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Mexican drug lord 'El Chapo' caught because he was attempting to make biographical film


RT
Sat, 09 Jan 2016 14:06 UTC
Joaquin
© Edgard Garrido / ReutersJoaquin "El Chapo" Guzman is escorted by soldiers during a presentation at the hangar belonging to the office of the Attorney General in Mexico City, Mexico January 8, 2016.
The infamous Mexican drug kingpin wanted to make a biopic, and this helped authorities to track him down, officials said after Joaquin 'El Chapo' Guzman's arrest on Friday.

An "important aspect that allowed us to locate him was that we discovered Guzman's intention to make a biographical film, for which he established contact with actresses and producers," Attorney General Arely Gomez said, as cited by AFP.
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Germany flies first anti-Daesh 'intelligence extraction' mission from Turkey


RT
Sat, 09 Jan 2016 13:56 UTC
German jet
© Fabian Bimmer / Reuters
Germany has carried out its first reconnaissance mission from a Turkish air base as part of the US-led coalition against Islamic State. The first flights took place more than a month after Berlin approved its largest foreign military mission abroad.

Two of the 30-year old German Tornado jets armed with surveillance equipment took off from NATO's airbase in Incirlik at 9:32am Central European Time for a three hour long mission over Iraq and Syria.

Comment: Question is will Germany share this intelligence data with Russia?

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Rocket

More military flexing: North Korea demonstrates new submarine ballistic missile test


RT
Sat, 09 Jan 2016 13:48 UTC
Kim Jong Un
© Washington Free Beacon / YouTube
North Korea has released a video showing what the country claims to be a successful submarine-launched ballistic missile test last month. It comes two days after Pyongyang claimed to have tested its newly developed miniaturized hydrogen bomb.

As part of an almost an hour long package into N. Korean military preparedness, the Korean Central Television showcased a segment of a ballistic missile launch carried out from a submarine on December 21. The video showed North Korean leader Kim Jong Un observing the launch, as the missile cleared the clouds.

Comment: Meanwhile Seoul claims this missile launch was faked:
South Korean military believes Pyongyang fabricated a new video showing a test of a submarine-launched ballistic missile (SLBM), local media reported Saturday.

On Friday, North Korea's Central Television network broadcast the video of the launch, allegedly conducted in December.

"We consider a video published by North Korea of a SLBM launch fabricated," a South Korean Defense Ministry representative said, as quoted by the Yonhap news agency.


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Vader

Killary's latest batch of emails: Benghazi, the White House and private accounts


RT
Sat, 09 Jan 2016 03:53 UTC
Hillary Clinton
While the US public may be bored of Hillary Clinton's "damn emails," as her rival Bernie Sanders put it, the latest batch of messages - released in the dead of night - offers tantalizing glimpses into what the former secretary of state knew, and when.

In a second breach of a court-mandated deadline, the State Department published the most recent collection of Clinton's emails at 1:39 a.m. ET (06:39 GMT) on Friday. The approximately 2,900 pages, representing 1,262 messages, were released in the same format as the New Year's Eve release, with none of the documents searchable by sender, recipient or subject.

Foggy Bottom offered no explanation as to why the release was delayed from Thursday evening, as originally scheduled, to the dead of night on Friday.

While the previous releases contained unintentionally humorous material about printing all emails and struggles with the fax machine, this round of messages revealed how Clinton dealt with mistakes by her staff, policy suggestions and family members contacting her during the Benghazi crisis.
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Light Saber

SOTT Focus: My distant cousin Serpico: the man who took a bullet to expose police corruption

Daniel DeLafe
Sott.net
Sat, 09 Jan 2016 12:35 UTC
New York Daily News
Photo by Andrew Savulich/New York Daily News
While growing up in Elizabeth, New Jersey, just a short train ride away from New York City, I always heard tales of my distant cousin, Frank Serpico "the Cop", from my father, my aunt, and my grandmother. From what I understood, he is my grandmother's third cousin, and all I knew as a kid was that he stood up to corruption among police and got shot in the face for it.

Serpico movie
Poster for "Serpico" (1973) starring Al Pacino
As a kid I didn't quite understand his importance yet, but when I grew up and started questioning the world around me, particularly my religious upbringing and then the government, I began to see all of the evil and corruption at the heart of society - I soon realized what a great man Frank truly is. I eventually became more interested in Frank after seeing the movie "Serpico" (1973) starring Al Pacino (based on a biography also titled Serpico written by Peter Maas) and it dawned on me how questioning authority and exposing corruption might just run in my blood. Although semi-famous, I found that hardly anyone of my generation knew who he was, let alone what he did and how important it is. I've never actually met Frank, although I would certainly like to - so if you're reading this, Serpico, don't hesitate to reach out!

With the increasing militarization of police departments, rampant police brutality across the country, the sparking of the Black Lives Matter movement, and roughly 1000 people killed by police officers in 2015 alone (well over 1000 according to killedbypolice.net), we are dealing with something serious in this country. I feel now is more important than ever for more people (particularly those of my generation) to be aware of who Frank Serpico is, what he did at great risk to his own life, and why it's important. We must all speak out about militarization of police, police brutality, and other instances of corruption in law enforcement, and it is especially important for the few remaining good cops, those who truly want to change the oppressive atmosphere within the police force that Serpico endured, to also speak out.
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Saudi Arabia fires British bombs from American jets at daycare centre for blind children in Yemen

Ollie Richardson
Fort Russ
Wed, 06 Jan 2016 10:52 UTC
Saudi bombing yemen
Saudi Arabia continues to shock the world with its crimes against civilians in Yemen. On this occasion, the Saudi-led coalition attacked the day-care centre for blind children, located in the Yemeni capital city of Sana'a.

Whilst exact information about the victims of the air raid are not confirmed, it has been reported at least 3 are dead. The blow to the Yemeni civilians was inflicted at a time when they were all sleeping. This explains the complete lack of reaction to a war crime by the USA, European countries, as well as the so-called "human rights" organizations who like to talk about non-existent victims of the Russia, Syria and other undesirables to the West countries.

Comment: Leaders of the UN human rights council, head-chopper extraordinaires, supporters of terrorism and pushers of your barbaric "religion", well done. The US has trained you well.

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Bad Guys

British MPs touted 'Kosovo success' as reason for Syria bombing - Revealing their true goals and intentions

Dan Glazebrook
RT Op-Edge
Sat, 31 Dec 2016 09:27 UTC
Candle serbia belgrade
© Marko Djurica / ReutersA man lights candles in front of a destroyed military headquaters as Serbia marks the 16th anniversary of the NATO bombing campaign in Belgrade
Kosovo is often cited by liberal interventionists as NATO's success story and now a reason for attacking Syria. However, the ongoing lawlessness in the country shows nothing could be further from the truth.

In 1999, NATO bombed Yugoslavia for 78 days, culminating in the withdrawal of Yugoslav troops from the Serbian province of Kosovo. Tens of thousands were killed or maimed by the airstrikes, and Kosovo was carved out as a NATO statelet under the control of UNMIK (the United Nations Mission in Kosovo) in alliance with its local quislings the Kosovo Liberation Army (the KLA).

Last month's parliamentary debate on British airstrikes in Syria witnessed several MPs citing the operation as a great success. Labour MP Ivan Lewis was "proud of the difficult choices that we made" in Kosovo and elsewhere, which he claimed "saved hundreds of thousands of lives".


Comment: So NATO makes alliances with and establishes local radical groups, goes in and bombs the country, ongoing lawlessness and chaos ensues, and they trumpet this to the public as a success. It's almost as if they repeat the same process over and over and nobody ever notices.


Kosovo was particularly held up by those supporting British military action in Syria as an example of how airstrikes alone, without support from ground forces, can be victorious. Mocking those who argued that "coalition action which rests almost wholly on bombing...will have little effect", Margaret Beckett responded "well, tell that to the Kosovans, and do not forget that if there had not been any bombing in Kosovo perhaps 1 million Albanian Muslim refugees would be seeking refuge in Europe."

Comment: There you have it. The people destroying Syria today are no more "Muslims" than they were Kosovan "independence fighters" decades ago. They are the same type of people - psychopaths, who will fight for any ideology if it allows them to hurt people and get away with it, and other pathologically disturbed types who are easily controlled by inhuman ideologies. They are helped, controlled and directed by the bigger, smarter evil folks in order to carry out the Mafia's agenda.

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Pirates

Is Assad really 'starving' his own supporters?

Paul Antonopoulos
Al-Masdar News
Thu, 07 Jan 2016 10:58 UTC
Assad and first lady
Images of malnourished children from the town of Madraya have emerged on the internet. The photos are so shocking that I refuse to share them as they are a testament to the evil that lies within humans. It is inconceivable that such suffering can be brought onto innocent children who had no choice or say in the war.

What has emerged however is the myth that 'Assad and his army' are besieging the town, and that he is the one bringing this suffering upon his own people. This is the very people that he claims he is fighting to protect from jihadist forces.

The Australian Broadcasting Company (ABC) ran with the line that Madaya has been 'under siege for seven months by Syrian government forces and Hezbollah militias.' It makes a passing mention that Ahrar ash-Sham are holed up in the town of 40,000 people, but fails to mention that Ahrar ash-Sham are a key ally to Al-Qaeda's franchise in Syria, Jabhat Al-Nusra and shares its radical ideology.

Even if Ahrar ash-Sham are holed up in the city, how does this even remotely justify the food shortages and the blockade the government is imposing on Madaya? Nothing can justify such a blockade.

However, what if I was to suggest that Madaya is not under a food blockade from 'the regime', but that the food shortage is caused by the Ahrar ash-Sham militants attempting to force the hands of the Syrian government to ease the campaign on the besieged terrorist group?

This very real prospect has not been considered by usual propagandist from the ABC, BBC, The Guardian and the usual ilk who cannot go on and do simple investigative work as it might threaten their simplistic paradigm on understanding the multifaceted and complex Syrian War.


Comment: Quite right. Mainstream news would consider this as 'mental gymnastics' to justify Assad's regime. Funny thing is, people are quite capable of understanding cunning tactics and shell games used by the 'bad guys' when watching a movie, but when it comes to real life they somehow take the most simple explanation as truth, never going deeper than surface appearances.


Comment: Unfortunately the 'Masters of the Universe' have been using the exact same tactics for centuries, and they still work because public opinion is so easily manipulated. All that we can hope for is that Syria and its allies are able to hold off this relentless, inhuman assault.

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TV

BBC denies undermining Labour Party leader Jeremy Corbyn by arranging Stephen Doughty resignation live on air


RT
Fri, 08 Jan 2016 15:17 UTC
BBC House
© Peter Nicholls / Reuters
The BBC has been forced to defend itself against claims it made a deliberate political intervention to discredit Labour Party leader Jeremy Corbyn by arranging for Shadow Minister Stephen Doughty to resign live on air.

Doughty resigned on the BBC's flagship Daily Politics show just before Prime Minister's Questions (PMQs) on Wednesday, in the wake of a cabinet reshuffle by Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn.

The controversy centers around a blog post, since deleted, in which it was claimed BBC political editor Laura Kuenssberg "sealed the deal" to get Doughty to resign on air.


The post, written by BBC producer Andrew Alexander, is alleged to have said: "Just before 9am we learned from Laura Kuenssberg, who comes on the program every Wednesday ahead of PMQs, that she was speaking to one junior shadow minister who was considering resigning.

"I wonder, mused our presenter Andrew Neil, if they would consider doing it live on the show?"

The proposition was then put to Kuenssberg, who though it a "great idea."


Comment: The BBC has never been "balanced and impartial" in it's reporting, whether pro-Israel bias or anti-Corbyn bias, it serves as a propaganda tool for the British Establishment and Washington. See also:

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Book

How to avoid The Hague: Most borrowed book from UN's Dag Hammarskjold library is about war crime immunity


RT
Thu, 07 Jan 2016 11:18 UTC
United Nations Dag Hammarskjöld Library
© WikipediaUnited Nations Dag Hammarskjöld Library
The UN Library has created a media storm by publishing information about its most borrowed book of 2015. Titled 'Heads of State and State Officials for International Crimes,' the publication advises world leaders on how to literally get away with murder.


The Dag Hammarskjold Library, named after the former secretary general of the organization who died in 1961, tried to create a little bit of publicity for itself, by posting a tweet of the most borrowed book of 2015. However, the results proved to be both surprising and embarrassing for the library.

Top of the checkout list proved to be a doctoral thesis from the University of Lucerne by Ramona Pedretti, who wrote about whether heads of states can be charged with war crimes in foreign courts.

Her thesis concludes that leaders in power cannot be prosecuted while they are serving as the head of government, so the likes of Robert Mugabe or Bashar Assad would not be able to be prosecuted under US jurisdiction at present. However, once they step down, they can be charged by foreign courts.

Comment: It's like googling "how to get away with murder".

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