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'Vote for me, I'll start a war!' Netanyahu says war in Gaza could start before elections


Sputnik
Fri, 13 Sep 2019 17:20 UTC
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© AP Photo / Khalil Hamra
The statement comes amid an escalation on the Gaza border after Hamas launched several attacks against Israel, while the IDF responded with airstrikes against the militants.

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said Friday morning that war against armed groups in the Gaza Strip could break out at any moment, even before the upcoming Knesset elections.

"An operation in Gaza could happen at any moment, including four days before the elections. The date of the elections does not factor [into a decision to go to war]", he said after returning from Russia, where he met with President Vladimir Putin.


Comment: Translation: "I'll do anything for votes, including upping the risks of large-scale war and mass devastation!"


Netanyahu's comment echoes his previous statement when the head of the government claimed that due to the rising tensions there "won't be a choice but to launch an operation, a war with the terror forces in Gaza". The politician also announced that if he is re-elected, he intended to order the annexation of considerable parts of the West Bank.

Comment: Netanyahu is a cheap demagogue and a criminal to boot. Which means he'll probably be re-elected. But even if he isn't, his replacement will be no better.

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Bullseye

We Are All Hostages of 9/11

Pepe Escobar
Asia Times
Wed, 11 Sep 2019 18:00 UTC
Pakistanis
© AFP /Tariq Mahmood
Pakistanis raise their weapons in the border town of Bajour as they shout anti-US slogans before leaving for Afghanistan in October 2001. Thousands from this tribal area go to join the Taliban in its 'holy war' against the US.
After years of reporting on the Great War on Terror, many questions behind the US attacks remain unresolved

Afghanistan was bombed and invaded because of 9/11. I was there from the start, even before 9/11. On August 20, 2001, I interviewed commander Ahmad Shah Massoud, the "Lion of the Panjshir," who told me about an "unholy alliance" of the Taliban, al-Qaeda and the ISI (Pakistani intel).

Back in Peshawar, I learned that something really big was coming: my article was published by Asia Times on August 30. Commander Massoud was killed on September 9: I received a terse email from a Panjshir source, only stating, "the commander has been shot." Two days later, 9/11 happened.

And yet, the day before, none other than Osama bin Laden, in person, was in a Pakistani hospital in Rawalpindi, receiving treatment, as CBS reported. Bin Laden was proclaimed the perpetrator already at 11am on 9/11 - with no investigation whatsoever. It should have been not exactly hard to locate him in Pakistan and "bring him to justice."

Comment: For more on the conspirators behind 9/11, see: Mossad and Moving Companies: Masterminds of Global Terrorism

And check out SOTT radio's: Behind the Headlines: No Ordinary Inside Job - The 9/11 Psy-Ops

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Dollar

Russia will only borrow in currencies other than US dollar - finance minister


RT
Fri, 13 Sep 2019 17:09 UTC
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© Reuters / Petar Kujundzic
Russia will not take out loans in US dollars for the remainder of this year and the whole of 2020, turning instead to the yuan and euro, according to the Finance Ministry.

"We will borrow in currencies other than the dollar," Russian Finance Minister Anton Siluanov said on Thursday. He added that the country will not be taking any more loans in 2019.

"This year we have no plans to borrow any more on foreign markets, we have fulfilled our program and even overfulfilled it. Next year, we'll see. Probably it will be not only in euro but maybe in Chinese yuan," Siluanov stated.
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War Whore

War is imposed on us by US, we can fight it for 100 years, Taliban tells RT after talks cut off


RT
Fri, 13 Sep 2019 16:53 UTC
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Talks with the Taliban to put an end to the longest of America's forever wars were killed off by the US last week. The Afghan militant movement is prepared to fight a hundred more years, its chief negotiator told RT.

The peace negotiations between the US and the Taliban were called off by President Donald Trump days ahead of a planned signing of a formal agreement. The draft has even been initialed by both parties and Qatar, which mediated in the talks, Sher Mohammad Abbas Stanikzai, who headed the Taliban's delegation, told RT. As far as the Taliban is concerned, the US decision can be easily reversed and the agreement put into force as agreed, he said.

"We are still committed to the negotiations. Our stance is that there is no solution to the conflict except negotiations and except peace on the table. We hope that Mr. Trump rethinks his announcement and comes back to where we were," the official said.
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Light Sabers

'Hit them!': Duterte tells Filipinos to shoot corrupt officials, promises no prison time


RT
Fri, 13 Sep 2019 16:49 UTC
duterte
© REUTERS/Eloisa Lopez
Philippines President Rodrigo Duterte has invited citizens to shoot, but not kill, any public officials they witness taking bribes, promising immunity from prosecution, provided the corrupt bureaucrat survives.

The unorthodox presidential 'order' also called on Filipinos to beat up corrupt officials they encounter, the Manilla Bulletin reports, despite the likely disastrous consequences for law and order.

"If you pay a tax, a fee or get a certificate, and the officials ask for a bribe, hit them. If you have weapons, you can shoot them, but don't kill, because during the proceedings you may not receive a pardon," the outspoken leader said. He added that those who take him up on the offer "will not be sent to prison, but will only be seriously punished physically."
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Hardhat

Security, terrorism & Iran: What Netanyahu talked to Putin about, days ahead of Israeli election


RT
Thu, 12 Sep 2019 21:28 UTC
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© Sputnik / Sergey Guneev
Israeli PM Benjamin Netanyahu is in Russia meeting President Vladimir Putin and top ministers. The little we know from the talks suggests Netanyahu may be trying to drag Moscow into his fight against Iran-linked "destabilization."

The two leaders met in the Russian Black Sea resort city of Sochi late on Thursday. Officially, the talks were outlined as a discussion on bilateral relations and various security issues - international terrorism and the situation in Syria. Putin said that both Russia and Israel are "well aware" of what terrorism is and said that cooperation is particularly important to combat it.

Netanyahu, for his part, singled out the issue of Iran, stating that Tel Aviv "won't tolerate Tehran's threats," yet again accusing it of using Syria's territory to wage "aggression" against Israel. The Israeli PM would like Moscow to share such a stance and ultimately see Iranian presence eliminated in Syria, Netanyahu's spokesman Evan Gary Cohen suggested.

Comment: RFE/RL provides more details on the meeting:
Israel must be given free rein to act against Iran, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said on September 12 as talks concluded in Sochi where he met with Russian President Vladimir Putin to discuss security coordination in Syria.

His visit comes as an expected tight general election vote for Israel's legislature, the Knesset, nears and as both sides work to avoid clashing in Syria, where Russia and Israel are engaged.

Israel has targeted Iranian elements in Syria with hundreds of strikes in a bid to prevent Tehran from establishing a permanent military presence there.

Both Russia and Iran, as well as Iran-backed Lebanese militia Hizballah have backed President Bashar al-Assad in the Syrian civil war.

"Security coordination between us is always important, but it is especially important now, since in the past month there has been a serious increase in attempts by Iran to hit Israel from Syria and to place there precision missiles to use against us," Netanyahu said.

The leaders spoke for close to three hours after which Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov said both Russia and Israel agreed to maintain dialogue regarding their militaries' engagement in Syria.

After a separate meeting with Russian Defense Minister Sergei Shoigu, Netanyahu said Israel's military needed to have "freedom of action" against Iran in the region.

The Israeli prime minister's right-wing Likud party is heading toward a close race against rivals in the September 17 elections in which voters from the former Soviet Union play an important role.

Moscow this week also expressed concern over Netanyahu's plan to annex part of the West Bank that Israel captured in the 1967 Middle East war and which Palestinians seek for a state, saying its implementation could escalate tensions in the region

Netanyahu was accompanied during his visit by Israeli national-security adviser Meir Ben-Shabbat and Air Force chief Aviv Kochavi.

Last month, he met Ukraine's President Volodymyr Zelenskiy in Kyiv during the first visit of an Israeli prime minister to the former Soviet republic in two decades.
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Star of David

Israel accused of planting mysterious spy devices near the White House - UPDATE: "anything is possible" - Trump

Daniel Lippman
Politico
Thu, 12 Sep 2019 16:44 UTC
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© istock/Wikimedia Commons
The U.S. government concluded within the past two years that Israel was most likely behind the placement of cellphone surveillance devices that were found near the White House and other sensitive locations around Washington, according to three former senior U.S. officials with knowledge of the matter.

But unlike most other occasions when flagrant incidents of foreign spying have been discovered on American soil, the Trump administration did not rebuke the Israeli government, and there were no consequences for Israel's behavior, one of the former officials said.

The miniature surveillance devices, colloquially known as "StingRays," mimic regular cell towers to fool cellphones into giving them their locations and identity information. Formally called international mobile subscriber identity-catchers or IMSI-catchers, they also can capture the contents of calls and data use.

The devices were likely intended to spy on President Donald Trump, one of the former officials said, as well as his top aides and closest associates — though it's not clear whether the Israeli efforts were successful.

Comment: This news is but a tiny portion of the extent of Israeli/Zionist infiltration of US politics.

UPDATE: Friday 13th September @ 13:00 CET

RT reports:
Trump doesn't believe Israel spied on him but adds 'anything's possible'

US President Donald Trump said he finds it hard to believe Israel may have spied on the White House using cell-phone eavesdropping devices, after everything he's done for them - but left open the possibility the charges are true.

"I don't think the Israelis are spying on us. I really would find that hard to believe," Trump told reporters outside the White House on Thursday, adding, "My relationship with Israel has been great."

As an illustration, the US president brought up his recognition of Jerusalem as Israel's capital, as well as the claim to the Golan Heights (taken from Syria in 1967), and exiting the 2015 nuclear deal with Iran, so opposed by PM Benjamin Netanyahu.

"Anything is possible, but I don't believe it," Trump said.
It would be naive to think that Israel's infamous intelligence agency wouldn't be paying close attention to US politicians:

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Flashlight

Truth: Pakistani interior minister confesses that country's ruling elite have 'destroyed the country' by conducting terrorism for the West


RT
Fri, 13 Sep 2019 10:49 UTC

Comment: This is the kind of insight that is rarely articulated by elites anywhere; their culpability in wrecking their own country. As a member of PM Khan's cabinet, we can assume the interior minister had the blessing of his boss to say this...


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Blowback is a bitch
Pakistan's interior minister claims the "ruling elite" has "destroyed the country" and failed to garner international support over the Kashmir conflict with India, in a high-profile embarrassment for the Khan administration.

"People do not believe us in the international community. We say they [India] impose curfew and are not giving medicines to people of Jammu and Kashmir. People do not believe us, but they believe them," Interior Minister Brigadier Ijaz Ahmed Shah said during a Hum News talk show appearance on Wednesday evening.
"The ruling elite has destroyed the country. The ruling elite of this country destroyed the name. People think we are not a serious nation."

Comment: How can it be otherwise? As we outlined elsewhere, Pakistan's very economy relies on what are effectively grants provided by the US, UK and Saudi Arabia to hand out welfare to local warlords, who have, in turn, supplied terrorists/mercenaries to Afghan Mujahideen (1980s), terrorists targeting India and Iran, 'rebels' in Libya and Syria, and elements of the Taliban in Afghanistan (2000s).

Playing the role of 'Islamic State' in south Asia by supplying the 'raw material' for Jihadi, Inc. is hardly a sustainable development model. Those chickens were always going to come home to roost...


When asked directly whether Imran Khan and his top advisors ranked among the "ruling elite" Shah parried, saying "Everyone is responsible. Pakistan should now do a soul searching."


Comment: Yes, it needs fundamental, constitutional reorganization, if only in its outlook and not on paper. Accepting that India will develop to the point of exerting the kind of pan-Asian influence China today exerts is a good starting point.


Pakistan has been snubbed repeatedly on the Kashmir issue by the international diplomatic community. The United Nations told Khan's government to resolve the issue diplomatically but without external support, despite US President Donald Trump's rejected offer to mediate negotiations with India.

Comment: Yes, 'Big Brother USA' has essentially abandoned Pakistan. It has no choice, given China and India's rise, together with Russia taking on, for the meantime, much of the role of 'world policeman'. So Khan can play the Nazi card and the pity card, but in the end he has to accept that the only viable 'Big Brother relationship' for Pakistan is with the country it should always have been with: India.

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Snakes in Suits

U.S. Attorney moving forward with charges against McCabe based on IG report findings

Sara Carter
SaraACarter
Thu, 12 Sep 2019 17:06 UTC
McCabe
© Kevin Lamarque/Reuters
Former FBI director Andrew McCabe
District of Columbia U.S. Attorney Jessie Liu has recommended moving forward with charges against former FBI Deputy Director Andrew McCabe as the Justice Department rejects a last-ditch appeal from the former top FBI official, a source familiar with the decision told SaraACarter.com.

Fox News first reported that McCabe's legal team said they received an email from the Department of Justice which said, "The Department rejected your appeal of the United States Attorney's Office's decision in this matter. Any further inquiries should be directed to the United States Attorney's Office."

Attorney General William Barr appointed Connecticut U.S. Attorney John Durham to investigate the FBI's role in the probe against President Donald Trump's campaign.

A source familiar with the decision, told SaraACarter.com "that the line prosecution and Jessie Liu decided to move forward with the charges."

"McCabe and his team appealed the decision to the Deputy Attorney General and the DAG rejected the appeal," the source stated.
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Star of David

Gilad Atzmon: The End of Israel

Gilad Atzmon
Gilad.online
Thu, 12 Sep 2019 12:00 UTC
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The lesson to be drawn from the current Israeli political stalemate is that Israel is imploding, breaking into the elements it has never managed to integrate into one. The schism is no longer the more quotidian dichotomy of Ashkenazi vs. Arab Jews (aka Sephardim); this divide is ideological, religious, spiritual, political, ethnic and cultural. Nor does it break down to Left and Right, Jewish Israelis are politically with the right even when they pretend to be 'Left.' Although some of the most astute critical voices of Israeli politics and Jewish fundamentalism are Israelis (such as Gideon Levi, Shlomo Sand, Israel Shamir and others), there is no political Israeli Left. Israeli politics break down into a lot of extreme right voters and many ordinary hawks. The Arab Joint List Party is practically the only Left party in the Israeli Knesset. This should not be surprising any more. Jewish Left, as I have been arguing for many years, is an oxymoron; Jewishness is a form of tribal identification and Left is universal. The 'tribal' and the 'universal' are like oil and water, they do not mix very well.

What is peculiar about the Israeli political divide is that the Israelis are more united than ever in their nationalist beliefs and in the primacy of their Jewish symptoms. Why is it, if the Israelis are so unified, that no one can form a government in their so-called 'Jewish State'?

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