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Russian MOD releases footage of strikes on terrorist targets in Idlib


RT
Thu, 06 Sep 2018 20:20 UTC
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The Russian Defense Ministry has published footage showing how its military jets use high precision weapons to knock out what it claims are the locations of Jabhat an-Nusra terrorists in Syria's Idlib province.

On Tuesday, the Ministry said its state of the art Su-34 and Su-35 destroyed several terrorist targets. Those included a workshop used by the militants for construction of drones, a warehouse of explosives as well as a storehouse, where they kept their MANPADs. The attacks were launched with high precision weapons, it has been stated.

Rebuffing earlier allegations that the bombardment hit civilian targets in Idlib, the ministry's spokesperson Igor Konashenkov stressed that the strikes hit solely "the identified terrorist objects located far from settlements."

Idlib is the last stronghold of terrorists in Syria, and Moscow has been recently voicing huge concerns that the US is apparently attempting to keep them in the area. Over the past week Russia has warned that a chemical weapon provocation is being prepared in Idlib to be further used by the West as a pretext for a new strike on the Arab Republic.

Russia presented its findings on the possible false-flag assault to the UN and the Organization for Prohibition of Chemical Weapons (OPCW), but despite this the Pentagon maintains that it is in the dark over "any chemical capability" of the Syrian opposition groups.

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Salisbury plot thickens as questions without answers multiply


RT
Thu, 06 Sep 2018 16:06 UTC
Police search Queen Elizabeth Gardens Salisbury
© Hannah McKay / ReutersFILE PHOTO: Police officers search Queen Elizabeth Gardens in Salisbury, Britain, July 19, 2018.
Britain has shown images of the people allegedly responsible for the Skripal chemical weapon saga, claiming they were Russian military spies. As the case moves forward, questions remain unanswered about the British narrative.

Right from the start, the poisoning attack on Sergei Skripal, a retired double agent, in Salisbury was shaped by the British establishment as a barbaric and reckless attack by the Russian government on a perceived traitor under protection of the British crown. The assertion was a political one, not based on actual evidence. Russia's request for access to the investigation - a reasonable request considering two of the victims have Russian citizenship - was stonewalled and any doubts about the narrative dismissed as mere obfuscation.

The latest development on Wednesday was along the same lines. While the investigators themselves were careful to stress that there was no evidence linking the two alleged perpetrators with the Russian government, Prime Minister Theresa May didn't hesitate to bump up her cabinet's level of certainty in the Kremlin's guilt from "highly likely" to "certainly," based on classified intelligence.

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'I would join protests if I wasn't minister': Merkel interior chief Seehofer on Chemnitz unrest


RT
Thu, 06 Sep 2018 15:58 UTC
Horst Seehofer
German Interior Minister Horst Seehofer
Chancellor Angela Merkel's interior minister has said he would have taken to the streets to protest the killing of a German man in Chemnitz if he wasn't a minister - and has branded immigration the "mother of all problems."

Leader of the CSU - the Bavarian sister party of Angela Merkel's conservative CDU - Horst Seehofer has spoken out about massive riots in the city of Chemnitz, where a German man was killed during a brawl involving asylum seekers. Commenting on the mayhem that later gripped the city, the interior minister said he would have joined in the protests - had circumstances been different.

"If I wasn't a minister, I would've taken to the streets as a citizen, but of course, not with the radicals," he told Rheinische Post newspaper on Thursday. He added that he understands why there is so much outrage in society over the killing.
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Boat

China expressed anger over British warship sailing through disputed South China Sea


The Guardian
Thu, 06 Sep 2018 14:12 UTC
Paracel Islands
© STR/AFP/Getty ImagesHMS Albion passed by the Paracel Islands, which are occupied entirely by China but also claimed by Vietnam and Taiwan
China has expressed anger after a British Royal Navy warship sailed close to islands claimed by China in the South China Sea late last month, saying Britain was engaged in "provocation" and that it had lodged a strong complaint.

The HMS Albion, a 22,000 ton amphibious warship carrying a contingent of Royal Marines, passed by the Paracel Islands in recent days, two sources, who were familiar with the matter but who asked not to be identified, told Reuters.

The Albion was on its way to Ho Chi Minh City, where it docked on Monday following a deployment in and around Japan.

One of the sources said Beijing dispatched a frigate and two helicopters to challenge the British vessel, but both sides remained calm during the encounter.
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Censored Al Jazeera documentary exposes Israeli government's attack on Black Lives Matter

Max Blumenthal
The Greyzone Pr5oject
Wed, 05 Sep 2018 14:35 UTC
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Exclusive footage from the censored Al Jazeera documentary, The Lobby - USA, shows Israeli government officials taking credit for attacks on Black Lives Matter and reveals an Israel lobbyist explaining how his organization shut down a BLM fundraiser.

When the Movement for Black Lives released a platform in August 2016 that supported the BDS (boycott, divestment and sanctions) movement and identified Israel as an apartheid state engaged in a project of genocide against Palestinians, the Israeli government snapped into action.

Previously unreleased footage from Al Jazeera's censored investigative documentary, "The Lobby - USA," shows Israeli diplomats complaining about the Black Lives Matter "problem" and boasting about their cultivation of established black civil rights activists as pro-Israel proxies.

The footage also reveals how the Israel lobby orchestrated the sudden cancellation of a Black Lives Matter fundraiser at a New York City nightclub.

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Wall Street

India reducing its US Treasury securities and buying gold instead


RT
Thu, 06 Sep 2018 12:30 UTC
India gold reserves
© Ajay Verma / Reuters
The world's second biggest gold consumer continues to replenish its bullion reserves, a Reserve Bank of India (RBI) report shows. At the same time, New Delhi is slowly but surely reducing its share of US debt bonds.

The annual report from the Indian financial regulator reveals that the country followed other BRICS partners in adding physical gold to its foreign exchange reserves. The RBI reportedly bought 8.46 metric tons of gold during the last fiscal year ending in March.

As of the end of June, the country's central bank held 566.23 metric tons of gold against 557.77 metric tons a year ago. The RBI purchased gold for the first time in nearly a decade. The regulator acquired 200 metric tons of the precious metal in 2009 shortly after the global financial crisis.

Comment: By brazenly using the dollar as a weapon the US has forced India to go from holding 'record amounts' of US Treasury securities to slowly abandoning them. As Putin said during the 10th BRICS Summit, "Washington's use of payment systems for political purposes undermines the US dollar as a global currency."

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Use of word "lodestar" has some convinced Mike Pence wrote anonymous New York Times op-ed

David Moye
The Huffington Post
Wed, 05 Sep 2018 20:35 UTC
Mike Pence


The unidentified member of the in-house "resistance" uses "lodestar," an unusual word the vice president likes to say.

The New York Times' scathing anti-Donald Trump op-ed, which the paper attributed to "a senior official in the Trump administration," has inspired a parlor game among people trying to figure out the author's name.

Some online commentators are leaning toward Vice President Mike Pence based on just one word in the piece.

The unidentified author singles out the late Arizona Sen. John McCain as "a lodestar for restoring honor to public life and our national dialogue."

Comment: While this is hardly a smoking gun, it's an interesting bit of evidence. Either Pence wrote the NYT piece, and is unbelievably sloppy about remaining anonymous, he wrote it and actually wanted to be identified as the author or, perhaps the more intriguing possibility, he didn't write it and someone is trying to frame him.

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Attention

NY Times publishes Trump insider's admission of working against the president. Still says Deep State doesn't exist


The New York Times
Wed, 05 Sep 2018 00:01 UTC
America on edge
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The Times today is taking the rare step of publishing an anonymous Op-Ed essay. We have done so at the request of the author, a senior official in the Trump administration whose identity is known to us and whose job would be jeopardized by its disclosure. We believe publishing this essay anonymously is the only way to deliver an important perspective to our readers. We invite you to submit a question about the essay or our vetting process here.

President Trump is facing a test to his presidency unlike any faced by a modern American leader.

It's not just that the special counsel looms large. Or that the country is bitterly divided over Mr. Trump's leadership. Or even that his party might well lose the House to an opposition hellbent on his downfall.

Comment: Far from being reassured, American voters should be up in arms about this! Regardless of whether one agrees with Trump's work as president, the very integrity of the office of the presidency is being undermined by a conspiratorial cabal. It undermines the very tenets of democracy the United States was founded upon. This is the very essence of the Deep State, regardless of whether or not the author claims otherwise.

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Chess

Last battle: Syrian army ready to launch offensive, liberate Idlib says Syrian MP


Sputnik
Thu, 06 Sep 2018 09:10 UTC
The Syrian Army in Daraa Province
© Sputnik / Mikhail AlayeddinThe Syrian Army in Daraa Province on the border with Jordan
The Syrian Arab Army is getting ready to launch an offensive against terrorists in Idlib province, Omer Osi, a member of the Syrian Parliament, told Sputnik, expressing confidence that the region would eventually be liberated. The Syrian MP explained Turkey's concerns about the upcoming advance.

"Government troops are making final preparations with reinforcements and military equipment being sent from Damascus, Aleppo and Hama to the Idlib region," Omer Osi, a member of the Syrian Parliament of Kurdish origin, told Sputnik Turkey. "They are waiting orders to launch an offensive. The Syrian armed forces are determined to liberate Idlib from terrorists, and we are sure that it will certainly be taken in the near future."

Earlier, Damascus had announced a large-scale operation to free Idlib province, the last terrorist stronghold in Syria. However, the US signaled its discontent with the upcoming offensive.

Comment: Russia will continue fighting terrorists in Syria's Idlib until their total elimination, Russian Foreign Ministry Spokeswoman Maria Zakharova stated on Wednesday.
"We consider it Russia's duty to strictly adhere to the agreements [concerning the de-escalation zone in Idlib], and it will continue the fight against terrorists until their ultimate and total elimination," she noted. "The Russian Aerospace Forces are conducting strikes on Idlib not for "aggressive" purposes, but for exterminating terrorist objects that are used in the increasing attacks on the Syrian army's positions and the civilian population, as well as in the attacks on the Russian military, whose presence in Syria is requested by the lawful government of the country."
See also: Erdogan: Working with Russia 'really important' to prevent Idlib 'massacre'

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Eye 2

Amazon is far more dangerous and powerful than people want to admit

Michael Krieger
Liberty Blitzkrieg
Tue, 04 Sep 2018 12:26 UTC
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The sneaky thing about Amazon's increased dominance in so many key aspects of our lives is that much of the perniciousness is hidden. No one's going to tell you about all the retailers who have gotten pressured or destroyed via its tactics while you're happily clicking "add to cart" and smiling about 2-day free shipping. In this sense, it can be best compared to the evils of factory farming. Most people just simply have no idea about the immense damage going on behind the scenes as they indulge in incredible convenience and what looks like a good deal.

- From my November 15, 2017 post: Amazon Poses a Serious Threat to Freedom and Free Markets

Today's post should be seen as an update to last year's article referenced above. In the months that have followed, I've been consistently frustrated by the lack of interest when it comes to the dangers presented by Amazon and its richest man in the world ($165 billion as of last count) CEO Jeff Bezos. The following Twitter exchange is a good example of what I mean:


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