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Russian Consulate shows footage of US agents sweeping its SF premises 'like raiders'


RT
Wed, 06 Sep 2017 12:42 UTC
US agents raid Russian consulate
© МИД России / Facebook
The Russian Ministry of Foreign Affairs has released footage which it says shows US law enforcers "behaving like raiders" while carrying out "unknown activities" in the Russian Consulate in San Francisco, which was forced to close last week.

"Representatives of the US law enforcement agencies conduct unknown activities on the territory of the Russian Consulate General in San Francisco. They mutilate expensive parquet and do work without permission. Most importantly, nobody knows who these people are, who behave like raiders," the Russian Foreign Ministry wrote on Facebook on Wednesday. The 60-second long video gathered nearly 20,000 views within hours after being posted on Facebook.

"Lawlessness," one user wrote. "Shame," another one added.

"Here's to you, grandmother, and your holy private property!"
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Fraud indictment pending for wife of Netanyahu, may also directly implicate Israeli prime minister


Sputnik
Tue, 05 Sep 2017 12:24 UTC
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© Gali Tibbon/Associated PressIsraeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu sits with his wife Sara
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's wife, Sara, is expected to be indicted on charges of fraud, receiving goods under false pretenses and breach of trust for using $111,851 worth of public funds to throw fancy personal dinner parties and hire private chefs.

According to the couple's former housekeeper, Meni Naftali, who filed a lawsuit against Sara, the prime minister's wife threw lavish parties, for which she often ordered more food than was needed, all at the expense of the Prime Minister's Residence.

The Netanyahus in turn are accusing Naftali of stealing food from their home. However, according to a senior police official, "this phenomenon [the high expenses] began before Naftali came to work and the residence and continued after he was fired," Haaretz reported.

The Times of Israel reports that Netanyahu hired an electrician for her husband's right-wing Likud party's committee, which is illegal, according to the Prime Minister's legal office.

Netanyahu is also being investigated for using public funds to buy personal items such as furniture for their family home in Caesarea, a town on Israel's Mediterranean coast.

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Best of the Web: The Foreign-Funded And Manufactured Conflict In Syria Was Always Israel's War

Whitney Webb
Mint Press News
Mon, 04 Sep 2017 00:00 UTC
Israeli tourists
© Atef Safadi/EPAIsraeli tourists watch smoke rising near the Syrian-Israeli border as the fighting Syrian army fights to regain control of the Quneitra border crossing from rebel groups.
Because Israel has staked first its survival and ultimately its growth into a dominant regional power on the disunity of its neighboring nations, it comes as no surprise that, faced with a winding-down of the Syrian conflict, it is now moving sharply against that development.

After years of fomenting the Syrian conflict from the shadows, the U.S. has recently seemed to back away from its push to militarily intervene in the embattled nation, instead choosing to focus its saber-rattling and destabilization efforts on other theaters. The consequence of this has seemingly been the winding down of the long-running conflict, now entering its seventh year.

Buoyed by Russia, Iran and Lebanon, the Syrian government led by President Bashar al-Assad has managed to retake vast swaths of territory, all while surviving and growing stronger over the course of a largely foreign-funded onslaught. As a result, many of the governments that were instrumental in funding and arming the so-called "moderate" opposition have begun to extricate themselves, unwilling to further test the resilience of Assad or the Syrian people.

With some anticipating the long-awaited conclusion of the Syrian conflict, recent threats from Israel's government to assassinate Assad by bombing his residence seemed to appear out of the blue. According to the Jerusalem Post, a senior Israeli official accompanying Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu on a recent visit to Russia warned the Kremlin that if Iran continues to "extend its reach" in Syria, Israel would bomb the presidential palace in Damascus.
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UN report: US-led coalition violated international law in Syria by failing to protect civilians


RT
Wed, 06 Sep 2017 12:29 UTC
Smoke rises after an air strike during fighting between members of the Syrian Democratic Forces and Islamic State militants in Raqqa
© Zohra Bensemra / ReutersSmoke rises after an air strike during fighting between members of the Syrian Democratic Forces and Islamic State militants in Raqqa, Syria.
The UN Syria Commission released a report saying it is "gravely concerned" about the impact of international airstrikes in the war-torn country, adding that US-led forces failed to take proper precautions to protect civilians during an attack in Aleppo.

"The Commission is gravely concerned about the impact of international coalition airstrikes on civilians," the report states.

It goes on to cite the March 2017 incident in Al-Jinah, Aleppo, in which "forces of the United States of America failed to take all feasible precautions to protect civilians and civilian objects when attacking a mosque, in violation of international humanitarian law."

It also mentions the situation in Raqqa, in which the "ongoing Syrian Democratic Forces and international coalition offensive to repel [Islamic State or IS, formerly ISIS] has displaced over 190,000 persons, and coalition airstrikes have reportedly resulted in significant numbers of civilians killed and injured." It added that investigations are ongoing.

Comment: So what can the UN actually do about it?

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Moscow proposes building bridge connecting Russia and Japan


RT
Wed, 06 Sep 2017 12:25 UTC
Sakhalin island
© Serguei Fomine / Global Look PressSakhalin island.
Russia would like Japan to consider the feasibility of building a road and rail bridge from Hokkaido to the south of Sakhalin island, First Deputy Prime Minister Igor Shuvalov said during a session of the Eastern Economic Forum.

Russia is currently preparing to build a bridge from mainland Russia to Sakhalin, according to the minister.

"In this case, it will give us an additional opportunity to use our railway infrastructure, and Japan will become a continental state," Shuvalov said.

Since August, Russia has allowed Japanese citizens, arriving in Sakhalin on a ferry from Hokkaido, to stay in the country without a visa for 72 hours. Russian officials are hoping for a similar move from Tokyo.
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Lavrov: Russian and N. Korean delegations may meet at Eastern Economic Forum in Vladivostok


RT
Wed, 06 Sep 2017 12:21 UTC
Sergey Lavrov
© Maksim Blinov / Sputnik
Russian and North Korean delegations "may meet" on the sidelines of the Eastern Economic Forum (EEF), which is underway in the Russian city of Vladivostok, Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov said Wednesday.

The representatives of the delegations of Moscow and Pyongyang are likely to have contacts on economic issues on the sidelines of the EEF, Lavrov said.

"As I understand, the DPRK's [Democratic People's Republic of Korea] delegation to the EEF consists of representatives of the economic bloc," Lavrov said. "We also have representatives of our economic ministries and departments here.

"So I think, meetings within the profile structures of the two countries will take place," Lavrov told journalists on Wednesday.
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Forced blood draws, cavity searches and colonoscopies - What country is this?

John W. Whitehead
The Rutherford Institute
Tue, 05 Sep 2017 03:17 UTC
"The Fourth Amendment was designed to stand between us and arbitrary governmental authority. For all practical purposes, that shield has been shattered, leaving our liberty and personal integrity subject to the whim of every cop on the beat, trooper on the highway and jail official."-Herman Schwartz, The Nation
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Our freedoms-especially the Fourth Amendment-are being choked out by a prevailing view among government bureaucrats that they have the right to search, seize, strip, scan, shoot, spy on, probe, pat down, taser, and arrest any individual at any time and for the slightest provocation.

Forced cavity searches, forced colonoscopies, forced blood draws, forced breath-alcohol tests, forced DNA extractions, forced eye scans, forced inclusion in biometric databases: these are just a few ways in which Americans are being forced to accept that we have no control over our bodies, our lives and our property, especially when it comes to interactions with the government.

Worse, on a daily basis, Americans are being made to relinquish the most intimate details of who we are-our biological makeup, our genetic blueprints, and our biometrics (facial characteristics and structure, fingerprints, iris scans, etc.)-in order to clear the nearly insurmountable hurdle that increasingly defines life in the United States: we are now guilty until proven innocent.

Such is life in America today that individuals are being threatened with arrest and carted off to jail for the least hint of noncompliance, homes are being raided by police under the slightest pretext, property is being seized on the slightest hint of suspicious activity, and roadside police stops have devolved into government-sanctioned exercises in humiliation and degradation with a complete disregard for privacy and human dignity.

Consider, for example, what happened to Utah nurse Alex Wubbels after a police detective demanded to take blood from a badly injured, unconscious patient without a warrant.

Wubbels refused, citing hospital policy that requires police to either have a warrant or permission from the patient in order to draw blood. The detective had neither. Irate, the detective threatened to have Wubbels arrested if she didn't comply. Backed up by her supervisors, Wubbels respectfully stood her ground only to be roughly grabbed, shoved out of the hospital, handcuffed and forced into an unmarked car while hospital police looked on and failed to intervene (take a look at the police body camera footage, which has gone viral, and see for yourself).
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Listen, Russia - You can't be partners with a nation that considers you an enemy

Paul Craig Roberts
paulcraigroberts.org
Wed, 06 Sep 2017 00:00 UTC
Capital in darkness
Dear Russia: An Enemy Is Not A Partner - Paul Craig Roberts

Russians are concerned about Washington's arbitrary closing of their San Francisco consulate and the illegal searching of diplomatic properties. There is no question that Washington has violated diplomatic protections and international law.

Why did Washington show its outlaw face to the world?

Was it to show that as strong as Russia is, Russia cannot protect herself from Washington? No international law, no diplomatic immunity can stand in Washington's way. Washington can violate all law with no consequence.

Washington's view is that might, and only might, makes right. Law is thrown out of the window, so why does Russia rely on law in her dealings with Washington?

Comment: Russia has taken the 'high road' in all its dealings with the US, and some consider this a brilliant strategy. By doing this, Russia reveals - for all the world to see (who aren't completely ponerized and brainwashed by propaganda) - that it is the US that is behaving criminally and egregiously. The by-product of this, also, is that Russia is staving off possible armed conflict and disaster that might cause the suffering and death of many. Keep playing it smart, Russia!

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Syrian army, allies break 3-year ISIS siege in Deir ez-Zor city, Russia fires more Kalibr cruise missiles, soldiers celebrate


RT
Tue, 05 Sep 2017 13:32 UTC
Syrian soldiers near Deir ez-Zor
© Mikhail Voskresenskiy / Sputnik
The Islamic State blockade of Deir er-Zor has been breached by Syrian government forces, Syrian state television and activist groups reported on Tuesday. The jihadist group has blockaded the provincial capital for almost 3 years.

The government troops defending the city and those advancing from the west have met, Syrian media reported.

The garrison of Deir ez-Zor has been holding out against Islamic State forces in rural parts of the governorate, sustained by airdrops of crucial supplies.

An estimated 93,000 civilians remain under the protection of Damascus' forces within the city limits.

Comment: Update: Syrian soldiers embrace after breaking 3-year ISIS siege of Deir ez-Zor
Syrian Arab Army soldiers joyously embraced their brothers in arms in the Deir ez-Zor area on Tuesday after the three-year Islamic State (IS, formerly ISIS/ISIL) siege of the city was breached by government forces on the ground with Russia's air support.

Exclusive footage obtained by Ruptly shows units of the Syrian Arab Army reunite with their comrades from Brigade 137, whose base in west Deir ez-Zor had been surrounded by IS since 2014.


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Retired FBI agent sues DOJ for Clinton ally's massive donations during email investigation

Tyler Durden
ZeroHedge
Tue, 05 Sep 2017 19:59 UTC
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Virginia Governor Terry McAuliffe (Left), Andrew and Jill McCabe (Right)
Over the weekend, Judicial Watch announced that it had filed a lawsuit against the DOJ on behalf of retired special agent Jeffrey Danik seeking records related to roughly $700,000 in political contributions made by groups tied to Virginia Governor Terry McAuliffe, a long-time Clinton confidant, to the wife of FBI Deputy Director Andrew McCabe...the same Andrew McCabe who was conveniently overseeing multiple Hillary Clinton investigations at the time and even oversaw components of her email investigation. Here's more from Judicial Watch:

Comment: Back in October 2016 the Trump team was commenting on these 'disturbing' donations as well:
The head of the Republican National Committee says a Hillary Clinton ally's political donation to an FBI official's wife may have affected the agency's probe of the Democratic nominee's private email server.

"Given all we know about how the corrupt Clinton machine operates, it's hard not to see this as anything other than a down payment to influence the FBI's criminal investigation into Hillary Clinton's private email server," RNC chief Reince Priebus said in a statement Monday. [...]

Republican nominee Donald Trump's presidential campaign on Monday also said McAuliffe's donation raises serious ethical questions.

"Last night's revelation that close Clinton ally Terry McAuliffe authorized $675,000 to the wife of a top official at the FBI, who conveniently was promoted to deputy director, and helped oversee the investigation into Clinton's email server is deeply disturbing and calls into question the entire investigation," senior communications adviser Jason Miller said in a statement.
If Clinton can buy her way out of an investigation and evade one even after her arch-enemy gets into office, the chances of justice for her and her criminal network are very slim.

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