Russian Defense Ministry Sends 2 Notes To Pentagon Over INF Treaty, Kurdish-Arab Tensions In US-controlled Part Of Syria

Russian Defense Minister Army General Sergei Shoigu send 2 notes to Pentagon chief James Mattis but the Pentagon over the Intermediate-Range Nuclear Forces Treaty issue and Kuridsh-Arab tensions in the US-controlled area in northeastern Syria, Russian Defense Ministry Spokesman Major General Igor Konashenkov told reporters on December 15.

The first note adressed the current situation in northeastern Syria and “expressed deep concern about growing tensions between the Kurds and Arabs in the US-controlled areas east of the Euphrates River.”

It note said that the US-supported “autonomous administration” had achieved progress neither at the political level nor in the restoration of peaceful life. The message added that oil smuggling from the US-controlled areas negatively affected the Syrian economy’s reconstruction prospects.

“Two thousand militants still control nine settlements located along the east bank of the Euphrates River, while at least 1,500 civilians have been killed there in the US-led coalition’s airstrikes,” Konashenkoiv stressed. He added that judging by the Syrian army’s experience, such an area could be liberated in no more than two weeks.

“In the second message, the Russian defense minister suggested discussing the differences in the two countries’ positions on compliance conditions of the Intermediate-Range Nuclear Forces Treaty,” Konashenkov said adding that the move highlighted the Russian Defense Ministry’s readiness “for open and specific dialogue with the Pentagon on all the pressing issues on bilateral agenda.”

https://southfront.org/russian-defense-ministry-sends-2-notes-to-pentagon-over-inf-treaty-kurdish-arab-tensions-in-us-controlled-part-of-syria/

President Poroshenko declares establishment of Autocephalous Orthodox Church in Ukraine

KIEV, December 15. /TASS/. Ukrainian President Pyotr Poroshenko has declared establishment of a new church in the country - the Autocephalous Orthodox Church.

"I congratulate everyone on setting up the Ukrainian Autocephalous Orthodox Church which has been just created at St. Sophia’s," he said addressing the crowd in Sofiyskaya Square after the end of the ‘unification’ council.

Metropolitan Epiphany of Pereyaslav and Belotserkovsk, who had earlier served as a bishop of the uncanonical Kiev Patriarchate, was elected head of the new church.

Poroshenko recalled the words of Ukrainian poet Taras Shevchenko, saying: "As Taras Shevchenko once said Ukraine would not be drinking Moscow’s poison from the Moscow cup."

‘Unification’ council

On Saturday, the St. Sophia’s Cathedral in Kiev hosted a so-called ‘unification’ council held under the auspices of the Ecumenical Patriarchate of Constantinople and brokered by the Ukrainian authorities.

The council pursued a goal of creating a new local Orthodox Church estranged from the Moscow Patriarchate. The church will be formally granted an autocephalous status, but in fact, it will be under the Ecumenical Patriarchate of Constantinople. The council was expected to consider two main issues, namely the new church’s charter and the election of its head.

The organizers planned that representatives of the canonical Ukrainian Orthodox Church and two schismatic groups, the Ukrainian Orthodox Church of Kiev Patriarchate and the Ukrainian Autocephalous Church, will attend the council. Nonetheless, the Ukrainian Orthodox Church turned the invitation down lashing out at the council as illegitimate. On December 7, the Ukrainian Orthodox Church’s Holy Synod said that the Ecumenical Patriarchate of Constantinople had no canonical right to convene any church meetings in Ukraine and that "neither the clergy nor the laity have been authorized to represent the Ukrainian Orthodox Church at that meeting."

On Saturday, only two from 90 archbishops of the canonical Ukrainian Orthodox Church attended the assembly. They are Metropolitan Alexander (Drabinko) of Pereyaslav-Khmelnitsky and Vyshnevsky and Metropolitan Simeon of Vinnitsa and Barsky.

http://tass.com/society/1036258

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Pompeo Says Detainment of Canadian Citizens in China Unacceptable

U.S. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo says the detainment of two Canadian citizens in China is unlawful and unacceptable, and the United States will work towards returning them back home.

Pompeo made his remarks at a press conference after a meeting with Canadian Foreign Affairs Minister Chrystia Freeland, Minister of National Defence Harjit Sajjan, and U.S. Secretary of Defense Jim Mattis in Washington on Dec. 14.

“The unlawful detention of two Canadian citizens is unacceptable. They ought to be returned,” Pompeo said.

“The United States has stood for that whether they’re our citizens or citizens of other countries. We ask all nations of the world to treat other citizens properly, and the detention of these two Canadian citizens in China ought to end.”

Canadians Michael Kovrig, a former diplomat currently on a leave of absence from Canada’s foreign services, and Michael Spavor, a businessman, were detained in China over what Chinese authorities say are national security concerns.

The capture of the Canadians happened after Canada arrested Huawei’s CFO Meng Wanzhou in Vancouver on an extradition request from the United States. China had warned Canada of “grave consequences” if Meng wasn’t released immediately.

Meng is accused of fraud for allegedly lying to American banks about Huawei’s relationship with Skycom, a Hong Kong-based company reportedly doing business with Iran. She was released on bail in Vancouver on Dec. 11.

Canadian Foreign Affairs Minister Freeland said Canada’s ambassador to China has been able to meet with Kovrig. However, no access to Spavor has been provided yet.

“We are extremely seized of this issue. We care for, we fight for all Canadians detained abroad,” Freeland said.

Kovrig, who worked as a diplomat between 2003 to 2016 before going on a leave, is currently a senior advisor at the think tank International Crisis Group. Spavor, a businessman based in northern China, is known for running cultural exchanges with North Korea.

Freeland said she discussed the issue of the captured Canadians and Meng’s arrest with her American counterpart, and insisted there is no political interference in the case of the arrest in Canada.

“We discussed China and the case of Huawei CFO Meng Wanzhou, building on a conversation that secretary Mike Pompeo and I began soon after her arrest,” Freeland said. “We all agree that the most important thing we can do is to uphold the rule of law, ensure that Ms. Meng’s right to due process is respected, and that the current judicial process in Canada remains apolitical.”

https://www.theepochtimes.com/pompeo-says-detainment-of-canadian-citizens-in-china-unacceptable_2740025.html

One thing this shows is that people are a commodity

CIA whistleblower @JohnKiriakou describes how the Depart of Justice rigs the game to get a 99% conviction rate (by comparison, in the UK: 86%)

‘Socialist MPs colluding with the Soros organisations have organised violent street protests in Hungary’ – Ruling party

Protesters again took to the streets in Budapest to demonstrate against the “slave law” on Thursday evening. The demonstration started peacefully but police later responded to aggressive protestors with teargas.

The opposition, in a hopeless position, made clowns of themselves in parliament, acting aggressively and colluding with the Soros organisations that organised violent street protests

MTI correspondents reported from the site that several protesters were wearing masks despite the organisers asking participants at the start of the event not to cover their faces.

The demonstration was announced by the Free University and Students Trade Union student groups. The crowd started moving from Kossuth Square near Parliament at 6pm and crossed over to Buda on Margaret Bridge where they marched along the riverbank and returned to Pest over Chain Bridge.

The crowd stopped in front of the prosecutor’ office in Marko Street and chanted “we demand free courts!” before moving back to Kossuth Square in front of Parliament where they almost completely filled the square.

Some of the participants were holding Hungarian and European Union flags, as well as flags of the opposition Momentum, Jobbik, LMP and Parbeszed parties.

Police formed several lines on the steps of the Parliament to protect the building.

The police chief said that police have been instructed to wear protective gear, including body shields and helmets.

According to the opposition parties, this week’s parliamentary sessions were not conducted lawfully.

At a news conference held after Thursday’s House Rules Committee meeting, Tamas Harangozo, the Socialist Party’s deputy group leader, said Monday’s parliamentary agenda had been adopted unlawfully, since the opposition parties’ proposed amendments should have been voted on separately and not all in one go.

From that time on, the entire week’s sessions and fines meted out to opposition lawmakers were illegal, he insisted.

https://voiceofeurope.com/2018/12/socialist-mps-colluding-with-the-soros-organisations-have-organised-violent-street-protests-in-hungary-ruling-party/

Tom Fitton w/Jim Jordan: Hillary Clinton 'Was and Is' Being Protected over Her Actions at State Dept

Mueller Scrubbed Messages From Peter Strzok's iPhone; OIG Recovers 19,000 New "FBI Lovebird" Texts

The Justice Department's internal watchdog revealed on Thursday that special counsel Robert Mueller's office scrubbed all of the data from FBI agent Peter Strzok's iPhone, while his FBI mistress Lisa Page's phone had been scrubbed by a different department, according to a comprehensive report by the Office of the Inspector General (OIG) released on Thursday.

After Strzok was kicked off the special counsel investigation following the discovery of anti-Trump text messages between he and Page, his Mueller's Records Officer scrubbed Strzok's iPhone after determining "it contained no substantive text messages," reports the Conservative Review's Jordan Schachtel.

https://www.zerohedge.com/news/2018-12-15/mueller-scrubbed-messages-peter-strzoks-iphone-oig-recovers-19000-new-fbi-lovebird

The Real Reason Western Media & CIA Turned Against Saudi's MbS

Forces are aligning against Saudi Arabia’s Crown Prince, lead by elements within the CIA and strong players in the mainstream media. But what is really behind this deterioration in relationship, and what are its implications?

https://www.blacklistednews.com/article/69763/the-real-reason-western-media–cia-turned-against-saudis.html

Oregon Wild Lands Act = Agenda 21

Since I moved back to Oregon five years ago I have seen things go from bad to worse. I left Southern Oregon for ten years and when this third generation Oregonian returned, It is not even recognizable at this point… Aside from all of the outsiders that have changed the towns into cities, the left wing “conservationists” / radicals, have destroyed our forests and rivers. I remember the beginning of this death spiral when I was a little kid. The spotted owl!!!!! We must shut down logging and mining NOW!!! Remember, the spotted owl is not native to Oregon… They put thousands of families out of jobs and into poverty. Now we are seeing generational poverty and drug abuse that originates from when the forests were shut down and mills closed the doors. At the same time they took over our rivers and water ways, blowing damns out to restore the natural river mystique . But they didn’t understand that the silt from the blown damns blanketed the spawning beds. And its even harder to regulate the temperature of the water during hot summer months, which has resulted in poor salmon and steelhead runs. Don’t even get me started on the protection of the sea lion…

Now we are seeing devastating affects of our forests being locked up with yellow gates, logging/ hunting roads decommissioned, streams shut down to fishing. Our forests are burning up due to high fuel content, but the radicals claim its ” climate change”. I can tell you, from what I remember, and asking my parents and grandparents, the seasons and weather feel and act the same as they always have. Our forests are thick with underbrush and snags that have not been cleared in years. Most of these forests are “protected wild lands” now, and Senator Wyden and others want to lock up more of the peoples land.

In general, the Oregon Wild Lands Act (introduced by Senators Wyden and Merkley) would designate two national recreation areas (118,800 acres), establish one wilderness and expand another (86,500 acres), establish ten new wild and scenic rivers and expand two others (245.9 miles), and ban mining and damming of some tributaries of the Rogue River (19.7 miles). In total, the act would elevate the conservation status of 300,000 acres.

http://www.qrmnews.com/pacific-northwest-news/oregon-wild-lands-act-agenda-21/

War and Natural Gas: The Israeli Invasion and Gaza’s Offshore Gas Fields

Almost ten years ago, Israel invaded Gaza under “Operation Cast Lead”.

The following article was first published by Global Research in January 2009 at the height of the Israeli bombing and invasion under Operation Cast Lead.

In the wake of the invasion, Palestinian gas fields were de facto confiscated by Israel in derogation of international law.

A year following “Operation Cast Lead”, Tel Aviv announced the discovery of the Leviathan natural gas field in the Eastern Mediterranean “off the coast of Israel.”

At the time the gas field was: “ … the most prominent field ever found in the sub-explored area of the Levantine Basin, which covers about 83,000 square kilometres of the eastern Mediterranean region.” (i)

Coupled with Tamar field, in the same location, discovered in 2009, the prospects are for an energy bonanza for Israel, for Houston, Texas based Noble Energy and partners Delek Drilling, Avner Oil Exploration and Ratio Oil Exploration. (See Felicity Arbuthnot, Israel: Gas, Oil and Trouble in the Levant, Global Research, December 30, 2013

The Gazan gas fields are part of the broader Levant assessment area.

What is now unfolding is the integration of these adjoining gas fields including those belonging to Palestine into the orbit of Israel. (see map below).

It should be noted that the entire Eastern Mediterranean coastline extending from Egypt’s Sinai to Syria constitutes an area encompassing large gas as well as oil reserves.

https://www.globalresearch.ca/war-and-natural-gas-the-israeli-invasion-and-gaza-s-offshore-gas-fields/11680

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The antichrist will be the fake self appointed God.

Benjamin Milkowsky (his real family name) "Netanyahu"

Netanyahu (Hebrew: נְתַנְיָהוּ‎, "Yah/God has given") is a surname. Benjamin