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Best of the Web: Syrian Girl Infowars interview: 'Saudi Arabia likely behind Syria chemical weapons false-flag'

Alex Christoforou
The Duran
Wed, 11 Apr 2018 22:56 UTC

Syrian Girl sheds some light as to what is happening in Douma Syria, where a chemical weapons false flag threatens to plunge the world into nuclear war..

Syrian Girl explains how Saudi Arabia is behind the groups staging the hoax chemical attack in Douma.

Best of the Web: Syrian army arrests British and other Western forces embedded with terrorist groups in Eastern Ghouta - Local reports

Sputnik
Thu, 12 Apr 2018 09:30 UTC

According to a report by Al-Mayadeen news channel cited by Fars News, a number of British troops have been captured during the Syrian Arab Army's operations in Eastern Ghouta.

They are believed to be a part of international military forces deployed in the region to launch a ground assault in Damascus in cooperation with the US. According to the report, the US and other NATO countries, Jordan and Israel planned to launch attacks from several fronts, but the plot failed as Syrian armed forces made a series of rapid advances in Eastern Ghouta in March. The plot allegedly involved massive airstrikes by US and Israeli planes that were supposed to pave the way for ground forces.

Comment: Interestingly, the US operations center at the al-Tanf base in southern Syria ordered the end of all operations by the aforementioned allied forces after the terrorists were defeated in Eastern Ghouta, following the collapse of two towns - al-Nashabiyeh and al-Mohammadiyeh - in the first days of the Syrian army's offensives in Eastern Ghouta.

Also the US CENTCOM urged withdrawal of allied forces from Eastern Ghouta to Arabayn, Zamalka and Douma before dividing Ghouta into three areas to pave the ground for their withdrawal from Ghouta region.

Militants allied to the US troops in Eastern Syria had revealed in March that the US planned to stage the attack in a different region further to the East between the provinces of Homs and Deir Ezzur.

This evacuation of thousands of terrorists and embedded Western troops from Ghouta appears to be this previously reported event:

Jaysh al-Islam militants - likely perpetrators of any chemical weapon attack in Douma - suddenly surrender to Syrian govt and leave E. Ghouta

Best of the Web: 'We've seen this all before': Tucker Carlson shreds those who demand war on Syria in epic monologue

RT
Tue, 10 Apr 2018 13:23 UTC

As US leaders and mainstream media push for the nation to go to war in Syria, Fox News host Tucker Carlson has slammed so-called "geniuses" who claim to know the truth behind the alleged chemical attack.

Speaking on his television show on Monday, Carlson spoke of the alleged attack in the Damascus suburb of Douma. However, he noted that while "genius" politicians, media, intelligence services, and think tanks seem to blame Syrian President Bashar Assad for the attack, they don't actually know what happened on the ground.

"All the geniuses tell us that Assad killed those children, but do they really know that? Of course they don't really know that. They're making it up. They have no real idea what happened," Carlson said.

Comment: The full monologue below:

Best of the Web: How Israel and its minions work to flood the internet with pro-Israeli propaganda and censor any and all criticism

Alison Weir
If Americans Knew Blog
Mon, 09 Apr 2018 16:26 UTC

Students at the Israeli military’s Computing and Cyber Defense Academy. Israel is also “scouring Jewish communities abroad for young computer prodigies willing to join its ranks.”

Numerous well funded, organized projects by and for Israel work to flood social media with pro-Israel propaganda, while blocking facts Israel dislikes. The projects utilize Israeli soldiers, students, American teens and others, and range from infiltrating Wikipedia to influencing YouTube. Some operate out of Jewish Community Centers in the U.S.

Recently, YouTube suddenly shut down the If Americans Knew YouTube channel. This contained 70 videos providing facts-based information about Israel-Palestine.

People going to the channel saw a message telling them that the site had been terminated for "violating YouTube guidelines"-implying to the public that we were guilty of wrongdoing. And ensuring they didn't learn about the information we were trying to disseminate.

When we tried to access our channel, we found a message saying our account had been "permanently disabled." We had received no warning and got no explanation.

Flashback Best of the Web: Local medic writes The Times: "No patients have experienced symptoms of nerve agent poisoning in Salisbury"

Moon of Alabama
Tue, 20 Mar 2018 13:30 UTC

There have been some interesting developments in the alleged poisoning case of the British-Russian double-agent Sergej Skripal and his daughter Yulia.

The British governments standing on the issue is getting worse as more inconsistencies and doubts on its statements come to light. The international support for its claims is weakening.

On March 4 the Skripals collapsed on a public bench in Salisbury in England after they had visited a pub and a restaurant. They were brought to the local hospital. A local policemen was probably also affected. (See our previous posts, liked at the end, for many additional details.) A week later, on March 12, the British government said that a nerve agent was the cause of the incident and accused Russia of being responsible for the act:

Mr Skripal and his daughter were poisoned with Novichok-a military-grade nerve agent developed by Russia. Based on this capability, combined with Russia's record of conducting state-sponsored assassinations-including against former intelligence officers whom it regards as legitimate targets-the UK Government concluded it was highly likely that Russia was responsible for this reckless and despicable act.

Novichok is not a nerve agent but supposedly a group of chemical substances investigated in the Soviet Union for their nerve agent potential. Only recently have some of these substances been synthesized.

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Flashback Best of the Web: Trump in December 2016: 'We Will Stop Toppling Foreign Regimes'

Mike Whitney
CounterPunch
Fri, 20 Jan 2017 19:49 UTC

U.S. President-elect Donald Trump speaks during a news conference in New York, the United States, on Jan. 11, 2017

The US foreign policy establishment is gradually shifting its focus from the Middle East to the Far East, but the unexpected election of Donald Trump has thrown a wrench in the elitist plan to pivot to Asia. Trump wants to fundamentally change Washington's approach to policy, that is, he wants to abandon the destabilizing wars and regime change operations that have characterized US policy in the past and work collaboratively with countries like Russia that have a mutual interest in establishing regional security and fighting terrorism.

This has not been warmly received in Washington, in fact, Trump's recommendations have triggered a firestorm among elites who now believe that he is a serious threat to their interests. Recent attacks in the media and preemptive provocations with Russia, suggest that an effort to remove the new president from office is already underway. We expect that these attacks will only intensify in the weeks ahead. Here's an excerpt from the speech Trump delivered in Cincinnati on December 1 that is the source of the controversy:

Flashback Best of the Web: Syrian Army finds militants' chemical weapons workshop in Eastern Ghouta

Sputnik
Mon, 12 Mar 2018 12:38 UTC

According to Syrian Army reports, militants in Eastern Ghouta planned a chemical attack provocation to put blame on Damascus.

Syrian government forces found a clandestine workshop for the manufacture of chemical munitions while sweeping through the village of Aftris in Eastern Ghouta after militants withdrew from the community, Syrian Arab Army Colonel Feruz Ibrahim told reporters on Monday.

"Presumably, the equipment of these munitions could be produced as part of a false flag accusation that government troops used chemical weapons," he said.

Comment: Mainstream media gets slammed for not reporting pro-gov't rallies in Syria's East Ghouta

Flashback Best of the Web: Russian MoD gives warning: US is preparing a chemical false flag attack in Syria to justify illegal airstrikes

Ministry of Defence of the Russian Federation
Sat, 17 Mar 2018 00:41 UTC

Today, Chief of the Main Operational Directorate of the Russian General Staff Colonel General Sergei Rudskoy and spokesman of the Russian Defence Ministry Major General Igor Konashenkov held briefing in the National Centre for State Defence Control.

According to Sergei Rudskoy, in late February, situation in the Eastern Ghouta, suburbs of Damascus, has been complicated due to actions of the Jabhat al-Nusra terrorist organization and other armed formations joined to it. These armed formations activated military actions against the government troops and intensified shelling of living quarters of Damascus.

Acting strict to the UN Security Council Resolution 2401 dating from February 24, the Syrian government troops are eliminating Jabhat al-Nusra terrorists taken position in the Eastern Ghouta.

In order to prevent casualties among civilians, under the auspices of the Russian Reconciliation Centre, the humanitarian pause has been established since February 28. Humanitarian corridors have been organized in order to let civilians leave the area as well as to evacuate injured from the Eastern Ghouta.

Best of the Web: A Syrian 'gas attacks' timeline - Notice the pattern?

Moon of Alabama
Sun, 08 Apr 2018 19:08 UTC

Bashar al-Assad visited army positions in the Eastern Ghouta

An alleged new 'chemical incident' in Syria reminds of a similar series of events we saw last year. We are told to believe that each time the U.S. pulls back from the war on Syria the Syrian government is responding with a 'chemical attack' that pulls the U.S. back in.

March 30 2017
U.S. priority on Syria no longer focused on 'getting Assad out': Haley

NEW YORK (Reuters) - The United States' diplomatic policy on Syria for now is no longer focused on making the war-torn country's president, Bashar al-Assad, leave power, the U.S. ambassador to the United Nations said on Thursday, in a departure from the Obama administration's initial and public stance on Assad's fate.

April 4 2017
Suspected gas attack in Syria reportedly kills dozens

World leaders expressed shock and outrage Tuesday at reports of a suspected chemical attack in northwestern Syria that killed scores of civilians, with one UK official suggesting the incident amounted to a war crime.

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It looks like negotiations with Jaish al-Islam were resumed, and successfully concluded in the wake of this transparent false flag.

Best of the Web: Fmr OPCW chief Bustani on how John Bolton threatened him and his family before Iraq War

RT
Sat, 07 Apr 2018 17:06 UTC

The first OPCW chief, who tried to bring Iraq and Libya into the organization, told RT how US foreign policy hawk John Bolton threatened him over his refusal to resign prior to the 2003 Iraq War.

Jose Bustani, the first director-general of the global chemical weapons watchdog Organization for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons (OPCW), sat down with RT and revealed how John Bolton, a Bush-era official and now Donald Trump's pick for National Security Adviser, bulldozed the way for the 2003 Iraq invasion.

Bustani, a Brazilian diplomat, led the organization from 1997 until 2002, when he was ousted after falling out of favor with the US. At the time, he was trying to convince Iraq and Libya to join the organization, meaning that the two countries would have been obliged to dispose of all chemical weapons if they had any.

Comment: 'We Know Where Your Kids Live': How John Bolton Bullied and Intimidated an International OPCW Official

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Briefly stated, the Gell-Mann Amnesia effect is as follows. You open the newspaper to an article on some subject you know well... You read the article and see the journalist has absolutely no understanding of either the facts or the issues. Often, the article is so wrong it actually presents the story backward—reversing cause and effect...

In any case, you read with exasperation or amusement the multiple errors in a story, and then turn the page to national or international affairs, and read as if the rest of the newspaper was somehow more accurate about Palestine than the baloney you just read. You turn the page, and forget what you know.

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Comment: Did they shoot to kill? Could they not have incapacitated him? Armed police are trained to shoot to kill when facing an armed attacker......

PedroCarpintero

The diplomat was commenting on accusations made by NATO earlier this week that Russia was allegedly carrying out "hybrid activities" on the member...

graeme15b

The odds that the world will end with the words "Hey look, it worked!" are always increasing. (Can't locate a source...)

Shalmaneser

''As reported by the outlet, Trump's team is discussing penalties against both allies and adversaries who seek to divert their trade from the...

Demore

That fear mongerer lives in an imaginary world.

Demore

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Best of the Web: Syrian Girl Infowars interview: 'Saudi Arabia likely behind Syria chemical weapons false-flag'

Best of the Web: Syrian army arrests British and other Western forces embedded with terrorist groups in Eastern Ghouta - Local reports

Best of the Web: 'We've seen this all before': Tucker Carlson shreds those who demand war on Syria in epic monologue

Best of the Web: How Israel and its minions work to flood the internet with pro-Israeli propaganda and censor any and all criticism

Flashback Best of the Web: Local medic writes The Times: "No patients have experienced symptoms of nerve agent poisoning in Salisbury"

Flashback Best of the Web: Trump in December 2016: 'We Will Stop Toppling Foreign Regimes'

Flashback Best of the Web: Syrian Army finds militants' chemical weapons workshop in Eastern Ghouta

Flashback Best of the Web: Russian MoD gives warning: US is preparing a chemical false flag attack in Syria to justify illegal airstrikes

Best of the Web: A Syrian 'gas attacks' timeline - Notice the pattern?

Best of the Web: Fmr OPCW chief Bustani on how John Bolton threatened him and his family before Iraq War

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