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British Government's Chemical Attack Narrative Falls Apart - Boris Johnson Lied About Russia

Niall Bradley
Sott.net
Thu, 05 Apr 2018 17:57 UTC

Boris has really done it this time hasn't he.

In a blockbuster twist to the Skripal saga, British Foreign Secretary Boris Johnson and his British Foreign & Commonwealth Office has been caught lying to the whole world.

After almost a month of baseless claims and slurs - broadcast in media globally - about Russian involvement in the attempted murder of retired spy Sergei Skripal and his daughter, the British government is now backpedaling faster than a Tour de France video on rewind.

In its previous iteration, the British government's argument hinged on the Porton Down chemical weapons facility having positively identified the alleged murder weapon, 'Novichok', as being Russian in origin. But now the most that the chief of Porton Down will say is that they have identified a "military-grade nerve agent" of unknown origin.

This time it's Russia's turn to call an emergency UN Security Council meeting, and Britain's turn to field awkward questions.

Meddling: US State Department records show Obama admin helped fund Soros' left-wing activities in Albania

Judicial Watch
Wed, 04 Apr 2018 18:07 UTC

Obama USAID Used U.S. Taxpayers' Funds to Back Soros Group's Effort to Give Albania's Socialist Government 'Full Control Over Judiciary'

Judicial Watch obtained 32 pages of records showing the Obama administration sent U.S. taxpayers' funds to a group backed by billionaire George Soros, which used the money to fund left-wing political activities in Albania, including working with the country's socialist government to push for highly controversial judicial "reform." The records also detail how the Soros operation helped the State Department review grant applications from other groups for taxpayer funding.

The records were obtained in a May 26, 2017, Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) lawsuit against the U.S. Department of State and the U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID) after both the State Department and USAID failed to respond to March 31, 2017, FOIA requests (Judicial Watch v. U.S. Department of State and the U.S. Agency for International Development (No. 1:17-cv-01012)). Judicial Watch agreed to dismiss the lawsuit after it received the documents and payment of attorneys' fees.

The new documents show USAID funds were funneled through that agency's Civil Society Project to back Soros's left-wing Open Society Foundations in Albania, particularly the Soros operation efforts to give the socialist government greater control of the judiciary. USAID reportedly gave $9 million in 2016 to the "Justice for All" campaign, which is overseen by Soros's "East West Management Institute."

Comment: What business do Soros and the US State Department have interfering in the democratic processes of other countries?

Britain's Not So Distant History of State Sponsored Assassinations

Gavin OReilly
Mint Press News
Thu, 05 Apr 2018 20:19 UTC

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Britain's self-righteous tone when denouncing Russia for the alleged assassination of Sergei Skripal ignores its own not so distant history of engaging in state-sponsored assassinations.

UK Foreign Office deletes tweet stating nerve agent from Russia, claims it was 'inaccurate'

RT
Wed, 04 Apr 2018 15:35 UTC

The UK Foreign Office denies claiming the nerve agent used in the Salisbury poisoning of the Skripals came directly from Russia. Despite admitting it sent a tweet saying exactly that, and Boris Johnson making the same claim.

The UK Foreign Office has admitted it deleted the tweet which directly stated that the nerve agent, identified by the UK as A-234 - also known as Novichok- used in the Salisbury poisoning of the Skripals, came direct from Russia.

This week British government scientists admitted they couldn't tell where the poison came from, undermining a number of claims to come out of the Foreign Office.

London has directly accused the Kremlin on at least three occasions of being behind the chemical attack on former double agent Sergei Skripal and his daughter, Yulia.

Bizarrely, the Foreign Office denies Foreign Secretary Boris Johnson claimed the novichok "categorically" came from Russia, despite a recorded interview clearly showing he did.

Comment: There is no 'appears to be' questioning of the 'official' story. It is being questioned - from the beginning. It's so full of holes that one would think a 5-year-old put it together. And now that they were caught red-handed.... "that's Russia's fault too! They keep changing the story!" No, actually, that's what the UK has been doing throughout the whole time. As for Boris, looks like he's already in hot water.

The Skripal case and UK's flagrant misuse of 'intelligence'

Alexander Mercouris
The Duran
Thu, 05 Apr 2018 20:10 UTC

© Laurie Nevay/Wikipedia
The SIS Building or MI6 Building at Vauxhall Cross houses the headquarters of the Secret Intelligence Service (SIS, MI6), the United Kingdom's foreign intelligence agency.

As the Novichok 'evidence' collapses, the criminal investigation into the Skripal attack has become corrupted

The events of the last few days in the Skripal case provide an object lesson of why in criminal investigations the rules of due process should always be adhered to. The reason the British now find themselves in difficulties is because they have not adhered to them.

This despite the fact that - as they all too often like to remind us - it was the British themselves who largely created them.

The single biggest unexplained mystery about the Skripal case is why it attracted so much attention so quickly.

Within hours of Sergey and Yulia Skripal being found passed out on a bench the British media were feverishly speculating that they had been poisoned by Russia.

This despite the fact that no information at that point existed which warranted such speculation, and despite pleas for the investigation to be allowed to take its course from the police and from the government minister responsible for the police, Home Secretary Amber Rudd (who has ever since been conspicuously silent about the whole affair).

Russophobia in the New Cold War: Interview with Stephen Cohen

The Nation
Wed, 04 Apr 2018 17:09 UTC

Several factors make this US-Russian Cold War more dangerous than its predecessor. Is "Russo-madness" one of them?

Stephen F. Cohen, professor emeritus of Russian Studies and Politics at NYU and Princeton, and John Batchelor continue their (usually) weekly discussions of the new US-Russian Cold War. (Previous installments, now in their fourth year, are at TheNation.com.)

Cohen has previously explained why the new Cold War is potentially even more dangerous than was its 40-year predecessor, citing factors such as the political epicenter's now being on Russia's borders, lack of a mutual code of conduct, and the unprecedented demonization of the Kremlin leader. He had not much considered the role of Russophobia because he thought it had not been a large causal factor, unlike anti-Communism, in the preceding one, recalling an episode in his own family and, more importantly, the words of George Kennan, the architect of containment, in 1951, about the Russian people: "Give them time; let them be Russians; let them work out their internal problems in their own manner... towards dignity and enlightenment in government."

Comment: We've read Mettan's book; it's excellent.

The short answer is that russophobia isn't so much a phenomenon about Russia as it is one about the West and its founding myths.

How John Bolton could sabotage the Korea peace talks

Whitney Webb
MintPress News
Wed, 04 Apr 2018 00:00 UTC

Regardless of how much North Korea may capitulate to U.S. demands in negotiations, the threat of war will remain - the calling card of Bolton's version of "diplomacy."

While the administration of President Donald Trump has made a point of threatening other countries and their leaders, few countries have been menaced like North Korea. Last August, Trump threatened to attack North Korea with "fire and fury unlike the world has ever seen," apparently suggesting that any U.S. attack would dwarf the devastation wrought by the U.S. atomic bombs dropped on Hiroshima and Nagasaki at the close of the Second World War. A month later, during his debut speech to the United Nations, Trump threatened to "totally destroy" the country if it failed to end its nuclear weapons program.

Since then, the threats have continued in some form or another, with the Pentagon telling Congress that a full-scale invasion of the isolated country was the only way to destroy its nuclear weapons and with the White House seeking to begin a "limited" war on the Korean peninsula by launching a "bloody nose" attack - plans that experts have long maintained are as dangerous as they are deluded.

Despite all the fear-mongering and threats of "extinction" and annihilation, North Korea and South Korea have agreed to high-level talks that, unsurprisingly, will also involve the U.S., in order to resolve the solution peacefully.

Pentagon keeps ISIS alive so it can claim Syria job not done

Marko Marjanović
Checkpoint Asia
Wed, 04 Apr 2018 00:00 UTC

Trump has publicly let it be known he wants to leave Syria. Moreover it has been reported that he has been privately talking up a withdrawal for months. This goes a long way towards explaining a most peculiar situation in eastern Syria.

As you will recall much of the fighting in 2017 in Syria was marked by the steady rollback of ISIS by the Syrian army on one side, and the US-backed Kurdish-dominated SDF militias on the other. At the final stages of that fight there even developed "the race for Euphrates". The race to see which of these two faction would capture more of eastern Syria, particularly the oil-rich land just east of the Euphrates.

As it was the final delineation more or less ended up following the river, with the Russian-backed Syrian army to the east and Americans and the Kurds to the east. In fact, now the US military insists that Syria to the east of the Euphrates falls into its occupation zone and has twice lashed out against the Syrian army (and Russian contractors) to the east of the river with force, killing a hundred of them.

Comment: The existence of a holdout ISIS contingency in the middle of various military holdings has no other logical explanation than the one above. ISIS' recruiting of children to come under military fire is an abomination. The US military was created to serve the American people and the safety of the nation, not as an independent faction that has its own agenda and nefarious ways of keeping it.

Saudi Arabia's Crown Prince recognizes Israel

Press TV
Mon, 02 Apr 2018 08:10 UTC

Saudi Arabia's Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman has recognized Israel, stressing that Israelis are entitled to their own land.

"I believe that each people, anywhere, has a right to live in their peaceful nation. I believe the Palestinians and the Israelis have the right to have their own land," said bin Salman during an interview with the Atlantic published on Monday. "But we have to have a peace agreement to assure the stability for everyone and to have normal relations," he added.

He added that kingdom has no problems with Jews and that "there are a lot of interests we share with Israel." He further noted that Saudi Arabia would establish economic ties with the Tel Aviv regime after conflict with the Palestinian Authority is settled. The announcement is the latest step in the kingdom's path moving towards normalization of diplomatic relations with the Tel Aviv regime.

Comment: Israelis may be 'entitled' to their own land, not someone else's. Does MBS have enough 'Israel-value' to broker the peace agreement between Israel and Palestine? Bets are off on this one. Israel has always been a 'shyster' nation, only self-served and frankly relishes its tyrannical domination over Palestine. SA is most useful in an alliance against Iran, especially with Israeli-cooked intelligence.

Russian Ambassador to UK urges OPCW probe results to be made public

RT
Thu, 05 Apr 2018 12:07 UTC

After a failed OPCW vote on transparency, it is up to the UK to make public all material relevant to the investigation of the Salisbury poisoning affair, the Russian ambassador said. Russia strongly urges the British to do so.

Russian Ambassador to the UK Alexander Yakovenko called for the investigation into the case of Sergei Skripal to be made as transparent as possible after the governing body of the Organization for the Prohibition of the Chemical Weapons (OPCW) voted against a Russian-Chinese proposal. The initiative called for the full cooperation of both the UK and Russia in the ongoing probe and have the results presented to the whole world.

The vote was 15 to 6 against the initiative. The Russian ambassador pointed out that the UK's opposition to the proposal was backed mostly by members of the EU and NATO. But 17 other nations abstained from the vote, rejecting, according to Yakovenko, the incredible "pressure" put on them by London and its camp, distancing themselves from the accusations against Russia.

The votes for the proposal and those who abstained constituted all representatives from Latin America and Africa and the majority of the representatives from Asia at the table.

Comment: So, who got to those countries that abstained and what was the leverage?

Seriously, lets break down these words, and I am fully equipped for this task that I give to myself NOW. gives OSHA the authority to act quickly...

Buffalo_Ken

Forensic pathologists performed a postmortem and concluded that the man had probably died mid-flight Let me see ... he walked onto the plane,...

HashAttack2

This ain't no fucking real emergency. It is an effing emergency in the mind of a few....who thought they were gonna put the rest of us into...

Buffalo_Ken

The administration defended OSHA's legal right to issue these requirements, saying that the Occupational Safety and Health Act "gives OSHA the...

HashAttack2

Thanks, SOTT. Good read.

ReRan

Puppet Masters

British Government's Chemical Attack Narrative Falls Apart - Boris Johnson Lied About Russia

Meddling: US State Department records show Obama admin helped fund Soros' left-wing activities in Albania

Britain's Not So Distant History of State Sponsored Assassinations

UK Foreign Office deletes tweet stating nerve agent from Russia, claims it was 'inaccurate'

The Skripal case and UK's flagrant misuse of 'intelligence'

Russophobia in the New Cold War: Interview with Stephen Cohen

How John Bolton could sabotage the Korea peace talks

Pentagon keeps ISIS alive so it can claim Syria job not done

Saudi Arabia's Crown Prince recognizes Israel

Russian Ambassador to UK urges OPCW probe results to be made public

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