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Israeli Air Force strikes Gaza after two rocket attacks

Yaakov Lappin
The Jerusalem Post
Sat, 19 Sep 2015 15:10 UTC
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© ReutersAn IAF F-15I fighter jet.
Just before midnight Friday, Iron Dome anti-rocket battery intercepts Gazan rocket over southern city of Ashkelon.

The Israeli Air Force struck three terrorist infrastructure sites, including a Hamas run telecommunications facility in the North of Gaza, early Saturday morning in response to multiple rocket attacks from the coastal enclave the previous day.

The IDF Spokesperson's Office released a statement saying that the IDF viewed the rocket attacks on Israel with the utmost severity and that it would not tolerate attempts to harm Israeli citizens.

The IDF said that Hamas was responsible for the attack.

Comment: No injuries in Israel but there will be bloodshed in Gaza. Interesting this is happening right when Netanyahu will meet with Putin.

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Russian 'weaponized default' could be the ultimate answer to Western aggression

Pepe Escobar
RT
Sat, 19 Sep 2015 14:03 UTC
Yuan Rublo Ruble
© Ria Novosti
Let's start with some classic Russian politics. Finance Minister Anton Siluanov is drawing up Russia's economic strategy for 2016, including the government budget. Siluanov - essentially a liberal, in favor of foreign investment - will present his proposals to the Kremlin by the end of this month.

So far, nothing spectacular. But then, a few days ago, Kommersant leaked that Russia's Security Council asked presidential aide Sergei Glazyev to come up with a separate economic strategy, to be presented to the council this week. This is not exactly a novelty, as the Russian Security Council in the past has asked small strategy groups for their economic assessment.

The Security Council is led by Nikolai Patrushev, the former head of the Federal Security Service. He and Siluanov are not exactly on the same wavelength. And here's where the plot thickens. Glazyev, a brilliant economist, is a Russian nationalist - sanctioned personally by the US.
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Best of the Web: Gaddafi prophesied Europe's refugee crisis: 'The Mediterranean will become a sea of chaos'


Sputnik
Sat, 19 Sep 2015 10:06 UTC
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Muammar Gaddafi, assassinated spiritual leader of the Libyan Jamahiriya
Millions of refugees storming European borders have definitely come as a surprise to Western politicians. They would not have, if the West only listened to what Libya's leader Muammar Gaddafi said months before he was brutally executed.

In fact, some of these people would not be seeking shelter in Europe if their homes were not destroyed as a result of short-sighted aggressive Western policies.

In March 2011, Gaddafi warned that without unified and stable Libya there would be no one to control countless migrants from Africa and the Middle East from fleeing to Europe. Unlike Western leaders, he apparently understood that millions, not thousands will come, should Tripoli fall.

"There are millions of blacks who could come to the Mediterranean to cross to France and Italy, and Libya plays a role in security in the Mediterranean," he told the France 24 television station.

Comment: Indeed, Gaddafi said to Italian newspaper Il Giornale in March 2011:
He also repeated that his government had represented a bulwark against Islamic extremism, which could now be unleashed, triggering more serious unrest in the region.

"If, instead of a stable government which guarantees security, these bandits linked to Bin Laden take control, the Africans will move en masse towards Europe and the Mediterranean will become a sea of chaos," he said.
The spiritual leader of Libya had a habit of telling it like it is:


See also:

NATO Slaughter: James and Joanne Moriarty expose the truth about what happened in Libya

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South Front Foreign Policy Diary: Deconstructing the 'Migration War' (plus Crisis News)


South Front
Thu, 17 Sep 2015 09:36 UTC
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After the two World Wars of the 20th Century, the humanitarian and economic situation in the Middle East and North Africa, the former colonies of the West, became far worse than that that of the entire northern Eurasia, especially Europe. And after 1991, in other words, after USSR's defeat in the Cold War, the ranks of economically depressed countries were joined by the entire Eastern Europe which was sustained by the USSR at the expense of its own citizens' welfare.Such processes always cause people mass migration from their traditional habitats. Not surprising and not unexpected ...But due to some reasons of common knowledge the problem has resumed with renewed vigor today and we name it, - the immigration crisis. Indeed, current situation is in the zone between the acute state of crisis and, simply, the war.The most of illegal immigrants are in France, Germany, Italy, Spain and Greece.

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South Front Military Report: Poroshenko told UAF infiltrated by Russian agents


South Front
Fri, 18 Sep 2015 09:37 UTC
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The biggest news of the week is Poroshenko's decision to not to implement the 7th wave of mobilization. Ukraine's Mussolini explained that the move was motivated by the relative calm on the Donbass. Instead, the funding originally earmarked for mobilization purposes will be used to...recruit career soldiers. While one can suspect an effort to deceive, Poroshenko also issued orders to demobilize some of the earlier waves, which will have the combined effect of greatly reducing the UAF's manpower levels. The refusal to implement the 7th wave is also a tacit admission the 6th wave was a dismal failure, which is suggested by a ton of circumstantial evidence.


Comment: Fort Russ is reporting that Ukraine has announced the resumption of military hostilities in the Donbass, contra the Minsk agreements, and breaking the shaky ceasefire that has been in effect for the past couple weeks:
Ukraine announced the resumption of hostilities. The operation involves thousands of soldiers and hundreds of military vehicles, said the advisor to the President of Ukraine, Yuriy Biryukov. "Officially: in the zone of military action army began an operation to search and destroy sabotage and reconnaissance groups of the enemy. Throughout the war zone, do not look for "holes" - he wrote on his page on Facebook. He stressed that this operation include "the best UAF force." We can only guess what more of Kiev's crimes this will justify, in the name of anti-seperatism, under the guise of beautiful words.


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Summary execution from 'on high': California Cops Assassinate Fleeing Suspect From Helicopter after causing him to crash into second vehicle injuring three

Joe Quinn
Sott.net
Sat, 19 Sep 2015 08:36 UTC
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The suspect's SUV was 'riddled with bullets'.
The U.S. police state is no longer 'burgeoning' but rather in full operation. Until now, cops in the USA have had a barely plausible explanation for their summary executions of citizens: they 'feared for their lives' and were in direct contact with the victim.

But a car chase yesterday in Northern San Bernardino marked the first time in decades that a citizen has been executed from the air, game hunting style, by a police sniper in a helicopter.

According to San Bernardino County Sheriff's Department Deputy Olivia Bozek, the unnamed driver was a robbery suspect who police had attempted to take into custody during a traffic stop around 12:49 PM.

When the driver refused to stop, he was chased through Fontana on the 215 freeway until he reached northern San Bernardino. After a period of driving the wrong way down the freeway, the man got out of his Chevrolet Tahoe and "failed to park the vehicle properly", causing it to "crash head-on into another vehicle" injuring its three occupants.

This narrative, however, is contradicted by news reports that show the man's vehicle riddled with bullets, suggesting police shot at his car while he was still in it. It seems, therefore, that the injuries to the three people in the other vehicle were a direct result of police firing on the suspects vehicle while it was still moving, forcing him to abandon it.

Further, the body of the suspect is seen lying on the freeway covered with a yellow plastic sheet. This suggests that the man was shot and killed from the helicopter after he exited the vehicle, a point at which he presumably posed no direct threat to anyone.
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Peace in Syria? It's Putin's fault

Pepe Escobar
Asia Times
Fri, 18 Sep 2015 03:26 UTC
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© Asia TimesVladimir Putin and Bashar Assad shake hands in Moscow in 2006.
All one needs to know about the intellectual caliber of the Obama administration is that it is still pondering whether to persist in "ignoring" Russian President Vladimir Putin, or invest in a real partnership to solve the Syrian geopolitical/humanitarian drama. After all, when in doubt between diplomacy or chaos, the Beltway weapon of choice still veers towards the simplistic group think uniting neocons and neoliberalcons: regime change.

And then there's the non-stop The Russians Are Coming! hysteria — the Cold War 2.0 remix, now switching from the invasion/military occupation of Ukraine to the invasion/military occupation of Syria. The White House — which, same as the Pentagon, does not do irony — actually appealed to the Kremlin to behave in a "more constructive" way side-by-side with the spectacularly inefficient coalition of the dodgy opportunists which is in thesis fighting ISIS/ISIL/Daesh.

White House spokesman Josh Earnest clarified that when Obama decides that the Sisyphean task of picking up the phone and dialing K for Kremlin is actually in America's interests, he will do it. The Shakespearean doubt may last days — even as Putin reaffirmed, via Kremlin spokesman Dmitri Peskov, he was always open to dialogue.

The White House at least is mulling an offer from Moscow to actually discuss the Russian buildup in Syria via direct military-to-military talks. The Pentagon will do the talking, seeking the "clarity" that so eludes the Obama administration.
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US-Russia military talks resume as Pentagon freaks out over extent of Russian involvement in Syria

Phil Stewart, Yeganeh Torbati
Reuters
Fri, 18 Sep 2015 06:33 UTC
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© www.rt.comRussian Defense Minister Sergei Shoigu (L) and U.S. Secretary of Defense Ashton Carter.
Russia has sent fighter jets to Syria, U.S. officials said, raising the stakes in a military buildup that has put Washington on edge and led Friday to the first talks between U.S. and Russian defense chiefs in over a year.

U.S. Defense Secretary Ash Carter, eyeing the possibility of rival U.S. and Russian air operations in Syria's limited airspace, agreed in a call with his Russian counterpart to explore ways to avoid accidental military interactions. The coordination necessary to avoid such encounters is known in military parlance as "deconfliction."

"They agreed to further discuss mechanisms for deconfliction in Syria and the counter-ISIL campaign," Pentagon spokesman Peter Cook said after the call, referring to the campaign by the United States and its allies against Islamic State militants.

The former Cold War foes have a common adversary in Islamic State militants in Syria, even as Washington opposes Moscow's support for Syrian President Bashar al-Assad, seeing him as a driver in the nation's devastating, four-and-a-half-year civil war.

A senior U.S. defense official, recounting details of the conversation, said Russia's Defense Minister Sergei Shoigu had described Moscow's activities in Syria as defensive in nature. Shoigu said Russia's military moves "were designed to honor commitments made to the Syrian government," the U.S. official said.

It was unclear, however, what those commitments to Syria are or how Russia's military buildup was relevant to them.

Comment: Putin will address the UN General Assembly on Sept. 28th and his "trajectory was to come and be ignored." To ignore Putin would be a major Western mistake. He certainly is not ignoring the West. He is not ignoring Syria. He is not ignoring ISIS. He is not ignoring the suffering of hundreds of thousands of people in desperate need of food and shelter. If anyone thinks that Putin would come to New York (UNGA) to be ignored, think again.

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Syria carries out air strikes on Islamic State

Tom Perry
Reuters
Fri, 18 Sep 2015 06:30 UTC
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Syrian army jets carried out at least 25 air strikes on the Islamic State-held city of Palmyra on Friday, a group monitoring the war said, the second intense bombardment in two days of territory held by the militants.

The Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said it was one of the most sustained government bombardments of Palmyra.

The air strikes killed at least 26 people, including 12 Islamic State fighters, the British-based Observatory said.

On Thursday, Syrian jets had carried out at least 12 air strikes on Raqqa, Islamic State's de facto capital in the north.

Comment: More info:

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Do you know which nation spends more on its military: Iran or Israel?

James North
Mondoweiss
Thu, 17 Sep 2015 23:19 UTC
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Your average American who followed the debate over the Iran deal would have gotten the impression that Tehran is a military giant, with a Wehrmacht that even without nuclear weapons is capable of unleashing a blitzkrieg across the entire Middle East.

The hard facts are different. In a valuable recent article in Foreign Policy, Trita Parsi and Tyler Cullis point out:

* Iran spends $15 billion a year on its military.

* By contrast, Saudi Arabia spends $80 billion — five times as much — and the United Arab Emirates budgets another $23 billion.

Comment: It is easy to see that Iran's military budget is targeted for defense whereas Israel and other Middle East countries greater military expenditures are for offensive weapons. Bloody bazaar: Who's buying at the London Arms Fair?

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