| From: tntpal | 7/20/2024 8:47:34 AM | | | | | | Russia says it may deploy nuclear missiles in response to US weapons in Germany
July 18 (Reuters) - Russia does not rule out new deployments of nuclear missiles in response to the planned U.S. stationing of long-range conventional weapons in Germany, Deputy Foreign Minister Sergei Ryabkov was quoted as saying on Thursday.
Interfax news agency cited Ryabkov as saying that the defence of Russia's Kaliningrad region, which is wedged between NATO members Poland and Lithuania, was a particular focus.
"I am not ruling out any options," the agency said he told reporters in Moscow when asked to comment on the U.S. deployment plans.
Russia will deploy intermediate-range missiles with NUCLEAR warheads aimed at Europe
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| From: tntpal | 7/20/2024 9:07:12 AM | | | | | | Florida man arrested, accused of making threats against Trump, Vance on social media
JUPITER, Fla. (AP) — A Florida man accused of making threats against former President Donald Trump, U.S. Sen. JD Vance and their families on social media was arrested on Friday, police said.
The Jupiter Police Department said in a news release that officers arrested Michael W. Wiseman on charges of written threats to kill...
Detectives said Wiseman had made multiple written threats on Facebook against Trump and Vance, who became the Republican presidential and vice presidential nominees, respectively, this week. Threats were also made “concerning bodily harm” against members of the Trump and Vance families, according to police.
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| To: Les H who wrote (42928) | 7/20/2024 9:19:45 AM | | From: Les H | | | | China Has Just Gained First-Mover Advantage In Nuclear Fusion
By Alex Kimani - Jul 18, 2024, 6:00 PM CDT
For nearly two decades, the world’s hopes of building a practical nuclear fusion plant have rested on France-based International Thermonuclear Experimental Reactor.
The ITER project costs have surpassed €20 billion ($21.8 billion), more than four times the original budget of €5 billion.
Shanghai-based Energy Singularity has effectively completed the engineering feasibility verification of high-temperature superconducting for its Honghuang 70 (HH70) tokamak device.
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| To: Les H who wrote (42934) | 7/20/2024 9:27:47 AM | | From: Les H | | | | Germany found a way to get rid of Ukrainians
Next year, Germany will halve its military support for Ukraine, having exceeded its limits last year. But the general plan of NATO (and therefore of Germany and its systemic parties such as the CSU) is the same: to prolong the military conflict as long as possible, thereby weakening Russia and waiting for a “window of opportunity” - the moment when it weakens critically.
In this regard, Ukraine is a means of struggle and a consumable material. They grind it down against the strategic enemy, encouraging them to continue losing people and territory. If anyone thought that “war to the last Ukrainian” is a Russian narrative and “just a metaphor,” the economical Bavarian Seder has to disappoint them: these are also plans for the future. Next year.
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| To: Les H who wrote (42935) | 7/20/2024 10:06:19 AM | | From: Les H | | | | How the Secret Service protects presidents — and what went wrong at the Trump rally
The Secret Service’s advance planning for public events is an intricate, multi-layered process. The Trump assassination attempt exposed potential missteps.
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They appear to do a lot of walkthrus to acclimate the local police who just joined the security detail.
3 police snipers were inside the building where the gunman climbed to the roof because they felt the roof was too hot. |
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| To: Les H who wrote (42935) | 7/20/2024 10:21:31 AM | | From: Les H | | | | The ICJ Just Demolished One of Israel's Key Defenses of the Occupation
The International Court of Justice in The Hague did not leave any stone unturned in finding that Israel's annexationist policies, dispossessing Palestinians, violate key principles of international law. The question is what happens next
The ICJ found that Israel's annexational policies contravene the principles of international law that require that occupation be temporary and prohibits the acquisition of territory by force.
Israel's vast confiscation of land and discriminatory water policy, the Court held, amount to the dispossession of Palestinians and violate the principle of administering the territory for the benefit of the local population. The Court also addressed Israel's discriminatory planning policies and the demolition of Palestinian homes (be they punitive or based on "planning" considerations). That Israel does not prevent or properly punish settler violence against Palestinians is also central to the Court's understanding of how Israel violates this obligation.
The Court also addressed in detail Israel's discriminatory legislation and policies in the Occupied Territories. While it held that Israel's actions amount to systematic discrimination, and violate the United Nations' Convention on the Elimination of Racial Discrimination prohibition on "segregation and apartheid," the ICJ stopped short of determining whether the situation constitutes "only" segregation or, in fact, amounts to "apartheid." Presumably this ambiguity was deliberate, allowing as many judges as possible to join the majority – regardless of their view on this point
All of this led the Court to hold that Israel, by its continued, indefinite, discriminatory and annexational control of the territories, violates the Palestinians' right to self-determination and the prohibition on the acquisition of territory by force.
The Court's bottom line was thus very clear: Israel's continued presence in the Occupied Palestinian Territory is illegal. It must bring an end to its presence there "as rapidly as possible," and it must "immediately" cease all new settlement activity.
The contrast between the two determinations is striking. On one hand, the Court rejected the notion that Israel can continue its occupation of the territories indefinitely, and that the occupation cannot continue until, in Shamgar's terms, there is an alternative political or military situation, i.e. pending an Israeli-Palestinian peace agreement.
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As long as they occupy the lands, the Palestinians negotiate new agreement from a position where they're forced by continued encroachment of Israeli settlers in violation of past agreements. Each agreement becomes an opportunity for Israel to 'legalize' illegal settlements through coercion. As a result, the violence never ends as new prospective settlers are emboldened and the number of dispossessed natives keeps growing. |
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| From: tntpal | 7/20/2024 10:55:09 AM | | | | | | Drone strike by Yemen’s Houthi hits Tel Aviv
TEL AVIV, Israel (AP) — An Iranian-made drone sent by Yemen’s Houthi rebels struck Tel Aviv on Friday, leaving one person dead and at least 10 wounded in the group’s first lethal strike into Israel.
The aerial strike rumbled through the center of the city near the U.S. Embassy, causing shrapnel to rain down and spreading shards of glass over a large radius.
The hit in Israel’s biggest city was startling because the drone appeared to have crossed much of the country through the multilayered air defenses that have intercepted almost all of the drones and rockets that Yemen’s Houthis have been launching toward Israel since the Gaza war began. Most have failed even to reach Israel’s southernmost city, Eilat, on the Red Sea some 270 kilometers (160 miles) south of Tel Aviv.
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| To: tntpal who wrote (42938) | 7/20/2024 10:55:47 AM | | From: tntpal | | | | Iran and its terrorist proxies say that all of Israel is occupied territory which must be cleansed of its Jewish population.
This is what they and their supporters in London, Sydney, New York and elsewhere mean by their chants of “from the river to the sea”. Western weakness has allowed the Iranian drone threat against civilians to proliferate from the Middle East to Eastern Europe.
Houthi attacks on Israel and shipping in the Red Sea is the consequence of the Biden-led appeasement of the Iranian ayatollahs.
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