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Hypocrites! Mush for brains Turkey fines Twitter $51,000 for 'terrorist propaganda'

RT
Fri, 11 Dec 2015 16:32 UTC

Twitter has been fined 150,000 Turkish lira (US$51,000) for not removing content allegedly containing "terrorist propaganda, encouraging public acts of violence and hatred," sources in Turkey's communication technology watchdog told media outlets.

The Turkish Information and Communications Technologies Authority (BTK) has forwarded its decision to the Twitter Company's headquarters in San Francisco, California, as well as informed the office of the company's lawyer in Turkey, according to information Anadolu News Agency received from the body.

The decision was based on a 2007 law on "fighting against crimes committed through internet broadcasting," Anadolu reported.

A BTK official who spoke to Reuters confirmed the report on the fine, but revealed no details concerning the content except claiming that it includes terrorist propaganda and calls for acts of violence.

Before a decision on the fine was made, Turkish courts had allegedly ordered Twitter to remove content they deemed illegal, but the company reportedly did not comply. This is the first time Turkey fined the popular social media website.

Turkish authorities previously have temporarily blocked Twitter, YouTube and Facebook for failing to remove content deemed to be illegal or banned.

On April 6, Turkey blocked access to Twitter, YouTube and Facebook over the publication of photos of a prosecutor taken hostage and killed by militants in Istanbul on March 31. The ban was lifted shortly after the sites removed the images.

Comment: Fines? What hypocrites! Hopefully, Twitter has been paying attention to the news and has seen the evidence that shows Turkey supports and funds terrorism.

Syria is right to arm itself with S-300 missile system to defend against NATO warplanes

Finian Cunningham
Sputnik
Sun, 06 Dec 2015 16:47 UTC

Syria is ready to deploy the fearsome S-300 air-defence system supplied by its Russian ally. The anti-aircraft surface-to-air missiles will give Syria control over its territory and the capability to shoot down any intrusive warplane or missile. NATO warplanes beware!

The fatal shoot-down of a Russian fighter jet by a Turkish F-16 two weeks ago has given urgency to installing the air-defence system. It is as much in Russia's interest as it is in Syria's to have air cover - and the S-300, and its newer generation, the S-400, are reckoned to be the best technology in the world for that job.

"It's a top-of-the range weapon", says the British defence publication, IHS Jane's, probably surpassing the American Patriot missile system. The Russian-made S-300 can take out any modern fighter plane or missile, including Cruise missiles, at a range of up 150 kilometres and an altitude of 27 kilometres.

According to a senior officer at the Syria-Russia joint military operations room in Damascus, the mobile S-300 is ready for deployment at various locations across the country.

Translated from Arabic language Alrai Media (thanks to the reliable Fort Russ Russian news site), the senior Syrian officer at the operations room is quoted as saying: "Soon Syria will announce that any country using the airspace without coordinating with Damascus will be viewed as hostile and [we] will shoot the jet down without warning. Those willing to fight terrorism and coordinate with the military leadership will be granted safe corridors."

Boom! Russia has destroyed over 8,000 terrorist targets in Syria

Sputnik
Fri, 11 Dec 2015 16:09 UTC

Russian military aviation in Syria has carried out nearly 4,000 combat missions, destroying more than 8,000 objects of military infrastructure belonging to terrorist groups operating in Syria, Russian Defense Minister Sergei Shoigu said.

"In total, our military aircraft have flown about 4,000 sorties, destroying over 8,000 objects of military infrastructure belonging to the terrorists. As a result, Daesh militants have been significantly weakened," Shoigu said, speaking at a Defense Ministry Board meeting on Friday.

Russia launched its military mission in Syria on September 30, 2015, at the request of Syrian President Bashar Assad, carrying out airstrikes against Daesh (ISIL/ISIS) and Al-Nusra Front targets. Since then, the Russian Aerospace Defense Forces, in coordination with ships of the Caspian Flotilla and the Black Sea Fleet Submarine 'Rostov-on-Don', have destroyed hundreds of militants and thousands of pieces of terrorist infrastructure.

Financial Times bombshell: EU unveils standing border force that will act 'even if a government objects'

Tyler Durden
Zerohedge
Fri, 11 Dec 2015 14:39 UTC

Last weekend we wrote that in Europe's attempt to contain the greatest refugee crisis since WWII, it would directly take control over the border control of the one country which over the summer lost its sovereignty (but at least it still has the euro), and which serves as a springboard for tens of thousands of migrants to proceed onward with their journey to Germany (where as reported earlier, they are no longer desired, as their continued arrival results in a plunging approval rating for Angela Merkel).

We added that the deployment of additional officers will begin next week, and noted that as our friends at Keep Talking Greece wrote:

"the masks have fallen. Hand in hand, the European Union and the Frontex want to cancel national sovereignty and take over border controls in the pretext of "safeguarding the Schengen borders". With controversial claims, they use the case of Greece to create an example that could soon happen "in the border area near you." And the plan is all German."

Finally, we asked whether this was merely Paranoia...

"or just another confirmation that the Eurozone is using every incremental, and produced, crisis to cement its power over discrete European state sovereignty and wipe out the cultural and religious borders the prevent the amalgamation of Europe into a Brussels, Berlin and Frankfurt-controlled superstate? "

Turkey will suffer a major catastrophe if Russia cuts gas supplies

Sputnik
Fri, 11 Dec 2015 15:11 UTC

If Moscow stops supplying gas to Ankara, Turkey will face a catastrophe, according to Simone Tagliapietra, an energy fellow at the Brussels-based think tank Bruegel.

The Washington-based website and newspaper Politico quoted Simone Tagliapietra, an energy fellow at the Brussels-based think tank Bruegel, as saying that a possible disruption in gas supplies from Russia to Turkey may be catastrophic.

Politico recalled that Turkey is the Russian energy giant Gazprom's second-largest gas export market after Germany, while Russia remains Turkey's largest gas supplier, accounting for approximately 60% of the country's foreign gas.

Comment: With their unbelievably belligerent actions against Russia and Iraq, Turkey is asking for this level of retaliation. Also see:

War on the horizon: Is it too late to stop it?

Turkey unlikly to find alternative to Russian gas

Turkey to 'reorganize' its troops in Iraq, ignore immediate withdrawal demands

Truce in Yemen a sign that the Saudi regime has been defeated - Analyst

Press TV
Fri, 11 Dec 2015 14:36 UTC

Press TV has conducted an interview with Ali al-Ahmed, director of the Institute for the [Persian] Gulf Affairs (IGA) from Washington, on a UN-brokered truce in Yemen.

The following is a rough transcription of the interview.

Press TV: What do you think about the ceasefire agreement? We've had talks about the whole situation in Yemen before. And you were talking about the Yemenis taking the whole situation into their own hands. What do you make of this new truce that is supposedly going to take place between Yemen's Ansarullah movement and the United Nations?

Ahmed: There appears to be Saudi fatigue, the Saudi government right now, I think, more than ever is convinced that it has reached its end. There is nothing that they can do that can change the realities in Yemen. They have spent over 100 billion dollars in eight months on this war. They have bombed Yemen. They have destroyed Yemen's infrastructure. They have killed more than 10,000 people, mostly civilians, yet although they have many countries behind them, the US, the UK and the mercenaries from different parts of the world from Colombia to Senegal to Jordan, it didn't work. So, there is a realization that is setting in that Saudi Arabia has been defeated. It has not been able to reach its stated goals. So they are trying to find a way out of this conflict.

Comment: The Saudis have been instrumental in turning the Middle East into a terrorist battleground in order to maximize their influence, and this genocidal war in Yemen has been no different. Perhaps now, with so much money spent, and the possibility of wider war opening, the Saudis, in true psychopathic fashion, will simply 'wash their hands' of Yemen. See also:

The collapse of Saudi Arabia is inevitable

Investigating Saudi Arabia's sponsorship of Turkish politics, terrorism, and the frenzied conflict in Syria

U.S. & Saudis turn Yemen into terrorist haven: Reports show al Qaeda has taken over several towns

Invasion: Media reports Saudi Arabia, UAE, Qatar and Jordan may send 90,000 military to fight IS in Iraq

Turkey to 'reorganize' its troops in Iraq, ignore immediate withdrawal demands

Press TV
Fri, 11 Dec 2015 01:45 UTC

Iraq: the presence of troops is a violation of its national sovereignty
Iraq: UNSC asked to order immediate troops removal, a formal complaint
Iraq: denies any deal with Turkey to allow Turkish troops to remain

Turkey says it has decided to "reorganize" its troops in a camp in northern Iraq after holding talks with officials in Baghdad, who strongly criticized Ankara for the deployment.

In a statement on Friday, the office of Turkish Prime Minister Ahmet Davutoglu said after holding talks with Iraqi officials, Ankara has decided to change the way it has been deploying soldiers at the Bashiqa camp near the northern Iraqi city of Mosul. It said the two sides have reached an agreement to start work on creating mechanisms aimed at deepening cooperation on security issues.

The statement did not specify the details of the proposed mechanisms and how the troops would be reorganized. However, other officials in Turkey said Baghdad and Ankara have decided to work together on the issue. "We'll decide together if we'll increase or decrease the number of Turkish troops," Foreign Minister Mevlut Cavusoglu said, adding, "It is our duty to address the Baghdad government's concerns."

Turkey's apparent change of tone over the last Friday deployment of hundreds of troops comes two days after it missed an ultimatum to pull out the fight from Bashiqa, prompting Baghdad to threaten to follow up the case in the United Nations Security Council.

Comment: A 'modification' only after push came to shove, but wait, there's more...

Comment: It is obvious the Iraqi government and people do not want Turkey's military within its borders. It is equally obvious that Turkey is ramrodding its occupation and ignoring Iraqi demands by fantasizing and expounding a different reality, hoping it sticks.

Yemeni forces destroy another Saudi warship

Farsnews Agency
Fri, 11 Dec 2015 02:47 UTC

Yemen's army and popular forces targeted and destroyed a Saudi warship in the waters near Bab al-Mandab Strait on Friday, the eighth Saudi vessel sinking in waters offshore Yemen in the last three months.

The Saudi warship was targeted with Yemeni missiles in the Al-Mukha coastal waters in the province of Ta'iz today.

The sunken ship had repeatedly fired rockets at residential areas in Ta'iz province, inflicting casualties and destruction there.

This is the eighth time that a Saudi warship is sent deep into the waters of Bab al-Mandab Strait by the Yemeni forces.

Other Saudi battleships that were approaching Yemen's coasts retreated fast following the attack.

War on the horizon: Is it too late to stop it?

Paul Craig Roberts
paulcraigroberts.org
Mon, 07 Dec 2015 14:15 UTC

One lesson from military history is that once mobilization for war begins, it takes on a momentum of its own and is uncontrollable.

This might be what is occurring unrecognized before our eyes.

In his September 28 speech at the 70th Anniversary of the United Nations, Russian President Vladimir Putin stated that Russia can no longer tolerate the state of affairs in the world. Two days later at the invitation of the Syrian government Russia began war against ISIS.

Crude oil prices slides to new seven-year low as IEA warns of worse glut

Libby George
Reuters
Fri, 11 Dec 2015 14:04 UTC

Crude oil prices hit fresh seven-year lows on Friday as the International Energy Agency (IEA) warned global oversupply could worsen in the new year.

Brent slipped below $39 per barrel for the first time since December 2008 as the IEA, which advises developed nations on energy, warned that demand growth was starting to slow.

"The technicals and the fundamentals are singing from the same hymn sheet," said Tamas Varga, oil analyst with PVM Associates. "We will not see support until we hit the lows of 2008."

Comment: More signs we are headed for a recession.

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Hypocrites! Mush for brains Turkey fines Twitter $51,000 for 'terrorist propaganda'

Syria is right to arm itself with S-300 missile system to defend against NATO warplanes

Boom! Russia has destroyed over 8,000 terrorist targets in Syria

Financial Times bombshell: EU unveils standing border force that will act 'even if a government objects'

Turkey will suffer a major catastrophe if Russia cuts gas supplies

Truce in Yemen a sign that the Saudi regime has been defeated - Analyst

Turkey to 'reorganize' its troops in Iraq, ignore immediate withdrawal demands

Yemeni forces destroy another Saudi warship

War on the horizon: Is it too late to stop it?

Crude oil prices slides to new seven-year low as IEA warns of worse glut

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