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First Russia-Turkey patrol along key de-escalation line shortened following intel of terrorist's sabotage plan to use civilians as human-shield


RT
Sun, 15 Mar 2020 12:12 UTC
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© AFP / Aaref Watad
Turkish tanks are seen patroling M4 highway in Syria's province of Idlib on March 15, 2020.
Russian and Turkish forces in Syria's province of Idlib have had to shorten their first joint patrol mission aimed at maintaining truce in the area to avoid harming civilians used as human shield by terrorists.

On Sunday, Turkey and Russia set out on their first joint patrol along the security corridor in Idlib, agreed as part of a ceasefire deal reached by presidents Vladimir Putin and Recep Tayyip Erdogan in early March. The route of the patrol went along the strategic M4 highway, which links Syria's city of Aleppo to the coastal western province of Latakia and passes through the territories held by various militant groups.

Yet, the Russian and the Turkish forces had to make some frantic last-minute changes to the patrol routes. The move was linked to the information about some terrorist groups allegedly planning to attack the patrol and provoke it into some military response, all while using women and children as human shields to stir up tensions in a region which has just seen a major flare-up. Any such incident could lead to a new outbreak of violence and disrupt the agreement aimed at avoiding further bloodshed.

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Trump confirmed to not have coronavirus following tests, Spanish PM's wife tested positive


RT
Sat, 14 Mar 2020 23:41 UTC
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© REUTERS/Jonathan Ernst
US President Donald Trump's test for Covid-19, which he took after being in contact with at least two Brazilian officials who had the virus, has come back negative, the White House announced.

"Last night after an in-depth discussion with the president regarding Covid-19 testing, he elected to proceed. This evening I received confirmation that the test is negative," the statement put out by Trump's physician, Sean P. Conley, read.

While initially brushing off concerns about him potentially contracting the deadly virus at the reception he hosted for a Brazilian delegation at Mar-a-Lago, Trump acquiesced, telling a news conference on Saturday that he had taken the test.

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PROVEN: Biden won the democratic nomination by cheating

Eric Zuesse
Sott.net
Sat, 14 Mar 2020 07:38 UTC
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It's not just that he sold out to billionaires in order to be able to compete with Bernie Sanders who refused to do that and didn't need to, but it's the case also because Biden lied shamelessly in order to win overwhelmingly the black vote in South Carolina where most of the Democrats are Blacks — he had to misrepresent to black voters not only his policies but himself in order to achieve his first-ever (and crushing) win of a state primary in his long career of three campaigns for the U.S. Presidency. And, so, that's what he did, and he won his first-ever state primary outside of his own state of Delaware — he played South Carolina's Blacks for suckers, and they swallowed his bait in one huge gulp, and the billionaires (virtually all of them white) then created for him the campaign that suddenly turned everything around in his favor — all of this being based upon lies.

Biden won the nomination by lying rampantly and by treating black voters as if their race is their entire identity — as if they are nothing more than their race. For white voters, that's called "racism," and Biden treated black voters that way, as being racists themselves. The ploy, contemptuous of Black voters, worked, and the extent to which it worked shocked political professionals of both Parties. It destroyed the campaign of Bernie Sanders, who was arrested in Chicago during the early 1960s for his participation in an anti-segregation demonstration against the City's government, and who has consistently advocated for the poor.

On March 7th, I opened an article about the unprecedentedly sudden turn-around in the Democratic Party's Presidential contest: "Without the support of Blacks in the recent Democratic Party primaries, Joe Biden would still be the political failure in U.S. Presidential campaigning that he had always been." And I closed by comparing the honesty of Sanders's pitch to Blacks versus the rabid dishonesty of Biden's pitch to them.

But now I have found that Biden's exploitation of Blacks for their votes was even worse than I (or perhaps, anyone) ever knew.

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Israel to use 'anti-terrorism' tech to monitor infected citizens, as Netanyahu declares 'war' on coronavirus


Sputnik
Sat, 14 Mar 2020 01:49 UTC
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© Gali Tibbon/Pool via REUTERS
Israeli will use counter-terrorism technology to detect coronavirus patients and those who skip mandatory quarantine, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said Saturday.

All foreigners entering the country are required to self-isolate for 14 days. All schools, restaurants, cafes, gyms and most of businesses have been shut in a bit to contain the spread of the virus.
"We will track patients, including with the help of digital technology that we have been using in the battle against terrorism," Netanyahu said in a televised address.
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Ex-CIA official: Syria already won war, US lost more than it realizes

Drago Bosnic
Fort Fort Russ News
Sat, 14 Mar 2020 01:39 UTC
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Syria has managed to score a victory in the nine-year war, while Turkey is "pulled agonizingly" in several directions, a former deputy director of the US spy agency CIA said.
"Syria's [President Bashar] Assad has won — at least militarily, "John McLaughlin wrote in an article titled "SYRIA: IS THE END GAME APPROACHING?".
The Syrian Arab Army has been fighting against a host of foreign-backed terrorist groups, which have been wreaking havoc on the country since 2011. The Syrian government has managed to win back control of almost all regions from Takfiri elements. Syria has now been engaged in a liberation operation in Idlib Province, the last major bastion of terrorists in the country.
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Bigotry as a response to bigotry just makes things worse

Eric Zuesse
Sott.net
Sun, 15 Mar 2020 01:07 UTC
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Daniel Lazare at Strategic Culture headlined on March 8th "Israel Hits a Brick Wall" and described the reasons behind the political deadlock in which that apartheid nation has long been frozen. Frankly, I had had no idea of the reasons, and I won't try to summarize here Lazare's (to me) revelatory description of Israel's impasse, because anyone who has any interest in understanding Israel should read that brief article for themselves. But I'll mention two things in it that stood out for me, by quoting from it, and briefly discussing each passage:
(1) "For purposes of immigration, Israel uses the old Nazi definition of a Jew as anyone with one or more Jewish grandparents. As strange as this may sound, Israel's founders figured that anyone Jewish enough to suffer under Nazi oppression should be Jewish enough to find refuge in the Jewish state - and so the Nazi standard became law."
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Tsunami, earthquake & Covid-19: India officially gives 'Notified DISASTER' label to coronavirus outbreak


RT
Sun, 15 Mar 2020 01:03 UTC
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© AFP / Brian Bielmann
India has stepped up its efforts to tackle the coronavirus spreading throughout the country, labeling the virus a "Notified Disaster." The designation allows local governments to tap into a special disaster-relief fund.

Covid-19 virus, which has already infected over 80 people across India, was formally branded a "notified disaster" by the Ministry of Home Affairs on Saturday. Such a designation has effectively put the outbreak on a par with earthquakes, tsunamis, avalanches and other major natural disasters.


Comment: 80 people infected in a country of over a billion. Does this response not seem a bit hyperbolic?


The classification enables state governments to spend more money from the State Disaster Response Fund (SDRF) on tackling the outbreak. Apart from funding hospitalization of Covid-19 patients and paying compensation to the relatives of coronavius victims, the funds can now be funneled into procurement of essential protection and lab equipment.
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Trump and Xi's defence of classical culture takes aim at Malthusian agenda

Matthew Ehret
Strategic Culture
Fri, 13 Mar 2020 12:00 UTC
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© Strategic Culture
In the post WWII years two cultural revolutions swept both Asian and western civilisations appearing on the surface to have distinct characteristics, yet each resulting in profound moral cultural decay.

In America and Europe, the rise of modernism in painting, music, philosophy and architecture were imposed upon academia and the arts which modern research has revealed to have been the work of the CIA and the Congress for Cultural Freedom. This paradigm shift in the arts was funded by western intelligence agencies who justified their artistic patronage with the logic that "if the new communist blocs were to be governed by iconoclasm and realism in the arts which put the state above all ideas of personal freedom, then the "democratic aesthetics" must take the polar opposite stance and promote only the unbounded freedom of individual expression devoid of any connection to the whole of society". One consequence of this shift was that the Ancient Greco-Roman aesthetics that defined America's architecture, painting, and general moral sensibilities was brutally amputated [1].

While the backdrop to this reform took the shape of McCarthyism in America, in China a parallel cultural reform occurred in 1949. This cultural movement saw the total rejection of Confucianism as a "relic of past elitism and corruption" which had no place in the Maoist vision for a newly reconstructed China.

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Brazil's Bolsonaro, who met Trump last week, tests 'POSITIVE' for Covid-19, local report claims, denied later by his office


RT
Fri, 13 Mar 2020 22:45 UTC
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© Reuters / Tom Brenner
Donald Trump shakes meets Jair Bolsonaro at the Mar-a-Lago resort in Palm Beach, Florida, March 7, 2020.
Brazil's President Jair Bolsonaro has tested positive for Covid-19, a Brazilian paper is claiming citing sources in the presidential palace. All eyes are now on US President Donald Trump, who met Bolsonaro on Saturday.

Bolsonaro and his delegation met with Trump at the president's Mar-A-Lago resort in Florida. On Thursday, Bolsonaro's press secretary, Fabio Wajngarten, was diagnosed with the coronavirus.

According to Brazilian newspaper O Dia, Bolsonaro himself has now tested positive for the virus. His preliminary results came back positive on Friday, the paper claims. The report is based on sources within the Brazilian government. The paper has been described by journalist Glenn Greenwald - a critic of Bolsonaro - as "reasonably reliable." He, however, then urged the journalists "to be cautious" in their reporting.

Comment: The report on Bolsonaro's test results were immediately contradicted by his son who claimed the story was put out before Bolsonaro's results had come back. Apparently he tested negative.


Brazil's president used the opportunity to decry the misinformation around the state of his health.


The Brazilian leader announced his test results on his Facebook page on Friday, just over an hour after Brazilian newspaper O Dia reported that he had tested positive. Bolsonaro followed his announcement up with a post reading "don't believe the fake news media!"

Earlier, Bolsonaro's son, Eduardo, had criticized the media for spreading "fake news" about his father's diagnosis. He said that full results were unknown at the time of O Dia's report.
Canada's PM Justin Trudeau is conveniently 'self-isolating', because wife Sophie has apparently tested positive for coronavirus. This has allowed him to dodge the controversial handling of the pipeline protests by various indigenous groups. for a few weeks.


Australia's Home Affairs minister, Peter Dutton, joins the list of government officials testing positive for exposure.
Australia's minister for home affairs, Peter Dutton, has announced that he has contracted coronavirus. The senior Australian official said that he has been hospitalized. In a statement posted to his official Twitter page, Dutton explained that he was tested for COVID-19 after waking up with a "temperature and sore throat."

Dutton was hospitalized after the test returned positive. The minister said that he "feels fine" and will provide updates as they become available.

Australia will ban all public gatherings of more than 500 people starting on Monday, as the government attempts to stop toe spread of the highly contagious disease.
In a show of bravura, North Korean leader Kim Jong-un was photographed observing a military drill without wearing a mask.
In a photograph released by the country's Korean Central News Agency, Kim is seen in a camouflaged trench as he observes artillery exercises. Wearing a black leather coat and a hat, the North Korean leader is conspicuously without any protective gear - in sharp contrast to his aides, who are all sporting black medical masks.
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© Korean Central News Agency (KCNA) / Reuters
North Korean leader Kim Jong-un observes an artillery fire
There are no confirmed reports of coronavirus in the hermit state, but its proximity to the disease's epicenter in China has prompted the government to increase vigilance at the border and impose quarantine measures when deemed necessary.

"All workers are strengthening awareness-raising campaigns about the global spread of the disease and prevention and treatment policy so that no one lowers their guard because the outbreak has not occurred in our country," KCNA said in a report.

If genuine, the photo would mark his second public appearance this week to oversee military drills. Kim was similarly spotted without any kind of facial protection when he watched missile tests on Monday. The launches are believed to have been the first by North Korea in three months.


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Hillary's plan? A blank mind in the WH with a 2016 has-been running the show!

George Galloway
RT
Fri, 13 Mar 2020 12:37 UTC
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© Getty Images/Tom Williams/CQ Roll Cal
Joe Biden and Hillary Clinton, December 08, 2016
There's growing speculation that Clinton is back, having nursed her wrath for four years after the 2016 election defeat. She believes if Biden wins and she's the ticket as VP, she could rise to power given his cognitive decline.

The party is over. The Democrats' dishing of Bernie Sanders for the second time makes a second Trump Term "highly likely".


Comment: 'The party is over' - as in the Democratic Party as well.


Joe Biden will be dribbling at the mouth come November, possibly having committed an assault or two along the way, and Trump will have played with him as the cat plays with the mouse, before killing and eating it.

The polite way of putting it is "cognitive difficulties," but Donald Trump and his gang are far from polite. They will call it what it is, however "deplorable." It is senility. A disqualification for having your finger on the nuclear button even more serious than the offence of being Donald Trump. His face appears made of wax, his eyes bloodied during one debate and his dentures flying out and across the studio floor in another.

Comment: Do the Dems have nothing better to offer than advancing senility paired with a psychopath? And no one gets to object or say they notice? What does that tell us?

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