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Ukrainian military opens fire on DPR territory 585 times during one day


ITAR-TASS
Sun, 10 Jul 2016 12:17 UTC
Ukrainian military
Kiev's military over the past 24 hours 585 times opened fire on territory of the self-proclaimed Donetsk People's Republic (DPR), the military authority told the Donetsk News Agency on Saturday.

"Over the past 24 hours, the Ukrainian military opened fire 585 times," the source said. "The enemy launched 82 and 120mm calibers mines and used grenade launchers and small arms."

Under fire were villages Zaitsevo, Shirokaya Balka and Ozeryanovka, Leninskoye near Gorlovka, Yasinovataya and its suburbs - Zhabunki, Mikhailovka and Spartak, Dojucheyevsk, villages Sosnovskoye, Sakhana and Kominternovo in southern DPR, as well as Statomikhailovka, the Pertrov district, western and northern suburbs of Donetsk.

All data on violations of the Minsk agreements have been presented to observers of the OSCE Special Monitoring Mission and to representatives of the Joint Coordination Center for Ceasefire Monitoring.

Comment: Is this Ukraine escalation right after the NATO Warsaw Summit coincidental?

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Paranoid in the UK: British Parliament warns of 'Russian military threat'


South Front
Sun, 10 Jul 2016 11:45 UTC
UK Parliament
© Reuters / Andrew WinningHouses of Parliament
On July 5, the Defense Committee of the British parliament published report on Russia and the implcations for UK defence and security. The conclusions of the 58-page report were similarly alarmist.

The report says Russia has to be seen as a "strategic competitor" and military threat. According to the report, Russia had intensified anti-Western propaganda, boosted military capabilities, and, the worst thing, shown readiness to "maintain a sphere of influence beyond its own frontiers."
"The U.K. and NATO need to have adequate military capability and the capacity to deter, and where necessary confront aggressive Russian moves," the report reads.
The report recommends to:
  • increase the number of experts advising Britain on Russia
  • renew sanctions
  • impose fresh travel bans on Russia's leadership
  • "find ways" to deal with Russian propaganda

Comment: Meanwhile the British are busy assisting with the slaughter of Eastern Ukrainians and ethnic Russians, thus confirming Zakharova's remark that this report is 'the highest mark of villainy.'

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Treasure Chest

The mask is off: NATO calls on its members to stop buying Russian weapons, only buy from US


ITAR-TASS
Sun, 10 Jul 2016 12:09 UTC
NATO Polish soldier

NATO welcomes the efforts of its members to overcome their dependencies on Russian military equipment, the alliance said in the Warsaw Summit Communique adopted on Saturday at the end of the two-day Warsaw summit.

"We welcome Allied efforts to address, as appropriate, existing dependencies on Russian-sourced legacy military equipment," the communique says.

In September 2014, the heads of state and government participating in the Wales summit pledged to gradually increase military spending to two percent of the GDP, meeting the demand from the United States. Earlier, NATO Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg said that in line with the latest data of the alliance, its accumulated military spending shall be higher by $8bln, or three percent up against last year.

Washington demands that its allies should boost their spending on defense and should acquire new weapons and military equipment, produced by the U.S. defense industry as the key manufacturer for NATO.

Comment: More evidence that NATO drives defense spending for America's military-industrial complex.

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War Whore

British instructors train Ukrainian military to slaughter more Eastern Ukrainians


RT
Fri, 08 Jul 2016 18:38 UTC
Ukraine soldiers
© Peter Nicholls / Reuters
British instructors will complete the training of 4,000 Ukrainian military personnel by March 2017, UK Secretary of State for Foreign & Commonwealth Affairs Philip Hammond told journalists on the sidelines of the NATO summit in Warsaw.

"We have a very active cooperation with Ukraine. The UK will train 4,000 Ukrainian servicemen until March 2017," Hammond said.

The minister also expressed his hope to deepen cooperation between Ukraine and NATO, adding that the UK plans to make a significant contribution to this cooperation, particularly in the field of training Ukraine's servicemen.

He also emphasized that the process of Montenegro's accession to NATO shows that the alliance's door is potentially open to all countries, including Ukraine.

In March, British Secretary of State for Defense Michael Fallon said in a statement that the UK instructors and advisers already trained 2,000 Ukrainian soldiers, adding that there are plans to train 300 more in 2016.

Comment: Since the only function of the dilapidated Ukrainian army is to wage war against civilians in the East, it seems they have the term "peace" backwards. The empire's vision of a Europe that is "whole, free and at peace", simply means a Europe that is completely under control of said Empire and can be used and plundered at will.

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War Whore

Damascus slams West's hypocrisy amid massive bombings of Aleppo


Sputnik
Sun, 10 Jul 2016 05:28 UTC
Damascus bombed
© REUTERS/ Abdalrhman Ismail
As a death toll in Syria's Aleppo continues to rise amid intense shelling of residential areas by so-called "moderate" rebels, Damascus officials sent a letter to the United Nations, saying that the situation in the city highlights the hypocrisy of the Western nations.

Some 30 civilians, mostly women and children, were killed and 150 were injured as a result of bombings of Aleppo's dormitories, the Russian Defense Ministry reported Saturday. The attacks were carried out by US-backed "moderates," joined by al-Nusra Front, in the midst of 72-hour ceasefire. At the same time, the population of Aleppo, the country's largest city, remains besieged with not enough food and fuel.

"Over the past few days, there has been no ceasefire on the ground," Al Jazeera's Zeina Khodr said. "On the ground, there is no truce and the violence continues."

Comment: Further reading:

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Lockheed threatens Canada with 10k worth of job losses if it doesn't buy their useless, dangerous F-35


Sputnik
Sun, 10 Jul 2016 04:16 UTC
F-35
© Airman Magazine/Associated PressLockheed's high-tech lemon F-35
Lockheed Martin threatens to pull all of their Canadian operations, nearly 10,000 good paying jobs, over Canadian Prime Minister's refusal to purchase the faulty F-35 without first staging a competition.

Lockheed Martin renewed threats to engage in economic reprisals against Canada if the country refuses to purchase the much maligned F-35 Lightning at a time when the country seems to be leaning towards Boeing's Super Hornet on grounds of both capabilities and costs.

The F-35 has become a headache for Western leaders in recent months facing a new round of delays after failing to meet a critical testing deadline due to a software glitch that causes the plane to sporadically shutdown midflight and recent revelations that the plane's Martin Baker ejection seat will immediately snap the neck of and potentially decapitate all pilots under 135 pounds with a heightened risk to pilots between 135 and 160 pounds.

If killer ejection seats and the inability to stay in the sky wasn't cause enough for concern, recent test trials show that the next-generation fighter jet would be smoked in a dogfight against the several decades old F-16 fighter jet leading to questions about whether the fighter jet really possesses the capabilities that Western militaries are looking for.

Comment: Such is the power of the military-industrial complex.

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Bad Guys

The bloodiest Ramadan month on record thanks to the deep state

Joachim Hagopian
Sott.net
Sat, 09 Jul 2016 00:00 UTC
Terror on Ramadan
The bloodiest Ramadan month in modern times has just come to an end. With relentless, near daily attacks, the world's largest terrorist organization has proudly and defiantly proclaimed full credit for committing heinous acts just to strike terror into the hearts and minds of the planet's 7.4 billion humans. This unprecedented month of holy terror that commenced at sundown on June 5th through July 5th witnessed an enormous spike in terrorist attacks like no other before it, violently marring the 30 days of religious fasting, charity and prayers for over 1.6 billion Muslims worldwide joining their families and friends in celebration. ISIS made a clear, in-our-face statement that all the globalized antiterrorist efforts to end the scourge of Islamic State terror are both too feeble and too futile to stop the carnage. Terrorists' ultimate objective is to inflict fear and terror into people's daily lives so that in no corner of the globe can feel safe.

Back in May a full three weeks prior to the start of Ramadan month, ISIS spokesman Abu Mohamed al-Adnani pronounced the rally cry to warn the world:
Ramadan, the month of conquest and jihad. Get prepared, be ready to make it a month of calamity everywhere for the non-believers, especially for the fighters and supporters of the caliphate in Europe and America.
In the twisted Islamic State terrorist version of Ramadan, Allah favors martyrdom sacrifice during the holy month and opens the gates of heaven to those who die for their Muslim cause. On the 27th day of Ramadan, celebrated as the Day of for Mohammed's first writing of the Koran the worst attacks occurred

Comment: The author is absolutely correct for putting these terror events in a 'cosmic context'. See:

Sott Exclusive: Nemesis, not 'Nibiru' - Clarifying mainstream reports about 'a large ninth planet' that periodically sends comets our way

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Roses

Daesh militants shoot down helicopter near Palmyra: Russian pilots killed


Sputnik
Sat, 09 Jul 2016 23:51 UTC
Russian MI-24 helicopter
© Sputnik/ Mikhail Voskresenskiy
The Russian Defense Ministry said Saturday that Daesh terrorists shot down a helicopter near Syria's Palmyra, killing two Russian military instructor pilots.

On July 8, Russian military instructor pilots conducted a test flight of a Syrian Mi-25 helicopter (export version of the Mi-24 helicopter), when it received a request from the Syrian authorities to carry out airstrikes against a large group of Daesh terrorists advancing to the east of Palmyra, the ministry said.

The Russian crew of the helicopter repelled the attack of a large Daesh group of fighters on the Syrian government forces.

"The crew received a request from the Syrian unit's command to strike the advancing fighters. The captain, Ryafagat Khabibulin, made a decision to attack the terrorists. The skillful actions of the Russian crew thwarted the terrorists' advance. When the helicopter's ammunition was spent and it changed its course to the opposite direction, it was shot down by terrorists from the ground and crashed in an area controlled by the Syrian government army. The helicopter's crew was killed."

The killed Russian pilots, Ryafagat Khabibulin and Yevgeny Dolgin, will be posthumously awarded, the ministry said.
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Attention

NATO's reckless bluff

Alexander Mercouris
The Duran
Sat, 09 Jul 2016 00:00 UTC
2 tanks green smoke
© NATO-Exercise-wtop.comNATO exercise in Lithuania
NATO troop deployments to Poland and the Baltic States are a dangerous public relations move which is already backfiring. NATO's decision to deploy four battalions of troops on a supposedly rotating basis to Poland and the Baltic States is the worst sort of decision. However we need to stay calm. It does not mean war is coming.

The four battalions NATO is deploying cannot threaten Russia. There's been some wild talk of how German tanks have for the first time since the end of the Second World War moved closer to St. Petersburg. I recently visited St. Petersburg. Any idea that NATO could capture or even seriously threaten St. Petersburg with just four battalions - around 3,000 men - when Hitler's Army Group North with 23 divisions backed by a Finnish army consisting of a further 7 divisions couldn't capture it, is simply silly.

Not only is the force NATO is deploying to Poland and the Baltic States incapable of seriously threatening Russia but in the event of a Russian attack it wouldn't even be able to defend itself. Media commentary in the West admits as much. It says the NATO troops are simply intended to be a "trip-wire" to deter a Russian attack on Poland and the Baltic States.

No Russian attack is planned or threatened against either Poland or the Baltic States. No one is seriously claiming there is the slightest possibility of such an attack. If NATO leaders genuinely feared such an attack they would not deploy troops to the Baltic States on what would in effect be a suicide mission, where they would be immediately overrun by the overwhelmingly stronger armies the Russians could immediately deploy to the area. Even NATO generals are not that stupid.

Comment: If this is the case, it is an outrageous bluff at outrageous expense to just change people's perception of Russia to one of "the enemy." OK, then what? It is equally likely that the deployments are mission creep for a unipolar takeover, a resource grab, the downsizing of world population and a distraction to a looming, last-leg, global economic disaster. Who benefits? The usual suspects...

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Crime Pays - Hillary is living proof

Riley Waggaman
Russia Insider
Sat, 09 Jul 2016 09:45 UTC
Killary
© Russia InsiderA role model for all aspiring career criminals.
There's something darkly instructive about Chelsea Manning's attempted suicide just a day after the FBI announced that it would not recommend charges against Hillary Clinton.

Manning, as you might recall, is the Benedict Arnold turncoat who exposed U.S. war crimes and is now serving 35 solitary years in a military prison in Kansas. This venomous traitor should not be confused with Mrs. Clinton, who created a private e-mail server to avoid FOIA requests, shared classified material with her posse of yesmen, sold her influence in the State Department to the highest bidders, attempted to destroy evidence of criminal wrongdoing, and will almost certainly be our next president.

The media has focused primarily on how Clinton mishandled sensitive or classified material, but the worst of her crimes have remained hidden from the public.

As Politico points out, there's a very good reason why Hillary deleted thousands of "private" emails:
[T]here's an email silence in June 2010, when Hillary Clinton was in South America for a series of high-level meetings. According to her memoir, "by coincidence" Bill was in Bogota, Colombia, apparently for Clinton Foundation work, at the same time she was in the country. Also there with Bill was Frank Giustra, one of the Clinton Foundation's largest contributors. Bill, Hillary and Giustra reportedly had dinner together, and the next morning, Bill met with Colombia's President Alvaro Uribe, followed immediately by Hillary's meeting with Uribe. In the weeks that follow, Giustra's companies scored concessions from the Colombian government on matters ranging from oil to timber.
The Clinton Foundation is a massive money-laundering scheme. Money goes in, State Department weapons deals come out.

Sorry, but it's not a vast right-wing conspiracy: The Clintons have been up to their eyeballs in shady deals and corruption scandals since their humble country bumpkin beginnings in Arkansas, which strangely enough was the staging ground for a massive CIA cocaine drug smuggling operation while Bill was governor. Coincidence or fate?

Enough already. When you're taking millions of dollars from the Saudis, and private rides on the "Lolita Express", you have no business being anywhere near the White House.

Just imagine the nightmare before us: Four years of Hillary Clinton lecturing the rest of the world about human rights and the rule of law; four years of Libya-style "humanitarian interventions"; four years of Boss Tweed in a pantsuit.

Crime doesn't pay? Tell that to the Clintons. Lie, cheat and steal and maybe one day you can be president, too.
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