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Biden makes several gaffes at G7, at one point world leaders openly laugh at his forgetfulness
When on the world stage with his peers at the G7 summit this weekend, President Joe Biden had several mental lapses and gaffes. At one point, fellow world leaders openly laughed at Biden over his forgetfulness at the G7 conference in Cornwall, England.
During a press conference on Sunday, Biden stumbled while speaking about Russia ahead of his June 16 meeting with Russian President Vladimir Putin in Geneva, Switzerland.
"We can work together with Russia – for example, in Libya. We should be opening up the passage to be able to go through, provide food assistance, and economic… I mean, vital assistance to a population that's in real trouble," Biden said, confusing Libya with Syria. Biden confused Libya for Syria on two more occasions in his meandering diatribe.
Previously, first lady Jill Biden proclaimed that her husband was "so well prepared" for the conference.
"He's been studying for weeks working up for today," she said. "He knows most of the leaders that will be here. Joe loves foreign policy. This is his forte."
Time magazine was ridiculed last week for an extremely flattering cover featuring an illustration of Biden appearing years younger and a headline that read, "Taking on Putin."
Biden already said he won't hold a joint press conference with Putin because he doesn't want to get "diverted" by who "talked the most."
Also during the presser, Biden said, "I'm sorry, I'm going to get in trouble with staff if I don't do this the right way," before selecting Bloomberg to ask him a question. At a prior press conference at the White House, Biden was using a "cheat sheet" to determine which reporters to call on.
https://www.theblaze.com/news/biden-gaffes-g7-summit-video
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Israeli Atomic Expert Says Mossad Blew Up Iraqi Nuke Power Station Parts in France in 1979
A new memoir reveals how Israel, with US backing, tried unsuccessfully for years to stop France and other countries from helping Iraq develop its own nuclear power industry — first through diplomacy, then spying and intimidation, then finally sabotage attacks on French soil.
An Israeli atomic engineer has revealed that Mossad agents sabotaged equipment for Iraq's nuclear power station before it was exported from France.
A new memoir entitled “The Quiet Sabra” by Micky Ron, a former engineer at Israel's Dimona reactor site, uncovers Israel's hand in covert bombings on French soil.
He reveals how agents blew up a pair of reactor cores bound for the Osirak power station near Baghdad in 1979, two years before Israel's Operation Opera air raid that destroyed the facility, also known as Tammuz, before construction was complete.
Ron said Israel Atomic Energy Commission (IAEC) scientists advised the intelligence services and armed forces on both operations — but Mossad's covert operation in 1979 failed because they did not listen to the experts' advice.
Saddam Hussein, then deputy chairman of the Ba’ath Party Revolutionary Command Council, launched the Iraqi project to build a nuclear power station with French know-how in the early 70s years before he became president in 1979. Even with support from US president Jimmy Carter, who took office in 1977, Israeli was unable to dissuade France from helping Iraq through diplomatic means.
Civil-military collaboration
In late 1977, new Likud prime minister Menachem Begin asked Mossad chief Yitzhak Hofi; the Israel Defence Forces Intelligence Branch commander Major-General Shlomo Gazit and IAEC under director Uzi Eilam to find underhand ways to stop Baghdad from gaining nuclear power — and potentially the means to build a nuclear weapon.
Ron said he and colleague Matti Halahmi were among those brought in.
"In the Mossad office we went over all of the information that flowed in from abroad concerning the construction of the reactor, to figure out where in France they were manufacturing the parts, as the reactor being built was an exact copy of the central nuclear reactor at Saclay in Paris," Ron said.
Hofi gave overall control of the project, dubbed 'New Era', to his deputy Nahum Admoni, who recruited a team of IAEC scientists, a new Unconventional Weapons team (NABAK) and members of the IDF's Unit 8200 intel outfit. Admoni tasked them with coming up with plans for stopping Iraq's ambitions, divided into "soft" and "loud" stages.
Mossad infiltrated French and other firms working on the project, obtaining blueprints of the plant. Unit 8200 tapped phone calls, teleprinter transmissions and other communications. Agents were recruited from among the 2,000 foreign staff working on the Iraqi civil project.
The "soft" stage involved agents from Mossad's 'Caesarea' and 'Keshet' branches targeting French, Italian and other technicians, engineers, scientists and executives involved in the project with phone calls and letters "advising" them not to work on the project — followed up with threats when that failed.
https://sputniknews.com/middleeast/202106131083140989-israeli-atomic-expert-says-mossad-blew-up-iraqi-nuke-power-station-parts-in-france/
Chris Hedges: Julian Assange and the Collapse of the Rule of Law
Chris Hedges gave this talk at a rally Thursday night in New York City in support of Julian Assange. John and Gabriel Shipton, Julian’s father and brother, also spoke at the event, which was held at The People’s Forum.
PRINCETON, NEW JERSEY (Scheerpost) — A society that prohibits the capacity to speak in truth extinguishes the capacity to live in justice.
This why we are here tonight. Yes, all of us who know and admire Julian decry his prolonged suffering and the suffering of his family. Yes, we demand that the many wrongs and injustices that have been visited upon him be ended. Yes, we honor him up for his courage and his integrity. But the battle for Julian’s liberty has always been much more than the persecution of a publisher. It is the most important battle for press freedom of our era. And if we lose this battle, it will be devastating, not only for Julian and his family, but for us.
Tyrannies invert the rule of law. They turn the law into an instrument of injustice. They cloak their crimes in a faux legality. They use the decorum of the courts and trials, to mask their criminality. Those, such as Julian, who expose that criminality to the public are dangerous, for without the pretext of legitimacy the tyranny loses credibility and has nothing left in its arsenal but fear, coercion and violence.
The long campaign against Julian and WikiLeaks is a window into the collapse of the rule of law, the rise of what the political philosopher Sheldon Wolin calls our system of inverted totalitarianism, a form of totalitarianism that maintains the fictions of the old capitalist democracy, including its institutions, iconography, patriotic symbols and rhetoric, but internally has surrendered total control to the dictates of global corporations.
I was in the London courtroom when Julian was being tried by Judge Vanessa Baraitser, an updated version of the Queen of Hearts in Alice-in Wonderland demanding the sentence before pronouncing the verdict. It was judicial farce. There was no legal basis to hold Julian in prison. There was no legal basis to try him, an Australian citizen, under the U.S. Espionage Act. The CIA spied on Julian in the embassy through a Spanish company, UC Global, contracted to provide embassy security. This spying included recording the privileged conversations between Julian and his lawyers as they discussed his defense. This fact alone invalidated the trial. Julian is being held in a high security prison so the state can, as Nils Melzer, the U.N. Special Rapporteur on Torture, has testified, continue the degrading abuse and torture it hopes will lead to his psychological if not physical disintegration.
The U.S. government directed, as Craig Murray so eloquently documented, the London prosecutor James Lewis. Lewis presented these directives to Baraitser. Baraitser adopted them as her legal decision. It was judicial pantomime. Lewis and the judge insisted they were not attempting to criminalize journalists and muzzle the press while they busily set up the legal framework to criminalize journalists and muzzle the press. And that is why the court worked so hard to mask the proceedings from the public, limiting access to the courtroom to a handful of observers and making it hard and at times impossible to access the trial online. It was a tawdry show trial, not an example of the best of English jurisprudence but the Lubyanka.
Now, I know many of us here tonight would like to think of ourselves as radicals, maybe even revolutionaries. But what we are demanding on the political spectrum is in fact conservative, it is the restoration of the rule of law. It is simple and basic. It should not, in a functioning democracy, be incendiary. But living in truth in a despotic system is the supreme act of defiance. This truth terrifies those in power.
The architects of imperialism, the masters of war, the corporate-controlled legislative, judicial and executive branches of government and their obsequious courtiers in the media, are illegitimate. Say this simple truth and you are banished, as many of us have been, to the margins of the media landscape. Prove this truth, as Julian, Chelsea Manning, Jeremy Hammond and Edward Snowden have by allowing us to peer into the inner workings of power, and you are hunted down and persecuted.
https://www.mintpressnews.com/chris-hedges-julian-assange-and-the-collapse-of-the-rule-of-law/277680/
38 cases, 30 arrests in city for child pornography in last eight months
Nagpur: Around 30 persons were arrested in 38 cases of child pornography registered by city police under CP Amitesh Kumar in eight months. Most complaints were registered suo motu by police following inputs received from the state cyber intelligence and security unit after being alerted by National cyber crime reporting portal (NCCRP).
The experts cautioned parents to be watchful about their children’s internet use as this segment is the most targeted one by the online sex predators, paedophiles and stalkers. As the online classes and tuitions have made mobile phones more accessible for the children, mental health practitioners feel they have become more curious about different things available on the internet including the explicit content which often pop-up during surfing sessions.
Kumar said child pornography was a serious offence from which every one should remain at a safe distance or be ready to face serious legal consequences. “Even viewing and surfing for child pornography is an offence, leave alone storing, posting, sharing or forwarding by any means. The police, especially cyber cell, is keeping high vigil,” said the CP adding police were ready to come down heavily on such crime.
With the child pornography being on high demand in the dark net and paid porn sites, global and Indian NGOs have already raised a red flag about the need to protect the children from this malady. “Global NGOs working as watchdogs alert our NCCRP regarding IP addresses being used for child porn which is relayed to state unit and then to local police for action. There is also a guideline from the apex court,” said senior inspector Ashok Bagul, incharge of the cyber cell.
Cyber psychologist Prof Rakesh Kriplani, who also worked as child psychologists, said an action by the Interpol had already underlined the fact that India occupies high on the target list of the online stalkers, predators and paedophiles. “Study suggests that 85% of the children get accidental exposure to pornography as they come across such sites through pop-ups or by clicking some stray links sent to them by the predators. Many are scared to go beyond it but some get hooked,” he said.
Kriplani advised parents to avoid posting pictures of their children online. “Block the front cameras of mobile phones or the smart TVs which may be misused by the cyber crooks to record videos and images from bedrooms or bathrooms,” he said.
Activist Mahendra Limaye underlined the fact that child pornography was an offence under Section 67B of the IT Act but investigating agencies should use discretion to differentiate which child pornography involving sexual activities and which are mere innocent photographs having no mischief motives.
https://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/city/nagpur/38-cases-30-arrests-in-city-for-child-pornography-in-last-eight-months/articleshow/83493363.cms