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Hacked email: Where will the Ukrainian bombs explode?


Oriental Review
Tue, 08 Dec 2015 19:42 UTC
Russian unguided bomb
On Dec 7 the Cyber-Berkut made public another set of evidence exposing preparations for false flag attacks in Syria by the Ministry of Defense of Qatar. According to a hacked mail by Anton Pashynskyi, a SpetsTechnoExport (official Ukrainian arms trader) functionary, on Oct 21, 2015 he wrote to his Polish partner Level 11 the following:
Good afternoon! There is a new proposal. The Qatari military want to buy 2 thousand High Explosive Fragmentation bombs OFAB 250-270. The issue is urgent, they are ready to pay US$2100 per item. Consider how to deliver ASAP. The final recipient is the Ministry of Defense of Qatar. EUC is enclosed.
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Russia to deploy missile cruiser Varyag to Syria after Indra exercise


ITAR-TASS
Tue, 08 Dec 2015 19:32 UTC
Russian warship
© Yuri Smityuk/TASS ArchiveThe guided missile cruiser The Vargyag.
The guided missile cruiser The Vargyag, currently taking part in the joint Russian-Indian naval exercise Indra, will be dispatched to Syria, a source in the Russian contingent taking part in the exercise has told TASS in an interview.

"The guided missile cruiser The Varyag will leave India for Syria, where it will replace the guided missile cruiser The Moskva (project 1164 Atlant)," he said, adding that The Varyag's mission in the area would presumably last till September.

The naval exercise Indra began on December 7. It is scheduled to last till December 12. At the moment the preparatory phase of the exercise is nearing completion. The active phase in the Bay of Bengal is due on December 10-12. Anti-submarine operations will be practiced. Also, the crews will polish skills of freeing a ship seized by hypothetical terrorists. Helicopters will deliver assault groups on board.
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Serious firepower: Russia crushes more than 600 terrorist targets in three days


Sputnik
Tue, 08 Dec 2015 19:24 UTC
russian jet
As part of Moscow's anti-terror campaign, Russian warplanes have carried out 300 sorties against targets in Syria over the last three days.

Russian Defense Minister Sergei Shoigu said that the air force is strictly implementing Supreme Command's order to carry out combat missions in Syria alongside fighter jets, according to RIA Novosti.

The Russian military has also, for the first time, launched cruise missiles against terrorist targets in Syria from a submarine in the Mediterranean.
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Russian sub in eastern Mediterranean fires more cruise missiles at Daesh targets in Syria (VIDEO)


Sputnik
Tue, 08 Dec 2015 19:20 UTC
Russian submarine
© Sputnik/ Igor Russak
A Russian Kilo-class submarine located in the Mediterranean Sea fired on Tuesday cruise missiles targeting Islamic State (Daesh in Arabic) positions in Syria, Defense Minister Sergei Shoigu said Tuesday.

Shoigu added that the launch was carried out by the sub from a submerged position.

"We launched Kalibr cruise missiles from the Rostov-on-Don submarine in the Mediterranean Sea," Shoigu told President Putin.

Shoigu added that the launch was carried out by the sub from a submerged position.

Earlier in the day, Russian media outlets reported about a Russian submarine approaching the Syrian coast.

Russia has been conducting airstrikes against Daesh, outlawed in Russia, in Syria since September 30 upon the request of President Bashar Assad. Russian warships in the Caspian Sea also participated in the anti-terrorist campaign, having successfully fired cruise missiles on IS targets.

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Funding genocide: U.S. groups fund Israeli settlers accused of killing, violence against Palestinians to the tune of $220 million, tax-deductible

Press TV
You Tube
Tue, 08 Dec 2015 18:07 UTC
Palestine
© UnknownAnother picture of Palestine that puts the lie to Israel's claim of the moral high-ground.
A new report shows Israeli settlements in the occupied Palestinian territories are receiving millions of dollars of funding from private U-S donors.

According to an investigation by the Israeli daily Haaretz, Americans are lavishly funding with tax-deductible dollars the same projects the Obama administration considers obstacles to peace. It says over 220 million dollars were channeled into the Israeli settlements between 2009 and 2013. The report says the donations coming from some 50 groups cover everything from the purchase of air conditioning units to supporting families of convicted Jewish terrorists.


Comment: These are private dollars, not the tax money that the U.S. government sends to Israel as 'aid'.


Hanenu is one such group that is said to be providing legal and financial support to Jews accused of killing and other violence against Palestinians. Haaretz has cited the Brooklyn-based Hebron Fund yet another US organization involved in funding Israeli settlers.

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Chess

China outmaneuvered the US in forging a new Silk Road & a new Eurasia - Part 1

Yurasumy, Translated by J. Arnoldski
Fort Russ
Tue, 08 Dec 2015 17:17 UTC
Silk Road Hungary China
© AFP Photo / Attila Kisbenedek
The twentieth century was a century in which economic strength was concentrated in two parts of the world: the US and Europe. Accordingly, the control of these two major economic regions and the routs between them automatically resulted in the geopolitical strength of the "controlling" organization.

The US, building up its armed forces and fleet in the first half of the century and winning a global status for its currency, became the only superpower of the world. In the middle of the century, its opponent, the USSR, with titanic efforts managed to reach a "draw" with the US, but it was defeated by the end of the 1980's.

As has already been noted, the basis of America's geopolitical power was its control over its territory where at one moment (1950) more than half of world production or 31% of the world's GDP was concentrated, as well as its control over the territory of Western Europe, which by the late 1960's had a sufficiently large interior and dynamically developing market. By the early 1970's, the economic share of Western Europe in the world economy rose to 25%, and by the end of the 1980's it reached 31%.

Comment: The world is in a state of flux. Those who still cling desperately to the past, to power, and to their illusions, are in no way prepared for the massive changes on the way.

Also see: Sott.net's Yearly State of the World Address

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Turkey halts troop deployment to northern Iraq; but what's there stays there


Press TV
Tue, 08 Dec 2015 02:21 UTC
Turks tanks
© www.newser.comTurkish troops enter Iraq.
Turkey says it has currently stopped the deployment of troops to northern Iraq, warning, however, that it will not withdraw those soldiers already stationed in the Arab country.

Turkish Foreign Ministry spokesman Tanju Bilgic announced the development at a press conference in the Turkish capital, Ankara, on Tuesday. Turkish Foreign Minister Mevlut Cavusoglu reiterated Ankara's respect for Iraq's territorial integrity during a Monday phone conversation with his Iraqi counterpart, Hoshyar Zebari, Bilgic stated.
On December 4, Turkey deployed some 150 soldiers, equipped with heavy weapons and backed by 20 to 25 tanks, to the outskirts of the city of Mosul, the capital of Iraq's Nineveh Province.
Ankara claimed the deployment was part of a mission to train and equip Iraqi forces in the fight against the Takfiri Daesh terrorist group. Baghdad, however, strongly condemned the deployment of the Turkish battalion on the Iraqi territory, branding the uncoordinated act a violation of Iraq's national sovereignty.

On December 6, Iraq gave Turkey 48 hours to pull out its forces or face all available options, including recourse to the United Nations Security Council.

Comment: Puppet or Rogue? Moscow states it will discuss Turkey's military deployment at the UNSC.

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License to kill: Court rules Obama can continue targeted assassinations

Derrick Broze
Activist Post
Tue, 08 Dec 2015 17:51 UTC
drone strike
While much of the media has focused on the recent violence in Paris, Georgia, and San Bernardino, as well as the escalating conflicts in Iraq and Syria, another profound and troubling domestic issue seems to have been overlooked.

Indeed, the issue at hand was first reported on November 24th — and covered for roughly a day — before it was quickly forgotten in the daily barrage of news stories. But we should not be so quick to dismiss the possibility of a future president (maybe one with fascist leanings?) choosing to exercise "targeted killings" against the American public. This practice, of course, is embodied by the Obama administration's program of assassinating individuals suspected of terrorism, also known as the "disposition matrix."
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Israeli fighter jets carry out two-missile airstrike in Gaza city


Palestinian News & Info Agency
Mon, 07 Dec 2015 17:31 UTC
Israeli jet firing missle
© Press TV
Israeli fighter jets Monday carried out an airstrike targeting a site in Az-Zaytoun neighborhood in Gaza city, causing severe destruction in the area, according to local sources.

WAFA correspondent said Israeli F16 fighters fired at least two missiles at a site in Az-Zaytoun area, causing severe destruction in the area and spreading fear among local Palestinians, especially children.

There were no reports of casualties.

Israel continues to breach a truce agreement reached between Israel and the Palestinian factions on August 26, which ended the latest deadly Israeli onslaught on Gaza in the summer of 2014.

In 2014, Israel launched a war on Gaza which claimed the lives of about 2,200 Palestinians, and left more than 10,000 injured. Hundreds of thousands others are currently displaced and live in makeshift caravans or in UNRWA-run schools.

Since 2007, Israel has imposed a blockade on Gaza, which has caused a serious decline in the standard of living, poverty and unprecedented levels of unemployment.

Comment: "The real victims of the war are survivors": One year later, Gaza still in crisis

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Need more boots: US pushes other nations to deploy special forces to Iraq, Syria


PressTV
Tue, 08 Dec 2015 17:12 UTC
US Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff General Joseph Dunford
US Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff General Joseph Dunford says that special operations forces from other nations might join the fight against the Daesh (ISIL) terrorist group in Iraq and Syria.

"Although I can't talk to you about the countries right now, because we are still in the process of discussing with them, we have a number of other countries that we are working with right now to provide additional special operations in Syria and Iraq," Dunford said Monday at a stop in Bahrain during a tour of US installations in several countries.

Dunford, the highest-ranking military officer in the US military, said he has received encouraging responses from allies in the region regarding the deployment of troops to fight Daesh, but is waiting to see actual ground forces.

"It didn't take Paris (attacks) for us as Americans to recognize the nature of the threat, or many others, in fairness," Dunford said. "But if anyone in the wake of Paris doesn't think it's their problem, they aren't thinking hard enough."

Comment: Hasn't the US led coalition done enough damage?

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