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Russian MoD report claims US spy plane coordinated 'ISIS' drone attack on Russia's Syrian airbase


RT
Thu, 25 Oct 2018 09:34 UTC
Plane/Drone
© Boeing Defense/AFP/Andrei Borodulin/Ruptly
US P-8 Poseidon plane • Militant drone, Khmeimim base
A senior Russian military official has accused the US of being directly involved in a drone attack on the Russian airbase in Syria's Khmeimim. The aircraft were controlled from a US spy plane nearby, he claimed.

Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov was speaking about a report made by Russia's Defense Ministry. It said that the drone attack on the Russian airbase was directed from a US P-8 Poseidon surveillance plane.

The base located in Latakia governorate has been attacked by primitive drones on numerous occasions. According to Col. Gen. Aleksandr Fomin, Russia's deputy defense minister, the attack on January 6 was done with direct help from the American military.

Speaking at a high-profile security forum in China, Fomin said a Boeing P-8 Poseidon was deployed in the area on that date, when 13 drones were launched to attack the Russian base. The US reconnaissance plane took control of the drones once the troops defending the base used electronic warfare to disrupt the control signals for the UAVs.

Comment: We all already knew that of course, but it's remarkable how diplomatic the Russians can be when it comes to American provocations and insults.

See also: Completely ignored in US media, Russians are fully informed about such provocations:



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Treasure Chest

Divesting from petrodollar? Saudi Arabia to join Russian-Chinese Investment Fund


RT
Thu, 25 Oct 2018 19:13 UTC
Saudi Arabia finance
© Reuters / Faisal Al Nasser
Riyadh is planning to provide major investments into the Russian Direct Investment Fund (RDIF) with the fund expected to be renamed, according to the head of RDIF, Kirill Dmitriev.

"In the near future, we will announce that Saudi Arabia is investing in RCIF and the fund will be renamed as the Russian-Chinese-Saudi Fund," Dmitriev said at the Future Investment Initiative (FII), Saudi Arabia's international investment forum.

"Thus, the sovereign fund of Saudi Arabia will join our partnership with China. That means significant investments from the Saudi side."
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Arrow Up

Will Italy ask Russia to buy Italian bonds when ECB funding ends?

Tyler Durden
Zero Hedge
Thu, 25 Oct 2018 18:52 UTC
Salvini
© Tony Gentile / Reuters
With just over two months left under the ECB's sovereign bond buying program (unless, of course, Mario Draghi reverses should European stocks continue to plunge), Italy - which has been the biggest beneficiary of ECB's QE generosity, keeping Italian bond yields low, is starting to sweat: after all, without the ECB backstop and with Italy now in a critical stand off with the EU which will likely get much worse before it gets better, why would anyone buy BTPs?

So, as a bizarre alternative, Italy's La Stampa reported this morning that Italy Deputy Prime Minister and head of League party Matteo Salvini requested that Premier Giuseppe Conte discuss possible Russian purchases of Italy govt bonds at his meeting with President Vladimir Putin on Tuesday in Moscow.

According to the Italian newspaper, "Salvini would favor Russia buying Italy govt bonds once there is no shield from ECB."

Comment: Italy has made it quite clear that it is seeking to remove itself from the yoke of the EU, and that it wants better relations with Russia, perhaps this is a reminder to the EU that there are alternatives: Also check out SOTT radio's: Behind the Headlines: 'Quitaly' Highlights EU's Democratic Crisis

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Smoking

Flurry of proposals issued by Finland's health ministry to make country smoke-free by 2030


Uutiset
Fri, 19 Oct 2018 19:01 UTC
Proposals made by Finland's Ministry of Social Affairs and Health include raising smoking age limits, major tobacco tax hikes and smoking bans in many places

Finlands proposals to go smoke-free
© Pixabay
Finland has set a goal to make the country smoke-free by the year 2030. In order to reach that goal in time, the Ministry of Social Affairs and Health submitted a lengthy list of proposals which will likely addressed by the new government after next year's elections.

"Smoke-free" is a bit of a misnomer, because in reality the goal is to reduce tobacco use to a level of less than five percent of the population. That includes all nicotine products, including cigarettes, cigars, pipe tobacco, nicotine-containing e-cigarette products and others.

Today about 12 percent of adults in Finland smoke tobacco. Three percent of the population uses the orally-ingested tobacco product snus, even though the sale of it has been banned in Finland for years.

The Ministry of Social Affairs and Health's new measures proposal was submitted to parliament on Friday.

Comment: See also:

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Sheriff

NYC's 9/11 top cop Bernard Kerik walks off CNN when mail bomb story becomes politicized


Breitbart News
Wed, 24 Oct 2018 15:44 UTC
Bernard Kerik
© Pablo Martinez Monsivais / Associated Press
Former New York City Police Commissioner Bernard Kerik
Former New York City Police Commissioner Bernard Kerik told Breitbart News Tonight Wednesday evening that he had walked off a CNN set earlier in the day because the network had politicized its coverage of mail bombs sent to top Democratic Party figures.

Kerik, who led the New York Police Department (NYPD) during the 9/11 terror attacks, told hosts Rebecca Mansour and Joel Pollak that he had pulled out his microphone and earpiece and walked off the set minutes before a scheduled live panel discussion regarding the mail bombs.

Kerik recalled, "I was scheduled to be on CNN. We were supposed to talk about the investigation and seizure of these devices, and right in the beginning of the set, they suspended us and they went to John Brennan, who was somewhere speaking ... and then he went on a 10-minute rant about the president."

Comment: October surprise: Mail bombs target Soros, Clintons, Obama, CNN, Wasserman Schultz, Holder (UPDATES)

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Eye 2

NATO launches biggest military exercise since end of Cold War - And near Russia's borders

Rikard Jozwiak
Source
Thu, 25 Oct 2018 15:40 UTC
Norwegian CV9030

A Norwegian CV9030 armored infantry combat vehicle drives up a ramp and on to a train during thee NATO-led Trident Juncture exercises in Stjordal, Norway, on October 24.
NATO has launched its largest military exercise since the collapse of the Soviet Union, mustering tens of thousands of troops in what the head of the Western alliance called a "strong display" of its capability, unity, and resolve at a time of growing danger in Europe.

The main phase of the exercise Trident Juncture -- involving military forces from all 29 NATO allies, plus partners Finland and Sweden, and stretching from the North Atlantic to the Baltic Sea -- began in Norway on October 25 and was scheduled to run for two weeks.

"This is an important day because Trident Juncture is NATO's biggest exercise since the end of the Cold War," NATO Secretary-General Jens Stoltenberg said ahead of the drills.

The exercise is drawing criticism from Moscow amid persistent tension between NATO and Russia, which seized Crimea from Ukraine in 2014 and backs separatists in an ongoing conflict in eastern Ukraine but accuses the alliance of provocative behavior near its borders.

Another source of discord is what NATO says is Russia's deployment of a missile that violates a key U.S.-Russian nuclear arms treaty and could potentially be used to target alliance members in Europe.


Comment: "We don't want it" but Europe will expose itself to retaliation if it agrees to deploy US missiles - Putin


Comment: See also: Also check out SOTT radio's: Behind the Headlines: Putin The World To Rights: Russia's New Nuclear Weapons And The End of 'Unipolarity'

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Megaphone

Czech FM calls for EU debate on arms sales to Saudi Arabia after Khashoggi murder - Removes diplomat from country


RT
Wed, 24 Oct 2018 23:17 UTC
Saudi armed forces on parade
© AFP/Bandar Aldandani
Saudi armed forces on parade, August 13, 2018
The Czech Republic will recall an official from its embassy in Saudi Arabia, the first such move against the kingdom since the killing of journalist Jamal Khashoggi in its Istanbul consulate was revealed.

Calling attacks on journalists "unacceptable," Czech Minister of Foreign Affairs Tomas Petricek said he had made Prague's position on the gruesome death clear to the Saudi Arabian Ambassador when the two met to discuss the issue on Wednesday.

"In the diplomatic response," Petricek tweeted, "the Czech Republic will withdraw one diplomat from Saudi Arabia."

A spokeswoman for the ministry clarified to media that the diplomat in question will be the liaison posted to the embassy by the Czech Agriculture Ministry.

Comment: After decades of Western support for the criminal Saudi regime, why would anyone suddenly develop a conscience? Obviously, there's much more to the Khashoggi murder than it first appears: For more, check out: NewsReal: Saudi Arabia: A Wretched Hive of Scum And Villainy, Fully Supported by The West

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Megaphone

"We don't want it" but Europe will expose itself to retaliation if it agrees to deploy US missiles - Putin


RT
Thu, 25 Oct 2018 04:56 UTC
S-300
© Reuters / Maxim Shemetov
The S-300 air defence system launches a missile during the International Army Games 2016 at the Ashuluk military polygon outside Astrakhan
Europeans will be caught in the crosshairs of any potential conflict between the US and Russia if they agree to host US missiles, Russian President Vladimir Putin said, but there is no real reason to put Europe in such a danger.

The Russian president outlined a scenario in which the US would move to withdraw from the Intermediate-Range Nuclear Forces (INF) treaty and decide to place nuclear missiles at Russia's doorstep.

The INF pact, which came into force in 1988, prohibits the development, production and deployment of land-based and cruise missiles with ranges of between 500km and 5,500km.

"If they are deployed in Europe, we will naturally have to respond in kind," Putin told a news conference on Wednesday, adding that in this scenario, European nations "should understand they would expose their territory to the threat of a possible retaliatory strike."

Comment: More from Russian Defense Minister Sergei Shoigu:


It's clear by now that any 'claims' the US makes without providing independently verifiable evidence is merely a ruse, and all because they're no longer able to dictate world policy like they once did.

See also: Also check out SOTT radio:

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Blackbox

Did the US just tacitly recognize Crimea as Russian? Bolton pays tribute to Kerch victims on Red Square

Joaquin Flores
Fort Russ News
Thu, 25 Oct 2018 15:32 UTC
crimea kerch college terrorist map
© RT
Did John Bolton, the career Russophobic 'war hawk' at large, just accidentally recognize Crimea as Russia? It appears so. And it may not be so accidental given the realities of the present situation. US Secretary of Defense James Mattis had previously just done the same in a joint meeting with Sergei Shoigu.

Yesterday, US National Security Adviser to the President John Bolton was on Red Square in Moscow and paid tribute to the victims of the massacre of students and teachers in Russian city Kerch, on the Crimean peninsula, formerly part of post-Soviet Ukraine.

The US Embassy in the Russian Federation actually reported this in their twitter.

"John Bolton laid flowers in memory of the victims of the terrible tragedy that happened last week at the Kerch Polytechnic College," the report says.

Also, the American Embassy posted the appropriate photo.
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Bad Guys

Korybko: It turns out Saudi Arabia isn't a US puppet after all

Andrew Korybko
Eurasia Future
Wed, 24 Oct 2018 15:09 UTC
“Slučaj Khashoggi” – Rusi šute, a SAD i Izrael žele spasiti saudijskog princa
The US' decision to revoke the visas of 21 Saudis who it claims are responsible for dissident journalist Jamal Khashoggi's killing and possibly impose Magnitsky Act sanctions against them proves that Saudi Arabia isn't exactly the "American puppet" that many people had previously thought that it was if Washington is willing to punish its so-called "ally" in such a humiliating way, but this realization also risks shattering the worldview that many in the Alt-Media Community worked for years to reinforce.

Analysis is an art, and just like any other, its practitioners' final product is rarely perfect. This understanding is more apt than ever when it comes to deciphering the ins and outs of contemporary Saudi geostrategy amidst the paradigm-changing shifts that have thus far characterized the emerging Multipolar World Order. It had hitherto been taken for granted that Saudi Arabia is an "American puppet", and truth be told, the author himself also firmly believed that it was as recently as a few years ago, and with good reason. Saudi Arabia has a history of siding with the US and behaving as its "cat's paw" in the region, especially whenever its destabilizing activities can be argued to have had even the most remote anti-Iranian purposes. Saudi Arabia is also extremely close to the US' top ally "Israel", so it follows that these three powers are strategically inseparable given their many overlapping interests.
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