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Rasmussen: It's time for NATO to provide Ukraine with lethal weaponry


Fort Russ
Sun, 04 Sep 2016 11:46 UTC
Poroshenko greets Rasmussen
© Mykola Lazarenko / Reuters
Ukraine's President Petro Poroshenko (L) greets Anders Fogh Rasmussen
Translated by J. Flores

Former NATO Secretary General, Advisor to the President of Ukraine, Mr. Anders Fogh Rasmussen said that the West will give Ukraine lethal weapons in the event that Russia "destabilizes eastern Ukraine."

"Ukraine is not a member of NATO and, therefore, the Alliance has no obligations to Ukraine's security. However, if Russia will not fulfill the Minsk agreement, if it continues to destabilize eastern Ukraine, I think it's time for the West and for NATO to provide Ukraine with lethal defensive weapons. And then the Ukrainian military will be able to better defend against Russian aggression", Rasmussen said, in an interview with "Apostrof", released on Sunday.

He also noted that the Armed Forces of Ukraine has done much to strengthen its defenses.

Comment: The weapons industry is booming, thanks to the US and NATO. And no doubt about it they have long sold 'lethal weaponry' to the government they imposed in Kiev. In 2014 the US Congress called on the POTS to 'provide the Government of Ukraine with lethal and non-lethal defense articles, services, and training required to effectively defend its territory and sovereignty'. And in September of 2014 NATO began sending weapons.

Further reading: Lithuania supplying Ukraine with lethal weaponry

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Key points of Putin's Bilderberg interview: "Do you want another Cuban Missile Crisis?"

Ruslan Ostashko
Fort Russ / PolitRussia
Sun, 04 Sep 2016 11:55 UTC
Micklethwait Putin Bloomberg interview
Translated by J. Arnoldski

The most important information event of Friday was Vladimir Putin's interview with Bloomberg, in which the Russian president touched on key issues on the global information agenda. I am sure that dozens of publications are going over this interview and discussing every question and answer in it, but I want to propose to you, dear friends, to look at this from a different angle.

The point is that John Micklethwait, the editor-in-chief of Bloomberg who interviewed the Russian president, is not merely a journalist, but one of many journalists who has participated for many years in meetings of the Bilderberg Club as a full member of this shadow interest group whose opinions determine the policies of Western countries. I think that this explains the unusual format of the interview and the fact that Vladimir Putin called Micklethwait a "specialist" and debated with him more like a politician than a journalist...

If we look at the interview with Putin from this point of view, then we see that this can be considered as Putin's response to the Western political elite. Here are the key points which I would like to highlight.

Comment: Part one of the entire interview, with transcript, can be found here.

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MIB

Syrian analyst claims Mossad training special spies to assassinate resistance leaders


FARS News Agency
Sat, 03 Sep 2016 12:17 UTC
Mossad graphic
A prominent Syrian analyst warned that Israel's spy agency, Mossad, is training special agents for targeted assassinations in the countries which support the resistance front.

"The Zionist regime's spy agency, Mossad, has and is assassinating the leaders of resistance groups and freedom-seeking movements in the world by training groups of mercenaries and sneaking them into target countries," Mohammad Nasour told FNA on Saturday.

"Mossad has established special spy training centers and trained experts in the field of international relations to use them in its media for diverting the public opinion from the regime's crimes," he added.
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Info

Xi and Erdogan pledge to deepen counter-terrorism cooperation at G20 Summit

Engen Tham
Reuters
Sat, 03 Sep 2016 12:11 UTC
Chinese President Xi Jinping (right) shakes hands with Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan
© REUTERS/Lintao Zhang/Pool
Chinese President Xi Jinping and his Turkish counterpart Tayyip Erdogan agreed on Saturday to deepen counter-terror cooperation, as the two set aside previous disagreements over China's treatment of a Turkic-speaking Muslim minority.

Hundreds, possibly thousands, of Uighurs keen to escape unrest in China's western Xinjiang region have traveled clandestinely via Southeast Asia to Turkey, where many see themselves as sharing religious and cultural ties.

Beijing says some Uighurs then end up fighting with militants in Iraq and Syria.

But Ankara vowed last year to keep its doors open to Uighur migrants fleeing what rights activists have called religious persecution in China. Beijing denies accusations that it restricts the Uighurs' religious freedoms.
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Info

Lithuania supplying Ukraine with lethal weaponry


PressTV
Sat, 03 Sep 2016 21:46 UTC
Lithuanian Defense Minister Juozas Olekas
© AFP
Lithuanian Defense Minister Juozas Olekas (L) is seen during a press conference in Vilnius, Lithuania, August 22, 2016.
Lithuania has supplied about 150 tonnes of ammunition to Ukraine for the first time since 2014, says a spokesman for the country's Joint Chiefs of Staff.

The unnamed spokesman told Reuters on Saturday that a day earlier Vilnius had handed over to Ukrainian authorities the ammunition cargo, mostly 5.45 caliber cartridges for various modifications of Kalashnikov AK-47 rifle.

Lithuanian Defense Minister Juozas Olekas said, "We are sending a message to Ukraine that it is not alone."

"Lithuania has consistently helped Ukraine in its fight for territorial integrity and the defense of its values, and we would like to keep helping as much as we can."
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Attention

Is war on the horizon as Germany prepares for the worst?


NovoRossia Today
Sat, 03 Sep 2016 21:41 UTC
soldiers
The German government appears to be preparing for a major war in Europe, as Conscription (Draft) Orders are being secretly sent out to doctors telling them to report for duty, yournewswire.com portal reported.

According to the portal, two doctors have disclosed that they received Orders, telling them that they must report to a military center to begin Army service within 8 days of receipt, and warning them not discuss it with anybody.

The orders come less than one week after the government ominously warned citizens to stockpile food and water in the event of an emergency "which threatens our existence".

One day later, the Czech Republic told its citizens to begin "preparing for the worst."
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Green Light

Putin and Abe want a positive 'New Era' in Russia-Japan relations


RT
Sat, 03 Sep 2016 21:31 UTC
putin abe
© Alexei Druzhinin / Reuters
Russian President Vladimir Putin (R) shakes hands with Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe during a meeting on the sidelines of Eastern Economic Forum in Vladivostok, Russia, September 2, 2016.
Japan's PM Shinzo Abe has urged "a new era" to be established in relations between Moscow and Tokyo after talks with Russian President Putin at an economic forum in Vladivostok, as both states are still engaged in territorial dispute.

On Saturday, PM Abe called on President Putin to "take responsibility" to boost the bilateral ties, while talking to the Russian leader on the second and last day of a major economic forum in the Far Eastern Russian city of Vladivostok.

"Let us overcome all difficulties and leave the people of the next generation a world in which our two countries will reveal their powerful potential. Let's put an end to this abnormal situation, which lasted 70 years, and together launch a new era in Japanese-Russian relations,"Abe said.

Moscow and Tokyo have still not signed a peace treaty following the end of World War II. The key stumbling block remains the seizure of four Japanese islands by the Soviet Union during the last days of the conflict.

Comment: This is shaping up to be yet another big blow to the US empire, which has maintained control over Japan for decades. The question is, in what crazy way will they respond this time? You can't fight the natural order and common sense forever.

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Propaganda

UK's Guardian and arms to terrorists: Sacrificing the associates to protect the crooks

Seth Ferris
New Eastern Outlook
Sat, 03 Sep 2016 21:19 UTC
missle system
The UK's Guardian newspaper is fond of saying it supports investigative journalism. Its distinguished former editor, Peter Preston, goes round the world lecturing on investigative journalism, exposing himself to the risks involved from the leafy lanes of Surrey's stockbroker belt.

So when The Guardian publishes an investigative piece it goes to the head of the queue. If The Guardian says it, it must be the product of dedicated research by credible journalists. Conversely, what The Guardian doesn't say in its articles must be less credible, simply because the Guardian didn't say it. It must be founded on less rigorous evidence, or be the product of some less-than-honest agenda.

On Wednesday 27th July The Guardian published report entitled "Revealed: the £1bn of weapons flowing from Europe to Middle East". This "revelation" is given extra credibility by coming from three authors: Ivan Angelovski, Miranda Patrucic and Lawrence Marzouk. It claims that East European countries have been approving the sale of large quantities of weapons to countries known to supply Syria, which pass along a new pipeline established for the purpose.
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Alarm Clock

Syria continues terrorist purge (humanely) - "International community" kicks up a fuss

Dylan Collins
Al-Jazeera
Sat, 03 Sep 2016 20:51 UTC
damascus evacuation
© Reuters
More than 300 people were evacuated from the besieged Damascus suburb of Moadamiyeh on Friday
Buses carrying more than 300 Syrians left the besieged Damascus suburb of Moadamiyeh on Friday, in the first stage of a deal that will enable the government to retake control of the rebel-held area.

In the first stage of the deal, 303 people, including 62 gunmen who agreed to lay down their arms and accept a presidential amnesty deal, were bussed out of the area and taken to the nearby government-controlled town of Horjelah, according Syrian state news agency SANA.

The Moadamiyeh agreement comes just a week after a deal was struck in neighbouring Daraya that brought about the full evacuation of the suburb, a move heavily criticised by the international community as forced displacement.


Comment: Well, they would say that. The 'international community' being those handful of countries still gunning for Assad.


Those who left Moadamiyeh on Friday were originally from Daraya, having fled heavy bombardments earlier in the year.

Comment: Syria and the Assad government are clearing out the scourge in a very peaceful manner here, offering peace to the crazed heart-eating head-choppers, and still the usual suspects have something bad to say about it. 'Demography change' and 'forced displacement' are now the buzz-words of the day. Give us a break!

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Dollar

US and British mining and processing plant to be built in Russia's Far East


ITAR-TASS
Sat, 03 Sep 2016 21:07 UTC
Eastern Economic Forum
© Alexandr Kryazhev / Sputnik
A mining and processing plant that will unite the Malmyzhskoye gold and copper deposit in the Khabarovsk region and the Kun-Manie copper and nickel deposit in the Amur Region is due to be built on the border of the two regions in the Russian Far East.

The UK's Amur Minerals corporation and the US-Canadian IG Copper signed an agreement of intent at the Eastern Economic Forum (EEF-2016) in the TASS presentation zone on Saturday.

The reserves of the Malmyzhskoye deposit are estimated at 5.12 million tonnes of copper and 273.2 tonnes of gold. In the next five years the investments will top $1.5 billion, IG Copper Director General Thomas Bouens said. The reserves of the Kun-Manie deposit in the north of the Amur region are estimated at 740,100 tonnes of nickel and 212,900 tonnes of copper.

Comment: Apparently anti-Russian sanctions don't apply here.

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