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Moscow exposes Nusra's chemical attack in East Ghouta as Haley warns US ready to act in Syria


Sputnik
Mon, 12 Mar 2018 10:20 UTC
Douma Eastern Ghouta Damascus Syria
© REUTERS/ Bassam KhabiehDamaged cars and buildings are seen in the besieged town of Douma, Eastern Ghouta, Damascus, Syria
The United States presented a new UN draft resolution on Syria on Monday calling for a 30-day cessation of hostilities in the Damascus suburb of East Ghouta less than a month after the previous resolution demanding a ceasefire across all the Syrian territory was unanimously passed by the UN Security Council.

"We have drafted a new ceasefire resolution that provides no room for evasion," US ambassador to the UN Nikki Haley said in reference to Syrian army's operation against terrorists in East Ghouta, who keep launching attacks on Damascus despite the ongoing ceasefire.

"It is simple, straightforward and binding. It will take effect immediately upon adoption by this Council. It contains no counterterrorism loopholes for Assad, Iran and the Russians to hide behind," she stressed when presenting the resolution, saying that the previous one had "failed."


Comment: Nikki Haley proposes a ceasefire with one side of her mouth while threatening military action through the other:

Haley beats drums of war, warns US 'prepared to act alone' in Syria if UN Security Council will not support Washington aggression


Russian UN envoy Vasily Nebenzya fired back at the statement by Haley, stressing that Damascus has "every right to try to remove the threat to the safety of its citizens," referring to the terrorists who have entrenched themselves in East Ghouta as a "hotbed of terrorism."

Comment: It doesn't take a genius to see that the 'chemical attacks' allegations against the Syrian government are spurious. Why would Syria use chemical weapons (which it does not have) in a war it is already winning? Why do something that will be used as an excuse for a more vigorous Western intervention against Syria? For the same reasons, the 'rebels' would very much benefit from a chemical attack.

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Mr. Potato

Wildest MP claims from Skripal session in UK parliament: 'Russia as close to a rogue state as any' (VIDEOS)


RT
Tue, 13 Mar 2018 09:55 UTC
House of Commons Theresa May
© RTTheresa May address the House of Commons
Members of the UK parliament competed with one another on Monday afternoon to produce the most colorful and dramatic condemnations of Russia, pausing only to chastise their colleagues for not condemning Russia enough.

Theresa May, Prime Minister - appears to have concluded the investigation

"There are only two plausible explanations for what happened in Salisbury on March 4. Either this was a direct act by the Russian State against our country. Or the Russian government lost control of this potentially catastrophically damaging nerve agent and allowed it to get into the hands of others."



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'Feminist progressive' Hillary says racist poor people voted for Trump, women voters coerced by their husbands

Ben Shapiro
The Daily Wire
Mon, 12 Mar 2018 00:01 UTC
Hillary Clinton
© Samuel Corum/Anadolu Agency/Getty Images
On Monday, a woman who was never elected to the presidency, Hillary Clinton, spoke to a crowd in India. There, she laid out the reason she lost: those stupid, stupid poor people.

Yes, Hillary was a blue collar candidate, all right.

Here's what she said:
There's all that red in the middle, where Trump won. Now, I win the coasts, I win Illinois, Minnesota, places like that. But what the map doesn't show you is that I won the places that represent two-thirds of America's gross domestic product. So I won the places that are optimistic, diverse, dynamic, moving forward, and his whole campaign, Make America Great Again, was looking backwards. "You don't like black people getting rights, you don't like women getting jobs, you don't want to see that Indian-American succeeding more than you are, whatever your problem is, I'm going to solve it."

Comment: More on Hillary's India talk from the Daily Wire:
'FEMINIST' CLINTON: Women Voted For Donald Trump Because Their Husbands Told Them To.
By Emily Zanotti March 12, 2018

Hillary took part in the India Today Conclave over the weekend and really spilled her guts.

Former presidential candidate Hillary Clinton let loose in a conversation with the India Today Conclave over the weekend, calling Trump voters and residents of heartland states 'backwards," telling the audience that Americans "didn't like black people getting rights," and "didn't like women," and claiming that white women only voted for Trump because they were told to do so by their husbands.

Clinton waited until she was well overseas to give the shocking speech, rehashing some of her greatest hits into a single, televised rant, delivered largely to an audience of Indians gathered for the innovation conference.

Asked about the 52% of white women who voted for Donald Trump in the presidential election despite being faced with the possibility of having the first woman president in American history, Clinton did not concede that women could have voted based on their own political preferences. Rather, the failed Democratic candidate claimed that white women were under the spell of their husbands, fathers, and sons, who forced them to pull the lever for Donald Trump.

"We do not do well with white men and we don't do well with married, white women," Clinton told the audience about the Democratic Party. "And part of that is an identification with the Republican Party, and a sort of ongoing pressure to vote the way that your husband, your boss, your son, whoever, believes you should."

Yep. That's right. A majority of white women in America are merely the pawns of their male betters, the willing tools of a massive Patriarchal conspiracy that sought to keep Clinton out of the White House because she happened to be a woman.

That's not all though. Clinton went on to claim that then-FBI director James Comey, now a liberal hero, destroyed her "momentum," and "decreased my vote" when he suddenly re-opened an investigation into her mishandling of classified information just days before the November election.

At some point, Clinton's habit of excusing her campaign performance simply becomes pathological. She no longer accepts any rational explanation for her loss that is at odds with her own carefully curated reality, and she'll likely carry these same explanations with her to her deathbed, always believing that America was too backwards, to brutish, and too misogynistic to see the paradise she promised.
Wow Hillary. Alienating working class Americans and women all in the same speech. That's got to be a new record. It's amazing that she's so blinded by her bitterness at losing the election that she's willing to throw the majority of Americans under the bus in order to justify it. If she actually has aspirations of running again, she's off to a really terrible start.

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Saudi king sets up anti-embezzlement prosecution units


Times of India
Sun, 11 Mar 2018 09:14 UTC
King Salman bin Abdulaziz Al Saud
© AFP / Saudi Royal Palace
Saudi Arabia's king has established special anti-corruption units of prosecutors to pursue embezzlement cases in the kingdom after a recent crackdown.

King Salman's decision was announced Sunday in a report on the state-run Saudi Press Agency.

The report said the king's decision came from "his concern over combating corruption in all its forms aiming to protect the homeland and its resources, maintain public money and protect the integrity of the public employment."

The decision comes after Saudi Arabia arrested dozens of princes, business leaders and government officials in early November in a push led by Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman.

Authorities say the arrests netted more than $106 billion in exchange for the release most of the detainees.

Critics say the arrests were more to consolidate Crown Prince Mohammed's power.

Comment: Saudi Arabia has been trying to clean up its image as of late - allowing women to drive and attend sporting events, and cracking down on corruption. It's better than nothing. But if they really want to get their act together and enter the civilized world, they may want to consider ending their assault on Yemen.

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Russian MoD: We'll respond if lives of our military, incl. from strikes on Damascus, are endangered


RT
Tue, 13 Mar 2018 09:27 UTC
Tu-22M3 long-range strategic bomber
© Ministry of defence of the Russian Federation / SputnikTu-22M3 long-range strategic bomber
Moscow is ready to respond if lives of the Russian servicemen are endangered, including by strikes on Damascus, head of Russia's General Staff Valery Gerasimov said.

"There are many Russian advisers, representatives of the Russian Center for Reconciliation of Opposing Sides and [Russian] servicemen in Damascus and at Syrian defense facilities," Gerasimov stated.

However, in case lives of Russian military personnel are put in danger, the Russian Armed Forces will respond with certain measure to both "missiles" and "lauchers" which are delivering these projectiles.

Russian MoD says it has information that militants in Syria are planning to stage chemical attacks against civilians under the guise of the Syrian government. According to Gerasimov, they have already sent 'civilians' in Eastern Ghouta who will 'play victims' of chemical attacks. Members of the White Helmets and film crews are already there, he pointed out.

Comment: See also: Russian envoy to UN says Al-Nusra terrorists used chlorine chemicals in Eastern Ghouta while US ambassador to UN threatens that US will attack Syrian army

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Bullseye

House Intel committee final report draft finds 'no evidence' of Trump-Russia collusion


RT
Tue, 13 Mar 2018 03:29 UTC
trump russia
© Jonathan Ernst / ReutersUS Representative Mike Conaway (R-TX) arrives for a closed-door committee meeting with White House senior advisor Jared Kushner on Capitol Hill in Washington, US, July 25, 2017
As it completes its probe, the Republican-led House Intelligence Committee team has said that it would take "a Tom Clancy thriller" to call Russia's role in the 2016 presidential election "collusion" with Donald Trump,

"We found no evidence of collusion. We found perhaps some bad judgment, inappropriate meetings," Michael Conaway, a Texas Republican, who led the investigation, told reporters in a Monday briefing, reported by US media. "But only Tom Clancy or Vince Flynn or someone else like that could take these series of inadvertent contacts with each other, meetings, whatever, and weave that into some sort of a fiction and turn it into a page-turner, spy thriller."

The group, which is preparing a 150-page report that will then be reviewed by the House Democrats, said that Russia took "active measures" during the presidential race, but had no specific plan to take Trump to the White House.

Comment: There may actually be light at the end of the tunnel.

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Light Sabers

Theresa May's accusation against Russia for Skripal poisoning doesn't hold water


Moon of Alabama
Mon, 12 Mar 2018 21:27 UTC
Theresa May
© AFP
Today the British government made some dubious assertions about Saddam's chemical weapons the poisoning of its double agent Sergej Skripal.
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The British Prime Minister Theresa May claimed (saved tweet) in Parliament that:
  • Sergej Skripal and his daughter were poisoned with a military grade nerve agent of a type developed by Russia.
  • The nerve agent was part of a group of agents known as 'Novichok'.
  • Russia has previously produced the agent and would still be capable of doing so.
  • Russia has a record of conducting state sponsored assassinations.
  • The British government assesses that Russia views some defectors as legitimate targets.
  • The British government concluded that it is highly likely that Russia was responsible for the act against Sergej and Yulia Skripal.
May went on to claim that:
  • This was either a direct act by the Russian State against the United Kingdom or
  • the Russian government lost control of the nerve agent and let it fall into the hands of others.
I find all of the above claims not only dubious but laughable. Here are some facts:

Comment: Just in time for the Russian elections. British leadership is pathetic.

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Propaganda

SOTT Focus: Anti-Russia Propaganda Intensifies - A Response to Putin's Speech on Nuclear Weapons?

Andrés Perezalonso
Sott.net
Mon, 12 Mar 2018 22:06 UTC
putin kelly
© Kremlin.ruVladimir Putin being interviewed by Megyn Kelly
Although Vladimir Putin's Russia has been relentlessly demonized by Western media for years, the maliciousness and absurdity of the news coverage in recent days prompt us to ask what has changed that calls for such attacks. Russia celebrates a presidential election on the 18th of March, so this could be meant to discredit Putin's imminent reelection in the eyes of the West. We may also be witnessing a direct response to Putin's address to the Russian Federation Assembly of the 1st of March, in which he revealed new advanced weapons systems that render US anti-ballistic missile systems useless, thus reestablishing the nuclear balance of power by negating the possibility of a nuclear strike without an equal response.

If the US/NATO can no longer presume to make war on Russia with relative impunity, ramping up the information war may be their second best option.
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Vader

Saudi boss Mohammed Bin Salman is selling himself as a reformer

Craig Murray
Craig Murray
Thu, 08 Mar 2018 00:00 UTC
Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman stands with British prime minister Theresa May
Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman stands with British prime minister Theresa May
There was a revealing coincidence of timing yesterday. Philip Hammond made a speech in which he pleaded with the EU to allow the UK continued free access to their financial services markets, on the basis of mutually recognised standards. At the same time, Theresa May met the Saudi Crown Prince in Downing Street and discussed specific legal reductions of those standards in the City of London, to allow for the stock exchange flotation of part of Saudi state oil giant Aramco.

It is symbolic because the toxic addiction of the ruling classes to Saudi cash has been lowering British standards of basic decency for generations. The most blatant example was when Tony Blair as Prime Minister intervened directly in the justice system to prevent the pursuit of corruption charges against the stench-ridden arms dealers of BAE, on grounds of "national security". The myths about the impartiality of British justice have seldom been so comprehensively exposed. Where there is really dirty money, Blair is seldom far away.

The use of British supplied weapons by the Saudis to maim and kill children in Yemen on an industrial scale has penetrated public consciousness despite the best efforts of mainstream media to sideline it, and Jeremy Corbyn was absolutely right to highlight the involvement not just of arms manufacturers but of the British military. The government and royal fawning has been accompanied by an extraordinary deluge of pro-Saudi propaganda from the mainstream media this last two days for Saudi Arabia and its "reforming" Crown Prince.

Comment: While Trump may have done well to diffuse the potential conflict between Saudi Arabia and Qatar, he has effectively given the green light for the head-chopping nation to further wreak carnage and destruction on the people and infrastructure of Yemen.

'Complete horror show': Saudi Arabia's spin machine and plan for 'humanitarian aid' in Yemen

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Stock Up

Liberal Media Whispers: Maybe Trump isn't so bad after all!

Matt Gillow
UK Independent
Sun, 11 Mar 2018 00:00 UTC
Trump
© Getty ImagesPresident Donald Trump
There's a lot to criticise, but let's face it: unemployment is down, major corporations are paying their bills, he's arranged a meeting with Kim Jong-un and he's advocating for gun control...

Mention the President of the United States in day-to-day conversation and you'll get the inevitable; a sigh, a shake of the head, a brief eulogy on how Donald Trump is unfit to be president. I'm no different. I'm the first to criticise Trump. I wouldn't have voted for him if you'd paid me, and think he's got some pretty damaging, regressive points of view.

But during a recent, daily grumble about The Donald, I got thinking; if you look past the ridiculous Twitter pronouncements, and the President's general veneer - what has he actually done? How bad has the 45th President of the United States actually been for the country?

The answer, it might surprise you, is not that bad at all.


Comment: The Trump administration: a work 'in progress'.

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