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Lavrov: 'No potential for any conflict regarding the Arctic'


RT
Thu, 11 May 2017 22:27 UTC
Russian guys arctic
© Iain Ballantyne
Russia is working to develop the Arctic as a region of peace and stability, Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov has told the Arctic Council in Alaska, but expressed regret at the lack of security cooperation between member states over the last few years.

"Russia is doing and will do a lot to make sure the Arctic develops as a territory of peace, stability and cooperation," Lavrov said speaking at the council's meeting in Fairbanks, Alaska. "There is no potential for any conflict here. International law makes it possible to reliably ensure the national interests of all Arctic states in our common region," he emphasized.

Lavrov said the expansion of economic ties in the Arctic is among Russia's priorities. "As the largest Arctic power, we continue to contribute to enhancing the region's stability [in regards to] to global challenges, implementing the agenda approved by the UN General Assembly for the period until 2030."

The Arctic Council, formed in 1996 to co-ordinate international efforts for sustainable development in the Arctic territories, does not typically discuss military or security issues. However, Lavrov lamented the suspension of high-level military talks between defence officials of the Arctic states.

"Between our countries until 2013 there was a practice of annual meetings of the chiefs of the armed forces of the Arctic states. These meetings were very useful in terms of building confidence and mutual understanding, but unfortunately, for the fourth year now they have not taken place, and not at the initiative of our country," he said.

Among the delegates present were representatives of Sweden, Finland, Russia, Iceland, Denmark, Norway, Canada and the United States - with State Secretary Rex Tillerson transferring the two-year rotating Arctic Council chairmanship to the Finnish FM Timo Soini.
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Comment: No potential for conflict and everyone behaves...there's a first time for everything. Hopefully so.

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Compass

FBI blunders - Yet US implodes with Russophobia and Trump cover-up hysteria

Finnian Cunningham
Strategic Culture
Thu, 11 May 2017 00:00 UTC
Comey culture
US President Donald Trump is being widely accused of a «Nixonian» cover-up after he took the drastic step of firing James Comey, the head of the Federal Bureau of Investigation. Comparisons are made by Washington politicians and pundits of disgraced former President Richard Nixon who sacked an independent investigator looking into the Watergate scandal back in 1973 in what became know as the Saturday Night Massacre.

Only, according to Trump's critics, this is much worse than Watergate. That's because Nixon - who was later forced to resign from the presidency in 1974 - was covering up criminal spying on American political rivals, while Trump is allegedly involved in a conspiracy with a foreign enemy state, Russia. That's treasonous and a capital crime, in their view.

But hold it a moment. Richard Nixon was actually guilty of aiding a cover-up over a real case of burglary for political espionage on opponents. That burglary - by «the Plumbers» - involved intel operatives led by the infamous CIA agent Howard E Hunt and others who broke into the Democrat political headquarters at the Watergate hotel, with the purpose of conducting illicit surveillance for Nixon's Republicans.
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Snakes in Suits

Watergate redux or 'Deep State' coup?

Robert Parry
Consortiumnews
Wed, 10 May 2017 16:42 UTC
James Clapper (right) talks with Barack Obama
© Office of Director of National IntelligenceDirector of National Intelligence James Clapper (right) talks with President Barack Obama in the Oval Office, with John Brennan and other national security aides present.
President Trump's firing of FBI Director James Comey on Tuesday reflected a growing concern inside the White House that the long-rumored scheme by "deep state" operatives to overturn the results of the 2016 election may have been more than just rumors.

The fear grew that Comey and other senior officials in the U.S. intelligence community had concluded last year that neither Hillary Clinton nor Donald Trump was a suitable future president, albeit for different reasons. I'm told that Clinton was seen as dangerously hawkish and Trump as dangerously unqualified, opinions privately shared by then-President Barack Obama.

So, according to this account, plans were made last summer to damage both Clinton and Trump, with the hope of putting a more stable and less risky person in the Oval Office - with key roles in this scheme played by Comey, CIA Director John Brennan and Director of National Intelligence James Clapper.
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Bullseye

Canada forces missed targets in Iraq 17 times


RT
Sat, 13 May 2017 16:40 UTC
canadian jet fighter
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Canadian air missions missed their targets 17 times in Iraq, according to the latest data released by the country's Department of National Defense (DND).TrendsIraq carnage

A former Canadian commander told the journalist-led transparency project, AIRWARS, that there could have been civilian casualties in those off-target strikes.

CBC News obtained heavily redacted documents from one of the missions which said the weapon simply "malfunctioned" in that case, falling into an open field and going off.
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Snakes in Suits

Goodbye Comey: 'A long-dwelling swamp creature cannot drain the swamp'

Ekaterina Blinova
Sputnik
Sat, 13 May 2017 15:35 UTC
James Comey
© East News/ AP Photo/Steven Senne
Donald Trump's decision to fire FBI Director Comey was a step in the right direction, Wall Street analyst and investigative journalist Charles Ortel told Sputnik. Ortel believes that Comey has a series of conflicts that had prevented him from "uncovering the truth."

While FBI Director James Comey's resignation has seemingly come as a bolt from the blue for Americans on both sides of the political spectrum, it has not caught US investigative journalist and Wall Street analyst Charles Ortel by surprise: it was he who told Sputnik back in March 2017 that "Comey must go."
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Propaganda

Repeat after us: 'Putin has hacked every US election since 1789'


Russia Insider
Sat, 13 May 2017 15:17 UTC
George Washington and Putin
A famous portrait of Washington and Putin at the Continental Congress.
Newsweek reports that Russia hacked the 2008 Obama campaign. Why stop there?

For those who thought that Manic Russia Hysteria was going away: Think again.

According to the degenerates at Newsweek, Putin has been hacking US elections long before his KGB sleeper agent Donald Trump rose to power:
Russian hackers targeted the 2008 Barack Obama campaign and U.S. government officials as far back as 2007 and have continued to attack them since they left their government jobs, according to a new report scheduled for release Friday.
Wow—and which spy agencies have confirmed this?
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Info

Who is igniting the Saudi-Iranian conflict?

Viktor Mikhin
New Eastern Outlook
Sat, 13 May 2017 14:44 UTC
Iranian Revolutionary Guard
In addition to the very dangerous conflicts in the Middle East, in which Great Britain and Germany are actively involved, there is a 'hot' local conflict. This constant tension over the past few years between Saudi Arabia and Iran, their constant struggle for leadership not only in the region, but also for dominance in the Arab world. This tension has been constantly spearheaded by Riyadh, whose rulers while well aware of their political and economic inadequacy nevertheless try to make every effort and opportunity to place themselves first in the region and, with the help of the west, to block the rapid development of Iran in all areas. But Saudi Arabia is not the west, which, on flimsy grounds, for some time slowed down the progressive movement of the Iranian people.

The underlying fact that Saudi Arabia and Iran, as the two largest states with a theocratic regime, each have their own assessment of regional processes and, of course, goals and objectives, is at the core of a long-term conflict that is unlikely to be resolved in the near future. If Riyadh maintains a policy of preserving stability in the region and does not make statements of support for the change of existing regimes (the exception being Syria), Tehran basically supports any change in the regimes of Arab countries aimed at Islamification. A small but quite eloquent example. If Iran calls upon the Palestinian Islamist forces to intensify their efforts and direct them against Israel, then the Saudis invite Hamas and Fatah to Mecca to negotiate peacefully and to establish contacts with Israel. This contrast in the policies of the two countries explains to some extent why the two states have been waging a cold war in the region for many years.
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Attention

Channel 4 reporter says Theresa May 'refusing to take press questions she hasn't pre-approved'

Lucy Pasha-Robinson
The Independent
Tue, 09 May 2017 14:27 UTC
Theresa May
© Francois Lenoir / ReutersBritain's Prime Minister Theresa May
Channel 4 correspondent says member of Prime Minister's team told him not to bother raising his hand as 'he wasn't on the list

A senior political commentator has accused Theresa May of refusing to take questions from journalists unless they have prior approval to speak.

Channel 4 political correspondent Michael Crick claimed a member of Ms May's campaign team told him not to bother raising his hand to ask a question as he "wasn't on the list".

He also claimed another reporter had been told journalists' questions were being vetted ahead of campaign events, in a series of barbed accusations directed at the Prime Minister's campaign team during an event in York on Tuesday.

"I was told by May aide I wasn't on list to ask May a question, & there was no point in putting my hand up to ask one," he said on Twitter.

"One reporter told me May aides made clear if he didn't state his question in advance then he wouldn't get a question."
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Info

New South Korean leader seeks 'constructive role' from Putin on tensions with North


RFE/RL
Sat, 13 May 2017 14:32 UTC
Moon Jae-in
© AFP
South Korea's newly elected President Moon Jae-in has urged Russian President Vladimir Putin to play a "constructive role" in resolving tensions with North Korea's over its threats to use nuclear weapons.

Moon's office said on May 12 that the South Korean leader told Putin in a 20-minute phone call that finding a solution to curb North Korea's nuclear threat would help boost cooperation between Seoul and Moscow.

"We hope for Russia to play a constructive role in order for North Korea to stop with its nuclear provocations and go the way of denuclearization," Moon told Putin, according to the South Korean president's office.

The South Korean statement also quoted Moon as saying that Russia was prepared to play a "productive" part in easing tensions.
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Snakes in Suits

Boris Johnson paranoid over 'possible Russian interference' in the upcoming general election

Al Mayadeen - translated by Samer Hussein
Fort Russ News
Sat, 13 May 2017 14:21 UTC
Boris Johnson
British Foreign Secretary Boris Johnson thinks there is a good chance that Russia will likely interfere in the forthcoming British general election.

In an interview with The Telegraph newspaper, which was published on Saturday, Johnson said Russian President Vladimir Putin would be happy to see Jeremy Corbyn, leader of the Labour Party, winning the election.

He also "expressed fears" that the Russian president wants to undermine confidence in democracy and completely distort the entire democratic process and even went as far as to accuse Putin of being behind hacking of Emmanuel Macron's emails, right before the latter was recently elected as the President of France.

The new round of British general election is scheduled to take place on the 8th of June.

Comment: When Johnson speaks, no one can take him seriously because of his nonsensical outbursts. This Russia paranoia is really getting out of hand and making the West look really foolish. It keeps the population busy watching the show and not paying attention.

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