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Putin's Address to the Nation: Sovereignty, coexistence with the West, and what self-defense will mean


RT
Wed, 20 Feb 2019 20:44 UTC

Comment: RT has put out a set of articles highlighting different aspects of Putin's Address to the Nation. In it he has clearly articulating Russia's current thinking regarding its place in the world and what it means to defend that place.


Sovereign Russia is a given
russian air force fly over
© Reuters/Tatyana Makeyeva
A Russian Air Force flyover of the Spasskaya Tower during the Victory Day Parade
The world's largest country will forever stay independent or it will cease to exist, but this core idea is what makes Russia differ from others, Vladimir Putin said in his annual address.

"Russia was and will be a sovereign and independent state. It is an axiom, it will either be such or it won't exist at all," Putin stated in the 2019 keynote speech. He said other countries can afford being dependent, but Russia cannot.
Russia can't exist as a state if it is not sovereign.
Other countries should take this into account when engaging Moscow, the President noted. "Building ties with us is to find common solutions, including to the most complicated issues, not to dictate conditions," according to Putin.
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Bad Guys

Trump accused of seeking to sell US nuclear 'secrets' to Saudis


RT
Wed, 20 Feb 2019 05:19 UTC
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© Reuters / Jonathan Ernst
House Democrats have launched a probe into the Trump administration's alleged attempt to transfer 'sensitive' US nuclear technologies to Saudi Arabia. The company implicated has already found a couple of usual suspects to blame.

White House staff members are reportedly fast-tracking "the transfer of highly sensitive US nuclear technology" to Saudi Arabia without the necessary congressional review, possibly running afoul of the Atomic Energy Act and potentially allowing the Saudis to build a nuclear bomb, according to an interim staff report by Committee on Oversight and Reform chair Elijah Cummings (D-Maryland), which cites "multiple whistleblowers" as the source of the information. The Committee has opened an investigation into the allegations.

The report implicates the President's adviser and son-in-law Jared Kushner, former national security adviser Mike Flynn, and Trump fundraiser Thomas Barrack in a project backed by "strong private commercial interests" to develop "dozens of nuclear power plants" through a private US company called IP3 International under the so-called "Trump Middle East Marshall Plan."

Comment: RT also reports:
Iran slams US 'hypocrisy' over potential sale of nuclear secrets to Saudi Arabia

Iran's Twitter-savvy FM Javid Zarif took to his favored medium to call out US hypocrisy, noting how Washington's ostensible concerns over human rights and nuclear proliferation disappear when it comes to Saudi Arabia.

House Democrats aren't the only ones up in arms over the White House's alleged attempt to fast-track 'sensitive' US nuclear technologies to Saudi Arabia, as Iran's Foreign Minister made clear in his Tweet on Wednesday.

"Day by day it becomes clearer to the world what was always clear to us," Zarif wrote.
Neither human rights nor a nuclear program have been the real concern of the US. First a dismembered journalist [Jamal Khashoggi]; now illicit sale of nuclear technology to Saudi Arabia fully expose US hypocrisy.
Trump heavily criticized and eventually canceled the Iran nuclear deal (known as the JCPOA) last year. Yet, members of his administration have reportedly been all too eager to bypass necessary congressional review and potentially provide Saudi Arabia with the information it needs to build a nuclear weapon, flagrantly violating the Atomic Energy Act in the process.

Zarif's Tweet also references how, despite endlessly accusing its enemies of human rights violations, the administration was quick to look the other way when it came to its Saudi ally's likely role in the murder of journalist Jamal Khashoggi last October.

Khashoggi, an outspoken critic of the Saudi ruling family, was killed and dismembered in the Saudi consulate in Istanbul on October 2. Turkish authorities and the UN have concluded that the murder was perpetrated by Saudi officials. Responding to calls to punish Riyadh in the wake of the murder, Trump reminded critics that the Saudi kingdom is "a very good ally of ours" who has "been funding a lot of things." Despite voicing outrage over the killing, Trump announced that the US, alongside a number of other states, would continue providing the Saudis with arms as planned.
So while Trump's prattling on about the 'threat' of North Korea's nukes and punishing Iran with sanctions, some in the US administration are looking to (potentially) arm some of the world's proudest sadists? And check out SOTT radio's: Behind the Headlines: The Russia Collusion Ruse: Why the US Deep State Hates Russia, Not Trump

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Megaphone

UK: Sordid history of the 7 tawdry MPs who defected from Labour


RT
Tue, 19 Feb 2019 14:23 UTC
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© AP Photo / Matt Dunham
The 1960 film 'The Magnificent Seven' was apparently based on the true story which formed the basis of the 1954 Japanese movie the 'Seven Samurai'. 'The Magnificent Seven' was in fact a Hollywood re-make of that film and was full of heroism, self-sacrifice and human integrity. I loved it.

Charles Bronson and Yul Brynner were immense. Yesterday I watched the polar opposite of all those virtues when 'The Tawdry Seven' walked into a pre-arranged press conference in London full of giggles and self-importance to denounce the very political party they had been elected to represent less than 24 months ago.

Seven individuals who would struggle to be recognised in their own households took it in turn to savage the man under whose leadership every single one of them had been re-elected to Parliament with increased majorities. Jeremy Corbyn stood as the Labour leader in 2015 after Ed Miliband stood down. He won a convincing victory with 59% of the votes cast. He stuck to his election pledges and began to re-position the Labour Party as a genuine socialist party instead of the pale imitation of the Tories it had become under Blair and Brown.

Comment: See also:




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Bad Guys

Schiff wants to do his own investigation if Mueller doesn't present evidence of collusion between Trump and Russia

Pam Key
Breitbart
Wed, 20 Feb 2019 22:00 UTC
Adam Schiff

Rep. Adam Schiff (D-CA)
Sunday on CNN's "State of the Union," Rep. Adam Schiff (D-CA) hinted that he would not accept the findings of special counsel Robert Mueller as the end of the investigation into President Donald Trump and Russia.

CNN's Dana Bash asked, "We expect at some point maybe soon, maybe not, the findings of the Mueller investigation to finally be completed. If he finds that there was no direct collusion between the Trump campaign and Russia, will you accept that?"

Schiff, "We're going to have to do our own investigation, and we are. We'll certainly be very interested to learn what Bob Mueller finds. We may have to fight to get that information. Bill Barr has not been willing to commit to provide that report either to the Congress or to the American people. We're going to need to see it. The American people need to see it. We may also need to see the evidence behind that report. There may be, for example, evidence of collusion or conspiracy that is clear and convincing but not proof beyond a reasonable doubt."


Comment: Puleeze! If there was anything resembling evidence it would have been leaked long ago. Schiff just prefers his warped conception of reality over reality itself.

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Chess

Syrian Army finds alleged US and Israeli-made weapons near Damascus


Sputnik
Wed, 20 Feb 2019 21:53 UTC
weapons caches
© YouTube/Syrianarabnewsagency
Militant groups fighting the Syrian government left many weapons caches behind as they were retreating from the Syrian army; these are now being discovered in sweeping operations being conducted by the authorities.

The Syrian army has discovered US and Israeli-made weapons left behind by terrorists in the region around Damascus, the Syrian Arab News Agency (SANA) reported.

Earlier in December, Syrian Security Forces discovered another big warehouse loaded with weapons left behind by terrorist groups in Daraa province in the south of the country. It contained numerous rifles, mortars, US-made Tao anti-tank missiles and recon drones.

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Eye 1

Google admits it forgot to tell users about its hidden spy microphone

Christopher Carbone
Fox News
Wed, 20 Feb 2019 21:06 UTC
Nest Secure
© Nest
Google's Nest Secure alarm system
Google could face a backlash over privacy after admitting that Nest users were not told about the existence of a microphone on their devices.

Early this month, Nest Secure was updated to allow users to enable Google Assistant, the tech giant's virtual-assistant technology, to be used by the system's hub and keypad.

However, Nest users apparently did not know a microphone even existed on their security device.

According to Business Insider, the existence of a microphone was not disclosed in any of the device's product materials.
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Cult

Euro-liberal democrazis threaten elected Hungarian MEPs with expulsion after Orban govt again links Soros network with EU mass migration agenda


RT
Wed, 20 Feb 2019 20:59 UTC
George Soros and Jean-Claude Juncker
© Facebook / Magyarország Kormánya
Hungarian government poster depicting George Soros and Jean-Claude Juncker
A new media campaign by the Hungarian government accuses globalist billionaire George Soros and the EU of pushing open-borders policies. Brussels indignantly dismissed the campaign as a conspiracy theory and fake news.


Comment: Actually, it's fact: ACTUAL international collusion: Nigel Farage exposes massive Soros network of MEPs spreading 'gender theory', open borders and russophobia


Billboards with the images of Soros and European Commission President Jean-Claude Juncker tell Hungarians that Brussels officials "are launching experimental immigration projects with African countries; want to introduce mandatory settlement quotas; want to reduce financial assistance for countries opposed to migration," that last part specifically referring to Hungary.


Comment: All true.


Further accusations appeared on the government of Hungary's Facebook page, which says the EU wants to impose settlement quotas, weaken EU members' border protections and make immigration easier.


Comment: Also all true.



The EU Commission rushed to outright dismiss the ad campaign, calling it a conspiracy and "fake news," without going into detail in addressing Budapest's concerns.

Comment: Go Orban go! The most legitimate democratically-elected leader in the EU!

In fact, with his clear majority support, he's arguably the only one.

Which just goes to show that, in hating him, Euro-liberals really hate ordinary Europeans.

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Better Earth

Belarus ready to 'unite' with Russia, Lukashenko says


The Moscow Times
Wed, 20 Feb 2019 20:32 UTC
lukashenko putin belarus

Putin, gatherer of Russian lands, with Belarus leader Lukashenko
Belarus is ready to merge with Russia, Belarussian President Alexander Lukashenko said on the third and last day of his bilateral talks with President Vladimir Putin on Friday.

Rumors resurfaced this year that Russia could annex Belarus as Putin's constitutional term limits bar him from running for the presidency in 2024.

"The two of us could unite tomorrow, no problem," Lukashenko said in a video shared by a Komsomolskaya Pravda tabloid Kremlin reporter on Twitter Friday.

"But are you - Russians and Belarussians - ready for it?" Lukashenko said as quoted by Interfax. "We're ready to unite and consolidate our efforts, states and peoples as far as we're ready."

Putin, meanwhile, stressed that "fully independent states simply do not exist in the world," bringing the European Union as an example of interdependence.

The Russian president has voiced support for Russia to unite with Belarus as early as 2011.

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Dominoes

Three Tory MPs resign from party to join independent group - "Hard-line anti-EU awkward squad is now running the Conservative Party"


BBC
Wed, 20 Feb 2019 19:18 UTC
Heidi Allen, Anna Soubry and Sarah Wollaston
© GETTY IMAGES
Heidi Allen, Anna Soubry and Sarah Wollaston join the Independent Group
Three Tory MPs have resigned from the party to join an independent group, set up by former Labour MPs.

Anna Soubry, Sarah Wollaston and Heidi Allen wrote a joint letter to Theresa May to confirm their departure. The three held a press conference, criticising the government for letting the "hard-line anti-EU awkward squad" take over the party.

The PM said she was "saddened", but her party would "always offer... decent, moderate and patriotic politics".

The pro-Remain trio will join the new Independent Group - made up of eight Labour MPs who resigned from their party over its handling of Brexit and anti-Semitism - saying it represented "the centre ground of British politics".
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Blackbox

How will Syria and her allies respond if Netanyahu attacks again?

Elijah J. Magnier
ejmagnier.com
Wed, 20 Feb 2019 19:53 UTC
s-300
Russian President Vladimir Putin will meet with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu in Moscow to "test the stand of Russia and its allies in Syria on their intention to go to war if Israel bombs Syrian and Iranian objectives in the Levant". Netanyahu is seeking some answers related to the reaction of Russia and its potential participation or non-participation in a possible intermittent battle in the midst of war (as Israel prefers to call such interventions, "a battle between wars"). This tactic, an Israeli specialty, might take the form of Israel bombing the Russian S-300 surface to air missiles batteries delivered to the Syrian army as a bulwark against any future Israeli aggression.

"Iran and Syria informed their Russian ally that any significant military hit by Israel that threatens their national security will be answered immediately and on a disproportionate level", said a source among top decision makers in Syria.

The last Israeli violation of Syrian sovereignty was a provocation against an empty soft target in Quneitra by Israeli ground artillery. That was considered a childish gambit by Netanyahu, who is considered by his allies - according to the source - as lacking military expertise and knowledgeable only on the political level.
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