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Britain condemns Iran over Golan rocket attacks, stays silent on deadly Israeli raids

Omar Baggili
RT
Thu, 10 May 2018 14:33 UTC
Boris at WesternWall
© ANDREW PARSONS
Boris Johnson at the Western Wall, Israel
Boris Johnson condemned Iran for reportedly launching missile attacks against Israel in the occupied Golan Heights, despite claims in Syria that Israel initiated a tit-for-tat exchange with airstrikes on Tuesday.

Israel said 20 rockets were fired at their military positions in the Israeli-occupied territory between north-eastern Israel and south-western Syria. Israel says it retaliated with airstrikes overnight, claiming they took out "nearly all" of Iran's military sites in Syria. "We hit nearly all the Iranian infrastructure in Syria," said Israeli Defense Minister Avigdor Lieberman.

British Foreign Secretary Boris Johnson said:
"The United Kingdom condemns in the strongest terms the Iranian rocket attacks against Israeli forces. We strongly support Israel's right to defend itself. We urge Iran to refrain from further actions which will only lead to increased instability in the region. It is crucial to avoid any further escalations, which would be in no one's interest."
It was a seemingly firm statement from Johnson, but he offered no response to claims that Israel had attacked Syria, targeting Iranian positions near the capital Damascus the day before. A number of sources often cited by the UK government said the Israeli strike hit an Iranian arms depot.


Comment: This would be the Britain-based Syrian Observatory for Human Rights, an unreliable Western propaganda source.


When asked about the claims, an Israeli military spokeswoman said: "We do not respond to such foreign reports," stated Lebanon's Daily Star. The Independent reported that nine people are thought to have been killed by the Israeli airstrikes, including Hezbollah militia fighters and members of Iran's Revolutionary Guard.


Comment: If Iran has no bases nor military operations in Syria, this would be unlikely.


In the wake of these claims, there have been questions as to why the British government regards Israeli actions as retaliation, when it appears that Iranian forces were the first to be targeted in an apparent tit-for-tat exchange.

Comment: It is most likely the attacks originated from and were orchestrated by Israel, but you won't be hearing this version from Britain.
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Pocket Knife

Senate hearing: Haspel pledges 'no torture', dodges questions regarding CIA role


RT
Wed, 09 May 2018 14:54 UTC
Gina Haspel
© Aaron Bernstein/Reuters
Nominee for CIA Director, Gina Haspel
Gina Haspel, US President Donald Trump's nominee to be the next CIA director, says that the intelligence agency will not restart a detention and interrogation program under her watch.

Speaking before the Senate Intelligence Committee on Wednesday, Haspel said the spy agency would focus on "collection and analysis" missions and that the US had "learned some tough lessons" during the "tumultuous" period after the terrorist attacks of September 11, 2001.

Senators grilled Haspel on her attitude to torture and lamented the limited information made available to the public about Haspel's role at the CIA. Haspel dodged questions a number of times, refusing to give straightforward yes or no answers. When pushed, Haspel was forced to admit that she is the one making decisions about which documents and information to release about her history with the CIA.



Comment: If Haspel controlled the documents and information regarding her history - parsing out only the flattering pieces - she is already conning the committee.

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Attention

Schneiderman allowed Clinton Foundation to skip identifying foreign donors

Bob Fredericks
New York Post
Tue, 06 Sep 2016 00:00 UTC
Clinton Schneiderman
© NY Daily News
Hillary Clinton • NY State Attorney Eric Schneiderman
State Attorney General Eric Schneiderman gave the Clinton Foundation a pass on identifying foreign donors in its charitable filings - making it impossible to know if it got any special favors while Hillary Clinton was secretary of state, according to a report Tuesday.

Scripps News found that the foundation and its subsidiary, the Clinton Health Access Initiative, took in $225 million in government donations between 2010 and 2014.

New York's charity law clearly states:
"Organizations that received a contribution or grant from a government agency during the reporting period shall include the name of each agency from which contributions were received and the amount of each contribution."
But both the foundation and the CHAI failed to do that, and Schneiderman, a member of Clinton's "leadership council" in New York and a fierce critic of Donald Trump, did nothing about it.

Comment: The New York State Attorney General, Eric Schneiderman, has since resigned his position (see below). In this case he clearly gave the Clintons a pass by condoning illegal bookkeeping according to New York law. What was in it for Schneiderman? He was a legal tyrant towards President Trump, but snuggled into the Clintons' crime pocket.

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Target

Syria: Setting new rules for Israeli strikes


Moon of Alabama
Thu, 10 May 2018 07:41 UTC
Damascus defense
© Unknown
Damascus: Syrian air defense intercepted many of the Israeli missiles.
When Trump killed the nuclear deal with Iran he gave Israel the chance to start a wider war with Syria. An earlier Israeli simulation of the situation had concluded:
The crisis created by the administration regarding the flaws of the nuclear agreement could be exploited to promote issues more urgent for Israel (mainly Iran's missile program and presence in Syria).
The Israeli government claims that Iranian support for Syria is a threat to its country. That is a bogus claim. The Israeli Prime Minister Netanyahoo uses the "Iran threat" as boogeyman to divert attention from other issues like the various corruption cases against himself.

Over the last years Israel attacked Syrian army positions more than 100 times, often in support of al-Qaeda aligned "Syrian rebels". Syria did not respond as it was busy fighting against the Takfiri invasion within the country. In April, Israel upped the ante when it attacked the T4 base in the middle of Syria from where Russian and Iranian forces support Syria's fight against ISIS. Iranian soldiers were killed in the attack. The Syrian air defense shot down at least one of the attacking Israeli F-16 jets. This shooting down of the Israeli jets was thought to have established a new balance, but Israel continued to provoke.

On Tuesday, just as Trump announced his breaking of the nuclear deal, Israel launched another strike on what it claimed were Iranian missiles in Syria targeted at Israel. The strike hit a Syrian army depot.

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War Whore

May confirms UK will continue funding terrorist supporting propaganda construct White Helmets


RT
Thu, 10 May 2018 09:55 UTC
White Helmets
© Syria Civil Defence / Global Look Press
The Syria Civil Defence, also better known as the White Helmets 'help' victims in a hoax chemical attack.
Theresa May has confirmed that the UK will continue to fund the White Helmets, after the US withdrew £200 million ($271 million) in Syrian aid - including money that would go to the controversial group.

During PMQs Labour's Matthew Pennycook, the Greenwich and Woolwich MP pushed the PM on whether or not she would continue to fund the The White Helmets, officially known as the Syria Civil Defence, a volunteer group that operates in areas controlled by jihadist and Al-Qaeda-linked groups in Syria.


Comment: Apparently the White Helmets have not completely outlived their usefulness to the West, which suggests that more false flag 'chemical attacks' are in the pipeline:

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Gear

Longtime strategy: Israel distorts timeline of events to play victim in the dangerous escalation with Iran and Syria

James North
Monsoweiss
Thu, 10 May 2018 18:46 UTC
Headlines concerning the Israeli attack in Syria from Google News

Headlines concerning the Israeli attack in Syria from Google News
Distorting the timeline of events is an longtime Israeli strategy to make its enemies look like the aggressors and pass itself off as the victim. Israel's massive aerial attacks earlier today on Iranians and Syrians - its most extensive cross-border strikes in decades - are carrying out this propaganda strategy to perfection, and even normally skeptical news outlets are being fooled.

Here's the actual order of events:

* Just one hour after Donald Trump violated the Iran nuclear deal on May 8, Israel launched missiles against targets south of Damascus, Syria, reportedly killing 15 people, at least 8 of them Iranians.

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Chess

Trump confirms summit with Kim Jong-un set for June 12 in Singapore


RT
Thu, 10 May 2018 15:49 UTC
Trump Kim Jong-un
© Reuters
The US president and North Korea's Kim Jong-un will finally sit down for a summit on June 12 in Singapore, Donald Trump has stated. The date and venue for the meeting has long been the subject of speculation.

"We will both try to make it a very special moment for world peace," Trump stated.

Speculation had been rife that the meeting, expected to focus the Kim Jong Un's missile program, could be hosted in a number of nations like Mongolia or even the demilitarized zone on the Korean peninsula.

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Light Saber

Smackdown: Theresa May forced to give MPs single market membership vote after shock defeat

Anne Perkins
The Guardian
Tue, 08 May 2018 17:35 UTC
Eu British flag waver
© Justin Tallis/Agence France-Presse/Getty Images
The vote was the third defeat of the afternoon for the government in the Lords.
More than 80 Labour peers defy whip on amendment calling for vote on EEA membership

MPs will have a vote on remaining in the European Economic Area - effectively a vote on the single market - after a shock defeat for the government in the Lords. It means the Brexit strategy of both Theresa May and Jeremy Corbyn has been blown apart in the last 24 hours.

The rebel Labour amendment in the Lords opened the prospect of a Commons vote on the EEA - a less stringent version of the single market - after 83 Labour peers voted against the party whip.

Chuka Umunna, the Labour MP who co-chairs a pro-European Commons committee with Conservative Anna Soubry, said the leadership would now have to come off the fence and make it clear where it stood.

"The time for constructive ambiguity is over: our members and our voters will be delighted with this clear signal that we will not go along with this Tory Brexit," he said.
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Rocket

28 Israeli jets fired 60 rockets in overnight strikes on Iran in Syria; Iran denies military presence in Syria


RT
Thu, 10 May 2018 08:49 UTC
Israel bombs Syria
© Yahoo
Some 28 Israeli aircraft fired around 60 air-to-surface rockets in a massive overnight strike in Syria, according to the Russian Defense Ministry. Syrian air-defense systems managed to intercept more than half of the missiles.

A total of 70 projectiles, including 60 air-to-surface rockets and more than 10 surface-to-surface missiles, hit Iranian military targets and Syrian air-defense systems near Damascus and in the south of the country on Thursday morning, the Russian military said in a statement.

"28 Israeli F-15 and F-16 planes were involved in the attack," the ministry said. "Syrian air-defense systems shot down more than half of the rockets as they repelled the Israeli attack."

Israeli forces bombed the Syrian territory for two hours between 1:45am and 3:45am local time on Thursday. The attack was carried out under the pretext of allegations that Iranian forces had earlier hit Israeli targets in the Golan Heights.

The damage inflicted on Iranian military and Syrian civilian infrastructure by the airstrikes is being evaluated.


Comment: See the following for additional developments and commentary:

More from RT:
Three people have been killed and two wounded in an attack by Israeli forces against Iranian targets in Syria. Israeli strikes destroyed a radar station and an arms warehouse and damaged air defense units, Sana reports. Israel's direct action indicates "a new stage of aggression against Syria," the agency reported, citing a source in the Syrian Foreign Ministry. Tel-Aviv blames Iranian Revolutionary Guard Corp's Quds Forces of attacking its positions in the Golan Heights and in response carried out the massive overnight attack.
From Sputnik:
Dozens of Iranian targets in Syria have been hit by the Israeli Air Force after Iranian forces allegedly fired about 20 rockets at the IDF earlier. The Israeli airstrike on Syria killed at least 23 fighters, including five Syrian government troops and 18 other allied forces, AFP reported citing the Britain-based Syrian Observatory for Human Rights. [note: SOHR is an unreliable source] The information has not been officially confirmed yet. Israel said that the attack destroyed five Syrian air-defense systems after coming under heavy fire, going on to say that none of its warplanes were hit.
Bragging Israel, RT:
Israel has carried out what it calls one of the most extensive military operations in years against dozens of "Iranian" targets in Syria. Tehran will need "a lot of time" to recover from the massive attack, according to the IDF. Iran paid a "heavy price" with multiple Israeli airstrikes against what Tel-Aviv says were targets belonging to the Iranian Revolutionary Guard Corp's Quds Force, the Israeli Defense Forces (IDF) said on Thursday.

"Iran will need a lot of time and resources to rehabilitate its operational, military and intelligence infrastructures we hit tonight," an IDF spokesman said, according to Ynet, warning that "any other attempt" to hurt Israel will "pay even more." Israeli Defense Minister Avigdor Lieberman claims "all the Iranian infrastructure" in the Arab republic was hit. "They must understand that if it rains here, it will pour there."
Slutskiy comments on escalating threats, RT:
"Israel's strikes on Iranian positions in Syria is a direct planned action after the US withdrawal from the nuclear deal [with Iran], which became the next step in the chain of US-Israeli provocations against Iran," Slutskiy, who heads the State Duma's International Affairs Committee, said on Thursday.

"Tel-Aviv is escalating the threat of real military confrontation with Tehran," Slutskiy said, adding that any "aggravation of anti-Iranian hysteria is explosive." Slutskiy warned that the attack undermines an already-shaky situation around the 2015 Joint Plan Of Action (the JPOA), commonly known as the Iranian nuclear deal.
More details and French President Macron's reaction, Sputnik:
The attack destroyed an Iranian military camp north of the Syrian capital, arms depots at the Damascus airport, and a car-mounted mobile launcher that was used to strike at Israeli positions near the border with Syria, the army said.

"The Russians were informed prior to the attack through the existing mechanism," Israel's Jonathan Conricus told reporters at a briefing. Conricus said Syrians had ignored demands by the IDF to stop the artillery fire and allow the air raid against Iranian targets to go ahead. He identified the attacked air defense systems as SA-5, SA-2, SA-22 and SA-17, using NATO code names.

French President Emmanuel Macron urged Israel and Iran to "de-escalate" tensions after the Israeli forces hit what they called were Iranian targets in Syria's Golan Heights following the alleged attack of Tehran through Syrian territory.

"He calls for a de-escalation", the presidency said in a statement, stressing that Macron would discuss the issue with Angela Merkel when he meets with the German chancellor in Aachen, western Germany, later in the day.


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Bad Guys

Libtard lunacy spreading: Portugal to write 'gender fluidity' into law

Ricardo Lopes
Quillette
Fri, 13 Apr 2018 17:14 UTC
São Bento Palace Portugal parliament

The Palace of São Bento, Lisbon, house of the Portuguese Parliament
On 13 April 2018, the Portuguese parliament approved Bill 75/XIII, the ostensible aim of which is to protect the rights of transgender and intersex individuals. Looking at the details, however, it's difficult to say if it was really created to advance the rights of these people, or if it was simply cobbled together on some sort of whim.

Portugal's last parliamentary elections were held in September 2015, and a coalition of PSD (Social-Democrat Party) and CDS-PP (Party of the Social-Democratic Center) won the most votes, but failed to secure an overall majority. This allowed the country's leftist parties (PS - Socialist Party; PCP - Portuguese Communist Party; PEV - Green Party; and BE - Leftist Block) to form a coalition government led by PS. The PS government has to make regular concessions to these parties because it needs their votes to pass new legislation.

Comment:

Update: Sanity has prevailed, at least temporarily, since this article was published. The BBC reports:
Portugal's President Marcelo Rebelo de Sousa has vetoed a law that would have made it easier for people to change their gender and name in documents.

The law, approved by parliament last month, would have allowed citizens to make the legal changes from the age of 16 without the need of a medical test.

Currently, people must be at least 18 years old and present a medical report.

The president told MPs to consider the need of a medical test for those under the age of 18.

Under the proposed law, those aged between 16 and 18 would need to have the change of gender approved by their parents or legal representatives.

The law needs to be signed by the president to take effect.


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