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Russian MoD: OPCW missions in Syria violate Chemical Weapons Convention


TASS
Fri, 22 Jun 2018 09:35 UTC
Organisation for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons HQ in Hague
© AP Photo/Peter Dejong
Russia is trying to help the OPCW to overcome systemic failures, the general said

The OPCW's missions in Syria violate the provisions of the Chemical Weapons Convention, Major-General Igor Kirillov, Chief of the Russian Armed Forces' Radiological, Chemical and Biological Defense Troops, said on Friday.

"The remote nature of investigations as well as the collection, analysis and use of the documents obtained without specialists' trips to the alleged sites of chemical weapons use, is in direct contradiction to the Convention's provisions," Kirillov told reporters at a joint press briefing of the Russian Foreign Ministry and Russia's Defense Ministry.

He noted that the West seeks to grant the Organization for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons (OPCW) the right to issue guilty verdicts against certain countries and their leaders.
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Italian deputy PM Luigi Di Maio: 'Arrogant' Macron risks becoming 'enemy No. 1' on migration for Italy - Divided EU leaders to attend informal summit on migration in Brussels


RT
Sun, 24 Jun 2018 08:10 UTC
Migrants on an inflatable boat
© Mission Lifeline / AFPMigrants on an inflatable boat rescued boarding the 'Lifeline' sea rescue boat at sea on June 21, 2018
Top Italian officials lashed out at French President Emmanuel Macron, who said migration pressure on Italy seriously dropped over the past year. Macron was branded "arrogant," and risks becoming a top "enemy" to Rome on migration.

"Italy indeed faces a migration emergency and it's partly because France keeps pushing back people at the border. Macron risks making his country Italy's No.1 enemy on this emergency," Deputy Prime Minister of Italy Luigi Di Maio wrote on his Facebook page on Saturday. The comments made earlier by Macron clearly showed that the French president was out of touch, Di Maio added.

Macron drew the wrath of Italy by stating that "Europe is not experiencing a migration crisis of the same magnitude as the one it experienced in 2015." Those EU countries, which "massively voice their national selfishness when it comes to migrant issues," should not expect to receive benefits from the EU, Macron said, effectively threatening them with financial sanctions.

Comment: A group of European leaders will gather on Sunday in Brussels in a yet another bid to settle the three-year-long migration crisis, which remains among the union's most pressing problems.
European Commission President Jean-Claude Juncker announced on June 20 he was "convening an informal working meeting on migration and asylum issues in Brussels on Sunday, in order to work with a group of Heads of State or Government of Member States interested in finding European solutions ahead of the upcoming European Council."
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The agenda of the meeting was not disclosed as well.

"This is an informal meeting. There will be no news conference after it," a European Commission official said.
See also: Italian deputy PM Matteo Salvini: Very existence of United Europe to be decided within the year

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Killary's 'fiends in high places' still couldn't get her elected

George Neumayr
The American Spectator
Fri, 22 Jun 2018 23:33 UTC
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She had much of the Obama administration working for her campaign.

The only government that we know with certainty colluded with a campaign in 2016 was Obama's - figures across his administration, both high and low, were using their power to help Hillary and hurt Trump. She had plants at the Justice Department, one of whom was giving her campaign chairman updates on the email probe (Peter Kadzik); she had two CIA directors, one past, one present, campaigning for her (Mike Morell, who wrote an Op-Ed endorsing her while calling Trump an "agent" of the Russians, and John Brennan, who helped launch an unfounded counterintelligence probe against Trump and then leaked about it); she had a raft of John Kerry aides at the State Department circulating her paid opposition research from the former British spy Christopher Steele, with one of them, Jonathan Winer, serving as a conduit between Steele and another one of her opposition researchers, Cody Shearer (it has come out through a Senate hearing that Steele even visited the State Department in person before election day); she had Loretta Lynch and Sally Yates trying to tamp down the email probe; she had Bruce Ohr, whose wife worked with her opposition researcher, stoking the sham Russian investigation; she had cronies at the White House blasting Trump on a daily basis, not to mention Obama himself hitting the campaign trail with her.

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Breaking in a president: How the Deep State domesticated Trump

Philip M. Giraldi
The Strategic Culture Foundation
Thu, 21 Jun 2018 23:23 UTC
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© DoD/D. Myles Cullen/FilePresident Donald Trump discusses current military operations with Gen. Joseph Votel, commander of U.S. Central Command, at MacDill, AFB, FL, Feb. 6, 2017.
I recall how a friend of mine who once served as a senior Pentagon intelligence briefer described what he called "breaking in" a new president. Today, incoming presidents receive some intelligence briefings so that they do not land in office on a cold January day totally unprepared for what awaits them. But generally speaking, the real surprises are unveiled during the first week when they get the full classified briefings that are carefully prepared both to inform and to enhance the value of the agency doing the briefing. In the case of the Central Intelligence Agency, the most secret clandestine operations are revealed in power point to convince the new chief executive that the intelligence community is keeping the nation safe. The Pentagon for its part unveils flashy new weapons systems either about to come on line or being planned to demonstrate its ability to deter aggression from any source.

The thinking is that if you get the new president on board in his first few days he will be yours forever, signing off on budget increases year after year while also providing political cover when things go wrong. While the Defense Department and intelligence community benefit from the process and are frequently able to get the president's ear because they are able to unveil some sensational "secrets," other government agencies also competing for dollars do not have that appeal and do not do so well. State Department, for example, rarely makes much of an impression because its work is basically prosaic.
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Bomb

Perpetual war: Trump's military drops a bomb every 12 minutes that no one talks about

Lee Camp
Truthdig
Tue, 19 Jun 2018 00:00 UTC
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© Pixabay
We live in a state of perpetual war, and we never feel it. While you get your gelato at the hip place where they put those cute little mint leaves on the side, someone is being bombed in your name. While you argue with the 17-year-old at the movie theater who gave you a small popcorn when you paid for a large, someone is being obliterated in your name. While we sleep and eat and make love and shield our eyes on a sunny day, someone's home, family, life and body are being blown into a thousand pieces in our names.

Once every 12 minutes.

The United States military drops an explosive with a strength you can hardly comprehend once every 12 minutes. And that's odd, because we're technically at war with - let me think - zero countries. So that should mean zero bombs are being dropped, right?

Hell no! You've made the common mistake of confusing our world with some sort of rational, cogent world in which our military-industrial complex is under control, the music industry is based on merit and talent, Legos have gently rounded edges (so when you step on them barefoot, it doesn't feel like an armor-piercing bullet just shot straight up your sphincter), and humans are dealing with climate change like adults rather than burying our heads in the sand while trying to convince ourselves that the sand around our heads isn't getting really, really hot.

You're thinking of a rational world. We do not live there.
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Attention

Could the US be on its way to becoming ungovernable?

Michael Snyder
The Economic Collapse
Thu, 21 Jun 2018 00:00 UTC
America's Future
© unknownAmerica's Future
For a long time I have observed the rancor in modern American political discourse, and I have become concerned about where all of this anger and frustration is taking us. In order for any society to function, there must be some form of government. And in order for government to function, a certain percentage of the population has to be willing to submit to the authority of that government. For example, there will always be a few tax protesters out there that refuse to pay their taxes, but if every single American suddenly decided to stop paying taxes our system of taxation would collapse overnight. Sure, the government could prosecute thousands of us, but if that crackdown still didn't motivate people to start paying their taxes there is not much that could be done. The only reason any form of government works is because enough people buy into the narrative that the government is legitimate and should be respected. Here in the United States, fewer and fewer people are buying into that narrative.

The Pew Research Center, Gallup, and NPR have all run polls that show that faith in government is near all-time lows in the United States. A lot of us have been let down so many times, and most of us simply do not "believe in America" like we once did. Yes, we may still believe in "the people" or "the values" that the nation was founded upon, but at our core we just do not have faith in our governmental institutions.

But simply being disillusioned is not going to be enough to make us ungovernable. Generations of Americans have complained about government, but they have always gone along with the system. Unfortunately, things are changing in a fundamental way. Instead of just complaining about government, Americans are being trained to think of government as the enemy. We certainly witnessed a great deal of this under Barack Obama, and without a doubt Obama was absolutely terrible, but now under Donald Trump things have gone to an entirely new level.
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Request: Will the real Donald Trump please stand up?

Philip Giraldi
The Unz Review
Tue, 19 Jun 2018 00:00 UTC
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© Forces NetworkNorth Korean Leader Kim Jong-Un • US President Donald Trump
Who is he and what does he want to do?

I had coffee with a foreign friend a week ago. The subject of Donald Trump inevitably came up and my friend said that he was torn between describing Trump as a genius or as an idiot, but was inclined to lean towards genius. He explained that Trump was willy-nilly establishing a new world order that will succeed the institutionally exhausted post-World War 2 financial and political arrangements that more-or-less established U.S. hegemony over the "free world." The Bretton Woods agreement and the founding of the United Nations institutionalized the spread of liberal democracy and free trade, creating a new, post war international order under the firm control of the United States with the American dollar as the benchmark currency. Trump is now rejecting what has become an increasingly dominant global world order in favor of returning to a nineteenth century style nationalism that has become popular as countries struggle to retain their cultural and political identifies. Trump's vision would seem to include protection of core industries, existing demographics and cultural institutions combined with an end of "democratization," which will result in an acceptance of foreign autocratic or non-conforming regimes as long as they do not pose military or economic threats.

Sounds good, I countered but there is a space between genius and idiocy and that would be called insanity, best illustrated by impulsive, irrational behavior coupled with acute hypersensitivity over perceived personal insults and a demonstrated inability to comprehend either generally accepted facts or basic norms of personal and group behavior.

Comment: Trump: The Presidential Enigma. We can only hope Trump is the best of what we imagine he might be, and not the worst of our fears by how he appears. Likely he is a mixed bag like every other president - although a bag that seems to shake up differently with every decision. Operating under the deep state thumb, is it method or madness?

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Question

Is NATO shoving Russia towards retaliation?

Ted Galen Carpenter
The National Interest
Fri, 15 Jun 2018 00:00 UTC
Guys watching plane
© REUTERS/Ints KalninsU.S. Air Force A-10 aircraft takes part in the urban fighting drill during the NATO Saber Strike exercise in the Soviet-time former military town near Skrunda, Latvia June 13, 2018.
The United States and its NATO allies continue to find ways to antagonize Russia. The latest provocation is a request from Norway to more than double the number of U.S. troops stationed on its territory and deploy them even closer to the border with Russia. Granted, the numbers involved are not large. There are currently 330 American military personnel in the country on a "rotational" basis. Oslo's new request would increase the number to seven hundred. If the Norwegian government gets its way, the new troops would be stationed in the far north, barely 260 miles from Russia, in contrast to the existing unit in central Norway, several hundred miles from Russian territory.

The rotational aspect theoretically complies with Norway's pledge to Moscow in 1949 when it joined NATO that Oslo would not allow U.S. bases on its territory. Indeed, Foreign Minister Ine Marie Eriksen Soriede reiterated that assurance in connection with the new troop request, contending that there would be "no American bases on Norwegian soil." Making their official status rotational supposedly means that the troops are there only on a temporary basis. It is a cynical dodge that fools no one-least of all Vladimir Putin and his colleagues in the Kremlin.

Comment: Global military industrial complex - not viable nor lucrative without a foe or a war.

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Attention

Watch as Killary calls Putin the leader of 'white-supremacist and Xenophobic movement'!

Alex Christoforou
The Duran
Sat, 23 Jun 2018 02:41 UTC
Killary Clinton
© Maxwell Photography.IEHillary Clinton receives honorary doctorate, slanders Putin
Hillary says Putin is leading a xenophobic movement out to damage U.S.

Unable to shake her pathetic election defeat to Donald Trump, and having blamed everyone and everything under the sun for her failure to win the 2016 US election, Hillary has come full circle... starting from the top of her What Happened list, to return to blaming Russian President Vladimir Putin for the woes of the world, that would most certainly would not be happening if only she had been sitting in the Oval office.

Speaking to former Irish President Mary Robinson at Trinity College in Dublin, where Clinton was conferred with an honorary doctorate, the former first lady and US Secretary of State said that Russian President Vladimir Putin has positioned himself as the leader of a xenophobic movement that wants to weaken the United States' traditional alliances and undermine democracy.


Comment: Why hasn't anyone sued her for slander and about 650 other things?

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Arrow Down

Obama's cyber chief, Susan Rice, gave the 'stand down' order on Russian meddling

Chuck Ross
The Daily Caller
Thu, 21 Jun 2018 12:24 UTC
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© YouTubeFormer National Security Advisor Susan Rice and Former President Barack Obama
Former President Barack Obama's cybersecurity czar confirmed Wednesday that former national security adviser Susan Rice told him to "stand down" in response to Russian cyber attacks during the 2016 presidential campaign.

Michael Daniel, whose official title was "cybersecurity coordinator," confirmed the stand-down order during a Senate Select Committee on Intelligence hearing held to review the Obama and President Donald Trump's administrations' policy response to Russian election interference.

Rice's order to Daniel was first reported in Russian Roulette, a book published in March that details Russia's meddling in the election.

In the book, authors Michael Isikoff and David Corn reported that Daniel was developing strategies to respond to Russian cyber attacks on U.S. companies and political campaigns. He proposed using what's known as denial of service attacks to take down Russian propaganda news sites and to attack Russian intelligence agencies.

Another idea was to announce a bogus "cyber exercise" against a Eurasian country. The goal was to put the Kremlin on notice that its infrastructure could easily be targeted by the U.S.

Comment: See also: New book 'Russian Roulette' proves to be shameless CIA anti-Russia propaganda that rests on lies

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