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Missiles used in attack against Iraq match those used by Israel in strikes on Syria


Sputnik
Tue, 23 Jul 2019 18:00 UTC
Israeli missiles
© CC BY 3.0 / KGyST / Rafael Spice
On Friday, AP reported that an unmanned drone had carried out strikes against a base in Iraq used by the Popular Mobilisation Forces, the mostly Shia Iraqi paramilitary force which took part in the campaign to defeat Daesh and which has received assistance and training from Iran.

Israel may be behind Thursday night's mystery drone attack on an alleged Iranian-backed militia base in Amirli, northeastern Iraq, Kuwait's Al-Jarida newspaper has alleged, citing a source in Iran's Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps.

According to Al-Jarida's source, the attack on the militia depot, which contained stocks of short- and medium-range missiles, as well as a militia headquarters building, was allegedly carried out by an aircraft flying out of an American base near the Syrian-Jordan-Iraqi border, possibly al-Tanf.

The source claimed that the preliminary results of a forensic investigation by the Iraqi government have suggested that they were the same type used by Israel during its periodic attacks against Syria.

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Head of Sri Lanka's Catholic Church calls for resignation of government over failure to investigate Easter bombings


Yahoo News
Sun, 21 Jul 2019 00:00 UTC
Cardinal Malcolm Ranjith
© AFP Photo/ISHARA S. KODIKARA
Cardinal Malcolm Ranjith says Sri Lanka's leaders were locked in power struggle rather than paying attention to intelligence warnings about the bombings.
The head of Sri Lanka's Roman Catholic Church Sunday called for the government to resign over its alleged failure to investigate an "international conspiracy" behind the deadly Easter bombings.

Cardinal Malcolm Ranjith said the authorities had failed to identify those behind the suicide bombings that killed at least 258 people at three churches and three luxury hotels in Colombo.

"The executive and the legislature were locked in a power struggle. They did not care about the international conspiracy against the country," Ranjith said at the reconsecration one of the bombed churches.

He was referring to President Maithripala Sirisena's failed bid to oust his erstwhile ally, Prime Minister Ranil Wickremesinghe, and the ongoing power struggle between the two since October.

"The selfish power hungry leaders did not worry about ordinary people... The leaders did not heed intelligence warnings... the security council did not meet since October because of the power struggle," he said.

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Ukrainian ex-deputy Tsarev: Ukrainian Nazis expect "night of long knives"

Joaquin Flores
Fort Russ News
Mon, 22 Jul 2019 12:00 UTC
Oleg Tsarev
President of Ukraine Zelensky will end the war in the Donbass by arranging the "night of long knives" for the Nazis and the radicals. So says Ukrainian ex-deputy Oleg Tsarev, reports "TsarGrad" , referring to the comment of the policy of the FAN .

"According to him, Zelensky is 90% likely to end the war in the Donbass by fulfilling the Minsk agreements in the form in which they were signed. At the same time, he will try to negotiate with the LDNR directly, removing his rival Medvedchuk from them."

Tsarev notes that Zelensky is not going to share his power with anyone, including with the Ukrainian Nazis. The former parliamentarian does not exclude that in the near future the radicals are waiting for the "night of long knives."

Comment: Normalisation of relations with Russia would be the best for the majority in Ukraine, and it's what new President Zelensky promised to bring about, but the violent minority, with their backing from the deep state in the West, will do their utmost to sabotage it:

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Hypocrites: Critics of UK tanker seizure should 'tell Britain the same thing' - Iran


Sputnik
Mon, 22 Jul 2019 21:35 UTC
boat tanker gun
© REUTERS / Iran, Mizan News Agency/WANA
On Monday, amid reports that the UK would be scaling up its presence in the Gulf with a nuclear sub and Royal Marines following Iran's seizure of a British-flagged tanker, Foreign Secretary Jeremy Hunt confirmed that London was looking to put together a "European-led maritime protection mission" to ensure "safe passage" through the body of water.

The Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps' seizure of Britain's Stena Impero tanker on Friday was a perfectly "legal measure" aimed at ensuring regional security, government spokesman Ali Rabiei said on Monday, AFP has reported.

"To all the countries that are calling on Iran to release the tanker, we ask them to tell Britain the same thing," Rabiei said, recalling the July 4 incident in which UK Royal Marines boarded a Panamanian-flagged tanker laden with Iranian oil.

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China slams US for escalating South China Sea tensions & 'slandering' Chinese conduct


RT
Tue, 23 Jul 2019 10:01 UTC
South China Sea China navy submarine
© Reuters / China Stringer Network
A nuclear-powered submarine of the Chinese People's Liberation Army Navy in the South China Sea, April 12, 2018.
Recent American criticisms of Chinese conduct in the South China Sea amount to "slander," the country's foreign ministry has said, insisting US interference only complicates the dispute over the highly-trafficked sealane.

The contested waters have long been a source of conflict for Beijing and its neighbors, particularly over rights to drill for the area's rich offshore gas and oil deposits. The United States has repeatedly called on China to abandon its claims to the territory and accuses the country of threatening the freedom of shipping in the area.

Following a flare-up of tension between China and Vietnam over the territory, the US State Department condemned what it called China's "repeated provocative actions" in a statement on Saturday, and called on Beijing to "cease its bullying behavior." The statement followed similar remarks on Friday by US National Security Advisor John Bolton.
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UK begs EU for 'protection in Persian Gulf' as they escalate tensions with Iran


RT
Tue, 23 Jul 2019 10:01 UTC
England navy HMS Montrose
© Royal Navy via Reuters / Joel Rouse
Royal Navy frigate HMS Montrose, currently in the Persian Gulf
The once-mighty sea power Britain has called for an "European-led maritime protection" mission in the Persian Gulf, after London and Tehran escalated tensions by seizing each other's oil tankers.

Speaking before the Parliament on Monday, UK Foreign Secretary Jeremy Hunt called for a multinational fleet to "support safe passage of crew and cargo" in and out of the Gulf. He offered no details on how many ships and which countries would be involved, or how the mission would relate to Operation Sentinel, announced by US Central Command last week with the exact same objective.

Hunt's announcement followed Iran's seizure of a British-flagged oil tanker Stena Imperoin the Strait of Hormuz citing violation of maritime traffic rules, two weeks after UK forces confiscated a tanker carrying Iranian oil off Gibraltar.

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Snakes in Suits

Our ruling elites have no idea how much we want to see them all in prison jumpsuits

Charles Hugh Smith
of two minds
Sun, 21 Jul 2019 00:00 UTC
prison jumpsuits
Even the most distracted, fragmented tribe of the peasantry eventually notices that they're not in the top 1%, or the top 0.1%.

Let's posit that America will confront a Great Crisis in the next decade. This is the presumption of The Fourth Turning, a 4-generational cycle of 80 years that correlates rather neatly with the Great Crises of the past: 1781 (Revolutionary War, constitutional crisis); 1861 (Civil War) and 1941 (World War II, global war).

What will be the next Great Crisis? Some anticipate another great-power war, others foresee another civil war, still others reckon a military coup is likely, and some view a collapse of the economy and U.S. dollar as inevitable.

While anything's possible, I propose a novel crisis unlike any in the past, a Moral Crisis in which the people challenge the power of the nation's corrupt Ruling Elites: not just elected officials, but the technocrats of the Deep State, the vested interests pillaging the nation, the New Overlords of Big Tech, the financier New Nobility, the Corporate Media and the self-serving state/corporate technocrat Nomenklatura who do the dirty work of the Ruling Elites.

Divide-and-Conquer has been the absurdly easy strategy of the Ruling Elites to fragment and disempower the citizenry. It's child's play for the Ruling Elites to ceaselessly promote a baker's dozen of divisive issues via the corporate media, and then watch the resulting conflicts split the citizenry into fragmented camps which subdivide further with every new toxic injection.
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Ghislaine Maxwell suddenly torpedoes her oceanic non-profit in wake of scandal surrounding close associate Jeffrey Epstein

Áine Cain
Business Insider
Thu, 18 Jul 2019 10:42 UTC
Ghislaine Maxwell,

Ghislaine Maxwell and Jeffrey Epstein
Embattled socialite Ghislaine Maxwell seemingly sank her own oceanic conservancy group less than a week after her longtime associate Jeffrey Epstein was arrested on sex trafficking charges.

Maxwell has been accused of acting as the convicted sexual predator's accomplice, recruiting underage girls and abusing them alongside Epstein — allegations that she publicly denied in 2015. The British native is the youngest child of late media mogul Robert Maxwell, who died in 1991 while cruising on the "Lady Ghislaine," a yacht named for his daughter. For years, she was also vocal in the press about her passion for oceanic conservancy.

Now her venture, the TerraMar Project, appears to have been swept off by the tide of scrutiny and criticism that sprung up in the wake of Epstein's arrest.

The nonprofit's stated intent, according to tax documents published on ProPublica and reviewed by Business Insider, was "to create a global ocean community to give a voice to the least protected, most ignored part of our planet — the high seas." Business Insider's emails to Maxwell's legal representatives were not returned.

Comment: Ghislaine Maxwell probably needs the time to devote to doing some damage control regrading her reputation vis a vis Jeffrey Epstein's trial. But more than this, she is likely trying to figure out how to stay out of jail if the stories about her procuring children and young women for Epstein's network are true. Lastly, since it seems likely that Maxwell's TerraMar Project was a cover for some other, less altruistic purposes, (since the organization has ties to the notoriously corrupt Clinton Global Initiative), Maxwell likely wants as little attention paid to that venture as possible.

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Nice try, wrong missile: US botches propaganda video accusing Russia of INF violation


RT
Mon, 22 Jul 2019 20:14 UTC
cruise missile
© REUTERS/Maxim Shemetov
Russian defense and foreign ministry officials brief reporters on the SSC-8/9M729 cruise missile system, Moscow, January 23, 2019.
The US mission to NATO sought to blame Russia for the expiration of an arms control treaty by posting a Twitter cartoon claiming Moscow had developed a forbidden missile - but didn't help its own argument by showing the wrong one.

In a surprisingly poor-quality video, narrated by a female AI voice, the US accused Russia of developing a missile that was banned under the 1987 Intermediate-Range Nuclear Forces (INF) Treaty, and said there was still time for Moscow to "come back into full and verifiable compliance" before the deal expires on August 2.

Not only is this not true, but the missile system shown in the cartoon was the perfectly legal and completely different Iskander-M.

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New MH17 Doc Reveals Evidence Tampering, Dutch Cover-up of Forged Recordings, Hidden Ukrainian Radar Records

John Helmer
Dances with Bears
Sun, 21 Jul 2019 16:47 UTC
mahathir
mh17 lies
A new documentary film by Max van der Werff, the leading independent investigator of the Malaysia Airlines Flight MH17 disaster, has revealed breakthrough evidence of tampering and forging of prosecution materials; suppression of Ukrainian Air Force radar tapes; and lying by the Dutch, Ukrainian, US and Australian governments. An attempt by agents of the US Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) to take possession of the black boxes of the downed aircraft is also revealed by a Malaysian National Security Council official for the first time.

The sources of the breakthrough are Malaysian — Prime Minister of Malaysia Mohamad Mahathir; Colonel Mohamad Sakri, the officer in charge of the MH17 investigation for the Prime Minister's Department and Malaysia's National Security Council following the crash on July 17, 2014; and a forensic analysis by Malaysia's OG IT Forensic Services of Ukrainian Secret Service (SBU) telephone tapes which Dutch prosecutors have announced as genuine.

The 298 casualties of MH17 included 192 Dutch; 44 Malaysians; 27 Australians; 15 Indonesians. The nationality counts vary because the airline manifest does not identify dual nationals of Australia, the UK, and the US.

The new film throws the full weight of the Malaysian Government, one of the five members of the Joint Investigation Team (JIT), against the published findings and the recent indictment of Russian suspects reported by the Dutch officials in charge of the JIT; in addition to Malaysia and The Netherlands, the members of the JIT are Australia, Ukraine and Belgium. Malaysia's exclusion from the JIT at the outset, and Belgium's inclusion (4 Belgian nationals were listed on the MH17 passenger manifest), have never been explained.
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