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Russia opens criminal investigation into murder attempt on Skripal's daughter & ex-Aeroflot official's death in UK


RT
Sat, 17 Mar 2018 08:02 UTC
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The Russian Investigative Committee has opened criminal cases into the attempted murder of Yulia Skripal, daughter of poisoned double agent Sergei Skripal, and the suspected murder of businessman Nikolay Glushkov in London.

Yulia Skripal was visiting her father, former double agent Sergei Skripal, when the two were poisoned by what the UK claims was a Soviet-era nerve agent. The incident caused a massive diplomatic row between London and Moscow and saw the UK impose sanctions against Russia.

Despite accusing Russia of using chemical weapons on its soil, Britain refused to share details of the case or provide any evidence to Moscow, ignoring the fact that Yulia Skripal is a Russian citizen. Russia's ambassador to the UK promised that Moscow would "exert massive pressure"on London regarding the Skripal poisoning investigation.

Comment: See more: Skripal Likely Poisoned by British Intelligence in Effort to Smear and Silence Russian World View

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Maria Zakharova completely rubbishes Britain's anti-Russia campaign on national TV

Paul Antonopoulos
FRN (Fort Russ News)
Sat, 17 Mar 2018 19:28 UTC
Maria Zakharova
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Maria Zakharova, Director of the Information and Press Department of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs for the Russian Federation, on Russian national television has completely rubbished the British anti-Russian campaign in response to the Salisbury assassination attempt.

She questioned why normal protocol was not undertaken if a deadly chemical agent was used to try and kill Russian traitor Sergei Skripal, 66, and his daughter Yulia Skripal, 33.
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Attention

Russian FM Lavrov warns US against provocations aiming to break down Trump's meeting with Kim Jong-un


TASS
Sat, 17 Mar 2018 19:07 UTC
Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov
© Mikhail Japaridze/TASSRussian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov
Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov was warned the US administration against provocative actions aimed at breaking down a possible meeting between US President Donald Trump and North Korean leader Kim Jong-un.

"Even when US President Donald Trump said he was ready to meet with North Korean leader Kim Jong-un and settle all the problems, US presidential administration officials rushed to say that further pressure on Pyongyang was needed as it had backed down," he said in an interview with the Vietnamese and Japanese media ahead of his visits to these countries.

"Such things are not practices in diplomacy," he said. "When a meeting is agreed, the sides typically try to cherish such an agreement rather than call for actions that can be seen as provocations aiming to break down a summit."

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Bad Guys

Dangerous times: Mueller widens the Russiagate dragnet by invoking unusual 'conspiracy to defraud government' charge

Dan Boylan
The Washington Times
Mon, 12 Mar 2018 17:21 UTC
FBI Robert Mueller
Special counsel Robert Mueller and his prosecutors have invoked an unusual "conspiracy to defraud the government" charge to ensnare a Russian cyber network and could use the same legal strategy to go after President Trump and his associates, even if the conspiracy is not linked to a criminal act.

Although the president constantly denies any wrongdoing, Mr. Mueller's 10-month-long investigation has become the heart of the Trump-Russian election meddling saga, dominating headlines and leaving the White House tangled in conflict and controversy as additional charges have also been filed against four of his close associates - with further indictments likely.

Last month, Mr. Mueller, a Republican and former FBI director, indicted 13 Russian nationals connected to the Internet Research Agency (IRA) Russian "troll farm," accusing the IRA of interfering in the 2016 U.S. presidential election by spreading fake news stories through U.S. social media. The same approach was employed in securing a plea deal last month with Rick Gates, the aide for former Trump campaign chairman Paul Manafort.

Comment: Taken to absurdist limits, Mueller might be able to say more than anyone who retweeted a cat video posted by a 'Russian troll' is part of the conspiracy, and therefore subject to charges. Twitter, Facebook and Google would of course provide the relevant information.

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Attention

The Russian poison story

James Corbett
Corbett Report
Sat, 17 Mar 2018 14:01 UTC
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So you know the poisoning of Sergei Skripal? The incident that is causing British Prime Minister Theresa May to start a war of words with the Russians that could potentially lead to World War III? Well, imagine explaining the story to your MSM-addicted, normie friend:
YOU: Hey, did you know the US government has a top secret bioweapon that they use to kill their political enemies? Well, no one has actually proven it exists much less collected any samples of it, but trust me, it exists and they use it.

FRIEND: What? Secret bioweapon? No evidence? Ugh! Shut up, burglary theorist! . . . errrr, I mean, Shut up, conspiracy theorist!

YOU: Oops, did I say the US government? I meant the Russian government.

FRIEND: Oh, the Russian government, you say? Well, then, this sounds perfectly believable.
Yes, believe it or not, that is essentially what we are being told by the powers-that-shouldn't-be. "The Russians are using a super secret poison that may or may not exist but we're too busy to provide any evidence for this. Just trust us. Oh, and let's threaten a world nuclear superpower based on this non-evidence, too!"

For those not in the know, the case revolves around Sergei Skripal, who the media disingenuously refer to as a "former Russian spy." In this case, "former Russian spy" is a euphemism for "ongoing MI6 double agent." Or, more accurately, "recently poisoned MI6 double agent." That's because Skripal and his daughter were admitted to hospital after passing out on a shopping center bench in Salisbury, England earlier this month. They remain in critical condition. (Or maybe they're already dead. Who knows?)

Naturally, in this era of Russiagate hysteria, it took precisely no time at all before the UK government began intimating it was the Russians, and, despite not providing a shred of evidence for that claim, the mockingbird media naturally followed along. "Of course the Russians did it!" we are told by the MSM repeaters. "Evidence, schmevidence. I mean, come on! Poisoning . . . Soviet Union . . . Russians. Do we have to draw you a map?"
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Bizarro Earth

Dealing with a bear: Western hubris will be suicidal

The Saker
The Unz Review
Thu, 15 Mar 2018 15:53 UTC
Russian bear
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Assuming mankind finds a way not to destroy itself in the near future and assuming that there will still be historians in the 22nd or 23rd centuries, I bet you that they will look at the AngloZionist Empire and see the four following characteristics as some of its core features: lies, willful ignorance, hypocrisy, and hysterics. To illustrate my point I will use the recent "Skripal nerve-gas assassination" story as it really encompasses all of these characteristics.

I won't even bother debunking the official nonsense here as others have done a very good job of pointing out the idiocy of the official narrative. If you are truly capable of believing that "Putin" (that is the current collective designator for the Evil Empire of Mordor currently threatening all of western civilization) would order the murder of a man whom a Russian military court sentenced to only 13 years in jail (as opposed to life or death) and who was subsequently released as part of a swap with the USA, you can stop reading right now and go back to watching TV. I personally have neither the energy nor the inclination to even discuss such a self-evidently absurd theory. No, what I do want to do is use this story as a perfect illustration of the kind of society we now all live in looked at from a moral point of view. I realize that we live in a largely value-free society where moral norms have been replaced by ideological orthodoxy, but that is just one more reason for me to write about what is taking place precisely focusing on the moral dimensions of current events.
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Bizarro Earth

UK, Slovakia, Sweden, Czech Republic among most probable source of 'Novichok' - Moscow


RT
Sat, 17 Mar 2018 13:47 UTC
‘Novichok’
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The substance used in the poisoning of Sergei Skripal may have originated from the countries studying the "Novichok" nerve agent, including the UK, Slovakia, the Czech Republic and Sweden, the Russian Foreign Ministry said.

"The most likely source of origin of the toxin are the countries which have been carrying out intense research on the substances from the 'Novichok' program, approximately since the end of the 1990s until the present time, and this project is not the creation of Russia or the Soviet Union," Foreign Ministry spokeswoman Maria Zakharova said on Saturday. She listed the UK, Slovakia, the Czech Republic and Sweden among the countries involved.

The US should also "be put under question," Zakharova said in an interview with the state broadcaster VGTRK.

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Star of David

Serial violator Israel whines about violations of its sovereignty

David Morrison
Middle East Eye
Mon, 12 Mar 2018 10:47 UTC
In the four-month period from 1 July to 30 October 2017, Israel violated Lebanon's airspace 758 times for a total of 3,188 hours

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Israel has been a serial violator of the sovereignty of neighbouring states, especially Lebanon and Syria, over many years.
Israeli Prime Minister Benyamin Netanyahu addressed the Munich Security Conference on 18 February 2018. Attacking Iran during his speech, he brandished what he claimed was a piece of a drone sent into Israeli airspace by Iran on 10 February and declared that the Islamic republic had "violated Israel's sovereignty" and threatened its people.


Comment: Netanyahu taunts Iranian FM at Munich Security Conference with drone fragment


One has to admire the Israeli prime minister's audacity in his reaction to a single Iranian drone entering Israeli airspace from Syria, when, with his authority, Israeli aircrafts have violated Syrian sovereignty on about a hundred occasions in the past five years in the course of bombing targets in Syria (Haaretz, 17 August 2017) and Israeli aircraft violate Lebanese sovereignty on a daily basis (Report by UN Secretary-General, 16 November 2017).

A serial violator

The Israeli prime minister described this incursion into Israel airspace as an "act of aggression". But, according to Chagai Tzuriel, director general of Israel's intelligence ministry, the incursion "was not an attack, but a test of the limits and rules" (Washington Post, 11 February). And Haaretz reported on 13 February: "That it was an attack mission is unlikely, as no weapon or explosives have so far been found among the drone's fragments, which are in Israel's hands."

So, it appears that Iran's "act of aggression" against Israel was committed by an unarmed drone.
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Eye 1

Tensions mount between US and China as Trump signs bill on Taiwan cooperation despite previous non-binding agreement


RT
Sat, 17 Mar 2018 01:16 UTC
PRC foreign ministry spokesperson Lu Kang
© Kim Kyung Hoon / ReutersPRC foreign ministry spokesperson Lu Kang
US President Donald Trump has signed into law a bill which aims to deepen ties between the US and Taiwan. China has issued multiple warnings to both Washington and Taipei over the law.

The Taiwan Travel Act (HR 535), which US lawmakers presented to Trump on March 5, aims to increase travel and visits "at all levels," including state officials and business leaders, both on the American and the Taiwanese side.

The bill has angered Chinese officials, who see Taiwan as an inalienable provincial territory of China because of the One China Policy that was established in the US-PRC joint communique of 1982. As the deadline for Trump to sign the bill approaches, Beijing has issued a stark response.

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Star of David

Pompeo elevation suggests a 'neocon lock' on Trump's foreign policy

Philip Weiss
Mondoweiss
Sat, 17 Mar 2018 12:43 UTC
Mike Pompeo
Mike Pompeo, his official CIA portrait
As you know by now, Donald Trump yesterday cashiered his secretary of state, of 14 months standing, Rex Tillerson, and named Mike Pompeo, the current director of the CIA, as his nominee to be the nation's highest diplomat.

Pompeo is a longtime friend of the neoconservatives, while Tillerson is a realist. The nomination is a victory for those who want to destroy the Iran deal; some say the move will kill the deal. Tillerson was for it, Pompeo is against it, and had sought military intervention in Iran instead of a deal.

So all those who said Trump would have a non-interventionist or isolationist foreign policy are proven wrong by events. Steve Bannon, the big America Firster, is gone, and neoconservatives are in the driver's seat.
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