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Bellingcat unwittingly shows Russia didn't bomb Aleppo aid convoy

Patrick Armstrong
Sic Semper Tyrannis
Mon, 26 Sep 2016 17:45 UTC
bellingcat
The Bellingcat site has a piece entitled "Confirmed : Russian Bomb Remains Recovered from Syrian Red Crescent Aid Convoy Attack" which includes this picture as well as several others. You may look at the others, but this one picture is apodictic proof 1) that the Russians (or Syrians) didn't do it and 2) that Bellingcat is a loyal servant of the Borg.

He spends a lot of efforts to establish that the metal piece is the tail piece of a Russian-made OFAB 250-270 Fragmentation High Explosive Bomb. No argument there, I'm sure it is. Said bomb has 92kg of explosive. Which is quite a lot.
  • If said bomb has exploded in this not very large room, all those cardboard boxes would be torn to pieces and burned. To say nothing of a lot more damage to the room itself. Therefore it did not explode in that room.
  • If said bomb was a dud and did not explode, where is the rest of it? Therefore the bomb is not a dud.
  • Therefore the bomb piece was put there to make it look as if the Russians had done it. (And not very competently either: note that it is supposed to have come through the ceiling and neatly placed itself underneath some undamaged cardboard boxes.)
  • If it is necessary to produce a fake picture, then the Russians didn't do it.
  • QED
And, as a bonus, by perpetrating this fraud, Bellingcat has also proved that he is a stooge of the war party.

A lot to deduce from one photo, isn't it? It used to be that it took more effort to disprove Bellingcat's fakes. He's losing his touch.

Comment: Some of the comments on the bellingcat original are hilarious. We recommend you check them out.

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Red Flag

Russia responds to NATO's violation of previous arms treaties by putting thermonuclear ICBMs on its border

Kurt Nimmo
Another Day in the Empire
Tue, 27 Sep 2016 17:22 UTC
Russian ICBM
Last week TASS reported Russia's western-most ICBM division will be rearmed with the RS-24 Yars missile system. Yars is a MIRV-equipped, thermonuclear, intercontinental ballistic missile that can reportedly carry up to 10 independently targetable warheads. The ICBM RS-24 Yars constitutes the backbone of Russia's strategic missile force.

"The westernmost strategic missile force division in the Tver region will soon begin to be rearmed with the missile system Yars. It will be a sixth strategic missile division where the newest mobile ground-based missile complexes will replace the intercontinental ballistic missile Topol," Sergey Karakayev, the commander of Russia's Strategic Missile Force told the news agency.

The Russians claim the deployment is in response to NATO installing a US anti-missile system in Eastern Europe in violation of previous Russian-US arms treaties. The United States has made the outrageous claim its missile system is designed to respond to threats from Iran.

"Now, after the deployment of those anti-missile system elements, we'll be forced to think about neutralizing developing threats to Russia's security," Russian President Vladimir Putin said in May.

Putin added that the US anti-missile systems currently in place in Romania and soon in Poland can be easily repurposed to fire short and mid-range missiles.
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Syrian army recaptures central district in eastern Aleppo


RT
Tue, 27 Sep 2016 16:02 UTC
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© SANA / Reuters
Syrian government forces have re-captured Aleppo's central district of al-Farafirah from terrorists, state outlet SANA reported, citing army sources.

According to SANA, the Syrian Army is now in control of al-Farafirah with sappers currently clearing the area from "mines and improvised explosive devices planted by terrorists."

"The army retook control of the entire al-Farafirah district northwest of the Aleppo citadel after neutralizing many terrorists. Units are now demining the area," AFP quoted a military source as saying.

Comment: While the Syrians, with their Iranian, Lebanese, Iraqi and Palestinian allies, retake U.S.-terrorist-held areas of eastern Aleppo, Russia has vowed to continue supporting Syria's fight:
According to the ministry, Russian Deputy Foreign Minister Mikhail Bogdanov met on Tuesday with Syrian Ambassador to Russia Riyad Haddad in Moscow to discuss the latest developments in the Syrian crisis. "The Russian side underlined its strong determination to continue helping the Syrian government in fight against terrorism, as well as facilitating an expedient political solution to the Syrian crisis in line with UNSC Resolution 2254," the ministry said in a statement.
Russia has been assisting Syria for one year. A Syrian lieutenant told Sputnik what Russia's campaign has brought Syria:
"Russian aircraft have brought Syrians hope for life and security. In Latakia alone, dozens of villages were liberated in several months [after the Russian operation was launched]. Thousands of people returned to their homes. The SAA retook control of hundreds of strategic locations. People are no longer at risk of the militants shelling them because [radical fighters] were pushed far away from Latakia."
Russian jets and helicopters struck hard-to-reach fortified militant positions, shared coordinates of militant positions and convoys, provided air cover for Syrian offensives, lent their expertise in the de-mining of Palmyra, and helped put the SAA's operations on the offensive when they were previously struggling.

While countries like Turkey did not provide any guarantees of coordination with Russian and Iran regarding the Turkish deployment in Syria, according to Assad adviser Bouthaina Shaaban, Russia "respects the country's sovereignty and respects its allies." In all areas, Russia does not agree to anything without the Syrian government's approval, she says. "Our Russian ally is radically different from the representatives of the West."

Today, more settlements signed on to the ceasefire via Russia's reconciliation center, bringing the total number to 668 (again showing that the ceasefire really is a success), and 131 militants and 119 family members left Homs after signing an amnesty agreement with the government and being transported by bus to another militant-held region in the province.

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King of Jordan lashes out: 'US thinks it knows the Middle East better than ourselves'


Sputnik
Tue, 27 Sep 2016 16:29 UTC
Jordanian King Abdullah II
© AFP 2016/ KHALIL MAZRAAWIJordanian King Abdullah II
The US thinks it understands the Middle East better than those who live in the region and this is a major flaw in the West's fight against terrorism, the King of Jordan said in a rare criticism of western policy.

Speaking to US broadcaster CBS, King Abdullah II said the world powers needed to take a "global perspective" when fighting Islamic extremism and terrorism, particularly given the troubles in the Middle East. "The ethnic makeup of the region is pretty glaringly obvious for us that live in the region, that advisers and think tanks in the West seem to know us better than we supposedly know ourselves," he said.

He also said that the complex geopolitical situation was hindering the fight against Daesh — also known as ISIL — and other jihadist groups. ​"I think the problem with the West is they see a border between Syria and Iraq. Daesh does not — and this has been a frustration, I think, for a few of us in this area with our western coalition partners, for several years. You know, the lawyers get into the act and say, 'but there's an international border.' And we say, 'for God's sake, Isis [Daesh] doesn't work that way,'" he said. "So if you're looking at it and want to play the game by your rules, knowing that the enemy doesn't, we're not going to win this."

Comment: The Jordanian king certainly seems alarmed of the spread of Daesh and the US failure to stem the militants. If he understands the geopolitics involved, he should be worried.

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Eye 1

"The Bush-Clinton nexus": Permanent criminal state, "a Clinton White House guarantees war with Russia"

Larry Chin
Global Research
Mon, 26 Sep 2016 15:59 UTC
hw bush hillary clinton
Birds of a feather
At a spring 2016 Republican debate attended by the Bushes, George H.W. "Poppy" Bush, looked directly at Donald Trump and gave him the "throat slit" gesture. The Bushes want the Clintons back in the White House.

"Poppy" trusted them with Arkansas in the 1980s, and with the White House in the 1990s, and he can trust them with the marching orders again. A Hillary Clinton presidency guarantees that all the things that the New World Order wants done will continue to get done.

The Clintons and Bushes have been criminal partners for more than 30 years. They and their colleagues have dominated the American government, the military-intelligence apparatus, the judicial system, the financial markets, and the banks. Their friends dominate the corporate media and Hollywood—the shapers of The Big Lie.
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Bad Guys

More Facebook censorship: Palestinian editors' accounts disabled - no explanation given

Ali Abunimah
The Electronic Intifada
Fri, 23 Sep 2016 14:48 UTC
Facebook censor palestinin blogs
© QudsQuds says disabling of its editors’ accounts is part of a campaign against Palestinian pages by Facebook.
Editors at two of the most widely read Palestinian online publications have had their Facebook accounts disabled.

Administrators for the Facebook pages of Quds, which has more than five million "likes," and Shehab News Agency, which has more than six million, found they could not access their accounts on Friday.

Ezz al-Din al-Akhras, a supervisor at Quds, told The Electronic Intifada that at around 2pm, three of the publication's editors found their accounts disabled.

The same thing has happened to five editors at Shehab News Agency, a news editor for that publication told The Electronic Intifada.

Both organizations are still publishing to Facebook as some editors can still access their accounts.

Comment: Update: Facebook apologized for 'accidentally' removing the accounts and they have been reinstated:
After a widespread outcry, the social media titan restored access to most of the pages over the weekend and apologized for the incident, claiming that it was an accident.

"Our team processes millions of reports each week, and we sometimes get things wrong. We're very sorry about this mistake," the company said Monday in a statement, without providing further detail.


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Light Saber

The other debate: 3rd party candidate Jill Stein livestreams responses to Clinton-Trump duel (VIDEO)


RT
Tue, 27 Sep 2016 15:37 UTC
Jill Stein
© Win McNamee'Agence France-PresseGreen Party presidential nominee Jill Stein.
Barred from participating in the Clinton-Trump showdown at New York's Hofstra University, Green Party presidential candidate Jill Stein fights back with her own livestream Q&A contribution to the debate on social media.

In answer to a debate question how to achieve prosperity, Stein said Clinton approved of NAFTA, which was signed into law by her husband, then president, Bill Clinton.

She said everything that Donald Trump markets is an off-shored manufactured item.

"So Donald Trump knows all about it. In fact, he advised that people close their factories and move somewhere and then impose low wages on the workers," Stein told more than 7,000 viewers on her livestream.

"We are calling for the antidote to NAFTA. The Green New Deal, investing in people, 20 million living wage jobs that will transition us to 100 percent clean energy," said Stein."...[Restoring] our ecosystem, turning the tide on climate change, reviving our health, that alone is enough."

With over 9,000 viewers online, Stein said the policies that led to the Wall Street crisis, and the consequence of predatory lending and predatory student loans, were a result of deregulation brought to us by then president Bill Clinton, with the support of Hillary Clinton. Clinton is a friend of the big banks, too, said Stein.

"Don't just listen to talk," said Stein.
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War crimes evidence? MSF releases report on Saudi-led coalition's attacks on hospitals in Yemen


Sputnik
Tue, 27 Sep 2016 15:59 UTC
MSF hospital bombed in Yemen
© REUTERS/ Abduljabbar Zeya
Medecins Sans Frontieres (MSF, or Doctors Without Borders) published on Tuesday two reports about airstrikes of the Saudi-led coalition on two MSF medical facilities in Yemen, the organization's press service said in a statement.

The statement added that the "unjustified and unprovoked" attacks were groundless and had not only killed and injured people, but also resulted in the suspension of the MSF's activities in the crisis-torn country. "After conducting internal investigations, Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) is releasing two reports describing attacks on medical facilities it runs or supports in Yemen. The two attacks combined resulted in the death of 20 people, most of them patients, and wounded 32 others. Both attacks were acknowledged by the Saudi-led coalition (SLC). The attacks were on a hospital in Abs, Hajjah governorate on 15 August 2016, and on the MSF clinic in Taiz city on 2 December 2015," the statement said.

"The internal investigations of the Abs and Taiz incidents also conclude that the neutrality and impartiality of the facilities had not been compromised before the attacks and therefore there was no legitimate reason to attack them. The details of the incidents documented in these two reports are unambiguous indicators of how war is being waged in Yemen, where there is an utter disregard for civilian life by all warring parties," the statement said.
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Chess

Russian Foreign Ministry publishes parts of ceasefire agreement with US on Syria


RT
Tue, 27 Sep 2016 15:36 UTC
kerry lavrov
Moscow has released parts of Syria ceasefire deal documents in Russian following the recent publishing of the papers by the US. Russia is calling on Washington to release all the documents from the agreement. "Only a few days ago - following the information 'leaks' in the Western media - the US State Department published on its website parts of the documents, not bothering to agree with us the date of the release," the statement on the Russian Foreign Ministry website says.

"On our part, we publish the texts of the relevant agreements in Russian," it adds. Last week, AP news agency published a leaked document from the Russia-US brokered Syria ceasefire deal, one of five such papers. An enlarged version that also included documents dated earlier this year can be viewed on the US State Department website.

Comment: The ceasefire failed because the U.S.'s "moderate" rebels refused to separate from terrorists, they publicly denounced the truce, praised al-Nusra, and continued to attack Syrian civilians and troops. Then the U.S. military coalition teamed up with Daesh terrorists to massacre Syrian troops in Deir ez-Zor.
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Gear

US officials: Wealthy Gulf states may arm Syrian rebels to 'get the Russians to back off'


RT
Tue, 27 Sep 2016 15:29 UTC
rebel fighter
© Khalil Ashawi / ReutersA rebel fighter of 'Al-Sultan Murad' brigade arranges weapons inside a warehouse in the northern Syrian rebel-controlled town of al-Rai, in Aleppo Governorate, Syria, September 26, 2016.
With the Syria ceasefire in tatters, there is a growing possibility that wealthy Gulf states might arm Syrian rebels, looking to shield themselves from Syrian and Russian warplanes, with shoulder-fired anti-aircraft missiles, according to a report.

One US official, speaking on condition of anonymity, told Reuters that Washington has kept high numbers of man-portable air defense systems (MANPADS), considered to be a threat to low-flying aircraft, out of Syria by uniting Western and Arab allies behind sending training and infantry weapons to moderate opposition groups while the US conducted talks with Russia.

Fed up with dancing to Washington's tune, Gulf allies or Turkey may sooner or later silently agree to wealthy individuals supplying MANPADS to opposition groups in Syria, another US official said.

"The Saudis have always thought that the way to get the Russians to back off is what worked in Afghanistan 30 years ago - negating their air power by giving MANPADS to the Mujahideen," an unnamed US official told Reuters.

"So far, we've been able to convince them that the risks of that are much higher today because we're not dealing with a Soviet Union in retreat, but a Russian leader who's bent on rebuilding Russian power and less likely to flinch," the official added, referring to Russian President Vladimir Putin.

Comment: See: Interview with Al-Nusra commander Abu al-Ezz: "The Americans stand on our side"

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