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8th March 2015, 14:50

Norway to restructure military in response to Russian 'aggression'

Norway’s defence minister has said her country’s armed forces will be restructured so they can respond faster to what she called increased Russian aggression.

Soreide said Norway was stepping up military cooperation with the Baltic states – Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania – as a means of reassuring them that they were fully covered by Nato’s collective security umbrella. Furthermore, Norway was “absolutely” ready to expand training of Ukrainian soldiers, she said, predicting that more Nato states would follow the British example of dispatching trainers and non-lethal equipment to support Ukraine.

Link: http://www.theguardian.com/world/2015/feb/25/norway-to-restructure-military-in-response-to-russian-aggression

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“Johanna Granville’s Presentation ‘Maidan and Beyond: The Media Blackout in Ukraine’”

March 07, 2015

by James L. Coffin, Ph.D.

The lack of any real debate in the Western media on Ukraine has irked me ever since the protests on Kiev’s Independence Square or Maidan Nezalezhnosti broke out in November 2013. The anti-Russian bias is so prevalent that perhaps average readers no longer detect it. In this post I would like to report on a very interesting presentation I heard and the disturbingly biased coverage of it in a Bulgarian student newspaper, which points to an alarming lack of critical thinking skills in today’s young adult population.

Given the deafening drumbeat of condemnation of Russia, and specifically Putin, I found Johanna Granville’s multimedia presentations on November 10 (“Ukraine: Another Yugoslavia?”) and especially November 19 (“Beyond Maidan: The Media Blackout in Ukraine”) at the American University in Bulgaria (AUBG) both refreshing and informative. While much of the information is already familiar to members of the Vineyard of the Saker community, the presentation invites analysis of the negative trend of repeated false flags in 2014 ever since the “Euromaidan revolution,” which so many uninformed citizens gullibly championed.

Granville is the author of numerous scholarly articles, a book (The First Domino: International Decision Making During the Hungarian Crisis of 1956), and is the winner of two Fulbright lectureships in Russia and Hungary (see her website here: http://www.johannagranville.com/). She was conducting research in Ukraine for her second book when the Maidan revolts began. After delighting the audience on November 19 with a three-minute introduction in Bulgarian, paying tribute to AUBG founding father John Dimitri Panitza, Dr. Granville noted the decline in press freedom around the world today. According to the Reporters Without Borders’ press freedom index for 2014, the United States ranks 46th, Ukraine 127th, and the Russian Federation 148th. (She cautioned that the Reporters Without Borders organization is itself supported by the U.S.-funded National Endowment for Democracy). All too often “freedom of information is sacrificed in the name of national security,” she stated. “If you get nothing else out of my presentation, remember this: we must not swallow uncritically anything we read in any one country’s newspapers,” she said. “To get the truth these days, a thinking person must dig for real facts and evidence.” Dr. Granville, who was AUBG’s first Panitza Memorial Professor of Communist Studies, selected three events in 2014 by which to illustrate the Ukrainian media’s biased coverage: the snipers’ killings at Kiev’s Maidan (February 20), the Odessa massacre (May 2), and the shootdown of the Malaysian airline (July 17).

Hired to teach “East European History in the Twentieth Century,” which covered the period of Soviet communist domination over the “satellite” countries, Granville cannot be described as a Russophile. She is simply a diligent, impartial researcher. She prefaced her remarks by stating that her essay was exploratory and intended to encourage debate. Her sources included independently funded blogs by investigative journalists and analysts not subject to government or corporate censorship (like Vineyard of the Saker). When citing from the Russian press, she corroborated her findings with other independent sources.

Snipers’ Massacre on Maidan

We have heard it repeatedly: that former Ukrainian president Viktor Yanukovych ordered Berkut anti-riot police to open fire on unarmed protesters, and that “Russian agents” participated in the killings. In his speech to the U.S. Congress on September 18, 2014, current Ukrainian president Petro Poroshenko repeated this line, adding that the overthrow of the Yanukovych government resulted from mass peaceful protests against police violence. Granville presented some arguments that make me question this standard version.

First, take the Kiev regime’s cover-up and use of scapegoats. All recordings of live TV and internet broadcasts of the snipers’ massacre have been erased from Ukrainian websites. The results of ballistic, weapons, and medical examinations were declared classified. Even trees on Maidan with bullet holes were cut down. In her Power Point presentation, Granville showed photos of Dmytro Sadovnyk, the Berkut commander whom the Ukrainian Prosecutor General accused of killing 39 protesters at Maidan on February 20. There’s just one problem: Sadovnyk can’t shoot a gun very well. His right hand was blown off by a grenade six years earlier.

“Evidence suggests that the snipers were in fact from the Maidan opposition and/or from a third party of professional snipers, and that they shot at both unarmed protesters and policemen,” Granville attested. She drew upon published interviews, time-stamped live videos, and the meticulous research of Dr. Ivan Katchanovski of the University of Ottawa, who examined 30 gigabytes of intercepted radio exchanges of the Alfa and Omega units of the Ukrainian Security Service, the Berkut riot police, and anti-government protesters during the entire Maidan uprising.

One interview she cited was that of the former chief of Ukraine’s Security Service Aleksandr Yakimenko, published on March 13, 2014. According to Yakimenko, shooters were spotted in at least twelve buildings around the square that were forcibly occupied by the Maidan opposition, but Maidan “Commandant” Andriy Parubiy refused to allow Yakimenko’s armed men from entering the square. (Parubiy later became Secretary of the National Security and Defense Council of Ukraine until early August 2014. He is co-founder – with Oleh Tyahnybok – of the ultra right-wing Svoboda Party.)

Granville also cited the April 2, 2014 interview by Yanukovych, in which he denied ever ordering the Berkut police to shoot unarmed Ukrainian citizens. Furthermore, at a May 13 press conference, according to Granville, Ukrainian parliamentary investigation head Gennady Moskal stated that the bullets that killed both unarmed protesters and Berkut police in Kiev on February 20 did not match any of the firearms issued to Berkut’s special unit. This is interesting, when coupled with the testimony of Dr. Olha Bohomolets, who averred that the same type of bullets were extracted from the wounds in both protesters and police. Dr. Bohomolets performed emergency operations at the triage center during the Maidan shootings. Her testimony was alluded to in the famous leaked phone call between Estonian Foreign Minister Urmas Paet and the EU foreign affairs chief Catherine Ashton on February 25. Gennady Moskal predicted decades of debate on this mystery of the snipers, since several key documents were destroyed.

Granville pointed out other evidence typically ignored by the Ukrainian media. This included videos showing members of the paramilitary group Right Sector leaving the Hotel Dnipro with large cases, which they called “musical instruments.” It also included radio intercepts of Maidan opposition fighters, positioning themselves on top floors in occupied buildings around the square. She played excerpts from these recordings, whereby the audience could hear Maidan protesters calling for access to open windows and referring to the Berkut in the third person. Their cameramen and shooters were apparently working together. Their words were audible in Russian at 0.22 in this video: “You must show how the people are being shot and how they fall to the ground.” Some of the photos of armed Berkut police may be misleading, Granville argues. In some cases, according to live videos, they are shooting at the dirt in front of unarmed protesters in order to get them to retreat. The videos show dirt sprays, not bodies falling to the ground. See here at 13:09–14:13.

As many as ten unarmed Berkut policemen were fatally shot earlier on February 18, which prompted the government’s decision to bring in armed security forces. That allowed later killings realistically to be blamed solely on the Berkut police. Granville posed the question: Would Berkut police have shot at their own fellow officers? At least thirteen Berkut police died and 189 were wounded by gun shots. Curiously, no one has been arrested for shooting the policemen. Ironically, Maidan opposition leaders sought to appoint Andriy Parubiy to head the investigation of snipers’ attacks, the same man who apparently prevented Yakimenko’s men from entering the square to eliminate the snipers from the surrounding buildings.

Odessa Massacre

Three months after Maidan, on May 2, another tragic loss of life occurred, this time in Odessa, a key port city all the more valued after Russia’s annexation of Crimea in March. “Citizens in Odessa call it the ‘Odessa Massacre’ or the ‘Odessa Genocide,’ but the Ukrainian media typically refers to it as the ‘Odessa arson case,’” Granville said. The official version of this event in the Ukrainian media goes something like this. On May 2 several thousand young Ukrainians gathered to watch a soccer game, Chornomorets Odessa vs. Metalist Kharkiv. A traditional march for a “United Ukraine” was planned, with the opposing teams marching together. Before the march, “some 400 pro-Russian protesters” were “armed with guns, bats and sticks and wore bulletproof vests and helmets”, while most of the “Ukrainian patriots” were unarmed. These “armed pro-Russian separatists” shot into the crowd of ultranationalist football fans, killing at least one. The crowd of young, pro-Kiev football fans and Right Sector members then rushed over to Kulikovo Field. There they set fire to the tents in front of the Trade Unions building, where allegedly “radical” “heavily armed” pro-Russian “separatists” were camping out. Warned that these pro-Kiev radicals were coming to attack them, these protesters barricaded themselves in the large Trade Unions Building. “Russian citizens” disguised themselves as separatists and provoked the crowd. Official reports state that about forty-six died of asphyxiation. In differing later accounts, six died of falls from windows and as many as thirty-two from chloroform gas. The building, they state, was set on fire by the pro-Russian rebels themselves. In an unfortunate case of “accidental self-immolation,” these rebels hurled a Molotov cocktail at a closed window, which then ricocheted back into the room and ignited.

Other versions state that it is not known how the building caught on fire. “The Ukrainian Interior Ministry stated that 172 people were arrested after the tragedy, and that the majority of detainees were identified as Russian nationals and residents of Transnistria,” Granville said. “Never before has such a gruesome event been so amply videotaped.”

Testimonies of survivors and eyewitnesses, plus unedited videos by local Odessa citizens paint an entirely different picture of this event. The individuals trapped in the burning building were in fact all local Odessa citizens, Granville noted. Videos actually show Right Sector radicals removing passports and wallets from corpses after the fire. (See here at 46:06). This enabled authorities to claim later that the deceased were Russian citizens. Survivors state that perhaps as many as one hundred and sixteen people were trapped in the building’s basement, and that they died not exclusively from asphyxiation, falls, or burns, but also from gunshots and dismemberment by axes. One woman had been raped, and another pregnant woman strangled. The victims were unarmed (see here at 46:17), and included women, children, elderly men, and World War Two veterans. Several videos clearly depict Right Sector girls preparing Molotov cocktails and pro-Kiev radicals hurling the cocktails from without the building.

They show young men on the roof, throwing the first cocktails at the tents well before the football fans had even arrived at Kulikovo field. Still other videos show the radicals entering the building even before the pro-Russian protesters took refuge there, which would explain Molotov cocktails igniting from within the building. Even more mysterious is the footage of allegedly pro-Russian radicals and Odessa policemen wearing red armbands. (See here at 3:07). Granville showed photos of the Odessa deputy police chief, colonel Dmitry Fucheji, conferring with one red armbanded protester. The first Molotov cocktail hurlers atop the Trade Unions building were also wearing the red armbands, as was a young radical filmed shooting into the crowd of football fans in the center of town before the fire was set at Kulikovo field. (See here at 2:51 and here at 1:41:18-1:42:08).

Live videos place Andriy Parubiy in Odessa on April 30 and May 1, two days before the massacre. (Recall that Parubiy is reportedly the man who barred Yakimenko’s armed men from entering Maidan to eliminate the snipers and who was later appointed Secretary of the National Security and Defense Council). He is seen distributing bullet-proof vests to the pro-Kiev militants, including the 33-year-old Maidan Self-Defense activist and later captain of the Interior Ministry’s “Storm Battalion”, Mykola Volkov. Granville showed video stills of the porcine Volkov shooting into the Trade Unions Building and mentioned that Ukrainian police since 2012 have sought to arrest Volkov for fraud. (See here at 1:15-1:28.)

As with the snipers’ massacre, Granville identified in the Odessa case classic signs of a cover-up. First, authorities were quick to blame Russia before any investigation was conducted. Prime Minister Yatseniuk visited Odessa the following day, May 3, and told reporters, “We are at war with Russia,” and that this was “a well-planned Russian terrorist plot.” Second, although a parliamentary investigatory commission was appointed, key public figures refused to testify, including Parubyi, chief of Ukraine’s Security Council Valentin Nalivaichenko, and Interior Minister Arsen Avakov. Third, the commission’s report cut out, among other things, the roles of the Odessa region’s governor Vladimir Nemirovsky and Andrei Yusov, head of the Odessa branch of the heavyweight boxing champion Vitali Klitschko’s “Udar” party. Witnesses had testified that Nemirovsky had bussed in about 500 Right Sector members from Lviv in western Ukraine, and that Yusov instigated the pro-Kiev nationalists to burn the tents in front of the Trade Union building. The published version of the commission’s report was so doctored that parliament member Svetlana Fabrikant, the secretary of the commission, later withdrew her signature. Granville points out that if the Odessa Massacre – which resulted in the deaths of at least 48 pro-Russian protesters – really was a “Russian terrorist plot,” presumably the Ukrainian officials would want to cooperate in the investigation. She concluded that, “rather than being a ‘well-planned Russian terrorist plot,’ the Odessa Massacre was probably a deliberate provocation: pro-Kiev militants posing as pro-Russians and deliberately shooting at their own, to incite the mob and turn them on the real pro-Russian demonstrators at Kulikovo Field.”

MH17 Takedown

Two months after the Odessa Massacre, on July 17, the Malaysian airline (MH17) was shot down in the east Ukrainian region of Donetsk. In contrast to the snipers’ killings at Maidan and the Odessa fire, this was truly an international crisis, involving the death of 298 people, most of them Dutch, Belgian, or Australian nationals. Granville drew upon the Corbett Report, and the well-researched articles and interviews on this website and others. Within twenty-four hours of the crash, Granville told us, the Kiev government stated that it had “conclusive evidence” that Russia had supplied pro-Russian rebels with a Buk surface-to-air missile, and that these rebels – who controlled the region of Donetsk – had shot down the Malaysian airline, either accidentally or intentionally. Granville played a video excerpt from U.S. President Barack Obama’s address on July 18, in which he implicated Russia, stating that it was not the first time that pro-Russian rebels had shot down lower-flying Ukrainian military aircraft. “We know that these rebels have received arms, training, and anti-aircraft weapons from Russia,” Obama said. He then called for a credible “international investigation”.

Granville outlined the alleged evidence of Russian involvement commonly cited in Ukrainian newspapers, which includes: 1) a YouTube video of communications allegedly between a Russian military commander and pro-Russian rebel, discussing the Buk; 2) a YouTube video of the Buk (uncovered by a tarp) being driven supposedly across the Russian border at Krasnodon, missing a couple of missiles; 3) a comment on the VKontakte page of Russian national Igor Strelkov (real name Igor Girkin) posted thirty-five minutes after the MH17 crash, in which he supposedly wrote “We have warned them not to fly in our sky.”

As Granville explained, there is no way to confirm the identities of the two masked men labeled “Major” and “Grek” depicted in static photos on the video. In the third part of the video an unnamed rebel says he can see “Malaysia Airlines” written on the plane, which is hard to believe, since the wreckage was spread over several kilometers in pieces. The other Buk video has been traced to the city of Luhansk, fifty kilometers from Krasnodon, an area that was indeed under the control of the Ukrainian army, not that of the rebels, on July 18, when the video was made. Finally, Strelkov’s supposed VKontakte account cannot be directly traced to him. Even if it was, Strelkov possibly thought at first that his men had indeed shot a plane down, but that it was a small military aircraft. Granville warned that none of these social media sources can be verified and are unreliable. They have all been thoroughly debunked by contributors in the Saker community.

When one considers Russia’s nuclear status, and the MH17 takedown as a potential casus belli (like the Lusitania or Gulf of Tonkin incident), making unjustified accusations is extremely reckless. The Russians denied supplying Buk missile launchers to the separatists. The Ukrainian military, incidentally, possesses several of them. On July 18 the Russian government formally asked Ukrainian authorities ten questions. Granville provided the list. They included questions such as: On what evidence are accusations about Russia’s involvement based on? Why were Buk missile launchers deployed by the Ukrainian army in this conflict zone, since the self-defense forces don’t have any planes? Why did Kiev’s air traffic controllers tell the MH17 to fly fourteen kilometers off the normal route, directly over the war zone? Why did Ukraine’s Security Service start working with Kiev air traffic control recordings without waiting for international investigators? Will the Ukrainians provide data regarding the movements of Ukrainian warplanes on July 17? How does Kiev explain the comments by a Spanish air traffic controller regarding two Ukrainian military planes flying alongside the MH17?

Granville mentioned that the Russians startled everyone further by holding a press conference on July 21, 2014 in which military officials presented their own satellite and radar data. They stated that “there was a Ukrainian Air Force jet, probably Su-25, climbing and approaching” the MH17 just minutes before the airline disappeared. The Su-25 carries R60 air-to-air missiles as ammunition. Granville gave a timeline of events. On July 21 the black boxes were handed over to the Malaysians, who then sent them to London for an independent investigation. On August 8, the official investigation of the crash was finished. An agreement was signed between Ukraine, Netherlands, Belgium, and Australia to keep the findings of the long-awaited investigation classified. (For some reason, Malaysia – the country that lost an expensive airplane – had no say in this decision and, in fact, was originally excluded from the Joint Investigation Team until November 2014). The Kiev-based Prosecutor Yuri Boychenko stated that the results will be published only if all four countries give their consent, and any one of the countries can veto without explanation. This is quite astonishing, given President Obama’s strident calls for an “independent” international investigation and the endless tragic images the media has fed the world community. On August 19, Russia addressed the UN Security Council, asking for Kiev’s air traffic control records. Granville informed us that, according to Annex 13 of the Convention on International Civil Aviation, “The investigator-in-charge shall have unhampered access to the wreckage and all relevant material, including flight recorders and ATS records, and shall have unrestricted control over it to ensure that a detailed examination can be made without delay”. See here on page 39. On the day of the crash, the BBC reported: “Ukraine’s SBU security service has confiscated recordings of conversations between Ukrainian air traffic control officers and the crew of the doomed airliner, a source in Kiev has told Interfax news agency.”

Granville reminded us that all U.S. surveillance satellite imagery is also missing. This is all the more glaring, since the shootdown of the MH17 coincided with the ten-day NATO military exercise in the Black Sea code-named “BREEZE 2014.” NATO ships and aircraft had the Donetsk and Luhansk regions under total radar and electronic surveillance. U.S. officials have repeated publicly that their judgment is based on sensors tracing the Buk missile’s trajectory, voice print analysis of separatists’ conversations, and patterns of shrapnel in the debris. However, we should remember that none of this hard data has actually been presented to the public. If the Russians or the rebels of eastern Ukraine really are responsible, then why won’t the Kiev and Washington governments simply publicize their records?

Can we verify the Russians’ data about a Ukrainian air force jet approaching the MH17? Yes, according to Granville. She cited the BBC report by Olga Ivshina published on July 23, 2014. Ivshina interviewed Ukrainian villagers who saw one or two military planes flying next to MH17 before it blew up. The BBC later tried to scrub the internet of this report, claiming that it did not conform to the newspaper’s “editorial values,” but it has been preserved here. By contrast, no reliable eyewitnesses have claimed to see a Buk launch or plume. To drive her point home, Granville played a video showing the loud takeoff of a Buk missile and the white fluffy plume that typically remains in the sky. “Do you think you would have remembered this if you saw it in the sky after hearing loud explosions?” she asked. “The sound of a Buk missile launch can be heard within a radius of ten kilometers. It vibrates the earth all around for two kilometers. On that day there was very little wind. A plume like this would have remained in the sky for at least ten minutes,” Granville said. She also played the video of a villager who captured the crash as it happened. No Buk plume is visible. (The report by British social media blogger Eliot Higgins, claiming that residents saw the BUK smoke trail has been discredited by the Saker and others. Higgins of the blog “Bellingcat” is the same blogger who claimed the Syrian government was behind the sarin gas attack in Ghouta on August 21, 2013).

Granville also played a recording of OSCE monitor Michael Bociurkiw’s interview with Susan Ormiston of CBC News on July 28, 2014. Bociurkiw arrived at the crash scene when the wreckage was still smouldering. He noted three pieces of fuselage that were “pockmarked” by “heavy machine gun-like fire,” and told Ormiston there was no evidence that a missile brought down the plane. The hypothesis of Peter Haisenko, a German national and retired Lufthansa pilot, also interested the audience. Haisenko observed small holes in the wreckage consistent with a 30 millimeter caliber projectile (which is the size of the cannon in an SU-25 military plane). A fragmentation blast from a Buk missile, on the other hand, is not capable of producing neatly aligned round holes. Haisenko also detected larger holes, some of which were inbound, others which were outbound. “This is what you would have if the plane were shot at from more than one direction, for example, from below and from alongside the plane,” Granville said. A Buk missile attacks only in one direction. Haisenko’s findings also fit with the Saker’s here and Colonel Cassad’s here, namely that both R-60 missiles and the SU-25’s cannons were used. Cassad found no cross-shaped traces that the Buk’s projectiles typically leave, and also conjectured that the explosion of firepower was no more than five meters from the MH17, further ruling out a BUK attack.

Still more chilling, Haisenko surmised that the most heavily pockmarked piece fit directly over the cockpit, suggesting that the pilot’s stomach was probably targeted directly. If true, Granville said, this would explain why there (apparently) was no “May Day” distress signal on the voice recorder, according to air traffic controllers from Dnepropetrovsk.

Granville ended with the curious case of Jose Carlos Barrios Sanchez, the Spanish national the Russians had asked the Kiev regime about. Apparently he was employed as an air traffic controller in Kiev’s Boryspil airport and tweeted minutes before the plane disappeared: “Plane shot down, no accident… [Military] has taken over air traffic control. Before they remove my phone or break my head, shot down by Kiev.” Sanchez wrote that the MH17 was “escorted by two Ukrainian fighter planes” just minutes before disappearing from the radar. This Twitter account (spain@buca) was deleted soon after the tweets, but the account has remained in internet archives. It was opened in August 2010 and contains several photos of the Boryspil airport. “Even if you discount this as a hoax,” Granville told the audience, “consider the timing of the tweets: 3:15 pm Kiev time, the same time air traffic control lost contact with MH17. It shows that at least someone had inside information.” Presumably the Kiev authorities would not implicate themselves. If it were somehow the Russians, to throw the blame on Kiev, one would think Ukrainian reporters would investigate the story in depth. Instead, the Ukrainian and Western press ignore the issue.

Thus, as with the Maidan and Odessa killings, Granville states, to date we lack incontrovertible proof that the Russians were directly or indirectly responsible for the MH17 crash. The official report of the Joint Investigation Team is due around October 2015. In all three cases, we see signs of an official cover-up, stonewalling, and destruction of evidence. The lack of a Russian motive and opportunity in each case should also give us pause. Surely Moscow would not benefit by employing snipers to infuriate a crowd already angry at Yanukovych – a pro-Russian leader – prompting him to leave Kiev, and hence enabling Maidan opposition leaders to seize power. Likewise, it is hard to see how Moscow could benefit by the deaths of a hundred or more pro-Russian peaceful demonstrators in Odessa or how Russians could even infiltrate the local Odessa police force. Certainly neither the Putin government nor the rebels in Donetsk could benefit by shooting down a large civilian airline. Critics point out that it was an accident. If that is the case, one wonders why Russia was punished with a second round of sanctions. Granville points out that on July 29, a week after the takedown, the Obama Administration was able to persuade Germany to move ahead with this second round of sanctions against Russia. Within hours of the shootdown, Israel launched its ground invasion of Gaza, its air assault having begun on July 7. The crash also enabled the Kiev government to paint the pro-Russian rebels and Russia as responsible for what is essentially a civil war, not a “foreign invasion”.

A vigorous question-and-answer period followed this presentation at the American University in Bulgaria (AUBG). Granville shared her personal survey results and videotaped excerpts from interviews with citizens in Kiev and western Ukrainian cities, and also explained the results of the recent elections in Ukraine. After the applause died down, I overheard numerous positive comments from colleagues and students sitting around me. From the Provost Steven Fenter Sullivan, Associate Professor of Economics, came: “Granville’s talk was a success – well-structured, and certainly topical.” Pierangelo I. Castagneto, chair of the History and Civilizations department, said “It was concise and challenged the version in the Western media.” Tamara Peneva Todorova, Associate Professor of Economics, concurred, saying “Even people who may have disagreed with Johanna Granville were convinced that she had done a tremendous amount of research. She had interviewed local Ukrainian citizens in the Russian, Ukrainian, and Hungarian languages.” Dinka H. Spirovska, Assistant Professor of Journalism and Mass Communication, stated, “I thoroughly enjoyed Granville’s presentation. She condensed complex material in forty minutes and raised important questions.”

Compliments came from students as well. From Vladimir S. Todev, I heard: “Honestly, Professor Granville’s talk was the most interesting one I have heard at AUBG. Until now I was pro-Ukrainian, but now I’m not so sure. It showed a lot of respect for us Bulgarians that Granville began her lecture in Bulgarian, which was quite good for a non-native speaker. I also appreciated the photos from her travels in Ukraine. The event drew a large crowd and several student reporters attended.” Journalism major Tereza L. Denkova, a junior, said “The photo exhibition first caught my eye as I entered the room. Next was the soft cello music which I later realized was by Professor Granville, an accomplished cellist. I was amazed by her interviews in several languages and her efforts to dig so deeply for information.” From Irina Sotirova I heard, “I was surprised to learn that the same bullets killed both protesters and policemen, that there were no witnesses who heard the Buk launch, and that the results of the international investigation are still classified. I liked the way Granville presented both sides. A lot of people asked questions afterwards, and she had thoughtful answers.” Tsvetiana S. Zaharieva, another junior, agreed: “It was a very interesting talk that made me think deeply about the trustworthiness of the media. I wonder how many similar ‘blackouts’ have distorted the recording of history. Professor Granville prepared a solid Power Point presentation with many audio and video clips.”

Student Media Bias at AUBG

Having heard such favorable remarks, I was rather bewildered to read the two reports in the student-run online newspaper, the AUBG Daily, that were published on December 10, nearly a month after the November 19 event. Oddly, the 19-year-old reporter from Vitebsk, Belarus ignored the most plausible points, for example, those concerning the testimonies of Michael Bociurkiw and Peter Haisenko about bullet-like holes in MH17’s fuselage and NATO’s military exercise in the Black Sea. At other times she listed without any context other credible pieces of evidence. An especially glaring oversight is her failure to mention Granville’s boots-on-the-ground experience in Ukraine, her extensive preparation, and the uniformly positive response from the audience. This includes the enthusiastic remarks I myself made during a videotaped interview with the reporter’s classmate shortly after Granville’s presentation.

Apparently the reporter was so hard-pressed to find any dissatisfied members of the audience that, in her other article, she had to solicit comments on the public lecture from someone who did not even attend it–a former AUBG professor who was not even in Bulgaria on November 19! In another case, she interviewed a skeptical visiting professor who cites the “preponderance of evidence” that allegedly proves Granville wrong about the MH17 crash, but then does not provide any such evidence – as if by dint of stating that the speaker is wrong makes her wrong, despite all the supporting material she provided. I noticed that many Ukrainians attended, including some from Crimea who supported the Russian annexation. Strangely, the reporter chose to interview just one, a nationalist Ukrainian from Kharkiv, who alluded to “facts that directly contradict” Granville’s view, but then did not provide any. This fits a familiar pattern in the Ukrainian and Western media coverage of the MH17 crash; by blaming Putin’s Russia, we make Russia solely responsible for the war in Ukraine. No hard evidence need be given. If a spokesman from a NATO member country states that he “knows” something or says confidently “we have evidence” (but shows none), he is automatically believed, whereas genuine data – if it originates from a Russian source – is automatically discounted. One has only to watch how State Department spokesperson Marie Harf feebly ducks the penetrating questions of Associated Press correspondent Matt Lee to see such a pattern.

This fact-free, ad hominem approach starkly contrasts with Granville’s crisp, evidence-based analysis. The student-run periodical has consistently reported on the Ukrainian conflict entirely from a pro-Kiev perspective, either without citing any news sources at all or citing exclusively CNN, a news channel whose staged events, bias, and falsehoods on conflicts in Syria, Iraq, Iran, Bahrain, and a host of other places is well-documented. To be sure, we all learn ultimately by doing, and the idea is to give students the experience and responsibility. However, as I later found out, writers for this student gazette (including first-semester freshmen) are not currently being trained on how to evaluate sources, examine both sides of an issue, and abide by the rules of responsible journalism. The Bulgarian student newspaper’s bias is all the more ironic, since Granville’s key message, stressed throughout the November 19 presentation, was that a democratic society depends on a free, unbiased press. She emphasized from the start the need to examine sources and to check facts.

In an era when politicians practically own media empires, young people today might get the idea that the media is simply an instrument of one side or another. The boundary between media and PR has become very blurred. Educators today need to remind students (West and East) that there exists a “higher calling” for investigative journalism. Truth is not relative. Without rigorous training in critical thinking skills and guarding against bias, journalists and their newspapers can easily become instruments of war.

“In all three cases, we are talking about war crimes,” Granville stated passionately in her conclusion, while Apple’s 1984 TV ad about Big Brother played silently behind her. “Innocent people have died in the sniper attacks on Maidan, the massacre in Odessa, and the shootdown of the Malaysian airliner. What we need to do as individuals is to keep asking the hard questions and demanding real evidence, rather than passively accept what we read in the mainstream media. We need to hold government officials accountable.”

I couldn’t agree more. As the Saker wrote recently, the Western media is “mounting a truly heroic effort into not mentioning the MH17 topic, as if it had never happened.” If more people and organizations around the world – not just Russian ones – demand the truth, the truth about the MH17 catastrophe might not disappear so easily into the memory hole as just one more “conspiracy theory.”

Dr. James Coffin was a Balkan Scholar at the American University in Bulgaria in 2013-2014, as well as Director Emeritus of the Center for International Programs at Ball State University in Indiana. An anthropologist, he examines how developing societies cope with pressures from developed societies and has developed programs to train anthropologists in fieldwork overseas.

Link: http://thesaker.is/johanna-granvilles-presentation-maidan-and-beyond-the-media-blackout-in-ukraine/

Ron Mauer Sr

8th March 2015, 15:27

We are living in exciting times, Iran and Russia are protecting Kurdistan by crushing isis...

when Rothschild is saying I'm under attack, and I will start WW III over this...

it's time to direct energies to those who want to end it.

By almost any measure of so many events ... it would seem to be we are approaching ... "crunch time" ...

When the west demonizes others, one reason is to start another war by gathering public support with one or more false flag events.

Another reason to start a war is to divert attention away from banksters and corrupt governments who destroy economies, and assign blame for economic failure on the opposition.

Another benefit to an invader is to steal another countries gold. Libya comes to mind.

With recognition of economic failure so close, this does appear to be "crunch time" or the "end game".

I do hope those who are "friends in high places" at least neuter the nuclear weapons.

Rocky_Shorz

9th March 2015, 03:07

We are living in exciting times, Iran and Russia are protecting Kurdistan by crushing isis...

when Rothschild is saying I'm under attack, and I will start WW III over this...

it's time to direct energies to those who want to end it.

By almost any measure of so many events ... it would seem to be we are approaching ... "crunch time" ...

Thousands of Israelis rally against Netanyahu

http://www.skynews.com.au/content/dam/skynews/news/world/mideast/2015/03/08/skynews_688445905.jpg/jcr:content/renditions/skynews.img.1200.745.jpeg

"Tens of thousands of Israelis have rallied in Tel Aviv against Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, calling for 'change' 10 days ahead of the country's general election.

The protest was organized by the Million Hands grassroots organization that campaigns for a peace agreement between Israel and the Palestinians and the creation of a Palestinian state..." link (http://www.skynews.com.au/news/world/mideast/2015/03/08/thousands-of-israelis-rally-vs-netanyahu.html)

meeradas

13th March 2015, 09:11

12 transparent minutes:

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No comment.

Sophocles

15th March 2015, 00:49

'They want to topple me': Netanyahu accuses Scandinavia of meddling in Israeli elections

Benjamin Netanyahu has accused ‘Western governments, and mostly Scandinavian’ of trying to remove him from power by spending millions of dollars on meddling with Israeli upcoming elections where Israel's prime minister is facing a tough challenge.

"Scandinavian governments have spent millions of dollars on a campaign to remove me from power," he said in an interview on the Kol Israel radio station.

"Western governments, but mostly Scandinavian...They know perfectly well why they prefer Buji and Livni [his opponents in the elections] to me," Israeli PM added, as cited by The Local.

Link: http://rt.com/news/240697-netanyahu-scandinavia-accuse-elections/

Flash

15th March 2015, 01:20

12 transparent minutes:

oaL5wCY99l8

No comment.

A MUST LISTEN. The best 11 minutes of geopolitical history for todays comprehension

bumping

Sophocles

25th March 2015, 09:13

RESOLUTION (H. Res. 162)

Calling on the President to provide Ukraine with military
assistance to defend its sovereignty and territorial integrity.

Whereas the existence of an independent, democratic, and
prosperous Ukraine is in the national interest of the
United States;

Whereas the Russian Federation under President Vladimir
Putin has engaged in relentless political, economic, and
military aggression to subvert the independence and vio-
late the territorial integrity of Ukraine;

Whereas this aggression includes the illegal and forcible occu-
pation of Crimea by Russian military and security forces;

Whereas this Russian aggression includes the establishment
and control of violent separatist proxies in other areas of
Ukraine, including arming them with lethal weapons and
other materiel including tanks, artillery, and rockets that
have enabled separatist militias to launch and sustain an
insurrection that has resulted in over 6,000 dead, 15,000
wounded, and more than a million displaced persons;

Whereas military and security forces of the Russian Federa-
tion have been infiltrated into these areas of Ukraine and
continue to provide direct combat support to the sepa-
ratist groups in this conflict;

Whereas failure to stop this aggression by the Russian Fed-
eration against Ukraine, especially its unprovoked and
armed intervention in a sovereign country, illegal and
forcible occupation of its territory, and unilateral efforts
to redraw the internationally-recognized borders of
Ukraine undermines the foundation of the international
order that was established and has been defended at
great cost by the United States and its allies in the after-
math of World War II;

Whereas Russian aggression against Ukraine is but the most
visible and recent manifestation of a revisionist Kremlin
strategy to redraw international borders and impose its
will on its neighbors, including NATO allies;

Whereas on September 18, 2014, President Petro Poroshenko
addressed a Joint Meeting of Congress at which he
thanked the United States for the military assistance it
has provided to defend the freedom and territorial integ-
rity of his country and asked for ‘‘both non-lethal and le-
thal’’ military assistance, stating that ‘‘one cannot win a
war with blankets’’;

Whereas the Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff General
Martin Dempsey stated on March 3, 2015, that ‘‘we
should absolutely consider providing lethal aid’’ to
Ukraine;

Whereas Secretary of Defense Ashton Carter stated on Feb-
ruary 4, 2015, during his confirmation hearing that he
is ‘‘very much inclined’’ toward providing Ukraine with
weapons to defend itself;

Whereas Congress provided the President with the authoriza-
tion and budgetary resources to provide Ukraine with
military assistance to enhance its ability to defend its
sovereign territory from the unprovoked and continuing
aggression of the Russian Federation, including in the
Ukraine Freedom Support Act of 2014, which was signed
into law on December 18, 2014;

Whereas the Ukraine Freedom Support Act of 2014 specifi-
cally authorizes the provision of anti-armor weapons,
crew-served weapons and ammunition, counter-artillery
radars, fire control, range finder, and optical and guid-
ance and control equipment, tactical troop-operated sur-
veillance drones, and secure command and communica-
tions equipment;

Whereas even as it faces a massive military assault, Ukraine
is confronting an economic crisis that requires both long-
term financial and technical assistance by the United
States and the international community, especially the
countries of the European Union and the International
Monetary Fund, as well as fundamental economic and po-
litical reforms by the government of Ukraine;

Whereas the United States and its allies should provide as-
sistance to support energy diversification and efficiency

initiatives in Ukraine to lessen its vulnerability to coer-
cion by the Russian Federation; and

Whereas the United States and its allies need a long-term
strategy to expose and challenge Vladimir Putin’s corrup-
tion and repression at home and his aggression abroad:

Now, therefore, be it

1 Resolved, That the House of Representatives strongly

2 urges the President to fully and immediately exercise the

3 authorities provided by Congress to provide Ukraine with

4 lethal defensive weapon systems to enhance the ability of

5 the people of Ukraine to defend their sovereign territory

6 from the unprovoked and continuing aggression of the

Russian Federation.

Link: http://docs.house.gov/billsthisweek/20150323/MAS_087_xml.pdf

Votes; 348 - 48

Link: https://www.govtrack.us/congress/votes/114-2015/h131

Sophocles

25th March 2015, 15:56

Crimea... What really happened?

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Sophocles

26th March 2015, 01:27

We live in a state of military alert

Source: http://cont.ws/post/78147/

Rostislav Ishchenko

Translated from the Russian by Robin

For the second year in a row, almost uninterrupted military exercises are taking place in Russia. The number of troops involved is comparable to or even greater than the number of participants in the largest exercise held by the Soviet Union and the Warsaw Pact military alliance – even though the Soviet armed forces totaled 3.5 million in 1991 and today the Russian Federation’s armed forces barely number 1.5 million.

Strategic bombers are constantly on patrol. These aircraft have not only reverted to old areas of combat duty, but are also developing new ones. The navy is being strengthened at a rapid pace. To ensure a global presence for military aircraft and warships, a network of bases is being prepared, including in Latin America. When the Russian leadership asserts that it is not in talks about bases, that is most likely true.

Thus Vietnam’s Cam Ranh Bay, which is used to refuel Russian bombers, cannot be called a Russian military base because it has no such status. But in effect it is. In fact, it is so effective that the United States demanded in a panic that Vietnam stop Russia’s bomber-refueling flights, only to meet with a refusal. Such a refusal detracts from the superpower’s prestige. The outcome was predictable, but the situation was so distasteful to the United States that it took the risk.

Actually the attempt to prevent Russia from using Cam Ranh to refuel its aircraft is not the United States’ only attempt to counteract Russia. The Black Sea is regularly visited by NATO ships, with the obligatory participation of U.S. warships. NATO’s naval exercises in the Black Sea have also become a regular practice. No sooner does one group of ships leave the region than another shows up to take its place. In the Baltic states, the presence of NATO ground troops has been increased.

Characteristically, it was U.S. troops and equipment that were sent there. Plans have been announced to strengthen the NATO forces in Poland by rearming the Polish army and by transferring additional troops there from other countries in the bloc (most likely they will also be Americans). There is also talk of a deployment of U.S. troops to Bulgaria and Romania.

At the same time, the two sides are conducting media campaigns to intimidate each other. In the United States, the topic du jour is the provision of lethal weapons to the Ukraine, which is supposed to dramatically enhance the combat capability of the helpless Ukrainian army (sort of like giving the Aegis Combat System to a Zulu).

Russia, for its part, is filling the media with information on electronic warfare devices that can be mounted under the fuselage of a plane or in the cockpit of a helicopter and used to disable any electronic system within a radius of hundreds of kilometers, destroy any quantity of airborne missiles, and maybe even make bullets fly backwards. Another favorite theme of the Russian media is the immense superiority of any given Russian arm over its foreign counterparts.

All this indicates that Washington and Moscow are seriously considering a situation where the armies of the two nuclear superpowers come into direct contact. On the one hand, there is a hasty buildup of arms and moving of troops to the front lines, where possible. On the other hand, each side is trying to psych the other out to undermine its will to resist before weapons are even used. To that end, they talk up the latest super-powerful weapons that can kill “seven at one blow.”1

It’s small wonder that Russia appears much more active in this regard. The Treaty on Conventional Armed Forces in Europe (CFE), which took into account the capabilities of NATO and the Warsaw Pact (after which all members of the Warsaw Pact and three former Soviet republics became members of NATO), placed restrictions on the signatories’ number of key armaments. As a result, in terms of tanks, armored combat vehicles, artillery pieces with a caliber of more than one hundred millimeters, and attack helicopters, Russia’s armed forces are significantly outnumbered by their probable enemy in the European theater of war, without taking into account the United States’ ability to quickly transfer additional troops and equipment to Europe.

Russia’s suspension of the CFE Treaty doesn’t change the situation. Thousands of pieces of military equipment cannot be delivered to the troops overnight, just as it is impossible to provide trained crews instantly. Therefore it is necessary to frighten the enemy with quality.

That all this is not a joke is evidenced by the fact that, since January 2015, the word war is increasingly being used by world leaders. Note that it isn’t just U.S. senators who were damaged in Vietnam, such as McCain, who are talking about it, but major European leaders.

Hollande spoke of the threat of war when he and Merkel rushed to Putin to beg for a truce in the Donbass. A Russian invasion is the subject of discussions, expectations, and the almost perverted lust of the Baltic political elites, who are all abuzz about reports that after the Ukraine they will be “Putin’s next victim.” Polish politicians talk about war as if it were a likely occurrence, with a former minister of foreign affairs advising his fellow citizens on live television that, if Russia decides to go to war, they should pack their bags and flee to Australia.

All this is extremely dangerous, not only because Ilf and Petrov were spot on when they wrote that if everyone expects a fire, then the Rookery2 is bound to burn. Constantly keeping an army in a high level of combat readiness comes at a steep material and emotional cost. Moreover, if soldiers of two superpowers get close enough to see one another (i.e., to shoot at one another), the risk of an incident will increase. Finally, at some point military preparations escape politicians’ control and begin to dictate the agenda.

No one wants war but everyone is getting ready for it. Just in case, additional forces are being deployed, an information war is being waged, attempts at financial and economic sabotage are being launched, and allies are being recruited. So far, it all amounts to a flexing of muscles designed to show that both sides are ready for anything. But as such a game advances, it leaves less room for maneuver. At some point, you have to take responsibility for your words, actions, hints, and promises to allies. Otherwise you will lose face and be defeated without going to war. As the confrontation escalates and the saber rattling grows louder, it becomes more difficult to retreat and to save face.

We live in a state of military alert. Sometimes such circumstances are inconsequential; a compromise is found or one side concedes in time. More often than not, it is impossible to back down, and there is no room for compromise. Today, the confrontation between Russia and the United States has gone too far for either side to give way without suffering catastrophic consequences. There are no available resources to ensure a compromise; thus it must be achieved through a third party, but there are no willing parties. We are at a decisive point in the confrontation: it is clear that only one side will survive, but it is not clear whether the United States will give up without a fight or risk starting a military conflict.

So far they have never left the battlefield without having tried all means. At some stage, it might occur to them that provoking a conventional (non-nuclear) conflict will frighten Russia, because it will show Moscow that the United States is not afraid of a direct military confrontation with it, and nuclear Armageddon will be avoided, because Russia will have to back down.

I think that in such a case the United States will soon be faced with a choice: to surrender Europe to Russia or start a nuclear war itself. NATO’s quasi armies, although they have a significant quantitative advantage, are no match for the armed forces of the Russian Federation, and the United States does not have enough troops in Europe to seriously affect the course of events.

In short, the most reliable way to avoid war is not to start thinking about it and preparing for it. We have already passed that stage. The only thing left is just not to start a war, although that is a very complex matter.

1 Refers to Seven at One Blow, the Brothers Grimm story of a tailor who kills seven flies with one swipe.

2 Refers to a communal apartment depicted in The Little Golden Calf.

Link: http://thesaker.is/we-live-in-a-state-of-military-alert/

Sophocles

26th March 2015, 02:15

Obama Refuses to Meet With NATO Secretary General in Washington

NATO’s new Secretary General is in Washington this week, but despite repeated requests, has been refused a meeting at the White House. Could this be another indication of rising tension between President Obama and European leaders over the proposed EU army?

Nearly every NATO country has hosted the organization’s new head, Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg, since he took office in October. It’s part of a long tradition which has, until now, been enthusiastically followed by US presidents as a way to illustrate commitment to one of the country’s strongest treaty obligations.

"The Bush administration held a firm line that if the NATO secretary general came to town, he would be seen by the president…so as not to diminish his stature or authority," Kurt Volker, former US representative to NATO, told Bloomberg.

But as Stoltenberg continues a three-day trip to Washington, President Obama has failed to respond to multiple requests to meet with the secretary general.

This is especially surprising given the alarmist attitude currently overtaking much of Europe. As NATO allies continue to issue concerns about a perceived threat from Russian aggression – a misleading narrative fully endorsed by the United States – one would think that President Obama would make time to meet with NATO leadership.

"We are implementing the biggest reinforcement of our collective defense since the end of the Cold War," Stoltenberg said during the DC NATO Transformation Seminar.

It’s also surprising given the president’s relatively light schedule this week, and given that he managed to find time to meet with Afghan President Ashraf Ghani on Tuesday.

More at link: http://sputniknews.com/us/20150325/1020001617.html

meeradas

26th March 2015, 07:59

Obama Refuses to Meet With NATO Secretary General in Washington
... the organization’s newfigure-
head, Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg,...

Stoltenberg isn't an ounce better than his vile predecessor; both are mere figureheads.
So, the potus puppet doesn't wanna see his Nato's Euro PR bile spiller? Who gives... an F?
If he wants anything, he'll get Breedlove (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Philip_M._Breedlove) (who rather lives up to this (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DBwgX8yBqsw) [both name and title], than to his name), instead...

The fact, though, remains quite... interesting.

PS: Sorry for only venting, and not adding substance to this threat... erm, thread. I'll be :tape: now.

Sophocles

26th March 2015, 15:49

Jens Stoltenberg and Anders Fogh Rasmussen (Denmark) can both be viewed as figureheads, I agree. And I think Norways bombing of Libya (where Norway was said to bomb the most, with some 500 bombs (I know, its disgusting)) could be part of why Jens Stoltenberg now is in the position he is in.

Some old, but not well known «news»:

According to norwegian msn (Nrk), among others, Norway sold heavy water to Israel in 1959/60.

Link (in norwegian): http://www.nrk.no/fordypning/slik-spredde-norge-atomvapen-1.12087184

Wikipedia: «Israel admits running the Dimona reactor with Norway's heavy water since 1963.»

Link: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nuclear_weapons_and_Israel#Dimona_1956.E2.80.931965

Rocky_Shorz

26th March 2015, 21:37

Yemen's President Hadi arrives in the Saudi capital Riyadh, as Saudi Arabia continues air strikes against Shia Houthi rebels.

"Yemen's President Abdrabbuh Mansour Hadi has arrived in the Saudi capital of Riyadh, according to officials, as Saudi Arabia continues to launch air strikes against Shia Houthi rebels.

It is the first confirmation of his whereabouts since Wednesday, when he fled rebel forces in the city of Aden.

Officials say he will now travel to Egypt for a two-day Arab league summit.

Saudi authorities began air strikes in Yemen on Wednesday night, a step Iran called "dangerous".

The jets targeted Houthi positions in the capital Sanaa, along with missile batteries and warplanes.

Saudi Arabia says it is "defending the legitimate government" of President Hadi.
Legitimacy

Mr Hadi took refuge in Aden last month after fleeing Sanaa, where he had been under house arrest since the Houthis took full control of the capital in January.

On Thursday a Saudi official said he had travelled to Riyadh, but would attend the Arab summit in Egypt as the "legitimate" Yemeni president. "

The Saudi ambassador to the US Adel al-Jubair said the Saudi operation would begin with air strikes, and vowed: "We will do whatever it takes in order to protect the legitimate government of Yemen from falling."

Saudi-owned Al-Arabiya TV reported that the UAE, Bahrain, Kuwait, Qatar, Jordan, Morocco and Sudan were also sending aircraft, while Egypt, Jordan, Sudan and Pakistan were ready to take part in any ground offensive targeting the Houthis.

The US said it was providing "logistical and intelligence support".

However, a Houthi official warned the coalition that it risked provoking a wider war.link (http://www.bbc.com/news/world-middle-east-32078817)

http://ichef.bbci.co.uk/news/625/media/images/81938000/jpg/_81938279_houthis.jpg
Houthi rebels protested against the air strikes on Thursday

http://ichef.bbci.co.uk/news/625/media/images/81933000/jpg/_81933609_yemen_houthi_controll_624_v7.jpg

love those Purple Shorts...
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Militiamen loyal to President Abdrabbuh Mansour Hadi have been unable to stop the Houthi advance

Sophocles

27th March 2015, 12:41

Assad: Anti-ISIS coalition doesn’t want to get rid of Islamic State completely (excerpt):

The alliance of 60 countries declaring plans to finish off the Islamic State is not serious, Syrian President Bashar Assad told Russian media. Some of its members would prefer to retain the terrorist force to blackmail different countries, he said.

The rate of airstrikes conducted by the anti-ISIS coalition member states, some of which are “rich and advanced,” is only about 10 raids a day on the territory of both Syria and Iraq, Assad said in an interview published Friday.

“The Syrian Air Force, which is very small in comparison to this coalition, conducts in a single day many times the number of the airstrikes conducted by a coalition which includes 60 countries,” Assad said.

“This doesn’t make sense. This shows the lack of seriousness,” said Syria’s president. “They don’t want to get rid of ISIS completely.”

“There is no serious effort to fight terrorism, and what is being achieved by the Syrian forces on the ground equals in one day what is being achieved by these states in weeks,” Assad said. “An anti-terrorist coalition cannot consist of countries which are themselves supporters of terrorism.”

“The peacekeeping force is usually based between countries at war with each other. And when someone talks about sending peacekeepers to deal with IS, that acknowledges IS as a state. Such rhetoric is unacceptable and dangerous,” Assad said.

The Syrian president said the West does not have a political solution to the crisis in Syria, claiming it is only interested in destroying the government.

“They want to turn us into puppets. I do not think that the West has a political solution. It does not want one. When I say the West, I am primarily referring to the US, France, the UK. Other countries are secondary.”

To put an end to the ongoing armed conflict in Syria between the government troops and international militants, such countries as Turkey, Saudi Arabia, Qatar, and some European countries should stop arming the terrorists, the Syrian president said.

The Syrian president told Russian journalists that Damascus has no direct contact with the US and is not involved in any discussions.

“Certain ideas get passed down through third parties, but that cannot be considered as serious dialogue,” Assad said, adding that the only option for his country is to wait for American policies to change.

According to the leader’s point of view, there are two political camps in the US – a peace-leaning one and a more radical, aggressive one. The former is “a minority,” while the latter calls all the shots in foreign policy.

The warmongers in the second camp fully support aggressive ideas such as direct US military involvement in Syria and Iraq, as well as sending weapons to Ukraine.

“There is a connection between the Syrian crisis and what is happening in Ukraine. Firstly, because both countries are important for Russia. Secondly, because there is a goal in both cases to weaken Russia and create puppet states,” Assad told Russian reporters.

When asked about the Russian naval facility in the Syrian port of Tartus, Assad said that his government would support the idea of reviving and expanding it into a military base, should Moscow seek such an option.

“We welcome the expansion of Russian presence in [the] eastern Mediterranean, especially near our shores and in our ports,” he said.

Link: http://rt.com/news/244457-assad-interview-us-ukraine-syria/

Lavrov: US refusal to cooperate with Assad against ISIS 'counterproductive'

7xUK-G-LDvE

Hervé

30th March 2015, 19:11

Yep, here we go again... fascism, deportations, etc...

Ukraine’s Right Sector Leader Wants Donbas Residents Deported (http://thesaker.is/ukraines-right-sector-leader-wants-donbas-residents-deported/)

March 30, 2015
source: http://sputniknews.com/europe/20150329/1020179851.html

Dmitri Yarosh, Rada MP and leader of Ukraine’s Right Sector, has declared that the unruly residents of eastern Ukraine must be deported and deprived of their civil rights before a program of ‘affectionate Ukrainianization’ can begin.

In an interview for Ukrainian newspaper Obosrevatel published on Sunday, Ukrainian Right Sector leader and Rada deputy Dmitri Yarosh stated that the unruly residents of eastern Ukraine should be deported and deprived of their civil rights.

Yarosh noted that much of Donbas is populated by ‘Sovoks’, an insulting slang term in Ukrainian and Russian derived from the word ‘Soviet’. Yarosh stated that the region “is populated by Sovoks –real Sovoks. And they should be deported. We have to deal with those who do not want to live by the rules and the laws of the state in a very harsh manner. This includes deportation, the deprivation of civil rights, and so on. Without force, it will not be possible to do anything with the region, to turn the tide so to speak.”

The Right Sector leader added that the region’s “unruly” residents must also be dealt with. “If we get rid of the unruly ones, everything will be fine, quiet and peaceful. And then, of course, a program of affectionate Ukrainianization can begin.” The MP noted that “spiritual rebirth” can begin only if authorities act in a consistent and forceful manner.

Yarosh cited Ukrainian authorities’ response to events in Konstantinovka, Donetsk, controlled by the Ukrainian military, where an inebriated Ukrainian armored vehicle driver recently crashed into a crowd of people and crushed and killed an eight-year-old girl in a hit and run incident, leading to riots in the streets.

“The events in Konstantinovka are an example of what I mean. If we had shown even a little bit of weakness…Right from the beginning a whole bunch of ‘heroes’ began crawling out of the woodwork, using the tragedy in their own separatist interests. And when our guys came out and began shooting into the air and arresting the instigators of riots, everything ceased at once. This is the rule,” Yarosh explained.

The MP noted that in his view, there are still many “real patriots” of Ukraine in the region, and that the present anti-Kiev attitudes are the result of many years of Russian propaganda and the removal of genuinely Ukrainian spiritual values. Yarosh explained that the “guys from Donetsk and Lugansk regions” fighting for the Ukrainian army “should become the [new] elite, on whose basis a qualitatively new society can be built…And those Vatnik [slang for Russians blindly loving their country], criminal oligarchic attitudes sitting in the minds of ordinary people for one reason or another must be removed.”

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Dmitri Iarosh – now “advisor” to the Ukrainian Minister of Defense

The extreme nationalist leader noted that he has accepted the president’s invitation to come work in the Ukrainian Ministry of Defense, adding that he has chosen to do so on a volunteer basis.Speaking about the Ukrainian army’s recent losses on the battlefield, Yarosh recalled that “we faced a route near Ilovaisk…On the one hand, we have learned to fight, with morale at a high level. But things are very bad when a pride of lions is led by sheep. They cannot lead us to victory, and only roll us back…Speaking about the current situation on the front, our forces are still threatened by several encirclements. And I don’t know, again, whether the sheep will react to this, or whether they are playing some sort of geopolitical game.”

The Right Sector is a far-right wing Ukrainian nationalist party. In January and February of 2014, the movement’s members participated heavily in fighting with Ukrainian police in the streets of Kiev, and in the capture of government buildings during the Euro-Maidan coup. Since April, they have taken the lead in the crushing of protest movements in eastern Ukraine, and enforcing the new order of the revolutionary government. In addition, they have also been involved in Kiev’s military operation in Donbas. Right Sector’s Ukrainian Volunteer Corps includes two battalions operating in eastern Ukraine, as well as eight reserve battalions throughout the rest of the country.

In November 2014, the Russian Supreme Court declared the Right Sector to be an extremist organization, and its activity has been banned on the territory of the Russian Federation. Earlier, in March, 2014, Russian authorities issued an arrest warrant against Dmitri Yarosh for incitement of terrorism, and for his organization’s combat operations in the First Chechen War against the Russian military.

Sophocles

31st March 2015, 20:01

Some info on what is going on in Yemen:

From "Origins of the crisis in Yemen"

Yemen can by viewed as a geopolitical front between Iran and Saudi Arabia.

Right now the situation with Yemen and the al-Houthi somewhat resembles the situation with Lebanon and Hezbollah. Basically its a pro Iranian faction that dominates a divided and federalized government.

So now Saudi Arabia wants to limit any kind of Iranian influence in the Arabian peninsula.

In many ways, its Syria all over.

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The Geopolitics behind the War in Yemen (I): (http://www.strategic-culture.org/news/2015/03/30/the-geopolitics-behind-the-war-in-yemen-i.html)

The United States and the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia became very uneasy when the Yemenese or Yemenite movement of the Houthi or Ansarallah (meaning the supporters of God in Arabic) gained control of Yemen’s capital, Sanaa/Sana, in September 2014. The US-supported Yemenite President Abd-Rabbuh Manṣour Al-Hadi was humiliatingly forced to share power with the Houthis and the coalition of northern Yemenese tribes that had helped them enter Sana. Al-Hadi declared that negotiations for a Yemeni national unity government would take place and his allies the US and Saudi Arabia tried to use a new national dialogue and mediated talks to co-opt and pacify the Houthis.

The truth has been turned on its head about the war in Yemen. The war and ousting of President Abd-Rabbuh Manṣour Al-Hadi in Yemen are not the results of «Houthi coup» in Yemen. It is the opposite. Al-Hadi was ousted, because with Saudi and US support he tried to backtrack on the power sharing agreements he had made and return Yemen to authoritarian rule. The ousting of President Al-Hadi by the Houthis and their political allies was an unexpected reaction to the takeover Al-Hadi was planning with Washington and the House of Saudi.

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The Houthis and their allies represent a diverse cross-section of Yemeni society and the majority of Yemenites. The Houthi movement’s domestic alliance against Al-Hadi includes Shiite Muslims and Sunni Muslims alike. The US and House of Saud never thought that they Houthis would assert themselves by removing Al-Hadi from power, but this reaction had been a decade in the making. With the House of Saud, Al-Hadi had been involved in the persecution of the Houthis and the manipulation of tribal politics in Yemen even before he became president. When he became Yemeni president he dragged his feet and was working against the implement the arrangements that had been arranged through consensus and negotiations in Yemen’s National Dialogue, which convened after Ali Abdullah Saleh was forced to hand over his powers in 2011.

Coup or Counter-Coup: What Happened in Yemen?

At first, when they took over Sana in late-2014, the Houthis rejected Al-Hadi’s proposals and his new offers for a formal power sharing agreement, calling him a morally bankrupt figure that had actually been reneging previous promises of sharing political power. At that point, President Al-Hadi’s pandering to Washington and the House of Saud had made him deeply unpopular in Yemen with the majority of the population. Two months later, on November 8, President Al-Hadi’s own party, the Yemenite General People’s Congress, would eject Al-Hadi as its leader too.

The Houthis eventually detained President Al-Hadi and seized the presidential palace and other Yemeni government buildings on January 20. With popular support, a little over two weeks later, the Houthis formally formed a Yemense transitional government on February 6. Al-Hadi was forced to resign. The Houthis declared that Al-Hadi, the US, and Saudi Arabia were planning on devastating Yemen on February 26.

Al-Hadi’s resignation was a setback for US foreign policy. It resulted in a military and operational retreat for the CIA and the Pentagon, which were forced to remove US military personnel and intelligence operatives from Yemen. The Los Angeles Times reported on March 25, citing US officials, that the Houthis had got their hands on numerous secret documents when the seized the Yemeni National Security Bureau, which was working closely with the CIA, that compromised Washington’s operations in Yemen.

Al-Hadi fled the Yemeni capital Sana to Aden n February 21 and declared it the temporary capital of Yemen on March 7. The US, France, Turkey, and their Western European allies closed their embassies. Soon afterwards, in what was probably a coordinated move with the US, Saudi Arabia, Kuwait, Bahrain, Qatar, and the United Arab Emirates all relocated the embassies to Aden from Sana. Al-Hadi rescinded his letter of resignation as president and declared that he was forming a government-in-exile.

The Houthis and their political allies refused to fall into line with the demands of the US and Saudi Arabia, which were being articulated through Al-Hadi in Aden and by an increasingly hysteric Riyadh. As a result, Al-Hadi’s foreign minister, Riyadh Yaseen, called for Saudi Arabia and the Arab petro-sheikdoms to militarily intervene to prevent the Houthis from getting control of Yemen’s airspace on March 23. Yaseen told the Saudi mouthpiece Al-Sharg Al-Awsa that a bombing campaign was needed and that a no-fly zone had to be imposed over Yemen.

The Houthis realized that a military struggle was going to begin. This is why the Houthis and their allies in the Yemenite military rushed to control as many Yemeni military airfields and airbases, such as Al-Anad, as quickly as possible. They rushed to neutralize Al-Hadi and entered Aden on March 25.

By the time the Houthis and their allies entered Aden, Al-Hadi had fled the Yemeni port city. Al-Hadi would resurface in Saudi Arabia when the House of Saud started attacking Yemen on March 26. From Saudi Arabia, Abd-Rabbuh Manṣour Al-Hadi would then fly to Egypt for a meeting of the Arab League to legitimize the war on Yemen.

Yemen and the Changing Strategic Equation in the Middle East

The Houthi takeover of Sana took place in the same timeframe as a series of success or regional victories for Iran, Hezbollah, Syria and the Resistance Bloc that they and other local actors form collectively. In Syria, the Syrian government managed to entrench its position while in Iraq the ISIL/ISIS/Daesh movement was being pushed back by Iraq with the noticeable help of Iran and local Iraqi militias allied to Tehran.

The strategic equation in the Middle East began to shift as it became clear that Iran was becoming central to its security architecture and stability. The House of Saud and Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu began to whimper and complain that Iran was in control of four regional capitals—Beirut, Damascus, Baghdad, and Sana - and that something had to be done to stop Iranian expansion. As a result of the new strategic equation, the Israelis and the House of Saud became perfectly strategically aligned with the objective of neutralizing Iran and its regional allies. «When the Israelis and Arabs are on the same page, people should pay attention», Israeli Ambassador Ron Dermer told Fox News about the alignment of Israel and Saudi Arabia on March 5.

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The Israeli and Saudi fear mongering has not worked. According to Gallup poll, only 9% of US citizens viewed Iran as a greatest enemy of the US at the time that Netanyahu arrived t Washington to speak against a deal between the US and Iran.

The Geo-Strategic Objectives of the US and Saudis Behind the War in Yemen

While the House of Saudi has long considered Yemen a subordinate province of some sorts and as a part of Riyadh’s sphere of influence, the US wants to make sure that it could control the Bab Al-Mandeb, the Gulf of Aden, and the Socotra Islands. The Bab Al-Mandeb it is an important strategic chokepoint for international maritime trade and energy shipments that connects the Persian Gulf via the Indian Ocean with the Mediterranean Sea via the Red Sea. It is just as important as the Suez Canal for the maritime shipping lanes and trade between Africa, Asia, and Europe.

Israel was also concerned, because control of Yemen could cut off Israel’s access to Indian Ocean via the Red Sea and prevent its submarines from easily deploying to the Persian Gulf to threaten Iran. This is why control of Yemen was actually one of Netanyahu’s talking points on Capitol Hill when he spoke to the US Congress about Iran on March 3 in what the New York Times of all publications billed as «Mr. Netanyahu’s Unconvincing Speech to Congress» on March 4.

Saudi Arabia was visibly afraid that Yemen could become formally align to Iran and that the evens there could result in new rebellions in the Arabian Peninsula against the House of Saud. The US was just as much concerned about this too, but was also thinking in terms of global rivalries. Preventing Iran, Russia, or China from having a strategic foothold in Yemen, as a means of preventing other powers from overlooking the Gulf of Aden and positioning themselves at the Bab Al-Mandeb, was a major US concern.

Added to the geopolitical importance of Yemen in overseeing strategic maritime corridors is its military’s missile arsenal. Yemen’s missiles could hit any ships in the Gulf of Aden or Bab Al-Mandeb. In this regard, the Saudi attack on Yemen’s strategic missile depots serves both US and Israeli interests. The aim is not only to prevent them from being used to retaliate against exertions of Saudi military force, but to also prevent them from being available to a Yemeni government aligned to either Iran, Russia, or China.

In a public position that totally contradicts Riyadh’s Syria policy, the Saudis threatened to take military action if the Houthis and their political allies did not negotiate with Al-Hadi. As a result of the Saudi threats, protests erupted across Yemen against the House of Saud on March 25. Thus, the wheels were set in motion for another Middle Eastern war as the US, Saudi Arabia, Bahrain, UAE, Qatar, and Kuwait began to prepare to reinstall Al-Hadi.

The Saudi March to War in Yemen and a New Front against Iran

For all the talk about Saudi Arabia as a regional power, it is too weak to confront Iran alone. The House of Saud’s strategy has been to erect or reinforce a regional alliance system for a drawn confrontation with Iran and the Resistance Bloc. In this regard Saudi Arabia needs Egypt, Turkey, and Pakistan —a misnamed so-called «Sunni» alliance or axis — to help it confront Iran and its regional allies.

Crown Prince Mohammed bin Zayed bin Sultan Al Nahyan, the crown prince of the Emirate of Abu Dhabi and deputy supreme commander of the UAE’s military, would visit Morocco to talk about a collective military response to Yemen by the Arab petro-sheikhdoms, Morocco, Jordan, and Egypt on March 17. On March 21, Mohammed bin Zayed met Saudi Arabia’s King Salman Salman bin Abdulaziz Al-Saud to discuss a military response to Yemen. This was while Al-Hadi was calling for Saudi Arabia and the Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC) to help him by militarily intervening in Yemen. The meetings were followed by talk about a new regional security pact for the Arab petro-sheikdoms.

Out of the GCC’s five members, the Sultanate of Oman stayed away. Oman refused to join the war on Yemen. Muscat has friendly relations with Tehran. Moreover, the Omanis are weary of the Saudi and GCC project to use sectarianism to ignite confrontation with Iran and its allies. The majority of Omanis are neither Sunni Muslims nor Shiite Muslims; they are Ibadi Muslims, and they fear the fanning of sectarian sedition by the House of Saud and the other Arab petro-sheikdoms.

Saudi propagandists went into over drive falsely claiming that the war was a response to Iranian encroachment on the borders of Saudi Arabia. Turkey would announce its support for the war in Yemen. On the day the war was launched, Turkey’s Erdogan claimed that Iran was trying to dominate the region and that Turkey, Saudi Arabia, and the GCC were getting annoyed.

During these events, Egypt’s Sisi stated that the security of Cairo and the security of Saudi Arabia and the Arab petro-sheikhdoms are one. In fact, Egypt said that it would not get involved in a war in Yemen on March 25, but the next day Cairo joined Saudi Arabia in Riyadh’s attack on Yemen by sending its jets and ships to Yemen.

In the same vein, Pakistani Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif released a statement on March 26 that any threat to Saudi Arabia would «evoke a strong response» from Pakistan. The message was tacitly directed towards Iran.

The US and Israeli Roles in the War in Yemen

On March 27, it was announced in Yemen that Israel was helping Saudi Arabia attack the Arab country. «This is the first time that the Zionists [Israelis] are conducting a joint operation in collaborations with Arabs,» Hassan Zayd, the head of Yemen’s Al-Haq Party, wrote on the internet to point out the convergence of interests between Saudi Arabia and Israel. The Israeli-Saudi alliance over Yemen, however, is not new. The Israelis helped the House of Saud during the North Yemen Civil War that started in 1962 by providing Saudi Arabia with weapons to help the royalists against the republicans in North Yemen.

The US is also involved and leading from behind or a distance. While it works to strike a deal with Iran, it also wants to maintain an alliance against Tehran using the Saudis. The Pentagon would provide what it called «intelligence and logistical support» to House of Saud. Make no mistakes about it: the war on Yemen is also Washington’s war. The GCC has been on Yemen unleashed by the US.

There has long been talk about the formation of a pan-Arab military force, but proposals for creating it were renewed on March 9 by the rubberstamp Arab League. The proposals for a united Arab military serve US, Israeli, and Saudi interests. Talk about a pan-Arab military has been motivated by their preparations to attack Yemen to return Al-Hadi and to regionally confront Iran, Syria, Hezbollah, and the Resistance Bloc.

By Mahdi Darius NAZEMROAYA (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3XP1U9poWG0) | 30.03.2015 | 00:00

avid

31st March 2015, 20:30

Yemen is a 'toy' for the Saudi/Israeli ploy for access to resources, corridors, unlikely 'bedfellows' are united in total greed, and prevaricated/owned/manipulated by the giant corporations who now 'almost' own this planet. Totally sickening. There is definitely no democracy, just 'false-flag' instability to ensure the long-game. The faked media stories to get one to believe all this nonsense is owned by the protagonists. Murdoch et al. I feel sorry for the idiots who watch the news these days, and are 'whipped-up' to believe the hype. Even the weather forecasts.... now that's another magnificent 'story', we all know the weather is now manipulated globally via scalar technologies, alongside weird spraying in our local skies, these weird sprays are 'vibrated' and thereafter we get rubbish weather. Proven.

Yemen is being 'played' to ensure a larger reaction in the Med area, to try to start WW3, everywhere I look, WW3 is being hyped. Russia is being harangued by the Zionists daily. It's all to do with the BRICS, withdrawal from the fake petro-dollar, the FED - the usurists in the USA - and their loss of power.

Sophocles

1st April 2015, 04:54

Howling in Donetsk (http://www.sott.net/article/294546-Howling-in-Donetsk)

Pepe Escobar
Asia Times
Tue, 31 Mar 2015 12:46 UTC

Asia Times' roving correspondent Pepe Escobar just returned from a reporting trip to the Donetsk People's Republic (DPR), the pro-Russian enclave in the Donetsk Oblast province of eastern Ukraine. The area's been the scene of heavy fighting between pro-Russian rebels and the Ukrainian military.

I've just been to the struggling Donetsk People's Republic. Now I'm back in the splendid arrogance and insolence of NATOstan.

Quite a few people - in Donbass, in Moscow, and now in Europe - have asked me what struck me most about this visit.

I could start by paraphrasing Allen Ginsberg in Howl - "I saw the best minds of my generation destroyed by madness".

But these were the Cold War mid-1950s. Now we're in early 21st century Cold War 2.0 .

Thus what I saw were the ghastly side effects of the worst minds of my - and a subsequent - generation corroded by (war) madness.

I saw refugees on the Russian side of the border, mostly your average middle-class European family whose kids, when they first came to the shelter, would duck under tables when they heard a plane in the sky.

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The superman statue rising from the destruction at Saur-mogila.

I saw the Dylan of Donetsk holed up in his lonely room in a veterans' home turned refugee shelter fighting the blues and the hopelessness by singing songs of love and heroism.

I saw whole families holed up in fully decorated Soviet-era bomb shelters too afraid to go out even by daylight, traumatized by the bombings orchestrated by Kiev's "anti-terrorist operations".

I saw a modern, hard-working industrial city at least half-empty and partially destroyed but not bent, able to survive by their guts and guile with a little help from Russian humanitarian convoys.

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The Dylan of Donetsk

I saw beautiful girls hangin' out by Lenin's statue in a central square lamenting their only shot at fun was family parties in each other's houses because nightlife was dead and "we're at war".

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Soviet-era bomb shelter

I saw virtually the whole neighborhood of Oktyabrski near the airport bombed out like Grozny and practically deserted except for a few lonely babushkas with nowhere to go and too proud to relinquish their family photos of World War II heroes.

I saw checkpoints like I was back in Baghdad during the Petraeus surge.

I saw the main trauma doctor at the key Donetsk hospital confirm there has been no Red Cross and no international humanitarian help to the people of Donetsk.

I saw Stanislava, one of DPR's finest and an expert sniper, in charge of our security, cry when she laid a flower on the ground of a fierce battle in which her squad was under heavy fire, with twenty seriously wounded and one dead, and she was hit by shrapnel and survived.

I saw orthodox churches fully destroyed by Kiev's bombing.

I saw the Russian flag still on top of the anti-Maidan building which is now the House of Government of the DPR.

I saw the gleaming Donbass arena, the home of Shaktar Donetsk and a UFO in a war-torn city, deserted and without a single soul in the fan area.

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Bombed out Oktyabrski neighborhood

I saw Donetsk's railway station bombed by Kiev's goons.

I saw a homeless man screaming "Robert Plant!" and "Jimmy Page!" as I found out he was still in love with Led Zeppelin and kept his vinyl copies.

I saw a row of books which never surrendered behind the cracked windows of bombed out Oktyabrski.

I saw the fresh graves where the DPR buries their resistance heroes.

I saw the top of the hill at Saur-mogila which the DPR resistance lost and then reconquered, with a lone red-white-blue flag now waving in the wind.

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Oktyabrski neighborhood, bombed hospital

I saw the Superman rising from the destruction at Saur-mogila - the fallen statue in a monument to World War II heroes, which seventy years ago was fighting fascism and now has been hit, but not destroyed, by fascists.

I saw the Debaltsevo cauldron in the distance and then I could fully appreciate, geographically, how DPR tactics surrounded and squeezed the demoralized Kiev fighters.

I saw the DPR's military practicing their drills by the roadside from Donetsk to Lugansk.

I saw the DPR's Foreign Minister hopeful there would be a political solution instead of war while admitting personally he dreams of a DPR as an independent nation.

I saw two badass Cossack commanders tell me in a horse-breeding farm in holy Cossack land that the real war has not even started.

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Top of the hill at Saur-mogila

I did not see the totally destroyed Donetsk airport because the DPR's military were too concerned about our safety and would not grant us a permit while the airport was being hit - in defiance of Minsk 2; but I saw the destruction and the pile of Ukrainian army bodies on the mobile phone of a Serbian DPR resistance fighter.

I did not see, as Organization for Security and Co-operation in Europe international observers also didn't, the rows and rows of Russian tanks and soldiers that the current Dr. Strangelove in charge of NATO, General Breedhate, sees everyday in his exalted dreams invading Ukraine over and over again.

And I did not see the arrogance, the ignorance, the shamelessness and the lies distorting those manicured faces in Kiev, Washington and Brussels while they insist, over and over again, that the entire population of Donbass, traumatized babushkas and children of all ages included, are nothing but "terra-rists".

After all, they are Western "civilization"-enabled cowards who would never dare to show their manicured faces to the people of Donbass.

So this is my gift to them.

Just a howl of anger and unbounded contempt.

Visitor212

4th April 2015, 14:52

Spoke today with some friends in Sevastopol. I was trying school them up on how to read the Avalon Forum in Russian using Google Chrome browser, which automatically translates most languages into at least the system language of your PC's operating system. Sevastopol is in the Crimea and we kept getting the HTTP 404 "Page Not Found" error, trying to download and install Chrome. Turns out that Google is now blocking access from the Crimea to everything Google, including Android applications Play Store for mobile phones. After that Google has the audacity to complain about China blocking them! These #$%@#$ are not getting another penny from me, because my click stream from now on is going through StartPage or Yahoo search engines, and I encourage everyone else to do the same.

Of course, there are plenty of other places where people from the Crimea can download Android and Google apps, so this is just a minor nuisance. I am happy to report that a few more dozens of people will be able to start reading the Avalon Forum, from today on, in Russian. :wizard:

I wonder if this blockage is Russia-wide or just Crimea-wide. I am not there at the moment. Anyone has any idea?

Visitor212

4th April 2015, 15:38

Bill, my hat is off to you for trying to reach out to the Russians and the Ukrainians to prevent the slaughter of innocent people.
I am trying to do my share every chance I get, getting friends in Russia and China to install Chrome browser, so they can read the Forum in their native languages, but there is also another way to get your message across. Are you aware by any chance that there are software packages out there that will translate the Avalon Forum into most languages if you incorporate them into the Forum page code?

This is how it could work. You put a string of different country flags up at the top of the Forum Homepage. A person in China, for example, will click on a Chinese flag, and every forum page he goes to after that will be translated for him/her into Chinese!

Grant you - this is going to be a "machine translation", not a perfect literary translation a human being could do, but it is better than nothing to get your message across to HUNDREDS OF MILLIONS of people who do not speak/read English, people in China and Russia being just two examples. If you are interested, I can try to find out the names of the best packages for the job out there. Or web programmers on your team or reading this post could tell you these packages are. Let's get your message across to as many people as possible and as quickly as possible!

ThePythonicCow

6th April 2015, 10:49

Are you aware by any chance that there are software packages out there that will translate the Avalon Forum into most languages if you incorporate them into the Forum page code?

This is how it could work. You put a string of different country flags up at the top of the Forum Homepage. A person in China, for example, will click on a Chinese flag, and every forum page he goes to after that will be translated for him/her into Chinese!
We already have that :).

It's at the bottom of the page however, not the top.

Look at the bottom, near to the left side, where you will find a pull down menu from which you can select which of many languages you want to use. The page will be translated using Google translate if you use a language other than English.

animovado

7th April 2015, 13:39

Land Grab in Ukraine is Monsanto's backdoor to the EU

The quest for Ukraine’s legendary black earth is almost complete. To the dismay of French, Polish, German farmers, the multinational agricultural corporation Monsanto, as well as DuPont Pioneer and John Deere, have all lobbied for access to the largest agricultural market in Eastern Europe. This will soon reshape the market for agricultural products in the EU and spell ruin for Europe’s farmers.

Full article:
http://orientalreview.org/2015/04/06/land-grab-in-ukraine-is-monsantos-backdoor-to-the-eu/

Visitor212

7th April 2015, 14:39

Thanks, Paul - awesome! They do not need to bother with Chrome.

Sophocles

7th April 2015, 14:52

Ad post #529 (the link did not work for me, but this did):

http://orientalreview.org/2015/04/06/land-grab-in-ukraine-is-monsantos-backdoor-to-the-eu/

Sophocles

12th April 2015, 17:27

U.S. sponsorship of neo-Nazi Ukraine and Arab dictators shows true face of Washington is fascism and dictatorship (http://www.sott.net/article/295059-US-sponsorship-of-neo-Nazi-Ukraine-and-Arab-dictators-shows-true-face-of-Washington-is-fascism-and-dictatorship)

Finian Cunningham
Sputnik
Thu, 09 Apr 2015 17:13 UTC

American sponsorship, simultaneously, of Neo-Nazis waging ethnic cleansing in Ukraine and of Arab dictators bombing an impoverished Yemen is stark testimony to the true nature of US power. Unmasked from unctuous vanity and virtuous pretensions, the ugly face of Washington is fascism and dictatorship.

Ukraine and Yemen, to some, may seem disconnected theatres. Not at all. The American-backed lawlessness and barbarity running amok in both countries are an integral function of how US power really operates in the world; not as a recent aberrant phenomenon, but rather going back to the fundamentals of how the American ruling class functions under capitalism.

Let's survey America's partners in practice: first in Yemen, then in Ukraine, and finally integrate the systematic connections.

As the death toll among civilians mounts in Yemen, aid agencies are warning of a humanitarian catastrophe in the Arab Peninsula country. Rundown hospitals can't cope with the droves of injured, many of them children suffering severe burns.

Yet this week Washington announces it is stepping up its weapons supplies to the coalition of Arab states led by Saudi Arabia that has been bombing Yemen for nearly two weeks.

US Army Colonel Steve Warren announced that the weapons are "a combination of pre-existing orders to our partners [sic] and some new requirements."

The American "partners" among the Saudi-led blitzkrieg on Yemen include the Persian Gulf monarchies of Qatar, Kuwait, Bahrain and the United Arab Emirates, as well as Jordan and Egypt.

All of them dictatorships where human rights and freedom of speech are brutally suppressed.

Just this week, Saudi and Bahraini state forces hauled many of their own people into prisons in a vicious crackdown simply because they were voicing protests against the bombing of Yemen.

Among the US-supplied weapons to its "partners" murdering Yemeni children and families — in the name of regional security - are ammunition, bombs and precision-guided missiles. The latter ordnance is "to compensate for the absence of Saudi-allied soldiers in Yemen to provide targeting information," according to a McClatchy news report.

That's an oblique admission that the US-backed foreign air raids have little or no mandate from within Yemen. So, this bombing campaign is simply what it is: naked foreign aggression — the supreme war crime, as defined during the 1946 Nuremberg Trials of Nazi war criminals.

The arrival of more American "precision-guided missiles" in Yemen will also hardly bring much consolation to families whose homes have been destroyed over the past two weeks. This week a family of nine was obliterated when a Saudi air strike reportedly hit their home in Anat, Saada Province, in northern Yemen. Just one case of countless innocent victims being slaughtered by American weapons.

US aircraft tankers are refuelling the hundreds of American-supplied F15 fighter jets pounding Yemen. However, a Pentagon spokesman told media this week that the tankers were refuelling Arab-flown warplanes "outside Yemeni airspace" — as if that distinction somehow mitigates American involvement in the murderous aggression. It's the inane equivalent of former President Bill Clinton once admitting to smoking dope, but he "didn't inhale". "Yes, we're refuelling bombers, but we're not inhaling Yemeni airspace."

In addition to bombs and missiles, Tony Blinken, the US deputy foreign secretary, was in Saudi capital Riyadh this week to firm up "intelligence sharing" with the Saudi-led bombing coalition. The newly setup American "joint fusion centre" in Saudi Arabia to "oversee the air campaign" is being headed by Marine Major General Sam Bundy. That shows, if further proof were needed, that Washington is the real brains behind this international gang-rape of Yemen.

"Saudi Arabia is sending a strong message to the Houthis [rebels] and their allies that they cannot overrun Yemen by force," said Blinken while being entertained by the House of Saud, a regime that imprisons or decapitates anyone who dares to voice criticism of its despotic rule.

A fair response to Blinken's "strong message" that rebels cannot overrun Yemen by force is: "Why not?" After all, America overruns countries all the time by force, killing millions of people in the process, as in Iraq, Afghanistan and Libya; and its Saudi partners have tried to do the same "overrunning by force" for the past four years in Syria by sponsoring head-chopping Wahhabi terrorists.

In any case, the Houthi-led uprising against the US, Saudi-backed puppet former president Abd Rabbuh Mansur Hadi has widespread support among the Yemeni population. Hadi fled the country two weeks ago to avail of luxurious sanctuary in the House of Saud, from where he is calling for air strikes on his own country, allegedly to "defeat the Houthis".

This puppet has no mandate and no credibility other than the fraudulent image bestowed on him by his patrons in Washington and Riyadh. The people of Yemen kicked him out and don't want him back. As even the London-based Financial Times reported this week: "Yemen anger grows as absent president cheers attack".

So that's the dictatorship arm of Washington's global power. It's other limb is Neo-Nazi fascism, as patently seen in Ukraine — provided, that is, you don't read or watch the Western news propaganda services.

This week the Western-installed regime in Kiev, which came to power in an illegal coup in February 2014, appointed the leader of the fascist paramilitary Right Sector as "chief advisor" to the Ukrainian Armed Forces. This elevation is in spite of the fact that Dmitry Yarosh is on Interpol's wanted-list for crimes committed by the Nazi SS-styled Right Sector against civilians in eastern Ukraine over the past year.

Yarosh and his paramilitary shock-troops, as well as senior political figures in the Kiev regime, including the prime minster and president, venerate and glorify Ukrainian fascists of earlier times. Those "hero" fascists collaborated with the Nazi Wehrmacht in the extermination of millions of fellow Ukrainians, Poles, Hungarians, Roma, Jews, Russians and others during the Second World War.

Now the Kiev-run secret police, the SBU, has also openly announced that it is adopting organisational methods that were once used by the Nazi-collaborating Organisation of Ukrainian Nationalists, formerly led by Stepan Bandera.

Furthermore, the Western-sponsored oligarch-president Petro Poroshenko is moving to adopt "special powers" under martial law that will allow his security forces to detain, en masse, ethnic Russians within Ukraine who are deemed a "terror threat". This follows Poroshenko's recent decree to ban all Russian-language films, documentaries and news media.

This is all because the regime that Washington installed in Kiev, with CIA murderous dirty tricks in the infamous sniper shootings on February 20, 2014, has an ideological hatred toward Russia and Russians.

This is consistent with the same fascist ideology of its Ukrainian "heroes" during WWII whose mission was to exterminate Russian "sub-humans" as part of the Nazi Final Solution.

The US government is supplying weapons, equipment and military trainers to the fascist armed forces that are under Kiev's command. These forces are continually undermining the fragile ceasefire that is currently in place in eastern Ukraine. Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov has accused Washington of, in effect, aiding and abetting ceasefire violations.

The suspicion is that the US wants its de facto Neo-Nazi foot-soldiers to resume hostilities in eastern Ukraine with the long-held, bigger-picture strategic view of destabilising Russia and eventually eliciting "regime change" in Moscow — just as Washington arrogates to do against any state, anywhere in the world that dares to oppose its unbridled hegemony.

Today, these are the unmistakeable dark forces whom Washington is fully integrated with — openly and unreservedly — fascism and dictatorship. For many people around the world, this historical alignment may seem disorientating. They will respond incredulously and plaintively: "But surely America is the land of the free, the defender of the free world, and the proclaimer of democracy, international rule of law and human rights?"

Well, it's time to unplug from the chronic brainwashing. The United States has always been a plutocratic, imperialist behemoth that has relied on fascism and dictatorship to achieve its geopolitical objectives of total hegemony. The extermination of the North American natives was but the opening salvo, carried on by genocide of African slaves and their descendants, leading to the early colonial conquests of Mexico, Central America, the Caribbean and the Philippines.

Later, the American capitalist elite worked surreptitiously with European fascism, including Nazi Germany, during the 1920s and 30s to suppress socialist movements and maximise profits. That covert policy was interrupted for necessary tactical reasons during WWII to defeat its rogue fascist clients. But it was promptly resumed at the end of the war with the American sponsorship of fascism in Greece, Turkey and behind enemy lines in the Soviet Union, primarily in Ukraine.

The CIA recruited Wehrmacht agents and collaborators to deploy as saboteurs and terrorists against the Soviet Union during the 1950s and 60s. The present-day American sponsorship of Neo-Nazis in Kiev is therefore nothing other than a continuation of systematic policy.

Washington worked with fascists and military dictators in every corner of the globe during the Cold War, from Latin America to Africa to Asia.

Subversion of democratically elected governments and the brutal suppression of pro-democracy movements were standard operating procedure for the American "master race". The American self-proclaimed "exceptional nation" of "manifest destiny".

The presumed Cold War antagonism against the Soviet Union was but the cover story for the real, core narrative of ruthless pursuit of American hegemony, no matter at what nefarious price to democratic and human rights.

American historian William Blum enumerates that Washington was involved in the overthrow of more than 50 constitutional governments around the world during the five decades of the Cold War, resulting in over 25 million deaths from US-engendered civil wars, wars of aggression, dirty counterinsurgency wars, and despotic repression, as currently seen in Ukraine, Saudi Arabia, Bahrain, Egypt and other US "partner" dictatorships.

When we see the "partners" that Washington consorts with today, it must be understood that this is not some mere unfortunate quirk of history, alien to "true Americanism". It is totally in line with the real nature of American power and how it has always operated. Fascism and dictatorship are the true, ugly face of America.

The final irony perhaps is that it is the vast majority of ordinary people within the US who are now beginning to learn the harsh truth about their much-vaunted "American democracy" — and they are learning it the hard way.

It's a cruel awakening to the reality of rampant police state violence, the collapse of democratic rights and the untrammeled hedonism of its super-rich militarised oligarchy.

Link: http://www.sott.net/article/295059-US-sponsorship-of-neo-Nazi-Ukraine-and-Arab-dictators-shows-true-face-of-Washington-is-fascism-and-dictatorship

meeradas

19th April 2015, 07:08

http://projectavalon.net/forum4/showthread.php?81220-Jade-Helm-Entire-Federal-Martial-Law-Plan-Exposed-Martial-Law-Drills-Ft.-Lauderdale&p=953679&viewfull=1#post953679

Hervé

20th April 2015, 17:59

Polish politician and EU Parliament member Korwin-Mikke: Maidan snipers were trained in Poland. (http://fortruss.blogspot.ru/2015/04/korwin-mikke-maidan-snipers-were.html)

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By Joanna Stanislawska, April 19, 2015

Korwin-Mikke: Maidan snipers were trained in Poland. (http://wiadomosci.wp.pl/kat,1027139,title,Korwin-Mikke-snajperzy-z-Majdanu-byli-szkoleni-w-Polsce,wid,17449668,wiadomosc.html?)

Translated from Polish by J.Hawk

“Maidan was also our operation. The snipers were trained in Poland. These terrorists shot 40 demonstrators and 20 police officers on the Maidan in order to provoke riots,” - said the EU Parliament Deputy and presidential candidate Janusz Korwin-Mikke.

Janusz Korwin-Mikke: Poland does not have a conflict of interests with Russia. We have no problems on the Polish-Russian border. Fostering a militaristic state of mind is not useful to us, only to the US. It’s hard to agree with people like Vladimir Zhirinovskiy, since he is crazy, but he is fair to call us as Washington’s stooges.

Wirtualna Polska: But such sentiments are only natural given Russia’s aggressive policies. It’s difficult to ignore Iskander missiles on our borders.

JKM: Just a second! The Iskanders appeared there only recently, after Poland launched a hundred brutal verbal assaults on Russia, and after US armored cavalry paraded on Polish territory. I am a poker player, and in poker one has to think like the opponent. From Russia’s perspective, the situation looks as follows: in the last twenty years NATO had swallowed up the German Democratic Republic, Poland, Czech Republic, Slovakia, Hungary, Lithuania, Estonia, Romania, Bulgaria, and wants to lay its paws on Ukraine. Moreover, they tore Kosovo away from Serbia, attacked Muammar Qaddafi (may he rest in peace), and now are attacking the only defender of Christianity in the Middle East, His Excellency Bashar al-Assad, only because they are Russia’s allies. One can find an internet meme which says “Russians want war. Look how they placed their country close to NATO bases.” So I’m asking, who’s the aggressor?

WP: The Ukrainians might have a different view on this matter.

JKM: Unfortunately they can thank the Americans for all that. Russia had a fairly friendly president in Ukraine in the person of Mr. Viktor Yanukovych. And Russia had no intention of taking anything away. It was also the ideal situation for us, because it is in Poland’s interest for Ukraine to exist as an independent state, but also a weak one. That’s what Maidan destroyed. US State Department official Victoria Nuland openly admitted that the US spent $5 billion to destabilize the situation in Ukraine. We are dealing with US aggression in Ukraine. Putin is only pulling chestnuts out of the fire.

WP: But that’s the money that the US had spent since 1991 to democratize Ukraine. They were not spent to organize the Maidan. Do you believe that it was a CIA operation?

JKM: Yes—and it was also our operation. The snipers were also trained in Poland. Even Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung already wrote who was really shooting on the Maidan. The terrorists had shot 40 demonstrators and 20 police officers in order to provoke riots. The truth is finally coming out.

WP: Why would Poland want to train those, as you call them, “terrorists”?

JKM: Let me say this again: we are doing a favor to Washington [J.Hawk note: JKM here is making a play on words, because the word “favor” is only one letter away from “blow-job”, which was the word used, and also with reference to Washington, by the former Polish Foreign Minister Sikorski who complained Poland is not getting sufficient appreciation from the US.]

WP: Fine, but do you have any proof?

JKM: I sit in the EU Parliament next to Mr. Urmas Paetz, the Minister of Foreign Affairs of Estonia who acknowledged in a telephone conversation with Baroness Catherine Ashton that it was “our people” who shot on the Maidan, and not Yanukovych’s people, or Putin’s people. Trained by us, in Western countries.

WP: I don’t know what Paetz and Ashton talked about, but Putin certainly said this. You are repeating Russian propaganda theses. It’s difficult to consider as consistent with Poland’s national interest.

JKM: His Excellency Vladimir Putin said it two months after Mr. Paetz. I believe in St. Augustine’s principle, “may the world perish, but justice must be done.” If the Russians, through the mouth of Sergey Lavrov, say that they did not violate the Budapest Memorandum, they are lying like dogs, but when they are right, we have to acknowledge it.

WP: NATO has a defensive doctrine, while Putin is arming on a massive scale, is sending tanks and heavy equipment to Ukraine, and you claim this is not an aggressive policy?

JKM: What NATO? The Americans! War is useful only from the American point of view. There are interest groups in the US which are pushing for armed conflict: defense industry, financiers, some politicians, generals, but also many people (some of whom I know personally) from among the neoconservatives. They are analyzing the situation with cold logic: we have built the mightiest army in the world, but we also have 14 trillion dollars in debt, and we can’t afford further development. China, which supports Russia, will soon overtake us, therefore if we are to preserve our global hegemony, we have to start a war, in a few years at the latest. Ukraine is a very convenient pretext. At present time Poland is in a position to prevent World War III.

WP: In what way?

JKM: By declaring neutrality when it comes to Ukraine. Like Slovakia, Hungary, Romania, and Belarus, which don’t take part in the anti-Russian frenzy. We might save the world if we deprive the US Army from access to Ukraine.

WP: The Kremlin occupied Crimea, and through the pro-Russian separatists it is lawlessly occupying the Eastern Ukraine, but we are supposed to say that nothing happened?

JKM: The Crimean situation is clear. Russia used the Kosovo precedent. Because why can one tear Kosovo away from Serbia, but can’t tear Crimea away from Ukraine? The Russians warned that whoever recognizes Kosovo’s independence gives assent to similar situations in the future. The Donbass is not as obvious, but here Ukraine made a mistake. It should have given up Crimea and placed its military on the border with Russia. Instead it began to scream, but the effect of screaming was that it lost Crimea regardless, while the inhabitants of the Donbass felt that they might succeed too.

WP: So we should have left Ukraine to its own devices?

JKM: It makes no difference to Poland whether Ukraine has Crimea and Donbass or not. We also have to remember that any help to Ukraine is help to people who, at least in Western Ukraine, hate us. Their heroes are Stepan Bandera and Roman Shukhevych who are responsible for the genocide of Polish civilian population in Podolia, Volhynya, and Eastern Little Poland, where up to 100 thousand were killed. Those are fascists.

WP: Once again you are repeating Russian propaganda.

JKM: You have to admit that the Russians have a point when using the term “fascists” to describe, for example, the Right Sector. His Excellency Vladimir Putin should be thanked for one thing: thanks to his actions, the Ukrainians had begun to hate Russians more than Poles.

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WP: Why do you believe that Putin would be a great president of Poland?

JKM: Because he is strong and decisive. The more unhappy they are with him in Europe, the better president he is from Russia’s point of view. We also need a president whom our neighbors would fear.

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WP: Might Warsaw be hit with nuclear weapons?

JKM: I doubt Putin would use nuclear weapons against a country that does not have them and which does not threaten Russia. There is no such risk, in this matter Putin is entirely rational.

J.Hawk’s Comment: This is part of a longer interview dealing with a whole range of issues—the translation above covers only parts relevant to Russia and Ukraine. I should also note that Janusz Korwin-Mikke was one of the first Polish politicians to openly state that the CIA was operating a torture site on Polish soil, something that the Polish government strenuously denied—until the US itself acknowledged it. Will the “Maidan sniper” story follow a similar path?

Rocky_Shorz

23rd April 2015, 03:55

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"Erbil, Kurdistan Region of Iraq, (Krp.org)- President Masoud Barzani held a meeting with the Commander of the United States Central Command, General Lloyd Austin along with a number of U.S. military and diplomatic personnel. General Austin started by expressing his condemnation of the terrorist attack last Friday in Erbil and added that the Islamic State cannot alter the morale of the Peshmerga forces who have demonstrated their bravery through the military victories against the terrorists in the past eight months.

President Barzani and General Austin discussed the current military situation in Iraq in general and in the Kurdistan Region in particular. The President emphasized on the great role of the United States ad other coalition partners for their support of the Kurdistan Region against the terrorists of the Islamic State, adding that that gratitude is shared by the leadership and people of the Kurdistan Region.

General Austin and President Barzani expressed optimism in the matter of the ultimate defeat of the terrorists in the near future i, stating that the terrorists are already showing great signs of weakness." link (http://www.presidency.krd/english/articledisplay.aspx?id=ftm0zXOZvqc=)

Cidersomerset

23rd April 2015, 17:21

This may have already posted but will level the playing field a bit for Iran if these
missiles which were purchased in 2007 are delivered....

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Moscow says S-300 supplies to Iran will force those willing to attack it to ‘think twice’

Thursday 23rd April 2015 at 07:43 By David Icke

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‘The supplies of Russian S-300 missile systems to Iran are not breaking the balance
of powers in the region, Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov said on Wednesday.

“As a result of the supplies of S-300 to Iran, those who still want to launch a strike
against Iran will probably think at least twice before doing that,” Lavrov said in an
interview with three radio stations, Ekho Moskvy, Sputnik and Govorit Moskva.

However, according to the minister, neither Moscow, nor Tehran need a Russian-Iranian military alliance.’

Read more: Moscow says S-300 supplies to Iran will force those willing to attack it to ‘think twice’

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USA: "S-300 anti-air missile supplies to Iran don't violate UN sanctions"- US State Dept

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Russia to supply Iran with S-300 missiles

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Published on 14 Apr 2015

Israeli prime minister says he has spoken to the Russian president to protest Kremlin’s decision
to sell advanced S-300 anti-aircraft defense system to Iran. Benjamin Netanyahu claimed that
the move would increase what he called Iran’s aggression in the region and undermine security
in the Middle East. On Monday, Russia lifted the ban on supplying Iran with S-300 missiles.
Moscow says the missile system is a defensive weapon and will not threaten the security of
any country in the region. Russia says it could deliver the S-300 missile defense system to
Iran before the end of this year. Iran purchased the S-300 at 800-million dollars in 2007.
However, Moscow blocked the delivery of the weapons in 2010 despite its contract with Iran.

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Saudi Arabia Gives Israel 16 billion Dollars

Wednesday 22nd April 2015 at 09:28 By David Icke

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‘The odd-couple relationship between Saudi Arabia and Israel may have been
sealed with more than a mutual desire to kiss-off Iran. According to an
intelligence source, there was a dowry involved, too, with the Saudis reportedly
giving Israel some $16 billion, writes Robert Parry.

For more than half a century, Saudi Arabia has tried to use its vast oil wealth to
build a lobby in the United States that could rival the imposing Israel Lobby. At
top dollar, the Saudis hired law firms and PR specialists – and exploited personal
connections to powerful families like the Bushes – but the Saudis never could
build the kind of grassroots political organization that has given Israel and its
American backers such extraordinary clout.

Indeed, Americans who did take Saudi money – including academic institutions
and non-governmental organizations – were often pilloried as tools of the Arabs,
with the Israel Lobby and its propagandists raising the political cost of accepting
Saudi largesse so high that many people and institutions shied away.’

Read more: Saudi Arabia Gives Israel 16 billion Dollars

http://www.ascertainthetruth.com/att/index.php/al-islam-a-terrorism/intl-qwar-on-terrorq/1353-saudi-arabia-gives-israel-16bn-dollars

Sophocles

23rd April 2015, 18:09

What does Putin want? A major analysis by Rostislav Ishchenko (must read!) (http://thesaker.is/what-does-putin-want-a-major-analysis-by-rostislav-ishchenko-must-read/)

22. april, 2015

Foreword by the Saker:

The analysis below is, by far, the best I have seen since the beginning of the conflict in the Ukraine. I have regularly posted analyses by Ishchenko on this blog before, because I considered him as one of the best analysts in Russia. This time, however, Ishchenko has truly produced a masterpiece: a comprehensive analysis of the geostrategic position of Russia and a clear and, I believe, absolutely accurate analysis of the entire “Putin strategy” for the Ukraine. I have always said that this conflict is not about the Ukraine but about the future of the planet and that there is no “Novorussian” or even “Ukrainian” solution, but that the only possible outcome is a strategic victory of either Russia or the USA which will affect the entire planet. Ishchenko does a superb overview of the risks and options for both sides and offers the first comprehensive “key” to the apparently incomprehensible behavior of Russia in this conflict. Finally, Ishchenko also fully understands the complex and subtle dynamics inside Russian society. When he writes “Russian power is authoritative, rather than authoritarian” he is spot on, and explains more in seven words than what you would get by reading the billions of useless words written by so-called “experts” trying to describe the Russian reality.

We all owe a huge debt of gratitude to Denis, Gideon and Robin for translating this seminal text, which was very difficult to translate. The only reason why we can read it in such a good English is because the innumerable hours spent by these volunteers to produce the high quality translation this analysis deserves.

I strongly recommend that you all read this text very carefully. Twice. It is well worth it.

The Saker

What does Putin want?

Rostislav Ishchenko

Source: http://actualcomment.ru/chego-khochet-putin.html

Translated from the Russian by Denis, Gideon, and Robin

It’s gratifying that “patriots” did not instantly blame Putin for the failure to achieve a full-scale rout of Ukrainian troops in Donbass in January and February, or for Moscow’s consultations with Merkel and Hollande.

Even so, they still are still impatient for a victory. The most radical are convinced that Putin will “surrender Novorossiya” just the same. And the moderates are afraid that he will as soon as the next truce is signed (if that happens) out of the need to regroup and replenish Novorossiya’s army (which actually could have been done without disengagement from military operations), to come to terms with the new circumstances on the international front, and to get ready for new diplomatic battles.

In fact, despite all the attention that political and/or military dilettantes (the Talleyrands and the Bonapartes of the Internet) are paying to the situation in Donbass and the Ukraine in general, it is only one point on a global front: the outcome of the war is being decided not at the Donetsk airport or in the hills outside Debaltsevo, but at offices on Staraya Square1 and Smolenskaya Square,2 at offices in Paris, Brussels and Berlin. Because military action is only one of the many components of the political quarrel.

It is the harshest and the final component, which carries great risk, but the matter doesn’t start with war and it doesn’t end with war. War is only an intermediate step signifying the impossibility of compromise. Its purpose is to create new conditions whereby compromise is possible or to show that there is no longer any need for it, with the disappearance of one side of the conflict. When it is time for compromise, when the fighting is over and the troops go back to their barracks and the generals begin writing their memoirs and preparing for the next war, that is when the real outcome of the confrontation is determined by politicians and diplomats at the negotiating table.

Political decisions are not often understood by the general population or the military. For example, during the Austro-Prussian war of 1866, Prussian chancellor Otto Von Bismarck (later chancellor of the German Empire) disregarded the persistent requests of King Wilhelm I (the future German Emperor) and the demands of the Prussian generals to take Vienna, and he was absolutely correct to do so. In that way he accelerated peace on Prussia’s terms and also ensured that Austro-Hungary forever (well, until its dismemberment in 1918) became a junior partner for Prussia and later the German Empire.

To understand how, when and on what conditions military activity can end, we need to know what the politicians want and how they see the conditions of the postwar compromise. Then it will become clear why military action turned into a low-intensity civil war with occasional truces, not only in the Ukraine but also in Syria.

Obviously, the views of Kiev politicians are of no interest to us because they don’t decide anything. The fact that outsiders govern the Ukraine is no longer concealed. It doesn’t matter whether the cabinet ministers are Estonian or Georgian; they are Americans just the same. It would also be a big mistake to take an interest in how the leaders of the Donetsk People’s Republic (DPR) and the Lugansk People’s Republic (LNR) see the future. The republics exist only with Russian support, and as long as Russia supports them, Russia’s interests have to be protected, even from independent decisions and initiatives. There is too much at stake to allow [Alexander] Zakharchenko or [Igor] Plotnitzky, or anyone else for that matter, to make independent decisions.

Nor are we interested in the European Union’s position. Much depended on the EU until the summer of last year, when the war could have been prevented or stopped at the outset. A tough, principled antiwar stance by the EU was needed. It could have blocked U.S. initiatives to start the war and would have turned the EU into a significant independent geopolitical player. The EU passed on that opportunity and instead behaved like a faithful vassal of the United States.

As a result, Europe stands on the brink of frightful internal upheaval. In the coming years, it has every chance of suffering the same fate as the Ukraine, only with a great roar, great bloodshed and less chance that in the near future things will settle down – in other words, that someone will show up and put things in order.

In fact, today the EU can choose whether to remain a tool of the United States or to move closer to Russia. Depending on its choice, Europe can get off with a slight scare, such as a breakup of parts of its periphery and possible fragmentation of some countries, or it could collapse completely. Judging by the European elites’ reluctance to break openly with the United States, collapse is almost inevitable.

What should interest us is the opinions of the two main players that determine the configuration of the geopolitical front and in fact are fighting for victory in the new generation of war – the network-centric Third World War. These players are the United States and Russia.

The U.S. position is clear and transparent. In the second half of the 1990s, Washington missed its only opportunity to reform the Cold War economy without any obstacles and thereby avoid the looming crisis in a system whose development is limited by the finite nature of planet Earth and its resources, including human ones, which conflicts with the need to endlessly print dollars.

After that, the United States could prolong the death throes of the system only by plundering the rest of the world. At first, it went after Third World countries. Then it went for potential competitors. Then for allies and even close friends. Such plundering could continue only as long as the United States remained the world’s undisputed hegemon.

Thus when Russia asserted its right to make independent political decisions – decisions of not global but regional import – , a clash with the United States became inevitable. This clash cannot end in a compromise peace.

For the United States, a compromise with Russia would mean a voluntary renunciation of its hegemony, leading to a quick, systemic catastrophe – not only a political and economic crisis but also a paralysis of state institutions and the inability of the government to function. In other words, its inevitable disintegration.

But if the United States wins, then it is Russia that will experience systemic catastrophe. After a certain type of “rebellion,” Russia’s ruling classes would be punished with asset liquidation and confiscation as well as imprisonment. The state would be fragmented, substantial territories would be annexed, and the country’s military might would be destroyed.

So the war will last until one side wins. Any interim agreement should be viewed only as a temporary truce – a needed respite to regroup, to mobilize new resources and to find (i.e., to poach) additional allies.

To complete the picture of the situation, we only need Russia’s position. It is essential to understand what the Russian leadership wants to achieve, particularly the president, Vladimir Putin. We are talking about the key role that Putin plays in the organization of the Russian power structure. This system is not authoritarian, as many assert, but rather authoritative – meaning it is based not on legislative consolidation of autocracy but on the authority of the person who created the system and, as the head of it, makes it work effectively.

During Putin’s 15 years in power, despite the difficult internal and external situation, he has tried to maximize the role of the government, the legislative assembly, and even the local authorities. These are entirely logical steps that should have given the system completeness, stability, and continuity. Because no politician can rule forever, political continuity, regardless of who comes to power, is the key to a stable system.

Unfortunately, fully autonomous control, namely the ability to function without the president’s oversight, hasn’t been achieved. Putin remains the key component of the system because the people put their trust in him personally. They have far less trust in the system, as represented by public authorities and individual agencies.

Thus Putin’s opinions and political plans become the decisive factor in areas such as Russia’s foreign policy. If the phrase “without Putin, there is no Russia” is an exaggeration, then the phrase “what Putin wants, Russia also wants” reflects the situation quite accurately in my opinion.

First, let’s note that the man who for 15 years has carefully guided Russia to its revival has done so in conditions of U.S. hegemony in world politics along with significant opportunities for Washington to influence Russia’s internal politics. He had to understand the nature of the fight and his opponent. Otherwise, he wouldn’t have lasted so long.

The level of confrontation that Russia allowed itself to get into with the United States grew very slowly and up to a certain point went unnoticed. For example, Russia did not react at all to the first attempt at a color revolution in the Ukraine in 2000-2002 (the Gongadze case,3 the Cassette Scandal,4 and the Ukraine without Kuchma protest5).

Russia took an opposing position but did not actively intervene in the coups that took place from November 2003 to January 2004 in Georgia and from November 2004 to January 2005 in the Ukraine. In 2008, in Ossetia and Abkhazia, Russia used its troops against Georgia, a U.S. ally. In 2012, in Syria, the Russian fleet demonstrated its readiness to confront the United States and its NATO allies.

In 2013, Russia began taking economic measures against [Victor] Yanukovych’s regime, which contributed to his realization of the harmfulness of signing an association agreement [with the EU].

Moscow could not have saved the Ukraine from the coup because of the baseness, cowardice, and stupidity of the Ukraine’s leaders – not only Yanukovych but all of them without exception. After the armed coup in Kiev in February 2014, Russia entered into open confrontation with Washington. Before that, the conflicts were interspersed with improved relations, but at the beginning of 2014 relations between Russia and the United States deteriorated swiftly and almost immediately reached the point where war would have been declared automatically in the prenuclear era.

Thus at any given time Putin engaged in precisely the level of confrontation with the United States that Russia could handle. If Russia isn’t limiting the level of confrontation now, it means Putin believes that, in the war of sanctions, the war of nerves, the information war, the civil war in the Ukraine, and the economic war, Russia can win.

This is the first important conclusion about what Putin wants and what he expects. He expects to win. And considering that he takes a meticulous approach and strives to anticipate any surprises, you can be sure that when the decision was made not to back down under pressure from the United States, but to respond, the Russian leadership had a double, if not a triple, guarantee of victory.

I would like to point out that the decision to enter into a conflict with Washington was not made in 2014, nor was it made in 2013. The war of August 8, 2008, was a challenge that the United States could not leave unpunished. After that, every further stage of the confrontation only raised the stakes. From 2008 to 2010, the United States’ capability – not just military or economic but its overall capability – has declined, whereas Russia’s has improved significantly. So the main objective was to raise the stakes slowly rather than in explosive fashion. In other words, an open confrontation in which all pretences are dropped and everyone understands that a war is going on had to be delayed as long as possible. But it would have been even better to avoid it altogether.

With every passing year, the United States became weaker while Russia became stronger. This process was natural and impossible to arrest, and we could have projected with a high degree of certainty that by 2020 to 2025, without any confrontation, the period of U.S. hegemony would have ended, and the United States would then be best advised to think about not how to rule the world, but how to stave off its own precipitous internal decline.

Thus Putin’s second desire is clear: to keep the peace or the appearance of peace as long as possible. Peace is advantageous for Russia because in conditions of peace, without enormous expense, it obtains the same political result but in a much better geopolitical situation. That is why Russia continually extends the olive branch. Just as the Kiev junta will collapse in conditions of peace in Donbass, in conditions of world peace, the military-industrial complex and the global financial system created by the United States are doomed to self-destruct. In this way, Russia’s actions are aptly described by Sun Tzu’s maxim “The greatest victory is that which requires no battle.”

It is clear that Washington is not run by idiots, no matter what is said on Russian talk shows or written on blogs. The United States understands precisely the situation it is in. Moreover, they also understand that Russia has no plans to destroy them and is really prepared to cooperate as an equal. Even so, because of the political and socioeconomic situation in the United States, such cooperation is not acceptable to them. An economic collapse and a social explosion are likely to occur before Washington (even with the support of Moscow and Beijing) has time to introduce the necessary reforms, especially when we consider that the EU will have to undergo reform at the same time. Moreover, the political elite who have emerged in the United States in the past 25 years have become accustomed to their status as the owners of the world. They sincerely don’t understand how anyone can challenge them.

For the ruling elite in the United States (not so much the business class but the government bureaucracy), to go from being a country that decides of the fate of inferior peoples to one that negotiates with them on an equal footing is intolerable. It is probably tantamount to offering Gladstone or Disraeli the post of prime minister of the Zulu Kingdom under Cetshwayo kaMpande. And so, unlike Russia, which needs peace to develop, the United States regards war as vital.

In principle, any war is a struggle for resources. Typically, the winner is the one that has more resources and can ultimately mobilize more troops and build more tanks, ships, and planes. Even so, sometimes those who are strategically disadvantaged can turn the situation around with a tactical victory on the battlefield. Examples include the wars of Alexander the Great and Frederick the Great, as well as Hitler’s campaign of 1939-1940.

Nuclear powers cannot confront each other directly. Therefore, their resource base is of paramount importance. That is exactly why Russia and the United States have been in a desperate competition for allies over the past year. Russia has won this competition. The United States can count only the EU, Canada, Australia, and Japan as allies (and not always unconditionally so), but Russia has managed to mobilize support from the BRICS, to gain a firm foothold in Latin America, and to begin displacing the United States in Asia and North Africa.

Of course, it’s not patently obvious, but if we consider the results of votes at the UN, assuming that a lack of official support for the United States means dissent and thus support for Russia, it turns out that the countries aligned with Russia together control about 60% of the world’s GDP, have more than two-thirds of its population, and cover more than three-quarters of its surface. Thus Russia has been able to mobilize more resources.

In this regard, the United States had two tactical options. The first seemed to have great potential and was employed by it from the early days of the Ukrainian crisis.

It was an attempt to force Russia to choose between a bad situation and an even worse one. Russia would be compelled to accept a Nazi state on its borders and therefore a dramatic loss of international authority and of the trust and support of its allies, and after a short time would become vulnerable to internal and external pro-U.S. forces, with no chance of survival. Or else it could send its army into the Ukraine, sweep out the junta before it got organized, and restore the legitimate government of Yanukovych. That, however, would have brought an accusation of aggression against an independent state and of suppression of the people’s revolution. Such a situation would have resulted in a high degree of disapproval on the part of Ukrainians and the need to constantly expend significant military, political, economic, and diplomatic resources to maintain a puppet regime in Kiev, because no other government would have been possible under such conditions.

Russia avoided that dilemma. There was no direct invasion. It is Donbass that is fighting Kiev. It is the Americans who have to devote scarce resources to the doomed puppet regime in Kiev, while Russia can remain on the sidelines making peace proposals.

So now the United States is employing the second option. It’s as old as the hills. That which cannot be held, and will be taken by the enemy, must be damaged as much as possible so that the enemy’s victory is more costly than defeat, as all its resources are used to reconstruct the destroyed territory. The United States has therefore ceased to assist the Ukraine with anything more than political rhetoric while encouraging Kiev to spread civil war throughout the country.

The Ukrainian land must burn, not only in Donetsk and Lugansk but also in Kiev and Lvov. The task is simple: to destroy the social infrastructure as much as possible and to leave the population at the very edge of survival. Then the population of the Ukraine will consist of millions of starving, desperate and heavily armed people who will kill one another for food. The only way to stop this bloodbath would be massive international military intervention in the Ukraine (the militia on its own will not be sufficient) and massive injections of funds to feed the population and to reconstruct the economy until the Ukraine can begin to feed itself.

It is clear that all these costs would fall on Russia. Putin correctly believes that not only the budget, but also public resources in general, including the military, would in this case be overstretched and possibly insufficient. Therefore, the objective is not to allow the Ukraine to explode before the militia can bring the situation under control. It is crucial to minimize casualties and destruction and to salvage as much of the economy as possible and the infrastructure of the large cities so that the population somehow survives and then the Ukrainians themselves will take care of the Nazi thugs.

At this point an ally appears for Putin in the form of the EU. Because the United States always tried to use European resources in its struggle with Russia, the EU, which was already weakened, reaches the point of exhaustion and has to deal with its own long-festering problems.

If Europe now has on its eastern border a completely destroyed Ukraine, from which millions of armed people will flee not only to Russia but also to the EU, taking with them delightful pastimes such as drug trafficking, gunrunning, and terrorism, the EU will not survive. The people’s republics of Novorossiya will serve as a buffer for Russia, however.

Europe cannot confront the United States, but it is deathly afraid of a destroyed Ukraine. Therefore, for the first time in the conflict, Hollande and Merkel are not just trying to sabotage the U.S. demands (by imposing sanctions but not going too far), but they are also undertaking limited independent action with the aim of achieving a compromise – maybe not peace but at least a truce in the Ukraine.

If the Ukraine catches fire, it will burn quickly, and if the EU has become an unreliable partner that is ready if not to move into Russia’s camp then at least to take a neutral position, Washington, faithful to its strategy, would be obliged to set fire to Europe.

It is clear that a series of civil and interstate wars on a continent packed with all sorts of weapons, where more than half a billion people live, is far worse than a civil war in the Ukraine. The Atlantic separates the United States from Europe. Even Britain could hope to sit it out across the Channel. But Russia and the EU share a very long [sic] border.

It is not at all in Russia’s interests to have a conflagration stretching from the Atlantic to the Carpathian Mountains when the territory from the Carpathians to the Dnieper is still smoldering. Therefore, Putin’s other objective is, to the extent possible, to prevent the most negative effects of a conflagration in the Ukraine and a conflagration in Europe. Because it is impossible to completely prevent such an outcome (if the United States wants to ignite the fire, it will), it is necessary to be able to extinguish it quickly to save what is most valuable.

Thus, to protect Russia’s legitimate interests, Putin considers peace to be of vital importance, because it is peace that will make it possible to achieve this goal with maximum effect at minimum cost. But because peace is no longer possible, and the truces are becoming more theoretical and fragile, Putin needs the war to end as quickly as possible.

But I do want to stress that if a compromise could have been reached a year ago on the most favorable terms for the West (Russia would have still obtained its goals, but later – a minor concession), it is no longer possible, and the conditions are progressively worsening. Ostensibly, the situation remains the same; peace on almost any conditions is still beneficial for Russia. Only one thing has changed, but it is of the utmost importance: public opinion. Russian society longs for victory and retribution. As I pointed out above, Russian power is authoritative (http://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/authoritative), rather than authoritarian (http://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/authoritarian); therefore, public opinion matters in Russia, in contrast to the “traditional democracies.”

Putin can maintain his role as the linchpin of the system only as long as he has the support of the majority of the population. If he loses this support, because no figures of his stature have emerged from Russia’s political elite, the system will lose its stability. But power can maintain its authority only as long as it successfully embodies the wishes of the masses. Thus the defeat of Nazism in the Ukraine, even if it is diplomatic, must be clear and indisputable – only under such conditions is a Russian compromise possible.

Thus, regardless of Putin’s wishes and Russia’s interests, given the overall balance of power, as well as the protagonists’ priorities and capabilities, a war that should have ended last year within the borders of the Ukraine will almost certainly spill over into Europe. One can only guess who will be more effective – the Americans with their gas can or the Russians with their fire extinguisher? But one thing is absolutely clear: the peace initiatives of the Russian leaders will be limited not by their wishes but their actual capabilities. It is futile to fight either the wishes of the people or the course of history; but when they coincide, the only thing a wise politician can do is to understand the wishes of the people and the direction of the historical process and try to support it at all costs.

The circumstances described above make it extremely unlikely that the proponents of an independent state of Novorossiya will see their wishes fulfilled. Given the scale of the coming conflagration, determining the fate of the Ukraine as a whole is not excessively complicated but, at the same time, it will not come cheap.

It is only logical that the Russian people should ask: if Russians, whom we rescued from the Nazis, live in Novorossiya, why do they have to live in a separate state? If they want to live in a separate state, why should Russia rebuild their cities and factories? To these questions there is only one reasonable answer: Novorossiya should become part of Russia (especially since it has enough fighters, although the governing class is problematic). Well, if part of the Ukraine can join Russia, why not all of it? Especially as in all likelihood by the time this question is on the agenda, the European Union will no longer be an alternative to the Eurasian Union [for the Ukraine].

Consequently, the decision to rejoin Russia will be made by a united federated Ukraine and not by some entity without a clear status. I think that it is premature to redraw the political map. Most likely the conflict in the Ukraine will be concluded by the end of the year. But if the United States manages to extend the conflict to the EU (and it will try), the final resolution of territorial issues will take at least a couple of years and maybe more.

In any situation we benefit from peace. In conditions of peace, as Russia’s resource base grows, as new allies (former partners of the United States) go over to its side, and as Washington becomes progressively marginalized, territorial restructuring will become far simpler and temporarily less significant, especially for those being restructured.

Notes:

1 Moscow street where the headquarters of the Presidential Administration of Russia is located.

2 Moscow square where Russia’s Ministry of Foreign Affairs is located.

3 Georgiy Gongadze was a Georgian-born Ukrainian journalist and film director who was kidnapped and murdered in 2000.

4 The Cassette Scandal erupted in 2000 with the release of audiotapes on which Leonid Kuchma allegedly discussed the need to silence Gongadze for reporting on high-level corruption.

5 As a result of the Cassette Scandal, a mass anti-Kuchma protest took place in the Ukraine in 2000-2001.

Roberta

10th May 2015, 07:52

Though the mainstream Western media reported about the "pomp" of the V-day celebrations in Russia, they said nothing about the "Immortal Regiment". However, this moving,spontaneous event speaks for itself - yesterday, Russians, as well as many, many more people of different nationalities, went to the streets carrying portraits of family members who fought against Nazism. The lack of any information on this event (BBC, CNN, etc, etc ignored this altogether) is truly and utterly sad and disappointing.
Here is something from RT:

http://rt.com/news/257217-victory-day-best-videos/

Morbid

11th May 2015, 09:52

western media also avoided mentioning amount of foreign high officials that visited to event. slap in the face regarding 'isolation' of russia. instead most had to say about the t14 that stalled during rehersal couple of days before. - absolutely pathetic.

Sophocles

12th May 2015, 18:22

Chinese President Xi On Russia’s Role in Crushing Fascism (http://thesaker.is/chinese-president-xi-on-russias-role-in-crushing-fascism/)

May 11, 2015 (original source) (http://russia-insider.com/en/politics/translation-xi-jinping-remember-history-open-future/ri6665)

Translation and forword by Anatolii Karlin

Xi Jinping penned an op-ed in a Russian newspaper on May 6th in which, in stark contrast to the typical Western bile and hostility, he acknowledges the role of the Soviet Union in defeating Nazism and warns off against attempts to revise that outcome, be it on paper or in real life.

I am translating it in full for two reasons.

First, it constitutes a first-hand glance at official relations between China and Russia, which – much to the consternation of neocons, Russophobes, Sinophobes, and Western imperialists – are instead of fighting each other for make benefit of the US are instead building strong relations and continuing to ink dozens of deals whose total value now probably stands at close to a trillion dollars.

Second, to explicitly give the lie to Western propaganda that Russia is somehow “isolated” by the fact that none of Washington’s European stooges turned up at the Victory Day parade in Moscow this May 9th. Who cares? Not many Russians, at any rate. China, India, and dozens of other countries did turn up. That’s the world’s second superpower and the representatives of half of humanity. As for Obama, Merkel, Hollande, and Dave – quite frankly, the air is cleaner for their absence.

To Remember History, To Open the Future

by Xi Jinping

On May 9th, Victory Day in the world war against fascism, at the invitation of Russia’s President Vladimir Putin, I will visit Russia and take part in the celebrations in Moscow devoted to the 70th anniversary of Victory in the Great Patriotic War. This sacred day I will celebrate together with the Russian people and the entire world.

Everyone remembers that the aggressive wars begun by the fascists and militarists inflicted unprecedented damage and suffering on the peoples of China, Russia, and the countries of Europe, Asia, and other parts of the world. The relentless struggle between justice and evil, light and darkness, freedom and slavery, was joined by the peoples of China, Russia, and more than 50 other countries, as well as by all the other peace-loving peoples of the world, who stood up as one and formed a broad international anti-fascist and anti-militarist front. All these nations fought in bloody battles against the enemy, and in so doing defeated the most evil and brutal aggressors, bringing peace to the world.

I remember, in March 2013, when I first visited Russia on a state visit, I laid a wreath at the Tomb of the Unknown Soldier near the Kremlin walls. There was a depiction of a soldier’s helmet and a red banner on the tomb, and there burned an eternal fire, symbolizing the unbroken life and unwavering fearlessness of our fallen heroes. “Your name is unknown, your deeds are immortal.” They will never be forgotten by the Russian people, the Chinese people, or anyone else.

China was the main theater of military operations in Asia during the Second World War. The Chinese people stood up before anyone else in the struggle against the Japanese militarists, waged the longest war, fought in the hardest conditions, and, like Russia, suffered the most enormous losses. The Chinese army and people fought stoically and persistently, locking down and destroying numerous contingents of the Japanese aggressors. At the cost of a huge national sacrifice – the lives of more than 35 million people – a great victory was finally won and an enormous contribution was made to victory in the world struggle against fascism. The exploits of the Chinese people in the war against the militarists, just like the exploits of the Russian people, will be immortalized forever in history and will never die.

The Chinese and Russian peoples supported each other, helped each other, they were comrades in arms in the war against fascism and militarism, and built a friendship with each other forged with blood and life. In the most difficult times of the Great Patriotic War, many of the best sons and daughters of the Chinese people decisively joined in the battle against German fascism. Mao Anying – the eldest son of Chairman Mao Zedong – fought on many battles as a political officer of a tank company of the 1st Belorussian Front, up to the storming of Berlin. The Chinese fighter pilot Tang Duo, as deputy commander of a fighter company of the Soviet Army, distinguished himself in air battles against the fascist forces. Children of the leaders of the Chinese Communist Party and descendants of the fallen heroes of the Chinese Revolution, when studying at the Ivanovo international boarding school, despite that they were still only children, nonetheless went off to dig trenches, prepared Molotov cocktails, prepared food and clothes for the fighters, chopped trees, dug out potatoes, and looked after the wounded in hospitals. Apart from that, many of them regularly donated blood – 430 millilitres once per month for the soldiers at the front. The Chinese female journalist Hu Jibang, small and weak, underwent the entire war from the first day to the last, through bullets and fire, writing about the resilience and courage of the Soviet people, the barbarous cruelty of the fascist hordes, and the joy of the Russian soldiers and people in their times of triumph. It emboldened the armies and peoples of both countries, raising their will to fight to the end, to the final victory. Alongside the above heroes there are many other representatives of the Chinese people who contributed to the Great Patriotic War while remaining unknown soldiers.

The Russian people gave the Chinese people valuable political and moral support in their war against Japanese invaders. This included large convoys of arms and war material. More than 2,000 Soviet fighter pilots joined the Chinese air force and helped in the air battles over China. More than 200 of them died in battles over Chinese soil. In the closing phase of the war, Red Army soldiers of the Soviet Union were sent to north-east China. Together with the Chinese army and people they fought against the Japanese militarists, which helped China tremendously in achieving final victory. The Chinese people will always remember the Russians, both soldiers and civilians, who gave their lives for the independence and liberation of the Chinese nation.

The famous Russian historian Vasily Klyuchevsky said, that, having forgotten history, our soul can get lost in the darkness. To forget history is to commit treason. The Chinese and Russian peoples stand ready, together with all peace-loving countries and peoples, and with the automost determination and decisiveness, to oppose any actions or attempts to deny, distort, and rewrite the history of the Second World War.

This year, China and Russia will hold a series of events to mark the 70th anniversary of Victory in the Second World War. There will also be many other events conducted by the UN and other international and regional organizations. The purpose of these events and celebrations is to demonstrate our determination to defend the results of the Second World War, to protect international equality and justice, and to remind out contemporaries that it is necessary to preserve and guard the peace that was won for humanity at too high a price.

The hard lessons of the Second World War tell people, that humanity’s coexistence is not subject to the laws of the jungle; that world politics is diametrically contradictory to belligerent and hegemonic power politics; and that the path of human development is not founded on the principle of “winner takes all” or in games with zero-sum outcomes. Peace – yes, war – no, cooperation – yes, confrontation – no, mutual gains are honored, while zero-sum results – are not: This is what constitutes the unchanging core and essence of peace, progress, and the development of human society.

Today, mankind has unprecedentedly good opportunities for the realization of our goal – peace, development, and the formation of a system of international relations that is ever more strongly based on the spirit of cooperation and mutual benefits. “Unity – is strength, while self-isolation – is weakness.” Cooperation and the win-win principle should be adopted as the basic orientation of all countries in international affairs. We have to unite our own interests with the common interests of all countries, find and expand on the common points of interests of different parties, develop and establish a new conception of multilateral win-win, to always be ready to extend a helping hand to each other at difficult times, to partake together of rights, interests, and responsibilities, and to collectively collaborate to solve growing global problems such as climate change, energy security, cybersecurity, national disasters, and so on. In short, we are in it together on our planet Earth – the homeland of all humanity.

The Chinese people and the Russian people – they are both great peoples. In the years of grief and misery, our indestructible camaraderie was cemented in place with blood. Today the peoples of China and Russian will hand in hand and shoulder to shoulder defend peace, promote development, and make their contributions to lasting world peace and human progress.

Link (http://thesaker.is/chinese-president-xi-on-russias-role-in-crushing-fascism/)

(Norwegian msm wrote several times in the past few weeks that "nobody" would be attending the Victory Day in Moscow. They were wrong.)

Civilized world attends Moscow for Victory Day - media highlights (excerpt) (http://www.sott.net/article/296234-Civilized-world-attends-Moscow-for-Victory-Day-media-highlights)

Harrison Koehli
Sott.net
Sat, 09 May 2015 16:22 UTC

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Seventy years ago, the Soviet Union crushed Nazism in Europe. Millions died in the struggle. Today, the civilized world joined together in Moscow in celebrating the victory over fascist pathocracy (https://pathocracy.wordpress.com/definition/). The leaders of the West did not attend. The reason is simple. Nazism may have been defeated in Germany, but it has lived on ever since in the United States, and it has made a recent resurgence in Ukraine. To attend such a celebration would be an unthinkable violation of fascistic, psychopathic Western values.

Putin himself took part in the Immortal March, carrying a portrait of his father, who fought in the war.
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And now, some of my favorite pictures from the parade:

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Ceremonial unit soldiers at the military parade to mark the 70th anniversary of Victory in the 1941-1945 Great Patriotic War.

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Mikoyan-Gurevich MiG-29 Fulcrum fighters and Sukhoi Su-25 Frogfoot ground-attack planes at the military parade to mark the 70th anniversary of Victory in the 1941-1945 Great Patriotic War.

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Defense Minister Sergey Shoigu.

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"We stand by Russia" - Chinese troops on parade, wearing St. George ribbons.

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Indian troops, more St. George ribbons.

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Mongolian troops, St. George ribbons.

Harrison Koehli hails from Edmonton, Alberta. A graduate of studies in music performance, Harrison is also an editor for Red Pill Press and has been interviewed on several North American radio shows in recognition of his contributions to advancing the study of ponerology (http://www.ponerology.com/). In addition to music and books, Harrison enjoys tobacco and bacon (often at the same time) and dislikes cell phones, vegetables, and fascists.

Link (http://www.sott.net/article/296234-Civilized-world-attends-Moscow-for-Victory-Day-media-highlights)

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Facing the war -an RT documentary:

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Wars can start for many reasons but whatever the cause, innocent people will always suffer. Ukrainian veterans of WWII have now been caught up in conflict for a second time, 70 years ago they were children, now they watch their childhood nightmares coming back to life as younger generations ignore the bitter lessons learned so long ago.

Sophocles

14th May 2015, 19:29

Breakthrough to Ukraine peace in recent days, no alternative to Minsk deal - German FM (excerpt) (http://rt.com/news/258197-steinmeier-ukraine-peace-progress/)

Published time: May 13, 2015 15:05

German Foreign Minister Frank-Walter Steinmeier says there has been a serious breakthrough in fulfilling the Minsk peace roadmap in Ukraine. Despite any difficulties encountered, he says, the participants must press on with implementing the deal.

Steinmeier was speaking at a meeting of NATO member states diplomats in Antalya, Turkey. "Despite the fact that in two places [in eastern Ukraine] the ceasefire is still fragile, in the past few days there has been a serious breakthrough in implementing the Minsk agreements, concerning the creation of working groups," Steinmeier told the gathering.

He was referring to the decision taken on May 6 by representatives of Ukraine, Russia and the OSCE to create four working sub-groups to help implement the peace roadmap. They focus on security, political issues, economy and refugees. The political and economic sub-groups are scheduled to hold meetings in the Belarusian capital on May 16.

Source: RT (http://rt.com/news/258197-steinmeier-ukraine-peace-progress/)

Poroshenko aims to regain control of Donetsk airport (https://www.kyivpost.com/content/ukraine/poroshenko-aims-to-regain-control-of-donetsk-airport-2-388338.html)

May 12, 2015, 12:04 p.m. | Ukraine — by Interfax-Ukraine

Ukrainian President Petro Poroshenko has no doubt that Ukraine will regain control of the Donetsk airport currently held by the militants of the self-proclaimed Donetsk People's Republic (DPR) and restore its infrastructures, the presidential press service said.

Source: Kyivpost (https://www.kyivpost.com/content/ukraine/poroshenko-aims-to-regain-control-of-donetsk-airport-2-388338.html)

But now it seems that Poroshenko don`t have the support he was told or hoping for.

Press Availability With Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov (http://www.state.gov/secretary/remarks/2015/05/242214.htm)

John Kerry
Secretary of State
Sochi, Russia
May 12, 2015

I’m grateful to President Putin for the significant amount of time that he made available to this discussion, for his directness, and for his very detailed explanations of Russia’s position with respect to some of these challenges, and of the ways that he believed that we have an ability to be able to work constructively together in order to resolve these problems.

I must say we found a fair amount of agreement even as Sergey has accurately disclosed that we continue to disagree on certain components of the walkup to it or certain facts, but we are both in significant agreement on the most important issue of all, which is it will be resolved by the full implementation of Minsk, and we both – all of us and other friends and allies – have responsibilities to undertake in order to effect that implementation. If and when Minsk is fully implemented, it is clear the U.S. and EU sanctions can begin to be rolled back.

But I also made clear our deep concerns regarding the situation on the ground – continued perceived violations of ceasefire in Shyrokyne and at the Donetsk airport; the continued arming, training, command and control of separate forces. And we believe that this fighting, the fighting that is taking place as a result of this – on any side, whoever has instigated it – that it has gone on for too long.

Source: U.S Department of State (http://www.state.gov/secretary/remarks/2015/05/242214.htm)

Ukraine ceasefire: New Minsk agreement key points (http://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-31436513)

12 February 2015

1. Immediate and full bilateral ceasefire

2. Withdrawal of all heavy weapons by both sides

3. Effective monitoring and verification regime for the ceasefire and withdrawal of heavy weapons

4. From day one of the withdrawal begin a dialogue on the holding of local elections

5. Pardon and amnesty by banning any prosecution of figures involved in the Donetsk and Luhansk conflict

6. Release of all hostages and other illegally detained people

7. Unimpeded delivery of humanitarian aid to the needy, internationally supervised

8. Restoration of full social and economic links with affected areas

9. Full Ukrainian government control will be restored over the state border, throughout the conflict zone

10. Withdrawal of all foreign armed groups, weapons and mercenaries from Ukrainian territory

11. Constitutional reform in Ukraine, with adoption of a new constitution by the end of 2015

Source: BBC (http://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-31436513)

Sophocles

14th May 2015, 23:22

Vladimir Putin (at 8.40 min.):

Dear citizens of Russia, dear veterans, respected guests, accept my congratulations for the seventieth anniversary of the victory in the Great Patriotic War. The grand victory will forever remain a glorious summit in the history of our country.

But we also remember our allies in the Anti-Hitler coalition. We are greatful to the peoples of Great Britain, France and the United States of America for their contribution to the victory.

However during the last decade, the basic principles of international cooperation are increasingly ignored. The principles that were achieved by mankind through suffering after the global trials of war. We saw attempts to establish a unipolar world. We see the strong-arm bloc coalition gaining momentum. All that undermines sustainable global development.

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Published on May 13, 2015 by Vice News
On May 9, Russia commemorated the 70th anniversary of the end of the Second World War with a military parade held in Moscow’s Red Square. In addition to approximately 16,000 troops, the newest military technology in Russia’s arsenal also participated, including the T-14 Armata battle tank.

John Kerry: (http://www.state.gov/secretary/remarks/2015/05/242214.htm)

As all of you know, we have just in the last days celebrated the 70th anniversary of VE Day, the day that the United States, Russia, and our allies defeated the scourge of Nazism. And earlier today, I had the privilege of attending, with the mayor of Sochi and with Foreign Minister Lavrov, the war memorial here in Sochi where more than 4,000 of the millions of courageous then-Soviets who died in World War II are buried. And it’s a very beautiful memorial and I was very moved by the young children who were there taking part in the ceremony. And I think Sergey and I both came away from this ceremony with a very powerful reminder of the sacrifices that we shared to bring about a safer world, and of what our nations can accomplish when our peoples are working together towards the same goal.

Morbid

15th May 2015, 10:08

i would be careful with vice news. they been caught in the past spreading common agenda. under differen sauce, surely.

Octavusprime

15th May 2015, 15:52

i would be careful with vice news. they been caught in the past spreading common agenda. under differen sauce, surely.

Agreed. Vice is compromised. It's the soap box of american militarism.

Hervé

16th May 2015, 02:20

What if Putin is Telling the Truth? (http://journal-neo.org/2015/05/15/what-if-putin-is-telling-the-truth/)

By F. William Engdahl (http://journal-neo.org/author/william-engdahl/) 15.05.2015

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On April 26 Russia’s main national TV station, Rossiya 1, featured President Vladimir Putin in a documentary to the Russian people on the events of the recent period including the annexation of Crimea, the US coup d’etat in Ukraine, and the general state of relations with the United States and the EU. His words were frank. And in the middle of his remarks the Russian former KGB chief dropped a political bombshell that was known by Russian intelligence two decades ago.

Putin stated bluntly that in his view the West would only be content in having a Russia weak, suffering and begging from the West, something clearly the Russian character is not disposed to. Then a short way into his remarks, the Russian President stated for the first time publicly something that Russian intelligence has known for almost two decades but kept silent until now, most probably in hopes of an era of better normalized Russia-US relations.

Putin stated that the terror in Chechnya and in the Russian Caucasus in the early 1990’s was actively backed by the CIA and western Intelligence services to deliberately weaken Russia. He noted that the Russian FSB foreign intelligence had documentation of the US covert role without giving details.

What Putin, an intelligence professional of the highest order, only hinted at in his remarks, I have documented in detail from non-Russian sources. The report has enormous implications to reveal to the world the long-standing hidden agenda of influential circles in Washington to destroy Russia as a functioning sovereign state, an agenda which includes the neo-nazi coup d’etat in Ukraine and severe financial sanction warfare against Moscow. The following is drawn on my book, Amerikas’ Heilige Krieg.

CIA’s Chechen Wars
Not long after the CIA and Saudi Intelligence-financed Mujahideen had devastated Afghanistan at the end of the 1980’s, forcing the exit of the Soviet Army in 1989, and the dissolution of the Soviet Union itself some months later, the CIA began to look at possible places in the collapsing Soviet Union where their trained “Afghan Arabs” could be redeployed to further destabilize Russian influence over the post-Soviet Eurasian space.

They were called Afghan Arabs because they had been recruited from ultraconservative Wahhabite Sunni Muslims from Saudi Arabia, the Arab Emirates, Kuwait, and elsewhere in the Arab world where the ultra-strict Wahhabite Islam was practiced. They were brought to Afghanistan in the early 1980’s by a Saudi CIA recruit who had been sent to Afghanistan named Osama bin Laden.

With the former Soviet Union in total chaos and disarray, George H.W. Bush’s Administration decided to “kick ‘em when they’re down,” a sad error. Washington redeployed their Afghan veteran terrorists to bring chaos and destabilize all of Central Asia, even into the Russian Federation itself, then in a deep and traumatic crisis during the economic collapse of the Yeltsin era.

In the early 1990s, Dick Cheney’s company, Halliburton, had surveyed the offshore oil potentials of Azerbaijan, Kazakhstan, and the entire Caspian Sea Basin. They estimated the region to be “another Saudi Arabia” worth several trillion dollars on today’s market. The US and UK were determined to keep that oil bonanza from Russian control by all means. The first target of Washington was to stage a coup in Azerbaijan against elected president Abulfaz Elchibey to install a President more friendly to a US-controlled Baku–Tbilisi–Ceyhan (BTC) oil pipeline, “the world’s most political pipeline,” bringing Baku oil from Azerbaijan through Georgia to Turkey and the Mediterranean (http://www.boilingfrogspost.com/2010/07/27/obama-appoints-a-not-too-long-ago-hatched-neocon-larva/).

At that time, the only existing oil pipeline from Baku was a Soviet era Russian pipeline that ran through the Chechen capital, Grozny, taking Baku oil north via Russia’s Dagestan province, and across Chechenya to the Black Sea Russian port of Novorossiysk. The pipeline was the only competition and major obstacle to the very costly alternative route of Washington and the British and US oil majors (http://www.steinbergrecherche.com/tschetschenien.htm).

President Bush Sr. gave his old friends at CIA the mandate to destroy that Russian Chechen pipeline and create such chaos in the Caucasus that no Western or Russian company would consider using the Grozny Russian oil pipeline.

Graham E. Fuller, an old colleague of Bush and former Deputy Director of the CIA National Council on Intelligence had been a key architect of the CIA Mujahideen strategy. Fuller described the CIA strategy in the Caucasus in the early 1990s: “The policy of guiding the evolution of Islam and of helping them against our adversaries worked marvelously well in Afghanistan against the Red Army. The same doctrines can still be used to destabilize what remains of Russian power.”6

The CIA used a dirty tricks veteran, General Richard Secord, for the operation. Secord created a CIA front company, MEGA Oil. Secord had been convicted in the 1980s for his central role in the CIA’s Iran-Contra illegal arms and drugs operations (http://newint.org/features/2009/10/01/blowback-extended-version/).

In 1991 Secord, former Deputy Assistant Secretary of Defense, landed in Baku and set up the CIA front company, MEGA Oil. He was a veteran of the CIA covert opium operations in Laos during the Vietnam War. In Azerbaijan, he setup an airline to secretly fly hundreds of bin Laden’s al-Qaeda Mujahideen from Afghanistan into Azerbaijan. By 1993, MEGA Oil had recruited and armed 2,000 Mujahideen, converting Baku into a base for Caucasus-wide Mujahideen terrorist operations (http://newint.org/features/2009/10/01/blowback-extended-version/).

General Secord’s covert Mujahideen operation in the Caucasus initiated the military coup that toppled elected president Abulfaz Elchibey that year and installed Heydar Aliyev, a more pliable US puppet. A secret Turkish intelligence report leaked to the Sunday Times of London confirmed that “two petrol giants, BP and Amoco, British and American respectively, which together form the AIOC (Azerbaijan International Oil Consortium), are behind the coup d’état.”

Saudi Intelligence head, Turki al-Faisal, arranged that his agent, Osama bin Laden, whom he had sent to Afghanistan at the start of the Afghan war in the early 1980s, would use his Afghan organization Maktab al-Khidamat (MAK) to recruit “Afghan Arabs” for what was rapidly becoming a global Jihad. Bin Laden’s mercenaries were used as shock troops by the Pentagon and CIA to coordinate and support Muslim offensives not only Azerbaijan but also in Chechnya and, later, Bosnia.

Bin Laden brought in another Saudi, Ibn al-Khattab, to become Commander, or Emir of Jihadist Mujahideen in Chechnya (sic!) together with Chechen warlord Shamil Basayev. No matter that Ibn al-Khattab was a Saudi Arab who spoke barely a word of Chechen, let alone, Russian. He knew what Russian soldiers looked like and how to kill them.

Chechnya then was traditionally a predominantly Sufi society, a mild apolitical branch of Islam. Yet the increasing infiltration of the well-financed and well-trained US-sponsored Mujahideen terrorists preaching Jihad or Holy War against Russians transformed the initially reformist Chechen resistance movement. They spread al-Qaeda’s hardline Islamist ideology across the Caucasus. Under Secord’s guidance, Mujahideen terrorist operations had also quickly extended into neighboring Dagestan and Chechnya, turning Baku into a shipping point for Afghan heroin to the Chechen mafia (http://newint.org/features/2009/10/01/blowback-extended-version/#sthash.uCpcnKXP.dpuf).

From the mid-1990s, bin Laden paid Chechen guerrilla leaders Shamil Basayev and Omar ibn al-Khattab the handsome sum of several million dollars per month, a King’s fortune in economically desolate Chechnya in the 1990s, enabling them to sideline the moderate Chechen majority.21 US intelligence remained deeply involved in the Chechen conflict until the end of the 1990s. According to Yossef Bodansky, then Director of the US Congressional Task Force on Terrorism and Unconventional Warfare, Washington was actively involved in “yet another anti-Russian jihad, seeking to support and empower the most virulent anti-Western Islamist forces.”

Bodansky revealed the entire CIA Caucasus strategy in detail in his report, stating that US Government officials participated in,

“a formal meeting in Azerbaijan in December 1999 in which specific programs for the training and equipping of Mujahideen from the Caucasus, Central/South Asia and the Arab world were discussed and agreed upon, culminating in Washington’s tacit encouragement of both Muslim allies (mainly Turkey, Jordan and Saudi Arabia) and US ‘private security companies’. . . to assist the Chechens and their Islamist allies to surge in the spring of 2000 and sustain the ensuing Jihad for a long time…Islamist Jihad in the Caucasus as a way to deprive Russia of a viable pipeline route through spiraling violence and terrorism.” The most intense phase of the Chechen wars wound down in 2000 only after heavy Russian military action defeated the Islamists. It was a pyrrhic victory, costing a massive toll in human life and destruction of entire cities. The exact death toll from the CIA-instigated Chechen conflict is unknown. Unofficial estimates ranged from 25,000 to 50,000 dead or missing, mostly civilians. Russian casualties were near 11,000 according to the Committee of Soldiers’ Mothers.

The Anglo-American oil majors and the CIA’s operatives were happy. They had what they wanted: their Baku–Tbilisi–Ceyhan oil pipeline, bypassing Russia’s Grozny pipeline.

The Chechen Jihadists, under the Islamic command of Shamil Basayev, continued guerrilla attacks in and outside Chechnya. The CIA had refocused into the Caucasus.

Basayev’s Saudi Connection
Basayev was a key part of the CIA’s Global Jihad. In 1992, he met Saudi terrorist Ibn al-Khattag in Azerbaijan (http://www.armenianweekly.com). From Azerbaijan, Ibn al-Khattab brought Basayev to Afghanistan to meet al-Khattab’s ally, fellow-Saudi Osama bin Laden. Ibn al-Khattab’s role was to recruit Chechen Muslims willing to wage Jihad against Russian forces in Chechnya on behalf of the covert CIA strategy of destabilizing post-Soviet Russia and securing British-US control over Caspian energy (http://www.armenianweekly.com).

Once back in Chechnya, Basayev and al-Khattab created the International Islamic Brigade (IIB) with Saudi Intelligence money, approved by the CIA and coordinated through the liaison of Saudi Washington Ambassador and Bush family intimate Prince Bandar bin Sultan. Bandar, Saudi Washington Ambassador for more than two decades, was so intimate with the Bush family that George W. Bush referred to the playboy Saudi Ambassador as “Bandar Bush,” a kind of honorary family member.

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Basayev and al-Khattab imported fighters from the Saudi fanatical Wahhabite strain of Sunni Islam into Chechnya. Ibn al-Khattab commanded what were called the “Arab Mujahideen in Chechnya,” his own private army of Arabs, Turks, and other foreign fighters. He was also commissioned to set up paramilitary training camps in the Caucasus Mountains of Chechnya that trained Chechens and Muslims from the North Caucasian Russian republics and from Central Asia (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ibn_al-Khattab).

The Saudi and CIA-financed Islamic International Brigade was responsible not only for terror in Chechnya. They carried out the October 2002 Moscow Dubrovka Theatre hostage seizure and the gruesome September 2004 Beslan school massacre. In 2010, the UN Security Council published the following report on al-Khattab and Basayev’s International Islamic Brigade:

Islamic International Brigade (IIB) was listed on 4 March 2003. . . as being associated with Al-Qaida, Usama bin Laden or the Taliban for “participating in the financing, planning, facilitating, preparing or perpetrating of acts or activities by, in conjunction with, under the name of, on behalf or in support of” Al-Qaida. . . The Islamic International Brigade (IIB) was founded and led by Shamil Salmanovich Basayev (deceased) and is linked to the Riyadus-Salikhin Reconnaissance and Sabotage Battalion of Chechen Martyrs (RSRSBCM). . . and the Special Purpose Islamic Regiment (SPIR). . .

On the evening of 23 October 2002, members of IIB, RSRSBCM and SPIR operated jointly to seize over 800 hostages at Moscow’s Podshipnikov Zavod (Dubrovka) Theater.

In October 1999, emissaries of Basayev and Al-Khattab traveled to Usama bin Laden’s home base in the Afghan province of Kandahar, where Bin Laden agreed to provide substantial military assistance and financial aid, including by making arrangements to send to Chechnya several hundred fighters to fight against Russian troops and perpetrate acts of terrorism. Later that year, Bin Laden sent substantial amounts of money to Basayev, Movsar Barayev (leader of SPIR) and Al-Khattab, which was to be used exclusively for training gunmen, recruiting mercenaries and buying ammunition (http://www.un.org/sc/committees/1267/NSQE09903E.shtml). The Afghan-Caucasus Al Qaeda “terrorist railway,” financed by Saudi intelligence, had two goals. One was a Saudi goal to spread fanatical Wahhabite Jihad into the Central Asian region of the former Soviet Union. The second was the CIA’s agenda of destabilizing a then-collapsing post-Soviet Russian Federation.

Beslan
On September 1, 2004, armed terrorists from Basayev and al-Khattab’s IIB took more than 1,100 people as hostages in a siege that included 777 children, and forced them into School Number One (SNO) in Beslan in North Ossetia, the autonomous republic in the North Caucasus of the Russian Federation near to the Georgia border.

On the third day of the hostage crisis, as explosions were heard inside the school, FSB and other elite Russian troops stormed the building. In the end, at least 334 hostages were killed, including 186 children, with a significant number of people injured and reported missing. It became clear afterward that the Russian forces had handled the intervention poorly.

The Washington propaganda machine, from Radio Free Europe to The New York Times and CNN, wasted no time demonizing Putin and Russia for their bad handling of the Beslan crisis rather than focus on the links of Basayev to Al Qaeda and Saudi intelligence. That would have brought the world’s attention to the intimate relations between the family of then US President George W. Bush and the Saudi billionaire bin Laden family.

On September 1, 2001, just ten days before the day of the World Trade Center and Pentagon attacks, Saudi Intelligence head US-educated Prince Turki bin Faisal Al Saud, who had directed Saudi Intelligence since 1977, including through the entire Osama bin Laden Mujahideen operation in Afghanistan and into the Caucasus, abruptly and inexplicably resigned, just days after having accepted a new term as intelligence head from his King. He gave no explanation. He was quickly reposted to London, away from Washington.

The record of the bin Laden-Bush family intimate ties was buried, in fact entirely deleted on “national security” (sic!) grounds in the official US Commission Report on 911. The Saudi background of fourteen of the nineteen alleged 911 terrorists in New York and Washington was also deleted from the US Government’s final 911 Commission report, released only in July 2004 by the Bush Administration, almost three years after the events (http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/middle_east/3815179.stm).

Basayev claimed credit for having sent the terrorists to Beslan. His demands had included the complete independence of Chechnya from Russia, something that would have given Washington and the Pentagon an enormous strategic dagger in the southern underbelly of the Russian Federation.

By late 2004, in the aftermath of the tragic Beslan drama, President Vladimir Putin reportedly ordered a secret search and destroy mission by Russian intelligence to hunt and kill key leaders of the Caucasus Mujahideen of Basayev. Al-Khattab had been killed in 2002. The Russian security forces soon discovered that most of the Chechen Afghan Arab terrorists had fled. They had gotten safe haven in Turkey, a NATO member; in Azerbaijan, by then almost a NATO Member; or in Germany, a NATO Member; or in Dubai–one of the closest US Allies in the Arab States, and Qatar-another very close US ally. In other words, the Chechen terrorists were given NATO safe haven (http://www.boilingfrogspost.com/2011/11/22/bfp-exclusive-us-nato-chechen-militia-joint-operations-base/).

F. William Engdahl is strategic risk consultant and lecturer, he holds a degree in politics from Princeton University and is a best-selling author on oil and geopolitics, exclusively for the online magazine “New Eastern Outlook” (http://journal-neo.org/).

First appeared: http://journal-neo.org/2015/05/15/what-if-putin-is-telling-the-truth/

Hervé

16th May 2015, 18:16

Yet another huge diplomatic victory for Russia (http://thesaker.is/yet-another-huge-diplomatic-victory-for-russia/)

By The Saker May 13, 2015

Unless you read Russian or monitor the free blogosphere, you might not have noticed this, but something big just happened in Russia: Kerry, Nuland and a large State Department delegation have traveled to Sochi were they met with Foreign Minister Lavrov and then with President Putin. With the latter they spent over 4 hours. Not only that, but Kerry made a few rather interesting remarks, saying that the Minsk-2 Agreement (M2A) was the only way forward and that he would strongly caution Poroshenko against the idea of renewing military operations.

http://thesaker.is/wp-content/uploads/2015/05/Kerry-Putin-300x170.jpg (http://thesaker.is/wp-content/uploads/2015/05/Kerry-Putin.jpg)
Welcome back to reality John!

To say that this is a stunning development would be an understatement.

For one thing, this means that the so-called “isolation of Russia” is now officially over, even for the “Indispensable Empire”.

Second, this is, as far as I know, the first official US endorsement of M2A. This is rather humiliating for the US considering that M2A was negotiated without the Americans.

Third, for the very first time the US has actually warned the Ukronazi junta against a military attack. This, at a time when the Ukronazis are in a state of bellicose frenzy and Poroshenko just promised to re-conquer not only the Donetsk Airport, but all of the Donbass and even Crimea, show that for the very first time the US and Kiev are not on the same page.

Fourth, the USA has, for the first time, declared that if M2A was implemented, EU and US sanctions would be lifted. Interestingly, the Russians were not even interested in discussing the topic of sanctions.

So what does that all mean?

At this point, nothing much.

Americans are terrible negotiators and in every single US-Russian negotiation over the conflict in the Ukraine the Russians completely out-negotiated their American “geostrategic partners” (the quasi-official ironic Russian term describing the West) every time. What typically happens, is that Kerry caves in, then comes back to Washington and changes his tune by 180 degree. The Russians know that and the Russian media stressed that in its analyses.

Still, the USA can zig and then zag as many times as they want, reality does not zag. If anything, the recent presence of Chinese and Indian troops on the Red Square showed that the notion of “isolating Russia” is a non-starter whether Kerry & Co. accept it or not.

Then, there was the rather interesting behavior of Nuland, who was with Kerry’s delegation, she refused to speak to the press and left looking rather unhappy.

Finally, a quick check of the Imperial Mouthpieces reveals that the Imperial Propaganda Department does not really know what to make of it all.

So what is going on, really?

Honestly, this one is too early to call and, as I said, the chances for yet another US “zag” are very high.

Still, what *might* be happening is that the Americans have finally (!) figured out a few basic facts:

Russia will not back down
Russia is ready for war
The Nazi-occupied Ukraine is collapsing
Most of the world supports Russia
The entire US policy towards Russia has failed

All of the above is rather obvious to any halfway competent observer, but for an Administration completely intoxicated with imperial hubris, crass ignorance and denial, these are very, very painful realities to catch up with. However, denying them might, at the end of the day, get the USA nuked. As the expression goes, if you head is in the sand, your ass is in the air.

Thus it is possible that what just happens is the first sign of a US sobering up and that what Kerry came to explore with Lavrov and Putin is some kind of face saving exit option. If that is so, then this is terminal news for Poroshenko as this means that the US has basically thrown in the towel in utter disgust with the freaks in power in Kiev.

Furthermore, this might be a sign that US military analysts have taken a very negative view of the Ukronazi changes of success in their planned “Reconquista” of the Donbass. By going to Russia and officially endorsing M2A Kerry might be sending a message to Poroshenko: forget it, it ain’t happening!

Still, I would strongly caution against any premature optimism. I consider a US “zag” a quasi-certitude. My hope is that the “zag” will be limited in magnitude and that when it happens, it will be more about face-saving exit for Obama than about a denial of reality.

What is certain though, is that Russia has won yet another battle is this long war and that all the signs are pointing at the inevitable defeat of the Empire.

The Saker

Morbid

17th May 2015, 00:39

the reasons kerry visited russia can only circle around speculation at the moment. though it could also be the last ultimatum chance neocons gave to putin before things heat up. recently balcans are getting activated. there is heat in moldavia and prednistroviye region with rusins and mengrel orthodox minorities. anti government movements are beefed up with freshly printed bucks all over ex soviet states. baltic goes full frontal with putin boogie man propaganda. belarus got certain eu movements going. armenia just had a major provocation followed by rioting. georgia is going full retard hosting american military exercises with general rusophobia on the rise. central asian states might have isis forces moving across etc. not looking good, especially with empire forces in ukraine now. the rogue state becomes extremely unpredictable. hope we get through this.

Sophocles

17th May 2015, 14:30

In Macedonia...

Special Report on the escalating situation in Macedonia (excerpt) (http://thesaker.is/special-report-on-the-escalating-situation-in-macedonia/)

May, 11, 2015 by "S.P."

By now the majority here heard of clashes in Macedonia that started on evening of May 8th.

It started with reports of sightings of unknown group of some 50 armed men around Kumanovo. Shortly after Macedonian agency INA reported that there are police forces present in the area.

The exchange of fire lasted throughout the night and the whole 9th of May. Assault rifles, snipers, grenades as reported were some of weapons used by the said armed group. It simmered down a little through the night and then continued on 10th again. As I type this on 10th in the evening reports are still coming, and often conflicting ones. First a report that says law enforcement upper handed the attackers, then after reports on fighting that continues. So, I’d take all this with a grain of salt.

Perpetrators are still an ‘unknown group’ according to most reports. Others report on UCK (KLA), some say it’s the Guard of Republic of Ilirida, some say a National Liberation Army. Some say an Albanian group from Kosovo, some say from Serbia…

While media outlets in the region were very reluctant to say who are the perpetrators, Albanians in Vienna were little less shy, they gathered in front of Macedonian embassy and chanted: “UCK, UCK” among other things… see here: (notice the ever-present USA flag too….)

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But let’s first establish this – regardless of which one of these groups (or more of them) are responsible – Without Americans giving an ‘OK’ no Albanian armed group would lift a finger. This is absolutely crucial. They never did nor ever will act independently of US command.

Sputnik reports on 8 police officers and 14 gunmen killed, and close to 40 people injured in clashes. This matches the reports from other outlets from the region.

http://sputniknews.com/europe/20150510/1021966941.html

So let’s first look in little more detail what happened in Macedonia before ‘zooming out’ to get a bigger picture and look at the background of these events.

More detailed report on one web portal, by the hour (from May 10th):

http://www.nspm.rs/hronika/od-jutros-novi-pucnji-u-kumanovu.html

I will translate some of the points from the long article below.

Helicopters and UAVs in the air above the conflict zone, according to Macedonian media

12:15 – Clearing of area in progress, sniper fire is heard

13:35 death toll rose to eight police officers, more than 30 injured

In Kumanovo, sporadic gunshots are heard since morning; burned houses; four police officers are wounded. Number of killed police officers has risen to eight. Day of mourning proclaimed in Macedonia.

14:18 the arrested terrorists were arrested earlier today at the investigative judge, as reported by regional TV N1

14:25 – Albanian politician: Time for unification of Albanians

Albanian politician, leader of the List for natural (Greater) Albania, Koco Danaj, claims that for “war in Kumanovo,” in settlements inhabited by Albanians, the standing government is to blame; considers that the time has come for the unification of Albanians.

14:43 – Police destroyed a car bomb in informal settlements

Macedonian police during anti-terrorist action in Kumanovo destroyed a car bomb, which was full of explosives, Macedonian media reported, citing sources from the security services.

15:45 – Kotevskiin: The arrested terrorist leaders from Kosovo

Plan of armed terrorist group was an attack on several government and civilian targets, admitted some of arrested individuals, confirmed a spokesman for the Macedonian Interior Ministry Ivo Kotevski.

Kotevski confirmed that the police action eliminated one of the most dangerous terrorist groups in the Balkans, reports portal mkd.mk.

17:51 – identified terrorist leaders

Interior Ministry spokesman Ivo Kotevski said at a press conference that the police action, which began on Saturday morning is now completed; a terrorist group which numbered more than 40 people, eliminated and neutralized.

The leaders of this group were, according to him, the notorious Muhammad Krasniqi called ‘commander of Malisheva’, Mirsad Ndrecaj ‘Commander of Nato’, Sami Uksini ‘Commander Sokoli’, Beg Rizaj alias ‘Commander Begu’ and Dene Shehu alias ‘Juniku’.

Kotevski said that they are Albanians from Kosovo and are associated with the formation of numerous terrorist and extremist groups in the region, that is, he said, are registered as founders of paramilitary structures.

19:19 – Leaders of terrorists were bodyguards Ahmeti and Haradinaj

The leaders of the terrorist group broken Dene Shehu and Beg Rizaj were bodyguards of leaders of the ruling Macedonian party Democratic Union for Integration, Ali Ahmeti and Hague indictee Ramush Haradinaj, transmitted Macedonian media.

Albanian media report that the Shehu as a member of the KLA took part in the fighting in Kosovo in 1999 and Macedonia in 2001, after which he was a bodyguard of Ahmeti, and was often seen with other officials of the party.

Beg Rizaj, was a member of the KLA in areo of Dukađinina in Kosovo, led by Ramush Haradinaj. After the war in Kosovo, he was a bodyguard of Haradinaj.

Some footage from the area (9-10th of May):

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VofjSNQ3LQs

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TmeZKzdrb8g

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bink1gwr_ds

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Kj3gvjDPag

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c3Tdj7bAMyk

Meanwhile, this is circling on Social Media and some news sites:

“Our editorial statement that reached us, send Hamdi Ndrecaj commander known as Panther. Here is a statement as follows:

APPEAL: Guerrilla Republic of Illyrida

Seeing increased tensions of the fascist monster state of FYROM, I’m seeking urgent that all comrades, and all Albanians who serve the state apparatus of the Slavo-Macedonians, quickly take off the uniforms of this country and fascist uniform slavomakedonski police camera that the blood of our sons washes the streets of our ethnic occupied territories.

So please for the last time, to return to the right path, the path that is happiness (the hope) of the Albanian people and not be part of the monstrous state apparatus. We are obliged to tell you that we don’t want killing of brothers in any form, even though that is what someone wants.

If you do not want to join us in our just cause, then we plead that you do get in our way, the revolution will begin soon, and that is why this is our last address, as all who wear the uniform of the slav.maked.policija army and their weapons will have treat like they’re the slavomakedonci (police, military)

Guard of the Republic of Illyrida, GRI

Other interesting thing – Some 700 hundred Albanian refugees already crossed border with Serbia fleeing from conflict. I say interesting, because they were equally close to Kosovo and could also choose motherland Albania. They obviously considered Serbia to be ‘the best option’.

Also, an appeal from terrorist UCK (known as KLA in the West) appeared in Albanian media (Telegrafi.com):

“This scenario is directed against the Albanian people, and this is intimidating introduction to the ethnic cleansing of Albanians and the expulsion of people from homes. We invite barbarian formations to withdraw from Kumanovo and leave peaceful citizens alone. Albanians are accustomed to this kind of scenarios by Serbo-slavic barbarians.” – said in a statement of the KLA from this morning as transfer Albanian media.

“Failure to comply with the conclusions of the Ohrid agreement in 2001 forced the Albanians to defend themselves. We express our condolences to the families of Albanians who were killed, and at the same time we call for caution, because we need to be prepared for all scenarios that are prepared by Slovenian occupators” – concludes the statement.

In the meantime, ‘the Guard of Republic of Illirida’ and NLA made another announcement (as reported by several online Albanian/Macedonian and Serbian outlets):

In the proclamation that the “Guard” published, all Albanian territories and the international community were informed that all Albanian groups and military units of the National Liberation Army are starting to act as one body, for the establishment of the Republic ILIRIDA.

This group has asked the international community to force Macedonia and her armed forces to stop using military helicopters against the NLA. (I couldn’t make this up even if I tried)

– Otherwise, we will be forced to take proportional measures, which are in strict violation of international conventions of war – said NLA.

Albanians have pointed out that their aim is to create a so-called Republic of ILIRIDA.

– If the leadership of Macedonia, as a counterfeit creation, continues to act repressively with it’s state apparatus, we are ready to brake apart, if necessary, not only Macedonia, but also the whole of the Balkans inhabited by Albanians, because the international factor leaves us no other choice – said in a statement she signed commander Hamdi Ndrecaj. (guy on the pics: http://www.dokaz.mk/ova-e-liderot-na-novata-garda-na-ilirida-hamdi-ndretsaj-panter/ )

Serbian special police forces of “Жандармерија” as well as anti-terrorist unit “ПТЈ” were sent into border region near Macedonia on 9th as a precaution if some of the insurgents try to cross the border.

Now another interesting news. Yesterday on 9th of May this showed up:

http://www.pravda.rs/2015/05/09/spremaju-se-napadi-neac-uhapsen-dok-je-nosio-10-paketa-eksploziva-kroz-srbiju/

http://www.kurir.rs/crna-hronika/ekskluzivno-kurir-otkriva-uhapsen-nemac-sa-10-paketa-eksploziva-na-batrovcima-clanak-1776005

“German citizen, was arrested at the border crossing Batrovci, when the police in his car brand “Passat” found 10 packages of 100 pieces of electronic detonators for explosives.”

(this is a border crossing between Serbia and Croatia). He was entering Serbia. However, still no follow-up on this.

So, now that we’ve seen what is taking place in Macedonia, I would go back to some previous events that took place there and put it all into context. This, of course, is not an isolated or spontaneous event, just like the ‘colored revolution’ taking place there at the moment isn’t spontaneous.

All Albanian leaders mentioned by name in these reports were at some point connected to the KLA. Whether this was in 2001 conflict in Macedonia and south of Serbia, ‘98/’99 war on Kosovo or any of separate attacks afterwards, they were connected to some of these.

KLA is, of course, another bastard child of the American Empire. And has, just like her other children several names and sub-groups. (i.e. Al-qaeda, ISIS, FSA, Boko Haram and so on…) So, we have KLA (UCK), some Guard of so called Republic of Ilirida, then some Liberation Army. All in fact are one and the same, same leaders, same goals, and with one main patron – the USA.

They are USA’s ‘wild card’ in the Balkans, an ‘Ace from the sleeve’. America holds this entire area in the state of frozen conflict. With the snap of the fingers this can become an all out war all over again. Bosnia, Southern Serbia/Kosovo and Metohija, Macedonia, Montenegro… any area – you name it, and they have it ready to blow.

Now in this possible new conflict in Macedonia (with a strong possibility of spreading into Serbia, if needed be) there are roughly speaking, three ‘sides’ – Albanian, Serbian and Macedonian. Neither of three can ‘win’, there can only be losers. We will now walk the path that the USA put in front of us and hope not to step on a mine. Or if we do, then hope we step on as little mines as possible.

There are already appeals coming from the ‘international community’ saying that there must be an end to the violence. Now, that’s very noble indeed, but it’s only a shame these appeals are arriving at the wrong address. EU should try appealing to Washington, if they are really sincere in wanting to stop this.

So, this conflict it totally out of hands of either of the governments of the countries in region. Each of them has a puppet government in place and the ‘merry crew’ that started shooting few days ago, works for the same boss as those governments. In other words, the conflict will grow depending on how much USA wants it to grow. Is the goal just stopping the possible Turk (http://www.bne.eu/content/story/russia-rush-build-turk-stream-gas-pipeline) stream? (http://www.reuters.com/article/2015/01/27/russia-crisis-gazprom-turkey-idUSL6N0V63AF20150127) Is it directed at destabilizing the region and thus giving a warning to all parties involved – Macedonians to stop dreaming of deals that do not have the Empire’s blessing and for Serbia to stop flirting with Russia? Or to explain the Greeks that your tourist season can really suck if you have a war next to your border. Who would dare fly there? Nobody wants another MH17. Was this a ‘backup Ukraine’ if fighting there slows down too much? Or is this just a way the Empire says ‘Happy Victory Day!’

Or is the whole deal just a series of false flag attacks directed by the current gov.? This is a popular theory in Macedonia, spread mostly by the opposition. The only problem is – no one of Macedonians controls the KLA, USA does. And USA already picked their new government – and it’s not the current one.

Now don’t mistake this for some kind of a supportive statement aimed at current government of FRYOM. Gruevski is, by all accounts very corrupt and with ton of affairs/scandals in his belt – very wrong man to head your government. But like the armed conflict that will have no winner, same can be said for current political struggle there. We have one set of stooges trying to replace other set of stooges. A corrupt puppet of the West, Gruevski, getting replaced by the slimy puppet of the West, Zaev. The new stooge might even be worse. Why? Well, common sense tells you that if USA is using CIA front groups to install a new puppet in place of their old puppet, that means that they expect the new one to be even more servile and obedient. USA definitely counts on having something to gain from installing a new toy politician there. For the common citizen of Macedonia, however, there is nothing to gain from this ‘change’. Example of this from Ukraine – who would you like to have as head of the government: Poroshenko, Turcinov or Yatsenuk. Awesome choices, right!?

Just listening to Zaev speaking you’ll hear how hollow it all sounds. Same BS like when Porosenko was promising prosperity to Ukrainian masses. But add to it a massive support from western owned media – and voilà, we have a winner. Not only that, but you will also bring sheeple out on the streets and have them grabbing each other’s throats, fighting for ‘their champion’.

So, it’ll be good to ‘tune your antennas’ when receiving the coverage of this crisis from western media as ‘tone’ of it can tell a lot about the stance that State Department & Co. will take on it. Even if it doesn’t mention State Dept. at all.

When you saw, after an hour of downing of MH17 , headlines that said >>PUTIN’S MISSILE!!<<, you didn’t really have to wait for separate, official statements of NATO governments. If CNN starts reporting about the ‘use of excessive force on freedom loving, democracy-admiring peaceful citizens, you’re in for a bad period Macedonia. And if you see a headline like this:

http://thesaker.is/wp-content/uploads/2015/05/Macedonia-8.jpg

then you’re really screwed.

Albanian media, like the outlet ‘Koha Ditore’, already started playing the ‘Milosevic card’ on Gruevski, just like they played ‘Hitler card’ on Milosevic (which was kinda stupid, as Hitler actually supported the greater Albania project). Now, there was a similar ‘show of force’ by the KLA just recently (of which I will write further down in this post) where ~50 armed men took a border post at the village of Gosice. Only that time there were no victims, other than a few beaten-up police officers. Many called that event a false flag. Claiming that the current government organized it in order to deflect attention from themselves and to bring dissent into Macedonian and Albanian public. To make them direct their discontent toward each other, instead at government. And I have to agree that it had many symptoms of a false flag op. Maybe it was a ‘double false flag’ made by the accusers so they can accuse the accused (some of you are probably thinking of the ‘keanu reevs meme’ right now, but let’s remain serious for a moment). Whatever the case was back then, now it serves to ‘prove that all this is a set up’.

And now it gets interesting. Now the opposition blames every action of the armed groups on the current government!

And it looks like the good ol’ US of A took some notes while watching those polite green men in Crimea in action. Spreading dis-info and confusion and contradicting information to paralyze everyone trying to respond. Meanwhile some real work is getting done on the ground. So this “it’s all an act”, serves as some kind of anesthesia – ‘don’t worry everyone, it’s just the current gov. trying desperately to stay in power’. The same mantra is repeated by some outlets on the Serbian side too – ‘hey no need to secure the border, it’s just an act by the government’. It’ll all simmer down once all these affairs and scandals are forgotten. But by looking at who are the most vocal proponents of this ‘it’s all nothing’ mantra, you will trace them back to CIA and Soros funded front groups, also.

Now, take a step back and have a look at who’s running the show here. We have KLA (run exclusively by the USA), mass media, run by the USA, NGOs (USAID, NED, Freedom House, Open Society Foundation….) again from the same source. And then we have two sides ‘fighting for power’ – both USA puppets along with the current governments in the region (Serbia, Albania).

So, some foul play is definitely taking place, and all this might really be some theatrics. But NOT directed by one of the sides trying to take power in Macedonia, but by the USA.

But these tensions were present almost without interuptions for the past 15+ years. And every month or so a smaller incident would take place, just to not let the ‘frozen conflict’ project ‘melt away’.

About the origins of KLA, their leaders, ties with USA and NATO there are many articles written. Without even trying hard you can find all the information needed online. So, I’ll just focus on recent incidents tied to one that just happened.

As reported by KM Neswpapers last month:

“KLA negotiates in Brussels, kills in Macedonia” (http://www.kmnovine.com/2015/04/t_21.html )

“Macedonian police reported that about 40 well-armed and masked men with insignia of the terrorist KLA, on the night between Monday and Tuesday, stormed the border post of “Gošince” on the border between Macedonia and Kosovo and Metohija. Then they tied up and beaten the police officers while taking it all on camera.

They captured four policemen, said Assistant Minister of Interior Ivo Kotevski.

Through an interpreter who spoke bad Macedonian, lider of the group addressed the policemen with words – “we are the KLA, nor Ahmeti nor Gruevski can save you. We want our country and we do not want any of Ohrid negotiations,” said Kotevski.

According to the first accounts and operational information a terrorist group in Macedonia came from Kosovo.

However, right after, followed the attacks by pro-Western parties, various NGOs and members of the illegal, paramilitary movement of shqiptar separatists who claim to want peace. That same vocabulary which they used to hide their true intentions before the start of massive terrorist attacks on Serbian police, civilians and military. So did a former member of the so-called. “National Liberation Army” (NLA) Abedin Zimberi, who lives in Lipkovski region, say that ‘in this area there are no armed persons’, announced american Radio Free Europe in Macedonian language.”

Anyway, border Post Gošince located above Kumanovo, on the border with Kosovo is in the immediate vicinity ofthe post Tanusevci, and those were two points which were attacked first in 2001, when members of the KLA in the area declared free territory...

“In Macedonia, it is speculated that this spring could bring new movements among extremist Albanian groups fueled by images of “natural Albania” and appeals from ISIL...Geopolitical analysts point to the fact that with the new project of Russia “Turkish Stream”, Macedonia became an important hub. Stubborn Gruevski rejects all proposals to change the name of the state, and like Orban, shows more interest in cooperation with the eastern partners and fewer worries for dissatisfaction with Western states and institutions. Many local analysts argue that this is the background of current developments and attempts to destabilize Macedonia. The opposition claims that this is just an excuse for authoritarian methods.”

Many reports from November to late Febriary in many media outlets spoke of “massive Albanian exodus”. Now, it should be kept in mind that all nationalities live equally bad in the region. Serbs and Macedonians are in the same, hard situation, whether they live on territory of Serbia and Kosovo or Macedonia. And yet, Albanians make up overwhelming majority 95+% in this ‘big exodus’. First reactions from Macedonians and Serbs were – “they know something that we don’t know.” “War is about to start this spring.”

Why would they know? Well once the members of armed extremist groups got their marching orders, it spread throughout the (very close) community. And why would you, otherwise, choose the middle of the winter to go on such a risky adventure? -a tip: it was urgent to leave!

If Novorussians got the memo from State Department that a war is coming to their neighbourhood, they’d probably have some of their family sent away (to Russia or elswhere), even before the actual shooting started.

And, of course, everyone kept cheering for Russia. Because if the Russians don’t win this, we won’t even have a fighting chance. If they do however, there’s hope. Even if that means another war that NATO will start in the Balkans. The sole fact that they are destabilizing Macedonia or Serbia or Greece means that we still have a ‘pulse’. It means that they still have something to ‘shatter’. I’d be more worried if everything was quiet here – that would mean that we are way beyond the point of no return, that there are no free people left here. And for my brothers and sisters in Macedonia and the region – we just have to ride out this storm.

Full article (http://thesaker.is/special-report-on-the-escalating-situation-in-macedonia/)

From wikipedia: (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kosovo_Liberation_Army)

In 1996 the British weekly The European carried an article by a French expert stating that "German civil and military intelligence services have been involved in training and equipping the rebels with the aim of cementing German influence in the Balkan area. (...) The birth of the KLA in 1996 coincided with the appointment of Hansjoerg Geiger as the new head of the BND (German secret Service). (...) The BND men were in charge of selecting recruits for the KLA command structure from the 500,000 Kosovars in Albania. Former senior adviser to the German parliament Matthias Küntzel tried to prove later on that German secret diplomacy had been instrumental in helping the KLA since its creation.

James Bissett, Canadian Ambassador to Yugoslavia, Bulgaria and Albania, wrote in 2001 that media reports indicate that "as early as 1998, the Central Intelligence Agency assisted by the British Special Air Service were arming and training Kosovo Liberation Army members in Albania to foment armed rebellion in Kosovo. (...) The hope was that with Kosovo in flames NATO could intervene ..."[26][clarification needed] According to Tim Judah, KLA representatives had already met with American, British, and Swiss intelligence agencies in 1996, and possibly "several years earlier" and according to The Sunday Times, "American intelligence agents have admitted they helped to train the Kosovo Liberation Army before NATO's bombing of Yugoslavia".Intelligence agents denied, however, that they were involved in arming the KLA.

The New Yorker, may, 2013: (http://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2013/05/06/bring-up-the-bodies)

In December, 2007, Del Ponte stepped down as the lead prosecutor, saying that it was “time to return to normal life.” She soon published a memoir, “Madame Prosecutor,” in which she recounted her successes in chasing Italian mobsters, Rwandan genocidaires, and Serbian generals. But she fumed about her inability to make charges stick against the K.L.A. The Limaj and Haradinaj investigations were “the most frustrating” part of her time in The Hague—and proof that “impunity shrouds powerful political and military figures” in Kosovo. She voiced her suspicion that the K.L.A. had trafficked the organs of prisoners, and offered an account of her team’s visit to the yellow house.

Del Ponte told me that “the international community” had shown a “fear-driven reluctance to apply the law” in Kosovo, adding that the United States had displayed “no political will to find out the real truths.” The K.L.A. had been a reliable ally of the Americans during the war, but it struck Del Ponte as hypocritical for the U.S. to ignore possible crimes by the group’s leaders, given the U.S. condemnation of Serbian misconduct. She also felt that allowing alleged perpetrators of war crimes to achieve leadership positions in Kosovo undermined the country’s prospects for stability.

Antiwar, may, 2001: (http://www.antiwar.com/malic/m051001.html)

One has to credit President Trajkovski with understanding other Balkan leaders have lacked, though. As soon as the war broke out, he flew to Washington to ask for US support. He knows that only those who created the situation in the first place have the power to stop it.

Washington saved the original UCK ("Kosovo Liberation Army" – KLA) from total destruction in the fall of 1998, then went to war on its side and occupied Kosovo on its behalf. Only then, and not a moment sooner, did the Albanian attacks in Presevo valley and Macedonia begin. While the Presevo KLA were armed and organized with the purpose of undermining Milosevic’s Serbia – if confessions of the CIA are to be believed – what purpose did the Macedonian branch of the KLA have? Even if one makes a claim that Washington was so completely blindsided it missed the Albanian plan for territorial conquest, surely it does not take this much time to put the two and two together? Unless it is in American government’s interest not to…

Related:

ibtimes.com -Macedonia Terror Operation: Police Fighting Street-To-Street With 'Foreign' Group (may 9, 2015) (http://www.ibtimes.com/macedonia-terror-operation-police-fighting-street-street-foreign-group-1915510)

the guardian.com -Violence between Macedonia police and 'terrorists' increases scrutiny of PM (may 11, 2015) (http://www.theguardian.com/world/2015/may/11/macedonia-violence-nikola-gruevski-government)

the guardian.com -Alleged connections between top Kosovo politicians and assassin investigated (november 7, 2014) (http://www.theguardian.com/world/2014/nov/07/kosovo-hitman-inquiry-eulex-hashim-thaci)

euinside.eu- Hashim Thaci - a leader of Kosovo or a boss of organised crime (december 20, 2010) (http://www.euinside.eu/en/news/hashim-thaci-kosovos-leader-or-a-mafia-boss)

The New Yorker- An Organ-Trafficking Conviction in Kosovo (april 29, 2013) (http://www.newyorker.com/news/news-desk/an-organ-trafficking-conviction-in-kosovo)

bne.eu- Russia in rush to build "Turk Stream" gas pipeline (february 2, 2015) (http://www.bne.eu/content/story/russia-rush-build-turk-stream-gas-pipeline)

reuters.com- UPDATE 1-Russia's Gazprom eyes first gas via new route to Turkey by 2017 (january 27, 2015) (http://www.reuters.com/article/2015/01/27/russia-crisis-gazprom-turkey-idUSL6N0V63AF20150127)

pbs.org -A Kosovo chronology (http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/pages/frontline/shows/kosovo/etc/cron.html)

Sophocles

17th May 2015, 15:23

Operation "Clean Field"; how South Ossetia was attacked.

Vadim Stolz (2008)

A Trap for Russia. U.S Neoliberals and Ukrainian Fascists Behind Operation “Clean Field” (http://left.ru/2008/10/stolz_en179.phtml)

This is a transcript of an interview with Vadim Stolz (VS), chairman of the international editorial board of burtsev.ru – a group of investigative journalists, affiliated with the Internet weekly Left Russia (left.ru). The interview was taken on August 13 by Natasha Barch (NB), member of the Moscow chapter of burtsev.ru. Vadim Stolz spoke on the telephone from Azerbaijan.

NB. Vadim, what can you tell about those who conceived and prepared the genocidal attack against the Ossetian people by the Georgian army?

VS. We believe that this conspiracy matured by the spring of 2008 in the triangle between Senator McCain's campaign, the former members of Bob Gates's“supersecret group” of 1989-91, and the representatives of the clandestine Banderovite center in the Main Directorate of Military Intelligence of Ukrainian Defense Ministry.

NB. Could you be more specific and give us details and names?

VS. OK. First, I should mention Dick Cheney's VP Office as a vital link between McCain's campaign and the executive power. In McCain's campaign we identify two key individuals: Randy Scheunemann (http://www.rightweb.irc-online.org/profile/Scheunemann_Randy) and Robert Kagan. (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Vkr3S4TKBsU)

Scheunemann is McCain's senior advisor on international affairs; he also owns a lobbying firm, hired by Saakashvili to lobby Georgia's membership in Nato.

In 2002 Scheunemann founded the Committee for the Liberation of Iraq (2002) and became a leading lobbyist for the US war against that country. He took part in the falsification of US intelligence on WMD in Iraq and in organizing its puppet government. He was close to the notorious Ahmed Chalabi of the Iraqi National Council. Chalabi served as the main disinformation source for the CIA and the Pentagon and provided them with deniability when the scam became evident. It is possible that Scheunemann worked with the “former” high-ranking CIA officer Fritz Ermarth (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y3Ity3pkN-o) in this disinformation operation. At that time Ermarth was on the pay of Science Applications International Corporation (SAIC), one of the biggest contractor for the Pentagon, the CIA, and the FBI, with Robert Gates on its board and deeply involved in the aggression against Iraq. One of SAIC's contracts was to payroll the Iraqi puppet government hastily put together by Washington. [Fritz Ermarth serves as a liaison between a group of former Soviet intelligence officers behind the front company Far West LLC (http://ppia.wikia.com/wiki/Far_West_LLC) and right wing cabals in the US military-industrial complex and the political class – Ed.]

As to Robert Kagan, he is McCain's “informal” advisor from the far-right Atlantic elites and their fashionable ideologue who peddles a return to Western imperialism of the pre-WWI period. His wife (Victoria Nuland) is the US representative to NATO. They live in Brussels.

Together with William Kristol, Kagan co-founded the Project for the New American Century (PNAC) that has become a cheerleader and a flag-bearer for protofacist military-political cabal that includes neocons, ultra right-wing Republicans, ethnic post-Nazis elements, and Likudniks, aching for world domination.

The individuals from the “top secret group” who participated in the latest conspiracy in the Caucasus are Robert Gates, Condi Rice, Ermarth, and Eric Edelman, who works for Gates as the Under Secretary of Defense for Policy. This is an ideologically cohesive group of veterans of the secret war against the SU and Russia.

We believe that the key role in the conspiracy was played by Ukrainian military intelligence, represented by its informal chiefs: generals Vladimir Filin (b. Vladimir Vladimirovich Litovchenko) and Alexei Likhvintsev (b. Alexei Alexeevich Kolosovskii)

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Ukrainian generals who were involved in the US-Ukrainian-Georgian “Operation Clean Field”: Vladimir Filin (left) and Alexei Likhvintsev (Likhvintsev's photo is 20 year old)

[Major-General Vladimir Filin has many faces. In addition to his duties in the Main Intelligence Directorate of the Ukrainian Defense Ministry, he is a vice-chairman of the “consulting” company Far West LLC (https://therearenosunglasses.wordpress.com/the-global-drug-meta-group-peter-dale-scott/) (formerly Far West LTD) with head-quarters in Dubai. This company serves as a commercial front for an anti-Russian alliance of the intelligence services of the United States, Britain, Saudi Arabia, Ukraine, and some other countries. Filin also posits as “political scientist” in two Russian publications that belong to Far West LLC: Forum.msk.ru and Pravda.info. Until recently he and his FarWest partners also published in Zavtra, Russia's main “nationalist” weekly that he financially supported. Another of Filin's faces is the Brazilian businessman F. T. Carvallo, who owns several ethanol factories and recently entered into a partnership with George Soros's ethanol interests in Brazil. Ed. ]

According to our sources in Ukraine, Filin and Likhvintsev represent the “Banderovite Center” in the Defense Ministry of Ukraine.

Their partners are: Rt. Colonel of Russian military intelligence Anton Surikov (Mansur Nathoev), General-Major Ruslan Saidov (b. Ruslan Sadulaev), advisor to Ruslan Mirzaev, defense minister of Uzbekistan, and the head of the illegal external intelligence service of the Chechen Republic. Also I have mention the Saudi Prince Rasheed, president of Far West LLC and a relative of Prince Turki al-Faisal. This third group of shadow intelligence operatives has no independent political significance. They are trusted agents of the Atlantists, Saudis, Panturkists, and Ukrainian nationalists.

NB. What can you say about the history of this conspiracy?

VS. Politically speaking, [B]the Georgian assault on South Ossetia (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fgP7fYhJI1g) is a new phase of what we call “Barbarossa-3” -- the project to dismember Russia after the pattern of dismembering the Soviet Union and taking control over its natural resources and nuclear arsenal. Before the spring of 2008 the main focus of Farwest was the blackmail of Russian leadership, in particular, a group of siloviki around Igor Sechin (http://www.forbes.com/profile/igor-sechin/). Ukrainian military intelligence even created a special department “R,” manned by former Soviet GRU officers, to collect dirt on Sechin's and other groupings of Russian highest bureaucracy and business. The idea was to fan the internal struggle between them, perhaps, even provoking a coup in Moscow and destroying Russia from inside. Putin was either to be assassinated or made a hostage, a puppet of the Sechin group. In the end, Putin was able to defeat these plans by playing the old game of “good cop” and “bad cop” (Dmitry Medvedev and Sergei Ivanov). The transfer of power to Medvedev was smooth. The literary document of that struggle is the book Third Barbarossa by Anton Baumgarten. Its main victim – Lieutenant-General Alexander Bulbov, head of the Operational Department of the Federal Service for Control Over the Trafficking of Narcotics, and his officers, who took “preventive measures” against Farwest. They were arrested in the fall of 2007 and, despite the protests of the Prosecutor General's Office, remain in prison on the fake charges brought against them by Sechin's ally Alexander Bastrykin, the chairman of the Investigation Committee at the Russian Prosecutor General's Office.

A new phase in the secret war against Russia began when the failure to exploit the transfer of presidential power in the Kremlin for creating chaos became apparent and the Republicans were facing defeat in the 2008 presidential elections. In this new phase, the central place was assigned to the “orange” regimes of Saakashvili and Yushchenko. Their role was to provoke a military crisis with Russia that could be used to convince the “old Europe” that a new cold war with Russia was inevitable, to rally them around the United States and to remove any objections for a speedy integration of Georgia and Ukraine into Nato. No less important was the calculation to boost McCain's faltering bid for presidency. In this respect, it is noteworthy that, according to many observers, Robert Gates was involved in the “October surprise” conspiracy of 1980 that brought Reagan and Bush to the White House. A number of Western commentators have pointed to this parallel with the Georgian attack.

There were also larger considerations. According to Kagan's proposal for a new imperialism, the United Nations must be dissolved and replaced by a “league of democracies,” which will defend “civilization” against a “league of autocracies.” It goes without words that Russia (and China) belongs to the last. It follows that the Atlantists need a “new cold war” against Russia in order to cement the ultra imperialistalliance, called “the West.” In Kagan's vision, the system of the international law will be swept aside, leaving a “clean field,” as it were, for an armageddon between the forces of Western light and Eastern darkness. Kagan dreams about the return to the pre-WWI epoch, when Western imperialists, blissfully ignorant of decadent political correctness, whacked “savages” and “barbarians” left and right. This time the “barbarians” will be called a “league of dictators” who threaten the liberties of the “civilized mankind.” Kagan calls all this “the return to history and the end of dreams.” Judging from the powerful publicity that this fascist crap enjoys in the West, Kagan can be seen as the lead ideologue of the Atlantic and post-Nazi elites. “Operation Clean Field” has ideological roots in Kagan's doctrine. In Saakashvili's speeches, Georgia is portrayed as “the bastion of civilization” against “Asiatic slavery.” Georgia's official discourse is full of similar racist nonsense.

NB. U.S. neocons and the ideological sources of the Georgian genocide against the Ossetian people is a very important topic for analysis and we will be writing about it. But what can you tell about the pre-history of “Operation Clean Field”?

VS. Some time ago we published the information, based on our sources in Ukraine's ministry of defense, that in the fall of 2007 General Vladimir Filin was re-assigned from the Special Department “R” to “coordinate” the activities of Ukrainian and Georgian military intelligence. In practice, this meant that Filin controlled the flow of Ukrainian intelligence about Russian military to Georgia. Georgian intelligence services were not adequate for this task and had to rely on Ukrainians. Filin has experienced intelligence cadres, many of who worked for the Soviet GRU, and a strong operational network in southern Russia and in Moscow. Filin also has sources in the Russian Ministry of Defense, the FSB, and other state agencies. Filin and his Farwest partners developed these sources through what is called “commercial recruitment,” or the partnership in criminal activities like narcotrafficking and illegal arms trade. One can say that, as far as human intelligence was concerned, “Operation Clean Field” was supported by Ukrainian military intelligence. The rest was provided by the U.S. technical intelligence, deployed around the city of Gori and elsewhere.

According to our German sources, in mid-March 2008 Robert Kagan had his first meeting with the leadership of Far West LLC – Vladimir Filin, Ruslan Saidov, and Anton Surikov. They were introduced to Kagan in Brussels by the former high-ranking CIA officer Fritz Ermarth, presently of the Nixon Foundation. This meeting established a channel of communication between FarWest and the foreign policy and secret service elements behind McCain's campaign. Then, in May, Filin began his public nuclear blackmail of Russia, hinting that Ukraine's military had concealed some nuclear weapons in violation of the Budapest agreement of 1995. He also continued to demonize German social-democrats by comparing former Chancellor Schroeder and foreign minister Steinmeier to Nazis, and the Russian-German pipeline project Nord Stream to the Molotov-Ribbentrop Pact. 1

NB. Could Filin raise the theme of Ukraine's re-nuclearization without the approval from Washington?

VS. This is out of question. Filin's statements were obviously sanctioned by Dick Cheney's people and suggested to him by someone from the MacCain campaign, most likely Kagan or Scheunemann. This is evident from what happened next. In May, Bush goes to Berlin and tells Merkel that Ukrainians are determined to have the Bomb if Germans do not approve their membership in NATO. After meeting with Bush, Merkel goes to Kiev, where GUR (military intelligence) has prepared for Yushchenko and the National Security Council a draft of the declaration about Ukraine exiting the Budapest Treaty and no longer bound to remain a non-nuclear-weapon state. In Kiev, Merkel reportedly softens up on the Nato issue but convinces Yushchenko to wait with the declaration. Meanwhile, Ukrainian press respond to Left.ru publications with a lively discussion of Ukraine's nuclear status. Soon the communist deputy Leonid Grach makes an official inquiry about Ukraine's alleged violation of the Budapest Treaty. He writes to Yushchenko and also to the US Ambassador William Taylor. 2 While Russian press continue to pretend that nothing happens, the Moscow mayor Luzhkov repeats his provocative statements about the Crimea and no less provocative anti-Ukrainian publications come out from the Surkov-Belkovskii stable of shady “political scientists.” 3 Passions begin to rise on both sides. This is just what the sponsors of “Operation Clean Field” need.

Finally, a few days before the Georgian attack, Prince Rasheed [president of Far West LLC – Ed.], Saidov, Filin, and Surikov come to the United States, apparently to make last arrangements with the political sponsors of the operation and Gates's people from the DIA. From the United States, Filin flies directly to Georgia. According to our sources, in Gori his role was to prevent a non-sanctioned destruction of the strategic Rok Tunnel by the Georgians.

After the first battalions of 58th Army have reached Tskhinvali, Filin moves to the Kodor Gorge in Abkhazia. We believe that his role there was two-fold. In the situation when the Georgian defeat was imminent he had to provide for a safe evacuation of the Ukrainian military specialists and make sure that the Abkhazians take under their control the entire Gorge. This last and most important task has strategic significance for the plans of Farwest and his Atlantist and Pan-Turkist sponsors. The Kodor Gorge is a bridge between the Abkhazians and their ethnic relatives – the Adygei (Cherkes) of the Northern Caucasus. Their organization “The Cherkes Congress” and the Turkish Grey Wolves envision the creation of the “Greater Cherkessia” as a part of the Pan-Turkist empire of “The Great Turan.” Anton Surikov (Mansur Nathoev) is thought to be in charge of the security service of the “Chechen Congress” and their liaison with the Grey Wolves in Turkey.

NB. If your account is correct Filin had actually helped the Russian army. Why did they want to keep the Tunnel open?

VS. It is because getting the Russians into Georgia was the main political objective of “Operation Clean Field,” at least for its American sponsors and the Ukrainians, if not for Saakashvili. They just could not imagine that the Georgian army disintegrate that fast. Their strategic goal was to draw Russia into a protracted war, as exhausting and bloody as possible, with big losses of life among civil population and chaos spreading over the entire Caucasus and beyond, into Russia's interior. Do not forget that a genocidal attack was planned against Abkhazia as well. The Georgian war plans, captured by the Russian army, show the encirclement of the Abkhazian forces and most of its population. It is likely that the main concentration of Ukrainian military specialists was in Abkhazia's Kodor Gorge rather than around Tskhinvali. But the Russian army did not get bogged down in Tskhinvali and the lightning speed of its advance stunned U.S. military experts. Even the use of Ukrainian specialists did not help the Georgian army. According to our information, Ukrainian SAMs, manned by Ukrainian crews, downed all four aircraft lost by the Russians. But this was of little significance for the outcome of this war. Perhaps, the loss of a Tu-22 strategic bomber had slowed down somewhat the advance of our troops, because we began to use aviation with more caution. But as soon as the Georgians were dislodged from their positions on the heights around Tskhinvali, we began rolling fast towards Gori. Facing the Russian “blitzkrieg,” Filin evacuated the Ukrainians from the Kodor Gorge. I believe this was a part of their minimum plan anyway. No one could seriously count on Georgia's final victory. They used Georgia as expendable country, as a bait and hook for Russia. Ukraine was entirely different business. Filin's lobbying for Ukraine's nuclear status had begun in anticipation of a Russian-Georgian war that he helped to provoke.

NB. Could we have avoided biting their bait?

VS. No chance. They knew that Russia could not sit and watch a genocide in South Ossetia. So they pushed Saakashvili to this criminal and stupid adventure. Their goal was not to occupy South Ossetia. Americans do not care about this. Otherwise, the first thing they would have done was to destroy the Rok Tunnel. Instead, they began murdering the peacekeepers and civil population as if inviting the Russians to come to their rescue. Their calculation was accurate. Russia had a choice between very bad and the worst, between war and abandoning the South Ossetians to extermination. We had to choose war and make our relations with the West deteriorate even more, which seriously undermined our allies their like Steinmeier and others.

NB. But why didn't we launch a preventive strike? Well, I guess this was a stupid question. They would present us as aggressors.

VS. You bet! In that case, Russia could have to pay much more for saving two thousands lives. Ukraine would have gotten the green light for Nato membership and then we would have to act fast and in full force, risking dangerous consequences.

NB. In other words, our victory in South Ossetia was not victory after all.

VS. Neither a victory nor a defeat. After all, in Russian the word for victory (po – beda) includes these seemingly opposite meanings. We have failed to prevent the death of two thousand people and the destruction. We also had to take the bait, because the strategic initiative remains in their hands and they won't stop at anything. But we have won morally. This is the main thing. Besides, they cannot foresee everything. Our diplomatic activity begin to bring results they did not expect.

NB. Saakashvili's regime has been armed to the teeth by Ukraine, Israel, and the United States. What was the role of Farwest in arming Georgia?

VS. Their role was exceptional. Generals Filin and Likhvintsev represent GUR in supervising Ukraine's military-technical exchange with other countries. They were also primary business partners of the defense minister Okruashvili, selling arms to Georgia through their front company Far West LTD and later through BIVIS-RU. Incidentally, this was the reason that the publication in “Profil” about arms shipments from Ukraine to Georgia, Azerbaijan, and the United States provoked Filin's hysterical response. That article openly blamed Ukraine for warmongering and inciting arms race in the Caucasus. 4 As I recall, that's when Filin for the first time described Russia as Ukraine's likely military adversary and threatened to make public the information about the kickbacks in the arms deals between Russia and Venezuela. 5 Far West sold Georgia not only the arms from the arsenals of the Ukrainian defense ministry but also the unlicensed arms from their pirate factories in Poland, Bulgaria, and Jordan.

NB. What is to come next?

VB. They will remove Saakashvili. For the United States he's become expendable long ago. Last spring it was decided to put Burdjanadze in his place. Since then she distanced herself from Saakashvili. Yushchenko is in the same boat with Saakashvili. The Americans and Banderovites will replace him with Timoshenko. They think they can control her. For some time she fought for her independence, but in the end Filin, Galaka, Likhvintsev, and other Banderovites psychologically broke her. [Alexander Galaka – forner head of GUR – Ed.]. Now Timoshenko believes they will kill her if she disobeys.

Russia will have to face now provocations in Sevastopol as they will attempt to draw us in a war with Ukraine. If they succeed, it will be impossible to avoid a new cold war and the West will support the Banderovites going nuclear. The hard-core ultra-nationalists in Ukraine are quite capable of dropping the Bomb on Moscow.

Kadyrov and his 25 thousand fighters-veterans of the Dudaev-Maskhadov regime (do not confuse them with the heroic pro-Moscow battalions of Chechen spetsnaz “East” and “West”) so far keep quiet. They are not a threat for now. Better not touch them, we have more urgent business to take care of.

In Turkey, the Grey Wolves used the Supreme Court to intimidate the prime minister Erdogan. He is afraid of them and seeks understanding and support from Russia.

Israel--where all politicians are obsessed with Iran and compete with each other for being the toughest—risks to find itself in Saakashvili's position, in case the Israelis attack Iran. The United States and the Gulf Arabs want Israel to go for this, because they are afraid of Iranians and wish to weaken them by someone else's hands.

The United States are having back-room negotiations with China. From what we hear, the Chinese want to have their own sector of responsibility in Afghanistan. This will automatically make the Central Asia and Kazakhstan their sphere of influence. In exchange, they can use Iran as a bargaining chip with the United States. Unfortunately, we cannot verify this information.

As far as we can see, relations between Putin and Medvedev remain good, but there are constant efforts from inside and outside to drive a wedge between them. Western press and the Russian press, controlled by Far West, deliberately portray Putin as a fascist. Russia's exclusion from G-8 is almost inevitable. In CIS, no state openly supported Russia. Medvedev and Putin personally asked Lukashenko, Nazarbaev, and Karimov for support but they refused. This is all I have to say for now.

NB. Thank you, Vadim.

Source (http://left.ru/2008/10/stolz_en179.phtml)

Sophocles

17th May 2015, 15:52

Ukraine oligarch claims US extradition request is political interference (http://www.theguardian.com/world/2015/may/05/ukraine-oligarch-brokered-deal-petro-poroshenko-president-dmytro-firtash)

May 5, 2015.

Dmytro Firtash boasts he brokered 2014 deal to make Petro Poroshenko president during Vienna court hearing that raises questions about US role in Kiev.

Last year’s Maidan revolution in Ukraine was meant to usher in a new kind of politics and end official corruption and behind-the-scenes oligarchic influence. But an Austrian court last week heard claims that President Petro Poroshenko had his path to the presidency cleared for him only after a summit in Vienna with controversial oligarch Dmytro Firtash.

The claims came as part of a one-day hearing in Vienna, when an Austrian judge rejected a US extradition request for Firtash. The oligarch claimed the US charges against him – of bribing Indian officials – were politically motivated and were Washington’s way of removing him from the Ukrainian political playing field at a sensitive time.

In much the same way that proceedings in London’s high court between Russian oligarchs have brought to light elements of Russian backroom deals, the hearing in Vienna provided a number of tantalising details about recent Ukrainian politics.

Firtash is one of the most powerful and most elusive of Ukraine’s oligarch class, a small group of individuals who have controlled much of the business in post-Soviet Ukraine and have often had huge influence over the political system. He has been linked to the Kremlin as well as figures in the Russian underworld – claims he has denied.

Usually, oligarchs like to remain in the shadows, but to make his case that the US charges were politically motivated, Firtash made a rare boast about his political influence inside Ukraine.

Firtash told the court he arranged a summit in Vienna after the Maidan revolution between former boxer Vitali Klitschko and Poroshenko, who went on to become Ukraine’s president following the overthrow of President Viktor Yanukovych. After the meeting, Firtash said, Klitschko agreed to run for mayor of Kiev rather than the presidency. For a nation sick of big decisions being taken in shadowy closed-door meetings, the claims have hit a nerve.

Vasyl Rasevych, a Ukrainian historian and journalist, said the revelations at the trial suggested that Ukraine’s president was essentially appointed by oligarchs.

“In Ukraine, after the revolution of dignity there is still no politics, we’re still run by an oligarchic system. People who claimed to be oppositionist and swore to change the system, they instead lied to the public and continue to make back-door deals Yanukovych-style.”

Some, however, have pointed out that Firtash clearly had a vested interest in portraying himself as a kingmaker in order to avoid his extradition, and thus his testimony could be skewed.

Klitschko gave a vague denial, stating that Firtash’s words were “incorrect”, while Svyatoslav Tsegolko, Poroshenko’s spokesman, said the president had a “very simple position” on the issue and had commented on the meeting during last year’s election campaign. Then, Poroshenko had admitted meeting Firtash in Vienna, when he travelled to Austria for the birthday part of Vitali Klitschko’s brother Wladimir.

“I do not think [Firtash] liked the outcome of the meeting,” Poroshenko said later, local media reported. Tsegolko said Poroshenko was “a president of de-oligarchisation”, pointing to a recent law to reform the energy sector, as well as the dismissal of Ihor Kolomoisky, the oligarch governor of Dnipropetrovsk region, in March.

Ukrainian prosecutors have opened investigations of their own against Firtash, as part of Poroshenko’s mission to free the country from oligarchic influence.

The cynics point out that Poroshenko himself is a wealthy businessman, and wonder whether any promises were given during the meeting between Poroshenko, Klitschko and Firtash last year.

Member of parliament Victoria Voytsitska said: “If there was a deal, Poroshenko needs to admit it and reveal the terms. Were there any obligations on his part when he became the president, towards Firtash or any other oligarch? If he does not comment, then questions will only intensify as to what he is trying to hide, and there won’t be much trust or belief in his claims to be fighting the oligarchs.”

Olga Belkova, an MP from Poroshenko’s bloc who sits on the parliamentary energy committee, said key reforms were being pushed through the sector, and the most important thing is that the system, rather than simply ownership, is changed.

“Now is the moment when the system will either be cleansed, or everything will stay the same.”

The second major question raised by the Vienna trial is the level of US interference in Ukrainian politics. The US indictment against Firtash alleged that the oligarch paid bribes to Indian officials as part of a titanium deal. Analysts have noted that the charges are relatively minor given the importance of Firtash in Ukraine and the timing of the arrest, something which the judge also mentioned.

The oligarch compared the history of Firtash’s arrest and extradition requests with dates of US assistant secretary of state Victoria Nuland’s travel in and out of Kiev, suggesting that the Americans used the threat as leverage to force Yanukovych to sign a European Union integration pact in autumn 2013.

Yanukovych later changed his mind over signing the pact, which led to the Maidan revolution, following which Firtash was apprehended by Austrian police at US request. Firtash’s defence strategy was to suggest that the whole case against him was part of a US attempt to influence events in Ukraine.

The US maintains there was no political motivation behind the extradition request and the overlap of dates with Nuland’s travel was just a coincidence.

“This is a case brought by the [US] Justice Department as part of a foreign corruption investigation,” one State Department official told the Guardian.

“We are disappointed with the court’s ruling and have filed an appeal,” he added.

The Guardian (http://www.theguardian.com/world/2015/may/05/ukraine-oligarch-brokered-deal-petro-poroshenko-president-dmytro-firtash)

In his The Grand Chessboard (http://www.amazon.com/The-Grand-Chessboard-Geostrategic-Imperatives/dp/0465027261) (1997) Zbigniew Brzezinski wrote:

"If Moscow regains control over Ukraine, with its 52 million people and major resources as well as access to the Black Sea, Russia automatically again regains the wherewithal to become a powerful imperial state, spanning Europe and Asia."

“Ukraine, a new and important space on the Eurasian chessboard, is a geopolitical pivot because its very existence as an independent country helps to transform Russia. Without Ukraine, Russia ceases to be a Eurasian empire.”

“Geopolitical pivots are the states whose importance is derived not from their power and motivation but rather from their sensitive location… which in some cases gives them a special role in either defining access to important areas or in denying resources to a significant player.”

“Ukraine, Azerbaijan, South Korea, Turkey and Iran play the role of critically important geopolitical pivots.”

PS!

Interestingly enough, it was Brzezinski who first compared Putin to Hitler in a March 3 Washington Post Editorial.

Source (http://www.globalresearch.ca/the-eurasian-chessboard-brzezinski-mapped-out-the-battle-for-ukraine-in-1997/5373707)

Sophocles

17th May 2015, 16:24

It`s tempting to ask if it was Oleksandr Shevchenko`s punch in Oleh Lyashko`s face (august, 2014) that made the latter come up with the law that bans communist symbols in Ukraine:

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Ukranian Parliament bans communist symbols and legitimises nazi-collaborators (excerpt) (https://ukraineantifascistsolidarity.wordpress.com/2015/04/10/ukranian-parliament-bans-communist-symbols-and-legitimises-nazi-collaborators/)

April 10, 2015

On April 9, the Ukranian Rada passed 4 pieces of legislation submitted by the government, which ban all symbols and propaganda of Communism. After the law comes into effect, any monuments for Communist figures which have not already been destroyed by fascist thugs in the last few months must be demolished. Also any cities and streets which named after communists are supposed to be renamed.

Of course, the condemnation of Nazism is just a fig leave, as in the same breath, the Rada passed the law “On Legal Status and to commemorate fighters for Ukraine’s independence in the twentieth century.” This law lists dozens of organisations which are recognised as Ukranian freedom fighters, including those which collaborated with the Nazis and carried out massacres of Jews, Poles and others, like the Organisation of Ukrainian Nationalists and the Ukrainian Insurgent Army. Their symbols are widely used by far-right organisations and paramilitary fascists organisations which are now part of the state apparatus.

In fact, just a few days ago, the leader of the Right Sector Dmytro Yarosh, which sees himself as the inheritor of tradition of nazi-collaborator Stepan Bandera and his OUN-UPA organisations, was appointed as Advisor to the Chief of General Staff of the Armed Forces.

From now on, the symbols of these nazi-collaborating and genocidal organisations are protected by law: “Public denial of the legitimacy of the struggle for the independence of Ukraine in the twentieth century recognized insult to the memory of fighters for independence of Ukraine in the XX century constitutes disparagement of the Ukrainian people and is illegal.”

The law against communist symbols was proposed by far right Radical Party leader Oleg Lyashko and passed with the votes two hundred and fifty-four MPs, with the required minimum being 226 votes.

Source (https://ukraineantifascistsolidarity.wordpress.com/2015/04/10/ukranian-parliament-bans-communist-symbols-and-legitimises-nazi-collaborators/)

Poroshenko: ‘UPA are heroes,’ will consider giving veterans legal status (http://euromaidanpress.com/2014/09/26/poroshenko-to-consider-giving-upa-veterans-legal-status/)

9/26/14

President of Ukraine Petro Poroshenko believes that now is a good time to address the question concerning the status of the wartime Organization of Ukrainian Nationalists (OUN) & Ukrainian Insurgent Army (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ukrainian_Insurgent_Army) (UPA).

Source (http://euromaidanpress.com/2014/09/26/poroshenko-to-consider-giving-upa-veterans-legal-status/)

Top Polish military advisor ‘completely withdraws’ his support of Ukraine gov’t (http://newcoldwar.org/top-polish-military-advisor-completely-withdraws-his-support-of-ukraine-govt/)

April 16, 2015

A top military adviser and former head of Poland’s armed forces has told Gazeta Prawna news in Poland that he has “completely withdrawn” his previous views favoring providing more military assistance and political support to the government of Ukraine.

His change of view is prompted by the law passed by the Ukrainian Parliament on April 9 glorifying World War Two collaborators with Nazi Germany. It follows an address to the Verkhovna Rada of Ukraine on April 9 by Polish President Bronislaw Komorowski in which the president voiced strong support for Ukraine, including its military ambitions against the pro-autonomy movement in the east of the country.

Skrzypczak told Gazeta Prawna, “A few hours later, the Ukrainian parliament passed a law glorifying the Ukrainian Insurgent Army (UPA). At this point, I realized that Ukraine does not consider the Polish people. I’m talking of what happened in Volhynia, the slaughter of 100,000 Poles by the UPA [in 1943 and 1944]…

Source (http://newcoldwar.org/top-polish-military-advisor-completely-withdraws-his-support-of-ukraine-govt/)

Vladimir Putin calls Ukraine fascist and country’s new law helps make his case (http://blogs.reuters.com/great-debate/2015/05/14/putin-ties-ukraines-government-to-neo-nazis-a-new-law-seems-to-back-him-up/)

May 14, 2015

As Ukraine continues its battle against separatists, corruption and a collapsing economy, it has taken a dangerous step that could further tear the country apart: Ukraine’s parliament, the Supreme Rada, passed a draft law last month honoring organizations involved in mass ethnic cleansing during World War Two.

Source (http://blogs.reuters.com/great-debate/2015/05/14/putin-ties-ukraines-government-to-neo-nazis-a-new-law-seems-to-back-him-up/)

Open Letter from Scholars and Experts on Ukraine Re. the So-Called "Anti-Communist Law" (april, 2015) (http://m.krytyka.com/en/articles/open-letter-scholars-and-experts-ukraine-re-so-called-anti-communist-law)

To the President of Ukraine, Petro O. Poroshenko, and to the Chairman of Ukraine's Verkhovna Rada, Volodymyr B. Hroysman:

We, the undersigned, appeal to you not to sign into law the draft laws (no. 2538-1 and 2558)1 adopted by the Verkhovna Rada on April 9, 2015. As scholars and experts long committed to Ukraine’s regeneration and freedom, we regard these laws with the deepest foreboding. Their content and spirit contradicts one of the most fundamental political rights: the right to freedom of speech. Their adoption would raise serious questions about Ukraine’s commitment to the principles of the Council of Europe and the OSCE, along with a number of treaties and solemn declarations adopted since Ukraine regained its independence in 1991. Their impact on Ukraine’s image and reputation in Europe and North America would be profound. Not least of all, the laws would provide comfort and support to those who seek to enfeeble and divide Ukraine.

We also are troubled by the fact that the laws passed without serious debate, without dissenting votes and with large numbers of deputies declining to take part.

In particular we are concerned about the following:

Concerning the inclusion of groups such as the Organization of Ukrainian Nationalists (OUN) and Ukrainian Insurgent Army (UPA) as “fighters for Ukrainian independence”: Article 6 of this law makes it a criminal offense to deny the legitimacy of “the struggle for the independence of Ukraine in the 20th century” and public denial of the same is to be regarded as an insult to the memory of the fighters. Thus questioning this claim, and implicitly questioning anything such groups did, is being made a criminal offense.

Law 2558, the ban on propaganda of “Communist and National Socialist Regimes” makes it a criminal offense to deny, “including in the media, the criminal character of the communist totalitarian regime of 1917-1991 in Ukraine.”

The potential consequences of both these laws are disturbing. Not only would it be a crime to question the legitimacy of an organization (UPA) that slaughtered tens of thousands of Poles in one of the most heinous acts of ethnic cleansing in the history of Ukraine, but also it would exempt from criticism the OUN, one of the most extreme political groups in Western Ukraine between the wars, and one which collaborated with Nazi Germany at the outset of the Soviet invasion in 1941. It also took part in anti-Jewish pogroms in Ukraine and, in the case of the Melnyk faction, remained allied with the occupation regime throughout the war.

However noble the intent, the wholesale condemnation of the entire Soviet period as one of occupation of Ukraine will have unjust and incongruous consequences. Anyone calling attention to the development of Ukrainian culture and language in the 1920s could find himself or herself condemned. The same applies to those who regard the Gorbachev period as a progressive period of change to the benefit of Ukrainian civil society, informal groups, and political parties, including the Movement for Perestroika (Rukh).

Over the past 15 years, Vladimir Putin’s Russia has invested enormous resources in the politicization of history. It would be ruinous if Ukraine went down the same road, however partially or tentatively. Any legal or ‘administrative’ distortion of history is an assault on the most basic purpose of scholarly inquiry: pursuit of truth. Any official attack on historical memory is unjust. Difficult and contentious issues must remain matters of debate. The 1.5 million Ukrainians who died fighting the Nazis in the Red Army are entitled to respect, as are those who fought the Red Army and NKVD. Those who regard victory over Nazi Germany as a pivotal historical event should neither feel intimidated nor excluded from the nation.

Since 1991, Ukraine has been a tolerant and inclusive state, a state (in the words of the Constitution) for ‘citizens of Ukraine of all nationalities’. If signed, the laws of April 9 will be a gift to those who wish to turn Ukraine against itself. They will alienate many Ukrainians who now find themselves under de facto occupation. They will divide and dishearten Ukraine’s friends. In short, they will damage Ukraine’s national security, and for this reason above all, we urge you to reject them.

Signatories (in alphabetical order):

David Albanese, Ph.D. Candidate, Department of Soviet and Russian History, Northeastern University, USA

Tarik Cyril Amar, Assistant Professor of History, Columbia University, USA

Dominique Arel, Chair of Ukrainian Studies, University of Ottawa, Canada

Eric Aunoble, Researcher and Senior Lecturer in Ukrainian History, Geneva University, Switzerland

Martin Aust, Visiting Professor of History, University of Basel, Switzerland

Mark R. Baker, Assistant Professor, Koç University, Istanbul, Turkey

Omer Bartov, John P. Birkelund Distinguished Professor of History and Professor of German Studies, Brown University, USA

Harald Binder, Ph.D., Founding President, Center for Urban History of East Central Europe, Lviv, Ukraine

Marko Bojcun, Director of the Ukraine Centre, London Metropolitan University, UK

Uilleam Blacker, Lecturer in Comparative East European Culture, University College London, UK

Jeffrey Burds, Associate Professor of Russian and Soviet History, Northeastern University, USA

Marco Carynnyk, Independent Scholar, Toronto, Canada

Heather J. Coleman, Canada Research Chair and Associate Professor, Department of History and Classics, University of Alberta, Canada

Markian Dobczansky, Ph.D. candidate, Department of History, Stanford University, USA

Sofia Dyak, Director, Centre for Urban History of East Central Europe, Lviv, Ukraine

Maria Ferretti, Professor of Contemporary History, Università della Tuscia, Viterbo, Italia

Evgeny Finkel, Assistant Professor of Political Science and International Affairs, George Washington University, USA

Rory Finnin, University Senior Lecturer in Ukrainian Studies, University of Cambridge, UK

Christopher Ford, Lecturer in Trade Union Education, WEA London, UK

J. Arch Getty, Distinguished Professor of History University of California Los Angeles (UCLA), USA

Christopher Gilley, Research Fellow, University of Hamburg, Hamburg, Germany

Frank Golczewski, Professor in the Program in History, University of Hamburg, Germany

Mark von Hagen, Professor of History, School of Historical, Philosophical, and Religious Studies, Arizona State University, USA

André Härtel, Lecturer in International Relations, Department of Political Science, University of Jena, Germany

Guido Hausmann, Ludwig-Maximilian University, Munich, Germany

John-Paul Himka, Professor Emeritus, Department of History & Classics, University of Alberta, Canada

Adrian Ivakhiv, Professor of Environmental Thought and Culture, University of Vermont, USA

Kerstin S. Jobst, Professor of East European History, University of Vienna, Austria

Tom Junes, PhD (historian) - Imre Kertész Kolleg, Jena, Germany

Andreas Kappeler, Professor Emeritus of History, University of Vienna, Austria

Ivan Katchanovski, Adjunct Professor, School of Political Studies, University of Ottawa, Canada

Padraic Kenney, Professor of History, Indiana University, USA

Olesya Khromeychuk, Teaching Fellow, University College London, UK

Oleh Kotsyuba, Ph.D. Candidate, Department of Slavic Languages and Literatures, Harvard University, USA

Matthew Kott, Researcher at Centre for Russian and Eurasian Studies, Uppsala University, Sweden

Mark Kramer, Program Director for Cold War Studies, Davis Center for Russian and Eurasian Studies, Harvard University, USA

Nadiya Kravets, Postdoctoral Fellow, Ukrainian Research Institute, Harvard University, USA

Olga Kucherenko, Independent Scholar, Cambridge, UK

John J. Kulczycki, Professor Emeritus, Department of History, University of Illinois at Chicago, USA

Victor Hugo Lane, York College, City University of New York, USA

Yurii Latysh, Taras Shevchenko National University, Kyiv, Ukraine

David R. Marples, Distinguished University Professor, Department of History & Classics, University of Alberta, Canada

Jared McBride, Visiting Assistant Professor of History, Columbia University, USA

Brendan McGeever, Early Career Research Fellow, Birkbeck, University of London

Javier Morales, Lecturer in International Relations, European University of Madrid, Spain

Tanja Penter, Professor of Eastern European History, Heidelberg University, Germany

Olena Petrenko, Ph.D. Student, Department of East European History, Ruhr University Bochum, Germany

Simon Pirani, Senior Research Fellow, Oxford Institute for Energy Studies, and Lecturer on Russian and Soviet History, Canterbury Christ Church University, UK

Yuri Radchenko, Senior Lecturer, Kharkiv Collegium Institute of Oriental Studies and International Relations, and Director of Center for Inter-ethnic Relations in Eastern Europe, Kharkiv, Ukraine

William Risch, Associate Professor of History, Georgia College, USA

Grzegorz Rossolinski-Liebe, Research Fellow, Freie Universitaet Berlin, Germany

Blair Ruble, Political Scientist, Washington, DC, USA

Per Anders Rudling, Associate Professor of History, Lund University, Sweden

Martin Schulze Wessel, Chair of Eastern European History, Ludwig-Maximilian University, Munich, Germany

Steven Seegel, Associate Professor of History, University of Northern Colorado, USA

Anton Shekhovtsov, Visiting Senior Fellow, Legatum Institute, London, UK

James Sherr, Associate Fellow, Chatham House, London, UK

Volodymyr Sklokin, Researcher, Center for Urban History of East-Central Europe, Lviv, Ukraine

Iryna Sklokina, Researcher, Center for Urban History of East-Central Europe, Lviv, Ukraine

Yegor Stadny, Ph.D. Student, Department of History, Kyiv-Mohyla Academy, Ukraine

Andreas Umland, Senior Research Fellow, Institute for Euro-Atlantic Cooperation, Kyiv, Ukraine

Ricarda Vulpius, Research Fellow, Department for the History of East- and Southeastern Europe, Ludwig-Maximilian University, Munich, Germany

Lucan Way, Associate Professor of Political Science, University of Toronto, Canada

Zenon Wasyliw, Professor of History, Ithaca College, USA

Anna Veronika Wendland, Research Coordinator, The Herder Institute for Historical Research on East Central Europe, Marburg, Germany

Frank Wolff, Assistant Professor of History and Migration Studies, Osnabrück University, Germany

Christine Worobec, Professor Emerita, Northern Illinois University, USA

Serhy Yekelchyk, Professor of Slavic Studies and History, University of Victoria, Canada

Tanya Zaharchenko, Postdoctoral Fellow, Center for Historical Research, Higher School of Economics, Saint Petersburg, Russia

Sergei Zhuk, Associate Professor of History, Ball State University, Indiana, USA

Source (http://m.krytyka.com/en/articles/open-letter-scholars-and-experts-ukraine-re-so-called-anti-communist-law)

PS!

Questions Raised Over Poroshenko's Role In Valuable Kyiv Land Deal (http://www.rferl.mobi/a/ukraine-poroshenko-land-deal-questions-tsars-village/27013945.html)

May 13, 2015

KYIV -- An investigation by RFE/RL shows that Ukrainian leader Petro Poroshenko may have used his presidential influence to shut down investigations into a land deal aimed at building a private mansion on a historic site in the Ukrainian capital.

Source (http://www.rferl.mobi/a/ukraine-poroshenko-land-deal-questions-tsars-village/27013945.html)

Sophocles

17th May 2015, 21:17

Psycho 'Reality Creators' open 'gates of hell' in Iraq with proxy Jihadis (http://www.sott.net/article/280559-Psycho-Reality-Creators-open-gates-of-hell-in-Iraq-with-proxy-Jihadis)

Joe Quinn
Sott.net
Tue, 17 Jun 2014

In case you were wondering why, despite the sterling efforts of the Bush and Obama governments to bring 'freedom and democracy' to Iraq, life there appears to be worse than ever, a brief review of the nature of American and European largesse that has been bestowed on the Iraqi people over the past twenty-odd years may be instructive.

First there was the 1991 Iraq War turkey shoot that killed thousands of Iraqi civilians and killed or wounded over 100,000 Iraqi soldiers; then followed the 10 years of regular US bombing runs and the willful genocide of Iraqis, especially children, via the 'food for oil' sanctions. Then came the second Gulf War turkey shoot, justified (not 'officially', but it wouldn't have happened otherwise) by the self-inflicted wound that was the 9/11 attacks, that involved a 10-year occupation by the US military and the further direct slaughter of at least 1.5 million Iraqis by the US military and the displacement of 4 million more.

By 2011, with the country in ruins and the the bulk of US troops preparing to leave, US military 'advisers' hastily cobbled together an 'Iraqi army'. Unfortunately, the tribal nature of Iraqi society, the serious divisions between Sunni and Shia that had been provoked by 10 years of bloody foreign occupation, including the use of US-sponsored death squads (aka 'al-qaeda'), and the installation of a Shia-led government in a country previously dominated by the minority Sunnis under Saddam, made the very idea of a united Iraqi army a fantasy. But those details were of little concern to the occupiers. A few major weapons (http://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2012-10-09/russia-gets-4-2-billion-arms-deals-with-iraq-rivals-u-s-1-) and oil (http://www.nytimes.com/2011/06/15/business/energy-environment/15iht-srerussia15.html?pagewanted=all) deals and the US was outta there. Thanks for the memories... for a while.

Next Stop - Syria

Then came the (Israeli-sponsored) (http://www.israelnationalnews.com/News/News.aspx/164853#.VVj8hUYqdAE) plan to 'remake' Syria. But when it was decided that a US invasion and occupation of that country was too problematic in the sense that it might set the entire Middle East alight and threaten Israeli sensitivities, plan B was to use the same fundamentalist jihadi nut-jobs from Iraq to start a 'revolution' that the majority of the Syrian people wanted nothing to do with. But after three years of direct and indirect funding and arming of the jihadis by the USA, Saudi Arabia Qatar and Turkey, (http://www.reuters.com/article/2012/06/23/us-syria-crisis-saudi-idUSBRE85M07820120623) and massive bloodshed, with several Syrian cities reduced almost to rubble, Assad was still there, the Syrian army were prevailing against the nut-jobs, and the psychopaths at the US state department, the CIA and in Tel Aviv, were getting antsy. 'Can't we just have NATO bomb the crap out of the place?' A pretext was needed, and last year the Saudis were used to supply sarin gas to the jihadis (http://www.mintpressnews.com/witnesses-of-gas-attack-say-saudis-supplied-rebels-with-chemical-weapons/168135/) (or a Saudi black op team did it themselves) (http://rt.com/news/syria-sarin-saudi-provocation-736/), who happily sacrificed the lives of 1,000 Syrian civilians in Ghouta in an effort to blame the Assad government for 'war crimes' and justify NATO (i.e. USA) bombing.

http://www.sott.net/image/s9/190868/medium/bandar.jpg
Saudi Prince Bandar bin-sellin-Sarin-gas

While the alternative media (including this website) (http://www.sott.net/article/267197-BBC-and-doctors-in-Syria-shilling-for-Western-Psychopaths-in-Power) pointed out that the chemical attack came from a 'rebel'-held area, John Kerry (and his counterpart borgs in the EU) bluffed and blustered to the world that Assad had "crossed a red line" and "something had to be done". But an eleventh hour reprieve for the Syrian people was secured by the Russian government who, behind closed diplomatic doors, made it clear to the US and EU warmongers that they had clear evidence pointing to the true source of the chemical attack, (http://www.bbc.com/news/world-middle-east-24140475) and would rather not be forced to reveal it to the world at the UN. To assuage Kerry and Co's severe disappointment at not getting to dismember some civilians, and to help them save face over the fact that the USA's 'al-qaeda' 'rebels' in Syria were responsible for the chemical attack, (http://www.bbc.com/news/world-middle-east-22424188) the Russian government suggested that, as an alternative, it could ensure that the Assad government destroyed its chemical weapon stockpile. Kerry and Co. had to accept the deal, but they weren't happy with Russia for denying them an opportunity to crush some little people, and they were willing to bide their time.

New Old Jihadis on the block

The group that is currently grabbing gruesome headlines in Iraq - the Islamic State in Iraq and Syria (ISIS) - is 'al-qaeda' by another name, or 'al-qaeda 2.0' if you prefer. They subscribe to Wahhabism or Salafism which is the extremist Saudi version of the Muslim religion that, according to a 'conspiracy theory' was created by agents of the British Empire in the 18th century as a way to corrupt Islam and safeguard the region for British interests. (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Memoirs_of_Mr._Hempher,_The_British_Spy_to_the_Middle_East) The document (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Memoirs_of_Mr._Hempher,_The_British_Spy_to_the_Middle_East) that constitutes the evidence for this plot is essentially the Muslim version of the Protocols of the Elders of Zion. Then again, when you consider the existence of fundie Christian leaders like Pat Robertson, and the phenomenon of 'Purity Balls', (http://www.daddyido.com/) no conspiracy is needed. And it's not hard to see how similar specimens and ideologies could arise in Islam. Unless, of course, Pat Robertson is a CIA agent. Manufactured fundamentalism or not, Saudi Wahhibism has played a central role in safeguarding the Middle East for British and American interests.

Strangely enough, in July 2013, the European Parliament identified (http://www.dawn.com/news/1029713) the Wahhabi movement as the source of global terrorism and a threat to traditional and diverse Muslim cultures of the whole world. That analysis has done nothing, however, to effect the cozy relationship between the Saudi royals and the US and EU.

http://www.sott.net/image/s9/190869/medium/Abu_Musab_al_Zarqawi.jpg
Abu-Musab-bin-taking-kickbacks-from-the-CIA-Zarqawi,
in a desert somewhere...with a gun.

ISIS is said to have originated (although not under that name) in 2004 with the mythical Abu Musab al-Zarqawi. Zarqawi was, if you remember, one of 'al-qaeda's' front men in Iraq from 2004-2006 and was accused by the US government of orchestrating much of the 'sectarian' killings, and the video-recorded beheadings of American citizens Nick Berg and Eugene Armstrong. I already detailed the likely truth behind the 'sectarian' killings in Iraq in this article (http://joequinn.net/2013/03/19/confirmation-that-us-govt-uses-death-squads-to-create-civil-war-in-iraq/) (think US-sponsored death squads), and exposed the fact that even US military intelligence agents in Iraq knew that 'al Zarqawi', as he was portrayed, existed only in the lurid fantasies of Donald Rumsfeld: (http://www.sott.net/article/280433-How-US-fuelled-myth-of-Zarqawi-the-mastermind)

US military intelligence agents in Iraq have revealed a series of botched and often tawdry dealings with unreliable sources who, in the words of one source, "told us what we wanted to hear".

"We were basically paying up to $10,000 a time to opportunists, criminals and chancers who passed off fiction and supposition about Zarqawi as cast-iron fact, making him out as the linchpin of just about every attack in Iraq," the agent said.

"Back home this stuff was gratefully received and formed the basis of policy decisions. We needed a villain, someone identifiable for the public to latch on to, and we got one."

But good 'terrorist masterminds' are hard to come by, and the Pentagon knows that it has to take what it can get. To establish his credentials as terrorist bogeyman in Iraq, Zarqawi was kind enough to write a letter to Osama bin Laden in 2004 and copy the Pentagon on it. The letter, which was later proven to be fake, was enthusiastically accepted at the time by Brig. Gen. Mark Kimmitt, who said: "the important thing is that we have this document in our hands, how it was found is not as important as the fact that we have it and that we can use it."

No doubt.

In the letter, Zarqawi conveniently took pre-emptive responsibility for the wave of sectarian attacks and shrine bombings in Iraq that occurred between 2004-2006 and 'wrote':

"We are striving urgently and racing against time to create companies of mujahidin that will repair to secure places and strive to reconnoiter the country, hunting the enemy -- Americans, police, and soldiers -- on the roads and lanes. We are continuing to train and multiply them. As for the Shi'a, we will hurt them, God willing, through martyrdom operations and car bombs."

I have yet to hear a reasonable explanation of the logic behind 'Zarqawi's' plan to encourage Iraqis to join him in fighting American troops, while at the same time attacking and killing Iraqis. It is also an enduring mystery why 'Zarqawi' believed that attacking and killing Iraqi civilians was the best way to 'destroy the infidels'. As it turned out, it was the best way to justify the continued US occupation of the country and destroy lots of Iraqis. Admittedly, that was a lucky break for the Americans... and the Saudis... and the Israelis... and the Western oil companies.

'Zarqawi' was eventually dispatched (or so we're told) by way of two made-in-the-USA 500lb bombs, special delivery, and dropped on the house he was allegedly inside of, in Iraq in 2006. (https://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_detailpage&v=xfuOGobNsrE#t=22) Check out the short video of the bombing in that last link, and then check out this image (http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/c/c2/Zarqawi_dead_us_govt_photo.jpg) of the alleged body of 'Zarqawi'. Enough said.

So the ideological descendants of Zarqawi are today rampaging almost unimpeded through Iraq and, like Zarqawi, waging a war, not against the 25,000 American soldiers, diplomatic staff (including CIA) and US mercenaries, but against other Iraqis! ISIS is led by the new 'Zarqawi' - Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi - who coincidentally spent 4 years in US military custody in Iraq before he was simply set loose, (http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2657231/Revealed-Obama-RELEASED-warlord-head-ISIS-extremist-army-five-years-ago.html) for some unknown reason, although we're starting to get a clue), and Shakir Wahiyib 'the terrible', a 20-something bearded dude with a penchant for posing for pictures in the desert and uploading Youtube videos of himself killing innocent civilians.

http://www.sott.net/image/s9/190762/medium/isis_Shakir_Wahiyib.jpg
Shakir Wahiyib - apparently on the set of a bad Bollywood movie.

Despite the fact that the US govt. and the Western media are claiming that everyone was 'caught by surprise' by the ISIS invasion, it was reported several weeks ago that these 'Syrian rebels' (again, the ones funded by the Saudis, Qatar, Turkey and the USA) were heading in the direction of the Iraqi border as the Syrian military pushed them out of cities like Homs. What seems to have happened is that, as the tide turned against the West's terrorists in Syria, and with the original plan for NATO air strikes thwarted by Russia, this group of jihadis was allowed, or encouraged, to escape to Iraq with their truck-loads of NATO weaponry (supplied by the USA, Saudi Arabia, Turkey and Qatar) from where they could be expected to cause enough chaos for 'Democratic Iraq' (sic) that Western governments and media would call for Western bombing of both Iraq and Syria (from whence the jihadis came of course). The kidnapping by ISIS of dozens of Turkish embassy staff (http://www.theguardian.com/world/2014/jun/11/isis-militants-kidnap-turkish-diplomats-consulate-mosul-iraq) in Iraq was the icing on the cake in that respect. Turkey is a NATO member you see, and an attack on one NATO member is an attack on all. That's actually NATO's unofficial motto "one for all and all for one... except the EU...because f**k the EU." (http://www.sott.net/article/273440-F-k-The-EU-US-State-department-blasts-Europe-revealed-as-alleged-mastermind-behind-Ukraine-unrest)

It is also worth noting that the actions of ISIS have allowed the Kurds in Northern Iraq to take control of several major towns (including oil fields), (http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/middleeast/iraq/10901796/Iraqi-Kurds-seize-their-chance-to-build-foundations-of-a-new-state.html) and with ISIS declaring a war on Iraqi Shias, (http://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/middle-east/iraq-crisis-the-footage-that-shows-isis-militants-taunting-and-killing-shia-forces-9541929.html) the stage is finally set for the fulfillment of that long-standing US and Israeli scheme to divide Iraq into three separate 'stans': Kurdistan, Shia-stan and Sunni-stan. Again, it's an amazing stroke of luck for the warmongers, regime changers, Empire builders and self-styled 'reality creators' in Washington that ISIS just happened to decide to move into Iraq and thereby fulfill CFR President Leslie H. Gelb's 2003 dream of splitting Iraq into three statelets (http://www.nytimes.com/2003/11/25/opinion/the-three-state-solution.html) - or this strangely prophetic segment from 'A Strategy for Israel in the 1980s', (http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/pdf/The%20Zionist%20Plan%20for%20the%20Middle%20East.pdf) an article penned by Israeli journalist Oded Yinon and published in 1982 by the World Zionist Organisation's publication, Kivunim:

The dissolution of Syria and Iraq into ethnically or religiously unique areas such as in Lebanon is Israel's primary target on the Eastern front. Iraq, rich in oil on the one hand and internally torn on the other is guaranteed as a candidate for Israel's targets. Its dissolution is even more important for us than that of Syria. Iraq is stronger than Syria. In the short run, it is Iraqi power which constitutes the greatest threat to Israel.

An Iraqi-Iranian war will tear Iraq apart and cause its downfall at home even before it is able to organize a struggle on a wide front against us. Every kind of inter-Arab confrontation will assist us in the short run and will shorten the way to the more important aim of breaking up Iraq into denominations as in Syria and Lebanon.

In Iraq, a division into provinces along ethnic/religious lines as in Syria during Ottoman times is possible. So, three (or more) states will exist around the three major cities: Basra, Baghdad and Mosul and Shiite areas in the South will separate from the Sunni and Kurdish north.

From Whence That 'Muslim Terror Threat'?

The current Muslim Terror threat against Western nations, as portrayed by ISIS (or 'al-qaeda' before it) is entirely a creation of Western governments and intelligence agencies. That does not mean that they are not real jihadis with weapons; they are, but they are in no way representative of the vast majority of Muslims in the Middle East or anywhere else. That should be obvious given that these particular jihadis are more interested in killing other Muslims than Westerners. Neither are they a threat to Western nations, primarily for the above reasons, and also because they get most of their weapons from their Western handlers.

While there may not be any credible 'Islamic terror threat' to the West, that does not mean that there is no anti-American sentiment in the Middle East and around the world, wherever the US has enforced the 'American way' on other nations (the 'American way' being the mania for overthrowing legitimate governments and installing tin-pot dictators who will do the US' or the 'West's' bidding). But the genuine Muslim or Arab or African opposition to American and British corporate imperialism is subverted, by the Americans, Israelis and British themselves, by funding and arming these otherwise marginalized fundamentalist groups, so that they can be both easily demonized as 'terrorists' and used to justify continued imperial expansion to "combat them".

Throughout the Middle East and going back 70+ years, the genuine opposition was, for the most part, led by moderate and sometimes largely secular Muslim groups and leaders that sought to establish a 'pan-Arab' front and to unite Arab nations. For the US and Israel (like the British before them), the triumph of a secular pan-Arab movement in the 19th or 20th centuries was the worst case scenario because progressive, enlightened secular governments tend to put the interests of their people first, or at least above the interests of foreign powers. US global hegemony was founded on the control of the resources of other nations by US 'interests'. Without that control, the US would be forced to relinquish its role of 'world leader' and the US economy would quickly collapse because the one thing that has been propping it up - the petrodollar (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Petrodollar) - would be no more.

American and Israeli interests were therefore always best served by the rule of corrupt, authoritarian, fundamentalist (if only in name) Muslim leaders who would happily suppress any protests movements and play ball the American way, and history shows that it was these kinds of regimes and individuals that received funding and promotion from Western governments. Consider Saudi Arabia's fundamentalist, Sharia law-practicing, police state, for example. It is heralded in the West as a 'stabilizing force', while largely secular and somewhat 'socialist' governments like those of Iraq, Libya, (https://urbantimes.co/2014/05/libya-under-gaddafi/) Syria and Lebanon were, and are, condemned as 'terrorist regimes'. Then again, the US strategy of hoodwinking the world into accepting US global domination and plunder as 'free', 'democratic' and 'civilized', was always going to require an inversion of logic and subversion of reality, and a few hundred tons of bombs for good measure.

http://www.sott.net/image/s9/190871/medium/nuland_in_ukraine.jpg
US Asst. Sec. of State Nuland carrying on the US
govt.'s time-honored tradition of aligning itself with
fundamentalist nutjobs (Nazi leader Oleh Tyahnybok on
the left, pusillanimous puppet Yatz on the right)

'Reality Creators'

America, as an allegedly 'capitalist' country, claims that it wants to spread US-style secular democracy to the entire world, in very much the same way as the Marxists wanted to. But who, in their right mind, would want a predatory capitalist system masquerading as 'freedom and democracy', where most of the wealth of a country is sucked up to the top of the psycho pyramid, creating a vast and impoverished underclass?

The US elite don't seem to realise that their ruthless profiteering and warmongering is not exactly an appealing model for the ordinary people of the world. Then again, we shouldn't be surprised at the apparent ignorance of the US elite because (like elites almost everywhere) they are not really human beings in the strict or essential sense of the term.

Lacking the ability to empathise with others or connect outwards with objective reality, they are, in effect, a different species. (http://ponerology.com/) They are possessed of (or by) an intense and all-consuming narcissism. Not a common or garden variety narcissism, mind you, but an extreme version that is so contractile and self-focused, that they actually believe they can 'create reality' by simply imposing their will, by force, until the 'facts' reflect what they want to see. This is obviously a type of insanity where a person automatically assumes that what they think about a situation or other person constitutes the objective reality. In the event that these types can't, for whatever reason, create their twisted reality by force, they simply ignore the facts on the ground and speak and act as if it already existed, i.e. they lie, profusely and unflinchingly.

Such people justifiably belong in a special kind of 'gated community' for their own protection, and that of others, but the halls of power in the major nations of this world are suffused with such types, and they impose their perverse version of 'reality' from the top down, infecting the beliefs, lives and future of most of the rest of humanity until the entire world appears to undergo a schizoidal break with reality.

Consider the fact that, in the run-up to the 2003 invasion of Iraq, one of the justifications proffered by Washington and London was that Saddam had ties to 'al-qaeda'. No such ties ever existed, and yet, today, after 10 years of US occupation, 'al-qaeda', or a gang of US and Saudi-funded jihadis (same difference) are running around Iraq, slaughtering at will. How's that for 'creating reality'?

An Honorable Mention for the Right Honorable Tony Blair

Speaking of psychopathic 'reality creators', that despicable piece of subhuman waste, commonly known as Tony Blair, wrote a craven essay on his website (http://www.tonyblairoffice.org/news/entry/iraq-syria-and-the-middle-east-an-essay-by-tony-blair/) yesterday where he claimed that it was a "bizarre reading of the cauldron that is the Middle East today, to claim that, but for the removal of Saddam, we would not have a crisis", and that, on the contrary, the situation in Iraq is due to the fact that Syria was not bombed by NATO and that the US and UK should not only bomb Iraq but Syria too, for good measure. Blair is, of course, simply attempting to divert attention from the fact that he is an inveterate liar and sadistic war criminal who delights in the massacre of civilians and is personally responsible for the genocide of 1.5 million Iraqis, genocide that was justified on the basis of a pack of lies. To say that Blair is discredited among the vast majority of people in the UK is an understatement. Each time he opens his mealy mouth to bore the world with his inane refrain about how "Saddam was a bad man", he is thoroughly, and almost unanimously, derided in the comments sections of mainstream media websites, regardless of the political leanings of the commentators.

Blair's thesis that Saddam was a 'bad man' and had to be removed and that Iraq is today 'better off' without him and that the West should be thanked for 'removing' him, is so utterly preposterous that it could only come from the mind of one of those - technically insane - psychopathic 'reality creators'. Under Saddam, Iraq was the most developed secular country in the region. Iraqis enjoyed universal health care and education, and Sunni and Shia lived largely peacefully side by side. The abuses of the Iraqi government were no worse than the abuses of any Western government at the time. After the first Gulf War turkey shoot, Iraq was progressively destroyed by Western imperial powers, with the help of Western puppet regimes like Saudi Arabia, Qatar and Kuwait. And yet the Iraqi people are meant to be grateful? Blair's break with reality has become so transparent that even the Tory Mayor of London, Boris Johnson, was forced to admit it. (http://rt.com/uk/166224-boris-johnson-blair-iraq/)

Johnson said of Blair's essay:

"It struck me as unhinged in its refusal to face facts. In discussing the disaster of modern Iraq he made assertions that are so jaw-droppingly and breathtakingly at variance with reality that he surely needs professional psychiatric help."

In Conclusion

Mainstream media outlets have been regaling Western audiences with headlines like 'A powerful and merciless force has emerged on the world stage', (http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/middleeast/10892615/A-powerful-and-merciless-force-has-emerged-on-the-world-stage.html) and 'Black flag of jihad will fly over London', (http://rt.com/uk/166128-isis-jihadists-threaten-britain/) and encouraging us to view 'terrifying execution images' (http://www.theguardian.com/world/2014/jun/16/terrifying-rise-of-isis-iraq-executions) to the point that we start to get the impression that someone, somewhere, really wants to scare us, albeit in a crassly theatrical way.

What we are witnessing in Iraq and Syria today is indeed largely theater, designed and performed by psychopaths for the purpose of terrifying the masses of humanity into accepting the rule of the same psychopaths. While the action plays out in real life in cities and towns, and with real people suffering and dying, the underlying philosophy is similar to that portrayed by the 1950s 'Theater of the Absurd' where stage actors reflected the ponerized world in which they lived by expressing the belief that human existence has no meaning or purpose, with logical argument replaced by irrational and illogical speech and man appearing as a puppet, controlled or menaced by invisible outside forces. Normal human beings today truly are 'menaced by outside forces', but those forces are not invisible, they just hide behind massive lies and obfuscation and present themselves as 'our leaders to whom we must look to for protection', when the truth that we all must recognize is that they are a fundamentally different species from normal humanity (http://ponerology.com/) with a fundamentally inhuman and malignant essence.

Source (http://www.sott.net/article/280559-Psycho-Reality-Creators-open-gates-of-hell-in-Iraq-with-proxy-Jihadis)

Sophocles

23rd May 2015, 13:46

Developments in Macedonia directed from outside — Lavrov (http://tass.ru/en/world/795744)

May, 20. Lavrov noted that there were attempts to organize something similar to Ukraine and Yemen in Macedonia using the Albanian factor.

Full article (http://tass.ru/en/world/795744)

Hervé

24th May 2015, 13:33

From "The Vineyard Of The Saker (http://thesaker.is/)":

A few thoughts about the murder of Mozgovoi
(http://thesaker.is/a-few-thoughts-about-the-murder-of-mozgovoi/)
May 23, 2015

Friends,

I will be honest with you: the murder of Mozgovoi hit me like a punch in the stomach, just as had happened with Buzina my first thought upon hearing the news was “Oh God – not him!”. I did not always agree with everything these two man said, but they were dear to my heart for their immense, truly shining, honesty and courage. At a time when the world is full of lukewarm, unprincipled, cynical “leaders”, Buzina and Mozgovoi truly did shine by their absolute honesty.

Even though I am in a state of total disgust and anger, I want to share a few simple thoughts with you:
1) While it is pretty darn obvious who killed Buzina, it is too early to establish who killed Mozgovoi. Those “armchair generals” who are already pointing the finger at this or that person or group are only making things worse and, objectively, doing Kiev’s bidding.

2) An attack like the one which happened today is not something organized in 24 hours. So those who are linking this murder with this or that recent event are by definition wrong.

3) It is all well and dandy to blame Kiev yet again, but even if the regime in Kiev (or Uncle Sam himself) did order this murder, then the authorities in Lugansk are at the very least guilty of criminal negligence.

4) I have a very hard time imagining that the otherwise hapless Ukronazi freaks in Kiev would have the means to regularly kill Novorussian commanders deep inside the LNR. As for Blackwater/Academi or CIA assassins, this is even less likely.

5) I personally find the hypothesis that this murder was ordered by Putin absolutely ridiculous. Likewise, I find that Surkov ordered such a murder “behind Putin’s back” equally preposterous. So I am certain that this was not a “Kremlin ordered hit”.

So, not Kiev and not Moscow – but, then, who?

This is an extremely dangerous and divisive question which must be asked, but asked very carefully and only on the basis of facts.

The logical place to go look for answers is Lugansk and around those interest groups associated with that Republic. Still, at this point in time I would not confuse legitimate questions and accusations.I have to be honest here and admit that I am generally rather unimpressed with the LNR authorities and I personally doubt that they will come up with some real answers. I hope that I will be proven wrong, but I am not holding my breath. I will say that if the LNR authorities are unable or unwilling to clean house, then somebody else will have to do that.

At a time when crucial negotiations are taking place against the backdrop of an apparently inevitable Ukronazi attack the Kremlin simply cannot afford to have Lugansk taken over by the rot of local political intrigues and assassinations.

Right now, I am too sad, disgusted and angry to add anything else.

The Saker

PS: apparently, the trolls are out in full force again, repeating the “The Kremlin did it!!” idiocy like a mantra. Whether we are dealing with paid Pentagon employees, low-IQ “hurray patriots” or simply garden variety idiots matters little: their hysterics only make things worse for Novorussia. I have better things to do than to argue with them, and if they get out of control I would recommend that the mods start re-directing their nonsense were it belongs: the trash bin.

Comments:

http://thesaker.is/wp-content/uploads/static/avatar.png Duff on May 24, 2015 · at 12:10 am UTC (http://thesaker.is/a-few-thoughts-about-the-murder-of-mozgovoi/comment-page-1/#comment-105321) “Kremlin did it” mantra serves its purpose, it is all about antagonizing people this way or another. So that half of Ukraine would hate Russia because they don’t want Russia, and another half because they want Russia but traitors in Kremlin abandoned them.
Very perfidious mind games are played here.

http://thesaker.is/wp-content/uploads/static/avatar.png The Saker on May 24, 2015 · at 12:27 am UTC (http://thesaker.is/a-few-thoughts-about-the-murder-of-mozgovoi/comment-page-1/#comment-105328)
So that half of Ukraine would hate Russia because they don’t want Russia, and another half because they want Russia but traitors in Kremlin abandoned them.
EXACTLY!

Related: Alexei Mozgovoi has been murdered! (http://thesaker.is/alexei-mozgovoi-has-been-murdered/)

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To get an idea as to why he's been gotten rid of:

[eng subs] Alexei Mozgovoi's appeal to soldiers of both sides of the Civil War:

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Sophocles

26th May 2015, 19:18

Secret Pentagon report reveals West saw ISIS as strategic asset (http://www.sott.net/article/296809-Secret-Pentagon-report-reveals-West-saw-ISIS-as-strategic-asset)

Dr. Nafeez Ahmed
Insurge Intelligence
Sat, 23 May 2015

A declassified secret US government document obtained by the conservative public interest law firm, Judicial Watch, shows that Western governments deliberately allied with al-Qaeda and other Islamist extremist groups to topple Syrian dictator Bashir al-Assad.

The document reveals that in coordination with the Gulf states and Turkey, the West intentionally sponsored violent Islamist groups to destabilize Assad, despite anticipating that doing so could lead to the emergence of an 'Islamic State' in Iraq and Syria (ISIS).

According to the newly declassified US document, the Pentagon foresaw the likely rise of the 'Islamic State' as a direct consequence of the strategy, but described this outcome as a strategic opportunity to "isolate the Syrian regime."

Hypocrisy

The revelations contradict the official line of Western government on their policies in Syria, and raise disturbing questions about secret Western support for violent extremists abroad, while using the burgeoning threat of terror to justify excessive mass surveillance and crackdowns on civil liberties at home.

Among the batch of documents obtained by Judicial Watch through a federal lawsuit, released earlier this week, is a US Defense Intelligence Agency (DIA) document (http://www.judicialwatch.org/wp-content/uploads/2015/05/Pg.-291-Pgs.-287-293-JW-v-DOD-and-State-14-812-DOD-Release-2015-04-10-final-version11.pdf) then classified as "secret," dated 12th August 2012.

The DIA provides military intelligence in support of planners, policymakers and operations for the US Department of Defense and intelligence community.

So far, media reporting has focused on the evidence that the Obama administration knew of arms supplies from a Libyan terrorist stronghold to rebels in Syria.

Some outlets have reported the US intelligence community's internal prediction of the rise of ISIS. Yet none have accurately acknowledged the disturbing details exposing how the West knowingly fostered a sectarian, al-Qaeda-driven rebellion in Syria.

Charles Shoebridge, a former British Army and Metropolitan Police counter-terrorism intelligence officer, said:

"Given the political leanings of the organisation that obtained these documents, it's unsurprising that the main emphasis given to them thus far has been an attempt to embarrass Hilary Clinton regarding what was known about the attack on the US consulate in Benghazi in 2012. However, the documents also contain far less publicized revelations that raise vitally important questions of the West's governments and media in their support of Syria's rebellion."

The West's Islamists

The newly declassified DIA document (http://www.judicialwatch.org/wp-content/uploads/2015/05/Pg.-291-Pgs.-287-293-JW-v-DOD-and-State-14-812-DOD-Release-2015-04-10-final-version11.pdf) from 2012 confirms that the main component of the anti-Assad rebel forces by this time comprised Islamist insurgents affiliated to groups that would lead to the emergence of ISIS. Despite this, these groups were to continue receiving support from Western militaries and their regional allies.

Noting that "the Salafist [sic], the Muslim Brotherhood, and AQI [al-Qaeda in Iraq] are the major forces driving the insurgency in Syria," the document states that "the West, Gulf countries, and Turkey support the opposition," while Russia, China and Iran "support the [Assad] regime."

The 7-page DIA document states that al-Qaeda in Iraq (AQI), the precursor to the 'Islamic State in Iraq,' (ISI) which became the 'Islamic State in Iraq and Syria,' "supported the Syrian opposition from the beginning, both ideologically and through the media."

The formerly secret Pentagon report notes that the "rise of the insurgency in Syria" has increasingly taken a "sectarian direction," attracting diverse support from Sunni "religious and tribal powers" across the region.

In a section titled 'The Future Assumptions of the Crisis,' the DIA report predicts that while Assad's regime will survive, retaining control over Syrian territory, the crisis will continue to escalate "into proxy war."

The document also recommends the creation of "safe havens under international sheltering, similar to what transpired in Libya when Benghazi was chosen as the command centre for the temporary government."

In Libya, anti-Gaddafi rebels, most of whom were al-Qaeda affiliated militias, were protected (http://www.middleeasteye.net/columns/good-news-uk-counter-extremism-plans-could-be-used-silence-katie-hopkins-1353190385) by NATO 'safe havens' (aka 'no fly zones').

'Supporting powers want' ISIS entity

In a strikingly prescient prediction, the Pentagon document explicitly forecasts the probable declaration of "an Islamic State through its union with other terrorist organizations in Iraq and Syria."

Nevertheless, "Western countries, the Gulf states and Turkey are supporting these efforts" by Syrian "opposition forces" fighting to "control the eastern areas (Hasaka and Der Zor), adjacent to Western Iraqi provinces (Mosul and Anbar)":

"... there is the possibility of establishing a declared or undeclared Salafist Principality in eastern Syria (Hasaka and Der Zor), and this is exactly what the supporting powers to the opposition want, in order to isolate the Syrian regime, which is considered the strategic depth of the Shia expansion (Iraq and Iran)."

The secret Pentagon document thus provides extraordinary confirmation that the US-led coalition currently fighting ISIS, had three years ago welcomed the emergence of an extremist "Salafist Principality" in the region as a way to undermine Assad, and block off the strategic expansion of Iran. Crucially, Iraq is labeled as an integral part of this "Shia expansion."

The establishment of such a "Salafist Principality" in eastern Syria, the DIA document asserts, is "exactly" what the "supporting powers to the [Syrian] opposition want." Earlier on, the document repeatedly describes those "supporting powers" as "the West, Gulf countries, and Turkey."

Further on, the document reveals that Pentagon analysts were acutely aware of the dire risks of this strategy, yet ploughed ahead anyway.

The establishment of such a "Salafist Principality" in eastern Syria, it says, would create "the ideal atmosphere for AQI to return to its old pockets in Mosul and Ramadi." Last summer, ISIS conquered Mosul in Iraq, and just this month has also taken control of Ramadi.

Such a quasi-state entity will provide:

"... a renewed momentum under the presumption of unifying the jihad among Sunni Iraq and Syria, and the rest of the Sunnis in the Arab world against what it considers one enemy. ISI could also declare an Islamic State through its union with other terrorist organizations in Iraq and Syria, which will create grave danger in regards to unifying Iraq and the protection of territory."

The 2012 DIA document is an Intelligence Information Report (IIR), not a "finally evaluated intelligence" assessment, but its contents are vetted before distribution. The report was circulated throughout the US intelligence community, including to the State Department, Central Command, the Department of Homeland Security, the CIA, FBI, among other agencies.

In response to my questions about the strategy, the British government simply denied the Pentagon report's startling revelations of deliberate Western sponsorship of violent extremists in Syria. A British Foreign Office spokesperson said:

"AQ and ISIL are proscribed terrorist organisations. The UK opposes all forms of terrorism. AQ, ISIL, and their affiliates pose a direct threat to the UK's national security. We are part of a military and political coalition to defeat ISIL in Iraq and Syria, and are working with international partners to counter the threat from AQ and other terrorist groups in that region. In Syria we have always supported those moderate opposition groups who oppose the tyranny of Assad and the brutality of the extremists."

The DIA did not respond to request for comment.

Strategic asset for regime-change

Security analyst Shoebridge, however, who has tracked Western support for Islamist terrorists in Syria since the beginning of the war, pointed out that the secret Pentagon intelligence report exposes fatal contradictions at the heart of official pronunciations:

"Throughout the early years of the Syria crisis, the US and UK governments, and almost universally the West's mainstream media, promoted Syria's rebels as moderate, liberal, secular, democratic, and therefore deserving of the West's support. Given that these documents wholly undermine this assessment, it's significant that the West's media has now, despite their immense significance, almost entirely ignored them."

According to Brad Hoff, a former US Marine who served during the early years of the Iraq War and as a 9/11 first responder at the Marine Corps Headquarters in Battalion Quantico from 2000 to 2004, the just released Pentagon report for the first time provides stunning affirmation that:

"US intelligence predicted the rise of the Islamic State in Iraq and the Levant (ISIL or ISIS), but instead of clearly delineating the group as an enemy, the report envisions the terror group as a US strategic asset."

Hoff, who is managing editor of Levant Report (http://levantreport.com/2015/05/19/2012-defense-intelligence-agency-document-west-will-facilitate-rise-of-islamic-state-in-order-to-isolate-the-syrian-regime/)— an online publication run by Texas-based educators who have direct experience of the Middle East — points out that the DIA document "matter-of-factly" states that the rise of such an extremist Salafist political entity in the region offers a "tool for regime change in Syria."

The DIA intelligence report shows, he said, that the rise of ISIS only became possible in the context of the Syrian insurgency — "there is no mention of US troop withdrawal from Iraq as a catalyst for Islamic State's rise, which is the contention of innumerable politicians and pundits." The report demonstrates that:

"The establishment of a 'Salafist Principality' in Eastern Syria is 'exactly' what the external powers supporting the opposition want (identified as 'the West, Gulf Countries, and Turkey') in order to weaken the Assad government."

The rise of a Salafist quasi-state entity that might expand into Iraq, and fracture that country, was therefore clearly foreseen by US intelligence as likely — but nevertheless strategically useful — blowback from the West's commitment to "isolating Syria."

Complicity

Critics of the US-led strategy in the region have repeatedly raised questions about the role of coalition allies in intentionally providing extensive support to Islamist terrorist groups in the drive to destabilize the Assad regime in Syria.

The conventional wisdom is that the US government did not retain sufficient oversight on the funding to anti-Assad rebel groups, which was supposed to be monitored and vetted to ensure that only 'moderate' groups were supported.

However, the newly declassified Pentagon report proves unambiguously that years before ISIS launched its concerted offensive against Iraq, the US intelligence community was fully aware that Islamist militants constituted the core of Syria's sectarian insurgency.

Despite that, the Pentagon continued to support the Islamist insurgency, even while anticipating the probability that doing so would establish an extremist Salafi stronghold in Syria and Iraq.

As Shoebridge told me, "The documents show that not only did the US government at the latest by August 2012 know the true extremist nature and likely outcome of Syria's rebellion" — namely, the emergence of ISIS — "but that this was considered an advantage for US foreign policy. This also suggests a decision to spend years in an effort to deliberately mislead the West's public, via a compliant media, into believing that Syria's rebellion was overwhelmingly 'moderate.'"

Annie Machon (http://www.theguardian.com/technology/2014/oct/24/mi6-whistleblowers-accuses-intelligence-agencies-annie-machon), a former MI5 intelligence officer who blew the whistle (http://www.theguardian.com/world/2002/nov/15/gender.uk) in the 1990s on MI6 funding of al-Qaeda to assassinate Libya's former leader Colonel Gaddafi, similarly said of the revelations:

"This is no surprise to me. Within individual countries there are always multiple intelligence agencies with competing agendas."

She explained that MI6's Libya operation in 1996, which resulted in the deaths of innocent people, "happened at precisely the time when MI5 was setting up a new section to investigate al-Qaeda."

This strategy was repeated on a grand scale in the 2011 NATO intervention in Libya, said Machon, where the CIA and MI6 were:

"... supporting the very same Libyan groups, resulting in a failed state, mass murder, displacement and anarchy. So the idea that elements of the American military-security complex have enabled the development of ISIS after their failed attempt to get NATO to once again 'intervene' is part of an established pattern. And they remain indifferent to the sheer scale of human suffering that is unleashed as a result of such game-playing."

Divide and rule

Several US government officials have conceded that their closest allies in the anti-ISIS coalition were funding violent extremist Islamist groups that became integral to ISIS.

US Vice President Joe Biden, for instance, admitted (http://www.middleeasteye.net/columns/cancer-modern-capitalism-1323585268) last year that Saudi Arabia, the UAE, Qatar and Turkey had funneled hundreds of millions of dollars to Islamist rebels in Syria that metamorphosed into ISIS.

But he did not admit what this internal Pentagon document demonstrates — that the entire covert strategy was sanctioned and supervised (http://www.middleeasteye.net/columns/cancer-modern-capitalism-1323585268) by the US, Britain, France, Israel and other Western powers.

The strategy appears to fit a policy scenario identified by a recent US Army-commissioned RAND Corp report (http://www.middleeasteye.net/columns/pentagon-plan-divide-and-rule-muslim-world-1690265165).

The report, published four years before the DIA document, called for the US "to capitalise on the Shia-Sunni conflict by taking the side of the conservative Sunni regimes in a decisive fashion and working with them against all Shiite empowerment movements in the Muslim world."

The US would need to contain "Iranian power and influence" in the Gulf by "shoring up the traditional Sunni regimes in Saudi Arabia, Egypt, and Pakistan." Simultaneously, the US must maintain "a strong strategic relationship with the Iraqi Shiite government" despite its Iran alliance.

The RAND report confirmed (http://www.rand.org/content/dam/rand/pubs/monographs/2008/RAND_MG738.pdf) that the "divide and rule" strategy was already being deployed "to create divisions in the jihadist camp. Today in Iraq such a strategy is being used at the tactical level."

The report observed that the US was forming "temporary alliances" with al-Qaeda affiliated "nationalist insurgent groups" that have fought the US for four years in the form of "weapons and cash." Although these nationalists "have cooperated with al-Qaeda against US forces," they are now being supported to exploit "the common threat that al-Qaeda now poses to both parties."

The 2012 DIA document, however, further shows that while sponsoring purportedly former al-Qaeda insurgents in Iraq to counter al-Qaeda, Western governments were simultaneously arming al-Qaeda insurgents in Syria.

The revelation from an internal US intelligence document that the very US-led coalition supposedly fighting 'Islamic State' today, knowingly created ISIS in the first place, raises troubling questions about recent government efforts to justify the expansion of state anti-terror powers.

In the wake of the rise of ISIS, intrusive new measures to combat extremism including mass surveillance, the Orwellian 'prevent duty' and even plans to enable government censorship of broadcasters, are being pursued on both sides of the Atlantic, much of which disproportionately targets activists, journalists and ethnic minorities, especially Muslims.

Yet the new Pentagon report reveals that, contrary to Western government claims, the primary cause of the threat comes from their own deeply misguided policies of secretly sponsoring Islamist terrorism for dubious geopolitical purposes.

Source (http://www.sott.net/article/296809-Secret-Pentagon-report-reveals-West-saw-ISIS-as-strategic-asset)

Related: The Head of the GRU accuses US and allies of creating the transnational “Islamist” terrorist network (The Saker) (http://thesaker.is/the-head-of-the-gru-accuses-us-and-allies-of-creating-the-transnational-islamist-terrorist-network/)

Hervé

3rd June 2015, 19:06

Hacked Emails Expose George Soros As Ukraine Puppet-Master

http://www.zerohedge.com/sites/default/files/pictures/picture-5.jpg (http://www.zerohedge.com/users/tyler-durden) Submitted by Tyler Durden (http://www.zerohedge.com/users/tyler-durden) on 06/02/2015 11:13 -0400

Just days after George Soros warned that World War 3 was imminent unless Washington backed down to China on IMF currency basket inclusion (http://www.zerohedge.com/news/2015-05-21/george-soros-warns-no-exaggeration-china-us-threshold-world-war-3), the hacker collective CyberBerkut has exposed the billionaire as the real puppet-master behind the scenes in Ukraine. In 3 stunning documents, allegedly hacked from email correspondence between the hedge fund manager and Ukraine President Poroshenko, Soros lays out "A short and medium term comprehensive strategy for the new Ukraine," expresses his confidence that the US should provide Ukraine with lethal military assistance, “with same level of sophistication in defense weapons to match the level of opposing force," and finally explained Poroshenko's "first priority must be to regain control of financial markets," which he assures the President could be helped by The Fed adding "I am ready to call Jack Lew of the US Treasury to sound him out about the swap agreement."

The hacking group CyberBerkut claims it has penetrated Ukraine’s presidential administration website and obtained correspondence between Soros and Ukraine’s President Petro Poroshenko. It has subsequently posted all the intercepted pdfs on line at the following location (http://cyber-berkut.org/). More details as RT earlier reported (http://rt.com/news/264037-soros-ukraine-poroshenko-leak/):

The hacktivists have published three files online, which include a draft of “A short and medium term comprehensive strategy for the new Ukraine (http://cyber-berkut.org/docs/Soros_Ukraine_March_non-paper%20_2015_v14.pdf)” by Soros (dated March 12, 2015); an undated paper on military assistance (http://cyber-berkut.org/docs/ukraine_letter_to_potus_draft.pdf) to Kiev; and the billionaire’s letter (http://cyber-berkut.org/docs/Poroshenko,_Petro_and_Yatsenyuk,_Arseniy_23DEC14.pdf) to Poroshenko and Ukraine’s Prime Minister Arseny Yatsenyuk, dated December 23, 2014.

According to the leaked documents, Soros supports Barack Obama’s stance on Ukraine, but believes that the US should do even more.

He is confident that the US should provide Ukraine with lethal military assistance, “with same level of sophistication in defense weapons to match the level of opposing force.”

“In poker terms, the US will ‘meet, but not raise,” the 84-year-old businessman explained, supposedly signing one of the letters as “a self-appointed advocate of the new Ukraine.”

The Western backers want Kiev to “restore the fighting capacity of Ukraine without violating the Minsk agreement,” Soros wrote. Among other things, the leaked documents claim that the Ukrainian authorities were also asked to “restore some semblance of currency stability and functioning banking system” and “maintain unity among the various branches of government” in order to receive assistance from foreign allies.

Soros believes that it’s up to the EU to support Kiev with financial aid, stressing that “Europe must reach a new framework agreement that will allow the European Commission to allocate up to $1 billion annually to Ukraine.”

As for the current state of economy, the billionaire wrote that former Chilean finance minister, Andres Velasco, after visiting Ukraine on his request, returned with “a dire view of financial situation."

“The new Ukraine is literally on the verge of collapse” due to the national bank’s lack of hard currency reserves, Soros warned Poroshenko.

The correspondence shows that the billionaire has been in constant touch with the authorities in Kiev and consulting them. Digging into the details of the documents, we find one intriguing snippet:

As you know, I asked Andrés Velasco, a prominent economist who was Chile’s very successful minister of finance from 2006-2010 to visit Kyiv where he met the Prime Minister; the President was in Warsaw at the time. Velasco came back with a dire view of the financial situation. The National Bank of Ukraine has practically no hard currency reserves. That means that the hryvnia has no anchor. If a panic occurred and the currency collapsed as it did in Russia, the National Bank could not stabilize the exchange rate even if only temporarily as Russia did by injecting $90 billion.

Your first priority must be to regain control over the financial markets—bank deposits and exchange rates. Unless you do, you will have no way to embark on deeper reforms. I believe the situation could be stabilized by getting the European Council to make a commitment in principle that they will pull together the new $15 billion package that the IMF requires in order to release the next tranche of its original package at the end of January 2015. Based on that commitment the Federal Reserve could be asked to extend a $15 billion three months swap arrangement with the National Bank of Ukraine. That would reassure the markets and avoid a panic.

...

I am ready to call Jack Lew of the US Treasury to sound him out about the swap agreement. One wonders what other matters of national importance involve George Soros getting on the line with the US Treasury Secretary to arrange virtually unlimited funds courtesy of the US Federal Reserve just to promote one person's ulterior agenda?

And just like that, conspiracy Theory becomes Conspiracy Fact once again.

The full documents are below:

Ironically, the first document laying out the "short and medium-term comprehensive strategy for new Ukraine" and signed by George Soros, "a self-appointed advocate of the New Ukraine", was ironically created by Tamiko Bolton (http://www.reuters.com/article/2012/08/12/us-usa-soros-idUSBRE87B03720120812), the 40 year old who became Soros' third wife several years ago.

Soros Ukraine Strategy (https://www.scribd.com/doc/267364428/Soros-Ukraine-Strategy)

The next letter, one directly sent by Soros to Ukraine's president Poroshenko and prime minister Yatseniuk, comes courtesy of a pdf created by Douglas York, Soros' personal assistant.

Priority To Fix Financial Markets (https://www.scribd.com/doc/267364476/Priority-To-Fix-Financial-Markets)

Finally, a letter (authored by Yasin Yaqubie of the International Crisis Group based on its pdf metadata properties), which lobbies the US "to do more."

Ukraine Letter to Potus - Lethal Aid (https://www.scribd.com/doc/267364558/Ukraine-Letter-to-Potus-Lethal-Aid)

To sum up: Soros is basically lobbying on behalf of Ukraine, pushing for cash and guns, to oppose Putin in every way possible.

If genuine, and based on their meta data, they appear to be just that, these lettes show how Soros is trying to weasel around the Minsk agreements (for instance, how to train Ukrainian soldiers without having a visible NATO presence in Ukraine). The documents link up Nuland with Soros, and clears up who is truly pulling the strings of the US State Department.

Finally, while the documents don't mention what Soros has in store for Ukraine, one can use their imagination.

Read more:
As Ukraine is defaulting Soros wants the EU to pay for his long-term investment (http://www.infowars.com/ukraines-creditors-grab-for-the-biggest-pieces-of-its-carcass/)

Perfect partners in crime: Soros and Yatsenyuk (http://rinf.com/alt-news/editorials/soros-yatsenyuk-partners-crime/)

Soros: It's Not Easy Being God (http://canadafreepress.com/index.php/article/21748)

Warmonger George Soros on Ukraine: A fascinating insight into the deranged thinking of the Western Empire builders (with commentary) (http://www.sott.net/article/288743-Warmonger-George-Soros-on-Ukraine-A-fascinating-insight-into-the-deranged-thinking-of-the-Western-Empire-builders-with-commentary)

Cidersomerset

3rd June 2015, 21:03

I do not have the time to go on all threads that's why I do not post on here much.
though I see all the many articles related to this subject on D. Ickes site and
elsewhere.I just watched this article posted on Davids site as I did not get onto it
till just now and this sums up the US/Israel/Saudi policy on Iraq and Syria and is
summed up quite well by the guest, The ultimate goal is to make smaller state'lets
under covert control in the area as not to threaten Israel's Saudi long term
security and concentrate on Iran next ?

It would explain some of the odd military blunders ( supply drops/ capture of
material opportunities ) conveniently ignored by the US satellite observations .

Secret Pentagon report reveals West saw ISIS as strategic asset
Dr. Nafeez Ahmed
Insurge Intelligence
Sat, 23 May 2015

He comments on the Pentagon report briefly...

FPqxvvt0O7E

Published on 1 Jun 2015

Baghdad has admitted losing around 2,300 Humvees and other weapons when it
lost the city of Mosul to the jihadists last year.

READ MORE: http://on.rt.com/vsg1ep

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Will Israel bomb Iran ? Its been speculated for years , I don't think Moscow will
sit back if they do. Syria another traditional Russian friend in the Middle East may
be sacrificed ? But I don't think Iran will , it will all depends on events , Ukraine,
china Seas. The 'Banksters & Arms manufacturers will be rubbing their hands
together, and it was how the US became a 'Super Power' being the 'arsenal of
Freedom' in WW2 and after all thru the cold war up till today. Which is why many of
these conflicts are manipulated and overtly or covertly funded by higher ups
usually. Just like who funded Hitler etc.

Russia says preparing S-300 for delivery to Iran by 2016

Wednesday 3rd June 2015 at 06:19 By David Icke

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‘Russia is assembling its S-300 surface-to-air missile defense system to begin its
shipment to Iran by 2016, the Kremlin’s top official for the arms trade says.

Speaking in an interview on Tuesday, Vladimir Kozhin, President Vladimir Putin’s
aide on military-technical cooperation, added that Moscow is also modernizing
some parts of the system and changing contract terms such as the pricing.

“The Iranians want them as soon as possible, and we are trying too. There is
activity to prepare new legal contracts, new conditions and thus prepare systems
for delivery,” Kozhin said.’

Read more: Russia says preparing S-300 for delivery to Iran by 2016

http://www.presstv.ir/Detail/2015/06/03/414089/Iran-Russia-S300-Vladimir-Kozhin-Kremlin-AlmazAntey-Yan-Novikov

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Israel planning false flag attack in US to create war with Iran: Ex-US Senate candidate

Wednesday 3rd June 2015 at 10:39 By David Icke

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‘Israel is preparing to carry out a false flag operation in the United States and will
blame it on Iran as a strategy to entangle Washington in a war with Tehran, a
former US Senate candidate says.

“I have maintained from the beginning that Israel is planning and will in some point
attempt a false flag incident probably within the continental United States that will
be facilitated by Israeli intelligence and falsely blamed on Iran,” said Mark Dankof,
who is also a broadcaster and pastor in San Antonio, Texas.

“This lie will be repeated in the American news media time and time and time again
to create the furor within the United States, with the American public for
[triggering] an overt American attack on the Iranians,” Dankof told Press TV on Tuesday.’

Read more: Israel planning false flag attack in US to create war with Iran: Ex-US Senate candidate

http://www.presstv.ir/Detail/2015/06/02/414052/false-flag-Israel-US-Iran-operation

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No military solution to conflict in Libya: UN

Wednesday 3rd June 2015 at 06:26 By David Icke

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‘The United Nations envoy to Libya says “there is no military solution” to the
conflict in the North African country where rivals fail to “win a war”.

Bernardino Leon said on Tuesday that many of the competing factions in the
country were “strong enough to go to war, not strong enough to win a war.”

Leon made the remarks in an address to the US-Islamic World Forum held in Doha,
Qatar, adding that a meeting among Libyan parties and political leaders will
commence in Algeria on Wednesday.

He noted that he believed 75 percent of political leaders in the war-ravaged country
wanted peace.’

Read more: No military solution to conflict in Libya: UN

http://www.presstv.ir/Detail/2015/06/02/414075/Libya-UN-Bernardino-Leon-ISIL-

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Escalating US-China Tensions: Australia ‘Actively Considering’ Dangerous Provocation in South China Sea

Wednesday 3rd June 2015 at 07:23 By David Icke

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‘Amid escalating tensions between the US and China over the South China Sea, the
Australian government is “actively considering conducting its own ‘freedom of
navigation’ exercises near artificial islands built by China in disputed territory,”
according to a front-page article featured in today’s Australian.

Written by the newspaper’s foreign editor Greg Sheridan, who is well-connected in
defence circles in Washington and Canberra, the article revealed that what is under
discussion is far more provocative than recent US military operations close to
Chinese-controlled atolls. “The Royal Australian Air Force aircraft would fly within
12 nautical miles (22 kilometres) of an artificial island build by the Chinese, with
Beijing certain to react,” Sheridan stated.’

Read more: Escalating US-China Tensions: Australia 'Actively

http://www.wsws.org/en/articles/2015/06/02/aust-j02.html

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Ukraine plans to seize Russian foreign property to compensate for ‘lost’ Crimea

Wednesday 3rd June 2015 at 10:50 By David Icke

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‘Kiev will nationalize Russian overseas property as compensation for the losses over
Crimea’s reunification with Russia, Ukraine’s Deputy Minister of Justice Natalia
Sevostyanova said. The decision is now up to the European Court of Human Rights.

Ukraine will be able to use this effective instrument if the European Court of Human
Rights rules in favor of Kiev, Sevostyanova told “Channel 5,” Ukraine’s National
News (UNN) reported on Tuesday.’

Read more: Ukraine plans to seize Russian foreign property to compensate for ‘lost’ Crimea

http://rt.com/business/264173-ukraine-russia-crimea-lawsuit/

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The timing of this is very fishy............

As Putin said this is all about trying to take away Russia's World Cup , just
as they tried and failed with the Winter Olympics a few years ago. FIFA may
well be a corrupt organisation. But it has been for decades so the timing is
very suspicious especially led by the US , who have failed to go after their
own criminals dynasties , Bush , Clintons etc.........

FIFA President Sepp Blatter announces resignation

Wednesday 3rd June 2015 at 06:45 By David Icke

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‘FIFA President Sepp Blatter has announced his intention to step down as head of
the world’s governing body of football, amid a corruption scandal that involves
several top FIFA officials.

In a press conference held in FIFA’s headquarters in the Swiss city of Zurich on
Tuesday, Blatter announced his intention to quit just days after he won the body’s
presidential election.

“I felt compelled to stand for re-election, as I believed that this was the best thing
for the organization. That election is over but FIFA’s challenges are not. FIFA needs
a profound overhaul,” he said.
He added that although he has a mandate from the membership of FIFA, he felt he
did not have “a mandate from the entire world of football.”’

Read more: FIFA President Sepp Blatter announces resignation

http://www.presstv.ir/Detail/2015/06/02/414053/FIFA-Sepp-Blatter-

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Fifa crisis: Ex-official Chuck Blazer details bribe-taking

Former top Fifa official Chuck Blazer admits that he and others on the executive
committee agreed to accept bribes in conjunction with the choice of South Africa as
2010 World Cup host.The American says he also accepted bribes over the 1998
event.The admissions come in a newly released transcript from a 2013 US hearing
in which he pleads guilty to 10 charges.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/32998735

Cidersomerset

7th June 2015, 08:11

If the PTB want to attack a target , whatever the supposed 'evil' enemy may
says, where ever it is in the world. A media led campaign will sooner or
later make it happen. Well that's been the experience of the last two decades
it seems..........

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Putin: Russia would attack NATO only in mad person’s dream

Sunday 7th June 2015 at 04:27 By David Icke

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Published on 6 Jun 2015

Russia is not building up its offensive military capabilities overseas and is only
responding to security threats caused by US and NATO military expansion on
its borders, Russian President Vladimir Putin told Italian outlet Il Corriere della
Sera. READ MORE: http://on.rt.com/fzy2e3

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President Vladimir Putin tells West not to fear Russia

6 June 2015

From the section Europe

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US led NATO anti Russian aggression deterrent exercises.......

US deploys B-52 nuclear bombers to Baltic Sea exercises

Sunday 7th June 2015 at 04:00 By David Icke

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‘The United States has deployed three B-52 nuclear bombers to take
part in military exercises with NATO partners in the Baltic region
amid heightened tensions with Russia.

“The deployment demonstrates the United States’ ability to project its
flexible, long-range global strike capability,” the US Strategic Command
said in a statement on Friday.

Scores of ships and aircraft from 17 countries are participating in Baltic
Sea naval drills as part of exercise BALTOPS, which began on Friday and
will run through June 20.’

Overall, 5,600 troops, 49 ships, 61 aircraft and a submarine will be
involved in the US-led military exercises.The war game comes as
Washington seeks to reassure European allies amid heightened
tensions with Russia over the crisis in Ukraine.

Russia views the drills as an indication of NATO’s encroachment on its
borders and has organized a series of large-scale military exercises over
the past months in the Baltic, Black Sea and Arctic region to show its
military prowess. The amphibious command ship USS Mount Whitney
leads a formation of foreign naval vessels in the Baltic Sea during Baltic
Operations (BALTOPS) on June 16, 2013.

The Obama administration is considering new “deterrence strategies”
prevent Russia from meddling in Europe.

The approach involves boosting militaries of allies and potential partners,
expanding the North Atlantic Treaty Organization and increased training
exercises, The Wall Street Journal reports.The measures stem from a
recognition that sanctions alone have failed to make Russian President
Vladimir Putin reverse course.

“It’s clear the sanctions are working on the Russian economy, but
is not apparent is that that effect on his economy is deterring Putin
from following the course that was evidenced in Crimea last year,”
Defense Secretary Ashton Carter said Friday in Germany.

US President Barack Obama meets with leaders of European allies
this weekend in Germany, where he is expected to push for a tougher
stance against Moscow.

HRJ/HRJ

Read more: US deploys B-52 nuclear bombers to Baltic Sea exercises

http://www.presstv.ir/Detail/2015/06/06/414637/US-deploys-B52-bombers-to-Baltic-Sea-

Hervé

9th June 2015, 16:53

I moved the conversation started here by cryptoguru to a new thread: Neu Energy Meditation (http://projectavalon.net/forum4/showthread.php?82827-Neu-Energy-Meditation)

:focus:

Rocky_Shorz

9th June 2015, 18:40

"Erdogan’s Governing Party in Turkey Loses Parliamentary Majority..."

"ISTANBUL — Turkish voters delivered a rebuke on Sunday to President Recep Tayyip Erdogan as his party lost its majority in Parliament in a historic election that thwarted his ambition to rewrite Turkey’s Constitution and further bolster his clout.

The results represented a significant setback for Mr. Erdogan, an Islamist who has steadily increased his power since being elected last year as president, a partly but not solely ceremonial post. The prime minister for more than a decade before that, Mr. Erdogan has pushed for more control of the judiciary and cracked down on any form of criticism, including prosecuting those who insult him on social media, but his efforts appeared to have run aground on Sunday.
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The vote was also a significant victory to the cadre of Kurds, liberals and secular Turks who found their voice of opposition to Mr. Erdogan during sweeping antigovernment protests two years ago. For the first time, the Kurdish slate crossed a 10 percent threshold required to enter Parliament.
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Turkey's Election Sends Message to Erdogan

Mr. Erdogan’s Justice and Development Party, or A.K.P., still won the most seats by far, but not a majority, according to preliminary results released Sunday night. The outcome suggests contentious days of jockeying ahead as the party moves to form a coalition government. Already, analysts were raising the possibility Sunday of new elections if a government cannot be formed swiftly. Many Turks were happy to see Mr. Erdogan’s powers curtailed, even though the prospect of a coalition government evokes dark memories of political instability and economic malaise during the 1990s.

With 99 percent of the votes counted, the A.K.P. had won 41 percent of the vote, according to TRT, a state-run broadcaster, down from nearly 50 percent during the last national election in 2011. The percentage gave it an estimated 258 seats in Turkey’s Parliament, compared with the 327 seats it has now.

“The outcome is an end to Erdogan’s presidential ambitions,” said Soner Cagaptay, an expert on Turkey and a fellow at the Washington Institute for Near East Policy.

Almost immediately, the results raised questions about the political future of Prime Minister Ahmet Davutoglu, who moved to that position from that of foreign minister last year and was seen as a loyal subordinate of Mr. Erdogan.

Speaking Sunday night from a balcony at the party headquarters in Ankara, Mr. Davutoglu struck notes of triumph and optimism, touting his party as the winner because it won the most seats, without mentioning the loss of its majority.

“The elections once again showed that the A.K. Party is the backbone of Turkey,” he said.

Mr. Erdogan, who as president was not on the ballot Sunday, will probably remain Turkey’s dominant political figure even if his ambitions have been curtailed, given his outsize personality and his still-deep well of support among Turkey’s religious conservatives, who form the backbone of his constituency. But even among those supporters, including ones in Kasimpasa, the Istanbul neighborhood where Mr. Erdogan spent part of his youth, there are signs that his popularity is flagging.

“A lot of people in Kasimpasa have become disheartened by Erdogan’s aggressive approach in recent weeks,” said Aydin, 77, who gave only his first name because some of his family members are close to Mr. Erdogan. “I voted for the A.K.P. because it has become habit, but I think Erdogan lost votes this week.”

Turnout was 86 percent for the elections, which were seen as a referendum on Mr. Erdogan’s tenure, especially his plan for a presidential system that would have given him more power. Polling had consistently shown that the majority of Turks are opposed to the change.

By law, Mr. Erdogan can call for new elections after 45 days if a coalition is not formed, and the political uncertainty sent Turkey’s currency, the lira, to a record low against the dollar in after-hours trading.

The vote turned on the historic performance at the ballot box of Turkey’s Kurdish minority, which aligned with liberals and secular Turks opposed to Mr. Erdogan’s leadership to win almost 13 percent of the vote, passing the legal threshold for earning representation in Parliament.

Selahattin Demirtas, 42, a former human rights lawyer who leads the largely Kurdish People’s Democratic Party, told reporters Sunday night: “As of this hour, the debate about the presidency, the debate about dictatorship, is over. Turkey narrowly averted a disaster.”"" link (http://www.nytimes.com/2015/06/08/world/europe/turkey-election-recep-tayyip-erdogan-kurds-hdp.html?_r=0)

Free Kurdistan is now in Iraq and Syria, this is a Major step in Turkey...

when Erdogan parked his forces on the border and turned his guns on his own citizens, it was over for his future, his 50 Million Dollar palace to lead Ottoman 2, is now a crushed dream...

This is the first time the Kurdish Democratic Party has been allowed into Parliament...

Iran, you're next...

Sophocles

13th June 2015, 01:37

The IMF Won’t Save Ukraine

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Text (from youtube):

Are western Ukrainians to surrender the right to determine their economic policy and risk the loss of state-owned industries and assets in exchange for loans from the International Monetary Fund? In the first of three videos, Michael Hudson, Jeffrey Sommers, and James Carden explain why economic integration with the West won’t turn Ukraine into an economic success story.

Contributors:
Michael Hudson is a former balance-of-payments economist for Chase Manhattan Bank, Distinguished Research Professor of Economics at the University of Missouri, Kansas City, and an author of a major study of the IMF. Jeffrey Sommers is Associate Professor of Political Economy at the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee and a visiting lecturer at the Stockholm School of Economics in Riga. James Carden is a former Advisor to the State Department on Russia and a regular contributor to The Nation. Moderator Alexander Reed Kelly is an assistant editor at Truthdig.

This series was recorded in the Brooklyn office of Verso Books, and was produced by Endless Picnic.

Sophocles

13th June 2015, 02:20

News: Press Releases
Jun 11 2015
U.S. House Passes 3 Amendments By Rep. Conyers To Defense Spending Bill To Protect Civilians From Dangers Of Arming and Training Foreign Forces (http://conyers.house.gov/index.cfm/2015/6/u-s-house-passes-3-amendments-by-rep-conyers-to-defense-spending-bill-to-protect-civilians-from-dangers-of-arming-and-training-foreign-forces)

WASHINGTON— Late yesterday evening, the U.S. House of Representatives considered H.R. 2685, the “Department of Defense Appropriations Act of 2015.” During consideration of the legislation, Congressman John Conyers, Jr. (D-Mich.) and Congressman Ted Yoho (R-Fla.) offered bipartisan amendments to block the training of the Ukrainian neo-Nazi paramilitary militia “Azov Battalion,” and to prevent the transfer of shoulder-fired anti-aircraft missiles—otherwise known as Man-Portable Air-Defense Systems (MANPADS)—to Iraq or Ukraine.

“If there’s one simple lesson we can take away from US involvement in conflicts overseas, it’s this: Beware of unintended consequences. As was made vividly clear with U.S. involvement in Afghanistan during the Soviet invasion decades ago, overzealous military assistance or the hyper-weaponization of conflicts can have destabilizing consequences and ultimately undercut our own national interests,” said Rep. John Conyers. “I am grateful that the House of Representatives unanimously passed my amendments last night to ensure that our military does not train members of the repulsive neo-Nazi Azov Battalion, along with my measures to keep the dangerous and easily trafficked MANPADs out of these unstable regions.”

Ukraine’s Azov Battalion is a 1,000-man volunteer militia of the Ukrainian National Guard that Foreign Policy Magazine has characterized as “openly neo-Nazi,” and “fascist.” Ukraine’s Interior Minister Arsen Avakov, who oversees Ukraine’s armed militias, announced that Azov troops would be among the first units to be trained by the Pentagon in Operation Fearless Guardian, prompting significant international concern.

Since their initial use on a battlefield in 1978, MANPAD attacks have resulted in nearly 1,000 civilian deaths.

Added Conyers, “Both U.S. and Israeli officials have feared that these weapons could be used by terrorists to bring down commercial jets. As the boundaries are increasingly blurred between insurgents fighting the Syrian government and those fighting the Iraqi government, providing additional arms could further destabilize the Middle East. The same can be said for Ukraine, where an anti-aircraft missile allegedly downed Flight MH17 last summer, killing 298 civilians. The possibility that MANPADS—or any weapon—could fall into the hands of radical groups in Iraq, Syria, or Ukraine, would unquestionably increase the already-devastating human toll in both of these volatile regions.”

According to Reuters, The Azov battalion originated from a paramilitary national socialist group called "Patriot of Ukraine", which propagated slogans of white supremacy, racial purity, the need for authoritarian power and a centralized national economy. Azov’s controversial founder, Andriy Biletsky, organized the neo-Nazi group the Social-National Assembly (SNA) in 2008.

“The Azov men use the neo-Nazi Wolfsangel (Wolf’s Hook) symbol on their banner and members of the battalion are openly white supremacists, or anti-Semites,” wrote The Telegraph. Since Azov was enrolled as a regiment of Ukraine's National Guard in September and started receiving increased supplies of heavy arms, however, Biletsky has toned down his rhetoric, Reuters reported. According to the Washington Post, battalion members “could potentially strike pro-Russian targets on their own — or even turn on the [Ukrainian] government” if it pursues a diplomatic resolution to the conflict.

Sophocles

18th June 2015, 20:19

An American Oligarch‘s Dirty Tale of Corruption (http://journal-neo.org/2015/06/12/an-american-oligarch-s-dirty-tale-of-corruption/)

12.06.2015 Author: F. William Engdahl
New Eastern Outlook (http://journal-neo.org/2015/06/12/an-american-oligarch-s-dirty-tale-of-corruption/)

http://journal-neo.org/wp-content/uploads/2015/06/soros1_1496566b-300x184.jpgRarely does the world get a true look inside the corrupt world of Western oligarchs and the brazen manipulations they use to enhance their fortunes at the expense of the public good. The following comes from correspondence of the Hungarian-born billionaire, now naturalized American speculator, George Soros. The hacker group CyberBerkut has published online letters allegedly written by Soros that reveal him not only as puppet master of the US-backed Ukraine regime. They also reveal his machinations with the US Government and the officials of the European Union in a scheme where, if he succeeds, he could win billions in the plunder of Ukraine assets. All, of course, would be at the expense of Ukrainian citizens and of EU taxpayers.

What the three hacked documents reveal is a degree of behind-the-scene manipulation of the most minute details of the Kiev regime by the New York billionaire.

In the longest memo, dated March 15, 2015 and marked “Confidential” Soros outlines a detailed map of actions for the Ukraine regime. Titled, “A short and medium term comprehensive strategy for the new Ukraine,” the memo from Soros calls for steps to “restore the fighting capacity of Ukraine without violating the Minsk agreement.” To do the restoring, Soros blithely notes that “General Wesley Clark, Polish General Skrzypczak and a few specialists under the auspices of the Atlantic Council [emphasis added—f.w.e.] will advise President Poroshenko how to restore the fighting capacity of Ukraine without violating the Minsk agreement (http://cyber-berkut.org/docs/Soros_Ukraine_March_non-paper%20_2015_v14.pdf).”

Soros also calls for supplying lethal arms to Ukraine (http://cyber-berkut.org/docs/Soros_Ukraine_March_non-paper%20_2015_v14.pdf) and secretly training Ukrainian army personnel in Romania to avoid direct NATO presence in Ukraine. The Atlantic Council is a leading Washington pro-NATO think tank (http://cyber-berkut.org/docs/Soros_Ukraine_March_non-paper%20_2015_v14.pdf).

Notably, Wesley Clark is also a business associate of Soros in BNK Petroleum which does business in Poland.

Clark, some might recall, was the mentally-unstable NATO General in charge of the 1999 bombing of Serbia who ordered NATO soldiers to fire on Russian soldiers guarding the Pristina International Airport. The Russians were there as a part of an agreed joint NATO–Russia peacekeeping operation supposed to police Kosovo. The British Commander, General Mike Jackson refused Clark, retorting, “I’m not going to start the Third World War for you (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wesley_Clark).” Now Clark apparently decided to come out of retirement for the chance to go at Russia directly.

Naked asset grab

In his March 2015 memo Soros further writes that Ukrainian President Poroshenko’s “first priority must be to regain control of financial markets,” which he assures Poroshenko that Soros would be ready to assist in: “I am ready to call Jack Lew of the US Treasury to sound him out about the swap agreement.”

He also calls on the EU to give Ukraine an annual aid sum of €11 billion via a special EU borrowing facility. Soros proposes in effect using the EU’s “AAA” top credit rating to provide a risk insurance for investment into Ukraine.

Whose risk would the EU insure?

Soros details, “I am prepared to invest up to €1 billion in Ukrainian businesses. This is likely to attract the interest of the investment community. As stated above, Ukraine must become an attractive investment destination.” Not to leave any doubt, Soros continues, “The investments will be for-profit but I will pledge to contribute the profits to my foundations. This should allay suspicions that I am advocating policies in search of personal gain. “

For anyone familiar with the history of the Soros Open Society Foundations in Eastern Europe and around the world since the late 1980’s, will know that his supposedly philanthropic “democracy-building” projects in Poland, Russia, or Ukraine in the 1990’s allowed Soros the businessman to literally plunder the former communist countries using Harvard University’s “shock therapy” messiah, and Soros associate, Jeffrey Sachs, to convince the post-Soviet governments to privatize and open to a “free market” at once, rather than gradually.

The example of Soros in Liberia is instructive for understanding the seemingly seamless interplay between Soros the shrewd businessman and Soros the philanthropist. In West Africa George Soros backed a former Open Society employee of his, Liberian President Ellen Johnson Sirleaf, giving her international publicity and through his influence, even arranging a Nobel Peace Prize for her in 2011, insuring her election as president. Before her presidency she had been well-indoctrinated into the Western free market game, studying economics at Harvard and working for the US-controlled World Bank in Washington and the Rockefeller Citibank in Nairobi. Before becoming Liberia’s President, she worked for Soros directly as chair of his Open Society Initiative for West Africa (OSIWA (http://m.strategic-culture.org/news/2012/11/27/a-true-to-life-james-bond-villain.html)).

Once in office, President Sirleaf opened the doors for Soros to take over major Liberian gold and base metals assets along with his partner, Nathaniel Rothschild. One of her first acts as President was to also invite the Pentagon’s new Africa Command, AFRICOM, into Liberia whose purpose as a Liberian investigation revealed, was to “protect George Soros and Rothschild mining operations in West Africa rather than champion stability and human rights (http://allafrica.com/stories/201210110846.html).”

Naftogaz the target

The Soros memo makes clear he has his eyes on the Ukrainian state gas and energy monopoly, Naftogaz. He writes, “The centerpiece of economic reforms will be the reorganization of Naftogaz and the introduction of market pricing for all forms of energy, replacing hidden subsidies (http://cyber-berkut.org/docs/Soros_Ukraine_March_non-paper%20_2015_v14.pdf)…”

In an earlier letter Soros wrote in December 2014 to both President Poroshenko and Prime Minister Yatsenyuk, Soros openly called for his Shock Therapy: “I want to appeal to you to unite behind the reformers in your government and give your wholehearted support to a radical, ‘big bang’ type of approach. That is to say, administrative controls would be removed and the economy would move to market prices rapidly rather than gradually…Naftogaz needs to be reorganized with a big bang replacing the hidden subsidies (http://cyber-berkut.org/docs/Poroshenko,_Petro_and_Yatsenyuk,_Arseniy_23DEC14.pdf)…”

Splitting Naftogaz into separate companies could allow Soros to take control of one of the new branches and essentially privatize its profits. He already suggested that he indirectly brought in US consulting company, McKinsey, to advise Naftogaz on the privatization “big bang (http://cyber-berkut.org/docs/Soros_Ukraine_March_non-paper%20_2015_v14.pdf).”

The Puppet-Master?

The totality of what is revealed in the three hacked documents show that Soros is effectively the puppet-master pulling most of the strings in Kiev. Soros Foundation’s Ukraine branch, International Renaissance Foundation (IRF) has been involved in Ukraine since 1989. His IRF doled out more than $100 million to Ukrainian NGOs two years before the fall of the Soviet Union, creating the preconditions for Ukraine’s independence from Russia in 1991. Soros also admitted to financing the 2013-2014 Maidan Square protests that brought the current government into power.

Soros’ foundations were also deeply involved in the 2004 Orange Revolution that brought the corrupt but pro-NATO Viktor Yushchenko into power with his American wife who had been in the US State Department. In 2004 just weeks after Soros’ International Renaissance Foundation had succeeded in getting Viktor Yushchenko as President of Ukraine, Michael McFaul wrote an OpEd for the Washington Post. McFaul, a specialist in organizing color revolutions, who later became US Ambassador to Russia, revealed:

Did Americans meddle in the internal affairs of Ukraine? Yes. The American agents of influence would prefer different language to describe their activities — democratic assistance, democracy promotion, civil society support, etc. — but their work, however labeled, seeks to influence political change in Ukraine. The U.S. Agency for International Development, the National Endowment for Democracy and a few other foundations sponsored certain U.S. organizations, including Freedom House, the International Republican Institute, the National Democratic Institute, the Solidarity Center, the Eurasia Foundation, Internews and several others to provide small grants and technical assistance to Ukrainian civil society. The European Union, individual European countries and the Soros-funded International Renaissance Foundation did the same (http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A15131-2004Dec20.html).

Soros shapes ‘New Ukraine’

Today the CyberBerkut hacked papers show that Soros’ IRF money is behind creation of a National Reform Council, a body organized by presidential decree from Poroshenko which allows the Ukrainian president to push bills through Ukraine’s legislature. Soros writes, “The framework for bringing the various branches of government together has also emerged. The National Reform Council (NRC) brings together the presidential administration, the cabinet of ministers, the Rada and its committees and civil society. The International Renaissance Foundation which is the Ukrainian branch of the Soros Foundations was the sole financial supporter of the NRC until now (http://cyber-berkut.org/docs/Soros_Ukraine_March_non-paper%20_2015_v14.pdf)…”

Soros’ NRC in effect is the vehicle to allow the President to override parliamentary debate to push through “reforms,” with the declared first priority being privatization of Naftogaz and raising gas prices drastically to Ukrainian industry and households, something the bankrupt country can hardly afford (http://sputniknews.com/europe/20150601/1022822447.html#ixzz3cGKcDeiq).

In his letter to Poroshenko and Yatsenyuk, Soros hints that he played a key role in selection of three key non-Ukrainian ministers—Natalia Jaresko, an American ex- State Department official as Finance Minister; Aivras Abromavicius of Lithuania as Economics Minister, and a health minister from Georgia. Soros in his December 2014 letter, referring to his proposal for a “big bank” privatization of Naftogaz and price rise, states, “You are fortunate to have appointed three ‘new Ukrainian’ ministers and several natives (sic) who are committed to this approach (http://cyber-berkut.org/docs/Poroshenko,_Petro_and_Yatsenyuk,_Arseniy_23DEC14.pdf).”

Elsewhere Soros speaks about de facto creating the impression within the EU that the current government of Yatsenyuk is finally cleaning out the notorious corruption that has dominated every Kiev regime since 1991. Creating that temporary reform illusion, he remarks, will convince the EU to cough up the €11 billion annual investment insurance fund. His March 2015 paper says that, “It is essential for the government to produce a visible demonstration (sic) during the next three months in order to change the widely prevailing image of Ukraine as an utterly corrupt country.” That he states will open the EU to make the €11 billion insurance guarantee investment fund (http://cyber-berkut.org/docs/Soros_Ukraine_March_non-paper%20_2015_v14.pdf).

While saying that it is important to show Ukraine as a country that is not corrupt, Soros reveals he has little concern when transparency and proper procedures block his agenda. Talking about his proposals to reform Ukraine’s constitution to enable privatizations and other Soros-friendly moves, he complains, “The process has been slowed down by the insistence of the newly elected Rada on proper procedures and total transparency (http://cyber-berkut.org/docs/Soros_Ukraine_March_non-paper%20_2015_v14.pdf).”

Soros suggests that he intends to create this “visible demonstration” through his initiatives, such as using the Soros-funded National Reform Council, a body organized by presidential decree which allows the Ukrainian president to push bills through Ukraine’s legislature.

George Soros is also using his new European Council on Foreign Relations think-tank to lobby his Ukraine strategy, with his council members such as Alexander Graf Lambsdorff or Joschka Fischer or Karl-Theodor zu Guttenberg, not to mention former ECB head, Jean-Claude Trichet no doubt laying a subtle role.

George Soros, now 84, was born in Hungary as a Jew, George Sorosz. Soros once boasted in a TV interview that he posed during the war as a gentile with forged papers, assisting the Horthy government to seize property of other Hungarian Jews who were being shipped to the Nazi death camps. Soros told the TV moderator, “There was no sense that I shouldn’t be there, because that was–well, actually, in a funny way, it’s just like in markets–that if I weren’t there–of course, I wasn’t doing it, but somebody else would.”

This is the same morality apparently behind Soros’ activities in Ukraine today. It seems again to matter not to him that the Ukrainian government he helped bring to power in February 2014 US coup d’etat is riddled with explicit anti-semites and self-proclaimed neo-Nazis from the Svoboda Party and Pravy Sektor. George Soros is clearly a devotee of “public-private-partnership.” Only here the public gets fleeced to enrich private investors like Mr. Soros and friends. Cynically, Soros signs his Ukraine strategy memo, “George Soros–A self-appointed advocate of the new Ukraine, March 12, 2015.”

F. William Engdahl is strategic risk consultant and lecturer, he holds a degree in politics from Princeton University and is a best-selling author on oil and geopolitics, exclusively for the online magazine “New Eastern Outlook (http://journal-neo.org/)”.

Link (http://journal-neo.org/2015/06/12/an-american-oligarch-s-dirty-tale-of-corruption/)

(I just remembered; this post reiterates Herve`s post #556)

Sophocles

22nd June 2015, 18:38

Something critical might be happening in the Ukraine (http://thesaker.is/something-critical-might-be-happening-in-the-ukraine/)

The Saker (http://thesaker.is/latest-articles/), June 22, 2015

Two small newsitems have not received much attention recently, and yet they might be the signs of something big happening:

Poroshenko has fired the notorious Head of the equally notorious Security Service of Ukraine or SBU: Valentin Nalivaichenko.

Sergei Ivanov, the powerful Deputy Prime Minister of Russia has stated that the US and Russia have created a bilateral communications channel on the Ukraine run by Victoria Nuland, Assistant Secretary of State for European and Eurasian Affairs, for the USA and Grigorii Karasin, the Deputy Minister of Foreign Affairs, for Russia. The official reason for that was “not to complicate the already delicate “Normandy-format”.

So on one hand, we have Kerry and Nuland who came to Russia and who, by all accounts, got nothing of what the asked for but who are now getting a “communications channel” while at the same time, the 100% USA-controlled Nalivaichenko, who is rumored to be an actual CIA agent recruited many years ago, is booted out by Poroshenko. Rumor also has it that Arsen Avakov, the Minister of Internal Affairs will be next to be kicked out.

There might be no connection here, but my guess is that there is.

The reason why Nalivaichenko was fired is not so much because of the various corruptions scandals he – and all other junta members – were involved in as much as it is Poroshenko’s attempt to place “his” men in all key (power) positions. That, in turn, shows that his regime is getting weaker, not stronger – hence the need to strengthen and consolidate.

I also believe that the Americans are fully aware of this process and this is why they now want a direct channel of communication with Russia: because they fully realize that the only two powers that matter in reality are the USA and Russia, especially now that events are getting out of control in Kiev.

One of the best Ukraine specialists out there, Ishchenko, is now saying that the US have concluded that the Ukraine is a total mess and that they are now trying to get out at the least possible cost. I tend to agree with this explanation, though I am not as confident as Ishchenko that we will see this political pullout play out this year already.

Because make no mistake: the 300 million dollars allocated by Congress to arm the Ukraine is a joke. A drop of water into a desert. It will change *nothing*. Most of it will be stolen and the rest will be wasted.

The expected Ukronazi attack on Novorussia has not happened either and while the rhetoric in Kiev is more bellicose than ever, and while the Ukronazi forces along the line of contact are constantly shelling Novorussia, no real, full scale, attack has happened. Could it be that the Ukronazis are truly afraid of the consequences of an always possible Novorussian counter-attack?

It is also becoming increasingly obvious that the US has failed to isolate Russia and that the Russia economy is doing way better than anybody, including the Kremlin, had expected.

So if the Ukronazi Ukraine cannot be used to mount a military attack on Novorussia with the goal of force Russia to intervene, and if the civil war in the Ukraine has failed to produce the kind of isolation and sanctions against Russia which Washington wanted – then what is the use of the Ukraine to Uncle Sam?

Yes, sure, there is the port of Odessa, and some industrial and natural resources which western corporation will be able to acquire for a fraction of its value, but these benefits pale in comparison with the immense costs of somehow tackling the huge economic, social and political problems of the Ukraine.

It will come to that sooner or later anyway. The USA made an unholy mess of Afghanistan, Yemen, Iraq, Syria, Libya, and they always ended up getting out, at least politically. Why should it be different for the Ukraine?

I submit that if the US analysts came to the conclusion that there is not hope of forcing Russia to sent her forces into the Donbass then the Ukraine becomes useless. The chances of Russia doing so appear to be very close to zero right now. True, there is the very dangerous situation in Transnistria which might, really, force Russia to intervene, but for some reason the USA does not seem to be eager to trigger an immediate crisis. Could it be that the USA is holding Transnistria as a bargaining chip against Russia in a “you don’t make things too bad for us or else…” kind of strategy? Maybe. I honestly don’t know.

It will be interesting to see of Avakov get’s booted out next and how the various Ukronazi death-squads will react to the firing of their patrons in Kiev.

The Saker (http://thesaker.is/something-critical-might-be-happening-in-the-ukraine/)

Sophocles

23rd June 2015, 23:45

Poroshenko admits overthrow of Yanukovych was a coup (http://www.sott.net/article/298197-Poroshenko-admits-overthrow-of-Yanukovych-was-a-coup)

Eric Zuesse
Washington's Blog
Mon, 22 Jun 2015 12:51 UTC (http://www.washingtonsblog.com/2015/06/ukraines-pres-poroshenko-says-overthrow-of-yanukovych-was-a-coup.html)

Ukraine's President Petro Poroshenko requests the supreme court of Ukraine to declare that his predecessor, Viktor Yanukovych, was overthrown by an illegal operation; in other words, that the post-Yanukovych government, including Poroshenko's own Presidency, came into power from a coup, not from something democratic, not from any authentic constitutional process at all.

In a remarkable document (http://ccu.gov.ua/doccatalog/document?id=276628), which is not posted at the English version of the website of the Constitutional Court of Ukraine (http://www.ccu.gov.ua/en/index), but which is widely reported (http://macedoniaonline.eu/content/view/27583/53/) outside the United States, including Russia (http://sputniknews.com/politics/20150620/1023639521.html), Poroshenko, in Ukrainian (not in English), has petitioned the Constitutional Court of Ukraine (as it is being widely quoted in English):

"I ask the court to acknowledge that the law 'on the removal of the presidential title from Viktor Yanukovych' as unconstitutional."

Full article (http://www.sott.net/article/298197-Poroshenko-admits-overthrow-of-Yanukovych-was-a-coup)

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Russian Security Council secretary says US engineered state coup in Ukraine for $5 bln (http://tass.ru/en/russia/802870)

He said it was absolutely clear that behind the "destabilization project in Ukraine was an attempt to create an instrument to weaken Russia dramatically"

MOSCOW, June 22. /TASS/. The United States was behind the state coup in Ukraine having spent five billion U.S. dollars for these purposes, Russian Security Council secretary Nikolai Patrushev said in an interview with the Kommersant newspaper published on Monday.

"The change of power [in Ukraine] prompted those events that took place there. [U.S. Secretary of State John] Kerry has an assistant - [Victoria] Nuland, who said the United States spent five billion U.S. dollars to arrange those events," he said.

He said it was absolutely clear that behind the "destabilization project in Ukraine was an attempt to create an instrument to weaken Russia dramatically." "Concurrently, they are seeking to solve the task of keeping the European Union countries on a short leash by imposing anti-Russian sanctions and approaches on them, ignoring their national interests," Patrushev said.

Full article (http://tass.ru/en/russia/802870)

Akasha

2nd July 2015, 12:34

So ISIS is threatening to attack Hamas.
(http://www.theguardian.com/world/2015/jun/30/islamic-state-threatens-hamas-gaza-strip) ISIS attacks all of Israel's enemies. they ought to be renamed the Covert Mercenaries of Zion - CMZ. That's ISIS - CMZ - covert mercenaries for zionists.
They attack Syria in a huge proxy war which was written out verbatim in Israel policy papers, The Clean Break strategy (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A_Clean_Break:_A_New_Strategy_for_Securing_the_Realm), which said first to take out Iraq and then to go to Damascus and that they would use the proxy forces to do it, and that's exactly what's happening.
ISIS never attacks Israel, they get supported by the Israeli air force and they're treated in Israeli hospitals - they're (not so) covert mercenaries for the zionists.....

Ryan Dawson

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Baby Steps

3rd July 2015, 11:54

So if you are a warmongering psychopath throwing your weight around the place and intimidating everybody, the meek ones will look on and think that the best chance for peace is that this psychopath is so scary and mighty that nobody would contemplate picking a fight! So peace endures...

Then- oh no! It emerges that one of his key weapons is a total lemon!
I BET THAT WILL BE GOOD FOR STABILITY

http://rt.com/usa/pilots-air-f-22-raptor-615/

I would suggest that when your techno-military complex starts delivering lemons, this is a sign of terrible crony capitalist corruption.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c6i_NJYLsJc

Cidersomerset

3rd July 2015, 12:54

I was listening to another RT U'tube I posted on the Snowden, then this
came up after as I was pottering in the Kitchen. It is a very good discussion
on the Ukraine / Russia /US situation and the worry of returning to the
cold war by default.............
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CrossTalk: Cold War Redux (ft. Chris Hedges)

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Published on 1 Jul 2015

Over the past year at CrossTalk we have asked guests many times whether
we face the specter of a new Cold War. Today it is all too obvious there is a
new Cold War. What we need to ask now are the terms and conditions of
this conflict and the possible outcomes.

CrossTalking with David Swanson, Vladimir Golstein, and Chris Hedges.

RT LIVE http://rt.com/on-air

Baby Steps

3rd July 2015, 15:41

People need to understand that the Russians are absolutely terrified. And that is not good for the world. If I was a Russian strategist the following would terrify me:

- How the USA and European public seem to blindly buy into the fake narrative of 'Russian Aggression in Ukraine'
- How Jeb Bush can get away with describing the Russian leadership as corrupt with no sense of irony
-How the public are accepting the huge NATO build-up on Russia's borders without grasping the dangers
- How easy it is to trigger conflict when you have such a stand-off, the instigator can be anyone-or a false flag
-Proven fact that USA generals have tried to start hostilities with Russia in Yugoslavia in 1999(see link below)
- The Germans do not seem to care or realise the USA is fomenting a hot war on their own doorstep, they have lost their basic self preservation instinct.
- How the USA public buy into 'American Exceptionalism', and huge unnecessary military spending (half of which is siphoned off into black projects with no oversight or accountability)
-How the British public are ignoring murky rumours that new missiles are/are not being secretly stationed in the East of the UK
-How Russian military capability is quite shrunken, despite more resources recently.
- How the USA appears not to be controlled by its own Government (which is totally corrupt anyway)

Proof of USA aggression:

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-politics-11753050

Singer James Blunt 'prevented World War III'
• 14 November 2010

• From the sectionUK Politics
Singer James Blunt has told the BBC how he refused an order to attack Russian troops when he was a British soldier in Kosovo. Blunt said he was willing to risk a court martial by rejecting the order from a US General.
But he was backed by British Gen Sir Mike Jackson, who said: "I'm not going to have my soldiers be responsible for starting World War III."
Blunt was ordered to seize an airfield, but the Russians had got there first.
In an interview with BBC Radio 5 live, broadcast on Sunday, he said: "I was given the direct command to overpower the 200 or so Russians who were there.
"I was the lead officer with my troop of men behind us...
James Blunt had worldwide hits after leaving the Army
"The soldiers directly behind me were from the Parachute Regiment, so they're obviously game for the fight.
"The direct command [that] came in from Gen Wesley Clark was to overpower them. Various words were used that seemed unusual to us. Words such as 'destroy' came down the radio."
'Mad situation'
The confusion surrounding the taking of Pristina airfield in 1999 has been written about in political memoirs, and was widely reported at the time.
But this is the first time Blunt has given an account of his role in the incident.
Blunt, who was at the head of a column of 30,000 Nato troops with his unit, told Pienaar's Politics it was a "mad situation".
That sense of moral judgement is drilled into us as soldiers in the British armyJames Blunt
He said he had been "party to the conversation" between senior officers in which Gen Clark had ordered the attack.
"We had 200 Russians lined up pointing their weapons at us aggressively, which was... and you know we'd been told to reach the airfield and take a hold of it.
"And if we had a foothold there then it would make life much easier for the Nato forces in Pristina. So there was a political reason to take hold of this.
"And the practical consequences of that political reason would be then aggression against the Russians."
Court martial
Asked if following the order would have risked starting World War III, Blunt, who was a 25-year-old cavalry officer at the time, replied: "Absolutely. And that's why we were querying our instruction from an American general.
"Fortunately, up on the radio came Gen Mike Jackson, whose exact words at the time were, 'I'm not going to have my soldiers be responsible for starting World War III', and told us why don't we sugar off down the road, you know, encircle the airfield instead.
"And after a couple of days the Russians there said: 'Hang on we have no food and no water. Can we share the airfield with you?'."
If Gen Jackson had not blocked the order from Gen Clark, who as Nato Supreme Commander Europe was his superior officer, Blunt said he would still have declined to follow it, even at the risk of a court martial.
He said: "There are things that you do along the way that you know are right, and those that you absolutely feel are wrong, that I think it's morally important to stand up against, and that sense of moral judgement is drilled into us as soldiers in the British army."
Blunt left the Army in 2002 to pursue a career in music, later scoring a worldwide hit with You're Beautiful.

Sophocles

21st July 2015, 19:01

Special Report: The Truth about Srebrenica 20 years later (http://thesaker.is/special-report-the-truth-about-srebrenica-20-years-later/)

July 13, 2015 The Saker (http://thesaker.is/latest-articles/)

This past week the world was reminded that it has been 20 years since the events following the Bosnian Serb Army’s entry into Srebrenica and today I am posting a special report about this event which I personally consider of absolutely crucial importance in world history not only because of the large number of people who died in this event, but also because it served as the pretext for the first completely illegal war of aggression by the US/NATO which attacked the Bosnian Serbs in violation of the UN Charter. All the subsequence wars of aggression of the AngloZionist Empire (Yugoslavia, Iraq, Afghanistan, Libya, Syria, Yemen, etc.) have their prototype in the war against the Bosnian-Serbs.

I can personally attest that doubts about what really happened (or not) in Srebrenica were voiced in, shall we say, “well informed circles” within days of the Bosnian-Serb conquest of the city. I cannot name these circles, but let’s just that that I am talking about people with direct access to classified information coming out of Bosnia. One thing was immediately established: that a large number of armed Bosnian-Muslim men had attempted a breakthrough from Srebrenica to Tuzla and that 1) many had been killed in *combat* with Bosnian-Serbs and many actually made it to Tuzla.

[Sidebar: Srebrenica had been declared a “safe area” by the UN. That meant two main things: first, the Bosnian-Muslims had to totally demilitarize the entire town while the Bosnian-Serbs had to stop attacking it, nevermind entering it. These UN “safe heavens” were intended for civilians only. In reality, however, the Bosnian-Muslims kept and entire Mountain Division in Srebrenica and they continued to reinforce it both by land and by air. To make things even worse, the Bosnian-Muslims constantly used Srebrenica as a safe base to attack the Bosnian-Serb positions around the town. At the beginning of the war, the Bosnian-Muslims had already burned down all the Bosnian-Serb villages around Srebrenica and massacred most of the civilians living they found in them (we are talking about several thousand civilians). The local Bosnian-Serbs had promised that one day they would take revenge for these massacres and some of them, indeed, do that when the Bosnian-Serbs entered Srebrenica. Needless to say, none of that was ever reported by the western corporate Ziomedia].

The other fact which all “well informed” folks knew is that there had been several “false flag” massacres in Sarajevo, in particular the so-called “Markale market massacres” (1994 and 1995) both of which were not attributable to the Bosnian-Serbs, something which UNPRFOR knew but could not say publicly.

While I am personally convinced that the official narrative about Srebrenica (a deliberate mass murder or even genocide organized by the Bosnian-Serbs) is false, I have also come to believe that this was not a “simple” false flag attack either. Srebrenica was a simultaneous combination of the following:

1. Combat operations between regular Bosnian-Serb forces and Bosnian-Muslim forces attempting to break out of Srebrenica.
2. The “spontaneous” execution of a number of civilians and POWs by Bosnian-Serbs seeking revenge.
3. The deliberate execution of a number of civilians and POWs ordered not by Bosnian-Serbs but by some Yugoslav (Federal) officials.
4. A deliberate PSYOP by the USA to grossly inflate the number of victims and blame the Bosnian-Serbs.

I have to say here that I only learned about point #3 very recently from a well-informed Serbian contact whom I fully trust. While I cannot corroborate his claim, it does ‘fit’ perfectly with what I know. This contact is currently reluctant to go into details or name names, but I am confident that the truth about this will come out fairly soon.

What is no less important about what Srebrenica was is to also spell out what it was not.

1. It was not a genocide even by the most inclusive definition of this word. First, the Bosnian-Serbs and Bosnian-Muslims are exactly the same ethnic group and what differentiates them is their religion. So any talk of “ethnic cleansing” is nonsensical in the Bosnian context.
2. It is quite obvious that neither Radovan Karadzic nor Ratko Mladic ever gave any orders to commit massacres. Had they wanted to issue such orders, they would have kept away from the scene and not done what Mladic did that day: bring in several bus loads of reporters and then go on TV to publicly promise the Bosnian-Muslim civilians that he personally guaranteed their safety. It is absolutely clear to me that Mladic and the Bosnian-Serbs walked into a trap carefully laid by the USA.
3. However, there is now evidence that orders did come from Belgrade to “deliver” a certain amount of innocent victims which, in turn, would provide the US/NATO with a pretext to intervene. Yes, you read that right. I am claiming that certain officials in Belgrade were working hand-in-hand with the US.

[Sidebar: To those who might doubt that (at least some elements in) Belgrade and Washington were covertly working together I would remind that the Yugoslav Federal authorities (Milosevic) did join the AngloZionist blockade against the Bosnian-Serbs and that when the US/NATO attacked the Bosnian-Serbs Miloseciv ordered the Yugoslav forces to move back and betray the Bosnian-Serbs who had trusted them {Note: I was told by a reader that while the betrayal did take place–in the form of a blockade–but there were no Yugoslav units holding the line in 1995. They had been withdrawn in 1992, when they suffered heavy casualties withdrawing from Sarajevo. This might be true – it has been 20 years and I write from memory.} Likewise, Milosevic also betrayed the Serbs in Kosovo when he ordered his military to retreat even though it had survived the NATO bombing almost completely unscathed]

The main problem in establishing the truth about what happened in Srebrenica is the literally everybody, including the USA, NATO, European countries, and even Russia under Eltsin and Yugoslavia under Milosevic, had a huge interest in sticking by the official story. All these forces wanted to end the war and the stubborn Bosnian-Serbs were not willing to surrender. So everybody needed a pretext for the US/NATO to directly attack the Bosnian-Serbs and this is what Srebrenica became: a buzzword to justify a completely illegal (and, I would argue, immoral) attack of a superpower and military alliance against a small, largely rural, religious minority which was guilty of not obeying the Hegemon’s orders when told to do so.

My hope is that 20 years later this might change and that the biggest change might come from the least expected side: the Muslim world.

Why?

A number of reasons:

First, while the AngloZionist Empire did pretend to act in defense of Muslims in Bosnia and Kosovo, it then turned to exactly the same set of PSYOPs to attack Muslim countries such as Libya, Iraq, Afghanistan, Syria, Yemen, Sudan, Somalia, etc. While initially it was the “Serbian Chetniks” who were on the receiving end of the “Empire of Kindness'” “responsibility to protect” (r2p) operations, but after Bosnia and Kosovo all the other “new Hitlers” were in Muslim nations. Do you remember the nonsense about “Gaddafi giving Viagra to his soldiers to rape opposition women”? Does that not remind you of “rape as a weapon of ethnic cleansing” of the Bosnian narrative? What about the Syrian “Houla massacre”? Is that not a “Markale massacre”? Now that the Muslims are themselves the victims of exactly the same old dirty tricks, they might be far more willing to question the official narrative about Srebrenica than before.

Second, a large number of Muslims did die in Srebrenica. Some in “legitimate” combat, but other were truly executed. The friends and relatives of these murdered Muslims will want to know who really ordered these murders. While it might be comforting for them to see Karadzic and Mladic in jail at the Hague, they might not be so happy at the idea that the real culprits are still free, especially if some of these culprits include Bosnian-Muslim officials from the Sarajevo government.

The full and real story of Srebrenica has not emerged yet, but the good news is that it is finally being researched and questioned. Even more importantly, Muslims and Orthodox Christians have begun looking at these events together (see below). What is crucial at this point in time is to fully separate two issues:

a) The investigation of actual events on the ground, what really happened in Srebrenica and the establishment the full list of those responsible for the massacres of civilians and POWs regardless of where they were or are.

b) Analyzing the use which was made by the AngloZionist Empire of the events in Srebrenica.

These are different issues which should be addressed separately. Both of these issues, however, absolutely mandate that we all accept to question the official narrative (which, frankly, makes no sense at all) and the we pursue the truth, whatever it might be, and at all costs.

As part of this quest for the truth through an open and frank debate I am presenting you with a number of very important documents:

1) A “Srebrenica Factsheet” prepared by Stefan Karganovic and Aleksandar Pavic.

2) A report entitled “Srebrenica Fifteen Years Later – The Question of Evidence” written by by George Bogdanich and Jonathan Rooper.

3) A report entitled “Srebrenica Narrative Responsibly Challenged” about a about a recent conference in Banja Luka on the topic “Can politically weaponized Srebrenica be turned into a peace-making tool?”

4) The video of the address of Sheikh Imran Hussein to the Banja Luka Conference.

5) The video of the address of Professor Alexander Dugin to the Banja Luka Conference.

6) The video of an appeal to the Bosnian-Muslims by Sheikh Imran Hussein.

7) An analysis entitled “Reconciliation – the Empire’s way” by “S.P.” about the events surrounding the Russian veto at the UNSC of the “Srebrenica Genocide” Resolution submitted by the United Kingdom.

For those who have not seen them, I would like to also refer you to the following past articles concerning the war in Bosnia:

The truth about Srebrenica finally? (http://thesaker.is/the-truth-about-srebrenica-finally/)

Srebrenica: requiem for a propaganda fiction (http://thesaker.is/srebrenica-requiem-for-a-propaganda-fiction/)

The Genocide Myth: Uses and Abuses of “Srebrenica” (http://thesaker.is/the-genocide-myth-uses-and-abuses-of-srebrenica/)

Saker interview with Nebojsa Malic aka “Grey Falcon” (http://thesaker.is/saker-interview-with-nebojsa-malic-aka-grey-falcon/)

Response from a Bosnian Muslim (http://thesaker.is/response-from-a-bosnian-muslim/)

Whose Bosnia is it anyways? (http://thesaker.is/whose-bosnia-is-it-anyways/)

Response to a Bosnian Muslim (http://thesaker.is/response-to-a-bosnian-muslim/)

This is a lot to read, I understand that, however I do strongly believe that the topic is important enough to deserve a thorough and detailed analysis and discussion.

I also want to repeat here that while my personal position on what really happened in Srebrenica is pretty clear, I do invite those who will disagree with it, or with any of the documents presented here, to present their own evidence and analysis. While absolutely no ad hominems of any kind will be tolerated, I do encourage a vigorous and open ended debate on this, and any other, topic.

A lot of people put a lot of efforts presenting you with all this information and I hope that you will find it worthwhile and that you will make good use of it. To all those who helped prepare this report – my most heartfelt gratitude for all your time and efforts!

Srebrenica happened twenty years ago, but it is still used today as the primary weapon by those who want to oppose Muslims and Orthodox Christians. As long as we all accept to play by the “Chetniks vs Wahabis” playbook they will continue to divide and conquer us. Those who will insist against all evidence that this narrative is true ought to ask themselves who benefits from this dynamic. I submit that the real guilty party is the one which actually created all the conditions for Srebrenica to happen and who worked on this plan not in Pale or Sarajevo, but in Belgrade and Washington DC. I hope that the information below will contribute to establish this truth.

The Saker

Full article (http://thesaker.is/special-report-the-truth-about-srebrenica-20-years-later/)

Sophocles

21st July 2015, 19:12

Zakharchenko, Deinego and Pushilin have set a trap for Poroshenko (http://thesaker.is/zakharchenko-deinego-and-pushilin-have-set-a-trap-for-poroshenko/)

July 20, 2015 The Saker

Top Novorussian officials from the Donetsk and Lugansk People’s Republics (Zakharchenko, Deinego and Pushilin) have held a joint press conference and officially announced that they had taken the unilateral decision to withdraw by no less than 3km from the line of contact all their weapons up to a 100mm caliber (http://www.rt.com/news/310201-lugansk-rebels-weapons-withdrawal/) (weapons of a heavier caliber were supposed to have already been withdrawn according to the Minsk-2 Agreement (M2A); the Novorussians complied, the junta in Kiev did not). Before that, the Novorussians had already done a similar unilateral action by withdrawing all their forces by over 1km from the town of Shirokino. Predictably, the Ukronazis did not follow suit and stayed on their positions (but did not dare enter Shirokino either, at least as far as I know).

This time around, the Ukronazis greeted the new “gesture of goodwill” of the Novorussians with an unprecedented barrage of artillery fire on the city of Donestsk which, again, was shelled all night long.

So what is going on here? Have the Novorussians suddenly gone crazy?

Far from it.

In fact, they have set a very elegant trap for Poroshenko and his western backers. Here is how it works.

Political level:

On a political level the Novorussians are bending over backwards to prove to anybody willing to listen that they are truly complying with all the provisions of M2A. The problem, of course, is that nobody in the West is willing to listen. In response, the Novorussians are multiplying the initiatives to make it harder and harder for western leaders to ignore the facts on the ground which are simple: the junta has not even begun complying with M2A while the Novorussians have complied. As soon as Zakharchenko, Deinego and Pushilin made their announcement, Lavrov called Steinmeier to stress that the Novorussians were doing everything they could and that the pressure should now be put on Poroshenko to follow suit. Now, of course Lavrov knows that Steinmeier is a US puppets and takes his orders from Uncle Sam and, more importantly, Lavrov also knows that Poroshenko cannot implement M2A, but since M2A was signed, the Russians are now pretending as if the Ukrainians could abide by its terms and they make sure that they, and their BRICS/SCO allies, mantrically repeat that “the Minsk 2 Agreements are the only way to solve this conflict“. In reality, of course, M2A is the best way to achieve regime change in the Ukraine. Why?

Because even though Poroshenko has not implemented any of the M2A points, he is already being openly attacked by the Right Sector and the various Ukronazi parties for not decisively fighting the oligarchs and the Novorussians. The situation in the western Ukraine is now dead serious and Dmitri Iarosh has openly described the regime in Kiev “traitors” and called for the numerous Ukronazi deathsquads to rebel and disobey Poroshenko’s orders.

Poroshenko would love to prove his patriotism by triggering yet another large scale attack on Novorussia, but the problem here is that this already failed the last two times around and that the Novorussians are now even much stronger than they used to be.

Military aspect:

Though only an actually full scale resumption of hostilities would test this hypothesis, there is very strong evidence that the Novorussians have successfully achieved their transition from a decentralized militia force to a unified regular army. This means that they can potentially go from tactical victories to operational level (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Operational_level_of_war) counter-attacks posing a major risk for the regime in Kiev. They clearly have enough men under arms and they openly admit that their equipment is “adequate”. Hopefully, so is their command and control (which used to be terrible). Even more telling is the fact that the Novorussian leaders are all clearly very confident about their ability not only to push back any Ukronazi attack, but to counter-attack and inflict major losses. Zakharchenko has openly said so many times. Time was always on the Novorussian side and now this is finally paying off.

The Novorussian confidence is best illustrated by the fact that even though Novorussian intelligence services have established that there are currently 70’000 junta soldiers backed by heavy armor and artillery all along the line of contact they still went ahead with their unilateral withdrawal. Besides, the Novorussians have had plenty of time to carefully prepare the terrain along the likely axis of attack of the junta forces which, if they attack, will be carefully channeled into carefully prepared fire pockets and destroyed. I also suppose that the Novorussians have dramatically improved their mobility and fire coordination which will make it much easier for them to engage any attacking force.

So the reality is this: the Novorussians are really not taking much of a risk with their unilateral actions. In fact, they have very nicely combined good political PR and sound military tactics.

Poroshenko’s dilemma

Poroshenko is in a terrible situation. The Ukrainian economy is basically dead. There is nothing left to salvage, nevermind turn the tide and overcome the crushing economic crisis. The Right Sector is up in arms and very, very angry. Folks in the western Ukraine are already seriously considering demanding their own special autonomy status. As for Odessa with Saakashvili in charge and the daughter of Egor Gaidar as Deputy Governor (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maria_Gaidar), it will inevitably explode, especially since the USA officially pays their salaries.

When Poroshenko goes to the Rada he has to look “tough”, i.e. say the exact opposite of what he committed to do according to M2A. But since even the White House has called the M2A the only solution, Poroshenko is put in the crazy situation of having to look like a peacemaker by day, and execute Nuland’s crazy orders by night. By now Poroshenko has probably already figured out that he is being used like both a pawn and a fall guy by the USA: when he will be forced to order an attack on Novorussia and this attack inevitably fails, he will be blamed for it all. Why would the USA order Poroshenko to attack even though such an attack is sure to result in yet another defeat? For two reasons: the (now rather hypothetical) hope that Russia might intervene and because that is the perfect way to get rid of Poroshenko. Unsurprisingly, Poroshenko has no desire to lose power and, most likely, die, so he is doing his best to avoid taking that dramatic step while continuing to shell Donetsk and the rest of the cities of the Donbass just to prove his “patriotism” and military “prowess”. The problem with that “solution” is that this kind of shelling does *nothing* to weaken the Novorussian armed forces but only serves to further enrage the people of Novorussia.

When the attack comes

So what will happen when the probably inevitable attack comes? My guess is that the Novorussians will rapidly and effectively counter it and mount an immediate counter offensive, probably towards Mariupol and/or Slaviansk. At this point the junta will freak out again and beg its western patrons to stop the Novorussians (which is exactly what happened before Minsk 1 and 2). Obama and Kerry will probably have the nerve to blame Russia for it all again, but in Europe the elites will be in full panic mode, not only because “their” guy clearly was the one to violate M2A and the one to have launched the attack, but also because they will be terrified of the possible depth of the Novorussian counter-attack (their biggest fear is a coastal corridor to the Crimean Peninsula). Remember the Sarkozy trip to Moscow to beg the Russians not to enter Tbilissi in 2008? I would not be surprised if something similar happened again (with Merkel or Hollande in Sakozy’s role). And, again, Putin will probably order the Novorussians to stop , but the terrain they would seize would remain in their hands, like in Debaltsevo. Everybody would have to accept that, however reluctantly. At which point I would expect a complete collapse of the regime in Kiev. Who could replace it then?

Regime change sure! But for what?

I only see two options here. Option one is a military coup to “save the Ukraine” and “restore peace”. That would be a de-facto end of the entire Ukronazi experiment and a basic acceptance of the Putin plan: a de-centralized, unitary and neutral Ukraine with a right of self-determination guaranteed by the Constitution. The other option is an openly Nazi regime of Bandera freaks à la Right Sector and the various death squads. The accession to power by bona fide Nazis will, of course, only re-start the process of breakup of the rump Ukraine which, form the Russian point of view, this is also a temporarily acceptable outcome. Russia cannot accept having permanent and unitary russophobic “Banderastan” on her borders, but a breakup of the Ukraine into several “zones of control” by various Urkonazi gangs presents no danger to Russia at all. I would argue that the worst regime for Russia (and Novorussia, of course) is what we have now: a unitary Ukraine ruled by a completely immoral and spineless oligarch in power, surrounded by Victoria Nuland’s minions in all key positions, with the official recognition and support of the EU/IMF/WB/etc. This configuration clearly has the greatest potential to threaten Russia and it already actually murders people in Novorussia every day. But if the Ukraine follows the Libyan or Iraqi “democracy model” then it will be a much bigger problem for the EU than for Russia.

Putin and Zakharchenko have all the time in the world

The “Ukronazi Ukraine” has by now already acquired enough self-destructive momentum for Putin and Zakharchenko to sit back and wait. They don’t have to do anything right now other than to prepare for a very likely and desperate suicide-attack by the junta against Novorussia. Should that happen, the Novorussian will be ready to counter-attack and fast and as deep as possible and then stop again and restart the mantra about “we support the territory integrity of the Ukraine” while thinking “but we can’t help it if the damn thing falls apart“. Obama and Kerry will, of course, blame Russia for it all, but for who long can anybody blame somebody for doing absolutely *nothing*?

The people of Novorussia unfortunately don’t

The toughest situation so far has been for the people of Novorussia who could take little comfort in the nice theory that time is on “their” side while shells are landing on their houses, schools and hospitals. For them, every minute of this horror was was an emergency which had to be stopped now. Things are now starting to get really ugly in the Nazi-occuppied Ukraine too. Check out this video of a famous Ukrainian blogger (in exile in Russia irrc) in which he reports how the “Ukrop” party (of Kolmoiskii and Iarosh) is trying to get votes by distributing food:

(please press ‘cc’ to see the English subtitles)

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Scary no?

And it is only going to get worse, much worse. Politically, economically and socially the Ukraine is dead, even if the body is will warm. Only a regime change followed by the inevitable de-Nazification, combined with a long term and major international stabilization and reconstruction program might, eventually and slowly, allow the Ukraine to return to some modicum of normalcy, and that only if Russia plays a major role in this effort. Since such an outcome is absolutely unacceptable for the AngloZionist Empire, the Ukraine will continue to be a “black hole” like Kosovo, Libya or Somalia – a failed state with abject poverty ruled by thugs and Mafia dons. For this reason, a breakup of the country into several smaller entities is probably the least bad option for everybody, especially the Ukrainians themselves.

One big explosion or several smaller ones?

What if you were offered the choice to either be in the room A where 100gr of TNT would be detonated at once, or in room B where 5 times 20gr of TNT would be detonated sequentially, with some possibly not exploding at all? The choice is obvious, right? The same goes for the Ukraine.

There might be much less danger for the entire continent if the Ukraine was allowed to break up in several parts (Donbass, Central, Souther and Western for example) and this might be much better for the local population too. For one thing some parts are far more viable than others. They are also very different. And since the Ukraine in its current borders is both a creation of Lenin and Stalin and has no basis in history anyway, a breakup might be a much safer and more natural process than desperate attempts to keep this artificial entity alive. In ideological terms the Ukraine is a fantastic idea: a large virulently anti-Russian state ‘protecting’ the rest of Europe from the Russian hordes. Great! But as soon as one looks at the practicalities of such a project it becomes immediately clear that it is a crazy notion born in the sick minds of the rabidly russophobic western religious and political elites. The only question is this: will the western plutocrats agree to give up on the monster they created? The future of Russian does not depend on the answer, but the future of Europe probably will.

The Saker (http://thesaker.is/latest-articles/)

Sophocles

21st July 2015, 19:48

Thousands of Ukraine ultranationalists gather on Maidan, announce ‘new revolution’ (http://www.rt.com/news/310396-ukraine-right-sector-revolution/)

Published time: 21 Jul, 2015 18:18 Russia Today

Up to 6,000 supporters of Ukraine’s ultranationalist Right Sector movement gathered in central Kiev on Tuesday, calling on authorities to resign. The rally marks a “new stage of Ukrainian revolution,” the extremists' leader Dmitry Yarosh announced.

The radicals marched through the center of the Ukrainian capital on Tuesday evening, gathering on Maidan (Independence Square). The rally largely consisted of people wearing camouflage clothes, waving the red and black flags of the Ukrainian Insurgent Army (UPA). They were chanting “death to enemies,” TASS reported.

Speaking on Maidan, Right Sector (Pravy Sektor) leader Dmitry Yarosh said that the group is “showing that we are a disciplined revolutionary force,” opening a “new stage of Ukrainian revolution” with the Tuesday rally.

Ahead of the rally, Yarosh has said that the gathering would be “peaceful” in nature.

The ultranationalist group announced its plans to initiate a referendum on a vote of no-confidence in the Ukrainian authorities. At the rally, protesters demanded the resignation of Ukraine's Interior Minister Arsen Avakov.

Field offices will be organized in all regions of Ukraine to work on the referendum starting from Wednesday, Yarosh announced at the rally, saying that those Right Sector centers will also act as “revolutionary committees.” Imposing martial law on the territory of Ukraine should also be put on the vote, he said.

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(Streamed live on Jul 21, 2015)

“People must voice their attitude to what's happening in the country ... the government should know that if the people are not pleased with it, then it must go,” Yarosh said, as quoted by TASS. If the movement is not given the right to organize the referendum, then they will create their own election committee and “will vote independently on the whole territory of Ukraine,” he added.

Average working people also joined the Tuesday rally, being displeased with poor living standards in the country under the Poroshenko government, RT's correspondent Murad Gazdiev reported from Ukraine.

"Ukraine is in absolutely terrible state at the moment, the economic situation is much worse than it was two years ago under Yanukovich," journalist and broadcaster from London Neil Clark told RT. "It's quite predictable" that people have taken to the streets, he added.

"The situation is going to get worse, because ordinary people are saying ‘what was all that about?’” Clark said, adding that ultranationalists might contribute to destabilizing the situation, as President Poroshenko is now "attacking the very people who helped bring him to power."

Right Sector radicals participated in Ukraine's previous revolution, and have since been fighting in the in eastern Ukraine conflict. The heavily-armed battalions, who have previously denounced the Minsk ceasefire, made calls "to blockade Donbass" during the Tuesday rally.

On Sunday, the Ukrainian capital saw a large march of approximately 2,000 people who took to the streets of Kiev to protest high housing and public utilities prices. Some of the Sunday march banners read "where are the reforms?" and "we are dying of hunger." A similar rally happened in the city of Dnepropetrovsk in central Ukraine, where dozens of demonstrators, mainly people of older age, blocked one of the roads in the city, demanding the resignation of President Poroshenko.

RT (http://www.rt.com/news/310396-ukraine-right-sector-revolution/)

Sophocles

6th August 2015, 22:02

From another angle... If we imagine Putin as one of the highest ranking members of public figures with ties to the illuminati, then it might be worth listening a little bit to this guy.

Here is a former norwegian politician (Labour Party), Norulv Øvrebotten (https://plus.google.com/107328434592456953099/posts), who claims both 9/11 and the Utøya shootings and Oslo bombings to be the work of the KGB/FSB. Since 2011 he has been mostly censored in the norwegian media (he has a facebook and a google+ account) until now. A couple of days ago one of his comments (http://journalisten.no/2015/08/journalistikk-basert-pa-vennetjenester-og-korrupsjon) were left uncensored (in norwegian). According to himself the reason for that being the norwegian msm now are starting to realize the terror in july 2011 was something more than just a lone man`s work.

Before Øvrebotten`s article (which is a couple of years old, by the way), here is a reminder of what happened in Russia when Putin came to power (in the documentary «Blowing up Russia (http://www.amazon.com/Blowing-Up-Russia-Secret-Terror/dp/1594032017/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1438894009&sr=8-1&keywords=blowing+up+russia)» (also a book by the assassinated Alexander Litvinenko (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alexander_Litvinenko)):

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The illusion of cultural enemies is designed to restrict the thinking of people. It is designed to convince people that the real enemy is not the evil that rules over them, but some imaginary demon that would do them harm.

Jeremy Locke, The End of All Evil (http://www.mensenrechten.org/wp-content/uploads/2014/05/EndofallEvil1.pdf)

Øvrebotten`s article:

The paradoxical logic of smart terror, and why the truth is contrary to what the world generally believes

My background, history and description:

I am a former reporter, chief editor and defence politician. During the last year I have been working on the disclosure of the deceptive operation in connection with the terror and mass murder in Norway on July 22nd 2011. Behind all the camouflage you will find also in this operation an old communist method which is recurring in a long row of similar combinations of murder and deception throughout recent history. In order to indirectly consolidate and accumulate power.

I live in Førde, Sogn og Fjordane County, Western Norway.

I have been a reporter at the NRK Radio newsdesk and NRK Radio foreign affairs editors in Oslo (1980-1986), and chief editor of the newspapers Firdaposten in Florø and Rogalands Avis in Stavanger in the nineteen nineties. In the last one I was also the administrative director.

Between 1986 and 1988 I was the Personal Secretary (Political Advisor) of Defence Minister Johan Jørgen Holst, who came from the position of director of the Norwegian Institute of Foreign Policy (NUPI), the man behind the Oslo Agreement of the Middle East in 1993, and also appreciated as Norway’s foremost politician on security and foreign affairs.

Johan Jørgen Holst died in service as Minister of Foreign Affairs in 1994, only 56 years old, after being hit by numerous cerebral hemorrhages. Prime Minister and physician Gro Harlem Brundtland immediately concluded that his death was due to a hereditary weakness of Mr. Holst. In that case I must be suffering from the same sort of weakness, in addition to a few others, but survived. Another of Johan Jørgen Holst’s secretaries who served as his deputy while he held the post of Defence Minister, was shot and killed in 1999. The murder (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Orderud_case) was camouflaged under a false motive and in a false context.

I have been a chairman of and sitting on several government appointed committees on defence matters. My security clearance was NATO Cosmic Top Secret.

Today I am retired, but the insight in defence and security politics does not depend on wearing a white collar or not. As a consequense of my background and personal experience I can give you an analysis and understanding of the political reality that goes far deeper than what you get in the normal press. I know the deep state far better than most other people.

I had my first prestigous appointment in the Ministry of Defence at the age of 23. While Rolf Hansen held the post of Defence Minister and Johan Jørgen Holst was his deputy. I then got infiltrated by Stasi, the East German Intelligence Service. With consequenses that escalated as time passed. In particular after the alleged outcome of the fall of the Berlin Wall was turned upside down in Norway as a consequense of new communist deceptions, and Stasi became incorporated into the KGB.

After the transition from The Soviet Union to Russia, the secret services of the Kremlin changed name and became the FSB, and the old, well masked domination over the Norwegian State from the days of Josef Stalin in the nineteen thirties, was reinforced and continued into a new era.

Norwegians have so far been through three name changes in the secret services that dominates and controls us: NKVD, KGB, and now FSB. In other words through several generations, starting more than 70 years ago. Norway lost their true independance and continued living on an illusion. Stalin doubled everything he could reach, not least whole states.

Very few people have had such an extensive and personal contact with eastern secret services as I have during my lifetime. So my insight regarding how double states work is profound. The subject of conspiracy is an integrated part of intelligence and security policy, and the Machiavellian life in the shadows is best learned through practice. Particularly when your life is at risk and you have to save it.

As a consequence of the insight into how Norway and other states in reality are controlled from the shadows in conditions of significance, smear campaigns are frequently run against me on the internet and otherwise. I choose to ignore those. This kind of methods is always used against dissidents in this kind of systems. If you don’t get killed. Both can happen to you.

Indirect deception means manipulating people in the surroundings of the target. The person who is the target will then be affected indirectly. Not just directly. As in normal deception. This is how the most professional cheaters create a snowball effect and Our Cause: The Cosa Nostra.

Using people in the surroundings of the target as intermediaries in order to fool, force and deceive, means the deception is mediate, not immediate, in other words. It is primarily indirect.

Just as much as a single person like myself and others, can be targeted for this kind of attack and deception, parts of or even complete populations can be targeted by the same kind of procedure, of which [the] July 22nd [terrorist attack] is an example. 9/11 is the same story. A similar structure is a recurrent feature in the different events. They come in creative variations, all spectacular.

I have gradually gained many years of experience as an infiltrated and persecuted critic of the system and an oppositional in Norway, and I have been exposed to several murder attempts, systematical abuse and harassment. By classic communist techniques.

Some of these techniques in psychological warfare, are described by British journalist Luke Harding of The Guardian in his book «Mafia State» released last year. He was mildly terrorised compared with what I have been exposed to in Norway. He was never exposed to physical torture.

People who get deprived of sleep, poisoned and harassed obviously become sick, but they don’t have a disease. Even if such an illusion can be created.

I have identified and am able to describe the most advanced methods of deception in public and private proceedings the last decade. This totalitarian phenomenon is international. The deceptions are first and foremost indirect, and are used in various forms to manipulate important issues for the desired outcome both in Norway and other western countries.

What I describe is how terror and deception are combined in smaller and bigger operations, after surveying the method of these schemes. They follow old recipes from the era of Joseph Stalin. In addition to include brutal violence and torture, they are built on techniques from [the trade of] magicians and other illusionists.

Modern operations of deception have evolved and gained higher levels of sophistication since the days of Lenin and Stalin, but the basic structure and mindset behind have not changed.

«Game of the negative space» was what the nazis called these schemes.

With these smart techniques crime can be white washed and dressed up as law and order, and passed as something different than what they are. Lawyers are very often used in these deceptions. Where the building blocks are contradictions. With illusion and deception as consequences.

You will then kill your friends in order to strenghten your friends, which has been demonstrated in Norway in 2011. In this kind of legal construction a basic contradiction is built into the essential structure of the scheme.

The combination of assassins and lawyers creates almost perfect crimes.

My conclusions follow as a consequense of identifying the method: You will find the same director behind the scenes in the terrorist attacks in the US in 1995 and 2001, as in Norway in 2011. The same applies for Poland in 2010.

This is revealed solely by the characteristic deception originating from the Soviet era that you will find in connection with the national proceedings of these attacks. Carried out against defenceless people.

Same method and other consistencies can be found in all of these circumstances. Which also applies for professional impostors appearing as lawyers. They apply procedures and techniques that trick everybody continually, adapted from illusionists. With masking the real purpose as a consequense.

Commissions lead by a lawyer is a standard element following this kind of terror in affected countries, and when this kind of reports is presented as unmasked and honest truth, the exact opposite is the actual fact. Everything is made more masked and dishonest as a result of the proceedings.

The prefabricated untruth about terror and murder is developed in this manner, and externally given more seriousness and authority as a consequence of the processing in special commissions of this kind, and the same happens when courts of law are dealing with these issues. Where deception is built on murder.

Stalin discovered the biggest western security loophole in the field of law, and this security loophole has now been blown bigger and changed into a permanently open gate. Western states of law can through the game of the negative space be turned into states of crime. With complicity in murder, terror and any other criminal activity.

Everything that was made for a good purpose can be turned into the exact opposite in this manner. Whole states and security systems can be turned against their own populations.

The signature belongs to the KGB. Using the old name of the eastern secret services. Which is called the FSB today. Plus the SVR and the GRU for other parts of these services, to be precise. Not that a new name means any methods and schemes have changed. The same models and procedures as before are still being used.

This is canny and evil genius from the era of Joseph Stalin.

Which is more vibrant than ever. The evil genius is only upgraded and modernised. Not least enabled to be masked as law and justice, even more than earlier. It has more than ever been systemized for this purpose. In a way that crime is gaining a semblance of legality, and can be presented as something different than what it really is.

The red thread from the old days has only changed colour. No real break with the past has occured in the East. Only the illusion that it happened has been created since 1992. With considerable consequences for the power structure in the West. At every level. It is therefore in the West, and not in the East, that the really substantial and deep break with the past occurs.

Strategic deception is an art of war that Moscow masters better than nobody else. Creating an illusion of loss can be ingenious in order to win. After twenty years of living with the consequences of this illusion, both Europe and the US are still under the covert Russian heal, now more than ever. Indirectly. As a consequence of this strategic feint, and the brutal terror attacks that has occured to consolidate covert power under the cover of this stratagem. In the really big game. Which the Americans call «The Grand Strategy».

The Mafia State of the era of Lenin and Stalin has been transformed, and as a consequence become really great and powerful. It is now a Russian led empire covering several continents. With several western intermediate level managers. Smartly encapsulated in the revised system of the East. Where covert power is what counts. Any other [powers] are just fronts in reality.

"The Dual State" was a totalitarian consept that communists and nazis had in common. Since then the dual state as basic principle has been systematically developed, made more sophisticated, realised and developed in one country after the other in the West. They all have a democratic external facade that covers up old and well known realities of political power internally. With the same kind of deception in public proceedings of important issues as a common strategic characteristic.

The impostors are generally disguised as lawyers. They are the moles. As before. With the difference that their numbers are now greater than ever.

The masked power of the East has been reinforced on a basis that was already systematically and well developed. The center of gravity has been moved westward during the last twenty years. With this kind of relocation of real power comes the combination of terror and deception to indirectly secure and consolidate what has been gained, and which is being acheived increasingly by this kind of totalitarian methods. Like the increasingly demoralised population of the US are experiencing.

The Americans are in reality going through a painful process from a life in freedom to a life in the opposite in a covert and increasingly totalitarian vassal state. As a consequence of having lost a cold war that they have been tricked to believe they won. Faith is a predisposing quality.

The game of the negative space have some absurd consequenses, and one of them is that the US lost the cold war a long time before it was officially over. With an illusion of the opposite result. The brutal coup against President John F. Kennedy in 1963 was a milestone in this respect. It is now 50 years since Kennedy got a bullet in his head. As if he was a kulak under Stalin.

Personnally I have no doubt that this coup in America was a deceptive operation from the KGB. After having identified the method. Which is consistent with similar situations and other deceptive operations from the East.

Later Russia has gained an increasingly good basis for controlling important issues in the US by means of intrigue and similar acts of deception. The Watergate scandal is standing out in particular. When Richard Nixon had to step down as president. In 1974. The method of deception with this result belonged to the KGB.

You still have to go further back in time than the days of Nixon and Kennedy to get a better understanding of the context. My analyses on the basis of having identified the eastern methods of deception , show that the Russians gained the strategic upper hand as early as soon after the end of WW2. When the US founded the CIA and created NATO in a way that made it possible to turn both against their real purposes, and gradually become much greater eastern successes than western.

This has been high class strategic art of war from Moscow since before WW2, and recent events like 9/11 in 2001, is much easier to comprehend when you are able to follow the correct loose ends backwards, after having identified the engine of the development. This engine is smart Russian deception. After the same recipe. Decade after decade. You have now entered a new millennium with the same old story.

Now socialism as an attraction and camouflage has been swapped with human rights. The world will be deceived, and you along with it. It is done cleverly. No one is against heaven on earth.

Russian brightness and intellectual superiority have been the crucial strategic success factors all these years. Now the Russian President Putin can use the US almost like a Foreign Legion wherever he wants. Like you saw unfolding in Libya in 2011. Which doesn’t exactly indicate that Putin has lost any cold war. Neither any other war. A warm one.

The combination of terror and deception is always present in the company of the totalitarian power. Like it used to be in the era of Stalin. It is a paradox that the unrestrained brutality itself is blinding most people from the fact that this is the same old story all over again. Even today. It has only come much closer to the life of even more western people. Covert communist terror which through deception passes guilt to others, is no longer far away and distant.

The truth is really there for everybody to see, and therefore it gets easily overlooked.

The context should be easy to understand. When it is explained in a simple way: The indirect consequense of the combination of terror and deception is that people will support the system. Which the killing in reality happened for. Entire populations are getting tricked into it.

Such brutal terror with great shock effect thus has a rational explanation in a strategic context. Power is fortified and consolidated. The logic of war is not linear. It is paradoxical. Therefore the consequenses of terror is also paradoxical. The purpose is achieved indirectly.

My profile picture was taken in 1996. This is used deliberately. That was the year when the legal position I had from my birth as a human being was turned upside down in the alleged western state of law of which I was a citizen. Precisely as a consequense of the game of the negative space against me. That is why I became an expert. Smart deception dressed up as smart law is something I understand better than most people, after having investigated and uncovered this game for seventeen years. In detail. Either if such deception is combined with murder or not.

All conditions were systematically turned upside down in my case, and subsequently others were tricked into acting on this false basis. Which is what this communist method of deception involves otherwise as well. Wherever it is used. From micro to macro levels.

«Once false, always false», the arrangement is. Both in large and small. Reality is shaped when you and others are tricked into acting on the illusions. These illusions are created continuously as a consequense of the method itself when the game of the negative space is the engine of the development. In these charades the normal consequense is that the truth of any matter is the opposite of what you are tricked to percieve. This is a characteristic consequence of the illusions.

The human mind has a built-in weakness: It perceives the cause first, then the effect. This weakness makes it possible for magicians, scammers and impostors to trick you. It is a weakness utilized to the maximum in these communist deceptions.

Any positive condition is given a simultaneous negation, and others are tricked into acting on the basis of the negation. The deception thus has ever increasing, compelling consequenses. For the one or for those who are targeted.

The working principle of the communist game of the negative space, is breaking a principle. Consistently and consequently.

And it isn’t just any principle which is broken. The principle of non-contradiction according to Aristotle, also known as the law of non-contradiction, stating that contradictory statements cannot both be true in the same sense at the same time. It is considered the most important principle of rational thinking. Which is the basis of western civilisation, enlightenment and progress.

Communist barbarism and deception of the East, either in its old or new form, constitutes a completely different basis of human life. Where two or more contradictory statements are considered true at the same time. Conclusions are claimed to prove the premises. Where honest thinking and rational argumentation to make advance in life, in reality is replaced by trickery and robbery, coercion and brute force in general. Dishonesty and untruth have been reduced to a system. In that case the West has broken with the values and civilisation of the past, which are founded on the basis of rationality. On a system of common sense.

Then freedom is lost.

Nine-eleven 2001 in the US and July 22nd 2011 in Norway, are two of several incidents which confirms this increasing loss of freedom. Something that is easier to understand when the method of this combination of terror and deception is identified. When the right context has been clarified.

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Insanity is not an inability to perceive reality; it is a willing rejection of reality in favor of the artificial constructs of tyranny.

Jeremy Locke, The End of All Evil (http://www.mensenrechten.org/wp-content/uploads/2014/05/EndofallEvil1.pdf)

Cidersomerset

6th August 2015, 22:22

Hi Sophocles well done for keeping the thread going and updating it , you reminded
me of an interview on the Richie Allen show about the possible 'false flag' attack
in Oslo by the usual insane , white supremacist lone gunman. I don't know if you
listened to it when I posted it, but it opened my eyes to the events on that infamous
day. The journalist seems genuine and shows these operatives will do anything.

Its related because it ties into all these other 'false flags' and agendas that are
playing out in various parts of the globe.

Ole Dammegard: “False Flag Operations Are Almost Always A Drill Used To Get Explosives, Actors & Vehicles Into Position”

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There are to many 'psycopaths ' in positions of power all around the world.

Institute of Peace (Inversion) Hawkish Chairman Wants Ukraine to Send Russians Back in Body Bags

By ickonic on 4th August 2015

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‘The United States Institute of Peace is a publicly funded national institution
chartered by the U.S. government to promote international peace through
nonviolent conflict resolution.

But its chairman, Stephen Hadley, is a relentless hawk whose advocacy for greater
military intervention often dovetails closely with the interests of Raytheon, a major
defense contractor that pays him handsomely as a member of its board of directors.

Hadley, the former national security adviser to President George W. Bush, was an
advocate for the 2003 invasion of Iraq and more recently appeared in the media to
call for massive airstrikes in Syria. Over the last year, he has called for escalating
the conflict in Ukraine.’

Read more: Institute of Peace (Inversion) Hawkish Chairman Wants Ukraine to Send Russians Back in Body Bags

https://firstlook.org/theintercept/2015/08/01/u-s-institute-peace-chair-calls-military-response-global-conflicts/

Sophocles

6th August 2015, 23:03

Thanks, Cidersomerset. I had not seen it, so I will listen to it soon. Looks interesting. Thank you.

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This kind of ties in with Øvrebottens thesis in post #573:

William H. McIlhany talks with Chrisopher Story in 2003 about how (the new) Russia seemingly became weaker (in the post-Soviet era) after the (illusory, according to Anatoly Golitsyn (http://www.amazon.com/Perestroika-Deception-Memoranda-Central-Intelligence/dp/1899798005/ref=sr_1_1?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1438877085&sr=1-1&keywords=perestroika+deception)) removal of the iron curtain.

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William H. McIlhany (at 19:58 min): «The performance of political democratism, where we see alleged rival parties and rival candidates taking part in elections in the so called new Russia, and the new satelite nations, when actually all of these parties are controlled by KGB-personell and it is a performance for the american public to watch on CNN and through other parts of the media. A major part of this trategy since 1961 has consisted of building slowly and installing a very dictatorial, regional world government over all of Europe on top of the existing socialist bureaucracies that are in the governments in each of these countries. Over all of Europe, and now sadly also Britain in the form of the European Union. And this constitutes an accomplishment of Leninist strategy as predicted by Golitsyn.

And of course while the KGB had infiltrated all the European governments and the British government as they had infiltrated the american CIA and other parts of the United States government, in addition to that the current treaty arrangments between the Eropean Union based in Brussels and the new Russia mean that there`s even further, tighter Soviet and KGB controll over the foreign policy of this new globalist regional government that controlls Europe and Britain.»

Christopher Story (at 21:28 min): «I don`t disagree with any of that. One of the important things that Golitsyn teaches us in the Perestroika Deception is that it does not matter who wins an election because the communists always win...This business of controlling all the political parties and allowing them to adopt different names, this was a conscious policy which was laid down by Gorbatchev and Jeltsin at the 28. party congress in july 1990. Both Gorbatchev and Jeltsin made speeches in which they said to the comrades «Now is the time to follow whatever path you feel would be most appropriate» (in a nutshell). So that is what I call democratism, which is the creation and maintenance of the illusion of democracy. Now that pattern is being implemented in the European Union, because by various means almost all the participants at national level in the political process are selected, appointed or chosen for the job...When Gorbatchev visited London briefly for a day on the 23. of march, 2000, he acknowledged and stated that the European Union is the new European Soviet. What the EU is is a political collective. In a political collective decisions are taken collectively, no individual nation can take any decisions.»

Cidersomerset

6th August 2015, 23:53

So that is what I call democratism, which is the creation and maintenance of the
illusion of democracy. Now that pattern is being implemented in the European Union,

'Democratism' the illusion of democracy . This has been going on for a very long in
UK with the Tories and the 'whigs' ,(with few people able to vote ),which morphed
into the Tories and Liberals then after WW1 the Lab party took hold and eventually
after WW11 ,polarized into the left and right, with the liberal centre being squeezed
out. There was a sort of Liberal revival in the UK in the 1990's , but it was by Blair's
centre left for 'New labour' and the Conservatives have done something similar
from the centre right with Cameron. Basically all three parties including the Liberals
fighting over the centre of politics where the majority of voters in most western
'democracies' are today, though extremist parties are raising there heads again
remember where that led in the 1930's.

This template has been copied around the world especially in the Anglo - Saxon
countries the US ,Canada, Australia and many other nations . While others like
Germany, Italy Israel are made up of smaller parties that need coalitions ,and
have proportional representation which are probably more democratic than the
first past the post system we have here and the UK, but just as open to corruption
and manipulation.Russia took a different road after WW1 as with China and some
other monarchies and other forms of government.

Russia has taken the democratic illusionary path that the political parties at the top
are different. When in fact TPTB that manipulate the 'elite' 1 % in most of the
significant countries and many smaller ones by the usual ,financial , economical and
other forms of political blackmail , are really running the world. So all these
conflicts , 'false flags' for wars and control manipulated. This sounds far fetched ,
but if you look at it from the point of view that humanity has been hijacked, maybe
from thebeginning by inter dimentional entities that rule thru bloodlines' and thrive
off war and chaos and feeds off the adrenalin given off by humans particularly in a
state of fear. This whole bloody international mess of 'War , fear, hunger and debt'
makes a lot of sense .

If not the human race is just a barbaric species capable of great cruelty and
spectacular beauty , and all the spectrum in between. For the of the 1 % Oligarchs,
royalty , corporate and 'Bankster' elites only they are greedy selfish flawed humans.
I think we are greater spiritually than that , and if you ask most 'normal ' people
they all seem to want peace and prosperity and an end to poverty and hunger.
Yet the reality we are showed in the media is designed to keep us in fear and
control , especially with this false 'war on terror meme' and designed regional
conflicts that keep the mil ind complex's ticking over and supplying scared
victims to feed off. Societies have changed over the past century and with
new technology have sped up computer wise in the last few decades .

There are many threads that connect together from the Who are we ? threads
break away civilisations ,UFO's , ET connections , Religions ,suppression , control ,
Big brother, Corporations mil and civil , Banksters , Illuminatti , NWO etc...

But we seem stuck in a never ending cycle of war and peace and manipulation
by some one , whether terrestrial , extra terrestrial or inter dimensional. Anyway
I digress ,I'm not sure why this just flowed from my fingers. Synchronicity again I
suppose !! and connecting those 'bleadin' dots...LOL

Cidersomerset

7th August 2015, 07:58

Interventionism policies have created the conditions for the likes of Al Qaeda and
ISIS/ISIL. We would say this is part of the Neo -Con plan for the 'New
American 'century and the NWO agenda playing out . See Bills Anglo -Saxon mission
vid , which though stalled may still be on the back burner. As with all strategic
plans , on the ground the different war / propaganda theatres may play out
different to local circumstance and events . But this whole middle east manoeuvring
and 'war on terror meme' is all part of the redrawing of the map to suite Israel &
Saudi and interests.The very strong Israeli lobby and Saudi oil money backed
by the Neo -con plan taken over by the democrats , which goes back to the
previuos posts , all political parties are manipulated at the top level to carry out these plans.

9/11 was the pearl harbour event to get all this kick started,and immediately before
the dust had settled ove New York,there was a list of suspects and military goals
and targets that have been playing out since. Meanwhile the former 'cold war'
enemies have regrouped , modernised and potentially could be drawn into
the bigger conflict again as seen with events in the Crimea and East Ukraine , parts
of North East china, and disputed islands in the China sea causing friction with
Japan , and of course North Korea is on the back burner waiting for possible
intervention. They were the nuclear no.1 renegades a decade ago. But with the
focus on the Middle east and Ukraine , that's stalled for now

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‘Root of all evil? US intervention, not Assad’ – Ron Paul University director to RT

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Published on 6 Aug 2015

The US State Department blames the Syrian government for the rise of Islamic State.
Meanwhile, America carries out bombings in Syria, launching strikes from a base in
Turkey. Daniel McAdams, executive director of Ron Paul University shares his perspective

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US launches first anti-ISIS drone strikes from Turkey

By ickonic on 7th August 2015

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Published on 6 Aug 2015

The US has launched its first drone strikes at northern Syria from a Turkish airbase,
the Pentagon has reported. This comes as Washington struck a deal to use the base
in its fight against Islamic State. READ MORE: http://on.rt.com/6oib

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Turkey Invades Syria and Iraq: Erdogan’s ‘Erratic’ Behavior

By ickonic on 7th August 2015 War and Terror

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‘Turkey has been acting pretty erratic these past couple of weeks, launching a
surprise dual offensive in Syria and Iraq, condemning Russia for
alleged ‘oppression’ against the Crimean Tatars, and suspending the Balkan Stream
pipeline negotiations. All of this is somewhat unexpected – after all, Turkey had
thus far refrained from the US’ pleas to launch a conventional attack on Syria;
never had any serious issues about Crimea’ reunification before; and had earlier
agreed to the Balkan Stream in order to enhance its own geostrategic clout.

While each of Turkey’s actions pertaining to these three circumstances can be
attributable to their own situational peculiarities, they all share two inseparable
components, which are Erdogan’s electioneering efforts prior to the probable snap
vote and his pipeline posturing with respect to Balkan Stream gas discounts.’

http://orientalreview.org/2015/08/06/erdogans-erratic-behavior-explained/

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Saudi Arabia sends reinforcements, dozens more tanks to Yemen

By ickonic on 7th August 2015 War and Terror

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‘Saudi Arabia has sent dozens more armored vehicles and trained troops to help the
supporters of Yemen’s President Hadi fight Houthi rebels in the country following
months of air bombardments, which have so far failed to break the deadlock
between rival camps on the ground.According to reports from the ground dozens of
Riyadh tanks and other armored vehicles entered Yemen in the past 48 hours via
Wadia, a border post in northern Yemen.

“Dozens of tanks, armored vehicles and personnel carriers, as well as hundreds of
Yemeni soldiers trained in Saudi Arabia, arrived in Yemen overnight,” a Yemeni
military source told AFP.’

Read more: Saudi Arabia sends reinforcements, dozens more tanks to Yemen

http://www.rt.com/news/311810-saudi-reinforcements-tanks-yemen/?utm_source=browser&utm_medium=aplication_chrome&utm_campaign=chrome

Cidersomerset

7th August 2015, 09:12

David is still posting articles he has seen today on his headline page and
they all tie in, and to be fair this applies to most days . Which strengthens
the theory these events are all connected by plan or adapting to the changing
situation on the ground. Created by the Neo -con Israeli backed and other
backed NWO. I 've just been posting on the Apollo 11 thread and had another
look on Davids page and was greeted by this article and others that are related
imo.. Another take on the Neo-con hawke Stephen Hadley , these are Russian
articles but they are not nessessarily biased and it ties in with everything
going on.

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War is Peace': US Neocons Urge Washington to Flood Ukraine With Weapons

By ickonic on 7th August 2015

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‘American hawks are calling upon the US government to “flood” Ukraine with weapons because
they are more concerned about their own wallets than about European security, US journalist
Lee Fang points out.

Although the United States Institute of Peace and its chairman Stephen Hadley profess that they
promote international peace through nonviolent conflict resolution, it is not what they are actually
doing, US journalist and writer Lee Fang underscores.

“Stephen Hadley is a relentless hawk whose advocacy for greater military intervention often
dovetails closely with the interests of Raytheon, a major defense contractor that pays him
handsomely as a member of its board of directors,” the journalist revealed.”

Read more: War is Peace': US Neocons Urge Washington to Flood Ukraine With Weapons

http://sputniknews.com/politics/20150806/1025474911.html

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Al Jazeera – The Day Israel Attacked America the first time....USS Liberty

By ickonic on 7th August 2015

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One year after shelling Gaza’s hospitals, Israel starves them of power

By ickonic on 7th August 2015

‘Nabeel Muhammad’s job would be demanding under any circumstances. He is a
nurse working with seriously ill patients. The difficulties that he faces have been
multiplied by a power crisis in the Gaza Strip.

“The machines in the intensive care units do not work without electricity,” he
explained. Incubators for premature babies in al-Aqsa hospital in central Gaza,
where he is based, have even been affected.

The problems besetting this hospital illustrate how it has been under constant
attack by one means or another for many years. In July 2014, it was shelled during
Operation Protective Edge, Israel’s 51-day bombardment of Gaza. The power cuts
that imperil the provision of basic services across Gaza have occurred repeatedly
since Israel bombed the Strip’s only power plant in 2006.’

Read more: One year after shelling Gaza’s hospitals, Israel starves them of power

https://electronicintifada.net/content/one-year-after-shelling-gazas-hospitals-israel-starves-them-power/14753

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OSCE saw no military hardware, weaponry crossing from Russia to Ukraine – mission head

By ickonic on 7th August 2015 War and Terror

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‘No military hardware, weaponry or people bearing arms have crossed the Russian-
Ukrainian border during nearly a year of observations, said Paul Picard, the chief of
the OSCE monitoring mission deployed at border crossing points in Donetsk and Gukovo.

“We have not seen any military equipment crossing the Donetsk or Gukovo
checkpoints,” Picard said at a press conference in Russia’s southern city of Rostov-
on-Don. The Organization for Security and Co-operation in Europe observers have
also “never seen people crossing the border with weapons. The border guard and
customs strictly watch over this,” he added.’

Read more: OSCE saw no military hardware, weaponry crossing from Russia to Ukraine – mission head

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http://www.rt.com/news/311800-osce-russia-ukraine-weapons/?utm_source=browser&utm_medium=aplication_chrome&utm_campaign=chrome

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ISIS in Afghanistan: Proxy War against Iran and China

By ickonic on 7th August 2015 War and Terror

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‘The nature of the war in Afghanistan has shifted dramatically in recent months.
While the US and NATO continue to be actively involved in the country – their
strategic objectives having changed very little since the Bush administration
launched the war nearly a decade and a half ago – the complexion of the
battlefield, and the parties actively engaged in the war, has changed significantly.

The emergence of ISIS in Afghanistan, along with the impending withdrawal of US-
NATO troops from the country, has driven the Taliban into a marriage of
convenience, if not an outright alliance, with Iran. What seemed like an
unfathomable scenario just a few years ago, Shia Iran’s support for the hardline
Sunni Taliban has become a reality due to the changing circumstances of the war.
Though it may be hard to believe, such an alliance is now a critical element of the
situation on the ground in Afghanistan. But its significance is far larger than just
shifting the balance of power within the country.’

Read more: ISIS in Afghanistan: Proxy War against Iran and China

http://journal-neo.org/2015/08/04/isis-in-afghanistan-proxy-war-against-iran-and-china/

Rocky_Shorz

9th August 2015, 23:30

Hey everyone, red flags all over this report from Sorcha...

I think this meteor was a first strike trying to kick off WW III

hidden in deniable "junk" says it all, let me help with a filter into what I see it saying...

"August 8, 2015

Russian Special Forces Converge On Massive Alien Spacecraft Debris Field In Iran

An astounding new report being circulated in the Kremlin today by the Ministry of Defense (MoD) states that “significant elements” of the newly created Aerospace Defence Forces (VKO) and the 22nd Spetsnaz (Special Forces) Brigade are currently being deployed throughout the Islamic Republic of Iran and are working in conjunction with the Army of the Guardians of the Islamic Revolution (IRGC) to “inspect and identify” items within the massive debris field that resulted from the 31 July shootdown of an alien spacecraft.

According to this report, the near catastrophic meteor impact occurring in Iran on 31 July which set off a 5.2 magnitude trembler was, in fact, a coordinated Federation-Iranian “successful intersection” of an “identified” alien spacecraft whose extraterrestrial entities are known to be working with certain elements of the United States military against both Russia and Israel. "

if you look at the videos on Youtube, you will see many are saying it is a missile strike...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NwfB4cfj-bU

"The identification of this alien spacecraft, this report continues, was made by VKO forces on 29 June after it attempted to “attack and destroy” another spacecraft entering the atmosphere of our Earth over the State of Texas, and which we reported on in our 9 July report Jade Helm-15 War Exercise Linked To Nordic Alien UFO’s Invading Texas.

While maintaining constant surveillance, since 29 June, of this “known to be hostile” spacecraft, VKO experts in this report state, analysts calculating its orbit determined it could be “intersected” in its orbital path by Kosmos 2491 and 2504 on 31 July as it passed over Iran.

Upon the determination that this spacecraft could be “intersected”, this report says, Federation “leadership elements” contacted their Iranian counterparts who then dispatched to Moscow the head of the IRGC, Major General Qassem Suleimani, on 24 July, to coordinate the taking down of this “hostile entity”.

As it is illegal under Federation law to quote from any MoD report the exact characteristics of the Kosmos space-weapon satellites, various public news sources do note that they can be likened to “space assassins” due to their ability to maneuver, and that by their other unique characteristics, many believe that Russia is preparing for a space war by its placing them in orbit. "

"With a coordinated plan in place to take down this spacecraft over Iran, MoD analysts in this report state, Kosmos 2491 and 2504, on 31 July, made a “successful intersection” of it causing it to break into numerous fragments…the majority of which fell into the Iranian regions of Eshtehard, Kerman and Bandar-e Mahshahr.

Of the worst effects to people in the massive debris field of these spacecraft fragments falling upon Iran, this report further states, was the region around Bandar-e Mahshahr where the “main propulsion unit” of this craft fell generating a heat field described as causing the hottest temperatures ever endured by mankind as the temperature skyrocketed to an unbelievable 73C (164F) before it was extinguished by Federation forces using “special measures”.

As to how the VKO was able to identify this alien spacecraft as being hostile and needing to be “intersected”, this report explains, was due its being previously identified as being the same type of spacecraft that landed during broad daylight in Voronezh on 27 September 1989 and was piloted by 3 meter (9 feet) giant extraterrestrial entities. "

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X3PoXMsBao4

"As to why the United States has aligned itself with these “giants” of old whom were last expelled from Earth when their “second atmosphere” was destroyed thus creating the Great Flood, this MoD report doesn’t say….but President Putin’s stance is made very clear, and as we had reported in our 3 August report: Putin Orders “Massive Response” After Alien Space Fleet Spotted Over Japan.

Also, due to this shootdown over Iran of one of their craft, that both NASA and the US media are continuing to cover up, more reports of who the exact combatants in this final war for our planet are will, most certainly, be revealed much sooner than later. " link (http://www.whatdoesitmean.com/index1899.htm)

now take out everything related to 9' aliens, I call then Squatches, but we have a different thread for that discussion...

this report is about Space weapons...

the missile was blasted out of the air en route to the Capital of Iran, Tehran

Israel has been shown their defenses can be shut off at any time... Now they have been shown their best offensive weapons can be blown out of the air...

Congress is fighting Obama on the peace agreement...

now a possible rogue element of the US military under Israels control launched on Iran...

Ben said arrests are coming, could they be related to this event?

News agencies haven't spoke a word of what is going on...

Sophocles

31st August 2015, 11:39

Multiple injuries in Kiev as grenade explodes during protest against constitutional law (http://www.rt.com/news/313880-ukraine-radicals-protest-parliament/)

Published time: 31 Aug, 2015 10:23
Edited time: 31 Aug, 2015 11:22

At least 10 special forces troops have been injured as a grenade exploded during clashes in front of the parliament in the Ukrainian capital. Crowds of protesters came to oppose amendments to the constitution that would provide for decentralization of the country.

“A combat grenade has been thrown at the Ukrainian special forces. Some of the servicemen from [Ukraine] National Guard have been seriously injured. Their life is in danger,” Anton Gerashchenko, an adviser to Kiev’s Interior Ministry, wrote on his Facebook page.

The Ukrainian National Guard said on Facebook at least twenty of its servicemen have been injured in the clashes in Kiev. Other sources put the number of those injured at 30.

Tweets from journalists at the scene said supporters of the radical group Right Sector were brutally attacking police officers.

The Ukrainian UNIAN news agency also reported that smoke bombs were being thrown along with stones. Police are now trying to stop the demonstrators from storming the parliament building.

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Inside the parliament, members of the Radical party attempted to block the tribune as the debate got under way. The disruption was led by the leader of the Radical Party, Oleg Lyashko.

Lyashko, along with his fellow party member Igor Mosiychuk, have recently been accused of organizing a criminal group, kidnappings and torture. On Saturday, Ukraine’s prosecutor general opened a case against the two right-wing politicians.

Full article at RT (http://www.rt.com/news/313880-ukraine-radicals-protest-parliament/)

Akasha

6th September 2015, 15:40

Just came across the following short post at stopthewar.org.uk (http://stopwar.org.uk/news/obama-and-cameron-clear-up-any-confusion-about-why-they-are-bombing-iraq-and-syria). No doubt it embodies what most are thinking regarding the seemingly contradictory sides being taken by those involved in the increasingly confusing Middle East conflict (jeez, that sentence was bad enough too - must be catching):

Why we're bombing Iraq and Syria: Statement by Barack Obama and David Cameron clears up any confusion

As told to Audrey Bailey.

You may be confused about why we are bombing Iraq and Syria. So we will make ourselves very clear.

We support the Iraqi government in the fight against ISIS.

We don't like ISIS, but ISIS has been supported by Saudi Arabia, whom we do like, and Saudi Arabia is now supporting us in bombing ISIS.

We don't like President Assad in Syria. We support the fight against him, but not ISIS, which is also fighting against him.

We don't like Iran, but Iran supports the Iraqi government against ISIS.

So some of our friends support our enemies and some of our enemies are our friends, and some of our enemies are fighting against our other enemies whom we want to lose, but we don't want our enemies who are fighting our enemies to win.

If the people we want to defeat are defeated, they might be replaced by people we like even less.

And all this was started by us invading Iraq to drive out terrorists who weren't there until we went to drive them out.

We hope you now understand.

Sophocles

30th September 2015, 19:53

Russia establishes 'no fly' zone for NATO planes over Syria, moves to destroy "ISIS" - Pentagon freaks out (http://www.sott.net/article/302979-Russia-establishes-no-fly-zone-for-NATO-planes-over-Syria-moves-to-destroy-ISIS-Pentagon-freaks-out)

Joe Quinn
Sott.net (http://www.sott.net/)
Wed, 30 Sep 2015 11:05 UTC

You may, or may not, have noticed the growing body of evidence over the past year or two that strongly suggests that the U.S. government and its European "allies" are not really serious about destroying "ISIS".

The first hint came early last year when the jihadi mercenaries took large swathes of Iraq and Syria, and the West did nothing but wring its collective hands and fret, and resolve to bolster the fighting capability of the wonderful "rebels".

The second hint came this year when the U.S. and their partners began piecemeal airstrikes against "ISIS" that appeared to merely spur the head-choppers on to more success.

The third hint came with reports that weapons supplies being sent to "Syrian rebels" were 'accidentally' ending up in the hands of the head-choppers.

The most recent confirmation that Western politicians and military types effectively view "ISIS" as 'their guys' came in the last few weeks when the Pentagon reacted to news that Russia was in the process of establishing an air base in Western Syria, from which to attack all foreign forces in Syria involved in the four-year-long attempted coup against the Syrian government.

Putin's speech at the UN two days ago (http://www.sott.net/article/302940-Surprise-Even-Western-media-concedes-Putin-stole-Obamas-thunder-at-UN-General-Assembly) appears to have been the signal (one that was apparently missed by the Pentagon, perhaps because it was couched in clear, honest language) that Russia was about to 'get real' and make good on its intention to prevent the overthrow of Assad, defend the civilian population of Syria against ISIS and solve the European 'refugee crisis' in the process.

On the same day as Putin's speech, the Russian government revealed that Iraq had decided to sign an intelligence-sharing accord with Syria, Iran and Russia as part of the mission to wipe ISIS from the pages of history. They even set up a center in Baghdad to facilitate this information-sharing and have invited other nations interested in joining the counterterrorism effort in Syria to sign up.

Today, with a speed that indicates the result of the vote was a foregone conclusion, the Russian parliament unanimously agreed to allow the Russian military to engage in Syria. The decision was rubber-stamped by the Duma on the basis that the Syrian government had invited the Russian military to help in their fight against terrorists, and with the rationale (http://www.rt.com/news/317041-preemptive-strike-putin-terrorism/) that ISIS terrorists and the 2000 (give or take) Russian nationals that have joined them "must be defeated there and not allowed to return to their home countries [e.g. Russia] with battle experience and ideology adopted in the war zone." Russian involvement in Syria is, therefore, very much in keeping with international law, a quaint notion long since dispensed with by the "international community" of Washington, London and a few EU capitals.

But just in case anyone was still in doubt, Russian Foreign Minister Lavrov today pointed out at the UN Security Council debate (https://www.rt.com/news/317073-lavrov-isis-wmd-components/) that "ISIS" possesses "elements of Weapons of Mass Destruction", a claim which is decidedly more plausible than the U.S. claim that Saddam had WMDs back in 2003.

With a consistency between word and action that exposes Western governments for the liars they are, the Russian military, on the orders of Putin, today began carrying out air strikes against Jihadi targets in Syria:

"In accordance with the decision of the Supreme Commander of the Russian Federation Armed Forces, Vladimir Putin, Russian airforce planes today began air operations with surgical strikes against identified ground targets of the terrorist group Isil in the Syrian Arab Republic."

By all accounts, the Pentagon appears to have been caught with its pants down, which is not surprising given that so many of its employees spend their time watching child porn on their computers. (http://investmentwatchblog.com/5200-pentagon-employees-bought-child-pornography-investigation-halted-after-8-months/)

Yesterday, Deputy Defense Secretary Bob Work told a Senate Armed Services Committee (http://www.sputniknews.com/world/20150930/1027766271/iraq-intelligence-syria-iran-russia.html) hearing that he was "surprised" at the decision by Iraq's Joint Operations Command to share intelligence with Syria, Iran and Russia in an effort to coordinate action against the Islamic State. The problem for the Pentagon here is twofold: 1) Iraq, Syria, Iran and Russia combining their resources to defeat "ISIS" puts the US and NATO firmly out of the picture. 2) The Pentagon had, in its hubris, believed that the Iraqi government was sufficiently 'owned' that it could share sensitive US military intelligence about US military activities (and US proxy forces) with the Iraqis. There is now a risk that that intelligence may be made available to the Russians, allowing for the better targeting of US and Saudi proxy forces in Syria, and even Iraq.

The next surprise came this morning, when Russia effectively told the U.S. (http://www.bbc.com/news/world-middle-east-34399164) it had one hour to leave Syria:

"A Russian official in Baghdad this morning informed US Embassy personnel that Russian military aircraft would begin flying anti-ISIL missions today over Syria.

"He further requested that US aircraft avoid Syrian airspace during these missions," U.S. State Department spokesman John Kirby said.

Despite the fact that Russia, Iran and Syria are targeting terrorist groups in Syria, Defense Sec. Work said: "obviously, we are not going to share intelligence with either Syria, or Russia, or Iran, so we are in the process of working to try and find out exactly what Iraq has said."

In further evidence that things have gone a little 'pear-shaped' for the Pentagon, deputy assistant secretary of defense for Russia, Ukraine and Eurasia, Evelyn Farkas, has been fired has resigned and will leave at the end of October, according to a senior U.S. defense official. Ms Farkas's responsibilities included dealing with Russia on Syria and Ukraine. Oops.

By carefully choosing which type of military aid to give to Syria, Russia has effectively created a 'no fly' zone for NATO war planes above large swathes of Syria, unless of course pilots more accustomed to engaging in turkey shoots (http://dictionary.reference.com/browse/turkey+shoot) want to risk being blown out of the sky.

It is almost certain that the Russian S-300 anti-aircraft missile system is now operational in Syria. (http://www.ynetnews.com/articles/0,7340,L-4597645,00.html) "ISIS" has no air force, so this system was clearly intended to protect against a NATO bombing campaign aimed at the Syrian army. This is, perhaps, one of the reasons that Western military attacks on "ISIS" have been so ineffective. Not that Russia or Syria ever wanted to stop Western bombs falling on "ISIS" positions; they just wanted to stop NATO using the excuse of attacking "ISIS" to target the Syrian military.

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Russia's S300 missile system. Now protecting the Syrian people from NATO bombs

With the recently enhanced Russian air base at Latakia, Russian air force planes stationed there can freely engage U.S. proxy mercenary (ISIS) targets and (hopefully) close the book on this latest monstrosity created by the psychopaths in Washington and their misogynistic, head-chopping "royal" friends in the Gulf.

There is, however, one down side to this new development; Europe is already dealing with a large influx of refugees from Syria. It's really unreasonable of the Russians to risk adding about 30,000 more "ISIS" jihadis into the mix, most of whom, as I speak, are frantically shaving off their terrorist beards and heading for Turkey and 'safe passage' to Germany.

Link (http://www.sott.net/article/302979-Russia-establishes-no-fly-zone-for-NATO-planes-over-Syria-moves-to-destroy-ISIS-Pentagon-freaks-out)

Cidersomerset

30th September 2015, 21:49

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Syria crisis: Russia begins air strikes against Assad foes

11 minutes ago

From the section Middle East

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Su-24 fighter-bomber aircraft are said to have been involved in the strikes

Russia has begun carrying out air strikes in Syria against opponents
of President Bashar al-Assad.The strikes reportedly hit rebel-controlled
areas of Homs and Hama provinces, causing casualties.

The US says it was informed an hour before they took place.

Russian defence officials say aircraft targeted the Islamic State group,
but an unnamed US official told Reuters that so far they did not appear
to be targeting IS-held territory.

The day's events as they happened

Syria's civil war has raged for four years, with an array of armed groups
fighting to overthrow the government.The US and its allies have insisted
that President Assad should leave office, while Russia has backed him
remaining in power.

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Read More.....

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-middle-east-34399164

Cidersomerset

30th September 2015, 21:59

Russian military forces start airstrikes against ISIS in Syria

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Published on 30 Sep 2015

The Russian Air Force has begun carrying out airstrikes against Islamic
State targets in Syria, the country’s Defense Ministry said.

FULL STORY HERE: http://on.rt.com/6smq

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COMBAT CAM: First video of Russian airstrikes on ISIS in Syria

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Published on 30 Sep 2015

The Russian Air Force has launched airstrikes against targets of Islamic State
militants in Syria, the country’s Defense Ministry said. The move was approved at a
request from Syrian President Bashar Assad.

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‘Russians are going to succeed where the West did not ... or did not want’ – Assad’s adviser

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Published on 30 Sep 2015

Russian war planes have started precision air strikes against Islamic State positions
in Syria, after lawmakers granted the Kremlin permission to use the military
outside of Russia's borders. RT discusses the developments with political and media
adviser to the Syrian President, Bouthaina Shaaban.

RT LIVE http://rt.com/on-air

Morbid

1st October 2015, 08:59

end of rome

Sophocles

1st October 2015, 20:50

Russia in Syria: When the propaganda is kind of true - Russia bombing 'U.S.-trained' nutjobs (http://www.sott.net/article/303070-Russia-in-Syria-When-the-propaganda-is-kind-of-true-Russia-bombing-US-trained-nutjobs)

Harrison Koehli
Sott.net
Thu, 01 Oct 2015 11:03 UTC

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Amateur video allegedly shows aftermath of a Russian airstrike.

Putin's strategy in Syria has worked like a charm. First, there were around 2 weeks of murky, rumor-filled reports of a build-up of Russian military activity in Tartus and Latakia, Syria. Some were false, some had a seed of truth, but it got everyone talking -- this at the same time that Western media was hyping the refugee crisis and the danger of ISIS 'infiltrating Europe'. Second, there was talk of a new coalition to fight ISIS. This irked the West: Russian assistance in Latakia makes any no-fly zone in Syria a no-go. And a real coalition risks actually defeating ISIS, which the West doesn't really want. (They were counting on ISIS as the means or pretext of taking out Assad.) Now, quick on the heels of Putin's talk at the UN and his meeting with Obama, Russia has begun airstrikes in Syria using the West's own pretext - the threat of radicalized nationals 'returning home' . (Of course, Russia has other reasons (http://www.sott.net/article/302954-Burying-ISIS-and-unipolarity-together-Putin-at-the-UN) for going to Syria, too.)

Already, after just one day of airstrikes, the U.S. has pretty much folded, stating that they are stopping any additional training of radical Syrian jihadis, and 'adjusting' their policy regarding Assad, at least temporarily. News is coming fast, so here are a few of the highlights from the past two days. (Check out Joe Quinn's SOTT Focus (http://www.sott.net/article/302979-Russia-establishes-no-fly-zone-for-NATO-planes-over-Syria-moves-to-destroy-ISIS-Pentagon-freaks-out) for some real gems from yesterday's news.)

Russian Defense Ministry releases video of first day's airstrikes (http://fortruss.blogspot.fr/2015/09/watch-russian-planes-destroy-isis.html) (Russian TASS - Sept. 30)

The footage shows what Russia identifies as ISIS command posts, destroying ammunition depots, weapons, fuel, and military equipment storage in the mountainous areas. As noted by Defense Ministry-General Major Igor Konashenkov, "all strikes were done after aerial reconnaissance and better clarify the data obtained from the headquarters of the Syrian army. According to him, Russian aircraft and weapons have not been used in the vicinity of civilian infrastructure."

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Putin meets with government members, declares position on Syria (http://en.kremlin.ru/events/president/transcripts/50401) (Kremlin.ru - Sept. 30)

This is what he had to say about the offensive. In a nutshell: 1) support the Syrian army, 2) launch airstrikes (no ground troops), 3) with a limited time-frame, 4) under international law.

We will start with an issue that will likely be the subject of much discussion today, namely, my request to the Federation Council on using Russia's Armed Forces beyond our country's borders. The Federation Council has examined this request and approved it.

Syria is the issue here. The only real way to fight international terrorism (and international terrorist groups are creating chaos in Syria and the territory of neighbouring countries right now) is to take the initiative and fight and destroy the terrorists in the territory they have already captured rather than waiting for them to arrive on our soil.

We all know that thousands of people from European countries, Russia, and the post-Soviet region have joined the ranks of the so-called Islamic State, a terrorist organisation that - I want to stress again - has nothing to do with genuine Islam. There is no need to be an expert to realise that if they succeed in Syria, they will inevitably return to their own countries, and this includes Russia.

We all know too that the Islamic State long since declared our country its enemy. Today, a number of countries, including the United States, Australia and France, are using their air forces to carry out air strikes against the Islamic State's positions in Syria.

We have always consistently supported the fight against international terrorism. At the same time, we believe that it must proceed strictly in accordance with international law, in other words, on the basis of UN Security Council resolutions or at the request of the country in need of military assistance. Our partners' operations in Syria have neither of these things as their basis, but we nonetheless think it possible and necessary to unite the efforts of all concerned countries in the fight against international terrorism and base this common effort on the UN Charter.

At this stage, I propose that all countries concerned, in particular the countries in the region, start taking part in the work of the international information and eventually coordination centre in Bagdad.

We have informed all of our partners about Russia's plans and actions in Syria. Let me repeat: Russia's involvement in the anti-terrorist operations in Syria is in accordance with international law and based on the official request from the President of the Syrian Arab Republic.

I want to stress the point though that the conflict in Syria has deep roots and is the result of many factors. This includes interstate and domestic political factors, and religious and interethnic differences, which have been exacerbated by unceremonious foreign intervention in the region's affairs.

Given these circumstances, we naturally have no intention of getting deeply entangled in this conflict. We will act strictly in accordance with our set mission. First, we will support the Syrian army only in its lawful fight against terrorist groups. Second, our support will be limited to airstrikes and will not involve ground operations. Third, our support will have a limited timeframe and will continue only while the Syrian army conducts its anti-terrorist offensive.

Our view is that a final and long-term solution to the situation in Syria is possible only on the basis of political reform and dialogue between all healthy forces in the country. I know that President al-Assad knows this and is ready for this process. We are counting on his active and flexible position and his readiness to make compromises for the sake of his country and people.

Russia has had the courtesy to offer the U.S. a way to save face. If the U.S. professes to want to defeat ISIS, it is free to cooperate with Russia. It's that simple. To refuse would appear childish, petty, or downright hypocritical. Not only that, Russia gave the U.S. an hour or so to clear out of Syria (presumably to let their assets on the ground know they'd better high-tail it out of there before the bombs started falling). Thus, John Kerry's joint statement with Sergei Lavrov, with its public language of cooperation:

As Sergey said to you, we agreed on the imperative of a ... as soon as possible, perhaps as soon as tomorrow, but as soon as possible - having a military-to-military deconflec .. deconfliction discussion, meeting, conference, whichever, whatever could be done as soon as possible, because we agree on the urgency of that deconfliction. [HK: That's probably diplomacy-speak for 'terms of conditional surrender (http://fortruss.blogspot.fr/2015/09/kerry-on-live-tv-just-publicly.html)', as Fort Russ's Joaquin Flores put it.]

We did address a number of ways to deal with the conflict itself.

I need to take those back to Washington, to the president and his team, and Sergei needs to do the same in Moscow.

Because we both agreed that we want to avoid seeing this being intensified and getting beyond our control. [HK: I.e., the U.S. doesn't want to be exposed as the lying, two-faced, terror-supporting psychopath it really is, after the dust settles.] ...

We think we have very specific steps that maybe will help lead in the right direction.

That needs to be explored - we both agreed we have a lot of work to do - understanding how serious this is, in terms of refugees, and needing to keep Syria whole, unified, secular and so on.

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John Kerry and Russian foreign minister Lavrov joint statement

Kerry and Lavrov both know what's really going on here: the U.S. has numerous assets among the terrorist groups, it doesn't really want them defeated, but it must make a show of it in order to keep up the public pretense of wanting to fight terrorism. Perhaps Russia is even giving the U.S. and its allies a chance to remove key assets from within their mercenary groups operating in Syria. There's not much else they can do, having been cornered by Russia's quick action. And, what? No mention of Assad resigning? Whodathunkit! Kerry basically admitted defeat, and Lavrov didn't even gloat.

After being caught with their pants down, the U.S.'s options are rather limited at this point in time in response to Russia. But they're really trying their best, making two basic claims via the media: 1) Russia isn't really targeting ISIS, 2) Russia is killing civilians. For example, yesterday the Wall Street Journal reported that at least one airstrike targeted U.S.-trained and -supported rebels:

Russian Airstrike in Syria Targeted CIA-Backed Rebels, U.S. Officials Say (http://www.wsj.com/articles/russian-airstrike-in-syria-targeted-cia-backed-rebels-u-s-officials-say-1443663993?mg=id-wsj#nf) (Sept. 30) - Russia launched airstrikes in Syria on Wednesday, catching U.S. and Western officials off guard and drawing new condemnation as evidence suggested Moscow wasn't targeting extremist group Islamic State, but rather other opponents of Bashar al-Assad's regime.

Funny phrasing, isn't it? "Other opponents." As if ISIS were the only terrorist group operating in Syria... As Alexei Pushov, chairman of the Russian parliament's international affairs committee, said today (http://www.ibtimes.co.uk/russian-official-claims-there-no-moderate-opposition-syria-moscow-targets-terrorists-1521966):

'The moderate opposition' is largely a myth invented by the United States. Its fighters are not fighting against Isil, join Al-Qaeda, and fired at the Russian embassy. Is that 'moderation'?

How many times must 'moderate rebels' join, defect, or cooperate with ISIS for the West to admit this point?

The Kremlin has apparently responded to such accusations, according to the Guardian (http://www.theguardian.com/world/2015/oct/01/russia-launches-fresh-airstrikes-on-syria-targets):

Russia has bombed targets in north-west Syria for a second day, as the Kremlin said it was going after a list of well-known militant organisations and not just Islamic State.

Tarek Balsheh, a spokesman for the Syrian civil defence, said an airstrike hit Jisr al-Shughour. "Russian aircraft have been in the sky since this morning and bombed Jisr al-Shughour with an airstrike approximately two hours ago," Balsheh said. "We have no reports of casualties.

"They targeted the northern neighbourhood of the town, which only houses civilians, but there are very few people there because of repeated airstrikes."

Al Mayadeen, a Lebanese pro-Assad channel, separately reported that Russian aircraft had launched 30 fresh airstrikes against Jaysh al-Fateh, a powerful rebel coalition that includes Ahrar al-Sham and the al-Qaida affiliated al-Nusra Front.

As for yesterday's strikes, this is how the Telegraph (http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/middleeast/syria/11902275/Russian-general-tells-US-diplomats-We-launch-Syria-air-strikes-in-one-hour.-Stay-out-of-the-way.html) put it:

"Russian air force planes have commenced air operations with surgical strikes against identified Isil ground targets," said General Igor Konshenkov, a Russian defence ministry spokesman, adding that "arms, ammunition and fuel depots" had all been destroyed.

By early afternoon, however, a multitude of reports from the ground suggested otherwise. Instead of hitting Isil, Russian jets were said to have dropped bombs on two locations in Homs province, three in Hama and two in Latakia.

All of the targets were non-Isil rebel groups, including those supported by the Western powers. The SU-24s were in action not in Isil's stronghold in eastern Syria or against Raqqa - the movement's de facto capital - but in areas where Assad's forces have been under severe pressure from the insurgents.

The suspicion immediately arose that saving Assad - not destroying Isil - was Russia's main objective.

As if the two objectives were somehow contradictory. But the U.S. can't really go wrong with this line of attack. After all, even if Russia were to attack and kill card-carrying ISIS members, the U.S. could still respond by saying that Russia bombed "U.S.-trained fighters"! That's probably the point behind Russian intervention in the first place: to fight the U.S.'s proxy mercenary force (which includes fighters in practically all of the 'rebel' groups: ISIS, Nusra, FSA, etc.) while using the West's own narrative: "You say you want to fight ISIS? Well, let us give you a hand!"

The British responded just as ridiculously. From the Telegraph (http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/europe/russia/11903681/Russia-launches-airstrikes-in-Syria-as-it-happened-on-Wednesday-30-September.html):

Speaking on the margins of the United Nations General Assembly in New York, Philip Hammond, the Foreign Secretary, warned of the possible consequences.

"We are clear that if Russia wants to join with the coalition in air strikes against Isil then we would welcome that. If what Russia is doing is carrying out air strikes in defence of the regime then that is a very different issue," said Mr Hammond. ...

"If they have selected a target that is clearly an Isil target they will be sending us a signal that they want this intervention to be seen as a counter-Isil intervention.

"If they are in an area the regime is defending, that will send a much more mixed message.

"And if it's in an area where there is no Isil engagement, it will send a very clear message that it is designed to support Assad."

How much clearer can they be, Hammond?! This is precisely what Putin has said: that his government and military are supporting Assad. Contrary to the dream world you seem to live in, where Assad is a dictator 'killing his own people', while simultaneously being attacked by ISIS, Assad has been fighting foreign-sponsored terrorists for over 4 years now - terrorists trained, funded, and armed by the West and their allies in the region (Turkey, Saudi Arabia, etc.). If you were serious about fighting terrorism - and not using terrorists as a proxy force to topple Assad - you'd support Assad too.

Britain also warned that the strikes risk driving the "entire opposition" into the arms of ISIS. Right. Well, that's actually pretty close to the truth, because there is very little except name in dividing the core mentality of the various terror groups operating in Syria. They already cooperate with each other (http://www.sott.net/article/290657-US-supplying-Al-Qaeda-in-Syria-with-TOW-missiles-via-moderate-terrorists), after all. FSA Col. Abdel Jabbar al-Okaidi even referred to ISIS as FSA's 'brothers (http://www.sott.net/article/285871-Our-man-in-Syria-Interview-with-Colonel-of-the-Free-Syrian-Army)'. What's the big difference if they change the symbol on their flags? Birds of a feather...

Vox (http://www.vox.com/2015/9/30/9423229/russia-bombing-isis-syria) put out a terrible piece today telling its readers, "Don't believe" that Russia's targeting ISIS! No, it's targeting groups hostile to ISIS! They quote Genevieve Casagrande, a researcher for the Institute for the Study of War (a neocon think tank), as saying that "Talbiseh [site of one of the airstrikes] is home to Syrian al-Qaeda affiliate Jabhat al-Nusra, hardline Islamist Ahrar al-Sham, and a number of other local rebel groups." Vox adds their two bits: "These organizations are generally hostile to ISIS." Yep, Vox is criticizing Russia for targeting Al-Qaeda. Because Al-Qaeda is hostile to ISIS. What planet do these people live on?! The Daily Beast joined in (http://www.thedailybeast.com/articles/2015/09/30/putin-orders-u-s-jets-out-of-syria.html) on the propaganda fest.

John McCain (http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/europe/russia/11903702/Russias-Vladimir-Putin-launches-strikes-in-Syria-on-Isil-to-US-anger-live-updates.html) was typically hilarious and incoherent:

Meanwhile in the US, John McCain, head of the senate armed services committee, told CNN that CIA-trained Free Syrian Army recruits were hit by strikes.

"I can absolutely confirm to you that they were strikes against our Free Syrian Army recruits that have been armed and trained by the CIA because we have communications with people there."

Suck it up, you little jihadi-loving freak!

Across the pond, France called it "curious (http://news.yahoo.com/russia-targets-syria-opposition-groups-not-islamic-state-143219186.html)" that Russia seemingly had not targeted known ISIS sites:

"Russian forces struck Syria and curiously didn't hit Islamic State," Defence Minister Jean-Yves Le Drian told lawmakers in Paris.

A French diplomatic source said the strikes, which seemed to have been carried out near Homs, an area crucial to Assad's control of western Syria.

"It is not Daesh (Islamic State) that they are targeting, but probably opposition groups, which confirms that they are more in support of Bashar's regime than in fighting Daesh," the source said, speaking on condition of anonymity.

We wonder, who exactly was targeted for these important, symbolic first strikes? "Other rebel groups"? Or something with a little more intrigue, perhaps? If it were CIA/MI6/Mossad hideouts, there's no way the U.S., UK or Israel would admit it... Might that explain Kerry's capitulation?

Then there was this from U.S. Defense Secretary Ash Carter:

The Russian approach here is doomed to fail. I hope that they come over to a point of view where they try to pursue their objectives in a different way that makes more sense.

We'll just have to wait and see how prophetic Carter really is.

As for claims of dead civilians, there's this:

Moscow: Western media lied about the victims of Russian air strikes in Syria (http://fortruss.blogspot.fr/2015/09/moscow-western-media-lied-about-victims.html) (Riafan.ru - Sept. 30)

The George Soros-linked "White Helmets" NGO in Syria has already been caught faking images (http://www.sott.net/article/302997-Soros-funded-White-Helmets-NGO-caught-faking-civilian-casualties-of-Russian-airstrikes-in-Syria) of civilians killed or maimed in the Russian airstrikes. Reuters, citing unnamed sources, and others, citing the Times of Israel, are reporting the deaths of 6-12 children in Homs. The head of the opposition group National Coalation, Khaled Khoja, said one strike killed 36 civilians, but he has yet to provide any evidence. Russian Foreign Ministry rep. Maria Zakharova (http://www.rt.com/news/317170-russia-accused-civilians-syria/) has called these 'fabrications': "Biased and false reports have flooded Western and regional media claiming the Russian military operation is causing civilian deaths or even is aimed against pro-democratic forces and the peaceful population. That is an information attack, the information warfare that we all have heard so much about. Apparently someone came well-prepared for it." Let's take a guess as to their 'sources': Free Syrian Army? Nusra? ISIS themselves? In other words, American allies and proxies. And no proof to back up their claims, as of yet.

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Putin chimed in on the issue today, saying (http://www.sott.net/article/303032-Propaganda-about-civilian-casualties-in-Syria-appeared-before-Russian-aircraft-even-left-the-ground-Putin): "As for any information in the media on civilians suffering [from Russian airstrikes], we were ready for such information attacks. I draw your attention to the fact that the first reports on civilian casualties emerged before our planes even left the ground."

As for the latest updates:

Russian Air Force in Syria deploying over 50 planes & choppers - Defense Ministry (http://www.rt.com/news/317179-russian-airforce-syria-aircraft/) (RT, Oct. 1) - Russian Defense Ministry Igor Konashenkov told media: "The air group was deployed on very short notice. It was possible because we had most of the materiel and ammunition ready at our depot in Tartus. We only had to move our aircraft and deliver some extra equipment."

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ISIS HQ, command point, ammo depot destroyed in Russian military Syria night op (http://www.rt.com/news/317180-footage-russian-military-strike-isis/) (RT, Oct. 1) - Last night's airstrikes targeted four ISIS facilities near Idlib and al-Latamna. Drone footage shows an ammunition depot exploding, and a 3-story building in ruins after being hit by FAB-500 bombs from an SU-25. "A terrorist HQ and an ammunition depot were destroyed near Idlib, as were a fortified three-level command center near Hama," Konashenkov said. "A direct bomb hit also completely destroyed a workshop north of Homs that produced explosives and ammunition," he added, saying that at this workshop terrorists were stuffing vehicles with explosives.

Russia taking measures against potential terror attacks after Syria bombing raids - Peskov (http://www.rt.com/politics/317181-russia-taking-measures-against-potential/) (RT, Oct. 1)

Russian special services are working tirelessly to prevent potential terrorist attacks by extremists in retaliation to Moscow's operation in Syria, Dmitry Peskov, presidential press secretary, has said.

Peskov noted the situation was similar to other places in the world - in all nations special services are constantly taking steps to counter terrorism in all of its manifestations. In Russia, this task is being fulfilled by the Federal Security Service and the National Anti-Terror Committee, he said.

And who trains, arms, and directs those terrorists in the first place? You guessed it.

Link (http://www.sott.net/article/303070-Russia-in-Syria-When-the-propaganda-is-kind-of-true-Russia-bombing-US-trained-nutjobs)

Selkie

1st October 2015, 20:59

It all gets to be too much for me to follow. It takes too much of my energy because too much of it is psy-ops and hocus-pocus, from all sides.

Cidersomerset

1st October 2015, 21:01

Putin chimed in on the issue today, saying: "As for any information in the
media on civilians suffering [from Russian airstrikes], we were ready for such
information attacks. I draw your attention to the fact that the first reports on
civilian casualties emerged before our planes even left the ground."

Information warfare: Russia accused of killing civilians in Syria

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Published on 1 Oct 2015

It didn’t take long, after Russia began its anti-terrorist bombing campaign,
for social media to be flooded with ‘evidence’ of civilian casualties. The claims
were readily repeated by Western mainstream media. READ MORE: http://on.rt.com/6sqa

Rocky_Shorz

2nd October 2015, 01:14

"Fueling the Obama regimes anger against Russia, this report continues, was President Putin, yesterday, requesting, and then receiving, a Declaration of War against ISIS/ISIL forces operating in Syria—immediately after which he ordered combat operations to begin.

Immediately prior to Russian combat operations against ISIS/ISIL forces in Syria beginning, this report states, Russia’s top military commander in the Middle East presented to the Americans at their embassy in Baghdad, Iraq, a legal démarche demanding that the United States cease all operations in Syria as it was in clear violation of United Nations and international law by its unprovoked attacks against the sovereignty of a foreign nation—a crucial point expounded on by former US Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) and US State Department analyst Larry Johnson who said:

“Under international law, Russia holds all of the cards in Syria. It has been invited into Syria by the Government of Bashir Assad. The Syrians want the Russians on the ground and in the fight. The United States, by contrast, is the law breaker. We are committing an act of war against the Government of Syria by conducting unauthorized air strikes and inserting U.S. Special Operations forces on the ground.”

And of the greatest worries to Russian combat commanders in Syria requesting that this démarche be issued to the Americans , this report warns, are for those US Special Forces operating illegally in Syria who “insanely” have been ordered by the Obama regime to wear a combat designation patch on their uniforms that is nearly identical to that worn by ISIS/ISIL troops thus putting their lives in grave danger.

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US Special Forces Patch (left) ISIS/ISIL Patch (right)

With the Obama regime having now been issued this démarche, this report says, Russia is now no longer legally responsible should these US Special Forces be killed by Federation airstrikes (or other such combat methods) and, even more dangerously, American aircraft illegally operating in Syrian airspace are likewise able to be targeted and downed too.

Important to note too, MoD analysts in this report state, the Federation, prior to yesterdays combat, attempted to forestall war when, back in August, all of the Syrian opposition groups were invited to Moscow to mediate and end to this conflict.

However, this report continues, with the Obama regime blocking all avenues of peace, Russia was left with no choice but to declare war on ISIS/ISIL thus causing President Putin to shame these Western warmongers by stating earlier this week at the United Nations:

“Instead of the triumph of democracy and progress, we got violence, poverty and social disaster — and nobody cares a bit about human rights, including the right to life, I cannot help asking those who have forced that situation: Do you realize what you have done?”

And to what exactly these Western warmongers have done, this report details, is to unleash the fury of over 50 Russian Aerospace Forces warplanes and helicopters that have begun to pulverize ISIS/ISIL forces in Syria.

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"With the Obama regimes backed media propaganda against the Federations war on ISIS/ISIL becoming more absurd and outlandish by the hour, this report says, Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov was forced to advise American reporters to stop listening to the Pentagon and, instead, get the truth directly from the MoD.

In just one example of this Obama regime propaganda, this report notes, was the accusation that Russian forces were killing children—which was immediately proved to be a lie when the picture used by the American media to support this allegation turned out to be a complete fabrication as it was taken five days prior to any Federation combat operations. . "

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"And as these 150,000 new Russian troops begin reporting to their training bases, this report concludes, though they will, most likely, not have to fight in Syria, the same cannot be said about the West—especially when viewed in the light of the United Kingdom’s top military officer calling on his nation to prepare for war with Russia. " link (http://www.whatdoesitmean.com/index1920.htm)

this was Sorcha"s latest...

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Rocky_Shorz

2nd October 2015, 02:20

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"The Institute for the Study of War has been a highly reliable source as they meticulously study the state of battlefields in places like Syria. We asked them some questions about today's airstrikes, and received a reply from ISW's Genevieve Casagrande:

The Interpreter: Which rebel groups control the areas which were hit today in Homs?

ISW: The groups that control the Talbisa-Rastan rebel pocket north of Homs are: al-Qaeda affiliate Jabhat al-Nusra, Ahrar al-Sham (HASI), and other FSA-affiliated rebel brigades. Unfortunately, we don’t have fidelity on what groups exactly were impacted by the airstrikes today.

Interpreter: Does ISIS have a presence in Homs? Your latest map says no, but some people are pushing back on that because a Daily Mail article published in August showed ISIS reportedly throwing a gay man off a roof in Homs.

ISW: There is ISIS in Homs Province, not in Homs City which is regime-held (with the exception of one neighborhood). The ISIS presence in Homs is primarily in the eastern countryside. For instance, Palmyra (Tadmur) is in Homs Province.

The Daily Mail article is likely referring to an event that happened in one of the ISIS-held villages in the eastern countryside of the province. There are, however, ISIS ‘sympathetic’ elements (i.e. similar in ideology but not officially ISIS) in rebel-held in the areas of Homs and Hama provinces that were hit today with airstrikes. These groups are minimal and are usually rooted out by other rebel brigades in the area.

Interpreter: Any idea which rebel unit was hit today in Al Lataminah, Hama province? The "FSA" commander told Reuters that his unit was hit, and he had recently received anti-tank missiles from a "foreign power." Any idea what, specifically, they are referencing?

ISW: Tajama’a al-Izza was hit in Al Lataminah. They are an FSA-affiliated TOW anti-tank missile recipient that is active in the provinces of Hama, Idlib, and Aleppo. The TOW missile recipients active in northern Syria are believed to receive these anti-tank missiles from the Turkish Military Operations Command (MOC).

Interpreter: It looks like a member of Tahrir Homs was killed today. Do you know anything about this man or the unit? Do you know the group's ideological leanings?

ISW: Yes, the airstrikes killed Lyad al-Deek of Tahrir Homs today. Harakat Tahrir Homs is technically a Free Syrian Army affiliate, however in 2015 the once “moderate” Free Syrian Army is largely nominal and is not a good indicator of a rebel group’s ideological leanings. Tahrir Homs, like a lot of the battle hardened opposition remaining in Homs, is an Islamist brigade that is a military ally of Syrian al-Qaeda affiliate Jabhat al-Nusra. The relationship between Nusra and Tahrir Homs with regards to governance was thought of as “uneasy” when Nusra first started to assert itself (and it’s strict version of Shari’a) in Homs, however they have likely grown closer as time has gone on and probably are currently participating in joint rebel governance structures together.

Read more on today's bombings on ISW's blog: link (http://www.interpretermag.com/russian-su34s-tracked-from-russia-to-syria/#10206)

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Rocky_Shorz

2nd October 2015, 03:04

"Iran troops to join Syria war, Russia bombs group trained by CIA"

"Hundreds of Iranian troops have arrived in Syria to join a major ground offensive in support of President Bashar al-Assad's government, Lebanese sources said on Thursday, a sign the civil war is turning still more regional and global in scope.

Russian warplanes, in a second day of strikes, bombed a camp run by rebels trained by the U.S. Central Intelligence Agency, the group's commander said, putting Moscow and Washington on opposing sides in a Middle East conflict for the first time since the Cold War.

Senior U.S. and Russian officials spoke for just over an hour by secure video conference on Thursday, focusing on ways to keep air crews safe, the Pentagon said, as the two militaries carry out parallel campaigns with competing objectives.

"We made crystal clear that, at a minimum, the priority here should be the safe operation of the air crews over Syria," Pentagon spokesman Peter Cook said.

Two Lebanese sources told Reuters hundreds of Iranian troops had reached Syria in the past 10 days with weapons to mount a major ground offensive. They would also be backed by Assad's Lebanese Hezbollah allies and by Shi'ite militia fighters from Iraq, while Russia would provide air support.

"The vanguard of Iranian ground forces began arriving in Syria -soldiers and officers specifically to participate in this battle. They are not advisers ... we mean hundreds with equipment and weapons. They will be followed by more," one of the sources said.

So far, direct Iranian military support for Assad has come mostly in the form of military advisers. Iran has also mobilized Shi'ite militia fighters, including Iraqis and some Afghans, to fight alongside Syrian government forces.

Moscow said it had hit Islamic State positions, but the areas it struck near the cities of Hama and Homs are mostly held by a rival insurgent alliance, which unlike Islamic State is supported by U.S. allies including Arab states and Turkey.

Hassan Haj Ali, head of the Liwa Suqour al-Jabal rebel group that is part of the Free Syrian Army, told Reuters one of the targets was his group's base in Idlib province, struck by about 20 missiles in two separate raids. His fighters had been trained by the CIA in Qatar and Saudi Arabia, part of a program Washington says is aimed at supporting groups that oppose both Islamic State and Assad.

"Russia is challenging everyone and saying there is no alternative to Bashar," Haj Ali said. He said the Russian jets had been identified by members of his group who once served as Syrian air force pilots.

The group is one of at least three foreign-backed FSA rebel factions to say they had been hit by the Russians in the last two days.

At the United Nations, Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov told a news conference Moscow was targeting Islamic State. He did not specifically deny that Russian planes had attacked Free Syrian Army facilities but said Russia did not view it as a terrorist group and viewed it as part of a political solution in Syria.

The aim is to help the Syrian armed forces "in their weak spots", said Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov.

Pentagon spokesman Peter Cook described Thursday's military talks as "cordial and professional." During the talks, Elissa Slotkin, an acting assistant U.S. secretary of defense, "noted U.S. concern that areas targeted by Russia so far were not ISIL strongholds." Cook said, using an acronym for Islamic State.

The Pentagon said it would not share U.S. intelligence with Russia and suggested the talks included ideas to increase safety, such as agreeing on radio frequencies for distress calls and a common language for communications.

U.S. Republican Senator John McCain, chairman of the Senate Armed Services Committee, and a frequent Obama critic, questioned the logic of talks on how to keep U.S. and Russian militaries apart, known in military parlance as "deconfliction."

“Unfortunately, it appears ‘deconfliction’ is merely an Orwellian euphemism for this administration’s acceptance of Russia’s expanded role in Syria, and as a consequence, for Assad’s continued brutalization of the Syrian people,” McCain said.
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SAME ENEMIES, DIFFERENT FRIENDS

Russia's decision to join the war with air strikes on behalf of Assad, as well as the increased military involvement of Iran, could mark a turning point in a conflict that has drawn in most of the world's military powers.

With the United States leading an alliance waging its own air war against Islamic State, the Cold War superpower foes, Washington and Moscow, are now engaged in combat over the same country for the first time since World War Two.

They say they have the same enemies - the Islamic State group of Sunni Muslim militants who have proclaimed a caliphate across eastern Syria and northern Iraq.

But they also have different friends, and sharply opposing views of how to resolve the 4-year-old Syrian civil war, which has killed more than 250,000 people and driven more than 10 million from their homes.

Washington and its allies oppose both Islamic State and Assad, believing he must leave power in any peace settlement.

Washington says a central part of its strategy is building "moderate" insurgents to fight Islamic State, although so far it has struggled to find many fighters to accept its training.

Moscow supports the Syrian president and believes his government should be the centerpiece of international efforts to fight the extremist groups.

It appears to be using the common campaign against Islamic State as a pretext to strike against groups supported by Washington and its allies, as a way of defending a Damascus government with which Moscow has been allied since the Cold War.

The Russian strikes represent a bold move by President Vladimir Putin to assert influence beyond his own neighborhood. It is the first time Moscow has ordered its forces into combat outside the frontiers of the former Soviet Union since its disastrous Afghanistan campaign in the 1980s.

The Russian and Iranian interventions in support of Assad come at a time when momentum in the conflict had swung against his government and seem aimed at reversing insurgent gains.

Prime Minister Haidar al-Abadi of neighboring Iraq, where Washington is also leading an air war against Islamic State while Iran aids government forces on the ground, said he would be open to Russian strikes as well.

A Syrian military source said on Thursday that Russian military support would bring a "big change" in the course of the conflict, particularly through advanced surveillance capabilities that could pinpoint insurgent targets.

Putin's gamble of going to war in Syria comes a year after he defied the West to annex Ukraine's Crimea peninsula, drawing U.S. and EU economic sanctions while igniting a wave of popular nationalist support at home. link (http://www.reuters.com/article/2015/10/02/us-mideast-crisis-russia-syria-idUSKCN0RV41O20151002)

Rocky_Shorz

2nd October 2015, 03:08

Trump backs Russia, Iran efforts to fight Islamic State

"Leading Republican U.S. presidential candidate Donald Trump on Tuesday said he supported Russian efforts to fight Islamic State militants in the Middle East, including Syria.

Asked whether he backed those like Russia who supported Syrian President Bashar al Assad or those who see him as the source of Syria's current crisis, Trump told NBC's "Today" program: "I side with the group that says 'if Russia wants to go and fight ISIS, you should let them', as opposed to saying 'we're jealous, we don't want you to do that'."

Trump, who is leading public opinion polls among those seeking the Republican Party's bid to win the White House in the 2016 election, said the United States should support those who want to destroy the militant group that has taken over swaths of Syria as well as neighboring Iraq. link (http://www.reuters.com/article/2015/09/29/us-usa-election-trump-mideast-idUSKCN0RT1GB20150929)

Rocky_Shorz

2nd October 2015, 15:57

LOL... McCain wants to send more arms to Al Qaeda

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Selkie

2nd October 2015, 16:01

A blind man in the dark can see that McCain is crazy as a s***house rat.

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Rocky_Shorz

2nd October 2015, 22:21

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"Russian jets have performed 14 combats flights, conducting six pinpoint airstrikes against Islamic State targets in Syria on Friday, according to Russia’s Defense Ministry.

“During the day, the Russian aviation group continued conducting pinpoint airstrikes against the infrastructure of the IS group in Syria,” Defense Ministry spokesman, Igor Konashenkov, said.

“Su-34, Su-24-M and Su-25 planes performed 14 flights from Hmaimim air base, during which six airstrikes against IS targets were conducted,” he added.

In the town of Maarrat Al-Nuuman in Idlib province, an Su-25 attack aircraft completely brought down a large terrorist workshop, which was producing bombs and improvised explosive devices.

A nearby IS base, hosting weaponry and military vehicles was also targeted, with ten pieces of military hardware, including several APCs, was eliminated, the ministry said.

A terrorist command center was destroyed by Su-24-M and Su-25 attack aircrafts near the town of Khan Shaykhun in Idlib province.

In the Al-Latamna district of Hama Governorate, guided air bombs delivered from Su-34 bombers blew up a militant’s underground HQ, the Defense Ministry said.

Su-25 aircraft also targeted two bunkers in the same area which had been hosting Islamic State command centers and arm depots. According to the ministry, munitions at one of the depots detonated and caused a total destruction of the bunkers. link (http://www.rt.com/news/317450-russia-syria-isis-air-strikes/)

China was attacked by an Israeli Nuke, Ben isn't the only one saying they are coming...

China’s military advisers ‘heading to Syria to help fight ISIS’ – report

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"China will be helping out the Syrian government in the fight against Islamic State (IS, formerly ISIL/ISIS) by sending “military advisers,” media reports have claimed.

“The Chinese will be arriving in the coming weeks,” a Syrian army official told the Lebanon-based news website Al-Masdar Al-‘Arabi.

The report claims that a Chinese naval vessel is on its way to Syria with dozens of “military advisers” on board. They will reportedly be followed by troops.

The ship is said to have passed the Suez Canal in Egypt and be making its way through the Mediterranean Sea.

According to the website, the advisers will be joining Russian personnel in the Latakia region.

Meanwhile, an Israeli military news website, DEBKAfile, has cited military sources as saying that a Chinese aircraft carrier, the Liaoning-CV-16, has already been spotted at the Syrian port of Tartus on the Mediterranean coast. It was said to be accompanied by a guided missile cruiser.

The news comes after Russia, Iran, Iraq and Syria agreed to establish a joint information center in Baghdad to coordinate their operations against Islamic State militants, according to sources.

“The main goal of the center will be gathering, processing and analyzing current information about the situation in the Middle East – primarily for fighting IS,” a military-diplomatic source told Russian news agencies on Saturday.

Russian President Vladimir Putin was recently asked about Russia’s presence in Syria, to which he replied that Russia’s activities are limited to supplying weapons to the Syrian government, training personnel and providing humanitarian aid for the Syrian people.

“We act based on the United Nations Charter, i.e. the fundamental principles of modern international law, according to which this or that type of aid, including military assistance, can and must be provided exclusively to the legitimate government of one country or another, upon its consent or request, or upon the decision of the United Nations Security Council,” Putin told CBS’s ‘60 Minutes’ show.

Putin reiterated his support for Syria’s regular army – the army of President Bashar Assad. “He [Assad] is confronted with what some of our international partners interpret as an opposition. In reality, Assad’s army is fighting against terrorist organizations,” Putin said.

Russia’s president added that US attempts to train a Syrian opposition to take on Islamic State have failed. The US had aimed to prepare up to 12,000 fighters, but only 60 managed to complete the training and only four or five actually fought with the opposition, while others fled to IS with American weapons, Putin said, citing US Senate hearings.

“In my opinion, provision of military support to illegal structures runs counter to the principles of modern international law and the United Nations Charter,” he said.

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Cidersomerset

3rd October 2015, 00:12

The David Icke Videocast: What Is Really Going On In Syria?

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Published on 2 Oct 2015

"The David Icke Videocast: What Is Really Going On In Syria?" - David Icke
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Cidersomerset

3rd October 2015, 00:30

Various articles from the headline page......

‘Humanitarian’ Propaganda War Against Syria – Led by Avaaz and The White Helmets
By David Icke on 2nd October 2015
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‘Humanitarian’ Propaganda War Against Syria – Led by Avaaz and The White Helmets

October 2, 2015 By 21wire 5 Comments

REGIME CHANGE PR: YOUR GUIDE TO WESTERN-SPONSORED PROPAGANDA IN SYRIA

Vanessa Beeley
21st Century Wire

“Propaganda is the spreading of information in support of a cause. It’s not so important
whether the information is true or false or if the cause is just or not — it’s all propaganda.”

“The word propaganda is often used in a negative sense, especially for politicians who
make false claims to get elected or spread rumours to instigate regime change [sic]. In
fact, any campaign that is used to persuade can be called propaganda.”

Russia’s involvement in Syria has caused a flurry of “cold war”, Assad/ISIS co-dependency
propaganda, all being produced by the usual suspects and all with the primary objective of
invoking a No Fly Zone in Syria and stoking the “Russian Bear threat” fires that have been
smouldering for some time.

I am going to attempt to dismantle this propaganda edifice one brick at a time.’

Read more: ‘Humanitarian’ Propaganda War Against Syria – Led by Avaaz and The White Helmets

http://21stcenturywire.com/2015/10/02/humanitarian-propaganda-war-against-syria-led-by-avaaz-and-the-white-helmets/

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Putin: Claims Russian jets killed civilians in Syria emerged before airstrikes started

By David Icke on 2nd October 2015 Useless Media, War and Terror

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RT NEWS....

Putin: Claims Russian jets killed civilians in Syria emerged before airstrikes started
Published time: 1 Oct, 2015 12:17
Edited time: 1 Oct, 2015 16:34

‘Reports of alleged casualties among civilians caused by Russian airstrikes in Syria emerged
even before Russian warplanes were launched for their first combat mission, President
Vladimir Putin said, branding such reports ‘information attacks.’

“Other nations have been bombing Syrian territory for over a year,” Putin told the Russian
human rights council on Thursday, stressing that the US-led coalition invades the Syrian
airspace with no UN mandate or invitation from Damascus.

“We have such an invitation and we intend to fight against terrorist organizations and
them only,” Putin added.’

Read more: Putin: Claims Russian jets killed civilians in Syria emerged before airstrikes started

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Anti-Putin Propaganda Begins: ‘Moderate’ Terrorists Complaining That Russia Bombed Them

By David Icke on 2nd October 2015

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Anti-Putin Propaganda Begins: ‘Moderate’ Terrorists Complaining That Russia Bombed Them

September 30, 2015 By Stuart Hooper 22 Comments

21st Century Wire says…

You really could not make this up.

Watch a video of this report here:

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‘Today has marked the official start of Russia’s bombing campaign against ISIS, and
the Western establishment has taken to mainstream media to launch a propaganda
campaign against Russian-led efforts to help stamp out the terrorist menace in the region.

That campaign takes the form of reports that have emerged claiming that supposedly
‘non-ISIS’ rebels have been bombed by Russian jets.

The Independent, a British media outlet, says that ‘activists’ in Homs and Hama provinces
have posted images and video online claiming to show Russian planes bombing groups of
non-Isis rebels who are fighting Bashar al-Assad’s forces‘.’

Read more: Anti-Putin Propaganda Begins: ‘Moderate’ Terrorists Complaining That Russia Bombed Them

http://21stcenturywire.com/2015/09/30/anti-putin-propaganda-begins-moderate-terrorists-complain-russia-bombed-them/
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McCain: Arm Syrian Rebels to Shoot Down Russian Planes

By David Icke on 2nd October 2015 War and Terror

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McCain: Arm Syrian Rebels to Shoot Down Russian Planes

'Just like we did in Afghanistan'
by Paul Joseph Watson | October 1, 2015

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‘Senator John McCain reacted to Russia’s announcement that it had begun launching air
strikes targeting ISIS militants in Syria by calling on the White House to arm Syrian
rebels with weapons to shoot down Russian planes.’

Read more: McCain: Arm Syrian Rebels to Shoot Down Russian Planes

http://www.infowars.com/mccain-arm-syrian-rebels-to-shoot-down-russian-planes/

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Crazy Carly Fiorina: Shoot Down Russian Jets to Protect Allies in Syria

By David Icke on 2nd October 2015 Illuminati Criminals, War and Terror

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‘Carly has been one of the most shreakingly hawkish candidates, something we
wrote about at length a week ago, in an article titled: Certifiably Crazy Carly: Mrs
Fiorina & the Sad Decline of a Once Great NationIn this video, she seems very high-
strung, like she’s had several cups of coffee. Probably not someone you want in the
Oval Office during a crisis.She ran Hewlett Packard into the ground. One shudders
to think where she would take the US.’

Rocky_Shorz

3rd October 2015, 15:45

"List of events in Syria from last to first, prior, during and after Russian airstrikes:

With World watching Syria, OSCE observes Russia moving thermobaric warheads into Ukraine.
Pentagon weighs using force to protect US-backed Syria rebels targeted by Russia.
US deploys Hawaii stationed F-22’s to the Middle East to confront Russian aircraft if coalition planes are threatend.
Russia re-instates and begins drafting soldiers.
The U.S.-led coalition conducted 28 air strikes on Islamic State targets in Syria and Iraq.
Russia warns Israel not to bomb Iranian/Hez targets, Israel says will not allow Iran foothold in Syria.
Russian planes bomb rebel group trained by CIA.
Assad allies, including Iran, prepare for ground attacks in Syria.
Press conference on US/Russia talks on Syria.
Rebels seek AA weapons from US/Allies to shoot down Russian planes.
US signal arming Ukraine in response to Russia in Syria, starts w/ advanced radar.
Video released of Russian jet getting shot down.
Pentagon complained to Russia in video conference about attacking rebels.
Saudi FM Asked who’ll respond militarily against Russia, responds: ‘you shall see’.
Saudi FM: Syria a “dangerous escalation”.
Saudi Arabia flying planeloads of weapons to Turkey to re-supply US-backed rebels.
Word that Russia somewhat admits to striking rebels.
Iran sent troops into Syria to support Russia/Assad. (Confirmed @Fox)
Russian airstrikes resume in Syria against anti-Assad rebels.
US warns Russia on hitting non-ISIS US-backed groups.
Russian military jet shot down, presume by rebels using American weapons. (Confirmed Today)

Russia denies hitting rebels/civilians instead of ISIS.
Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov has called on reporters in the West to “listen to” Russia’s Defense Ministry but not to the Pentagon.
Russia displays ‘ISIS’ targets on Russian media, actually rebel targets.
Russian media claims ISIS has WMD.
US threatens to “have grave concerns”.
Russian Submarine Carrying Nuclear Weapons Arrives In Pacific Region.
US sending mixed messages, contradictions.
Kerry calls strikes ‘irresponsible’.
Discovered that Russia targeting not ISIS, but US-backed rebels as NATO predicted.
LT. Col Ralph Peters on FOX: Obama appears weak, Russia would shoot down American planes in Syria.
Russian Parliament agrees to send troops.
US announces it will not remove planes from war zone.
MSM broadcasts events, US downplays.
Many civilians killed in Russia/Syrian strikes from air and sea.
Russian strikes around Homs w/ attacks from Syrian air force helicopters dropping barrel bombs.
Despite meeting, Russia begins airstrikes in Syria, warns US out w/ little notice.
Putin says troops in Syria off the table.
UN meeting between Putin/Obama. Agree to communicate.
NATO says Russia not to target ISIS, but anti-Assad US backed rebels.
US changes tone, saying Assad but go but not immediately.
Syrian refugees continue to pour into Europe causing disorder.
Rebels launch rockets @air base, minimal damage.
Russia said targeting ISIS, not rebels.
Tanks/troops discovered near air base.
US provides no response, downplays risks of conflict.
Moscow says US should cooperate to avoid ‘confrontation’.
Russia begins converting Syria airport over for military use.

Warmonitor (http://warmonitor.net/news/2015/09/30/live-updates-russian-airstrikes-in-syria/)

http://warmonitor.net/news/2015/09/30/live-updates-russian-airstrikes-in-syria/

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US has finally decided to start arming the Kurds...

600 IS fighters abandoned their posts and were stopped and arrested at the border of Turkey trying to flee the conflict

Friday Prayers were cancelled in IS capital after Russia destroyed Command center, bomb making facility and troop barracks...

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Cidersomerset

3rd October 2015, 16:00

Some articles I put on the ISIL thread from David Ickes Headline page earlier....
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US Air Force official says Russia did not deliver strikes at US-backed Syrian opposition

By David Icke on 3rd October 2015 War and Terror

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‘Russia’s Aerospace Force did not deliver airstrikes at any groupings of the Syrian
opposition supported by the US, the Deputy Chief of Staff of the Air Force in charge of
intelligence, surveillance and reconnaissance, General Robert Otto said on Thursday as
he met with a small group or reporters, including TASS, at a Defense Writers Group breakfast.

Since no such bombings took place, a question on what steps the US should take in case
such situations occur is hypothetical, he indicated.

“I think that is still being worked through,” he said. “It hasn’t happened, and so it’s a what if
at this point. And I think that commanders on the ground are working through that issue right now.”‘

Read more: US Air Force official says Russia did not deliver strikes at US-backed Syrian opposition

http://tass.ru/en/world/825474

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‘They’re Hopping Mad In The US And Saudi Arabia’: Russian
Strikes In Syria Spark Epic Western Media Propaganda Blitz

By David Icke on 3rd October 2015 War and Terror

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‘We are now two days into Russia’s air campaign against anti-regime
forces In Syria and both Moscow and the West are rushing to spin
the narrative.

The frantic attempt from both sides to shape public opinion has been
truly amazing to behold and the sheer amount of coverage speaks to
what we said on Thursday about just how important the conflict really
is for the Mid-East balance of power.

For the US, portraying Russian airstrikes as supportive of a murderous
regime and as an imminent threat to civilians is key, as it allows Washington
to explain away the fact that the US and its allies haven’t coordinated their
efforts with Moscow. Take the following from CNN for instance, who reports
that Russia has made a “strategic blunder” and that by opening an air
campaign, Russia risks raising the spectre of the Soviet-Afghan war in the
minds of potential jihadists who will supposedly rush into Syria to join the fight:’

Read more: ‘They’re Hopping Mad In The US And Saudi Arabia’: Russian
Strikes In Syria Spark Epic Western Media Propaganda Blitz

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US weighing military force against Russia over Syria militants: Report

By David Icke on 3rd October 2015

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US weighing military force against Russia over Syria militants: Report

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‘The Pentagon is considering the use of military force against Russia to
protect US-trained militants in Syria, a move that could trigger war with
America’s arch-rival, a report says.

US authorities quoted by the Associated Press on Thursday, said senior
military leaders and defense officials are considering whether or not they
should use military force if American-trained militants in Syria come under
Russian fire as Moscow continues its air combat against Takfiri groups in
the Arab country.

Weighing the risks of using force in response to a Russian attack is also
among the department’s issues, according to the report.’

Read more: US weighing military force against Russia over Syria militants: Report

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Syrian Observatory for Human Rights run by immigrant from his UK home

By David Icke on 3rd October 2015

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Published on 2 Oct 2015

Many western media outlets have frequently been relying on one information source
for facts about the death toll in Syria - The Syrian Observatory for Human Rights. It
was founded in May 2006 and It's run by one man only - Rami Abdul Rahman, who's
a Syrian immigrant to the UK and is based in his two bedroom home in Coventry.
RT travelled to the midlands, to find the headquarters of the observatory, and investigate more.

RT LIVE http://rt.com/on-air

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Israel arming terrorists in Syria: Foreign Minister Muallem

By David Icke on 3rd October 2015 War and Terror

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Israel arming terrorists in Syria: FM Muallem

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Fri Oct 2, 2015 3:44PM

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‘Syrian Foreign Minister Walid al-Muallem says Israel is arming the Takfiri terrorists
in Syria and treating the injured militants in its hospitals, criticizing the
international community for watching the regime’s actions in silence.

In an address to the 70th session of the UN General Assembly in New York on
Friday, Muallem said Israel continues attacking Syria, while the world is standing by
and watching the regime arming terrorists and treating them in its hospitals.

Whenever the terror groups suffer losses on the battlefield with Syrian soldiers, the
Tel Aviv regime intervenes directly through airstrikes or artillery shelling on the
Syria soil, added the Syrian official.’

Read more: Israel arming terrorists in Syria: Foreign Minister Muallem

Rocky_Shorz

3rd October 2015, 16:18

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RPQrlqK1tc0

Rocky_Shorz

3rd October 2015, 17:00

how many think al-CIAda wanted Russia in the war when they attacked their base in Syria on Sept 14th? 2 weeks before Russia started attacking back? Was that the false flag attack we were all watching for meant to kick off WW III? It sure helped Russia convince parliment it was necessary... of course the agreement for war had already been made...

original post - translated - "the Hmeimeim Airport in Latakia Province was targeted by Grad Rockets in Jableh area today morning Sunday" link (https://www.jaishalislam.com/subject/332)

"Syria Rebels Attack Russian Air Base"

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"A Syrian rebel media website claims that anti-Assad fighters have attacked an airport in Syria that Russia has been modifying for its own needs in support of President Assad. It was reported that the Russians took heavy losses in the rocket attack after the rebels claimed to have intelligence that Russian advisors and soldiers were operating inside the airport.

This comes after it was uncovered that a secret deal between Russia, Syria and Iran was made to aid Assad against US efforts in Syria under the guise of an anti-ISIS mission. The report suggests that Russian military troops were actually fighting US backed anti-Assad rebels in the already war-torn nation where US airstrikes are being conducted. It is not clear where the rebels obtained the intelligence, but it would have come shortly after satellite images of the airport began circulating on social media. link (http://warmonitor.net/news/2015/09/14/syria-rebels-attack-russian-air-base/)

IS never attacked Russia...

link to detailed Map of Syria (http://t.co/2eOleehZ3B)

that just changed after the attack on IS headquarters last night.

"Reports of very intense fighting between ISIS and Regime forces near Tiyas Airbase..."

Rocky_Shorz

3rd October 2015, 19:09

China to Participate in Airstrikes Against CIA Proxies in Syria
Claims Russia will also target ISIS in Iraq

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"The Israeli intelligence source DEBKAfile claims China is preparing to join Russia in airstrikes against the CIA’s jihadist forces in Syria.

“DEBKAfile’s military and intelligence sources report that China sent word to Moscow Friday, Oct. 2, that J-15 fighter bombers would shortly join the Russian air campaign that was launched Wednesday, Sept. 30,” the website reported on October 2.

The J-15 warplanes will take off from the Chinese Liaoning-CV-16 aircraft carrier, which reached Syrian shores on Sept. 26… This will be a landmark event for Beijing: its first military operation in the Middle East as well the carrier’s first taste of action in conditions of real combat.

Thursday night, China’s foreign minister Wang Yi, made this comment on the Syrian crisis at a UN Security Council session in New York: “The world cannot afford to stand by and look on with folded arms, but must also not arbitrarily interfere (in the crisis).”

“The Syrian crisis has been going on for five years now. The international community cannot look on without lifting a finger, but also ought not to interfere arbitrarily,” the Chinese Foreign Ministry Wang Yi told a U.N. Security Council meeting on Thursday.

Additionally, according to DEBKAfile, the Iraqi government has offered the Russians an airbase to strike ISIS targets in the country.

A no less significant development occurred at about the same time when Iraqi Prime Minister Haider al-Abadi, speaking to the US PBS NewsHour, said he would welcome a deployment of Russian troops to Iraq to fight ISIS forces in his country too. As an added incentive, he noted that this would also give Moscow the chance to deal with the 2,500 Chechen Muslims whom, he said, are fighting with ISIS in Iraq.

On September 30, according to Reuters, a Russian official said his country has established a military coordination center in Baghdad.

The Russian Defense Ministry, however, said the center would be used to coordinate airstrikes in Syria. He did not mention strikes against ISIS inside Iraq.

On Thursday the Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov said his country has been coordinating with Kurdish forces battling the Islamic State in Iraq and has sent arms to them through the central government in Baghdad, according to Rudaw, a Kurdish media network.

“Military representatives from Iraq, Iran, Syria and Russia and the Kurdish government are with this information center which we established in Baghdad,” Lavrov said." link (http://www.infowars.com/china-to-participate-in-airstrikes-against-cia-proxies-in-syria/)

Rocky_Shorz

3rd October 2015, 19:20

Russian and Israeli Aircraft Narrowly Avoid Duel Over Syrian Coast

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A French website claims six Russian Sukhoi SU-30 SM fighter jets and four Israeli F-16s narrowly avoided engaging in an air duel off the Syrian coast.

The report has yet to be verified by other news organizations.

The Russian aircraft, en route to Cyprus from the Syrian Hmimim airbase, entered the flight path of the Israeli jets.

The Israelis avoided provoking the Russians and diverted at high speed toward Lebanon, according to the report.

The encounter prompted the Israelis to protest. The Russians responded by demanding an explanation why the Israeli Air Force is conducting flights off the Syrian coast.

“The incident was ignored by the major news agencies,” the French website reports.

Israel routinely enters Syrian airspace. In August, the Israelis conducted an airstrike against a vehicle on the Syrian side of the Golan Heights.

An Israeli army helicopter launched a number of rockets into Syria the same month, striking the transportation directorate and the governorate building in Quneitra.

More recently the IDF attacked Syrian military targets in the Golan Heights after errant Syrian mortar fire landed inside the Israeli occupied Golan.

Israel routinely enters Lebanese airspace, a practice condemned by the United Nations. The UN says the flights are in violation of Security Council decisions. link (http://www.infowars.com/russian-and-israeli-aircraft-narrowly-avoid-duel-over-syrian-coast/)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-cnA2Gz6jbo

Rocky_Shorz

3rd October 2015, 19:49

Israel Firsters Demand World War against Russia.

"Israel Firster US Senators Advocate War with Russia.

If you want to know what Israel’s opinion is on any situation, just listen to the words of John McCain, Lindsay Graham or Tom Cotton and Israel’s wishes and thoughts become clear very, very quickly."

This is only a general rule it must be hoped because over the past several days McCain and Cotton have been calling for the US to attack Russia in Syria. A course of action with potentially apocalyptic consequences for the people they are supposed to be representing and the wider world.

https://crimesofempire.files.wordpress.com/2015/03/mccain_isis_headbelhaj.jpg?w=503&h=188
You haven’t made it big as a leader of Jihad until you meet with the American Emir-Senator John McCain greets Belhaj following the ouster of Gaddafi.

It can only be hoped that these ridiculous suggestions represent the last moans of the dying monster.

Senator John McCain: Arm Syrian Rebels With (SAM) to Shoot Down Russian Planes.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EMYP7AEW8m8

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sNeN2aj-2MA

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W4saG2mNWDI

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6wdeK349Uok

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fwIjE-sOmjE

animovado

4th October 2015, 14:52

So who is in Russia's crosshairs in Syria? (http://orientalreview.org/2015/10/04/so-who-is-in-russias-crosshairs-in-syria/)
By Oriental Review

The media frenzy in the countries of the anti-Assad coalition over the Russian air strikes on Al-Qaeda-linked guerrillas in Syria has made one very significant fact quite clear. Along with the nervous reaction of the US, Saudi Arabia, Turkey, and some other countries it is irrefutable proof that the interests of seemingly opposing forces – NATO and radical jihadism – are actually tightly intertwined. And their relations go far beyond the Syrian crisis.
Ultimately it makes no practical sense to differentiate Daesh and Jabhat Al Nusra merely on the basis of the fact that those extremist groups differ about the manner in which it is necessary to kill infidels. If Jabhat Al Nusra enjoys the confidence of some US senators, then the real problem might be the educational level of those senators (try to disconnect Senator McCain from his handlers and speechwriters and you will quickly see what kind of person he really is). Once again: Daesh and Jabhat Al Nusra are cut from the same cloth. And we should agree yet before acting: when determining military targets, all decisions must be based specifically on military considerations and situation on the ground and not on American vision of the future of “democracy in Syria.”

The military disposition in Syria is crystal clear. Primarily, blockade of the cities of Homs and Hama should be lifted and direct land route from Damascus to the Turkish border to be put under control of pro-government forces. The first strikes of the Russian AF were dispatched precisely in that direction.

Continue reading (http://orientalreview.org/2015/10/04/so-who-is-in-russias-crosshairs-in-syria/)

animovado

4th October 2015, 15:21

This is an excerpt from the press conference (http://en.kremlin.ru/events/president/transcripts/press_conferences/50394) the russian president putin gave to russian journalists following his participation in the 70th session of the United Nations General Assembly:

Question: Good evening, Mr President. It has been reported recently that Russia, Iran, Iraq and Syria have set up an information centre in Baghdad to exchange information about their actions in the region. Could you tell us in greater detail about the purpose of the centre?

Could any other country join it? Did any of the leaders express such a desire during your meetings here at the General Assembly? Generally, could you expand on Russia’s plans to cooperate or coordinate its activities with the United States, for instance, in Syria?

Vladimir Putin: We have already said that the information centre set up in Baghdad, in Iraq, is open to representatives of all countries that are interested in combatting terrorism. The purpose is to coordinate the efforts of the regional states in their fight against ISIS and other terrorist organisations.

What does this imply? It does not imply a command centre and combat action headed by it, of course, but at least coordination of efforts. Look what is happening: your colleague asked about airstrikes dealt at ISIS on Syrian territory by representatives of various states. These include Australia and the United States, and France has now joined them. What is the outcome? A few days ago, our military have calculated that US aviation made 43 strikes at Syrian territory within 24 hours. What is the result? Nobody knows if there is any.

If we set ourselves the target of resolving specific issues and achieving specific goals, this work should be coordinated in order to be successful. The centre was set up to coordinate efforts. I would like to repeat that it has been set up for all who are interested in combatting terrorism to join in.

We have just been talking about interaction between the United States and Russia on this anti-terrorist track, as diplomats say. We have an understanding that there is a need to at least enhance our bilateral efforts. We will now jointly consider the creation of appropriate mechanisms. (emphasis added)

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I emphasized one sentence above, because it makes clear that the US and other forces, after attacking ISIS for a year or so, has made no real progress and one has to ask about what was really happening there.

Rocky_Shorz

4th October 2015, 18:54

US Tells EU: You're Not Invited To Syria Peace Talks

While Europe is bearing the refugee burden, the Americans only want Russia, Iran, Saudi Arabia, and Turkey at the table.

This article originally appeared in German Economic News. Translated from the German by Paul Dunne.

The US government has torpedoed European recommendations for a multi-lateral Syrian peace conference. In principle, Washington is in favour of peace talks – but without the EU at the table. The EU is bearing the greater part of the burden of the explusions [sic] from Syria. However the EU has also obviously wasted its chances with Russia.
There was a dispute between European diplomats and their US colleagues on the fringes of the UN General Assembly. The French Foreign Minister, Laurent Fabius, had proposed a format for Syria similar to that used in the Iranian nuclear weapons affair. Great Britain, France and Germany came out strongly in favour of meeting alongside the USA, China, Russia and Iran.

Clearly the idea of treating Iran not as adversary but as partner aroused discontent among the Americans. As the Times of Israel reported, citing the Associated Press, the Americans said that such a format would be sensible – without the EU at the table. The discussions with Iran were started by the three EU states [mentioned above]. The Americans declined in 2006 to sit at the same table with Iran. Only three years later did Washington relent and take part in the discussions which eventually lead to an agreement.

The USA wants only the Russians, Iran, Saudi Arabia and Turkey at the conference.

With its unconditional acquiescence in US foreign policy, the EU seems to have spoiled its chances with the Russians – at least for the present. The Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov has said that he considers the participation of the USA, Russia, China, Saudi Arabia, Turkey, Qatar, Egypt, Iran and Jordan as reasonable." link (http://russia-insider.com/en/politics/us-tells-eu-youre-not-invited-syria-peace-talks/ri10181)

no Israel... that says a huge unsaid statement...

Rocky_Shorz

4th October 2015, 19:22

a christian village in Iraq, where a huge group of Ezidi went to seek safety and get away from isis is getting bombed by Turkey...

Wide-Eyed

5th October 2015, 00:59

France starts bombing in Syria after last week Putin states and probably has evidence US, Saudi, Israeli created ISIS and fake war on terror. No MSM coverage of Putins UN speech saying no to US false flag terror wars.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?t=23&v=eyt6tY_PxLo

http://www.janes.com/article/54851/france-conducts-first-syria-strikes

Putin WAR on FASCISM and WASHINGTON NAZI'S NEO-CON CORPORATISTS and a coalition against real terrorism and its fake war.

Wide-Eyed

5th October 2015, 01:25

Chinese are getting into the act for the "attacks" or the explosions in China ? http://www.almasdarnews.com/article/chinese-military-personnel-expected-to-arrive-in-syria/:( response to #602 post

Rocky_Shorz

5th October 2015, 04:34

someone just resurfaced this interview...

the Chinese bankers are there to remind America their War account is on Hold...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4704y5JWkHg

Rocky_Shorz

5th October 2015, 04:50

latest from Sorcha...

"The Ministry of Defense (MoD) is reporting today that President Putin has authorized combat ground operations to begin in Syria utilizing strategic Aerospace Forces protection operations in support of the internationally authorized military forces under the control of the legitimate government of Syria.

According to this report, President Putin issued this order after the Obama regime notified the MoD that there were only militants in the areas of Russia’s military operation against Islamic State (ISIS/ISIL) forces in Syria. Which was confirmed by Lieutenant General Andrey Kartapolov, head of the Main Operation Directorate of the General Staff of Russia’s armed forces, who stated:. “The Americans informed us during contacts that there was no one except terrorists in this region”.

Further leading President Putin to issue this order, this report continues, were battlefield reports showing ISIS/ISIL forces fleeing from those areas in Syria being targeted by massive Aerospace Forces strategic bombing attacks so fearsome the Islamic State was forced to call prayer services yesterday.

Of the authorized military forces in Syria who will be protected in their ground operation against ISIS/ISIL by Aerospace Forces, this report notes, are all elements attached to the Syrian Arab Army (SAA) by official documentation provided to the MoD by the Syrian government. Though not explicitly stated in this report, those forces currently operating within the SAA are widely known to include Shiite armed fighters associated with Lebanon’s Hezbollah and Iran’s Revolutionary Guards along with various Iraqi Shiite militia forces pouring into this war zone.

Interestingly too is this MoD report stating that both the Syrian and Iraqi Kurdish People's Protection Units (YPG) are, likewise, to be afforded Aerospace Forces protections.

These US-Kurdish allies have welcomed Russian airstrikes and have offered to fight alongside Russia against the Islamic State and have, also, asked Moscow for weapons. The YPG, it’s important to note, has recently had to slow its offensive against ISIS/ISL forces after Turkey, a US-NATO ally and bitter rival of the Kurds, objected to its success, and US bombing missions over northern Syria have dropped precipitously since leaving them at the Islamic States mercy.

And to how the Obama regime had actually been conducting their “war” against ISIS/ISIL, this report says, appears to have been nonexistent as no evidence has yet been discovered by Russia that the Americas ever actually bombed them—which explains why Iraqi Prime Minister Haider al-Abadi this week stated that his nation, too, would welcome Russian airstrikes against the Islamic State.

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With new documents proving that the Obama regime and its partners in the Gulf states, and Turkey, supported ISIS/ISIL and planned to establish a Salafist principality in Syria, MoD experts in this report warn, yesterdays threat by these Gulf States declaring that they will militarily intervene on behalf of ISIS/ISIL, and other terrorist groups, in Syria, has greatly accelerated the likelihood of this conflict reaching international proportions.

As a pivotal turning point in this conflict has now drawn in all of the world's military powers, these MoD experts in this report explain, Russia and the US are now engaged in combat over the same country for the first time since World War II—and with Chinese air forces also preparing to join Russia in conducting airstrikes over Syria combined with the 36,000 troops, 200 aircraft and 60 war vessels just mobilized by NATO, just the merest of sparks could set off World War III.

In order, however, to avert a global war, this report says, SAA ground gains in this conflict, under the protection of the Aerospace Forces, is critical in its speed as just this morning, members of the Syrian opposition signed a final declaration after two-day marathon talks at the conference in the Kazakh capital of Astana to reestablish in Syria a government for its own people.

Concurring with Russia in preventing a larger more catastrophic war, this report further states, is Israel, whose Prime Minister, Benjamin Netanyahu, and top military chief, Chief of Staff Lt.-Gen Gadi Eisenkott, flew to Russia last week for intensive meetings with Russian officials on efforts to coordinate with Moscow amid its military roll-out in Syria.

After these meetings, this report says, it was concluded that the IDF and MoD would set up a joint working group to coordinate their Syria-related activities in the aerial, naval, and electromagnetic arenas, but which President Obama refused to be a part of.

Most perversely though about the Obama regime, this report concludes, is not only have they not offered to support Russian military forces who are now risking their lives to protect the Syrian people from some of the most brutal and sadistic terrorists our world has ever seen, they have actually begun a propaganda war of lies stating that Aerospace Forces have been killing innocents and targeting al-Nusra militant forces—which, of course, the American press refuses to tell their citizens is actually al Qaeda whom they blamed for their 11 September 2001 attacks.

And at the exact same time Russia is engaged in destroying al Qaeda and ISIS/ISIL forces in Syria (and soon Iraq), the Obama regime supported Sunni Saudi Arabian regime continues their barbaric bombing of Yemen, that since March has killed over 7,000 civilians, including over 500 children, and, just yesterday, US air forces bombed and destroyed a defenseless Doctors Without Borders hospital in Afghanistan that the medical staff tried in vain to stop for over an hour in frantic calls to Washington D.C. that were met with silence—and the UN is now calling a war crime.

As to how the American people themselves still allow themselves to be associated with such a brutal and barbaric regime that has spread more war and terror across the globe than all of the other world’s nations all put together is nothing more than a testament into how completely propagandized these people are—which nothing, perhaps, shows more visibly than this chart showing the carnage started by the US versus that of Iran since the ending of World War II: link (http://www.whatdoesitmean.com/index1922.htm)

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Cidersomerset

5th October 2015, 09:33

Assad: ‘West uses terrorism as new instrument to subjugate Middle East’

By David Icke on 5th October 2015 War and Terror

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Assad: ‘West uses terrorism as new instrument to subjugate Middle East’

Published time: 4 Oct, 2015 20:13

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‘Western countries are using terrorism as an instrument of control, Syrian
President Bashar Assad said in a recent interview. He also said that he is
ready to step down if his departure is the solution to the four-year-long conflict.

“From the beginning it was clear to us that there were foreign hands behind
terrorism in Syria,” Assad said in interview with Iran’s Habar TV.

President Assad thinks that the US-led coalition against Islamic State
(IS, formerly ISIS/ISIL) is ineffective because the West does not want to
defeat terrorist groups. In fact, it wants to preserve the balance between
the warring sides to “perpetuate the process of erosion in Syria and Iraq
and later other countries of the region, so that we all remain weak for
decades and maybe generations.”’

Read more: Assad: ‘West uses terrorism as new instrument to subjugate Middle East’

http://www.rt.com/news/317625-assad-interview-syria-terrorism/?utm_source=browser&utm_medium=aplication_chrome&utm_campaign=chrome

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Cold War Mentality: NATO Should Prepare for War With Russia – UK Officials

By David Icke on 5th October 2015 War and Terror

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Military & Intelligence
06:06 04.10.2015(updated 10:09 04.10.2015)

‘Senior British army officials urged NATO authorities to “revisit Cold War
scenarios” and prepare for full-scale war in the wake of Russian
achievements in the fight against ISIL militants in Syria and development
of cutting-edge T-14 Armata battle tanks.

As the United States continues to promote fears of “Russian aggression,”
the Pentagon has called for upgraded communications systems.

Former UK army officials said that the Russian military is more effective
in comparison to NATO’s, calling on the bloc’s leaders to urgently invest
more money on improvement of joint force capabilities and to “revisit
Cold War scenarios, and this includes conventional, symmetric warfare
in Eastern Europe,” The Sunday Express reported.’

Read more: Cold War Mentality: NATO Should Prepare for War With Russia – UK Officials

http://sputniknews.com/military/20151004/1027984515.html

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SPUTNICK NEWS......

Middle East
09:24 05.10.2015(updated 10:08 05.10.2015) Get short URL

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Scores of Islamic State militants have reportedly fled Syria in
fear of an upcoming large-scale Syrian Army offensive.

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pro-Syrian government protest in front of the Russian Embassy in Damascus, Syria

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Syrians View Russians as Heroes – British Journalist
More than three thousand militants from the Islamic State,
Jabhat Al-Nusra and Jaish al-Yarmouk jihadist groups have
left Syria for Jordan, fearing the forthcoming Syrian Army
offensive, Russia's news agency Ria Novosti quoted a
military source as saying.

Read more: http://sputniknews.com/middleeast/20151005/1028023522/syria-army-militants-offensive.html#ixzz3ngQdUaYU

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President Bashar al-Assad says 'Russian help is vital'

4 October 2015 Last updated at 18:36 BST

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Short vid on link......http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-34439937

Syrian President Bashar al-Assad has said Russia's intervention in the Syrian civil
war is vital to the security of the whole Middle East. In an interview with Iranian
state television, the Syrian leader also criticised the US-led coalition and its air
strikes against Islamic State extremists.He said it had failed to stop terrorism from
spreading, adding only the coalition of Syria, Russia, Iran and Iraq could save the
region from destruction.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-34439937

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Russia embarrassing US with Syria battle . They are doing what we should have
been doing for the past year.

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Published on 4 Oct 2015

Russia’s campaign of airstrikes against the Daesh (ISIL) terrorist group in Syria
amounts to an embarrassment for the United States, says a retired US Army
official. “As much as I think it is embarrassing for President Obama, the Russians
are doing a job the United States should have done a year ago,” Anthony Shaffer
told Press TV on Friday. “Russia is doing what we should have done a year ago,
hitting the hard sites of ISIS inside of Syria,” he added. Shaffer, a retired US Army
reserve lieutenant colonel, made the comments in reaction to reports stating that
US-trained militants in Syria have been targeted in Russian air raids. Alleged
evidence suggests that Moscow has targeted US-backed militants that fight Syrian
President Bashar al-Assad’s government, the Telegraph reported on Friday. Russia
carried out its first airstrikes near the Syrian city of Homs on Wednesday, following
a warning that the US should clear the skies in the area.

Russia announced on Saturday that its fighter jets have carried out some 60 raids
against Daesh (ISIL) positions, three days into the campaign. Russia’s military
operations in Syria have raised concerns in Washington that they will target militant
units trained and armed by the Pentagon and CIA, and bolster the Assad
government. This is while US military aircraft have been carrying out airstrikes in
Syria since September last year. American officials claim their strikes are aimed at
Daesh, but critics assert the operations are also directed against infrastructure vital
to the Syrian government. The US has announced military-to-military talks with
Russia to explore ways to keep their forces apart, which highlights the risks of
keeping rival air campaigns in Syria going. On Thursday, the Pentagon and Russian
military officials spoke through video teleconference. During the video call, Elissa
Slotkin, the acting assistant secretary of defense for international security affairs,
expressed US concerns that Russian military is targeting areas where there are few
if any Daesh (ISIL) forces operating. Russian President Vladimir Putin, however,
has repeatedly stressed that the Russian jet fighters are targeting ISIL terrorists.

Live @ http://www.presstv.ir/live.html

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Hungary to host NATO command center

By David Icke on 5th October 2015 War and Terror

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Hungary to host NATO command center
Published time: 2 Oct, 2015 20:43

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Soldiers from NATO countries receive a briefing as they take part in an exercise
at the military ground in Hohenfels.‘Hungary is planning to host a NATO command
center alongside with other central European and eastern European countries. The
center would plan military exercises and coordinate the actions of the Alliance’s
rapid deployment forces in the case of emergencies.

The Hungarian government announced that the new command center’s personnel,
called a NATO Force Integration Unit, would include 40 officers both from Hungary
and other NATO member states with no combat units deployed there.

“Its task in peaceful times is to organize and plan international exercises and, in an
emergency, the coordination of the NATO Reaction Force,” the government
spokesman’s office told Reuters.’

Read more: Hungary to host NATO command center

Cidersomerset

5th October 2015, 09:48

how many think al-CIAda wanted Russia in the war when they attacked their base in Syria on Sept 14th?

Anthony Shaffer from article above sums it up from a military point of view.
Obviously most in the mil are not privy to the real CIADA agenda of regional
conflict and Balkanisation on behalf of Saudi ,Israeli and western corporate
interests. The 'terrorists/mercenaries' funded by the gulf states and the CIA are all
part of the Neo - Con plan for the New American century after the end of the cold
war . Setting up the 'war on Terror' with the 9/11 'pearl Harbour Event' is all part of
the agenda and the distruction of the 'seven' muslim states as told to Gen Wesley
Clark just after 9/11 is being played out in front of our eyes.

The eventual involvement of Russia, Iran or China has been factored in and is why
the Ukraine conflict is being fuelled by the west ,under provisions in the original
'Minsk' agreement when the Ukraineleft the former Soviet Union. So that NATO will
be ready to send forces to either front if it escalates to a major conflict.

This almost blew up in 2009 when Israel almost attacked Iran from Georgia , but
Russia stepped in then. Its a dangerous game going on , mainly from western
agencies .

Russia embarrassing US with Syria battle . They are doing what we should have
been doing for the past year.

dtsp0iubXI8

Cidersomerset

5th October 2015, 10:12

Russia Uses High Tech Smart Bombs to Wipe Out US
Sponsored Al Qaeda Terrorists. Panic in Rebel Ranks

By David Icke on 5th October 2015 War and Terror

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GLOBAL RESEACH......

Russia Uses High Tech Smart Bombs to Wipe Out US Sponsored
Al Qaeda Terrorists. Panic in Rebel Ranks

By Stephen Lendman

Global Research, October 04, 2015

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‘The entire free world wants terrorism defeated. Russia
leads the effort to confront it head-on,

On October 3, Tass said Russian aircraft conducted over
60 sorties so far, bombing 50 ISIS targets, causing
consternation in its ranks. National Defence Control Centre Col.
General Andrey Kartapolov said “aircraft have been taking off
from the Hmeimim air base (night and day), targeting the
whole of Syria.”

“In the past three days we have managed to disrupt the terrorists’
infrastructure and to substantially degrade their combat capabilities.
Intelligence reports say that militants are leaving the areas under their control.”

“A bunker-busting BETAB-500 air bomb dropped from a Sukhoi Su-34
bomber near Raqqa has eliminated the command post of one of the
terror groups, together with an underground storage facility for
explosives and munitions.”’

Read more: Russia Uses High Tech Smart Bombs to Wipe Out US Sponsored
Al Qaeda Terrorists. Panic in Rebel Ranks

http://www.globalresearch.ca/russia-uses-high-tech-smart-bombs-to-wipe-out-us-sponsored-al-qaeda-terrorists-panic-in-rebel-ranks/5479735
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Syria Update: Air Duel between the Sukhoi Su – 30 Russian SM and Israeli F-15

By David Icke on 5th October 2015 War and Terror

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Syria Update: Air Duel between the Sukhoi Su – 30 Russian SM and Israeli F-15

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‘Six Russian fighter jets type Multirole Sukhoi SU – 30 SM have intercepted 4
Israeli McDonnell Douglas F-15’s fighter bombers attempting to infiltrate the
Syrian coast.The Israeli F 15 warplanes have been flying over Syrian airspace
for months and in particular the coast of Latakia, which is now the bridgehead
of the Russian forces in Syria.

The Israeli jets would generally follow a fairly complex flight plan and approach
Latakia from the sea.On the night of 1 October 02, 2015, six Sukhoi SU-30 Russian
SM fighters took off from the Syrian Hmimim airbase in the direction of Cyprus,
before changing course and intercepting the four Israeli F-15 fighters off the coast
of Syria, that were flying in attack formation.

Surprised by a situation as unexpected and probably not prepared for a dogfight
with one of the best Russian multipurpose fighters, Israeli pilots have quickly
turned back South at high speed over the Lebanon.

The Lebanese army has officially announced at 2313 Z (local time) that four “enemy aircraft” (Israeli) had crossed the airspace of the Lebanon.’

Read more: Syria Update: Air Duel between the Sukhoi Su – 30 Russian SM and Israeli F-15

http://www.inspiretochangeworld.com/2015/10/syria-update-air-duel-between-the-sukhoi-su-30-russian-sm-and-israeli-f-15/

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Flashback July 2015: Syrian Human Rights Front is MI6-Funded Fraud

By David Icke on 5th October 2015 Useless Media, War and Terror

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EXPOSED: Syrian Human Rights Front is MI6-Funded Fraud

Posted on02 July 2015.

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NOVANEWS
MI 6 TRAITOR ”Rami Abdelrahman

‘NYT admits fraudulent Syrian human rights group is UK-based “one-man band”
funded by EU and one other “European country.”April 12, 2013 (LD) – In reality,
the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights has long ago been exposed as an absurd
propaganda front operated by Rami Abdul Rahman out of his house in England’s
countryside.

According to a December 2011 Reuters article titled, “Coventry – an unlikely home
to prominent Syria activist,” Abdul Rahman admits he is a member of the so-called
“Syrian opposition” and seeks the ouster of Syrian President Bashar Al Assad:

After three short spells in prison in Syria for pro-democracy activism, Abdulrahman
came to Britain in 2000 fearing a longer, fourth jail term.

“I came to Britain the day Hafez al-Assad died, and I’ll return when Bashar al-Assad goes,”
Abdulrahman said, referring to Bashar’s father and predecessor Hafez, also an autocrat.’

Read more: Flashback July 2015: Syrian Human Rights Front is MI6-Funded Fraud

http://www.shoah.org.uk/2015/07/02/exposed-syrian-human-rights-front-is-mi6-funded-fraud/

sunpaw

5th October 2015, 11:26

I read the last few pages - however strangely -to me- it reads like whats going on in Syria is justified.

The picture from the White Helmets - 1) content can be uploaded and posted over and over again. 2) there are also more (and recent) pictures.
Those pictures of wounded and dead children don't go viral. Even if they chose to use a 'doll' - does that mean no children died from any bombs? Its all just propaganda, fake blood?
Personally I don't think so.
And I am rather fooled to believe there are people dying and that pictures and videos not just some art project or 'propaganda'. Or some lame action movies to become famous on youtube.
I noticed wondering about false flags actually numbs caring. Yeah, its just propaganda and fake blood. Nobody actually died, so 'I' go on with whatever.
I decided to rather be fooled - but I don't want to justify it as fake while it COULD be real.
They bombed civilians.

Even though Afghanistan isn't listed at the title - the US bombed a HOSPITAL in Kunduz where Doctors without borders were working.
The coordinates were known, it was made sure they were known and they were precisely attacked.
6 patients in ICU were burning in their beds, 12 staff members and 7 patients died, many were wounded.

Guess this propaganda too...

Baby Steps

5th October 2015, 11:37

I am wondering whether Putin has elegantly wrong footed the West & The Cabal with his bold actions, or whether he is being manipulated into a trap in some fiendishly perfidious plan.

Firstly, not enough people appreciate that Western intervention in Syria is ILLEGAL, as it is not with the consent of the Syrian Sovereign government- unlike Russia's action which are legal.

Secondly , not enough people accept that Bashar Al Assad was very popular in Syria see below:

NATO reveals 70% of Syrians support Bashar al-Assad
VOLTAIRE NETWORK | 6 JUNE 2013

The Anglo-American press reports on an internal NATO study (dated June 2013), which takes stock of Syrian public opinion [1].
The study shows that 70% of Syrians support President Bashar al-Assad, 20% adopt a neutral position and 10% support the "rebels."
These figures are presented as reflecting a change of heart. The population is tired of the abuses and divisions of the armed opposition. From NATO’s perspective, what we are witnessing is not a phenomenon that is occurring in view of the approaching "Geneva-2" peace conference.
For two years, the events in Syria have been portrayed by the Atlanticist and GCC press as a peaceful revolution cruelly suppressed by a tyrant. The Syrian and anti-imperialist press, on the contrary, brands them as a foreign attack, armed and funded to the tune of billions of dollars.
http://www.voltairenet.org/article178779.html

There has been terrible deception in the Western media about this, together with utter pretence that ISIS is being challenged.

John Hulsman, who is a good commentator but is really a mouthpiece for the Council on Foreign Relations, states the these actions are Putin's last Gambit to retain a client state in the Mediterranean. This may be true, however it is also true that Putin is doing the thing-challenging ISIS- that the West claims to be doing, and for the same reason that the West claims - namely that ISIS is creating a humanitarian catastrophe, and needs to be stopped!

http://www.cityam.com/225777/putin-will-fail-syria-west-must-take-step-back

At least Hulsman is advocating a Western stand-down!

there are three big reasons for concern, and they suggest that the War making project is not being derailed. In the same week that Russia commenced operations we have seen:

1. Saudi Arabia threaten to attack Syria if Assad does not stand down.
2. The start of open hostilities with the Kurds within Turkey's borders
3. The Isrealis increased threat to attack Iran.

There is a delicate balance here. Unlike Hulsman, I hope and Believe that Russia's diplomatic operations are COMPETENT at this sensitive juncture.

Cidersomerset

5th October 2015, 17:36

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Syria conflict: Nato warns Russia on air strikes

30 minutes ago.... From the section Europe

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Moscow says it is hitting only Islamic State and other extremists' position - Nato says this is not the case

Nato has urged Russia to end air strikes "on the Syrian opposition and civilians",
days after Moscow began raids to support Syria's government.Moscow says it is
targeting Islamic State and other Islamist positions, but US-led allies and Turkey
say government opponents are targeted.Turkish F-16 fighter jets were scrambled
after a Russian plane entered Turkey's air space on Saturday.Nato said it meant
Russia's actions "have reached a more dangerous level".Russia said the incident
was a "navigational error". The US said Turkey would have been within its rights to
shoot the jets down.

Saturday's interception took place near Yayladagi in the southern Hatay region,
Turkey says. The foreign ministry in Ankara said it had summoned the Russian
ambassador to issue a "strong protest".Turkish jets patrolling the border were
also "harassed" by an unidentified plane on Sunday, Turkey said.A statement by
Nato's 28 members, that include Turkey, warned of "the extreme danger of such
irresponsible behaviour" and urged Russia "to cease and desist".

Russian air strikes - in depth
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What hardware does Russia have?

Where key countries stand - Who is backing whom

Why? What? How? - Five things you need to know about Russia's involvement

What can Russia's air force do? - The US-led coalition has failed to destroy IS. Can
Russia do any better?The close ties behind Russia's Syrian intervention - Lina
Sinjab on two countries that are the best of friends.Syria's civil war explained -
Analysis and background on the conflict

"The Turkish Armed Forces are clearly instructed," Turkish Prime Minister Ahmet
Davutoglu told Turkish TV. "Even if it is a flying bird, it will be intercepted."
But he played down the possibility of a "Turkey-Russia crisis", saying that channels
between the two countries remained open.The Russian air campaign began on
Wednesday, with Moscow saying it was targeting IS positions and those of other
Islamist groups. Syria said on Monday that the air strikes had been planned for
months.On Monday Russia said it had "continued performing pinpoint strikes" on IS
targets in Syria, carrying out 25 sorties and hitting IS targets. Mr Putin has also
denied that civilians were killed, but evidence on the ground has indicated
otherwise.But Turkey and other members of the US-led coalition in Syria say the
principal target is in fact the Syrian opposition groups fighting President Assad.
Nato said Russian air strikes did not target IS positions, but said it should "focus its
efforts" on doing so.

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Map of Syria
Moscow has not responded to Nato's comments. But earlier on Monday, Vladimir
Komoyedov, the head of the Russian government's defence committee, said Russia
had not ruled out attacking rebel positions using warships.The RIA Novosti agency
quoted him as saying ships were "prepared" but that an imminent assault was
unlikely as rebels were too far inland.Interfax reports (in Russian) that two more
Russian military ships are on their way to the eastern Mediterranean.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-34448942

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'No opposition ready to lead Syria now' – US Intel ex-Chief

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Published on 5 Oct 2015

Since Russia launched its air strikes against Islamic State last week, it's been
widely accused of bombing areas where the terror group has no presence. Michael
Flynn, a retired U.S. Lieutenant General and former head of the Defence
Intelligence Agency for more on Russia's fight against Islamic State, as well as the
U.S.-led campaign

RT LIVE http://rt.com/on-air

Rocky_Shorz

5th October 2015, 21:40

This is a must listen to fill in many missing pieces to the puzzle.

Ben says Pentagon sources say they are working directly with Russia on intelligence in the Syria war going after CIAda grown terrorists...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2j_RJ-_d2Xo

"These threats may also be related to historical events now unfolding in the Middle East. In response to the Saudi and Israeli triggered death stampede and kidnapping of Iranian officials visiting Mecca the Pentagon, the Russian military, The Chinese, the Iranians and others are carrying out a massive military campaign against Saudi Arabia, Israel and their proxy armies in Syria, Iraq, Yemen and elsewhere. The Pentagon is providing the Russians, Iranians, Chinese etc. with precise intelligence about the activities of the cabalist ISIS proxy army, according to Russian government sources.

King Salman’s brother and Saudi intelligence chief Prince Nawaf died last week as part of ongoing revenge against the Hajj atrocity carried out by the Saudi Khazarian gangster regime, multiple sources say." link (http://projectavalon.net/forum4/showthread.php?85780-Benjamin-Fulford-October-5th-2015)

as I said 10 Days from the last Blood full moon, this is the second death related to the Rulers supporting isis... link (http://projectavalon.net/forum4/showthread.php?10845-Avalon-The-gathering-of-33-Bloodlines...&p=1003875&viewfull=1#post1003875)

Saudi Clerics Call for Jihad Against Iran and Russia in Syria

"Dozens of conservative Saudi Arabian clerics have called for Arab and Muslim countries to "give all moral, material, political and military" support to what they term a jihad, or holy war, against Syria's government and its Iranian and Russian backers.

Although the clerics who signed the online statement are not affiliated with the government, their strong sectarian and anti-Christian language reflects a growing anger among many Saudis over Russian and Iranian involvement in Syria's civil war.

Russia last week started air strikes against Syrian opposition targets. The Kremlin, a staunch supporter of the ruling Syrian regime of Bashar al-Assad, says it wants to weaken the militant group known as the Islamic State. Saudi Arabia, along with Turkey and other Gulf states, has supported rebels trying to unseat the Assad regime and has denounced the Russian attacks. The clerics' statement portrayed the Russian bombardments as part of an Orthodox Christian crusade.

"The holy warriors of Syria are defending the whole Islamic nation. Trust them and support them ... because if they are defeated, God forbid, it will be the turn of one Sunni country after another," the statement said.

The bloodshed in Syria, part of a wider struggle for regional supremacy between Sunni Muslim Saudi Arabia and Shi'ite Iran, has aggravated sectarian anger across the Middle East and drawn religiously motivated foreign fighters to both sides.

But the Saudi leadership is also worried about the rise of jihadist groups, such as Islamic State, that are among the opposition. Riyadh's state-affiliated clergy has already termed the war a jihad for Syrians. But the Saudi religious leaders also have denounced the Islamic State and al Qaeda and said that Saudi citizens must not go abroad to fight or give the rebels money except through government channels." link (https://news.vice.com/article/saudi-clerics-call-for-jihad-against-iran-and-russia-in-syria?utm_source=vicenewstwitter)

one thing I didn't like about Ben reporting planned death camps was my premonition of being picked up and hauled away...

Rocky_Shorz

5th October 2015, 22:32

Hey Putin,

NATO is whining about 1 of your Migs Locking on to 10 F-16s over Turkey...

Mention they better tell Turkey to stop incursions into Iraq, at the same time on Sunday, they were bombing a Christian village...

because of how close in time it was from the bombing in Iraq, you might have lit up the planes that had just bombed the Iraqi village who are protecting the Yezidi that escaped from isis. Check your Satellite replays and print a copy out for NATO...

you have been invited to protect Iraq and Kurdistan from terrorist... like Erdogan...

NATO demanded Turkey go protect Kobane from isis...

they sat across the border and laughed...

they beat and arrested Kurds who crossed into Turkey seeking safety...

Turkey isn't NATO, it is a cowardly dictator sending militants and mercenaries across to join isis and fight their battles...

Rocky_Shorz

6th October 2015, 00:16

I do have one question on this report from yesterday, what do all of you think the "electromagnetic" arenas are?

"After these meetings, this report says, it was concluded that the IDF and MoD would set up a joint working group to coordinate their Syria-related activities in the aerial, naval, and electromagnetic arenas"

another term for this multi-level-enemy engagement, or is it related to the weapon that turned US Naval ships into floating bathtubs?

latest from Sorcha...

"The Ministry of Defense (MoD) is reporting today that President Putin has authorized combat ground operations to begin in Syria utilizing strategic Aerospace Forces protection operations in support of the internationally authorized military forces under the control of the legitimate government of Syria.

According to this report, President Putin issued this order after the Obama regime notified the MoD that there were only militants in the areas of Russia’s military operation against Islamic State (ISIS/ISIL) forces in Syria. Which was confirmed by Lieutenant General Andrey Kartapolov, head of the Main Operation Directorate of the General Staff of Russia’s armed forces, who stated:. “The Americans informed us during contacts that there was no one except terrorists in this region”.

Further leading President Putin to issue this order, this report continues, were battlefield reports showing ISIS/ISIL forces fleeing from those areas in Syria being targeted by massive Aerospace Forces strategic bombing attacks so fearsome the Islamic State was forced to call prayer services yesterday.

Of the authorized military forces in Syria who will be protected in their ground operation against ISIS/ISIL by Aerospace Forces, this report notes, are all elements attached to the Syrian Arab Army (SAA) by official documentation provided to the MoD by the Syrian government. Though not explicitly stated in this report, those forces currently operating within the SAA are widely known to include Shiite armed fighters associated with Lebanon’s Hezbollah and Iran’s Revolutionary Guards along with various Iraqi Shiite militia forces pouring into this war zone.

Interestingly too is this MoD report stating that both the Syrian and Iraqi Kurdish People's Protection Units (YPG) are, likewise, to be afforded Aerospace Forces protections.

These US-Kurdish allies have welcomed Russian airstrikes and have offered to fight alongside Russia against the Islamic State and have, also, asked Moscow for weapons. The YPG, it’s important to note, has recently had to slow its offensive against ISIS/ISL forces after Turkey, a US-NATO ally and bitter rival of the Kurds, objected to its success, and US bombing missions over northern Syria have dropped precipitously since leaving them at the Islamic States mercy.

And to how the Obama regime had actually been conducting their “war” against ISIS/ISIL, this report says, appears to have been nonexistent as no evidence has yet been discovered by Russia that the Americas ever actually bombed them—which explains why Iraqi Prime Minister Haider al-Abadi this week stated that his nation, too, would welcome Russian airstrikes against the Islamic State.

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With new documents proving that the Obama regime and its partners in the Gulf states, and Turkey, supported ISIS/ISIL and planned to establish a Salafist principality in Syria, MoD experts in this report warn, yesterdays threat by these Gulf States declaring that they will militarily intervene on behalf of ISIS/ISIL, and other terrorist groups, in Syria, has greatly accelerated the likelihood of this conflict reaching international proportions.

As a pivotal turning point in this conflict has now drawn in all of the world's military powers, these MoD experts in this report explain, Russia and the US are now engaged in combat over the same country for the first time since World War II—and with Chinese air forces also preparing to join Russia in conducting airstrikes over Syria combined with the 36,000 troops, 200 aircraft and 60 war vessels just mobilized by NATO, just the merest of sparks could set off World War III.

In order, however, to avert a global war, this report says, SAA ground gains in this conflict, under the protection of the Aerospace Forces, is critical in its speed as just this morning, members of the Syrian opposition signed a final declaration after two-day marathon talks at the conference in the Kazakh capital of Astana to reestablish in Syria a government for its own people.

Concurring with Russia in preventing a larger more catastrophic war, this report further states, is Israel, whose Prime Minister, Benjamin Netanyahu, and top military chief, Chief of Staff Lt.-Gen Gadi Eisenkott, flew to Russia last week for intensive meetings with Russian officials on efforts to coordinate with Moscow amid its military roll-out in Syria.

After these meetings, this report says, it was concluded that the IDF and MoD would set up a joint working group to coordinate their Syria-related activities in the aerial, naval, and electromagnetic arenas, but which President Obama refused to be a part of.

Most perversely though about the Obama regime, this report concludes, is not only have they not offered to support Russian military forces who are now risking their lives to protect the Syrian people from some of the most brutal and sadistic terrorists our world has ever seen, they have actually begun a propaganda war of lies stating that Aerospace Forces have been killing innocents and targeting al-Nusra militant forces—which, of course, the American press refuses to tell their citizens is actually al Qaeda whom they blamed for their 11 September 2001 attacks.

And at the exact same time Russia is engaged in destroying al Qaeda and ISIS/ISIL forces in Syria (and soon Iraq), the Obama regime supported Sunni Saudi Arabian regime continues their barbaric bombing of Yemen, that since March has killed over 7,000 civilians, including over 500 children, and, just yesterday, US air forces bombed and destroyed a defenseless Doctors Without Borders hospital in Afghanistan that the medical staff tried in vain to stop for over an hour in frantic calls to Washington D.C. that were met with silence—and the UN is now calling a war crime.

As to how the American people themselves still allow themselves to be associated with such a brutal and barbaric regime that has spread more war and terror across the globe than all of the other world’s nations all put together is nothing more than a testament into how completely propagandized these people are—which nothing, perhaps, shows more visibly than this chart showing the carnage started by the US versus that of Iran since the ending of World War II: link (http://www.whatdoesitmean.com/index1922.htm)

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Rocky_Shorz

6th October 2015, 16:01

Sorcha's update on Syria...

"A grim new Ministry of Defense (MoD) report circulating in the Kremlin today states that the Obama regime has refused to repatriate the bodies of at least 3 suspected US Special Forces/Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) soldiers killed by devastating Aerospace Forces air attacks upon an al Qaeda command-and-control center in the Syrian village of al-Latamneh that caused the deaths of over 134 terrorists and forced another estimated 3,000 of these enemy forces to flee to Jordan.

According to this report, and which we had previously reported on too, Russian combat commanders in Syria had feared the loss of American troops due to Aerospace Forces attacks on terrorist bases as these US Special Forces operating illegally in this war zone as commanders were ordered by the Obama regime to wear a combat designation patch on their uniforms that is nearly identical to that worn by ISIS/ISIL troops thus putting their lives in grave danger, and which at least 3 of the terrorists killed in al-Latamneh were wearing.

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Immediately after Aerospace Forces attacks had destroyed the al Qaeda forces in al-Latamneh, this report continues, intelligence unites of the Syrian Arab Army (SAA) identified these suspected American troops based upon their finding of “highly skilled” forgeries of their identification documents upon their bodies and, most importantly, satellite phones in their possession showing numerous calls made to various US military bases in Jordan, Bahrain and the United States.

Important to note, this report says, is that the Obama regime started working with al Qaeda in Syria this past August after this terror group changed its name to al-Nusra Front at the request of the Pentagon in an attempt to keep hidden from the America people why its government was now working with the terror group it had been at war with since 11 September 2001 after they had killed over 3,000 innocent Americans.

Austrian general, Matthias Ghalem, who in August was leading international troops in the occupied Golan Heights, this report notes, confirmed the Obama regimes “unholy” alliance with al Qaeda by reporting that the leader of the al-Nusra terrorist group had met with two CIA officers as well as Saudi deputy minister of defense Prince Salman bin Sultan in Jordan’s capital city of Amman.

General Ghalem further reported that al-Nusra Front leader Abu-Mohammad al-Jolani signed a financial-military contract with the CIA at this meeting where also attending were two deputies of Obama regime official Robert Stephen Ford who was the former US ambassador to Syria.

Upon being notified by the SAA of these suspected American war dead, this report continues, MoD intelligence coordinators contacted their US counterparts and provided all relevant information about these bodies and their possessions whereupon the Pentagon then cut off all contact stating that they were not authorized to discuss this matter any further.

As to the final disposition of these believed to be bodies of American soldiers this report doesn’t say, but, if past protocols are followed, they would be sent to Moscow where further MoD forensic examinations would be made, a secret agreement reached to repatriate them to the US, and an announcement by the Pentagon that these men were killed in either a plane crash or training accident.

On the other hand, though, this may not be the case as the Obama regime has (obviously) gone mad and we’re not in normal times anymore—and as, perhaps, best stated by Foreign Ministry spokeswoman Maria Zakharova who earlier today in lamenting the West’s smear campaign against Russia stated:

“Blaming the Russian Air Force for the death of civilians, and even more sinisterly, the death of children, is pure propaganda. If you show a kid who’s bringing bread to his family hiding from Russian bombings, then show a kid whose parents have been beheaded by IS [militants], against whom our guys, our servicemen are fighting for in the region.”

Like those of the children and their parents in Syria who refused to renounce their Christian faith and were then tortured and crucified to death while calling the name of Jesus by these American supported terrorists.

And even though the Obama regime, along with its media lapdogs, still refuse to call this war what it is, the same cannot be said about Saudi Arabia, whose top clerics have now issued a call for jihad against Russia characterizing the Federations actions as an “Orthodox Christian crusade”…which in fact it actually is.

As to when our world changed and Russia became the global protector of Christianity against Islamic madmen, while at the same time the United States has become the protector of Islamic terrorists devoted to wiping Christianity out, is anyone’s guess—but with Russia now having ordered one of its main intelligence ships that coordinates nuclear strikes to Syria, the SSV 231 Vasily Nikitich Tatishchev, one can, also, clearly see where this whole mess is going to end up... link (http://www.whatdoesitmean.com/index1923.htm)

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Ignorance of forgotten promises...

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Rocky_Shorz

7th October 2015, 04:49

Russia and U.S. are going to coordinate attacks from the Pentigon in Syria, Turkey and NATO have been brushed aside along with CIA.

Lunatic Clerics from Saudi Arabia are calling for Jihad, but fighters are continuing to flee Isis ranks...

Refugees from Jordan are starting to return confident it is once again safe in Syria...

Cidersomerset

7th October 2015, 14:24

F-35 deathtrap: Pentagon jet’s ejection seat could snap pilot’s neck

By David Icke on 7th October 2015 War and Terror

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F-35 deathtrap: Pentagon jet’s ejection seat could snap pilot’s neck
Published time: 6 Oct, 2015 11:07
Edited time: 6 Oct, 2015 11:17

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‘Tests on the Pentagon’s troubled F-35 fighter jet have exposed a
potentially life-threatening blunder as its ejection seat could snap
a slender pilot’s neck when attempting to save his life, Defense
News reports, citing a source close to the program.

Ejection tests performed in slow flying speed mode in August revealed
that the pilot’s US16E seat constructed by contractor Martin-Baker has
an excessive forward rotating momentum, which – combined with the
force of the ejected seat shot out of the aircraft – snapped a lightweight
dummy’s neck.’

Read more: F-35 deathtrap: Pentagon jet’s ejection seat could snap pilot’s neck

https://www.rt.com/news/317758-f35-ejection-seat-neck/?utm_source=browser&utm_medium=aplication_chrome&utm_campaign=chrome

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Escalation of US Military Involvement in Ukraine. Vietnam 2.0 in the Making?

By David Icke on 7th October 2015 War and Terror

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GLOBAL RESEARCH.....

Escalation of US Military Involvement in Ukraine. Vietnam 2.0 in the Making?

By John Stanton

Global Research, October 06, 2015

How involved is the US national security machinery in Ukraine? The answer to
that question is contained in a sampling of information available from the US
embassy in Ukraine and the Pentagon’s contract awards announcements.
Other publications (links provided below) have also been consulted.

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”Vietnam 2.0 is in the making in Ukraine. The US civil-military establishment,
Republicans and Democrats alike, want a shooting war with Russia, even
though it was the US that caused the carnage in Ukraine, not the Russians.
Yet, that inconvenient reality has been nullified by the US propaganda campaign
which, of course, the Russians have responded to with their own.

Surreptitious escalation of US military involvement in Ukraine is the order of the
day. Consider this comment from US Senator Jack Reid (Democrat): “One step
that should be explored, he said, is taking Ukrainian forces outside the country
and training them on the provided weapon systems, “so they’re ready.”

“Second is the possibility of transferring some of these systems from other countries
into Ukraine, which doesn’t raise quite the visibility of the transfer,” he said. “And
then there’s the possibility of taking some of our systems and beginning to…deploy
them to training areas particularly so that they can train on them and have them
ready to move into areas of conflict,” he said… He also said Ukraine has an extensive
military industrial base that could be used to produce the weapons, but that would
take time and financing.”’

Read more: Escalation of US Military Involvement in Ukraine. Vietnam 2.0 in the Making?

http://www.globalresearch.ca/escalation-of-us-military-involvement-in-ukraine-vietnam-2-0-in-the-making/5480091

Cidersomerset

7th October 2015, 14:32

Some other articles from the headline page......

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Russian navy warships may blockade Syria coast: Official

By David Icke on 7th October 2015 War and Terror

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‘Russia may use its naval forces to establish a blockade along the
Syrian coastline to facilitate the delivery of armaments into Syrian
territory, a senior parliamentary official says.

Vladimir Komoyedov, who heads the Defense Committee of Russia’s
State Duma (lower house of parliament), said the vessels of the
Russian Navy’s Black Sea Fleet would be used, during the potential
mission, to bring in weaponry, Russia’s Ria Novosti news agency reported.

“Regarding the large-scale use of the Black Sea Fleet in this operation,
I don’t think it will happen, but in terms of a coastal blockade, I think
that it’s quite [possible],” he said, adding, “The delivery of artillery
strikes hasn’t been excluded; the ships are ready for this, but there is no
point in it for now. The terrorists are in deep, where the artillery cannot reach.”’

Read more: Russian navy warships may blockade Syria coast: Official

http://www.presstv.ir/Detail/2015/10/06/432193/Russia-Syria-Black-Sea-Fleet-Vladimir-Komoyedov-Duma-Daesh-Airstrikes-

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US should attempt to disarm Russians in Syria: Brzezinski

By David Icke on 7th October 2015 War and Terror

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‘US foreign policy expert Zbigniew Brzezinski says the United States should
retaliate if Russia does not stop bombing its assets (ISIS) in Syria.

Brzezinski, the national security adviser for former President Jimmy Carter,
advised President Barack Obama to attempt to disarm the Russians if they
keep attacking the CIA-trained militants in Syria.

“The Russian naval and air presences in Syria are vulnerable, isolated
geographically from their homeland,” Brzezinski wrote in an article
published by the Financial Times on Sunday. “They could be ‘disarmed’
if they persist in provoking the US.”‘

Read more: US should attempt to disarm Russians in Syria: Brzezinski

http://www.presstv.ir/Detail/2015/10/06/432230/US-Syria-Russians-Brzezinski

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Russia ‘Violated’ Turkish Airspace Because Turkey ‘Moved’ Its Border

By David Icke on 7th October 2015 War and Terror

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‘So it is the U.S., not Turkey, which was first pushing the claims of air space
violation and of scrambling fighters. The Turkish source would not confirm that.

But how could it be a real air space violation when Russian planes “flew within
five miles of the Turkish border and may have crossed into Turkey’s air space”.
The Russian planes were flying in Syrian airspace. They “may have crossed” is
like saying that the earth “may be flat”. Well maybe it is, right?’

Read more: Russia ‘Violated’ Turkish Airspace Because Turkey ‘Moved’ Its Border

http://www.moonofalabama.org/2015/10/russia-violates-turkish-airspace-because-turkey-moved-its-border.html

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US senator says Washington’s $500 million Syrian training program aided terrorists – report

By David Icke on 7th October 2015 War and Terror

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Rebel fighters aim their weapons as they demonstrate their skills during a military display
as part of a graduation ceremony at a camp in eastern al-Ghouta, near Damascus, Syria

‘A US senator has slammed America’s $500-million program to train “moderate” rebels in
Syria, saying the money should go to aid refugees instead. Chris Murphy told Russian media
his “concern” that the program could aid terrorists “turned out to be true.”

“My concern from the beginning was that we were going to end up unwittingly aiding and
abetting terrorist groups like al-Qaeda,” Murphy, a Democrat from Connecticut, told Sputnik
news agency, adding “I am sorry that my concern turned out to be true.”

The senator has been repeatedly calling for the suspension of the US train-and-equip program
in Syria that the chamber approved last September. The Pentagon was granted $500 million
for the program in 2015 and has requested $600 million for 2016. The Obama administration’s
goal is to train 15,000 rebels in three years to fight the Islamic State terrorist group.’

Read more: US senator says Washington’s $500 million Syrian training program aided terrorists – report

https://www.rt.com/usa/317834-usa-senator-terrorists-syria/?utm_source=browser&utm_medium=aplication_chrome&utm_campaign=chrome

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EU Prepares to Deport up to 400,000 Migrants in Leaked Plan

By David Icke on 7th October 2015

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‘The EU plans to deport hundreds of thousands of migrants in a matter of weeks by creating
a new border guard unit and pressuring countries which receive development aid from the
organization, according to a document leaked to the Times.

The EU plans to deport hundreds of thousands of migrants back to their home countries within
weeks, according to a Brussels secret document leaked to British daily the Times.

The plans apparently include the creation of a new “dedicated return office” unit in the EU’s
Frontex border guard agency to deal with the “irregular migrants.” The EU plans to use trade
treaty clauses to force the return of refugees whose asylum applications failed to countries
including Mali, Niger, Somalia, Ethiopia and Eritrea, which have development aid and trade
treaties with the EU, the Times reported.’

Read more: EU Prepares to Deport up to 400,000 Migrants in Leaked Plan

http://sputniknews.com/europe/20151007/1028133357/eu-migrant-deportation-leaked-plan.html

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David Cameron attempting to defend the ‘squalid’ deal
with Saudi Arabia and the Crucifixition of Ali Mohammed al-Nimr

By David Icke on 7th October 2015

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Published on 6 Oct 2015

The Prime Minister suggests that he will try and personally intervene with Saudi Arabian
authorities in the case of Ali Mohammed al-Nimr, who has been sentenced to death, as
he is tackled over the British response to human rights abuses.
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Cidersomerset

7th October 2015, 14:53

Russian Navy joins fight against ISIS, fires cruise missiles

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Published on 7 Oct 2015
Four Russian Navy warships have fired a total of 26 missiles
at the position of the terrorist group Islamic State in Syria,
Russia’s Defense Minister Sergey Shoigu announced. The
missiles were fired from the Caspian Sea.

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BREAKING VIDEO: Russian warships attack ISIS positions in Syria from Caspian Sea

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Published on 7 Oct 2015

Russia’s Defense Ministry has published a video of its warships firing cruise missiles
from the Caspian Sea to hit the positions of Islamic State militants in Syria.

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Russia & US pondering co-op against ISIS despite dubius accusations

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Published on 7 Oct 2015

Russian airstrikes in Syria have sparked barrage of western accusation. Despite this
the Russian Defence Ministry says they could accept a Pentagon proposal to co-
ordinate military action in Syria. A group of military experts are set to discuss this today.
RT LIVE http://rt.com/on-air

Cidersomerset

7th October 2015, 15:03

A lively debate........

CrossTalk: Blaming Russia

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Published on 7 Oct 2015

The reaction from Washington on Russia’s upgraded fight against
terrorism in Syria gives new meaning to the term ‘shock and awe’.
The Obama administration’s strategy is in a quandary – it shows
itself uninterested in ending the Syrian civil war. Instead it still
wants Assad gone. CrossTalking with Ammar Waqqaf, Stephen
Lendman, and Sharif Nashashibi.

Listen to CrossTalk+ here: https://soundcloud.com/rttv/sets/cros...

Rocky_Shorz

7th October 2015, 19:45

Russia is ‘ready’ to begin contacts with Syrian rebels

"Moscow said on Wednesday it was ready to establish contacts with Syria’s Western-backed moderate opposition, the Free Syrian Army, battling against Russian-allied Syrian President Bashar al-Assad.

“At the president’s request, the foreign ministry informs our partners in countries that have links to the Free Syrian Army of the Russian side’s readiness to establish contacts with the leadership of this structure,” the foreign ministry said in a statement.

Earlier in televised comments, Russia’s air force will support offensive operations by Syrian government forces fighting on the ground in the war-torn country, Putin said Wednesday.

Russian efforts “will be synchronized with the actions of the Syrian army on the ground and the actions of our air force will effectively support the offensive operation of the Syrian army,” Putin said in televised comments.

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However, a military source told AFP that Syria’s army and pro-regime forces have already launched a major ground operation on Wednesday in Hama province backed by air support from Russian warplanes.

“The Syrian army and allied forces began a ground operation in the northern parts of Hama province (central Syria)... with fire cover from the Russian air force,” the source said.

The Syrian Observatory for Human Rights, a British-based group which tracks the conflict via a network of sources within the country also reported Wednesday that Russia and Syria carried out what appeared to be the first major coordinated assaults on Syrian insurgents.

Russia’s air campaign in Syria, at a time when relations with the West are at a post-Cold War low over Ukraine, has caught Washington and its allies on the back foot and risks an incident between Russian and U.S. warplanes, now operating in the same country for the first time since World War Two.

On Wednesday, an aide to President Francois Hollande said the French leader did not suggest forming an alliance between Assad’s forces and the moderate opposition Free Syrian Army, contradicting comments by made by Putin.

“The president spoke of the necessary presence of the Syrian opposition around a future negotiating table. The rest is not a French idea,” a member of Hollande’s entourage told reporters during a visit to Strasbourg.
Russian warships strike ISIS

Four Russian warships on Wednesday also struck at ISIS targets in Syria with cruise missiles, as Moscow ramps up its military campaign, Putin was told by his defence minister.

“In addition to the airforce, four warships of the Caspian flotilla have been involved,” defence minister Sergei Shoigu said, adding that the warships carried out 26 cruise missile strikes against 11 targets.

Shoigu also said the “strikes have hit 112 targets from September 30 until today.” He added: “The intensity of the strikes is increasing.”

Earlier Wednesday, the Observatory said a wave of Russian air strikes in western Syria was being accompanied by a ground assault on at least four insurgent positions.

The ground attacks were being carried out by “regime forces,” the Observatory said, a term it uses broadly to describe the Syrian military and allied local and foreign militia.

The Observatory said there were also heavy surface-to-surface missile bombardments.

Russia has courted controversy since their first wave of airstrikes hit Syria as they have been accused of attacking moderate rebels and civilians instead of ISIS militants.

At least 39 civilians, including eight children and eight women, have been killed in Russian air strikes in Syria during the first few days of when strikes were deployed.

Russia, a top ally of Assad, started carrying out air strikes in Syria last week, saying they were targeting hardline ISIS militants.

Russia’s Wednesday strikes targeted the towns of Kafr Zita, Kafr Nabudah, al-Sayyad and the village of al-Lataminah in Hama province and the towns of Khan Shaykhun and Alhbit in Idlib, the Observatory said.

Most of Idlib province is held by an insurgent alliance that includes al-Qaeda’s Syria wing Nusra Front and other factions and that has put pressure on the Syrian military." link (http://english.alarabiya.net/en/News/middle-east/2015/10/07/Heavy-Russian-strikes-hit-western-Syria.html)

Cidersomerset

7th October 2015, 19:49

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Obama apologises to MSF president for Kunduz bombing

43 minutes ago.....From the section US & Canada

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A survivor of the bombing recovers in the MSF hospital

US President Barack Obama has apologised to the president of aid agency
Medecins San Frontieres (MSF) for a bombing that killed at least 22.

The US has said the bombing, which took place in the Afghan city of Kunduz,
was a mistake and it was attempting to strike the Taliban.

MSF wants the bombing to be investigated as a war crime.

Mr Obama has also apologised to the president of Afghanistan.

"If it is necessary to hold individuals accountable, that will be done,"
said White House spokesman Josh Earnest.

Mr Obama "expressed his condolences" to MSF president Joanne Liu, said Mr Earnest.

"In the United States when we make mistakes, we're honest about it. We own up to it," he said.

Mr Earnest also hinted at the possibility of paying victims and their families, a Department of Defense policy.

Read More....

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-us-canada-34467631

Akasha

7th October 2015, 20:06

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The Syrian Observatory for Human Rights, a British-based group which tracks the conflict via a network of sources within the country.....

RT uploaded a revealing report on this often quoted body yesterday.
Apologies if this has already been shared (I used the search function but "The Syrian Observatory for Human Rights" is too long).

The title, The Syrian Observatory for Human Rights has an official, authoritative air about it, however, investigations into it's structure indicate it's anything but:

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Rocky_Shorz

7th October 2015, 21:17

Happy Birthday Putin!!!

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Sophocles

7th October 2015, 22:22

US 'using every excuse' to refuse to share intel on ISIS locations with Russia - military (https://www.rt.com/news/317924-us-refuse-intel-isis/)

RT Published time: 7 Oct, 2015

The US is refusing to share intelligence on Islamic State with Russia is doing everything to back out of cooperation, a spokesman for the Russian Defense Ministry said.

“Our partners from other countries, which view Islamic State (formerly ISIS/ISIL) as a real enemy, which must be destroyed unconditionally, actively help us with data on bases, depots, command posts and training camps of terrorists. And those, who, apparently, have a different opinion about this terrorist organization, are constantly looking for reasons to refuse to cooperate in the fight against international terrorism," Russian media quoted Igor Konashenkov, Russian Defense Ministry spokesman, as saying.

Full article (https://www.rt.com/news/317924-us-refuse-intel-isis/)

Snookie

8th October 2015, 00:02

Very interesting that this article mentions many of the names of the terrorists which were killed. I wonder if they know these guys were trained or supported by the west? They also refer to many of the weapons & armaments which were also destroyed. Maybe a way to rub it in that all that expensive equipment the west provided these guys has gone up in smoke? No wonder the US & its minions are apoplectic!

"Field sources told SANA on Tuesday that an army unit destroyed three vehicles, one equipped with a heavy machine-gun, for Ajnad al-Sham Islamic Union” in Zibdin village, killing many of terrorists.

The Saudi terrorist Jazza al-Shommari and the terrorists Zuhair al-Durra, Mohammad Diqmaq, Aziz al-Dalati, Nidal Dabbas and Ahmad Obeido were identified among the dead.

The sources pointed out that three pickups were destroyed and the terrorists Jihad Sha****, Marwan Sokkariyeh, Nader Taha, Jamil al-Naasan, Fouad Kouka and Naeem al-Makari were killed during army operations against “Islam Army” positions in Saqba town.

Other terrorists from the same group were killed in operations in Erbin town, including the terrorist Abdul-Yassin Tab.

In Mesraba village to the south of Douma city, sources said that an army unit destroyed dens of “Al-Rahman Legion” terrorist organization, killing many of its members, including the Iraqi Moustafa Nouri al-Saadoun, Ghassan al-Mofti, Faissal al-Shaar, Ayman al-Rawasi and Abdul-Jalil Kharouf."

Here's the link
http://sana.sy/en/?p=56991

idiit

8th October 2015, 11:09

saudi royals are Zionists. explains a lot:

The Saudi Dynasty: Where Do They Come From and Who Is their Real Ancestor?

http://vaticproject.blogspot.ca/2014/12/the-saudi-dynasty-where-do-they-come.html

"The Saudi Population Are Growing Restless": A Deep Look Inside The "Black Box" That Is Saudi Arabia
10/07/2015

With Saudi Arabia a critical player in the latest flare up in mid-east violence, while domestically the country faces increasing financial and economic pressure as a result of the collapse in oil prices coupled with the recent fomenting of a "royal coup" in Saudi Arabia, an honest and fresh perspective, not one pre-approved by the mainstream US media, into what is really going on in the kingdom was long overdue.

http://www.zerohedge.com/news/2015-10-07/saudi-population-are-growing-restless-deep-look-inside-black-box-saudi-arabia

Inmortal719

8th October 2015, 14:39

Is Putin part of the NWO conspiracy? or he just doesn't know that he's constantly provoked and dragged into a major plan by NATO and USA?

Cidersomerset

8th October 2015, 15:20

Mi-24 gunships guard Russia's anti-ISIS ops hub

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Published on 7 Oct 2015

Jihadist militants have set up position, just kilometres away from a
Russian airbase in Syria - the key launch pad for Moscow's anti-terror
air campaign. RT watches how the Russian military base in Syria is
being protected by helicopters.

READ MORE: http://on.rt.com/6t8x

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FSA won’t join Assad forces in fight against ISIS, that’s not US plan’

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Published on 7 Oct 2015

Four Russian Navy warships have fired a total of 26 missiles at the position of the
ISIS in Syria, Russia’s DoM announced today. The missiles were fired from the
Caspian Sea. Neil Clark, political analyst from Oxford, UK speaks up on the issue.

Putin:
We know how difficult such anti-terror operations are.
Of course it’s too early to draw conclusions.
But everything that’s already been done certainly deserves the highest praise.

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Russian jets perform combat sorties from Syrian air base

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Published on 8 Oct 2015

Russia launched its military operation against Islamic State at the request of the
Syrian government on September 30. Since the start of the operation, at least 112
objects have been destroyed, including IS command centers, ammunition depots,
and armored vehicles.

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Iraq wants Russia to bomb ISIS on its territory, US concerned

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Published on 8 Oct 2015

The Iraqi government says it may allow Russian bombing raids against Islamic
State on its territory. That's despite criticism from Washington over Moscow's
campaign. Despite claims that the Russian air campaign is ineffective - many
extremist units are in fact falling back.

READ MORE: http://on.rt.com/6t99

Cidersomerset

8th October 2015, 15:25

Need all-pervasive strategy against ISIS involving everyone – ex-UK First Sea Lord to RT

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Published on 7 Oct 2015

The first priority is to destroy ISIS, which is the top danger to all nations in the world, says
former UK First Sea Lord, Admiral Lord West. And we can only do that if the whole coalition
is involved with Russia, Iran and Assad forces, he adds.

READ MORE: http://on.rt.com/6tba

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Cidersomerset

8th October 2015, 15:39

Articles from the headline page....

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‘Risk of total war:’ Hollande urges EU countries to unite to solve Syrian crisis

By David Icke on 8th October 2015 War and Terror

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‘Failure to resolve the Syrian crisis could lead to “total war” in the Middle East that
would seriously affect Europe, French President Francois Hollande said, calling on EU
countries to unite in their efforts to resolve the conflict in the war-torn country.

In a joint speech before the European Parliament, delivered with German Chancellor
Angela Merkel, Hollande urged European countries to join forces and cooperate with
all parties concerned, including Russia and Iran, to find a political solution to the
Syrian crisis.’

Read more: ‘Risk of total war:’ Hollande urges EU countries to unite to solve Syrian crisis

https://www.rt.com/news/317941-hollande-merkel-european-parliament/?utm_source=browser&utm_medium=aplication_chrome&utm_campaign=chrome

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A Useful Prep-Sheet on Syria for Media Propagandists

By David Icke on 8th October 2015

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‘Here are some State Department talking points on Syria for cable news anchors:

1) Keep mentioning the barrel bombs. Do not mention how their use was pioneered
by the Israeli Air Force in 1948, and how they were used by the US Air Force in Vietnam
in Operation Inferno in 1968. Keep repeating, “barrel bombs, barrel bombs” and stating
with a straight face that the Syrian regime is using them “against its own people.”
Against its own people. Against its own people. Against its own people.

2) Keep mentioning “200,000.” (The UN estimates that 220,000 have been killed in the
conflict since 2011.) Declare like you really believe it that this is the number of civilians
the Syrian government of Bashar Assad has killed during the war. (Do not be concerned
about any need to back the figure up. No one is ever going to call you on it publicly.)’

Read more: A Useful Prep-Sheet on Syria for Media Propagandists

http://ronpaulinstitute.org/archives/featured-articles/2015/october/03/a-useful-prep-sheet-on-syria-for-media-propagandists/

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Vladimir Putin raises stakes with jammer threat to NATO jets

By David Icke on 8th October 2015 War and Terror

http://www.davidicke.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/10/188182589__01_988950c.jpg

‘Russia has sent sophisticated jamming equipment to Syria that could blind
NATO pilots in a further escalation of the stand-off in the Middle East.

The Krasukha-4 system has been spotted at a Syrian airfield being used by
Russian fighter jets and its presence has been confirmed by US officials.
The mobile system can disrupt surveillance by drones, satellites or western
early warning aircraft.

It has a range of 300km, can also disrupt the systems of radar-guided missiles
and would allow Russia to enforce a no-fly zone over President Assad’s military.’

Read more: Vladimir Putin raises stakes with jammer threat to NATO jets

http://www.theaustralian.com.au/subscribe/news/1/index.html?sourceCode=TAWEB_WRE170_a&mode=premium&dest=http://www.theaustralian.com.au/news/world/vladimir-putin-raises-stakes-with-jammer-threat-to-nato-jets/story-fnb64oi6-1227560086463?memtype=anonymous

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Syrian rebels ask U.S. for arms to defend against Russian strikes

By David Icke on 8th October 2015 War and Terror

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‘Representatives of “moderate” rebel groups in Syria opposed to the regime of
Bashar al-Assad have asked the U.S. to supply them with surface-to-air missiles
to counter Russian air strikes, American media have reported. Russian observers
say this is unlikely but caution that arms may be supplied by the key regional
sponsors of Syria’s opposition, Turkey and Saudi Arabia.’

Read more: Syrian rebels ask U.S. for arms to defend against Russian strikes

http://rbth.co.uk/international/2015/10/06/syrian_rebels_ask_us_for_arms_to_defend_against_russian_strikes_49841.html

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Cidersomerset

8th October 2015, 16:02

Is Putin part of the NWO conspiracy? or he just doesn't know that
he's constantly provoked and dragged into a major plan by NATO and USA?

I was thinking about this earlier funny enough and that the bigger players
behind the scenes throughout history usually pull the strings , switching
sides as the situation changes. Putin knows exactly what's going on in the
geo - political picture how his experts would define it. Its one big game
even at President and Prime Minister level. He knows 9/11 was an
inside job and that the war on terror is exaggerated. But some of it is
genuine , and it could kick off internal trouble in Chechtnya again in Russia.
If these paid CIA /Saudi /Gulf state mercenary groups first used in Afghanistan
against the Soviets and Bosnia against Serbia. Al-qaeda the Data base for disperate
groups of fighters that went on to help the Chetchen Rebels.

http://rasica.files.wordpress.com/2013/07/robin-cook.jpg

https://c1.staticflickr.com/3/2522/3911106538_2da082ee23.jpg

We have all seen how the Neo -con plan has been playing out since 9/11
They cannot come out and blatently accuse the US of this , without falling
out completely and definitely returning to the cold war. So the game goes on.

I expect the 'hidden' hand of TPTB are behind this at the top levels , but
the day to day planning and operational details are left to the military
and politicians to sort out.

You have probably seen this before , certainly Putin or his advisors would
have. Are they knowingly all in this together ? Yes and No I expect....

It is more complex as The Ukrainian crisis has not been resolved and
Russia , China and others are trying to create a financial block not reliant
on the $ as a trading currency. I think TNW order is a front for the real
power families and cabals that we speculate really run the world.

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General Wesley Clark: Wars Were Planned - Seven Countries In Five Years

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Uploaded on 11 Sep 2011

General Wesley Clark:
Because I had been through the Pentagon right after 9/11. About ten days after 9/11,
I went through the Pentagon and I saw Secretary Rumsfeld and Deputy Secretary
Wolfowitz. I went downstairs just to say hello to some of the people on the Joint Staff
who used to work for me, and one of the generals called me in. He said, "Sir, you've
got to come in and talk to me a second." I said, "Well, you're too busy." He said,
"No, no." He says, "We've made the decision we're going to war with Iraq." This was
on or about the 20th of September. I said, "We're going to war with Iraq? Why?" He said,
"I don't know." He said, "I guess they don't know what else to do." So I said, "Well, did
they find some information connecting Saddam to al-Qaeda?" He said, "No, no." He says,
"There's nothing new that way. They just made the decision to go to war with Iraq." He said,
"I guess it's like we don't know what to do about terrorists, but we've got a good military
and we can take down governments." And he said, "I guess if the only tool you have is a
hammer, every problem has to look like a nail."

So I came back to see him a few weeks later, and by that time we were bombing in Afghanistan.
I said, "Are we still going to war with Iraq?" And he said, "Oh, it's worse than that." He reached
over on his desk. He picked up a piece of paper. And he said, "I just got this down from upstairs"
-- meaning the Secretary of Defense's office -- "today." And he said, "This is a memo that describes
how we're going to take out seven countries in five years, starting with Iraq, and then Syria,
Lebanon, Libya, Somalia, Sudan and, finishing off, Iran." I said, "Is it classified?" He said, "Yes, sir."
I said, "Well, don't show it to me." And I saw him a year or so ago, and I said, "You remember that?"
He said, "Sir, I didn't show you that memo! I didn't show it to you!"

Hervé

8th October 2015, 17:55

4 Russian warships launch 26 missiles against ISIS from Caspian Sea (https://www.rt.com/news/317864-russian-warships-missiles-launch/)

Published time: 7 Oct, 2015 11:15
Edited time: 7 Oct, 2015 16:37

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© Russian Defence Ministry / YouTube

Four Russian Navy warships have fired a total of 26 missiles at the position of the terrorist group Islamic State in Syria, Russia’s Defense Minister Sergey Shoigu announced. The missiles were fired from the Caspian Sea.

TrendsRussian anti-terror op in Syria (https://www.rt.com/trends/russia-syria-op/)

“Four missile ships launched 26 cruise missiles at 11 targets. According to objective control data, all the targets were destroyed. No civilian objects sustained damage,” Shoigu said.

The missiles flew some 1,500 km before reaching their targets, probing their efficiency.

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READ MORE: Russian warships attack ISIS positions in Syria from Caspian Sea (VIDEO) (https://www.rt.com/news/317883-russia-warship-attack-syria/)

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A little private demonstration to Nuts 'n Yahoo... ?

Cidersomerset

8th October 2015, 17:59

Talking about Ukraine an article about the crash site just after the attack.

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'No one was at MH17 crash site, everyone was telling ‘we know who it was’

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Published on 8 Oct 2015

An official report into the cause of the crash of flight MH17 in eastern Ukraine
hasn't been published yet. Amid speculation over it, RT heard from journalist
Mark Bartal-mai. He was in East Ukraine at the time of the crash and visited
the scene just hours after the tragedy filming enough material for a documentary.

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betoobig

8th October 2015, 18:09

Interesting video here.

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Much love

idiit

8th October 2015, 18:10

just virtually create about $100 BILLION and buy yourself an army!

http://www.zerohedge.com/sites/default/files/images/user3303/imageroot/2015/10/20151008_USFAIL.jpg

U.S. Spent Nearly $100 Billion On Foreigners To Fight Terrorists
10/08/2015

http://www.zerohedge.com/news/2015-10-08/us-spent-nearly-100b-foreigners-fight-terrorists

with an impending war with Russia and risking wwIII in the process 'cause Russia dared attacked our allies in syria (you know, the ones that took down the twin towers aka al-cia-duh) America decided to go ahead and take on China now as well!

In Major Escalation, US To Sail Warships Around China's Man-Made Islands In South Pacific
10/08/2015

http://www.zerohedge.com/news/2015-10-08/major-escalation-us-sail-warships-around-chinas-man-made-islands-south-pacific

http://tse2.mm.bing.net/th?id=OIP.M610557f57e64b8ce3b20dbb749c9107fo0&pid=15.1&P=0&w=300&h=300

why now China?

China Launches Yuan-Based International Payment System

(Currency Wars=Shooting Wars!!)
Thursday, October 8, 2015

http://sputniknews.com/business/20151008/1028228289.html

Selkie

8th October 2015, 18:16

That video sheds an interesting light on the Syrian "refugees". Thanks, Juan :)

Cidersomerset

8th October 2015, 18:52

There has been talk recently about the future of Trident, well the Tories
answered it at their Party conference this week.....In the scheme of
things it is not much compared to the US & Russian Nuclear arsenals
but its the principal and a seat at the big table at stake.

INDEPENDENT....

David Cameron says that he would use nuclear weapons

http://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/politics/david-cameron-says-that-he-would-use-nuclear-weapons-a6679256.html

http://newsthump.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/03/David-Cameron-sat-down-small.jpg
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Britain to order four new Trident nuclear submarines – Cameron

By David Icke on 8th October 2015 War and Terror

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‘Britain will order four new nuclear submarines, Prime Minister David
Cameron has announced at the Conservative party conference in Manchester.

In a clear message to anti-Trident Labour Party leader Jeremy Corbyn,
the PM said four new submarines would be ordered to replace the existing
fleet, which will be retired.

In his first conference speech since the Tories won a parliamentary majority
in May’s general election, Cameron used the occasion to present a strong
opposition to Corbyn’s foreign policy stance, highlighting the importance
of a strong nuclear deterrent.’

Read more: Britain to order four new Trident nuclear submarines – Cameron

https://www.rt.com/uk/317862-trident-submarines-cameron-order/?utm_source=browser&utm_medium=aplication_chrome&utm_campaign=chrome

sunpaw

8th October 2015, 19:17

Four Russian cruise missiles fired at Syria from the Caspian Sea 'fell on Iran', unnamed US officials say.

http://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-34479873

betoobig

8th October 2015, 19:38

Now, a new big lie from US Gov.
In the MSM are saying Putting has bombed Iran with 4 missils (incredible). Puttin says they haven´t done it. I do trust more in Puttin than in Obama, i just hope they are not wings of the same bird.
Love

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Sings says Puttin in in the right side, the human side.

Cidersomerset

8th October 2015, 19:48

Four Russian cruise missiles fired at Syria from the
Caspian Sea landed in Iran, unnamed US officials say.

The propaganda rhetoric begins , at this rate we will soon be
back the the old cold war stereotypes etc.....

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Syria: What is happening on the ground? BBC News

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Published on 8 Oct 2015

Tensions remain high after Turkey complained that Russian jets had violated
its air space prompting fears of an accident. On Wednesday, Russia launched
missiles into Syria from warships in the Caspian Sea - about 1,500 kilometres
away. Our Middle East correspondent Quentin Sommerville sent this from
Syria's border with Turkey.

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Syria crisis: Russian missiles 'fell on Iran'

51 minutes ago....From the section Europe

Short vid on link..http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-34479873

Four Russian cruise missiles fired at Syria from the Caspian Sea landed in Iran,
unnamed US officials say.

It was unclear whether the missiles caused any damage, they said.

On Wednesday, Russia said it had launched 26 cruise missiles at targets in north
and north-west Syria. It has reiterated comments made at the time that all reached
their targets.

The news came as Nato renewed assurances to defend its allies in view of
Russia's "escalation" in Syria.

Nato is boosting its response forces to be able to deploy troops speedily.

The US officials provided no details of where the missiles might have landed.

However, Iran's Irna news agency reported on Wednesday that an unknown flying
object had crashed in the village of Ghozghapan in the Iranian province of West
Azerbaijan, said to be under the missiles' flight path.

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Moscow denies Western accusations that it has mainly targeted opponents of Syrian
President Bashar al-Assad, insisting its strikes have hit the infrastructure of the so-
called Islamic State (IS) and other militant groups.

IS militants have seized swathes of territory in Syria and Iraq.

The Russian air strikes had "weakened" IS, Syrian Army Chief of Staff Gen Ali
Abdullah Ayoub said on Thursday, enabling the army to start a "big attack" to
retake towns and villages.

Heavy fighting was reported in areas of Idlib, Hama and Latakia provinces, where a
coalition of rebels - including the al-Qaeda-linked Nusra Front - operates.

Government-backed troops had moved into the key Ghab plain area, the UK-based
Syrian Observatory for Human Rights monitoring group said.

Read more....

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-34479873

Cidersomerset

8th October 2015, 19:53

'and it escalates with Saudi oil $$$$$$'

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Gulf Arabs 'stepping up' arms supplies to Syrian rebels

By Frank Gardner
BBC security correspondent

3 hours ago....From the section Middle East

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The Saudi official said rebels would get new anti-tank weapons

Saudi Arabia is responding to the recent Russian air strikes on Syrian
rebels by stepping up its supplies of lethal weaponry to three different
rebel groups, a Saudi government official has told the BBC.

The well-placed official, who asked not to be named, said supplies of
modern, high-powered weaponry including guided anti-tank weapons
would be increased to the Arab- and western-backed rebel groups
fighting the forces of Syria's President Bashar al-Assad and his Russian,
Iranian and Lebanese allies.

He said those groups being supplied did not include either Islamic State
(IS) or al-Nusra Front, both of which are proscribed terrorist organisations.
Instead, he said the weapons would go to three rebel alliances - Jaysh al-Fatah
(Army of Conquest), the Free Syrian Army (FSA) and the Southern Front.

Read More....

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-middle-east-34479929

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BUISNESS INSIDER.....

The Rebel groups are armed by US and other 'deadly' anti tank missiles...

http://static5.businessinsider.com/image/5352fe22eab8eaf51a4e08e7-480/tow-missile-system.jpg

BGM-71 TOW, variant M220, SABER. U.S. Army PFC David Mitchell scans the
landscape surrounding Vehicle Patrol Base Badel at the mouth of the Narang Valley
in Konar province, Afghanistan, May 9, 2009. Mitchell is assigned to the 1st
Battalion, 32nd Infantry Regiment. The base has closed down enemy activity in the
valley and in Narang, Chowkay and Nurgal districts.

http://www.businessinsider.com/syria-missile-arms-2014-4?IR=T

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‘Pilot program’ revealed: Washington sends missiles to Syrian rebels

https://www.rt.com/files/news/26/95/40/00/rtr3n8yx.jpg

https://www.rt.com/news/158036-syria-american-missiles-test/

Rocky_Shorz

8th October 2015, 21:48

bennycog

8th October 2015, 23:33

If you find it very difficult to actually see who is fighting over there this little video might help..
I feel so sorry for this planet.

http://www.bbc.com/news/world-middle-east-34462867?post_id=1658193057727520_1658193047727521

Sophocles

9th October 2015, 01:20

If They Are Bombed - They Are Daesh (http://www.unz.com/ishamir/if-they-are-bombed-they-are-daesh/)

Israel Shamir October 4, 2015 unz.com (http://www.unz.com/)

(Excerpt)

Russia is home to some twenty million Sunni Muslims (and very few Shia) who are fully integrated and occupy all walks of life and important positions in the Russian state. One of the more fervent and outspoken Russian Muslims is Ramzan Kadyrov (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_Oe_hYEJIDg), the head of warlike Chechnya. He expressed his support for the Russian airstrikes and offered to lead his fighters into battle in the Syrian hills in order to save the Syrians from the wrath of Takfiris (=those who call other Muslims “Kaffir”, “infidel” – a name for Daesh and other Muslim extremists). So for the Russians, this is not a Crusade of Christians against Muslims, but a war of Christians and Muslims against Takfiri (https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/takfiri) sects.

Full article (http://www.unz.com/ishamir/if-they-are-bombed-they-are-daesh/)

seko

9th October 2015, 03:46

Here is a report from Press TV. saying... No missiles hit the country of Iran.

A senior Russian military official has vehemently rejected US allegations that Russian cruise missiles launched from the Caspian Sea and aimed at Daesh positions in Syria have crashed in Iran.

"Any professional knows that during these operations we always fix the target before and after impact. All our cruise missiles hit their target," Russia's Defense Ministry spokesman, Major General Igor Konashenkov, said in a statement on Thursday.

http://www.presstv.ir/Detail/2015/10/08/432591/Russia-cruise-missiles-Daesh-militants-Syria-crash-Iran-rejection

Cidersomerset

9th October 2015, 06:52

I Wonder ? Saudi , gulf States outlets...
http://automiddleeast.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/07/Toyota-Showroom-Sharjah-300x200.jpg

ISIS driving Toyotas a little too often, US Treasury wonders why

By David Icke on 9th October 2015 War and Terror
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ISIS driving Toyotas a little too often, US Treasury wonders why

Published time: 7 Oct, 2015 16:23

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‘ISIS has many faults, but it sure knows a good car when it sees
one. The US Treasury is now pressing Toyota about why so many
of its vehicles are being driven around by the terrorist group, as
evidenced in their propaganda videos.

Toyota has issued a statement to explain that this is part of a wider
probe into terrorist supply chains and capital flow, according to ABC.
The company also says it does not know how its trucks ended up in
ISIS hands in such a quantity, and is “supporting” the inquiry.’

Read more: ISIS driving Toyotas a little too often, US Treasury wonders why

https://www.rt.com/usa/317886-toyota-isis-trucks-treasury/

Cidersomerset

9th October 2015, 13:23

‘Which side are you fighting for?’ Russia blasts US for refusing to share intel on ISIS

By David Icke on 9th October 2015 War and Terror

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RT NEWS.......

‘Which side are you fighting for?’ Russia blasts US for refusing to share intel on ISIS

Published time: 8 Oct, 2015 09:26

Edited time: 8 Oct, 2015 16:34

‘Washington’s failure to share data with Russian intelligence about terrorist positions
in Syria makes one question the goals that Americans have in their anti-ISIS campaign
in Syria and Iraq, a senior Russian diplomat has said.

The refusal to share intelligence on terrorists “just confirms once more what we knew
from the very start, that the US goals in Syria have little to do with creating the conditions
for a political process and national reconciliation,” Deputy Foreign Minister Sergey
Ryabkov said Thursday.

“I would risk saying that by doing this the US and the countries that joined the US-led
coalition are putting themselves in a politically dubious position. The question is: which
side are you fighting for in this war?”’

Read more: ‘Which side are you fighting for?’ Russia blasts US for refusing to share intel on ISIS

https://www.rt.com/news/317983-russia-us-coalition-isis/

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Russian Airstrikes Destroy 40% of ISIS’s Infrastructure in a Week

By David Icke on 9th October 2015 War and Terror

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SPUTNIK NEWS....

Middle East
16:03 07.10.2015(updated 16:24 07.10.2015)

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Syria's Ambassador to Russia Riad Haddad said that around 40 percent of Islamic
State infrastructure in Syria has been destroyed since Russia began its military
operation in the country.

‘Around 40 percent of Islamic State infrastructure in Syria has been destroyed since
Russia began its military operation in the country, Syria’s Ambassador to Russia Riad
Haddad told Sputnik on Wednesday.

“According to our data, about 40 percent [was destroyed]. In addition, a lot of terrorists
have been killed. Now, they are retreating toward the Turkish border, as this country
has traditionally provided them with protection,” Haddad said.’

http://sputniknews.com/middleeast/20151007/1028161169/ISIL-Infrastructure-Destroyed.html

Cidersomerset

9th October 2015, 13:29

This may have something to do with coalition planning. ( Not officially of course)....

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Huge oil discovery in Israeli occupied Golan Heights – Israeli media

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Huge oil discovery in Golan Heights - Israeli media

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‘A big oil deposit has been found in the Israeli-occupied Golan Heights, with enough reserves
to last Israel for decades, according to the country’s media.

The Israeli presence in the Golan Heights is in dispute. The region is internationally recognized
Syrian territory that has been occupied by Israel since the 1967 Six-Day War between Israel
and several Arab states. UN Resolution 242 (1967) demands the withdrawal of Israeli armed
forces from the territories occupied in the conflict. Israel disagrees with the wording of the
resolution, saying the territories are disputable.’

A big oil deposit has been found in the Israeli-occupied Golan Heights, with enough reserves
to last Israel for decades, according to the country's media.

The Israeli presence in the Golan Heights is in dispute. The region is internationally recognized
Syrian territory that has been occupied by Israel since the 1967 Six-Day War between Israel
and several Arab states. UN Resolution 242 (1967) demands the withdrawal of Israeli armed
forces from the territories occupied in the conflict. Israel disagrees with the wording of the
resolution, saying the territories are disputable.
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Reportedly, the potential production may reach billions of barrels, while Israel consumes
270,000 barrels per day. Israel currently imports up to three quarters of its oil from the
semi-autonomous Kurdish region in Iraq, the Financial Times reported in August.

"We are talking about a strata which is 350 meters thick and what is important is the thickness
and the porosity. On average in the world strata are 20-30 meters thick, so this is ten times as
large as that, so we are talking about significant quantities. The important thing is to know the
oil is in the rock and that's what we now know," Israel business website Globes quotes Yuval Bartov,
chief geologist of Afek Oil and Gas as saying. Afek is a subsidiary of the America’s Genie Energy.

The reported discovery coincides with the civil war raging in Syria. Israel has been accused of
taking advantage of the conflict. The Israeli-occupied Golan Heights also border Syrian territory
controlled by anti-government rebels. Israel has reportedly provided medical aid to the rebels
and has responded to rocket fire from rebel-controlled territory by striking Syrian Army positions.
Israel's explanation has been that it "holds the Syrian military responsible for all events stemming
from its territory."

Read more: Huge oil discovery in Israeli occupied Golan Heights – Israeli media

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Flashback 2013: Israel Grants First Golan Heights Oil Drilling License To Dick Cheney-Linked Company

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Israel Grants Oil Rights Inside Illegally Occupied Golan Heights Syria: To Rupert Murdoch And Jacob Rothschild.

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Israel Grants First Golan Heights Oil Drilling License To Dick Cheney-Linked Company

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Feb. 22, 2013, 2:45 PM

‘Israel has granted a U.S. company the first license to explore for oil and gas
in the occupied Golan Heights, John Reed of the Financial Times reports.

A local subsidiary of the New York-listed company Genie Energy — which is
advised by former vice president Dick Cheney and whose shareholders include
Jacob Rothschild and Rupert Murdoch — will now have exclusive rights to a
153-square mile radius in the southern part of the Golan Heights.’

That geographic location will likely prove controversial. Israel seized the Golan
Heights in the Six-Day War in 1967 and annexed the territory in 1981. Its
administration of the area — which is not recognized by international law —
has been mostly peaceful until the Syrian civil war broke out 23 months ago.

"This action is mostly political – it’s an attempt to deepen Israeli commitment
to the occupied Golan Heights," Israeli political analyst Yaron Ezrahi told FT.
"The timing is directly related to the fact that the Syrian government is dealing
with violence and chaos and is not free to deal with this problem.”

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There are about 20,000 Israeli settlers in the Golan Heights.

Earlier this month we reported that Israel is considering creating a buffer zone
reaching up to 10 miles from Golan into Syria to secure the 47-mile border
against the threat of Islamic radicals in the area.

The move would overtake the UN Disengagement Observer Force Zone that was
established in 1973 to end the Yom Kippur War and to provide a buffer zone
between the two countries.

Reed notes that recent natural gas finds off Israel’s coast in the Mediterranean
have made the country's offshore gas reserve one of the largest of its kind in
the world, meaning Israel may become a significant energy exporter in its region.

Read more …

http://www.businessinsider.com/israel-grants-golan-heights-oil-license-2013-2?IR=T

Cidersomerset

9th October 2015, 13:36

NATO Prepares to Send Troops to Protect Turkey from Russian ‘Threats’

By David Icke on 9th October 2015 War and Terror

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NATO Prepares to Send Troops to Protect Turkey from Russian “Threats”

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Deployment will effectively provide military support for ISIS and al-Nusra

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October 8, 2015

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‘NATO boss Jens Stoltenberg said during a meeting of defense ministers in Brussels on
Thursday the alliance is prepared to send ground troops to protect Turkey’s border with Syria.

“Nato is ready and able to defend all allies, including Turkey against any threats,” Stoltenberg said.
The move is in response to a claim by Turkey a Russian warplane violated its airspace last week.

Ankara scrambled two F-16s to intercept the Russian aircraft and summoned the Russian ambassador in protest.’

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Rand: No-Fly Zone, Being Prepared to Use Force Against Russia ”Scary,’ The Wrong Approach’

By David Icke on 9th October 2015 War and Terror

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Rand: No-Fly Zone, Being Prepared to Use Force Against Russia ”Scary,’ The Wrong Approach’

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October 8, 2015

‘Republican presidential candidate and Kentucky Senator Sen. Rand Paul (R-KY)
said “the people in my party who are saying don’t talk to Putin, have a no-fly zone,
be prepared to use force against Russia, that’s all very scary to me, and the wrong
approach” on Wednesday’s “Special Report” on the Fox News Channel.’

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Read more: Rand: No-Fly Zone, Being Prepared to Use Force Against Russia ”Scary,’ The Wrong Approach’

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Source: 1000s of Terrorists Flee Syria after Russian Airstrikes, Army Ground Assault

By David Icke on 9th October 2015 War and Terror

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‘Thousands of ISIL Takfiri terrorists have fled Syria to Jordan, Turkey and Europe as
the Syrian army continues march on militant-held regions as well as Russia’s
airstrikes against positions of militias across the Arab country.

“A large number of ISIL terrorists have fled the Syrian territories to Jordan, Turkey
and Europe after the Russian warplanes and the Syrian army troops pounded their gathering centers and hideouts,” the source underlined.

A local source on Monday told FNA that the ISIL militants, most of them from the
Caucasus, Kazakhstan, Uzbekistan and Chechnya, together with their families have
left Raqqa province in Syria for Iraq.’

Read more: Source: 1000s of Terrorists Flee Syria after Russian Airstrikes, Army
Ground Assault

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Cover Up as Tory Government Won’t Publish the Legal Basis They Used For Syrian Airstrikes on British Citizens

By David Icke on 9th October 2015 Coverups, Political Manipulation, War and Terror

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The UK Attorney-General’s Office and Cabinet Office have both refused to respond
to a freedom of information request over the assassination in Syria by UK air
strikes on British citizens by claiming it is not in the public interest.

Read more: Cover Up as Tory Government Won’t Publish the Legal Basis They Used
For Syrian Airstrikes on British Citizens

http://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/politics/government-refuses-to-publish-legal-basis-for-air-strikes-on-syria-a6687006.html

animovado

9th October 2015, 14:53

If They Are Bombed - They Are Daesh (http://www.unz.com/ishamir/if-they-are-bombed-they-are-daesh/)

Israel Shamir October 4, 2015 unz.com (http://www.unz.com/)

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Full article (http://www.unz.com/ishamir/if-they-are-bombed-they-are-daesh/)

After reading the whole article I had two questions in my mind. Reading further down the comments on the article, I found my questions expressed by two readers.

John of Parker (http://www.unz.com/comments/commenter/John+of+Parker/) says:
October 5, 2015 at 4:46 am GMT • 100 Words
” The Kiev regime was unwilling to negotiate and settle with the Donbass, hoping to win the war. Then crack Russian troops entered Eastern Ukraine to the south of Donbass and moved for the sea port of Mariupol. Their speed, mettle and success were so overwhelming that they could have taken Mariupol and proceeded unhindered to Kherson and Odessa. The Kiev regime sued for peace, the Russians accepted the plea, their troops went home to the barracks, Mariupol remained under Kiev rule, and the Minsk agreements were signed.”

Where did you get this information? I have searched for actual evidence of real Russian troops actually invading the Ukraine. I have never seen any pictures or such, just stories that some person has heard. Can you cite your source for the “crack Russian troops” invasion?

And the answer from the author, Israel Shamir:

Israel Shamir (http://www.unz.com/comments/commenter/Israel+Shamir/)
October 5, 2015 at 2:21 pm GMT
@John of Parker
I rely upon my sources. No, I will not cite them.

And the second question, unanswered by Shamir:

L.K (http://www.unz.com/comments/commenter/L.K/) says:
October 5, 2015 at 4:41 am GMT • 300 Words
Shamir writes:
“Bashar’s people say they do not fight Daesh because they were told to keep away by the US. Back to square one.”

Say WHAT??? Pure nonsense. The Syrian military HAS been fighting DAesh for quite some time.
It’s time that people writing about the conflict in Syria understood the basics, most of the takfiri gangs attacking the more strategic and populated areas of Syria so far, have not been Daesh.
Nevertheless, the Syrian forces have been in constant battle with daesh in east Homs, Deir ez-Zor Al-Hasakah and other locations. They have inflicted thousands of casualties on daesh and beat them many times.
The thing is, the presstitutes never show any of it, they only feature the Syrian military when it loses and even then, the msm generally exaggerates their defeats.
The Syrian government still controls most of the territory that really matters, and they are facing a formidable Waahabi army, which is more numerous, better armed and supported than even the jihadi coallition put together to fight the Soviets in Afghanistan.
Syria has been fighting a poor man’s war against a powerful and fanatic array of bandits supported by a coallition of powerful countries led by ZUSA. Takfiri bandits infiltrate from all around the country, from their safe havens in Turkey and Jordan, from destabilized Iraq and weak Lebanon(much less now bc of Hezbollahs campaigns).
I have no ties to Syria or the Middle East, but i think it is time some folks started acknowledging what the Syrian military has accomplished under the most trying conditions. Those who don’t, simply have not studied this conflict in sufficient detail.

In regards to the Russian troops supposedly entering eastern Ukraine I must say that I haven't seen any evidence of it. But what I've seen is, for instance, that when the Speznas (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spetsnaz_GRU) are on a clandestine mission you will never hear something about it in the MSM, because they don't carry out those missions without a very good reason, a reason that no western media outlet likes to point our attention to.
I would like to know if someone here on PA has any references of the above mentioned incident in South-Donbass?

Cidersomerset

9th October 2015, 15:53

This is a very good discussion imo .......Basically the Neo -Cons and Saudi are the
main problems to peace.

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CrossTalk: Targeting All Terrorists

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Published on 9 Oct 2015

An expanding strategy and upping the ante – Russia is increasing
its campaign against terrorist groups in Syria, while protecting the
legitimate government in Damascus. Official Washington continues
to struggle to find a response, other than expressing its fury. Being
angry at Russia is not a foreign policy. CrossTalking with Ray
McGovern, Daniel Lazare, and Michael O'Hanlon.

Listen to CrossTalk+ here: https://soundcloud.com/rttv/sets/cros...

Cidersomerset

9th October 2015, 16:20

1/3 of ISIS funds come from oil; remainder from taxes, ‘confiscations’ – report

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Published on 8 Oct 2015

Leaked Islamic State financial records state that the majority of the terrorist
group’s money comes from taxes and “confiscations,” and only about a third comes
from oil reserves. RT’s Manila Chan takes a look at the revenue for the group
formerly known as ISIS/ISIL, and adds the numbers up.

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US complicit in Saudi bombing of Yemeni civilians ‒ human rights activist

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Published on 8 Oct 2015

Amnesty International is criticizing the US and the UK for human rights violations
in Yemen, accusing them of selling weapons and hardware to Saudi Arabia during
the country’s intense airstrike and bombing campaign against Houthi rebels, which
have killed hundreds of civilians since the end of March. RT’s Lindsay France speaks
with human rights activist Ajamu Baraka about the Amnesty report and the ongoing
violence devastating the region.

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26 ISIS targets, military fortifications and command points hit by Russian warplanes – Moscow

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Published on 8 Oct 2015

The Russian Defense Ministry reported that Russian planes struck another number
of Islamic State (formerly known as ISIS/ISIL) targets. RT’s Lizzie Phelan, who is
one of the only foreign journalists still in Syria, reports on the continuing strikes
that are attempting to stop the terrorist group.

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Cidersomerset

9th October 2015, 18:26

US scraps Syria rebels training program - report

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Published on 9 Oct 2015

The Obama administration is set to overhaul the Defense Department's $500 million program
to train and equip Syrian rebels, according to Defense Secretary Ashton Carter. The US president
is expected to speak on the matter later on Friday.

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Cidersomerset

9th October 2015, 19:07

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The coalition attacks on their terrorist allies was a 'phoney' war to destable Syria.
Now Russia has called the bluff of the 'alliance' . The US has had to stand down
and re access the situation.

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US to abandon training new Syria rebel groups

1 hour ago....From the section Middle East

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US Secretary of Defence Ashton Carter
said the new training should produce "capable, motivated" forces

The US is to end its efforts to train new Syrian rebel forces and says it will shift to
providing equipment and weapons to existing forces.

Its $500m (£326m) programme was heavily criticised after it emerged that US-
trained rebels had handed vehicles and ammunition over to extremists
It emerged last month that only four or five of the fighters were in Syria.

The programme had aimed to train and equip 5,400 fighters this year and a further
15,000 in 2016.

A senior administration official said the programme was being put on "pause".

The programme had suffered from "significant challenges", the official said,
adding: "We had a very high bar in terms of recruiting".

The US will no longer vet every individual recruit but just the leaders of the groups
they decide to work with, who will face "very vigorous vetting".

Of the initial two groups sent into the country under the previous programme, the
first was rounded up by Jabhat al-Nusra, an offshoot of al-Qaeda, in July. The
second handed much of its equipment over to the same group in September,
reportedly in exchange for safe passage.Quoting an anonymous US Department of
Defence source, the New York Times reported that the US would no longer recruit
Syrian rebels to go through its training programmes in Jordan, Qatar, Saudi Arabia
or the United Arab Emirates. Instead, it would establish a smaller training centre in
Turkey, where "enablers" - mostly leaders of opposition groups - would be taught
operational manoeuvres like how to call in airstrikes, the newspaper said.

Analysis: Jonathan Marcus, Defence Correspondent, BBC News

The failure of the programme underscores the wider problem of the inability to
create large and effective moderate forces on the ground.It will also have wider
repercussions since the programme helped to coordinate support activities between
the Americans, the Gulf states, Turkey, and Jordan.The risk now is that those
countries may push on with more separate initiatives backing individual client
groups.Washington was already limited in its ability to influence events on the
ground. The failure of this initiative will reduce it even further.

Syrian rebel commanders demand US support

Rebels 'let down' by US

Speaking in a joint news conference with UK Defence Secretary Michael Fallon, Mr
Carter admitted that he "wasn't satisfied with the early efforts" of the training.

The US was now looking at "different" ways to "enable capable, motivated forces on
the ground to retake territory from ISIL and reclaim Syrian territory from
extremism", he added, using another acronym for IS.

Russian missile 'malfunction'

Mr Carter also said there were indications that four Russian cruise missiles that
crashed in Iran before reaching their targets in Syria had malfunctioned.

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Who’s fighting whom in Syria? Explained in 90 seconds

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The defence secretary is the first US official to comment publicly on the reports that
the Russian missiles crashed. Russia has denied the claim, saying all 26 missiles hit
their targets.The missiles were fired from the Caspian Sea some 1,500km (930
miles) away, their route taking them over Iran and Iraq. They were launched in
support of a major ground offensive by Syrian government troops in western Syria.
Mr Carter accused Russia of running "fundamentally flawed" operations in Syria
which would "inflame the civil war and therefore extremism".

Moscow says it has been hitting IS positions and denies reports that Russian strikes
have mainly targeted other opponents of Syrian President Bashar al-Assad.

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betoobig

9th October 2015, 19:07

It is sad to see force still needs to be used at this time, i can´t believe is the only way to stop TPUB...
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Sungazerer

10th October 2015, 11:36

Having posted for many years on the BBC, Guardian etc, I have noticed a real change of late. More & more comments along the lines of 'People do not want War' or 'People just want to raise their children in peace'. No-one in their right mind would wish to live with war, and those proposing the need for war are insane. No-one should be excluded and those following the agenda can still jump ship, but we are getting close to the Wizard of Oz curtain moment.

Cidersomerset

10th October 2015, 13:58

The Mystery of ISIS’ Toyota Army Solved

By David Icke on 10th October 2015 War and Terror

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Untitled‘“This is a question we’ve been asking our neighbors,” Faily said.
“How could these brand new trucks… these four wheel drives, hundreds
of them — where are they coming from?”

Not surprisingly, it appears the US Treasury is asking the wrong party.
Instead of Toyota, the US Treasury’s inquiry should have started next
door at the US State Department.

Mystery Solved

Just last year it was reported that the US State Department had been
sending in fleets of specifically Toyota-brand trucks into Syria to whom
they claimed was the “Free Syrian Army.”

US foundation-funded Public Radio International (PRI) reported in a 2014
article titled, “This one Toyota pickup truck is at the top of the shopping
list for the Free Syrian Army — and the Taliban,” that:’

Read more: The Mystery of ISIS’ Toyota Army Solved

The Mystery of ISIS’ Toyota Army Solved

By Tony Cartalucci
Global Research, October 09, 2015

The US Treasury has recently opened an inquiry about the so-called
“Islamic State’s” (ISIS/ISIL) use of large numbers of brand-new Toyota
trucks. The issue has arisen in the wake of Russia’s air operations over
Syria and growing global suspicion that the US itself has played a key
role in arming, funding, and intentionally perpetuating the terrorist
army across Syria and Iraq.

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ABC News in their article, “US Officials Ask How ISIS Got So Many Toyota Trucks,” reports:

U.S. counter-terror officials have asked Toyota, the world’s second largest
auto maker, to help them determine how ISIS has managed to acquire the
large number of Toyota pick-up trucks and SUVs seen prominently in the
terror group’s propaganda videos in Iraq, Syria and Libya, ABC News has
learned. Toyota says it does not know how ISIS obtained the vehicles and
is “supporting” the inquiry led by the Terror Financing unit of the Treasury
Department — part of a broad U.S. effort to prevent Western-made goods
from ending up in the hands of the terror group.

The report went on to cite Iraqi Ambassador to the US, Lukman Faily:

“This is a question we’ve been asking our neighbors,” Faily said. “How could
these brand new trucks… these four wheel drives, hundreds of them — where
are they coming from?”

Not surprisingly, it appears the US Treasury is asking the wrong party. Instead
of Toyota, the US Treasury’s inquiry should have started next door at the US
State Department.

Mystery Solved

Just last year it was reported that the US State Department had been sending
in fleets of specifically Toyota-brand trucks into Syria to whom they claimed
was the “Free Syrian Army.”

US foundation-funded Public Radio International (PRI) reported in a 2014
article titled, “This one Toyota pickup truck is at the top of the shopping list
for the Free Syrian Army — and the Taliban,” that:

Recently, when the US State Department resumed sending non-lethal aid to
Syrian rebels, the delivery list included 43 Toyota trucks.

Hiluxes were on the Free Syrian Army’s wish list. Oubai Shahbander, a
Washington-based advisor to the Syrian National Coalition, is a fan of the truck.

“Specific equipment like the Toyota Hiluxes are what we refer to as force
enablers for the moderate opposition forces on the ground,” he adds.
Shahbander says the US-supplied pickups will be delivering troops and
supplies into battle. Some of the fleet will even become battlefield weapons..

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Iraqis Accuse US of Arming ISIS After Discovering Alleged Weapons Airdrop

By David Icke on 10th October 2015

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“These are American parachutes that the Americans sent to IS when they were here in Baiji”

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October 9, 2015

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Iraqi residents have once again accused the US government of supplying
ISIS jihadists with food and weapons in a viral video posted online this week.

The video, which features a group of men who appear to be soldiers, shows
both supply crates and parachutes alleged to belong to the Unites States military.

“Look, film this too. These are American parachutes,” an Arabic-speaking man
says in a translation acquired by Infowars. “We are inside the Baiji oil field. Is
there anyone that doesn’t see them? You all see them!”’

Read more: Iraqis Accuse US of Arming ISIS After Discovering Alleged Weapons Airdrop

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Cidersomerset

10th October 2015, 14:27

Full-scale military operation launched by Syria to retake city of Hamah from ISIS

By David Icke on 10th October 2015 War and Terror

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Published on 8 Oct 2015

After Russia have been striking ISIS targets Syria for a week, the country’s army
gained the opportunity to try to return the city of Hamah, that was occupied by ISIS

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Saudi Arabia just replenished Syrian rebels with one of the most effective
weapons against the Assad government

By David Icke on 10th October 2015 War and Terror

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Saudi Arabia just replenished Syrian rebels with one of the most effective
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‘A Saudi Arabian official has reportedly disclosed that the Sunni kingdom
sent Syrian rebels a new batch of one of the most effective weapons for
battling against the Assad regime this week.

BBC correspondent Frank Gardner tweeted that a Saudi official confirmed
the delivery of 500 TOW antitank missiles to the Free Syrian Army (FSA).

The FSA is currently being squeezed from all directions by the Syrian military,
Russian airstrikes, and competition from jihadist fighters, including ISIS.’

Read more: Saudi Arabia just replenished Syrian rebels with one of the most
effective weapons against the Assad government

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Obama Advisors Recommend US Military Withdrawal From Syria

By David Icke on 10th October 2015 War and Terror

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‘High-level security advisors to US President Barack Obama recommended
that the US should withdraw its military forces from Syria and abandon
plans of Assad’s resignation, DWN wrote.Instead, high-ranking White House
officials suggest that the US should undertake steps to improve the situation
of the Syrian population and stop the refugee flow, the newspaper reported.

Advisors argue that the overthrow of Syrian President Bashar al-Assad is not
enforceable anymore. Therefore, the Americans should pull back their military
forces and contribute to the restoration of destroyed cities and the supply of
the population instead. According to US officials, these steps would help to
stop the massive waves of refugees from the region.’

Read more: Obama Advisors Recommend US Military Withdrawal From Syria

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Brzezinski’s ‘Retaliation’ Agenda: Break Up Russia And Absorb It

By David Icke on 10th October 2015

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‘When the dark lord of the Anglo-American empire, Zbigniew Brzezinski,
stated that the United States should retaliate against Russia as a result
of the latter ruining the former’s credibility in the Middle East (which the
U.S. needed no help in doing), the world got a glimpse into just how far
the ruling elite is willing to take the world’s population in its quest for
total hegemony.

After all, Brzezinski is no mere talking head or media mouthpiece. He is
the architect of al-Qaeda and controller of much of the American geopolitical
strategy. When he states that retaliation must be part of U.S. strategy,
there is a very real possibility that it will be.

Indeed, in order to understand much of the U.S. geopolitical strategy at work
today, it might serve us well to consult the work of Brzezinski in his book The
Grand Chessboard: American Primacy And Its Geostrategic Imperatives.’

Read more: Brzezinski’s ‘Retaliation’ Agenda: Break Up Russia And Absorb It

http://www.activistpost.com/2015/10/brzezinskis-retaliation-agenda-break-up-russia-and-absorb-it.html

Cidersomerset

10th October 2015, 14:39

Classic 'false flag ' scenario bomb a peace march.......
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Ankara explosions leave more than 80 dead - officials

3 minutes ago....From the section Europe

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Two explosions at a peace rally in the Turkish capital Ankara have
killed at least 86 people and injured 186, according to officials.
TV footage showed scenes of panic and people lying on the ground
covered in blood, amid protest banners.The blasts took place near
the city's central train station as people gathered for a march
organised by leftist groups.

The attack is the deadliest of its kind in modern Turkish history.

Turkey's president Recep Tayyip Erdogan condemned the
"loathsome attack that targeted our unity and our togetherness".

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Banners for the planned peace rally were used to cover victims' bodies

Government officials are investigating reports that a suicide bomber was behind at least one of the explosions.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-34495161

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Meggings

10th October 2015, 16:05

This short clip came my way of a British newscaster getting angry and telling his version of the "real" news. I found it through the facebook page of Wesley P P Hall who works, among other things, to feed homeless people in Manchester, UK. Since the newscaster spoke of Syria and bombing, banks and people in poverty, I thought it would fit here in this thread.

https://www.facebook.com/homesnotbanks/videos/1648032872121263/

https://www.facebook.com/homesnotbanks/videos/1648032872121263/

Becky

10th October 2015, 16:18

Cidersomerset

10th October 2015, 21:49

'Kurds are terror targets in Turkey, still no security beef up at rallies'

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Published on 10 Oct 2015

Turkey says the Ankara blasts were carried out by two suicide bombers.
No group has yet claimed responsibility. The rally in Ankara was calling
for an end to the conflict between the government and Kurdish militants
seeking their own state. Meanwhile Kurdish militias are one of the few
forces fighting Islamic State on the ground. Journalist Isil Sariyuce says
ISIS is the first suspect in the attack.

RT LIVE http://rt.com/on-air

Cidersomerset

10th October 2015, 21:56

‘Why hasn’t it worked?’ State Dept dodges questions on failed rebel training program

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Published on 10 Oct 2015

Washington has abandoned its strategy to train the rebels in Syria.
The Pentagon's announced it's pulling the plug on the 500 million-dollar
campaign to build an opposition force on the ground - after just one year,
well short of expectations. RT's Gayane Chichikyan has more.

RT LIVE http://rt.com/on-air

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Russia intensifies campaign against ISIS, killing 2 chiefs, 300 insurgents
RT America

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Published on 9 Oct 2015

Russian defense ministers have reported that at least two high ranking members of
the Islamic State (formerly known as ISIS/ISIL) and around 300 insurgents were
killed in Russia’s ongoing bombing of targets in Syria. Lizzie Phelan reports live
from the ground.

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Syria conflict: Russia intensifies air strikes

2 hours ago...From the section Middle East

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Russia insists it is targeting Islamic State positions but
there are concerns that it is bombing other rebels

Russia is increasing the number of air strikes against
Islamic State in Syria, its defence ministry has said.
It said on Saturday morning that it had hit 55 Islamic
State (IS) group targets in Syria in the last 24 hours.

Later, US defence officials said progress had been made
during talks with their Russian counterparts on avoiding
accidents over Syria.

Syrian rebels and Western governments say Russia has
mainly been hitting non-IS targets.

The US has accused Russia of running a "fundamentally
flawed" campaign in Syria that risks further escalating
the conflict there.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-middle-east-34496583

From above article...

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Operator

10th October 2015, 22:03

Well of course it heavily depends on who gets to decide who's part of ISIS etc. .... :facepalm:

Rocky_Shorz

11th October 2015, 05:33

the ones Russia scared back to Turkey has started bombing...

looks like a Turkey civil war is next on the agenda

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Cidersomerset

11th October 2015, 07:55

the ones Russia scared back to Turkey has started bombing...

looks like a Turkey civil war is next on the agenda

That's what I was thinking , although the 'conflict' between the
Kurdish PKK and Turkish security forces and army has been
simmering on and off for decades. The shift of ' CIA/Saudi fighters'
is a bit worrying to where they are going to turn up next ?

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Thousands protest in Istanbul following Ankara blast

By David Icke on 11th October 2015 War and Terror

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Thousands protest in Istanbul following Ankara blast

Sat Oct 10, 2015 9:50PM

Placards reading "Killer state" are seen as thousands of protesters take part in a
march against the deadly attack earlier in Ankara on October 10, 2015.
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‘Thousands of people have gathered in Istanbul in protest against a twin bomb
blast, blamed by the main pro-Kurdish party on the Turkish “murderous state.”

Around 10,000 people converged on the city’s Istiklal Street, some carrying
placards reading “The state is a killer” and “We know the murderers,” of 95 people
killed in Ankara, AFP reported on Saturday.’

Read more: Thousands protest in Istanbul following Ankara blast

http://www.presstv.ir/Detail/2015/10/10/432867/Turkey-protest-Istanbul-Ankara-blast

betoobig

11th October 2015, 08:43

You are going to love this. The reporter gets angry and speaks out the truth... funny indead...

Don´t loose the sense of humor please. Love

betoobig

11th October 2015, 08:47

I hope is working

Cidersomerset

11th October 2015, 08:47

Two related articles to the bigger picture and propaganda war by all side.....
' We were all conned' by TPTB , whether Neo - con Zionists or others behind
the curtains still pulling the strings , and is Putin manipulated by the same
'puppet masters' and this is why he has been allowed to intervene in Syria ?
Or has he genuinely called there 'bluff'. There are always several ways to
look at the 'bigger picture'. But for now we have to see how it plays out ,
and monitor events in our own way.

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The CIA Just Declassified the ‘WMD Document’ of the National Intelligence
Estimate (NIE) That Supposedly Justified the Iraq Invasion

By David Icke on 11th October 2015

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The CIA Just Declassified the “WMD Document” of the National Intelligence
Estimate (NIE) That Supposedly Justified the Iraq Invasion

By Jason Leopold

Global Research, October 10, 2015

Vice Magazine

Thirteen years ago, the intelligence community concluded in a 93-page classified
document used to justify the invasion of Iraq that it lacked “specific information”
on “many key aspects” of Iraqi President Saddam Hussein’s weapons of mass
destruction (WMD) programs.

But that’s not what top Bush administration officials said during their campaign
to sell the war to the American public. Those officials, citing the same classified
document, asserted with no uncertainty that Iraq was actively pursuing nuclear
weapons, concealing a vast chemical and biological weapons arsenal, and posing
an immediate and grave threat to US national security.

Congress eventually concluded that the Bush administration had “overstated” its
dire warnings about the Iraqi threat, and that the administration’s claims about
Iraq’s WMD program were ”not supported by the underlying intelligence reporting.
” But that underlying intelligence reporting — contained in the so-called National
Intelligence Estimate (NIE) that was used to justify the invasion — has remained
shrouded in mystery until now.

The CIA released a copy of the NIE in 2004 in response to a Freedom of Information
Act (FOIA) request, but redacted virtually all of it, citing a threat to national security.
Then last year, John Greenewald, who operates The Black Vault, a clearinghouse for
declassified government documents, asked the CIA to take another look at the October
2002 NIE to determine whether any additional portions of it could be declassified.

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The Latest Nobel Committee ‘Peace Prize’ Award Hypocrisy

By David Icke on 11th October 2015

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The Latest Nobel Committee “Peace Prize” Award Hypocrisy

By Stephen Lendman

Global Research, October 10, 2015

‘Nobel Committee members long ago lost credibility. War criminals or other undeserving
honorees win peace prizes. Past recipients included a rogue’s gallery of miscreants –
Obama, Henry Kissinger and three former Israeli prime ministers most notably, all
unindicted war criminals. Maybe Netanyahu is next.

Selection is entirely politicized. Legitimate peace advocates are shunned. Mahatma Gandhi
was nominated five times, never awarded the coveted prize.

Deserving candidates like peace champion Kathy Kelly, whistleblowers Edward Snowden
and Chelsea Manning are consistently ignored. So are Vladimir Putin and Sergey Lavrov’s
all-out efforts for peace in Ukraine and Syria – drawing condemnation, not the high praise
they deserve.

This year’s most notable nominees included Angela Merkel, Pope Francis and John Kerry –
two unindicted war criminals and a pontiff representing wealth and power. Don’t let his
rhetoric fool you.’

Read more: The Latest Nobel Committee ‘Peace Prize’ Award Hypocrisy

http://www.globalresearch.ca/the-latest-nobel-committee-peace-prize-award-hypocrisy/5481110

betoobig

11th October 2015, 08:48

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Syjp9lsWBhc#t=59

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Cidersomerset

11th October 2015, 08:52

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Syjp9lsWBhc#t=59

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sorry can´t upload the video

Reporter gets angry and tells us the REAL news

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Published on 9 Oct 2015

A great Jonathan Pie video. Heads up it is satire.

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Charlie Brooker's How to Report the News - Newswipe - BBC Four

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More about the programme: http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b00qbyth

It's the second episode of the second series and there's the usual mix of contributors,
reviews and jokes as the news channels continue to provide enough rubbish to make a show out of.

Cidersomerset

11th October 2015, 08:58

There are still good satirical political shows but they are
usually not prime time......

Charlie Brooker On British And American TV News

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A clip from Charlie Brookers Newswipe (8th April 2009) in which Brooker
discusses the working of TV News on either side of the pond

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America is England's fault.

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' The Pub Landlord'.....A satirical 'bigot ' act , which is amusing and he usually ends
up taking the 'p---' out of himself. Caution adult language....

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Al Murray gives his views on the countries all over the globe.

betoobig

11th October 2015, 09:02

One more on the account of Puttin. Checkmate: The Central Bank of Russia
http://anonhq.com/checkmate-central-bank-russia/

Cidersomerset

11th October 2015, 10:13

I thought all UK personal left Afghanistan a few years ago, Obviously
as part of NATO we left some behind for training purposes...

UK troops leave Afghanistan after 13 years

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British hand Camp Bastion base in Helmand to Afghan troops, in withdrawal
that went unannounced due to security fears. Subscribe to our channel
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UK military convoy attacked in Kabul

15 minutes ago...From the section Asia

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The bomb badly damaged a Nato armoured vehicle

A convoy of UK military vehicles has been attacked while on patrol in the Afghan
capital, Kabul, the UK's Ministry of Defence has said.The attack, which took place in
a residential area near a market on Sunday morning, injured seven people.There
were no British casualties, the MoD said, adding the convoy was struck by an
improvised explosive device.The Taliban claimed the attack in retaliation for air
strikes in Kunduz which killed civilians and doctors.

However, the group did not mention Medecins Sans Frontieres whose hospital was
hit by US airstrikes eight days ago.There have been conflicting reports about the
cause of the explosion. The MoD said it was an IED, while officials in Kabul said it
was a suicide bombing

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Israeli-American Terror Machine exposed, checkmated and decimated in Syria

By David Icke on 11th October 2015 War and Terror

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Israeli-American Terror Machine exposed, checkmated and decimated in Syria

By Preston James, Ph.D on October 9, 2015

Thanks to Putin's remarkable decimation of ISIS in Syria and checkmate and
exposure of the Israeli-American Terror Machine, there is no longer any need for
Homeland Security inside America.

by Preston James

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‘It’s been an especially tough last several weeks for Israeli-American “Israeli-first”
Dual Citizen infiltrators in the Pentagon and the CIA, and for Israeli Likudists.

Why is this so? Because their Israeli-American Terror Machine been completely
checkmated in Syria thanks to the bold and incredibly sensible efforts of Russian
Federation President Vladimir Putin who is now decimating ISIS at the request of
Syria, one of Russia’s allies in the Mideast.

And the Israeli-American terror Machine is now being exposed for hijacking the CIA
and working very hard at American taxpayer expense to foment terror all over the
World in order to falsely blame Mideast Islamics and justify wars of aggression
against innocent Mideast nations. And we know now for certain that these wars are
really secret proxy wars for Israel using American soldiers as cannon-fodder.’

Read more: Israeli-American Terror Machine exposed, checkmated and decimated in Syria

http://www.veteranstoday.com/2015/10/09/israeli-american-terror-machine-exposed-checkmated-and-decimated-in-syria/

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So Who Are the Syrian Moderates Anyway? (Hint: Al Qaeda)

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Michael Krieger
Liberty Blitzkrieg
October 10, 2015

You don’t need me to tell you how disastrous the Obama Administration’s
Syria “strategy” has been. After all, he pretty much admitted as much by
announcing a pullback earlier today.

While the retreat in itself is garnering all the headlines, with people superficially
focused on how “Putin outmaneuvered Obama,” the truth is far more disturbing.
Putin didn’t so much outmaneuver Obama, as much as he called bull**** on the
entire operation. Putin basically said that Russia would begin bombing terrorists in
Syria, but the problem is that the U.S. is supporting terrorists in Syria. This is
undoubtably true, which is the real reason Obama is pulling back. He needs to get
out now before Putin proves to the whole world that the CIA is fighting with al-
Qaeda in Syria.

For a dose of hard-hitting truth, I once again turn to one of the best sources out
there, investigative journalist Nafeez Ahmed.

Here is some of what he published at Middle East Eye:

The first Russian airstrikes hit the rebel-held town of Talbisah north of Homs City,
home to al-Qaeda’s official Syrian arm, Jabhat al-Nusra, and the pro-al-Qaeda
Ahrar al-Sham, among other local rebel groups. Both al-Nusra and the Islamic
State have claimed responsibility for vehicle-borne IEDs (VBIEDs) in Homs City,
which is 12 kilometers south of Talbisah.

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So Who Are the Syrian Moderates Anyway? (Hint: Al Qaeda)

By David Icke on 11th October 2015

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Cidersomerset

11th October 2015, 11:31

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Turkey bomb: Almost 100 dead after attack in Ankara

6 hours ago

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At least 95 people have been killed and more than 200 injured
in a multiple bomb attack in the Turkish capital Ankara.

The blasts went off ahead of a rally by groups calling for peace
between the Turkish state and Kurdish separatists.

Turkey's government has described the attack as a terrorist incident
and said that there was evidence that two suicide bombers carried out the attack.

Ben Bland reports.

Read more

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-34496110

Ankara explosions leave almost 100 dead - officials

Cidersomerset

11th October 2015, 16:01

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Syria conflict: Assad forces make 'significant gains'

1 hour ago.... From the section Middle East

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Rebel fighters have been digging in in Hama province in the face of the government advance

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Poroshenko Claims Russia Destroys ‘World Order’ by Striking ISIS in Syria

By David Icke on 11th October 2015

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‘According to the Ukrainian leader, the Russian Air Force’s operation in Syria
against ISIL is leading to global instability. On the eve of Petro Poroshenko’s
accusation, Damascus said that Russian jets have destroyed 40% of the
terrorists’ infrastructure.

Ukrainian President Petro Poroshenko believes by bombing ISIL facilities in
Syria, Russia is undermining the ‘global security order.’

In an interview with BBC ‘News Night,’ he said that “Vladimir Putin wants
global instability,” comparing the operation of the Russian fighter jets in Syria
to the situation in Donbass, where according to him, “15 months ago there
were Russian soldiers.” However, he again gave no evidence of the presence
of the Armed Forces of the Russian Federation in Ukraine.’

Read more: Poroshenko Claims Russia Destroys ‘World Order’ by Striking ISIS in Syria

http://sputniknews.com/politics/20151009/1028276533/petro-poroshenko-accuses-putin-airstrikes-russia.html

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'War on Terror' backfire? Number of attacks in 2001 - 1882....2014 - 16818

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Published on 11 Oct 2015

Number of terrorist attacks:1882 in 2001
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' Ignorance is bliss' !!!

'US Islamophobia based on cultural illiteracy & ignorance'

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Published on 11 Oct 2015

Many people in the US confuse the words "Arab” or “Islam” with terrorism
or islamo-fascism, says media and legal analyst Lionel. This is a conflation
of fear about terrorists, a profound ignorance and no sense of international
perspective, he adds.

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idiit

11th October 2015, 18:56

Moscow Demands Britain Explain "Green Light To Shoot Down Russian Jets"
10/11/2015

http://www.zerohedge.com/news/2015-10-11/moscow-demands-britain-explain-green-light-shoot-down-russian-jets

one very important facet that has not been discussed is Russia, china and iran's goal of stopping the flow of opium for heroin coming out of Afghanistan/Iraq/Syria areas. the bush cartel has American soldiers guarding the poppy fields. nato bases are used for transportation hubs. turkey is a huge transit point.

the above zerohedge article cites the Iraq skies as basis for their article but the cabal does not want their muli-billion$ heroin trade messed with.

Sep 19, 2015 - Unconfirmed rumors persist that the CIA is helping export opium, or at least prefers to “manage” ... In the same month, it was reported that opium production is stronger than ever in ... ISIS, Israel, Iraq, And Syria: It's All Part Of The Plan.

http://www.mintpressnews.com/rumors-persist-that-the-cia-helps-export-opium-from-afghanistan/209687/

Rocky_Shorz

11th October 2015, 19:00

This Sorcha report will get Kurdistan supporters blood boiling

"A stunning Ministry of Defense (MoD) report circulating in the Kremlin today states that a communiqué received from the joint intelligence headquarters of Russia, Iran, Iraq and Syria in Baghdad is reporting that their technical/intelligence assests tracked a C-17 Globemaster III belonging to the 728th Air Mobility Squadron of the US Air Forces 39th Air Base Wing depart from the Incirlik Air Base in Turkey and land at the Erbil International Airport in Iraqi Kurdistan.

Upon this US Air Force cargo aircraft landing in Erbil, this report says, a large shipment of weapons and war supplies were then unloaded and transferred to Kurdish Peshmerga military forces, who then formed three convoys to transport these supplies to their front line fighters battling ruthless and barbaric Islamic State (ISIS/ISIL) terrorists...

To the “astonishment/amazement” of these joint intelligence forces tracking this US Air Force cargo aircraft, this report continues, once it had returned to Turkish airspace, 3 Turkish Air Force F-16 warplanes took off from the same Incirlik Air Base that the US Air Force cargo aircraft had just used and approached the Syria-Turkey border where Syrian fighter aircraft and air defense systems were able to repel them.

After fleeing from this initial confrontation, this report notes, these 3 Turkish F-16 warplanes were then directed by their US/NATO air controllers at the Incirlik Air Base to overfly Iraqi Kurdistan where they then attacked and bombed two of the Peshmerga convoys that had just received their promised Obama regime weapons and war supplies, and then reentered Turkish airspace where they continued their attack against the Kurdish people in their own country.

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As to the insane logic of the... attack on the weapons and war supplies it had just given to the Kurdish Peshmerga is beyond comprehension, this report says, but shouldn’t come as a surprise as this so called American leader just last month had to quell a revolt in his own military forces...

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President Putin has neither been indecipherable or unexplainable in stating that Russia’s goals are to completely destroy these Islamic terrorists by helping the legitimate governments in this region.

Which he has done to great effect, this report says, as evidenced by this weekends attacks against these terrorists that has killed another, at least, 300 of them and has, possibly, today, killed their main leader Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi with a joint forces air attack on his convoy.

...it continues to rest upon President Putin’s shoulders to conduct this Holy War... on behalf of all Christianity lest the entire world fall under the control of these barbarians—and which Russia’s leader seems fully capable of doing. link (http://www.whatdoesitmean.com/index1924.htm)

I see no confirmation a Kurdish Peshmerga unit was hit delivering US weapons at Incirlik, instead see this as a message to other agents of what is going on at that location...

"After Construction Is Completed :: The #Incirlik_Air_Base In Turkey Will Be , The Largest USA's Base In Europe"
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during the search I did find WMD used in Iraq against the Kurds...

IS militants fired mortars containing mustard agent at Kurdish Peshmerga fighters in northern Iraq, officials say...

"The Ministry of Peshmerga Affairs said blood samples from about 35 fighters revealed traces of sulphur mustard.

It did not say if any of the peshmerga had died as a result of the attack, or how severely they had been wounded.

Mustard gas can burn skin and cause severe respiratory problems, and is banned under international law.

The exposure took place along the front lines near the northern Iraqi towns of Makhmour and Gwer, the ministry said in a statement.

Roughly 37 mortars were fired in the attack, the statement added, "releasing white smoke and a black liquid".

The ministry called on countries fighting IS to give peshmerga fighters equipment for protection against chemical attacks. Several countries including the United States are already giving military assistance to the Kurdish fighters.
Chlorine gas

This is not the first time IS has been accused of using chemical weapons. In March, Kurdish authorities in Iraq said they had evidence that IS had used chlorine gas.

That allegation, by the Kurdistan Region Security Council, followed similar claims that the group had used low-grade chemical weapons against Iraqi security forces.

The director of the Organisation for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons expressed "serious concern" in August over the possibility IS was using prohibited chemical weapons.

The UN recently adopted a resolution aimed at identifying those behind chemical weapons attacks in Syria.

IS already has a large arsenal of conventional weapons and military vehicles seized from the Iraqi army, much of it produced by the United States.

Iraq Kurds were the victim of a major chemical weapons attack by the Iraqi military under Saddam Hussein in 1988, which left thousands dead in the city of Halabja." link (http://www.bbc.com/news/world-middle-east-34471237?ocid=socialflow_twitter)

Turkish Military Convoy heading to Kurdish metropolitan Diyarbakir today. v/@sertacamed
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in middle east beauty pageant news, Kurdistan and Israel are still good friends...

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Sophocles

11th October 2015, 23:39

Viral Video Claims To Prove US Support Of ISIS In Iraq (http://www.zerohedge.com/news/2015-10-11/viral-video-claims-prove-us-support-isis-iraq)

Submitted by Tyler Durden on 10/11/2015 19:00

While Russian warplanes over Syria have been systematically eradicating - and providing supporting video evidence - countless ISIS outposts and command centers over the past two weeks in Islamic State-held territories (even if in the process they may have taken on some of the CIA-supposrted "moderate rebels" whose only purpose was to remove Assad and are now left without US support), many have been wondering just what the US airforce, which over the past year has been engaged in "supporting missions" over the same region, has been doing? After all, shouldn't US warplanes have been doing for the past year what Putin's air force has been busy with in the past 14 days?

One answer, and a rather provocative one as it goes counter to everything that US has publicly claimed, comes courtesy of Hayder al-Khoei, an associate fellow at Chatham House, who notes that (https://twitter.com/Hayder_alKhoei/status/652232705791422464) "another 'U.S. supports ISIS' video is going viral in Iraq." In the video US "parachutes & supply crates" are seen in the area of Iraq's Baiji refinery, a site of recurring ISIS incursions and battles. He adds that (https://twitter.com/Hayder_alKhoei/status/652234572168581121) "Vids like this & others of helos flying above Hashd/ISF positions towards ISIS-held areas reinforce narrative that US supports ISIS in #Iraq."

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While the videos are clearly unconfirmed, the bigger question is with the US now ending its official support (http://www.zerohedge.com/news/2015-10-10/damascus-debacle-how-cia-handed-over-syria-putin-silver-platter) of Syria's "moderate rebels" in Syria - those who were tasked to "fight ISIS" but were in fact merely arming it while failing in their given task to toppled Assad - will the Pentagon also cease support for its clandestine op, the one which has the US supporting both al Qaeda and ISIS in their pursuit to topple the Syrian leader who has steadfastly refused to allow passage to a Qatari gas pipeline.

We should know the answer in the coming weeks, because if ISIS - under the constant bombardment of Russia - is suddenly in full retreat from the region and disappears as fast as it has appeared, then the biggest post-mortem question should be: how is it that Russia succeeded in eradicating a terrorist threat which the US was supposedly fighting for over a year, and whether instead of fighting ISIS the Pentagon, and the CIA (which as most know by now created ISIS (http://www.zerohedge.com/news/2015-05-23/secret-pentagon-report-reveals-us-created-isis-tool-overthrow-syrias-president-assad)) weren't unofficially supporting it?

The final question: why did Al Qaeda not issue proclamations such as the one below issued hours ago, during the "coalition"-led campaign to eradicate the region of alleged terrorists, and instead had to wait until the Russians showed up before calling in sheer panic for a united front against the aggressor?

Full article at zerohedge (http://www.zerohedge.com/news/2015-10-11/viral-video-claims-prove-us-support-isis-iraq)

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12th October 2015, 01:16

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Not that is a funny thing it shows how crazy these guys are. Love it.

Cidersomerset

12th October 2015, 13:54

Its a bit to convenient to blame IS , I feel ??
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Turkish PM blames Ankara bombing on Islamic State

27 minutes ago.....From the section Europe

The Islamic State (IS) group is the prime suspect in the Ankara bombings that
killed nearly 100 on Saturday, Turkish PM Ahmet Davutoglu has said.No group has
said it carried out the attack, but the government believes that two male suicide
bombers caused the explosions, hitting a peace rally.The official death toll is 97,
but one of the main groups at the march put the number of dead at 128.

The funerals of more of the victims are taking place on Monday.

Saturday's twin explosions ripped through a crowd of activists outside the main
railway station in the Turkish capital. They were due to take part in a rally calling
for an end to the violence between Turkish government forces and the militant
Kurdistan Workers' Party (PKK).There is anger in Turkey that authorities were
unable to prevent such a major attack - and some scepticism from opposition
groups about the government's claims.

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HDP co-leader slams Erdoğan and government for attack that claimed 95 lives

By David Icke on 12th October 2015 Political Manipulation, War and Terror

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HDP co-leader slams Erdoğan, gov't for attack that claimed 95 lives

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Selahattin Demirtaş, co-head of the HDP criticizes both gov't and President Erdoğan
for the Ankara attack that claimed at least 95 lives

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A crowded group shouts slogans in the southeastern city of Diyarbakır during a
protest against explosions at a peace march in Ankara, on Oct 10.

‘Selahattin Demirtaş, the co-chair of the People’s Democratic Party (HDP) whose
members are among the victims of the Oct. 10 Ankara attack, harshly criticized
both government and President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan for poor inspection on recent
similar attacks.

“We have lost almost 150 of our people before and after the elections,” he said in
Ankara, referring to the June 7 elections that failed to produce a one-party or
coalition government but brought the HDP to the parliament as a party group as it
surpassed the 10 percent election threshold. “There is nobody who has been
designated as ‘responsible’ around. There is no effective investigation. There will be
none regarding today’s attack either. This is not an attack against unity of our state
and nation. This is an attack by our nation against our people,” he said.

According to official figures, 95 people were killed at the attack at the start of a
peace rally in the Turkish capital, as dozens remained in intensive care or surgery.’

Read more: HDP co-leader slams Erdoğan and government for attack that claimed 95 lives

http://www.hurriyetdailynews.com/hdp-co-leader-slams-erdogan-govt-for-attack-that-claimed-95-lives.aspx?PageID=238&NID=89681&NewsCatID=341

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Julian Assange: Police end guard at Wikileaks founder's embassy refuge

1 hour ago.....From the section UK

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Julian Assange

Police will no longer be stationed outside the Ecuadorean embassy in London
where Wikileaks founder Julian Assange has sought refuge since 2012.

Met Police officers had been there since Mr Assange sought asylum to avoid
extradition to Sweden over a rape allegation, which he denies.

The Met said it had cost £12.6m and was "no longer proportionate" - but it
would still try to arrest him.

Wikileaks said the decision did not change Mr Assange's situation.

'Overt and covert'

Scotland Yard said that "resources are finite" and there were "so many different
criminal, and other, threats to the city".

"The Metropolitan Police Service has to balance the interests of justice in this case
with the ongoing risks to the safety of Londoners and all those we protect,
investigating crime and arresting offenders wanted for serious offences, in deciding
what a proportionate response is," it said.

However the force also said it would be deploying "a number of overt and covert
tactics to arrest him".Wikileaks spokesman Kristinn Hrafnsson said he had spoken
to Mr Assange about the Met decision, and he agreed it did not change his situation.

"They will still arrest Julian if he steps outside the embassy so there is no real change
to the situation, other than the removal of uniformed police officers," he said.

The Australian sought asylum to avoid extradition to Sweden, because he feared he
would then be sent to the US and put on trial for releasing secret US documents.

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The Met Police said resources were "finite" and it would not be policing the London embassy permanently

The UK has paid for policing around the embassy in Knightsbridge, central London, for
the past three years.The Met provided a breakdown of the round-the-clock policing costs,
which it estimated to be £12.6m - £7.1m in normal pay, £3.4m in overtime and £2.1m
indirect costs.

Mr Assange was granted political asylum by Ecuador in 2012, under the 1951 Refugee Convention.

Swedish officials said recently they were optimistic about reaching an agreement with
Ecuador which could pave the way for the questioning of Mr Assange in London on
outstanding accusations against him.

Last month, prosecutors dropped cases of alleged sexual misconduct against the
44-year-old but say they want to question him about an accusation of rape, made
after his visit to the country five years ago.

Assange assault claims: Key dates:
◾ August 2010 - Swedish Prosecutor's Office issues arrest warrant for Mr Assange
over sex assault allegations, which he denies
◾ May 2012 - UK's Supreme Court rules he should be extradited to Sweden to face questioning
◾ June 2012 - Mr Assange enters the Ecuadorean embassy in London
◾ August 2012 - Ecuador grants asylum to Mr Assange, saying there are fears his
human rights might be violated if he is extradited
◾ August 2015 - Swedish prosecutors drop their investigation into two allegations
- one of sexual molestation and one of unlawful coercion because they have run
out of time to question him. He still faces an accusation of rape and continues to
deny the allegations

Full timeline

Julian Assange profile

Mr Assange has previously said he would welcome being questioned at the embassy.

A Foreign Office spokesman said the Ecuadorean ambassador had been summoned by the head
of the UK's diplomatic service "to register once again our deep frustration at the protracted delay.

"The UK has been absolutely clear since June 2012 that we have a legal obligation to extradite
Assange to Sweden. That obligation remains today."

Julian Assange: Police end guard at Wikileaks founder's embassy refuge

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-34508500

Cidersomerset

12th October 2015, 14:11

At Least 60% of US Weapons Sent to Syria Have ‘Gone to Al-Qaeda and Its Affiliates’ — AP Investigation

By David Icke on 12th October 2015 War and Terror

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Russian Insider....

At Least 60% of US Weapons Sent to Syria Have 'Gone to Al-Qaeda and Its Affiliates' — AP Investigation

In a remarkably candid report, the Associated Press quotes an academic who estimates
that 60-80 percent of U.S. weapon shipments to Syria end up in the hands of extremists

RI Staff Subscribe to RI Staff
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‘The Associated Press has published a remarkably candid story about the CIA’s covert
operation to train “moderate” Syrian rebels. Of course, the purpose of the AP report is
to portray the CIA-armed “moderates” as underdog freedom fighters who have been
betrayed by their U.S. “patrons” (“CIA-backed rebels in Syria, who had begun to put
serious pressure on President Bashar Assad’s forces, are now under Russian bombardment
with little prospect of rescue by their American patrons”).

But it’s hard to completely whitewash a CIA operation. If you can hold your nose long
enough to read the first few paragraphs, you arrive at this:’

Read more: At Least 60% of US Weapons Sent to Syria Have ‘Gone to Al-Qaeda and
Its Affiliates’ — AP Investigation

http://russia-insider.com/en/politics/least-60-us-weapons-sent-syria-have-gone-al-qaeda-and-its-affiliates-ap-investigation

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Two US led Coalition F16 Aircrafts Violate Syrian Airspace, Target Electric Power Plants in Aleppo

By David Icke on 12th October 2015 War and Terror

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Two F16 aircrafts violate Syrian airspace, target electric power plants in Aleppo

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‘Two F16 aircrafts belonging to the so-called US-led coalition violated the Syrian
airspace on Saturday, targeting the infrastructure and destroying two power plants
in al-Rudwaniya area to the east of Aleppo city, a military source said.According to
the source, the two aircrafts violated the Syrian airspace at 10:00 AM Saturday morning.

The source considered the incident a “breach of the international law.”

The attack caused power outage in the targeted area, the source added.’

http://sana.sy/en/?p=57274

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Iraq Joint Operation Center Confirms ISIS Leader Injured in Airstrike

By David Icke on 12th October 2015 War and Terror

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Sputnick News.....

‘The leader of the Islamic State (ISIL) jihadist group has been injured in an
airstrike in Iraq, the Baghdad Information Center confirmed.

“Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi was injured in the bombing that targeted his motorcade,”
the center said in a statement on Sunday.

It added that two terrorist leading figures – Abu Omar Kubaisi and Abu Saad Karbouli – were also injured in the attack.

Local media reported earlier Baghdadi’s fate remained unknown after Iraqi Air
Forces attacked an ISIL convoy in the western Iraqi province of Anbar.’

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UK MoD denies tabloid reports RAF ‘ready to shoot down’ Russian planes over Iraq and Syria

By David Icke on 12th October 2015 Uncategorised

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UK MoD denies tabloid reports RAF 'ready to shoot down' Russian planes over Iraq

Published time: 12 Oct, 2015 07:27
Edited time: 12 Oct, 2015 08:38

‘UK media allegations that RAF pilots in Iraq had been authorized to shoot down
Russian fighters in case of imminent threat have prompted a response from
Moscow. Britain’s military says there is “no truth” in the reports.

The initial report was published by The Daily Star and The Sunday Times. It claimed
that an “unidentified source” in the British military told the media that Royal Air
Force’s Tornado GR4 involved in Operation Shader in Iraq against Islamic State
from now on are going to be armed with ASRAAM (AIM-132) short range air-to-air
heat-seeking missiles to be prepared to “to shoot down Vladimir Putin’s jets,” The
Sunday Times reports.

So far, the RAF jets took off armed with “500lb satellite-guided bombs only,” but as
the source in British Defense Ministry put it, “in the last week the situation has
changed. We need to respond accordingly.”

British pilots have been allegedly instructed to avoid contact with Russian aircraft.’

Read more: UK MoD denies tabloid reports RAF ‘ready to shoot down’ Russian
planes over Iraq and Syria

https://www.rt.com/news/318342-british-fighter-jets-iraq/?utm_source=browser&utm_medium=aplication_chrome&utm_campaign=chrome

Cidersomerset

12th October 2015, 14:31

CrossTalk on Syria: Russia's Turn

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Published on 12 Oct 2015

Getting down to business – Russia’s words match its actions.
There is growing evidence terrorist groups in Syria have taken
a real battering from Russia’s airpower. The West, particularly
the U.S., remains at loss how to react. In the meantime, Russia
creates political facts on the ground. CrossTalking with Jonathan
Steele, Fred Fleitz, and Eric Draitser.

Listen to CrossTalk+ here: https://soundcloud.com/rttv/sets/cros...

Inmortal719

12th October 2015, 15:24

Viral Video Claims To Prove US Support Of ISIS In Iraq (http://www.zerohedge.com/news/2015-10-11/viral-video-claims-prove-us-support-isis-iraq)

While the videos are clearly unconfirmed, the bigger question is with the US now ending its official support (http://www.zerohedge.com/news/2015-10-10/damascus-debacle-how-cia-handed-over-syria-putin-silver-platter) of Syria's "moderate rebels" in Syria - those who were tasked to "fight ISIS" but were in fact merely arming it while failing in their given task to toppled Assad - will the Pentagon also cease support for its clandestine op, the one which has the US supporting both al Qaeda and ISIS in their pursuit to topple the Syrian leader who has steadfastly refused to allow passage to a Qatari gas pipeline.

How is it that Russia succeeded in eradicating a terrorist threat which the US was supposedly fighting for over a year, and whether instead of fighting ISIS the Pentagon, and the CIA weren't unofficially supporting it?

The final question: why did Al Qaeda not issue proclamations such as the one below issued hours ago, during the "coalition"-led campaign to eradicate the region of alleged terrorists, and instead had to wait until the Russians showed up before calling in sheer panic for a united front against the aggressor?

Full article at zerohedge (http://www.zerohedge.com/news/2015-10-11/viral-video-claims-prove-us-support-isis-iraq)

I think the US is trying to back off and erase complete trace of what their secret programs were (the 500m program for training rebels and arming them, which ended up being ISIS too), their cover has been blown and with ISIS being destroyed they have no excuse to invade Syria ATM, USA never really wanted to destroy ISIS now Putin is such a good tactician and I read somewhere that he asked Assad and Assad agreed to step down when they are over destroying ISIS.. This gives far less excuse to the US to get into Syria as they were trying to turn over the situation into a ''Russia supports ''EVIL'' regimes'' and I put the word ''EVIL'' between quotation marks because we don't really know if Assad is evil or not as I also read that Assad actually had the majority's approval to be where he is and people from Syria still like him and now loving Russia too for helping and trying to bring peace to their homes..
Now Putin also wants to support Palestine to become a country but getting into that is much more dangerous as he will also need an excuse and that is what I think might be coming next after everything ends in Syria..
In Mexico I have seen articles calling the Islamic State as United States and Israel's main terrorist group, Islamic state is called in spanish, Estado Islamico or EI called in the news in which the E is Estados unidos and I standing for Israel..
The only spark that I feel could blow the dynamite is shooting down a fighter jet from any side.... Russian, Nato or Israel's jets, I hope that never happens..

Cidersomerset

12th October 2015, 17:29

Interesting twist, I still find it odd ISIS/ISIL/Al' Whatever or Al' Whoever
have not attacked Israel over the last 20 years or so. We obviously suspect
they were set up funded and supported by various intelligence and covert
agencies of the coalition powers in the region, which is why .

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Now Moscow seems to be the target very predictable , Uhm !!

'Terror Plot' Bust: Suspects from Syrian ISIS-camps arrested in Moscow

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Published on 12 Oct 2015

Several people were detained in a Moscow apartment on suspicion of
planning a terror attack in Moscow. Two of the detained confessed the
attack was to be on public transport, the FSB said.

RT LIVE http://rt.com/on-air

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RAW: ISIS-trained terror suspects arrested, bomb making material found in Moscow

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Published on 12 Oct 2015

Police found 4kg of home-made explosive material. Two of the suspects confessed the
bombing would take place on public transport in Moscow. Read More: http://on.rt.com/6tnw

Cidersomerset

13th October 2015, 08:31

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MH17 Ukraine disaster: Dutch to report on cause

2 hours ago

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Dutch investigators are to publish their report into
what caused Malaysia Airlines flight MH17 to crash

The Dutch Safety Board is to publish a final report on why Malaysian Airlines Flight
MH17 broke up over Ukraine in 2014, killing all 298 on board.

Preliminary findings say it was hit by "high-energy objects from outside the
aircraft", fuelling speculation that a surface-to-air missile was responsible.

The West and Ukraine say Russian-backed rebels brought down the Boeing 777,
while Russia blames Ukraine. But the report will not say who was to blame.

Russia is to issue its own report.

The plane - flying from Amsterdam to Kuala Lumpur - crashed in rebel-held eastern
Ukraine on 17 July 2014 at the height of the conflict between government troops
and the pro-Russian separatists.

The victims included 196 Dutch nationals and 10 Britons.

Four questions

The Dutch Safety Board is expected to present its findings first to the victims'
families and relatives and then to reporters at the Gilze-Rijen military base in the
Netherlands.

The board will also show parts of the aircraft that have been brought back from the
rebel-held Donetsk region and reconstructed.

Read More.....http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-34511973

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Dutch report unlikely to assign blame for MH17 crash

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Published on 12 Oct 2015

The Dutch Safety Board is due to release its final report Tuesday on the downing of
Malaysian Airlines Flight MH17. The passenger plane crashed over eastern Ukraine
on July 17 last year, leaving all 298 people onboard dead, most of them Dutch
citizens. Preliminary findings suggested that a ground-to-air missile shot down the
plane. However, facts remain elusive, and many believe the report will not bring
about a final conclusion.

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LIVE: Russian arms manufacturer Almaz-Antey delivers MH17 report

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Started on 13 Oct 2015

Russian arms manufacturer Almaz-Antey is presenting the results of its probe into
the alleged missile launch that may have downed the MH17 Malaysian Airlines
plane over eastern Ukraine, July 17, 2014.

RT LIVE http://rt.com/on-air

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'MH17 crash' test simulation video: Il-86 plane cockpit hit with BUK missile

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Published on 13 Oct 2015

The BUK system’s manufacturer Almaz-Antey releases its report on last year’s
MH17 crash over eastern Ukraine and is shows a video of simulated BUK missile
explosion right next to a pilot's cockpit.

RT LIVE http://rt.com/on-air

idiit

13th October 2015, 09:46

Article’s Conclusion:

Now that this international Israeli-American secret Terror machine has been exposed, checkmated and decimated, we no longer need the Department of Homeland Security or the unConstitutional TSA. Nor do we need a militarized American police trained by the Israeli espionage front the ADL to view the American Public as domestic terrorists to be shot down for any perceived minor non-compliance for any reason..

Both of these were set up by Israeli-American “Israeli-first” dual citizen traitors who infiltrated the USG and the Pentagon as part of a large Israeli secret Police machine inside America. The purpose of this large Israeli controlled secret police machine DHS has been to hijack all American Intel and Law Enforcement and to serve as a platform to stage numerous false-flags including all the recent MK-Ultra style mass-shootings which are usually deployed in gun-free zones created by these same folks in the first place. But it has also been designed to be turned against the We The People in case they ever seriously try to take their Republic back from these Israeli-American “Israeli-first” Dual Citizen Traitors.

Now ponder this thought. Do you think that all this truth could have ever leaked out to the Americans unless there was a group of powerful up-and-comers inside the Pentagon and American Intel who found out that these Israeli-American “Israeli-first” dual citizens, PNACers, top NeoCons and Traitors in the JCS, USAF, NORAD, the FAA and the Administration used Israeli Intel and assets to attack America on 9-11-01?

John-McCain-ISISOf course not. Sometimes payback comes in some very strange seemingly indirect ways. But nonetheless, payback is usually always a real bitch and that is the actual situation in this case.

When payback is arranged covertly by some very angry, incredibly experienced “Intel Cowboys”, payback comes in unexpected but nonetheless definite ways, not perhaps as direct as folks desire but perhaps the only way possible given the complicated circumstances.

Stay tuned because all secrecy is now ending. Consider the recent and very strange exposure of an affair by the man supposed to be the next Speaker of the House and his sudden decision to withdraw is just one incident of many ahead. If you stop and think about all the major leaks and disclosures the last several years you will begin to see the fingerprints of some very crafty Intel Cowboys. As I predicted before you are going to see a continued stream of the secret sins of many crooked, two-faced American Politicians exposed in the weeks and months to come.

Just imagine when all those members of Congress who secretly signed AIPAC Loyalty oaths to place Israel in exchange for large campaign support are completely exposed for what they have done. It is quite interesting however that a significant number of these folks as well as Jewish members of Congress have recently betrayed their AIPAC Oaths to Israel and supported President Obama in his support of the P5+1 Nuclear Power Agreement with Iran which will allow Iran to develop and export inexpensive nuclear power rods with little or no nuclear waste.

By the way the fact that this Agreement with Iran has been actuated and sanctions are now being removed is a major defeat for the Israeli Likudists and Bibi Netanyahu, and both are in shock and furious over this. This was the first major checkmate for the RKM and now the Russian federation’s checkmate of ISIS in Syria is the second checkmate but is actually perhaps a total and final checkmate to Israel and the RKM and the beginning of the end of their World hegemony and hijacking of the USG and the Pentagon.

As this Israeli-American Terror Machine continues to be checkmated, exposed and understood, can you imagine how great the ramifications will finally be and how large the war reparations will be to all those American soldiers and their families, and Iraqis and Afghanis will become.

And add to this the reparations Israel and the RKM will also have to pay to Palestinians for illegally stealing their land, and committing so many crimes against humanity against them, including theft of land, tyranny, murder, mass-murder, genocide and other clear acts of war like blockading them and preventing delivery of supplies needed to live. After all Germans have been paid Billions in reparations to Jewish survivors and their families from the Nazi Labor Camps. Since the Israelis are acting like Nazis to the Palestinians shouldn’t they too have to pay massive unending reparations to the Palestinian survivors?

Numerous insiders have claimed for the last few years that the RKM was cornered and would become checkmated and decimated eventually. Now this is happening. This of course makes them very desperate and dangerous, but they also understand that one wrong move could get them turned to glass now that who they are and what they have done has been exposed.

Do not forget that the RKM and Israeli’s use of their Samson option nuclear blackmail using planted nukes in many of the cities of the World has now become understood by the new American High Military Command as well as the Russian federation. Any more use of nukes by the RKM and Israel like which was done on 9-11-01 at the Twin Towers in NYC will no longer be tolerated and will likely result in a major attack on those who ordered it and any remaining nuclear stockpiles.

Israeli-American Terror Machine exposed, checkmated and decimated in Syria

By Preston James, Ph.D on October 9, 2015

http://www.veteranstoday.com/2015/10/09/israeli-american-terror-machine-exposed-checkmated-and-decimated-in-syria/

idiit

13th October 2015, 10:42

The End of Homeland Security
By Preston James, Ph.D on October 12, 2015

Others who know more see DHS as the physical representation that America is under siege by the Rothschild Khazarian Mafia (*RKM) and view DHS as the RKM’s own private foreign controlled Stasi-style secret police, set up to serve Israel and protect the RKM Banksters from the American masses in case they ever wake up and decide to stopped being victimized by this RKM parasite.

DHS is the illegal, unConstitutional, treasonous consolidation of American Law Enforcement and Alphabets under the single control of a foreign based entity the RKM using Israeli-American “Israeli-first” Dual Citizen traitors who serve Israel as their first interest.

We now know for certain that the RKM, Israel and its stateside Cutouts (PNACers, top NeoCons and Dual Citizens) attacked America on 9-11-01 and used their Controlled Major Mass Media (CMMM) to wrongly attributed blame to Afghanistan and Iraq. This was done to to justify more illegal, unConstitutional foreign wars for Israel.

Our job at VT is to make sure everyone becomes fully informed of these facts, and is no longer duped by the Big USG Lies, false-narratives and propaganda of the CMMM which is controlled by six Israeli associated Media Moguls through a single very large RKM linked investment house.

And we now know for certain know that anyone helping DHS or who helped set DHS up that understood it was an RKM Cutout, has technically committed treason by aiding and abetting a foreign enemy. And now that Putin has checkmated ISIS and fully exposed the Israeli/American/Saudi terror machine behind it every single USG official is learning this horrible truth and will be committing treason if they refuse to act and do their part to disband DHS.

more in article linked below:

http://www.veteranstoday.com/2015/10/12/the-end-of-homeland-security/

Cidersomerset

13th October 2015, 10:45

It’s about creating homeland insecurity, to sell
homeland security junk – investigative journalist

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Published on 12 Oct 2015

An Associated Press report claimed that the FBI foiled plans by Moldovan
gangs in Russia to sell nuclear material to Islamic State insurgents. However,
inconsistencies within the report have thrown its validity into question. So
what exactly happened and why did the US press eat it up? Investigative
journalist Greg Palast joins Simone Del Rosario to dissect the controversy.

Find RT America in your area: http://rt.com/where-to-watch/

idiit

13th October 2015, 10:52

the pace of change is ferocious. there is no doubt that the momentum is going exponential. it's looking much better every day.

Cidersomerset

13th October 2015, 10:52

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Dutch report on MH17 plane crash

Key Points

Dutch Safety Board to issue final report into July 2014 crash of flight from
Amsterdam to Kuala Lumpur over Ukraine

All 298 people on board were killed, of whom 196 were Dutch

Relatives of victims are being told contents of the report with findings due to be
presented to journalists at 1215

Flight was shot at height of conflict in Ukraine between pro-Russian rebels and
government troops - both sides blame each other for the crash

All times in BST (one hour ahead of GMT)

VID ON LINK.....

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/live/world-europe-34514727

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The Plane was hit by BUK missile according to Dutch report.....

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MH17 victim Liam Sweeney's father hopes 'death was quick'

7 minutes ago.....From the section Tyne & Wear

Barry Sweeney, and the families of other victims, were privately briefed prior to the
report's publication The father of one of the victims of flight MH17 has said he had
to believe those on board died quickly or it would "hurt forever".

Newcastle United fan Liam Sweeney was among 298 people who died when the
Boeing 777 came down over eastern Ukraine in July 2014.His father, Barry,
travelled to The Hague for the Dutch Safety Board's report into its downing.
The report found that the plane was hit by a Russian-made BUK missile.

Liam Sweeney, 28, and fellow supporter John Alder, 63, were on board the
Malaysian Airlines flight from Amsterdam to Kuala Lumpur en route to New
Zealand, to watch Newcastle United play in a pre-season tour.Following the
publication of the report Barry Sweeney said: "Basically (we were told) that the
plane was hit by a BUK missile.

"The cockpit then broke off - probably creating confusion in the rest of the plane.

"Hopefully most people were unconscious by the time this happened - and that's
probably a comfort to 298 sets of relatives.

"We're all here for the same reason, they sort of told us what we already knew, we
can't be 100%, but we have to think no-one suffered on that flight.

"I'm going to have to just go away and think yes, Liam died instantly... because if
you think otherwise, it will hurt forever."

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-tyne-34513703

Cidersomerset

13th October 2015, 11:19

ISIS leader Abu Bakr Al Baghdadi is a Zionist Mossad Agent – Claim

By David Icke on 13th October 2015

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ISIS leader Abu Bakr Al Baghdadi is a Jewish Mossad Agent

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Cidersomerset

13th October 2015, 11:37

Western Aid to Terrorists: Iraqi Forces Seize US-Supplied
Anti-Armor Missiles from ISIS in Fallujah

By David Icke on 13th October 2015 War and Terror

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Western Aid to Terrorists: Iraqi Forces Seize US-Supplied
Anti-Armor Missiles from ISIS in Fallujah
By Fars News Agency

Global Research, October 13, 2015

Fars News Agency

‘The Iraqi army and volunteer forces discovered US-made
military hardware and ammunition, including anti-armor
missiles, in terrorists’ positions and trenches captured
during the operations in the Fallujah region in Al-Anbar
province.

The Iraqi forces found a huge volume of advanced TOW-II
missiles from the Takfiri terrorists in al-Karama city of Fallujah.

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The missiles were brand new and the ISIL had transferred them
to Fallujah to use them against the Iraqi army’s armored units.

Iraqi officials have on different occasions blasted the US and its
allies for supplying the ISIL in Syria with arms and ammunition
under the pretext of fighting the Takfiri terrorist group.’

Read more: Western Aid to Terrorists: Iraqi Forces Seize
US-Supplied Anti-Armor Missiles from ISIS in Fallujah

http://www.globalresearch.ca/western-aid-to-terrorists-iraqi-forces-seize-us-supplied-anti-armor-missiles-from-isis-in-fallujah/5481753

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US air-drops weapons to militants fighting in Syria: Pentagon

By David Icke on 13th October 2015 War and Terror

PRESS TV....

US air-drops weapons to militants fighting in Syria: Pentagon

Mon Oct 12, 2015 4:52PM

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Two foreign-sponsored militants injured after a machine gun
exploded during an exchange of fire near Aleppo, Syria. (file photo)

‘The United States and its so-called coalition partners have
air-dropped tons of weapons to militants fighting inside Syria,
a US military spokesman says.

“Coalition forces conducted an airdrop Sunday in northern Syria
to resupply local counter-ISIL ground forces as they conduct
operations against ISIL,” US Central Command spokesman Colonel
Patrick Ryder said in a statement on Monday, using an acronym for
the Daesh terrorist group.

“The aircraft delivery included small arms ammunition to resupply
counter-ISIL ground forces so that they can continue operations
against ISIL,” he added.’

Read more: US air-drops weapons to militants fighting in Syria: Pentagon

http://www.presstv.ir/Detail/2015/10/12/433123/US-arms-Syria-militants-

Cidersomerset

13th October 2015, 11:56

US Senate Hearing Discusses Using Refugees As Human Shields In Syria

By David Icke on 13th October 2015

ACTIVIST POST.....

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‘A recent US Senate hearing regarding Russia’s ongoing air campaign in
Syria plumbed dark depths when it was actually proposed by retired US
Army General John M. Keane that “free zones” be established for armed
militants, and populated with refugees to deter Russian attacks. In essence,
General Keane’s plan is to use refugees as human shields, and leverage any
attack on this established “free zone” as a means of manipulating public opinion.’

Read more: US Senate Hearing Discusses Using Refugees As Human Shields In Syria
Western Aid to Terrorists: Iraqi Forces Seize US-Supplied
Anti-Armor Missiles from ISIS in Fallujah

http://www.activistpost.com/2015/10/us-senate-hearing-discusses-using-refugees-as-human-shields-in-syria.html

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The Myth of Syria’s ‘Moderate Rebels’. Ninety Percent of the ‘Syrian Rebels’ Supported by Washington are Terrorists

By David Icke on 13th October 2015 War and Terror

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‘Washington has been continuing to develop measures against the Russian strategy
in Syria. First of all, the US has to demonstrate the existence of the so-called
“moderate rebels”. For that reason the topic of the “Free Syrian Army” (FSA) became
popular in the US and European media. But what is the FSA?

FSA units were created about half a year after the start of the Syrian war.Turkey
supported this idea. However, it always was a PR myth and never was a real power
in the battlefield. The first FSA activity was noted in 2011 when its leader, a former
colonel of the Syrian Arab Army (SAA), Riad al-Asaad made a statement about the
creation of the FSA. Sunni deserters from the SAA became the core of the group.
Turkey started supplies of arms and equipment, but there weren’t any confirmed
reports of FSA operations.’

International Military Review - Syria, Oct 12, 2015: Myth About Moderate Rebels
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Read more: The Myth of Syria’s ‘Moderate Rebels’. Ninety Percent of the
‘Syrian Rebels’ Supported by Washington are Terrorists

http://southfront.org/international-military-review-syria-oct-12-2015/?COLLCC=1629815618&COLLCC=179319156
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NATO ready to help Turkey against Russia: Stoltenberg

By David Icke on 13th October 2015 War and Terror

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NATO ready to help Turkey against Russia: Stoltenberg

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‘The North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) has announced its readiness
to “help” its member state Turkey, more than a week after Russian jets,
carrying airstrikes in Syria, strayed into Turkish airspace.

“Turkey is a strong ally and they have the second-largest army. They have
a capable air force, so the Turkish armed forces are the first responders,
but NATO is there to help and assist them if they need,” NATO Secretary
General Jens Stoltenberg said on Monday.

The Turkish military said it had scrambled two F-16 warplanes on October
3 after a Russian fighter jet crossed into its airspace near the southern
province of Hatay.’

Read more: NATO ready to help Turkey against Russia: Stoltenberg

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As Russia Bombs ISIS, US Bombs Syrian Civilian Power Stations

By David Icke on 13th October 2015 War and Terror

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ACTIVIST POST.....

As Russia Bombs ISIS, US Bombs Syrian Civilian Power Stations

Oct 12 2015......Brando Turbeville

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‘In yet another telling episode, the United States has again demonstrated its true
position in regards to ISIS and the Russian bombing of the terrorist organization.

As Russian forces drop bombs and missiles on top of ISIS fighters all across Syria,
lobbing cruise missiles from the Caspian, regular sortie missions, and combat
helicopter attacks against ISIS and other “relatively moderate” cannibals and
terrorists, the United States launched a bombing mission of its own against two
power plants in Aleppo.

The power plants were located in al-Rudwaniya east of Aleppo and resulted in
power outages affecting the Syrian people, adding to the American tradition of
bombing civilian infrastructure instead of ISIS and other terrorist targets in Syria.’

Read more: As Russia Bombs ISIS, US Bombs Syrian Civilian Power Stations

http://www.activistpost.com/2015/10/as-russia-bombs-isis-us-bombs-syrian-civilian-power-stations.html

Cidersomerset

13th October 2015, 12:29

Dutch Safety Board MH17 final report

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Streamed live on 13 Oct 2015

The Dutch Safety Board publishes MH17 final report after fifteen months of investigation
at Gilze-Rijen air force base in the Netherlands. The report covers the cause of the crash,
the issue of flying over conflict areas, the question why Dutch surviving relatives of the
victims had to wait two to four days before receiving confirmation from the Dutch authorities
and the question to what extent the occupants of flight MH17 were conscious of the crash.
Also there will be present a reconstruction of the MH17 crash site made from parts of the
aircraft, using the recovered pieces of the wreckage, part of the cockpit, and the plane’s
business class section.The Boeing 777 was en route to Kuala Lumpur from Amsterdam
and was downed in the skies over eastern Ukraine on July 17 last year. All 298 including
80 children, and 15 crew members were killed.

RT LIVE http://rt.com/on-air

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Dutch Safety Board simulates MH17 being hit by BUK missile

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The Dutch Safety Board publishes MH17 final report after fifteen months
of investigation at Gilze-Rijen air force base in the Netherlands - READ MORE http://on.rt.com/6tq1

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MH17 Crash - English Spoken
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Published on 13 Oct 2015

Video about the Dutch Safety Board’s investigation into the causes of the crash of
flight MH17 on 17 July 2014 in the eastern part of Ukraine and the Board’s
investigation into flying over conflict zones. The video was based on the Dutch
Safety Board’s investigation reports, which were published on 13 October 2015.

Category
News & Politics

idiit

13th October 2015, 13:38

Saudi Arabia gives up its resistance against Russia after meeting

Posted on October 13, 2015

Thus, the Saudis have given up their plan to immediately overthrow Syrian President Bashar-al-Assad, which can be considered a great achievement, taking into account the recent negative attitude of the Saudi authorities toward Russia’s military involvement in Syria.

http://sputniknews.com/politics/20151012/1028397831/saudi-arabia-gives-up-resistance.html

The world is beginning to realize that a seachange in world affairs occured on September 28 when President Putin of Russia stated in his UN speech that Russia can no longer tolerate Washington’s vicious, stupid, and failed policies that have unleashed chaos, which is engulfing the Middle East and now Europe.

Two days later, Russia took over the military situation in Syria and began the destruction of the Islamic State forces

meanwhile back at the Zionist house:

Not satisfied with threatening Russia with war, Washington is preparing to send US Navy ships inside the 12-nautical-mile territorial limit of islands created by China’s land reclamation project. The Navy Times reports that three Pentagon officials have said on background that “approval of the mission is imminent.”

So here we have the US government gratuitously and provocatively threatening two nuclear powers.

https://jhaines6a.wordpress.com/2015/10/13/zerohedge-a-decisive-shift-in-the-power-balance-has-occurred-by-paul-craig-roberts/

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Islamic State militants have lost “most” of their ammunition, heavy vehicles and equipment in Russian airstrikes, the Defense Ministry said Tuesday. At least 86 ISIS targets were hit during 88 sorties in the last 24 hours.

RT – BREAKING: ISIS lost most of its ammunition & heavy vehicles in Russian airstrikes – military

Posted on October 13, 2015 by Jean

Published time: 13 Oct, 2015

https://jhaines6a.wordpress.com/2015/10/13/rt-breaking-isis-lost-most-of-its-ammunition-heavy-vehicles-in-russian-airstrikes-military/

Inmortal719

13th October 2015, 16:11

Putin's speech September 28th 2015

http://www.globalresearch.ca/vladimir-putins-speech-to-the-united-nations-security-council/5479334

Obama's speech September 28th 2015

http://www.globalresearch.ca/video-obamas-speech-to-the-united-nations-general-assembly/5479330

I haven't seen these posted on PA and although they are 2 weeks old I find them useful for understanding both political stances...
Both speeches are quite differente, focusing on different points, I find Putin's speech more open that Obama's, I'd love to hear your opinion guys!

Rocky_Shorz

13th October 2015, 16:51

Ben mentioned an Israeli air raid attempting to look like a us attack, was that the attack that took out 2 power plants?

Cidersomerset

13th October 2015, 18:03

ISIS jihadists love driving Toyotas, US wonders why

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Published on 13 Oct 2015

The US Treasury is now pressing Toyota about why so many of its
vehicles are being driven around by the terrorist group, as evidenced
in their propaganda videos.

READ MORE: http://on.rt.com/6ta6

betoobig

13th October 2015, 18:33

I hope this all ends with all the great american free people taking over their own goverment!!! Nice... then the world (us too) will do the same thing!! a world wide take over the cabal... nice....... i´m going to have a nice sleep visualizing it
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you may say i am a dreamer....

Inmortal719

13th October 2015, 18:58

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[/COLOR]you may say i am a dreamer....

but you're not the only one
I hope some day more people join us
And the world will be as one
Quoting John Lennon
Hehe,

We are still far from that, but it doesn't mean it is not possible..
I hope we don't but we might have to wait until we're on the verge of extinction for that to happen

idiit

13th October 2015, 19:05

ISIS jihadists love driving Toyotas, US wonders why

The U.S. Government Supplied ISIS’ Iconic Pickup Trucks
Posted on October 12, 2015 by WashingtonsBlog

http://www.washingtonsblog.com/2015/10/the-u-s-government-supplied-isis-iconic-pickup-trucks.html

animovado

13th October 2015, 20:55

Vladimir Putin gave an interview to Rossiya-1 television channel host Vladimir Solovyov. The interview was recorded on October 10.

http://en.kremlin.ru/events/president/transcripts/interviews/50482

Here is an excerpt (emphasis mine)

Vladimir Putin: [...] Looking at the purely military dimension, we have heard reproach from others, who say that our airstrikes are hitting not ISIS and other terrorist organisations like Jabhat al-Nusra and suchlike, but forces belonging to the healthy opposition. In this situation, we say to our partners, if they know the situation on the ground better than us and have already been there for more than a year – unlawfully, true, but present nevertheless – if they know better than us (and I doubt this is the case, but let’s assume it is possible), they should give us information on targets and we will work against these targets.

Vladimir Solovyev: They refused?

Vladimir Putin: Yes, they said they are not prepared to work at that level. I cannot see why, after all, if they really know the situation better and want to fight terrorism, they could share with us concrete locations where the terrorists are hiding out and have their command posts and arms and equipment depots.

What would be simpler than to give us targets? Sadly, our work together has not reached this point yet, but I say again that the first steps towards organising contacts at the military level have already been taken.[...]

Cidersomerset

13th October 2015, 22:07

Another good discussion about the Dutch report and they explain why it looks like
another cover up under a predictive intel and media procedure. Blame the culprit
straight away. Oswald , bin Laden , WMD's etc. But never show any conclusive
evidence so that even after the event , the general public believes the initial media
and government accusations and innuendo . In this case where is the US satellite
and other evidence ? If this does show up , it will be analysed by all side , if not
it will quitely fade out of the headlines into the ' conspiracy' realm. The panel
explains it better and use other examples not Oswald or Bin Laden...LOL

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CrossTalk: MH17 Report

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Published on 13 Oct 2015

Fifteen months after the tragic loss of MH17 over war-torn Ukraine the Dutch
Safety Board has presented the results of its investigation. From the very
beginning the explicit aim of this probe was to determine why the plane was
destroyed in midair. Will we ever learn the “who” and “why” parts of this tragedy?

CrossTalking with John Laughland, Alexander Mercouris, and Dmitry Babich.

Listen to CrossTalk+ here: https://soundcloud.com/rttv/sets/cros...

Cidersomerset

14th October 2015, 15:22

West Embarrassed By Russia in Syria, Now Blaming Russia for MH17 Disaster

By David Icke on 14th October 2015

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October 13, 2015 By Stuart Hooper 14 Comments

21st Century Wire says…

If you cannot see how obviously suspicious the timing of the release of this
report is, we have some ocean front property, at bargain basement prices,
with your name on it.

Watch a video of this report here:

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‘Today, the Dutch Safety Board released a report blaming a ‘Russian-made
BUK missile’ as the cause of the destruction of MH17.However, they
begrudgingly admit that they cannot say who fired the missile.As we
mentioned above, the timing of the release of this report is more than suspicious…

Russia has just dramatically embarrassed the West in Syria, destroying 40%
of the terrorist infrastructure in just one week and causing a terrorist exodus.’

Read More...
http://21stcenturywire.com/2015/10/13/west-embarrassed-by-russia-in-syria-so-west-blames-russia-for-mh17-disaster/

Cidersomerset

14th October 2015, 15:27

Russia steps up Syria air campaign: Jets raise daily action to 88 strikes

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Published on 14 Oct 2015

Russia continues to intensify its strike campaign against Islamic State in
Syria, as the total number of bombings has risen to 88 per the last 24 hours.

RT LIVE http://rt.com/on-air

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Syrians Stand With Russia As America’s ‘Moderate Rebels’ Bomb Civilians

By David Icke on 14th October 2015

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Syrians Stand With Russia As America’s ‘Moderate Rebels’ Bomb Civilians

14th October 2015

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‘Shells hit the ground outside the Russian embassy in Damascus on Tuesday,
October 10, 2015. It was clearly an attempt to terrorize the Syrian people who had
gathered in a rally to express their support for the coordination between Russia and
Syria against terrorists fighting in Syria.

The terrorists on the ground in Syria represent a global threat and Syrians
recognize that the military coordination with Russia is the only solution to that threat.

Let me again be clear – Syrians welcome Moscow’s airstrikes on terrorists in Syria.

This includes the so-called “moderate rebels.”

The foreign-backed “moderate rebels” are incapable of allowing others the freedom
to choose their own way to live. Instead, they bomb Syrians to get their message
across. This is the only language the “moderate rebels” understand.’

Read more: Syrians Stand With Russia As America’s ‘Moderate Rebels’ Bomb Civilians

http://www.activistpost.com/2015/10/syrians-stand-with-russia-as-americas-moderate-rebels-bomb-civilians.html

Hervé

15th October 2015, 02:17

Six unexpected outcomes of Russian airstrikes in Syria (http://in.rbth.com/blogs/stranger_than_fiction/2015/10/13/six-unexpected-outcomes-of-rusian-airstrikes-in-syria_482323)

Rakesh Krishnan Simha (http://in.rbth.com/author/Rakesh%20Krishnan%20Simha) 13 October 2015

Moscow is using its massive firepower to subdue terror and in the process dramatically alter the balance of power in the Middle East. But there are more gains it may not have foreseen.

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Moscow’s decisive action in neutralising ISIS seems like a good idea compared with US actions. Source:AP Photo/Alexander Kots, Komsomolskaya Pravda

With its devastating air strikes on ISIS and US-funded rebel groups, Russia is now at the centre of the Syrian chessboard. Besides the obvious gains that include securing Syrian President Bashar al-Assad’s secular government and exposing American backing of terrorist groups, here are six strategic spinoffs from Moscow’s military action.

Sukhoi showstoppers are the new must have toys
Following their spectacular performance over Syrian skies, Russia’s Sukhoi warplanes are set to be the hottest commodity (http://in.rbth.com/economics/defence/2015/10/13/the-su-34-in-syria_482275) in the international arms market. With the MiG-29 providing top cover, the Sukhois – including the massive Su-34 fighter-bomber, the swing-wing Su-24 ground attack jet and the subsonic Su-25 tank buster – are doing a fantastic job. While the Su-24 is due for retirement, the Su-25 and Su-34 tandem could be the hottest new items on the wishlist of air forces around the world. The cruise missiles – probably the Klubs – that are thudding into terrorist hideouts are also likely to see an increase in popularity.

Intelligence bonanza for Russia
After a near collision with a Russian jet, the US Air Force ordered its fighter pilots to stay clear of areas where Russians are operating. The near miss gives you an idea of the cramped confines in which foreign aircraft have to fly. This proximity has allowed Russia to gather valuable intelligence on a variety of US and NATO aircraft, including the F-22, claimed to be the world's premier stealth fighter. Such opportunities are rare and the boffins in Russia’s military intelligence must be having a lot of fun going through all that data.

ISIS can no longer steal Iraqi and Syrian oil
ISIS was selling Iraqi and Syrian crude oil on the black market for as low as $10 a barrel. The regular market price is around $47 a barrel. Exporting oil requires transporting it via pipelines to the coast. Clearly, ISIS was free to conduct the sale of illicit crude without the fear of NATO airstrikes. This alone is enough evidence that ISIS was enjoying some form of American and NATO protection. Although ISIS exports were just a trickle in the torrent of crude oil flooding the world, the markets responded positively to the Russian airstrikes by moving up. Even a small uptick in the price of oil translates into billions of dollars in revenue for Russia.

Russia has got Saudi Arabia over a barrel
Saudi Arabia is losing its shirt because of its relentless production of crude oil aimed at weakening Russia and Iran. The IMF says the Saudi budget is in tatters, and the outlook appears grave for the kingdom. Russia’s comeback in the Middle East along with Iran and the Hezbollah – the Shiite militant group that gives nightmares to the Saudi sheiks – could be the incentive that OPEC's largest member needs to announce production cuts. Having lost face, the US is no longer in a position to ask the Saudis to hold the line.

Europe sees the light
It has taken only a few Russian missiles to bring Europe to its senses. Europeans are taking the view that Moscow’s decisive action in neutralising ISIS seems like a good idea compared with US actions that created millions of refugees who are now flooding into Western Europe. Both Germany and France are thinking of rolling back economic sanctions against Russia. That’s called cost-effective diplomacy.

The Caspian is a Russian lake
By launching cruise missiles from the Caspian Sea 2400 km away – instead of the Mediterranean where the Russia Navy has stationed a powerful armada – Russia is indicating that it has multiple options. The Caspian was considered a Russian lake for centuries, and Moscow is signalling that nothing has changed today. It is also a message to the US that the Russian military has access to Iranian and Iraqi airspace. Plus, it shows the range and lethality of its cruise missiles.

http://nl.media.rbth.ru/web/in-rbth/images/2015-10/big/syriarakesh468.png (http://in.rbth.com/blogs/stranger_than_fiction/2015/10/08/six-reasons-why-india-should-join-rusian-air-strikes-in-syria_480837)

Six reasons why India should join Russian air strikes in Syria (http://in.rbth.com/blogs/stranger_than_fiction/2015/10/08/six-reasons-why-india-should-join-rusian-air-strikes-in-syria_480837)

idiit

15th October 2015, 16:18

Welcome to hell week in Syria

In Iraq, a plebiscite is being considered to remove the 3000 Americans there who have hampered operations against ISIS from the start.

American bases are ISIS bases. You just can’t make this stuff up

It’s happened. Thousands of Iranian special operations troops led by General Suileimani who is now in Latakia. Combined operations of the Russian Aerospace Command, the Syrian Army and Air Force and the Iranian Revolutionary Guard along with Hezbollah and local National Guard units are moving to secure Aleppo province and Idlib from terrorist elements of Jabat al Nusra and their subordinate command known as the Free Syrian Army along with the terrorist groups now supplied by the United States.

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General Suiliemani in Syria October 15, 2015

While this is going on, units of the Syrian Army are securing the suburbs of Damascus while units of the Syrian Army are moving to the Jordanian border,slicing through Saudi led and financed “rebel” groups who are fleeing into both Jordan and Israel.

Welcome to hell week in Syria

In Iraq, a plebiscite is being considered to remove the 3000 Americans there who have hampered operations against ISIS from the start.

American bases are ISIS bases. You just can’t make this stuff up

VT Exclusive: Iran on the Ground in Syria in a Big Way
By Gordon Duff, Senior Editor on October 14, 2015

http://www.veteranstoday.com/2015/10/14/vt-exclusive-iran-on-the-ground-in-syria-in-a-big-way/

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idiit

15th October 2015, 18:49

Monday, October 12, 2015

Over 1,300 Palestinians Shot in Last 11 Days

From October 1 through Sunday, soldiers and police shot over 1,300 Palestinians - using live fire, rubber-coated steel bullets and internationally banned dum-dum bullets, able to expand internally and cause far more serious wounds.
Through October 11, 24 Palestinians were murdered in cold blood. Official Israeli policy is shoot first. Ask no questions

http://sjlendman.blogspot.mx/2015/10/over-1300-palestinians-shot-in-last-11.html

steve lendman is a jewish columnist. where's the nyt articles?

Jews Against Racist Zionism

Stephen Lendman is an outstanding anti-racist, humanitarian Jewish American analyst, writer and a Research Associate of the Centre for Research on Globalization (see Stephen Lendman blog:: http://sjlendman.blogspot.com/ ) .

https://sites.google.com/site/jewsagainstracistzionism/lendman-stephen-top-jewish-american-writer-slams-ethnic-cleansing-and-gross-abuse-of-palestinians

Over 1,300 Palestinians Shot in Last 11 Days
by Stephen Lendman

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17th October 2015, 01:18

JF with news that France has aligned with Russia and supports Russia's targeting of rebels:
Turkey is now between a rock and a hard place.
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17th October 2015, 19:18

New Russian Jamming System Near Latakia Blocks All NATO Electronics Inside Bubble 600 Km in Diameter; Radar, Satellites, Communications All Disrupted; System Shifts Military Balance in Favor of Russia

http://tarpley.net/kerry-wants-enablers-on-the-ground-in-syria-but-no-decision-from-obama-on-ground-war-yet-russians-jamming-nato-electronics/

From the combat zone in northern Syria comes news of the deployment of a new Russian electronic jamming system which can reportedly blind radar, disrupt electronic guidance systems, and interfere with satellite imagery as well. As a result, NATO is effectively blinded inside a bubble of 600 km in diameter centered on the Russian base at Latakia, reports, Thierry Meyssan from Damascus.

Russian Secret Weapon Deployed in Syria

article linked above.

What frightened the USS Donald Cook so much in the Black Sea?

Voltaire Network | 8 November 2014

The State Department acknowledged that the crew of the destroyer USS Donald Cook has been gravely demoralized ever since their vessel was flown over in the Black Sea by a Russian Sukhoi-24 (Su-24) fighter jet which carried neither bombs nor missiles but only an electronic warfare device.

“The Richag-AV system, mounted on the Mi-8MTPR1 (a variant of the Mi-8MTB5-1 helicopter) is said to have no global equivalent. Its electronic countermeasures system is designed to jam radar, sonar and other detection systems in the aims of defending aircraft, helicopters, drones, ground and naval forces against air-to-air and surface-to-air defense systems within a radius of several hundred kilometers. It can be mounted on units from any branch of the armed forces, including helicopters and airplanes, as well as ground and ship-based forces. The Mi8-MTPR1-based Richag-AV platform, using multi-beam antenna arrays with DRFM technology, is designed to actively jam and thus ‘blind’ radar systems in order to defend against radio-electronic guided weapons systems. In a combat situation, the system would operate as part of an aviation shock attack group aimed at breaking through virtually any defense system, blinding everything up to and including the US MIM-104 ‘Patriot’ anti-aircraft missile system.”[i]

http://www.voltairenet.org/article185860.html

With US Warships En Route To Islands, China Asks: "What On Earth Makes Them Think We Will Tolerate This?"
on 10/17/2015

The United States' provocative attempts to infringe on China's South China Sea sovereignty are sabotaging regional peace and stability and militarizing the waters.

The U.S. Navy is reportedly preparing to conduct "freedom of navigation" operations, sending warships within 12 nautical miles of Chinese islands in the South China Sea. The U.S. operations may take place within days, according to reports.

http://www.zerohedge.com/news/2015-10-17/us-warships-en-route-islands-china-asks-what-earth-makes-them-think-we-will-tolerate

^^ beyond surreal.

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Cidersomerset

17th October 2015, 21:49

Paul Craig Roberts: CIA May Assassinate Putin

By David Icke on 17th October 2015 War and Terror

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Paul Craig Roberts: CIA May Assassinate Putin
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CIA has a long history of assassination

Kurt Nimmo
Prison Planet.com
October 16, 2015

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‘The former Assistant Secretary of the Treasury for Economic Policy
in the Reagan administration, Paul Craig Roberts, told Alex Jones on
Thursday he believes Russian President Vladimir Putin is in danger
of being assassinated by the CIA.

“I think Putin is in substantial danger of assassination,” Roberts said.
“I hope he stops walking around the streets unprotected.”

He said the likely assassins will be from the CIA or a rogue group.

The CIA has assassinated and attempted to assassinate leaders and
political figures in numerous countries, including Korea, China,
Indonesia, Iran, Cambodia, Iraq, Costa Rica, Cuba, South Vietnam,
Dominican Republic, Libya, Lebanon, Panama, Afghanistan, Pakistan
and elsewhere.’

Read more: Paul Craig Roberts: CIA May Assassinate Putin

http://www.prisonplanet.com/paul-craig-roberts-cia-may-assassinate-putin.html

Cidersomerset

17th October 2015, 22:01

ISIS Retreating: Russia Destroys 33 Key Targets Forcing Jihadists to Flee

By David Icke on 16th October 2015

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‘The Russian air campaign in Syria has struck 33 more key targets over
the past 24 hours causing ISIS fighters to flee.A Sukhoi Su-34 managed
to destroy a 9K33 Osa, surface-to-air missile launcher in Eastern Douma
near Damascus. The jet dropped a smart bomb onto a concrete shelter
destroying both the structure and launcher.

The launcher, known as a ‘Gecko’ by NATO, holds six missiles and is designed
to give short range tactical cover to ground forces. With widespread reports
of ISIS quickly crumbling away, the loss of this defence system will only
hasten their annihilation.’

Read more: ISIS Retreating: Russia Destroys 33 Key Targets Forcing Jihadists to Flee

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Report: US and Turkish Intelligence Coordinated ISIS Leader’s
Transfer to Turkey for Treatment

By David Icke on 16th October 2015 War and Terror

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Report: US, Turkish Intelligence Coordinated ISIL Leader's Transfer to Turkey for Treatment

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‘ISIS Leader Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi has been transferred to Turkey for treatment
through a series of coordination measures by the CIA after the notorious terrorist
leader was severely injured in the Iraqi army’s airstrike on his convoy in Western
Anbar province, media reports disclosed on Wednesday.

“The CIA has drone coordination with the Turkish intelligence organization to
transfer al-Baghdadi to Turkey,” the Arabic-language al-Manar TV quoted
unnamed sources as saying on Wednesday.

The source said that two companions of al-Baghdadi who were also injured in
the attack on the ISIL leader’s convoy and were captured by the Iraqi forces
have confirmed that al-Baghdadi has been injured in the Sunday attack.’

Read more: Report: US and Turkish Intelligence Coordinated ISIS Leader’s
Transfer to Turkey for Treatment

http://english.farsnews.com/newstext.aspx?nn=13940722001412

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U.S. Admits They Fund ISIS

By David Icke on 16th October 2015

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Published on 14 Oct 2015

Al- Nusra, simply a faction of al-Qaeda at war with the Syrian government. Known
for being the real culprits for chemical attacks on Syrian civilians. Launched rocket
strikes on the Russian Embassy in Damascus. The rockets were likely those supplied
by U.S. forces a year ago to the decimated moderate rebels. Al-Nusra Chief Abu
Mohamed al-Jolani had just called for attacks on Russian civilians and soldiers

Cidersomerset

17th October 2015, 22:12

Lavrov: Show Us Your Fake ‘Free Syrian Army’

By David Icke on 16th October 2015 War and Terror

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Lavrov: Show Us Your Fake "Free Syrian Army"

Russia is willing to coordinate with the “phantom” group, but nobody
can seem to find them; except maybe on CNN

‘The Free Syrian Army and the moderate opposition in general remain a
“phantom” group, Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov has said, adding
that Moscow has called on the US to explain what it is and where it is based.

“No one has told us where the Free Syrian Army operates or where and
how the other units of the moderate opposition act,” Lavrov said.

“We will even be ready to establish contact with it, if these are indeed
efficient armed groups of the patriotic opposition that consist of Syrians,”
the foreign minister added.

So far, the Free Syrian Army remains a “phantom group,” he said.
“Nothing is known about it,” Lavrov said.’

Read more: Lavrov: Show Us Your Fake ‘Free Syrian Army’

http://russia-insider.com/en/politics/lavrov-show-us-your-fake-free-syrian-army/ri10286

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Iraq wants Russia to bomb ISIS on its territory, US concerned

By David Icke on 16th October 2015

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US troops will stay in Afghanistan after Obama

By David Icke on 16th October 2015

US troops will stay in Afghanistan after Obama

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Published on 15 Oct 2015

President Obama will keep 5,500 US troops in Afghanistan when he leaves office
in 2017, according to senior administration officials. He is expected to announce
the plan later on Thursday.

https://www.rt.com/news/318741-obama-afghanistan-keep-troops/

Cidersomerset

17th October 2015, 22:31

Turkish PM Davutoglu tries to distance ISIS and Turkey,
ends up saying they’re actually exactly the same

By David Icke on 17th October 2015

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Turkish PM Davutoglu tries to distance Daesh and Turkey, ends
up saying they're actually exactly the same

Published October 16th, 2015 - 18:24 GMT via SyndiGate.info

‘In what can only be described as a comical yet tragic error
Turkish Prime Minister Ahmet Davutoglu made a major mistake
when describing the difference between Daesh’s Islamic theology
and that of Turkey earlier this week.

In an interview on Wednesday night with Turkish channel Show
TV, the Turkish official attempted to distance Turkey from the
group allegedly responsible for last week’s Ankara bombings,
but instead accidentally suggested Daesh and Turkey hold the
same religious views, saying:

“There is a 360-degree, not 180-degree, difference between the
Islam we defend and what Daesh has on its mind.”

The gaffe comes after widespread criticism of alleged mishandling
of intelligence by the Turkish government, which may have
prevented the bombings at a peace rally which claimed 99 lives.’

Read more: Turkish PM Davutoglu tries to distance ISIS and Turkey,
ends up saying they’re actually exactly the same

http://www.albawaba.com/loop/turkish-pm-davutoglu-accidentally-says-daesh-and-turkey-are-360-degrees-different-755650

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American Strategy in Disarray as Propped up Armies in Iraq and Afghanistan Fail

By David Icke on 17th October 2015 War and Terror

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American Strategy in Disarray as Propped up Armies in Iraq and Afghanistan Fail
The Pentagon is delusional about its capabilities.

By Andrew Bacevich / TomDispatch

‘First came Fallujah, then Mosul, and later Ramadi in Iraq. Now, there is Kunduz,
a provincial capital in northern Afghanistan. In all four places, the same story has
played out: in cities that newspaper reporters like to call “strategically important,”
security forces trained and equipped by the U.S. military at great expense simply
folded, abandoning their posts (and much of their U.S.-supplied weaponry) without
even mounting serious resistance. Called upon to fight, they fled. In each case, the
defending forces gave way before substantially outnumbered attackers, making the
outcomes all the more ignominious.

Together, these setbacks have rendered a verdict on the now more-or-less nameless
Global War on Terrorism (GWOT). Successive blitzkriegs by ISIS and the Taliban
respectively did more than simply breach Iraqi and Afghan defenses. They also
punched gaping holes in the strategy to which the United States had reverted in
hopes of stemming the further erosion of its position in the Greater Middle East.’

Read more: American Strategy in Disarray as Propped up Armies in Iraq and Afghanistan Fail

http://www.alternet.org/news-amp-politics/american-strategy-disarray-propped-armies-iran-and-afghanistan-fail

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'US bombing harming civilians, not stopping terrorists' – Hamid Karzai

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Published on 16 Oct 2015

Former President of Afghanistan Hamid Karzai is on SophieCo to discuss the latest
Taliban offensive in the country and if Afghan forces can cope with it on their own.
Full interview on air Monday, October 19.
Follow @SophieCo_RT

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US Rejects Hospital Bombing Investigation, Instead Smashes into Hospital in Tank Destroying Evidence

By David Icke on 17th October 2015 War and Terror

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US Rejects Hospital Bombing Investigation, Instead Smashes into Hospital in
Tank, Destroying Evidence

Posted on October 15, 2015 by Robert Barsocchini

‘After changing its story many times, the US now admits that it intentionally threw
bombs, for more than an hour, at the now famous Doctors Without Borders hospital,
proving accurate the assessment of DWB staffer Meinie Nicolai, who said the US
attack was “a premeditated massacre.”

Since initial US claims that the protected DWB hospital was a “Taliban stronghold”
and so forth have been debunked as stupid, the US now claims it targeted the
hospital because one man, a “Pakistan Inter-Services Intelligence spy”, was inside.

However, Glenn Greenwald points out that the US puppet government in Afghanistan
has had it out for DWB for some time because they treat patients indiscriminately,
whereas US allies like Israel, for example, discriminate between patients, treating Al
Qaeda fighters while targeting members of the UN-recognized Syrian government:
“Israel has opened its borders with Syria in order to provide medical treatment to
Nusra Front and al-Qaida fighters wounded in the ongoing civil war, according to
The Wall Street Journal.”’

Read more: US Rejects Hospital Bombing Investigation, Instead Smashes into
Hospital in Tank Destroying Evidence

http://www.washingtonsblog.com/2015/10/us-rejects-investigation-instead-smashes-into-hospital-in-tank-destroying-evidence.html

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Covering up torture, leading us into illegal wars and now state control of the
press – the shadowy world of the Privy Council

By David Icke on 17th October 2015 Political Manipulation

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Secret. Smug. Sinister: They've covered up torture, led us into an illegal
war and are now placing the Press under state control. It's time to kill off
the shadowy establishment mafia that is the Privy Council
Membership of the Council is for life and are appointed by the Queen
The Privy Council approved the design and specification for new coinage
It has also amended several Acts of Parliament and altered various laws

By Peter Oborne For The Daily Mail

Published: 23:04, 16 October 2015 | Updated: 00:19, 17 October 2015

Earlier this month, a private ceremony took place at Buckingham Palace.
Along with the Queen, four Cabinet ministers were present. All stood,
including the 89-year-old monarch.

Nothing was reported in the press about the recent meeting of the privy
council where more business was conducted than in any cabinet meeting.

As well as the royal approval of a new commemorative five pound coin, the
secretive group amended Acts of Parliament covering crime, adoption law,
terrorism and education.

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The Privy Council approved the specification and design for new coinage,
including a commemorative £5 coin to mark the Queen’s 90th birthday

Read more: Covering up torture, leading us into illegal wars and now state
control of the press – the shadowy world of the Privy Council

Read more: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-3276600/Secret-Smug-Sinister-ve-covered-torture-led-illegal-war-placing-Press-state-control-s-time-kill-shadowy-establishment-mafia-Privy-Council.html#ixzz3oroS6XrF
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Cidersomerset

18th October 2015, 14:06

ISIS Fighters Could Gain LEGAL Entry Into EU, Thanks
to Europe’s New Schengen Visa Deal for Turkey

By David Icke on 18th October 2015 War and Terror

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ISIS Fighters Could Gain LEGAL Entry Into EU, Thanks to Europe’s
New Schengen Visa Deal for Turkey

October 16, 2015 By 21wire

21st Century Wire says…

‘It doesn’t get any more backward than this. Potentially, this is the
dumbest move yet by bureaucrats in Brussels.

Turkey is set to pick up a few big sweeteners from Brussels if ‘tries’
to stop refugee flow into Europe – even though it’s nearly impossible
for Ankara to actually come good on its lofty promise to ‘contain’ the
large refugee flow through Turkey into the European promise land.

It’s true that Turkey has accommodated roughly 2 million Syrian
refugees, and is said to have spent over nearly $8 billion on the
crisis thus far.What they are not telling us however, is that Turkey
has been the primary facilitator of the Syrian conflict, mainly by
hosting terrorist and ‘rebel’ training and equipping for tens of
thousands of fighters since 2011, as well as providing a continuous
safe haven for terrorist fighters – freely coming and going over its
southern border with Syria.’

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FREE EU ENTRY: Turkish passport holders from ISIS will now be
free to enter the whole of Europe.The public got a shocking glimpse
of the casual relationship between Turkish authorities and ISIS last
year after video surfaced showing Islamic State militants having a
friendly chat with a group of Turkish border guards near the besieged
Syrian city of Kobane. The fact that Turkey is a NATO member makes
this crime all the more egregious.

In short, Turkey is a “bad actor” in the Syria story. Now they are being
rewarded with what essential has most of the features of a ‘fast-track’
provisional membership into the EU. Cries from European leaders like
David Cameron to halt the flow of immigrants and to ‘not risk the
security of Europe’ are sounding more hollow than ever right now.

Read more: ISIS Fighters Could Gain LEGAL Entry Into EU, Thanks to
Europe’s New Schengen Visa Deal for Turkey

http://21stcenturywire.com/2015/10/16/isis-fighters-will-gain-legal-entry-into-eu-thanks-to-europes-new-schengen-visa-deal-for-turkey/

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ISIS Jihadists shave beards and dress as women to flee to the West

By David Icke on 18th October 2015 War and Terror

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‘In the face of heavy Russian airstrikes, a number of ISIS militants
have reportedly fled to Turkey from Syria by shaving off their beards
and dressing as women to pass unnoticed.Mounds of shaved facial
hair have been discovered in Aleppo, Syria, along with discarded
packets of Syrian razors.

A photo on Twitter posted by Iraqi journalist Hala Jaber shows huge
piles of hair. The journalist tweeted that the ISIS fighters shaved off
their beards so they could escape clean shaven to Turkey.’

Read more: ISIS Jihadists shave beards and dress as women to flee to the West

http://www.breitbart.com/national-security/2015/10/17/isis-jihadists-shave-beards-dress-women-flee-west/

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Syrian civilians helping Russian airstrikes target ISIS – Defense Ministry

By David Icke on 18th October 2015 War and Terror

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Syrian civilians helping Russian airstrikes target ISIS - Defense Ministry

Published time: 17 Oct, 2015 11:50
Edited time: 17 Oct, 2015 12:33

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‘Russian warplanes have bombed a training camp in Syria where foreign
instructors trained potential suicide bombers, the Russian defense ministry
said. It was one of 49 terrorist targets hit by the Russian Air Forces over the day.

“Not far from Salma in Latakia province, a Su-24M bomber delivered a strike
at a building, which was used as a terrorist training ground. According to
intelligence, there were ISIL foreign instructors, who were training people,
including suicide bombers, for guerrilla warfare in areas liberated by the
Syrian army,” ministry spokesman Maj. Gen. Igor Konashenkov said.

He added that the facility had its own explosives workshop, which was also destroyed by an airstrike.’

Read more: Syrian civilians helping Russian airstrikes target ISIS – Defense Ministry

https://www.rt.com/news/318938-russia-airstrikes-hit-isis/?utm_source=browser&utm_medium=aplication_chrome&utm_campaign=chrome

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Russia ready to assist Iraq in fight on ISIS: Antonov

By David Icke on 18th October 2015 War and Terror

‘A senior Russian defense official has announced his country’s readiness to extend
military assistance to Iraq in its battle against the foreign-backed Daesh terrorists.

Speaking to reporters on Saturday at the 6th Xiangshan Security Forum in the
Chinese capital of Beijing, Russian Deputy Defense Minister Anatoly Antonov said
Moscow has not yet received a request for military assistance from the Iraqi
government in the fight against the Takfiri terror network, but it would consider
such an appeal, Tass news agency reported.’

Read more: Russia ready to assist Iraq in fight on ISIS: Antonov

http://www.presstv.ir/Detail/2015/10/18/433882/Russia-Iraq-deputy-defense-minister-Anatoly-Antonov-Daesh-terrorists-Syria-air-campaign

Cidersomerset

18th October 2015, 14:28

I have not posted many of the Israeli articles on this thread as there are basically
loads and there is still on going friction and violence between the Palestinians , the
Iranian deal,the Syrian civil / terrorist war & other events Israel or Mossad are
deeply involved in. I have posted some on other threads.

Some articles from the headline page over the last couple of days, Israel is totally
tied into all this Middle East chaos and could be the architects of alot of this if we
go back to the Neo - Zionist plan for the 'New American Century' many of who
were/are dual Israeli US nationals.Who created 9/11 , the 'War on terror meme'
thru to the invasion of the Middle East and North Africa to invade the list of
countries or change the leadership as Gen Wesley Clarke described....

I know most have seen this , but just in case there is anyone looking at this for the first time.....

General Wesley Clark: Wars Were Planned - Seven Countries In Five Years

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Israel and US resume military aid boost talks as Iran deal takes effect

By David Icke on 18th October 2015 War and Terror

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Israel, US resume military aid boost talks as Iran deal takes effect

Published time: 18 Oct, 2015 07:33

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‘Talks have resumed between Israel and the US over a proposed increase of
America’s $3 billion per year military aid to the Jewish state. Israel had frozen
the deal in protest against the nuclear deal with Iran, which is now in effect.

The current 10-year American military aid package is due to expire in 2017, and
the two allies have been in negotiations about a new one, which could increase
the sum by $600 million to $700 million annually. This would bring the total aid
received by Israel to between $3.6 billion and $3.7 billion per year.

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu had suspended these talks in protest
against Washington working on a nuclear deal in Iran, which Tehran and six world
leading powers signed in July.’

Read more: Israel and US resume military aid boost talks as Iran deal takes effect

https://www.rt.com/news/318980-israel-us-military-aid/?utm_source=browser&utm_medium=aplication_chrome&utm_campaign=chrome

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Hate-Mongering Israeli Rabbis Call Killing Palestinians ‘a Religious Duty’

By David Icke on 18th October 2015

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Hate-Mongering Israeli Rabbis Call Killing Palestinians “a Religious Duty”

By Stephen Lendman

Global Research, October 17, 2015

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‘Zionist rabbi Meir Kahane is the founder of the Arab-hating Jewish Defense League
(JDL). Israel banned it in 1988, calling it a “threat to national security.”

Even the Islamophobic Anti-Defamation League (ADL) said its membership includes
only “thugs and hooligans” – dedicated to hate-mongering and violence against Palestinians.

Its poisonous ideology persists in Israel. Hate-mongering rabbis responded to questions
including: “Am I allowed to kick the insurgent, hit him or shoot him in order to kill him
after he has been arrested or is this prohibited?”’

Read more: Hate-Mongering Israeli Rabbis Call Killing Palestinians ‘a Religious Duty’

http://www.globalresearch.ca/hate-mongering-israeli-rabbis-call-killing-palestinians-a-religious-duty/5482667

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Palestinian teen framed in al-Khalil, footage apparently shows

By David Icke on 18th October 2015 War and Terror

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PRESS TV......

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Short vid on link.....http://www.presstv.ir/Detail/2015/10/17/433846/Israel-Palestinian-alkhalil-Hebron-West-Bank

‘A new video released by a Palestinian activist group apparently shows Israeli troops
planting a knife next to a slain teenager in the city of al-Khalil (Hebron) in the occupied
West Bank, bringing into question Israeli claims that the teen was killed for trying to
stab a settler.

The footage released by Youth Against Settlements on Saturday appears to show an Israeli
trooper handing over an object to another of the forces who then bends and throws it next
to the body of a person lying on a street in al-Khalil.

The 18-year-old slain Palestinian teen, identified as Fadil Qawasm, was shot dead by a settler
earlier in the day. The settler with his gun in hands can be seen at the scene when the Israeli
troops surround the body of the Palestinian.’

Read more: Palestinian teen framed in al-Khalil, footage apparently shows

http://www.presstv.ir/Detail/2015/10/17/433846/Israel-Palestinian-alkhalil-Hebron-West-Bank

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Obama backs Israel as five more Palestinians are killed

By David Icke on 18th October 2015 War and Terror

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‘Five more Palestinians were killed Friday as Israel’s crackdown against anti-occupation protests continued.

Israeli forces shot dead three Palestinians at protests in the occupied West Bank and Gaza Strip, while one
Palestinian was summarily executed after he attacked an Israeli soldier with a knife.

Shawiq Jabr Obeid, 37, who was critically injured by Israeli fire in Gaza last week, succumbed to his wounds.

The latest deaths came as US President Barack Obama offered unqualified support for Israel’s “right to
maintain basic law and order and protect its citizens from knife attacks and violence on the streets.”’

Read more: Obama backs Israel as five more Palestinians are killed

https://electronicintifada.net/blogs/charlotte-silver/obama-backs-israel-5-more-palestinians-are-killed?utm_source=EI+readers&utm_campaign=41d369266f-RSS_EMAIL_CAMPAIGN&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_e802a7602d-41d369266f-299185473

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Israeli army begins deploying in Jerusalem against attacks’ – Deconstructing Associated Press bias

By David Icke on 17th October 2015

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‘Once again, the Associated Press provides a blatantly slanted news report on Israel-Palestine.
The problem is, AP’s slant is only blatant to those who know the full facts. This is the article that
hundreds of newspaper wire editors around the US, most of whom have never visited the region
and whose information comes largely from AP, are seeing. Below I will discuss AP’s October 14
news report. I will quote the AP report in full, commenting below each section about what it
contains and does not contain.

By Aron Heller

As is typical, AP’s story is written by an individual with strong connections to Israel. Aron Heller
grew up in Israel, graduated from Tel Aviv University, and may be an Israeli citizen. It is likely
that he or members of his family have served in the Israeli military. None of this is disclosed to
AP readers. [We’ve noticed that, hours after this appeared, the byline for this same basic story
is now given as “Tia Goldenberg,” who is probably updating it.]’

Read more: ‘Israeli army begins deploying in Jerusalem against attacks’ – Deconstructing Associated Press bias

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Israel, the Media and the Anatomy of a Sick Society

By David Icke on 17th October 2015

‘The video of 13 year old Palestinian Ahmed Manasrah bleeding to death on the pavement
of an East Jerusalem neighborhood has been described as “shocking,” “disturbing,” and
“painful to watch.” The callous verbal abuse and insults from Israelis watching the child
writhe in agony are variously characterized as “heartless” and “cruel”; and indeed they
are. “Die you son of a whore. Die! Die!” the Israeli onlookers can be heard shouting in
the video which has since gone viral on social media.

While there has been much discussion of this video, and other similar incidents involving
the extrajudicial executions of Palestinian youths accused by Israel of having stabbed
Israelis (the veracity of some of these claims is disputed), there is decidedly little
examination of the sociological implications. Specifically, it has become taboo to interrogate
just what sort of ideological and psychological conclusions can be drawn about Israelis
society – a society where such behavior is not an outlier; where, rather than being an
anomaly, it is indicative of a significant, if not mainstream, attitude. Such undeniably
barbaric treatment is not simple hate, and cannot be explained away or justified. But
that is precisely what the corporate media does.’

Read more: Israel, the Media and the Anatomy of a Sick Society

http://www.counterpunch.org/2015/10/15/israel-the-media-and-the-anatomy-of-a-sick-society/

Cidersomerset

18th October 2015, 14:37

What’s Behind the Explosions of Violence in Palestine? — The Destruction of Religious
Sites and ‘Extrajudicial Executions’ of Palestinian Teenagers

By David Icke on 16th October 2015

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‘If what we see going on in Israel-Palestine is not yet a third Intifada, one may not
be far off. As presented in the mainstream press, the stabbings of Israeli settlers,
the rock-throwing, the mass uprisings, all seem chalked up to some inexplicable
proclivity toward violence on the part of Palestinians. Nothing could be further from
the truth. The fact of the matter is that this wave of violence comes in response to
an on-going campaign to desecrate and destroy holy sites that anchor non-Jewish
peoples to their faiths — not only are mosques being destroyed, so too are Catholic
churches.

Most egregiously, Israeli groups are attempting to replace the al-Aqsa mosque with
a Jewish temple. In mid-September “Israeli forces entered the Al-Aqsa Mosque
compound’s southern mosque on Tuesday sparking the third straight day of violent
clashes at the third holiest site in Islam. Dozens of Palestinians were injured in the
clashes, during which Israeli forces fired stun grenades, tear gas canisters and
rubber-coated steel bullets at Palestinian worshipers.” These efforts are part of
what is called “temple activism.”

Parallel to the illegal destruction of Palestinian homes and the building of settlements,
what we find here is the destruction and appropriation of holy sites.’

Read more: What’s Behind the Explosions of Violence in Palestine? — The Destruction
of Religious Sites and ‘Extrajudicial Executions’ of Palestinian Teenagers

http://www.intifada-palestine.com/2015/10/whats-behind-the-explosions-of-violence-in-palestine-the-destruction-of-religious-sites-and-extrajudicial-executions-of-palestinian-teenagers/

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‘Scum must be isolated’: Israeli kindergarten parent demands Arab girl’s expulsion in racist rant

By David Icke on 16th October 2015

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‘Scum must be isolated’: Israeli kindergarten parent demands Arab girl’s expulsion in racist rant

Published time: 15 Oct, 2015 11:14
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A father from a Beer Sheva kindergarten in southern Israel went on a hate-filled
racist rant in a WhatsApp group for parents. He called for an Arab Bedouin girl to
be expelled, saying “scum must be isolated.”

The conversation, according to Ynet News, started out with the parents discussing
a recent increase in Palestinian-Israeli violence. The subject of the little girl, Nura,
aged just three, came up as one parent fanned the flames, taking the question further.

“If there is an Arab kid in the kindergarten it’s time to expel him!” the parent started
off, before suggesting that “She has no place in the Jewish State… she should study
in her village. Go to Syria; they love you there, Assad is waiting.”’

Read more: ‘Scum must be isolated’: Israeli kindergarten parent demands Arab girl’s
expulsion in racist rant

https://www.rt.com/news/318748-racist-arab-kindergarten-israeli/?utm_source=browser&utm_medium=aplication_chrome&utm_campaign=chrome

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Netanyahu Slams State Dept on Excessive Force Allegations

By David Icke on 16th October 2015

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‘Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu rejected the U.S. State Department’s
allegations that Israel is using excessive force to fight terrorism Thursday, saying
that the allegations are unfair, false, and justify Palestinian terrorism.

“This allegation is totally false. It’s also utterly unfair, because it’s so obviously,
patently false,” he said.

When asked whether Israel was worried about losing the support of its allies
because of the State Department’s concerns, Netanyahu said that Israel is using
the amount of legitimate force necessary to protect its citizens against the threat of terrorism.’

Read more: Netanyahu Slams State Dept on Excessive Force Allegations

http://freebeacon.com/national-security/netanyahu-slams-state-dept-on-excessive-force-allegations/

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US backtracks on Israeli criticism over recent violence

By David Icke on 16th October 2015 Political Manipulation, War and Terror
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US backtracks on Israeli criticism over recent violence

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‘The US administration has backtracked on its criticism of the Israeli regime over
the recent escalation of violence in the occupied Palestinian territories.

On Wednesday, US State Department spokesman John Kirby said credible reports
indicate that Tel Aviv used excessive force against Palestinian protesters in East
al-Quds (Jerusalem).

But speaking at Indiana University on Thursday, Secretary of State John Kerry said
the United States backs Israel’s “right to defend its existence.”’

Read more: US backtracks on Israeli criticism over recent violence

http://www.presstv.ir/Detail/2015/10/15/433600/US-Israeli-criticism
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Israeli Media Fabricating Palestinian Attacks on Jews and Lying to the Public

By David Icke on 16th October 2015

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Israeli Media Fabricating Palestinian Attacks Of Jews, Lying To Public

Not only is Israeli media lying to the public, they are also fabricating Palestinian
attacks of Israeli’s in their media reports!

By Ariyana Love

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‘Whistleblower, Eran Efrati’s latest live leak stated that the Israeli Government has
now given the Zionist Occupation Forces (IDF) a “Green Light” to shoot any Palestinian
that “looks suspicious” and in the case of Zionist settler mob attacks against Palestinians,
senior officers in the Israeli army are briefing soldiers to assassinate Palestinians first,
before the settlers do, because they know it will look bad in the media if settlers carry
out terrorist attacks. It’s also a way to satisfy the Zionist settlers who’s votes are
extremely important to Netanyahu’s Right Wing ruling party.

There have been dozens of cold-blooded executions of Palestinians (mostly youth and children)
by Zionist Operation Forces since October 1st. All that a mob of terrorist settlers need to do
is scream, “he’s a terrorist, shoot him,” or, “he stabbed someone” and Israeli soldiers and
police will shoot the Palestinian dead. This is what’s happening. We’re also getting reports
that Zionist Occupation Forces are now carrying knives around to plant on their victims.’

Read more: Israeli Media Fabricating Palestinian Attacks on Jews and Lying to the Public

http://www.middleeastrising.com/israeli-media-fabricating-jewish-deaths-lying-to-public/

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Israeli stabs another Jew by mistake, trying to avenge wave of Palestinian stabbings

By David Icke on 16th October 2015

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Israeli stabs another Jew by mistake, trying to avenge wave of Palestinian stabbings

Published time: 15 Oct, 2015 17:09
Edited time: 16 Oct, 2015 19:55

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‘An Israeli man stabbed a fellow Jew by mistake, in apparent revenge for the recent spate
of Palestinian-on-Israeli stabbings. The specter of increasingly violent nationalism has
steadily been rising on both sides.

The stabbing occurred in the Haifa suburb of Kiryat Ata on Tuesday, according to Haaretz.
The attacker allegedly thought his victim was an Arab. When it became clear what had
transpired, he sought to flee the scene. A security guard shot at him, grazing a bystander’s
arm in the process.

The suspect was apprehended and is now being questioned by police. He is a local, aged 36.
His victim is 23 and is from the same town. The injured man’s condition has been described
by doctors as moderate. He sustained several stab wounds to the back.’

Read more: Israeli stabs another Jew by mistake, trying to avenge wave of Palestinian stabbings

https://www.rt.com/news/318783-jew-palestinian-israeli-stabbing/?utm_source=browser&utm_medium=aplication_chrome&utm_campaign=chrome

ThePythonicCow

18th October 2015, 23:31

I am listening to James Corbett report on the memo between Bush and Blair, from a year before the Iraq war began, in which Blair agrees to support militarily attacking Iraq (a memo found on Hillary's email server .. irony).
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During this, Corbett reminds us of General Wesley Clark's report that Clark learned in late 2001 that the Pentagon was "going to take out seven countries in five years, starting with Iraq, and then Syria, Lebanon, Libya, Somalia, Sudan and, finishing off, Iran.”

It seems that that plan for the Pentagon is failing ... it's been about 14 years now, not 5, and Syria and Iran are still standing. They have Russia's backing, and apparently won't fall.

However, it occurred to me (not anything James Corbett said) while listening to Corbett that this plan is still succeeding, just modified.

The primary object of the plan would be, I presume, to get the banking and essential resources of all those nations under Bankster control during the changes in the global monetary system. Russia and China are just as much members of the BIS as are the "Western" nations; now Syria and Iran will come under the control of the Banksters and primary energy and resource controllers, as protectorates of the BRICS nations rather than as victims of the Anglo-American military-intelligence-industrial complex. Same difference.

All nations need (in the view of the Banksters) to be under the thumb of the Banksters. No free lancing allowed. ... and thus it shall be.

Cidersomerset

18th October 2015, 23:39

I am listening to James Corbett report on the memo between Bush and Blair, from
a year before the Iraq war began, in which Blair agrees to support militarily attacking Iraq
(a memo found on Hillary's email server .. irony).

I posted an article about that on the

Re: The Trial of Tony Blair - Martin Noakes... music video.....

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James sounds frustrated rightly that this old story is being posted in the
mainstream as if its 'new' . But I think its a good thing that its out being
aired , whether it will get Bush , Blair and the gang closer to a jail cell is
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Bush and Blair plotted Iraq war a year before invasion had started: White House memo

By David Icke on 18th October 2015

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Untitled‘A damning White House memo has revealed details of the so-called
“deal in blood” forged by former British Prime Minister Tony Blair and US
President George W. Bush over the Iraq war.

The document, titled “Secret… Memorandum for the President”, was sent by
then-US Secretary of State Colin Powell to President Bush on March 28, 2002,
a week before Bush’s summit with Blair at his Crawford ranch in Texas, Britain’s
Daily Mail reported on Sunday.

The sensational memo revealed that Blair had agreed to support the war a year
before the invasion even started, while publicly the British prime minister was
working to find a diplomatic solution to the crisis.’

Read more:Bush and Blair plotted Iraq war a year before invasion had started: White House

http://www.presstv.ir/Detail/2015/10/18/433878/Tony-Blair-Bush-Iraq-war-

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81% of Syrians say ISIS is foreign/US made

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Published on 18 Oct 2015

According to an ORB International poll, 81% of Syrians believe ISIS is
foreign/American made. We’ve seen ISIS driving around in Humvees and Toyota’s
supplied by the US. We’ve seen them using American-made rifles. We know rebels
who’ve received money from the American government have become top ISIS
officials. A secret Pentagon report revealed that the US not only foresaw the likely
rise of ISIS as a result of its foreign policy in Syria, but that it also saw the creation
of ISIS as a strategic way to fight Assad. And we also know that our politicians love
to use ISIS as a talking point for why we need to keep giving defense contractors
and other incredibly rich corporations all our tax dollars. And yet still, unlike
Syrians, many Americans still don't believe their country created ISIS. The Resident
discusses. Follow The Resident at http://www.twitter.com/TheResident

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Violence in Jerusalem ‘is a predictable outcome of Israel’s brutal occupation’ – journalist

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Published on 17 Oct 2015

The latest round of violence and inflamed tensions between Israelis and Palestinians
near the Gaza Strip has garnered international concern. However, media reports
have focused very little on the Palestinian people and more on Israeli security
concerns. Anya Parampil speaks with Rania Khalek from the Electronic Intifada
about why Palestinians are being sidelined.

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19th October 2015, 00:01

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ThePythonicCow

19th October 2015, 04:45

Syria is set to serve as the trigger for a convergence of conflicts in the Middle East. The destruction of Damascus will trigger a "Night of the Long Knives" scenario against the U.S. and Europe over the period of up to two weeks, in which conventional firearms will be used in mass shootings on both continents. When will this transpire?...good question. Hopefully NEVER.
I'm not making sense of your comment ... hopefully I will NEVER have need to <Grin>. But curiosity still leads me to ask:

"destruction of Damascus" ... by whom (according to the main stream media) ?
"night of long knives" ... by whom, to whom, according to the main stream media, and for real ?

I realize that some (all?) of my questions might best not be answered.

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19th October 2015, 08:29

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Cidersomerset

19th October 2015, 11:42

CrossTalk: Russia's Outlook

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Published on 19 Oct 2015

What are the primary principles that form Russia’s foreign policy? In the West,
publics are repeatedly told Russia is an aggressive state – is there any evidence
to back up this claim? And finally, what about the role of diplomacy?
CrossTalking with Nicolai Petro, Mark Sleboda, and Gilbert Doctorow.

Listen to CrossTalk+ here: https://soundcloud.com/rttv/sets/cros...

Cidersomerset

19th October 2015, 11:51

Russia’s Putin Taking on More Than ISIS in Syria

By David Icke on 19th October 2015

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Putin is Defeating More than ISIS in Syria

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‘Russia and its President, Vladimir Putin, a little more than a year ago,
in July 2014 were the focus of attention in Europe and North America,
accused, without a shred of forensic evidence, of shooting down an
unarmed civilian Malaysian airliner over eastern Ukraine.

The Russians were deemed out to restore the Soviet Union with their
agreement to the popular referendum of Crimean citizens to annex
into the Russian Federation and not Ukraine. Western sanctions were
being thrown at Russia by both Washington and the EU. People spoke
of a new Cold War. Today the picture is changing, and profoundly.
It is Washington that is on the defensive, exposed for the criminal
actions it has been doing in Syria and across the Middle East, including
creating the recent asylum crisis in Germany and large parts of the EU.’

Read more: Russia’s Putin Taking on More Than ISIS in Syria

http://journal-neo.org/2015/10/15/putin-is-defeating-more-than-isis-in-syria/

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Obama Rejects ‘Cooperation’ with Putin on Syria: Washington’s War
on Terror is A Fabrication and Zero ISIS Targets Destroyed…

By David Icke on 19th October 2015

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Obama Rejects “Cooperation” with Putin on Syria: Washington’s
War on Terror is A Fabrication, Zero ISIS Targets Destroyed…

By Stephen Lendman
Global Research, October 19, 2015

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‘Washington so-called war on ISIS is a complete fabrication. Russia’s
is the real thing. Its effectiveness is why Obama won’t cooperate with
Putin – even though both leaders claim they share the same goal.

In over a year of daily Syria bombing, America’s vaunted military
destroyed zero ISIS targets, nor those of other terrorist groups.

On Friday, Russia’s General Staff said its warplanes destroyed 456 ISIS
targets since September 30, striking them with pinpoint accuracy. Its
Main Operations Directorate chief Colonel-General Andrei Kartapolov said:

Most armed formations are demoralized. There is growing discontent
with field commanders, and there is evidence of disobedience. Desertion
is becoming widespread.’

Read more: Obama Rejects ‘Cooperation’ with Putin on Syria: Washington’s
War on Terror is A Fabrication and Zero ISIS Targets Destroyed…

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Syrian jihadists feud & bomb each other over funds as Russian jets destroy supply lines

By David Icke on 19th October 2015

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Syrian jihadists feud & bomb each other over funds as Russian jets destroy supply lines

Published time: 18 Oct, 2015 10:26
Edited time: 18 Oct, 2015 11:53

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‘Russian attack jets have hit 51 Islamic State targets in Syria in the past
24 hours, including four command posts, six arms depots, a mortar battery,
two underground bunkers, 32 field camps and six outposts.

The strikes took place in the Latakia, Aleppo, Hama and Damascus provinces.

The damage the Russian SU-34 jets caused to the underground bunkers was
especially significant, Defense Ministry spokesman Major General Igor Konashenkov said.’

Read more: Syrian jihadists feud & bomb each other over funds as Russian
jets destroy supply lines

https://www.rt.com/news/318985-syria-airstrikes-combat-report/?utm_source=browser&utm_medium=aplication_chrome&utm_campaign=chrome

Cidersomerset

19th October 2015, 12:08

‘Stop war crimes’: London, Paris protest against Israeli treatment of pro-Palestine demonstrators
By David Icke on 19th October 2015

Israel vs. Palestine on Times Square: More than a thousand rally in NYC

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Published on 18 Oct 2015
Pro-Palestinian and pro-Israeli protesters both took to the streets of New York. In
spite of some minor injuries, no major clashes were reported. A similar rally also
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‘Stop war crimes’: London, Paris protest against Israeli treatment of pro-Palestine demonstrators

Published time: 18 Oct, 2015 02:07
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‘Hundreds of protesters have taken to the streets of European capitals to voice their
support for Palestinians and express their anger against Israel and its use of force
against demonstrators and biased mediacoverage of recent Israeli-Palestinian
tensions.The activists marched from Oxford Circus to BBC headquarters in London ,
blocking traffic along the way and bringing Palestinian statehood to the attention of
UK shoppers. According to Guardian estimates, at least 150 people took part in the
demonstration.’

Read more: ‘Stop war crimes’: London, Paris protest against Israeli
treatment of pro-Palestine demonstrators

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Paul Larudee: We Must Make the Occupation Impossible for Israel to Continue

By David Icke on 19th October 2015 War and Terror

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Paul Larudee: We Must Make the Occupation Impossible for Israel to Continue
By David Icke on 19th October 2015

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‘Israel maintains its military occupation of Palestine after some 6 decades, but a
noted political activist believes that the cost of occupation should be raised so that
it’s no longer possible for Tel Aviv to keep on suppressing the Palestinians.

Paul Larudee tells Fars News Agency that there’s much work that needs to be done
to make sure that the voice of the suppressed Palestinians is heard by the global
public.According to Mr. Larudee, what’s happening in the Palestinian territories and
the Gaza Strip these days is a “human-made disaster” which the Israelis have
created and the world community has condoned.

“This is a human-made disaster and the disaster is continuing because it is the
Israeli policy to maintain the maximum level of disaster that the world will permit;
and the world is quite tolerant in permitting a very high level of disaster,” he said.’

Read more: Paul Larudee: We Must Make the Occupation Impossible for Israel to Continue

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Report: Russia blocks Israeli jets over Lebanon
By David Icke on 19th October 2015 War and Terror
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Report: Russia blocks Israeli jets over Lebanon

Lebanese newspaper claims Israeli jets turn back after confrontation with Russian
aircraft over northern Lebanon. Roi Kais Published: 10.17.15, 21:22 / Israel News

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‘Russian forces warned Israel over IAF flights in Russian controlled airspace near
the Syrian–Lebanese border area after Israeli jets were detected nearby, according
to a report Friday in the Lebanese media outlet As Safir.The report comes a mere
day after Russia announced that it had established a “hotline” with Israel in order
to coordinate aerial activity over Lebanon and Syria.s Safir quoted Lebanese
diplomatic officials who were “in the know,” as saying that the warning was issued
after Russian radar identified Israeli aircraft approaching Russian-controlled
airspace two weeks ago.’

Read more: Report: Russia blocks Israeli jets over Lebanon

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Hamas Asks Russia to Help Stop Israeli ‘Aggression’
By David Icke on 19th October 2015 War and Terror

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Hamas Asks Russia to Help Stop Israeli 'Aggression'

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Published 17 October 2015

‘The Hamas movement’s leader, Khaled Mesha, spoke with the Russia’s deputy
foreign minister, who promised to do his best for the Palestinians.The Palestinian
Islamic Movement Hamas on Saturday called for Russian intervention to stop
Israeli “aggression” against Palestinians, a request that comes after weeks of
violence in the West Bank during which Israeli security forces have killed
dozens of Palestinians and injured hundreds more.

According to a statement on the group’s website, Hamas political leader Khaled
Meshal spoke with Russian Deputy Foreign Minister Mikhail Bogdanov Saturday
evening.Meshal told Bogdanov that the continuing Israeli occupation and
atrocities committed by the Israeli army and Jewish settlers against the Palestinian
people were behind the “explosion” of anger and the “uprising” by the Palestinians.’

Read more: Hamas Asks Russia to Help Stop Israeli ‘Aggression’
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Finkelstein: Stabbings in West Bank mean despair, First Intifada started same way

By David Icke on 19th October 2015

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Published on 18 Oct 2015

RT discusses the new outbreak of violence in the West Bank with American political
scientist Norman Finkelstein. (Part 2 of the interview coming Monday October 19)

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Israel rejects international monitors in East al-Quds

‘Israel has rejected a proposal by France to send international observers to monitor
the situation near the al-Aqsa Mosque compound in East al-Quds (Jerusalem).

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu on Sunday for the second time slammed
France’s draft resolution to the United Nations Security Council (UNSC) to deploy
monitors to the area, which has been witnessing deadly clashes for weeks.

“Israel cannot accept the French draft resolution at the UNSC,” Netanyahu said.’

Read more: Israel rejects international monitors in East al-Quds

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Resumption of US-Israel military talks ‘outrageous’: Author

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US military aid to Israel is “disgusting” and enables the Tel Aviv regime to kill more
civilians and get away with it, says Springmann.

‘US military aid to Israel is “disgusting” as it allows the Tel Aviv regime to kill more
Palestinians with impunity, says and American author and attorney.

“This is outrageous, it is disgusting,” Michael Springmann told Press TV on Sunday,
while asked about resumption of military talks between Israel and the United States.

“[US President Barack] Obama and [Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin] Netanyahu are
allegedly on the outs, yet when it comes down to realistic actions, Israel is never
punished for its murder of Palestinian citizens, it is never punished for its attacks on
the United States, and it is never punished for its attacks on other countries.”

The chairman of the US Joint Chiefs of Staff, Marine General Joseph Dunford,
arrived in Israel on Saturday in a trip that signaled both sides were putting aside
disagreements over the nuclear agreement with Iran.’

Read more: Resumption of US-Israel military talks ‘outrageous’: Author

http://www.presstv.ir/Detail/2015/10/18/433993/US-military-aid-Palestine-israel-Michael-Springmann