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'Improving anti-precision warfare means': Putin calls to prepare S-500 missile system for mass production


TASS
Tue, 15 May 2018 20:28 UTC
Launching a missile
© The Russian Ministry of Defense
The Russian leader also called for rearming 14 regiments with Yars ballistic missile systems

Russian President Vladimir Putin said on Tuesday further efforts are needed to improve anti-precision warfare tools and called to prepare S-500 missile systems for mass production.

"One of the key tasks is to improve anti-precision warfare means. It is necessary to develop and build up technological groundwork in the area of air defense, to continue modernization of Pantsir systems, to finish the development and preparations for mass production of the S-500 newest systems capable of hitting targets at super-high altitudes, including near-the-earth space," he said at a meeting with Russia's top brass and executives of defense-sector enterprises.
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Israeli Ziofascists supported by US in state terror against Palestinians

Stephen Lendman
stephenlendman.org
Mon, 14 May 2018 18:06 UTC
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Israel gets away with mass murder and much more because Washington supports and encourages its ruthlessness.

Both nations partner in each other's high crimes - raging on Monday in besieged Gaza. As of 4:00 PM local time, 44 Palestinians were murdered in cold blood by Israeli snipers, another 1,700 injured, many seriously - the death and injury toll sure to rise.

Trump and other administration Ziofascists are ruthlessly contemptuous of Palestinian rights. They deplore peace and stability, instigating and supporting endless violence and chaos.
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Bad Guys

US blocks UN Security Council call for investigation into Israeli use of mass violence against Palestinian protesters


RT
Tue, 15 May 2018 18:02 UTC
Palestinians protester killed
© Mohammed Salem / ReutersPeople gather around the body of Palestinian Ahmed al-Rantisi, who was killed during a protest at the Israel-Gaza border.
A damning UN Security Council draft statement on Israel's use of force against protesters at the Gaza border was blocked by the US. Nearly 60 people were killed as the new US Embassy opened in Jerusalem.

Monday was the bloodiest day in six weeks of protesting by Palestinians at Israel's border wall, during which hundreds of people have been killed and thousands injured by Israeli soldiers. The IDF (Israel Defense Forces) has used tear gas and small arms against demonstrators, saying the use of force is justified due to the threat they pose. Palestinian protesters have burned tires, thrown stones, and launched incendiary kites during the stand-off.

The draft statement, which was blocked by Washington on Monday, expressed outrage over the scale of violence and called for an independent investigation of the situation.
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US ambassador to UK suggests Brits should prioritize funds for defense over health to fight phantom Russian threat


RT
Tue, 15 May 2018 17:00 UTC
Woody Johnson
© Reuters
Woody Johnson, the US ambassador to the UK, has said that Britain should spend more on military defense at the expense of the NHS, insisting there needs to be 'trade-offs' to ensure security and to remain a strong US ally.

Johnson seemed to indicate to journalists assembled in London that, if increasing spending on defense was to the detriment of national treasures such as the NHS, then that was a price worth paying. He said: "Healthcare is always going to be an issue, education is always going to be an issue, transportation and infrastructure are always going to be issues, etc. But how important is it to defend yourself?"

The current owner of American Football team, the New York Jets, Johnson has been serving as Donald Trump's US ambassador to the UK since January this year. Parroting a Trumpian trope, Johnson warned that his boss doesn't want to bankroll fellow NATO countries such as Britain to safeguard their security - claiming they needed to pay their way on the world stage.
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Bad Guys

Darrell Issa accuses intel officials of 'lying through their teeth' and DOJ of 'slow-walking' congressional subpoena demands

Kathryn Blackhurst
Lifezette
Mon, 14 May 2018 17:09 UTC
Issa
© Fox NewsRep. Darrell Issa (R-Calif.)
Former House Oversight Committee chairman accuses DOJ of political motives in noncompliance with lawmakers' subpoenas

Department of Justice officials are "lying through their teeth" while "slow-walking" congressional document requests until after the 2018 midterm elections, "in the hopes that the Democrats will take over the House or the Senate," Rep. Darrell Issa (R-Calif.) claimed on Fox News' "Sunday Morning Futures."

Issa, former chairman and still a member of the House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform, rebuked DOJ and FBI officials for refusing to cooperate fully and in a timely manner with lawmakers' repeated requests and subpoenas for documents.

"The reality is [that the documents] are being slow-walked until after the election, in the hopes that the Democrats will take over the House or the Senate, and then the investigations will be covered up," Issa warned. "No question in my mind that this would be something that would just go away if we lose the gavel."

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French govt defends anti-terror strategy after another attack by a known radical - opposition calls for expulsion of those on watchlist

Pol O. Gradaigh
Bakersfield.com
Sun, 13 May 2018 16:59 UTC
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© ReutersPolice guard the scene of a knife attack in Paris, France May 12, 2018
The French government defended its anti-terrorism measures over the weekend after it turned out that the perpetrator of a deadly knife attack in Paris was on a state security watchlist.

Government spokesman Benjamin Griveaux said the man, a naturalized French citizen who was born in Chechnya in 1997, had been on the watchlist since 2016.

It was the second deadly attack in two months by a person flagged on the watchlist, and the conservative opposition renewed calls for people on the list to be detained or deported.

Griveaux said security forces had foiled 22 attacks over the past 15 months.

"When we live through a tragedy like yesterday, it is visible," Griveaux told broadcasters LCI and RTL. "What's unfortunate is that our successes, by definition, are invisible."

The attack was claimed by Islamic State. French authorities have not confirmed any link with the organization but are treating the incident as a terrorist attack.

Comment: Both sides have a point. Assuming the numbers are correct, Griveaux is right that failures get more attention than unpublicized successes (it's also basic human psychology). And premature arrests can disrupt intelligence gathering. But something's gotta give. The sheer number of attackers "previously known to police" is enough for people to call for harsher measures taken. And it gets to the point where one has to wonder if there is not some collusion between elements of the security services and these very "terror cells". How about meeting each other half-way? Detain or deport the foreigners on the list. That might disrupt some intel gathering, but not all of it, and it would make the public feel safer. It would also free up resources to focus on the remaining individuals on the watchlist.

Unfortunately, there are individuals within every Western nation who benefit from terror attacks and have no incentive to stop them. Combine that with bureaucratic inertia and general incompetence, and we're unlikely to see any positive changes in policy.

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Best of the Web: US slaps Palestine in the face by celebrating embassy move to Jerusalem on anniversary of Nakba - while Israel mass murders protesters

Finian Cunningham
RT
Mon, 14 May 2018 16:40 UTC
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© Mohammed Salem / Reuters
How obscenely ironic. Embassies traditionally symbolize diplomacy and peace. The opening of the US Embassy in Jerusalem was occasioned by a grotesque baptism of murder of Palestinians, heralding wider war in the Middle East.

Not only that, but on the very anniversary of one of the most shameful episodes of ethnic cleansing and dispossession over the past century - the 1948 Nakba or Catastrophe for Palestinians - the US government is brazenly siding with the heirs of that historic violence, the Israeli state.

Trump's wholesale abandonment of any shame in endorsing Israeli violations against Arab historic rights is an incitement to regional conflagration.

It's hard to express the horror. Israeli snipers shooting unarmed Palestinian protesters in Gaza, while some 100 kilometers away in Jerusalem, US dignitaries and evangelical pastors were blessing the opening of Washington's new embassy as 'God's work'.

US President Donald Trump's policy in the Middle East, if you could call it "policy", has descended into absolute lunacy. No wonder, most European states stayed away from the US reception for unveiling its new diplomatic center.
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Kiev forced to recall their German consul after he's outed as Nazi sympathizer


RT
Tue, 15 May 2018 16:50 UTC
Vasil Marushchinets
© Screenshot from a video published by Anatoly Shariy on YouTube.Vasil Marushchinets’ birthday.
The Ukrainian Foreign Ministry has recalled its consul to Hamburg, Germany for disciplinary action after a popular vlogger accused him of being a Holocaust-denying Nazi sympathizer.

Vasil Marushchinets was recalled to Kiev for an investigation into his friends-only posts on Facebook. He allegedly hailed Nazi policies and denied that the regime slaughtered millions of people in death camps.

It is also alleged he called for violence against Jews, Romas and other ethnicities, argued for Ukraine to take land by force from other countries like Poland, Romania or Hungary and made other statements that hardly befit a diplomat working in Germany.

"If all the facts are confirmed - because what we saw may not be all of it - then certainly such people have no place in the foreign ministry," Ukrainian diplomat Pavlo Klimkin on Monday.
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Mike Huckabee: Avenatti slip-up implicates FBI in illegal anti-Trump activity

Cillian Zeal
Conservative Tri9bune
Fri, 11 May 2018 16:40 UTC
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Michael Avenatti
Every time I see Michael Avenatti on TV, I keep on wondering whether he's Jacoby or Meyers.

Given the big leagues that he's playing in, Avenatti is a veritable ambulance chaser - and it shows. Aside from personal attacks on the president, he seems woefully unprepared as a litigator. While Stormy Daniels ought to be grateful that the media loves him, she still needs to face the fact that this isn't the kind of lawyer you want to go to court with. That's doubly true when the collected legal forces of the president are sitting at the other side of the courtroom.

Mike Huckabee isn't impressed, either. In an opinion piece posted to his website, the former governor of Arkansas and father of White House spokeswoman Sarah Huckabee Sanders asked an important question about Avenatti's latest information regarding payments made to President Donald Trump's lawyer Michael Cohen: Namely, where did he get the information?

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Star of David

Israeli envoy says UNSC must condemn Hamas for double war crime


Sputnik
Tue, 15 May 2018 18:35 UTC
Hamas militants
© REUTERS / Ibraheem Abu MustafaHamas militants
Israeli Ambassador to the United Nations Danny Danon said in a press briefing on Tuesday that the UN Security Council must condemn Hamas for committing war crimes.

"The Security Council today must condemn Hamas for its double war crime; only then will justice be served," Danon told reporters.

He accused Hamas of war crimes, claiming the movement used a mob of rioters to enter Israel for the purpose of conducting attacks and kidnapping Israeli citizens.

Comment: Iranian Foreign Ministry condemned on Tuesday the actions of the Israeli authorities against the protesting Palestinians in the Gaza Strip and called for an investigation in this regard in the International Criminal Court (ICC).
The ministry's spokesman Bahram Qassemi described the events in Gaza as the "killing of dozens of Palestinians" and an "unprecedented brutal massacre," stating that the demonstrations in Gaza were peaceful, the ministry said.

"He [Qassemi] called on regional and international organizations and bodies to take prompt action without any hesitation, condemn the crimes committed by the Israeli regime and introduce the Tel Aviv regime to the International Criminal Court as a war criminal," the ministry said in a statement.


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