Puppet MastersS


Question

Iran detains Iranian-Canadian member of its nuclear negotiation team on infiltration charges


The Daily Mail
Sun, 28 Aug 2016 20:01 UTC
Judiciary spokesman Gholamhosein Mohseni Ejehi
Judiciary spokesman Gholamhosein Mohseni Ejehi (pictured) wouldn't identify the suspect by name but said a man was released on bail and his charge 'not yet proved'.
Iran has detained an Iranian-Canadian member of its nuclear negotiation team on suspicion of 'infiltration,' the state's official news agency, IRNA, has reported.

Abdolrasoul Dorri Esfahani, a member of the Ontario Institute of Chartered Accountants in Canada, was identified as the suspect by hard-line news outlets Wednesday.

'The report is correct,' judiciary spokesman Gholamhosein Mohseni Ejehi told IRNA Sunday. 'He was released based on bail. Yet, his charge is not proved.'
Read More...
Eye 1

Al Qaeda leader Zawahiri urges Iraq Sunnis to prepare for a "long guerrilla" war as ISIS loses more land

Maher Chmaytelli
The Washington Free Beacon
Thu, 25 Aug 2016 12:47 UTC
Al Qaeda Leader Zawahiri
© REUTERS
Al Qaeda leader Ayman al Zawahiri on Thursday called on Iraq's Sunnis to prepare for a "long guerrilla" war as Islamic State militants lost more land near their de facto capital Mosul.

Islamic State (IS) has lost this year about a half of the territory it conquered in 2014 and 2015 in Iraq in battles against government and Kurdish forces backed by a U.S.-led coalition as well as Shi'ite militias supported by Iran.

The ultra-hardline group is also retreating in neighboring Syria against an array of U.S.-backed Syrian and Kurdish forces and the government army backed by Iran and Russia.

Comment: See also: Demolishing the myth of the "moderate rebel" in Syria

Read More...
Chess

Russia, Iran, Turkey - why they should strengthen political and military ties


Sputnik
Sat, 27 Aug 2016 16:20 UTC
Rouhani, Putin
© www.jpost.comRouhani and Putin
Russia, Iran and Turkey have increasingly improved their political and military cooperation in a bid to tackle Daesh and resolve the Syrian crisis. The China Youth Daily singled out three reasons behind this process. While Moscow and Tehran have long fostered working relations, bilateral ties between Moscow and Ankara were damaged when Turkey, a NATO member and a key Washington ally in the region, downed a Russian bomber in northern Syria. "Disagreement with NATO on ways to fight Daesh in Syria and the botched coup prompted Ankara to turn to Russia. According to available information, Recep Tayyip Erdogan managed to prevent the military coup from succeeding because Moscow shared intelligence data with him," the newspaper noted.

It is nearly impossible to believe that NATO was not aware of an unusual military mobilization on the eve of the coup, the media outlet said, adding that the bloc apparently did not share this information with Recep Tayyip Erdogan. Russia used the opportunity and the Turkish leader understood who his friends and enemies are.

Meanwhile, last week, Tehran allowed Moscow to use its Hamadan airfield to refuel bombers that were tasked with bombing militant targets in Syria, primarily Aleppo, an unprecedented development in Iran's modern history. The China Youth Daily offered three reasons that could explain improving counterterrorism cooperation between the three nations.

Comment: The Russian, Iranian and Turkish cooperation plays to each other's strengths to bond them together, unlike the Western alliance that capitalizes on fear-based exploitation of weaknesses.

Read More...
Bad Guys

Saudi Arabia preparing and equipping 5,000 al-Qaeda terrorists to fight Yemeni army in Najran Province


FARS News Agency
Sun, 28 Aug 2016 19:36 UTC
Al-Qaeda terrorists
The Saudi army is preparing, arming and equipping over 5,000 Salafi and Al-Qaeda terrorists in the Southern part of Yemen for war against the Yemeni army and popular forces in the kingdom's Najran province, media reports disclosed on Sunday.

"Saudi Arabia has resorted to making direct use of thousands of terrorists to confront the Yemeni forces following its heavy defeats in Najran and Assir provinces," the Arabic-language media quoted unnamed Yemeni military sources as saying on Sunday.

Since the Saudi invasion of Yemen nearly one and a half years ago, there have been many reports about coordination and cooperation between the Saudi troops and al-Qaeda and other terrorist groups to attack the popular forces in different parts of the impoverished country.
Read More...
Light Sabers

More US aggression: China prepares for electronic warfare aggression from US in south China sea


Sputnik
Sun, 28 Aug 2016 16:41 UTC
chinese fighter jets south china sea
© AP Photo/ Fan Yishu/Xinhua
As tensions in the South China Sea region continue to rise, both the US and China appear ready and willing to engage in a contest of electronic warfare capabilities.

During the last few years, China has apparently constructed a considerable number of radar installations on the South China Seas islands. These facilities, which could potentially be employed for a variety of purposes, drastically increase China's real-time awareness and intelligence capabilities over a large portion of the region.

Furthermore, while radar installations may appear less threatening than, for example, surface-to-air missile systems or airbases, they in fact give China a significant edge over other powers that operate in the South China Sea, according to an article posted on the Australian Strategic Policy Institute's blog website The Strategist.

Comment: As usual, the US has no business being in the south China sea:

meme: Dear USA your job not your job


Read More...
Pirates

Kabardino-Balkaria, Russia: Last hold-out of the jihadi Caucasus Emirate?

Liz Fuller
RFE/RL
Sat, 27 Aug 2016 19:16 UTC
Zalim Shebzukhov
© TASSCaucasus Emirate militant Zalim Shebzukhov was killed in a security services raid in St. Petersburg last week.
Over the past two years, the Caucasus Emirate (IK) proclaimed in late 2007 by then Chechen insurgency commander Doku Umarov has lost much of its manpower. In addition to the 410 militants reported killed in 2014-15, many sector commanders and rank-and-file fighters alike are said to have pledged loyalty to the rival extremist group Islamic State (IS), and hundreds of them have left Russia for Syria.

A video clip uploaded in June 2015 claimed that all IK fighters in Chechnya, Ingushetia, Daghestan, and Kabardino-Balkaria had pledged allegiance to IS commander Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi. But at least in the case of Kabardino-Balkaria, that proved not to be the case. In that republic, Zalim Shebzukhov, who had apparently succeeded Astemir Berkhamov as commander of the Kabardino-Balkar-Karachai IK wing in 2014 and was formally identified as such in a video clip early in 2015, remained loyal to the IK cause, while Robert Zankishiyev, the leader of a rival group of fighters, formally pledged allegiance to IS in a video clip uploaded in August 2015. Zankishiyev was killed in a shoot-out in Nalchik in November.

Comment: These are the groups originally weaponized and manipulated as part of NATO's Gladio Plan B: targeting Russia by using proxy terrorists in the Caucasus and Central Asia. The war in Chechnya largely put an end to major conflict, but the organizations still exist, with fighters in Syria as well as in the ex-Soviet republics and Russia's southern federal regions. See also: Russian law enforcers kill 2 militants in Kabardino-Balkaria Republic

Read More...
Radar

UK 'defense' contractor BAE selling surveillance spy gear to UAE


RT
Sat, 27 Aug 2016 19:05 UTC
iphone
© Pawel Kopczynski / Reuters
The Danish subsidiary of a British defense contractor is selling surveillance gear to the United Arab Emirates, according to documents obtained by a Danish newspaper. The deal has sparked fears that the system will be used to repress political opponents.

The papers from the Danish Business Authority show that it issued an export permit last month to BAE Systems Applied Intelligence A/S, which gives the company the right to sell an "IP monitoring and data analysis system relating to national security and the investigation of serious crimes" to the United Arab Emirates (UAE), Dagbladet Information reported.

The documents also show that BAE Systems already delivered such a system to the regime sometime before December 31, 2014, and that the new license is for "extension service, support, testing, and maintenance."

The system sold by BAE to the UAE may, among other things, make "extraction of selected metadata and application content (eg. voices, videos, messages, attachments)" and are specifically designed to "chart an individual or group of people's social networks," according to the EU list of products subject to export controls.

Comment: No shocker here. Consider that the UK has no problem selling bombs to Saudi Arabia which the damn well know will be used to target women, children, hospitals, and infrastructure. The first thing critics of defense war contractors need to know is that these people simply don't care. Their tools are designed for murder and political repression. The more capacity for murder and repression a regime has, the more stuff they will buy, and the more profits the contractor will make. It's that simple.

Read More...
Laptop

Google censors information regarding Killary's crimes - UPDATES

Jay Syrmopoulos
The Free Thought Project
Sun, 26 Jun 2016 15:59 UTC
hillary clinton
© a katz/Shutterstock.com
Judging by the top trending Google searches about presidential candidate Hillary Clinton, it seems that people have one thing they want to know:

Is Hillary Clinton going to jail?

Out of all the searches regarding the former Secretary of State, the most popular query was whether she would be imprisoned. These queries undoubtedly stem from the numerous violation of law surrounding her use of a private email server, as well the possibility of using her position in public office for personal gain via the Clinton Foundation.

Google has been the target of criticism by some that claim that the company hides negative search results regarding Clinton — with their autocorrect feature being accused of neglecting information relating to crimes committed by Hillary Clinton.

Comment: Assange: Google 'directly engaged' with Clinton campaign, controls information flow.

Update: After Rudy Giuliani went on Fox telling people to Google "Hillary Clinton illness", New York Times tech columnist Farhad Manjoo went full fascist, calling for Google to censor such information.


Luckily for him, Google has, and is, doing just that (at least to the best of their abilities). They're up to the same old autocomplete tricks:


To compare:

hillary
hillary
hillary
hillary
"Clinton body shop"?!

Read More...
Airplane

Russia signs decree lifting restrictions on charter flights to Turkey


Sputnik
Sun, 28 Aug 2016 18:45 UTC
Ataturk airport
Moscow has officially lifted restrictions on charter flights to Turkey.

On Saturday, spokeswoman for the Russian prime minister Natalia Timakova said the Transport Ministry had submitted to the Cabinet a draft to abolish restrictions on charter flights to Turkey which awaited being signed off.

"To adopt additional measures aimed at providing transport (aviation) safety during the implementation of regular airline service with the Republic of Turkey," the document reads.
Read More...
Stop

Deadlock on Syria in marathon Geneva peace talks

Alexander Mercouris
The Duran
Sun, 28 Aug 2016 18:34 UTC
Kerry and Lavrov in Geneva
The talks between the two foreign ministers in Geneva show that the US and Russia remain as divided about the Syrian conflict as ever. All they seem able to do is to try to set out the basic terms of their conflict in order to prevent it escalating out of control. However even that is probably too much for the hardliners in Washington.

Lavrov and Kerry ended 12 hours of talks in Geneva about Syria on Friday, but it is difficult to see what if anything of substance they achieved.

On the key political question - the Geneva peace process and the future of President Assad - they are as far apart as ever. The US continues to insist that President Assad must go as the inevitable of any peace settlement. The Russians say that is strictly for the Syrian people to decide. There was clearly no movement by either side on this issue.

Comment: Lavrov and Kerry wrap up 12-hours-long talks in Geneva

Read More...