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Twitter shreds Macron after video of him being puzzled by 'illegal' migrants who say they lived in France for 8 years


RT
Tue, 11 Sep 2018 17:15 UTC
france migrants evicted
© Agence France-Presse/FilePeople leave a migrant camp as they are evicted by French authorities near the French port city of Dunkirk
French Twitter users have ripped Macron apart after a video featuring his conversation with 'illegal' migrants, who have lived in France without documents for 8 years, went viral. Many thought the whole conversation was a farce.

The exchange between the head of state and a group of Algerians in Marseille, a popular destination for migrants from North Africa, was captured on video and posted on Twitter.

"Mr. Macron, we are undocumented! We like you so much here!" one man said to Macron who replies that they should "regularize" their status. Then the president wonders how long they were living in the country without documents. The answer seemed to be quite a shock. The group of Algerians said that they arrived in France eight years ago for holidays.

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NY Democratic Committee blasted for smearing gubernatorial candidate Cynthia Nixon with anti-Semitism mailer


RT
Tue, 11 Sep 2018 15:50 UTC
Cynthia Nixon
© Pool / ReutersNew York gubernatorial candidate Cynthia Nixon
Ahead of New York's Democratic primary, someone within the party has paid for a mailer accusing progressive gubernatorial candidate Cynthia Nixon of anti-Semitism.

Approved and paid for by the New York State Democratic Committee, the mailer accuses Nixon of remaining "silent on the rise of anti-Semitism," and supporting BDS (Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions), a worldwide movement to boycott Israeli goods. Nixon, it argues, "won't stand strong for our Jewish communities."

The mailer was delivered to 7,000 New York households, and cost around $11,300, according to journalist Zach Fink. It was sent out on Saturday, one day before the start of Rosh Hashanah, or Jewish New Year.

Comment: The question is why would the New York State Democratic Committee send such a mailer when their favored candidate already has a massive lead over Nixon? It appears a fervor for power is frying the brains of the Democratic leadership, which in turn is influencing polarization among the US population. In any case, this is turning out to be quite the show!

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Russian Flag

Biggest war games in 37 years: 300k troops (incl some from China) conduct large-scale redeployment to Russia's Far East


RT
Tue, 11 Sep 2018 18:50 UTC
Russian armored vehicles
© Russian Defense MinistryRussian armored vehicles
Some 300,000 troops and tens of thousands vehicles, aircraft and warships are participating in the largest military exercise Russia has staged in 37 years. Units from China are to take part in the maneuvers as well.

The Vostok 2018 exercise is meant to test the capability of the Russian military to rapidly move and deploy large forces over long distances as well as coordinating between several branches during a large-scale engagement.


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Light Saber

Italian Deputy PM Salvini's truth salvo: 'Brussels only understands language of money, not values'


RT
Tue, 11 Sep 2018 16:28 UTC
Matteo Salvini
© RTItalian Deputy PM Matteo Salvini
EU bureaucrats are not interested in values and principles, Italian Deputy Prime Minister Matteo Salvini told RT. He also said nations like France take a hypocritical stance when they bash Italy's migration policy.

Italy will not vote for the EU's next seven-year budget if there is not an agreement on other crucial issues, like migration, Salvini, who also serves as Italy's interior minister, told RT's Sophie Shevardnadze in an exclusive interview at the sidelines of the European House - Ambrosetti Forum in Italy.

"Unfortunately in Brussels and in Europe they only understand the language of money. Therefore they are not talking about principles, values, solidarity - but economic issues."
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SOTT Focus: Why 9/11 Truth is More Relevant Than Ever

Bjorn Seelmann
Sott.net
Tue, 11 Sep 2018 18:30 UTC
On 9/11 the imperialists considered themselves powerful enough that they could get away with the biggest false flag event in history, now 17 years later this reality is openly being challenged by Russia.
9/11
© Unknown
Another Imperial war, another false flag. Idlib, the last terrorist stronghold in Syria is about to get crushed. In response, the Empire desperately tries to halt the defeat of their proxies with yet another planned fake chemical attack, as a pretext to bomb Syrian Arab forces. Only this time, Russia, Syria, Iran and other nations who stand at the forefront against the real war on terror try to expose the US, warning them not to go forward with their scheme.
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Hardhat

Russia could provide vital rail link connecting North & South Korea to Europe


RT
Tue, 11 Sep 2018 16:23 UTC
bridge
© Ilya Naymushin / Reuters
Both Koreas are interested in Russia's participation in a railway project that could become a crucial link connecting the Korean Peninsula, a North Korean official said on the sidelines of Russia's Eastern Economic Forum (EEF).

"We will further develop this project on the basis of negotiations between Russia, North Korea and South Korea, so that the owners of this project would be the countries of the Korean peninsula," North Korea's Kim Chang-sik, who is in charge of railway projects in the country, told RIA Novosti.

According to him, the three countries need to "create a joint group for the development of these railways."
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Vader

The ulterior reasons behind the Anglo-American war on Russia

F. William Engdahl
New Eastern Outlook
Tue, 11 Sep 2018 15:24 UTC
Aaron Wess Mitchell
US Assistant Secretary at the Bureau of European and Eurasian Affairs Aaron Wess Mitchell
Perhaps they had a chance back during the Obama days when Secretary of State Hillary Clinton proposed her amusing "Reset" in USA-Russia relations to the new Medvedew Presidency following Putin's rotation to the seat of Prime Minister in March 2009. Had Washington been a bit more perceptive and offered serious alternatives, it is conceivable that Washington would today have a geopolitical isolation of their second major problem on the Eurasian Continent, namely, the Peoples' Republic of China. Recently the US Assistant Secretary of State for Europe and Eurasia, Wess Mitchell, testified to the Senate where he candidly revealed the true reasons for current Washington and London campaigns and sanctions against Russia. It has nothing to do with faked allegations of US election interference; it has nothing to do with poorly-staged false flag poisoning of the Russian Skripals. It's far more fundamental and takes us back to the era before the First World War more than a century ago.

In testimony before the Senate Foreign Relations Committee on 21 August, Wess Mitchell, the successor to Victoria Nuland, gave an extraordinarily honest statement of real US geopolitical strategy towards Russia. It revealed a bit more honesty apparently than the US State Department wanted, because they quickly sanitized their published version on the department website.

Comment: Germany seems to be awakening from its Atlanticist-induced coma, and has begun looking after its own interests.

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Hassan Nasrallah: Resistance Axis is triumphing, US and Israel cannot win the wars it has started

Hassan Nasrallah Translation by Sayed Hasan
Resistance News Unfiltered
Mon, 03 Sep 2018 11:17 UTC
Sayed Hassan Nasrallah
Hezbollah Secretary General Sayed Hassan Nasrallah
Speech by Hezbollah Secretary General Sayed Hassan Nasrallah on August 14, 2018, for the celebration of the twelfth anniversary of the 2006 victory.

Full transcript (except for the last section about Lebanon's internal affairs).

Transcript:

The 2006 War and ISIS, two US Projects for Israel's Sake

I seek refuge in God against the stoned devil.
In the Name of God, Most Gracious, Most Merciful.
Praise be to God, Lord of the Worlds, and prayers and salutations be upon our Master and Prophet, the Seal of the Prophets Muhammad, upon his pure and noble family, his chosen and faithful companions and all the Prophets and Messengers.

Peace be upon you all, and God's mercy and His blessings.





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War Whore

Pre-Crime: US, France and UK are in direct talks over possible Syria strikes in response to 'chemical attack' that hasn't happened yet

Tyler Durden
ZeroHedge
Tue, 11 Sep 2018 13:24 UTC
US air force fighter jet
© U.S. Air Force
"That has to be, in the history of propaganda in the 20th and 21st centuries, one of the most outrageous claims that I can think of," John Bolton stated in response to Moscow's charge that anti-Assad insurgents in Idlib are preparing a chemical false flag in order to hasten a US attack on Damascus, according to a new Wall Street Journal report.

"Along with the United States and France, we have been clear that we will respond swiftly and appropriately if the Assad regime repeats its appalling use of chemical weapons," he vowed, echoing statements the national security advisor began making weeks ago during a trip to Jerusalem.

The WSJ has revealed the White House is now in direct talks with the U.K. and France over plans for a possible third round of coordinated strikes on Syria should the Syrian Army use chemical weapons during its Idlib assault.

Comment: Are you ready? The Russian Center for Syrian Reconciliation just informed that the filming of the staged chemical attack in Idlib has begun.

See also South Front's latest video report on the topic:



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Propaganda

NYT report about China detaining 'vast numbers' of Muslims is a lie

Dennis Etler
Fort Russ News
Mon, 10 Sep 2018 07:01 UTC
frn china muslims
This article by the NYT's Chris Buckley who after the 6-4 Counter-revolutionary Incident became a rabid China-basher, is full of the same old distorted stories of Uighur "internment camps" that have circulated in the Western media for a few months. I will not respond to those stories as I have done so previously.

Here's the latest rabid China-bashing from the NYT, which continues to invent and distort stories about the Uighurs.

The most telling point made in Buckley's narrative however is the following, "This city of 390,000 (Hetan) underwent a Muslim revival about a decade ago. Most Uighurs have adhered to relatively relaxed forms of Sunni Islam, and a significant number are secular. But budding prosperity and growing interaction with the Middle East fueled interest in stricter Islamic traditions. Men grew long beards, while women wore hijabs that were not a part of traditional Uighur dress."

Buckley writes as if those develops are insignificant, but if truth be told they are an indication of the spread of Salafist (radical jihadist) ideology within segments of the Uighur population. This is part of a push by Uighur separatists, supported and funded by the US Congress, to foment discord in Xinjiang in order to destabilize China to the advantage of US imperialism's goal of fragmenting China and preventing its continued rise.


Comment: And the article itself even points out that the shift in Chinese police only came after actual evidence of radicalism: "The government shifted to harsher policies in 2009 after protests in Xinjiang's capital, Urumqi, spiraled into rioting and left nearly 200 people dead."


Comment: Moon of Alabama points out that the reports up "up to a million" Chinese Muslims being 're-educated' comes from 8 vague interviews with locals, as if they would have access to such figures.
The NYT report includes this gem of Orientalism:
One official directive warns people to look for 75 signs of "religious extremism," including behavior that would be considered unremarkable in other countries: growing a beard as a young man, praying in public places outside mosques or even abruptly trying to give up smoking or drinking.
The writers of the New York Times seem to have little knowledge of their own city. In 2007 the New York Police Department published a study on Islamist radicalization that remarked on exactly those points:
As these individuals adopt Salafism, typical signatures include:
  • Becoming alienated from one's former life; affiliating with like-minded individuals
  • Joining or forming a group of like-minded individuals in a quest to strengthen one's dedication to Salafi Islam
  • Giving up cigarettes, drinking, gambling and urban hip-hop gangster clothes.
  • Wearing traditional Islamic clothing, growing a beard
  • Becoming involved in social activism and community issues
The Chinese government probably copied its list of signs of religious radicalization from the NYPD and other 'western' sources. A French law prohibits public praying in the street. Other European states enacted laws against the wearing of certain religious attire. The Chinese do not lead in such analysis, they follow 'western' examples.
As for the geopolitical angle:
China is developing new rail and road connection throughout Eurasia as part of its strategic One Belt One Road initiative.

Xinjiang province is larger than Great Britain, France, Spain, and Germany combined. It is a mostly uninhabitable landscape of mountainous and desert terrain with a tiny population of some 24 million of which only 45% are Muslim Uyghurs of Turkic ethnicity. It would be rather unimportant outer province for China were it not at the core of the new Silk road connections.

It is a vulnerable point. An established insurgency in the area could seriously interrupt the new strategic communication lines.

Chinese strategists believe that the U.S., with the help of its Turkish, Saudi and Pakistani friends, was and is behind the Islamic and ethnic radicalization of the Turkic population in the province. It is not by chance that Turkey transferred Uyghur Jihadis from Xinjiang via Thailand to Syria to hone their fighting abilities. That the New York Times publishes about the Xinjiang re-education project, and also offers the report in Mandarin, will only confirm that suspicion. China is determined to end such interference.


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