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Breaking News: Rebel warehouse with chem weapons hit by Syrian airstrike in Idlib - Russian MOD


RT
Tue, 04 Apr 2017 23:19 UTC
A MiG-23 aircraft of the Syrian Air Force lands at the Hama airbase near the city of Hama, Syria's Hama Province
© Sputnik/ Dmitriy Vinogradov
The Syrian Air Force has destroyed a warehouse in Idlib province, where ammunition dump containing chemical weapons was being produced by militants before being delivered to Iraq, the Russian Defense Ministry spokesman has said.

The strike, which was launched midday Tuesday, targeted a major rebel ammunition depot east of the town of Khan Sheikhoun, Russian Defense Ministry spokesman Major-General Igor Konashenkov said in a statement.

The warehouse was used to both produce and store shells containing toxic gas, Konashenkov said. The shells were delivered to Iraq and repeatedly used there, he added, pointing out that both Iraq and international organizations have confirmed the use of such weapons by militants.

The same chemical munitions were used by militants in Aleppo, where Russian military experts took samples in late 2016, Konashenkov said.

The Defense Ministry has confirmed this information as "fully objective and verified," Konashenkov added.

According to the statement, Khan Sheikhoun civilians, who recently suffered a chemical attack, displayed identical symptoms to those of Aleppo chemical attack victims.
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Bad Guys

If terrorists targeted Russia, who's behind the terrorists?

Tony Cartalucci
New Eastern Outlook
Tue, 04 Apr 2017 22:58 UTC
St. Petersburg' Metro Blast
© New Eastern Outlook
Eleven have been killed and dozens more injured in what is an apparent terrorist attack on St. Petersburg's metro system. Western analysts are assigning possible blame for the attack on either terrorists operating from Russia's Chechnya region, or possibly terrorist groups affiliated with fronts fighting in Syria.

Western analysts are also attempting to cement a narrative that downplays the significance of the attacks and instead attempts to leverage them politically against Moscow. A piece in the Sydney Morning Herald titled, "Fears of a Putin crackdown after terror attack on St Petersburg metro," would attempt to claim:
So who is to blame? No one has said officially. The BBC's Frank Gardner says suspicions will centre around Chechen nationalists or an Islamic State inspired group wanting payback for Putin's airstrikes in Syria. Or it could be a combination of both.

Putin has in the past justified crackdowns on civilian protests by citing the terror threat. But will he this time, and will it work?

At least one pro-Kremlin commentator has linked the attack to the recent mass demonstrations organised by Putin's political opponent.
Yet, in reality, the demonstrations and the terrorist groups being implicated both share a significant common denominator - both are openly long-term recipients of US-European aid, with the latter group also receiving significant material support from US-European allies in the Persian Gulf, primarily Saudi Arabia, Qatar, and the United Arab Emirates (UAE).

US-European support for foreign-funded organizations posing as "nongovernmental organizations" (NGOs) running parallel efforts with terrorist organizations undermining Moscow's control over Chechnya have been ongoing for decades.
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Rocket

Stating the obvious: Nuclear disarmament hindered by US position on missile defense - Russian envoy


RT
Tue, 04 Apr 2017 22:13 UTC
Russia missile
© Grigoriy Sisoev / ReutersAn Iskander-M missile system.
Russia remains committed to nuclear disarmament but progress is impossible without US cooperation in areas such as limiting the deployment of global missile defense systems, the acting Russian envoy to the United Nations has said.

Speaking at the latest session of the UN Commission for Disarmament, Pyotr Ilyichev said that "Russia fully shared the noble objective of building a nuclear-free world" and has repeatedly confirmed its commitment with real action.

In particular, Russia has been conducting an unprecedented reduction of its nuclear arsenal in several stages that over the past 20 years, and is also moving towards the full-scale fulfillment of the Russia-US treaty on strategic offensive weapons.

"Any further progress in the sphere of nuclear disarmament is impossible without some serious preparatory work. This process must be based on the basic principle of strengthening the strategic stability, the equal and inseparable security for all nations without any exceptions," the envoy noted.

Speaking of particular examples of actions that hinder nuclear disarmament, Ilyichev mentioned the "worrying situation caused by unilateral and unprovoked deployment of the elements of the US global anti-missile defense system in various regions of the world."

Comment: Anyone with any ability to connect the dots could see that the US wasn't putting anti-missiles defense systems in Eastern Europe because of any threat from Iran. The US is doing so as one aspect of trying to box Russia in in terms of the US being able to have a preemptive first strike nuclear option against Russia. Yes, those calling the shots in the US are that unhinged and dangerous! They have no real interest in disarmament and peace.

They have pushed the Cold War 2.0 out into the open since Russia started to block them in Syria a few years ago, yet it has been long in the making. A couple reasons being strategic resources and energy transport and the West needing an additional enemy to point at to justify outrageous expenditures on the military and weapons systems. Peace is not profitable for the MIC and fear of the enemy over there enables those in control to solidify and justify their positions.

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State Department withdraws financial backing for UN Population Fund

Michelle Nichols
Yahoo News
Mon, 03 Apr 2017 21:41 UTC
Trump signing orders
The State Department said on Monday it was ending U.S. funding for the United Nations Population Fund, the international body's agency focused on family planning as well as maternal and child health in more than 150 countries.

In a letter to U.S. Senate Foreign Relations Committee Chairman Bob Corker, the State Department said it was dropping the funding because the U.N. Population Fund (UNFPA) "supports, or participates in the management of, a program of coercive abortion or involuntary sterilization."


Comment: The UN certainly doesn't refer to their programs as 'involutary' but they are extremely interested in population control.
So all over the globe, family planning programs are being pushed and funded by the United Nations. In many UN-funded family planning facilities all over the planet sterilizations are being offered for free.

The United Nations seems absolutely obsessed with population issues. In particular, they seem quite determined to get women in poorer countries to have less children. For example, the March 2009 U.N. Population Division policy brief began with the following statement....

What would it take to accelerate fertility decline in the least developed countries?
Not to mention their very suspicious tetanus vaccination programs.

UN organizations sterilizing millions of girls & women under cover of an anti-tetanus vaccination program in Kenya


The cut marks U.S. President Donald Trump's first move to curtail funding for the United Nations and is likely to raise further questions about how deep those cuts will eventually go throughout the organization, where the United States is the top donor.

It comes after Trump in January reinstated the so-called Mexico City Policy that withholds U.S. funding for international organizations that perform abortions or provide information about abortion.
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Propaganda

Not taking the bait: Sean Spicer ignores false flag chemical attack in Syria

Adam Garrie
The Duran
Tue, 04 Apr 2017 20:58 UTC
Sean Spicer
© Kevin Lamarque / ReutersWhite House spokesman Sean Spicer
Hours after an apparently self-evident false flag chemical attack in Idlib, Sean Spicer affirmed that it is no longer US policy to remove President Bashar al-Assad from power.

Spicer said, "There is not a fundamental option of regime change as there has been in the past".

The White House Press Secretary continued,
"We would look rather silly not acknowledging the political realities that exist in Syria, and now what we need to do...is do what we can to empower the people of Syria to find a different way"
This represents a clear departure from the Obama administration which seemed to double-down on calls for regime change when ever a fake news report attributing atrocities to either Syrian or Russian forces came out in the mainstream media.

The fundamental reasons why the report of a Syrian chemical attack is fake news are laid out in full in an initial debunking report from The Duran.
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Newspaper

Trump 'unmasking': If what Susan Rice did wasn't illegal, it should be

Michael Krieger
Liberty Blitzkrieg
Tue, 04 Apr 2017 20:48 UTC
susan rice
We should never forget that everything Adolf Hitler did in Germany was "legal" and everything the Hungarian freedom fighters did in Hungary was "illegal." It was "illegal" to aid and comfort a Jew in Hitler's Germany. Even so, I am sure that, had I lived in Germany at the time, I would have aided and comforted my Jewish brothers.

From the 2013 post, Martin Luther King: "Everything Adolf Hitler did in Germany was Legal"

The fact that most of the debate surrounding the unmasking of Trump personnel revolves around whether it was legal or not highlights just how superficial and ethically deranged our culture has become. If what she did was indeed legal, this is an enormous problem in the first place, one that privacy advocates and opponents of Big Brother surveillance have been warning about constantly since the gulag spying panopticon was put in place following 9/11. For the purposes of this post, let's assume that what Susan Rice did was legal.

If her actions were indeed totally by the books, we need to use this incident as a rallying call to reform the laws immediately. Likewise, Donald Trump should be pushing such reform tirelessly from his bully pulpit, but given his authoritarian nature I doubt he will. Fortunately, Rand Paul is heeding the call.

Comment: See also:

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Red Flag

Syrian army denies involvement as dozens reported killed in alleged gas attack


RT
Tue, 04 Apr 2017 19:17 UTC
'Victims' of alleged gas attack
© Ammar Abdullah / Reuters
A gas attack has reportedly taken place in Syria's rebel-held Idlib, killing at least 58 people, with various media outlets reporting that a rocket has since hit a hospital treating the victims. The Syrian army has denied it was behind the attack.

The alleged attack in the town of Khan Sheikhoun reportedly killed at least 58 people, including 11 children under the age of eight, according to medical workers and the Britain-based Syrian Observatory for Human Rights, as cited by Reuters.

The head of Idlib's health authority, Mounzer Khalil, also said the attack killed more than 50 people and injured more than 300 others.

Videos posted online by activists claim to show the moment the bombs struck, with clouds of smoke rising into the air.

Comment: "Moderate" rebels and award-winning actor group "the White Helmets" claim that "Syrian government or Russian jets" attacked a town in rebel-held Idlib in Syria Tuesday morning.
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So the Russians or Syrians (maybe both, in the spirit of cooperation?) dumped toxic gas on civilians, then bombed the hospital where they were being treated.

Laying it on a bit thick this time, aren't we?

Look at where this alleged attack took place:



So ... it was Russia?
The Russian Defense Ministry denied in a statement on Tuesday claims that its jets were involved in the bombing of Khan Shaykhun in northwestern Syria.
"Russian Aerospace Forces aircraft did not conduct any strikes in the vicinity of the Khan Shaykhun village in Idlib province," the ministry said following media reports alleging that either Syrian government or Russian jets carried out the attack.
3 reasons why reports of a Syrian chemical weapons attack on Idlib are fake news.
1. Syria Does Not Have Chemical Weapons

Not only did the Syrian government deny using chemical weapons, but they released a statement stating that the Syrian military
"...has not and does not use them, not in the past and not in the future, because it does not have them in the first place".
2. Russia Did Not Conduct Any Air Strikes on Idlib

A statement from the Russian military has confirmed that Russian planes have not been present anywhere in the Idlib Governorate. This exposes any allegations relating to Russian involvement in any event in Idlib as entirely fabricated.

3. Fake News from Fake Sources

The initial Reuters report on the event cites the UK based Syrian Observatory for Human Rights as its source. This organisation has been widely discredited as a propaganda outlet that has few actual contacts in Syria, if any.

Because few western mainstream media reporters are on the ground anywhere in Syria, much of the information reported as factual accounts of events, is received from deeply biased and politicised sources pushing an agenda. In other words, pro-terrorist NGOs and other organisations feed mainstream media with disinformation that is passed on as fact.
Condemning the chemical weapons attack in Idlib province, US Secretary of State Rex Tillerson accused the Syrian government of "barbarism" and said Russia and Iran also bear moral responsibility for the deaths.
In a statement of Tuesday afternoon, Tillerson pointed the finger at Damascus, saying that "it is clear that this is how Bashar Assad operates: with brutal, unabashed barbarism."

"Anyone who uses chemical weapons to attack his own people shows a fundamental disregard for human decency and must be held accountable," Tillerson said.

He called on Russia and Iran to exercise their influence over Damascus "to guarantee that this sort of horrific attack never happens again," and said that they "also bear great moral responsibility" for the deaths, as self-proclaimed guarantors of the Syrian ceasefire.


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Eye 1

The Real Russiagate is Obama's Stasi State

Michael Hudson, Paul Craig Roberts
Paul Craig Roberts/IPE
Mon, 03 Apr 2017 00:00 UTC
Stasi 2.0
© CNN.com
Covert surveillance of politicians on Obama's Nixon-like "Enemies List" has been going on for many years, but is only now being unmasked as a result of the failure of Obama's cover story - "We weren't spying on political opponents; only on Russians to protect America."

The presstitute media has passed on the cover story authored by former Obama-administration officials led by CIA director John Brennan, FBI director James Comey, the DNC, and Democratic Rep. Adam Schiff. The loose ends in this cover-up have now been so widely exposed as hearsay and political that only 13% of Republicans believe the fact-free story - but 67% of Democrats cling to it.

Whitney reports that Comey began the investigation in July 2016. As of last Friday (March 31, 2017) not a scrap of evidence has turned up. This did not deter Comey from telling Congress that Putin "hated Secretary Clinton so much that the flip side of that coin was that he had a clear preference for the person running against the person he hated so much." So the Russians allegedly "engaged in a multifaceted campaign to undermine our democracy."

Comey based this conclusion on what has become a hilarious bit of gullibililty. The Russians, he said "were unusually loud in their intervention. It's almost as if they didn't care that we knew, that they wanted us to see what they were doing."

Alternatively, someone wanted investigators to infer that the Russians were doing the hacking. As Wikileaks Vault 7 releases prove, the CIA can hack computers and leave anyone else's signature. Due to poor security, the CIA's cybertechnology ended up in the Internet domain.

"They'll be back. They'll be back, in 2020. They may be back in 2018," warned Mr. Comey. But who is the "they"? "They" seem to be "us," or at least what numerous former national security officials have suggested: either the NSC, CIA or its "Five Eyes" partner, British MI6.

Comment: If Trump doesn't prosecute nothing will change in Washington and he will be targeted as weak. If he does prosecute, he sends a clear message that the American people deserve a law abiding government and those who have infracted upon its constitution and fundamental principles must come to justice. If he can rein in the intel agencies, all the better.

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Attention

Rand Paul: Rice needs to testify under oath if Obama ordered her to "unmask" Trump team

Tyler Durden
Zero Hedge
Mon, 03 Apr 2017 09:39 UTC
Rice obama
© Washington TimesWhat did Rice see; what did she know?
After it emerged courtesy of Mike Cernovich that former National Security Advisor Susan Rice had made numerous requests to "unmask" the identities of Americans associated with President Trump in intelligence reports, senator Rand Paul who in recent days has been on increasingly better terms with the president and even went golfing with him this weekend, said Rice should testify under oath about her involvement in a potentially illegal scandal that she herself denied she had any knowledge of as recently as 2 weeks ago.

The Kentucky senator called the unmasking an "enormous deal" and indicated that it should be illegal. "If it is allowed, we shouldn't be allowing it, but I don't think shouldjust discount how big a deal it is that Susan Rice was looking at these and she needs to be asked, 'Did President Obama ask her to do this? Was this a directive from President Obama? I think she should testify under oath on this."Paul told reporters.

"I think she should be asked under oath, did she reveal it to The Washington Post. I think they were illegally basically using an espionage tool to eavesdrop or wiretap — if you want to use the word generally — on the Trump campaign,"Paul said.

The report about Rice is linked to Devin Nunes's claim that the Trump transition team was "accidentally surveilled" and associated information was widely disseminated in intelligence community reports.

Comment: See also:

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Radar

Remote Control Project report: Brit 'secret warfare' unaccountable in age of information


RT
Tue, 04 Apr 2017 16:08 UTC
Brit secret warfare
© eliteukforces.infoCan't see you, can't see us. That's how it works.
Britain's secret war-fighting operations using special forces, drones and similar clandestine methods are folly in an age of information and public demand for accountability, according to a report by the Remote Control Project. The think tank, run by the Oxford Research Group, examines the rise of clandestine warfare.

Its study, titled All Quiet On The ISIS Front? British secret warfare in an information age, looks at where and how the UK is fighting wars, using means which are largely unaccountable. The UK shields its secret activities behind a long-standing 'no comment policy,' which lags behind those of other modern democracies, it says.

The report points out that countries like Australia and the US often detail special forces deployment in a way which the UK does not. "This provides reporters, and the general public, with an important opportunity to question government strategy and debate the implications of their involvement in conflicts overseas," the authors argue.

The report also highlights that special forces operations are often only reported as a result of leaks. The study cites numerous reports in papers like the Express and the Sun which tell selective tales of military daring in places such as Libya and Syria.
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