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Putin and Erdogan to discuss supplies of S-400, bilateral agenda and the situation in Syria


TASS
Tue, 03 Apr 2018 09:30 UTC
Russian President Vladimir Putin and Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan
© Alexey Druzhinin/Presidential press service/TASSRussian President Vladimir Putin and Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan
Russian President Vladimir Putin and Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan meet in Ankara on Tuesday as part of Putin's first visit abroad after reelection as President of the Russian Federation on March 18.

Apart from the Russian-Turkish summit, Putin will also take part in the Russian-Turkish-Iranian trilateral talks where Erdogan and he will be joined by the Iranian President, Hasan Rouhani.

Presidential aide Yuri Ushakov said on the eve of the visit Putin is taking an impressive delegation of Russian government officials and executives of large corporations.

Comment: See also: Kremlin: Putin and Erdogan discuss preparations for Russia-Turkey-Iran summit in Ankara

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Vader

Rancorous rhetoric from Saudi crown prince: Iranian leader worse than Hitler, absolute monarchy is cool


RT
Tue, 03 Apr 2018 00:24 UTC
Mohammed bin Salman
© Charles Platiau / Reuters
Seemingly discontent with just being the darling of the British establishment, Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman (MbS) is on a charm offensive to win over the American public as well.

The crown prince must have figured the surefire way to impress the US political establishment was by glorifying Israel and demonizing Iran, judging by his wide-ranging puff interview with The Atlantic's editor in chief, Jeffrey Goldberg, on Monday.

Channelling former President George W. Bush's speechwriter, David Frum, MbS described his kingdom's enemies as the "triangle of evil," talking about Iran, the Muslim Brotherhood and Sunni terror groups like Al-Qaeda and Islamic State (IS, formerly ISIS/ISIL).

"I believe the Iranian supreme leader makes Hitler look good," bin Salman told Goldberg, without any trace of irony ‒ or evidence. "Hitler didn't do what the supreme leader is trying to do. Hitler tried to conquer Europe. ... The supreme leader is trying to conquer the world."


Comment: Who does he expect to believe this besides the war party??


It was when speaking about Israel, however, that MbS brought out the big guns (though not the ones he bought from the US) in his charm offensive. According to Goldberg, MbS "did not have a bad word to say" about Israel.
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Chess

Former Israeli intelligence boss says on Russian TV 'Putin is too soft on West' (VIDEO)


Information Clearinghouse
Sun, 01 Apr 2018 00:00 UTC
Yakov Kedmi
Russia Should Ignore Western Accusations

Yakov Kedmi is a former head of the Israeli intelligence agency "Nativ". He often appears on Russian TV to talk on global political issues. This is a fragment of his appearance on the "Evening with Solovyov" program.

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Popcorn

Turley: Sessions' appointing Utah Federal Prosecutor much better for Trump than 2nd special counsel

Ken Klukowski
Breitbart
Sat, 31 Mar 2018 19:31 UTC
Sessions
© Alex Wong/Getty ImagesAG Jeff Sessions
Professor Jonathan Turley, a top national legal expert on government investigations, commented on Thursday about Attorney General Jeff Sessions' decision to bring in U.S. Attorney John Huber. Turley called it "brilliant"to combine all the powers of the U.S. Department of Justice's inspector general with a prosecutor who can bring charges, seek indictments, and get results for President Trump far more quickly than a second special counsel.

Turley is a law professor at George Washington University, who attained national fame during the 1998 impeachment of President Bill Clinton as a top legal authority on special counsels and congressional investigations of government wrongdoing, including criminal wrongdoing. His reputation has only grown during the intervening 20 years, as he has weighed in on scandals and investigations of public officials from both political parties.

Sessions sent a letter to House Judiciary Committee Chairman Bob Goodlatte (R-VA), House Oversight Committee Chairman Trey Gowdy (R-SC), and Senate Judiciary Committee Chairman Chuck Grassley (R-IA), informing them that Huber is conducting a full-fledged criminal investigation into all the matters Republicans are calling for a special counsel to investigate. Huber has been investigating these possible crimes for five months, since November 13, 2017.

During an interview on Lou Dobbs's Fox Business Network show, Turley explained to guest host Stuart Varney that the media are wrongly reporting that Sessions will not appoint a second special counsel. "He did not foreclose the possibility of a special counsel," he insisted.

Instead, Turley explained that Sessions has ordered Huber to "team up with the inspector general (IG) within the Justice Department to investigate these matters."

Comment: Get your popcorn ready!

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Bad Guys

'Leftist utopia' promoting mass migration weakening Europe - former Czech president


RT
Mon, 02 Apr 2018 22:21 UTC
Former Czech President Vaclav Klaus
© Ray Stubblebine / ReutersFormer Czech President Vaclav Klaus
Europe has been weakened by a "leftist utopia" which promotes the idea of mass migration and tries to turn Europeans into "dependent clients," former Czech President Vaclav Klaus wrote in his new Eurosceptic book.

The migrant influx "is comparable to the 'barbarian' invasions of the ancient world that caused large-scale regression in the development of Europe which it took several centuries to overcome," Klaus, who served as the president of the Czech Republic from 2003 till 2013, wrote in an introduction to his book 'Europe All Inclusive', released earlier in March.

Some of the main culprits behind Europe's crisis are none other than left-wing parties, according to Klaus. "Europe is weakened by the leftist utopia of trying to transform a continent that was once proud of its past into an inefficient solidaristic state, turning its inhabitants from citizens into dependent clients," the former top official stated.

Comment: The general sentiment from the left is that ideas opposing multiculturalism are based on racism and the fear and hatred of the 'other'. However, what if that is not the case. The 'leftist utopia' isn't bringing about a land of peace and prosperity, as Klaus points out. Instead people are growing ever more divided and this cannot be solely blamed on those on the right. In effect, this liberal vision seeks to build a world where the 'other' (meaning everyone else but them) make sacrifices, where there is little to no genuine cooperation or dialog. What kind of utopia is that?

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Vader

Warmonger John Bolton: Past, present, and future

Whitney Webb
MintPress News
Fri, 30 Mar 2018 18:10 UTC
john Bolton
© Associated PressJohn Bolton was an influential member of President Bush's inner circle
A wide-ranging three-part series by Whitney Webb explores the past of soon-to-be National Security Adviser John Bolton and what his recent appointment will mean for U.S. foreign policy, with a focus on the Middle East, Latin America, and the Koreas .

Part 1:

Bolton's Past Advocacy for Israel at US Expense Heralds Dangerous New Era in Geopolitics

Notorious war hawk John Bolton - who has long been vying for a position in Trump's administration - has been especially eager to work with a president with minimal foreign policy knowledge or experience, allowing him maximum effect in achieving his policy goals.

Last Thursday, President Trump announced that former UN ambassador John Bolton, once called the "most dangerous man" in the entire George W. Bush administration, would replace H.R. McMaster as national security adviser, making him the man in charge of what the President sees and hears regarding issues of national security. Bolton will officially take over McMaster's post on April 9.

The appointment was not surprising. Indeed, earlier this month, MintPress reported that McMaster was soon to be replaced - largely at the behest of billionaire Republican donor and militant Zionist Sheldon Adelson - and that Bolton was a top contender for that position, largely due to Bolton's reputation as a "stalwart friend of Israel" and his frequent calls for military action against Iran, Israel's regional arch-rival.
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Brain

Salisbury incident report offers hard evidence for soft minds


Oriental Review
Wed, 28 Mar 2018 00:00 UTC
Craig Murray/Richard Sakwa
© UnknownFormer British Ambassador Craig Murray • University of Kent Professor Richard Sakwa
The UK government's presentation on the Salisbury incident, which was repeatedly cited in recent days as an "ultimate proof" of Russia's involvement into Skripal's assassination attempt, was made public earlier today.

This 6-paged PDF is a powerful evidence of another intellectual low of British propaganda machine. Open it and you can tell that substantially it makes only two assertions on the Skripal case, and both are false:

First. Novichok is a group of agents developed only by Russia and not declared under the CWC" - a false statement. Novichok was originally developed in the USSR (Nukus Lab, today in Uzbekistan, site completely decommissioned according to the US-Uzbekistan agreement by 2002). One of its key developers, Vil Mirzayanov, defected to the United States in 1990s, its chemical formula and technology were openly published in a number of chemical journals outside Russia. Former top-ranking British foreign service officer Craig Murray specifically noted this point on March 17:
I have now been sent the vital information that in late 2016, Iranian scientists set out to study whether novichoks really could be produced from commercially available ingredients. Iran succeeded in synthesising a number of novichoks. Iran did this in full cooperation with the OPCW and immediately reported the results to the OPCW so they could be added to the chemical weapons database.
This makes complete nonsense of the Theresa May's "of a type developed by Russia" line, used to parliament and the UN Security Council. This explains why Porton Down has refused to cave in to governmental pressure to say the nerve agent was Russian. If Iran can make a novichok, so can a significant number of states.

Comment: Who to go with on Novichok? We've heard from everyone else...let's try the experts.

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Persecution of Assange proves him right

Caitlin Johnstone
Medium
Sun, 01 Apr 2018 00:00 UTC
Assange
© Wikileaks"We only live once. So we are obligated to make good use of the time we have and do something that is meaningful and satisfying. This [WikiLeaks] is something that I find meaningful and satisfying. That is my temperament. I enjoy creating systems on a grand scale, and I enjoy helping people who are vulnerable. And I enjoy crushing bastards"
The online Oxford dictionary defines the word 'siege' as a "military operation in which enemy forces surround a town or building, cutting off essential supplies, with the aim of compelling those inside to surrender."

The strategy dates back to medieval times after the proliferation of the castle, where a defending force could hole itself up inside an easily defended fortress against an invading enemy who would be at a major disadvantage in a direct attack. To get around this, an army who wanted to depose the leadership within a castle or other impregnable construct would simply surround it and refuse to allow any food or supplies to be brought in. With enough patience, those inside would be forced to either starve or surrender.

This is precisely the strategy that is being employed against Julian Assange. If you try to talk about Assange being in a state of functional house arrest on any online forum you will be swiftly inundated by accounts asserting in fascinatingly uniform language that Assange is free to leave the Ecuadorian embassy whenever he wants, which just so happens to be the desire of the empire which currently has him under siege.
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Russia's 13 questions to OPCW over Skripal case


RT
Mon, 02 Apr 2018 00:40 UTC
OPCW inspector
© Peter Nicholls/ReuterOPCW inspector arrives in Salisbury, UK
Russia has sent a list of 13 questions to the UN's chemical weapons watchdog, the OPCW, demanding answers on its involvement in the British probe into the poisoning by a nerve agent of former double agent Sergei Skripal.

The letter was published by the Russian Foreign Ministry on Sunday, a day after similar questionnaires were forwarded to the foreign departments of the UK and France. In a statement on its website, the ministry again stressed that the whole Skripal case was "fabricated against Russia." The 13 questions, sent by Russia's permanent mission at the Organization for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons (OPCW) to the watchdog's Technical Secretariat, can be divided into broader groups that address three important aspects of the ongoing investigation: the UK's dealings with the OPCW, the OPCW's procedure and France's involvement in the investigation.

What does Britain want from the OPCW?

The first several questions deal with the assistance that the OPCW provided to the British in the investigation.
"What exactly is Britain asking the OPCW Technical Secretariat to confirm: only the fact that a nerve agent was used or that it belongs to the 'Novichok' type under Western classification?" one of the questions reads.
Moscow is also asking what type of samples and other evidence was handed over to the OPWC by the British and whether the Technical Secretariat has plans to share its information on the Skripal case with the OPCW Executive Council, of which Russia is a member.

Comment: What are the chances Russia will get impartial and accurate answers to its legitimate questions, given it now has no physical representation at the UN and the OPCW has not been the most reliable source in regards to Syrian gas attack verifications?

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When he called to congratulate him on his 4th electoral victory, Trump invited Putin to meeting in Washington, DC


RT
Mon, 02 Apr 2018 13:14 UTC
TrumPutin
© Someone's BonesPresidents: Trump and Putin
US President Donald Trump has suggested meeting Russian leader Vladimir Putin in Washington, DC. Trump made the offer during a phone call between the two leaders, Russian presidential aide Yury Ushakov confirmed.

"When the presidents talked on the phone, Trump suggested holding a meeting in Washington DC," Ushakov told reporters on Monday. He added that it was the US leader who had proposed the idea of the meeting. However, no preparations for a possible meeting have been discussed since the March 20 telephone call, Putin's aide said. The US and Russia have also been at loggerheads over the poisoning of ex-double agent Sergei Skripal in the UK, which has sparked tit-for-tat expulsions of diplomats.

Trump decided to expel 60 diplomats and close Russia's consulate in Seattle after London accused Moscow of poisoning Skripal and his daughter Yulia, although no evidence of Russia's role has been provided. Moscow responded by expelling the same number of US diplomatic staff from Russia and closing the consulate in St. Petersburg.

Comment: A meeting with Putin would be wise since the Skripal finagle seems to be fizzling. The ploy, however, did its job as the sheeple countries came running into the fold, buying more military equipment in the frenzy of a 'looming war'. Those countries that remained skeptical or flatly refused the accusatory scenario were noted.

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