Het reguliere Syrische leger en Russische troepen zouden optrekken richting het laatste gebied dat wordt beheerst door terreurgroepen, groepen die media en politici in het westen eufemistisch ‘gematigde rebellen’ noemen….. Althans tot voor kort, in het hieronder opgenomen artikel, eerder gepubliceerd op Zero Hedge, bericht Tyler Durden over GB dat haar steun aan deze ‘gematigde rebellen’, alweer een onderafdeling van Al Qaida, heeft opgezegd.
Zoals gezegd ook de reguliere media beginnen langzaam maar zeker met andere woorden over deze terreurgroepen te schrijven, al zal het nog heel wat tijd kosten voordat de massamedia hun toon zullen aanpassen…. Niet zo vreemd, immers daarmee geven die media organen aan dat ze in feite vanaf het begin fout bezig zijn geweest en ‘fake news’ hebben gebracht. Durden heeft het in het hieronder opgenomen artikel, volgens mij bij het verkeerde eind als hij stelt dat de Syrische provincie Idlib het laatste door terreurgroepen beheerst gebied is, immers in door de VS gecontroleerd gebied in het oosten van Syrië, worden terroristen van IS gedoogd en zelfs verdedigd door de VS*, mocht het Syrische leger een aanval inzetten (al is dit wel een andere situatie dan die in Idlib).
UK Finally Ditches ‘Moderate’ Syrian Rebels Ahead of Idlib Battle
(ZHE Op-ed) — CNN warns that Syrian and Russian forces are closing in on the “last rebel stronghold” in Syria while characteristically failing to inform its readers that the “rebel” coalition in control of the northwest pocket of Idlib is but the latest incarnation of al-Qaeda, calling itself Hay’at Tahrir al-Sham.
With the final major battle looming which could mark the ultimate end and final chapter to the war, the Western public is about to be subjected to a final end-all media onslaught of “the last hospital” and “the last school” and “the last humanitarian rescuers” type stories similar to how the media presented the battle for Aleppo in 2016.
Starting this past weekend, the refrain started: “Humanitarian groups fear a ‘bloodbath’ as Assad looks to press the advantage and wipe out the last pockets of resistance,” as NBC reported, which was echoed across a dozen other outlets.
There’s now even an Idlib version of “Bana” that popped up on twitter only a month ago. Six-year old “Hala” supposedly set up an account to publish awareness videos telling the world to keep their “eyes on Idlib” ahead of Assad’s impending military campaign.
However, there are some few outlets out there that recently decided to finally drop the worn out transparent charade of “moderate rebels” and simply call Hay’at Tahrir al-Sham for what it is. Business Insider, for example, accurately labels Hay’at Tahrir al-Sham (HTS) a terrorist group in some of their recent headlines, and has called the al-Qaeda affiliate, “the next ISIS”.
But it appears that HTS is set to be wiped about before fully establishing control as the next ISIS as Syrian government ground forces and the Russian Air Force have already begun eroding their perimeters, which had been established when al-Qaeda first took Idlib city and much of the surrounding province in 2015, with US and UK coalition help.
Over the past days and weeks,massive Syrian troop and heavy armor deployments have been seen amassing outside the al-Qaeda held province, poised for a final offensive. This after Syria’s southern Daraa and Quneitra provinces were liberated in a mere matter of weeks.
But perhaps the greatest sign that the writing is on the wall for Syria’s “the last rebel stronghold” (to repeat CNN’s words), there are new reports that Britain has cut off its longtime support to the “moderate rebels” it has for years throughout the war funded and armed.
The UK government is to end funding to a scheme to support the Syrian opposition, deeming the programmes now too risky to operate as the final rebel-held areas face imminent attack from Bashar al-Assad’s forces….
While humanitarian support will continue, the ending of this governance programme is highly symbolic, suggesting Britain has accepted that the Syrian opposition, which it has backed since the early days of the civil war in 2012 to 2013, is facing imminent defeat from a combination of Syrian regime forces and Russian airstrikes.
On Monday a UK government spokesperson confirmed the following: “As the situation on the ground in some regions has become increasingly difficult we have reduced support for some of our non-humanitarian programming, but continue to deliver vital support to help those most in need and to improve security and stability in the country,” according to Reuters.
This is in essence the UK finally admitting its side has lost— though we should note its “humanitarian funding” will continue to flow to controversial groups like the ‘White Helmets’, who have long been proven to work in tandem with al-Qaeda.
Nadat schreeuwlelijk Alex Jones op ‘internetplatforms’ en zoekmachines, resp. Facebook, Spotify, Apple en Google werd geblokkeerd, overkwam (bijna) hetzelfde de directeur van het Ron Paul Institute, Daniel McAdams, Scott Horton van de Scott Horton Show en Peter van Buren, klokkenluider en ex-werknemer bij het ministerie van Buitenlandse Zaken, nu ‘directeur’ van ANTIWAR, echter zij werden op Twitter geblokkeerd……. Nu blijkt dat er een innige samenwerking is tussen de hiervoor genoemde internetbedrijven als Facebook en Google met The Atlantic Council, een rechtse oorlogshitsersclub….. The Atlantic Council adviseert Facebook direct welke accounts te verwijderen vanwege buitenlandse bemoeienis (hieronder een meer uitgebreide formulering)…..
Afgelopen mei werd e.e.a al bekend gemaakt, intussen zijn er meer bijzonderheden openbaar gemaakt over deze samenwerking en beste bezoeker dat is niet mis….. Zo zou de samenwerking leiden tot meer objectiviteit en neutralitijd wat betreft het opsporen en uitschaklen van ‘fake accounts’, die het gevaar in zich herbergen dat ze door buitenlandse mogendhedenzouden kunnen worden gebruikt…. ha! ha! ha! ha! ha!
Ofwel een uiterst rechtse denktank van oorlogshitsers en lobbyisten van het militair-industrieel complex, beoordeelt ‘objectief en neutraal’ over accounts en sites, die haar eigen agenda dwars zouden kunnen zitten……
Nu blijkt bovendien dat Facebook van de zwaar over een hondendrol getilde zakkenwasser Zuckerberg, één van de grootste donors is van The Atlantic Council…….. Voorts wordt deze denktank gefinancierd door de NAVO, het Pentagon (wat mij betreft is deze denktank zelfs een instrument van het Pentagon en daarmee van de NAVO), westerse regeringen (de EU in haar geheel >> NEXIT zo snel mogelijk!) en de dictatoriale Golfstaten, dit nog naast bedrijven uit het militair-industrieel complex, plus het fake news ‘journalisten’ clubje Bellingcat……..
Lees het volgende artikel van Tyler Durden, eerder gepubliceerd op Zero Hedge en zie hoe het internet langzaam maar zeker zal worden gezuiverd van websites die kritiek hebben op de huidige inhumane neoliberale status quo die zo wordt gesteund door de reguliere (massa-) media die zogenaamd onafhankelijk hun nieuws zouden brengen:
Facebook and NATO Unite to Censor News They Dislike
(ZHE) — This is not at all comforting: during a week that witnessed Alex Jones’ social media accounts taken down by Facebook, Apple, Spotify and Google, and what appears to be a growing crackdown against alternative media figures including several prominent Libertarians, notably the Ron Paul Institute director, and the Scott Horton Show, who found their Twitter accounts suspended — we learn that the Atlantic Council is directly advising Facebook on identifying and removing “foreign interference” on the popular platform.
While the initiative was initially revealed last May through an official Facebook media release, more details of the controversial think tank’s role have been revealed.
Supposedly the whole partnership is aimed at bringing more objectivity and neutrality to the process of rooting out fake accounts that pose the threat of being operated by nefarious foreign states.
(Clinton en Kissinger: twee grote oorlogsmisdadigers, die het goed kunnen vinden met elkaar)
And yet as a new Reuters report confirms, Facebook is now itself a top donor to the Atlantic Council, alongside Western governments, Gulf autocratic regimes, NATO, various branches of the US military, and a number of major defense contractors and corporations.
What’s more is thatthe team of four total individuals running the Atlantic Council’s Digital Forensic Research Lab (DFR Lab) is headed by a former National Security Council advisor for the last four years of the Obama administration, Graham Brookie, who is also its founder.
Apparently the group’s work has already been instrumental in Facebook taking action against over two dozen “suspicious pages” flagged potential foreign actors such as Russia. According to Reuters:
Facebook is using the group to enhance its investigations of foreign interference. Last week, the company said it took down 32 suspicious pages and accounts that purported to be run by leftists and minority activists.While some U.S. officials said they were likely the work of Russian agents, Facebook said it did not know for sure.
This is indeed the shocking key phrase included in the report:“Facebook said it did not know for sure.” And yet the accounts were removed anyway.
The Facebook-Atlantic Council alliance reportedly springs from the social media giant’s finding itself desperate for outside “neutral” help after a swell of public criticism, mostly issuing from congressional leaders and prominent media pundits, for supposedly allowing Russian propaganda accounts to operate ahead of the 2016 elections.
The suspiciously simultaneous censorship of Infowars by Google, Apple, Facebook came just one week after U.S. Senate intelligence committee hawk Mark Warner (D) circulated this policy paper threatening new regulation against those same media companies: https://graphics.axios.com/pdf/PlatformPolicyPaper.pdf …
And in perhaps the most chilling line of the entire report, Reuters says, “But the lab and Atlantic Council bring geopolitical expertise and allow Facebook to distance itself from sensitive pronouncements.” This is ostensibly to defuse any potential conflict of interest arising as Facebook seems a bigger presence in emerging foreign markets.
Facebook’s chief security officer Alex Stamos recently told reporters, “Companies like ours don’t have the necessary information to evaluate the relationship between political motivations that we infer about an adversary and the political goals of a nation-state.” He explained further that Facebook would collect suspicious digital evidence and submit it to “researchers and authorities”.
Since at least May when the relationship was first announced, the DFR Lab has been key to this process of verifying what constitutes foreign interference or nefarious state propaganda.
Facebook donated an undisclosed amount to the lab in May that was enough, said Graham Brookie, who runs the lab, to vault the company to the top of the Atlantic Council’s donor list, alongside the British government.
Facebook employees said privately over the past several months that Chief Executive Mark Zuckerberg wants to outsource many of the most sensitive political decisions, leaving fact-checking to media groups and geopolitics to think tanks.
Facebook has defended the process as part of ensuring that it remains politically neutral, yet clearly the Atlantic Council itself is hardly neutral, as a quick perusal of its top donors indicates.
Among the DFR Labs partners include UK-based Bellingcat, which has in the past claimed “proof” that Assad gassed civilians based on analyzing YouTube videos and Google Earth. And top donors include various branches of the US military, Gulf states like the UAE, and notably, NATO.
Further it has advocated on behalf of one of its previous funders, Turkish dictator Recep Tayyip Erdoğan and gave a “Distinguished International Leadership” award to George W. Bush, to name but a few actions of the think tank that has been given authorization to flag citizens’ Facebook pages for possible foreign influence and propaganda.
Quite disturbingly, this is the outside “geopolitical expertise” that Mark Zuckerberg’s been seeking.
Het IMF leent de totaal onverantwoordelijke regering van Argentinië het voor dit land fenomenaal grote bedrag van 50 miljard dollar.
Alsof het geld gratis is zo laat de Argentijnse regering weten blij te zijn met deze meer dan waanzinnige deal…….
Eerder gaf de Argentijnse regering een obligatielening uit waar deze voor 100 jaar een vaste winst garandeert………
De grote onderlaag zal weer keihard worden gepakt met deze lening, zoals dit eerder deze eeuw (zie het tweede hieronder opgenomen artikel uit 2004 met de titel ‘IMF admits mistakes in Argentina crisis‘) en in de 90 er jaren al eens het geval was. Argentinië zal zich met deze deal moeten onderwerpen aan het IMF en haar keiharde neoliberale eisen tot hervormingen…….
Begin deze eeuw versterkte een grote lening van het IMF de crisis in Argentinië en ook nu is de verwachting dat dit zal gebeuren…….
Argentinië verwordt met deze IMF lening tot het Zuid-Amerikaanse Griekenland, waar de welgestelden, zoals die in Griekenland al lang hun kapitaal hebben veiliggesteld in het buitenland (2 vliegen in 1 klap >> ten eerste het geld is veilig voor eventuele faillissementen van banken (of grote belastingverhogingen op vermogen), ten tweede: de ontduiking van belastingen op enorme schaal…… (waar familie Zorreguieta, je weet wel de familie van pampakoningin Maxima, ook tot de welgestelden behoort……)
De arme bevolking van Griekenland, intussen het grootste deel van de bevolking weet wat dit betekent, zoals de ouderen die daar praktisch geen pensioen meer ontvangen (waar ze zelf voor spaarden), of wat dacht je van kankerpatiënten die de benodigde medicamenten zoals pijnstillers niet meer kunnen betalen……..
De Griekse schuld is zo hoog dat de (lage) rentebetalingen al niet zijn te voldoen, laat staan dat het land tot aflossen van de enorme schuld zal komen, hetzelfde lot wacht Argentinië…….
Lees nogmaals hoe ijskoud, inhumaan neoliberaal beleid tot grote ellende zal leiden onder de grote maatschappelijke onderlaag van Argentinië en de crisis daar alleen zal verdiepen…… Bovendien regeert president en regeringsleider Mauricio Macri van de Propuesta Republicana, kortweg PRO, over zijn eigen graf en dat van nakomende regeringen, immers Argentinië heeft met deze lening een groot deel van de zeggenschap in eigen land vrijwillig overgedragen aan het IMF……..
Daarmee is het zeker dat Argentinië zich met hart en ziel heeft verbonden aan het ijskoude, inhumane neoliberalisme, waar zelfs een socialistische regering niets tegen kan ondernemen…… Zie de Griekse situatie waar Tsipras een zogenaamde socialist zijn land uit handen heeft gegeven aan de Europese Commissie, het IMF en de ECB, de Europese Centrale Bank……. Staatseigendommen zijn voor 99 jaar uit handen gegeven aan een EU orgaan, het Europees Stabiliteitsmechanisme (ESM) dat naar goeddunken staatseigendommen kan verkopen voor een appel en een ei…….
Argentina Just Made IMF History With Biggest Bailout Loan Ever
(ZHE) — Just a few weeks after Argentina became ground zero for the coming Emerging Market crisis, when its currency suddenly collapsed at the end of April amid soaring inflation, exploding capital outflows and a central bank that was far behind the curve (as in “13% of rate hikes in a week” behind)…
… the IMF has officially bailed out the country – again – this time with a $50 billion, 36-month stand-by loan, and coming in about $10 billion more than rumored earlier in the week, it was the largest ever bailout loan in IMF history, meant to help restore investor confidence in a nation that, between its soaring external debt and current account deficit, prompted JPMorgan to suggest that along with Turkey, Argentina is in effect, doomed.
As the JPM chart below shows, the country’s total budget deficit, which includes interest payments on debt, was 6.5% of GDP last year, much of reflecting a debt binge of about $100 billion over the last two and a half years. The primary fiscal deficit in 2017 was 3.9%.
The loan will have a minimum interest rate of 1.96% rising as high as 4.96%.
“We are convinced that we’re on the right path, that we’ve avoided a crisis,” Finance Minister Nicolás Dujovne said at a press conference in Buenos Aires. “This is aimed at building a normal economy.”
Dujovne said that about $15 billion from the credit line would be immediately available to Argentina after the package is approved by the IMF’s board, which is expected on June 20. The rest would be dispersed as needed as Argentina meets its targets.
Shortly after the news the loan was finalized, Dujovne made some additional, more bizarre comments, saying that “the amount we received is 11 times Argentina’s quota, which reflects the international community´s support of Argentina,” almost as if he was proud at just how insolvent his country “suddenly” become. He was certainly delighted that, in his view, Argentina is now “too big to fail”, and received not only this loan as a result…
“It’s very good news that the integration with the world allows us to receive this support.”
… but also hinted that the international community would also foot the bill for all other upcoming Argentinian bailouts. And if the country’s history is any indication, there will be plenty more, as well as the occasional military coup for good measure.
According to Bloomberg, Argentina will see 30% of the funds a day or two after the Fund’s June 20 board meeting, and in typical IMF-bailout fashion, a form of austerity will be imposed on what was once Latin America’s richest nation: as part of the agreement, the country will now target a fiscal deficit of 1.3% of GDP in 2019 and 2.7% this year, with a fiscal balance targeted for 2020 (good luck). And since the previous targets of 2.2% and 3.2%, were almost as laughable, this latest IMFian austerity package not only has zero chance of ever being achieved, but if Greece is any indication, it will make the Argentina crisis far worse. The government has also set a new inflation target of 17% in 2019 – It’s considered low – declining to 13% in 2020 and 9% in 2021.
And the biggest joke, as part of the program, Argentina will agree to accelerate the pace at which it reduces the government deficit. The nation spends more than it collects in revenue and imports more than it exports, creating fiscal and current-account shortfalls that leave Argentina vulnerable to fluctuations in its currency. But, thanks to the even more idiotic policies of central banks, Argentina managed to sell a 100 year bond last year, demonstrating just how stupid some managers of “other people’s money” really are.
“This is a plan owned and designed by the Argentine government, one aimed at strengthening the economy for the benefit of all Argentines,” IMF Managing Director Christine Lagarde says in the statement which can be found on the IMF’s website.
To take effect, the deal reached between the IMF’s staff and Argentine authorities still requires the approval of the IMF’s executive board.
Oh, and thank you American taxpayers: the IMF’s largest shareholder, the U.S., said in a statement Thursday from Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin that it supported the program, according to the WSJ.
“The size of the package should provide relief, but implementing the program entails significant challenges and will require skillful political leadership,” said Martin Castellano, the head of Latin America research at the Institute of International Finance (IFF).
Argentina was bailed out by the IMF for the second time in 2 decades after three rate hikes pushed borrowing costs above 40% but failed to halt a plunge in the currency. The peso fell 25% against the dollar this year to trade at 24.9850 on Thursday, while capital outflows soared.
Central Bank President, Federico Sturzenegger, said the bank will continue to intervene in currency markets in times of “disruptive movement” although the central bank will not target inflation this year, he said. Meanwhile, the government has agreed to send a bill that gives the central bank more autonomy, and as a result it wil no longer transfer funds to the Treasury.
“We’re convinced that we’re on the right track, that we managed to avoid a crisis, gather support for the program we already had and that has been in place since Dec. 2015, which looks to build a normal economy, reduce poverty and protect the vulnerable,” Dujovne said, echoing what Greece said after its first bailout 8 years… and its second… and its third.
Gerry Rice, an IMF spokesman, speaking Thursday before the details of the bailout were announced, told reporters that the IMF is “not seeing negative spillovers to other countries at this point.”
Well, he may want to take a look at Brazil.
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As for what happened the last time the IMF bailed out Argentina in the early 2000, the following 2004 article from the Telegraph tells you all you need to know why when a nation is desperately in need of deleveraging, giving it another $50 billion in debt is generally a bad idea.
IMF admits mistakes in Argentina crisis
By Edmund Conway12:01AM BST 30 Jul 2004
The International Monetary Fund yesterday admitted that its mistakes helped plunge Argentina deeper into the red during the currency crisis that crippled the country’s economy three years ago.
In a report published yesterday by its independent evaluation office, the IMF said it ought to have prevented the Argentine government from following poor economic policies.
“IMF surveillance failed to highlight the growing vulnerabilities in the authorities’ choice of policies and the IMF erred by supporting inadequate policies too long,” it said.
The financial meltdown that reached a climax in 2001, causing the country to default on $132 billion of foreign debt, was worsened by the government’s vain attempts to maintain the Argentine peso’s peg against the dollar. The IMF ploughed money into the country to help it sustain the peg, pledging an extra $22 billion as late as the end of 2000.
“In retrospect, the resources used in an attempt to preserve the peg could have been better used to mitigate some of the inevitable costs of exit,” the report said.
Although it became clear to some IMF staff that the country’s currency plan was flawed in the 1990s, they did not report their doubts to their board for fear of triggering a speculative attack on the peso. The executive board, for its part, ignored staff complaints that Argentina was not reforming its economy satisfactorily.
Both the IMF and the US touted the country as Latin America’s economic success story but the fund maintained its support despite the fact that Argentina missed its fiscal targets every year since 1994. Analysts have also claimed that the IMF’s demands that Argentina raise taxes in 2002 worsened the crisis. The conclusions will come as a blow to the institution, whose role has come under increased scrutiny in recent years.
Yesterday the Argentine finance minister, Roberto Lavagna, argued that the country should not be pressed too hard for repayments of its current three-year $13 billion loan. He said the IMF was now insisting it reformed its economy “in a way absent throughout the 90s” and “under a schedule that is oblivious to the political realities of the country”.
Good luck, and some advice to Argentina: this time try to prevent Elliott Management from buying up your debt at distressed prices.
Het verhaal over ‘de moord’ op Babchenko, fake news (nepnieuws) van de bovenste plank, heeft duidelijk gemaakt dat de Oekraïense junta nu volkomen is doorgeslagen in de zoektocht naar false flag operaties waarmee Rusland moet worden gedemoniseerd. (al is het neerhalen van MH17 als false flag operatie voorlopig één van de grootste die de wereld heeft gezien, waar de Oekraïense junta NB vetorecht had en heeft op de uitkomsten van het JIT onderzoek >> hoe zot wil je het hebben…??*) .
Terug naar de zogenaamde moord op Babchenko: intussen is ‘de moordenaar’ die Babchenko zou hebben willen vermoorden gearresteerd en je raadt het niet (of juist wel, zeker gezien de kop) >> deze ‘moordenaar’ heeft banden met de Oekraïense veiligheidsdienst, de SBU….. De ‘moordenaar’ Tsimbalyuk is een groot criticus van het Kremlin en heeft zelf gezegd voor de Oekraïense geheime dienst te hebben gewerkt…….. Waarschijnlijk dacht men bij deze geheime dienst, de SBU, dat men zelfs wel een false flag operatie zou kunnen laten slagen, door eerst een zogenaamde moordenaar te contracteren en daarna een nepmoord te laten plaatsvinden, om vervolgens de ‘toekomstige moordenaar’ op te pakken en met deze ‘moordenaar’ alsnog de schuld in de schoenen van de Russen te schuiven….. Tja, als je ziet hoe Oekraïne weg weet te komen met de massamoord op vlucht MH17, is deze handelwijze dan weer niet zo vreemd, immers als het maar anti-Russisch is, gelooft het westen de leugens van de Porosjenko junta, hoe onwaarschijnlijk die leugens ook zijn…….
Lees dit verhaal, opgetekend door Tyler Durden en zegt het voort: de hoogste tijd dat de MH17 leugen definitief wordt doorgeprikt en men de Oekraïense junta ziet zoals deze is: een corrupte club fascistische moordenaars!!
“Real” Assassin Arrested In Staged Kiev Hit Linked To Ukrainian Intelligence As Official Story Unravels
The Ukrainian government’s staged assassination of anti-Putin journalist Arkady Babachenko has taken an even stranger turn, as evidence has emerged that his would-be “Russia-ordered” assassin and the man who supposedly hired him, both say they worked for Ukrainian counterintelligence, casting serious doubt on the official story.
To review, Ukrainian authorities announced last Tuesday that Babachenko had been assassinated after returning home from the store. On Wednesday, Babachenko appeared at a press conference with Ukrainian authorities who said that the faked assassination was an elaborate sting to bust an actual hit planned by Russia.
Only now we find that the hitman, Oleksiy Tsimbalyuk, is an outspoken critic of Russia who says he worked for Ukrainian counterintelligence – a claim Ukraine initially denied but later admitted to be true. Meanwhile the guy who supposedly hired Tsimbalyuk, Boris L. German, 50, also says he worked for Ukrainian counter-intelligence, a claim Ukraine denies as its immediately destroys the carefully scripted, if rapidly imploding, Ukrainian narrative meant to scapegoat Russia for what has been a “fake news” story of epic proportions, emerging from the one nation that not only was the biggest foreign donor to the Clinton foundation, but has made fake news propaganda into an art form.
Supposed “hitman” Oleksiy Tsimbalyuk
Boris German, suspected of organizing an attempted hit on anti-Putin Russian journalist Arkady Babachenko sits in a cage during trial in Kiev, Ukraine
The New York Times reports that Tsimbalyuk – a former Russia-hating priest was featured in a 10-minute documentary in January 2017 in which “he called killing members of the Russian-backed militias in eastern Ukraine “an act of mercy”, further calling into question why Russia would hire him for the supposed assassination in the first place.
Facebook pictures also reveal Tsimbalyuk wearing a Ukrainian ultranationalist uniform from “Right Sector,” a group deemed to be neo-Nazis.
Given such strong and publicly avowed enmity toward Russia, it is odd to say the least that Mr. Tsimbalyuk would be selected to carry out the contract killing of a prominent Kremlin critic.
German claims he took orders from Moscow businessman Vyacheslav Pivovarnik – who he says works for one of Putin’s personal foundations.
Ukrainian officials also claim that German has a list of another 30 targets which Moscow wants to wipe out – something he claims he has since passed onto Kyiv.
Prosecutors claimed German had been given a down payment of $15,000, half what he was promised for carrying out the hit.
German said: ‘I got a call from a longtime acquaintance who lives in Moscow, and in the process of communicating with him it turned out that he works for a Putin foundation precisely to orchestrate destabilization in Ukraine.’ –Daily Mail
“Six months ago, my old acquaintance contacted me, an ex-citizen of Ukraine, now living in Moscow,” German told a Ukrainian court, adding “He works in a personal foundation of Putin’s – and is in charge of organizing riots in Ukraine and planned acts of terror at the next presidential elections. He is called Vyacheslav Pivovarnik. This is not a fairy tale, there’s nothing mystical here, everything has been proved.”
German’s lawyer Eugene Solodko wrote on Facebook that his client was an executive director of Ukrainian-German firm Schmeisser – the only non-state owned arms producer in the country.
Russia has denied German’s claim, with a Putin spokesman saying “No such foundation exists in Russia. Any allegations about Russia’s possible complicity in this staging is just mudslinging. They do not correspond to reality.”
Meanwhile, senior Ukraine officials have been on the defensive since Wednesday, when the head of security services announced they had staged the death of Babchenko so they could track his
would-be killers to Russian intelligence, a story the International Federation of Journalists slammed as idiotic, nonsensical and completely undermining Ukraine’s credibility. =============================== * Alsof je de moordenaar laat meewerken aan een onderzoek naar de moord die deze pleegde en deze vervolgens een vetorecht geeft op de uitkomsten van dat onderzoek…….
What If ‘Murdered’ Russian Journalist Had Decided to Stay Dead in Kiev?
PS: hier nog een Twitterbericht van fantast ‘journalist’ Olaf Koens over de dood van Babchenko. Koens is één van de vele journalisten die na de vermeende dood van Babchenko stelden hem goed te kennen (Koens noemt hem zelfs zijn vriend) en de loftrompet over hem te steken (ha! ha! ha!):
Godverdomme. Zojuist is in Kiev de Russische schrijver, journalist en vooral mijn vriend Arkadi Babtsjenko vermoord. In portiek van zijn eigen flat in zijn rug geschoten. Iedereen belt elkaar. Klopt het? Ja, het klopt. Niet te geloven.
‘Klopt het? Ja het klopt…..’ Inderdaad Koens: niet te geloven! (voor meer berichten met fantast Koens, klik op het betreffende label, direct onder dit bericht)
Afgelopen vrijdag tijdens de protesten (Great Return March) langs de grens met Israël, hebben wanhopige Palestijnen pijpleidingen en een ‘transportband’ in brand gestoken.
De fascistische apartheidsstaat Israël heeft als reactie daarop 20 raketten afgevuurd op openluchtgevangenis Gazastrook, waarbij o.a. een grote generator werd geraakt*. Het is dan ook vrijwel zeker, dat de Palestijnen de komende dagen in het geheel geen elektriciteit zullen krijgen…. Precies zoals de SS dat deed: een volk collectief straffen na een onwelgevallige daad van enkelen…….
Bovendien staan de zaken die stuk zijn aan de kant van de Gazastrook en niet op ‘Israëlische bodem’, desondanks eist Israël dat e.e.a. gerepareerd wordt, voordat de enige grensovergang van de Gazastrook weer open mag (volgens zeggen zou de grensovergang aan de Egyptische kant al langer gesloten zijn…)
Onbegrijpelijk dat de westerse pers en westerse politici niet al lang massaal hun dak zijn uitgegaan als 1,8 miljoen mensen op een postzegel aan land, moeten leven alsof ze in het WOII getto van Warschau wonen……
Onbegrijpelijk dat diezelfde politici en media niet onmiddellijk hun dak uitgaan als Israël deze postzegel land met de modernste wapens bestookt………
Onbegrijpelijk dat diezelfde politici en media niet onmiddellijk hun dak uitgaan als Israël voor de zoveelste keer energie afknijpt en daarmee de mensen in de Gazastrook collectief straft, waar dit afknijpen van energie gegarandeerd weer het leven zal kosten aan een aantal ouderen en zieke mensen……..
Onbegrijpelijk dat het westen niet onmiddellijk haar dak uitgaat als Israël voor de zoveelste keer door de EU gesubsidieerde projecten met de grond gelijkmaakt…….
Onbegrijpelijk dat het westen niet haar dak uitgaat over het feit dat Israël ongewapende mensen doodschiet, mensen die in wanhoop protesteren tegen hun vreselijk lot te moeten leven in een openluchtgevangenis, waar hun leven niets waard is en waar het aan alles ontbreekt (waar het westen ook al niets tegen heeft ondernomen…..)…
Onbegrijpelijk dat het westen tolereert dat Israël kinderen, een aantal zelfs zonder veroordeling (alweer zelfs) in militaire gevangenissen opsluit……
Bij dit alles doen de westerse reguliere media en het grootste deel van de politici net alsof de Palestijnen en Israël gelijke partijen zijn, alsof je een ‘indiaan’ met pijl en boog gelijkstelt aan een tank…….
Maar oh wee als er in Syrië een kind zou zijn omgekomen, waarover dan ook nog eens wordt gelogen…….
(ZHE) — Three days after the biggest military escalation between Israel and Syria in years, in which the IDF launched dozens of air force attack missions on alleged Iranian sites operating out of Syria, on Saturday evening the Israeli military struck Gaza with explosions heard in the Strip’s north.
Footage of multiple explosions in the Israeli airstrike in northern #Gaza. Palestinian media report Hamas is firing back at the Israeli airplanes (lately they tried to use machine guns against the Israeli aircraft, not successfully) pic.twitter.com/PCxbMSyDxr
According to Palestinian reports, the Israel Air Force targeted a generator and fired as many as 20 missiles toward an agricultural area east of the city of Beit Hanoun. No casualties have been reported according to local press.
According to Haaretz, the attack comes hours after Defense Minister Avigdor Lieberman announced that Israel is closing the Kerem Shalom crossing between Israel and the Gaza Strip due to arson caused by Palestinian protesters along the border. According to the Israeli army, the crossing will be closed except for humanitarian cases that will be approved on an individual basis. The crossing, the only one through which cargo passes from Israel to Gaza, will stay closed until the damage caused by the arson is repaired.
Footage of multiple explosions in the Israeli airstrike in northern #Gaza. Palestinian media report Hamas is firing back at the Israeli airplanes (lately they tried to use machine guns against the Israeli aircraft, not successfully) pic.twitter.com/PCxbMSyDxr
On Friday, Palestinians protesting along the border reportedly set fire to a pipeline through which Israel supplies gas and fuel to Gaza and a conveyor belt near the crossing. This is the second consecutive week that demonstrators have set fire to the Palestinian side of the crossing.
The attack comes just two days ahead of the US embassy moving to Jerusalem.
In dit artikel een Twitterbericht met video die ik niet over weet te nemen, in deze video wordt gelachen als Israëlische raketten doel raken in de Gazastrook….. Hier de link naar het origineel. (althans op Anti-Media, het artikel werd eerder geplaatst op Zero Hedge)
* Israël heeft een paar jaar geleden de energiecentrale voor de Gazastrook platgebombardeerd. Sinds dien zijn de Palestijnen afhankelijk van Israël voor elektriciteit en van de megalomane kwast Abbas (dictator van de Palestijnse Autoritei >> PA op de West Bank) voor de betalingen van die energieleveringen…. Je snapt het al beiden doen hun best zo min mogelijk te doen, zodat de Palestijnen in de openluchtgevangenis Gazastrook blij mogen zijn als ze per dag 2 uur stroom krijgen……… Vreemd dat de westerse media en hun politici hierover niet gigantisch hun dak zijn uitgegaan, voor heel wat minder in Syrië (wat dan zelfs niet kan worden bewezen) slaat de hysterie toe, maar ja dat krijg je wanneer de reguliere westerse media ‘onafhankelijk en objectief berichten’ over de legitieme, democratisch gekozen regering van Syrië……… Zie ook: ‘Israël vermoordde minstens 16 ongewapende demonstranten tijdens grootschalig protest‘
en: ‘Israël gebruikt nieuw chemisch wapen tegen Palestijnse demonstranten in de Gazastrook‘ (Wel aandacht voor ‘Syrische gifgasaanval’ in Douma, maar als Israël daadwerkelijk dit wapen inzet, blijft het doodstil….Israël, samen met Egypte, de twee landen die nog steeds chemische wapens ontwikkelen, produceren, opslaan en…. exporteren!! Wellicht leveren deze landen ook aan de terreurgroepen, ofwel de ‘gematigde rebellen’ in Syrië, die met instemming van het westen over voorraden gifgas beschikken…… Zowel Israël als Egypte staan achter de psychopathische terreurgroepen in Syrië, groepen die, zoals gezegd, in het westen ‘gematigde rebellen’ worden genoemd…..)
Steven Hawking die in maart dit jaar overleed, beëindigde 10 dagen voor zijn dood zijn theorie over de oorsprong van het heelal. Met een nieuwe theorie die hij samen met de Belgische wetenschapper Thomas Hertog uitwerkte, werd de idee dat het heelal voor eeuwig zou uitbreiden fiks bijgesteld.
E.e.a. heeft te maken met de kwantummechanica, als deze wordt toegepast op de theorie van een eeuwig uitdijend universum, zou het heelal op een plek verder uitdijen en op een andere plek tot stilstand komen, waardoor een bobbelig multiversum (pocket universe) zou moeten ontstaan.
Als dit klopt zou de theorie dat er een oneindig aantal universums (of universa, wat je wilt) in het multiversum bestaan, met een fiks aantal moeten worden verkleind…. Bovendien zouden de natuurkundige wetten en ‘chemische wetten’ zoals wij die kennen, van elkaar kunnen verschillen. Daarnaast zou de relativiteitstheorie van Einstein aan inflatie onderhevig zijn, echter dat was al bekend toen Hawking in 1983 zijn theorie over een multiversum openbaarde. (m.a.w. In feite zou Hawking met zijn laatste theoretische uiteenzetting zijn gelijk halen)
Geen makkelijke leesstof het volgende artikel en de verwijzing naar de laatste inzichten van Hawking en Hertog (aan het eind een link naar de uiteenzetting van Hawking in deze), maar wel uitermate interessant! (toch met een verhelderende video en met dito grafische afbeeldingen)
Had de mens eindelijk maar eens door, dat we een piepklein onderdeel zijn van het multiversum en dat we het met z’n allen op deze aarde moeten rooien. Elkaar helpen i.p.v. bevechten en de wereld niet naar de kloten helpen puur uit hebzucht (waar bedrijven wordt verboden te lobbyen bij de politiek), een wereld maken waar geluk bewerkstelligen voor iedere bewoner van onze wereld de belangrijkste zaak zou moeten zijn en waar (echte) gelijkheid als vanzelfsprekend is………. (en bepaald niet onbelangrijk: waar het hersenspoelen van kinderen tot de leeftijd van 23 jaar met het religieus gif verboden zou moeten worden!)
Stephen Hawking’s Last Words: We May Live in a Holographic Matrix
(ZHE) — Before he passed away in March, renowned physicist Stephen Hawking had published more than 230 articleson the birth of the universe, black holesand quantum mechanics. But,ten days before his death, Hawking finished his final theory on the origin of the universe –now published posthumously – and it offers an interesting departure from earlier ideas about the nature of the “multiverse.”
As PBS reports, the new report, co-authored by Belgian physicist Thomas Hertog, counters the longstanding idea that the universe will expand for eternity.
If you asked an astrophysicist today to describe what happened after the Big Bang, he would likely start with the concept of “cosmic inflation.” Cosmic inflation argues that right after the Big Bang — we’re talking after a teeny fraction of a second — the universe expanded at breakneck speed like dough in an oven.
But this exponential expansion should create, due to quantum mechanics, regions where the universe continues to grow forever and regions where that growth stalls. The result would be a multiverse, a collection of bubblelike pockets, each defined by its own laws of physics.
“The local laws of physics and chemistry can differ from one pocket universe to another, which together would form a multiverse,” Hertog said in a statement. “But I have never been a fan of the multiverse. If the scale of different universes in the multiverse is large or infinite the theory can’t be tested.”
Along with being difficult to support, the multiverse theory, which was co-developed by Hawking in 1983, doesn’t jibe with classical physics, namely the contributions of Einstein’s theory of general relativity as they relate to the structure and dynamics of the universe.
“As a consequence, Einstein’s theory breaks down in eternal inflation,” Hertog said.
Einstein spent his life searching for a unified theory, a way to reconcile the biggest and smallest of things, general relativity and quantum mechanics.
He died never having achieved that goal, but leagues of physicists like Hawking followed in Einstein’s footsteps.One path led to holograms.
Diagram of evolution of the (observable part) of the universe from the Big Bang (left) to the present. After the Big Bang and inflation, the expansion of the universe gradually slowed down for the next several billion years, as the matter in the universe pulled on itself via gravity. More recently, the expansion has begun to speed up again as the repulsive effects of dark energy have come to dominate the expansion of the universe. Image and caption by NASA
Instead of the ‘standard’ description of how the ‘universe’ unfolded (and is unfolding), the authors argue the Big Bang had a finite boundary, defined by string theory and holograms.
The new theory – which sounds simplistically like the world of the red-pill-blue-pill Matrix movies – embraces the strange concept thatthe universe is like a vast and complex hologram. In other words, 3D reality is an illusion, and that the apparently “solid” world around us – and the dimension of time – is projected from information stored on a flat 2D surface.
The Telegraph reports that Prof Hertog, from the Katholieke Universiteit Leuven (KU Leuven), said:
“It’s a very precise mathematical notion of holography that has come out of string theory in the last few years which is not fully understood but is mind-boggling and changes the scene completely.“
Applied to inflation, the newly published theory suggests that time and “the beginning” of the universe arose holographically from an unknowable state outside the Big Bang.
Prof Hawking said before his death:
“We are not down to a single, unique universe, but our findings imply a significant reduction of the multiverse, to a much smaller range of possible universes.“
And believe it or not, there’s actually evidence that the world works this way.
As PBS concludes,some physicists point out that the Hawking-Hertog theory is preliminary and should be considered speculation until other mathematicians can replicate its equations.
Sabine Hossenfelder, a theoretical physicist with the Frankfurt Institute for Advanced Studies, said on her blog that the ideas put forward in this paper join others that are currently pure speculation and don’t yet have any evidence to support them. She makes it clear that while the proposals aren’t uninteresting, Hawking and Hertog haven’t found a new way to detect the existence of universes other than our own.
“Stephen Hawking was beloved by everyone I know, both inside and outside the scientific community,” she wrote.
“He was a great man without doubt, but this paper is utterly unremarkable.”
Here is Ars Technica’s John Timmer with more details on the holographic universe.
Draai hierna (of wanneer het uitkomt) het geweldige album ‘Pocket Universe’ van Yello (als het goed is zie je rechts naast het eerste nummer de rest van het album staan, mocht dit niet zo zijn, klik dan op deze link en daarna op het eerste album dat je ziet >> zie na plaatsing van dit bericht dat je idd alleen het eerste nummer te zien krijgt en niet de rest van het album, klik dus op de link hierboven voor de rest van het album):
De aanval van de VS, GB en Frankrijk, als reactie op ‘een gifgasaanval van het Syrische leger’ tegen de stad Douma, blijkt niet alleen totaal illegaal te zijn (en dat weer niet alleen vanwege het feit dat er geen gifgasaanval werd gepleegd op die stad), maar deze actie was ook nog eens totaal contraproductief….
Dat zit zo: Rusland overweegt als reactie op die laatste aanval haar S-300 defensie raketten te leveren aan Syrië…. Deze raketten hebben een groot bereik en kunnen bijvoorbeeld de illegale aanvallen van Israël (intussen meer dan 100 aanvallen en stuk voor stuk oorlogsmisdaden) tegen Syrische doelen worden voorkomen. Deze raketten zouden Israëlische toestellen al in het Libanees luchtruim uit kunnen schakelen…… (ook die laffe manier van aanvallen via het luchtruim van een ander land, is een grove schending van internationaal recht, immers Israël begeeft zich illegaal in Libanees luchtruim, alweer een enorme oorlogsmisdaad van terreurstaat Israël……). Ofwel Syrië wordt door deze illegale aanval straks veel beter beschermd tegen dit soort illegale aanvallen, of die nu van van de fascistische apartheidsstaat Israël komen, dan wel van terreurentiteiten VS, GB en Frankrijk (of andere NAVO landen). Ik noem die laatste landen, daar deze de aanval openden met kruisraketten, die laag kunnen vliegen om detectie te voorkomen, echter ook met deze verdedigingsraketten kunnen kruisraketten van de VS, GB en Frankrijk (en anderen) uit de lucht worden gehaald, of ter plekke het lanceerplatform (schepen, vliegtuigen, of lanceerplatforms op land) vernietigen dat laatste hoorde ik onlangs op WDR….. Al moet gezegd worden dat ook zonder de nieuwe Russische raketten, het merendeel van de afgeschoten kruisraketten werd vernietigd, voordat het doel werd bereikt!
Het is te hopen dat Rusland deze S-300 raketten levert aan Syrië zodat er een eind kan worden gemaakt aan de westerse en Israëlische terreur in Syrië. Volgens het Russische dagblad Kommersant is de (gratis) levering van het S-300 raketsysteem een feit en worden er al onderdelen afgeleverd in Syrië, iets dat de Syrische regering ontkent, men zou hier nog een besluit over willen nemen. Reuters citeerde Lavrov die stelde dat zowel de Russische als de Syrische autoriteiten nog niet hebben beslist over een definitieve levering van dit defensie systeem. De corrupte en psychopathische massamoordenaar in de persoon van de Israëlische premier Netanyahu, heeft al aangegeven dat met de levering van het S-300 raketsysteem aan Syrië (alweer) een spreekwoordelijke rode lijn zal worden overschreden en dat Israël daarop actie zal ondernemen…….
Niet vreemd dus dat de commandant van de VS terreurtroepen, in deze van CENTCOM, Joseph Votel terreurstaat Israël in het geheim bezocht, immers dit raketsysteem is ook een gevaar voor het agressieve VS leger in de regio……
Commander of US Troops in Syria Makes “Secret and Unprecedented” Visit to Israel
(ZHE) — Increasingly it appears that the recent US coalition missile strikes on Syria have utterly backfired: instead of weakening Syria or degrading its military capabilities, the attack may have actually served to strengthen Syria’s defenses.
Since the massive strike which involved the US, UK, and France launching over 100 cruise missiles, Russia is rumored to be moving forward on delivery of its advanced S-300 missile defense system, which would be a monumental upgrade allowing Syrian defenses to far surpass current capabilities which utilize the Soviet-made S-125 and S-200 air defense systems.
Crucially, S-300s have a range of up to 150-200 kilometers (or 120 miles), bringing Syrian deterrent reach easily to within Lebanese airspace (as Israel has routinely struck targets inside Syria while firing over “neutral” Lebanese airspace in recent years), and could even extend airspace coverage into Israel itself.
Could this be the reason for some major behind-the-scenes diplomatic scrambling?
Undated file photo of S-300 air defense missiles launched at Ashuluk shooting range in southern Russia.
On Monday VOA News chief White House correspondent Steve Herman announced thatUS CENTCOM commander General Joseph Votel is in the midst of “a secret and unprecedented visit to Israel.”
Knowledge of the “secret” visit was based on exclusive footage broadcast by Israel’s Kann News, which first reported, “the commander of the American Central Command arrived for the first time to Israel, and met with senior security officials, including the Chief of Staff.”
No doubt the potential for what weapons experts have commonly described as the “exceptionally advanced” Russian-supplied S-300 in Israel’s backyard is making Tel Aviv and its allies nervous. Israel has repeatedly called delivery of the S-300s a “red line” for which it would act, however, plans for just such a scenario could be hastening.
Russian newspaper Kommersant reports that Russia might deliver S-300 anti aircraft missiles to Syria in the very near future in order to defend Damascus & Strategic Syrian army bases from Israel & U.S. airstrikes.
Kommersant reported Russia will give the S-300 missiles to Syria for free from Russian army suppliesas part of its military assistance to Syria.This way the delivery could be done very quickly.
Russian military sources said parts of the S-300 will be delivered soon to Syria via cargo planes or Russian navy ships.Until Syrian officers will be trained to operate the system it will be operated by Russian military experts in coordination with the Syrian army.
According to Kommersant Russia believes that delivering the system will stabilize the situation in Syria and deter Israel and the U.S. from continuing its airstrikes in Syria. Russian sources said that if Israel attacks the missiles the results would be catastrophic.
1 \ Russian newspaper Kommersant reports that Russia might deliver S-300 anti aircraft missiles to Syria in the very near future in order to defend Damascus & Strategic Syrian army bases from Israel & U.S. airstrikes
Though still being hotly debated and contested among analysts, Syria’s over 30-year old current deterrent system appears to have performed well, likely stunning the West and neighboring Israel (which itself played a part in the coalition attack) as it reportedly shot down 71 of the 103 cruise missiles,according to official Russian and Syrian government sources.
As we previously described, Pentagon officials have vehemently deniedthat their “nice and new and smart” cruise missiles were actually shot down, and Russia now further claims to be in possession of at least two non-detonated coalition missiles. Most Western media reports continue to assert that Syrian missile defense failed to shoot down a single inbound missile. Notably, the Pentagon has been careful in all statements to say Russia’s S-300 system (currently present aboard Russian battleships in the Mediterranean) did not engage.
However, there are other possibilities that the coalition’s missiles simply failed in reaching their targets in some instances without intercept by Syrian defenses, or even that advanced Russian air defense Electronic Counter Measures (ECM) may have been in play.
But one doesn’t need to take the Russian Defense Ministry’s word for it. It is entirely possible and even likely that Russian intercept claims are inflated, yet that there were a number of intercepts that night was also reported by several important outside sources, including by Syrian pro-rebel media, foremost being the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights (SOHR), which has for years been a chief go-to source for all mainstream reporting on Syria (though ironically when SOHR contradicts the mainstream media, such as in this case, its numbers are ignored).
SOHR reported, based on “several intersected sources” on the ground, that “the number of missiles that were downed exceeded 65.” That anti-Assad/anti-Russia pro-rebel SOHR is saying this is hugely significant, and is consistent with Russia’s claim.
But all of this will perhaps quickly become a moot point if Russia does indeed deliver the S-300 system to Syria after warning immediately on the heels of the US-led strike, that there would be consequences.
Graphic and Info Source: Jane’s Strategic Weapons Systems via Graphic News
On the very morning after the US strike took place, Russia’s first deputy chief of staff, Sergei Rudskoi, said Russia would “reconsider” whether to supply the air defenses to Assad – an issue previously thought dead as Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu had reportedly successfully lobbied President Putin against the possibility in 2013.
Netanyahu was quoted at the time as saying of the S-300 system, “We’ll destroy your missiles if you deliver them to Assad” – a warning which has recently been repeated in the form of an Israeli “red line”. However, Russian military sources have this week been quoted in the Times of Israel as saying: if Israel tried to destroy the anti-aircraft batteries—as analysts have indicated Israel likely would—it would be “catastrophic for all sides.”
But on Monday, Reuters reported that no decision had been made on S-300 delivery to Syria, citing Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov, who said, “We’ll have to wait to see what specific decisions the Russian leadership and representatives of Syria will take.” Lavrov added, “There is probably no secret about this and it can all be announced (if a decision is taken).”
However, given Israel’s past history of “strike first” in Syria and negotiate later, we could witness missiles flying before any official announcement takes place.
Terwijl de reguliere westerse media en de meeste westerse politici hun gal spuwen over de ‘gifgasaanval’ in het Syrische Douma, zijn er gelukkig nog een aantal deskundigen die grote vraagtekens zetten bij het kulverhaal dat een winnend Syrisch leger alsnog haar eigen bevolking zou hebben vergast…..
Naast Ron Paul, voormalig lid van het VS Huis van Afgevaardigden, die het hele verhaal afdoet als nonsens, heeft ook voormalig Britse marine generaal Alan West grote vraagtekens gezet bij het verhaal over deze gifgasaanval.
West noemt het militair totaal onlogisch, terwijl hij stelt dat wanneer hij de terreurgroepen van advies moest dienen, hij hen zou adviseren een gifgasaanval op de bevolking uit te voeren, deze groepen hebben immers al lang aangetoond lak te hebben aan burgerslachtoffers…..
Bij Sky News vroeg men de voormalige commandant van de Britse strijdkrachten in Irak, generaal Jonathan Shaw naar de gifgasaanval. Ook hij stelde dat het onlogisch was voor een winnend leger om gifgas in te zetten, daar het Syrisch leger in feite de strijd al had gewonnen. Hij gaf daarbij de woorden weer van generaal Vogel, hoofd van CENTCOM, die voor het VS Congress stelde dat de VS moet accepteren dat het Syrische leger de strijd heeft gewonnen……
Hij haalde ook Trump aan, die een week eerder had gesteld dat ISIS overwonnen was en hij de troepen terug wilde roepen, waarna er ‘toevallig’ een chemische aanval plaats vond (vrij vertaald).
Voordat hij z’n verhaal kon afmaken, werd het gesprek afgekapt, had hij zich maar aan het script moeten houden, het script dat Assad als dader aanwijst en waarin ‘ongelofelijk genoeg’ het grootste deel van de westerse wereld gelooft, na te zijn gehersenspoeld door de reguliere westerse (massa-) media en het grootste deel van de westerse politici, die maar geen genoeg kunnen krijgen van het spuien van gal over deze ‘gifgasaanval……’ Voorts moet niet vergeten worden dat de ‘gematigde rebellen’ (lees: psychopathische moordenaars, verkrachters en martelbeulen) in het bezit zijn van voorraden gifgas. Algemeen bekend maar geen probleem voor de anti-Assad, anti-Russische en anti-Iraanse propagandisten in het westen (de voornoemde media en politici, aangevuld met ‘deskundige opiniemakers’, allen lobbyisten van het militair-industrieel complex)…….
Live News Broadcast Cuts Off Top British General After He Questions Syria Narrative
(ZHE) — While every politician in the world and their mainstream media lackeys are chomping at the bit to “unleash hell” on Assad and Syria, there are some that are willing to question the “Assad chemically attacked his own people and needs to be punished” narrative.
“When your enemy is nearly defeated, and final victory is at hand; gas your own people so that nations greater than yours will intervene and destroy you.” – Sun Tzu, The Art of War (Page: Never!)
“The way the people that perpetuate these false flags [sic] say that Assad is gassing his own people, at the same time,he’s winning the war and the people are flocking back in to go to the territories that he has returned to the government of Syria,” explained Paul.
“But, nevertheless, he’s out there gassing his own people, which makes no sense whatsoever and fewer and fewer people are believing this.”
“This whole idea that all of a sudden Assad’s gassing his own people, I think, is total nonsense.”
And RT spoke about the Russian claims with Lord Alan West, a retired officer of the British Royal Navy. He said he had strong reservations about taking allegations against Damascus at face value, because it didn’t make much military sense.
“It seems to be utterly ludicrous for the military that is in the process of taking over an area to go and do something with chemical weapons, which will draw the wrath of the larger enemy down upon them,” he said.
“If I was advising the opponents of [Syrian President Bashar] Assad, I would be delighted to kill a few people there. Let’s face it, [the insurgents] don’t care if they kill women and children.”
“I am not willing to accept tweets. We need to see incontrovertible truth about what has happened there and make a decision on that basis,” he added.
But, to confirm the fact that the propaganda-pushed ‘Assad-is-bad’ narrative is all that is allowed, when General Jonathan Shaw, the former Commander of British Armed Forces in Iraq, dares to go ‘off script’ while being interviewed by Sky News, he is abruptly cut off…
Here’s what General Shaw was saying before he was so rudely interrupted…
“…the debate that seems to be missing from all this – and this was mentioned by the [Russian] ambassador – is what possible motive might Syria have to launch a chemical attack at this time and in this place…
The Syrians are winning, don’t take my word for it, take the American military’s word for it. General Vogel, the head of CENTCOM, said to Congress the other day that ‘Assad has won this war and we need to face that’, and the tweet by Trump last week that ‘America had finished with ISIS and were going to pull out very soon’…and then suddenly you get these accusations of a chemical attack…”
CUT OFF…
The message is clear – stick to the script, or get cut off!
Al meer dan een maand geleden werd bekend gemaakt dat in het Syrische gebied Oost-Ghouta waar o.a. de stad Douma ligt, de ‘gematigde rebellen’ (psychopathische moordenaars die beschikken over gifgas, zoals bekend in het westen…..*) bezig waren met de voorbereiding van een gifgasaanval en dat er i.d.d. een grote hoeveelheid chlorine werd opgeslagen (zie o.a. de eerste links opgenomen onder het artikel van Anti-Media)……..
Het is dan ook volkomen duidelijk dat het bij de gifgasaanval op Douma om de zoveelste ‘false flag’ operatie gaat. Tot nu toe zijn alle gifgasaanvallen in Syrië, die sinds de strijd daar begon en die onafhankelijk werden onderzocht, toegeschreven aan de ‘gematigde rebellen….’ Ondanks deze kennis blijft men volhouden dat Assad de schuldige is, zoals de grote gifgasaanval van 2013, die naderhand door de VN aan de ‘gematigde rebellen’ werd toegeschreven……. (nog steeds wordt niet alleen in de politiek, maar zelfs in de media volgehouden dat dit een gifgasaanval was, die werd gepleegd door het Assad regime…….. En maar lullen over ‘fake news……’)
Ongelofelijk dat men gisteren ‘al wist wie de schuldige is’, Donald ‘Joker’ Trump had maar een half woord nodig om tekeer te gaan tegen Assad……. Benieuwd of hij daar de dagen ervoor al op had geoefend, immers deze aanval is minstens met medeweten van de VS gepleegd……..
Als één van de betrouwbare bronnen werden uiteraard de White Helmets genoemd, een steungroep voor Al Qaida en andere terreurgroepen in Syrië……. Ondanks dat er voldoende bewijs is voor het zich schuldig maken aan terreur door de White Helmets, plus de verdere steun van deze zogenaamde humanitaire hulporganisatie voor de terreurgroepen, o.a door als spreekbuis te dienen voor deze terroristen (die vreselijke misdaden hebben begaan in Syrië), blijven westerse politici en de reguliere westerse media deze groep als een ‘humanitaire hulporganisatie’ zien…….
Tja, als eerste moet je je altijd afvragen bij dergelijke aanvallen, wie heeft er het meest baat bij, daarna is de vraag ‘waarom’ meestal heel makkelijk te beantwoorden, waarbij alleen nog het wachten is op de bevestiging van je vermoeden. Tegelijk moet je je afvragen wat de door de politiek en media aangewezen schuldige er voor baat bij had om een dergelijke aanval te doen….
Gezien alle beschuldigingen aan het adres van de Syrische regering, zou het nogal dom zijn om een dergelijke aanval uit te voeren, zeker daar het Syrische leger zonder dit soort oorlogsmisdaden de terroristen steeds verder terugdringt…….. Daarnaast hebben internationale chemische wapenexperts gezegd, dat het Syrische leger geen chemische wapens meer heeft (dit bijvoorbeeld i.t.t. De VS, die ze al lang had moeten vernietigen….)…. De ‘gematigde rebellen’ hebben baat bij deze beschuldiging, daar ze op het punt staan verdreven te worden uit Douma (nogmaals: al voor deze gifgasaanval)……. Daarbij rekent men op de steun van de VS in de strijd tegen het reguliere Syrische leger……. Bovendien hebben deze ‘gematigde rebellen’ de beschikking over gifgas (zie ook de noot * onder het hierna opgenomen artikel)
Al is een dergelijke handelswijze, het afwegen wie er baat heeft bij deze aanval, in dit geval niet eens nodig, daar zoals gezegd alle voorgaande gifgasaanvallen aan de gematigde rebellen zijn toegeschreven. Behalve dacht ik die op Khan Sheikhoun, daar de terreurgroep ter plaatse een onderzoekscommissie waaraan ook de Russen zouden deelnemen, categorisch hebben geweigerd (met steun van de VS)…….. Hoewel er naderhand bewijzen te over waren, voor de claim dat zoals gezegd een voorraad chlorine van deze terroristen werd geraakt bij een bombardement van de Syrische luchtmacht……
Gezien de uiterst fanatieke, veel te snelle reactie van Trump en o.a. plork Macron, de Franse president, moet gevreesd worden dat deze figuren de Russen zullen uitdagen door het voortouw te nemen om Damascus en andere steden, van het legitieme, democratisch gekozen Syrische bewind, te bombarderen……… We mogen hopen dat Putin, zoals hij al vaker heeft gedaan, zijn verstand zal gebruiken, anders zijn de ‘oorlogsrapen’ definitief gaar……
Trouwens, op 26 februari maakte de anti-Assad propaganda machine bekend dat er een gifgasaanval op Oost-Ghouta zou zijn gepleegd, zoals nu blijkt ‘een beetje voortijdig….’
Trump Threatens Putin and “Animal Assad” Over Syrian Chemical Attack
Remember when the US admitted Syrian “rebels” have used chemical weapons? Or when earlier this year, the now former Secretary of State blamed Russia for an alleged Syrian chemical attack, despite admitting he doesn’t know who actually did it?Or when the US finally admitted there was “no evidence” Assad used sarin gas? Or just last week, when Trump said that the US is finally pulling out of Syria as a result of the defeat of ISIS (much to the Pentagon’s fury and open-ended timetable for extracting Syrian resources)?
Well, maybe you do, but the neocons areback in charge of US war preparations foreign policy – now that war hawk John Bolton is Trump’s National Security Advisor – are so stuck with the age-old narrative that Assad is desperate to be bombed at any cost, that none of this actually matters, and instead the big story overnight is once again that, lo and behold, Assad decided to gas some “rebels” again, despite now overwhelmingly winning the war against US-backed insurgents, and despite knowing very well that exactly one year ago an alleged “chemical attack” prompted Trump to launch dozens of Tomahawks at Syria.
This is what happened (if you’ve seen this script played out before, you are not alone).
On Saturday night, an alleged chemical attack on a rebel-held town in eastern Ghouta reportedly killed dozens of people, according to US-linked medical services with Washington immediately responding that the reports – if confirmed – would demand an immediate international response. Actually scratch the “if confirmed” part – after all, the last time the US “intervened” in Syria, on April 7, 2017, the US did not need confirmation; Trump just needed a geopolitical distraction.
It seems that he needs another one again, and ideally one that shows just how angry he is with Putin now that an interview with Mueller is reportedly imminent.
A joint statement by the medical relief organization Syrian American Medical Society (SAMS) and the civil defense service, which operates in rebel-held areas, said 49 people had died in the attack late on Saturday. Others put the toll at 150 or more.
Horrific images out of besieged Douma tonight of a suspected Chlorine attack by the Assad regime. Medical services on the ground say 35 confirmed dead, treating more than 700 for exposure.
The response from the Assad side was similarly predictable: the Syrian regime, whose overthrow the US failed to achieve in the course of the 6 year proxy war in order to facilitate the transport of Qatari natural gas to Europe, denied its forces had launched any chemical attack as the reports began circulating and said the rebels were collapsing and fabricating news.
The Syrian state news agency SANA said Jaish al-Islam was making “chemical attack fabrications in an exposed and failed attempt to obstruct advances by the Syrian Arab army,” citing an official source.
Meanwhile, Reuters said it could not independently verify the reports. Others did the same: The Syrian Observatory said it could not confirm whether chemical weapons had been used in the attack on Saturday.
But, as we noted above, who needs confirmation: after all, if the 2013 “chemical attack” that started it all and was later proven to be a hoax was sufficient, just do the same. And sure enough, a video uploaded by “local media activists” allegedly showed bodies of victims – including women and children – of the reported chemical attack in Douma. Once again, nobody has actually confirmed if anyone has died.
Horrific images out of besieged Douma tonight of a suspected Chlorine attack by the Assad regime. Medical services on the ground say 35 confirmed dead, treating more than 700 for exposure. pic.twitter.com/OfveWyeg5D
Video uploaded by local media activists shows bodies of victims – women and children – of tonights reported chemical attack in Douma. Death toll keeps climbing. pic.twitter.com/ovDr4QfOje
Meanwhile, the US, itching for that military spending GDP boost was ready with the outraged retort: the U.S. State Department said reports of mass casualties from the attack were “horrifying” and would, if confirmed, “demand an immediate response by the international community”. At the same time, Britain’s
Foreign Office also called the reports, if confirmed, “very concerning” and said “an urgent investigation is needed and the international community must respond. We call on the Assad regime and its backers, Russia and Iran, to stop the violence against innocent civilians.”
Note the “if confirmed” part, and keep an eye on how the narrative switches from that to “the attack was confirmed.” If the Skripal case is any indication, just repeating it often enough, should be sufficient.
Trump already did his part on Sunday morning, when he tweeted several statements on the alleged attack as if it was already confirmed, just as one would expect to accelerate the escalation:
Many dead, including women and children, in mindless CHEMICAL attack in Syria. Area of atrocity is in lockdown and encircled by Syrian Army, making it completely inaccessible to outside world. President Putin, Russia and Iran are responsible for backing Animal Assad. Big price to pay. Open area immediately for medical help and verification. Another humanitarian disaster for no reason whatsoever. SICK!
Many dead, including women and children, in mindless CHEMICAL attack in Syria. Area of atrocity is in lockdown and encircled by Syrian Army, making it completely inaccessible to outside world. President Putin, Russia and Iran are responsible for backing Animal Assad. Big price…
Then, for good measure, Trump decided to throw Obama under the bus for not crossing his “red line in the sand”, once again assuming the attack was confirmed.
If President Obama had crossed his stated Red Line In The Sand, the Syrian disaster would have ended long ago! Animal Assad would have been history!
After the alleged attack, State Department spokeswoman Heather Nauret recalled a 2017 sarin gas attack in northwestern Syria that the West and the United Nations blamed on Assad’s government. “The Assad regime and its backers must be held accountable and any further attacks prevented immediately,” she said adding that “The United States calls on Russia to end this unmitigated support immediately and work with the international community to prevent further, barbaric chemical weapons attacks.”
The US also said yet again that Russia is “ultimately bearing responsibility” for all chemical incidents in Syria, regardless of who carried them out, after rebel sources accused Damascus of gassing dozens in Eastern Ghouta’s Douma. In other words, even if the “chemical attack” was carried out by US-backed “rebels”, or better yet “ISIS”, it’s Putin’s fault.
“The regime’s history of using chemical weapons against its own people is not in dispute,” said the US State Department, indicating, however, that it was relying on “reports,” being unable to confirm the incident. “Russia ultimately bears responsibility for the brutal targeting of countless Syrians with chemical weapons.”
As for Russia, its Defense Ministry immediately denied and dismissed as false reports that the Syrian government had carried out a chemical attack in Eastern Ghouta’s Douma: “We strongly refute this information,” Major General Yury Yevtushenko, head of the Reconciliation Center in Syria, said in a statement on Sunday. “We declare our readiness, after Douma is liberated from the militants, to immediately send Russian radiation, chemical and biological protection specialists to collect data that will confirm the fabricated nature of these allegations,” he stated.
Yevtushenko said that “a number of Western countries” are trying to prevent the resumption of an operation aimed at driving militants from the city of Douma.
“For this purpose, the use of chemical weapons by Syrian government forces – one of the most widespread claims in the West – is being used,” he added.
And, knowing where this is all headed, Russia’s Foreign Ministry says in statement on website that reports of chemical weapons attack in rebel-held town of Douma are fabricated, and any military operations against Syria on false pretenses may lead to “gravest consequences.”
Russia warns the US not to strike Syria after the chemical attack: “Military intervention under false & fabricated pretexts in Syria, where Russian servicemen stay at the request of the legitimate government, is absolutely unacceptable and may trigger the gravest consequences.”
The Russians added that “the goal of such reports is to aid terrorists and justify possible military strikes from outside Syria.”
Russia is correct, and it is now just a matter of time before Trump unveils his next grand diversion from the chaos at home and the trade war with China, by launching another 50 or so Tomahawks at some venue deep inside Syria, in a carbon copy repeat of what happened exactly one year ago.
Voor de video in het tweede Twitterbericht, deze is alleen te zien via de link daaronder, of hier een meer uitgebreide weergave:
* Dat bleek o.a. na de zogenaamde gifgasaanval op Kahn Sheikhun, waarbij een opslagplaats van de ‘ gematigde rebellen’ met chlorine werd geraakt…….. Daar stelde men eerst dat er sarin gas zou zijn gebruikt, echter daar bleek niets van waar, het was chlorine (dit bleek al bij de eerste beelden van slachtoffers, waarbij de hulpverleners te zien waren, die geen beschermende kleding droegen, iets dat men sarin gas absoluut noodzakelijk is, daar de onderzoekers anders hun leven riskeren….). Ondanks dat dus bekend werd gemaakt dat de ‘gematigde rebellen’ voorraden gifgas in het bezit hadden, werd daar verder niets, met ook maar enige afkeuring, over gezegd in de reguliere westerse (massa-) media, of in de westerse politiek……. De VS liep overigens al eens tegen de lamp, toen er beelden naar buiten werden gebracht van een VS jager, die men de kleuren van de Syrische luchtmacht had gegeven. Het is overduidelijk dat men met deze jager een aanval had willen uitvoeren (en wellicht al had uitgevoerd..), om deze in de schoenen van Assad te schuiven (het zou de zoveelste false flag operatie van de VS zijn geweest)…….
Het Duitse bedrijf Tönnjes E.A.S.T levert Radio Frequency Identification (RFID) chips aan drie landen: Honduras, de Filipijnen en de Cayman Eilanden. Voorlopig gaat het hier on chips in nummerplaten en de voorruit van auto’s, maar er lopen intussen al heel wat mensen rond met zo’n chip onder de huid….. E.e.a. werd gemeld op Anti-Media, die het door Tyler Durden geschreven artikel overnam van ZeroHedge.
Toevallig gisteren in de CBC Sunday Edition (radio) uitgebreid aandacht voor deze chips die o.a. werden geïmplanteerd in arbeiders/werknemers van Amazon (nog net geen verplichting, maar…….). Zo kan Amazon zien of haar arbeiders geen tijd verdoen met onnodige handelingen of bijvoorbeeld teveel en te lang naar de wc gaan….
Je kan wel raden waar dit naartoe gaat: uiteindelijk zal iedereen verplicht zo’n chip moeten dragen…. Met deze chips zal het straks met ons recht op privacy definitief afgelopen zijn, ook al is daar nu al bar weinig van over…….. Dit laatste ten gevolgen van leugens over terreurgevaar, terwijl de angstzaaiers van deze boodschap, de geheime diensten van westerse landen, zelfs geen aanslag kunnen voorkomen als ze de dader al lang in het vizier hebben, zo blijkt keer op keer……..
It Begins: Countries Now Using RFID Technology to Track Citizens’ Movements
(ZHE) In the not-too-distant future, law enforcement will be able to easily track our movements thanks to RFID microchips, which some workers allready have implanted – as we’ve previously reported.
Indeed, some people are happily lining up to be microchipped – even throwing parties to celebrate their coworkers embracing the microchipping phenomenon, without any regard to how this technology could be used to further totalitarian aims.
As technology that tracks our movements becomes more widespread, an unassuming article in a trade journal about RFID technology – which uses radio signals to track movements of people or products – highlights a portentous development: Honduras, the Philippines and the Cayman Islands are deploying license plates with RFID technology to help track their citizens’ movements on highways and other roads.
The specific technology being used by these three countries are called the IDePlate and IDeSTIX. The former is implanted in license plates while the latter is in innocuously attached to a car’s windshield. Together, they allow authorities to track their citizens, while also providing a fallback in case a license plate is stolen.
The RFID technology, developed by the Dutch firm Tonnjes E.A.S.T, uses cryptography to verify the owner of a car, which can then be ascertained by the operator of a scanner similar to the license plate scanners that are already in wide use by police in the US (which, as we pointed out several years ago, will soon be operated by drones).
Tonnjes offers governments the hardware needed to fabricate and install the tags, while also providing the software to program them.
“The RFID-enabled plate is designed to be forgery-proof, says Jochen Betz, Tönnjes’ managing director. The UCODE DNA IC uses cryptographic authentication based on the Advanced Encryption Standard (AES). Each time a tag is interrogated, it generates a new AES calculation based on its unique crypto key, which the reader receives and is programmed to verify. That ID number can then be linked to data about the vehicle and registration in a database.
“By using both the IDePlate and IDeStix, the system enables users to identify any misuse of license plates.
The problem with plate identification alone, the company explains, is that it cannot detect if the wrong plate is attached to a car. ‘Plate theft is very difficult to avoid,’ Betz states, so the IDeStix provides a level of redundancy. The IDeStix is a hologram-printed windshield sticker that is placed on the window’s interior.
“The RFID-enabled sticker can be interrogated simultaneously with the plate tag, and can then respond with its own encrypted code that is linked to the vehicle’s information. Tönnjes sells the RFID-enabled blank or finished plates to government agencies and offers equipment to emboss a plate number. They can then use their own software to link each tag’s encoded RFID number with the plate ID.”
While governments are just beginning to roll out these systems, RFID Journal notes that one potential complication in rolling out the windshield-sticker tags (which, again, are necessary to compensate for license-plate theft) is the number of tags already attached to vehicles, mostly by their manufacturers, to track their movements.
“When it comes to the capturing and filtering of data, Betz notes, one software-based challenge for a system like this is the large number of RFID tags already attached to parts of most modern vehicles. In fact, he estimates, there can be 15 or more RFID tags on a single car, most attached to parts that were being tracked by the manufacturer prior to the car’s sale. ‘We don’t want to talk to 17 tags [on a single car],’ he states. Therefore, the system is designed to screen out all tag reads that are not recognized as part of the IDePlate system.”
In the Cayman Islands, the RFID-tagging system was adopted last year, with the island’s government installing checkpoint readers (also created by Tonnjes) to capture vehicles’ information.
“In the Cayman Islands, the system was taken live in 2017, with approximately 50,000 vehicles now equipped with the RFID-enabled plates and windshield stickers. Between five and 10 checkpoint readers provided by Tönnjes are scheduled to be installed around the county. The company supplies the middleware and software that captures the tag ID reader data and feeds that information, linked to the vehicle IDs, to the Cayman Island government’s vehicle database. The reader installation is posing a unique challenge, Betz says, since the devices had to be mounted on hurricane-proof gantries. The Cayman Islands government needs to ensure that the gantries would be able to sustain high winds.”
The Philippines has ordered millions of plates to begin rolling out its own system…
“In addition, the Land Transportation Office (LTO), a department of the Philippine Ministry of Transport, has hired Tönnjes to deliver 3.25 million of its license plates for cars and motorcycles. The government is also purchasing IDeSTIX windscreen labels for 775,000 cars, and IDeSTIX Headlamp Tags for 1.7 million motorcycles.”
And Turkey is also piloting the technology…
“Turkey has also piloted the technology with vehicles on a testing course of the country’s traffic police, while a trial in Russia tracked the movements of public buses throughout the city of Kazan. In addition, Tönnjes and Kirpestein are in discussions with the government of the Netherlands to conduct an open-road pilot, and is also in talks with vehicle authorities in that country regarding further pilots of the technology.”
…Which means it’s only a matter of time before it arrives in the US…
