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Canada to accept up to 250 White Helmet propagandists after Israeli 'rescue'

Murray Brewster
CBC News
Tue, 24 Jul 2018 13:35 UTC
White Helmets 1
© Syria Civil Defence via Associated Press
A member of the White Helmets carries a child after airstrikes hit a school in Syria's Daraa province, in an image made from video on June 14, 2017. Hundreds of people, volunteers belonging to the rescue organization and their families, were extracted late Saturday from the southwestern part of the country. (Syria Civil Defence via Associated Press)
Canada is among three Western nations that will take in nearly a hundred volunteer emergency workers and their families that Israeli forces plucked from Syria under the cover of darkness in a dramatic international rescue, CBC News has learned.

Several hundred people - volunteers and their families - belonging to the rescue organization known as the White Helmets were extracted late Saturday from the southwestern portion of the war-torn country that's being overrun by forces loyal to leader Bashar al-Assad.

The Israeli military said Sunday it was responsible for rescuing members of the Syrian volunteer organization from the volatile frontier area and evacuated them to a third country - the first such Israeli intervention in Syria's lengthy civil war.

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu issued a statement on Sunday saying the rescue came about as a result of recent requests by U.S. President Donald Trump, Prime Minister Justin Trudeau "and others."

"These are people who have saved lives and whose lives were in danger," Netanyahu said of the White Helmets. "Therefore, I approved their passage through Israel to additional countries as an important humanitarian gesture."


Comment: Be assured that there's nothing 'humanitarian' about his gesture. Perhaps now that Syria has reclaimed most of their territory from the rebels, they don't want anyone left around that could spill the beans. Besides, they get to look good by 'helping'.


Comment: CBC, like other mainstream media, paints quite a different picture of the reality behind the White Helmets. See also: Peter Ford, former UK ambassador to Syria responds to UK government statement whitewashing White Helmets

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Star of David

Israel intercepts and shoots down Syrian warplane over contested Golan Heights


RT
Tue, 24 Jul 2018 17:31 UTC
sukhoi plane
© Sputnik
Israel has fired interceptor missiles at a Syrian Sukhoi warplane, the IDF said in a statement, adding that the aircraft had penetrated Israeli-controlled airspace.

"Two Patriot missiles were launched at a Sukhoi fighter plane. The plane was under [Israeli] surveillance, it penetrated about two kilometers into Israeli territory and was intercepted," the Israel Defense Forces wrote on Twitter.

Israeli Army Radio stated that the plane was shot down over the Golan Heights, but may have crashed on the Syrian-held side of the frontier, Reuters reports.

Comment: The IDF later announced they were 'certain' that the jet was not a Russian jet:
The Israeli army has been in regular contact with Moscow, he stressed, adding that previously the Israeli army hesitated when targeting incoming planes out of concerns they might belong to the Russian Air Force.

The IDF spokesman said that the plane which was targeted may be a Sukhoi Su-22 or Su-24. These supersonic, all-weather attack aircraft were developed by the Soviet Union. Both types have been in service with the Syrian Air Force.

Conricus said that the IDF increased air force activity in southwestern Syria on Tuesday morning. "We have passed a number of messages, in a number of languages, in order to ensure that no-one violates Israeli air space," he added.
A Syrian military source also told RIA Novosti that one of the pilots died after ejecting and the fate of the other pilot is not yet known.

This is clearly another case of unprovoked Israeli aggression against Syria. The Golan Heights is not recognized as part of Israel, yet Tel Aviv continues to insist it is their territory as if the rest of the world does not exist. They clearly live in another reality.

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Blue Planet

Kremlin receives Trump invite, Putin US visit may be planned for end of 2018


RT
Tue, 24 Jul 2018 16:48 UTC
trump putin handshake helsinki
© Putin receives Trump invite, US visit could take place at end of 2018 - Kremlin
The Kremlin says it has received an invitation for Russian President Vladimir Putin to meet with President Trump in Washington at the end of the year, as suggested by US security adviser John Bolton.

While preparations for a new summit have not yet been made, Kremlin aide Yuri Ushakov told reporters that there was a need for another summit after last week's Helsinki meeting.

In the meantime, Ushakov hinted that Trump and Putin could potentially meet at the G20 summit in Argentina this November.

Comment: The Hill reports:
The American Barometer poll, a joint project of The Hill and the HarrisX polling company, found that 54 percent of respondents back Trump's plan for a second summit with the Russian leader, this time in Washington, D.C. Forty-six percent of respondents opposed the idea.

The survey also found that 61 percent of Americans say better relations with Russia are in the best interest of the United States.

[...]

Concha and a panel of polling experts said the poll results show that Americans can separate the nation's long-term interests from the negative media coverage of Trump's first summit with Putin in Helsinki last week.

For instance, the poll found 60 percent of Americans disapproved of Trump's handling of Russia in the aftermath of the summit, but they approve of holding another summit, with 87 percent of Republicans and 54 percent of independents supporting another meeting with Putin.

"The American voter has a very healthy and nuanced perspective on the issue," HarrisX CEO Dritan Nesho said on What America's Thinking.

"They support the president on his position on the issues, as we saw, and actually have a pretty pragmatic view about how we should handle Russia," Nesho added. "They believe in engagement with Russia, they believe in dialogue with Russia, and they're not worried about an invitation to President Putin this fall."

View the poll results here.


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War Whore

War-loving Russia critic Nikki Haley: We don't trust Putin or Russia and will never be their friends


RT
Tue, 24 Jul 2018 16:36 UTC
trump putin handshake
Staunch Russia critic Nikki Haley, who serves as the US ambassador to the UN, has said in the true spirit of diplomacy that Moscow and Washington will never be friends, and that the US will never trust Russia.

"We don't trust Russia, we don't trust Putin, we never will," Nikki Haley told CBN News. The US envoy to the UN, who has taken a tough anti-Moscow stance since assuming office in January 2017, stressed that Russia is "never going to be our friend." "That's just a fact," she added.

Haley attempted to clarify why Trump decided to hold his diplomatic tete-a-tete with Vladimir Putin during the Helsinki summit, which has created a media frenzy and been criticized by a number of politicians on both sides of the aisle in the US.

"It's his style. It's the way he does it," she said of Trump, noting that he also met with North Korean leader Kim Jong-un and Chinse President Xi Jinping. She explained that Trump always wants "just to create that genuine reality of the two of them talking, he feels like he needs to do it face-to-face."
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Yoda

Devin Nunes' memo validated by released FISA warrant application

Byron York
The Washington Examiner
Sun, 22 Jul 2018 15:46 UTC
Carter Page
© Anton Denisov / Sputnik
Carter Page
The weekend release of a highly-redacted version of the FBI's application for a Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act warrant to wiretap onetime Trump foreign policy adviser Carter Page has renewed the argument over the Nunes memo - the brief report produced by House Intelligence Committee Chairman Rep. Devin Nunes detailing problems in the application. From the time of the memo's release in February, Democrats and some in the press have denounced it as a collection of lies and mischaracterizations. On Saturday night, the denouncing started again. "The only thing the newly released FISA documents show is that Republicans have been lying for months," the lefty think tank Center for American Progress said in a typical response.

Now, however, we have both the memo and the FISA application, if in a blacked-out state. We can compare the two. And doing so shows the Nunes memo was overwhelmingly accurate. Perhaps some Democrats do not believe it should have been written, or they dispute what it included and left out, or they do not agree with its conclusions, but it was in fact accurate.

The memo comprised a short introduction followed by 13 substantive paragraphs. Here is a look at each one.
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War Whore

Orwellian Logic: Warmonger and Neocon Ari Fleischer sees destabilized Iran as best way to secure peace and enact regime change


RT
Tue, 24 Jul 2018 15:12 UTC
iran protest
© STR / AFP
Ari Fleischer, who promoted the Iraq War while serving as press secretary under President George W. Bush, is back with more sweeping ideas on how to reach peace. This time in Iran. His suggestion: to destabilize the nation.

"Fascinating changes underway inside of Iran, no one can predict where they're going to go," Fleischer told Fox News on Monday, speaking about the recent anti-government protests in the Islamic republic. "But the more unstable we can help Iran to become, the better it is to actually secure peace if we can get rid of that theological regime one day, or if the Iranian people can get rid of it themselves."

Serving as Bush's press secretary, Fleischer became one of the leading public faces of the administration's push for the Iraq War, claiming that Iraqi leader Saddam Hussein had weapons of mass destruction, and that regime change was the only way out of the international crisis.
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Cell Phone

The single FBI text message in Russia probe that should alarm every American

John Solomon
The Hill
Thu, 19 Jul 2018 17:01 UTC
Lisa Page and Peter Strzok
Lisa Page and Peter Strzok, the reported FBI lovebirds, are the poster children for the next "Don't Text and Investigate" public service ads airing soon at an FBI office near you.

Their extraordinary texting affair on their government phones has given the FBI a black eye, laying bare a raw political bias brought into the workplace that agents are supposed to check at the door when they strap on their guns and badges.

It is no longer in dispute that they held animus for Donald Trump, who was a subject of their Russia probe, or that they openly discussed using the powers of their office to "stop" Trump from becoming president. The only question is whether any official acts they took in the Russia collusion probe were driven by those sentiments.

Comment: See also:

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MIB

What's up with the spying scandal of Russia's Roscosmos?


South Front
Tue, 24 Jul 2018 12:51 UTC
Rusija: MiG-31 pao u Sibiru, piloti spašeni
© ИТАР-ТАСС/Анатолий Семехин
MIG-31
The Federal Security Service (FSB) has initiated an investigation in Russia's Central Research Institute of Machine-Building (TsNIImash; a subsidiary of Roscosmos). The reason of the probe is the supposed leak of information to Western intelligence agencies concerning Russian research into hypersonic technologies.

Russia's State Space Corporation Roscosmos has set up a commission which will start work in the week of Monday, July 23rd. It will probe the activity of the Central Research Institute of Machine-Building (TsNIImash), announced by Roscosmos Spokesman Vladimir Ustimenko and reported by TASS.

The Roscosmos press office reports that the company CEO Dmitry Rogozin has been informed and has been given instructions to offer full assistance to the investigators.

The Russian business daily Kommersant reported that TsNIImash staff offices were searched by an investigation team from the Federal Security Service. Furthermore, the team has searched the office of Director of the Roscosmos Research and Analytical Center Dmitry Paison. TASS reported that according to the newspaper an investigation was carried out as part of the criminal proceedings instituted on charges of high treason under the Russian Criminal Code. Approximately 10 employees working in the space industry are under investigation for collaboration with Western intelligence services.
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Pirates

Netanyahu says Trump, Trudeau and others asked Israel to evacuate hundreds of White Helmets from Syria


RT
Tue, 24 Jul 2018 12:14 UTC
White Helmets
© Abdulmonam Eassa / AFP
White Helmets member in the Syrian town of Medeira in February 2018.
US President Donald Trump and Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau asked Israel to evacuate the members of the controversial Western-backed White Helmets group from Syria, Israeli PM Benjamin Netanyahu has revealed.

"President Trump and also Canadian Prime Minister Trudeau, as well as others, requested us to help take out from Syria hundreds of White Helmets members," Netanyahu said in a video address on Sunday.


Comment: The White Helmets are the propaganda arm of terrorist groups in Syria, which makes them terrorist sympathizers at best, if not terrorists themselves. The US and Europe want to 'rescue' them most likely because, as Peter Ford has pointed out, they don't want them to be interrogated and reveal what they know about the alleged 'chemical attacks' in Syria. But remember, these people are terrorists, and now Western governments are planning to relocate them in their own territories as 'refugees'. What can go wrong?

It is interesting that Netanyahu is all too happy to get them out of the reach of the Syrian government, but will not give them asylum himself!

See also:

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Bullseye

Peter Ford, former UK ambassador to Syria responds to UK government statement whitewashing White Helmets

Vanessa Beeley
21st Century Wire
Mon, 23 Jul 2018 11:08 UTC
White Helmets
Former Ambassador to Syria 2003 - 2006, Peter Ford responds to the UK Government statement by Foreign Secretary Jeremy Hunt and International Development Secretary Penny Mordaunt on "exceptional" Israeli evacuation of the UK/US Coalition intelligence construct, the White Helmets:
"Following a joint diplomatic effort by the UK and international partners, a group of White Helmets volunteers from southern Syria and their families have been able to leave Syria for safety.

They are now being assisted by the UNHCR in Jordan pending international resettlement.

Comment: Good point by Mr Ford: the UK government is worried about the White Helmets because if caught they may spill the beans about their false-flag operations, their real alleagances and the nature of their sponsorship.


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