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Israel strikes Gaza targets in response to single rocket which caused no damage


RT
Mon, 25 Jan 2016 01:52 UTC
Israeli fighter jet
© Abir Sultan / ReutersIsraeli fighter jet.
In retaliation to a single rocket that struck an open area in southern Israel on Sunday, the IDF has carried out overnight strikes on Gaza, reportedly hitting at least two "terrorist targets."

According to Palestinian sources, the attacks targeted facilities near the cities of Khan Younis in the south and Deir al Balah in the center of the strip, The Times of Israel reported. Israeli Army spokesman Colonel Peter Lerner has confirmed that its aircraft targeted a "Hamas military training facility" in central Gaza.

The Israeli Air Force jets reportedly hit two Hamas targets in the Gaza Strip on Sunday night. There were no immediate reports of damage or casualties.

The air raid comes in response to earlier rocket fire from the territory of Gaza when a single rocket apparently targeted Israel's southern communities. The projectile triggered warning sirens, but exploded in an open area, causing no injuries or damage.

Rockets coming from Gaza regularly hit Israel but rarely cause any damage. While Hamas, which is in control of the Palestinian territory, has never admitted responsibility for the sporadic attacks on Israel, Tel Aviv maintains that the organization is responsible for everything taking place in the Gaza Strip.
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Israel announces another land grab, levels EU-built West Bank housing meant for Bedouins


Sputnik
Fri, 22 Jan 2016 00:47 UTC
Israel seizes land destroys houses
© Tsafrir Abayov/Associated PressIsraeli officers from the Border Patrol watch over the demolition of a building at the Jewish settlement of Beit El, near the West Bank town of Ramallah, Wednesday, July 29, 2015.
Amid heightened tensions between Israel and Western allies, Jerusalem on Thursday confirmed a major annexation of 154 hectares (380 acres) of territory north of the occupied West Bank.

Israel's announcement of it's largest agricultural land seizure since 2014 has drawn harsh criticism from Palestinian and Western authorities. Palestine officials announced they would push for a UN resolution decrying Israeli settlement policies.

"Settlement activities are a violation of international law and run counter to the public pronouncements of the government of Israel supporting a two-state solution to the conflict," UN Secretary General Ban Ki-moon said in a statement.

The move follows diplomatic clashes this week between Washington and Jerusalem, as US ambassador to Israel Dan Shapiro angered Israeli state representatives by issuing a statement that the US was concerned and perplexed by Israel's West Bank policy.

"We believe they're fundamentally incompatible with a two-state solution and call into question, frankly, the Israeli government's commitment to a two-state solution," deputy State Department spokesman Mark Toner said on Wednesday.

In a move certain to bite the hand that feeds, Israeli forces destroyed six housing structures in the West Bank that were part of a project funded by a humanitarian arm of the EU. The structures were intended for Bedouins living in an area between Jerusalem and the Dead Sea, locally known as E1. Israeli construction in the area would split the West Bank, cutting Palestinians off from East Jerusalem, the city they seek to make their capital.

Comment: The nomadic Bedouins are the latest unfortunate group to be caught in the path of the racist Israeli steamroller.

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Hundreds of terrorist rats flee to Turkey after losing battles with Syrian Army


Fars News Agency
Mon, 25 Jan 2016 00:34 UTC
isis terrorists
Hundreds of Takfiri militants are trying to cross the border to Turkey before they are hunted by the Syrian army in newly captured regions, specially the strategic town of Rabi'a, in Lattakia province. The Syrian army's engineering units are now defusing IEDs and mines planted by the terrorists in Rabi'a town and al-Rawda village after capturing them earlier in today.

Tens of terrorists were killed and dozens more were injured in heavy clashes with the Syrian troops in the Sunday clashes in the region as the army conducted massive assault to win back the town that is known as the second stronghold of the terrorists in the province of Lattakia. Meanwhile, the army is conducting mop-up operations around Rabi'a and nearby regions in a vast area that covers tens of kilometers of land to capture or hunt the remaining pockets of terrorists.

FNA reports from Rabi'a battlefield said frontline reports show terrorists are retreating fast and in an disorganized way, rushing to escape to Turkey. The winning back of Rabi'a town came after the Syrian troops seized back seven villages in the coastal province near the borders with Turkey. The Syrian troops entered the town from the west after killing tens of terrorists and injuring dozens more in fierce clashes. The army is now in full control over Rabi'a.
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War Whore

Retaliation: Ukraine entities to file likely baseless lawsuits against Russia


Sputnik News
Sun, 24 Jan 2016 21:46 UTC
Ukraine president poroshenko
© AP Photo/ Mindaugas Kulbis
Ukrainian President Petro Poroshenko vowed that there will be "a number of legal proceedings" against Russia in two weeks.

Ukrainian companies will file a set of lawsuits against Russia to international courts in two weeks, Ukrainian President Petro Poroshenko said Sunday.
"In two weeks, you will see a number of legal proceedings [against Russia]," Poroshenko told reporters.

Comment: What are they going to sue Russia for, exactly? Not giving them more free money? With tactics like this, it'll be surprising if anyone continues to do business with Ukraine in the future.

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Battlefield negotiations: Syrian victories will determine form of peace, not talks


Moon of Alabama
Sun, 24 Jan 2016 22:21 UTC
latakia
The Syrian army today liberated the the town Rabiah in Latakia province as well as several other villages in the area near the Turkish border. Rabiah, together with Salma which was liberated a few days ago, was one of the jihadists' strongholds in the region. Russian air support and artillery (vid) was again decisive. Pictures from the town showed graffiti the "moderate" foreign supported insurgents left behind. It read "All Alawites will be exterminated".

This map shows the current frontline as well as the old frontline from where the Latakia campaign started a few weeks ago. (bigger hi-res)

The jihadis evacuated all positions west of Rabiah and are on the run. Turkey closed its border to prevent them from crossing it. They will seek refuge in Kinsabba near the Jabal al-Akrad heights, their last strong point, which will be attacked next. After that the general attack will be launched at Jisr al Shanghaur in Idleb province from the west and the south after which a larger pincer attack on Idleb city is planned.

Latakia province and the Russian bases there are now secured. Opposition supply lines from Turkey are largely severed. The momentum is clearly on the side of the government troops.

Comment: We doubt the U.S. really wants the conflict to die down. They will participate in half-hearted negotiations, but in the U.S., the military option isn't just always on the table - it's a permanent fixture there: Then there's this: US & Turkey eyeing military operation in Syria against ISIS if peace talks fail. Could it be any clearer that the U.S. really has no interest in seeing the peace talks succeed? They're just buying time like they did in Ukraine, twice.

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Russia promotes investment in the Far East at Davos World Economic Forum


ITAR-TASS
Sun, 24 Jan 2016 22:19 UTC
World Economic Forum
© EPA/JEAN-CHRISTOPHE BOTT
Russia confirmed its turn to the East at the World Economic Forum in Davos in Switzerland, this year, presenting its projects in the Far East and telling investors about the condition of national economy under sanctions and amid a record low oil prices.

The World Economic Forum, the annual meeting of influential political and business elite, was held in a situation that one of the participants of the forum, head of Credit Suisse Tidjane Thiam described as "the worst start of the year in the history of financial markets."

The opening of the forum coincided with a drop in oil prices below $30 per barrel, which caused another round of the ruble fall.
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Better Earth

Why the fascist US can never defeat Mother Russia

William Wedin
Russia Insider
Sun, 24 Jan 2016 17:47 UTC
Napoleon's Retreat from Moscow painting
Napoleon's Retreat from Moscow
White-supremacist American imperialists have dreamed of defeating and dismembering Russia since at least the 1920's and early '30's when most of America's elite--consisting of the likes of John D. Rockefeller, J.P. Morgan, Andrew Mellon, Henry Ford, William Randolph Hearst, Joseph Kennedy (father of JFK and RFK), and Prescott Bush (father of George H.W. Bush and grandfather of George W. Bush)--decided to massively bankroll Hitler and the Nazi Party, with a view to eradicating the "mongrel" Soviet Union and the Jews of Europe along the way (as documented here, here, and here)--although their attempted coup against FDR miserably failed (and FDR still pardoned his fellow patricians "for the good of the country." What else?)

Comment: As Edgar Cayce predicted over 80 years ago, Russia has become the hope of the world and a beacon of light in the dark times that have been brought on by US/NATO western imperialism with the ruling psychopaths at the helm:
"In Russia there comes the hope of the world, not as that sometimes termed of the communistic, or Bolshevik, no; but freedom, freedom! That each man will live for his fellow man! The principle has been born. It will take years for it to be crystallised, but out of Russia comes again the hope of the world."
(Edgar Cayce, 1944, No. 3976-29)


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Pentagon fumes over Russia's win in Syria, threatens to send in the military in response


Sputnik
Sun, 24 Jan 2016 21:36 UTC
America US helicopter army
© Flickr/ Morning Calm Weekly Newspaper Installation
The Pentagon is "clearly frustrated by the lack of support from its Western coalition," with the US government threatening to resolve the Syrian crisis militarily, German newspaper Deutsche Wirtschafts Nachrichten (DWN) wrote.

Earlier, US Secretary of Defense Ashton Carter called for a stronger involvement of the members of the international coalition against Daesh terrorists, German newspaper Deutsche Wirtschafts Nachrichten (DWN) reported, referring to Carter's interview with CNBC.

According to Carter, many coalition members show insufficient commitment to the fight against terrorism in Syria. The US could do much by itself, but is also expecting other members of the 65-state alliance to do "their part," the politician stressed.

Comment: Further reading: US drops 23k bombs on 6 mid east countries in 2015: Still totally ineffective against ISIS

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Bad Guys

Psychopaths have destroyed America

F. William Engdahl
New Eastern Outlook
Sun, 24 Jan 2016 05:09 UTC
Washington parasite roots
© Unknown

Slightly more than seven decades ago, when the United Nations was officially founded in San Francisco, there was no question in the world about who was the Great Power, the World Hegemon. Today the situation has radically altered to the severe disadvantage of Washington and her ability to dictate terms to the rest of the world in economics, politics, and the greatly-misused expression "human rights and democracy-building." That disadvantage may, ironically, be a blessing in disguise for us all.

In 1945, the United States Federal Reserve controlled the overwhelming majority of the world's monetary gold. As war approached in Europe in 1939, European gold flooded into the United States for safety. In 1935 US official gold reserves were valued at just over $9 billion. By 1940 after the onset of war in Europe, it had leapt to $20 billion. As desperate European countries sought to finance their war effort, their gold went to the United States to purchase essential goods. By the time of the June 1944 international monetary conference at Bretton Woods, the United States Federal Reserve controlled fully 70% of world monetary gold, a staggering advantage in what was then a Bretton Woods Gold Exchange System with the US dollar at its heart. That wasn't even calculating the captured gold of the defeated Axis powers of Germany or Japan, where exact facts and data are buried in layers of deception and rumor to this day.
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Duh moment: John Kerry can't understand why Hezbollah needs '80,000 rockets'

Tyler Durden
Zerohedge
Sun, 24 Jan 2016 21:06 UTC
John Kerry and Saudi foreign minister Adel al-Jubeir
As those who follow Syria's seemingly intractable civil war are no doubt aware, Washington is a big part of why the conflict is now going into its sixth year.

What began as a plan to destabilize the Alawite government by "playing on Sunni fears of Iranian influence" (to quote a leaked diplomatic cable from then-Deputy Chief of Mission in Syria William Roebuck) gradually metamorphosed into a overt and at times absurd effort to arm and train a series of rebel groups in an attempt to bring about regime change in Damascus.

Those efforts have thus far failed, in part because of how poorly the programs were orchestrated and implemented and in part due to Russian and Iranian intervention on behalf of the SAA.
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