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Pakistani FM claims India sponsors terrorism in Balochistan province


RT
Wed, 24 Apr 2019 09:43 UTC
Pakistan terror attack quetta
© Banaras Khan / AFPPakistani police officials cordon off the site after a bomb blast at a fruit market in Quetta on April 12, 2019.
New Delhi sponsors terrorism in Pakistan's southwestern Balochistan province, the nation's foreign minister claims, in line with a long history of the two states trading accusations of using militant groups against each other.

India is involved in the terrorist attacks in Balochistan, Makhdoom Shah Mehmood Qureshi told local media on Tuesday, adding that terrorists use the territories of Iran and Afghanistan to conduct raids against the country. The reports didn't specify whether the minister provided any evidence of these allegations.

Officials in New Delhi, meanwhile, have been accusing Islamabad of having "a direct hand" in terrorist attacks on Indian soil and of "inaction"when it comes to combating Pakistan-based militants. The tension in the region escalated dramatically in February after India ordered an airstrike against Pakistan. The flare-up then led to cross-border shelling and open air combat between the neighbors.
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US backtracks on threat to penalize doing business with Iran's IRGC


Press TV
Wed, 24 Apr 2019 09:43 UTC
Donald Trump Mike Pompeo
© Getty ImagesUS President Donald Trump and Secretary of State Mike Pompeo listen during a Cabinet meeting at the White House in Washington, DC, US, on June 21, 2018.
The US has backtracked on its earlier threat to penalize anyone engaged in business with Iran's Islamic Revolution Guards Corps after blacklisting the IRGC as a terrorist organization, sources have told Reuters.

US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo has granted exceptions to foreign governments, firms and NGOs who have dealings with the IRGC, Reuters reported late Sunday, citing three current and three former US officials.

The exceptions would allow partner governments like Iraq and Oman as well as humanitarian groups in the region such as the ones in northern Syria and Yemen, to maintain their relations with the IRGC without fear of repercussions.
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Snow Globe

WaPo baits nationalists with headline insinuating only 'far-right' is upset about Sri Lanka terrorist


RT
Tue, 23 Apr 2019 16:49 UTC

Comment: This is an instructive faux-pas by the CIA's newspaper of record, the WaPo...


sri lanka christian
© Reuters / Adnan Ibidi
The Washington Post is under fire for printing a story with a contentious headline, implying that anger over the recent spate of bombings in Sri Lanka is unique to the "far right."

Titled "Christianity under attack? Sri Lanka church bombings stoke far-right anger in the West," the piece drew outrage online far and wide for its recklessly phrased headline.


Comment: First off, it wasn't 'ISIS'. Russia wiped that organization out in Syria. There are still plenty of 'jihadist' cells being run by Western intelligence from Muslim countries, but ISIS is history.

Secondly, there's their tacit admission that they are content to see Christians massacred.

Finally, as narrative-writers, they're giving away the game: that Christchurch was carried out to 'anger' Muslims, and thus that Sri Lanka has been carried out by the same people to 'anger' Christians.

The pathological 'logic' of it is so obvious that it can only all be part of the Manufactured Clash of Civilizations...

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Bizarro Earth

Labour & 'anti-Semitism': Real goal of establishment smear campaign is to deny socialists power

Ken Livingstone
RT
Tue, 23 Apr 2019 09:55 UTC
antisemitism protest
© REUTERS / Simon DawsonDemonstrators take part in an antisemitism protest outside the Labour Party headquarters in central London
After three years of screaming headlines, the truth about anti-Semitism in the Labour Party is finally revealed.

There have been 673 allegations of anti-Semitism by Labour Party members and, since the new general secretary started a crackdown on this issue back in April 2018, 296 members have either been expelled, sanctioned, or have resigned. Some 227 have been cleared of these accusations, and 150 cases are still under investigation, according to the Guardian.

Even if all of those 150 turn out to be guilty of anti-Semitism, it will still mean that just 0.08 percent of Labour's half-a-million members have said or tweeted something anti-Semitic. This clearly shows the allegations that Labour is institutionally anti-Semitic are just not true. So, how did this all come about?

Following the election of Jeremy Corbyn as Labour's leader, I was doing interviews about whether we could win the next general election, as I was one of the few members prepared to defend Jeremy. Until February 2016, I was not asked whether there was anti-Semitism in the party. Indeed, since I joined the party in February 1969, I never heard anything anti-Semitic and was only aware of one racist comment in 1970 when a party member denounced the song 'Young, Gifted and Black.' A few weeks later, he resigned from the party.

Comment: That many of these politicians also support the rights of Palestinians and are against the genocidal policies of the state of Israel will also be a huge factor in why they are targeted: Also check out SOTT radio's:

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Light Sabers

Haftar vows to ramp up LNA offensive on GNA-held Tripoli


SouthFront
Tue, 23 Apr 2019 19:38 UTC
Libya GNA forces
GNA Forces in Aln Zara.
On April 22nd, the spokesperson of the Libyan National Army (LNA) Major General Ahmed al-Mismari said that the "final decisive battle" in Tripoli is nearing during a briefing in Benghazi.

He said that the offensive will be ramped up to push the forces of the Government of National Accord to a complete defeat.

Despite reports that pro-GNA forces had driven the LNA back in recent days at the southern suburb of Ain Zara, the main scene of fighting, al-Mismari said there had been no LNA retreat.

Comment: Should he prevail, General Hafter may have a harder time ruling Libya, than he thinks. The Great Tribes have no love for him:
From 2018:

[T]he Toubou tribes are still strong supporters of the great Jamahiriya of Ghadafi, they support the Libyan resistance that is fighting everyday against the radical Islamic mercenaries still holding parts of Libya hostage. This stance for a free Libya makes the Toubou a target of the criminals who would continue their illegal occupation and theft of Libya. Below is a famous poem/song of the Toubou tribes

Khalifa Haftar, CIA operative and traitor to Libya is one of these criminals inside Libya. Haftar disguises who he is by alleging that he is fighting the militias and mercenaries to help Libya. This is all a ruse, he is there by the grace of the CIA, he spent 35 years of his life in the US near Langley, VA, home of the CIA. He was taken out of Libya in the 70's by the CIA whom he had joined to fight against his own country of Libya during the Chad wars. When they lost, he was spirited to safety by the CIA to the US. In 2011, he was dropped back into Libya by the CIA to lead their proxy army of mercenaries brought into Libya to destroy the country. After the country was bombed to oblivion and handed to the mercenaries, Haftar pretended to change sides and fight against the invaders (no one in Libya believe this). Haftar was appointed to lead the so called "Libyan National Army" by the Tobruk Government. The Tobruk Government is partially infiltrated with rats that take orders from the same place as Haftar, so they managed this appointment, against the wishes of many in the Tobruk Government and the Libyan tribes. Consequently, Haftar has NO support in Libya but he does have CIA support, so he receives money and weapons to foment the continued destabilization of Libya. He has very few in his army maybe 300 at the most. He takes a few detours and actually does cleanse a few areas to look good, but he organizes acts of terror, lies about Libya, acts of aggression on sovereign citizens, illegal prisons and attacks on the Libyan Resistance (those fighting against the occupiers for their country).
great libya tribes map
© Map by Giacomo Goldkorn for Geopolitical Atlas (March 18, 2015)
This brings us to the attacks on the Toubou. Haftar, thinking he is king of Libya, has demanded that the Toubou tribes of Libya, leave Libya en-mass. He has threatened to attack and kill them if they do not leave. Haftar is claiming (he is beyond contempt) that the Toubou tribes assisted and brought in African mercenaries in 2011. This is the Zionist (Khazarian Mafia) continuing their false flag lies of 2011. Haftar's masters at the CIA cannot have the support of the Toubou for sovereign Libya. All of Libya, all the people/tribes now want their country and sovereignty back. There is no support for the phony revolution. The only ones hanging on are the criminal militias in Tripoli and Misurata and the CIA troll Haftar. Their biggest fear is of the upcoming election. The Libyan people and all the great tribes of Libya along with the African Union support the candidacy of Saif al Islam Ghadafi. He will be elected and at that point the occupiers are finished as all Libyans will stand with him as he brings freedom and sovereignty back to their beloved Libya.


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Broom

Duterte threatens to 'declare war' on Canada for illegally dumping waste in the Philippines


RT
Tue, 23 Apr 2019 16:05 UTC
Duterte/Trudeau
© BulatlatDuterte and the 'Trudeau Stench'
Philippines President Rodrigo Duterte has threatened to declare war with Canada amid a long-standing diplomatic dispute between the two nations over Canadian waste that was illegally dumped in his country five years ago.

"I want a boat prepared. I'll give a warning to Canada maybe next week that they better pull that thing out or I will set sail [there]," Duterte said, railing against the North American nation, following a briefing to discuss a 6.1-magnitude earthquake that struck Luzon on Monday.

"We'll declare war against them... We'll fight with Canada. We can take them down. I'll return their trash just wait and see," he added, alleging that Canada was treating his country like a "dumpsite."

Some 103 shipping containers of household waste, plastic bottles and bags, and used adult diapers were shipped to the Philippines between 2013 and 2014, under the presidency of Benigno Aquino III, by the private company Chronic Plastics Inc who reportedly mislabelled the waste shipments as plastic scraps. Garbage from at least 26 of the containers has since been buried in a Philippines landfill.

"I will advise Canada that your garbage is on the way, prepare a grand reception, eat it if you want to," Duterte continued.

Comment: Thank God for 'populists'.

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Light Sabers

Going by recent events, shadowy forces want to spark a 'clash of civilizations'

Andrew Korybko
Eurasia Future
Tue, 23 Apr 2019 00:00 UTC
Crusades
© UnknownThe Crusades
The recent terrorist attacks in New Zealand and Sri Lanka strongly suggest that there are shadowy forces that want to spark a "Clash of Civilizations" between Christianity and Islam, but the the diverse and civilizationally experienced Great Powers of Russia and Pakistan prove that this scenario is far from inevitable in the Silk Road Century.

Catalyzing A "Clash Of Civilizations"

The one thing that the New Zealand and Sri Lankan terrorist attacks have in common other than the large number of worshipping civilians that were killed is that the perpetrators tried way too hard to have their attacks spark a "Clash of Civilizations" between Christianity and Islam. The Australian terrorist responsible for the New Zealand attacks scrawled the names of famous Balkan figures and battles associated with the wars against the Ottoman Empire onto his guns and gear before gunning down dozens of Muslims, while the Sri Lankan terrorist network specifically targeted Christians and luxury hotels during Easter in order to get the majority-Christian West's attention. Both series of terrorist attacks were deadly provocations meant to incite Christian-Islamic animosity and advance the "Clash of Civilizations" blueprint for dividing and ruling the Eastern Hemisphere in the 21st century.
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Question

Is Kolomoisky the puppet master of Ukraine's new president, or just an overhyped bogeyman?

Igor Ogorodnev
RT
Tue, 23 Apr 2019 12:46 UTC
Kolomoisky, Zelenskiy
© Sputnik/Mikhail Markiv/REUTERS/Valentyn OgirenkoIgor Kolomoisky • Volodymyr Zelenskiy
It doesn't actually matter if Ukrainian-Israeli billionaire Igor Kolomoisky is the real power behind Volodymyr Zelensky - the president elect has to get rid of the oligarch if he is to make a break with the country's corrupt past.

The plots, deceits and conflicts of interest in Ukrainian politics are so transparent and hyperbolic, that to say that novice politician Zelensky was a protégé of his long-time employer was not something that required months of local investigative journalism - it was just out there.

Zelensky's comedy troupe has been on Kolomoisky's top-rated channel for the past eight years, and his media asset spent every possible resource promoting the contender against incumbent Petro Poroshenko, a personal enemy of the tycoon, who hasn't even risked entering Ukraine in the past months.

Similarly, the millions and the nous needed to run a presidential campaign in a country of nearly 50 million people had to come from somewhere, and Kolomoisky's lieutenants were said to be in all key posts. The two issued half-hearted denials that one was a frontman for the other, insisting that they were business partners with a cordial working relationship, but voters had to take their word for it.

Now that the supposed scheme has paid off with Zelensky's spectacular victory in Sunday's run-off, Ukrainian voters are asking: what does Kolomoisky want now, and will he be allowed to run the show?

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Arrow Up

'Whole new phase of confrontation' as new IRGC commander shows Iran readying for conflict


RT
Mon, 22 Apr 2019 18:59 UTC
Salami
© theiranproject.comIranian Brigadier General Hossein Salami
Tehran's appointment of a hardline new commander of its Revolutionary Guards Corps (IRGC) could signal that Iran is preparing for conflict with the US, former Pentagon analyst Michael Maloof has told RT.

Brigadier General Hossein Salami, 58, will replace Mohammad Ali Jafari as the elite unit's commander-in-chief, Iranian state media reported Sunday. Salami served as Jafari's deputy since 2009 and began his career in the Guards in 1981. He is a veteran of the Iran-Iraq War.

"Salami is more of a hardline person," Michael Maloof, former senior security policy analyst at the US Department of Defense, told RT. "He's from the 'old guard,' if you will."

Though Tehran has recently engaged in diplomacy to keep afloat the JCPOA nuclear deal after it was abandoned by the US, Salami's appointment could represent a dramatic shift in Iranian policy, Maloof believes.
"It really suggests they're going to double down on confronting the US. I think we're about ready to enter a whole new phase of confrontation. I would expect it's an indication from the Iranian leadership of a greater resistance, a greater standing-up to the Trump administration's sanctions, and an increasing likelihood for a confrontation."

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Attention

Sri Lankan authorities might have fallen into a trap set by a foreign power

Adam Garrie
Eurasia Future
Mon, 22 Apr 2019 00:00 UTC
Sri Lankan soldiers
© APSri Lankan soldiers secure St. Anthony Shrine after an attack in Colombo on Sunday.
The entire world remains confronted with the horrors that unfolded yesterday throughout Sri Lanka. Whilst the country remains under curfew, the authorities have pinned the blame for the attack on an obscure group called National Thowheeth Jama'ath (NTJ). NTJ is reportedly an Islamist terror group that as noted by Sri Lankan authorities, has multiple links to foreign countries. The links to foreign countries appears to hold the key to determining who is really behind the attacks. Notably, it has been reported by journalists that the group trains in Chennai in Tamil Nadu - the same location where LTTE had previously trained. Others yet claim that NTJ is such a small and obscure group that even if it wanted to pull off such an attack, it did not have the capacity to do so.

As the Muslim population of Sri Lanka is less than 8% of the country's entire population, it is difficult to conceive that any genuine local Islamist group would seek to stage such massive attacks when the possibility of any material gain would be limited by the fact that not only is Sri Lanka's Muslim population at harmony with the Buddhist majority, but the population of Muslims is incredibly small. This contrasts sharply with the situation in Syria where a Sunni Muslim majority was weaponized against a leadership comprised of the minority Alawite faction.

Therefore, due to NTJ's foreign links, it is highly likely that a foreign entity, most likely a foreign state or state intelligence agency was behind the attacks and that the men on the ground who have been captured are merely pawns in a much larger and even more dangerous game. When it comes to seeking to pin-pointing the country with a clear motive for orchestrating the attacks, India is the one that springs immediately to mind, not least because NTJ reportedly trains where the LTTE once did.

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