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Europe's air traffic control: 'Possible air strikes on Syria within 72 hours' - as Trump, Macron and May 'decide' whether to do something really stupid


RT
Tue, 10 Apr 2018 21:39 UTC
USS Harry S. Truman
© ReutersAirmen aboard the USS Harry S. Truman, which has been dispatched to the eastern Mediterranean.
Eurocontrol, an EU body responsible for handling air traffic over the continent, has issued a Rapid Alert Notification to flight operators in the eastern Mediterranean, warning them to be ready for NATO rocket launches into Syria.

"Due to the possible launch of air strikes into Syria with air-to-ground and / or cruise missiles within the next 72 hours, and the possibility of intermittent disruption of radio navigation equipment, due consideration needs to be taken when planning flight operations in the Eastern Mediterranean / Nicosia FIR area," the alert said.

The alert warns pilots to be ready for specific NOTAMs (Notices to Airmen), concerning flight risks and obstacles that may arise.

On Monday, US President Donald Trump said that he was "very strongly, very seriously" considering military action against the government of Bashar Assad over the alleged chemical attack in Douma in Syria on April 7. Trump said that a "major decision" would be taken within the following 24-48 hours.

Comment: Things in Syria may just about to become more horrible/interesting.

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Thierry Meyssan: The End of International Law?

Thierry Meyssan
Voltaire Network
Tue, 10 Apr 2018 00:00 UTC
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The war against the Greater Middle East should end with the withdrawal of US troops within the next six months. And yet nothing proves that peace will settle in each of the countries that were invaded. Today we are witnessing what seems to be a tentative to get rid of international law. Will this consolidate a division of the world into two parts, or will it open to a generalised conflict?

Do the Western powers hope to put an end to the constraints of International Law? That is the question asked by the Russian Minister for Foreign Affairs, Sergueï Lavrov, at the Moscow conference on International Security [1].

Over the last few years, Washington has been promoting the concept of « unilateralism ». International Law and the United Nations are supposed to bow to the power of the United States.

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An actual chemical weapons attack: Gas canisters fired at Gaza protesters by Israeli soldiers are causing 'convulsions, unconsciousness'


kayhan.ir
Mon, 09 Apr 2018 22:24 UTC
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It appears that the Israelis are using some new, more toxic form of chemical weapon against Palestinian protesters in besieged Gaza
The Zionist regime's troops used "strange" and "unknown" gases against unarmed, peaceful protesters in Gaza, the media reported the central commission for documentation and pursuit of the regime's war criminals - Tawtheeq - as saying.

The regime used strange gases against the protesters for the first time last Friday as Palestinians continued their peaceful activities as part of the Great March of Return, Head of the commission Imad al-Baz told Quds Press.

The gases caused protesters' bodies to convulse and tremble, he explained, adding that many lost consciousness as a result for several hours.

"We do not know the kind of gases which were used for the first time," he said, stressing that "but we took cultures from the blood and urine of those affected and we expect the results will be shocking."

Comment: This wouldn't be the first time the Israelis have used chemical weapons against unarmed civilians.

But never you mind that - just pay attention to the non-existent chemical weapons attacks in Syria and Salisbury...

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More Hungarians share Orban's 'common sense' immigration stance than just his party supporters


RT
Tue, 10 Apr 2018 12:59 UTC
Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban addresses supporters
© Bernadett Szabo / ReutersHungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban addresses supporters after the announcement of theresults of parliamentary election in Budapest, Hungary, April 8, 2018
The landslide victory for the party of Hungarian PM Viktor Orban has been criticized within the EU and cheered by Euroskeptics, but most agree that it was his stance on the European migrant crisis that secured the popular support.

The decisive election win for the Fidesz Party was "a surprise," to Gabor Stier, political commentator for the Hungarian Magyar Nemzet newspaper, who says Orban used people's fear of immigrants to secure the win.

"Everybody was sure that Orban and Fidesz would achieve victory. But getting two thirds of the ballot (133 seats out of 199 in the parliament) for the third time in a row was more than they expected themselves," he said.

Comment: Orban is implementing the will of the people and Hungary isn't the only country pursuing the path of common sense: Also check out SOTT radio's: The Truth Perspective: Weapons of Mass Migration: Interview with Michael Springmann on Europe's Migrant Crisis

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Russian senator slams Israel's attack on Syria's air base as provocation and desire to continue the war


TASS
Mon, 09 Apr 2018 17:23 UTC
Israel’s missile attack on Syria’s air base
© EPA-EFE/JIM HOLLANDERA Russian senator calls the Israeli Air Force's missile attack on Syria's T-4 air base 'provocation'
The Israeli Air Force's missile attack on Syria's T-4 air base should be considered as a provocation, Head of the Russian Federation Council's Defense and Security Committee Viktor Bondarev said on Monday.

"The shelling by the Israeli Air Force of the T-4 air base should be considered as an obvious provocation orchestrated by quite a different country interested in the continuation of the war in Syria," the senior Russian senator told TASS.

"What is indicative is how quickly Israel responded, assuming responsibility for the attack in Homs when the Syrian news agency SANA published information on the Pentagon's possible complicity in it," Bondarev said.

As the senior Russian senator stressed, terrorists took advantage of the situation with the shelling.

Comment: This is just one in a litany of provocations by Israel: Also check out SOTT radio's:

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Lavrov: Russia demands just probe into reported chemical attacks in Syria


TASS
Mon, 09 Apr 2018 17:33 UTC
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© AP Photo/Hassan AmmarOn April 7, a number of NGOs, including the White Helmets, alleged that chemical weapons were used in Douma, Eastern Ghouta
Russia advocates a fair investigation into the alleged chemical attacks in Syria, and is strongly against assigning anyone the blame without finding any proof, said Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov during Monday's press conference.

"We are in total support of a fair and immediate investigation, when they ask for it. However, when the investigation is intended to come at a predetermined point - that is, it was done by Assad with Putin's support - there are no grounds for a serious discussion," he noted.

"We had already commented on this situation before it became a reality," the top diplomat stressed. "Our military currently in Syria and the Syrian government have warned countless times that a serious provocation is being concocted, aimed at blaming Damascus for using chemical weapons against civilians."


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Flashback James Mattis admits US has no evidence Assad used poison gas on his people

Ian Wilkie
Newsweek
Thu, 08 Feb 2018 11:44 UTC
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Lost in the hyper-politicized hullabaloo surrounding the Nunes Memorandum and the Steele Dossier was the striking statement by Secretary of Defense James Mattis that the U.S. has "no evidence" that the Syrian government used the banned nerve agent Sarin against its own people.

This assertion flies in the face of the White House (NSC) Memorandum which was rapidly produced and declassified to justify an American Tomahawk missile strike against the Shayrat airbase in Syria.

Mattis offered no temporal qualifications, which means that both the 2017 event in Khan Sheikhoun and the 2013 tragedy in Ghouta are unsolved cases in the eyes of the Defense Department and Defense Intelligence Agency.

Mattis went on to acknowledge that "aid groups and others" had provided evidence and reports but stopped short of naming President Assad as the culprit.

There were casualties from organophosphate poisoning in both cases; that much is certain. But America has accused Assad of direct responsibility for Sarin attacks and even blamed Russia for culpability in the Khan Sheikhoun tragedy.

Comment: And there's no evidence that he used poison gas this time either. See also:

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Trump denounces FBI raid on his lawyer's office as 'an attack on our country'

Tom McCarthy
The Guardian
Mon, 09 Apr 2018 19:22 UTC
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© Tom Williams/CQ-Roll Call; Mandel Ngan/AFP/Getty Images.jpgLawyer Michael Cohen • President Donald Trump
Donald Trump declared an "attack on our country in a true sense" was under way after FBI agents conducted a raid on the office of his longtime personal attorney, Michael Cohen, on Monday.

The raid was carried out after a referral from the special counsel, Robert Mueller, to New York-based federal prosecutors, a lawyer for Cohen said. It was not clear that the raid related to Mueller's investigation of alleged collusion between the Trump campaign and Russia.

Yet in an extraordinary scene inside the White House late Monday, Trump connected those dots and more, saying the raid represented part of an ongoing attack on him engineered, he said, by "the most biased group of people" with "the biggest conflicts of interest I've ever seen". He called it "an attack on our country in a true sense. It's an attack on what we all stand for."

Unusually affronted by the move against a member of his inner circle, it seemed, Trump described the raid as an extension of a conspiracy against him that had "started right after I won the nomination. It's a disgraceful situation, it's a total witch hunt, I've been saying it for a long time," Trump said. Mueller's investigation so far has produced 19 indictments or guilty pleas.


Monday's raid led to the seizure of records including communications between Cohen and Trump, Cohen's lawyer said in a statement.

Comment: It is unclear at this point whether the raid on Cohen by the US attorney's office has any connection to Mueller's alleged Russia collusion investigation. The raid seized Trump-Cohen communications. Will Mueller have access? He was instrumental in advising the New York prosecutors office concerning the raid. Did he make any requests?

More from RT:
FBI agents have raided the home and office of President Donald Trump's personal attorney Michael Cohen, seizing business records that reportedly include details of payments to porn star Stormy Daniels.

Daniels (real name Stephanie Clifford) claims to have had an affair with Trump a decade ago, and was paid $130,000 in the weeks before the 2016 election to keep quiet about it. Asked about the payment and the reported non-disclosure agreement Daniels had signed (but Trump had not), the president said he had no knowledge of it.

Federal prosecutors in New York are investigating Cohen for possible bank fraud over the payment, according to The New York Times. Trump expressed frustration about the "witch hunt" that has been going on since before he was inaugurated.
"This is the most biased group of people. These people have the biggest conflicts of interest I have ever seen. Democrats all. Either Democrats or a couple of Republicans who worked for President Obama," he said, accusing the staff working for Mueller of not looking at the wrongdoing under his predecessor.

"We've had that hanging over us from the very, very beginning. And yet the other side they're not even looking. And the other side is where there are crimes and those crimes are obvious - lies under oath all over the place, emails that are knocked out, that are acid-washed and deleted, 33,000 emails were deleted after getting a subpoena from Congress. And nobody bothers looking at that," Trump said.


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Rosenstein allowed Mueller request to authorize FBI raid on office of Trump's lawyer Michael Cohen

Cristina Laila
Gateway Pundit
Mon, 09 Apr 2018 00:00 UTC
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© Gateway PunditMueller and Rosenstein
FBI agents raided the office of one of Trump's personal lawyers Michael Cohen on Monday at the request of Special Counsel Robert Mueller.

Since the Stormy Daniels documents are outside of Robert Mueller's scope of the Russia investigation, Mueller is required to consult with Deputy AG Rod Rosenstein before he is allowed to expand his mandate.

The New York Times first reported the FBI raid collected documents related to Michael Cohen's payment to porn star Stormy Daniels in October of 2016.

Michael Cohen's attorney released a statement following the raid.
"The decision by the US attorney's office in New York to conduct the investigation using search warrants is completely inappropriate and unnecessary."

"Today the U.S. Attorney's Office for the Southern District of New York executed a series of search warrants and seized the privileged communications between my client, Michael Cohen, and his clients. I have been advised by federal prosecutors that the New York action is, in part, a referral by the Office of Special Counsel, Robert Mueller."
It appears Rod Rosenstein is turning up the heat after President Trump lashed out at the DOJ for missing an April 5th deadline to produce over 1.2 million documents on FISA abuse and Hillary's email investigation.


Comment: Bill Kristol and David Urban weigh in:



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Mueller pursues UKRAINIAN oligarch for donating $150k to Trump campaign: Ignores fact that Victor Pinchuk gave Clinton Foundation $13 MILLION


RT
Tue, 10 Apr 2018 15:14 UTC
Clinton, Pinchuk
© KyivPostBill Clinton and Viktor Pinchuk at the Yalta European Strategy Conference
The Twitterverse has mocked the latest Trump-Russia collusion bombshell as a desperate dud, after a Ukrainian oligarch was targeted for donating $150,000 to Trump. The same businessman gave $13 million to the Clintons.

Victor Pinchuk, a Ukrainian steel magnate, made the payment to the Donald J. Trump Foundation in 2015 in exchange for a 20-minute appearance by Trump via video link at a conference in Kiev, according to reports.

But this terrifying tale of Trump collusion has an amusing twist: Pinchuk is a long-time Clinton donor (he's given an estimated $13 million to the Clinton Foundation since 2006, according to the New York Times), and the conference that Trump was paid to speak at wasn't the Putin Appreciation Society, but rather the Yalta European Strategy conference, which promotes pro-European Union policies for Ukraine.

In other words: Robert Mueller's probe into alleged collusion between Donald Trump and the Russian government is now targeting a Clinton Foundation mega-donor who is even listed as a financial supporter of a vehemently anti-Russia, pro-NATO think tank.

Comment: Investigation 'rigor mortis' any day now?

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