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  • 26 qataris dont des émirs enlevés en Irak lors d’une partie de chasse
    http://www.almanar.com.lb/french/adetails.php?eid=273678

    Vingt-six personnes participant à une partie de chasse qatarie ont été enlevées par des hommes armés dans le sud de l’Irak, ont annoncé mercredi des responsables irakiens.

    « 26 chasseurs qataris ont été enlevés à 03H00 heure locales (00H00 GMT) par des hommes armés non identifiés », a indiqué à l’AFP un officier de police de la province de Mouthanna, dans le sud du pays, où l’enlèvement a eu lieu.

    Bonne prise, à mon avis c’est du gibier qui se négocie assez cher !

  • ’Islamic invasion’-touting, Koran-Mein Kampf-equating MP Wilders scoops top Dutch Politician gong — RT News
    https://www.rt.com/news/325958-wilders-politician-year-award

    Right-wing populist Geert Wilders has been named Dutch Politician of the Year for the third time. The anti-immigration and anti-Islam MP likens the Koran to Hitler’s ‘Mein Kampf’ and wants to close national borders to stop an “Islamic invasion.”
    Never before has a politician won the award on three occasions. The Dutch Politician of the Year award is nominated annually by EenVandaag, a news program on public television, following a poll.

    It is great to be chosen by the public as Politician of the Year. It is a huge honor. And an encouragement to fight even harder for the interests of the Netherlands and the Dutch people in 2016,” the leader of the Party for Freedom (Partij voor de Vrijheid, PVV) said.

    Wilders, who had previously scooped the coveted title in 2010 and 2013, garnered a quarter of the more-than-37,000 votes. During a debate on the migrant crisis shortly before the announcement of the result, he shouted that all refugees must leave the country, Dutch website AD.nl reported.

    The PVV is currently the leading party in the Dutch polls, more popular than the two governing coalition parties. The next challenge for Wilders is to become the next prime minister in the 2017 elections.

  • EXCLUSIVE : Sarin materials brought via Turkey & mixed in Syrian ISIS camps – Turkish MP to RT — RT News
    https://www.rt.com/news/325825-sarin-gas-syria-turkey

    Où l’on reparle de l’éventuelle utilisation de gaz sarin par les mercenaires révolutionnaires syriens en août 2013. Cette fois, la source est un député turc.

    Furthermore, Erdem argues that the West purposely blamed the regime of Bashar Assad for the August 2013 attacks and used it as part of the pretext to make US military intervention in Syria possible. The MP said that evidence in Adana’s case, according to his judgment, proves that ISIS was responsible.

    “For example the chemical attack in Ghouta. Remember. It was claimed that the regime forces were behind it. This attack was conducted just days before the sarin operation in Turkey. It’s a high probability that this attack was carried out with those basic materials shipped through Turkey. It is said the regime forces are responsible but the indictment says it’s ISIS. UN inspectors went to the site but they couldn’t find any evidence. But in this indictment, we’ve found the evidence. We know who used the sarin gas, and our government knows it too,” he said.

    At the same time, Erden also accused the West and Europe in particular for providing “basic materials” to create such a powerful chemical weapon.

  • Russia presents proof of Turkey’s role in ISIS oil trade — RT News
    https://www.rt.com/news/324263-russia-briefing-isis-funding

    Turkey’s leadership, including President Erdogan and his family, is involved in illegal oil trade with Islamic State militants, says the Russian Defense Ministry, stressing that Turkey is the final destination for oil smuggled from Syria and Iraq.

    Today, we are presenting only some of the facts that confirm that a whole team of bandits and Turkish elites stealing oil from their neighbors is operating in the region,” Antonov said, adding that this oil “in large quantities” enters the territory of Turkey via “live oil pipelines,” consisting of thousands of oil trucks.

  • Selon RT, le chef de la milice turkmène (Alparslan Celik) qui a abattu au Nord de la Syrie l’un des deux pilotes russes qui s’était éjecté de son avion, n’est pas un turkmène syrien mais un turc dont le père a été maire MHP en Turquie. Il est par ailleurs membre du groupe ultranationaliste et panturkiste des Loups Gris d’Anatolie :
    https://www.rt.com/news/323658-turkmen-commander-turkish-ultra
    Des éléments de preuve ici :
    http://ntv.livejournal.com/426110.html

    Via twitter Joshua Landis : https://twitter.com/joshua_landis/status/671109554692882432?lang=fr

  • « Marchands du temple. Et nous passons allègrement des religions aux sectes ! L’Église de Scientologie est réputée pour faire un usage très agressif de la marque déposée sur son nom, notamment pour faire taire les critiques dont elle est souvent l’objet. Mais en Russie, cette utilisation de la propriété intellectuelle s’est retournée contre elle. En effet, la justice russe a ordonné la dissolution de l’Église de Scientologie dans le pays : elle a en effet considéré que puisque cette organisation avait déposé une marque de commerce sur son nom, elle devait être considérée comme une société commerciale et non comme une organisation religieuse, pouvant se prévaloir de la liberté de culte. »- Copyright Madness.

    Moscow court bans Church of Scientology over ‘irreligious’ trademark restrictions — RT News
    https://www.rt.com/news/323206-russia-church-scientology-banned

    Moscow City Court has ordered the dissolution of the local branch of the Church of Scientology, ruling that religious freedom must not be restricted by trademarks. Scientologists vowed to appeal the alleged “anti-religious” abuse of their worshipers’ rights.

    The Russian Ministry has argued that the since the term Scientology is registered as a US trademark, the Church cannot be considered a religious organization, RIA Novosti news agency reported.

    “The representatives of the Church of Scientology themselves have created many legal conflicts by restricting the religious freedom through the use of trademarks,” the Ministry of Justice said. “So it turns out a commercial partnership was spreading the religion, while religion can only be spread by religions organizations,” the ministry said, adding that the organization should rather be regulated by consumer protection laws.

    Now the Moscow branch of the Church of Scientology has six months to officially cease activity in the Russian capital under the court’s ruling. However, the organization plans to appeal the Moscow court’s ruling in High Court as it, they claim, violates the rights of its parishioners in Russia.

  • Russian warplane shot down at Syria-Turkey border — RT News
    https://www.rt.com/news/323240-russia-turkey-warplane-downed

    25 November 2015
    […]
    09:17 GMT
    Putin says Turkey’s leaders are intentionally supporting Turkey’s Islamization.

    The problem is not in the tragedy we faced yesterday, the problem is much deeper. We observe - and not only we, the whole world sees it – that the current Turkish authorities are conducting domestic policy to support the Islamization of the country,” he said.
    […]
    08:51 GMT
    Erdogan says the Turkish Air Force didn’t know the plane was Russian when it attacked.
    […]
    01:41 GMT
    Australia’s Foreign Minister Julie Bishop has also urged all parties to “show restraint” after Turkey shot down a Russian bomber.

    We are concerned about the incident where a Russian aircraft was shot down in the Syrian-Turkish border area, and we ask relevant parties to exercise restraint,” she said in a statement.

    01:36 GMT
    President Barack Obama and his Turkish counterpart Tayyip Erdogan have held a telephone conversation in which the US leader expressed “US and NATO support for Turkey’s right to defend its sovereignty,” the White House said in a statement.

    The leaders agreed on the importance of de-escalating the situation and pursuing arrangements to ensure that such incidents do not happen again,” the brief statement said.

    01:02 GMT
    The United States believes that the Russian jet shot down by Turkey on Tuesday was hit inside Syrian airspace after a brief incursion into Turkish airspace, a US official told Reuters, speaking on condition of anonymity. The official said that assessment was based on detection of the heat signature of the jet.

    Erdoğan : #ha_ha_ha
    (ça fait une semaine que je vois passer des appels à taper sur les Russes par les panturcs qui parlent du génocide du Mont Turkmène (juste dans ce coin, quoi))

    La ministre australienne ne se mouille pas : Syrian-Turkish border area ce qui décrit assez précisément la localisation…

    Et l’officieux états-unien pas trop non plus : brief incursion.

    Question : quelles sont vraiment les règles d’engagement de l’aviation turque ? Je doute qu’en 17 secondes, le pilote ait pu obtenir une quelconque autorisation d’ouverture du feu. Dans ce cas, l’affaire ressemble de très très près à une embuscade. Étant donnée la configuration des lieux (la pointe s’avançant vers le sud, en plein milieu de la zone des combats), il suffisait d’attendre. Ç’aurait été mieux si l’avion s’était écrasé du mauvais côté de la frontière, mais là, il aurait carrément fallu le descendre au-dessus de la Syrie…

    Et côté embuscade, ne pas négliger l’armée, elle-même repère de panturcs, qui n’a pas forcément besoin de la caution d’Erdoğan pour faire sa tambouille…

  • Russia to deploy S-400 defense missile system to Khmeimim airbase in Syria - defense minister — RT News

    https://www.rt.com/news/323379-s400-russia-syria-airbase

    Ça rigolait déjà pas, là, ça rigole encore moins.

    The Russian Air Force base in Latakia will be reinforced with S-400 SAM system, which will soon be deployed there, Russia’s Defense Minister Sergey Shoigu said on Wednesday.

    #russie #syrie #guerre

  • Un avion de combat russe abattu par la Turquie
    http://www.lemonde.fr/international/article/2015/11/24/un-avion-de-combat-s-ecrase-pres-de-la-frontiere-turque_4816160_3210.html

    La communauté turkmène de Syrie, longtemps discriminée en raison de ses origines turques, s’est ralliée tôt à l’insurrection contre le régime de Bachar Al-Assad, à partir de 2011. La rupture entre Damas et Ankara et la politique résolument anti-Assad de Recep Tayyip Erdogan ont accentué ce mouvement. Rapidement, le djebel turkmène, dans l’extrême nord de la Syrie, à la frontière avec la province turque du Hatay, est devenu un fief rebelle. Certains membres de cette communauté ont rejoint l’Etat islamique, à l’instar des turkmènes irakiens de la région du Sinjar.

  • West Bank radio station shut down for ‘incitement’ in overnight Israeli raid by IDF — RT News
    https://www.rt.com/news/323014-israel-west-bank-radio

    A Palestinian radio station in Hebron has been stormed and closed down by the Israeli Defense Forces (IDF) as part of an “incitement” crackdown campaign launched by the Israeli government in the wake of deadly terror attacks on Israelis.

    The IDF have raided Radio al-Khalil (which is Arabic for Hebron) based in the West Bank city of Hebron, seizing their broadcasting equipment and leaving a notice signed by Major General Roni Numa, commanding officer of Central Command, saying that the station was to remain shut down for six months.
    […]
    The station has been accused by Israeli authorities of allegedly inciting violence in its broadcasts, which reportedly prompted the shutdown. The radio is very popular in the area and has a strong following.

    The action was taken after broadcasts containing incitement were aired by the station,” the IDF said in the statement.

  • State of emergency, blackout in Russia’s Crimea after transmission towers in Ukraine blown up — RT News
    https://www.rt.com/news/323012-crimea-blackout-lines-blown-up

    Russia’s Crimea has switched to autonomous reserve power after transmission towers in the adjacent Ukrainian Kherson region were blown up, causing a blackout. Meanwhile, the Right Sector and Crimean Tatar “activists” have been attempting to block repairs.
    Crimean authorities rushed to connect hospitals and other vital infrastructure to reserve power stations and generators late on Saturday after the four main transmission lines from Ukraine were cut off in an apparent act of sabotage. The regional energy ministry has created an emergency response center to deal with the power cut.

    Crimea has been completely cut off,” the Krymenergo energy company’s director Viktor Plakida told TASS, adding that he could not immediately provide any more details.

    The Crimean Emergencies Ministry has declared a state of emergency due to the complete power outage and has put rescue teams on high alert.

    Nearly 1.9 million people have been left partly or fully without electricity. While important public facilities and infrastructure have been wired up to reserve sources of energy, homes all across the region have been left in the dark.

    Meanwhile, Ukrainian police and journalists simultaneously posted social media reports of explosions in Chaplinka in the Kherson region, where power transmission towers supporting the lines delivering energy to Crimea are located. Photos of severed towers with a Crimean-Tatar flag hanging on one of them have been posted online.

  • Security breach? Mystery man caught listening in on Putin-Obama talks at G20 (VIDEO) — RT News
    https://www.rt.com/news/322346-eavesdropping-g20-obama-putin
    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d6qJpCutWug

    When Vladimir Putin and Barack Obama sat down for an informal talk in a public lobby at the G20 conference in Antalya, they could have guessed there would be prying ears. But they probably didn’t expect that the security breach would be quite so… unsubtle.

    A video captured by a camera at the summit on Sunday shows a man inching towards the two world leaders in what he seems to believe are imperceptibly small steps, while demonstratively looking the other way, and almost visibly staining his ears to pick up snippets of talk.

  • Russian TV stations broadcast secret nuclear torpedo plans | World news | The Guardian

    http://www.theguardian.com/world/2015/nov/12/russian-tv-stations-broadcast-secret-nuclear-torpedo-plans

    The Kremlin has admitted that Russian television accidentally showed secret plans for a nuclear torpedo system on air.

    Two Kremlin-controlled channels, NTV and Channel One, showed a military official looking at a confidential document containing drawings and details of a weapons system called Status-6, designed by Rubin, a nuclear submarine construction company based in St Petersburg.

    #bug

    • Bug or #controlled_leak ?

      Pour ceux qui auraient du mal à lire, RT a déchiffré les petits caractères…

      ‘Assured unacceptable damage’ : Russian TV accidentally leaks secret ‘nuclear torpedo’ design — RT News
      https://www.rt.com/news/321640-leaked-russian-nuclear-torpedo

      The presentation slide titled “Ocean Multipurpose System: Status-6” showed some drawings of a new nuclear submarine weapons system. It is apparently designed to bypass NATO radars and any existing missile defense systems, while also causing heavy damage to “important economic facilities” along the enemy’s coastal regions.

      The footnote to the slide stated that Status-6 is intended to cause “assured unacceptable damage” to an adversary force. Its detonation “in the area of the enemy coast” would result in “extensive zones of radioactive contamination” that would ensure that the region would not be used for “military, economic, business or other activity” for a “long time.

      According to the blurred information provided in the slide, the system represents a massive torpedo, designated as “self-propelled underwater vehicle,” with a range of up to 10 thousand kilometers and capable of operating at a depth of up to 1,000 meters.

      It remains unclear if such a system is indeed being developed or the slide was presented as just one of the options the Russian military could hypothetically offer. However, according to the leaked paper, the weapons system could be developed by the Rubin design bureau for marine engineering, and may potentially be delivered using nuclear-powered “Project 09852” and “Project 09851” submarines.

  • Triple green meteor lights up Siberian skies near Chita (VIDEO) — RT News
    https://www.rt.com/news/321657-russia-chita-meteorite-fireball

    A huge fireball has been spotted in the skies over the Russian city of Chita near the border with China. An unidentified flying object, most probably a meteorite, made three extra bright flashes before burning out, according to eyewitness accounts.

    A video claiming to show a bolide [meteor] burning out in the skies was posted on YouTube. Witnesses described the incident as an unusually bright flash that illuminated the skies just after midnight on November 12. The falling object left long tail of light behind it.

    Ce n’est pas WT1190F qui aurait un peu d’avance. Il est prévu pour demain vendredi 13 un peu au sud de Ceylan.

    Space debris poised for fiery reentry | Human World | EarthSky
    http://earthsky.org/space/space-debris-reentry-november-13-2015-wt1190f


    Predicted reentry area for a small piece of space debris – WT1190F – on Friday, November 13, 2015.

    A”no fly”and “no fishing” zone has been issued for the southern waters near Sri Lanka for Friday, November 13, 2015 as the first-ever precisely predicted fall of space debris occurs over that area. The debris – labeled WT1190F by scientists -is expected to enter over the Indian Ocean, not over land. It is expected to burn up in the atmosphere. So these measures are a precaution, just in case small fragments of WT1190F reach the surface.

    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/WT1190F

    EDIT: j’ai enlevé la vidéo, prise le 2/11/15 en Thaïlande.

  • Plestin-les-Grèves. Un prêtre brise une statue du Christ
    http://www.ouest-france.fr/plestin-les-greves-un-pretre-brise-volontairement-une-statue-du-christ-

    "#Une_de_moins", aurait crié un prêtre de Plestin-les-Grêves, dans les Côtes-d’Armor, en brisant une statue du Christ datant du XIXe, siècle qui n’était pas à son goût.
    […]
    Une action qui a provoqué un tollé chez ses paroissiens - certains ont d’ailleurs écrit au Diocèse pour se plaindre de lui - et que l’homme n’a pas menée à n’importe quel moment... Le prêtre a choisi de manifester son mécontentement contre l’œuvre alors qu’il accueillait la commission d’art sacré du diocèse de Saint-Brieuc...

    Pour l’abbé Gérard Nicole, vicaire général du diocèse, qui a communiqué avec le contrevenant, « les faits ne sont pas contestés. Il reconnaît que c’est un geste inconsidéré ». Selon lui, la destruction de cette statue est avant tout une histoire de goût pour le religieux : « Il n’aimerait pas la #statuaire_sulpicienne. On aime ou on n’aime pas, mais ce n’est pas une raison pour casser le matériel », a ajouté le père Nicole.
    […]
    Le prêtre a démenti avoir une dent contre la sculpture en plâtre du XIXe siècle (style « sulpicien »), comme on l’en soupçonne à l’évêché de Saint-Brieuc.
    […]
    Il a expliqué avoir voulu vérifier si la statue était scellée au mur, mais en la poussant un peu trop fort.

    Peut-être celle-ci


    http://www.infobretagne.com/plestin-eglise.htm

  • Netanyahu urges Obama to ‘think different’ on Golan Heights annexation — RT News - Published time: 11 Nov, 2015
    https://www.rt.com/news/321518-netanyahu-syria-golan-heights

    Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu is reportedly seeking US recognition of Israel’s annexation of the Golan Heights due to the Syrian conflict. Netanyahu allegedly wanted a “different thinking” regarding the issue during talks with Barack Obama.
    (...)
    We won’t tolerate attacks from Syrian territory, we won’t allow Iran to open a front [against us] on the Golan Heights, and we will disrupt the transfer of deadly weaponry from Syria to Lebanon,” Netanyahu told the president.
    (...)
    Speaking later in the day at the American Enterprise Institute think tank, Netanyahu reiterated that Israel will do everything to prevent Iran from using Syrian territory to threaten Israel.

    The defense of Israel is what concerns me in Syria first and foremost, and on that we’ll continue to act forcefully ,” Netanyahu said.

  • Effet de l’acccord russo-jordanien et de l’abandon du MOC (Military Operation Command) ?
    En tout cas, l’AFP évoque un « Premier raid vraisemblablement russe sur Deraa » (en fait la région de Deraa) :
    http://www.lorientlejour.com/article/951990/premier-raid-vraisemblablement-russe-sur-deraa.html

    La Russie semble avoir mené pour la première fois un raid sur la province méridionale de Deraa, élargissant ainsi son champ d’opérations en Syrie, a affirmé jeudi une ONG.
    La province de Deraa et sa capitale éponyme sont majoritairement sous contrôle de la rébellion. « Des avions de combat, qui semblent être russes, ont mené dans le nuit de mercredi à jeudi des raids sur Hara, Tall Antar, Kafr Nasaj et Aqraba, dans le nord de la province » de Deraa, a affirmé l’Observatoire syrien des droits de l’homme (OSDH).
    « Cela serait la première fois que l’aviation russe atteint Deraa », a précisé à l’AFP le directeur de cette ONG Rami Abdel Rahmane, sans donner de bilan. La région visée par les frappes russes est contrôlée par une mosaïque de mouvements rebelles modérés et islamistes ainsi que le Front al-Nosra, branche syrienne d’el-Qaëda.

  • À la veille de la publication du rapport, la Russie rappelle le peu d’enthousiasme de la commission d’enquête pour les éléments qu’elle a apportés.

    Russian evidence on MH17 crash ignored – Peskov — RT News
    https://www.rt.com/news/318363-dutch-investigators-ignore-russia

    A number of facts presented by Russia regarding last year’s crash of Malaysian Airlines flight MH17 in eastern Ukraine are being ignored, Vladimir Putin’s spokesman said, a day ahead of the Dutch Safety Board presenting its final technical report on the catastrophe.

    There are facts delivered by the Russian side that for unclear reasons are being apparently ignored,” the Russian president’s press secretary, Dmitry Peskov, told journalists.

    Peskov said that the Russian side has “repeatedly expressed its disappointment over the lack of proper level of cooperation and engagement of the Russian experts into the investigation.

    The spokesperson noted that certain leaks from the report that emerged earlier could not be verified and proved authentic.

    Peskov called on the media to wait for the official report’s release and promised that the document is going to be “most thoroughly examined” by Russian experts.

    According to a report in the Malaysian media, Russia’s Roasaviation flight authority handed over to the Netherlands some “serious remarks” in response to the abstract of the final report on the reasons for the MH17 crash on July 17, 2014, which killed all 298 passengers and crew members onboard.

    Malaysian newspaper New Straits Time cited the deputy head of Roasaviation, Oleg Storchevoy, who wrote a letter to the International Civil Aviation Association (ICAA), accusing the Dutch-led joint investigation group of ignoring “comprehensive information delivered by Russia.

    • Dutch media sue govt, demand it release full info on MH17 crash — RT News
      https://www.rt.com/news/318051-dutch-media-mh17-lawsuit

      Three Dutch media companies have filed a joint lawsuit against the country’s Security and Justice Ministry, demanding that it disclose more documents relating to the MH17 catastrophe investigation after the ministry’s refusal to release the information.
      The Netherlands Broadcasting Foundation (NOS); the Dutch subsidiary of the European TV, radio and production company RTL Group; and the Dutch daily Volkskrant have joined forces to appeal the Netherlands Security and Justice Ministry’s refusal to make public “many documents” concerning the Malaysian Airlines MH17 crash in Eastern Ukraine last year, NOS said in a press release.

      The three media companies had previously appealed to the ministry separately, asking it to disclose MH17 investigation data based on the Freedom of Information Law (WOB). The aim of the companies was to bring to light the details of the tragedy, as well as to reconstruct the actions of Dutch officials after the catastrophe.
      […]
      Peter Klein, deputy senior editor of Dutch RTL News, said he was “frustrated” with the government’s attempts to blur over the truth with the “black marker policy.”

      It seems to me that [such actions] are unworthy of an open, democratic society,” he said in the RTL press release.

      The Netherlands National Coordinator for Security and Counterterrorism, Dick Schoof, who released the documents after the request of the media companies, said that the disclosure of the documents that had not been made public could lead to deterioration of relations with “some countries and international organizations,” as well as damage the reputation of “some persons.

    • E. Ukrainian self-defense hands over MH17 debris to Dutch investigators, following RT documentary — RT News
      https://www.rt.com/news/317162-ukraine-mh17-debris-investigators

      Self-defense forces from Donetsk in eastern Ukraine have handed over the remaining debris from the MH17 crash to experts from the Netherlands. The Dutch Safety Board were unaware fragments of the plane were still in Donetsk until an RT documentary aired.

  • Dream team: Russia’s GLONASS & China’s BeiDou to make satnav system parts together — RT News
    https://www.rt.com/news/318359-glonass-beidou-navigation-satellite

    China’s BeiDou navigation satellite system, which reportedly boasts accuracy to the centimeter, and Russia’s GLONASS, hailed as the only global rival to GPS, plan to join forces and build a production facility.
    The news was broken by Deputy Prime Minister Dmitry Rogozin, who spoke in Harbin, the capital of the northeast Chinese province of Heilongjiang. He added that it is planned that the facility for production of receiver modules and chipsets will be based in Russia.

    According to the Xinhua news agency, China began to build the BeiDou satellite navigation system in 1994, two decades after the US developed GPS. China is the third country to have an independent satellite navigation and positioning system, after the US and Russia.

    BeiDou now has about 20 satellites that ensure positioning to an accuracy of 10 meters, which is set to get even better with the introduction of next generation satellites. With the help of ground-based facilities, the positioning precision of BeiDou is now accurate to the centimeter, according to Xinhua.