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The drone went down in Bir Mutla west of Kuwait City, near the Ali Al Salem air base located in central Kuwait. The base houses several US air force planes and staff.
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The drone went down in Bir Mutla west of Kuwait City, near the Ali Al Salem air base located in central Kuwait. The base houses several US air force planes and staff.
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Syria has been in a state of civil war since 2011, with government forces battling against the so-called moderate opposition and various extremist groups, including ISIL and the Nusra Front. On September 30, Russia launched an air operation in Syria at the request of President Bashar Assad, targeting ISIL positions with precision airstrikes. According to the Russian General Staff, militants have been retreating.
Russian President Vladimir Putin confirmed in September that the time frame for Russia's campaign in Syria would be limited to that of the Syrian army's offensive. The Russian leader ruled out the participation of Russian armed forces in a ground operation in Syria.
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Russia's Anti-Terrorist Committee: jihadi militants were killed in combat in the province of Ingushetia, west of Chechnya. 02.08. 2015
Russia's Anti-Terrorist Committee: jihadi militants were killed in combat in the province of Ingushetia, west of Chechnya. 02.08. 2015
- Islamic guerrilla infiltration of Chechnya: separatists, rebels, guerrillas, fighters
- Chechen beheadings and executions of Russian soldiers, ISIS-style
- Chechen attacks: civilian hospitals, murdering students, hostage-taking
For a week, almost all the Western media, reluctant as young girls, have done everything to not talk about Islamic terrorism: Even though ISIS has claimed responsibility; even though airlines (significant fact: especially airlines for the Gulf monarchies) announced that they have suspended flights on that route; even though Russian flights to the beaches of Egypt are frequent and had never before heard of any problems or incidents.
Then came the American green light: it was a bomb, said the US Secret Service, to make the jet with 224 Russian tourists on board fall precipitously to the Sinai. An announcement accompanied by other airlines backing out: The English and Irish have stopped flying in those skies, and also Easyjet backed down. At that point, even the free press of the free world has come forward: maybe it was an attack, the papers say. Bravo, seven more.
It's a process that is not surprising. Indeed, it is an old story. From the second half of the nineties, after the first Chechen war (1994-1996), when the separatist front led by Dzhokar Dudayev began to be more and more heavily infiltrated by Islamists, and then even funded (nearly every day they opened a new mosque) and organized (some of the guerrilla leaders, however, in perpetual conflict with local leaders, were Saudis or Jordanians) from Saudi Arabia, and of course nurtured and motivated by the brutality and violence of the Russian army.
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Walker told host John Catsimatidis on "The Cats Roundtable" on New York's AM-970 in an interview airing Sunday:
"If you end up adding to that $18.5 trillion the unfunded civilian and military pensions and retiree healthcare, the additional underfunding for Social Security, the additional underfunding for Medicare, various commitments and contingencies that the federal government has, the real number is about $65 trillion rather than $18 trillion, and it's growing automatically absent reforms."
Comment: This will not end well. If the government can't keep these unfunded liabilities afloat, pensions and healthcare will be lost and will anger a lot of people. The power elites can't have that but are too blind to see the writing on the wall. They are all about world dominance come hell or high water.
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Although the influential CAP think tank pretends that it provides the US public with an unbiased "objective" scholarship, there is something rotten about the censorship of Israel-related issues it has imposed upon its writers, US journalist and author Glenn Greenwald points out.
"Leaked internal emails from the powerful Democratic think tank Center for American Progress (CAP) shed light on several public controversies involving the organization, particularly in regard to its positioning on Israel. They reveal the lengths to which the group has gone in order to placate AIPAC and long-time Clinton operative and Israel activist Ann Lewis — including censoring its own writers on the topic of Israel," Greenwald wrote in his article for The Intercept.CAP, which calls itself an "independent nonpartisan policy institute," is famous for exerting massive influence in Washington through its ties to the Democratic Party, the journalist writes.
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"The TPP, along with the WTO [World Trade Organization] and NAFTA [North American Free Trade Agreement], is the most brazen corporate power grab in American history," Ralph Nader told me when I reached him by phone in Washington, D.C. "It allows corporations to bypass our three branches of government to impose enforceable sanctions by secret tribunals. These tribunals can declare our labor, consumer and environmental protections [to be] unlawful, non-tariff barriers subject to fines for noncompliance. The TPP establishes a transnational, autocratic system of enforceable governance in defiance of our domestic laws."
Comment: The so-called 'War on Terror'. A crippled economy (getting worse). Core Curriculum. The push for mass vaccination. Erosion of civil liberties. Police state tactics and lethal force against citizens. TPP. There seems to be no sphere of life in the U.S. that has not been touched by pathological thinking and utter disregard for the well being of your average everyday individual.
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While covering the developments related to the Russian A321 plane crash in Egypt, media should rely exclusively on official statements, while any "uncertain" sources should be avoided, the head of the Egypt-led investigation committee said on Sunday.
On Saturday, the Egypt-led investigation committee issued a statement, according to which the reason for the Russian Kogalymavia plane crash in Sinai is yet to be determined. The following day, Reuters reported, citing a unidentified member of the inquiry, that investigators into the plane crash in Egypt were "90 percent sure" the noise heard on the final seconds of a cockpit recording was an explosion caused by a bomb.
Comment: Essentially the investigators are calling on the media to do their jobs responsibly. It's too bad they're just paid to be propaganda mouthpieces.
Also see: Was an 'exotic energy weapon' used to down Russian plane in Sinai?
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"Forty-eight hours ago an intelligence plane of US Coast Guard raided Venezuelan region," Minister of Defense for the National Armed Forces of the Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela Vladimir Padrino Lopez told the local media.
The incident took place in the south of the country, the official said, without specifying the details.
There are plenty of strange, anomalous details about the crash itself that the mainstream narratives can't explain. Today on Behind the Headlines, we'll be talking about what we really know about the crash, and what might explain the data available at this point in time.
Join us this Sunday, 8 November 2015, from 2-4pm EST / 8-10pm CET, for the perspective you won't hear on the mainstream media.
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Comment: The US/NATO alliance is unwilling and unable to acknowledge assistance from Russia because Russia is summarily eliminating covert Western tools, exposing it/them for frauds. The disparity becomes more and more evident as the Western cabalists remain purposely ineffective against ISIS. The US is the world's number one terrorist nation.
Was the '90's game plan in Chechnya a Western-inspired dry run? Putin stated that the terror in Chechnya and in the Russian Caucasus in the early 1990's was actively backed by the CIA and western intelligence services to deliberately weaken Russia. He noted that the Russian FSB foreign intelligence had documentation of the US covert role without giving details as to the long-standing hidden agenda of influential circles in Washington to destroy Russia as a functioning sovereign state. This agenda included the neo-nazi coup d'etat in Ukraine and severe financial sanction warfare against Moscow. [Documentary on Rossiya 1, aired April 26, 2015]