Re: #69 - Main news thread - conflicts, terrorism, crisis from around the globe

[Zambeezi]

Iran says has 2 cascades of 348 advanced centrifuges at Natanz nuclear site
https://www.reuters.com/article/iran-nuclear-int/iran-says-has-2-cascades-of-348-advanced-centrifuges-at-natanz-nuclear-site-idUSKBN2A21OY
DUBAI (Reuters) - Iran has now two cascades of advanced centrifuges with almost four times the enrichment capacity
of earlier ones running at its Natanz nuclear site, Iranian Kazem Gharibabadi envoy to the U.N. atomic watchdog said on Tuesday.
“Thanks to our diligent nuclear scientists, two cascades of 348 IR2m centrifuges with almost 4 times the capacity of IR1
are now running ...successfully in Natanz,”
“Installation of 2 more cascades of IR6 centrifuges has also been started in Fordow. There’s more to come soon.”

"Have a nice day."

[Zambeezi]

AJ+ (because lefty imperialism CARES about democracy! **cough**)

Police in Russia arrested 120 people demanding the release of Putin critic Alexey Navalny as he went to court.

He was arrested after recovering from a poisoning and faces 3.5 years in jail. Police arrested 5,750 protesters on Sunday — the most such arrests since Soviet times. pic.twitter.com/rxE7tvZOT4

— AJ+ (@ajplus) February 2, 2021

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Our NATO ally Turkey has been waging the world's largest mass purge for 5 years now—jailing opposition politicians, journalists, intellectuals. Yet our ally Turkey's litany of crimes get a fraction of US media attention that official enemy Russia gets. https://t.co/qWipzxeCUl

— Mark Ames (@MarkAmesExiled) February 2, 2021

[Zambeezi]

U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken assures Ukrainian Foreign Minister Dmytro Kuleba that the U.S. Department of State is ready to provide Ukraine with lethal weapons.
https://mfa.gov.ua/en/news/dmytro-kuleba-and-antony-blinken-discuss-strengthening-ukraine-us-strategic-partnership

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#US sends warships to #BlackSea in #NATO "warning to #Russia" over #Ukrainehttps://t.co/uj2j6oSWe3

— Maxim A. Suchkov (@m_suchkov) February 2, 2021

[Zambeezi]

Police cleared out a hotel in #Olympia, #Washington, on Monday, after it was allegedly occupied by the activist group is Oly Housing Now (#OHN), "a coalition of Olympia residents working to end homelessness" and supporting 'direct action' to fulfil its goals.#USA pic.twitter.com/PyTVYcaHWI

— Ruptly (@Ruptly) February 2, 2021

[Zambeezi]

#Iran releases crew of detained #SouthKorea|n tanker.

MoFA Spokesman Khatibzadeh said that the decision was taken “on humanitarian grounds” and the released crew are now allowed to leave the country. pic.twitter.com/eHp40zm5d8

— EHA News (@eha_news) February 2, 2021

[Zambeezi]

Trending

The Lancet medical journal publishes preliminary Sputnik V vaccine 3rd phase trial data:

92% efficiency
Equally safe for over 60’s
Observed side effects limited to mild flu-like symptoms
Doesn’t cause severe allergic reaction

— Murad Gazdiev (@MuradGazdiev) February 2, 2021

BREAKING:#SputnikV phase 3 clinical trials results in @TheLancet. Its 91.6% efficacy overall & 100% for severe cases have been validated by internationally peer reviewed data. With logistics at +2 +8C and <$10/shot, Sputnik V is a vaccine for all humankind.https://t.co/Fk5CHHkqIv

— Sputnik V (@sputnikvaccine) February 2, 2021

[Zambeezi]

Christian Roy
@Chris_RoyMtl
I got arrested for not wearing a mask today.
Police Officers weren't interested in hearing about the scar tissues in my lungs.
Instead they lectured me that COVID is real and asked me if I were a conspiracy theorist.
The goal is not public health. It's public control.

[Zambeezi]

https://t.co/SY4TMpjmbp

— spriters (@neccamc1) February 2, 2021

[Zambeezi]

Britain is not creating loud youth groups demanding 'regime change' on Beirut's streets for the benefit of Lebanon.
It does not infiltrate Lebanon's justice, security and military intelligence services out of pure generosity.
When it secretly abuses NGO's to indoctrinate Palestinian youth it does not have the Palestinian's wellbeing in mind.
The described projects are dangerous for Lebanon and all its inhabitants.
They open the country to extensive British spying and to manipulation from the inside.

The people of Lebanon should demand that their government end all such programs.

MoA:
Lebanon - British Embassy Infiltrates Military Intelligence, Provides Snooping Equipment, Indoctrinates Young Palestinians https://t.co/Co5Jzo4S3C pic.twitter.com/Zg1l0jEffv

— Moon of Alabama (@MoonofA) February 2, 2021

[Zambeezi]

reindeer games.
this is US/UK Pompeo 'Hudson Institute' neocon clan
►baiting the headlines
►jumping out 'ahead' of Biden admin (not neocon enough)
►and attempting to 'shame' steer the narrative (Biden='China sympathizers')

https://t.co/Ph9knvdkXI

— Disclose.tv (@disclosetv) February 2, 2021

we see you fat mike. spit.

[Zambeezi]

Harley Schlanger Updatehttps://t.co/8MB72N8n7q

— Helga Zepp-LaRouche (@ZeppLaRouche) February 2, 2021

[刘汉]

Anti-Myanmar coup protest turns violent in Thailand. pic.twitter.com/cj5H8Oymhg

— teleSUR English (@telesurenglish) February 1, 2021

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Behaviour reminds me of Hongkong ...

You've got it!
One of my students is from Guangzhou, the big mega-city down south, formerly Kanton. Hongkong is just a group of islands within this mega-city. Some of her family are living in Hongkong. So I was talking with her in 2019 about the situation in Hongkong. It became clear immediately, that she did not dare talking openly. So I did not force her. But I learnt, that one of her cousins is studying now - surprise, surprise - in Bangkok. So when the student unrests started last year in Bangkok, I asked her, if she had more information, but I got no answer.
In Bangkok there is a big Chinese community, who are living there for generations now. Up to now, they were speaking Yueyu 粤语 (Cantonese), but now they are shifting to Putonghua 普通话 (Mandarin), the main dialect on the mainland.
So yes, there are close connections, maybe even the same NGOs.
In one of the videos you can clearly see, that one of the attackers is not even an Asian, he looks more like an American.

[KneelB4Zod!]

#wallstreetbets
@russian_market
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Red Square on lockdown. Navalny verdict any minute now.

[KneelB4Zod!]

Sean Hannity
@seanhannity
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JUST IN: Jared Kushner Nominated for Nobel Prize Over Role in Middle East Peace Deals

[KneelB4Zod!]

#wallstreetbets
@russian_market
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Navalny sentenced to 2.5 years in jail - RT reveals

- Wow..

[KneelB4Zod!]

Wait a second! What?!@SecBlinken said #Iran should take the first step to restart #IranNuclearDeal. But wasn't it the U.S. that moved away from the deal under Trump?@RichiMedhurst talks to @RaniaKhalek for analysis
Full episode: https://t.co/DbJlZNV6pN#IranDeal #JCPOA pic.twitter.com/HbPRSpp10I

— Press TV News & Views (@PressTViews) February 2, 2021

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#wallstreetbets
@russian_market
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Navalny sentenced to 2.5 years in jail - RT reveals

- Wow..

3,5 years...

[KneelB4Zod!]

Knocked-out Armenian Repellent-1 anti-drone complex, an advanced Russia anti-drone electronic warfare system.
I recall that it was struck by a drone during the war. pic.twitter.com/17TxDIufuR

— 301 (@301_AD) February 2, 2021

[KneelB4Zod!]

A column of Azerbaijani armored vehicles, which was destroyed on September 27 at the ruins of the village of Nyuzgar. The video did not even show all the units, in the satellite image it is clear that there are more of them. pic.twitter.com/E5epgSmIIO

— spriters (@neccamc1) February 2, 2021

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spriters
@neccamc1
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Urgent: Blinken: Washington calls on Moscow to release Navalny "immediately and unconditionally"

[Profanity]

spriters
@neccamc1
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Urgent: Blinken: Washington calls on Moscow Britain to release Navalny " Assange immediately and unconditionally"

That looks better

[Böhse Tante]

Russia to supply over 300,000 respirators to Germany in February-March

https://tass.com/economy/1251517

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That's nice, but we mainly have a lack of nurses. Or better, there are about 300,000 nurses who no longer work in their profession because of the miserable working conditions and salaries. Germany relies on cheap labour for everything, in this case from South-East Asia or so, which can be better blackmailed into these miserable conditions. Of course, the terrible pandemic is not bad enough to bring back local nurses with better conditions, although over 60,000 had offered to do so.

What are they going to do with the respirators now, train unemployed innkeepers, musicians and actors?

[Nuke68]

Представитель посольства Швеции. Ай яй яй!!! pic.twitter.com/Z5nTj5iIU6

— Nika (@Nika19525332) February 2, 2021

 
Representative of the Swedish Embassy.

[anon2]

Does Russia wink at Israel’s bombing of Syria?

— Elijah J. Magnier (@ejmalrai)

 

Is the grass green? Is the sky blue?

Despite all their wonderful work in Syria, Russia has demonstrated over and over that they will allow Israel, Turkey, and the USA to suckerpunch Syria (and even worse themselves) at their leisure.

[KneelB4Zod!]

BREAKING: #USA’s #SpaceX prototype has exploded as it was attempting to land in Texas

pic.twitter.com/v7ZlZFf0H9

— ASB News / WORLD (@ASB_Breaking) February 2, 2021

[KneelB4Zod!]

Probably archive footage:

Russia's Air Force tracks down and destroys enemy secret shelters and equipment in Syria pic.twitter.com/IBPdwEl0Id

— ZOKA (@200_zoka) February 2, 2021

[KneelB4Zod!]

teleSUR English
@telesurenglish
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#UnitedStates | The U.S. Treasury Department issued this Tuesday a license authorizing certain transactions "necessary" for port and airport operations in Venezuela.

https://www.telesurenglish.net/news/US-Authorizes-Certain-Port-Airport-Operations-with-Venezuela-20210202-0019.html

[Zambeezi]

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https://www.rnd.de/politik/merkel-macron-und-andere-in-gastbeitrag-welt-wird-nach-corona-eine-andere-sein-EBKNRXMUUUDWO4P55OUL5RP3LQ.html

Merkel and other top politicians: "World will be different after Corona".
Top politicians like Angela Merkel, Emmanuel Macron and Ursula von der Leyen also see the Corona pandemic as an opportunity for a reorganisation of world politics.
In a guest article they write: "The world will be a different place after Corona".
The Covid 19 crisis is "the greatest test of global solidarity in generations".
03.02.2021, 7:55 am

Frankfurt. The Corona pandemic offers an opportunity for a reordering of world politics, according to German Chancellor Angela Merkel (CDU) and other international leaders. "The world will be a different place after Corona," they say in a guest article for the "Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung" and other papers.

The current crisis also offers an opportunity "to regain consensus on an international order through efficient cooperation, solidarity and coordination - an order based on multilateralism and the rule of law". The problem of climate change can also only be solved globally.

The contribution was also signed by France's President Emmanuel Macron and Senegal's Head of State Macky Sall. From the side of international organisations, UN Secretary-General António Guterres, EU Commission President Ursula von der Leyen and EU Council President Charles Michel were involved. The group also proposes a resumption of closer cooperation in international fora such as the G7 and G20.

The Covid 19 crisis is "the greatest test of global solidarity in generations", the text continues. "If even one place in the world is affected by Covid-19, people and economies everywhere are at risk."

Lessons would also have to be learned from this for future crises. "Instead of playing cultures and values off against each other, we need to build a more inclusive multilateralism. In doing so, we have to respect our differences as much as our common values, which are enshrined in the Universal Declaration of Human Rights."

RND/dpa

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OK, you just have to read between the lines a bit, only the totally clueless can think this is harmless.

What did Ulbricht say on 15 June 1961? "No one has the intention of building a wall!" Two months later ...

Translated with www.DeepL.com/Translator (free version)

[Böhse Tante]

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Here I found an interesting Page for global death rates:

https://www.indexmundi.com/g/g.aspx?v=26&c=xx&l=en