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Moscow accuses Tokyo of 'distorting' information and 'whipping up tension' in Kuril Islands dispute

RT
Sat, 12 Jan 2019 21:25 UTC

While Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe vows to end a territorial dispute with Russia over a group of islands in the Pacific as soon as possible, Moscow says Tokyo is 'distorting' information on the talks to push its agenda.

Japanese Foreign Minister Taro Kono is in Moscow to discuss, with his Russian counterpart Sergey Lavrov, a peace agreement between the two countries and the fate of the Kuril Islands - an archipelago located in the Pacific between Japan's Hokkaido island and Russia's Kamchatka peninsula.

The isles have been a subject of a simmering territorial dispute between the two neighbors for decades, but their fate was back in headlines after Abe and Russian President Vladimir Putin agreed in November to intensify talks about a peace treaty.

Moscow and Tokyo ended their World War II engagement without a formal peace treaty and that situation has not changed since, because of Tokyo's long-standing claims to four Russian Kuril Islands, referred to in Japan as the 'Northern Territories.'

Comment: For more on this long-standing conflict, see:

Russia laughs off ridiculous claims by Zionist media that it is hacking the Israeli elections

Paul Antonopoulos
FRN
Sat, 12 Jan 2019 00:00 UTC

The Israeli media are full of speculation that Russia is preparing to meddle in the April parliamentary election to help Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu stay in power. The Kremlin recommended ignoring this news.

Speculation was initiated by Nadav Argaman, head of Israel's internal security agency Shin Bet, who said on Monday that a foreign power is preparing to interfere in the swift parliamentary election scheduled for April. The warning came during an event hosted by the Friends of Tel Aviv University, but the broadcast was partially drafted by the Israeli military censor.

"I cannot say at this time to whom or against whom the intervention will be, but it involves cyber attacks and hackers," Argaman said. He added that he was "100% [certain] that [the foreign state] will intervene in the next elections, and I know what I'm talking about, I just do not know in favor of who," he added.

The speech was attended by a large crowd, which makes the effort to keep the identity of the foreign country in secret seemingly meaningless. Israeli media resorted to accusations against Russia in the 2016 US election. Some Israeli politicians were closest at pointing fingers and also expressed the certainty of who they expected the Russian interference to benefit.

"We demand that the security services ensure that [Russian President Vladimir] Putin does not steal the elections for his friend, the tyrant Bibi," Tamar Zandberg, head of the leftist opposition party Meretz, said in a statement. "Bibi" is Benjamin Netanyahu, the Israeli right-wing prime minister, who is running for a fifth term while facing three separate corruption investigations.

Comment: What a giggle. No one wants 'Bibi' - especially not Israel.

Saudi Arabia at war with free speech and civil liberties

Catherine Shakdam
New Eastern Outlook
Sat, 12 Jan 2019 00:00 UTC

Saudi Arabia has done it again ... that is to land itself in the middle of a controversy that exposes not just the dictatorial devolution of its system of governance but the inaptitude of its governing dogma to self-sustain against the pushes of technology.

Early this January news surfaced that Prince Mohammed bin Salman called on Netflix to axe one of its up and coming artist: Hassan Minhaj, on account of his criticism of Al Saud royals in the context of their role in propping Islamic terrorism, and gross human rights violations in Yemen.

Incensed by the irreverence of Mr Minhaj - the comedian called Saudi Arabia a grand Terror facilitator and promoter, Riyadh threatened Netflix with legal proceedings by arguing the network had violated a Saudi law against cyber crime. As written, that law forbids "production, preparation, transmission, or storage of material impinging on public order, religious values, public morals, and privacy, through the information network or computers."

The law (article 6 of the country's 2007 Anti-Cyber Crime Law) imposes penalties of up to five years in prison and 3 million riyals ($800,000) in fines on those who violate its vaguely written provisions.

Comment: Saudi Arabia has a fragile facade, one it protects more than life itself.

Hamas offers $1M bounty for IDs of Israeli commandos involved in botched Gaza raid

RT
Sun, 13 Jan 2019 05:09 UTC

Hamas is offering a million-dollar reward to anyone who can reveal the identities of Israeli commandos who took part in a failed operation in Gaza that sparked an intense cross-border fire fight between Palestinians and the IDF.

Following months of preparation for their mission, fifteen members of the Israeli Sayeret Matkal special forces unit used fake Gazan IDs and counterfeit humanitarian worker documents to infiltrate the strip on November 11, a spokesman for the Ezzedine al-Qassam Brigades said, in a televised statement on Saturday.

Despite all their efforts to sneak into the enclave undetected and using vehicles belonging to a local charity, Hamas managed to spot the special forces and attempted to pin the enemy down in a tense gunfire exchange, the spokesman claimed, broadcasting surveillance footage of the alleged Israeli team driving through Khan Younis.

CNN defends its decision to exclude local station's report on benefits of a border wall from their channel!

Jim Holt
The Gateway Pundit
Fri, 11 Jan 2019 00:00 UTC

San Diego's KUSI News just DESTROYED CNN's last bit of remaining credibility on Thursday!

CNN asked local San Diego KUSI newsroom for the community's view on the border wall with Mexico. KUSI reporter Dan Plante told them it's not an issue in the community and the current barrier does in fact work!

So CNN buried the story. They refused to air the report!

On Thursday night KUSI called them out!

On Friday morning CNN defended their decision to nix the truth from their reports.
Wow!

Comment: Facts followed by testimony become the enemies of the control state. CNN shunned this story and dodged the reasons why it did so because it was 'the opposite validation' of the determination it wanted to report.

From The Hill:

KUSI: "We believe CNN declined a report from KUSI because we informed them that most Border Patrol Agents we have spoken to told us the barrier does in fact work. We have continuously been told by Border Patrol Agents that the barrier along the Southern border helps prevent illegal entries, drugs, and weapons from entering the United States, and the numbers prove it."

Israel responds to rocket fire, strikes Gaza Strip

RT
Sat, 12 Jan 2019 21:40 UTC

Israeli jets and artillery targeted multiple sites in Khan Younis and east of Gaza city, according to media reports and witnesses, apparently targeting Hamas positions, after the IDF said a projectile had been fired at Israel.

Israeli warplanes carried out at least two raids on the Gaza Strip, the IDF has confirmed. The IDF noted that Israel holds the "terrorist organization" in control of the enclave to be responsible for anything happening there, including all missile attacks, and "will continue operating to defend Israeli civilians."

Meanwhile, witnesses described the strikes as an "unusually heavy" response to a single rocket, that was presumably fired by Hamas militants and landed in the deserted area of southern Israel earlier in the day, resulting in no reported damage or casualties.

Militant groups in the Gaza strip, including Hamas, have warned the IDF on Saturday that should Tel Aviv attack the enclave they "will escalate the confrontation with Israel."

Comment: Why would Hamas fire off only one rocket? Seems plausible Israel provoked itself. There is a pattern, see this post from 2016: Israel strikes Gaza targets in response to single rocket which caused no damage

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Syria: Regular Israeli attacks only possible due to US backing claims Damascus

Sputnik
Sat, 12 Jan 2019 17:16 UTC

Syrian air defences reportedly repulsed a night-time strike against multiple targets in Damascus on Friday night, with military sources telling national media that most of the missiles were destroyed before reaching their destinations.

Israel is able to continue to get away with attacks against Syria only because it is protected by the US, the Syrian Foreign Ministry said following the IAF's latest attack on its soil.

In a statement published on Saturday, the ministry said it had dispatched letters to the secretary general of the United Nations and the head of the UN Security Council (UNSC) in connection with Friday night's unprovoked attack on Damascus.

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Russia to update law allowing shoot-down of passenger aircraft if it poses disaster-level threat

RT
Sun, 13 Jan 2019 14:33 UTC

© Sputnik / Vitaly Ankov
FILE PHOTO. Air-to-air missiles prepared for mounting on a MiG-31 fighter jet before a training exercise.

The Russian defense ministry wants to confirm its authority to shoot down planes that violate the country's airspace and threaten a major disaster or loss of life, including hijacked airliners.

A draft government decree prepared by the Russian military would change the rules of engagement for aircraft violating the border, which were last reviewed in 1994. The old document explicitly bans an attack on a plane, if it's known to have passengers or hostages on board.

The new document, which passed the stage of public feedback this week, would eliminate the ban and allow taking down aircraft that pose a credible threat to lives or a major environmental disaster and streamlines the procedure for how such use of lethal force can be obtained and implemented.

Comment: Russia has proven that it likes to do things by the book, and, in this instance, the book needed updating to reflect our dire times. This makes sense considering how nefarious groups have used passenger aircraft on a number of occasions:

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Witch hunt or mole hunt? Times bombshell blows up all theories

Jonathan Turley
The Hill
Sat, 12 Jan 2019 18:14 UTC

The New York Times has published another bombshell with a story that President Trump was named as a possible national security threat in a counterintelligence operation that was launched after his inauguration.

If true, this is likely the only time in history that the FBI has investigated whether a sitting president was either a knowing or unknowing agent of a foreign power. However, the real benefit of the investigative story may not be the original suspicion, but rather how it could explain the course that both sides have taken into our current quagmire. What if there were no collusion or conspiracy but simple cognitive bias on both sides, where the actions of one seemed to confirm precisely the suspicions of the other?

There are now two possibilities. The first of those is that Trump really was some "manchurian candidate" placed in the Oval Office by Russia and controlled from afar by Vladimir Putin. Many are unlikely to ever accept any other possibility, though the New York Times story does not suggest that this counterintelligence operation found any basis for the original allegation. Indeed, the problem arose when part of the operation was made public. Such inquiries are usually completed and never disclosed. In this case, various forces led to a partial disclosure that Trump associates were investigated and that Trump himself might have been compromised.

Comment: This theory actually goes a long way to accounting for the actions and reactions of most of the actors involved on both sides of this conflict. However, we would add that it doesn't exclude elements of truth from both sides: there is always collusion between governments of different countries (just not necessarily to the extent or of the type alleged in this case against Trump and Russia). And there are certainly elements within the so-called deep state who actively push anti-Russian narratives (witness the Integrity Initiative in the UK and worldwide). But it's unlikely that the extent of those actions aligns with the actual accusations of either side. (That said, there is more to the conspiracy narrative than the collusion one!)

'Integrity' Initiative: By all means smear & attack, but at least be honest about it

Simon Rite
RT
Sun, 13 Jan 2019 18:05 UTC

We've all met those people who describe themselves as laid back, when in reality they're just one loud noise from a mouth frothing breakdown. So when something describes itself as having integrity, be wary.

Enter the Integrity Initiative (II), Britain's very own government-funded influence network, which is currently in the process of having its underpants revealed to the world. There's no doubting it's an initiative; the jury's out on the other bit. Some of the people behind it are alleged former spies (can you be a 'former' spy?), a calling not often linked to integrity.

There's a good chance you may not know much about the Integrity Initiative - the mainstream media is not exactly straining to tell you about it. Labour MP Chris Williamson suggests that's because a number of mainstream journalists have signed up to work with it.

The only time II briefly attracted the attention of the mainstream world was when it became clear it had been pushing conspiracies about Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn's links to the Kremlin. That's not a good look for an organization which receives cash from the Foreign Office.

Comment: What's really interesting about witnessing the 'Anti-Communist witch-hunt' of our time is that it lends strong corroborating evidence to the so-called revisionist historical research suggesting most if not all previous

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Puppet Masters

Moscow accuses Tokyo of 'distorting' information and 'whipping up tension' in Kuril Islands dispute

Russia laughs off ridiculous claims by Zionist media that it is hacking the Israeli elections

Saudi Arabia at war with free speech and civil liberties

Hamas offers $1M bounty for IDs of Israeli commandos involved in botched Gaza raid

CNN defends its decision to exclude local station's report on benefits of a border wall from their channel!

Israel responds to rocket fire, strikes Gaza Strip

Syria: Regular Israeli attacks only possible due to US backing claims Damascus

Russia to update law allowing shoot-down of passenger aircraft if it poses disaster-level threat

Witch hunt or mole hunt? Times bombshell blows up all theories

'Integrity' Initiative: By all means smear & attack, but at least be honest about it

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