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Israeli soldiers target Gaza's children, say witnesses

Sarah Algherbawi
The Electronic Intifada
Wed, 24 Oct 2018 14:12 UTC
Nasir Musbah memorial
© Abed Zagout“He was everyone’s friend,” said a classmate of Nasir Musbah, whose life was cut short by an Israeli bullet.
Every Friday for the past few months, Nasir Musbah insisted that he accompany his two older sisters to the Great March of Return. Both women are medics; Nasir used to carry their first aid bags.

Nasir's mother, Samah, allowed him to go on the condition that he would stay at a tent east of Khan Younis city from where the medics worked. It was around 500 meters from Gaza's boundary with Israel.

On 28 September, Nasir was at that tent when Islam, one of his sisters, called over to him, asking for the first aid bag. Nasir did as requested, then ran back towards the tent. On his return, he suddenly fell to the ground.

Nasir had been hit in the head with a bullet fired by an Israeli sniper. He was only 11.
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Eagle

SOTT Focus: US Would Face no 'Threats' if it Kept Its Troops & War Machines Inside Its Own Borders

Finian Cunningham
RT
Fri, 26 Oct 2018 13:40 UTC
gorbachev Reagan
'Peace in our time!... Until we decide otherwise'
So the United States is pulling out of a key arms-control agreement, complaining it is the only party in compliance, and therefore it wants to have the right to deploy short- and medium-range ballistic missiles.

John Bolton, the national-security adviser to President Trump, was in Moscow this week meeting Russian leader Vladimir Putin and other senior Kremlin officials. Bolton huffed that the Intermediate-range Nuclear Forces (INF) Treaty was obsolete from the US point of view.

"There's a new strategic reality out there," said the American official. The INF, signed in 1987, is "a bilateral treaty in a multipolar ballistic missile world."


Comment: Oh so the US prefers multi-lateral treaties all of a sudden?!


He was referring to countries like China, Iran and North Korea, which the US claims have built up arsenals of ballistic missiles prohibited by the INF. Those countries are not in violation of the said treaty because the INF was an agreement signed only by the US and the Soviet Union, later becoming the Russian Federation.

Comment: Here's some analysis of the missile treaties from a Russian perspective:



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Better Earth

Italian Prime Minister urges end to EU sanctions on Russia during Moscow visit


RFE/RL
Thu, 25 Oct 2018 13:33 UTC
Vladimir Putin and Giuseppe Conte
© ReutersRussian President Vladimir Putin and Italian Prime Minister Giuseppe Conte at the Kremlin on October 24
Italian Prime Minister Giuseppe Conte is urging an end to European Union sanctions on Russia and said he is committed to boosting trade with Moscow, despite the sanctions.

On his first trip to Moscow since taking office in June, Conte on October 24 hailed Russia as an essential global player and invited Putin to visit Italy.

The Italian premier said he believes the split between the EU and Russia over the Ukrainian conflict that began in 2014 has lasted too long, and he would like to see the sanctions against Russia lifted.
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USA

NBC admits "Blue wave turning Purple" as Republicans outnumber Dems in early voting

Tyler Durden
Zero Hedge
Thu, 25 Oct 2018 00:00 UTC
"Is the blue wave turning purple?"
2018 Red Wave
© Tina Toon
While this statement might not seem like much of a concession from left-leaning NBC News, a more thoughtful analysis reveals that it's just the latest indication of a shifting political reality - one that anti-Trump news organizations can no longer afford to ignore: That, just like in 2016, Republican turnout in the upcoming Nov. 6 midterm vote is already looking to be much higher than the polls initially predicted as issues like the migrant caravan and the contentious confirmation of Supreme Court Justice Brett Kavanaugh have backfired on Democrats (who had hoped they would sway moderates to vote against Republicans) and instead galvanized the conservative movement and alienated those very same moderates they had hoped to attract.

According to the latest polling data, Republican-affiliated voters are outpacing Democratic-affiliated voters in early voting in seven closely watched battleground states. This according to data from TargetSmart, which was analyzed by NBC's Data Lab. Democratic candidates have already fallen behind in Arizona, Florida, Georgia, Indiana, Montana, Tennessee and Texas. The only battleground state where early voting Democrats outnumbered their Republican peers was Nevada.

Comment: Despite daily doses of MSM hysteria and liberal outrage over constantly changing news 'scandals' like the Trump Dossier, Russian Interference, Kavanaugh nomination, dehumanizing NPC memes, immigrant caravans near the Mexican border, and mail bomb scares Democrats are fast losing ground. See also: As the mid-term elections draw nearer, we can expect more of the same hysterics that may not work the way the Left intended.

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Wolf

Macron squirms when asked about France-Saudi arms sales

Tyler Durden
Zero Hedge
Fri, 26 Oct 2018 13:25 UTC
macron
French President Emmanuel Macron retreated after journalists asked him whether France would follow Germany's lead in discontinuing weapons sales to Saudi Arabia after it acknowledged the death of dissident journalist Jamal Khashoggi in its consulate in Istanbul, reports France 24.

"This has nothing to do with what we're talking about. Nothing. So I won't answer that question. I'm sorry but as long as I'll be in office this is how it will be, whether people like it or not," a visibly agitated Macron told reporters, adding: "It's not because one leader says something that I must react to it every time. So I won't answer that."

Comment: NewsReal: Saudi Arabia: A Wretched Hive of Scum And Villainy, Fully Supported by The West

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Eagle

SOTT Focus: Just Imagine... The Response if Jamal Khashoggi Had Been Russian

Neil Clark
RT
Fri, 26 Oct 2018 13:11 UTC
jamal khashoggi
All we have to do to highlight the enormous hypocrisy and double standards which are the hallmark of domestic and international politics is to switch the names around.

Here are just a few examples...

Horror Consulate - but damn, it's our ally's!

Just imagine... if a Russian journalist, a vocal critic of President Putin and the Russian government, had walked into a Russian consulate in a NATO member state to obtain papers for his forthcoming marriage and never came out again alive. After Kremlin denials, and several changes of story, it transpired that he had indeed been killed while in the consulate, with claims made that he had been cut up while a 'look-a-like' left the building.

Well, that what's happened to the Saudi dissident Jamal Khashoggi. And guess what, there have been no diplomatic expulsions of Saudi diplomats from the UK and US - as happened quite swiftly in the Skripal Case, despite Russian government involvement not being proved.

UK Defence Secretary Gavin Williamson has not said that Saudi Arabia 'should go away, should shut up' as he said about Russia (see below). Or if he did, I've missed it.

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Light Saber

Want Proof?: Moscow ready to provide EU data on chemical attacks violators in Syria


Sputnik News
Fri, 26 Oct 2018 00:00 UTC
Syria chemical attacks
© AP Photo / United media office of Arbeen
Moscow is ready to provide the European Union with a list of those responsible for incidents with chemical weapons in Syria, and thereby help the bloc to put into force its newly-adopted sanctions regime for the use of chemical weapons, Russian Permanent Representative to the European Union Vladimir Chizhov said on Thursday.

On October 15, the Council of the European Union adopted a new sanctions regime to counter the use and proliferation of chemical weapons. Under the proposed mechanism, the European Union will be able to impose sanctions on any person or entity involved in development or use of chemical weapons, regardless of their nationality and location.

Comment: See also:

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Newspaper

Foreign funds without permission: Amnesty says tax raid at its Indian office is assault on civil society

Michael Safi
The Guardian
Fri, 26 Oct 2018 00:00 UTC
The Amnesty International office in Bangalore.
© Aijaz Rahi/APThe Amnesty International office in Bangalore. India’s enforcement directorate claims the charity has received £3.8m of foreign funding without permission.
Amnesty International has condemned what it described as an "assault on civil society" in India after its office in the south of the country was raided by tax authorities.

Amnesty India's bank accounts have been frozen after tax investigators spent more than 10 hours searching the Bangalore headquarters of the London-based organisation on Thursday.

Staff were ordered to remain in the office, shut their laptops and not use their mobile phones during the search, an Amnesty statement said.
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Rocket

Flashback Europe's 'secret' nukes: NATO, not Russia, is - and has always been - in flagrant violation of anti-missile treaties

Eben Harrell
Time Magazine
Thu, 04 Jan 2018 12:10 UTC
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At least 22 American nukes are stored at Volkel Air Base in the Netherlands, a fact exposed by a former Dutch PM in 2013.
Is Italy capable of delivering a thermonuclear strike? Could the Belgians and the Dutch drop hydrogen bombs on enemy targets? And what about Germany - a country where fear of atomkraft is so great that the last government opposed all civilian nuclear power? Germany's air force couldn't possibly be training to deliver bombs 13 times more powerful than the one that destroyed Hiroshima, could it?

It is Europe's dirty secret that the list of nuclear-capable countries extends beyond those that have built their own weapons - Britain, France and Russia. The truth is that Belgium, Germany, Italy and the Netherlands store nuclear bombs on their air-force bases and have planes capable of delivering them. There are an estimated 200 B-61 thermonuclear-gravity bombs scattered across these four countries. Under a NATO agreement struck during the Cold War, the bombs, which are owned by the U.S., can be transferred to the control of a host nation's air force in time of conflict. Twenty years after the fall of the Berlin Wall, Dutch, Belgian, Italian and German pilots remain ready to engage in nuclear war.


Comment: Note that this article predates the current anti-Russia hysteria; it was published during the last years of the 'limbo period' in which Russia was not - temporarily, as it turns out - The Enemy. Politicians across Europe were calling for the removal of American nukes from airbases because they were 'pointless'. But now that "the Cold War playbook has been dusted off," the media reports - matter-of-factly - that both the nukes and European purchases of American F-35s - which are apparently uniquely capable of launching said American nukes - are "necessary" because "Russia annexed Crimea, hacked our elections, made us do bad things, and ate our homework."


Comment: You won't find a Time article today calling time on America's Cold War arsenals in Europe.

The article refers to a key aspect of European countries' vassal status: the 'interoperability' of weapons and military equipment it uses, which, as the US DoD bureaucrat cited above pointed out, is ultimately what keeps Europe politically-aligned with Washington.

The key question for Europe is what will Germany do? Currently, it is trying to get comfortable sitting on the fence, requesting American permission to equip its Eurofighter for carry American nukes...

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Red Flag

Best of the Web: Democratic Mail-bombs: Raising a False-flag

Ben Garrison
grrrgraphics.com
Fri, 26 Oct 2018 10:16 UTC
The envelope bombs sent to select Democrats are an obvious false flag.

Aside from their propaganda megaphone, CNN, everyone who received a package deserves prison time. Brennan, Hillary, Obama, Holder, etc, all are searching for sympathy because they know they are guilty of high treason.

The Deep State is pulling out all stops to gain sympathy and votes for their team. This is a pathetic means of doing it. The envelopes didn't seem to have postmarks. If they were hand-delivered, then there should be video of the perpetrators. Especially on Hillary's property. She has more video surveillance than a drug lord.

The bombs came with digital clocks serving as timed detonation devices that make no sense. The clocks had no countdown function and were added as "bomb props".

garrison mail bombs democrats
© Ben Garrison / grrrgraphics.com
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