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Rouhani calls for diplomacy, 'Qatar siege, intimidation, sanctions' unacceptable


RT
Mon, 26 Jun 2017 00:29 UTC
Rouhani
© Lucas Jackson/ReutersPresident Hassan Rouhani
Iran has called the Saudi-led economic siege of Qatar unacceptable and has called for dialogue to solve the diplomatic crisis. As long as the Gulf stalemate continues, Tehran has promised to provide air, sea and land support to its "brother" country.
"Pressure, intimidation, and sanctions cannot be suitable solutions to possible disagreements among regional countries," Iranian President Hassan Rouhani told Qatari Sheikh Tamim bin Hamad Al Thani on Sunday in a telephone conversation, Mehr news agency reports.
Accusing Qatar of supporting terrorism, Saudi Arabia, the United Arab Emirates, Egypt and Bahrain cut ties with Doha on June 5. On June 22, Kuwait delivered a list of 13 demands that it said Qatar must fulfill within 10 days for the blockade to be lifted. Among the key points of the ultimatum is the demand to cut ties with Iran.

While the Qatari Foreign Ministry has yet to issue an official reply, the director of the government's communications office, Sheikh Saif Al-Thani, called the Gulf States' demands "unrealistic" and said they were aimed at limiting Qatar's sovereignty.

Tehran, which has been helping Qatar deal with the blockade, promised to continue its support of a "brother" state by servicing Doha's air, sea and land needs.
Calling the siege "not acceptable for Iran," Rouhani said it is ready to undertake "necessary measures for peace settling in the region," hoping that de-escalation would be achieved through dialogue.

Comment: Under the implied mandate of 'choosing sides,' Qatar is a convenient access for stimulating conflict with Iran. So far, Rouhani would rather make money than war. Should this ploy not come to fruition, look behind the scenes to Israel for the next goad on its list.

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Impeached S. Korean president Park Geun-hye planned violent regime change for Pyongyang

Adam Garrie
The Duran
Mon, 26 Jun 2017 00:00 UTC
FlagNSKorea
© RF.com
The new revelations from Japan shed light on America's violently anti-North Korea moves prior to the election of the new peace-minded South Korean President Moon.

A recent report from the Japanese outlet Asahi Shimbun appears to confirm a hypothesis recently published in The Duran that America's recent fervour over North Korea has a great deal to do with the internal politics of South Korea, more so in many cases than it has to do with events in the DPRK (North Korea).

Impeached former South Korean President Park Geun-hye was known to be an avidly right-wing, anti-North Korean, militant leader. It was under her now disgraced leadership that South Korea agreed to house America's THAAD missiles, a move that remains deeply unpopular among millions of South Korean citizens.

Now, Asahi Shimbun claims to have obtained documents from South Korea indicating that former President Park Geun-hye signed a document authorising violent regime change in Pyongyang. According to the report seen by the Japanese national newspaper, the Park regime was considering attempts at arranging deadly car accidents or train wrecks in order to kill North Korean leader Kim Jong-Un. Attempts at fomenting a violent coup in North Korea were also considered.

In light of these revelations, it is no wonder that North Korea has taken precautionary measures to defend its sovereignty against these violent threats of illegal regime change from its heavily armed and economically powerful neighbour.

Comment: Is this a case of "as below, so above" the line of demarcation?

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No Entry

Supreme Court: Partial travel ban allowed, will hear case in October


RT
Mon, 26 Jun 2017 14:37 UTC
DT: fight courts
© Business Insider
The US Supreme Court will hear arguments about President Donald Trump's proposed travel ban against foreign nationals from six majority-Muslim countries in their next term. In the meantime, people with no relationship with the US won't be able to enter.
The case will be heard "during the first session of October Term 2017," as the government "has not requested that we expedite consideration of the merits to a greater extent," the court said.
Foreign nationals from Iran, Libya, Somalia, Sudan, Syria and Yemen who have a "bona fide relationship" with the United States ‒ such as a relative or a work or educational opportunity ‒ will still be able to enter the country.

A 'bona fide relationship' would mean 'a close familial relationship' to qualify for the exemption, the court said. "As for entities, the relationship must be formal, documented, and formed in the ordinary course, rather than for the purpose of evading" the executive order. Such an entity could be an educational institution or a business that is hiring the foreign citizen.

Comment: See also:

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Snakes in Suits

Poroshenko: Kiev 'almost reached' arms supplies agreement with the US


RT
Mon, 26 Jun 2017 01:14 UTC
Poroshenko
© Valentyn Ogirenko / ReutersUkrainian President Petro Poroshenko
Kiev has almost reached an agreement with the US about the supplies of "defensive weapons" that could be delivered as early as this year, Ukrainian President Petro Poroshenko told Ukrainian media.
"As for the defensive agreements, we now have an almost consensual text of the agreement [about the arms supplies]," he said, as cited by the Interfax news agency.
The Ukrainian leader then added that Kiev had been waiting for the visit of the US Defense Secretary James Mattis and expressed his hope that the agreement in question would be signed during this visit.

The Ukrainian leader went on to say that this issue is a top priority for Kiev and the negotiation process is going "very actively." The president also said that the issue with the defensive arms supplies might be solved within this fiscal year.

Poroshenko had discussed this issue with US Secretary of State Rex Tillerson during his visit to Washington on June 20.

Kiev repeatedly stressed its need for lethal weapons. In February, Ukrainian Foreign Minister Pavel Klimkin said that
Ukraine "clearly needs" lethal weapons as well as "effective cooperation with the US and NATO. I do not like this differentiation between the lethal and non-lethal weapons. There is a clear definition of a defensive weapon, and we need it," he said at that time.

Comment: 'Almost' is like 'woulda-coulda'...for now a 'not'. Poroshenko has no effective sway and little power, especially as a fringe satellite of the US/Western block. Does he comprehend the hollowness of promises, how Kiev has been used, and that the Trump administration is not currently interested?

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Snakes in Suits

Shameless Schumer defends Pelosi - tells Dems "You don't blame other people for losing"

Tyler Durden
Zero Hedge
Mon, 26 Jun 2017 16:07 UTC
Schumer and Pelosi
After months of blaming everything under the sun for their November presidential shocker, from Putin to racism to misogyny to you name it, Chuck Schumer, the lead Democrat in the Senate, has a message for John Ossoff and all the Dems now calling for Nancy Pelosi's resignation over their latest embarrassing defeat in Georgia's 6th district:
"But you lose an election, you don't blame other people, you blame yourself.

Really? Because we're almost certain Democrats and every mainstream media outlet has done nothing but launch an all out crusade against Russia for the past 6 months rather than blame the fact that they ran a corrupt process (poor Bernie) and a failed candidate. Again, if someone can please tell us why the Russians were only effective in flipping votes to Trump in MI, WI, OH and PA but not in CO, NM or NV we would very much love to hear your thoughts...
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Radar

Military spokesman reveals uninvited Polish soldiers landed on Swedish coast


RT
Mon, 26 Jun 2017 16:26 UTC
Swedish Navy fast-attack craft
© Pontus Lundahl / ReutersSwedish Navy fast-attack craft.
A group of Polish soldiers disembarked on the western coast of Sweden without permission from the Swedish government, a Swedish Armed Forces representative told local media outlet Goteborgs-Posten.

The Polish squad reportedly conducted exercises on the Swedish island of Tjorn in mid-May, but the news only emerged last week. The soldiers used motor-driven rubber boats to get to the island.

"The crew did things you should not do without permission," Swedish Armed Forces press officer Carl Karlsson told Goteborgs-Posten.

Comment: And here Sweden is worried about the Russians:

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What's behind the 'unprecedented' number of Russia-NATO aerial intercepts


Sputnik
Mon, 26 Jun 2017 16:19 UTC
Russian intercept of US spy plane
© U.S. European Command
The number of reconnaissance aircraft intercepted along Russia's border from June 12-18 was unprecedented, even by Cold War standards, according to Russian military expert Konstantin Sivkov.

Earlier, the official newspaper of the Russian Defense Ministry Krasnaya Zvezda reported that in the last week (June 12-18) Russian jet fighters conducted 14 intercepts of foreign reconnaissance planes near the Russian border.

A total of 23 reconnaissance flights were performed near the Russian border. In particular, there were 10 flights by US aircraft, including the RC-135 and the Global Hawk strategic drone. Four flights were conducted by the Norwegian air force on an R-3C Orion reconnaissance plane. The Swedish aviation conducted three flights. Britain and France performed two reconnaissance flights each.

According to the newspaper, the intercepts were conducted by MiG-31 and Su-27 jets of the Russian air defense alert forces.
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Rocket

Plesetsk Cosmodrome launches secret Russian satellite

Stephen Clark
Space Flight Now
Fri, 23 Jun 2017 16:02 UTC
Soyuz 2-1v
© Russian Ministry of DefenseThe Soyuz 2-1v during rollout to the launch pad earlier this week.
A modified version of Russia's Soyuz rocket launched Friday from the Plesetsk Cosmodrome, a spaceport on the edge of the Russian Arctic, with a military satellite whose mission is shrouded in mystery.

The Soyuz 2-1v rocket lifted off at 1804 GMT (3:04 p.m. EDT; 9:04 p.m. Moscow time) from Pad 4 at Site 43 at Plesetsk, a military-run spaceport around 500 miles (800 kilometers) north of Moscow in Russia's Arkhangelsk region.

Russia announced the successful launch in a statement posted on the Russian Defense Ministry's website late Friday.

The defense ministry and Russian media reports did not offer any immediate details on the payload launched Friday.

U.S. military tracking data indicated the spacecraft and the Soyuz rocket's Volga upper stage were orbiting about 410 miles (660 kilometers) above Earth following Friday's mission. The objects are flying in an orbit tilted 98 degrees to the equator.
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'One Belt, One Road': How is the Chinese project perceived in India?

Nina Lebedeva
New Eastern Outlook
Mon, 26 Jun 2017 15:31 UTC
khorgos eastern gate
At the " One Belt, One Road" forum held in Beijing in May 2017 - with much pomp - the absence of the Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi was associated by almost all world mass media with India's disagreement with the conditions for the establishment of the China-Pakistani economic corridor (CPEC), which has a key role in the implementation of OBOR. According to India, it undermines India's sovereignty, as it implies the construction of infrastructure and joint activities of China and Pakistan on the disputed territory of Gilgit-Baltistan - part of Kashmir. But that is not the only problem.

The attitude of the Indian leadership towards the ambitious Chinese initiatives the " Silk Road Economic Belt " and the " 21st Century Maritime Silk Road " (SREB and MSR-21) - elements of OBOR - has evolved. M. Singh, during his premiership, waited to take a stance either way, which gave rise, nevertheless, to a discussion among the Indian political and expert community. His representatives, on the one hand, expressed fear that India might be marginalized and even isolated if it did not take advantage of the benefits that were contained in them, especially in terms of improving infrastructure. On the other hand, the projects were alarming in connection with the legalized implementation of China into the Indian Ocean in the case of their support by the coastal countries.
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War Whore

Killary Clinton: America's #1 conspiracy theorist

Adam Garrie
The Duran
Mon, 26 Jun 2017 15:48 UTC
Hillary as Dr. Evil
Hillary Clinton is not the victim of any conspiracies. She is in fact a master conspiracy theorist whose wild theorises continue to harm America and the wider world.
The Duran recently explained how Russiagate is the 21st century version of a traditional western expression of greed and hatred for Russia as the predominant Orthodox Christian power of the late modern world.

This helps explain why Russiagate was not Chinagate or even for that matter Syriagate.

But this does not explain the timing of Russiagate, that is answered by an examination of America's recent domestic political history. The fact is that the mainstream media, liberal-left and Democratic machine which was then and remains de-facto controlled by the Hillary Clinton agenda, was so collectively sure that Donald Trump would never become President that shortly after this wishful thinking became blighted by reality, they went to 'Plan B': undermine Trump at all costs with the hope of somehow removing him from office.

This remains the goal. While most Democrats realise that impeachment of POTUS Trump wouldn't work now, the remainder of Donald Trump's term will be one that is more or less an elongated preamble to impeachment. All the while Democrats will try to force a voluntary resignation that they will likely never get because of Donald Trump's strong and persevering personality.
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