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Irish border mess shows why a 'clean UK break' is impossible

Bryan MacDonald
RT
Sat, 03 Mar 2018 11:45 UTC
Anti-Brexit protest
© Clodagh Kilcoyne / Reuters
Anti-Brexit campaigners, Borders Against Brexit protest outside Irish Government buildings in Dublin, Ireland April 25, 2017
The Battle of the Boyne may have taken place in 1690, but it has cast a long shadow across both Great Britain and Ireland. Now, 328 years later, it threatens to scupper English dreams of leaving the EU.

I think I can tell you the exact moment Brexit died. It was June 26, 2017: the day the British Conservatives made a pathetic little deal with Ulster's Democratic Unionist Party (DUP) to stay in power.

The very moment Theresa May shook hands with Arlene Foster in Downing Street, 'Little Englanders' dreams were dashed. And, barring a few exceptions, none of them fully understood the stupidity of the Prime Minister's actions at the time. And, over eight months later, very few even get it now.
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Kremlin: Russia's latest missile systems 'only threaten those who plan to attack us'


Sputnik
Sat, 03 Mar 2018 11:45 UTC
Putin address to the Russian Federal Assembly
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Russia's development of new weapons was nothing but a response to the US withdrawal from the ABM treaty, Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov said Friday.

Putin has stressed that his speech could not be considered a beginning of the arms race as it is a retaliatory response to the US withdrawal from the Anti-Ballistic Missile Treaty (ABM Treaty), as well as to the process of creating a global system of missile defense, according to the spokesman.

"This is nothing else than Russia's response to the scrapping of the ABM Treaty, the US withdrawal from the ABM Treaty and to the highly active process of creating a global missile defense system, which in the long term was able to break strategic parity, nuclear parity and, in fact, neutralize the strategic forces of Russia," Peskov added.

Comment: Further reading: Putin Delivers Landmark 'State of The Union' Speech: Puts The Smack Down on US, Shows Off Latest Russian Nuclear Weapons

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US Coup in Ukraine Has Produced Religious Persecutions

Jelena Rakocevic
Sott.net
Fri, 02 Mar 2018 15:41 UTC
C14 fascists
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C14 fascists
When the democratically-elected President of Ukraine Viktor Yanukovych was overthrown in the bloody US-backed coup of February 2014, turning Ukraine against Russia, one of the beneficiaries was Ukraine's 'anti-Russian church': the Ukrainian Orthodox Church - Kyivan Patriarchate (UOC-KP).

This church was established in 1992 by a former Metropolitan of the Moscow Patriarchate, Filaret (Denisenko), after he failed to be elected Primate of the Russian Orthodox Church (ROC). This caused him to break entirely from the church and create a new one in Ukraine. Later in 1995, when the elected head of this new church died, Filaret declared himself Patriarch of the UOC-KP.

Today, the intensely anti-Russian post-coup Ukrainian Government is allowing Filaret's clergy to lead their congregations in raids to take control of the churches and other facilities of the original Ukrainian Orthodox Church (Moscow Patriarchate, UOC-MP).

Furthermore, Filaret's speeches are openly hostile toward residents of the far-eastern Donbass region of Ukraine, where over 90% of the local population had voted for the overthrown President, and then refused to accept the coup-regime and thus declared the breakaway republics of Luhansk and Donetsk.
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Trump meets with NRA lobbyist day after unexpected gun proposals

Haley Britzky
Axios
Fri, 02 Mar 2018 00:01 UTC
NRA gun control
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President Trump met with NRA Executive Director Chris Cox on Thursday, after a roundtable on Wednesday during which Trump took positions that are anathema to the group.


Comment: In the wake of any mass shooting, talk of gun control comes back into the public sphere, with both sides adamantly arguing their position to the point of hysterics. Could Trump actually manage to appease both sides and institute changes, or is he just telling both sides what they want to hear?

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It's the EU, not Russia, who is the meddler in elections - Italian Journalist


Sputnik
Fri, 02 Mar 2018 18:35 UTC
Jean-Claude Juncker
© REUTERS/ Remo Casilli
Jean-Claude Juncker
The harder the EU tries to impose its thought control on people in some of its member states, the less willing they will be to toe Brussels' line, Sputnik Italy observer Marco Fontana said.

"There is a great deal of outside meddling in Italian politics, but it is coming from EU leaders, like Jean-Claude Juncker, rather than the imaginary "troll factory" in St. Petersburg," Fontana noted.


Comment: US Establishment Hysterical About Russian Trolls - Even Pro-Gun Tweets Are Their Fault


Juncker recently told reporters that "early March is very important for the EU. There will be referendums in Germany and Italy and I'm particularly worried about the outcome of the Italian elections. We need to be prepared to see the Italians failing to form a working government and, instead, having a provisional one."


Comment: "Europe can go f*ck itself": Italy's right party leader sees rise in popularity


Comment: See: Also check out SOTT radio's: Behind the Headlines: Olympic Politics, Aleppo 2.0, and Russiagate to Nowhere

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Russian deputy defense minister: 'US eyes encircling Russia with 400 anti-ballistic missiles'


RT
Sat, 03 Mar 2018 10:39 UTC
Patriot Advanced Capability-3 (PAC-3) missile launch system
© Toru Hanai / Reuters
Patriot Advanced Capability-3 (PAC-3) missile launch system
While the West blames Moscow for a new arms race, the US is creeping to Russia's borders. A Russian defense official said some 400 anti-ballistic missiles will pop up on the country's doorstep as part of the US military buildup.

"A large-scale effort is ongoing to encircle Russia with an anti-missile shield. Anti-missile defense sites have been already seat up on US soil in California and Alaska," Alexander Fomin, Russia's deputy defense minister, said on Friday in an interview with the Russia 24 TV channel. Washington has in fact long been expanding its anti-missile shield into Europe. In 2016, a $800 million ballistic defense site went into operation in Romania.

Last year, the US for the first time deployed the Patriot long-range anti-aircraft missiles to the Baltics to use them in large-scale NATO wargames in Lithuania.

Comment: See also: Putin's clear message: West needs to stop provoking a war we don't want, no one can win

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Iraqi FM Ibrahim Jaafari says that Iraq 'will never allow US bases on its soil'


PressTV
Sat, 03 Mar 2018 10:23 UTC
A US trooper
© Photo by AFP
A US trooper is seen in the northern Iraqi city of Mosul, on June 21, 2017

Iraq says it will under no circumstances permit the United States to build permanent military bases on its soil, which would be a violation of its sovereignty.

"Baghdad firmly rejects the construction of US military bases on its soil," said Iraqi Foreign Minister Ibrahim Jaafari at the end of an extended visit to Russia on Friday.

Iraq will "not stand on ceremony" when it comes to the protection of its sovereignty, he said.

He said that, back in 2014, when Baghdad asked for international help in fighting the Takfiri terrorist group of Daesh, it said the potential contribution had to meet the requirements of Iraq's sovereignty and independence.

Comment: See also: Iraqi interest in purchasing Russian S-400 missile systems leads to threat of sanctions from US

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'Bring it on or swallow it whole' - Russian reactions to US media distorting Putin's words (VIDEO)

Inessa Sinchougova
FRN (Fort Russ News)
Sat, 03 Mar 2018 09:29 UTC
Bring it on

The Lady vs The Bitch
On March 1st, Russia's President Putin delivered his annual address to the Federal Assembly. In what was a 2 hour long presentation, inclusive of internal matters and economic issues, the US media picked up on a segment in which he unveiled a number of new Russian technologies in the nuclear sphere. He made it precisely clear, that the weapons were developed in response to the US unilateral withdrawal from the ABM Treaty 1972, which allowed it to place their "missile defense" systems in Europe, and new systems are due to be placed in Asia - thereby completely surrounding Russia from all sides.

Shortly after, US State Department spokesperson Heather Nauert refused to discuss questions with Russian journalists present at the US State Department media briefing. In response, Russia's equivalent, Maria Zakharova, promised to segregate US journalists in Russia into "special seats", accusing the US State Department of a racist and outdated mentality.


Comment: See also: US State Dept. spokesman snubs journalists during briefing: 'Oh, you're from Russian media? Next question!'

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Target: Russia: NATO sprawl creeps into Eastern Europe - and there are no more illusions about its purpose

Robert Bridge
Strategic Culture Foundation
Mon, 26 Feb 2018 00:00 UTC
NATO in Eastern Europe
In the past, the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) justified its militarization of large swaths of Eastern Europe by pointing to the omnipresent threat of terrorism, or some 'rogue' foreign state, inherently understood to be Iran. Today the mask has slipped and it is no longer denied that NATO's primary target is Russia.

But first, a trip down nightmare lane. The road to ruin - at least as far as US-Russia relations were concerned - began immediately following the 9/11 terror attacks. Three months after that fateful day, in December 2001, George W. Bush informed Vladimir Putin that the US was withdrawing from the Anti-Ballistic Missile Treaty, a strange move considering that the treaty had kept the peace between the nuclear superpowers since 1972. This geopolitical "mistake," as Putin rightly defined it, allowed the US to begin the process of deploying a missile defense system, smack on the border with Russia, allegedly to shield the continent against an attack by Iran. Never mind the fact that Tehran had absolutely no reason, not to mention the wherewithal, to carry out such a suicidal mission. But Washington has never been one to let facts get in the way of a forced move on the global chess board.
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False flag snipers murdered 100s of protesters in 2014 Kiev riots to force coup (Russian TV news)

Ed Peters
Russia Insider
Thu, 01 Mar 2018 00:01 UTC
russian shrine
This has been public knowledge for about three years and widely discussed and proven in the alternative media, but for some reason Russian state television has chosen to start talking it up now.

Partly it is because of a ratcheting up of tensions in Ukraine which look like they could break into a hot war, and Moscow's desire to deflect this possibility as much as possible.

This video is a hard-hitting recap of the known facts, with the latest revelations, from Russia's #1 anchor, Dmitry Kiselyov.

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