WW3 PREP - U.S. Confirms Authenticity of Secret Iran Nuke Weapons Docs, Officials See Game Over for Deal - Trump admin offls praise Netan!!!p6808

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And the pic is from August 5th. Weeks after they beheaded that child. He posed with them knowing what they'd done.
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This worth to watch as well:

the Lemniscat ‏@theLemniscat 10 hod.
Sad/weird that White Helmets were more intent on using the boy for a photoshoot than comforting him
#Aleppo @MoonofA

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The sixth submarine for the Russian Black Sea Fleet in the Sea

According to reports, August 15, 2016 began factory sea trials of a large diesel-electric submarine B-271 "Kolpino" - the last, the sixth submarine of Project 06363, built by JSC "Admiralty Shipyards" in St. Petersburg to the Black Sea Fleet of the Russian Navy.
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North Korea executes officials, imposes new controls after diplomat’s defection

North Korean officials who failed to prevent recent defections have been mown down by anti-aircraft fire in grotesque executions ordered by leader Kim Jong Un, a South Korean report said Thursday.

Citing a source, the Yonhap news agency said Kim has also moved to strengthen controls over North Koreans overseas, assigning additional security agents to monitor government missions and citizens traveling on business trips.

Kim has also ordered the families of North Korean diplomats and workers to return home after the defection of Thae Yong Ho, the deputy ambassador to London, who fled to Seoul with his wife and child. This gives the regime “hostages” to discourage defections, Yonhap’s source said.

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China eyes artificial intelligence for new cruise missiles
"We plan to adopt a 'plug and play' approach in the development of new cruise missiles, which will enable our military commanders to tailor-make missiles in accordance with combat conditions," Wang Changqing of the China Aerospace and Industry Corp told the state-run China Daily newspaper.

"Moreover, our future cruise missiles will have a very high level of artificial intelligence and automation," Wang added.

"They will allow commanders to control them in real time manner, or to use a fire-and-forget mode, or even to add more tasks to in-flight missiles."

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what will Frau Merkel say? --

German interior minister backs ban on full face veils in public places
De Maizière wants legal requirement to show face in some situations, saying full veil ‘does not belong’ in Germany
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off Africa's west coast --

Nigeria foils hijacking of British-flagged merchant tanker
... Commodore Christian Ezekobe said in a statement yesterday the navy deployed a warship after receiving a distress call on Wednesday that pirates were about to hijack the MT Vectis Osprey 20 nautical miles off Bonny in southern Rivers state.
"NNS Nwamba engaged the attackers on approaching the vessel which made them abandon their mission due to superior fire power," he said.
"To this end, naval special forces onboard the warship embarked and rescued the crew who locked up themselves in a citadel in the merchant tanker," he said.
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Pirates chased away from British freighter by Nigerian warship
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WATCH: A virtual tour of Syria’s most notorious torture prison
Researchers and architects interviewed torture survivors to create plan of little-known facility just outside Damascus
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Inside Saydnaya: Syria's Torture Prison

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Thats ~200 cruise missiles. + Caspian fleet didn`t shoot yet.

f*ck that bitch!

OT -- 7.4-magnitude quake shakes southern Atlantic Ocean: USGS
... There was no immediate tsunami warning.
The quake struck at 5:32 am local time (0732 GMT) at a depth of 10 kilometers. It was centered east-southeast of the British administered South Georgia and South Sandwich Islands. [link to www.yahoo.com (secure)]

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no buoys in that area recognized by this site [link to www.ndbc.noaa.gov]

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Conflict News @Conflicts 4h4 hours ago
PHOTOS: #SDF releases images of #ISIS fleeing #Manbij with human shields - @SDF_Press_1
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Strasbourg, France; pics at link --

8m8 minutes ago
UPDATE: Jewish Rabbi stabbed by a Muslim attacker on the street,moderately injured, attacker overpowered by passerby [link to twitter.com (secure)]

31m31 minutes ago
BREAKING: Jewish man stabbed by a Muslim in Strasbourg France, he was lightly- moderately injured,attacker arrested.

Russia Bars McCain’s Democracy Group as Security Threat

... The International Republican Institute poses “a threat to the foundations of the constitutional system of the Russian Federation and state security,” the Prosecutor General’s Office said in a statement Thursday. Another non-governmental organization, the Media Development Investment Fund, was also blacklisted under a law signed by President Vladimir Putin last year.

The decision “says more about Vladimir Putin than it does about IRI,” the Washington-based institute said in a statement. “It’s further proof that he fears democracy and allowing his people to have an opportunity to shape their own future.”

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RAJ ‏@rajfortyseven · 10 hod.
#China #PLAAF #H6G over Sea of Japan with 2long rails under each wing suggesting 4 X YJ-12s.Wow!Would be devastating

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STRASBOURG: A religious Jew injured after a knife attack. The attacker reportedly shouted "Allah Akhbar". @ LeJDD [link to twitter.com (secure)]

and then the BS response for the masses --
ATTACK STRASBOURG: Monitoring - The perpetrator was arrested. According @ leJDD he had a psychiatric history.

Conflict News ‏@Conflicts · 1 min.
BREAKING: Putin 'arrives in #Crimea' as tensions high with Ukraine - AFP

Can you imagine that some mad Ukrop would try to assassinate him?

:hidetomato:

Conflict News @Conflicts 2m2 minutes ago
BREAKING: Putin 'arrives in #Crimea' as tensions high with Ukraine - AFP
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Here's video of the reported kidnapping --

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#Breaking: Kurdistan Workers’ Party claims responsibility for a series of attacks in Turkey, targeting police.
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Chinese General commits suicide, third in a week

... He took a large number of sleeping pills on August 5 in the dormitory of a subordinate regiment in Shenzhen. It was a pity," the Post quoted sources as saying.
Chen was the third senior PLA officer to have ended his life within a week since the beginning of the month, it said.
The first in the trio of suicides was a publicity director of a political office of the Southern Theatre Command based in Nanjing.
Then Senior Captain Li Fuwen, director of the navy s logistics enterprises management centre, leaped to his death from a building in the navy complex in Beijing on Friday last week, it said.

more [link to www.thestatesman.com]

the ships and auxiliary vessels of the Black Sea Fleet are practicing providing logistics and maintenance support for warships and submarines, including the task of towing a vessel in distress.
The logistics forces are practicing extinguishing a fire aboard a warship, carrying out electromagnetic treatment of ships and restoring vessels’ technical readiness at sea.
"Specifically, this effort involves degaussing ships, floating repair workshops, tankers of various category for refueling at sea and armament transporters delivering missiles, torpedoes and mines to warships, and also other logistic vessels," the deputy defense minister said.


"The maneuvers are also practicing measures to provide technical support, evacuate combat hardware from the battlefield, transport a large number of combat hardware pieces and supplies, carry out metrological measures and ensure mass refueling of combat hardware and aircraft, using a modern PSG-600 field fuel depot, which receives various sorts of fuel from a tanker," the deputy defense minister said.

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#Russia:Port Kavkaz, Krasnodar Krai, Russian military hardware embarking on the ferry to #Crimea,18th of august 2016
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261 refugees & migrants arrived in Greece in last 24 hours
... According to the Greek Migration Coordination body 139 people arrived in Lesvos, 61 in Chios, 18 in Samos, 15 in Leros and 28 in Karpathos.
171 people were rescued off the islands of Lesvos and Chios by the Greek Coast Guard. . .

3,650 in April
1,721 in May
1,554 in June
1,855 in July
1,577 in first 17 days of August.
Of course, there is a strong decrease of arrivals when compared to the first three months of 2016.
January 67,415
February 57,066
March 26,971

more [link to www.keeptalkinggreece.com]