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Persian Gulf temperatures leave elite British warships defenseless


FARS News Agency
Thu, 09 Jun 2016 13:09 UTC
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Britain's Royal Navy quite literally landed itself in hot water, which is causing its most advanced fleet of destroyers to shut down and immobilize when positioned in the Persian Gulf.

The repeated power outages, which leave the ships unable to attack or move, was reported by several sources, Alaraby reported.

Manafacturer Rolls Royce have blamed the Persian Gulf's high temperatures for the problem, which is expected to cost tens of millions of pounds to fix.

Without the corrective work, however, British naval units would be left as sitting ducks in the event of a battle at sea.
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Russian fighter jets cut off terrorists' communication lines with Turkish intelligence agency


FARS News Agency
Thu, 09 Jun 2016 13:03 UTC
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The Russian air force targeted and destroyed the telecommunication towers in Northern Syria near the borders with Turkey and cut off the terrorists' internet and lines of communication with Turkey's MIT intelligence agency.

According to a report by al-Mayadeen news channel, the Russian warplanes smashed two telecommunication towers at the Syrian-Turkish borders, disconnecting the terrorists' contacts with the Turkish intelligence agency.

Other sources said the terrorists who have been caught off hand are now thinking of ways to reestablish their contacts with Turkey.
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Defense Ministry official reveals French special forces on ground in Syria


RT
Thu, 09 Jun 2016 12:37 UTC
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© Kenzo Tribouillard / Reuters
France has deployed its special forces on the ground in northern Syria to advise rebels and help them fight Islamic State, a French Defense Ministry official has revealed to AFP.

"The offensive at Manbij is clearly being backed by a certain number of states including France. It's the usual support - it's advisory," the official told the agency.

Until now, France admitted the presence of some 150 special forces in the region, all of them in Iraqi Kurdistan.

Manbij is a key strategic town under Islamic State (IS, formerly ISIS/ISIL) control in northern Syria. It's a waypoint between the Turkish border and the IS-held Raqqa.
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Over 20 killed and 70 injured as car bomb blasts rock Baghdad again


RT
Thu, 09 Jun 2016 12:28 UTC
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© Khalid al-Mousily / Reuters
Two separate blasts have ripped through Iraq's capital, killing at least 25 people and injuring over 70, according to local police. Both Islamic State- claimed attacks come as Iraqi forces struggle to force the militants out of Falluja, west of Baghdad.

The first blast was reported in Al-Jidida, an eastern district of Baghdad, on Wednesday morning. A commercial street was targeted by a car bomb, Reuters reports.

Comment: No pause for Islamic State during the holy month of Ramadan.

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Tel Aviv attack: Israel suspends 83,000 Palestinian entry permits, boosts troop numbers in West Bank


RT
Thu, 09 Jun 2016 12:13 UTC
Israel checkpoint
© Ammar Awad / Reuters
Israel has frozen entry permits for 83,000 Palestinians during the Muslim holy month of Ramadan over the recent Tel Aviv shooting that left four killed. The authorities have also said they will send hundreds more troops to the West Bank.

"All permits for Ramadan, especially permits for family visits from Judea and Samaria to Israel, are frozen," COGAT, the unit responsible for civilian affairs in the West Bank, said in a statement.

Comment: So once again while the heat is building for Palestinian-Israeli peace talks, this 'terror attack' conveniently happens during a Muslim holiday. This further reminds the world of Israel's rhetoric of 'see, Palestinians are terrorists'.

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The Case of Azerbaijan: Organized crime, oil, and the American way

Ion Todescu
Drakula Blog
Thu, 09 Jun 2016 10:59 UTC
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The US foreign policy has invariably made it clear to the countries beyond the NATO or its nuclear club that a long and prosperous ruling is up to their loyalty to America's strategic interests.

An information society is a thing of curiosity. A human has always been dependent on the public opinion turning eventually into a milk-and-water illusion nourished by the mass media. Be it a federal TV channel or a popular blogger - opinion makers have successfully replaced people's brains. And it's a sin to take no advantage of it.

One of the US foreign policy's priorities is promotion of democratic ideals as well as rule of humanism and human rights. Under slogans like these the US has launched numerous military operations (to make a long story short, invasions); its "color revolutions" have overthrown many a government, but none of those loyal to the USA. However, it concerns the most impudent "dictators" alone who refused to sell out their countries' natural resources to American transnational corporations.
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Is the German Foreign Intelligence Service (BND) becoming a branch office of America's CIA?

Eric Zuesse
Sott.net
Wed, 08 Jun 2016 19:58 UTC
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According to a news report in the June 7th German Economic News (Deutsche Wirtschafts Nachrichten, or DWN), headlined "Merkel entmachtet BND: USA kontrollieren Spionage in Deutschland" or "Merkel Ousts BND: US to Control German Espionage," a new law will soon be passed in the German parliament and be approved by Chancellor Angela Merkel, which will make Germany's version of the CIA, the Bundesnachrichtendienst (BND), nothing more than a branch of the CIA, to such an extreme degree, that even U.S. corporate espionage against German companies will become part of that 'German' operation. The independent capacities of the BND will become emasculated, no longer operational, under the new law.
"In practice, this means that the US intelligence services [NSA] will be allowed to continue to listen in on every company and every individual in Germany."
(That includes the Chancellor herself, whose phone-conversations were previously embarrassingly revealed to have been listened-in upon by the NSA. Now it'll be legal.)

This could be part of the West's buildup toward a global war. According to a report issued on June 6th in German Economic News, the German government is preparing to go to war against Russia, and has in draft-form a Bundeswehr report declaring Russia to be an enemy nation. DWN said there:
"The Russian secret services have apparently thoroughly studied the paper. In advance of the paper's publication, a harsh note of protest has been sent to Berlin: The head of the Foreign Affairs Committee of the Russian State Duma, Alexei Puschkow, has posted this Twitter message: 'The decision of the German government declaring Russia to be an enemy shows Merkel's subservience to the Obama administration.'"

Comment: The Empire of Chaos is tightening its noose around the EU's key country.

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Syria, Iran, Russia defense ministers meet in Tehran to plan Syrian war endgame

Ziad Fadel
Syrian Perspective
Wed, 08 Jun 2016 19:39 UTC
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Syrian Defense Minister, Lt. Gen. Fahd Jaassim Al-Furayj with his Iranian counterpart, Gen. Hossein Dehqaan, are meeting with the Russian Defense Minister, Gen. Sergei Shoigu in Tehran to put the final touches on the plan to overwhelm the terrorists and their Zionist-NATO-Saudi sponsors.
The war in Syria to oust president Assad has taken an ugly turn for the sponsors of international criminality. The good doctor did not go gently into that good night. Dr. Assad persevered amidst a concerted propaganda war of unprecedented levels of cacophonic hysteria modulated by cunning. From the New York Times to the Washington Post to the BBC to Le Monde to Der Spiegel to the Jerusalem Post to every miserable Arabian "news" source, the theme was one and the same: don't show Syrian soldiers in photographs or they'll look like they are human; instead, let the public imagine them as monsters with horns, cloven feet and reptilian tails.

Well, taking a cue from that, SyrPer did exactly the opposite and exhibited, at every opportunity, photographs of our soldiers to give them a human face. That is not what the CIA, MI6, BND, and the rest of the Zionist-controlled spy services wanted. You see, in order to pave the way for direct intervention in Syria to dislodge the Ba'ath Party and the president of the republic, they had to prepare public opinion. Assad (by all reports, a good-natured and shy physician more like the self-deprecating Marcus Welby than the brooding neurosurgeon, Ben Casey) had to appear menacing and cruel - autocratic and arbitrary - a reconstituted Qaddafi or Saddam Hussein. He had to be portrayed as someone who must be overthrown by the masses craving freedom, justice and the American Way. Yawn.

Comment: Fadel may be exaggerating when he predicts the total end of Takfirism and Wahhabism, but this meeting is interesting. Consider: The U.S. had its chance to rein in its death squads. That window is now closed. They can't say the Russians didn't warn them!

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Sauce for the gander: Iran will take US to court for compensation for 63 years 'hostile moves' against the country

Martin Berger
New Eastern Outlook
Wed, 08 Jun 2016 19:37 UTC
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In recent decades Washington has made its domination over the rest of the world in all areas of life its prime objective, and that objective is being pursued whatever the cost even today.

One of the first steps in this direction was made by Nixon's departure from the gold standard that was announced on August 15, 1971. From that moment on, it was no longer possible to convert dollars into gold coins. The main reason for this step was the disparity in real purchasing power of the dollar against the declared gold parity, along with the prolonged deficit of the US trade balance. This measure enabled the United States with the support of a number of European satellites to start printing dollars without any restrictions, which automatically placed the US economy above any international competition and provided its businesses with unfair advantages. It goes without saying that other countries were forced to suffer from this disparity, and the financial damage they've sustained hasn't been repaid in any form by the United States.

To take advantage of this situation, Washington started to develop its military capabilities rapidly, ensuring is primacy over any economic competition through the use of bullets and bombs, ignoring international law completely while launching military interventions in the Middle East, Africa and other regions around the world.

In order to strengthen those trade and economic advantages Washington enjoyed over the rest of the world, the White House today is pushing for the Trans-Pacific Partnership (TTP) and the Transatlantic Trade Partnership (TTIP) to be signed by its satellites, which would allow the US to rewrite the norms of international trade for its "partners" even further. An extensive amount of pressure from Washington is being put these days on its "most loyal allies", since even they seem reluctant to sign such one-sided and unprofitable deals.

Comment: Nothing would show the criminality of the US government more clearly than an official litany of its misdeeds enumerated in a international court. It would also not be surprising, given US hubris, that it would ignore such a lawsuit entirely. Bring on the sanctions.

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Assad to continue fighting war against terrorism, to detriment of 'fascist' Erdogan


RT
Tue, 07 Jun 2016 19:35 UTC
Assad
© SANA / ReutersPresident Bashar al-Assad speaks to members of the new parliament in Damascus.
Syrian President Bashar Assad has vowed to continue the government's "war against terrorism," slamming the "fascist regime" of Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan. The remarks came after Ankara reportedly sent troops to fight alongside rebels in Aleppo.

"Our war on terrorism will continue not because we like war. They imposed the war on us," Assad said in a speech to the newly-elected parliament on Tuesday, reiterating the role that foreign countries have played in Syria's five-year civil war. "The shedding of blood will not end until we uproot terrorism, wherever it is."

Assad also said he plans to win back "every inch" of Syria, and that Aleppo will be a graveyard for Erdogan's ambitions. "Aleppo will become a tomb where all dreams and hopes of this butcher will be buried," the Syrian president said, as quoted by TASS. "The fascist regime of Erdogan focused its attention on Aleppo as it was crushed in Syria and this is the last hope to implement its 'Muslim Brotherhood' Islamist project," he continued. The Erdogan remarks come after the Syrian leader accused the Turkish president - a major supporter of those fighting to oust Assad from office - of recently sending thousands of insurgents to fight government troops in Aleppo.

Russia, which has been on a bombing campaign against Islamic State and other terrorist groups in Syria since September, said on Saturday that more than 2,000 militants had mobilized in the Aleppo area. The city and its surrounding area - located on the border with Turkey - have been a focal point of the country's bloody civil war, divided between government and rebel control. Aleppo is Syria's second-largest city and former commercial hub.

Assad also blamed the opposition for its failure of three rounds of indirect peace talks in Geneva this year, calling his opponents "traitors for foreign countries who have become mats for the feet of their masters."

Comment: When you stand back and compare these two leaders, Assad and Erdogan, the inequality speaks volumes. It tells us that the motives to destroy Syria had almost nothing to do with Bashar al-Assad. When we reflect on the mass genocide of the Kurds in Turkey and other disturbing fascist trajectories that go beyond its boundaries at the hand of Erdogan, it reveals the pathological baseness of this nefarious dictator and, as well, the shameful character of Western leaders who support and use him.

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