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Bashar al-Assad and First Lady Asma meet family members of Russians who gave their lives for Syria


Al Arabiya
Mon, 30 Jul 2018 14:10 UTC
Asma al-Assad Syria
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Syrian President Bashar al-Assad and his wife Asma met family members of the martyred Russian military personnel.
Syrian President Bashar al-Assad and his wife Asma met family members of Russian military personnel who arrived in Damascus on Monday, who were killed fighting in Syria with pro-Assad forces.

Syria's leading Bishop of Antioch, John X, and the Grand Mufti of Syria, Ahmad Badreddin, were also in attendance.

Five families of Russian military officers were at the function, including the parents of Roman Filipov who was piloting the downed Russian jet, and then blew himself up using a hand grenade.

Comment: The fallen Russian soldiers are true heroes, people who gave their lives so that a foreign country would not be taken by terrorists.



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Eggs Fried

White House CNN reporter booed at Trump rally in front of camera


Sputnik
Wed, 01 Aug 2018 14:01 UTC
Jim Acosta CNN
© AP Photo / Susan Walsh
Attendees of a "Make America Great Again" rally in Tampa, Florida, gave CNN White House correspondent Jim Acosta a harsh welcome during his live shot on Tuesday.

A crowd of President Donald Trump's supporters began booing at Jim Acosta in the middle of a live broadcast with CNN anchor Wolf Blitzer, yelling "liar" and "tell the truth," while they awaited POTUS' arrival at the Florida State Fairgrounds Expo Hall. Some had written "CNN sucks" with markers on MAGA signs that were caught on camera.


Comment: Regardless of your opinion of Donald Trump, CNN is fake news.

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Brexit: An £8.4m donation of unclear origin to the Leave campaign may have changed UK history

Fréa Lockley
The Canary
Mon, 30 Jul 2018 13:34 UTC
Brexit bus advertisement
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Vote Leave’s referendum campaign bus carrying its claim about increased funding for the NHS.
On 29 July, a report [pdf] entitled Disinformation and 'fake news' emerged following a cross-party parliamentary inquiry. It examines "issues concerning the very future of democracy" in the UK following the EU referendum. Its findings are damning. But it also revealed [pdf, p51] that a Leave group received the "largest donation to a political campaign in British history".

"Our democracy is at risk"

The report [pdf, p5] is unequivocal about the "deliberate distortion of facts" and "political manipulation" during the referendum. As a result, it states: "our democracy is at risk".

One detail also emerged that shakes the process of the referendum to its core. It states [pdf, p52] that Arron Banks, the founder of Leave.EU, donated a vast sum:
Arron Banks is believed to have donated £8.4 million to the Leave campaign, the largest political donation in British politics, but it is unclear from where he obtained that amount of money.

Comment: It would be interesting to compare the amount of money and marketing strategies used by the Leave campaign with those of Remain. Don't all political campaigns spend millions in advertising and other modern social media techniques? Does that somehow invalidate the result of the referendum? Does it put democracy at risk? Or is it only questionable when people vote the 'wrong' way?

Whether you think Brexit is a good idea or not, you can see where the revelation above is going. Together with the recent food-supply hysteria, it appears that the objective is to discredit Brexit and promote a second referendum - one which, they hope, will result in the 'right' choice this time.

In the meantime, don't be surprised if the blame of Brexit is once again placed squarely on Russia. That's where the 'unknown origin' of Arron Banks' donation and the allegations about social media 'dark ads' might be headed. Blaming Russia worked to fuel a spurious narrative in the US, so why not in the UK also?

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CNN trots out Angelina Jolie to perpetuate Srebrenica fake news narrative

Aleksandar Pavic
Strategic Culture Foundation
Wed, 01 Aug 2018 00:01 UTC
Angelina Jolie
Long before Donald Trump successfully hung the "fake news" label on CNN, more discerning observers of the wars of the Yugoslav succession of the 1990s came to similar conclusions regarding the network's news coverage of that tragedy. Headlined by Christiane Amanpour, CNN's reporting, especially from Bosnia-Herzegovina and Kosovo, showed a clear pro-Muslim, anti-Serbian bias, painting the conflict in stark black-and-white colors, where the Christian Serbs were always the "black hat" "aggressors," perpetrators of "genocide" and such, while the Bosnian and Albanian Muslims were inevitably the "white hat" "victims," in dire need of U.S. and Western "humanitarian" intervention to spare them from extermination at the hands of the evil Serbs, who were - surprise, surprise! - traditional Russian allies. (Thus, we can also trace the beginnings of today's vicious Russophobia campaign to the Serbophobia of the 1990s - both of which were/are being perpetrated by the same MSM gang.)

Comment: See also:

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Report: Assange may finally leave Ecuadorian embassy in London as health worsens


RT
Wed, 01 Aug 2018 09:17 UTC
Assange banner Ecuadorian embassy
© Agence France-Presse
A banner outside Ecuadorian Embassy, where WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange has been holed up for over eight years.
Julian Assange, who has spent more than 2,230 days in the Ecuadorian embassy in London, is expected to leave the building soon with his health deteriorating, sources say.

This latest information about the WikiLeaks founder, who was already expected to leave the embassy "in the coming weeks," was broken Wednesday by Bloomberg which cited "two people with knowledge of the matter." The news agency reported that the whistleblower's health "has declined recently."

The news comes days after Ecuadorian President Lenin Moreno announced that Assange must "eventually" leave the embassy. "Yes, indeed yes, but his departure should come about through dialogue," the Ecuadorian president said in answer to a reporter's question on whether he will eventually have to leave.

Comment: Given the implications for free speech and freedom of the press, it's amazing how little attention Assange's plight gets in the mainstream press. He is essentially being tortured for being a whistle-blower.

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Bomb

German man acquitted over 'racist' bomb attack 18 years ago


Yahoo!
Tue, 31 Jul 2018 00:01 UTC
alleged neo-nazi acquitted

The court heard that Spies had told a cellmate that the death of the unborn baby in the attack was a case of "successful euthanasia"
An alleged neo-Nazi was acquitted by a German court Tuesday for a bombing 18 years ago targeting Jewish immigrants at a commuter rail station.

Ralf Spies, 52, was cleared of 12 counts of attempted murder with a "racist" motive and a charge of causing an explosion in the attack in the western city of Duesseldorf on July 27, 2000.

The regional court in the city found him not guilty, after having released him from custody in May "for lack of sufficiently reliable witness testimony".

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Attention

Spain requests emergency funds from EU to cope with increased migrant arrivals

Jakob Hanke
Politico
Tue, 31 Jul 2018 08:12 UTC
Migrants Spain
© Jorge Guerrero/AFP via Getty Images
Migrants arrive at the port of Algeciras, Spain, on July 28, 2018
The European Commission is considering a request from Spain for emergency EU funds because of increased migrant arrivals at the country's southern coast, a Commission spokesperson said Monday.

"Spain has requested additional emergency assistance, which we have received and are now assessing swiftly," said Commission spokeswoman Natasha Bertaud at a press briefing.

Bertaud said the trend is "not new" and that EU leaders had already promised Spain more support at a Council summit in June. Spanish newspaper El Mundo reported that Madrid had now requested €35 million, citing the office of the Spanish vice president.

Since 2016, migrants have increasingly taken the Western Mediterranean route through Morocco and the strait of Gibraltar, and Spain has now become the main point of entry into the EU from the Mediterranean as a clampdown on the route between Libya and Italy has taken hold.

Comment: See also:

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Arrow Down

Facebook claims to have deleted more 'Russia-linked' accounts


RT
Wed, 01 Aug 2018 12:08 UTC
Facebook
© Saeed Khan / AFP
Facebook has identified and shut down more than two dozen accounts that it claimed were created to exacerbate political tensions in the United States, the company said in a blog post on Tuesday.

Facebook said the "inauthentic" accounts displayed activity similar to that of accounts the social media giant had earlier linked to the Internet Research Agency (IRA) - a Russian entity which western media have often linked to Russia's alleged attempts to influence the 2016 US presidential election.

Facebook, however, admitted in a blog post that it was in the "very early stages" of its investigation and didn't have "all the facts" about the newly discovered accounts.
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Crusader

'The religious are not an afterthought': Sessions launches new religious liberty task force


RT
Wed, 01 Aug 2018 12:08 UTC
Jeff Sessions
© Michael Candelori / Global Look Press
Attorney General Jeff Sessions
US Attorney General Jeff Sessions has announced the creation of a "religious liberty task force," charged with defending the rights of the faithful to say no to creeping atheism.

Speaking at Monday's Religious Liberty Summit, Sessions said that the task force would help implement the religious liberty guidance the Justice Department issued last October. While the guidance clearly instructs government agencies to respect the freedom of all religions, Sessions cited examples of mostly anti-Christian persecution in his speech at the summit.

"We've seen nuns ordered to buy contraceptives," he said. "We've seen U.S. senators ask judicial and executive branch nominees about dogma-even though the Constitution explicitly forbids a religious test for public office. We've all seen the ordeal faced so bravely by Jack Phillips," he added, referencing the case of the Colorado baker who won a Supreme Court victory recently, appealing his punishment for declining to bake a custom wedding cake for a same-sex couple based on his religious beliefs.
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Bad Guys

Kiev sends Polish mercenary snipers to borders of the LNR

Tom Winter
Fort Russ
Wed, 01 Aug 2018 12:37 UTC
ukraine donbass tanks
The Ukrainian command has transferred a division of Polish women-snipers to the line of delimitation in the zone of the so-called "Operation of Joint Forces" ("OOS"). This was reported by Lieutenant Colonel Andrei Marochko, the official representative of the People's Militia of the People's Republic of Lugansk.

"A division of professional female snipers, the so-called "Valkyries," from a Polish private military company (PMC), has arrived in the OOS zone. The unit will be dispersed along the line of contact to fire on our defenders," he said.

"In parallel with this, competitions of snipers from units located on the contact line of combat were held in the operational-tactical grouping (OTG) Sever. The most ruthless killers will get enrolled in classes with foreign instructors. The classes will run through August-September this year," the lieutenant colonel added.
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