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Russian ambassador to EU: British gov't needed 'good old-fasioned spy scandal' to take focus off Brexit


RT
Wed, 28 Mar 2018 15:34 UTC
salisbury skripal
© I-Images / Global Look PressSalisbury, United Kingdom
The British government needed "a good old-fashioned spy scandal" amid tensions following Brexit, Russia's ambassador to the European Union said in the interview to RT.

Vladimir Chizhov said that although the UK managed to split the EU on the issue of expelling diplomats, the hysteria has not gripped the business community.

London can hardly be satisfied with the outcome of its call for punishing Russia over the Skripal case allegations, the official believes, as the mass expulsion of diplomats has shown disarray among the UK's allies instead of demonstrating unity.

"I don't think [the] British government should've been satisfied with this, because they are now saying that... so many countries have shown solidarity with Britain through the expulsion of Russian diplomats - if you look at the picture, they have managed to split the European union in a way Russia never could or never intended to, because half of [the] member states did not support that view of the UK, and did not follow with similar measures," Chizhov said.
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Eye 2

Hot under the collar: As corruption probe intensifies Israeli PM Netanyahu briefly hospitalized with fever


RT
Tue, 27 Mar 2018 19:10 UTC
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu
© Amir Cohen / ReutersIsraeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu was taken to a hospital with a fever on Tuesday evening, local media have reported. The politician was discharged on Wednesday morning after being diagnosed with a viral infection.

Netanyahu left the hospital on Wednesday after undergoing a series of medical tests, the PM's office said in a statement, noting that "a mild viral infection in the upper respiratory tract" was determined to be the cause of the PM's health scare.

Taking to Twitter, Netanyahu confirmed that he had been released from the facility, thanking well-wishers for all their concerns. "I am sure that some rest and hot soup will sort it all out," he wrote.

Comment: As the man overseeing the genocide of the Palestinians and under investigation for corruption, one wonders whether this is a brain glitch à la Killary Clinton where evil - though it takes its sweet time - eventually takes its detrimental toll on the body, or whether it's the prelude to a 'get out of jail' clause when justice finally comes a-knocking. After all, it is interesting the hospital wouldn't comment on some things but then states it could be something as serious as pneumonia: Also check out SOTT radio's: Behind the Headlines: The Truth About Israel and Palestine, with Robert Fantina

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Penis Pump

Poland finally agrees to waste $4.75bn on purchase of US Patriot missile system so the US can continue to threaten Russia


RT
Wed, 28 Mar 2018 10:00 UTC
Polish and US soldiers
© Agencja Gazeta / ReutersFILE PHOTO: Polish and US soldiers look at a Patriot missile defence battery during join exercises at the military grouds in Sochaczew, near Warsaw, March 21, 2015.
Poland has signed a $4.75 billion deal to purchase US air-defense Patriot missile systems. Claiming it wants to have "friendly relations" with its neighbors, Poland said it's best when friendship is enhanced by military strength.

"It is an extraordinary, historic moment; it is Poland's introduction into a whole new world of state-of-the-art technology, modern weaponry, and defensive means," Poland's President Andrzej Duda said during the signing ceremony on Wednesday.

"The first Patriot systems will reach Poland in 2022, and the next ones in 2024," Prime Minister Mateusz Morawiecki told public broadcaster TVP Info on Tuesday, adding that the agreement "has been very well negotiated."

Comment: It seems the West and those who have slipped into it's tentacles are suffering from mass hysteria: Also check out SOTT radio's: Behind the Headlines: Facebook and Cambridge Analytica - Trump Dumped - Skripal Saga

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Pirates

SOTT Focus: Saudi prince MBS: 'Anglo-Americans asked us to spread Extremist Islam to defeat Russia in Cold War'


RT
Wed, 28 Mar 2018 11:58 UTC
Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman.
© Hamad I Mohammed / ReutersSaudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman.
The Saudi-funded spread of Wahhabism began as a result of Western countries asking Riyadh to help counter the Soviet Union during the Cold War, Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman told the Washington Post.


Comment: Slight correction. Wahhabism is modern day jihadi terrorism. Western nations, in particular the USA, are therefore directly responsible for ALL such terrorism today. And all of it because of their hysterical drive to 'get Russia'.


Speaking to the paper, bin Salman said that Saudi Arabia's Western allies urged the country to invest in mosques and madrassas overseas during the Cold War, in an effort to prevent encroachment in Muslim countries by the Soviet Union.

He added that successive Saudi governments had lost track of that effort, saying "we have to get it all back." Bin Salman also said that funding now comes mostly from Saudi-based "foundations," rather than from the government.


Comment: First, it appears that someone has a very good handle on funding, training and arming tens of thousands of jihadis and moving them into countries that the USA wants to 'regime change'. So "lost track of" sounds more than a little disingenuous. Secondly, how can you have "lost track" of jihadi traning camps (madrassas) if your "foundations" are still funding them?

The importance of this admission cannot be overstated. The USA and its NATO and Gulf allies are directly and indirectly responsible for ALL of the major jihadist terrorism over the last 30 years, and it appears they were motivated to encourage it by their hysterical hatred of Russia.


Comment: Saudi Arabia wouldn't exist as it does today without the West, and his claims are well documented: Also check out SOTT radio's: Behind the Headlines: MBS Saudi Takeover Heralds End of the Petrodollar? Trump Does Asia, Asia Likes It

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Biohazard

SOTT Focus: Salisbury Nerve Agent Attack Uncovers $70 Million Pentagon Bioweapons Program at Porton Down

Dilyana Gaytandzhieva
South Front
Tue, 27 Mar 2018 13:18 UTC
Porton Down skripal novichok
© Peter Nicholls / ReutersSigns prohibiting access near to the Porton Down Defence Science and Technology Laboratory, near Salisbury, Britain, March 19, 2018.
The Pentagon has spent at least $70 million on military experiments involving tests with deadly viruses and chemical agents at Porton Down - the UK military laboratory near the city of Salisbury. The secretive biological and chemical research facility is located just 13 km from where on 4th March former Russian spy Sergei Skripal and his daughter Yulia were found slumped on a bench following an alleged Novichok nerve agent poisoning.
porton Down laboratory
Porton Down is located 13 km from the Salisbury District Hospital.
porton down skripal map
© Google MapsThe Porton Down Lab is located just 13 km from the site where Sergei Skripal and his daughter were found and from where they were rushed to hospital.

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Light Sabers

Unusual things happen to European countries resisting George Soros' assault

Alex Gorka
Strategic Culture Foundation
Wed, 28 Mar 2018 14:03 UTC
Soros
Strange things happen in East and Central Europe that get little mention from media outlets. Two heads of state, the PMs of Slovenia and Slovakia, resigned almost simultaneously. Slovak Prime Minister Robert Fico was a victim of the scandal over the murder of Jan Kuciak, a journalist who was investigating government corruption. The PM had to step down amid mass street protests.

Mr. Fico was known for his support of a stronger Visegrad Group. He opposed Brussels on many issues. It's worth noting that he called for lifting sanctions and improving relations with Moscow. The PM was adamant that Russia was a reliable energy partner. Is it a coincidence that he was forced to resign amid the anti-Russia campaign triggered by the Skripal case and other obviously concocted stories used as false pretexts for incessant attacks on Moscow? Wasn't he a threat to the so-called unity of the EU against Russia? He definitely was.

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USA

Jimmy Carter says Trump should not be impeached

Brian Freeman
Newsmax
Sun, 25 Mar 2018 09:32 UTC
Former President Jimmy Carter
© Getty ImagesFormer President Jimmy Carter
Former President Jimmy Carter told CBS' "Sunday Morning" that he would prefer that President Donald Trump not be impeached.

"My own preference would be that he not be impeached, but that he be able to serve out his term, because I think he wants to do a good job," Carter said. "And I'm willing to help him, if I can help him, and give him the benefit of the doubt."

Comment: See also: What are the odds? Online gamblers bet on Trump's impeachment

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Eye 2

Welcome (back) to Dick Cheney's administration

Stephen M. Walt
Foreign Policy
Fri, 23 Mar 2018 20:34 UTC
bolton
© Michael Nagle/Getty ImagesJohn Bolton, then-U.S. ambassador to the United Nations, speaks to the media at the U.N. in New York on Nov. 13, 2006.
The problem with John Bolton isn't that he's an extremist. It's that he's mainstream.

The other shoe dropped. On the heels of his cowardly fire-by-tweet dismissal of Secretary of State Rex Tillerson, Donald Trump has dismissed National Security Advisor H.R. McMaster and replaced him with John Bolton, the hard-line former U.S. ambassador to the United Nations. Uber-hawk Mike Pompeo is headed from the CIA to the State Department, and Gina Haspel, a CIA loyalist who ran a torture site for George W. Bush and authorized the destruction of videotapes documenting what the CIA was doing, has been picked to replace him. Just how scared should you be?

There seem to be two general reactions to the latest upheaval in Trump's topsy-turvy. One interpretation is that this latest reshuffle amounts to Trump getting rid of the "grown-ups" who have been trying to manage the tweeter-in-chief for the past year and replacing them with advisors who see the world as he does and will let "Trump be Trump." In this view, the new team will enable him instead of trying to rein him in, and he'll become the Trump of 2016, who called U.S. foreign policy a "complete and total disaster" and promised "America First." Trump himself has encouraged this view by suggesting that he is finally assembling the sort of team he has always wanted. (Which raises an obvious question: Who was the idiot who picked his first team? Or his second? Oh, right.)
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Bulb

Czech president Zeman on Skripal case: 'I want to see evidence' that Russians did it


RT
Tue, 27 Mar 2018 20:40 UTC
zeman
© David W. Cerny / ReutersCzech President Milos Zeman
The UK must provide solid evidence of Russia's alleged involvement in the Skripal case, the Czech president has said. While he did not oppose the country's move to expel Russian diplomats, he believes it to be "a bit superfluous."

"I want to see the facts. I will certainly welcome if the United Kingdom presents some evidence that the Russians wanted to kill the double agent Skripal," Czech President Milos Zeman told the Blesk news outlet on Tuesday.

The Czech government has expelled three Russian diplomats, joining the UK, which made the move in order to "punish" Moscow over the Skripal case. The former double agent Sergei Skripal and his daughter, Yulia, were poisoned on March 4 in the British town of Salisbury. Without any evidence, top UK officials promptly pinned the blame on Moscow, claiming that a military-grade nerve agent of Russian origins was used in the attack.
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Center-right Italian coalition slams govt over Russian diplomat expulsion - "last backlashes of enslaved government"


RT
Tue, 27 Mar 2018 19:29 UTC
russian embassy rome
© Tiziana Fabi / AFPThe Russian embassy in Rome, Italy.
The politician hoping to be Italy's next prime minister blasted the decision to expel Russian diplomats from the country. A fellow coalition member criticized the outgoing government for "serving the will of foreign states."

Despite the fact that Britain is yet to provide evidence to support its allegations against Russia of poisoning ex-spy Sergei Skripal, Italy and over a dozen other European countries has joined in a massive expulsion of Russian diplomats.

However, the decision to kick out two Russian diplomats has resulted in a split between the caretaker government and the center-right bloc set to take power.

Matteo Salvini, a long-time ally of former Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi and one of the winners of Italy's March 4 election, claimed the expulsion of Russian diplomats will only "aggravate problems."

On Facebook, Salvini rejected the idea of imposing new sanctions on Russian citizens in an appeal to have dialogue.

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