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Moscow and Washington have reached an understanding that further US strikes similar to the one carried out against Syria’s Shayrat Air Base “should not occur again,” the Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov has said.
Lavrov emphasized that this issue was raised during his discussions with the US Secretary of State on Wednesday when Rex Tillerson was visiting Moscow.
“We have discussed this issue with the US Secretary of State in details yesterday and agreed upon the fact that a similar should not occur again,” he told journalists ahead of his meeting with his Syrian counterpart, Walid Muallem, in Moscow.
Lavrov further underlined that the US missile strike against the Shayrat Air Base played “a highly provocative role.”
He went on to say that the US confirmed its commitment to the idea that there is no other option of resolving the Syrian conflict other than the political dialog, adding that this offers hope for the future of the peace process.
“It is encouraging to some extent that Rex Tillerson confirmed yesterday that [the US still holds] the opinion that there is no alternative to the political process [of the resolution of the Syrian crisis] despite all the recent negative developments,” he said.
A “right and responsible step” is how Lavrov described the Syrian government’s decision to invite experts from the Organization for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons (OPCW) to conduct an investigation of the chemical weapon incident in Idlib province.
A blog called Jewish Power posted the following back on February 2016. It looks far more like prescience than conspiracy theory:
Medvedev the Russian token Prime Minister has said a new cold war is on the horizon.
Medvedev is easy to identify as a crypto Jew.
Lavrov the foreign minister is also a Jew, no doubt he goes along with Medvedev.
Lavrov’s daughter attended Columbia University and lived in the US for a long time.
Putin’s daughter married a Jewish banker.
All the rhetoric like these comments from Medvedev-steen are just so much bullshit.
The Jews objective is to destroy Syria..via a long drawn out civil war. It does not make any difference whether it is the Americans or Russians who are bombing the country..as long as the bombing continues.
Put it like this: The Russian government likes Russian nationalists …up to a point. However, if Russian nationalists choose to identify the role of the Jews…the Jewish oligarchs…the pillaging of Russia by Jews like Abramovich and all the rest of them…THEN something goes dramatically wrong….the nationalists start being targeted by the Russian government!!…which is just what you would expect IF Russia was controlled by the Jews…and it is.
So, as many people have pointed out…all this posturing by Russian, American, British politicians is a COMPLETE CHARADE.
Armed with this knowledge about Jewish power you can make very accurate predictions in certain areas. For example…The next president of the USA will definitely 101% be a Jew…no ifs, buts or mmaybes…the next president in the Oval Oriface will be a JEW. That is a money back guarantee of certainty.
And remember that it was The Russian Federation that de-fanged Syria in the first place:
Russian President Vladimir Putin speaks with Russia’s Chief Rabbi Berel Lazar in the Jewish Museum in Moscow, Thursday, June 13, 2013. (AP Photo/Alexander Zemlianichenko)
The Jewish lobby doesn’t place all their eggs in one basket, and Russia’s economic and military connections to the Arab world can always be used as leverage to produce outcomes that are favourable to Israel.
Posted by DanielS on Thursday, 06 April 2017 15:15.
...and that’s why our enemies hate him.
Bashar Al-Assad visiting the Holodomor memorial dedicated to the Ukrainians who perished by starvation under the Soviets.
Michael Flynn seated with Vladimir Putin and Jill Stein right.
ITV News, “Trump administration ‘will be having restless nights over Flynn testimony offer”, 31 March 2017:
Flynn was famously pictured sitting next to Vladimir Putin at a gala in Moscow in December 2015 and it was his conversations with Russian officials that ultimately led to his downfall.
President Trump and his administration will have endured a “restless night’s sleep” following Michael Flynn’s offer to testify about possible links between the Trump campaign and Russia in exchange for immunity from prosecution, Barack Obama’s former press secretary has told ITV News.
Flynn, ousted as national security adviser in February following an onslaught of damaging headlines about his ties to the Kremlin, has told the FBI and Congress that he “has a story to tell” but wants assurances “against unfair prosecution”.
Josh Earnest, who served as the former president’s top spokesman for three years, said Flynn’s offer “is an indication that he is concerned about the information he may reveal”.
“My guess is that there were a lot of restless night’s sleep last night after that Wall Street Journal story posted,” Earnest told ITV News.
“Because everybody who thought they were having a private conversation with Mike Flynn in the last two years or anybody who sent an email over the last two years or anybody who has been responsible for publicly defending him over the last two months is now in a position where that information could be revealed to the FBI or congressional investigators.
“That has to be a little disconcerting to everybody - including the president of the United States.”
Trump’s young presidency has so far been blighted by the ongoing suspicion that his campaign colluded with the Russian government in its efforts to sway the election in his favour.
Flynn is one of a number of Trump associates under investigation by the FBI as part of the probe into Russian meddling.
Earnest said Trump’s decision to appoint Flynn to a role “so crucial” to America’s national security would again come under scrutiny.
“Appointing someone like General Flynn to be his national security adviser and have him resign after 24 days because he was being dishonest and now potentially has some criminal liability - it’s concerning and does raise questions about the president’s judgement in putting somebody like General Flynn into a position that is so crucial to our national security.”
Earnest, who now works as a political analyst for NBC, urged observers not to jump to conclusions over Flynn’s offer to testify, saying it was too early to say whether the retired three-star Army general would provide the “smoking gun” which directly links the president to Russia’s aggressive operation to meddle in the election process.
“He’s got a story he wants to tell - we’ll see what happens.”
Flynn was one of Trump’s closest confidantes on the campaign trail, gaining prominence for his raucous attacks on Democratic candidate Hillary Clinton over her use of a private email server.
In comments likely to come back to haunt him, Flynn told NBC last September: “When you are given immunity, that means you have probably committed a crime.”
After Trump’s victory, Flynn was appointed as the new administration’s top security adviser despite concerns over his desire to forge closer ties to the Russian government.
He was famously pictured sitting next to Vladimir Putin at a gala in Moscow in December 2015 and it was his conversations with Russian officials that ultimately led to his downfall.
Michael Flynn, pictured above left with Donald Trump, was ousted as national security adviser in February following an onslaught of damaging headlines about his ties to the Kremlin Credit: AP
Flynn was forced to quit after a less than a month in the role when it emerged that he had discussed sanctions that the Obama administration had imposed on the Kremlin with the Russian ambassador - conversations which he then subsequently lied about to the Vice-President Mike Pence.
It is one of a number of scandals to have engulfed the president since he took office on January 20.
“Everyday seems to be a day of new drama in this White House and it is part of the leadership style that we’ve seen from President Trump - he likes to preside over chaos and keeping people off balance,” Earnest said.
“It’s the way he ran his campaign and it worked; But I think we are seeing that running a campaign is a lot different to running a country. When you are running a country people expect you to be a source of stability, not chaos.”
Posted by Kumiko Oumae on Friday, 31 March 2017 16:47.
Classical liberals make a two-paragraph declaration of obsolescence
No one ever thought that classical liberals would ever get
around to actually acknowledging that they are
fine with getting you and your family killed by roving bands of Islamic
‘migrants’ who are permanently conducting hijra for the past 1400 years
and are always looking for a new location to park their
reactionary socio-economic caravan of rampant misogyny, homophobia,
mestizaje and genocide, but here it is:
Well good God, of course it is morally wrong for nations to
pursue their “self-interest” in anything, and especially in border
control policies. People have self-interests that matter, morally;
nations do not. Nations are toxic hellholes of false identity and
purveyors of monstrous political violence.
Nations are not rational people; they are not free
associations or contractual agreements; they are unchosen, coercively
assembled collectives, whose interests are typically an abortion of, if
not an outright war against, the moral interests of individual people
which actually deserve to be cultivated, practiced and respected. For
anyone committed to individual liberty, a nations’ “interests” deserve
no notice at all except to trample them underfoot.
So, there is that. That happened. A classical liberal man
actually wrote those paragraphs, and he was not intoxicated when he
wrote them.
That excerpt really is basically a two-paragraph
declaration of ideological obsolescence on the part of classical liberalism.
Apparently if you pre-emptively use force so as to prevent
your enemies from pillaging your lands and killing your family, that
makes you ‘a bad person’ or something. Crucially though, it also
happens to make you a winner, which I think is the most important thing.
Separately, Charles Johnson is indeed correct when he says
that nations are ‘coercively assembled collectives’ which wage
‘outright war’ against ‘the moral interests of individual people’. The
process of state formation is indeed an inherently violent array of
actions from which all other actions of the state cannot be extricated,
and the law itself is essentially an opinion with guns and detention
facilities behind it. That is completely true.
With that said, though. Does anyone actually care?
Literally nobody even cares, so whatever
When asked to choose between the ‘liberty’ to have some
individuals make moral choices in complete chaos and uncertainty,
versus the ‘monstrous political violence’ of the state which creates
stability and guarantees the safe existence of the people from which
actual prosperity flows, the people should always choose the state.
Liberty has to be properly understood as not ‘freedom from’,
but rather ‘freedom to’. The task of the state is to steer a course
that allows for the flourishing of prosperity without
undermining the social-economic position of the dominant class which
creates and reproduces state power, and without significantly
undermining the ethnic composition of the people within the jurisdiction
of the state’s territory, as genes are a productive force and as such
are a factor in the creation of the prosperity atop which the state
subsists.
Talking to the invaders is useless
If someone virtue-signalled to Arabs through enacting
lax border policies and then framed it as an act of kindness in the social
media domain in the hopes that this would somehow smooth integration
(still a stupid idea, of course, as integration is a stupid idea), it would actually be just liberals
signalling to other
liberals in a de facto echo chamber, because
Arabs actually barely
find time to read their own Arabic print media much less finding time
to read English language in the social media domain. This is a fact
that is known among
most security consultants and among almost anyone who has ever been
involved
in Information Operations in Mesopotamia after 2003. ‘The Arab man in
the street’ does not read.
The Arab guy in the street has a political understanding gleaned from
the oral pronouncements of his local Imam, a surface level
understanding of current events from Arab language television, and a
tangle of mutually contradictory conspiracy theories shared orally or
across social media. In the case where social media is used,
engagement-rates among Arabs are low, which is to say, they do not
actually click links.
Almost 100% of the hearts and minds
‘messaging’ that classical liberal thinktanks who are trying to ‘defend
values’ have engaged in, has actually been sent into an echo chamber of
Europeans
and Americans congratulating each other for crafting increasingly
sophisticated narratives which all point toward strategically stupid
conclusions which undermine European security.
Meanwhile, the mostly male Arab Muslim migrant wave has been
ignoring it all while sitting in an ideological trash dumpster of
misogyny and homophobia, as they despise all the progressive gains that
have been made in regions of the world other than theirs. They have no
respect for any other ethnic group and they believe that it is their
mission to demographically infest the whole planet.
Safe beneath the watchful eyes
Without security there can be no real freedom. Most people
know
this almost instinctively, and that is for example why the United
Kingdom’s referendum on membership of the European Union delivered up a
‘Leave’ result.
The British people have displayed a revealed
preference for the untrammelled full spectrum dominance of
the British
security state led by Theresa May and Amber Rudd, rather than a
European Union which has fallen under the de facto control of Angela
Merkel.
We can conclude from this that the British people
enjoy actually winning at counter-terrorism more than they enjoy
virtue-signalling to a foaming tide of Arab Muslim ‘migrants’ who can
barely find time to read their own Arabic print media much less reading
English in the social media domain.
The British people don’t actually believe in classical
liberalism. They believe in being real people. And that is a reason for
optimism.
Classical liberal ‘freedom’ supposes that individuals can be
abstracted from their origins, their environment, the context in which
they live and where they exercise their choices, that is to say,
abstracted from everything that makes them who they are specifically,
and not someone else. It supposes that the individual is always prior
to her ends. However, there is nothing that can prove that the
individual can apprehend herself as a subject completely free of any
allegiance, free of any form of determinism. There is no reason why she
would prefer that form of ‘freedom’ over any other social good. Such a
conception ignores commitments and attachments to clans
or spiritual sects, bonds of blood and soil, long-term
economic class interests, and the fact that nations are the deepest and
most enduring source of political experience. Classical liberal
‘freedom’ is a purely formal conception, which is completely incapable
of capturing the rich tapestry of what a real person is.
The real person seeks ‘love’ and ‘eternity’. ‘Love’ is the
wish that someone or something should continue to flourish forever, or at least,
that they should ‘get the last word’ in the world before the
story of humanity ends. In that sense, love is a desire to pursue
victory and create a meaning where there was originally none. When
standing alone, the individual is always defeated and approaching death
alone is the most final of all defeats. But while death is a threshold
which must be crossed and can only be crossed
alone, it does not have to be approached
alone. If the individual can pool her identity with the group, so that
she becomes one with the will of the group as it solves the historical
tasks which have been placed before it, then she is all-seeing and
all-knowing forever and ever—capable of knowing what she is, and
what she can become. She is really free and has attained
‘eternity’.
Victory becomes attainable. We become the gendarmes who
protect the actualisation of eternal love so that others can become
part of it. We never die because this empire never dies, as it is
constructed not only in the physical domain, but is also fortified in
the domain of the mind. As such, we are expected to fight eternally for
it.
We are not afraid of the conflicts that
lie ahead and we are not sorry about anything.
Because love will emerge victorious over terror.
Kumiko Oumae works in the defence and security sector in the UK. Her opinions here are entirely her own.
The FBI is investigating whether far-right news websites
contributed to Russia’s interference in the 2016 presidential election,
according to a new report.
The probe is focused on discovering whether Russian
operatives
used conservative outlets to help spread stories favoring now-President
Trump, McClatchy said Monday.
McClatchy confirmed with two people familiar with the
inquiry
that the FBI’s Counterintelligence Division is driving the
investigation.
The sources said Russian operatives seemingly strategically
timed
computer commands called “bots” to blitz social media with pro-Trump
stories.
The bots were used at times when Trump appeared struggling
with 2016 Democratic presidential nominee Hillary
Clinton, they continued.
McClatchy’s sources said the bots mainly created millions of
Facebook and Twitter posts linking to articles on far-right websites
including Breitbart News, InfoWars and the Kremlin-backed RT News and
Sputnik News.
The sources added that some of the stories were false or
contained a mixture of fact and fiction.
Federal investigators are now examining whether the
far-right
news organizations took any actions aiding Russian operatives, they
said.
The bots could have amplified pro-Trump news on Facebook and
Twitter, regardless of the outlets’ knowledge or involvement, the pair
of sources noted.
“This may be one of the most impactful information
operations
in the history of intelligence,” one former U.S. intelligence official
told McClatchy, speaking on the condition of anonymity due to the
matter’s sensitivity.
FBI Director James Comey earlier Monday confirmed the
Department of Justice (DOJ) is scrutinizing Russia’s meddling in the
2016 race, including any possible ties between Moscow and officials
from Trump’s election campaign.
“As you know our practice is not to confirm the existence of
an ongoing investigation,” he said during a House Intelligence
Committee hearing.
“But in unusual circumstances where it is in the public
interest, it may be appropriate to do so,” Comey added, noting the DOJ
had authorized him to break bureau policy and publicly disclose the
probe.
“This is one of those circumstances. I can promise you we
will
follow the facts wherever they lead.”
Comey added the FBI’s investigation began in late July and
will include an assessment of whether any crimes were committed.
During the campaign itself, Louise Mensch had reported on
basically the same thing. You can revisit that at Heatstreet, and I’ll
just give you an exerpt from that:
If you’ve been following the Twitter fiasco that is the
Donald Trump campaign, you will be aware of his association with the
Alt-right and with Russia bot accounts.
Broadly speaking, Trump has two categories of support on Twitter.
Alt-right trolls, and Russian bot accounts pretending to be patriotic
Americans.*
In many cases, these two groups cross over. The altright contains
actual humans, such as @prisonplanet, and many, many bots.
In this article I shall however examine the way in which Russian bots
are created and used to follow and boost Trump online.
It is not that Donald Trump does not have widespread support. He does;
even at his current polling lows, his support includes millions of
Americans. It is, rather, that Trump’s supporters are incredibly
unlikely to use Twitter.
Broadly speaking ,Trump’s real supporters aren’t on Twitter – and
Trump’s Twitter supporters aren’t real.
[...]
Three such bots that I videoed in the act of using this
method were @Commander6080, @Sbragusa, and @jamesdgriffin. All have
profiles that pretend to be Americans and to live in the USA.
How might this affect a twitter trend? What is the point of it? One
scientist theorized as follows. It is a “fake trend” theory called “A
Handoff”:
Let’s say you had a hashtag you wanted to get trending.
You have a thousand bots (or Russian Trolls) and a popular account like
Ricky Vaughn. You have the bots start using the hashtag, they start
flooding twitter until it gets a high count (but not in the top 20
trends) then have a real person, Ricky Vaughn, start pitching
the hashtag to his followers. Here is where the window of timing kicks
in: within minutes, Ricky Vaughn can have something trending, but before
he gets the hashtag to the top 15 you have almost all of the
bots automatically delete their tweets with the hashtags. You‘ve now
started “a trend” quickly and have had it associated with “Ricky
Vaughn” and not a 1,000 odd bots or Russian trolls.
[...]
This whole arrangement of social media manipulation is part of
the communication operations side of the modern form of Russian Active
Measures. The most remarkable thing about this arrangement is how it is
tactically innovative and well-timed to exploit a particular weakness
in American society specifically, but it is strategically
unsophisticated because Russian commanders have also permanently ruined their own
country’s reputation among the international journalist community and
among most people on social media.
It’s highly abnormal for an entire country to transparently do
something like that. Why would they choose to so carelessly and openly
abandon even the appearance of any kind of ‘normality’ on national
level?
There are a few reasons as to why they would have chosen to
behave this way, but all of them seem to be capable of being summarised
like this: Russian commanders may have been willing to sacrifice their
country’s perceived journalistic integrity in the eyes of most of the
world, because they’ve already given up on the idea that they could
ever create a narrative that could appeal to a broad audience. Instead,
Russia is seeking to cultivate a very particular audience in Europe and
North America (excluding the United Kingdom which they seem to be
abandoning). They are seeking to cultivate that roughly 20% of the
population which is somewhere vaguely in the nationalistic spectrum and
is disillusioned about the political situation in their country, but
also lacks grounding and experience in how the world actually works.
Russian commanders want to shape the media experience through
which those people will come to terms with the world around them, and
thus, create a long-term ‘following’, even if those followers are not
necessarily aware of what it is that they are following.
The utility of this is clear. 20% of a population is enough to
seriously impact the operation of political institutions
in western democracies which operate in a pluralistic mode.
Russian journalism is not seeking to be liked by everyone, or even
trusted. Russia just wants 20% of any given European population to be
responsive to their input because that is the bare minimum that they
need.
Reuters, “Polish PM draws link between London attack and EU migrant policy”, 23 Mar 2017:
Poland’s prime minister drew a link on Thursday between an attack in London targeting the British parliament and the European Union’s migrant policy, saying the assault vindicated Warsaw’s refusal to take in refugees.
Poland’s Prime Minister Beata Szydlo holds a news conference at the end of a European Union leaders summit in Brussels, Belgium, March 10, 2017. REUTERS/Yves Herman
Five people, including the attacker, were killed and about 40 injured on Wednesday after a car ploughed into pedestrians near the British parliament. Police believe the attack was “Islamist-related”, but have given no details about the attacker, who they say was acting alone.
Poland’s right-wing, eurosceptic government has refused to accept any of the 6,200 migrants allocated to it under the European Union’s quota scheme that is designed to share the burden of taking in the large numbers of migrants and refugees who have come to Europe over the past two years.
“I hear in Europe very often: do not connect the migration policy with terrorism, but it is impossible not to connect them,” Polish Prime Minister Beata Szydlo told private broadcaster TVN24.
Earlier this week the EU’s migration commissioner, Dimitris Avramopoulos, on a visit to Warsaw, warned member states against failing to host refugees to help alleviate pressure on frontline states bearing the brunt of arrivals across the Mediterranean.
“The commissioner should concentrate on what to do to avoid such acts as yesterday in London ... Poland will not succumb to blackmail such as that expressed by the commissioner,” Szydlo said.
“The commissioner is coming to Warsaw and trying to tell us: you have to do what the EU decided, you have to take these migrants .... Two days later another terrorist attack in London occurs,” she said.
The leader of Szydlo’s ruling Law and Justice party (PiS), Jaroslaw Kaczynski, said back in 2015 that refugees could bring diseases and parasites to Poland, which is staunchly Roman Catholic and has very few Muslim immigrants.
The migrant issue is just one of several over which Poland is at odds with the EU.
Also on Thursday Szydlo said Poland might not accept a declaration EU leaders are due to endorse in Rome this month that will chart the bloc’s course after Britain leaves unless it addresses issues Warsaw considers crucial.
Posted by DanielS on Thursday, 23 March 2017 04:59.
Nazis dismantling Polish border control.
Breitbart, “EU Says They Can Force All Members, Including Poland, to Take Migrants”, 21 March 2017:
WARSAW, Poland (AP) — The European Union’s commissioner for migration says there are ways to make all EU members states comply with the program of relocation of migrants among them.
Dimitris Avramopoulos made the statement Tuesday in Warsaw, where he is visiting the growing European border guard agency, Frontex.
Poland is refusing to accept migrants, arguing they are chiefly economic migrants, not war refugees, and may potentially pose a threat.
The relocation plan is intended to ease the pressure on countries that have taken the brunt of the migrant wave: Italy and Greece.
Without naming Poland, Avramopoulos said the EU has the “tools, the means and the power” to convince all members to comply and will make an assessment of response by the end of September. He mentioned no sanctions.
Since 1 November 2014 he is serving as EU Commissioner for Migration, Home Affairs and Citizenship in the Juncker Commission.
Avramopoulos has a friendly relation with the Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan since they were Mayors of Athens and Istanbul respectively. He is deemed one of the main proponents of Greek-Turkish rapprochement.
Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan has called on Turks living in Europe to have at least five children so that they can outbreed whites and take over the continent—and in that way become “the future of Europe.”
There are at least 7.8 million Turks in Europe, and very likely more who have become European citizens and are thus no longer counted as “Turks” by the deliberately race-denying liberal governments.
Erdogan made his call for the racial colonization of Europe by Turks while campaigning last week in the city of Eskisehir for a referendum that would usher in a presidential system and enhance his powers.
Erdogan’s comments were made in reaction to moves by the governments of Germany and the Netherlands to outlaw Turkish election meetings in those counties.
The Dutch government prevented a Turkish minister from addressing a crowd in Rotterdam, and later used water cannons to disperse Turkish demonstrators in the city after they turned violent.
On Friday, Erdogan told Turks in Europe that they must “Go live in better neighborhoods. Drive the best cars. Live in the best houses. Make not three, but five children. Because you are the future of Europe. That will be the best response to the injustices against you.”
Erdogan has also accused the Dutch government of state terrorism, acting like “Nazi remnants,” and having a “rotten” character.
In addition, Turkey’s interior minister, Suleyman Soylu, said last week that the EU was “playing games” to prevent Ankara from becoming strong, and that Turkey could send 15,000 “refugees” a month to Europe to “blow its mind.”