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Putin orders negotiations with Minsk to place Russian air base in Belarus


RT
Sat, 19 Sep 2015 14:07 UTC
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© RIA NovostiSU-27 aircraft.
President Vladimir Putin has ordered an agreement be signed with Belarus to create a Russian air base on its territory.

"To accept the proposal of the Russian government to sign an agreement on a Russian air base in Belarus between Russia and Belarus," the decree reads according to the Kremlin's press service.

President Putin also ordered the Russian Defense Ministry to start all necessary negotiations with Minsk on the issue.

"The agreement will help jointly protect the outer border of the Union State [of Russia and Belarus] in the air and also create a unified system of air defense," the order reads. How exactly this will be done and what role the base will play is still subject to talks.

It comes just over a week after Russian Prime Minister Dmitry Medvedev said Moscow is ready to establish military air bases in neighboring countries.

Comment: Surely Western pundits will call this another example of 'Russian aggression'. It's not. It's a reaction to NATO aggression. See: STRATFOR Chief outlines psychopathic Zio-Anglo-American plans for world domination in speech to Chicago Council on Global Affairs

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"Liberators" for Empire: A look back at how Sarkozy, Cameron and Erdogan congratulate NATO's sponsored mercenary-terrorists in Libya 2011

Cem Ertür
Indymedia
Sun, 20 Sep 2015 00:00 UTC
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The bombing of Nasser University in Tripoli on June 12 2011 is one of many examples of NATO's destruction of Libya's infrastructure.

As French President Francois Hollande calls for the "neutralization of Bashar Assad", British Defence Minister Michael Fallon announces preparations for "Striking ISIL in Syria [...] [to] keep our streets safe here at home" and Turkish media proclaims "Aleppo to become the 82nd province of Turkey"; it is worth remembering the September 2011 visits by the arch-war criminals French President Nicolas Sarkozy, British Prime Minister David Cameron and Turkey's Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan to the NATO-occupied Libya.

Comment: Lying just beneath these "mission accomplished" photo-ops are crimes, death and suffering of such magnitude that one could hardly believe that these heads of state could be capable of spinning what's happened in the way that they did. But that's what psychopathic leaders in positions of power do. To fully grok the extent of the carnage and malevolence underlying NATO's takeover of Libya, see the following:

In Case You Missed It - NATO Atrocities In Libya - Mass Murder of the Innocent

Behind the Headlines: Truth about Libya - Interview with James & JoAnne Moriarty

Libya, Syria, Ukraine: It's worse than we can imagine

Libya & Gaddafi - The Truth you are not supposed to know

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Snakes in Suits

Is Putin a friend or foe in Syria?

Patrick J. Buchanan
Buchanan.org
Thu, 17 Sep 2015 13:24 UTC
Putin and Obama
What Vladimir Putin is up to in Syria makes far more sense than what Barack Obama and John Kerry appear to be up to in Syria.

The Russians are flying transports bringing tanks and troops to an air base near the coastal city of Latakia to create a supply chain to provide a steady flow of weapons and munitions to the Syrian army.

Syrian President Bashar Assad, an ally of Russia, has lost half his country to ISIS and the Nusra Front, a branch of al-Qaida.

Putin fears that if Assad falls, Russia's toehold in Syria and the Mediterranean will be lost, ISIS and al-Qaida will be in Damascus, and Islamic terrorism will have achieved its greatest victory.

Is he wrong?

Comment: If US neocons want a confrontation with Russia, well here's your chance in Syria.

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Pistol

Brutality from on high: Suspect shot from police helicopter when driving down motorway the wrong way

Olivia Blair
The Independent
Sun, 20 Sep 2015 14:12 UTC
The unidentified robbery suspect was reportedly driving down the wrong way of a motorway
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The windshield of a robbery suspect's car is shattered by bullets after being shot from a San Bernardino County sheriff's helicopter in California
A man has died after he was shot by a police helicopter, following a high speed car-chase the wrong way down a motorway.

The driver was a suspect of a robbery, who police began to pursue on Friday in Devore, California.

Police said he then drove at speeds of up to 100mph, driving through residential areas before moving onto the Interstate 215 freeway through San Bernardino, which is east of Los Angeles.

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A deputy checks an SUV involved in a crash on Interstate 215 at the Little League Drive freeway overpass in San Bernardino, California
A sheriff's deputy reportedly shot the suspect five times from the helicopter once he started driving southbound on northbound lanes.

After being fired at, the driver jumped from the Chevrolet Yukon which then carried on driverless, crashing into an SUV.

Three people in the SUV: a man, his wife and a 13-year old boy have been taken to hospital with injuries. According to ABC news, the female is still in hospital.

Police said it was unclear whether the suspect, who died at the side of the road, died as a result of gunshot wounds or from leaping out of the vehicle.

Deputy Olivia Bozek said: "It's a public safety issue. Once he starts going the wrong way, obviously he doesn't care about passengers or pedestrians or other cars that are around."
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Bad Guys

Shameless propaganda: Pentagon reviewing plans for war with 'potentially aggressive' Russia


RT
Sun, 20 Sep 2015 03:26 UTC
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The Pentagon is reportedly reviewing and updating its contingency plans for a war with Russia for the first time since the collapse of the Soviet Union, with a defense official telling US media that Russia's "actions" prompted the assessment.

"Given the security environment, given the actions of Russia, it has become apparent that we need to make sure to update the plans that we have in response to any potential aggression against any NATO allies," a senior defense official familiar with the plan told Foreign Policy.

According to Michèle Flournoy, a former undersecretary of defense for policy and co-founder of the Center for a New American Security, the move was prompted by the Ukraine situation.

"Russia's invasion of eastern Ukraine made the US dust off its contingency plans," Flournoy told FP. "They were pretty out of date."


Comment: Russia did not invade Ukraine.


Moscow, however, has repeatedly denied having a role in the Ukraine conflict, despite accusations by Kiev and its Western backers that it has supported the rebelling eastern Ukrainian regions of Donetsk and Lugansk with weapons and manpower.

Although the Department of Defense generates contingency plans continuously, the move is significant because it marks the first time since the fall of the Soviet Union in 1991 that Washington has revisited plans for a potential armed conflict with Moscow.

Comment: Russia is not the enemy. It is unbelievable that the truly aggressive U.S. is still hyping this nonsense. It's obvious that the U.S. wants regime change in Russia, but how far will they go? Russia's actions have been those of true Statesmanship. Russian leaders have navigated the genocidal mess the U.S. has created quite brilliantly thus far. Those Pentagon idiots are in way over their tiny heads.

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Russia chimes in: ISIS may exploit refugee crisis by sending jihadists to Europe


ITAR-TASS
Fri, 18 Sep 2015 13:32 UTC
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© AP Photo/Marko Drobnjakovic
The Islamic State (IS) terrorist organization takes advantage of the situation with refugees by sending its own people to Europe, Federal Security Service first deputy director Army General Sergey Smirnov said on Friday.

Talking about the refugee crisis, he noted that "this is a problem because refugees are used by IS to send their own people there." "What they will do in the future and what tasks they will perform, it is hard to say," Smirnov added.

People who underwent training in IS later return to their own countries or go to other regions, he continued. They even come to China, Smirnov noted adding that this is a threat for many countries.

Comment: The threat of Muslim terrorism has been more of a manufactured boogeyman for the West, something like 1984's Emmanuel Goldstein, used to scare Western populations into more wars and more draconian 'security' practices. But for Russia it has been very real, in the sense that the threat was originally manufactured as a weapon against the Soviet Union with the mujaheddin, and has been active ever since to one degree or another. While Russian officials will probably never come out and say it (except in tidbits like this one, from President Putin), they're most likely fully aware of the true nature of Muslim extremism: made and paid for by the USA.

Reading between the lines, it looks like Russia knows what the West has up its sleeves regarding the refugee crisis:

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Hungary and Croatia trade barbs as refugees flood their borders

Sasa Kavic and Ivana Sekularac
Yahoo News
Sun, 20 Sep 2015 13:32 UTC
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© REUTERS/Antonio BronicA migrant child looks out of a train window at a train station in Tovarnik, September 19, 2015
Hungary and Croatia traded threats on Saturday as thousands of exhausted migrants poured over their borders, deepening the disarray in Europe over how to handle the tide of humanity.

More than 20,000 migrants, many of them refugees from the Syrian war, have trekked into Croatia since Tuesday, when Hungary used a metal fence, tear gas and water cannon on its southern border with Serbia to bar their route into the European Union.

EU leaders, deeply divided, are due to meet on Wednesday in a fresh attempt to agree on how and where to distribute 160,000 refugees among their countries, but the noises from some of the newer members of the bloc were far from friendly.
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Locked and loaded: NATO deploys fully armed German Eurofighters to Russian borders


Sputnik
Sun, 20 Sep 2015 12:25 UTC
Eurofighter Typhoon
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NATO continues its military buildup in close vicinity to Russia: for the first time since the inception of the Ukrainian crisis, German Eurofighters are set to patrol the Baltic Airspace with full ammunition.

The NATO Baltic air-policing mission has been carried out by its member states since 2004, when Latvia, Estonia and Lithuania acceded to the military bloc.

In contrast with September - December 2014, the aircraft will carry enough ammo for a real fight: a gun, infrared short-range missiles, radar-guided medium-range missiles and an electronic defense system with decoys that are ejected at a threat.

Comment: NATO and the West are sending threatening messages but seems to be all bark and no bite. For more on this geopolitical chess game:

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Crusader

BBC priming the public with lies that sow support for al-Assad's overthrow

Eric Zuesse
Global Research
Sat, 19 Sep 2015 00:00 UTC
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To introduce this string of BBC lies, one thing that's worth noting is that overwhelmingly the people of Syria view that nation's current President, Bashar al-Assad, favorably. He won his election on 27 May 2007 by acclamation in a referendum when the Associated Press at the time reported that, "the country's tiny opposition boycotted the voting." (Note that it indeed was "a tiny opposition.")
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The fundamentals of US surveillance: What Snowden never told us

Janet Phelan
New Eastern Outlook
Sat, 19 Sep 2015 00:00 UTC
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© nomorecocktails.com"Jolly good, old chap! Nice listenin' t'ya!"
Former US intelligence contractor Edward Snowden's revelations rocked the world. According to his detailed reports, the US had launched massive spying programs and was scrutinizing the communications of American citizens in a manner which could only be described as extreme and intense.

The US's reaction was swift and to the point. ""Nobody is listening to your telephone calls," President Obama said when asked about the NSA. As quoted in The Guardian, Obama went on to say that surveillance programs were "fully overseen not just by Congress but by the Fisa court, a court specially put together to evaluate classified programs to make sure that the executive branch, or government generally, is not abusing them".

However, it appears that Snowden may have missed a pivotal part of the US surveillance program. And in stating that the "nobody" is [not] listening to our calls, President Obama may have been fudging quite a bit.

In fact, Great Britain maintains a "listening post" at NSA HQ. The laws restricting live wiretaps do not apply to foreign countries and thus this listening post is not subject to US law. In other words, the restrictions upon wiretaps, etc. do not apply to the British listening post. So when Great Britain hands over the recordings to the NSA, technically speaking, a law is not being broken and technically speaking, the US is not eavesdropping on our each and every call.

It is Great Britain which is doing the eavesdropping and turning over these records to US intelligence.

Comment: Well, weren't they more than tricky. Buggers!!! Why is it always so much worse than we suspect?

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