian references to the Russian "bear."

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UK health sec caught breaking lockdown during affair with aide RESIGNS, mistresses brother & father linked with NHS and pharmaceutical industry


Sky News
Sat, 26 Jun 2021 20:44 UTC
Hancock

Matt Hancock: 'Those who make these rules have to stick by them'
"We owe it to people who have sacrificed so much in this pandemic to be honest when we have let them down," the disgraced MP says.

Matt Hancock has resigned as health secretary after admitting breaking coronavirus rules, Downing Street says.

In his letter of resignation, Mr Hancock said: "The last thing I would want is for my private life to distract attention from the single-minded focus that is leading us out of this crisis.


Comment: Beings like Hancock want only what's best for them; the lies he used against his country to further this manufactured crisis, as well the betrayal of his wife and his children, make that quite clear.

Notably, this curious leak turned scandal has diverted attention away from the push by the establishment to subject British children to this experimental vaccination campaign, as well as the flatlining of 'covid deaths' amidst yet another extension to lockdown restrictions. Of course, the vast majority of deaths were not a result of Covid, but the lockdown itself: As a GP in the NHS I witnessed first-hand the catastrophic way Matt Hancock failed the old and vulnerable in care homes


Comment: 'Hell is empty, and all the devils are here.' - William Shakespeare: Political Ponerology: A Science on The Nature of Evil adjusted for Political Purposes

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With Bezos at the helm, democracy dies at the Washington Post editorial board

Alan Macleod
MintPress News
Fri, 18 Jun 2021 00:00 UTC
Bezos
© Antonio Cabrera
Jeff Bezos, Owner of The Washington Post
The Washington Post's glaring conflicts of interest have of late once again been the subject of scrutiny online, thanks to a new article denouncing a supposed attempt to "soak" billionaires in taxes. Written by star columnist Megan McArdle — who previously argued that Walmart's wages are too high, that there is nothing wrong with Google's monopoly, and that the Grenfell Fire was a price worth paying for cheaper buildings — the article claimed that Americans have such class envy that the government would "destroy [billionaires'] fortunes so that the rest of us don't have to look at them." Notably, the Post chose to illustrate it with a picture of its owner, Jeff Bezos, making it seem as if it was directly defending his power and wealth, something they have been accused of on more than one occasion.

There was considerable speculation online as to whether Bezos himself wrote the piece, so blatantly in his interest it was. Unfortunately, this sort of speculation has raged ever since the Amazon CEO bought the newspaper in 2013 for $250 million.
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Trump defends the unvaccinated; doctor behind covid vaccines said refusing the vaccine is a 'fundamental right'

Leisa Audette
100percentfedup.com
Fri, 25 Jun 2021 00:00 UTC
Covid Vaccine
© VAERS
Vaccine with risks included
With the news about the health risks involved with the covid vaccine, President Trump spoke out to Newsmax about the freedom from getting the vaccine. Americans have a right NOT to get a vaccine if they choose not to, but the push has been on from the Biden administration to get 70% of Americans vaccinated by July 4th. Members of the administration have even been traveling around the US, giving speeches promoting vaccinations.


Even though there are risks, there are other reasons why people may not want to get a covid vaccine. If someone has had covid and has antibodies, they do not need the vaccine. If a person is young and has no comorbidities, there is a very small chance they will get very sick from covid. The big question to ask is, does the risk outweigh the cost?

In fact, Tucker Carlson recently spoke to Dr. Robert Malone, who helped create the mRNA technology behind the COVID vaccines. Dr. Malone discussed whether people should get a covid vaccine if they aren't at great risk:


BECAUSE THIS INFORMATION IS SO IMPORTANT, THE TRANSCRIPT OF WHAT DR. MALONE SAYS IS BELOW:


Comment: Youtube has provided 'a shortened version' of this interview. Presumably the full interview is contained below:

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Israel approves 31 new 'settlement zones' in the West Bank


MEMO
Fri, 25 Jun 2021 03:48 UTC
Illegal settlement WB
© Jaafar Ashtiyeh/AFP/Getty Images
Palestinian looks towards the illegal Israeli settlement built next to Nablus in West Bank.
Israel has approved 31 zoning plans, each containing a small number of housing units or facilities, in the occupied West Bank, in the first such move since the new coalition government came into office on 13 June.

The move, which was passed on Wednesday, saw 18 of the construction plans receiving final approval in illegal settlements such as Alfei Menashe, Elkana, Havat Sde Bar and Yitzhar. The approval is the first of its kind in six months.

According to Haaretz, chairman of the Joint List alliance of Arab-majority parties, Ayman Odeh, denounced the approval of the construction in the settlements. Odeh said:
"The government has existed for less than two weeks, and already, 31 construction plans have been approved in the settlements. The left is surrendering to the right and setting the diplomatic issue aside, but the right continues to sabotage the chances of peace and to deepen the occupation, repression, and dispossession of millions of Palestinians."

Comment: The UN can object non-stop but what leverage does it possess to thwart Israel's land grab? The precedent has been set. Israel is taking full advantage.

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