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More Russophobia: Russian sports minister refutes anti-doping agency's report and will support any investigation into allegations


RT
Tue, 10 Nov 2015 03:27 UTC
Russian Sports Minister Vitaly Mutko
© Maxim Shemetov / ReutersRussian Sports Minister Vitaly Mutko
All the conclusions in the World Anti-Doping Agency's report are based on unconfirmed sources and unfounded facts, Russian sports minister Vitaly Mutko told RT, adding that the far-fetched report aimed to turn public opinion against Russian athletes.

In the exclusive interview to RT, Mutko refuted WADA's 323-page report which claimed that athletes were encouraged and helped to evade detection of doping substances by state-funded agencies: the anti-doping agency RUSADA, Russian athletics federation, and the testing laboratory in Moscow.

Mutko has called the report's conclusions "baseless" and "really fictional."

"The Russian doping agencies today are really independent from the government," Mutko said, adding that the country will continue to finance and endorse sports. "We only collect samples that are then stored in a laboratory and are supervised for decades. It is not Russia that now heads the anti-doping organization."

Mutko says that Russia annually collects some 15,000 samples, with the total number of athletes disqualified standing at roughly 2 percent, "same as in other countries."

"It is impossible to hide anything today. All of the data is there in the databases supervised by WADA. Many of them just cannot be forged," Mutko said, adding that allegations surfaced to "cast a shadow on Russian sports."

Mutko went on to criticize statements made by Richard "Dick" Pound, the former WADA president who led the 11-month investigation.

"There is the report of the commission and there is the opinion of Mr. Pound, who actually overstepped and exceeded the competence of this commission, and gave his personal assessment, rather a general assessment of the entire anti-doping activities in Russia."

Comment: It's really pathetic watching the West flounder in their never-ending quest to tarnish Russia's reputation.

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Socialism for the rich, Darwinian capitalism for the sucker taxpayer

Michael Krieger
BlackListedNews
Mon, 09 Nov 2015 00:00 UTC
socialism for the rich
Once the American oligarchs saw the ease with which they were able to loot the U.S. taxpayer via the banker bailouts and get away with it, they knew it was the perfect opportunity to declare open season on the general public. As such, the last several years has been little more than an ongoing crime scene in which the rich and powerful have relentlessly preyed on the poor, weak and ignorant with no remorse whatsoever.

Today's piece is just the latest in an almost endless series of incidents demonstrating how the entire economy is systematically rigged to benefit a very small group of people at the expense of everyone.

Comment: See also Fannie and Freddie are back:
In the 2008 crisis, when it looked as if Fannie and Freddie might go bankrupt, Henry M. Paulson Jr., then the Treasury secretary, argued that their fall would cause economic catastrophe. Foreign investors, stuck with their securities, would panic, and the mortgage market would shut down.


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No surprise: Chemical weapons used in 'rebel' vs ISIS fighting in Syria


RT
Fri, 06 Nov 2015 16:39 UTC
U.S rebel training
© Khalil Ashawi / ReutersRebel fighters fire mortar shells at the frontline in the Jabal al-Akrad area in Syria's northwestern Latakia province.
A new report reveals that mustard gas was used during fighting between Islamic State (IS, previously ISIS/ISIL) and other militant groups in a Syrian town, Reuters has reported, citing an undisclosed paper by the international chemical arms watchdog.

The Organization for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons (OPCW) released a confidential report on October 29, revealing the latest use of chemical weapons in Syria.

The summary of the report seen by Reuters concluded "with the utmost confidence that at least two people were exposed to sulfur mustard [on August 21]" in the town of Marea, located north of Aleppo.

"It is very likely that the effects of sulfur mustard resulted in the death of a baby," the report added.

Notably, it is unclear which militant group used the mustard gas, as the OPCW is not tasked with identifying who used the chemical weapon.

Comment: Does it matter which group? For all intents and purposes, they're identical. As to where the weapons came from, take a guess: See also: Chemical Fabrications: East Ghouta and Syria's Missing Children

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Fish

Montreal to dump over 7 billion-liter load of raw sewage into St. Lawrence River


RT
Tue, 10 Nov 2015 13:53 UTC
untreated sewage
© Reuters
Canada's new government has given the city of Montreal the go-ahead for its plans to dump billions of liters of untreated sewage into the St. Lawrence River. The city says it may damage the environment, but the government says the alternatives are worse.

The dump would last for about a week that is needed to make critical repairs to the city's waste-water system. Over that time an estimated 7.5 billion liters of contaminated fluid will be discharged. The work must be completed before December 5.

The plan has been in the pipeline for 18 months and approved by the Conservative government, which flipped-flopped just a week ahead of the general election making it a campaign issue. New Environment Minister Catherine McKenna put it back on track, adding some provisions for emergency response plans and an upgrade to the city's water quality monitoring.

"I wish there were a magic bullet here, I wish there were other options," McKenna said in a conference call from Paris, where she is preparing for the upcoming UN conference on climate change. "This release is far from ideal, but it is needed for the city of Montreal to perform critical maintenance on their infrastructure before winter.

"If we do not allow this to go ahead and there was an unplanned discharge, the long-term impact to flora and fauna could be significantly more," the Globe and Mail cited her as saying.


Comment: How can an "unplanned discharge" be worse than the planned one?


Comment: Releasing untreated sewage will be an environmental disaster. Surely a better plan could have been devised over the past 18 months.

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EU budget fails audit 21 years running: Billions spent by EU was 'possibly illegal'


RT
Tue, 10 Nov 2015 13:39 UTC
Euros
© Leonhard Foeger / Reuters
The European Union misspent €6.3 billion in 2014, according to its financial watchdog, the European Court of Auditors. The EU Budget has failed the audit for the 21st year running.

"Payments for 2014 are materially affected by errors. We therefore give an adverse opinion on their legality and regularity," the report concluded.

The auditor has called for the EU to implement a "wholly new approach" in spending and investing as it is too slow to respond to crises.

Comment: This is yet another example how the power elites don't have the best interest of people in mind.

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Israeli pilots train over southern US, with focus on mountainous areas

Judah Ari Gross
Times of Israel'
Sat, 07 Nov 2015 01:55 UTC
An Israeli 'Shimshon' C-130 transport
© IDF Spokesperson’s UnitAn Israeli 'Shimshon' C-130 transport aircraft flies over the southern United States during the 'Southern Strike' exercise on October 30, 2015.
IAF sends transport planes to America for 'Southern Strike' exercise to forge ties, prepare for missions; officer mum on any Iran relevance

Israeli pilots took to the skies over the southern United States over the past two weeks, flying alongside their American counterparts during the appropriately named "Southern Strike" exercise.

The exercise did not feature action-packed simulated dogfights or bombing runs, but rather the less glamorous, but no less important, transport and logistical missions involving the Israeli Air Forces's C-130 Hercules airplanes — both the older "Karnaf" model, and the new "Shimshon" version which Israel received from Lockheed just last year.


Comment: From the generous support of U.S. tax payers.


Comment: Was an 'exotic energy weapon' used to down Russian plane in Sinai?

U.S./Israel conducted military exercises just across border from Sinai when Metrojet crashed

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PM Medvedev: Terror attack among possible causes of Sinai plane crash


RT
Mon, 09 Nov 2015 21:33 UTC
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© Mohamed Abd El Ghany/ReutersThe remains of a Russian airliner are seen as an army vehicle guards the crash site in the al-Hasanah area in El Arish city, north Egypt, November 1, 2015.
A terror attack is considered by the investigators as one of the possible causes for the crash of the Russian A321 jet over Egypt's Sinai Peninsula in late October, said Russian Prime Minister Dmitry Medvedev.

"The possibility of a terrorist act, of course, remains among the reasons of what had happened" to the Kolavia flight 7K9268, Medvedev told Rossiyskaya Gazeta newspaper. The PM stressed that the inquiry into the cause of the worst disaster in history of Russia's civil aviation, which took the lives of 224 passengers and crew members, is "still ongoing."

Russia's presidential press-secretary, Dmitry Peskov, had said earlier that the international investigators from Russia, Egypt and other interested nations had not yet reached the preliminary conclusions on what caused the Airbus A321 crash.

Egypt has launched its own separate investigation into the possibility of a bomb being planted aboard the Kolavia flight, a senior Egyptian official told BBC. Airbus chief executive Fabrice Bregier also shed some light on the investigation, saying that it had so far failed to reveal any technical malfunction that could have led to the disaster.

Also on Monday, Israel said a terror attack was the "highest of probabilities" for the crash of the Russian airliner. "We are not taking part in the investigation, but from what we hear and understand, I will be surprised if it turns out that this was not a terrorist attack whereby a bomb exploded inside the aircraft," said a spokesman for Israeli Defense Minister Moshe Yaalon.


Comment: How revealing. A possible truth wrapped up with a probable lie.

Was an 'exotic energy weapon' used to down Russian plane in Sinai?

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Week Five: Russians getting down to business in Syria

The Saker
Unz Review
Sun, 08 Nov 2015 00:06 UTC
russian helicopter syria
Whether this tragedy was directly linked to the war in Syria or not, there is no doubt that the downing of Kogalymavia Flight 9268 was the main event of the past week. Since I have covered this issue elsewhere, I shall not return to it in detail again here. I will just repeat here my personal conclusion that this tragedy will not impact the Russian operation in Syria or affect the political situation inside Russia. As for the cause of the tragedy, there are increasing indications that both western and Russian security services have come to a tentative conclusion that it was, indeed, a bomb. On Friday, the head of the Federal Security Service has recommended canceling all flights to Egypt and the evacuation of all the Russian citizens in Egypt (roughly 70,000 people). Several EU countries have also taken similar measures.

There has, however, been another interesting but less noticed development this week in the Russian operation in Syria: the Russians are quietly but very effectively "digging in".
syria russian control air space
© South Front
For the first time, Russia has officially declared that air-defense units were also deployed with the Russian forces. Until now, the main burden for air defense had fallen upon the Russian Navy and, specifically, the ships equipped with the naval variant of the S-300 missile system. This was not an optimal solution not only because it put the burden of defending land based assets from the sea, tying down the Russian navy expeditionary force, but also because this solution only "covered" about half of Syria.

Comment: Russia continues in Syria as it began, methodically, thoroughly, and completely within the bounds of international law.

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Egypt eliminates leader of ISIL group that claimed it brought down A321 jet


Sputnik
Mon, 09 Nov 2015 20:46 UTC
Russian Metrojet A321 crash
© Sputnik/ Rafael DaminovDebris from the Russian Metroject A321 that crashed over the Sinai peninsula on Oct 31st, 2015
While the investigation into the crash of the Russian Metrojet A321 on Egypt's Sinai Peninsula is ongoing, the self-proclaimed Islamic State terrorist group claimed responsibility for the incident. On Monday, Egyptian authorities said they eliminated the leader of the IS cell based in the region.

Ashraf Ali al-Gharably was the leader of the Ansar Bait al-Maqdis group, which recently pledged allegiance to IS and rebranded itself as the Sinai Province of the Islamic State.

On Monday, Cairo police say Gharably was killed in a firefight while resisting arrest.

"He sensed their presence and shot at them in an attempt to flee, requiring the police forces to exchange fire with him leading to his death," the Egyptian Interior ministry said in a statement, according to Agence France-Presse.

Comment: So this "leader" was killed now in order to let people know the governments can handle the situation? Something else to consider: Was an 'exotic energy weapon' used to down Russian plane in Sinai?

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Danish scientist: NATO is a dying alliance using 'fearology' to convince citizens of its relevance


Russia Insider
Mon, 09 Nov 2015 00:00 UTC
nato
Danish scientist Jan Oberg, director of the Transnational Foundation for Peace and Research, has managed to accurately describe NATO using only words (and no vulgar hand gestures). Incredible, but true: Oberg noted that NATO's largest military drills in a decade were supposed to boost fear among ordinary citizens, making them believe it is necessary to ensure against possible war.

"Their (NATO drills) aim is public relations for a dying alliance, which is a kind of a dinosaur in the modern world," Oberg said in an interview.

"This is a military-industrial-media-academic complex playing its games. In order to get the payers to pay for this kind of nonsense you have to have what we in the social psychology call 'fearology'; you have to boost fear among the citizens so that they think that this is relevant and necessary to do this and other kinds of things."

Comment: Unfortunately this useless dinosaur is still managing to bring death, destruction and chaos to every nation it sets its sights upon, and its Gladio networks are still very much operational.

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