Putin says move to boost Syria's air defense aimed at protecting Russian servicemen

The Russian leader has held a conversation with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu

MOSCOW, September 24. /TASS/. Russia’s decision to strengthen combat capacities of Syrian air defense systems are geared primarily to avert the threat to the lives of Russian servicemen, Russian President Vladimir Putin said on Monday during a telephone conversation with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu.

"Vladimir Putin stressed that Russia’s decisions to strengthen combat capacities of Syrian air defense meet the current situation and are geared, first of all, to avert any potential threat to the lives of Russian servicemen who are fighting against international terrorism," the Kremlin press service said.

The conversation was initiated by the Israeli side.

The two leaders continued to discuss the circumstances of the incident with the Russian Ilyushin-20 plane that was downed over the Mediterranean Sea on September 17, killing 15 Russian servicemen in light of the fact that "information about the operation of the Israeli air force over the Syrian territory that was presented by the Israeli military contradicts the Russian defense ministry’s conclusions," the press service said. "The Russia side is convinced that the tragedy was caused by the actions of the Israeli air forces."

The Israeli prime minister once again extended his condolences over the death of Russian servicemen in this incident.

Earlier in the day, Russian Defense Minister Sergei Shoigu said that within two weeks Russia would hand over to Syria an S-300 air defense system to strengthen Syria’s combat capacities following the loss of the Russian Ilyushin-20 plane over the Mediterranean Sea and the death of 15 servicemen onboard.

The Russian electronic surveillance Il-20 plane was downed over the Mediterranean Sea late on September 17 when it was flying back to the Russian airbase at Syria’s Hmeymim. According to the Russian defense ministry, the plane was shot down by a missile from a Syrian S-200 air defense complex when it was firing at four Israeli F-16 aircraft attacking targets in the Latakia governorate. The Israeli pilots actually hid behind the Russian plane exposing it to Syrian missiles, the ministry stressed.

More:

http://tass.com/politics/1022909

Ex-CIA Chief John Brennan Panics – Urges Rosenstein to Stand His Ground “Wait to be Fired”

Former CIA Director-turned-Twitter-troll John Brennan sounded the alarm Monday evening urging Rosenstein to stand his ground and wait to be fired.

Brennan did not call out Rosenstein by name, however his urgent message comes on the heels of multiple reports claiming DAG Rosenstein has given a verbal resignation to Chief of Staff John Kelly following an explosive NYT report he wanted to wear a wire and oust Trump from office.

According to White House sources, Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein is expecting to be fired so to get ahead of the ax, Rosenstein plans on officially resigning, reported Axios.

John Brennan hit the panic button Monday and encouraged officials to “stand their ground” and “wait to be fired.”

JOHN BRENNAN: Any attempt by the White House to subvert or manipulate law enforcement should be resisted. Rather than resigning, officials should stand their ground & wait to be fired. Resisting abuse of presidential authority is not a policy difference; it’s about adhering to the rule of law.

Sean Hannity and other prominent conservative voices warned President Trump against firing Rosenstein after the New York Times rolled out their report on his secret plans to wear a wire and oust Trump from office.

‘It’s a set up,’ said Hannity. The Deep State is trying to bait President Trump into firing DAG Rosenstein to create a Nixon-like ‘Saturday night massacre’ where the DAG, AG and special prosecutor Archibald Cox were fired during the Watergate investigation.

John Brennan is panicking because Rosenstein’s departure puts Mueller’s unconstitutional witch hunt in jeopardy.

Rosenstein appointed Mueller in May of 2017 and has been protecting the illegal witch hunt ever since–if Solicitor General Noel Francisco (one of the good guys) takes over the Special Counsel, the Deep State could quickly unravel.

John Brennan was one of the main players in promoting and leaking stories on Hillary’s phony Russia dossier–he’s desperate to keep Mueller and Rosenstein in their positions.

https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2018/09/ex-cia-chief-john-brennan-panics-urges-rosenstein-to-stand-his-ground-wait-to-be-fired/

Ex-Mossad chief: Israel ‘dangerously sick’ under Netanyahu’s leadership

Five former spymasters say PM eroding country’s core values, decry ‘pervasive’ culture of corruption under his tenure

Five former chiefs of the Mossad spy agency leveled harsh criticism at Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu this week, with one saying that Israel was “dangerously sick” under his leadership.

“I feel so bad about what is happening in the country, the corruption is so deep, so pervasive,” Shabtai Shavit told the Yedioth Ahronoth daily in an excerpt of a joint sit down interview ahead of Independence Day. “There are no red lines, no taboos and add to that the deepening rift among the people.”

Shavit was joined by Zvi Zamir, Nahum Admoni, Danny Yatom, Efraim Halevy and Tamir Pardo in expressing serious concerns about Israel’s future.

https://www.timesofisrael.com/ex-mossad-chiefs-israel-dangerously-sick-under-netanyahus-leadership/

WTF to make of this shit?

RT & Former UK Ambassador Exposing CIA-MI6 Control Over Western ‘News’ Media

Eric Zuesse

It’s an old story, but each time that an example of it occurs, it is hidden, instead of reported.

The fact that America’s CIA has the cooperation of all major news-media in the United States is well known and long-established, such as in the following two obscure places:

http://carlbernstein.com/magazine_cia_and_media.php

spartacus-educational.com/JFKmockingbird.htm

The CIA is one of the major extensions of America’s part of the international Deep State, the few thousand U.S. billionaires, who are the only people who actually control U.S. foreign policies. They also control the nation’s major news-media so that their foreign policies — such as the invasion of Iraq in 2003 and the invasion of Libya in 2011 — will be supported by enough Americans in order to re-elect the politicians, such as Hillary Clinton, who had voted for or otherwise enabled those invasions. These billionaires also own controlling blocs of stock in their international corporations, which, of course, benefit from such invasions.

So: here’s the latest clear instance of it, and this one reflects the British portion of the international Deep State:

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On September 23rd, Craig Murray, the former UK Ambassador who quit the UK’s foreign services as a whistleblower against the Deep State, reported a brazen fabrication by the onetime-progressive British newspaper the Guardian, a smear which had been targeted against both Julian Assange and the Government of Russia, and which aimed at continuing to hide the Deep State’s ongoing aggressions against Russia and against governments that are friendly toward Russia. Murray closed:

“It is very serious indeed when a newspaper like the Guardian prints a tissue of deliberate lies in order to spread fake news on behalf of the security services. I cannot find words eloquent enough to express the depth of my contempt for Harding and Katherine Viner, who have betrayed completely the values of journalism. The aim of the piece is evidently to add a further layer to the fake news of WikiLeaks’ (non-existent) relationship to Russia as part of the “Hillary didn’t really lose” narrative. I am, frankly, rather shocked.”

One of the reader-comments to Murray’s article recommended and linked to this video:

which exposes the profound corruption of America’s Democratic Party and how its billionaires control left-of-center voters by deceiving them into voting in political primaries for these billionaires’ politicians to become the Party’s nominees in general elections. The billionaires control the international corporations and ‘news’-media and their tax-exempt PR fronts the ‘non-profits’, so as to fool enough voters in order to turn America’s national elections into merely contests between different brands of fascists, liberal versus conservative.

The next day, RT, Russian Television, bannered, “Guardian’s ‘deliberate lies’ over Assange Russia plot slammed by Craig Murray”, and the reader-comments there were similarly strong against the Deep State that controls Western ‘democracies’.

The present news-story about ’news’-lies has not yet been reported in any of the major ‘news’ media in the West. In case none of these major ’news’-media has yet learned of this important matter, this news-report about it is being sent today to all major ‘news’ media throughout the West, in order to provide each one of them its opportunity to report upon the corruption behind today’s Guardian, and behind all of them. So, now none of them can say they didn’t know of this. Each will either report it, or else continue to hide it. But it’s an important news-story, regardless of whether or not they report it.

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Investigative historian Eric Zuesse is the author, most recently, of They’re Not Even Close: The Democratic vs. Republican Economic Records, 1910-2010, and of CHRIST’S VENTRILOQUISTS: The Event that Created Christianity.

http://themillenniumreport.com/2018/09/rt-former-uk-ambassador-exposing-cia-mi6-control-over-western-news-media/