US addresses attacks on Russian-held nuclear power plant
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The White House responded to reports of Ukrainian strikes on Zaporozhye by demanding the withdrawal of the Russian military

The White House on Monday called on Russia to “return full control” of the Zaporozhye nuclear power plant near Energodar to the Kiev authorities. Meanwhile, the Russian Defense Ministry accused Ukrainian forces of “nuclear terrorism” for bombarding the Russian-held facility twice since Friday.

“Fighting near a nuclear plant is dangerous,” White House press secretary Karine Jean-Pierre told reporters aboard Air Force One on Monday, flying with Preside...

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Outbreak of new virus reported in China
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Taiwan is bracing for the possible spread of a novel and potentially deadly henipavirus that spreads from animals to humans

At least 35 people in China have become infected with a novel henipavirus that apparently spreads from animals to humans, setting off alarm bells in neighboring Taiwan over a potentially dangerous pathogen.

Taiwanese laboratories will need to establish standardized testing procedures to identify the Langya henipavirus (LayV), Chuang Jen-hsiang, deputy director of Taiwan’s Centers for Disease Control (CDC), told reporters on...

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Dee Devlin celebrates 35th birthday with 'Conor' tattoo
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Dee Devlin has marked her 35th birthday with a tattoo dedicated to her fiance Conor McGregor.

Barry Keoghan shares picture of newborn son and reveals name
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Irish actor Barry Keoghan has shared a picture of his newborn son and revealed his name.

Galway charity inundated with requests to surrender dogs
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Madra has stopped taking calls from outside Galway and Mayo as a result of the massive backlog.

‘Significant deterioration’ in compliance levels in disability centres
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Information provided to Hiqa revealed there was a marked difference in overall levels of compliance.

Donegal man drowns in accident in Greece
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A Co Donegal man has died in a tragic accident while holidaying abroad.

Pales­tin­ian Is­lam­ic Ji­had says no cease­fire if mem­bers not freed
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The armed group and Is­rael dis­agree on de­tails of truce to end Gaza bom­bard­ment, rais­ing spec­tre of more vi­o­lence.
Published On 8 Aug 2022

Iran nu­clear deal could be near as EU cir­cu­lates ‘fi­nal text’
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The Eu­ro­pean Union says it is time for a po­lit­i­cal de­ci­sion, but Iran ap­pears to want more changes to the fi­nal text.
Published On 8 Aug 2022

US Pres­i­dent Joe Biden sur­veys flood dam­age in Ken­tucky
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The trip is Biden’s sec­ond to Ken­tucky, which has been hard hit by a num­ber of dev­as­tat­ing nat­ur­al dis­as­ters.
Published On 8 Aug 2022

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US an­nounces fresh mil­i­tary and fi­nan­cial aid for Ukraine
Rus­sia suf­fered 70,000 to 80,000 ca­su­al­ties – troops killed or wound­ed in ac­tion – since war be­gan, US of­fi­cial says.
Published On 8 Aug 2022

USA to provide additional $4.5 billion to Ukraine; takes the total funding to $8.5 billion
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Russia stripping its passenger jets to secure spare parts and keep airlines functioning
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Russia's airline sector is going through a tough period amid its ongoing con

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 The Masque of Pandora
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What happens when people awake to the deceit of Totalitarian-Lite posing as liberty and individualism (let alone democracy)?

Well, this piece is from the leading Establishment journal from the Deep-State-linked, Anglosphere, the Daily Telegraph:

“This is the summer before the storm. Make no mistake, with energy prices set to rise to unprecedented highs, we are approaching one of the biggest geopolitical earthquake in decades. The ensuing convulsions are likely to be of a far greater order of magnitude than those that followed the 2008 financial crash, which sparked protests culminating in the Occupy Movement and the Arab Spring …

“Carnage has already arrived in the developing world, with power outages from Cuba to South Africa. Sri Lanka is just one of a cascade of low-income countries where leaders face being driven out of power in an ignominious blaze of petrol droughts and loan defaults.

“But the West is not going to escape this Armageddon. In fact, in many ways, it looks set to be its epicentre – and Britain, its Ground Zero. In Europe and America, a technocratic élite system built on mythology and complacency is crumbling. Its founding fable – which prophesied the nation states’ glorious enmeshment in world government and supply chains – has metastasised into a parable of the perils of globalisation.

“This time, élites cannot shirk responsibility for the consequences of their fatal errors … Put simply, the emperor has no clothes: The Establishment simply has no message for voters in the face of hardship. The only vision for the future it can conjure up is Net Zero – a dystopian agenda that takes the sacrificial politics of austerity and financialisation of the world economy to new heights. But it is a perfectly logical programme for an élite that has become unhinged from the real world”.

Yes, the western sphere has become so prone to a ‘head-spinning’ disorientation (as was intended), through the constant rain of disinformation labels, stuck haphazardly across anything critical of the ‘uniform messaging’, and by outrageous, obvious lying, that a majority in the western world has begun to question their own and surrounding levels of sanity.

In their bemusement, they have come to see the ‘messaging’ of sacrificial politics and the financialisation of absolutely everything as ‘perfectly rational’. They have been rendered helpless, held immobile in a spider’s web. Bewitched.

“When I use a word,” Humpty Dumpty said in rather a scornful tone,

“it means just what I choose it to mean — neither more nor less.”

“The question is,” said Alice, “whether you can make words mean so many different things.”

“The question is,” said Humpty Dumpty, “which is to be master – – that’s all.”

(Lewis Carroll’s Through the Looking Glass)

Yes, the Beast’s Siren Call is for sacrificial politics to be levered down upon the people, whilst the horsemen of War and Pandemic all scream out that an apocalyptic hour approaches. We may call it a collective syndrome – similar to the Witch Craze of the 14th–17th Centuries – but today, the phenomenon WB Yeats termed the ‘rough beast’ with its’ gaze as ‘blank and pitiless as the sun’, is better known simply as Ideology.

The word ‘ideology’ is often used as a synonym for political ideas, a corr...

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 Israeli State Terror in Action – Again!
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By Stephen LENDMAN

On Friday, the scourge of Israeli apartheid state terror reared its ugly head again against long-suffering Gazans.

Along with its 2008-09 Cast Lead aggression and three other preemptive wars that followed, the IDF terror-bombed and shelled the Strip many times — murdering civilians, destroying vital infrastructure, attacking Gaza fishermen at sea, shooting Palestinian children for target practice.

On August 5, Israeli Yair Lapid regime terror-bombing killed at least 12 Strip residents, including a senior freedom-fighting Islamic Jihad official, injuring about 75 others, some severely, Lapid roaring:

His regime will continue terrorizing Gazans for “as long as it” takes to achieve his diabolical aims.

In response, the Al Haq human rights group condemned Israeli aggression, saying the following:

What began Friday “is the gravest escalation since Israel’s full scale military offensive on the Gaza Strip in May 2021, killing 240 Palestinians, including 151 civilians.”

In summer 2014, Israel’s previous aggression on the Strip, the Netanyahu regime’s Operation Protective Edge killed 2,192 Palestinians, including 524 children.

After creation of the Jewish state in May 1948 on stolen Palestinian land, its ruling regimes committed repeated crimes of war, against humanity and related atrocities on their long-suffering people.

Yet for the past 74 years, accountability never followed.

The US-dominated West — and world community overall — largely turns a blind eye and deaf ear to the worst of Israeli crimes, and all others.

Israel’s latest aggression is all about wanting to quash legitimate “resistance to its illegal colonial settlement expansionism, de facto and de jure annexations, while further entrenching its institutionalized regime of systematic racial discrimination and oppression on both sides of the Green Line,” Al Haq stressed.

It followed the illegal arrest of Islamic Jihad (IJ) leader, Sheikh Bassam Al-Saadi, on August 1.

Since then, IJ’s self-defense military wing, Saraya Al-Quds, has been on high alert.

Al-Haq “documented the heavy presence of military aircraft in the skies” over Gaza for the past 5 days.

The Lapid regime hardened its Gaza blockade by closing all crossings to the Strip.

Illegal blockade and closure prevents free movement of goods and people, Al Haq stressing:

The Strip’s 2 million people face what may become “a humanitarian disaster (from Israel’s) deliberate imposition of living conditions denying the right to life, and prohibited as inhuman acts as defined by the 1973 Apartheid Convention under Article 2(a)(i), 2(a)(i) and 2(b).”

IDF terror-bombing killed al-Quds Brigades commander, Taysir al-Jabari.

Murdered civilians include 5-year-old Alaa Qaddoum and her father.

According to family member, Mohammad Abu Jabal:

Alaa’s mother Rasha “is in great shock.”

“She lost her daughter and husband in a blink of an eye and left behind three children. We are all shocked.”

“What is the fault of an innocent five-year-old girl (and her father) to be killed in this way?”

According to a Gaza eye-witness to Israel’s latest state terror against its long-suffering people, his clothing blood-stained:

“(A) huge explosion hit the tower (where) we live. We ran away.”

“The sound was massive. We were very shocked as the place is full of civilians.”

“I saw many casualties (being) evacuated.”

Gaza-based activist, Rana Shubair, lives in the al-Remal neighborhood terror-bombed by IDF warplanes.

We heard “four to five loud bangs,” she said, adding:

“I was asleep and found myself waking up running, wondering what happened.”

“There was panic in the area, people running.”

“You can ima...

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