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Russian An-26 crashes in Syria: More than 20 of the men killed may have been pilots - technical malfunction blamed [Update]

Marko Marjanović
Checkpoint Asia
Wed, 07 Mar 2018 15:49 UTC
Russian military airplane An-26
Russian military losses in its Syria intervention just doubled in one tragic fell swoop:
All people on board the crashed An-26 plane, including 33 passengers and six crew members, died in the incident, the Russian Defense Ministry said. Initially, it was reported that 32 persons were onboard.

According to the ministry, the aircraft crashed near Hmeymin air base at 3 pm on Tuesday when landing, hitting the ground 500 meters short of the runway.

A technical malfunction could have caused the crash, the ministry added, saying that the aircraft was not attacked.

An investigation into the incident is underway.

Comment: A video has emerged of the moment of the crash:


May the heroes rest in peace.

UPDATE:

The Syrian group, Jaish al-Islam (Army of Islam) has claimed responsibility for the attack:
The Arabic-language daily Ad-Diyar on March 7 published a statement from the group Jaish al-Islam (Army of Islam), which has been fighting against President Bashar al-Assad's forces in the six-year civil war in Syria, saying its fighters had shot the plane down.

Jaish al-Islam is one of the main rebel groups fighting in the enclave of eastern Ghouta, near Damascus, where an offensive by Syrian government forces and their allies has killed hundreds of people since February 18.

The Russian Defense Ministry said on March 6 that 39 of its personnel, including 33 passengers and six crew members, died when an An-26 transport plane crashed while landing at Russia's air base near the coastal city of Latakia.

The ministry said a major general was among the dead.

Officials said the crash was "most likely caused by a technical fault," adding that there were no indications the plane came under fire.

Russia's Investigative Committee announced it had opened a criminal case into the crash, saying investigators would look into suggestions that flight safety rules had been flouted.

Russia has given Assad's government crucial support throughout the Syrian conflict, which began with a government crackdown on peaceful protests.

Moscow helped turn the tide of the conflict in Assad's favor by launching a campaign of air strikes in 2015 and by stepping up its military presence on the ground.

Russian officials previously said that more than 40 Russian military personnel had died in Syria since Moscow launched its air campaign, in many cases using Hmemim as a base.

Russia was also said to have lost nine military aircraft in Syria since it entered that country's civil war.

Russia's air base and its naval facility in western Syria have recently been under attack.


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US agents are untrained to vet Islamic radicals, poor grasp of jihadist threat say experts


RT
Wed, 07 Mar 2018 22:43 UTC
2 agents
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US law enforcers aren't trained to detect Islamic radicals, which enabled a suspected Al-Qaeda-linked jihadist to remain off the radar in America for seven years, attorney Jennifer Breedon told RT.

Saudi national, Naif Abdulaziz Alfallaj, who trained at the Al-Qaeda camp in Afghanistan together with some of the 9/11 plane hijackers, was detained in Oklahoma in February. He arrived in the US on a non-immigrant visa back in 2011 and lived freely in the country, even taking pilot lessons. It took the US security agencies a whole seven years to match the fingerprints from Al-Qaeda papers obtained in Afghanistan in 2011 with the prints in its database and reveal Alfallaj's true identity. The man now faces up to 20 years in prison for two counts of visa fraud and lying to the FBI about his terrorist links.

Breedon, an attorney specializing in foreign policy, international law and religious terrorism, believes that the Alfallaj affair shows "an ongoing failure of the US - and also Europe - to properly vet these people and for our law enforcement to even understand the nature of radical Islamists."

"Why this person was able to go under the radar; why he went all the way through the State Department vetting process - because there's no vetting process that vets for extremist religious ideology," she said. According to the attorney, the employees of the relevant US agencies "haven't been properly trained" and are unaware of the most basic things, like who the Wahhabis are and what Sharia Law is.

Comment: This is just a pack of unrealistic excuses. 'Incompetence by the agency' is a convenient cover for covert operations and a misnomer when 'security apparatus' becomes 'the terrorist'. 'Priority treatment' - as in watch don't touch - is always a plan when the person in question could become the informant or a patsy in a future operation. Hiring stupid people? Not really. You can evaluate and fire them.

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Attention

Outrage erupts after leaked footage shows beating of jaywalking man in North Carolina


RT
Thu, 08 Mar 2018 20:27 UTC
police in crowd
© SARA D. DAVIS / AFP
Dramatic video footage has exposed two North Carolina police officers beating and tasering a black man suspected of jaywalking. After public outrage, the city's police chief says she may resign. One officer has left the force.

Police body camera video obtained by the Citizen Times newspaper of Asheville, NC, shows Officer Chris Hickman, who is white, striking the head of Johnnie Jermaine Rush while Rush was being violently restrained by Hickman and another officer.

Rush was suspected of jaywalking and trespassing across a deserted parking area at night. The conflict was sparked when 33-year old Rush, who is African-American, began to complain about the police's continued attention.

Rush says "I just want to go home, I'm tired man, I just finished work."

The two police officers approach him and force him to ground.
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Cult

Is a Stalinist purge coming to America?

Paul Craig Roberts
Institute for Political Economy
Wed, 07 Mar 2018 20:25 UTC
Stalin with Victims
Stalin with three of his Bolshevik comrades, who later became his victims - Rykov, Kamenev and Zinoviev.
This year could turn out to be a defining year for the United States. It is clear that the US military/security complex and the Democratic Party aided by their media vassals intend to purge Donald Trump from the presidency. One of the open conspirators declared the other day that we have to get rid of Trump now before he wins re-election in a landslide.

It is now a known fact that Russiagate is a conspiracy of the military/security complex, Obama regime, Democratic National Committee, and presstitute media to destroy President Trump. However, the presstitutes never present this fact to the American public. Nevertheless, a majority of Americans do not believe the Democrats and the presstitutes that Trump conspired with Putin to steal the election.

One question before us is: Will Mueller and the Democrats succeed in purging Donald Trump, as Joseph Stalin succeed in purging Lenin's Bolsheviks, including Nikolai Bukharin, who Lenin called "the golden boy of the revolution," or will the Democratic Party and the presstitutes discredit themselves such that the country moves far to the right?
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Pervs flock to newly-opened sex doll brothel in London


RT
Thu, 08 Mar 2018 19:56 UTC
sex doll
© Reuters/ Michael CaronnaSex dolls in London brothel as fake female sex becomes more popular
A "revolutionary" erotic experience is being offered in London and, according to punters, it's getting harder to snag a spot with a sex doll. Even on International Women's Day, people are lining up at an all-doll brothel.

Three usable holes and a hairless vagina, as well as huge breasts and the inability to protest rough sex. That's how a new sex-doll brothel is advertising its "women" in Greenwich. The parlor is offering men and women the chance to rent and have sex with their range of dolls.

But it may not last long, as a local council hurriedly investigates whether or not such venues need a license. Brothels are illegal in the UK, though in this case the workers are dolls and so the nation has hit a gray area in the law.

Lovedoll UK in Gateshead was offering "try before you buy" sex with dolls for £50 (US$69.40), before selling them for £2,000. The owner, Graham, was then investigated over whether or not he needs a license.

Such a license covers premises selling sex toys, books or videos, venues where explicit films are shown to members of the public, and those where sexual entertainment such as pole dancing and strip shows take place.

Gateshead Council said it was investigating whether a sex establishment license is required. The result will set a precedent for the rest of the nation. Until then, the brothels are becoming more popular with one even opening in a sleepy Scottish town.

Comment: Having sex with a doll isn't going to help anyone with social or emotional issues deal with their problems, and that's likely and sadly part of why these dolls are so popular.

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Seattle police conduct Nazi-style gun confiscation - no laws broken, no charges or arrests

Matt Agorist
The Free Thought Project
Tue, 06 Mar 2018 19:10 UTC
Seattle gun confiscation
In the wake of the Florida shooting, politicians, police, and activists alike are scrambling to find ways to prevent the next tragic attack. Without hesitation, last week, notorious gun-grabber Senator Dianne Feinstein, sat next to Donald Trump's and likely salivated over his remarks as he called for the removal of due process and to "take the guns first." However, this practice of taking guns without due process is already underway in the land of the free.

Citing Nikolas Cruz as the reason for advocating the removal of due process, the anti-gun activists in D.C. are claiming he should've had his guns taken which would have prevented the tragedy. Sadly, however, they are ignoring the fact that he was accused of multiple felonies-and should've never been able to purchase a gun in the first place-but law enforcement failed to act on any of it.

In Florida, if a person making death threats intends for the victim to fear for her safety, specifically fearful of death or bodily harm, it is considered a credible threat under the law, which changes the crime from stalking, a first-degree misdemeanor, to aggravated stalking, a felony of the third degree. Cruz was reported at least 4 times for this very crime before he bought his AR-15 and police did nothing.
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The five international 'cartels' that rule the world

Liam S. Whitaker
CS Globe
Tue, 06 Mar 2018 00:00 UTC
dollar bill, surveillance
Americans have been programmed to fight amongst themselves along partisan political lines, always pointing the finger at the other side of the phony left-right paradigm.

Divide and conquer is the broad tactic being used to keep people from recognizing, focusing on, and targeting the truly diabolical agents in our world who hold real power over all of us at once.

We are not ruled by Republicans or Democrats, but rather by the not-so-hidden hands of institutions which have consolidated a tremendous amount of power.

Our world is deeply colored by these cartels, and they impact every area of our lives, constantly maneuvering to make more and more dependent on them for our needs.

In short, these are the organizations which rule over us.

These are the great forces in our world which prevent positive change and ensure that we continually slide downward into tyranny and self-destruction.
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Local Sunni Arab tribesmen form militia to evict US-backed forces from Raqqa


Sputnik
Thu, 08 Mar 2018 19:35 UTC
Raqqa
© Sputnik/ Hikmet DurgunRaqqa, Syria
US-backed Kurdish-dominated forces, who control much of northern Syria and large swathes of the oil-rich eastern province of Deir ez-Zor, are facing increasingly high levels of resistance from Arabs living in cities and villages they hold, especially in areas which aren't predominantly Kurdish.

Local Sunni Arab tribesmen have formed a militia to fight and oust the US-backed SDF from Raqqa, according to media reports and reports circulating on social media.

The group, which has called itself the Popular Resistance of Raqqa (PRoR), currently has just a few dozen fighters in its ranks, but is covertly recruiting additional combatants.

READ MORE: Turkey Urges US to Remove Leading Force From SDF Amid Afrin Operation

Armed with only small arms and light weapons (SALW), they are currently only able to conduct hit-and-run attacks, as they simply don't have the manpower to take and hold territory.
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No, Jessica, the Russians did not hack the FCC's public comments


Moon of Alabama
Thu, 08 Mar 2018 18:22 UTC
Ajit Pai headline
© The Washington Post
A member of the Federal Communications Commission, Jessica Rosenworcel, wrote an op-ed for the Washington Post.

It is unlikely that the headline was chosen by the author of the op-ed. The editors of the Washington Post opinion page wrote it. I also doubt that she would have chosen a picture of the FCC head to decorate her piece.

For the record: The headline is false.

The op-ed is about a request for comments the Federal Communications Commission issued last year in preparation of its net-neutrality decision. Anyone, and anything, could comment multiple times. Various lobbying firms, political action groups and hacks abused the public comment system to send copy-paste comments via single-use email accounts or even without giving any email address.

But this had and has nothing to with Russia or Russians.

Here are the top (para)graphs of the the WaPo op-ed with the "Russia-did-it" headline:
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Dollar

Amazon moves into banking

Thomas Franck
CNBC
Thu, 08 Mar 2018 17:52 UTC
Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos
© Shannon Stapleton/Reuters
Amazon's potential move into online banking may be more about reaching new customers than disrupting the financial industry, according to one Wall Street firm.

The Wall Street Journal reported Monday that the e-commerce giant is in early talks with financial institutions to build a "checking-account-like" product for its customers.

Bank of America Merrill Lynch reiterated its buy rating on Amazon shares, saying a new banking offering will spur more e-commerce sales, particularly with younger shoppers and lower-income consumers who don't have traditional bank accounts.
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