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Flashback Merkel: Refugees will return home once peace has returned to Iraq, Syria


Sputnik
Sun, 31 Jan 2016 04:42 UTC

Comment: Well, Angela, the Russians have made it safe for the refugees to return home... so what's it going to be?


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German Chancellor Angela Merkel expects that many refugees will go back to their home countries once peace has returned to Syria and Iraq, according to German media reports on Saturday.

Over a million of asylum seekers arrived in Germany last year. Many of them fled hostilities and poverty in North Africa and the Middle East, specifically the nearly-five-year-long war in Syria.

"We expect that once peace has returned to Syria and Islamic State has been defeated in Iraq - that you will also go back home with the knowledge you have acquired here," Merkel said at her party's meeting in the northeastern town of Neubrandenburg.
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In bitter war for public's attention, the mainstream media throws 'fact-checking' out the window

Alexander Mercouris
The Duran
Mon, 11 Dec 2017 19:33 UTC
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The catalogue of journalistic "errors" in the US media over the last few weeks - the wrong ABC story about the instructions Michael Flynn supposedly received from Donald Trump, the still more wrong CNN story about the email sent to Donald Trump Junior about the publication of the Podesta emails by Wikileaks, and now the ludicrously wrong story in the Washington Post about Donald Trump and the supposedly empty stadium addressed by Donald Trump in Pensacola Bay - brings to mind a recent article by David Aaronovitch in the London Times.

Writing on 30th November 2017, Aaronovitch contrasted - I thought a touch too portentously - the rigorous fact-checking of the mainstream media with the supposedly lax attitude to facts shown by the alternative media:

Comment: Passions have ignited within mainstream media outlets. The only way some breaks could be applied is if they were to suddenly undertake a massive inventory of their wrongs. Since that's unlikely to happen, we can expect to see the decline of the establishment media at an ever-increasing rate.

See also: Fake News! CNN Launches Bombshell Dud Over False Trump-Wikileaks Story

Fending off Libel Suit, BuzzFeed is on Mission Impossible to Prove 'Trump Dossier' is Fact-based

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Hezbollah leader Nasrallah says fight for Jerusalem is now top priority


RT
Mon, 11 Dec 2017 20:03 UTC
Supporters of Lebanon's Hezbollah
© Aziz Taher / ReutersSupporters of Lebanon's Hezbollah protest in Beirut's southern suburbs, Lebanon December 11, 2017
Lebanese Hezbollah will work with its allies to create a strategy "in the field" to confront Israel, the group's leader, Hassan Nasrallah, said, calling again for a third Palestinian intifada (uprising), during a rally in Beirut on Monday.

"Today the axis of resistance, including Hezbollah, will return as its most important priority ... Jerusalem and Palestine and the Palestinian people and the Palestinian resistance in all its factions," Nasrallah said, as cited by Reuters.

Speaking by video-link at a rally attended by tens of thousands in Hezbollah's stronghold in southern Beirut, Nasrallah vowed that the struggle for Jerusalem and an independent Palestine is now Hezbollah's top priority.

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SOTT Focus: Mission Accomplished: Putin makes first-ever visit to Syria, announces withdrawal of Russian troops following defeat of ISIS

Niall Bradley
Sott.net
Mon, 11 Dec 2017 20:04 UTC
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© Sott.netBefore and after
Two years on from Russia's historic intervention in the Middle East to answer an international distress call from Syria, Russian president Vladimir Putin today made a surprise visit to Khmeimim airbase in northwest Syria to address Russian troops stationed there, and to tell them in person that they were going home after accomplishing their mission of saving the Arab republic from the scourge of ISIS.

Russia's successful military intervention stands in stark contrast to American intervention in the region. 14 years ago, US president George W Bush declared 'mission accomplished' aboard a US aircraft carrier just two months into the invasion and occupation of Iraq. Far from marking any accomplishment - for either Iraqis or Americans - it merely foreshadowed a long and brutal period of Iraqi history that culminated in so-called 'Islamic State', the most dangerous terrorist group the world had ever seen. How's that for 'Freedom and Democracy'.

In Putin's first-ever trip to Syria, he was met at the airbase by Syrian President Bashar al-Assad and Russian Defense Minister Sergei Shoigu, where he addressed Russian troops, congratulated them on a job well done and held meetings with President Assad and the Russian general staff.

Putin also announced that Russia would keep its Khmeimim air base in Latakia Province as well as its naval facility at Tartus "on a permanent basis". Addressing Russian servicemen on the airbase runway, Putin praised their courage and professionalism, and announced that most of them would begin returning home:
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Vanessa Beeley: Global Britain is financing terrorism and bloodshed in Syria while calling it 'aid'

Vanessa Beeley
21st Century Wire
Sat, 09 Dec 2017 00:00 UTC
Jane Corbin, Jihadis We Pay For
BBC Panorama’s Jane Corbin in “Jihadis We Pay For”

Boris Johnson preached to the UK State choir, in the Foreign Office, on the 7th December. In Churchillian tones, Johnson announced "when in the course of a prolonged, ambitious struggle, you eventually record a success, it is essential, with due humility and caution, to celebrate that success - so I draw your attention, once again, to the defeat of DAESH in Raqqa and the victory of the 74 member coalition, in which the UK played a proud part".

The sheer sanctimonious humbug contained within that first convoluted utterance should be enough to take our breath away. However, Johnson continued speaking for 36 minutes, turning verbal somersaults of every shade and hue of hypocrisy. This speech comes swift on the heels of the BBC Panorama limping expose of the UK FCO funding of terrorism in Syria that barely scratched the surface of the magnitude of the UK campaign to destablize a sovereign nation and foment insurgency against a "regime" and its allies, that has thwarted Global Britain's geopolitical ambitions at every turn.

BBC Panorama's "Jihadis You Pay For" was nothing more than a media sleight of hand designed to conceal the bulk of the funding iceberg beneath the decorative tip of a superficial investigation that revealed nothing that had not already been unmasked by independent analysts, investigative journalists, the Syrian Government and the Russian Ministry of Foreign Affairs for the last 7 years. The BBC, as always, made a "molehill out of a mountain" in order to protect Global Britain's criminal foreign policy in Syria.

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IDF attacks Hamas positions in Gaza after rockets launched from enclave


RT
Mon, 11 Dec 2017 19:36 UTC
Smoke rises in Gaza Strip
© Amir Cohen / Reuters
The Israeli military launched the attack on Palestinian positions after rockets were fired from the Gaza Strip, the IDF said.

The missile attack, which the IDF (Israel Defense Forces) blamed on Hamas, happened Monday evening, according to an IDF spokesperson's statement. There's been no confirmation that any 'targets' have been hit, it added.

Comment: See also: 25 injured, including 6 children in Israeli strike on Gaza after rocket attacks

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Putin meets with Egyptian President Sisi, agree on Palestine, Libya, and Syria

Adam Garrie
The Duran
Mon, 11 Dec 2017 18:21 UTC
Putin al-Sisi
© Mikhail Klimentyev / ReutersRussia's President Vladimir Putin (L) and Egypt's President Abdel Fattah al-Sisi.
Russian President Vladimir Putin has met with his Egyptian counterpart AbdelFattah el-Sisi in the Egyptian capital Cairo to discuss a broad range of bilateral and regional issues.

This follows on from Egypt certifying an agreement allowing Russia to use Egyptian air bases for regional activities for the foreseeable future.

Both Presidents praised an increase in bilateral trade, while Putin spoke favourably about investment projects in Egypt which will total $7 billion.

Sisi stated that both leaders held talks about the importance of establishing a special Russian economic zone on the Suez Canal which Putin later said would be the main Russian terminus for the distribution of Russian goods throughout the Middle East and North Africa.
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'Enemy will pay the price': Hamas vows to retaliate for Israel's airstrikes


Sputnik
Mon, 11 Dec 2017 19:15 UTC
Hamas militants
© REUTERS/ Ibraheem Abu MustafaHamas militants
The Palestinian Hamas movement has prepared its response to Israel's recent airstrikes on Gaza, which had been carried out in the wake of the US decision on Jerusalem.

"The enemy will pay the price for breaking the rules of engagement with the resistance in Gaza. ... The coming days will prove to the enemy the great error and misjudgment of the will and determination of the resistance," a representative of the Ezzedeen al-Qassam Brigades, the military wing of Hamas, said in a statement, commenting on the December 8 Israeli airstrikes that killed two and wounding 15 others, as quoted by Press TV.

The statement echoes another Hamas pledge made a few days earlier, calling for an "intifada" against Israel, with the previous uprisings in 1987-1993 and 2000-2005 leaving hundreds of Israelis and thousands of Palestinians dead.

Comment: See also: Palestinian Fatah and Hamas parties unite after Trump controversy

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Trump slams 'Fake News Media' after string of major reporting errors exposed - 'Stain on America!'

Zoe Szathmary and Alex Pappas
Fox News
Mon, 11 Dec 2017 17:33 UTC
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President Trump on Sunday slammed "the Fake News Media," which he called "out of control," after a string of major errors in reporting on his presidency emerged over the past week.

"Very little discussion of all the purposely false and defamatory stories put out this week by the Fake News Media," he tweeted. "They are out of control - correct reporting means nothing to them."

The president continued, "Major lies written, then forced to be withdrawn after they are exposed...a stain on America!"

Comment: The pattern of media lies and subsequent retraction is so blatant, one could be forgiven for thinking it's a deliberate strategy. The initial newsbite lie will get large exposure on mainstream and social media, lodging itself firmly in the minds of the susceptible. The retraction will be quiet, studiously downplayed, and delayed for as long as possible in the hopes it will be lost in the flood of the daily news cycle.

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'Fomenting a class war': The Times uses the Grenfell Tower disaster to attack RT...again


RT
Mon, 11 Dec 2017 17:17 UTC
Grenfell Tower
© Tolga Akmen / Reuters
Six months after one of Britain's worst post-war disasters in which dozens died and hundreds lost their homes, the Times newspaper has attacked activists seeking justice for victims, and chucked in another swipe at RT for good measure. Because why not?

The Times story gets off to a strong start in its RT story with the line "A Kremlin-controlled TV station seized on the Grenfell Tower fire to try to foment 'class war' in Britain." It's a scary accusation, albeit an inaccurate one. RT only aims to foment class war in the early spring. A quick glance around the office shows you're more likely to find staff fermenting grapes than fomenting class war.
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