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Syrian Turkmen commander who 'killed' Russian pilot turns out to be Turkish ultranationalist
Post Date: 2015-11-30 12:49:41 by nativist nationalist
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A Syrian rebel commander who boasted of killing a Russian pilot after Turkey downed Russian jet on Tuesday appeared to be Turkish ultranationalist and a son of former mayor in one of Turkish provinces. Alparslan Celik, deputy commander of a Syrian Turkmen brigade turned out to be the son of a mayor of a Keban municipality in Turkey’s Elazig province. He also turned out to be the member of The Grey Wolves ultranationalist group, members of which have carried out scores of political murders since 1970s. Celik came under spotlight after he announced that as the two Russian pilots descended by parachute after the Su-24 jet was downed by Turkish military, both were shot dead by Turkmen ...
Businessman Buys 400 American Soldiers Meals During Airport Layover
Post Date: 2015-11-29 23:26:03 by A K A Stone
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OOn his way to visit Israel with his family, a Los Angeles businessman came upon 400 U.S. soldiers preparing to eat their paper sack dinners during a layover in Shannon, Ireland and decided he wanted to honor them with a good warm meal. As the regular passengers and friends were all dining at the various trendy restaurants, entrepreneur and philanthropist Shlomo Rechnitz approached the commander and told him that he wanted to treat the servicemen to the same. At first the commander said it was unnecessary, but Shlomo insisted, and the commander announced to all the soldiers that they could eat a meal at any restaurant up to $50. After the servicemen ate, the commander asked if Shlomo would ...
Obama’s Legacy at Stake in Paris Talks on Climate Accord
Post Date: 2015-11-29 11:41:45 by buckeroo
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WASHINGTON — At a joint news conference here Tuesday with President François Hollande of France, President Obama veered from his focus on the terrorist attacks in Paris to bring up the huge international gathering beginning in the French capital on Monday to hammer out a global response to climate change. “What a powerful rebuke to the terrorists it will be when the world stands as one and shows that we will not be deterred from building a better future for our children,” Mr. Obama said of the climate conference. The segue brought mockery, even castigation, from the political right, but it was a reminder of the importance Mr. Obama places on climate change in ...
From penguins to Pope's shoes, climate rallies pressure U.N. summit
Post Date: 2015-11-29 10:46:13 by buckeroo
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Tens of thousands of people from Sydney to London joined one of the biggest days of climate change activism on Sunday, telling world leaders gathering for a summit in Paris there is "No Planet B" in the fight against global warming. In the French capital, where demonstrations were banned by the authorities after attacks by Islamic State militants killed 130 people on Nov. 13, activists laid out more than 20,000 pairs of shoes in the Place de la Republique to symbolize absent marchers. Among the high heels and sandals were a pair of plain black shoes sent by Pope Francis, who has been a vocal advocate for action to prevent dangerous climate change, and jogging shoes from U.N. ...
PUTIN ORDERS SANCTIONS AGAINST TURKEY
Post Date: 2015-11-28 20:30:26 by nativist nationalist
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ANKARA, Turkey (AP) -- Russian President Vladimir Putin on Saturday called for sanctions against Turkey, following the downing this week by Turkey of a Russian warplane. The decree published on the Kremlin's website Saturday came hours after Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan had voiced regret over the incident, saying his country was "truly saddened" by the event and wished it hadn't occurred. The decree includes a ban on some goods and forbids extensions of labor contracts for Turks working in Russia. It doesn't specify what goods are to be banned or give other details, but it also calls for ending chartered flights from Russia to Turkey and for Russian tourism ...
Kremlin says Putin 'fully mobilized' to tackle threat from Turkey
Post Date: 2015-11-28 12:25:12 by nativist nationalist
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Reuters/Reuters - A frame grab taken from footage released by Russia's Defence Ministry November 26, 2015, shows Russian S-400 defense missile systems (R) driving on the tarmac of Hmeymim airbase in Syria MOSCOW (Reuters) - President Vladimir Putin is fully mobilized to tackle what the Kremlin regards as an unprecedented threat from Turkey following the shooting down of one of its warplanes by a Turkish F-16, the Russian leader's spokesman said on Saturday. In comments which underscore how angry the Kremlin still is over the incident, Dmitry Peskov, Putin's spokesman, called the behavior of the Turkish air force "absolute madness" and said Ankara's subsequent ...
The youngest politician in France's far-right Le Pen family is storming ahead in the polls
Post Date: 2015-11-27 14:52:14 by Bridge at Remagen
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Marine Le Pen, the leader of France's hard-right Front National, is currently leading the most polls for the first round of the 2017 French presidential election. But the 25-year old Marion Marechal-Le Pen, granddaughter of the infamous FN founder Jean-Marie Le Pen and niece of current party leader Marine Le Pen, will be tested at the ballot long before then. She's running in provincial elections in Provence-Alpes-Côte d'Azur, a part of southern France on the border with Italy. The elections will determine France's regional presidencies. Her grandfather ran for the seat in 2010, racking up 20.39% of the vote, nearly twice the 11.42% that ...
Turkey would have acted differently if it had known jet was Russian: Erdogan
Post Date: 2015-11-27 12:37:14 by buckeroo
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President Recep Tayyip Erdogan said Thursday that Turkey would have acted differently if it had known a warplane its forces downed on the Syrian border was Russian. "If we had known if it was a Russian plane maybe we would have warned it differently," Erdogan told France 24 television. He also said that Russian President Vladimir Putin had not answered his call after Tuesday's incident that has seriously damaged ties between two rival players in the Syrian conflict. "I called Mr Putin but until now he never answered my call," he said. Turkey's military said the Su-24 bomber was shot down by two of its F-16s after it violated Turkish airspace 10 times within a ...
Kremlin says Western powers 'not ready' to work in anti-IS coalition with Russia
Post Date: 2015-11-27 12:08:46 by buckeroo
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The Kremlin said Friday that Western powers were not ready to form a coalition with Russia to fight Islamic State jihadists in Syria, after talks between President Vladimir Putin and French leader Francois Hollande. "At the moment, unfortunately, our partners are not ready to work within the format of single coalition," Putin's spokesman Dmitry Peskov told reporters. He added however that Russia remained open to cooperation "in any format our partners would be ready for." After jihadists killed 130 people in Paris this month in attacks claimed by IS, Hollande travelled to Moscow on Thursday, hoping to bolster global efforts to crush IS. Putin had urged global ...
Tom Cotton’s Unhinged Syria Policy
Post Date: 2015-11-27 10:42:05 by Willie Green
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Tom Cotton’s views on Russia and Syria are predictably bizarre and dangerous: Rather than being a constructive partner, President Vladimir Putin’s Russia has been engaged in a proxy war against the United States in Syria [bold mine-DL], despite Obama’s protestations to the contrary. And when an enemy wages war against the United States [bold mine-DL], it does not get to choose whether it is at war; its only choice is to win or lose. Right now, the United States is losing the proxy war in Syria—and a wider competition for regional influence—against Russia. Cotton is a hard-line fanatic, as this passage makes very clear. He presents Russian support for the Syrian ...
Meet The Man Who Funds ISIS: Bilal Erdogan, The Son Of Turkey's President
Post Date: 2015-11-27 08:35:08 by cranky
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Russia's Sergey Lavrov is not one foreign minister known to mince his words. Just earlier today, 24 hours after a Russian plane was brought down by the country whose president three years ago said "a short-term border violation can never be a pretext for an attack", had this to say: "We have serious doubts this was an unintended incident and believe this is a planned provocation" by Turkey. But even that was tame compared to what Lavrov said to his Turkish counterparty Mevlut Cavusoglu earlier today during a phone call between the two (Lavrov who was supposed to travel to Turkey has since canceled such plans). As Sputnik transcribes, according to a press release from ...
Relatives of Paris massacre vow to boycott day of mourning because France's 'weak' government 'allowed' the terror attack to happen
Post Date: 2015-11-26 18:40:28 by Bridge at Remagen
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Families of those slaughtered during the Paris terrorist attacks today called for a boycott of a day of mourning after accusing the French government of allowing the murders to happen. President Francois Hollande has called for people to hang Tricolour flags outside their homes on Friday as a service of hommage takes place at Les Invalides in the capital city. It will be exactly two weeks after the massacres, which saw Islamic State terrorists kill 130 people using bombs and Kalashnikov. President Francois Hollande has called for people to hang Tricolour flags outside their homes on Friday as a service of hommage takes place at Les Invalides in the capital city But the loved ...
Saudi Arabia to execute more than 50 convicted of terrorism
Post Date: 2015-11-26 08:44:50 by Willie Green
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Saudi Arabia plans to execute more than 50 people convicted of terrorism, two Saudi newspapers reported this week, in what appears to be a warning to would-be jihadists at a time of militant attacks on the kingdom. Fifty-five people were awaiting execution for "terrorist crimes" that killed more than 100 civilians and 71 security personnel, the newspaper Okaz reported on Thursday, without specifying when the executions would occur. On Monday, the semi-official newspaper al-Riyadh reported that 52 people would be put to death soon, but it later pulled the story from its website without explanation. Some of those facing execution were affiliated with al Qaeda, Okaz said. Others ...
Putin sends air defense missiles (S-400) to Syria to deter Turkey
Post Date: 2015-11-25 16:27:15 by nativist nationalist
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Russian President Vladimir Putin on Wednesday ordered state-of-the art air defense missile systems to be deployed at a Russian air base in Syria following the downing of a Russian warplane by Turkey, a move that raised the threat of a military confrontation between the NATO member and Russia. The S-400 missile systems, which will be sent to the Hemeimeem air base in Syria's coastal province of Latakia, located just about 50 kilometers (30 miles) south of the border with Turkey, are capable of targeting Turkish jets with deadly precision. If Russia shot down a Turkish plane, NATO would be required to intervene. Turkey shot down a Russian Su-24 bomber Tuesday, saying it crossed into its ...
Turkey Violated Greek Airspace 2,244 Times Last Year, Fires At Russia For Doing It Once
Post Date: 2015-11-24 23:48:30 by A K A Stone
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Turkey shot down a Russian warplane for violating its airspace Tuesday, but the Turkish air force does the exact same thing several times a day in Greece. Turkey was quick to defend its action by stating it issued 10 warnings over the course of five minutes before firing on the plane. “The data we have is very clear. There were two planes approaching our border, we warned them as they were getting too close,” a senior Turkish official told Reuters. “Our findings show clearly that Turkish air space was violated multiple times. And they violated it knowingly.” But the Turkish air force doesn’t seem to be too careful about entering Greek airspace, according to ...
“No-Fly List Is Islamophobia” Poster Boy Arrested In Turkey Is Black American Convert
Post Date: 2015-11-24 15:13:11 by nativist nationalist
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There’s a story about Saadiq Long, an American citizen who was on the No-Fly list, and couldn’t get back to the US to see his mother because he wasn’t allowed to board a plane to America. Turns out he really is pretty dangerous: MSNBC’s ‘No-Fly List Is Islamophobia’ Poster Boy Arrested in Turkey as Part of ISIS Cell, By Patrick Poole, PJMedia, November 24, 2015. The point I want to make is that Long isn’t a Muslim immigrant terrorist, but a native-born American black terrorist, radicalized by Islam. Stories below describe him, during his “poster boy” period, as a “McAlester native” and “McAlester [Oklahoma] High School” ...
Will Europe Man Up?
Post Date: 2015-11-24 12:50:59 by nativist nationalist
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Wars aren't won by moments of silence. If the purpose of terrorism is to terrify, the Islamic State had an extraordinary week. Brussels, capital of the EU and command post of mighty NATO, is still in panic and lockdown. “In Brussels, fear of attack lingers” was Monday’s headline over the Washington Post’s top story, which read: “Not since Boston came to a near-standstill after the Boston Marathon bombing in 2013 has the life of a major Western city been brought to a halt this way by the fear of terrorism.” Below that is this headline: “After Paris, a campaign changed by fear.” That story is about what’s happened in our presidential ...
Russian rescue helicopter 'shot down by Syrian rebels' while searching for pilots of plane downed by Turkey
Post Date: 2015-11-24 11:33:04 by cranky
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The Russian leader also warned it would have serious consequences for his country’s relations with Turkey A Russian rescue helicopter has been shot down by Syrian rebels while searching for pilots missing after Turkey downed a Russian jet. The helicopter was forced to make an emergency landing in a government-held area in Syria's Latakia province. A Syrian insurgent group, which uses U.S. Tow missiles, said its fighters hit the helicopter with an anti-tank missile. Video footage has emerged online appearing to show the helicopter after it crashed in dense woodland. Plumes of smoke can be seen coming from the aircraft. Vladmir Putin earlier warned Turkey of "significant ...
Who Should Pay For the Syrian Refugees?
Post Date: 2015-11-24 08:48:48 by Deckard
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Last week the US House dealt a blow to President Obama’s plan to resettle 10,000 Syrians fleeing their war-torn homeland. On a vote of 289-137, including 47 Democrats, the House voted to require the FBI to closely vet any applicant from Syria and to guarantee that none of them pose a threat to the US. Effectively this will shut down the program. The House legislation was brought to the Floor after last week’s attacks in Paris that left more than 120 people dead, and for which ISIS claimed responsibility. With the year-long US bombing campaign against ISIS in Syria and Iraq, there is a good deal of concern that among those 10,000 to be settled here there might be some who wish to ...
Putin: Russia will not tolerate such crimes as attack against its Sukhoi-24 plane [Full Thread]
Post Date: 2015-11-24 08:28:10 by cranky
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According to the president, the attack against Su-24 plane in Syria goes beyond normal struggle against terrorism, and it is "a stab in Russia’s back" delivered by "terrorism accomplices" SOCHI, November 24. /TASS/. Russia's Sukhoi Su-24 attack aircraft was downed with an air-to-air missile launched from a Turkish F-16 fighter, Russian President Vladimir Putin said Monday. The Russian leader stressed that the Russian Su-24 fighter-bomber was posing no threat to Turkey. "Anyway, our pilots and jet posed no threat to the Turkish Republic. This is obvious. They were conducting an operation against ISIL," Putin said at the meeting with King Abdallah II ...
Turkey shoots down Russian jet after violating its air space: One pilot is feared captured in Syria as footage emerges of rebel group chanting 'Allahu Akbar' over the corpse of his co-pilot
Post Date: 2015-11-24 07:08:10 by cranky
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Turkish army has shot down a Russian Sukhoi Su-24 war plane near its Syrian border, officials confirmThe Russian jet had violated Turkish air space and ignored ten warnings in five minutes, army saysRussia claims the jet, which crashed in Syria's Turkomen Mountains, had been in Syrian airspace when it was hitIn response, Turkish army released flight tracking data showing where the jet violated its airspace One pilot dead, the other reportedly captured by Turkmen - ethnic Turks subjected to Russian airstrikes this weekTurkey's military have today shot down a Russian war plane near its border with Syria after the jet violated Turkish air space.The Russian Sukhoi Su-24 jet was shot ...
Turkey shots down Russian Fighter/BOmber
Post Date: 2015-11-24 07:08:02 by BobCeleste
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ANKARA/MOSCOW (Reuters) - Turkish fighter jets shot down a Russian warplane near the Syrian border on Tuesday after repeated warnings over air space violations, but Moscow said it could prove the jet had not left Syrian air space. It was the first time a NATO member's armed forces have downed a Russian or Soviet military aircraft since the 1950s and Russian and Turkish assets fell on fears of an escalation between the former Cold War enemies. A Kremlin spokesman said it was a "very serious incident" but... Click for Full Text!Poster Comment:This could get interesting.
“Clock Kid’s” Family Demand Apology, $15 Million In Damages
Post Date: 2015-11-23 15:14:05 by nativist nationalist
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Attorneys representing Ahmed Mohamed and his family want an apology and $15 million in damages after his arrest in September. The former MacArthur High School freshman was accused of bringing an item that looked like a bomb to school. It turned out to be a clock. The attorneys have sent letters to both the City of Irving and Irving ISD (read below), demanding $10 million and $5 million respectively, for the way the incident was handled earlier this year. They claim 14-year-old Ahmed has suffered severe damages as a result of his interrogation and arrest at the school. They also point the finger at Irving’s Police Chief and Mayor for the way they portrayed Ahmed to the media once the ...
Russia Says U.S. Policies Helped Islamic State, Interfax Reports
Post Date: 2015-11-22 20:48:03 by nativist nationalist
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U.S. actions in the Middle East helped Islamic State to gain influence, Russian Prime Minister Dmitry Medvedev said, according to Interfax. The strengthening of Islamic State “became possible partly due to irresponsible U.S. politics” that focused on fighting Syrian President Bashar al-Assad instead of joining efforts to root out terrorism, Medvedev was cited as saying in Kuala Lumpur on Sunday. President Barack Obama earlier on Sunday said that Russia is facing a strategic choice as Assad can’t stay. The Obama administration declined to comment Sunday on Medvedev’s statement. The U.S. contributed to the strengthening of al-Qaeda, which led to the events of Sept. 11, ...
TOLD HE MUST GO, SYRIA'S ASSAD MAY OUTLAST OBAMA IN OFFICE
Post Date: 2015-11-22 12:37:51 by nativist nationalist
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WASHINGTON (AP) -- Bashar Assad's presidency looks likely to outlast Barack Obama's. As the United States has turned its attention to defeating the Islamic State group, it has softened its stance on the Syrian leader. More than four years ago, Obama demanded that Assad leave power. Administration officials later said Assad did not have to step down on "Day One" of a political transition. Now, they are going further. A peace plan agreed to last weekend by 17 nations meeting in Vienna says nothing about Assad's future, but states that "free and fair elections would be held pursuant to the new constitution within 18 months." To clarify the timeline, the State ...
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