g'morning weirdos
>The old steel of underwater WW2 wrecks is uncontaminated by the traces of radioactivity that now contaminates any new steel that is manufactured
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Low-background_steel
>https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Low-background_steel
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Whole-body_counting
>insect race of locusts
France, Germany and UK launch dispute mechanism over Iran's nuclear activity
https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2020/01/iran-announces-arrests-downing-ukrainian-airliner-200114071925923.html
Iran announces first arrests in downing of Ukrainian airliner
Iran's judiciary has announced the arrests of an unspecified number of suspects in the accidental downing of a commercial passenger jet during a major confrontation with the United States last week.
In comments carried by state media, spokesman Gholamhossein Esmaili said on Tuesday that "extensive investigations have taken place and some individuals are arrested". He did not offer additional details.
Wednesday's downing of the Ukrainian airliner, en route to Kyiv from Tehran, killed all 176 passengers and crew on board. It happened just hours after Iran launched missile attacks on US targets in Iraq in retaliation for the US assassination of top Iranian commander Qassem Soleimani in Baghdad on January 3.
After days of denials, Iran on Saturday admitted that its Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) had shot down the plane in a "disastrous mistake", saying air defences were fired in error while on alert after the attacks against two Iraqi bases hosting US troops.
US President Donald Trump had previously threatened to strike 52 targets within Iran if Tehran targeted US citizens or assets following Soleimani's killing.
Iran's delayed acknowledgement of the shootdown triggered small protests in Tehran and elsewhere, with hundreds of people taking to the streets to direct their ire towards senior officials, including Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, amid allegations of being misled.
Videos posted on social media that could not be independently verified appeared to show security forces firing live ammunition and tear gas to disperse protesters. The government has denied a cover-up and police rejected reports that it had opened fire at demonstrators.
>but wait there's more
Rouhani calls for special court
In a televised address on Tuesday, Iran's President Hassan Rouhani promised a thorough investigation into the "unforgivable error" of shooting down the plane, the latest in a series of apologies from a leadership grappling with public anger.
Rouhani called for a special court to be set up with a ranking judge and dozens of experts to investigate the "tragic event".
"This is not an ordinary case. The entire world will be watching this court," Rouhani said, adding that everyone responsible in the accident must be punished.
"For our people, it is very important in this incident that whoever was at fault or negligent at any level" faces justice, Rouhani said. "Anyone who should be punished must be punished."
The president called the government's admission that Iranian forces shot down the plane the "first good step".
"We should assure people that it will not happen again," Rouhani said, adding that his government was "accountable to Iranian and other nations who lost lives in the plane crash".
Al Jazeera's Assed Baig, reporting from Tehran, said Rouhani's comments were "a watershed moment in this country because people aren't used to the military and state institutions taking state responsibility and accepting that they are wrong".
Baig added that Rouhani mentioned that the downing of the plane was not the fault of just one person operating the air defence system - rather, there were many issues involved.
"He also said that ultimately it's the US that's responsible for the heightened level of tension, again referring to Trump's threat to target 52 sites but added that this isn't an excuse for the military and other people," Baig said.
<but wait there's more
International experts
Most of those on board the flight were Iranians or dual nationals. Canada, Ukraine, Britain and other nations who had citizens on the plane have scheduled a meeting on Thursday in London to consider legal action against Tehran.
Iran has invited experts from Canada, France, Ukraine and the USs to take part in the probe into the air disaster.
On Monday night, Canada's Transportation Safety Board said its investigators flying to Tehran would be granted access to the wreckage and black box flight recorders of the downed airliner.
"The government from the very beginning invited international teams for the investigation. If there was going to be a cover-up they wouldn't have done that," said Mohammad Marandi, head of American studies at the University of Tehran.
"The government and the armed forces protected the black box. They could have damaged it beyond recognition and say that it was destroyed in the crash; they didn't do so. They protected it."
>https://twitter.com/bbcworld/status/1217051056179490816
https://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-51105716
French film director Christophe Ruggia arrested over abuse claims
French film director Christophe Ruggia has been held in connection with allegations of sexual harassment made by award-winning actress Adèle Haenel.
Ruggia was arrested as part of an investigation into "sexual aggression on a minor", police said on Tuesday.
Haenel, who is now 31, was only 12 when she was cast in Ruggia's film Les Diables (The Devils).
The actress alleges Ruggia harassed her as a young teenager when they travelled together to promote the film.
Her comments shook the French film industry when they were first reported last November following an investigation by the Mediapart news website.
Ruggia, who is now 55, was placed in police custody on Tuesday morning. He has previously denied the allegations.
What are the allegations?
According to Mediapart's investigation - which included around 30 other witnesses - Ruggia is said to have developed an obsession with Haenel during the filming of the 2002 film Les Diables.
Other actors and technicians on the set at the time spoke of the unhealthy atmosphere.
Then, when filming had finished and the pair were travelling together to promote it, Ruggia is said to have invited her to his home.
Haenel said that this was where he first touched and tried to kiss her, and told her of his love.
At 15, she tried to cut off links with Ruggia and sought help from people in his entourage - but few, she said, showed sympathy.
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Haenel, who has appeared in more than 25 films and twice won Cesar awards - France's equivalent of the Oscars, said she decided to speak out after watching the documentary Leaving Neverland, which explored the singer Michael Jackson's relationships with children.
"It changed my perspective," she said, adding: "It made me see I had too long clung to the version of Christophe Ruggia, that it had all been a story of love… It made me understand the mechanisms of control and fascination."
She lodged a formal complaint against Ruggia in November and the public prosecutor opened an investigation into "sexual aggression on a minor carried out by someone in authority".
Ruggia has denied the charges of sexual molestation, but has admitted to having made "errors" in his conduct towards Haenel.
"I did not see that my adulation for her, and the hopes I placed in her, might - given her young age - come across at times as irksome. If this is what happened… I ask her pardon," he said in an earlier statement.
https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2020/01/libya-haftar-leaves-moscow-signing-ceasefire-agreement-200114064637135.html
Libya's Haftar leaves Moscow without signing ceasefire agreement
Turkey's Erdogan criticises breakdown in talks, says Ankara will 'teach Haftar a lesson' if he resumes Tripoli push.
>Ankara will 'teach Haftar a lesson'
>Please expose Canadian election fraud.
<Imagine being a Syrian Rebel, you start out a decade ago taking up arms against the Assad regime. You toil through hellish barrel bombs and chemical attacks, spending years with retarded Jihadist mercenaries that ended up trashing your movement (while committing god knows how many fucking war crimes trying to remove the Iranian-backed Alawite regime). You're at precipice of victory, then Russia comes out of nowhere and airstrikes the shit out of your squad and obliterates your cousins in Aleppo. You retreat back to Idlib, only to see those fucking idiot Jihadists starting a civil war inside a civil war and watching those friendly Mossad buddies that gave you supplies leave your ass to join the Kurds. Suddenly Turkey comes in and recruits you to save your rebellion. You're once again thrown into meatgrinders while your remaining friends are getting purged by the Turks. They finally send you to invade Kurdish lands, blowing up their homes and destroying their culture (and doing yet again more war crimes). You survived it all, the Arab Spring, the Civil War, the Russian intervention, the latter years of getting repeatedly rekt by Assadists, Iranians, and Russians. There is just one more battle in Idlib you want to go to protect your people from the absolute steamroll that's coming from Assad, if you fight just one more battle you may fend them off and finally see peace in Syria.
https://www.bbc.com/news/world-middle-east-51104579
Iran nuclear deal: European powers trigger dispute mechanism
European powers have triggered a dispute mechanism over the nuclear deal with Iran, after the country took a further step back from its commitments.
Iran has suspended all limits on its production of enriched uranium, which can be used to make reactor fuel but also nuclear weapons.
It has said it is responding to sanctions reinstated by the US when it withdrew from the accord in 2018.
France, Germany and the UK said they did not accept Iran's argument.
The nuclear deal saw Iran, which insists its nuclear programme is entirely peaceful, agree to limit its sensitive activities and allow in inspectors in return for the lifting of crippling economic sanctions.
US President Donald Trump reinstated them to force Iran to negotiate a new agreement that would place indefinite curbs on its nuclear programme and also halt its development of ballistic missiles. But Iran has so far refused.
The other parties to the deal - the three European powers plus China and Russia - have tried to keep it alive. But the sanctions have caused Iran's oil exports to collapse and the value of its currency to plummet, and sent its inflation rate soaring.
https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2020/01/trudeau-plane-victims-alive-iran-tensions-200114043724127.html
Trudeau: Plane victims would be alive if not for US-Iran tensions
https://apnews.com/8276d7dc28f15fc46d1b6c546dd66382
Idea to dismiss articles of impeachment cools in Senate
“I think our members, generally are not interested in the motion to dismiss. They think both sides need to be heard,” Sen. Roy Blunt, R-Mo., who is part of GOP leadership, said Monday.
It will be only the third presidential impeachment trial in American history, a serious and dramatic endeavor coming amid the backdrop of a politically divided nation and the start of an election year.
Speaker Nancy Pelosi has not set the timing for the House vote that will launch the Senate action. Trump was impeached by the Democratic-led House last month on charges of abuse of power over pushing Ukraine to investigate Democratic rival Joe Biden and obstruction of Congress in the probe. Democrats said the vote could be Wednesday.
With the impeachment trial starting in a matter of days, senators are still debating the rules of the proceedings. GOP senators are conferring privately about whether to allow a motion to dismiss the charges against the president or to call additional witnesses for testimony.
Trump suggested over the weekend he might prefer simply dismissing the charges rather than giving legitimacy to charges from the House, which he considers a “hoax.”
It was an extraordinary suggestion, but one being proposed by Trump allies with support from some GOP senators, including Majority Leader Mitch McConnell.
But it is clear McConnell does not have the votes needed from his GOP majority to do that.
One key Republican, Sen. Susan Collins of Maine, said she, too, would oppose a motion to dismiss the charges.
Collins is leading an effort among some Republicans, including Sens. Mitt Romney of Utah and Lisa Murkowski of Alaska, to ensure the ground rules include plans to eventually consider voting to call witnesses.
“My position is that there should be a vote on whether or not witnesses should be called,” Collins said.
Romney said he wants to hear from John Bolton, the former national security adviser at the White House, who others have said raised alarms about the alternative foreign policy toward Ukraine being run led by Trump’s personal lawyer Rudy Giuliani.
“I’ve said I’d like to hear from John Bolton,” Romney told reporters Monday. “I expect that barring some kind of surprise, I’ll be voting in favor of hearing from witnesses after those opening arguments.”
Democrats have been pushing Republicans, who have the majority in the Senate, to consider new testimony, arguing that fresh information has emerged during Pelosi’s monthlong delay in transmitting the charges.
McConnell is drafting an organizing resolution that will outline the steps ahead. Approving it will be among the first votes senators take after they are sworn as jurors by Supreme Court Chief Justice John Roberts for the Court of Impeachment.
Republicans control the chamber, 53-47, and are all but certain to acquit Trump. McConnell is hesitant to call new witnesses who would prolong the trial. He prefers to model Trump’s trial partly on the process used for then-President Bill Clinton’s trial in 1999.
It takes just 51 votes during the impeachment trial to approve rules or call witnesses. Just four GOP senators could form a majority with Democrats to insist on new testimony. It also would take only 51 senators to vote to dismiss the charges against Trump.
Most Republicans appear willing to go along with McConnell’s plan to start the trial first then consider witnesses later, rather than upfront, as Democrats want.
Collins is pushing to have at least the promise of witness votes included in the organizing resolution. She and the others appear to be gathering support.
“I’ve been working to make sure that we will have a process that we can take a vote on whether or not we need additional information, and yes, that would include witnesses,” Murkowski told reporters.
McConnell is expected to huddle privately with senators at their weekly lunch Tuesday.
House Majority Leader Steny Hoyer told reporters the House vote might come Wednesday. “Could be,” he said.
https://apnews.com/b988f53c4b6a4520abd8773aa6e08879
Still, the shifting rationale has raised questions about the nature and credibility of the threat posed by Gen. Qassem Soleimani, the architect of a decades-long reign of terror in which Iranian proxy fighters killed hundreds of Americans and contributed to the deaths of hundreds of thousands in the region. Critics of President Donald Trump’s decision say he should have consulted Congress before taking an action that brought the United State and Iran to the brink of war.
As lawmakers protested, the Trump administration seized on the “imminent threat” rationale, though Pompeo later said he didn’t know the time frame for Soleimani’s next attack and other officials indicated that there was no clear sense of the next targets either. Trump on Friday told Fox News that the threat was against four American embassies, but two days later Defense Secretary Mark Esper said he’d seen no such evidence.
In the latest round of confusion, the president maintained Monday that there was no contradiction in their comments.
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FALLOUT FROM DOWNED JETLINER CONTINUES Iran’s judiciary says arrests have been made for the accidental shootdown of a Ukrainian passenger plane that killed all 176 people on board just after takeoff from Tehran last week.
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‘I THOUGHT A WOMAN COULD WIN; HE DISAGREED’ Elizabeth Warren says Bernie Sanders told her during a private meeting two years ago that he didn’t think a woman could win the White House, an accusation Sanders denies.
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https://www.theguardian.com/world/2020/jan/13/turbulence-for-turkey-as-breakaway-parties-make-gains-on-erdogan
President, in charge for past 17 years, faces domestic political threats as troops sent to Libya
>forearmed
why do you write like a retard?
Everytime.
Can't hear you!
>hundredyearmarathon
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Merkle_tree
>XI
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2020-01-14/xi-strikes-optimistic-tone-after-riding-out-trade-war-with-trump
https://twitter.com/Nigel_Farage/status/1216772963518832641
We have just had our Union Jack flags removed from our desks in the European Parliament, by order of the President.
National symbols are now banned.
Thank god we are leaving.
Invite him. He will come.
I'm with the both of you fags
>CANADIAN nuclear scientists that got shot down in Iran
https://twitter.com/Kerryactivism/status/1215413680281718785
>More time for me to put in here to do my part in the great awakening.
Tom Fitton: The Clinton Email Scandal has Become a Clinton TEXT-MESSAGE Scandal!
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•Jan 13, 2020
That might be the worst pepe I've seen.
>Muslim Brotherhood
>stunningly brilliant & successful
>free
https://www.jpost.com/Israel-News/Abuse-of-women-children-reported-in-suspected-Jerusalem-sect-614050
Jerusalem rabbi arrested on suspicion of enslaving 50 women, children
Close to 50 enslaved women and their children were discovered during a police raid on a residential facility in Jerusalem on Monday. A 60-year-old ultra-Orthodox rabbi was arrested under suspicion of leading an abusive sect in the facility.
Police are investigating the possible abuse of children ranging from five to 11 years old in the alleged sect. Nine women, including the man’s wife, were arrested under suspicion of aiding and abetting the alleged abuse. Reported sexual abuse is also under investigation.
According to Channel 12, the man was arrested after six of the women allegedly held by him escaped and filed a report with the Israeli Center for Cult Survivors.
The girls who were recruited by the sect “were taught to disassociate themselves from their parents, their families and their friends,” the police said. There were “multiple lessons of modesty,” during which the girls were shown “hell, bravery and fire, threats and scares about the afterlife. They would put the girls’ fingers into the fire to make them understand what hell is.”
Police said further arrests would take place.
The arrested rabbi, who is under suspicion of abusing the children as well as the women, said that “nobody believes this is true.” He denied holding children in the facility, saying: “The minors in the house? Maybe they are my grandchildren who came over.” When asked whether they were held as slaves, he said: “Besides it being absurd, it is stupid.” His lawyer said, “The rabbi claims there had been a dispute between the women in the ‘seminar’ [the alleged sect] and their family members,” according to Ynet.
The alleged sect leader has been arrested in the past following complaints issued by the Israeli Center for Cult Survivors. Upon his release in 2015, he spoke to Channel 12’s (then Channel 2) Oded Ben-Ami, saying that “the vast majority of the girls go to work in the morning, and in the afternoon they take part in lessons for maybe three hours… when there were girls who did not like it in the house, I was cruel to them and forced them to try again and again and again.”
When asked on Monday how he expected the case to proceed, the rabbi answered, “Just like last time, when the police decide this thing is over.”
Witnesses who study near the facility said they “would see girls sleeping on mattresses on the roof in the cold, sometimes in the rain. We tried to call them, but they did not answer.” They said a cover was later placed over the roof “so we would not see what was happening.”
>South Africa can now strip refugees of their asylum status if they engage in any political activity related to their home countries
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Huolongjing
28-Oct-2017 4:44:28 PM EDTAnonymous4ch/pol
Jawohl!
>debates about socialism during the election
https://reclaimthenet.org/facebook-bans-denying-existence-gender-identity/
>https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-7884185/Spy-claims-New-Zealand-kicked-Five-Eyes-Chinese-influence.html
https://streamable.com/3jc00
Summarize it or get lost.
https://mobile.twitter.com/TheJusticeDept/status/1217074366594396160
https://www.justice.gov/live
Watch LIVE at 9:00 am Eastern: Department of Justice hosts a Summit on Combating #HumanTrafficking #HumanTraffickingAwarenessMonth
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clown alert
>https://twitter.com/kylejurek
>Uncle Police