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Trump receives 'warm' letter from Kim Jong-un requesting second meeting


RT
Mon, 10 Sep 2018 19:40 UTC
Trump and Kim Jong-un second meeting request
© Handout / ZUMA Press / Global Look PressThe Monday announcement comes just one day after Trump praised Pyongyang for carrying out its 70th anniversary parade "without the customary display of nuclear missiles."
Donald Trump has received a "warm" letter from North Korean Leader Kim Jong-un about scheduling a second meeting, White House Press Secretary Sarah Sanders has confirmed, adding that conversations about a new summit are underway.

Speaking during a news briefing on Monday, Sanders said that a second meting with Kim is "something we want to take place."

"The primary purpose of the letter was to request and look to schedule another meeting with the president which we are open to and are already in the process of coordinating that," Sanders said.

The letter from Kim didn't come as a surprise to the US president, who told reporters on Friday that a "personal letter is being delivered to me from Kim Jong-un," adding that he expected it to be a "positive" one.
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Socialist politicians in Moldova claim president Dodon 'victim of murder attempt'

Madalin Necsutu
Balkan Insight
Mon, 10 Sep 2018 20:55 UTC
igor dodon putin
Igor Dodon with Vlad
While Moldova's authorities have given only vague information about Sunday's car accident involving President Igor Dodon, some of his fellow Socialists insist someone was trying to kill him.

After Moldova's President, Igor Dodon, was involved in a car accident on Sunday, some pro-Russian Socialist deputies have claimed that he was the victim of a murder attempt.

"This was not an accident but a direct blow to the car. This is an attempt at murder!" Socialist deputy Vlad Batrincea wrote on Facebook.

He later added a list of reasons why some people might want to hurt Dodon, starting with Dodon's verbally stated intention to stand as a Socialist candidate in future parliamentary elections.


Comment: Hmmm.

First Zakharchenko's death, then the leader of Abkhazia, and now a near-thing for another pro-Russia Kremlin ally.

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Merkel mulls bombing Syria but coalition partner says 'Nein'


RT
Mon, 10 Sep 2018 14:52 UTC
Idlib
© Omar Haj Kadour / AFPSmoke rises after Syrian government forces bombard rebel-held positions in Idlib
Amid reports that the German Defense Ministry is considering getting involved in the Syrian conflict, SPD leader Andrea Nahles, a coalition partner of Angela Merkel, has completely ruled out supporting any such intervention.

With the Syrian government, backed by Russian airstrikes, set to crack down on Islamist rebels in the province of Idlib, Nahles said on Monday that she would not support German intervention, even if Bashar Assad's government uses chemical weapons.

"The SPD will agree neither in the government nor in parliament, a participation of Germany in the war in Syria," read a statement from Nahles. The SPD leader said that her party supports Foreign Minister Heiko Maas' ongoing efforts to resolve the conflict through peaceful means, including talks with Turkey and Russia.

Comment: So while the West respins the same tired ole tale to justify an illegal bombing campaign on Syria, Russia is in Idlib routing the terrorists... Also check out SOTT radio's: NewsReal: Senator McCain is Dead! Trump Impeachment For Real? Imminent Syria 'Chemical Attack'

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Mask off: Psychopathic US will use 'any means' to shield citizens & allies from war-crime probes by ICC


RT
Mon, 10 Sep 2018 19:12 UTC
John Bolton
© Associated Press/Alonzo AdamsJohn Bolton
The US will fight back using any means necessary if the International Criminal Court ever dares to probe an American or Israeli, and will punish those who cooperates with war-crime investigations, John Bolton is set to announce.

"The United States will use any means necessary to protect our citizens and those of our allies from unjust prosecution by this illegitimate court," Donald Trump's national security adviser, John Bolton, is expected to say, according to a draft speech seen by Reuters. "We will not cooperate with the ICC. We will provide no assistance to the ICC. We will not join the ICC. We will let the ICC die on its own. After all, for all intents and purposes, the ICC is already dead to us."

The vigorous speech, titled 'Protecting American Constitutionalism and Sovereignty from International Threats,' according to the Washington Post, will be delivered to a conservative group in Washington on Monday.

Comment: The Globe and Mail adds:
The Palestinians said they were undeterred from going to the ICC. They deemed the planned PLO mission closure a new pressure tactic by a Trump administration that has slashed funding to a U.N. agency for Palestinian refugees and to hospitals in East Jerusalem, which Palestinians want as capital of a future state.

"We reiterate that the rights of the Palestinian people are not for sale, that we will not succumb to U.S. threats and bullying," Palestinian official Saeb Erekat said in a statement.

"Accordingly, we continue to call upon the International Criminal Court to open its immediate investigation into Israeli crimes."

Bolton's draft speech says the Trump administration "will fight back" if the ICC proceeds with opening an investigation into alleged war crimes committed by U.S. service members and intelligence professionals during the war in Afghanistan.

If such an inquiry goes ahead, the Trump administration will consider banning judges and prosecutors from entering the United States, put sanctions on any funds they have in the U.S. financial system and prosecute them in American courts.

In addition, the United States may negotiate more binding, bilateral agreements to prohibit nations from surrendering Americans to The Hague-based court, says the text.

"We will consider taking steps in the U.N. Security Council to constrain the court's sweeping powers, including to ensure that the ICC does not exercise jurisdiction over Americans and the nationals of our allies that have not ratified the Rome Statute," says Bolton's draft text.

Palestinians have reacted with dismay to the U.S. funding cuts, warning that they could lead to more poverty and anger - among factors stoking their decades of conflict with Israel.

Trump last week ordered that $25 million earmarked for the care of Palestinians in East Jerusalem be directed elsewhere.

"This decision will create serious cash-flow problems at the hospitals and will necessarily create delays in life-saving and other urgent treatments," Walid Nammour, head of the network of six hospitals affected, told reporters on Monday. "Overall, the decision puts the health of 5 million Palestinians at risk."


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France rehashes 'Russian espionage' tale for €3.6billion military satellite upgrade


RT
Mon, 10 Sep 2018 14:05 UTC
communications relay satellite
© Sergey Mamontov / SputnikA model of the Luch-5A communications relay satellite.
France is eager to know who's watching it from space and will spend €3.6 billion to upgrade military satellites, Defense Minister Florence Parly said. Earlier she accused Russia of trying to intercept its secret communications.

"We will install surveillance cameras on our satellites so we will know who is approaching us," Parly, minister of the Armed Forces, said on Europe 1 radio station on Sunday.

She added that Paris is planning to invest some €3.6 billion "for the renewal of the military satellites' capacity." Parly explained that France will "put surveillance cameras on their own satellites to know who is approaching" the country's orbiters.

The defense minister returned to the topic of Russia's satellite which she mentioned two days earlier. The satellite approached a French military telecommunication satellite, "and probably it was not its first attempt," she said, adding that it didn't "recover sensitive data."


Comment: If Russia had intended to recover data, they'd have managed just fine.


Comment: It would be ridiculous to assume Russia doesn't use spycraft to secure the safety of its nation, but history shows that it's the West and its allies one really needs to worry about:

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Journalist: Damascus has moles in White Helmets and info on future provocations


Sputnik
Sun, 09 Sep 2018 22:05 UTC
Kafr Ain, Idlib province
© AFP 2018/Anas AL-DYABSmoke rises in Kafr Ain, a village in Idlib province after an airstrike Sept 7, 2018
The Syrian army is preparing to take on the last terrorist stronghold in Idlib, Syria, as the US warns Damascus against the offensive and promises a "swift" response in case Bashar Assad uses chemical weapons. Sputnik spoke with Kevork Almassian, a journalist and founder of the analytical website Syrian Analysis, about the planned offensive.

Almassian noted that Idlib province is the last remaining terrorist enclave, mostly controlled by Tahrir al-Sham. He believes that the army will attack the region from several directions at once, namely from Aleppo, northern Hama and Latakia. The journalist is confident that the operation will first of all land a significant blow against Western proxies in the region, such as Tahrir al-Sham, Harakat Ahrar al-Sham and others.

He further noted that with the help of these governments, the groups have created "a state inside of a state" and that Damascus now plans to re-impose its sovereignty over the territory. The journalist added that such an intention is in line with both international law and the Syrian constitution, but said that Western governments are likely to try to halt the military operation by "raising the topic of chemical weapons."

"They will try to slow down the operation of the Syrian army by hitting certain Syrian army targets, if such chemical attacks happen," he said.

Comment: Can the Syrian army or the Russians take out the terrorists without exploding the chlorine? If not, no matter who intended to use it, the West will be triggered.

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Covert US Plot for Venezuela Coup is detailed in an explosive NYT report

Tyler Durden
Zero Hedge
Sun, 09 Sep 2018 16:20 UTC
Nicolás Maduro
© Reuters/APAttempted assassination of Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro.
"This is going to land like a bomb" in the region, a former Latin America diplomatic official told the New York Times in this morning's explosive lengthy report detailing how the Trump administration held covert meetings with Venezuelan military coup plotters targeting President Nicolás Maduro.

The "clandestine channel" involved contacts with what are described as "rebellious officers" bent on bringing about regime change with the help of Washington.

The astounding revelation - though perhaps familiar-sounding when considering the historical string of coups and CIA covert interventions across the 20th century from Cuba to Nicaragua to Chile - comes just over a month after a bizarre assassination attempt involving two C-4 explosive laden drones which detonated near Maduro as he gave a televised speech during a military parade in Caracas.

At the time the Venezuelan president pointed the finger at Washington, claiming right-wing factions connected to Columbia and Florida and backed by the United States were behind the sensational attempt on his life; meanwhile some American pundits raised the question of whether it was a 'false flag' staged by Maduro himself, given the strangeness of the event.

Comment: According to the Times article, 'Trump Administration Discussed Coup Plans With Rebel Venezuelan Officers', the Trump administration met with military commanders who requested the meeting. It did not initiate the meeting, nor sponsor or support their coup plans, nor did it give the 'Venezuelan plotters' the equipment they wanted.

Durden cherry-picks the information and his headline is inflammatory and misleading. The Times' headline, by design, is easy to misconstrue and the article unfairly compares the current administration to the agendas and actions of previous presidents and doesn't qualify its sources. Propaganda value to Maduro, probably. Propaganda value to certain political factions in the USA, definitely. Is the Times a reliable source? Nah.

See also:

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UK's desperate bid to reignite anti-Russia hysteria as their hidden agenda falters

Arkady Savitsky
Strategic Culture
Sat, 08 Sep 2018 11:00 UTC
Theresa May
Prime Minister Theresa May made a statement to accuse Russia of being behind the Skripal poisoning case. She went to address the parliament right after prosecutors accused two Russian men, allegedly military intelligence officers, to perpetrate the assassination attempt. These are the first criminal charges in the case that has spoiled the West-Russian relations so much. The British government has issued EU arrest warrants and Interpol red notices to have the two individuals arrested by police in any country should they leave Russia's territory.

According to the PM, Great Britain and its friends must step up collective efforts against Russia. Its military intelligence service (the GRU) is to be specifically targeted employing "the full range of tools from across our national security apparatus." Before making the speech that sounded hostile toward Moscow, the PM had talked the matter over with US President Trump and other friendly world leaders. Ms May is expected to raise the issue at the UN General Assembly later this month. No doubt, London will ask the Organization for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons (OPCW) to investigate the case. The UK will probably impose sanctions of its own and call on others to join. As usual, media "leaks" will pour more fuel on the fire. Anti-Russia forces in the West will get the second wind.

Comment: See also: And check out SOTT radio's: NewsReal: Donbass Leader Assassinated as Russia Exposes Chemical Plot in Syria

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Germany may opt to join Western airstrikes on Syria if Damascus uses chemical weapons


Sputnik
Sun, 09 Sep 2018 23:29 UTC
German Jets
© AFP 2018/Tobias Schwartz/PoolGerman Tornado Jets at Incirlik, Turkey, 2018
Germany may join possible airstrikes on Syrian government forces by western nations in case of chemical weapons use by Damascus, according to local media.

German Defence Ministry has been mulling joining possible airstrikes by the United States, the United Kingdom and France against the Syrian government forces, Bild reported. The ministry is considering the option in case of possible chemical weapons use in Syria, which they presume will be carried out by the Syrian government troops, the outlet said.

Earlier in the day, French Minister for the Armed Forces Florence Parly said that if chemical attacks are carried out in Syria, response will follow, including those from France.

Comment: Another military involvement may complicate already potentially volatile circumstances, should Germany follow through.

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Report: Prince Ahmed blames Saudi King and Crown Prince for Yemen war, may choose 'self-exile'


RT
Mon, 10 Sep 2018 01:19 UTC
Prince Ahmed bin Abdulaziz
© House of SaudPrince Ahmed bin Abdulaziz al-Saud
The brother of King Salman is pondering whether he should return to Saudi Arabia after criticising the King and Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman for the war in Yemen, the Middle East Eye reports.

Earlier this week Prince Ahmed bin Abdulaziz, one of the few remaining sons of the kingdom's founder, told Yemeni and Bahraini protesters outside his London home that the entire Al Saud family should not be blamed for the war in Yemen.

"There are certain individuals who are responsible. Don't involve anyone else," the prince said.

When asked who the individuals were, the prince said "the king and the crown prince, and others in the state". "In Yemen and elsewhere, our hope is that the war ends today before tomorrow," he added.


Comment: The Saudi press release:
The official Saudi Press Agency

Prince Ahmed bin Abdulaziz: What was published in the media and social media is inaccurate

Tuesday 1439/12/24 - 2018/09/04
Jeddah, Dhu-AlHijjah 24, 1439, September 04, 2018, SPA -- Prince Ahmed bin Abdulaziz Al Saud stated that what was published in social media or media is inaccurate. I have made it clear that the king and the crown prince are responsible for the state and its decisions. This is true for the security and stability of the country and the people. Therefore, it is not possible to interpret what I said in any other way.

--SPA
23:44 LOCAL TIME 20:44 GMT
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www.spa.gov.sa/1809475


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