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Russia tests anti-ballistic missile meant to protect Moscow from nukes - Russian MoD

Russia tests anti-ballistic missile
© Минобороны России / YouTube
The Russian Defense Ministry has published a video of the latest test of a new interceptor missile, which is meant to replace the short-range component of the ABM shield defending Moscow.

The video released on Monday shows the snowy Sary Shagan test range in Kazakhstan, where Russia tests its antiballistic missiles, and a missile silo firing the interceptor. The projectile soars into the sky towards a target, leaving a cloud of steam and snow billowing on the ground and a plume of smoke tracing its path.


Comment: See also: Russia successfully tests nuclear-tipped missile interceptor


Gear

US Congress prepares sanctions against Turkey

Turkish armed soldier

Turkish armed soldier
The US-Turkey relations have become strained in the recent period due to the Turkish military intervention in Syria's Afrin, an anti-Kurdish operation under the pretext of fighting terror - known as Operation Olive Branch.

The US Congress is preparing sanctions against Turkey as part of the 2012 Magnitsky Act.

The sanctions might target certain ministers and politicians of Turkey, Hurriyet reports.

People

Seoul police scuffle with protesters burning Kim Jong-un pictures & N. Korean flags opposing Olympic Games (VIDEO)

Protesters
© Dong-A Ilbo / AFP
Police in South Korea pushed their way through a protest rally being held in Seoul to put out fires started by activists opposed to the rapprochement with the North and its participation in the Olympic Games in PyeongChang.

The activists had gathered in South Korea's capital on Sunday to voice their discontent about North Korea's participation in the PyeongChang Winter Olympics. Chanting "Let's tear Kim Jong-un to death!" the crowd ripped up posters of the North Korean leader and burnt images of him, as well as the North Korean flag and posters of a united Korea, until police ran in to put it out.

Pistol

The Unfortunate Death of Colten Boushie: Was Justice Served?

colten-boushie-gerald-stanley-side-by-side
© Facebook/Liam Richards/Canadian Press
Colten Boushie, left, was fatally shot in August 2016. Gerald Stanley, right, pleaded not guilty to second-degree murder.
On the afternoon of August 9, 2016, 22-year-old Colten Boushie died as a result of being shot in the back of the head.

The man who pulled the trigger was 56-year-old Gerald Stanley, a cattle farmer in southwestern Saskatchewan, Canada. Stanley was charged by the RCMP with second degree murder.

When his trial came to an end 3 days ago, Gerald Stanley was acquitted of all charges by a 12-person jury.

What events led to the altercation between the two men and what exactly transpired between them, resulting in Boushie's tragic demise, is a matter of speculation, as there was some conflicting witness testimony throughout the trial.

Some of the facts that have been established so far:

Newspaper

Is my propaganda really bigger than yours?

Propaganda
They say Propaganda! In the West, both the mainstream media and even some of the so-called progressive outlets are shouting: "Those Russians and Chinese and the others like them, they are at it again! Their vicious propaganda is infiltrating our democratic, freedom-loving countries, spreading confusion and chaos!"

Yes, ban or at least curb RT, contain TeleSur, and if at all possible, throw Press TV to the dogs. And put the writers of NEO, Sputnik, Global Times and other foreign outlets on that proverbial Western mass media 'no fly list'.

How truly democratic. How open-minded, how 'objective'!

It goes like this:

"We have been indoctrinating the entire Planet for centuries, mostly unopposed, but if anyone dares to bite back, we will do our best to discredit, even to muzzle them, in no time."

Then if you protest, if you dare to say that kicking out and gagging alternative media sources stinks of the lowest grade of censorship, and of imposing some sort of monopoly on propaganda, you'd be shouted at: "What do you know about propaganda? You really want to see some hard-core propaganda, look at those colorful military parades and political speeches coming out from Pyongyang!" Naturally, these are taken out of context and presented (or framed) in a certain way, and only after that are they always readily available on the BBC and other, should we say 'reputable' and 'objective', European and North American television channels.

Bad Guys

Year 1 of Russiagate: What have we learned

russiagate demonstration anti trump
© Associated Press / Steven Senne
Demonstrators called for an investigation into possible Russian involvement in the 2016 election, Boston, February 26, 2017.
The relentless pursuit of this narrative above all else has had dangerous consequences.

The publication of a House Republican memo alleging surveillance violations in the Russia probe has prompted President Trump to declare that he is "totally" vindicated. As many have pointed out, that is not true. While the memo makes a plausible case that a surveillance warrant of campaign volunteer Carter Page was obtained on questionable grounds, it also acknowledges that it was another campaign aide, George Papadopolous, who triggered the opening of the FBI's Trump-Russia investigation three months earlier. Whether or not Page should have been monitored in the first place, the status of his surveillance warrant will not be what resolves this investigation.

That said, the memo is not necessarily the disaster for Trump and the Republicans that it is widely considered to be. Many of Trump's political opponents remain tethered to the eventual emergence of proof that his campaign colluded with the Russian government in order to win the presidency. But the evidentiary basis so far for Russiagate is thin, to say the least. Meanwhile, the relentless pursuit of this narrative above all else has had dangerous consequences.

Star of David

Polish adviser says Israel wants 'monopoly on the Holocaust'

International Holocaust Remembrance Day
© AP Photo/Czarek Sokolowski
In this Saturday, Jan. 27, 2018 file photo, survivors and guests walk past the "Arbeit Macht Frei" gate at the former Nazi German concentration camp on International Holocaust Remembrance Day in Oswiecim, Poland. An adviser to Poland’s president has said that Israel’s reaction to a law criminalizing some statements about Poland’s actions during World War II stems from a “feeling of shame at the passivity of the Jews during the Holocaust.” Andrzej Zybertowicz made the remark in an interview published Friday, Feb. 9 in the Polska-The Times newspaper. The law imposes prison terms of up to three years for falsely and intentionally attributing Nazi crimes to German-occupied Poland.
An adviser to Poland's president says he thinks Israel's negative reaction to a law criminalizing some statements about Poland's actions during World War II stemmed from a "feeling of shame at the passivity of the Jews during the Holocaust."

Andrzej Zybertowicz, a Nicolaus Copernicus University sociology professor who also serves as a presidential adviser, called Israel's opposition to the new law "anti-Polish" and said it shows the Mideast nation is "clearly fighting to keep the monopoly on the Holocaust."

"Many Jews engaged in denunciation, collaboration during the war. I think Israel has still not worked it through," Zybertowicz said in the interview in the Polska-The Times newspaper Friday.

Airplane

Witnesses speak to RT from the scene of deadly plane crash

antonov an-148
© Marina Lystseva / Sputnik

Seventy-one people died when a passenger plane crashed just minutes after take off from Moscow Domodedovo Airport. Emergency teams are working in heavy snowfall to access the crash site, RT's correspondent Murad Gazdiev reports.

The Antonov An-148, operated by Saratov Airlines, took off from Domodedovo for the city of Orsk in the Urals at around 14.21 local time, only to vanish from radar a few minutes later. Police set up a cordon around the crash site some 60 kilometers east of Moscow, stopping all vehicle access, even for locals. Making their way on foot, RT's crew and senior correspondent Murad Gazdiev got as close as possible to the scene of the crash.

Comment: 71 dead in Moscow passenger plane crash


Birthday Cake

Man cheats death when he decides not to fly Saratov Airlines

departure board
© Ilya Pitalev / Sputnik
Passengers are looking at an arrival and departure board at the Moscow Domodedovo airport on February 11, 2018.
A Russian man has cheated death - on his birthday. After deciding not to fly aboard the Saratov Airlines plane that crashed near Moscow on Sunday, Maksim Kolomeitsev says a chill ran down his spine when he heard the news.

Real estate agent Kolomeitsev was scheduled to travel home aboard the ill-fated Saratov Airlines Antonov An-148 jet that crashed near the Russian capital on Sunday, but a trivial turn of events made him change his plans - and saved his life.The man, who was born in the Russian city of Orsk where the Saratov Airlines flight was heading, but now lives in Sochi, had decided to celebrate his birthday with his family and friends in his hometown, and booked his seat aboard the doomed flight.

Comment: 71 dead in Moscow passenger plane crash


Lemon

The Left's mindless backlash against the Jordan Peterson phenomenon

Jordan Peterson
© Rene Johnston / Toronto Star/ File
Jordan Peterson giving a lecture at the University of Toronto last year. Peterson is the author of bestselling self-help book 12 Rules for Life.
When we had lunch together one afternoon a few months back, Canadian psychologist and university professor Jordan Peterson, who has risen to meteoric prominence for his courageous stand against political correctness and legally compelled speech, looked distressingly frail and was on a restricted diet prescribed by his physician. The ordeal the press and the University of Toronto's administration, which had threatened to discipline him for his refusal to accede to legislation forcing the use of invented pronouns, had obviously taken its toll. (Note: Peterson was willing to address individuals by their chosen pronouns, but was not willing to be forced to do so by law.)

Our conversation ranged over the work of Friedrich Nietzsche, C.G. Jung and Fyodor Dostoevsky, Peterson's chief secular resources, as well as the Book of Genesis, the Prophetic literature and the Gospel of John, Peterson's biblical lynchpins. His meditations on these texts have obviously struck a chord with his audience. From Nietzsche's complex web of ideas, he focuses on the notion of critical strength to combat cultural weakness and the primacy of the individual over the group. From Jung comes the theory of the hero archetype, the feral "shadow" component of the psyche which must be both acknowledged and mastered, and the "animus dominated" feminist on a quest for societal control. He elaborates on the political wisdom of Dostoevsky's novels The Devils and The Brothers Karamazov,and expands on a favorite quote from Notes from Underground, "You can say anything about world history. ... Except one thing. ... It cannot be said that world history is reasonable."