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US trains Syria militants' in false flag chem attacks as basis for airstrikes


RT
Sat, 17 Mar 2018 13:19 UTC
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Russia's Defense Ministry says "US instructors" are training militants to stage false flag chemical attacks in south Syria. The incidents are said to be a pretext for airstrikes on Syrian government troops and infrastructure.

"We have reliable information at our disposal that US instructors have trained a number of militant groups in the vicinity of the town of At-Tanf, to stage provocations involving chemical warfare agents in southern Syria," Russian General Staff spokesman General Sergey Rudskoy said at a news briefing on Saturday.
"Early in March, the saboteur groups were deployed to the southern de-escalation zone to the city of Deraa, where the units of the so-called Free Syrian Army are stationed. They are preparing a series of chemical munitions explosions. This fact will be used to blame the government forces. The components to produce chemical munitions have been already delivered to the southern de-escalation zone under the guise of humanitarian convoys of a number of NGOs."
The planned provocations will be widely covered in the Western media and will ultimately be used as a pretext by the US-led coalition to launch strikes on Syria, Rudskoy warned. "The provocations will be used as a pretext by the United States and its allies to launch strikes on military and government infrastructure in Syria," the official stated.

Comment: Russia is being proactive in its alert and the information most likely accurate.

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An 8-cop police dept. secretly acquired an arsenal of 19 military vehicles using 1033 program

Matt Agorist
The Free Thought Project
Thu, 15 Mar 2018 00:00 UTC
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© Dover Post
Dewey Beach Humvee
A tiny police department in a small Delaware town has been using the newly reinstated 1033 program to amass an arsenal of vehicles, weapons, and equipment and they are keeping it secret.

Last August, the Trump administration lifted a ban on military surplus hardware being transferred to police departments across the United States. The controversial 1033 program became a source of citizen outrage after images of police armed with military-grade weaponry, including grenade launchers and armored MRAPs, were beamed into people homes across the country during the battlefield-style police response to the rioting in Ferguson, Missouri in 2014.

As many Americans noted, Ferguson, Missouri looked like a war zone, with police kitted out in Marine-issue camouflage and military-grade body armor, toting short-barreled assault rifles, and rolling around in armored vehicles - virtually indistinguishable from US soldiers.

Shortly after the American public became widely aware, and largely outraged, over the extreme militarization of their local police forces, President Obama signed an Executive Order (EO) that blocked large-caliber weapons, armored vehicles, grenade launchers and other heavy military hardware from being repurposed from battlefields across the globe to small town USA. This was one of very few notable pro-liberty moves by the Obama admin, however, thanks to the current administration, it is all gone.

Comment: According to the Dover Post:
So-called controlled property, including weapons, accessories and military-grade vehicles and gear, remain property of the federal government, but title to other surplus property -- from bulldozers to blankets -- is turned over to police agencies after they have been held for one year. After that, each department can sell, trade or give away uncontrolled property that it has received from the feds.

Small arms and accessories are controlled equipment continuously monitored by DEMA and LESO and can never be sold or given away, only returned to the federal government.

DEMA officials don't track what happens to non-controlled gear that falls off the annual inventory. They said they have become aware of sales after it was revealed the Dewey police sold over $120,000 worth of equipment - identified through FOIA requests for bank statements and auction records -- over several years and turned the cash into a pair of police-equipped SUVs.

Dewey Beach also traded a bulldozer for demolition work, but since federal title had lapsed, DEMA was unconcerned.


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Western countries continue spreading fake news about E. Ghouta evacuation


Sputnik
Sat, 17 Mar 2018 20:17 UTC
Residents leave Eastern Ghouta
© Sputnik/ Muhamad Maruf
Residents leave the territory of Eastern Ghouta
Western countries know the truth about the voluntary nature of humanitarian evacuation from Syria's Eastern Ghouta, have access to information about the situation in the area, but still continue to circulate rumors about alleged violations of international law, a diplomatic source told Sputnik.

"Western members of the International Syria Support Group, including the humanitarian task force, that is spreading rumors about the alleged coercive nature of evacuation and violations of international law, are well aware of the truth. They also receive objective information from UN," the diplomatic source said.

The source noted that the employees of international humanitarian organizations shared with Russian diplomats and military their impressions of the course of humanitarian evacuation from Eastern Ghouta organized by the Russian center for Syrian reconciliation.

Comment: Russia's Defense Ministry has dismissed false reports about Russian airstrikes in East Ghouta killing civilians as "fake news."
"Reports from the British Syrian Observatory For Human Rights citing anonymous 'activists' from the village of Kafer Batna about alleged Russian airstrikes in Eastern Ghouta are yet another fake," Russian Defense Ministry Spokesman Igor Konashenkov said on Friday.

"Russia's air force performed no combat missions in the area of Eastern Ghouta," he continued to explain.


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UPDATE: Florida bridge collapse: Figg Bridge engineer reported cracks 2 days before fatal incident


RT
Sat, 17 Mar 2018 07:46 UTC
Bridge collapse
© Joe Skipper / Reuters
An aerial view of the Florida International University bridge collapse.
Damning new evidence reveals that an engineer working on the pedestrian bridge in Greater Miami, Florida, that collapsed on Thursday had attempted to report damage days before the incident took place.

Just three days after the Florida International University bridge, designed by FIGG Bridge Engineers, "swung into place,"the project's lead engineer, Denney Pate, left a voicemail message for a colleague to report structural fissures.

No one was available to hear the March 13 message until Friday, one day after the bridge collapsed, killing at least six people and leaving a massive pile of rubble on an eight-lane highway. Nine others were taken to local hospitals, authorities reported.

The Florida Department of Transportation (FDOT) released a statement with a short transcript of Pate's voicemail and explanation of events leading up to the catastrophe.
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Why is the MSM suddenly running a bunch of stories about space aliens?

Caitlin Johnstone
Medium
Wed, 14 Mar 2018 17:53 UTC
UFO NBC story
This Red Scare reboot keeps getting stranger and stranger.

In a recent discussion with Infowars' Alex Jones, Luis Elizondo of To The Stars Academy spoke about new video footage of UFO phenomena recently released by the Pentagon, and says the three videos that have been released so far comprise just a small fraction of the strange and compelling evidence that he has accessed personally.

"These are just three videos now that have come out that everybody's looking at," Elizondo said as Jones downed an entire pitcher of CAVEMAN True Alpha Bone Broth Formula™ without pausing to breathe or breaking eye contact with the camera. "But there is far more compelling evidence that I was privy to that - you know, I think you're looking at the tip of the iceberg."

"It could be anything, so I wouldn't rule anything out, and that's why I think we need to look at it," Elizondo added. "I mean it could be Russian. It could be Chinese. It could be little green men from Mars. We don't know what the hell it is."

Oh wait, sorry, I got mixed up. That wasn't Infowars, it was CNN.

Comment: See also: Recently released CIA-UFO files reveal US considered plan to stage alien invasion for psychological warfare

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"World's most hated hacker" who reported Chelsea Manning to FBI dies


Sputnik
Sat, 17 Mar 2018 17:35 UTC
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© CCO
Adrian Lamo was called by some the "world's most hated hacker" when he turned in whistleblower Chelsea Manning, whose leaks exposed the nature of warfare in Afghanistan and Iraq.

Lamo, the computer hacker who testified about Manning's release of a trove of classified documents to WikiLeaks, was confirmed dead on Friday by authorities in Kansas, The Guardian wrote. He was just 37.

Comment: Bradley Manning - Theft or War Crimes?

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Why is AIPAC suddenly getting a lot of bad press in Jewish papers and the 'Washington Post'?

Philip Weiss
Mondoweiss
Fri, 16 Mar 2018 16:57 UTC
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© Daily Mail
One pleasurable surprise of the AIPAC policy conference in early March - the leading Israel lobby group, the American Israel Public Affairs Committee - was how much bad press the organization got. It's becoming almost fashionable to criticize the lobby for its enforcement of lockstep political support for Israel in Washington, and for its Soviet-style policy on access to the press.

These criticisms are finally showing up in the mainstream press. Reporters have been licensed by the injury mere high school students have done to another powerful lobby, the National Rifle Association. So maybe AIPAC is on the same path-to-pariah status, more than a decade after Walt and Mearsheimer published their book The Israel Lobby.

Here are a few items. Notable among them is a report in the Washington Post of all places saying that AIPAC was born to rally American Jews to stand shoulder to shoulder behind Israeli "lies" about a massacre of Palestinians, back in 1953. And two angry pieces in the Jewish press decrying AIPAC's blackout policy on coverage of its gatherings.
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UK academic prevented from giving free speech lecture at his own university as spineless officials cave to hard-left threats

Eleanor Harding
Daily Mail
Sat, 17 Mar 2018 17:24 UTC
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The academic, who has worked at King’s for eight years specialising in the neurobiology of personality, has been targeted online by hard-Left activists in recent years.
A lecturer has been prevented from giving a talk about free speech at his own university after he was criticised by hard-Left activists.

Dr Adam Perkins, who teaches psychology at King's College London, was told his event was being postponed because it had been assessed as 'high risk'.

The talk, which was scheduled to take place on campus yesterday, was called The Scientific Importance of Free Speech.

But officials became worried it could be gatecrashed by demonstrators who are opposed to Dr Perkins's research.
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10 killed as plane crashes into home, tragically wiping out Philippine family


RT
Sat, 17 Mar 2018 10:39 UTC
Airplane crash
© Reuters
Rescuers recover dead bodies after a small plane crashed into a house, in Plaridel town, Bulacan province, Philippines March 17, 2018.
A small aircraft slammed into a residential area in the Metro Manila region in the Philippines on Saturday, killing all five on board the aircraft as well as five people inside a house who had gathered for a family lunch.

The six-seat Piper PA-23 Apache aircraft crashed in Plaridel, Bulacan province, shortly after takeoff at around 11:20am, the Civil Aviation Authority of the Philippines (CAAP) said. The plane was flying from Plaridel Airport to the city of Laoag.

Plaridel police chief Agustin Joseph said in a radio interview that the plane hit a house at the time a family was having its lunch there. Three children, their mother, and grandmother were killed according to police superintendent Julio Lizardo.
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Fire

Post-apocalyptic scene: Fire-hit Russian wax museum is the stuff of nightmares (VIDEO)


RT
Sat, 17 Mar 2018 15:00 UTC
Wax museum
© Ruptly
A wax museum in Siberia has been left looking like a post-apocalyptic scene after a fire tore through the building. The melted and contorted figurines inside would be right at home in a horror film.

The fire broke out at the museum in Krasnoyarsk's Central Park in the early hours of Friday morning. Many of the museum's famous faces were left unrecognisable after it took emergency services two hours to extinguish the blaze, according to local media reports.
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