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Cyprus: ELAM supporters mark 1974 Turkish invasion with march
Hundreds of National Popular Front (ELAM) supporters, the Cypriot equivalent of Golden Dawn, held a march near the Ledra Palace checkpoint in south Nicosia, Thursday, to mark the anniversary of the Turkish invasion in 1974.
Huge London fire sees area sealed off as 500 evacuated over explosion fears (express, Jul 21, 2017)
http://www.express.co.uk/news/uk/831109/Burnt-Oak-fire-500-evacuated-Edgware-London-Watling-Avenue
“A FIRE has sparked the evacuation of 500 people in London as emergency services fear explosions to come.
A single-storey workshop surrounded by shops and flats is completely alight as emergency services try to control it.
London Fire Brigade said an exclusion zone had been set up because of fears that gas cylinders might explode in the heat.
Dozens of calls were made within minutes of the fire being visible, while plumes of black some filled the air.
London Fire Brigade (LFB) confirmed one man has been taken to hospital, although the cause of the fire is not yet known.
Pictures are beginning to emerge of the scene, which can be spotted from miles around…”
First they came for the Jews wearing the Star of David or Kippah on the streets of Berlin, as was the case with the 67 year-old Jewish man brutally assaulted in the broad day light in 2014, or the 53 year-old Berlin Rabbi and his young daughter, who were attacked and threatened with death, two years earlier. In both of these cases and many others to follow, the attackers were migrant Muslim men.
The German media and political establishment have always been reluctant to admit the inherent Jew-hatred within the country’s growing Muslim population. But the gangs that once targeted Germany’s tiny Jewish population are now taking aim at the country’s majority Christian population as well.
“Three youths attacked a man because he was wearing a cross,” reported the German newspaper Die Welt today. Not wanting to divulge the religious motives behind the attack, the newspaper describes the attackers as “assailants of North African origin.”
http://legalinsurrection.com/2017/07/germany-man-wearing-cross-beaten-by-migrant-gang/
We knew this was coming now we are going to see what the German people are going to do?
Nothing?
Fight back?
Schoolteachers and other school officials in Berlin have noticed a rising trend of anti-Semitism among pupils and say the expression “You Jew!” has become a common insult.
A report conducted by the American Jewish Committee (AJC) of 21 schools in Berlin shows the level of antisemitism is growing among the primarily Turkish and Arab Muslim pupils. The group also found a disturbing rise in support for radical Islamism, according to German broadcaster RBB.
Many of the teachers interviewed for the survey said they had been confronted by various anti-Semitic incidents in recent years. Some blamed “religious authorities”, saying many of the Muslim children were being taught at their mosques to be aggressive toward classmates who were girls, homosexuals or secular Muslims.
http://www.breitbart.com/london/2017/07/20/jew-becoming-common-insult-berlin-schools-antisemitism-rises/
DOMESTIC. Nearly no newly arrived immigrants who have low or no education want to sit on the school bench and even get a basic schooling. It shows new numbers from the Employment Service, writes Ekot. It is only about a few individual percentages of immigrants.
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Two years after receiving a residence permit, only three to four percent of low-skilled immigrants attend adult education.
It shows the Employment Service’s latest figures. But the number was as low as 2016.
And the catastrophically bad numbers will come despite the government’s efforts to get immigrants to take action.
https://translate.google.com/translate?depth=1&hl=en&prev=search&rurl=translate.google.co.uk&sl=sv&sp=nmt4&u=http://www.friatider.se/n-stan-inga-l-gutbildade-invandrare-vill-studera
But I bet they’re breeding like bunnies.
They have to have something to keep them busy.
Syrian origin 31-year-old Gabriel Chabo claims that he was severely beaten by a group of Syrian migrants in the Swedish town of Södertälje after the men claimed that he was homosexual.
Mr Chabo was walking around the town on Friday afternoon with his brother when he was approached by several men he was unfamiliar with. The men, who he claims were lSyrian migrants, started getting aggressive with Chabo calling him homophobic insults and ultimately beating him with weapons and slamming his head repeatedly into a car door Expressen reports.
According to Chabo, when the men approached him they said, “if you are going to stay in Sodertalje, you pay money because you are gay.” Chabo said that he responded to them claiming that he was straight and telling the group to leave him alone.
Chabo said the likely reason for the attack was his open stance on supporting gay rights. He said the incident is not the first time he has had trouble saying that the beauty salon which he owns has been subject to vandalism in the past and also mentioned highly aggressive social media posts earlier in 2017.
http://www.breitbart.com/london/2017/07/19/group-syrian-migrants-brutally-beat-man-told-gay/
It was from monday to friday last week as “Selected Player FutureCamp 2017” was arranged at Rosvalla IP in Nyköping. What we are talking about is thus a training camp in the band for boys and girls between the ages of 10 and 14 years old.
But in the arena, from Thursday onwards, the muslim arrangement was arranged at the Dacwa Convention. The Arabic word dacwa 1 means that all humanity is called to submit to Islam and is thus an orientation of Islam that is about Islamizing the whole world. The term is usually associated with more radical interpretations of the Muslim doctrine.
The two arrangements soon came into conflict with each other.
That young girls run around in shorts and exercise clothes in a Swedish sports hall because they play in bandy were not considered as appropriate among all Muslim men. The girls should be invited to wear more upholstery clothing, according to freelance journalist Joakim Lamotte, who noticed the event on his Facebook page. One of the reasons was that the girls would feel safe among the Muslims who were in the arena.
“We talked to our young people before we went to this camp that there will be a Muslim convention in the same place and what differences there are in the view of certain things so that they should know what believers Muslims think girls are going to In shorts, explains Henrik Pehkonen, in charge of the camp, when he talks with Lamotte.
– After this event, some leaders may have said that if they feel safer with long pants, they can take on it, but we have not forced anyone. It is not the girls who need to adapt themselves.
http://www.savemysweden.com/sweden-girls-offend-muslims-nykoping/
if they feel safer
FEEL? A 10-year-old risks gang-rape.
So she’s free to choose if that’s acceptable.
What cynicism, bureaucrats following a nazi script.
TURKEY EXPOSED US BASE LOCATIONS TO ISIS
http://www.frontpagemag.com/point/267328/turkey-exposed-us-base-locations-isis-daniel-greenfield
Brazilian Jews protest anti-Israel Islamic cleric speaking at anti-terrorism conference
July 20, 2017 7:30am 33SHARES
RIO DE JANEIRO (JTA) — Brazil’s leading Jewish organizations have called for a boycott of a lecture by an Iranian cleric who openly preaches the destruction of Israel.
Ayatollah Mohsen Araki, a Shiite, was announced as keynote speaker at an Arab-led event titled “Muslims and the Fight against Radical Terrorism” to be held July 29 in Sao Paulo.
http://www.jta.org/2017/07/20/news-opinion/world/brazilian-jews-call-for-boycott-of-anti-israel-islamic-cleric-speaking-on-fighting-terrorism
A federal case against a Michigan physician who allegedly performed female genital mutilation procedures on 100 girls has expanded to individuals in Chicago, Los Angeles and New York City as well as Minnesota, her attorney has revealed.
Dr. Jumana Nagarwala of Northville, Michigan, was arrested in April, along with Dr. Fakhruddin Attar and his wife, Dr. Farida Attar, owners of the Burhani Medical Clinic in Livonia, where the procedures are said to have been carried out. The Attars were released on bail last month.
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In court documents filed Tuesday, Nagarwala’s attorney Shannon Smith said that the federal investigation in the case has widened to targets in California, Illinois and New York, and that more people might be charged, reported the Detroit News.
Nagarwala, 44, is scheduled to attend a hearing before US District Judge Bernard Friedman Wednesday to appeal for her release on bond. Her trial is set for October 10.
The government has charged Nagarwala with mutilating six girls, including two who were brought from Minnesota for the procedure, and that up to 100 girls may have been subjected to the operation over the past decade.
https://www.rt.com/usa/396733-female-genital-mutilation-probe/
MANKATO — A Mankato man accused of raping an incapacitated young woman was sentenced to 90 days in jail.
Ashraf Alaaeldin Mohamed Elgamal, 24, of Mankato, was convicted Thursday of gross misdemeanor criminal sexual conduct. A felony count of the same charge was dropped in a plea deal.
Elgamal reportedly raped an extremely intoxicated woman in January 2016 in her Mankato apartment. The victim told police when she awoke and asked him to stop he called her a derogatory name and said “stop being selfish.”
http://www.mankatofreepress.com/news/local_news/mankato-man-sentenced-to-jail-in-rape/article_b259bc16-6816-11e7-a084-c3d5d2f20366.html
IS galvanized in Asia by Philippine city siege, report says (abcnews, Jul 21, 2017)
http://abcnews.go.com/International/wireStory/galvanized-asia-philippine-city-siege-report-48763383
“The attack by Islamic State group-affiliated militants on a Philippine city has galvanized its Southeast Asian supporters and spells trouble for the region, a top terrorism researcher said Friday as the occupation of Marawi nears two months despite a sustained military offensive.
In a new report , Sidney Jones, an expert on militant networks in Southeast Asia at the Jakarta-based Institute for Policy Analysis of Conflict, said there now may be a higher risk of attacks in other Philippine cities and cooperation between militants across regional borders could expand. Militants in Indonesia and Malaysia will want to redouble efforts to attack police and may also lift their sights to targeting foreigners, she said.
“The initial photographs from Marawi released over social media as the ISIS assault began — smiling fighters hold guns aloft on trucks — seemed to have the same impact as the iconic ISIS victory photos from Mosul in 2014,” Jones said, using another acronym for IS and referring to its past occupation of Iraq’s second-largest city. “They generated a shared sense of triumph and strengthened the desire of ISIS supporters in the region to join the battle.”
Waving IS-style black flags, the heavily armed fighters stormed into Marawi, a center of Islamic faith in the south of the predominantly Roman Catholic Philippines, on May 23, occupying buildings, houses and mosques and taking hostages. Foreign fighters, including 20 Indonesians, joined the insurrection, which officials and researchers say received funding locally and from IS in Syria that was coordinated by a Malaysian known as Mahmud bin Ahmad.
At least 565 people, including 421 militants and 99 soldiers and police, have been killed have been killed in the worst urban uprising by Muslim militants in the volatile southern Philippines in decades. Nearly half a million residents have been displaced in Marawi and outlying towns by the fighting.
Jones said Indonesians and Malaysians who joined the fight in Marawi could return to their countries, and with their high prestige provide new leadership, uniting factionalized pro-IS cells.
But a Malawi-style attack in Indonesia, the world’s most populous Muslim nation, is unlikely because unlike the southern Philippines, it does not have the multiple insurgencies that extremists can draw on for fighters and weapons, she said.
The report was based on research in the southern Philippine region of Mindanao, interviews with Indonesian militants, credible news reports including from The Associated Press and monitoring of pro-IS groups on the Telegram instant messaging app.
When the militants holding out in Marawi are defeated, the rebuilding of the city, which has pounded by airstrikes, will be crucial for the Philippines and Southeast Asia, according to Jones.
Officials need to give those displaced a voice in the rebuilding of Marawi and prevent extremist teachings from finding fertile ground, she said.
“Recruiters (for militant groups) were able to build on the narrative of state brutality long before the battle for Marawi began, but the military’s reliance on airstrikes … enabled the fighters to blame the government for the city’s destruction,” she said.”
German minister compares Turkey with communist East Germany (abcnews, Jul 21, 2017)
http://abcnews.go.com/International/wireStory/german-minister-compares-turkey-communist-east-germany-48765465
“Germany’s finance minister is comparing Turkey with communist East Germany after his government toughened its stance toward Ankara following the jailing of a human rights activist.
The government a day earlier told German citizens traveling to Turkey to exercise caution and threatened to withhold backing for investments.
Finance Minister Wolfgang Schaeuble told Friday’s edition of Bild newspaper that Turkey is now arresting people arbitrarily and failing to comply with minimum consular standards.
He was quoted as saying: “It reminds me of how things used to be in East Germany. It was clear to anyone who traveled there: if something happens to you, no one can help you.”
Schaeuble added that if Turkey doesn’t stop playing “games,” Germany will have to tell people: “You travel to Turkey at your own risk.””
Teenage girl found dead in fridge in ‘honour killing’ in south London suburb (standard, Jul 21, 2017)
http://www.standard.co.uk/news/crime/teenage-girl-found-partially-dismembered-in-fridge-in-honour-killing-in-south-london-suburb-a3592911.html
“The suspected killer of a teenage girl whose body was found in a fridge was arrested in Dover as he tried to leave the country.
Detectives are today questioning two men in connection with suspected honour killing and the attempted murder of the victim’s cousin.
The terrified survivor, 21, banged frantically on doors of neighbouring homes before staggering to a nearby hospital with a slashed throat and multiple stab wounds.
She told medics she had been kidnapped with her 19-year-old cousin and driven to a detached property under renovation in a wealthy south London suburb.
Police first launched a search for the two women after receiving a call at 5pm last Wednesday raising concerns about the welfare of two women.
They searched one address but found no trace of the women.
Two hours later police were alerted by a hospital after a woman was brought in suffering multiple stab and slash injuries.
Officers raced to a £1.2 million five bedroom property in Coombe Lane West in Kingston where they smashed down the front door and found the body of the teenager in a large upright fridge.
Police sources said the woman’s body was intact when it was found. A police spokeswoman refused to say if the women had been raped or sexually assaulted.
The Met said it had searched two separate addresses in a frantic hunt for the women before being alerted to the Coombe Lane West address.
Two men, age 33 and 28, have been arrested on suspicion of murder. The oldest suspect is understood to be related to the two victims. A 29-year-old woman has been detained on suspicion of assisting an offender…”
Enfield stabbing: Murder probe as woman, 24, knifed to death in north London (standard, Jul 21, 2017)
http://www.standard.co.uk/news/crime/enfield-stabbing-murder-probe-as-woman-24-knifed-to-death-in-north-london-a3593166.html
“A murder probe has been launched after a young woman was stabbed to death in north London.
Police and paramedics were scrambled to the scene in Ponders End, in Enfield, at about 6.30am on Thursday.
The victim, 24, was pronounced dead at the scene. A 21-year-old man was arrested on suspicion of murder and is receiving treatment in a north London hospital.
He is in a stable condition, Scotland Yard said.
The Metropolitan Police said in statement: “Formal identification awaits and a post-mortem examination will take place in due course.
Officers from the Homicide and Major Crime Command, led by DCI Dave Whellams, investigate.”
If you have any information that may assist the police investigation, call 0208 345 3775 or 101, or call Crimestoppers on 0800 555 111 if you would prefer to remain anonymous.”
Boston to fight Islamophobia with viral ‘how to’ transport cartoon (theguardian, Jul 21, 2017)
https://www.theguardian.com/cities/2017/jul/21/boston-fight-islamophobia-viral-how-to-transport-cartoon
“A viral online illustrated guide on how to respond to Islamophobic harassment has been adopted by US cities in a bid to make commuters more confident to intervene if they witness abuse.
Marie-Shirine Yener’s step-by-step guide first appeared on Tumblr in September, in response to what she described as “wave of Islamophobic hatred” in France. In it, the Paris-based illustrator, who goes by the alias Maeril, suggested supporting the victim by engaging them in conversation.
“It can be anything: a movie you liked, the weather …” she wrote. “Keep eye contact with them, and don’t acknowledge the attacker’s presence: the absence of response from you two will push them to leave the area shortly.” She concluded by urging her followers on Tumblr to share the how-to guide: “it could push a lot of people to overcome bystander syndrome.”
The cartoon quickly went viral, garnering more than 200,000 responses and came to the attention of four San Franciscans who were seeking to make the city’s Bay Area Rapid Transit (Bart) system more inclusive. With Maeril’s permission, they crowdfunded a run of 40 posters and displayed them in the advertising spaces on Bart trains.
Alicia Trost, a spokeswoman for the transit system, told Guardian Cities the project inspired the network to its own poster campaign for inclusivity, which launched in March on the theme of “the Bay Area rides together”.
But not all of the response to the campaigns was positive, said Trost. “There was very nice social media reaction, but they also spurred racist and insensitive tweets and letters.” She added that while they don’t have any evidence that the posters helped to deescalate abusive situations, the city “strongly feels the posters help raise awareness and get people thinking about these important issues.”
Now the city of Boston has followed suit, with Maeril’s cartoon at the centre of a new public service campaign. On Monday, mayor Martin J Walsh announced a run of 50 posters to be displayed at bus stops and in other public spaces for the next six months.
In a statement, Walsh said the posters were “one tool we have to send the message that all are welcome in Boston,” adding: “Education is key to fighting intolerance, and these posters share a simple strategy for engaging with those around you.”
Suzan El-Rayess, the civic engagement director of the Islamic Society of Boston Cultural Centre, has said the campaign “couldn’t come at a better time.” Police data last year showed hate crimes against Muslims in the city, while small in number, had nearly quadrupled from five in 2015 to 19 in 2016…”
Mueller Expands Probe to Trump Business Transactions
The U.S. special counsel investigating possible ties between the Donald Trump campaign and Russia in last year’s election is examining a broad range of transactions involving Trump’s businesses as well as those of his associates, according to a person familiar with the probe.
FBI investigators and others are looking at Russian purchases of apartments in Trump buildings, Trump’s involvement in a controversial SoHo development in New York with Russian associates, the 2013 Miss Universe pageant in Moscow and Trump’s sale of a Florida mansion to a Russian oligarch in 2008, the person said.
The investigation also has absorbed a money-laundering probe begun by federal prosecutors in New York into Trump’s former campaign chairman Paul Manafort.
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2017-07-20/mueller-is-said-to-expand-probe-to-trump-business-transactions
This is a fishing expedition by a partisan lynch mob,
Report: Former Zetas cartel leader used to eat victims
In an interview with Mexican publication El Blog del Narco, a reporter said a now-deceased Zetas cartel leader used to eat the flesh of victims.
The journalist told the publication he had seen former Zetas leader Heriberto Lazcano, or “El Lazca,” eat human flesh, according to El Blog del Narco. He said after the cartel leader would have someone killed, the victim would be cleaned and shaved, according to the publication.
http://www.mysanantonio.com/news/us-world/border-mexico/article/Report-Zetas-cartel-leader-used-to-eat-victims-11302411.php
Despairing young Italians seek greener pastures abroad
“Italy gets worse every time you look at it and offers less and less to young people,” says Antonio Davide D’Elia, just one of thousands of young Italians who have decided to try their luck abroad.
With the country struggling to kick an economic slump, some 40,000 Italians between 18 and 34 years old set out to seek greener pastures elsewhere in 2015, according to the Migrantes Foundation.
“Just talking with people (in Italy) it’s clear going away might be the only solution,” said D’Elia, 26, who has spent the last five years in London, where he currently works as a barman, and intends to stay for now despite high living costs.
https://www.afp.com/en/news/2266/despairing-young-italians-seek-greener-pastures-abroad
US Urges All Nationals In North Korea To “Depart Immediately”, Bans Tourists From Visiting
Dennis Rodman will be disappointed to learn that the US is set to ban all citizens from traveling to North Korea, according to two agencies that operate tours there. Koryo Tours and Young Pioneer Tours said the ban would be announced on 27 July to come into effect 30 days later, the BBC reported. “After the 30-day grace period any US national that travels to North Korea will have their passport invalidated by their government.” The ban comes one month after US student Otto Warmbier died following his imprisonment by the Kim regime.
China-based Young Pioneer Tours, which had taken Warmbier to North Korea, and Koryo Tours said the ban will come into force on July 27 – the anniversary of the end of the Korean War – with a 30-day grace period. Koryo Tours added that the Swedish embassy in Pyongyang, which handles consular affairs for the United States in the North, informed it of the ban, but did not say how long it would last. The U.S. embassy in the South Korean capital, Seoul, did not immediately respond to a request for comment.
Rowan Beard said that the 30-day grace period would “give leeway for any [Americans] currently in the country as tourists or on humanitarian work”. Simon Cockerill, of Koryo Tours, said: “It remains to be seen what the exact text is, but the indication is it’s just a straight up ban on Americans going.” Mr Cockerill told the BBC the agency would still conduct tours and take Americans until the ban came into effect.
http://www.zerohedge.com/news/2017-07-21/us-urges-all-nationals-north-korea-depart-immediately-bans-tourists-visiting
This is not a signal that we are doing anything besides trying to stop US citizens giving Kim hard currencies to buy things with.
New Hawaii campaign to help residents plan for North Korea attack
HONOLULU (HawaiiNewsNow) –
The Hawaii Emergency Management Agency is kicking off an educational campaign aimed at helping residents and visitors figure out what to do if the state is the target of a nuclear missile attack from North Korea.
The agency said the threat to the islands from the rogue nation is “currently assessed to be low.”
But officials added ongoing North Korean missile tests —and growing public concern — have prompted officials to work on preparedness and disaster management plans.
Vern Miyagi, administrator of the emergency management agency, stressed that the public shouldn’t be alarmed by the planning.
http://www.hawaiinewsnow.com/story/35936105/hawaii-to-kick-off-campaign-to-help-residents-visitors-plan-for-missile-attack-from-north-korea
As California’s labor shortage grows, farmers race to replace workers with robots
Driscoll’s is so secretive about its robotic strawberry picker it won’t let photographers within telephoto range of it.
But if you do get a peek, you won’t see anything humanoid or space-aged. AgroBot is still more John Deere than C-3PO — a boxy contraption moving in fits and starts, with its computer-driven sensors, graspers and cutters missing 1 in 3 berries.
Such has been the progress of ag-tech in California, where despite the adoption of drones, iPhone apps and satellite-driven sensors, the hand and knife still harvest the bulk of more than 200 crops
http://www.latimes.com/projects/la-fi-farm-mechanization/
Richard: I misses 1 in 3 strawberries, the technology is young and it will improve in the later models. The thing to remember is that this will replace the illegal aliens that have been working for a lower wage then the Americans would. The farmers are doing this to reduce their costs and this means that once the shift to robots is completed they won’t go back to human labor. where are the Dems going to get their new voters from when the need for illegal aliens disappears?
Morocco: Protesters severely injured during police clashes in Al-Hoceima
Riot police clashed with protesters in the northern city of Al-Hoceima on Thursday during a mass march organised by residents calling for the release of those arrested as part of the Hirak movement, including popular leader Nasser Zefzafi.
Protests after Israel restricts Jerusalem Old City prayers
Jerusalem:Muslims clash with mounted Israeli police over Temple Mount security
Jerusalem: 3 Muslims killed as clashes erupt against Temple Mount security measures
reuters – Muslim protesters clash with police in central Jerusalem
Austria Demands End to Migrants Entering Through Italian Border
Austria is warning Italy not to carry-out a plan to grant EU travel visas to migrants arriving from Libya.
The Central European nation says it is prepared to station troops at its border with Italy if the flow of migrants is not stopped.
Nearly 100,000 migrants have reportedly crossed the Mediterranean Sea so far this year, a 17% increase from 2016.
Under the European Union’s Dublin accord, migrants claiming refugee status should be dealt with by the first country they arrive to.
http://www.oann.com/austria-demands-end-to-migrants-entering-through-italian-border/
U.S. to ban its citizens’ travel to North Korea: U.S. official
SEOUL (Reuters) – The U.S. government will ban U.S. citizens from traveling to North Korea after the death of a U.S. student arrested there while on a tour, a U.S. official and tour agencies that arrange trips to the country said on Friday.
The ban will be announced on July 27 and go into effect 30 days later, according to Koryo Tours, which bills itself on its website as experts in travel to unusual destinations, including North Korea. The Swedish embassy in Pyongyang, which handles consular affairs for the United States in the North, informed Koryo of the ban, but did not say how long it would last, the company said.
“But it does seem to be the case that in just over a month, it will be impossible for Americans to visit as tourists,” Koryo Tours general manager Simon Cockrell told Reuters by telephone.
Another tour operator, Young Pioneer Tours, said on its website it had also been informed of the ban, citing the same date.
“After the 30-day grace period any U.S. national that travels to North Korea will have their passport invalidated by their government,” it said.
http://www.oann.com/tour-operators-say-u-s-to-ban-citizens-from-travel-to-north-korea/
U.S. general says allies worry Russian war game may be ‘Trojan horse’
BERLIN (Reuters) – U.S. allies in eastern Europe and Ukraine are worried that Russia’s planned war games in September could be a “Trojan horse” aimed at leaving behind military equipment brought into Belarus, the U.S. Army’s top general in Europe said on Thursday.
Russia has sought to reassure NATO that the military exercises will respect international limits on size, but NATO and U.S. official remain wary about their scale and scope.
U.S. Army Lieutenant General Ben Hodges, who heads U.S. Army forces in Europe, told Reuters in an interview that allied officials would keep a close eye on military equipment brought in to Belarus for the Zapad 2017 exercise, and whether it was removed later.
“People are worried, this is a Trojan horse. They say, ‘We’re just doing an exercise,’ and then all of a sudden they’ve moved all these people and capabilities somewhere,” he said.
Hodges said he had no indications that Russia had any such plans, but said greater openness by Moscow about the extent of its war games would help reassure countries in eastern Europe.
A senior Russian diplomat strongly rejected allegations that Moscow could leave military equipment in Belarus.
http://www.oann.com/u-s-general-says-allies-worry-russian-war-game-may-be-trojan-horse/
The more equipment you can preposition near a conflict zone the faster you can deploy troops, this propositioned equip can be used for defensive or offensive purposes according to what is happening.
OT/ Belarus is just about as Russian as it gets. There’s no sense pretending it’s “independent” or wants to be. The “Russian Federation” is mostly bull; it’s a form of limited state administration subordinate to the central government of Russia.
Most of my neighbors happen to be from Berarus, though most of their grandparents drifted back from Siberia.
My Russki’s son in Kiev just become a father again! Two girls, now a healthy baby BOY!
Sure wish they’d leave, but he’s got a job and it’s still home. He isn’t a gifted linguist either, unfortunately. BIG problem.
My Russki claims to have forgotten his school-German, pidgin-Mandarin, and ulpan*-Hebrew. Around here it’s easy to get by in Russian – so that’s one language I refuse to learn – on principle.
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*ulpan- https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Ulpan
It is easy to lose a language, if you don’t use it you lose it. I use to speak pretty good pidgin German but don’t anymore.
On Belarus, you want to preposition equipment and ammo in friendly territory where they are safe.
I can understand not wanting to leave home and having trouble with learning a foreign language but I am with you I wish he was out of frenemy territory.
the daily caller – No Longer Arming ‘Moderate’ Syrian Rebels Is Good For America
The Trump administration is reportedly ceasing the CIA’s support of Syrian rebels fighting against the Bashar al-Assad regime.
That proposal did not sit well with Washington’s foreign policy establishment.
In multiple tweets, South Carolina Sen. Lindsey Graham, a well-known hawk, said the move, “would be a complete capitulation to Assad, Russia, and Iran.”
An anonymous government official told The Washington Post, which broke the news Wednesday, said the cession of funds would announce “Putin won in Syria.”
The Washington Post itself characterized the idea in its report as an abdication to the Kremlin that holds no promising benefit for America’s national interest.
There was much speculation that this change in policy was brought about by the previously undisclosed second meeting President Trump had with Russian President Vladimir Putin at the G20 summit. The implication of that claim is that there was something nefarious in that deal that served Putin’s interest to build an evil empire.
The reaction from pundits and think tankers was sharply different to how they reacted to Trump launching a missile strike in April against an Assad-controlled airbase in retaliation for a purported chemical weapons attack. As CNN host Fareed Zakaria put it, “Donald Trump became president” when he attacked Assad.
Nobody from the foreign policy blob is now reiterating that sentiment after Wednesday. Instead, we now get doom and gloom about how we hurt our interests by “capitulating” to Russia and Iran.
But in reality, Trump pulling back aid for these rebels serves our national interest. For one, how has America’s support for these rebels benefited us over the past six years? Assad is still in power, and nearly all of the rebels have become hardened Islamists in the ensuing years.
The “moderate” Syrian rebel meme is no longer credible when the strongest opposition to the Assad regime at the moment are Salafists who wish to impose sharia law and align with the al-Qaeda-backed group formerly known as Jabhat al-Nusra. (It’s now bigger and rebranded itself as Tahrir al-Sham in order to get off the U.S.’s terror list.)
While many in America media want to still pretend we’re backing armed hipsters who hope to bring the glory of liberal democracy to Syria, we’re actually helping out Sunni extremists who are just as guilty of horrific atrocities as the Assad regime. And the ideal government for these Salafists — if they gained power — would be in many ways worse than the present government.
Say goodbye to protections for Christians and other religious minorities. Say hello to another Sunni theocracy that gives aid to terrorists.
Additionally, a significant number of the weapons we have given to the rebels under the CIA program have made their way to ISIS. It’s hard to defend a program that helps supply our officially designated enemies so they can continue their jihad against us.
After the massive failures that resulted in intervening in Iraq and Libya, we should be wise not to trust these anti-government forces we keep believing are die-hard liberal democrats. In every case, they turn out to not be so. Libya is presently a failed state dominated by cruel warlords and Islamic fanatics. How is that an improvement from the Gaddafi regime?
The same situation would likely arise in Syria if Assad falls. How does it serve America’s interest to have a failed state full of jihadis in the heart of the Middle East?
The Trump administration’s move indicates that our government is beginning to learn lessons from the foreign policy failures of the last 20 years and shows a policy that places our national interest over that of the foreign policy blob’s. There is no point in America picking a side where both warring parties are equally as bad and the rebels we support may turn out be far worse than the government we see as evil.
It’s too late to turn back the clock and undo the error of the Libyan intervention. But we can take those lesson and work towards a solution to the Syrian civil war that works to our interest. One of the first steps in that process is discarding the delusion that there are any “moderate” Syrian rebels to support.
http://dailycaller.com/2017/07/20/no-longer-arming-moderate-syrian-rebels-is-good-for-america/
US Blocks $350 Million Aid to Pakistan For Insufficient Action Against Haqqani Network
The Pentagon will not make military reimbursements to Pakistan for fiscal year 2016 after US Defense Secretary Jim Mattis told Congress that Islamabad had not taken sufficient action against the Haqqani network.
Washington: The United States of America has decided to block the disbursement of USD 350 million aid to Pakistan after the Defence Secretary, Jim Mattis, told the Congress that Islamabad hadn’t taken “sufficient actions” against the Haqqani network, a U.S. official said on Friday.
The decision came days after the State Department, in its annual report on terrorism, named Pakistan among countries and regions providing “safe havens” to terrorists.
“The funds could not be released to the Government of Pakistan at this time because the secretary could not certify that Pakistan has taken sufficient action against the Haqqani Network per the requirement in the FY 2016 National Defense Authorization Act,” Adam Stump, a Pentagon spokesman, told Reuters.
This is not the first time the Pentagon has decided not to make military reimbursements. Last year, the Pentagon withheld $300 million in reimbursements. Pakistan has been reimbursed $550 million of the $900 million the country was authorized to receive in fiscal year 2016.
Out of remainder, $300 million had already been reprogrammed for other purposes, but had not been previously reported. Mattis’ latest decision affects the remaining $50 million.
The amount is under the Coalition Support Fund (CSF), a U.S. Defense Department program to reimburse allies that have incurred costs in supporting counter-terrorist and counter-insurgency operations.
http://www.news18.com/news/world/us-blocks-350-million-aid-to-pakistan-for-not-doing-enough-against-haqqani-network-1469263.html
College chancellor wants to abolish algebra requirement, calls it a ‘civil rights issue’
By LU Staff July 21, 2017
The chancellor of California’s community college system said he wants to abolish the college algebra requirement and called it a “civil rights issue” in a Wednesday interview.
Eloy Ortiz Oakley, chancellor of California Community Colleges, made the argument while speaking with NPR. He pegged algebra as overly burdensome due to the disproportionate rate at which it prevents students from graduating from community colleges; nearly 50% of community college students do not complete their math requirement.
“This is a civil rights issue, but this is also something that plagues all Americans — particularly low-income Americans,” said Oakley, who added:
http://libertyunyielding.com/2017/07/21/college-chancellor-wants-abolish-algebra-requirement-calls-civil-rights-issue/
Italy should close ports, Orban
Hungarian leader says problem must be resolved in Libya
– Italy should “close the ports” to stop the flow of asylum seekers from the Mediterranean, Hungarian Premier Viktor Orban said on Friday.
Orban said that the four leaders of the Visegrad group, which also includes the Czech Republic, Slovakia and Poland, have written a letter to this effect to Italian Premier Paolo Gentiloni.
According to Orban, who is not ruling out the military option, the problem must be resolved in Libya.
http://www.ansa.it/english/news/politics/2017/07/21/italy-should-close-ports-orban_d5c46664-1ca1-47c0-aef7-7f586fd756c5.html
Viktor Orban: The Government Called For Zero Tolerance Of Anti-Semitism
Visegrad And Israel Establish Joint Anti-Terror Work Group
In cyber-threat election plan, Obama admin envisioned ‘armed federal personnel’ at polling places
By J.E. Dyer July 21, 2017
An interesting document came to light this week. The document, obtained by Time, outlines the Obama administration’s plan to respond to a cyber-threat to the 2016 election: specifically, a threat to the operation of voting systems on Election Day.
Time describes the administration as “quietly produc[ing]” the plan in October 2016, and summarizes key provisions thus:
That’s a lot of, um, federal firepower – as we’ll see, very thinly based on any lawful authority.
The “cyber threat” drumbeat from the administration
http://libertyunyielding.com/2017/07/21/cyber-threat-election-plan-obama-admin-envisioned-armed-federal-personnel-polling-places/
The last sentence in the article says it all: If the Obama administration was expecting something else, the most likely reason would have been that the administration itself was planning something else. Obama and company had something planned for the election, I don’t know what it was (but I can make several guesses) but we can be thankful they didn’t carry them out. The most likely reason is that they didn’t have enough politically reliable Federal Cops or Military commanders to ensure the plan would succeed.
I hope they keep digging because there is more evidence out there and it needs to be made public.
Last night on YouTube’s CrowdsourcetheTruth channel, George Webb, Jason Goodman & Trish Pagon interviewed Pat Miletich & Jeffrey Wilson of “Conspiracy Farm”. The Tsarnaev brothers (Boston bombing) were mentioned with details that were new to me…link to video preset to begin w/discussion:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9gr1-Enx0KQ&t=29m48s
I transcribed the related discussion but it’s too long for a comment. Rather – here are the main points with links to verify details…
The Tsarnaev brothers were linked to the FBI as informants. Also linked because
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Tsarnaev brothers were also linked to the gruesome murder of three Boston MMA (Mixed Martial Artists) identified as Brendan Mess, Erik Weissman and Raphael Teken (Raffi).
In prior msm reports these men were described as drug dealers falling victim to a deal gone bac because they were discovered with pot strewn on their carcasses as well as with $5Gs in the apt. Wiki: 2011 Waltham triple murder
At the time several bloggers picked up on the detail that all three victims were Jewish. Brenden Mess was allegedly Tamerlan Tsarnaev’s best friend.
Media reports on the condition which these victims were found indicated they were each nearly beheaded. What the media did not reveal – according Pat Miletich, was:
Earlier in the interview, Pat also mentioned:
We know they were in contact with a Sunni group in Chechnya but we don’t know how closely tied to the group.
Italy: Anti-migrant ‘Defend Europe’ bemoan bad media rep after trying to intercept migrant boats
Spokesperson of the anti-immigration ‘Operation Defend Europe’ Robert Timm said that the group’s main mission is to “document how the NGO’s are working” due to “indicators showing that they actually cooperate with the human traffickers in northern Africa,” speaking from Sicily’s port city of Catania, Friday.
Timm went on to claim that “the reactions of these NGOs, they show us to an extent, that they seem to be hiding something, because they are not happy about the fact that we will show up there.”
Timm’s group, Operation Defend Europe, came under fire after reportedly threatening to sink incoming migrant traffickers’ ships upon their arrival to Sicily. The spokesman insisted, however, that “pretty much every news outlet in Europe is reporting about us in a very one-sided and negative way.”
“The terms refugees and migrants are being mixed up in this discussion quite a lot,” Timm said, before adding, “actual refugees, no problem, but why would people from Morocco? What are they fleeing from?”
Italy: Scores of unaccompanied minor migrants housed in local centre amid growing crisis
A centre for receiving migrants in the town of Corigliano Calabro near Cosenza is housing more than 50 unaccompanied teenage migrants, with organisers and residents commenting on the situation for underage migrants, Friday.
Among the teenagers and children being housed in the centre was 17-year-old Mustafa Umani, who recounted his journey from Senegal, to Mali, to Burkina Faso, and all the way to Italy through the Libyan coast.
SOT, Mustafa Umani, 17 year-old migrant (Italian): “I was born in Senegal, my name is Mustafa Umani. I came for political reason, I passed from Libya, I ‘m here since for year in Corigliano Calabro, I crossed so many countries to come to Libya and then to Italy. Back in Senegal I had political problem, my dad had issue with local politician and he escaped too. So some friends of my dad told me you have to go, go away, so I left, I crossed Mali, than Burkina Faso, one week, than Niger in Agadez, there I stayed one month and then Libya, in Libya I crossed the deserts in a car, four day no water no food across the desert. When I arrived I thought they would help me but Libya was terrible, many issue there.”
SOT, Antonio Gioiello, chief of Mondiversi centre for unaccompanied minors (Italian): “This structure is a welcoming centre for unaccompanied minors that land in the harbour of Corigliano Calabro. At the moment we have more than 50 minor without parents, and the difficulties is that more and more are coming.”
Loose Lips Sink Ships: Mueller Probe Team Starts Leaking Special Counsel Investigation Details to Press
The team charged with investigating whether there was any collusion between President Donald Trump’s campaign and Russia now appears to be leaking details of the probe to damage him.
“A person familiar with the probe” told Bloomberg that the special counsel is examining a broad range of transactions involving Trump and his associates’ businesses.
The leak comes the day after Trump told the New York Times in an interview that delving into his business matters would be outside the bounds of the Russia investigation.
“The Special Counsel’s Office has undertaken stringent controls to prohibit unauthorized disclosures that deal severely with any member who engages in this conduct,” Joshua Stueve, spokesman for the Special Counsel’s Office told Breitbart News in an email response.
http://www.breitbart.com/big-government/2017/07/20/loose-lips-sink-ships-mueller-probe-team-starts-leaking-special-counsel-investigation-details-press/
(Richard: read the full article for the details abut how Mueller are going beyond the scope to the investigation they were hired to preform and are going on a witch humt to teach other non elitists to stay out of politics. .)
The State Department said there’s less urgency to release Clinton’s emails due to low interest
The State Department argued at a federal hearing Thursday that its ability to process the 100,000 Hillary Clinton emails ordered released under a Freedom of Information Act lawsuit has been hindered by a lack of manpower due to a “hiring freeze” and that the urgency to release the documents has been diminished by the public’s lack of interest in the subject, according to the watchdog group that won the lawsuit for the document’s release.
But Judicial Watch, a conservative watchdog group that sued the State Department in May 2015 for the thousands of emails and documents, isn’t buying it.
Judicial Watch President Tom Fitton is accusing the State Department of slow-rolling the emails being sent from the FBI to the State Department, a large number of which Clinton “failed to disclose” to the government when she served as secretary of state, he said.
On July 15, the FBI allegedly turned over to the State Department a new disk of emails belonging to former Clinton aide Huma Abedin. The emails were apparently discovered on a laptop owned by Abedin’s estranged husband, Anthony Weiner. Weiner pleaded guilty in May to sending a number of text messages and sexually explicit pictures last year to a 15-year-old girl in North Carolina.
There apparently are 7,000 emails from Abedin on Weiner’s laptop, said Fitton, who added that State Department and Justice Department lawyers are “claiming they have to appraise them, whether they are personal or government, and then sift through what can be shared publicly.”
State Department spokeswoman Pooja Jhunjhunwala told Circa “?the Department takes its records management responsibilities seriously and is working diligently to process FOIA requests and to balance the demands of the many requests we have received.”
“We are devoting significant resources to meeting our litigation obligations,” she added.
The State Department was ordered in November to process documents at the rate of 500 pages per month, but “at that rate it would take until 2020 for the bulk to made public,” Fitton said. So far, the State Department has produced 17 batches of documents, Fitton said.
“President Trump needs to direct his agencies to follow the the law but right now they are making a mockery of it by saying they won’t finish releasing it until 2020,” said Fitton, whose group will be heading back to court three months from now to assess the progress. “I can understand the president’s frustration because he wanted these made public. However, his Justice and State departments are making excuses of why they have to slow-roll it this way.”
Trump has made numerous assertions about Clinton and her email server. In June, he tweeted that Clinton destroyed her phones and “bleached” her emails.
But the president’s own Justice Department civil attorneys argued Thursday that there was “diminished public interest” in the emails.
A U.S. official familiar with the case and the agencies told Circa on the condition that they not be named that “there are still holdovers within the departments that don’t want to see these emails released, so slow-rolling these requests makes perfect sense. If the president wants these emails released then he will have to demand that the agencies abide.”
Last week, Judicial Watch released 448 pages of documents the State Department did turn over from Abedin, describing what it said was preferential treatment “to major donors to the Clinton Foundation and political campaigns,” according to the group.
“The documents included six Clinton email exchanges not previously turned over to the State Department, bringing the known total to date to at least 439 emails that were not part of the 55,000 pages of emails that Clinton turned over to the State Department, and further contradicting a statement by Clinton that, ‘as far as she knew,’ all of her government emails had been turned over to the State Department,” the watchdog group stated in a July 14 press release.
https://www.circa.com/story/2017/07/20/politics/hillary-clinton-emails-diminished-interest-reduces-urgency-to-release-state-department-says
Judicial Watch
http://www.judicialwatch.org/
“Tom Fitton discussing IRS Docs, Weiner Laptop Emails, Whether Mueller Should be Fired, & Voter Fraud”
Judicial Watch – July 21, 2017
AZERBAIJAN -350 diplomatic flights carry weapons for terrorists Azerbaijan’s Silk Way Airlines transports weapons with diplomatic clearance for Syria, Iraq, Afghanistan, Pakistan, Congo
At least 350 diplomatic Silk Way Airlines (an Azerbaijani state-run company) flights transported weapons for war conflicts across the world over the last 3 years. The state aircrafts of Azerbaijan carried on-board tens of tons of heavy weapons and ammunition headed to terrorists under the cover of diplomatic flights.
Documents implicating Silk Way Airlines in arms supplies were sent to me by an anonymous twitter account – Anonymous Bulgaria.
The leaked files include correspondence between the Bulgarian Ministry of Foreign Affairs and the Embassy of Azerbaijan to Bulgaria with attached documents for weapons deals and diplomatic clearance for overflight and/or landing in Bulgaria and many other European countries, USA, Saudi Arabia, UAE, Turkey, to name a few.
According to these documents, Silk Way Airlines offered diplomatic flights to private companies and arms manufacturers from the US, Balkans, and Israel, as well as to the militaries of Saudi Arabia, UAE, and US Special Operations Command (USSOCOM), and the military forces of Germany and Denmark in Afghanistan and of Sweden in Iraq. Diplomatic flights are exempt of checks, air bills, and taxes, meaning that Silk Way airplanes freely transported hundreds of tons of weapons to different locations around the world without regulation. They made technical landings with stays varying from a few hours to up to a day in intermediary locations without any logical reasons such as needing to refuel the planes.
According to the International Air Transport Association (IATA) Dangerous Goods Regulations, operators, transporting dangerous goods forbidden for transportation by air by civil aircrafts, must apply for exemption for transportation of dangerous goods by air.
According to the documents, Azerbaijan’s Foreign Ministry has sent instructions to its embassies in Bulgaria and many other European countries to request diplomatic clearance for Silk Way Airlines flights. The embassies sent diplomatic notes to the Foreign Ministry of the relevant country to request such exemption. The Foreign Ministry sent back a note signed by the local civil aviation authorities giving exemption for the transportation of dangerous goods.
The requests for diplomatic clearance included information about the type and quantity of the dangerous goods – heavy weapons and ammunition. However, the responsible authorities of many countries (Bulgaria, Serbia, Romania, the Czech Republic, Hungary, Slovakia, Poland, Turkey, Germany, UK, Greece, etc.) have turned a blind eye and allowed diplomatic flights for the transport of tons of weapons, carried out by civil aircrafts for military needs. Under IATA regulations, the transport of military cargo by civil aircrafts is not allowed. To get around this legality, Silk Way Airlines applied for diplomatic exemption through local agencies.
U.S. sends $1 billion worth of weapons
Among the main customers of the “diplomatic flights for weapons” service provided by Silk Way Airlines are American companies, which supply weapons to the US army and US Special Operations Command. The common element in these cases is that they all supply non-US standard weapons; hence, the weapons are not used by the US forces.
According to the register of federal contracts, over the last 3 years American companies were awarded $1 billion contracts in total under a special US government program for non-US standard weapon supplies. All of them used Silk Way Airlines for the transport of weapons. In some cases when Silk Way was short of aircrafts due to a busy schedule, Azerbaijan Air Force aircrafts transported the military cargo, although the weapons never reached Azerbaijan.
The documents leaked from the Embassy include shocking examples of weapon transport. A case in point: on 12th May 2015 an aircraft of Azerbaijan Air Forces carried 7,9 tons of PG-7V and 10 tons of PG-9V to the supposed destination via the route Burgas (Bulgaria)-Incirlik (Turkey)-Burgas-Nasosny (Azerbaijan). The consignor was the American company Purple Shovel, and the consignee – the Ministry of Defense of Azerbaijan. According to the documents, however, the military cargo was offloaded at Incirlik military base and never reached the consignee. The weapons were sold to Purple Shovel by Alguns, Bulgaria, and manufactured by Bulgaria’s VMZ military plant.
According to the federal contracts registry, in December of 2014 USSOCOM signed a $26.7 million contract with Purple Shovel. Bulgaria was indicated as the country of origin of the weapons.
On 6th June 2015, a 41-year old American national Francis Norvello, an employee of Purple Shovel, was killed in a blast when a rocket-propelled grenade malfunctioned at a military range near the village of Anevo in Bulgaria. Two other Americans and two Bulgarians were also injured. The US Embassy to Bulgaria then released a statement announcing that the U.S. government contractors were working on a U.S. military program to train and equip moderate rebels in Syria. Which resulted in the U.S. Ambassador in Sofia to be immediately withdrawn from her post. The very same weapons as those supplied by Purple Shovel were not used by moderate rebels in Syria. In December of last year while reporting on the battle of Aleppo as a correspondent for Bulgarian media I found and filmed 9 underground warehouses full of heavy weapons with Bulgaria as their country of origin. They were used by Al Nusra Front (Al Qaeda affiliate in Syria designated as a terrorist organization by the UN).
Another U.S. contractor involved in the same program for non-US standard military supplies is Orbital ATK. This company received $250 million over just the past two years. Information as to what type of weapons and to whom those weapons were supplied is classified.
According to the documents, Orbital ATK transported weapons on 6 diplomatic Silk Way Airlines flights in July and August of 2015 flying the route Baku (Azerbaijan)-Tuzla (Bosnia and Herzegovina)-Baku-Kabul (Afghanistan). The weapons were exported by IGMAN j.j. Konjic, (Bosnia and Herzegovina) commissioned by Orbital ATK. The consignee was the National Police of Afghanistan. Interestingly, all these diplomatic flights with weapons had technical landings and a 7 h 30 min stop at Baku before their final destination – Afghanistan.
Military aircrafts of Azerbaijan transported 282 tons of cargo (PG-7VL and other grenades) on 10 diplomatic flights in April and May 2017 to the destination Baku-Rijeka (Croatia)-Baku. The consignor was the Ministry of Defense of Azerbaijan, and the consignee – Culmen International LLC, USA. This same company has been awarded two contracts ($47 million each) along with other contractors for non-US standard weapon supplies on 18 February 2016 and 19 April 2017 respectively. Culmen International LLC has also signed a $26.7 million contract for foreign weapons with the Department of Defense and a $3.9 million contract for newly manufactured non-US standard weapons.
Chemring Military Products is another main contractor in the program for non-US standard weapon supplies to the US army through diplomatic Silk Way Airlines flights. This military supplier has 4 contracts for $302.8 million in total. The weapons were purchased from local manufacturers in Serbia, Bulgaria, and Romania and according to documents transported to Iraq and Afghanistan via diplomatic flights.
One of those flights in particular, on 18 October 2016, carrying 15.5 tons of 122 mm rockets bought by Chemring in Belgrade, Serbia, was diverted from its destination – Kabul, and instead landed in Lahore, Pakistan. After a 2-hour stop, the aircraft took off to Afghanistan. The only possible explanation for the extension of the flight by a thousand kilometers is offloading in Pakistan, even though documents stated that the cargo was destined for Afghanistan.
The largest non-US standard weapons supplier to the US army is Alliant Techsystems Operations-USA with contracts totalling $490.4 million. In December of 2016, this company transported tons of grenades (API 23×115 mm, HE 23×115 mm, GSH 23×115 mm) from Yugoimport, Serbia to the Afghani Defense Ministry on diplomatic flights to the destination Baku-Belgrade-Kabul.
Saudi Arabia – sponsor and arms distributor
Besides the USA, another country that has purchased huge quantities of Eastern-European weapons and exported them on Silk Way Airlines diplomatic flights is Saudi Arabia. In 2016 and 2017, there were 23 diplomatic flights carrying weapons from Bulgaria, Serbia and Azerbaijan to Jeddah and Riyadh. The consignees were VMZ military plant and Transmobile from Bulgaria, Yugoimport from Serbia, and CIHAZ from Azerbaijan.
The Kingdom does not buy those weapons for itself, as the Saudi army uses only western weapons and those weapons are not compatible with its military standard. Therefore, the weapons transported on diplomatic flights end up in the hands of the terrorist militants in Syria and Yemen that Saudi Arabia officially admits supporting.
The Arab Kingdom also distributes military cargo to South Africa – a region plagued by wars over the control of the wealth in gold and diamonds found in African countries.
On 28 April and 12 May this year, Silk Way carried out two diplomatic flights from Baku to Burgas-Jeddah-Brazzaville (Republic of Congo). The military cargo on-board of both flights was paid for by Saudi Arabia, according to the documents leaked from Azerbaijan’s Embassy to Bulgarian sources. The aircraft made a technical landing at Jeddah airport with a 12 h 30 min stop for the first flight and 14 h stop for the second one.
The aircraft was loaded with mortars and anti-tank grenades including SPG-9 and GP-25. These very same weapons were discovered by the Iraqi army a month ago in an Islamic State warehouse in Mosul. Islamic State jihadists are also seen using those heavy weapons in propaganda videos posted online by the terrorist group. Interestingly, the consignee on the transport documents, however, is the Republican Guards of Congo.
In February and March of 2017, Saudi Arabia received 350 tons of weapons on Silk Way diplomatic flights flying to the route Baku-Belgrade-Prince Sultan-Baku. The cargo included 27 350 psc. 128-mm Plamen-a rockets and 10 000 pcs. 122 mm Grad rockets. The consignor was Tehnoremont Temerin, Serbia to order by Fam?way Investment LTD, Cypruss.
On 5 March 2016, an Azerbaijan Air Force aircraft carried 1700 pcs. RPG-7 (consignor: Ministry of Defense of Azerbaijan) and 2500 pcs. PG-7VM (consignor: Transmobil? Ltd., Bulgaria) for the Defense Ministry of Saudi Arabia. Diplomatic flights from Burgas Airport to Prince Sultan Airport on 18 and 28 February 2017 each carried a further 5080 psc. 40 mm PG-7V for RPG-7 and 24 978 psc. RGD-5. The weapons were exported by Transmobile, Bulgaria to the Ministry of Defense of Saudi Arabia. Such munitions and RPG-7 originating in Bulgaria can often be seen in videos filmed and posted by the Islamic State on their propaganda channels.
UAE is another Arab country that has purchased Eastern European weapons which are not compatible with its military standards and were apparently re-supplied to a third party. On three flights to Burgas-Abu Dhabi-Swaihan in March and April of 2017, Silk Way transported 10.8 tons of PG7VM HEAT for 40 mm RPG-7 on each flight with technical landing and a 2-hour stop in Abu Dhabi. The exporter is Samel-90, Bulgaria, the importer – Al Tuff International Company LLC. The latter company is involved with Orbital ATK LLC, which is the Middle East subsidiary of the American military company Orbital ATK. Although the ultimate consignee is the UAE army, the documents of the flight reveal that the sponsoring party is Saudi Arabia.
Cash Payments
On 26 February 2016, an Azerbaijan Air Force aircraft took off from Baku and landed in UAE, where it loaded two armored vehicles and one Lexus car. The request for diplomatic clearance indicated the payment as cash – US dollars. The aircraft landed in North Sudan and, the next day, in the Republic of Congo. The exporter was Safe Cage Armour Works FZ LLC, U?? and the receiving party was the Republican Guards of Congo. The sponsoring party, however, was Saudi Arabia.
Diplomatic Flights carry deadly white phosphorus
White Phosphorus is an incendiary weapon whose use is very controversial due to the deadly harms it can inflict. On 31 March 2015, Silk Way transported 26 tons of military cargo including white phosphorus from Serbia (exporter: Yugoimport) and 63 tons from Bulgaria (exporter: Arsenal). On 22 March, another 100 tons of white phosphorus were exported from Yugoimport, Belgrade to Kabul. No contract is attached to the documents of those flights.
On 2 May 2015, a Silk Way aircraft loaded 17 tons of ammunition, including white phosphorus, at Burgas airport. The exporter was Dunarit, Bulgaria. The aircraft made a technical landing and a 4-hour stop at Baku before reaching its final destination – Kabul. The consignee was the Afghani police. No contract is attached as proof.
Baku – international hub for weapons
Azerbaijan’s Ministry of Defense was repeatedly the consignee of weapons which it actually did not receive. On 6 May 2015, an Azerbaijani military aircraft flew to Burgas (Bulgaria)-Incirlik (Turkey)-Burgas. It carried aviation equipment from Bulgaria to Turkey with the consigner: EMCO LTD, Sofia, and consignee – Ministry of Defense of Azerbaijan. However, the cargo was offloaded in Turkey and never reached Azerbaijan.
Some of the weapons that Azerbaijan carries on diplomatic flights were used by its military in Nagorno-Karabakh against Armenia. In 2016, Azerbaijan accused Armenia of using white phosphorus. Armenia denied the allegations and in turn accused Azerbaijan of fabrication, as the only piece of evidence was based on a single unexploded grenade found by Azerbaijan’s soldiers. According to the documents from the Embassy of Azerbaijan in Sofia, white phosphorus munitions were carried on a diplomatic flight via Baku the previous year.
Baku plays the role of an international hub for weapons. Many of the flights make technical landings with stops of a few hours at Baku airport or other intermediary airports en-route to their final destinations. Moreover, these types of aircrafts flying to the same destinations do not typically make technical landings. Therefore, a landing for refueling is not actually required. Despite this, Silk Way aircrafts constantly made technical landings. A case in point: in December of 2015 Silk Way carried out 14 flights with 40 tons of weapons on each flight to the destination Ostrava (the Czech Republic)-Ovda (Israel)-Nososny (Azerbaijan). The exporter is not mentioned in the documents while the receiver is consistently the Defense Ministry of Azerbaijan. Strangely, the aircraft diverted and landed at Ovda airport (a military base in Southern Israel), where it remained for 2 hours.
In 2017, there were 5 flights from Nish (Serbia) via Ovda (Israel) to Nasosny (Azerbaijan). Each flight carried 44 tons of cargo – SPG Howitzer, RM-70/85. The consignor is MSM Martin, Serbia, the consignee: Elbit Systems, Israel, and the Ministry of Defense of Azerbaijan. All aircrafts landed in Israel and stayed for 2 hours en-route to Azerbaijan.
The same Israeli company Elbit Systems on a flight from Barno (the Czech Republic) via Tel Aviv (Israel) to Bratislava (Slovakia) re-exported armored vehicles (TATRA T-815 VP31, TATRA T-815 VPR9). They were sent by Real Trade, Prague to Elbit Systems. The ultimate consignee, however, was the Ministry of Defense of Azerbaijan. The aircraft landed in Tel Aviv and then in Bratislava, where the cargo was imported by another company – MSM Martin, Slovakia. It is not clear why the plane flew from Europe to Asia and then back to Europe with the same cargo on-board. Ultimately, it did not reach its final destination – Azerbaijan. This type of aircraft, IL 76TD, can carry cargo of up to 50 tons. This one carried only 30 tons according to the documentation provided. Therefore, it could carry additional cargo of 20 tons. Since the flight was diplomatic, it was not subjected to inspection.
A military coup after a diplomatic flight to Burkina Faso
Some diplomatic flights carry weapons for different conflict zones crossing Europe, Asia and Africa. Such is the case with two Azerbaijan Air Forces flights to the destination Baku-Belgrade-Jeddah-Brazzaville-Burkina Faso on 30 August and 5 September 2015. The consignors were CIHAZ, Azerbaijan, and Yugoimport, Serbia. The consignee was the Ministry of Defense of the Republic of Congo. The aircraft made two technical landings – in Turkey and Saudi Arabia.
The 41.2-ton cargo from Baku and Belgrade included: 7, 62 mm cartridges, 12 pcs. sniper rifles, 25 pcs. ?12 “Black Spear” calibre 12,7?108 mm, 25 psc. RBG 40×46 mm/6M11, and 25 pcs. Coyote machine gun 12,7?108 mm with tripods. The same heavy machine gun appeared in videos and photos posted online by militant groups in Idlib and the province of Hama in Syria a few months later. The aircraft also carried: 1999 psc. M70B1 7,62?39 mm and 25 psc. ?69? 82 ??. On 26 February 2016, a video featuring the same ?69? 82 mm weapons was posted to Youtube by a militant group calling itself Division 13 and fighting north of Aleppo.
Interestingly, the aircraft that carried the same type of weapons landed in Diyarbakir (Turkey), 235 km away from the border with Syria. Another type of weapon, RBG 40 mm/6M11, which was from the same flight and supposedly destined for Congo too, appeared in a video of the Islamic Brigade of Al Safwa in Northern Aleppo.
After Turkey, the aircraft landed in Saudi Arabia and remained there for a day. Afterwards it landed in Congo and Burkina Faso. A week later, there was an attempted military coup in Burkina Faso.
300 tons of RPG-s, machine guns and ammunition for the Kurds
In March of 2017, over 300 tons of weapons were allegedly sent to the People’s Protection Units (YPG) in Northern Syria. Six diplomatic flights transported 43 tons of grenades on each flight from VMZ Military Plant, Bulgaria, to the Defense Ministry of Iraq. There are no contracts applied, however. On 28 March, 82 tons of cargo (AKM 7,62×39 mm and AG-7) were sent from Otopeni (Romania) to Erbil (Iraqi Kurdistan). The consignor was Romtechnica S.A., the consignee – again the Ministry of Defense in Baghdad. No contracts are provided for this flight either.
On 16 March 2016, yet another Silk Way diplomatic flight carried 40 tons of military cargo from Slovenia to Erbil: the exporter is ELDON S.R.O., Slovakia, the importer – Wide City Ltd. Co, Erbil, the final consignee – the government of Kurdistan.
Wide City Ltd. Co has three offices – in Limassol (Cyprus), Sofia (Bulgaria) and Erbil. The office of the Bulgarian company Techno Defence Ltd is at the address in Sofia. On the website of the company, the owner of Techno Defense Ltd Hair Al Ahmed Saleh claims that he has an office in Erbil and that his company manufactures Zagros weapons in Azerbaijan (K15 zagros, 9×19 mm and automatic K16 zagros). These types of Zagros weapons appeared in propaganda footage posted by the military wing of the Kurdish PKK party, which is designated as a terrorist organisation by Turkey. The President of Azerbaijan Ilham Aliev is also an ethnical Kurd.
I reached out to all sides concerned involving my investigation. However, I have not received any comment.
https://trud.bg/350-diplomatic-flights-carry-weapons-for-terrorists/
Mueller Expands His Probe Again
It’s all Russia, Russia and Trump, Trump — all the time.
July 21, 2017
Matthew Vadum
Special Counsel Robert S. Mueller III is yet again expanding the scope of his off-the-rails investigation into the Left’s wacky Russian electoral collusion conspiracy theory by examining financial transactions even vaguely related to Russia involving President Trump’s businesses and those of his associates, Bloomberg News reports.
Honest observers recognize that with the election of Donald Trump, the longtime Russophiles of the morally flexible Left flipped on their traditional friends in Moscow faster than you can say Molotov-Ribbentrop Pact or Operation Barbarossa. Ignoring its own history of rampant seditious collaboration with Russia, the Left has now managed to convince many that any past or present connection a Republican has or had to Russia, however trivial, is somehow now retroactively evidence of treason against the United States.
There is still no evidence that Trump covered up a crime, or even that there was an underlying crime to be concealed but that hasn’t stopped the Left’s witch-hunt from growing and the goalposts from being shifted.
http://www.frontpagemag.com/fpm/267346/mueller-expands-his-probe-again-matthew-vadum
The Jewashing of George Soros
Millions of Jews are anti-Semitic for calling out an anti-Semite.
July 21, 2017
Daniel Greenfield
George Soros hates Jews.
He collaborated with the Nazis during the Holocaust and insisted that helping confiscate property from Jews brought him no guilt. “There was no sense that I shouldn’t be there, because that was well, actually, in a funny way, it’s just like in markets that if I weren’t there of course, I wasn’t doing it, but somebody else would.” He described the season of these horrors as “the most exciting time of my life.”
Soros grew up in a “Jewish, anti-Semitic home”. He called his mother a “typical Jewish anti-Semite” who hated his first wife because she was “too Jewish”. After undergoing psychoanalysis, he was able to understand that his shame was rooted in his Jewishness. He had a special contempt for Jewish philanthropies after a failed attempt to defraud a Jewish charity in London.
http://www.frontpagemag.com/fpm/267324/jewashing-george-soros-daniel-greenfield
Trump Ends Program to Train Syrian Rebels
A CIA program to train and equip Syrian rebels is being phased out by the Trump administration, according to U.S. officials who spoke to the media anonymously.
The program has been ongoing since 2013. It has been heavily criticized for wasting government money and for helping Islamist rebels inadvertently.
In 2015 a U.S.-trained rebel brigade handed over six pickup trucks and ammunition — which was one quarter of their issued kit — to Jabhat al-Nusra, which was then Al-Qaeda’s affiliate in Syria.
In 2016, it was revealed that the Pentagon had spent $500 million of taxpayers’ money in order to train 5,000 rebel fighters, but that the program was shut down after reportedly only producing five fighters.
The decision to end the program was reportedly made a month ago by National Security Adviser H.R. McMaster and CIA Director Mike Pompeo after consulting with lower ranking officials.
One of the officials who spoke to the media said the program was cancelled because “it’s a signal to Putin that the administration wants to improve ties to Russia.”
https://clarionproject.org/trump-ends-program-to-train-syrian-rebels/
DAILY MAIL – UK – Teenage girl, 19, is found dead in the freezer at £1.5m London home as her cousin flees from the property with a slit throat after they were KIDNAPPED in suspected honour killing
A teenage girl has been found stabbed to death in Kingston, south west London
She was found at the £1.5million home, allegedly in a freezer, on Wednesday
She was kidnapped along with her cousin by a man they knew, police said today
Two men have been arrested on suspicion of murder and a woman on suspicion of assisting an offender
[…]A neighbour, who refused to be named, said: ‘Relatives told me that the man was Asian and was caught at Dover trying to leave the country.
‘I heard he kidnapped them both and chopped one of them up and put her in the freezer.
‘I heard he slit the other one’s throat.
‘The girls had got mixed up with a gang of guys. One wanted to marry one of the boys and her family couldn’t take that.’ […]
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-4717020/Teenager-freezer-honour-killing.html
Turkish president accuses Germany of scaring off investors (abcnews, Jul 21, 2017)
http://abcnews.go.com/International/wireStory/german-minister-compares-turkey-communist-east-germany-48765465
“Turkey’s president accused Germany of trying to scare off investors from his country after Berlin toughened its stance toward Ankara following the arrest of human rights activists including a German national…”
Gunmen kill 3 Pakistani policemen, passer-by in Karachi (abcnews, Jul 21, 2017)
http://abcnews.go.com/International/wireStory/gunmen-kill-pakistani-policemen-passer-karachi-48772538
“Pakistani police say gunmen riding on a motorcycle have opened fire on a police vehicle in the southern port city of Karachi, killing three officers and a passer-by before fleeing the scene of the attack.
Karachi police chief Nauman Sadiqui says two people were also wounded in Friday’s drive-by shooting in the Korangi neighborhood.
Dr Seemi Jamali, a spokeswoman at the Jinnah Hospital, says three bodies were brought to the hospital following the shootout and that a fourth person, who was wounded, died during treatment…”
Militants burst from tunnels, hit weak points in Raqqa fight (abcnews, Jul 21, 2017)
http://abcnews.go.com/International/wireStory/official-fighters-meeting-stiff-resistance-raqqa-48768912
“The surprise attack came before dawn. An Islamic State group militant emerged from underground right into a deserted building being used as a position by U.S.-backed Syrian forces on a front line in Raqqa. He screamed, Allahu akbar, or “God is great,” and threw a bomb, killing a guard.
More militants burst out of the tunnel, raced up to the top floor and killed three fighters, capturing the building and the battling for hours with other fighters from the Syrian Democratic Forces. More than a week after the battle, described to The Associated Press by SDF fighters and commanders, IS militants still hold the building on Raqqa’s western side, their snipers face to face with the SDF snipers meters away. While AP visited the site, an airstrike hit the top of the building, yet soon after, an IS sniper there opened fire — a burst of bullets to proclaim that he had survived.
Now in its seventh week, the assault to recapture the northern Syrian city of Raqqa from IS militants has ground down into a bloody battle of attrition from street to street, each trying to draw out and weaken the other. Having prepared for months, the militants have put up stiff resistance, using an extensive network of tunnels to strike behind their enemies, deploying land mines and suicide bombers and slowing the SDF advance.
“They are like rats. They pop up from underground and then disappear again,” said one SDF fighter on a frontline on the eastern side of the old city, which has become the focus on the battle.
The militants in Raqqa have used civilians as human shields to an even great extent than they did in the Iraqi city od Mosul, said U.S. Army Col. Ryan Dillon, the spokesman for the U.S.-led coalition fighting the Islamic State group. He said they had posted children outside a workshop where they manufacture car bombs to prevent airstrikes. Warplanes did not target the factory, but were able to hit the car bombs later after they drove away from the area where they children were, he said…”
REPORT: Muslim Cop Who Shot Unarmed Woman Was ‘Diversity’ Hire
The fatal police shooting of an unarmed woman in Minnesota was committed by one of five Somalis that Minneapolis recruited as part of its affirmative-action plan, according to new reports.
“The city’s affirmative-action program requires it to give preferential treatment to minorities, not only those hired by the city but by all contractors awarded contracts of more than $100,000,” reports World Net Daily.
Minneapolis police Ofc. Mohamed Noor is accused of shooting and killing Australian Justine Damond, 40, who was engaged to be married in August. The local Star Tribune boiled the July 15 incident down to this:
“… two officers in one squad car, responding to the 911 call, pulled into the alley. Damond, in her pajamas, went to the driver’s side door and was talking to the driver. The officer in the passenger seat pulled his gun and shot Damond through the driver’s side door, sources confirmed.”
http://www.dailywire.com/news/18845/report-muslim-cop-who-shot-unarmed-woman-was-joseph-curl?utm_source=dwemail&utm_medium=email&utm_content=072117-news&utm_campaign=position3
LAUREN SOUTHERN HAS HER PATREON DELETED
Tim Pool
Tim Pool
First on CNN: Rice privately meets with Senate Intel on Russia probe
Susan Rice, who served as former President Barack Obama’s national security adviser, quietly met behind closed doors Friday with Senate intelligence committee investigators probing Russian meddling in the elections, according to an official familiar with the matter.
Rice, one of three former Obama officials who met with the panel this week, has come under sharp scrutiny from some House Republicans because they believe she improperly “unmasked” — or revealed the identities collected in intelligence gathering — of Trump associates in US intelligence reports. She has vigorously denied any wrongdoing.
“Ambassador Rice met voluntarily with the Senate Select Committee on Intelligence today as part of the committee’s bipartisan investigation into Russia’s interference in the 2016 US presidential election,” said Erin Pelton, a spokesperson for Rice, who also served as Obama’s US ambassador to the United Nations. “Ambassador Rice appreciates the Committee’s efforts to examine Russia’s efforts to interfere, which violated one of the core foundations of American democracy.”
Rice’s appearance Friday marks the latest high-profile witness to privately meet with the panel ahead of the Senate’s upcoming summer recess, with investigators meeting with former Obama chief of staff Denis McDonough and James Clapper, who was Obama’s former director of national intelligence. And on Monday, Senate staff will interview Jared Kushner, the President’s son-in-law and senior adviser, whose meetings with Russian officials have prompted serious questions from investigators.
Senate intelligence committee Chairman Richard Burr, a North Carolina Republican, told CNN this week that Obama and Trump officials both are on the witness list.
“Well I think we’re interested in any folks that were in the last administration that had some hand in what we did or did not do in response to Russian meddling in our elections,” Burr said in an interview. “I won’t get into when they’re coming or what the extent of the list is, but I think it’s safe to say that we’ve had everybody that was involved in decision-making at the last administration on our list, and they’re periodically coming. Some have been in. Some still have yet to come in.”
Burr did not raise concerns about allegations that Rice improperly unmasked any US individuals, an issue first raised by House intelligence committee Chairman Devin Nunes.
“The unmasking thing was all created by Devin Nunes, and I’ll wait to go through our full evaluation to see if there was anything improper that happened,” Burr said. “But clearly there were individuals unmasked. Some of that became public which it’s not supposed to, and our business is to understand that, and explain it.”
http://www.cnn.com/2017/07/21/politics/susan-rice-senate-intelligence-committee/index.html
Note: IRGC is described well in the article linked below. It’s often compared to the SS: I’d say, “more so”. It owns the economy of Iran, controls the arsenal. Some suggest that it has more actual power than the clerical regime itself, but who knows?
When considering the eschatological dimension of Iran’s longterm strategy, it’s important to recognize that a substantial block within the IRGC does not share the ‘bring on the Mahdi, Apocalypse soon. The
R. James Woolsey was director of the Central Intelligence Agency. Peter Vincent Pry served in the House Armed Services Committee and the CIA.
Iran’s Terrorism Goliath
The world’s biggest terror threat, Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC), dwarfs ISIS by any measure. The IRGC’s purpose is to advance the Islamic Revolution in the Middle East and the world.
The IRGC has killed and wounded thousands of Americans, far more than ISIS, in Iraq and Afghanistan. Moreover, Hizbullah and Hamas, the twin terror plagues of Israel, are subsidized by the IRGC.
Most worrisome is that the IRGC is in charge of Iran’s missile forces and nuclear, chemical, and biological weapon programs.
The U.S. Institute of Peace notes that “Iran has the largest and most diverse ballistic missile arsenal in the Middle East” – and that most Iranian missiles “were acquired from foreign sources – notably North Korea.”
I messed up the second paragraph. It should read:
When considering the eschatological dimension of Iran’s longterm strategy, it’s important to recognize that a substantial block within the IRGC does not share the ‘bring on the Mahdi, Apocalypse soon’ worldview.
This faction dreams of another Thousand-Year Persian Empire á la Third Reich. Many are also prepared for scarping off to Latin America and elsewhere if ‘Greater Persia’ falls.
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Link: http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2017/jul/16/iran-terrorizes-own-people-with-revolutionary-guar/
Thanks for the info.
The idea of a greater IRGC involvement in South America is bothersome, there are enough Islamic invaders in South America working with various drug cartels and other trouble makers. This is a region we need to pay more attention to but don’t really have many alt media sources in.