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Are the French colluding with Nusra to stage chemical attack in Idlib?


Sputnik
Sat, 24 Nov 2018 17:04 UTC
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© AFP 2018 / JM LOPEZ
Damascus has repeatedly accused militants and the controversial White Helmets rescue group of plotting and staging chemical attacks across Syria to prompt a Western military intervention.

A group of French chemical warfare experts working for the Nusra Front terrorist group has entered the militant and terrorist-controlled province of Idlib in northwest Syria to modify missiles and pack them with toxic chemicals, Sputnik Arabic has reported, citing informed local sources.

The sources, who said they were close to the leaders of the various anti-government groups active in Idlib province, told Sputnik Arabic that members of the White Helmets handed five containers of toxic chemicals to these 'French experts'.

The chemicals were previously said to have been stored at a Nusra Front-controlled warehouse in the town of Kafr Nabl, about 35 km south of the city of Idlib, before being transferred to an underground facility in Idlib recently built under the city's prison building.

The sources said the experts are in the area to make modifications to an "unknown" type of missile, and that they brought rocket launch pad components with them.

Comment: Here is one of those reports, from Syrian Perspective:
Emmanuel Macron's intelligence service has sent a team of French terrorist "experts" in Chemical Weapons to Idlib in order to modify the warheads of missiles possessed by mostly the Hay'at Tahreer Al-Shaam criminal organization. Their arrival was coordinated with MIT, Turkey's CIA, across a illegal crossing which Erdoghan thinks will baffle the Russians who have a memorandum of understanding with Ankara over areas designated as "de-escalation zones". Nobody is baffled.

Moreover, the so-called White Helmets were monitored yesterday delivering to the French terrorists 5 canisters of CW hauled from warehouses operated by HTS in Kafr Nibbul, just west of Ma'arrat Al-Nu'maan to a recently dug underground warehouse in Idlib City near the Central Prison. The new warehouse was dug and finished with the use of Turk-supplied backhoes. The canisters are believed to contain Chlorine or Sarin gas.

The team of terrorists are a mix of French citizens of Moroccan descent who were trained for exactly this mission. They are all Arabic speakers but speak a kind of Arabic Syrians are unable to understand. They, therefore, use French in order to communicate with the rodents of HTS.

A few days ago, terrorist websites confirmed that columns of HTS tanks, heavy artillery, flatbeds with 22 mm cannons, various vehicles and American-manufactured Stinger shoulder-carried launchers and rockets had left Idlib City and Khaan Shaykhoon for destinations close to the border with Hama Governorate. There is something clearly brewing and it has something to do with the CW delivered to the Macron-inspired terrorists.

Erdoghan seems to think he is very clever. He is not. Russia and Syria, and Iran, for that matter, all know that he has given the terrorists carte blanche to rearm and deploy any which way they like. He has only placed one condition to supposedly confuse the Russians: use only illegal and non-traditional crossings from Turkey into Syria.


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Evil Rays

Anti-Russian hysteria: UK general claims Russia is worse threat than ISIS


RFE/RL
Sat, 24 Nov 2018 16:39 UTC
moscow
© Sputnik/Alexei Druzhinin
Russia is a "far greater threat" to Britain's national security than Islamic terrorist groups such as the Islamic State (IS), the new head of the British Army has warned.

In an interview with The Daily Telegraph published on November 23, General Mark Carleton-Smith said Britain and its allies "cannot be complacent about the threat Russia poses."

The Russian Embassy in London responded to the comments with a tweet on November 24, saying "Army chief doesn't care about [IS]? Great global strategic vision!"

Carleton-Smith made the comments at a time of heightened tensions between the West and Russia over issues including Moscow's aggression in Ukraine, its alleged election meddling in the United States and Europe, massive international cyberattacks, and the poisoning of a Russian double agent and his daughter in Britain.


Comment: Alleged aggression in Ukraine (NATO aggression and Ukrainian aggression is much worse - and documented). Alleged election meddling (NATO and American meddling in Russia is much worse - and documented). U.S. and Israel are just as guilty if not more for international cyberattacks, and there is no proof 'Russia' poisoned the Skripals. How wrong can you be in one paragraph?


"Russia today indisputably represents a far greater threat to our national security than Islamic extremist threats" such as Al-Qaeda and IS, Carleton-Smith said in his first interview since becoming chief of Britain's General Staff in June.


Comment: Behind this statement is the implication: the UK is more than willing to ally with groups such as al-Qaeda and ISIS if it means fighting Russia. And that's exactly what they've been doing for years.


Comment: RT adds:
Moscow has demonstrated that it is "prepared to use military force to secure and expand its own national interests," he told the Telegraph. Head-chopping Islamists apparently pale in comparison.
And western countries never use military force to expand or secure their national interests...
Carleton-Smith was speaking after visiting UK soldiers deployed to the Baltic country of Estonia, where 'Russia scare' proponents have also been known to raise a few eyebrows. ...

Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov fired back on Saturday, saying: "That's the worldview of a country that has spelt out its right to use force arbitrarily regardless of UN Security Council resolutions."

In fact, some would argue that fanning fears over 'evil Russia' are instrumental in explaining or justifying increased defense spending. It wouldn't be the first time the UK establishment has done so.

That aside, the latest tough claim from the UK is echoing a similar bizarre statement made by Barack Obama in 2014. Not mincing his words, then-US President also said that Russia was more dangerous than Islamic State. Well, at least that evil has been surpassed by Ebola, according to the American leader.

With the perceived threat from Russia, NATO has not passed up the opportunity to bolster its military presence all the way to Russia's Western border, including the Baltic region where massive war games frequently take place.

Additionally, it emerged in September that London will send troops to the Arctic to "defend" the region from Russia (an internationally recognized Arctic country). Around 800 Royal Marine and Army commandos will be deployed to Norway every winter throughout the next decade according to Defence Secretary Gavin Williamson, who also did not hesitate to call the area the UK's "own backyard."
Lavrov also had this to say:
We can't ban anyone from showing off [their] intellect and political abilities.
Touche.

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Chess

#ICYMI: France and Germany want a new EU army, what could possibly go wrong?


RT
Sat, 24 Nov 2018 09:03 UTC
europe's new army
The leaders of France and Germany have been calming the nerves of other EU members and talking about their plans to "refound" Europe. Don't worry, it's not like before, they're on the same side now.

One of the big plans, receiving support from Emmanuel Macron and Angela Merkel, is for the formation of a new European army.


Comment: See also:

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Light Sabers

Feuding manipulators: Soros' Open Society president calls for congressional oversight of Facebook

Joe Tacopino
New York Post
Fri, 23 Nov 2018 04:28 UTC
George Soros
© Reuters/Stgefan Wermuth (file photo)
The head of George Soros' philanthropic organization called for congressional oversight of Facebook after the social-media giant admitted it had hired a research firm to get dirt on the billionaire.

Patrick Gaspard, president of Soros' Open Society Foundations, blasted Facebook for hiring Definers Public Affairs in response to Soros publicly criticizing the site.

"So @facebook decides to drop a turkey on Thanksgiving eve, with admission that Definers was tasked by company leadership to target and smear George Soros because he publicly criticized their out of control business model. Sorry, but this needs independent, congressional oversight," Gaspard tweeted Wednesday night.

Comment: Previously:

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Attention

Best of the Web: Matt Taibbi: Why you should care about the Julian Assange case

Matt Taibbi
Rolling Stone
Fri, 23 Nov 2018 14:29 UTC
assange
© InconnuJulian Assange
Forget Jim Acosta. If you're worried about Trump's assault on the press, news of a Wikileaks indictment is the real scare story

Wikileaks founder Julian Assange, who has been inside the Ecuadorian embassy in London since the summer of 2012, is back in the news. Last week, word of a sealed federal indictment involving him leaked out.

The news came out in a strange way, via an unrelated case in Virginia. In arguing to seal a federal child endangerment charge (against someone with no connection to Wikileaks), the government, ironically, mentioned Assange as an example of why sealing is the only surefire way to keep an indictment under wraps.

"Due to the sophistication of the defendant and the publicity surrounding the case," prosecutors wrote, "no other procedure is likely to keep confidential the fact that Assange has been charged."

Comment:

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Bad Guys

Unfair competition: US presses allies to ditch China's Telecom giant Huawei - report


RT
Fri, 23 Nov 2018 00:00 UTC
Huawei
© Global Look Press / ZUMAPRESS.com / Laura Chiesa
Washington has been on a mission to discourage its allies from using Chinese telecommunication giant Huawei's equipment, the Wall Street Journal reports. The firm earlier slammed the US for using politics for unfair competition.

Washington has been up in arms over Huawei's worldwide expansion, "having initiated an extraordinary outreach campaign" to press its European and Asian allies to shun the world's largest telecommunication equipment supplier, the WSJ writes, citing officials familiar with the situation.

US officials have been sounding the alarm particularly over the use of Chinese equipment by countries that host American military infrastructure. Germany, Italy, and Japan are among Washington's closest allies that have already been briefed on the risks to which they have exposed themselves by installing Huawei equipment.

Comment: IMF warns trade war with US-China could have 'significant economic costs' to global economy

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Bad Guys

Ukip Party returns to infighting after Tommy Robinson appointment - Farage demands Batten resignation

Peter Walker and Simon Murphy
The Guardian
Fri, 23 Nov 2018 13:57 UTC
George Batton Tommy Robinson
© Composite: European Press Agency/RexThe decision by Gerard Batten, right, to appoint the far-right activist Tommy Robinson, left, as an adviser has been condemned.
Nigel Farage among those to express outrage and call for Gerard Batten to quit as leader

Ukip faces the prospect of further damaging infighting after its leader, Gerard Batten, made the far-right activist Tommy Robinson one of his advisers, prompting outrage from senior members and a call from Nigel Farage to depose Batten.

Just nine months after the party ousted Henry Bolton as leader over offensive comments made by his girlfriend, Farage said he would write to Ukip's national executive committee (NEC) to seek a no-confidence vote in Batten.

Comment: Tommy Robinson: naive activist worried about his country, or wily political animal? Either way, he sends the British establishment into fits. One has to wonder why. To the average Brit, who barely recognizes his country any more, Tommy seems to be providing a voice.

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Chess

Cyprus invasion talk returns to Turkey, as ExxonMobile starts exploratory drilling

Helena Smith in Athens
The Guardian
Wed, 21 Nov 2018 00:00 UTC
Opposition leader Meral Akşener uses code phrase army launched assault with in 1974 as tensions mount
Meral Akşener addresses Ankara's parliament.
© Anadolu Agency/Getty ImagesMeral Akşener addresses Ankara's parliament.
A prominent Turkish opposition leader has caused alarm by calling for a repeat invasion of Cyprus, using the code phrase Ankara's army deployed to launch an assault on the island 44 years ago.

Amid rising tensions over a push to exploit potential oil and gas reserves in the eastern Mediterranean, Meral Akşener, who heads the İyi (Good) party, upped the ante, predicting the issue would be cause for war.
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Blackbox

Does the US really need Saudi oil?

Nick Cunningham
Oilprice.com
Thu, 22 Nov 2018 13:58 UTC
oil rigs
"Saudi Arabia - if we broke with them, I think your oil prices would go through the roof. I've kept them down," President Trump told reporters on Tuesday. "They've helped me keep them down. Right now we have low oil prices, or relatively. I'd like to see it go down even lower - lower."

Oil prices have indeed fallen significantly in recent weeks, and to be sure, Saudi Arabia has played a large role in that. Saudi production reportedly hit a record high 11 million barrels per day (mb/d) at times this month, and global inventories are rising once again.

But Riyadh is also clearly upset at being "duped" by Trump. Having been convinced by the Trump administration that Iran's oil exports were heading to zero, or at least close to zero, Saudi Arabia ramped up supply to offset the losses.
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Bad Guys

Ukrainian General: US is advising Kiev to unleash 'chaos' in Donbass

Paul Antonopoulos
Fort Russ News
Wed, 21 Nov 2018 00:00 UTC
Russian-backed separatists
© REUTERS/Maxim ShemetovRussian-backed separatists swept into a key town in the east.
Former Deputy Chief of Staff of the Ukrainian Armed Forces, Igor Romanenko, told local media that the United States has advised Kiev to create a "chaotic situation" in the Donbass.

"The United States proposes that Ukraine severely close the border and do not allow anything or anyone, not even resources - electricity and water to enter, so a chaotic situation would soon be unleashed there," Romanenko told Obozrevatel.

According to him, such a situation would be unacceptable for Russia that it would not be able to deal with it and "so it would be possible to advance the process".

On Friday a meeting was held between Ukraine's Foreign Minister Pavel Klimkin and US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo. The parties agreed that Donbass and the Russian-Ukrainian border should be controlled by an international peacekeeping mission mandated by the UN to ensure compliance with the Minsk Accords.

Comment: These statements further go to show that creating a "chaotic situation" is really all the Western Empire knows how to do now - but boy do they do it well. The horrible part of it is that its the rest of the world that is left picking up the pieces - and stuck with the task of trying to bring order and some semblance of normalcy to the people and places that have been so decimated.

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