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Star of David

Is Israel's 'deceit & coercion' of North African Jews to be revealed in declassified state papers?


RT
Mon, 12 Mar 2018 20:35 UTC
Yemen immigrants Israel
© Reuters /FileJewish immigrants from Yemen in a tent encampment in 1949
Israel intends to unseal controversial documents detailing the discriminatory treatment suffered by Jewish immigrants from North Africa and the Middle East in the early decades of the state's establishment.

Justice Minister Ayelet Shaked announced Sunday that she intends to make the controversial archive files accessible to the public following pressure from fellow politicians, Haaretz reports. "There is no reason that material that deals with the history of the state should not be revealed," said Shaked, who is on the Knesset committee for archive materials. "We will go over the material and make recommendations to publish it, so long as there are no sensitive issues pertaining to the security of the state."

Comment: Israel seems quite willing to acknowledge its past mistreatment of peoples it invited into the country, to maybe even expressing some sort of historical remorse. What a convenient distraction from its current daily persecution of the indigenous Palestinians.

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Bad Guys

Lemmings, NATO, the 'Russian threat' and the merchants of death

Peter Hitchens
The Daily Mail
Mon, 20 Feb 2017 19:52 UTC
Russian bear vs EU
Some things people believe just aren't true

Lemmings throw themselves off cliffs in mass suicides, right? Actually, no. A famous award-winning 1950s film allegedly showing them doing this, was faked. That paragon of responsibility, the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation, looked into the matter. See here.

Yet most people vaguely believe the lemming story to be true. It's become quite an important part of their thinking and they are unwilling to let it go.

Say to them that lemmings don't actually have a mass death-wish, and they will cry out in astonishment and disbelief. Could a similar delusion be affecting views on NATO expansion, supposedly caused by the shivering fear of tiny, furry states cowering on the edge of the Russian bear-pit, begging for our supposedly mighty protection?

Comment: Let it be noted the NYT published that article in 1998. The intertwining of the US government and arms manufacturers into one demonic aspect of the Deep State has only continued.

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Wine n Glass

Banned from flying: Pensioner faces €10k fine after he chugged 2 bottles of wine and set off aircraft alarm


RT
Mon, 12 Mar 2018 19:42 UTC
Wine
© Regis Duvignau / Reuters
Airport security is a drag, especially if you forget liquids are banned and put two bottles of wine in your carry-on. That's what happened to a pensioner who ended up chugging both bottles, getting so drunk that he couldn't fly.

The 67-year-old German citizen intended to give the two bottles of fine wine to the people who would be hosting him in Thailand. However, instead of wrapping them up safely and putting them in his checked luggage, he stored the bottles in his carry-on bag.

Of course, that was a problem since liquids over 100ml are banned in airplane cabins. Security officials at Frankfurt airport informed him he would have to get rid of the wine.
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Jet4

'Toxic, damaging, shameful': UK and Saudi Arabia sign huge arms deal


RT
Fri, 09 Mar 2018 16:56 UTC
Saudis leave Downing
© South China Morning PostGot what they came for.
To the surprise of no-one, Saudi Arabia and Britain signed a huge new arms deal on Friday. It comes despite repeated calls for the UK to halt arms sales in light of massive civilian casualties and a humanitarian crisis in Yemen.

British firm BAE Systems will sell 48 Typhoon fighter jets to the Saudis after Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman visited Prime Minister Theresa May for talks. A preliminary deal has been signed, according to reports, for the Kingdom to buy from the UK, as part of a multi-billion-pound deal.

Shares in BAE Systems shot up 2 percent after the announcement. BAE confirmed the news, saying in a statement: "This is a positive step towards agreeing a contract for our valued partner. We are committed to supporting the kingdom as it modernises the Saudi Armed Forces and develops key industrial capabilities critical to the delivery of Vision 2030."

However, civil and human rights campaigners are furious. The UK has already licensed £4.6 billion worth of arms to Saudi Arabia since the bombardment of neighboring Yemen began three years ago.


Comment: May brags about saving (unspecified) 'hundreds of lives' through intel sharing while, at the same time, supporting the bombing of a cholera-sick and war-devastated civilian population, killing thousands in incessant air raids. May ought to be ashamed (but isn't) as profits remain her moral master.

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Star of David

Colonel Wilkerson says Israel is dragging the US into WWIII

Darius Shahtahmasebi
AntiMedia
Mon, 12 Mar 2018 17:18 UTC
Col. Lawrence Wilkerson
© Foreign Policy JournalColonel Lawrence Wilkerson
Israel is in the process of plunging America into a war with Iran that could destroy what's left of the Middle East and ignite a third world war, Col. Lawrence Wilkerson, former chief of staff to Secretary of State Colin Powell, warned in Washington approximately a week ago.

Wilkerson, a retired army colonel who now teaches at Washington-area universities, didn't hold back in his critique of where the status quo is leading the United States via its client state, Israel.

At the annual Israel lobby conference at the National Press Club, sponsored by the Washington Report on Middle East Affairs and Institute for Research: Middle East Policy, Wilkerson explained that Israel is headed toward "a massive confrontation with the various powers arrayed against it, a confrontation that will suck America in and perhaps terminate the experiment that is Israel and do irreparable damage to the empire that America has become."


Comment: Israel is the US' Achilles Heel. That its grip is so tight tells us how big its jaws, how deep it has bitten and how encompassing its control of US policy, resources, illusions.

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Jet3

Turkish jet fighters conduct raids in N. Iraq, destroy 18 Kurdish targets


Sputnik
Sun, 11 Mar 2018 20:19 UTC
Turkish fighterjets
© UnknownTurkish fighter jets
In conjunction with allied Syrian militants, the Turkish military launched operation Olive Branch in January 2018 to oust Kurdish-led forces, which allegedly have ties to the outlawed Kurdistan Workers' Party (PKK), from parts of northern Syria near the border with Turkey.

Turkish warplanes conducted a series of raids across northern Iraq over the weekend, successfully destroying 18 PKK targets, according to reports by Turkish media. Areas targeted include the Zap, Metina, Gara and Hakurk regions of Iraq, according to information released by the Turkish military. Details regarding the number of casualties inflicted or the specific targets of the airstrikes are yet to be released.

PKK forces have been battling Turkey for decades, with fighting largely concentrating in southeastern parts of the country. The group - which is designated as a terrorist organization by Turkey, the US, and the EU - maintains a military presence in northern Iraq near the Turkey-Iraq and Iran-Iraq borders.

Turkey has regularly carried out similar attacks against the PKK in northern Iraq, and Turkish Foreign Minister Mevlüt Çavuşoğlu recently said that they would be conducting joint military operations with Iraqi forces, though he didn't specify when this campaign will begin, or if it will include a ground offensive.
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Footprints

Russian MoD reports first group of 50+ civilians safely leave E. Ghouta using humanitarian corridor


RT
Sun, 11 Mar 2018 16:23 UTC
Syrians flee E Ghouta
© Abdulmonan Eassa/AFPSyrians flee E. Ghouta town of Beit Sawa.
Dozens of Syrians have managed to flee besieged Eastern Ghouta, in the first passage through a humanitarian corridor. Civilians said they had been living in fear of being killed by militants for any perceived wrongdoing.

On Sunday night, a group of 52 civilians, half of whom were children, managed to leave the embattled Damascus suburb with the assistance of the Russian Center for Reconciliation and the Syrian Army. They have been taken to a former driving school in the town of Adra, northeast of Damascus. "Within two days they will be provided with all the necessary assistance, including medical help," the spokesman for the reconciliation center, Major General Vladimir Zolotukhin, told reporters on Sunday.

Eastern Ghouta, a militant-held suburb of Damascus, has been the scene of intense fighting in the past month, with terrorists shelling civilian areas of Damascus and targeting those who are trying to flee the terrorist enclave.

Comment: The humanitarian corridor has been contentious, given the US coalition support of the terrorists in E. Ghouta at the expense and demise of the civilian population. See also:

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Pistol

Syrian army reports finding a cache of French weapons in liberated E. Ghouta


Sputnik
Mon, 12 Mar 2018 15:18 UTC
Arbin, Syria
© AFP 2018/ Ammar SULEIMANRebel-controlled town of Arbin under bombardment.
Syrian forces involved in a mopping-up operation in recently-freed areas of Eastern Ghouta have come across a large arms depot including weapons made in France, Fars News Agency has reported, citing field sources.

The French-made weapons and ammunition were found during the military's operations to sweep the towns of Modira and Mesraba of militants, the sources said.

The discovery of a cache of French-made weapons comes following a report by the Syrian Army Monday that the military had found a clandestine workshop used for the manufacture chemical weapons in the village of Aftris.

Paris has made no secret of its weapons deliveries to Syrian 'rebels', with illicit deliveries continuing in 2012 despite a European embargo. In a 2015 interview, then-President Francois Hollande admitted that France had delivered the weapons, saying that he was "certain that they would end up in the right hands." France provided the militants with small arms, rocket launchers, and anti-tank missiles. In addition to weapons, France has also provided rebel groups with other forms of support, including cash and military advisors. In 2014, Hollande justified the supply of weapons, saying that France "cannot leave the only Syrians who are preparing a democracy...without weapons."

Comment: This is rich. France will strike if Damascus uses chem weapons (not), yet France provided lethal weapons to the militants. Lost in logic, culpable in deeds.

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Star of David

A case for apartheid: Israeli Jerusalem residency law provokes outrage


Sputnik
Sun, 11 Mar 2018 20:25 UTC
Jerusalem
© AP/Oded BalityJerusalem
On March 7, the Israeli Parliament passed a law allowing the interior minister to revoke the residency rights of Palestinians living in Jerusalem on the vague grounds of "breach of loyalty" to Tel Aviv.

Hanan Ashrawi, a senior official of the Palestine Liberation Organization (PLO) quickly slammed the controversial new legislation by the Israeli Knesset, calling it "extremely racist."
"By unethically stripping the residency of Palestinians from Jerusalem and depriving the rights of those Palestinians to remain in their own city, the Israeli government is acting in defiance of international law and is violating international human rights and humanitarian laws," he stated.
On Saturday, Turkey condemned a law passed by the Knesset, with the country's foreign ministry department stating that Ankara rejects "this illegitimate step that reveals Israel's intention to increase efforts to change the demography of East Jerusalem, disregarding the basic human rights of Palestinians."

The Qatari foreign ministry also criticized the new Knesset legislation as "unethical" and urged the international community to assume responsibility and prevent ongoing Israeli human rights violations. Doha also noted that the move by Tel Aviv undermines a two-state solution.

On Friday, the European Union expressed its opposition to the Israeli law.

Comment: The international deck is stacked against this legislation with multiple condemnations forthcoming. Given the deserved outrage, has anything ever truly affected Israel's penchant for domination and control?

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Dollars

Millions of dollars seized as 75 are charged in massive drug cartel bust


Fox News
Fri, 09 Mar 2018 00:00 UTC
Money piles
© MassLive.com/KJN
Dozens of people across the U.S. have been charged in connection with an international conspiracy to launder tens of millions of dollars in drug money for Mexican cartels, federal prosecutors said Thursday.

The U.S. Attorney's Office in San Diego unsealed 40 indictments against defendants accused in the scheme dating to 2015. Investigators seized more than $6 million in cash as well as weapons and large quantities of drugs, including methamphetamine, heroin, fentanyl, cocaine and marijuana, officials said.

Mexican-based brokers oversaw a network of "money movers" who transported drug proceeds throughout the U.S. in boxes and duffel bags and deposited the cash into so-called funnel bank accounts, according to prosecutors. From there the funds were wired to accounts for false companies in Mexico controlled by drug suppliers, including members of the Sinaloa cartel, they said.

"By following the money, we have discovered large quantities of fentanyl, heroin and methamphetamine that are no longer destined for the streets of America," U.S. Attorney Adam Braverman said. "That's a one-two punch that takes these organizations completely out of the ring and makes our communities safer."
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