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Russian space boss insists cooperation with US must be on "equal terms"


RT
Thu, 16 Aug 2018 15:08 UTC
Roscosmos General Director Dmitry Rogozin
© Artur Lebedev / SputnikRoscosmos General Director Dmitry Rogozin during the briefing on the results of the Big Challenges 2018 educational program
The head of Russia's space research corporation has spoken about its latest planned projects and noted that cooperation with the United States could continue on condition that the American side treats Russia as an equal partner.

"As far as participation in the Deep Space Gateway project is concerned, if it's a purely American project with other participants performing minor helping functions, we are not interested in it. We are ready only to cooperation on equal terms," Dmitry Rogozin said in a major interview with TASS.

"We have the Angara heavy carrier rocket and soon we will get the Federation spacecraft - the tests for the super-heavy project will start in 2028. Russia, like the United States has its own transport system to work in the far space. We were not born yesterday, you know," Rogozin said.

"Unlike NASA, we already have the Soyuz MS manned spacecraft with a tremendous record of launches. Back in Soviet times designers foresaw the necessity of deep modernization for this vehicle, including its use in the Moon program."

Comment: While Trump has been touting the idea of the ISS being handed over to the private sector, the US deepstate needs to demonize Russia to justify its existence so it seems unlikely that any constructive cooperation will be allowed to happen between the two countries anytime soon:

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Mail

Unbelievable! Palestinian mail and packages, blocked by Israel for 8 years, will finally be delivered


VOA
Tue, 14 Aug 2018 02:51 UTC
Palestinian blocked mail
© AFPA Palestinian postal worker sifts through sacks of previously undelivered mail dating as far back as 2010, which has been withheld by Israel, at the central international exchange post office in the West Bank city of Jericho on Aug. 14, 2018.
Palestinian postal service employees are working overtime to sort through some 10 tons of letters and packages blocked by Israel for up to eight years, Palestinian officials said Tuesday.

The parcels, dating from between 2010 and this year, had been prevented by Israel from entering the West Bank via Jordan but were released in a one-time deal, the officials said.

The goods range from simple letters to medicine and even wheelchairs for the disabled, AFP journalists found at the sorting center in the occupied West Bank city of Jericho.

Palestinian Telecommunications Minister Allam Mousa accused Israel in a statement of having blocked the delivery and of delaying the implementation of an agreement on postal services. Israeli authorities confirmed the packages had been transferred and said an agreement was in the works, but did not comment in detail.

Undelivered Palestinian pakages
© AFPRamadan Ghazawi, a Palestinian official at the post office in the West Bank city of Jericho, stands next to a folded wheelchair, one of many items of previously undelivered mail in Jericho on Aug. 14, 2018.

Comment: Just one in a long list of cruel and unthinkable acts perpetrated by Israel against the Palestinians.

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Heart - Black

Barbarian residents of the Faroe Islands slaughter 180 whales

Sara Malm
Daily Mail
Thu, 16 Aug 2018 19:27 UTC
Hunting season: Dozens of villagers on Vágar, Faroe Islands, gather to help out in the hunting and butchering of a pod of some 180 whales
Hunting season: Dozens of villagers on Vágar, Faroe Islands, gather to help out in the hunting and butchering of a pod of some 180 whales
These images show dozens of villagers on a remote Atlantic island hunting down and slaughtering a pod of whales, colouring the water red with blood.

The practice, known as whale driving, saw children as young as five take part in the hunt of some 180 whales in the village of Sandavágur on Vágar island last month.

Every summer, hundreds of pilot and beaked whales are killed across the Faroe Islands, a Danish archipelago located hundreds of miles off the Scottish coast between Norway and Iceland.

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Bomb

'Anarchists' set off bomb at Italian headquarters of Salvini's League Party

Tyler Durden
Zero Hedge
Thu, 16 Aug 2018 18:25 UTC
bomb Villorba Salvini headquarters
© @Emergenza24/Twitter
A bomb claimed by an anarchist group detonated on Thursday in front of the provincial Italian headquarters of Interior Minister Matteo Salvini's League party, according to Corriere Del Veneto, citing local police in the northeastern town of Villorba.

A bomb exploded this afternoon in Villorba (Treviso) near the headquarters of the League, government party. Explosives experts deactivate a second artifact in place. No casualties have been recorded.

The bomb did not cause damage to the building, nor was anyone injured in the blast.
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Attention

List of possible farm expropriation targets published - South African farmers panic


RT
Thu, 16 Aug 2018 17:46 UTC
white South African farmer
© Siphiwe Sibeko / Reuters
A list of white farmers whose lands are to be seized without compensation in South Africa has been published by the local minority rights group AfriForum. The government denies the accuracy of the list.

The group has uploaded the list of the next land-expropriation victims on its website. AfriForum said it obtained the list through the Department of Rural Development and Land Reform ministry, which has denied its veracity.

AfriForum claims the list of lands for expropriation includes 195 farms, and has offered to get in contact with affected parties to prepare for a joint legal strategy. The group's CEO told News24 that the document was "definitely being circulated" in the South African government despite the denials.

Comment: The farmers have good ground for fear. They need only look to Zimbabwe to see what the future could look like.

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Network

Internet censorship threatens the left as much as the right: Five current examples

Danielle Ryan
RT
Wed, 15 Aug 2018 15:51 UTC
circuit board keyboard key
© Kacper Pempel / Reuters
The banning of right wing controversialist Alex Jones from multiple social media platforms last week was a cause of celebration for many liberals, but should those on the left really be so complacent about creeping censorship?

So far, the evidence suggest that there is indeed plenty for the left to worry about when it comes to corporations like Facebook and Twitter and their alliances with government censors.

Comment:

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Attention

UK Parliament attack: Car rams into pedestrians and cyclists, suspect in custody - UPDATES


RT
Tue, 14 Aug 2018 21:18 UTC
parliament attack
© Henry Nicholls / Reuters
Questions remain over the Houses of Parliament attack in London, which left three people injured and a suspect in custody. As Britain remains on high alert for terrorism, here's what is known about Tuesday's incident so far.

The attack

At around 7:40am on Tuesday, a silver Ford Fiesta rammed into a number of pedestrians and cyclists before crashing into steel barriers outside the Houses of Parliament.

According to witnesses, the car was soon surrounded by armed police. Footage posted on social media showed the suspect being taken from the vehicle before being handcuffed.

Comment: The Met's Counter-Terrorism Command launched a probe into the attacks and stated that none of the victims suffered life-threatening injuries, though they are treating the incident as a terrorist attack.
Car ramming incident near the UK parliament is currently being treated as terrorist attack and the Met's Counter Terrorism Command is now leading the probe. The driver was arrested on suspicion of terrorist offences, police say.

No arms have been found in the car and no one, except for the arrested driver, was inside. Police are still searching the vehicle and officers remain at the scene and cordons are in place to assist the investigation.

The Westminster tube station and some roads in the area are currently closed.

British Prime Minister Theresa May said her thoughts were with those injured in the incident. "My thoughts are with those injured in the incident in Westminster and my thanks to the emergency services for their immediate and courageous response," the PM tweeted.

Early witness accounts suggested that the crash was a deliberate act. Ewalina Ochab, who was walking on the other side of the pavement from where the incident occurred, said on Twitter that the vehicle drove into the barriers at speed.
Video footage of the attack has been released:

Update (August 16)

The suspect has been identified as Salih Khater, a 29-year-old UK citizen of Sudanese origin, who is reportedly not cooperating with police. Three properties, 2 in Birmingham and 1 in Nottingham, are being searched in connection with the crime.

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Info

'Trains don't work, but immigration continues': Sweden facing historic election upset next month as population gets fed up with establishment

Tyler Durden
Zero Hedge
Thu, 16 Aug 2018 15:14 UTC
sweden
"Trains and hospitals don't work, but immigration continues," Roger Mathson, a retired vegetable oil factory worker in Sweden, told Bloomberg on the same day as the violent, coordinated rampage by masked gangs of youths across five Swedish cities.

We noted earlier that Swedish politicians were quick to react with anti-immigrant party 'Sweden Democrats' seeing a surge in the polls ahead of the September 9th election.

"I'm not a racist, but I'm a nationalist," Mathson said. "I don't like seeing the town square full of Niqab-clad ladies and people fighting with each other."

Is Sweden set to have its own political earthquake in September, where general elections could end a century of Social Democratic dominance and bring to power a little known (on the world stage), but the now hugely popular nationalist party often dubbed far-right and right-wing populist, called Sweden Democrats?

Sweden, a historically largely homogeneous population of 10 million, took in an astounding 600,000 refugees over the past five years, and after Swedes across various cities looked out their windows Tuesday to see cars exploding, smoke filling the skies, and possibly armed masked men hurling explosives around busy parking lots, it appears they've had enough.

Comment: See also:

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Bad Guys

Feign outrage, act surprised, accuse Russia: Sweden's chattering class reacts predictably after every mass car firebombing

Igor Ogorodnev
RT
Thu, 16 Aug 2018 15:00 UTC
car burning Sweden
© @Astor99 /TwitterArson in Sweden
More than 1,800 cars have been set on fire in Sweden since January and a record was reached this week as more than 100 were torched over several hours. After every incident, the same pantomime plays out, as if for the first time.

In this spectacle every actor, from righteous government politicians to confused police officers to concerned academics has their own part, played always with a straight face. While the latest incident provides a good case study, these steps can be transposed from Sweden to almost any Western European country, from a car burning to a mass riot to a gang rape.

Here is how the drill goes.

Comment: The Swedes seem to be a people of enormous patience. That may be coming to an end soon, not only in Sweden but in all the Nordic countries.

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Георгиевская ленточка

Remembering how Russia saved Ukrainian soldiers during the 2014 Ilovaysk cauldron

Eduard Popov
Fort Russ News
Wed, 15 Aug 2018 14:04 UTC
Ukraine roadsign
We are approaching the fourth anniversary of the so-called "Ilovaisk cauldron', which saw the crushing of the Ukrainian army and militants of Ukrainian Nazi paramilitary groups several months into Kiev's war on Donbass.

The battles for and around Ilovaysk began in the summer of 2014 on the eve of Ukrainian independence day, as Kiev's military and political leadership aimed to capture the city to mark the national holiday and present post-Maidan society with a major military victory.

In the end, the Ukrainian Armed Forces and the Nazi battalions suffered a crushing defeat, one of the first and largest in the war in Donbass.
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