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Netanyahu in New York

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by Stephen Lendman | SteveLendmanBlog He’s not there yet, but he’s coming. Three days of torment and venomous anti-Iranian propaganda are planned. Big Apple residents will need decompression time when he leaves. His kind isn’t welcome. He’s toxic, deadly and destructive. Expect resentment to be expressed while he’s there. It’ll remain when he’s gone. He’ll [...]

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How Your Movements Are Being Tracked, Probably Without Your Knowledge

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By Tana Ganeva | Alternet In May, Utah lawmakers were surprised to learn that the US Drug Enforcement Agency had worked out a plan with local sheriffs to pack the state’s main interstate highway, I-15, with Automated License Plate Readers (ALPRs) that could track any vehicle passing through. At a hearing of the Law Enforcement [...]

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Iran, North Korea sign technology agreement

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Iran and N.Korea sign a deal

AjwAsahi Iran and North Korea have signed a scientific and technological cooperation agreement, bringing the two nations deeply at odds with the U.S. closer together. Iran’s state TV says the agreement was signed Sept. 1 in Tehran in the presence of Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad and North Korea’s No. 2, Kim Yong Nam. State TV [...]

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TEPCO reports drop in water injection rate at N-plant

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Jiji Press | Daily Yomiuri Tokyo Electric Power Co. said Friday that the amounts of water injected into the damaged reactors at its Fukushima No. 1 nuclear power plant decreased for unknown reasons. TEPCO continues to inject water into the No. 1 to No. 3 reactors at the plant, all of which have experienced fuel meltdowns, [...]

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Solar storms can destabilise Earth’s power grids at mid-latitudes

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ANI | ZeeNews The Sun is capable of disrupting electrical systems on Earth in a variety of ways, from solar flares and coronal mass ejections to proton storms, a new study has claimed. Typically, it is only objects far above the Earth’s surface, or systems at high altitudes at polar latitudes, that are considered at [...]

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Japan’s new power generation plan seeks to eliminate nuke plants by 2030

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ANI The Japanese government has unveiled its new strategy to boost power generation capacity that seeks to eliminate all nuclear power plants by 2030. While announcing the new plan, Environment Minister Goshi Hosono, said his ministry plans to increase the combined annual capacity of electricity generation using offshore wind, geothermal, biomass and tidal power sources [...]

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Did America Say No to Israel?

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Gilad Atzmon In the last few hours we have learned that the US had made massive reductions to joint military exercise with Israel. Originally slated to include 5,000 US troops, Washington will now only send 1,500 to participate in Austere Challenge 12 with Israel. Apparently, the American administration is concerned with a possible Israeli strike [...]

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Royal secret powers to be made public

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PressTV Details of secret powers of the British Queen and Prince Charles over legislation at the UK Parliament could be made public as it is ordered by the Information Commissioner. The Cabinet Office has been told to release an internal Whitehall guide on when and how the consent of the senior members of the Royal [...]

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Thousands join peaceful protest in Bahrain

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Al Jazeera Tens of thousands of people chanting anti-government slogans and holding up pictures of jailed activists have taken part in Bahrain’s first authorised opposition protest since June. No clashes occurred at Friday’s march along a three kilometre stretch of a highway west of the capital Manama. Protesters carried Bahraini flags and held up images of [...]

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