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Serbian president to visit Putin, discuss ramifications of Kosovo border crisis

RT
Tue, 02 Oct 2018 11:25 UTC

Days after placing the Serbian military on high alert over a border incident with Kosovo, President Aleksandar Vucic is visiting Moscow to meet his Russian counterpart Vladimir Putin.

While Vucic said the situation with the incursion of Kosovan commandos would be part of the discussion with Putin, the Kremlin stressed that the visit had been planned months ahead and was not directly linked to tension in the Balkans. Vucic last visited Russia in May during Victory Day celebrations and, before that, in December last year.

Last Saturday, dozens of Kosovan troops entered a predominantly Serb enclave in the north of the self-proclaimed republic, seizing several industrial sites. The incursion, which violated agreements between Belgrade and Pristina, was justified by security concerns during a visit by Kosovan leader Hashim Thaci. Serbia protested against the move and put its troops on high alert in response.

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Russian General: Syria ready to open Quinetra checkpoint at border with Israel

Sputnik
Tue, 02 Oct 2018 11:25 UTC

The Quneitra border crossing between Syria and Israel is ready for opening in the Arab republic, Lt. Gen. Sergei Kuralenko, the deputy commander of the Russian forces in Syria, told journalists on Tuesday.

In late September, Israeli Defense Minister Avigdor Lieberman said that the Jewish state was ready to open the Quneitra checkpoint, adding that "now the ball is in the Syrian court."

Comment: The border may have been officially closed but it leaked like a sieve with supplies for terrorists:

Iran slams Saudi Arabia as top 'terrorist sponsor' at the UN

RT
Tue, 02 Oct 2018 11:25 UTC

A fiery speech by an Iranian representative, responding to Saudi accusations at the UN General Assembly, blamed terrorist activity around the globe on Riyadh - and even quoted Hillary Clinton to back the claim.

Accusing Iran of supporting terrorism was a "strange and outlandish claim" by Saudi Foreign Minister Adel Jubeir, the Iranian representative said. He was addressing the United Nations in Arabic, explaining that he was doing so in order "to make sure that our position is rendered clear" to Riyadh.

"Everybody knows that Saudi Arabia supports terrorism in a very blatant and widespread manner," the diplomat said. He then added, unexpectedly, that "in the framework of WikiLeaks in 2009, Hillary Clinton is said to have stated that Saudi Arabia is the greatest donor to terrorist groups around the world."

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"They have to keep us happy": Trump claims India eager to talk as US doles out more tariff threats

RT
Tue, 02 Oct 2018 03:29 UTC

Already engaged in numerous trade disputes across the globe, Donald Trump has slammed India as a "tariff king" that is clinging to the "privilege" of trading with the US and struggling to negotiate a deal to appease Washington.

"India, which is the tariff king, they called us and they said, 'We want to start negotiations immediately,'" Trump said on Monday as he announced a new trade agreement between the United States, Mexico and Canada that would replace the 1994 NAFTA.

New Delhi allegedly reached out to United States Trade Representative Robert Lighthizer in an effort to negotiate new terms just to keep President Trump "happy."

"Isn't that nice? Isn't that nice? It's true. They have to keep us happy, because they understand that we're wise to what's been happening," Trump claimed on Monday.

Comment: More hot air from the deflating US empire:

Also check out SOTT radio's: NewsReal: What's The Problem With Nationalism?

Chinese destroyer chases USS Decatur in South China Sea

RT
Tue, 02 Oct 2018 01:09 UTC

A Chinese destroyer sent to escort the USS Decatur on a 'freedom of navigation' sail-by in the disputed South China Sea came dangerously close and forced the US vessel to maneuver to "prevent collision," the US Navy said.

The encounter between the US and Chinese Navies unfolded on Sunday morning when the Arleigh Burke-class destroyer, sailing under the 'freedom of navigation' principle, approached close to one of the Gaven Reefs in the Tizard Bank of the Spratly Islands in the South China Sea.

In response, China dispatched a Luyang-class destroyer to escort the American warship away from the disputed area, allegedly behaving in an "unsafe and unprofessional" manner, according to the US version of events.

The Chinese destroyer conducted "a series of increasingly aggressive maneuvers accompanied by warnings for Decatur to depart the area," Captain Charlie Brown, a US Pacific Fleet spokesman, said on Monday. "The PRC destroyer approached within 45 yards of Decatur's bow, after which Decatur maneuvered to prevent a collision."

Comment: As with most rules, the 'Freedom of Navigation principle' only really applies to the West's competitors: US media loses it when Russian 'spy' ship makes annual trip to the Caribbean

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Moscow slams Kosovo invasion of Serb-majority area - "could've started new spiral of violence"

RT
Mon, 01 Oct 2018 07:08 UTC

© Laura Hasani / Reuters
A man rides on a scooter along a street past parked Kosovo police armored vehicles in Kosovo, on March 27, 2018.

The "reckless" intrusion of Kosovar Special Forces into the Serb-majority area of Kosovo could have sent the entire Balkans into a new spiral of violence, the Russian Foreign Ministry has warned.

The ministry's comment was provoked by a recent incident, involving Kosovar police entering a northern part of the breakaway region, which is populated by ethnic Serbs. Pristina considers this area to be part of its self-proclaimed state while the locals refuse to recognize its authority, adding fuel to an already tense situation in relations between Pristina and Belgrade.

An "ostentatious invasion of Kosovo's police special forces to the Serb regions in the northern part of the [area] on September 29, which violated the agreements between Belgrade and Pristina, was a provocation aimed at intimidating the Serbs living in Kosovo and exerting pressure on Serbia," the Foreign Ministry's spokeswoman Maria Zakharova said in a statement Monday.

Such "reckless actions" could have led to the "renewed bloodshed in Kosovo and the destabilization of the whole Balkan region," she warned, adding that Kosovo's continued attempts to take control over the Serb-inhabited areas would only lead to the escalation of the ethnic tensions.

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Lebanon refutes Israeli claim that they host Hezbollah missile sites

RFE/RL
Tue, 02 Oct 2018 07:02 UTC

Lebanon's foreign minister has escorted dozens of ambassadors on a tour of facilities near the Beirut international airport in a bid to disprove Israeli allegations that the Iran-backed Hizballah movement is secretly assembling missiles there.

Gebran Bassil told the group of over 70 diplomats and a handful of journalists on the October 1 tour that his government would not allow rocket facilities near the airport and that Hizballah is "wiser" than to place them there. He said Israel's claims are "inaccurate" and are not backed by "compelling evidence."

"Lebanon demands that Israel ceases its madness," he said.

Comment: Good luck with that!

In a speech before the UN General Assembly last week, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu accused the powerful Shi'ite militia of assembling precision-guided missiles near the airport and hiding them among civilians. He held up an aerial image of the area with three alleged missile sites labeled.

Netanyahu accused Hizballah and its sponsor Iran of using Beirut residents as human shields.

Comment: Just like the Israeli jets did with the Russian Il-20? And just like the IDF repeatedly does by using Palestinian as human shields on their raids in the West Bank? This is pure projection.

Bassil said his tour was not "a fact-finding mission," but part of a "counter-diplomatic campaign" to rebut the allegations, which he said could serve as a pretext for an Israeli attack.

Comment: See also: Iran, Israel exchange barbs during UNGA debates with Syria at heart of discord

Election Interference: Senior Google search engineer advocates for censorship of Republican Tennessee senate candidate

Allum Bokhari
Breitbart
Mon, 01 Oct 2018 00:00 UTC

A senior software engineer at Google with responsibility for a key feature of Google's search engine labeled Tennessee Senate candidate Rep. Marsha Blackburn (R-TN) a "violent thug" and a "terrorist," who Google shouldn't "negotiate" with, according to internal emails obtained by Breitbart News. The employee also defended the censorship of her campaign ads on social media.

The comments took place in an internal email discussion that began on June 19 this year. The topic of discussion was Rep. Blackburn's Fox News op-ed of the same month, which urged Silicon Valley companies to address bias against conservatives on their platforms. Blackburn, who has herself been the target of social media censorship, has been a vocal critic of tech giants like Google, Facebook, and Twitter during her time in Congress.

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Bombshell Council of Europe report exposes Kosovo leader as mafia don trafficking in human organs, heroin and weapons

Paul Lewis
The Guardian
Mon, 01 Oct 2018 22:00 UTC

'I like your style!'

Kosovo's prime minister is the head of a "mafia-like" Albanian group responsible for smuggling weapons, drugs and human organs through eastern Europe, according to a Council of Europe inquiry report on organised crime.

Hashim Thaçi is identified as the boss of a network that began operating criminal rackets in the run-up to the 1998-99 Kosovo war, and has held powerful sway over the country's government since.

The report of the two-year inquiry, which cites FBI and other intelligence sources, has been obtained by the Guardian. It names Thaçi as having over the last decade exerted "violent control" over the heroin trade. Figures from Thaçi's inner circle are also accused of taking captives across the border into Albania after the war, where a number of Serbs are said to have been murdered for their kidneys, which were sold on the black market.

Legal proceedings began in a Pristina district court today into a case of alleged organ trafficking discovered by police in 2008. That case - in which organs are said to have been taken from impoverished victims at a clinic known as Medicus - is said by the report to be linked to Kosovo Liberation Army (KLA) organ harvesting in 2000. It comes at a crucial period for Kosovo, which on Sunday held its first elections since declaring independence from Serbia in 2008. Thaçi claimed victory in the election and has been seeking to form a coalition with opposition parties.

Comment: You can read Marty's full report here.

Thaçi is still the heroin/organ don he was 10 and 15 years ago, and he's still the 'democratically-elected leader of the democratically-carved-out-of-Serbia statelet of Kosovo' (which is effectively a lawless province of Albania)... and will soon become an EU country, where it can join Eurocrats in lecturing others on their wayward morals...

Iran 'gets revenge' for West's proxy terrorist attack in Ahvaz by launching missiles on ISIS in Syria

Sott.net
Mon, 01 Oct 2018 08:26 UTC

On the same day that Iran published videos of its navy harassing US aircraft carriers in the Persian Gulf earlier this year, Russian media are reporting that the Iranian Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) says it has:

hit the ringleaders responsible for a terrorist attack on a military parade in Ahvaz on September 22, which killed 30 people and injured over 60.

In a statement published by its own outlet Sepah, the IRGC said its Aerospace Division targeted the "headquarters of the terrorists" east of the Euphrates in Syria. The statement was accompanied by photos of surface-to-surface missiles being launched. It claims that "a large number" of the terrorists were hit.

Before the IRGC announced the attack, videos were posted on social media purporting to show the moment of the launch. Some users said there were a total of eight missiles fired, and that two of them crashed shortly after being fired.

It was a pretty spectacular show of force by the Iranians:

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Puppet Masters

Serbian president to visit Putin, discuss ramifications of Kosovo border crisis

Russian General: Syria ready to open Quinetra checkpoint at border with Israel

Iran slams Saudi Arabia as top 'terrorist sponsor' at the UN

"They have to keep us happy": Trump claims India eager to talk as US doles out more tariff threats

Chinese destroyer chases USS Decatur in South China Sea

Moscow slams Kosovo invasion of Serb-majority area - "could've started new spiral of violence"

Lebanon refutes Israeli claim that they host Hezbollah missile sites

Election Interference: Senior Google search engineer advocates for censorship of Republican Tennessee senate candidate

Bombshell Council of Europe report exposes Kosovo leader as mafia don trafficking in human organs, heroin and weapons

Iran 'gets revenge' for West's proxy terrorist attack in Ahvaz by launching missiles on ISIS in Syria

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