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Israel Prime Minister calls for buffer zones in Syria to protect Israeli-occupied Syria

RI Staff
Russia Insider
Mon, 10 Apr 2017 19:19 UTC
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Israel's Prime Minister has asked the US to create buffer zones on the Syrian side of the border — but does not want Israeli troops to be present in them

Israel's Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has urged the US to create buffer zones on both the border between Syria and Israel and the border between Syria and Jordan, to prevent Iran and Hezbollah from "establishing a presence in those areas", according to Haaretz.

According to reports, Netanyahu has asked the US as well as other "world actors" to include the creation of buffer zones in any political settlement reached in Syria.

Netanyahu believes that Iran's presence in Syria would "undermine the stability of the region and threaten the security of both Israel and Jordan".

Haaretz reports:
Netanyahu has not explained how he thinks such buffer zones could be established or who would control who enters them and supervise what happens within them. But he wants them to be on the Syrian side of the border, and does not want Israeli troops to be present in them.

Comment: See also: Imperial rights: Netanyahu says Golan will remain "forever" in Israel's greedy paws

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Caught in their lies: Swedish NGO accuses White Helmets of staging rescue efforts using dead children for propaganda


Sputnik
Mon, 10 Apr 2017 16:41 UTC
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The Swedish NGO Doctors for Human Rights (SWEDHR) has accused the Syria Civil Defense, better known as the White Helmets, of falsifying information about its alleged work in Syria. According to the Swedish human rights activists, so-called "rescue" procedures captured in White Helmets videos had been staged; they were carried out on a dead child.

SWEDHR findings have raised serious questions about the ethical integrity of the White Helmets regarding the anti-medical procedures they advertise in their videos. They behaved as war criminals when they used dead children for propaganda purposes when staging fake rescue attempts, Professor Marcello Ferrada de Noli wrote in the Indicter magazine.

According to SWEDHR, which paid attention to "questionable" cases of chemical attacks in Aleppo, Syria, including the incident on Sarmin, Idlib, on April 15, 2015, medical rescue scenarios depicted in White Helmets videos had obviously been staged. Namely, no substance (e.g. adrenaline) was injected into the infant while the 'medic' or doctor introduced the syringe-needle in a simulated intracardiac-injection maneuver, which was considered sufficient to raise a hypothesis that the child might in fact have died because of the injection procedure.

Comment: Further reading on this propaganda wing of the West, embedded with and giving direct aid to terrorists:

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Trump's North Korea options: Nukes, special ops, assassination

William M. Arkin, Cynthia McFadden, Kevin Monahan, Robert Windrem
NBC News
Fri, 07 Apr 2017 16:57 UTC
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The National Security Council has presented President Donald Trump with options to respond to North Korea's nuclear program — including putting American nukes in South Korea or killing dictator Kim Jong-un, multiple top-ranking intelligence and military officials told NBC News.

Both scenarios are part of an accelerated review of North Korea policy prepared in advance of Trump's meeting with Chinese President Xi Jinping this week.

The White House hopes the Chinese will do more to influence Pyongyang through diplomacy and enhanced sanctions. But if that fails, and North Korea continues its development of nuclear weapons, there are other options on the table that would significantly alter U.S. policy.

The first and most controversial course of action under consideration is placing U.S. nuclear weapons in South Korea. The U.S. withdrew all nuclear weapons from South Korea 25 years ago. Bringing back bombs — likely to Osan Air Base, less than 50 miles south of the capital of Seoul — would mark the first overseas nuclear deployment since the end of the Cold War, an unquestionably provocative move.

Comment: After the U.S. cruise missile strike on Syria, many talking heads are seeing it as a message to North Korea. Coincidentally, the strike was launched while Trump was meeting Xi at Mar-A-Lago. The two presidents discussed North Korea, and signs are that the meeting was a good one. Chinese state media cheered the meeting "as one that showed the world that confrontation between the two powers was not inevitable." (Not quite a ringing endorsement, but still telling.) Trump apparently pressed Xi to do more about North Korea's nuclear program. Tillerson says Xi agreed to increased cooperation in reining in DPRK, but no specifics have been made public.

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Snakes in Suits

Neil Gorsuch sworn in as 113th Justice to serve on the Supreme Court


RT
Mon, 10 Apr 2017 16:05 UTC
Neil Gorsuch
© Carlos Barria / ReutersJudge Neil Gorsuch.
Colorado Judge Neil Gorsuch was sworn in as the associate Justice of the US Supreme Court, and took up the seat vacated by last year's death of Justice Antonin Scalia. In a historic first, Justice Anthony Kennedy administered the oath to his former clerk.

Scalia's widow and son were among the guests at the White House Rose Garden on Monday, as Gorsuch took the judicial oath of office. He had already taken the federal oath, administered by Chief Justice John Roberts at the Supreme Court.

"I will never forget that the seat I inherit today is of a great, great man," Gorsuch said after the ceremony. "I promise you, I will do all my powers permit to be a faithful servant of the Constitution and the laws of this country."

President Donald Trump was on hand for the ceremony, and spoke before the swearing-in.

"I have no doubt that you'll rise to the occasion and that the decisions you make will not only protect our Constitution today, but for many generations of Americans to come," Trump said, adding that Gorsuch will "go down as one of the truly great justices in the history of the US Supreme Court."

Comment: Further reading:

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Ex-MI6 chief fears Trump will launch catastrophic war on North Korea


RT
Mon, 10 Apr 2017 16:56 UTC
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US President Donald Trump could lead the world into a catastrophic war with North Korea because of his inexperience and temperament, former British spy boss Sir John Sawers has warned.

The former spymaster warned that Trump's temperament could plunge the UK into a war in the Far East which would be more dangerous than anything that could emerge in Syria.

"[Trump's] not someone who fills me with confidence," Sawers told the BBC.

"He doesn't have the background and the experience and the instincts of being an effective US president, but it is in our interests that we have a US administration that upholds the international system, that supports its allies and supports international norms," he said.

Comment: And China does seem to understand: Stocks slide on report China has deployed 150,000 troops to North Korea border

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Putin will not meet Tillerson in Russia, as confusion grows over US policy toward Syria

Tyler Durden
Zero Hedge
Mon, 10 Apr 2017 16:39 UTC
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While the US ambassador to the UN, Nikki Haley, and US Secretary of State Rex Tillerson seem unable to agree on what the right policy is regarding Syria and specifically Assad, with the former saying a top priority of Trump is to oust Assad, while the latter claimed over the weekend that the Islamic State is the key concern while Assad's fate and that the people of Syria should decide Assad's fate, Russia is not waiting for clarification.

On Monday morning, Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov told reporters that U.S. Secretary of State Rex Tillerson was not due to meet Russian President Vladimir Putin when he visits Moscow later this week. He will meet Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov however, Peskov said.

"So far there is no meeting with Tillerson on the president's schedule," Peskov told reporters in a phone call. "We never announce such meetings, whether they will take place or not - we won't announce it."

The Kremlin spokesman assured reporters though that if there is such a plan, media would be "properly notified."
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South Korean media: 'China has deployed 150,000 troops to North Korea border'

Tyler Durden
Zero Hedge
Mon, 10 Apr 2017 16:29 UTC
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While the catalyst is unclear, it appears the market dropped as headlines of further sanctions against Russia appeared and reports of China deploying 150,000 troops to its North Korea border.

According to Korean news agency Chosun, the "Chinese army has deployed about 150,000 troops to the North Korean border in two groups to prepare for unforeseen circumstances." The reason: the prospect of "military options", such as preemptive attacks on North Korea, like the one the United States launched on Syria.
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Best of the Web: DISTURBING IMAGES: 'White Helmets' caught faking rescues and doctoring dead children in PR stunt to portray Assad as 'butcher'

Alex Christoforou
The Duran
Mon, 10 Apr 2017 14:25 UTC
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White Helmets have been caught faking rescues and doctoring dead children.

The White Helmets are adored by western audiences, but loathed by those who have done their due diligence to recognized that the group is nothing more than ISIS in an NGO disguise.

Now a bombshell analysis from the Swedish NGO Doctors for Human Rights (SWEDHR) accuses the Syria Civil Defense (aka the White Helmets), of falsifying information about its "humanitarian work" in Syria.

According to Swedish human rights activists, so-called "rescue" procedures filmed in White Helmets propaganda videos, is a complete staged hoax.

The procedures in the video and photos below have been carefully analyzed to show that they were carried out on a dead child, who may have been killed by the White Helmets in order to film the footage.

Comment: See also: Zakharova: "A child is pretty much murdered under the camera lights" - Swedish doctors denounce White Helmets snuff films

This is beyond revolting.

Do you see now how low they are prepared to stoop to portray their 'dictator-du-jour' as evil incarnate?

From reports about babies being 'thrown out of incubators' by Saddam's soldiers back in 1990, Western 'psy-ops' now take dead babies and use them as props.

For all we know, they may even be kidnapping and killing them first.

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Snakes in Suits

Boris Johnson can't go to Moscow until Washington's instructions are clear

Bryan MacDonald
RT
Mon, 10 Apr 2017 16:07 UTC
Boris Johnson
© Alkis Konstantinidis / Reuters
The UK Foreign Secretary is spoofing again. His excuse for cancelling a second proposed excursion to Russia inside a month is about as credible as his reasons for supporting Brexit were last year.

Spare us the amateur theatricals, Boris.

If the USSR was once considered "Upper Volta with rockets," then it's fair to say the United Kingdom is now little more than "Puerto Rico with nukes." Because the unincorporated archipelago territory of the United States has about as much independence from Washington these days as Britain. But at least they've a Caribbean climate to bask in and an absence of 'Little Englanders' to ruin the pleasant vibes. And, unlike Brits, locals will still have the option of working elsewhere visa-free if things ever go belly up.

Comment: More on Johnson's latest statements: 'Daft' Boris Johnson says Russia must choose between 'toxic' Assad and G7 nations

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Viktor Orbán versus George Soros: An ideological battle in Budapest

Bryan MacDonald
RT
Mon, 10 Apr 2017 11:02 UTC
George Soros and Victor Orban
© ReutersGeorge Soros (L) and Victor Orban
Hungary's pressure on George Soros' Budapest university is about more than the future of one school. It's part of an ideological battle which will dominate European and North American discourse in the coming years.

Whatever you might say about Viktor Orbán, he's a fast and decisive mover. Last Sunday, when thousands demonstrated in Budapest against his proposal to tighten regulation on foreign universities, marchers spoke of a lengthy campaign of resistance. Two days later, it was a done deal. Orbán had rushed the bill through parliament, displaying an efficiency Angela Merkel would admire, if she didn't distrust him for other reasons.

His target was Soros, Hungary's wealthiest son, who has become a hate figure for nationalists across Europe. And a man who divides a country. Many Hungarians admire Soros's philosophy and see him as a benefactor. However, more again see his influence as nefarious and reject his ethos of globalist Atlanticism.

For liberals, Hungary has been a huge disappointment. Because, back in the early 90's, it was considered the most westernized of the ex-Warsaw pact states. And only 20 years ago, the Socialist Party and the Alliance of Free Democrats held an overwhelming majority in parliament. Yet, with the country facing bankruptcy, they were forced to implement a hugely unpopular austerity package that allowed Orbán's Fidesz party to jump from 20 to 148 seats in the 1998 election. For the next decade, the two blocs fought a close battle until the latter took control in 2010, with the Socialists mortally wounded by accusations of rampant corruption, which even led to riots.

Comment: A recent rally in Budapest drew some 70K people as protests continue against the legislation which could close the Central European University. Szilárd Németh, deputy head of Fidesz, claimed that the rally was organized by "agencies financed by Soros who want to undermine Hungary's border protection and force the country to provide free entry to illegal immigrants."

CEU Rector Michael Ignatieff said the US State Department will send diplomats to Budapest next week to address the crisis.



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