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'Vigorous response': Israel strikes Gaza after Hamas drone 'drops explosive' on IDF vehicle


RT
Sun, 08 Sep 2019 19:00 UTC
An Israeli F-16 fighter jet
© Jack Guez / AFP
The Israeli military has launched a series of attacks against multiple Hamas targets in Gaza, accusing militants of sending an armed drone against an IDF vehicle earlier in the day.

"We just struck a number of Hamas targets, including offensive naval equipment and 2 military compounds in Gaza," the IDF said in a tweet, as usual, emphasizing that Israel holds Hamas responsible for anything that happens in the enclave it governs.


The overnight raid comes after PM Benjamin Netanyahu - who is aggressively campaigning for re-election after his failure to secure a coalition government - vowed a "vigorous response" to Hamas. On the previous night, Israeli tanks shelled an observation post in Gaza, in response to a barrage of rockets hitting Israeli soil.

Comment: Israel: the paragon of 'proportionality'. They don't even pretend to condemn collective punishment - they fully embrace it. That's just one of the reasons Israel is a criminal state.

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France rejects Brexit delay: 'We can't do this every three months'


The Local, France
Sun, 08 Sep 2019 18:52 UTC
le drian
© GERARD JULIEN / AFP
The deadline is now scheduled for October 31 but has been further clouded by the political turmoil in London.

"In the current circumstances, it's no! ... We are not going to go through this every three months," Le Drian said on Le Grand Rendez-vous Europe1/CNEWS/Les Echos programme.

"The (British) say that they want to put forward other solutions, alternative arrangements so that they can leave," he said, referring to Prime Minister Boris Johnson's efforts to find a way out of the backstop mechanism for Northern Ireland, the main sticking point.

"But we have not seen them and so it is 'no'... let the British authorities tell us the way forward," he said.

"Let them take responsibility for their situation. It's very worrying. They have to tell us what they want."

Britain was originally meant to leave the European Union on March 29 but with parliament deadlocked the British government ended up negotiating two delays, the latest to October 31.

Comment: See also:

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Star of David

Netanyahu distances himself from son's tweets about Rabin killing Israelis & Holocaust survivors


RT
Sun, 08 Sep 2019 18:21 UTC
Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu with his son, Yair
Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu with his son, Yair
Benjamin Netanyahu has distanced himself from his son Yair's tweets about assassinated Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin, which accused him of murdering Holocaust survivors and causing the death of 2,000 Israelis.

The Israeli prime minister said in a statement that he doesn't agree with his son's statements, writing that Yair's "positions are his alone."

Yair had claimed Rabin "murdered Holocaust survivors on the Altalena," referring to a 1948 incident of fighting between the newly-formed IDF, of which Rabin was a commander, and the Jewish militia group Irgun. The incident involved the IDF shooting at the Altalena ship that had been carrying arms and recruits from Europe, but had offloaded its passengers before fighting began.

He also said that the former Labour Party prime minister "caused the deaths of 2,000 Israelis" when he brought Palestinian leader Yasir Arafat "and tens of thousands of terrorists" back from Tunis, Tunisia, where they were based before peace talks began ahead of signing of the Oslo Accords in 1993.

The since-deleted tweets were in response to Democratic Camp MK Stav Shaffir's comments to an Israeli journalist that Netanyahu should not be compared to Rabin. "Rabin boldly led the country toward a peace agreement. Bibi is suspected of bribery, fraud and breach of trust," Shaffir wrote.

Comment: Yair may be a total slimeball, but he was actually right about one thing: the early Jewish terrorists in Palestine killed plenty of Jews. Just research the SS Patria explosion. Haganah "accidentally" killed 267 Jewish refugees from Europe. That was just one example of many.

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How Syria defeated the 2012-2019 invasion by Al-Qaeda terrorists and the US

Eric Zuesse
The Strategic Culture Foundation
Sun, 08 Sep 2019 17:49 UTC
US army training terrorists Syria
© AFP 2015/ ABD DOUMANYUS army training terrorists Syria in 2015
On August 31st, the brilliant anonymous German intelligence analyst who blogs as "Moon of Alabama" headlined "Syria - Coordinated Foreign Airstrike Kills Leaders Of Two Al-Qaeda Aligned Groups", and he reported that,
"Some three hours ago an air- or missile-strike in Syria's Idleb governorate hit a meeting of leaders of the al-Qaeda aligned Haras-al-Din and Hay'at Tahrir al-Sham (HTS) aka Jabhat al-Nusra. Both were killed. It is likely that leaders of other Jihadist groups were also present. The hit completely destroyed a Haras al-Din guesthouse or headquarter. The Syrian Observatory says that more than 40 people were killed in the strike. The hit will make it much easier for the Syrian army campaign to liberate Idleb governorate."
At long last, Syria's army and Russia's air force are no longer being threatened with World War III by the US and its allies if they proceed to destroy the tens of thousands of Al-Qaida-led jihadists whom the US had helped to train and arm (and had been protecting in Syria ever since December 2012) in order to overthrow Syria's non-sectarian Government and replace it by a fundamentalist-Sunni Government which the royal Sauds who own Saudi Arabia would appoint. All throughout that war, those Al-Qaeda-led 'moderate rebels' had been organized from the governate or province of Idlib (or Idleb). But now, most (if not all) of their leadership are dead.
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Light Saber

Federal judge berates State Department attorneys in Killary email case, warns 'No FOIA exception for political expedience'

Christina Laila
The Gateway Pundit
Fri, 06 Sep 2019 16:29 UTC
Killary
© The Gateway Pundit
Conservative watchdog group Judicial Watch on Friday released transcript from their hearing on August 22 where Judge Royce Lamberth granted new discovery and witnesses on Hillary Clinton's email case.

Judge Lamberth, a Reagan appointee blasted State Department lawyers defending Hillary Clinton who were working to cover up her email scandal.

'There is no FOIA exemption for political expedience, nor is there one for bureaucratic incompetence,' Judge Lamberth said warning the government lawyers.

Judge Lamberth also lambasted the State Department lawyers when they tried to stop Judicial Watch from gathering more evidence in Hillary's case.
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Tulsi Gabbard: Impeachment proceedings would only tear US apart

John Bowden
The Hill
Sat, 07 Sep 2019 16:27 UTC
Rep. Tulsi Gabbard New Hampshire
Rep. Tulsi Gabbard, a candidate for president, with voters in New Hampshire.
Rep. Tulsi Gabbard (D-Hawaii) said in a new interview that she opposes an effort by dozens of House Democrats for an impeachment inquiry into the president, saying it would cause further divisions within the U.S.

In an interview on Full Court Press with Greta Van Susteren, the 2020 candidate for president took a firm stance against impeachment, putting her at odds with other Democratic candidates for president including Sens. Kamala Harris (D-Calif.) and Elizabeth Warren (D-Mass.).

Comment: The Democrats on the impeachment bandwagon are merely grandstanding. So long as Pelosi won't support it, the idea is dead in the water.

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Iran detains foreign vessel for allegedly smuggling fuel in Persian Gulf - reports


Sputnik
Sat, 07 Sep 2019 10:53 UTC
iran tanker
© AP Photo / Tasnim News Agency / Morteza AkhoondiIn this Sunday, July 21, 2019 photo, an aerial view shows a speedboat of Iran's Revolutionary Guard moving around the British-flagged oil tanker Stena Impero which was seized in the Strait of Hormuz on Friday by the Guard, in the Iranian port of Bandar Abbas
The supposed detention comes amid an increasingly escalating situation in the Persian Gulf, as the United States has been lobbying its allies to start patrolling the area to increase the security of their vessels in the face of what it has called the "Iranian threat". Tehran, for its part, has repeatedly stated that it can guarantee the security of the Gulf region on its own.

Iranian coast guards have seized a ship purportedly carrying nearly 284,000 litres of smuggled diesel in the Persian Gulf and detained its 12 Filipino crew members, ISNA news agency reported.

Over the past three months, Iran has detained three commercial vessels in the Strait of Hormuz, the strategic waterway linking Middle East crude oil producers to key world markets, over alleged maritime violations.

Comment: See also:

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Attention

Taliban warns US will suffer more than anyone after Trump called off landmark peace talks


RT
Sun, 08 Sep 2019 14:24 UTC
Taliban fighters
© Global Look Press / ZUMAPRESS.comTaliban fighters
President Donald Trump's decision to cancel talks with the Taliban will backfire in the future, inflicting more damage to the US, the group said following a terrorist attack that put the Afghan peace process in jeopardy.

The United States will suffer more than anyone else for ditching the negotiations, Reuters quoted Taliban spokesman Zabihullah Mujahid as saying. He claimed that negotiations with the US were going smoothly until Saturday, when Trump tweeted his condemnation of a blast in Kabul that killed 12 people, including civilians and a US service member.

The abrupt cancellation came as senior Taliban representatives were about to meet with Trump in Washington, discussing how both sides could come to terms following nearly two decades of the Afghan war.
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Bizarro Earth

Universal Basic Income + automation + plutocracy = Dystopia

Caitlin Johnstone
Medium
Sun, 08 Sep 2019 12:00 UTC
CNN news
Americans are discussing the possibility of a universal basic income (UBI) more seriously than ever before, largely due to the surprisingly popular campaign of Democratic presidential candidate Andrew Yang. Yang has made UBI the central issue of his platform, promising a "Freedom Dividend" paid for by a Value Added Tax on businesses which would give every American over the age of 18 an unconditional $1,000 a month to help offset the looming crisis of automation replacing US jobs.

"In the next 12 years, 1 out of 3 American workers are at risk of losing their jobs to new technologies — and unlike with previous waves of automation, this time new jobs will not appear quickly enough in large enough numbers to make up for it," Yang's campaign site argues. "To avoid an unprecedented crisis, we're going to have to find a new solution, unlike anything we've done before. It all begins with the Freedom Dividend, a universal basic income for all American adults, no strings attached — a foundation on which a stable, prosperous, and just society can be built."

Yang is absolutely correct that automation is going to be replacing the jobs of many people in the very near future, and he is absolutely correct that new solutions unlike anything ever tried before are going to be necessary to help address this problem. But his plan, and indeed all the most publicized plans which involve the implementation of a universal basic income, will necessarily lead to an oppressive oligarchic dystopia unlike anything we've ever seen before.

Comment: See also: And check out SOTT radio's: Behind the Headlines: Bitcoin, Gold and the Cashless Society

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Better Earth

Putin and Zelensky discuss future contact, settling conflict in Ukraine - Kremlin


RT
Sat, 07 Sep 2019 19:46 UTC
putin zelensky
© Sputnik / Grigoriy Sysoyev (L) / Stringer (R)
Russia's Vladimir Putin and Ukraine's Volodymyr Zelensky had phone talks after the landmark prisoner swap between the two countries, discussing the civil conflict in eastern Ukraine and measures to settle it, the Kremlin said.

The two presidents stressed the humanitarian aspect of the swap that affected 35 people from each side during the phone conversation late Saturday night.

They both agreed that the swap is an important step to mending ties between the two countries, the Kremlin press service said. Putin and Zelensky also discussed the prospects of solving the crisis inside Ukraine and putting the lengthy conflict between Kiev and the breakaway Republics of Donetsk and Lugansk to an end.

Comment: Ukraine will need to deal with the neo-Nazi's running amock and pry itself from the clutches of the US, but it has everything to gain from better relations with Russia:

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