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International bodies pressured to 'alter facts' about Syria, former US chief of staff reveals

Kirill Kurevlev
Sputnik
Tue, 16 Mar 2021 03:43 UTC

Earlier this month, Russian Ambassador to the United Nations Vassily Nebenzia said Western countries were trying to strip the Syrian government of its rights in OPCW, as they were using the chemical weapons case against Syria as an instrument to punish what Western countries view as "undesirable authorities" in Damascus.

Lawrence Wilkerson, former US Secretary of State Colin Powell's chief of staff, argues that international bodies, like the Organization for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons (OPCW), have been occasionally pressured by some countries into "altering the facts" in regard to its investigation of the alleged chemical attack in the Syrian city of Douma in 2018.

This statement follows the Courage Foundation's recent report, where it is stated that the OPCW had "sidestepped" worries about its contested inquiry into the alleged chemical attack, accusing the body of endorsing "unsubstantiated or possibly manipulated" findings.

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Expect government crackdowns in a "global depression"

Bruce Wilds
Advancing Time
Sun, 07 Mar 2021 00:00 UTC

For those professing a preference for one type of government over another, an ugly reality is they all cut from the same cloth. Whether we are talking about Democracy, Communism, Socialism, or Fascism the strong link they share is one of dominance and a desire to control. While seen as vastly different systems with distinct goals, each is rooted in the promise people should sacrifice as needed for "the greater good." The main flaw in a democracy is that it allows a simple majority to force their desires upon others. This is why our forefathers set checks and balances in the Constitution, however, even these do not guarantee freedom will remain.

Today, the burden of risk and the amount of "skin in the game" is not equally shared by all of society. Over time our financial system and institutions have been corrupted by crony capitalism and a political system that panders to the masses by exchanging favors for baubles. It could be argued that those in power don't have to take away our freedom by force if we are willing to surrender it or trade it for a few paid weeks off work. Nor do they have to be fair in how they go about this if they simply get a majority of the populace to go along with their plan.

Fears of 'widespread disobedience' of lockdown if protests allowed - UK Foreign Sec

RT
Tue, 16 Mar 2021 09:21 UTC

© REUTERS/Henry Nicholls
FILE PHOTO: Police officers cross Westminster Bridge during a protest, following the kidnap and murder of Sarah Everard, in London, Britain

The foreign secretary has warned that making exceptions to Covid-induced lockdown restrictions for protest movements could lead to further 'disobedience' and rule breaking, as critics question police at Sarah Everard vigil.

Speaking on Tuesday, Foreign Secretary Dominic Raab said there was an "inherently difficult challenge" in balancing people's desire to protest and share their grievances with the need to control the pandemic.

"The thorny issue is how we allow peaceful protest expressing our concern with something as terrible as the Sarah Everard case with also the public concern as we come through this vicious and deadly pandemic," Raab told Sky News.

Comment: Perhaps some of those in power are aware that, after nearly a year of harsh lockdown restrictions, people are liable to seek out some outlet to release the tension that has built up? History and psychology predict protests and riots after lockdowns

RT reports that Irish ministers are calling for people to refrain from drinking alcohol during St Patrick's Day celebrations.

One wonders just what is it with politicians' obsession with alcohol consumption at the moment? Is it alcohol itself or is it just ponerized politicians lust for power and control? Both?

Irish government ministers are warning would-be St Patrick's Day revelers that they should use water, not booze, as their tipple of choice when celebrating the national holiday. And if they really want to be patriotic in the pandemic, better still to stay home while toasting Ireland's patron saint.

It's likely that Irish politicians haven't and won't forfeit an alcoholic drink: Irish ministers resign after violating coronavirus rules at golf dinner - day after signing lockdown legislation

© Reuters /Clodagh Kilcoyne
FILE PHOTO: St. Patrick's Day celebrations in Dublin before Covid.
Speaking on Irish radio on the eve of the holiday, Minister of State Patrick O'Donovan urged people to "drown the shamrock with water" this year. Health officials fear alcohol consumption will lead to a breakdown in social distancing and more people gathering in larger groups, increasing the spread of the virus.

People also tend to be less anxious, talk more openly and for longer periods when they're having an alcoholic drink; one can imagine that certain pathological politicians would prefer to avoid this.

The minister also criticized the fact that sales of alcohol in shops and supermarkets - Ireland's pubs have been shut for most of the past year due to Covid-19 restrictions - had not been curtailed in the lead-up to the March 17 holiday, or during lockdown periods in general.

The solution to that would be to let pubs open, but, instead, the minister appears to be warming up to a South Africa style total ban on alcohol sales.

"We didn't deal with it as a country, and I'm very critical of the way in which we didn't do this," O'Donovan said. "It was a massive failure because we didn't deal with it before Christmas and I think we paid a very dear price for it."

On December 13, Ireland recorded the lowest virus rates in Europe. A month later, following a relaxation of lockdown rules over Christmas, it recorded the highest number of confirmed cases per million of population anywhere.

Ireland has recorded over 227,000 coronavirus cases over the past year and 4,534 Covid-related deaths. Last year's St. Patrick's Day celebrations were canceled as people were told to practice social distancing and not to gather in big groups, and Ireland entered its first strict lockdown two weeks later.

O'Donovan's sentiments were echoed by Ireland's higher education minister, Simon Harris, who served as health minister for the first months of the pandemic.

"What I would suggest tomorrow - the most patriotic thing people can actually do in terms of our national battle against Covid-19 - is stick to the public health advice," Harris said, adding the government wants to be able to issue a roadmap out of lockdown restrictions in the next two weeks.

For weeks now governments throughout the EU have been leading the public on with promises of a 'road map' out of lockdown, but now, lockdowns are yet again being reimposed in a suspiciously coordinated fashion, amidst the experimental mass vaccination campaigns, over claims of a 'third wave':

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'Something Must Be Done' after shocking Sarah Everard killing will again lead to disproportionate reactions & make things WORSE

Neil Clark
RT
Tue, 16 Mar 2021 17:26 UTC

© REUTERS/Hannah McKay
FILE PHOTO: People gather at a memorial site in Clapham Common Bandstand, following the kidnap and murder of Sarah Everard, in London, Britain March 13, 2021

Whenever something bad happens, we get calls for drastic action. But very often the 'Something Must Be Done' syndrome leads to knee-jerk policies being rushed through which make things even worse. The question is: who benefits?

A serving officer of the Metropolitan Police, Wayne Couzens, is charged with the kidnapping and murder of a 33-year-old woman. What's the state's response?

Well, according to today's newspaper reports, it's to have plain-clothes police patrolling bars and nightclubs to 'protect' women? What could possibly go wrong?

Comment: And, even amidst the scandal over the aggressive police tactics at the late-night vigil for Sarah Everard, the UK government has still managed to push through legislation that further curtails the right to gather and protest, and that extends and increases police powers:

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Will the US be responsible for a Russian-Chinese-North Korean missile alliance?

Andrew Korybko
Oneworld
Mon, 15 Mar 2021 00:00 UTC

Russian Foreign Ministry spokeswoman Maria Zakharova warned last Friday that the US' reportedly planned deployment of intermediate-range missiles to Japan "will certainly entail our retaliation", which could realistically take the form of informally creating a Russian-Chinese-North Korean missile alliance in defensive response to that destabilizing scenario.

The US is so obsessed with attempting to "contain" China that it might ultimately be responsible for creating a Russian-Chinese-North Korean missile alliance if it doesn't reconsider its reportedly planned deployment of intermediate-range missiles to Japan. Russian Foreign Ministry spokeswoman Maria Zakharova warned last Friday that such a move "will certainly entail our retaliation" because it "would have an extremely destabilizing effect from the standpoint of international and regional security."

The Neo-Realist theory of International Relations preaches that states will always put their security interests first, which in this case could realistically lead to Russia, China, and North Korea coordinating their defensive response to America's emerging missile-driven threat as is their right under international law. Such an outcome would arguably be against the US' regional security interests, including those of its Japanese and South Korean allies.

Comment: Every belligerent and potentially dangerous escalation and policy taken by the US towards Russia, China etc. - is always presented as "justified". And every appropriate response taken in response is labeled as "aggression" by Washington. One thing's for sure as the above article intimates: " it seems unlikely that the US will hold back". But then again neither will Russia, China, Iran or others to defend its interests and security.

Britain hopes to besiege Hezbollah in Lebanon on behalf of Israel

Elijah J. Magnier
ejmagnier.com
Thu, 11 Mar 2021 00:00 UTC

When the Syrian war broke out in 2011, the West - that was a direct participant in the war along with the Gulf countries and Turkey - believed that President Bashar al-Assad would fall after months, or a year or two: he would not last very long in power. Preparations began to lay siege to "Hezbollah" as a pre-emptive step after Assad's overthrow because Syria was an essential member of the "Axis of the Resistance" and part of the main Hezbollah supply route. Britain took rapid steps to tighten control of the Lebanese-Syrian borders.

The management of the Lebanese-Syrian borders was an old Israeli request as a basic during the Israeli 2006 war before it realised that it had not won the war and could not impose its conditions.

In 2012, frenetic work began on establishing a military training program for the Lebanese Army in the two airbases of Hamat and Rayak and to enable the capacity of the Lebanese Army institutions. However, the first and last goal is not to strengthen the Lebanese Army. Hezbollah's objective and its weapons break the balance of deterrence and cause terror to Israel, though not to Britain, which is geographically located very far from Lebanon.

IRGC Navy unveils new missile city

MEHR News Agency
Mon, 15 Mar 2021 00:00 UTC

In a ceremony on Monday attended by IRCG commander Major General Hossein Salami, IRGC Navy commander Rear Admiral Tangsiri, and a host of ranking military commanders a new missile city was unveiled. The base is equipped with different systems and cruise and ballistic missiles that have different ranges.

The new systems and equipment make IRGC Navy capable of launching precision missiles from underground, launching naval mines with different ranges, firing at 360-degree, confronting electronic warfare, and increasing the range and destruction power in operations.

All the mentioned systems have been produced by Iranian experts at the Ministry of Defense, knowledge-based companies, and research centers of the IRGC.

One of the newly unveiled missile systems has the capability of changing the target after the launch of the missile.

"Today, part of our missile power that offers superiority in the battlefield and has been developed by domestic experts and capabilities enter the operational section of the IRGC Navy," Brigadier General Tangsiri said in the ceremony. The process of making IRGC Navy 'stronger' will continue, he said, warning enemies that they will receive a "deadly blow" in case of any aggression against Iran.

Comment: A checkmate moment: Iran displays increased deterrence options.

Cuomo created disabled group home deathtraps, says whistleblower

Tori Richards, Carly Roman
Washington Examiner
Thu, 11 Mar 2021 07:00 UTC

New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo's nursing home deathtraps have silent partners — a network of some 7,000 group homes where thousands of disabled COVID-19-positive residents languished with little foresight or intervention by the state, a whistleblower has told the Washington Examiner.

Some 552 developmentally disabled individuals died from COVID-19 in the past year living in small residential group homes, while an additional 6,382 residents and workers were infected, according to the New York State Office for People With Developmental Disabilities. No comprehensive protocol existed to combat the disease as infected individuals were purposely mixed with clean households, said care worker Jeff Monsour.

"In one case, an individual shared a room in a medically frail facility with another individual — one had COVID, and the other did not. The only thing separating them was a cloth privacy screen. I have been complaining about this COVID situation for a year, along with some other things. I believe the dysfunction goes all the way to the top, to Cuomo."

Cuomo, who is currently facing a raft of sexual harassment allegations, is also under increasing pressure to resign over a nursing home scandal that claimed the lives of 15,000 patients due to a policy of forcing sick individuals back into clean homes. An initial report said only 6,432 people had died.

Comment: While Cuomo's future may not be to his liking, thousands of innocent folks under his governance have no life at all.

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US and Israel bar cargo ships, oil tankers from entering Syria

Press TV
Sat, 13 Mar 2021 10:37 UTC

The United States and Israel are trying to prevent cargo ships and oil tankers from entering Syrian waters as part of the economic siege against the Arab country and its reconstruction process following the bloody civil war, a political analyst says.

Saleh Abu Izzah, a senior expert in West Asia affairs, told Press TV that the US is using the economic blockade to achieve what it failed to accomplish in the battlefield of the full-scale war. He said the US has started its regular attacks against Syria since 2011, and later, along with its allies, imposed a cruel and horrible blockade against the government, ruling system, and people of Syria by passing the Caesar Act in 2020.

Abu Izzah referred to the siege as a mechanism used by Washington, Riyadh, and Tel Aviv to undermine the Astana Peace Process, an initiative launched by Iran, Russia, and Turkey to find a political settlement to the Syria crisis.

Russian government gives Twitter one month to remove child abuse content, or it will block platform from internet

TASS
Tue, 16 Mar 2021 13:15 UTC

The Federal Service for Supervision of Communications, Information Technology, and Mass Media (Roskomnadzor) will block the Twitter social network in Russia in a month if the service does not delete the prohibited information, the agency's deputy head Vadim Subbotin told TASS.

"If Twitter does not comply with the requirements of Roskomnadzor, the requirements of Russian legislation, respectively, we will consider an option to completely block the service on the territory of Russia," he added.

The official noted that, if the company fulfills all the requirements, the sanctions against it will be lifted.

Comment: Why hasn't any other country in the West made similar demands? The content mentioned above is illegal there too:

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Puppet Masters

International bodies pressured to 'alter facts' about Syria, former US chief of staff reveals

Expect government crackdowns in a "global depression"

Fears of 'widespread disobedience' of lockdown if protests allowed - UK Foreign Sec

'Something Must Be Done' after shocking Sarah Everard killing will again lead to disproportionate reactions & make things WORSE

Will the US be responsible for a Russian-Chinese-North Korean missile alliance?

Britain hopes to besiege Hezbollah in Lebanon on behalf of Israel

IRGC Navy unveils new missile city

Cuomo created disabled group home deathtraps, says whistleblower

US and Israel bar cargo ships, oil tankers from entering Syria

Russian government gives Twitter one month to remove child abuse content, or it will block platform from internet

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