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More fear: Munich police verifying info on possible attack on Karlsplatz Square

Sputnik
Sat, 23 Jul 2016 16:04 UTC

Munich Police are verifying the information on possible attack on one of the city's central square, Karlsplatz, the police said Saturday.

"At 5.00 p.m. [3.00 p.m. GMT] we received information on planned attack on Karlsplatz. We arrived at the site, however, it seems that the message was false," the police wrote on Twitter.

However, the police promised to further report on the situation.

On Friday, a 18-year-old German-Iranian man opened fire in a crowded Munich shopping mall and a nearby McDonald's restaurant, killing nine people and wounding 27 others before killing himself.

Does Erdogan owe his life to Russian Special Forces?

Fort Russ
Fri, 22 Jul 2016 15:37 UTC

Erdogan rallies the Turkish citizenry through social media

The pro-American coup attempt led by Gulen in Turkey last Friday shocked Turkey. But when exactly did the threat of a coup become known and who had such information?

As analysts have reconstructed the events, the Turkish intelligence service MIT could have learned of the coup threat and reported it to the General Staff only several hours before it actually began. According to the MIT report, the coup took place at 16:00 on July 15th. The information from MIT officially reached General Staff Chief Hulusi Akar, land forces commander Salih Cholak and General Yashar Guler, who were all later arrested by the rebels, but the General Staff did manage to get out in time the orders banning military aircraft and helicopter flights over Turkey.

At the same time, President Erdogan stated that he received the news of rebellion only after it had begun and was able to leave his hotel a mere 10-15 minutes before the putschists' special forces arrived in helicopters. He stated: "On the 15th, I was in Marmaris, where we had five days of vacation. At around 10 P.M., I was told about what was happening. They decided to take me away from the hotel. An operation against me was carried out in Marmaris and two of my guards were killed. If I had stayed an additional 10-15 minutes, I would have been killed or captured."

The question immediately arises: if the security services and General Staff had known about the coup being prepared, then why was Erdogan not warned until 6 hours later? This was quiet sabotage which means that the leadership of the security services and General Staff also contained conspirators, and that the arrest of generals could have been a diversion. Or did Erdogan receive the information, know everything, and decide to provoke the conspirators into open rebellion in order to nip the coup in the bud?

Comment: This would not be the first time Russia has lent a hand to a besieged leader.

Guided missile destroyer, USS Ross, enters Black Sea, provokes Russian condemnation

RT
Sat, 23 Jul 2016 03:54 UTC

A US guided missile destroyer, USS Ross, equipped with the Aegis advanced missile defense system has entered the Black Sea and is heading to the Ukrainian port city of Odessa to join the international maritime exercises Sea Breeze 2016. The Arleigh Burke destroyer USS Ross is set to join the international exercises in the Back Sea that involve several NATO countries, including the US, Bulgaria, Greece, Lithuania, Italy, Poland, Romania, Turkey and the UK, as well as non-NATO members, such Georgia and Ukraine.

The second stage of the drills called Sea Breeze 2016 started on Monday and will last until July 30. The exercises are the 15th iteration of Sea Breeze, which is "an annual exercise held in the Black Sea designed to enhance interoperability and strengthen regional security," according to the US Navy. The first stage lasted from July 11 to July 17, with 25 military vessels, two planes, two helicopters and some 1,700 personnel are taking part in the exercise conducted in the international waters of the Black Sea.

Comment: Russia is not buying the pretexts or excuses as to the buildup of navy vessels in the Black Sea. This is scaremongering that could turn ugly at any time. Would the US be OK with a Russian fleet hanging out in the Gulf of Mexico, no matter the excuse? We know that answer.

The Western media's dirty game of paid trolls

Phil Butler
New Eastern Outlook
Sat, 23 Jul 2016 15:08 UTC

Extra! Extra! Read all about what Hillary Clinton wants you to know, on Arianna Huffington's digital newspaper! Now read on here to discover how plagiarism by political figures is the least of your worries. The mainstream media, the NGOs, the White House, and the US State Department, have gotten a lot of mileage out of "revealing" Russia's so-called propaganda machine. Well, here's a report on the state of ultra-leftist whacko journalism, and the "American Way" convoluted into a cheating ring that dwarfs even the most ambitious rumors of Putin's troll army.

Trump: The Manchurian Candidate?

"The Real Winner At The GOP Convention Is Vladimir Putin", that's the headline of a story by HuffPo foreign affairs "expert" Akbar Shahid Ahmed (see Center for American Progress and George Soros), and Washington bureau chief Ryan Grim (see his book This Is Your Country on Drugs: The Secret History of Getting High in America). The gist of their story being, Vladimir Putin now runs the Republican Party. Say what? You read that correctly, yes you did.

Controlling the terror narrative: Destruction of CCTV videos in Nice attacks ordered by French government

Gearóid Ó Colmáin
gearoidocolmain.org
Thu, 21 Jul 2016 00:00 UTC

A report in 21st of July edition of Le Figaro newspaper states that France's anti-terrorist executive (sous-direction anti-terroriste-SDAT) has ordered Nice's urban surveillance authorities to destroy all CCTV footage of the Nice Attacks on Bastille Day that rocked the city on the 14th of July 2016.

Although SDAT have cited articles 53 and L706-24 of the prosecution procedure and article R642-1 of the penal code, authorities in Nice interviewed by Le Figaro say that it is the first time they have ever been asked to destroy evidence at a crime scene - something they point out is illegal.

The explanation given by the French Ministry of Justice is that they don't want 'uncontrolled' and 'non-authorised (non maîtrisée) diffusion of the images of the terrorist attacks. The Judicial Police have noted that 140 videos of the attacks in their possession show 'important pieces of the inquiry' (éléments d'enquête intéressants). The French government claims it wants to prevent ISIS from gaining access to videos of the attacks for the purposes of propaganda. They also claim that the destruction of evidence is intended to protect the families of the victims. The comments section of the Le Figaro article is replete with outrage and disgust by the fact that the French government, instead of preserving evidence for the purposes of a thorough, independent investigation, is in fact behaving rather more like the chief suspect in the attack - ordering the destruction of vital evidence.

Comment: Though there is nothing at this time to suggest that the attack in Nice was a false flag, Gladio B type of event, or actually in some way connected to ISIS - and was, in fact, the act of a dangerously deranged individual - it seems as though the French government (out of force of habit) must still inject itself into the strict control of information. Perhaps it "anticipates" future events like those at Charlie Hebdo and the Bataclan theatre that will require more 'war on terror' narrative control.

America's delusion is not to recognize that Gaza is a concentration camp — Weschler

Philip Weiss
Mondoweiss
Tue, 19 Jul 2016 14:45 UTC

Lawrence Weschler, a writer of considerable mainstream prestige, is sick of prevaricating about Israel. It's rabid. It has rabies. And Gaza is a concentration camp. Weschler has let loose chiefly because of the "remorseless" and "repetitively compulsive" aspect of Israeli violence. I believe that understanding is now widely shared in the liberal mainstream, and interventions like Weschler's make it easier for others to speak up. From Truthdig:

I know, I know, and I am bone tired of being told it, when it comes to the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, there is plenty of blame to go around, but by this point after coming on almost 50 years of Israeli stemwinding and procrastinatory obfuscation, I'd put the proportionate distribution of blame at about the same level as the mortality figures—which is, where are we today (what with Wednesday morning's four children killed while out playing on a Gaza beach)? What, 280 to 2?

For the single overriding fact defining the Israeli-Palestinian impasse at this point is that if the Palestinians are quiescent and not engaged in any overt rebellion, the Israelis (and here I am speaking of the vast majority of the population who somehow go along with the antics of their leaders, year after year) manage to tell themselves that things are fine and there's no urgent need to address the situation; and if, as a result, the endlessly put-upon Palestinians do finally rise up in any sort of armed resistance (rocks to rockets), the same Israelis exasperate, "How are we supposed to negotiate with monsters like this?" A wonderfully convenient formula, since it allows the Israelis to go blithely on, systematically stealing Palestinian land in the West Bank, and continuing to confine 1.8 million Gazans within what might well be described as a concentration camp.

Comment: People are able to discuss only what they are aware of. The media is totally controlled in the US, therefore what is inconvenient is not reported.

'Crooked Hillary and Corrupt Kaine': Trump slams Cinton's VP pick and insists the duo have both contributed to America's 'rigged system'

Wills Robinson
Daily Mail
Sat, 23 Jul 2016 07:45 UTC

Donald Trump has slammed Hillary Clinton's selection of Tim Kaine has her vice president - insisting voters would be choosing a corrupt pair for the White House.

Donald Trump has slammed Hillary Clinton's selection of Tim Kaine as her vice president - insisting voters would be choosing a corrupt pair for the White House.

The Republican nominee rebranded the Democratic ticket as 'Crooked Hillary' and 'Corrupt Kaine' and insisted it was more evidence that Obama would have a third term.

Just 24 hours after his acceptance speech at the GOP convention, he added that the pair want us to believe in a 'rigged system that enriches them at your expense'.

He first bashed Hillary's choice of the Virginia Senator in a text message to supporters, while urging them to give his campaign more money.

Hillary's running mate,Tim Kaine forced 6th grade girls to get Gardasil vaccine

The US occupation of Afghanistan, the global heroin epidemic and growing drug trade

Mnar Muhawesh
Mint Press News
Thu, 21 Jul 2016 14:34 UTC

© AP
An Afghan man collects resin from poppies in an opium poppy field in Panjwai district of Kandahar province, south of Kabul, Afghanistan on Wednesday, May 21, 2008. Afghanistan supplies some 93 percent of the world’s opium used to make heroin.

The "War on Drugs" and the "War on Terror" are more intertwined than that media and our elected officials would like us to think.

And this became full front and center when the U.S.-led global crusades overlapped in Afghanistan, leaving in their wake a legacy of death, addiction and government corruption tainting Afghan and American soil.

In the U.S., the War in Afghanistan is among the major contributing factors to the country's devastating heroin epidemic.

Over 10,000 people in America died of heroin-related overdoses in 2014 alone - an epidemic fuelled partly by the low cost and availability of one of the world's most addictive, and most deadly, drugs.

Saudis attempt to bribe Russia with untold wealth, greater influence in Mideast to dump Assad

Sputnik
Sat, 23 Jul 2016 14:25 UTC

Saudi Arabia has promised Russia foreign investments exceeding that from China and influence in the Middle East greater than the Soviet Union's Cold War-era clout in exchange for Moscow withdrawing its support from Syrian President Bashar al-Assad, but the Vzglyad newspaper doubts that it will happen.

Saudi Arabia is rumored to have repeatedly courted Russia in the months after a foreign-sponsored insurgency in Syria turned into o full-blown war. Rumors circulated that in August 2013 Prince Bandar bin Sultan, the then secretary general of the National Security Council and director general of the Saudi Intelligence Agency, offered President Vladimir Putin an arms deal worth $15 billion in exchange for Moscow abandoning al-Assad.

On Friday, the oil kingdom's Foreign Minister Adel al-Jubeir told Politico that Riyadh offered Russia access to the Gulf Cooperation Council market. He also suggested that the country could receive investments exceeding those that come from China.

"We are ready to give Russia a stake in the Middle East that will make Russia a force stronger than the Soviet Union," he added. "We disagree on Syria, not so much on the end game but how to get there."

Russian Northern Fleet ships, subs and aircraft take part in Barents Sea drills

Sputnik
Sat, 23 Jul 2016 14:20 UTC

Over 100 military ships, nuclear and diesel submarines, as well as auxiliary vessels of the Russian Northern Fleet took part in large-scale exercises in the Barents Sea and its southern inlet, the White Sea, the fleet's press service said Saturday.

The Northern Fleet deployment training was taking place during the day, by the evening most of the ships, submarines, and auxiliary vessels, as well as units of the land and coastal forces, air defense divisions returned to places of permanent deployment, according to Capt. 2nd Class Andrei Luzik, the acting head of the Northern Fleet's press service. Commander of the fleet, Vice-Admiral Nikolai Evmenov personally observed the sea deployment exercises.

"Land and coastal troops were raised on alarm. The personnel of the marine brigade and the separate motorized rifle brigade carried out a march to the areas of concentration of military equipment. The training involved more than 1,000 units of military vehicles," Luzik explained.

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Puppet Masters

More fear: Munich police verifying info on possible attack on Karlsplatz Square

Does Erdogan owe his life to Russian Special Forces?

Guided missile destroyer, USS Ross, enters Black Sea, provokes Russian condemnation

The Western media's dirty game of paid trolls

Controlling the terror narrative: Destruction of CCTV videos in Nice attacks ordered by French government

America's delusion is not to recognize that Gaza is a concentration camp — Weschler

'Crooked Hillary and Corrupt Kaine': Trump slams Cinton's VP pick and insists the duo have both contributed to America's 'rigged system'

The US occupation of Afghanistan, the global heroin epidemic and growing drug trade

Saudis attempt to bribe Russia with untold wealth, greater influence in Mideast to dump Assad

Russian Northern Fleet ships, subs and aircraft take part in Barents Sea drills

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