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Indian military confirms to press that IAF MiG-21 shot down Pakistani F-16


Sputnik
Thu, 28 Feb 2019 16:46 UTC
fighter jet
© AFP 2018 / AAMIR QURESHI
Tensions between India and Pakistan escalated this week after Pakistan reportedly shot down a pair of Indian Air Force (IAF) warplanes which flew into Pakistani-controlled territory in the contested province of Kashmir.

Speaking at a tri-services press briefing on Thursday, IAF Air Vice Marshal RGK Kapoor confirmed that an air force MiG-21 Bison shot down a Pakistan Air Force F-16 on Wednesday, 27 February in a dogfight.

The IAF also showed the remnants of a US-made AMRAAM missile found on the Indian side of the border in Kashmir which was said to have been fired by a Pakistani F-16 during an attack on Indian military bases. Pakistan had earlier denied that it had used F-16 aircraft on Wednesday, and maintained that no Pakistani Air Force aircraft had been hit.

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Question

Israeli source claims it's forming international group with Russia to pull out foreign forces from Syria


Sputnik
Wed, 27 Feb 2019 23:33 UTC
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© Sputnik / Alexey Nikolsky
Israel and Russia intend to set up a working group, involving a number of other states, which will facilitate the withdrawal of foreign forces from Syria, a high-ranking source in the Israeli government told Sputnik on Wednesday.

"It was decided to create a group with the participation of Russia, Israel and several other countries, which will work on the issue of the withdrawal of foreign forces from Syria", the official said after the talks. He declined, however, to specify the details of the initiative, including the countries that could be involved in the process in addition to Israel and Russia.

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu met earlier on Wednesday with Russian President Vladimir Putin in Moscow to discuss security in the Middle East with a focus on Iran.

Comment: It is true that Russia has demonstrated its willingness to work with all involved parties to facilitate peace in Syria, however Russia is also aware of how untrustworthy Israel is and that it is hell bent on war with Iran: And check out SOTT radio's: NewsReal: Israeli-French Deception Downs Russian Spy Plane Off Syria, US Escalates 'Regime Change' Against Iran

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Snowflake

Trump dares to take question from Russian news media outlet Sputnik, liberal journalists lose it


RT
Thu, 28 Feb 2019 15:17 UTC
trump
© Reuters / Leah Millis
President Trump's post-summit press conference in Hanoi left American journalists shaking with rage, after the president did the unthinkable: answered a question from a RUSSIAN news site.

Speaking to reporters following a largely results-free peace summit with North Korean leader Kim Jong-un, the president took questions from a smattering of American and international reporters, before picking a journalist from Sputnik, who asked Trump whether the two leaders discussed possible US nuclear inspections in North Korea.

"We'd be able to do that very easily," Trump replied. "We have that setup so we would be able to do that very easily."
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Chess

Cohen hearings designed to keep public in dark about Russia

Byron York
Washington Examiner
Thu, 28 Feb 2019 11:24 UTC
Michael Cohen
Former Trump lawyer and fixer Michael Cohen is scheduled to appear before three congressional committees this week before he heads to jail to serve a sentence for tax evasion and lying to Congress. On Tuesday, Cohen will testify before the Senate Intelligence Committee. On Wednesday, he will go before the House Oversight Committee. And on Thursday, he will testify before the House Intelligence Committee.

It would be a great service if the Cohen appearances helped increase the store of public information on the Trump-Russia furor. But even though Cohen is a key figure in the matter - his name is mentioned 24 times in the so-called Trump dossier - the hearings appear designed to prevent the public from learning anything new about the Russia matter.

First, two of the three hearings will be held in secret; both the Senate and House Intelligence committees plan to question Cohen behind closed doors. Those are the hearings that will delve into Russia. The hearing that is public, before House Oversight, is specifically structured not to touch on the Russia matter.

Comment: Cohen admitted that he has no evidence Trump colluded with Russia, but that hasn't stopped anyone yet:
President Trump's former attorney Michael Cohen said Wednesday that he has no evidence suggesting his former boss colluded with Russia during the 2016 presidential election, but that he has his "suspicions."

"Questions have been raised about whether I know of direct evidence that Mr. Trump or his campaign colluded with Russia. I do not, and I want to be clear. But I have my suspicions," Cohen told lawmakers.

There are "so many dots that all seem to lead" in the direction of Russian President Vladimir Putin, he added.

"As I stated in my earlier testimony, I wouldn't use the word 'colluding,'" he said. "Was there something odd about the back-and-forth praise with President Putin? Yes. But I'm not really sure I can answer that question in terms of collusion."
Also see: Michael Cohen: A desperate man

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Elections in 2020 - or is it 1972?

Tim Donner
LibertyNation
Wed, 27 Feb 2019 10:06 UTC
Nixon
Richard Nixon
We are told in scripture that there is nothing new under the sun. Live long enough, and you come to realize the truth in that simple but power-packed piece of wisdom.

As we face the presidential election next year, consider the following political landscape: a Republican president reviled by the left and the media; the corresponding growth of a radical, collectivist resistance; and a Democratic Party blinded by hate, overcome by nonsensical policy prescriptions driven purely by emotion, and consequently prepared to nominate a far-left candidate for president. And somehow believing such a candidate could take down a despicable president elected by a previously silent majority.

We're talking 2020, right? Actually, it was 1972.

Richard Nixon had won a narrow victory in the presidential election four years earlier in 1968, when the nation was riven by the assassinations of Martin Luther King, Jr. and Robert F. Kennedy, race riots across the land, and growing protests over the Vietnam War. Revolution was in the air. Nixon appealed to voters who were turning against the war but rejecting the growing violence and anti-Americanism in the anti-war and hippie movements, which shook the country to its core and threatened the status quo.
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Light Saber

Facebook insider leaks docs exposing algorithmic "deboosting" and other targeting measures against conservative content


Project Veritas
Wed, 27 Feb 2019 08:32 UTC
facebook leaker
Project Veritas has obtained and published documentsand presentation materials from a former Facebook insider. This information describes how Facebook engineers plan and go about policing political speech. Screenshots from a Facebook workstation show the specific technical actions taken against political figures, as well as "[e]xisting strategies" taken to combat political speech.

(Other brave individuals who feel compelled to expose wrongdoing they witness can contact Project Veritas here.)

Project Veritas founder James O'Keefe said that to expose dishonesty and censorship in big tech companies, he will be relying upon more insiders, informants and leakers in the future:
"Our future depends on those who are willing to give up everything for what they believe."
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To gain a better understanding of the documents, Project Veritas spoke with the Facebook insider in an interview. The insider separated from Facebook in 2018 and was later hired by Project Veritas.

Comment: Additional reporting by Breitbart:
Recent Facebook insider leaks released by Project Veritas reveal that the social media giant's demoting of conservative content isn't just done by human moderators, it's built right into the code of the website as a technical action called "deboosting."

Project Veritas latest bombshell report reveals inside info from Facebook. One of the most shocking revelations from the report is that Mark Zuckerberg's suppression of conservative content on the platform isn't just the result of heavy-handed moderation by human employees, but is actually built right into the code of the site.

The "deboost" action appears to be applied to page algorithmically rather than done deliberately by a single Facebook employee but as a result, Facebook page owners are not notified if the tag is added to their page. The Facebook insider stated: "With these 'deboost live stream' things, there was no warning sent to the user... These were actions that were being taken without the users knowing."
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Easter Egg

SOTT Focus: Bernie: The Magic Socialist

CJ Hopkins
OffGuardian
Tue, 26 Feb 2019 08:13 UTC
bernie sanders
Hasta la victoria (mañana, mañana)
So here it is, the announcement we've been waiting for ... all aboard for another cruise on the new and improved U.S.S. Magic Socialist with your captain Bernie Sanders at the helm! If you're not familiar with this extraordinary vessel, it's like the luxury liner in The Magic Christian, except catering to credulous American socialists instead of the British filthy rich. Tickets start at just $27 dollars ... so hurry, because they're going fast!

That's right, folks, Bernie is back, and this time it's not just a sadistic prank where he gets you all fired up about his fake "revolution" for fifteen months, gets cheated out of the nomination, then backs whichever corporate-bought candidate the Democratic Party orders you to vote for.

No, this time the Bernster really means it! This time, when the DNC rigs the primaries to hand the nomination to Harris, or Biden, or some billionaire android like Michael Bloomberg, Bernie is not going to break your heart by refusing to run as an independent candidate, unbeholden to the corporations and oligarchs that own both political parties, or otherwise make you feel like a sucker for buying his "revolution" schtick. He's not going to fold like a fifty dollar suit and start parroting whatever propaganda the corporate media will be prodigiously spewing to convince you the Russians and Nazis are coming unless you vote for the empire's pre-anointed puppet!

Bernie would never dream of doing that ... or at least he'd never dream of doing that twice.

Comment: Ah yes, Bernie the magic socialist - he's gonna fix everything! (or not):

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Hammer

Four mistruths about Venezuela's humanitarian aid showdown debunked


Venezuelanalysis.com
Wed, 27 Feb 2019 15:33 UTC
USAID supporters
Volunteers supporting self-declared "Interim President" Juan Guaido line up next to USAID personnel in Cucuta, Colombia (Version Final)
February 23 saw the latest attempt by the White House, its right-wing regional allies, and self-proclaimed "Interim President" Juan Guaido to oust the Venezuelan government of Nicolas Maduro, this time by trying to undermine Maduro's authority and forcibly violate Venezuela's borders under the pretext of bringing in "humanitarian aid."

Given that not a single truck, boat or plane entered the country, and that Venezuela's armed forces remained steadfast in their defence of the national sovereignty, it can be said that Trump's and Guaido's primary objectives were a failure.

They did, however, achieve some level of success in their secondary goal of further satanizing Maduro in the eyes of the world.

By provoking a series of violent confrontations along the Colombian and Brazilian borders, the Trump-backed opposition has managed to manufacture a false narrative designed to delegitimize the Maduro government and justify further foreign military intervention. This narrative has been uncritically disseminated by the international corporate media. In what follows, we debunk four lies repeated ad nauseam by the mainstream press.

Comment: It appears that what was in the trucks was actually nails and equipment for barricades. See also:

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Pirates

Map shows the trillion-dollar reason why the US is backing terrorism in Western China

Tony Cartalucci
New Eastern Outlook
Mon, 25 Feb 2019 20:19 UTC
Turkistan Islamic Party (TIP)
© People's Daily OnlineEast Turkistan Islamic Party (TIP) Turkistan Islamic Party as a separatist organization founded in 1989 by Uygur militants in western China hope to establish a caliphate in Xinjiang.
As part of a larger, concerted effort to encircle and contain China, an ongoing disinformation campaign has been waged by the Western media against Beijing's massive global infrastructure building spree known as the Belt and Road Initiative (BRI).

A recent and particularly appalling example of this comes from a Business Insider article titled, "This map shows a trillion-dollar reason why China is oppressing more than a million Muslims."

The article has been widely circulated by the Western-funded fronts cited in the article itself, including Human Rights Watch (HRW) whose executive director - Kenneth Roth - would claim in a social media post:
"China's mass detention of Uighur Muslims is driven [not] only by Islamophobia but also by the centrality of their Xinjiang region to China's Belt and Road Initiative."
map Xinjiang
© Reuters/Insider Inc.

Comment: Fighting alongside US-sponsored Islamist groups in Syria assures Uyghur militants reciprocal support in Xinjiang. Terrorist efforts to sabotage BRI and establish a caliphate would provide the US with a strategic foothold in China - as they've had in Eastern Syria for years - and disruption of the OBOR economic engine.

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Bullseye

Et tu, Bernie? Sanders chided for joining US hawks in Venezuelan regime change push


RT
Sun, 24 Feb 2019 00:32 UTC
Bernie Sanders
© Getty Images/AFP/Win McNameeSenator Bernie Sanders
The self-described democratic socialist Senator Bernie Sanders is now getting grief from his supporters for apparently aligning himself with the Trump administration and its regime change efforts in Venezuela.

Having announced a 2020 bid for the Democratic presidential nomination this week, Sanders (I-Vermont) digressed from his twitter storm about healthcare, wage inequality and taxing the rich to endorse US "humanitarian aid" for Venezuela, which the Trump administration is using to bolster the self-proclaimed interim president Juan Guaido.

"The people of Venezuela are enduring a serious humanitarian crisis. The Maduro government must put the needs of its people first, allow humanitarian aid into the country, and refrain from violence against protesters," Sanders tweeted on Saturday.


While the tweet received praise from accounts favoring regime change, and drew some mockery from conservatives, there has been a veritable avalanche of disappointment from the Vermont senator's sympathizers - as well as journalists and celebrities opposed to the regime change operation.

Comment: Bernie has been called out on this one. Surely he must know by now how Washington coups work, just like he knows how he was robbed by the DNC in 2016 - something he kept quiet about until recently. Elliott Abrams will do for Venezuela what he did for the Contras in Nicaragua if he gets his way - run guns under the guise of humanitarian aid.

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