Today's piece is just the latest in an almost endless series of incidents demonstrating how the entire economy is systematically rigged to benefit a very small group of people at the expense of everyone.
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Today's piece is just the latest in an almost endless series of incidents demonstrating how the entire economy is systematically rigged to benefit a very small group of people at the expense of everyone.
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Rebel fighters fire mortar shells at the frontline in the Jabal al-Akrad area in Syria's northwestern Latakia province.
Rebel fighters fire mortar shells at the frontline in the Jabal al-Akrad area in Syria's northwestern Latakia province.
The Organization for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons (OPCW) released a confidential report on October 29, revealing the latest use of chemical weapons in Syria.
The summary of the report seen by Reuters concluded "with the utmost confidence that at least two people were exposed to sulfur mustard [on August 21]" in the town of Marea, located north of Aleppo.
"It is very likely that the effects of sulfur mustard resulted in the death of a baby," the report added.
Notably, it is unclear which militant group used the mustard gas, as the OPCW is not tasked with identifying who used the chemical weapon.
Comment: Does it matter which group? For all intents and purposes, they're identical. As to where the weapons came from, take a guess:
- Chemical weapons sent from Turkey to Syria: Former Turkish provincial official
- NATO proxies using WMD's in Syria
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The dump would last for about a week that is needed to make critical repairs to the city's waste-water system. Over that time an estimated 7.5 billion liters of contaminated fluid will be discharged. The work must be completed before December 5.
The plan has been in the pipeline for 18 months and approved by the Conservative government, which flipped-flopped just a week ahead of the general election making it a campaign issue. New Environment Minister Catherine McKenna put it back on track, adding some provisions for emergency response plans and an upgrade to the city's water quality monitoring.
"I wish there were a magic bullet here, I wish there were other options," McKenna said in a conference call from Paris, where she is preparing for the upcoming UN conference on climate change. "This release is far from ideal, but it is needed for the city of Montreal to perform critical maintenance on their infrastructure before winter.
"If we do not allow this to go ahead and there was an unplanned discharge, the long-term impact to flora and fauna could be significantly more," the Globe and Mail cited her as saying.
Comment: How can an "unplanned discharge" be worse than the planned one?
Comment: Releasing untreated sewage will be an environmental disaster. Surely a better plan could have been devised over the past 18 months.
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"Payments for 2014 are materially affected by errors. We therefore give an adverse opinion on their legality and regularity," the report concluded.
The auditor has called for the EU to implement a "wholly new approach" in spending and investing as it is too slow to respond to crises.
Comment: This is yet another example how the power elites don't have the best interest of people in mind.
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An Israeli 'Shimshon' C-130 transport aircraft flies over the southern United States during the 'Southern Strike' exercise on October 30, 2015.
An Israeli 'Shimshon' C-130 transport aircraft flies over the southern United States during the 'Southern Strike' exercise on October 30, 2015.
Israeli pilots took to the skies over the southern United States over the past two weeks, flying alongside their American counterparts during the appropriately named "Southern Strike" exercise.
The exercise did not feature action-packed simulated dogfights or bombing runs, but rather the less glamorous, but no less important, transport and logistical missions involving the Israeli Air Forces's C-130 Hercules airplanes — both the older "Karnaf" model, and the new "Shimshon" version which Israel received from Lockheed just last year.
Comment: From the generous support of U.S. tax payers.
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The remains of a Russian airliner are seen as an army vehicle guards the crash site in the al-Hasanah area in El Arish city, north Egypt, November 1, 2015.
The remains of a Russian airliner are seen as an army vehicle guards the crash site in the al-Hasanah area in El Arish city, north Egypt, November 1, 2015.
"The possibility of a terrorist act, of course, remains among the reasons of what had happened" to the Kolavia flight 7K9268, Medvedev told Rossiyskaya Gazeta newspaper. The PM stressed that the inquiry into the cause of the worst disaster in history of Russia's civil aviation, which took the lives of 224 passengers and crew members, is "still ongoing."
Russia's presidential press-secretary, Dmitry Peskov, had said earlier that the international investigators from Russia, Egypt and other interested nations had not yet reached the preliminary conclusions on what caused the Airbus A321 crash.
Egypt has launched its own separate investigation into the possibility of a bomb being planted aboard the Kolavia flight, a senior Egyptian official told BBC. Airbus chief executive Fabrice Bregier also shed some light on the investigation, saying that it had so far failed to reveal any technical malfunction that could have led to the disaster.
Also on Monday, Israel said a terror attack was the "highest of probabilities" for the crash of the Russian airliner. "We are not taking part in the investigation, but from what we hear and understand, I will be surprised if it turns out that this was not a terrorist attack whereby a bomb exploded inside the aircraft," said a spokesman for Israeli Defense Minister Moshe Yaalon.
Comment: How revealing. A possible truth wrapped up with a probable lie.
Was an 'exotic energy weapon' used to down Russian plane in Sinai?
There has, however, been another interesting but less noticed development this week in the Russian operation in Syria: the Russians are quietly but very effectively "digging in".
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Comment: Russia continues in Syria as it began, methodically, thoroughly, and completely within the bounds of international law.
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Debris from the Russian Metroject A321 that crashed over the Sinai peninsula on Oct 31st, 2015
Debris from the Russian Metroject A321 that crashed over the Sinai peninsula on Oct 31st, 2015
Ashraf Ali al-Gharably was the leader of the Ansar Bait al-Maqdis group, which recently pledged allegiance to IS and rebranded itself as the Sinai Province of the Islamic State.
On Monday, Cairo police say Gharably was killed in a firefight while resisting arrest.
"He sensed their presence and shot at them in an attempt to flee, requiring the police forces to exchange fire with him leading to his death," the Egyptian Interior ministry said in a statement, according to Agence France-Presse.
Comment: So this "leader" was killed now in order to let people know the governments can handle the situation? Something else to consider: Was an 'exotic energy weapon' used to down Russian plane in Sinai?
"Their (NATO drills) aim is public relations for a dying alliance, which is a kind of a dinosaur in the modern world," Oberg said in an interview.
"This is a military-industrial-media-academic complex playing its games. In order to get the payers to pay for this kind of nonsense you have to have what we in the social psychology call 'fearology'; you have to boost fear among the citizens so that they think that this is relevant and necessary to do this and other kinds of things."
Comment: Unfortunately this useless dinosaur is still managing to bring death, destruction and chaos to every nation it sets its sights upon, and its Gladio networks are still very much operational.
- False-flag terror: Gladio B and the Battle for Eurasia using 'Islamic terrorists'
- Global Gladio: NATO terrorist network reaches into Asia with Bangkok bombing
- NATO wants more aggression: Pentagon seeks to deploy more troops to Europe
- Warwhores: NATO launches biggest war games in 13 years; 36,000 troops, 200 aircraft & 60 vessels
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Sunday, a rocket was launched from the Gaza Strip and hit an open area in southern Israel, according to the IDF. "In response to last night's rocket attack, the IAF targeted a Hamas position in southern Gaza," the IDF posted on Twitter.
The IDF claims that some 19 rockets have been fired from Palestinian territory into Israeli territory since the beginning of the year.
The most recent IDF claims are concurrent with renewed incidents in the long-standing internecine violence between Palestinians and Israelis. The latest skirmishes broke out amid fears Tel Aviv was planning to revise the visitation status quo at the Temple Mount, which houses the Al-Aqsa mosque, Islam's third holiest site.
Israel consistently accused Hamas, a Palestinian Islamic political organization and the de facto authority in Gaza, of bombing Israel from occupied Palestinian territories of the West Bank and the Gaza Strip.
Palestinians seek recognition of their independent state within territories of the West Bank and the Gaza Strip.
Comment: 'Rocket fire' from Palestine coincidentally appears every time Israel wants to kill more Palestinians.
- The psychopathic ambition of Benjamin Netanyahu: "Israel must become a world power"
- Is Netanyahu's insanity calculated?
- Netanyahu's ramblings about one Palestinian Mufti being responsible for the Holocaust wakes up the world to his insanity
Comment: See also Fannie and Freddie are back: