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- Russia, Iran Begin Promised Assault On Syria’s Largest City In Final Bid To Restore Assad
- Kassel Governor tells Germans to Leave if they Don’t Like Migrants
- Thousands Shocked After Seeing Floating City in China’s Skies
- German schoolchildren will cook and clean for “refugees” as part of work experience
- ISIS Fighters Cut Off Beards And Run Away As Russia, Iran Close In
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Posted: 18 Oct 2015 04:27 AM PDT
 Earlier this week, we noted that Iran had reportedly sent “thousands” of troops to Syria in preparation for an offensive aimed at retaking the city of Aleppo. With a population of more than 2 million, Aleppo was Syria’s largest city prior to the war and it’s now run by a hodgepodge of rebels and militants including al-Qaeda, the Free Syrian Army, and ISIS. To get an idea of the effect the war has had on the city, have a look at the following before and after nighttime light emissions images: The battle is also notable for the scale of Iran’s involvement. Between Hezbollah and Iranian forces, the battle for Aleppo is shaping up to be the largest ground operation orchestrated by Tehran to date. Here’s more, via Reuters: Syrian troops backed by Hezbollah and Iranian fighters launched an offensive south of Aleppo on Friday, expanding their counter-attack against rebels across western Syria with support from Russian air strikes. Aleppo, a commercial and industrial hub near the border with Turkey, was Syria’s largest city before its four-year civil war, which grew out of protests against Assad’s rule. Control of the city, still home to two million people, is divided between the government and rebels. “This is the promised battle,” a senior government military source said of the offensive backed by hundreds of Hezbollah and Iranian forces which he said had made some gains on the ground. It was the first time Iranian fighters had taken part on such a scale in the Syrian conflict, he said, although their numbers were modest compared to the army force. “The main core is the Syrian army,” the source said. Hezbollah, which has supported Assad in several battles during the civil war, said the army was carrying out a “broad military operation” with support from Russian and Syrian jets. It made no mention of Hezbollah fighters in its brief statement. Two senior regional sources told Reuters this week that Iran has sent thousands of troops to Syria to bolster an offensive underway in Hama province and ahead of the Aleppo attack. And a bit more from AFP: Russian air cover is backing offensives by Syria’s army and allied militias in the central provinces of Homs and Hama, as well as Aleppo in the north and Latakia along the coast. On Friday, the Syrian army pushed south from the provincial capital Aleppo city, where control is divided between regime and rebels forces, as Russian air strikes pounded the villages of Al-Hader and Khan Tuman and nearby localities. “The Syrian army started a new front on Friday and advanced to take control of the villages of Abteen and Kaddar” about 15 kilometres (12 miles) south of Aleppo city, said Observatory head Rami Abdel Rahman. He said “dozens” of Russian aerial attacks in the past 24 hours had struck the area, which is controlled by a patchwork of groups including rebels, Islamist fighters and Al-Qaeda’s Syria affiliate, Al-Nusra Front. Note also that Aleppo is near the so-called “anti-ISIS” zone that the US and Turkey humorously proposed to create a few months back, which means that Iran, supported by Russian air power, is now conducting an all-out ground assault very near territory Turkey likes to think it effectively patrols (if not controls). But the real key here, is this (again from Reuters): “The assault means the army is now pressing insurgents on several fronts near Syria’s main cities in the west, control of which would secure President Bashar al-Assad’s hold on power even if the east of the country is still held by Islamic State.” In other words, if Iran and Russia manage to retake Aleppo (and you know they will because remember, thanks to Hezbollah, this isn’t a team that’s going to be confused by the vagaries of urban warfare), Assad’s rule is restored. Just like that. From there, the situation would morph and what you would have is a kind of Wild West scenario, only in Syria “West” would mean “East” and Assad, Russia, and Iran, having secured most of the critical cities and territory, would be free to simply mount up and push east on a kind of search and destroy mission. So apparently, the US and its regional allies in Riyadh and Doha have a couple of weeks to figure out what to do here or else this is going to be over and suddenly, Washington will find itself in the awkward position of having to negotiate for a transition away from an Assad government that has been fully restored. Source           |
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Posted: 18 Oct 2015 04:07 AM PDT
 On October 14th, the German town of Lohfelden, in Hesse, had a town meeting. The residents were informed that the very next day 800 illegal immigrants would be arriving in their town, and this upset many German residents. The Regional Governor, Walter Lübcke, made a cringe-worthy attempt to influence peoples’ opinions. “It´s so great that this country has values and that these values make it really worth it to live in our country” he told the crowd. “We need to stand up for these basic values and anyone who decides not to STAND UP FOR THESE VALUES has the right to leave the country/state if they are not in agreement – it is the freedom of every German.” He basically said that Germans should leave if they don’t agree with their country being invaded by foreign migrants and its population, culture, religion, race everything, replaced with that of foreigners from the Middle East. The German residents were not fooled by his boot-licking, and he was immediately interrupted with “boos” and someone from the audience shouting “I can’t believe it – piss off!” “We have freedom, we have a democratic system, the majority” he continued, but he was interrupted again by a member of the audience shouting “What democracy!?” Wow! Normal, everyday German families are getting really mad. “Waking up” gets tossed around a lot, but they really are waking up. If illegal immigrants really were refugees they would be going to Saudi Arabia, United Arab Emirates, Kuwait, Bahrain, Oman, Egypt, Turkey or Israel. They only come to Europe to get free stuff (which comes out of the pockets of working European families). This is quite simply genocide, because it is a deliberately engineered way of changing Europe’s ethnic character, making it less and less European.      |
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Posted: 18 Oct 2015 03:37 AM PDT
 Chinese TV news reports have told how thousands of residents in TWO areas reported separately seeing a huge city form in the skies. Onlookers, some who are said to have videoed the bizarre event, were said to be mesmerised as a towering city of sky scrapers appeared from the clouds. First thousands reportedly saw a ghostly alien city floating over Foshan in the Guangdong province of China. A few days later people in the province of Jiangxi, China, also reported seeing a similar cloud city.  Thousands of people were said to be stunned by the apparition.Fata Morgana can be seen on land or sea and involves the optical distortion and inversion of distant objects such as boats, which can appears as skyscrapers because the images become stacked, when rays of light bend as they pass through air of different temperatures such as in a heat haze. But the mystery has sent conspiracy theorists into over drive.  A similar, if not more detailed, phantom city seen over China in 2011.YouTube channel Paranormal Crucible said in a video report: “The footage captured by a local resident appears to show a huge city floating in the clouds. “The apparition, which was witnessed by hundreds of shocked residents, only lasted a few minutes before completely disappearing.” The channel speculated it could be “the result of a project blue beam test.” Project Blue Beam is a prolific conspiracy theory which believes NASA will one day simulate an alien invasion of Earth or second coming of Christ through holograms. Serge Monast, a conspiracist from Quebecois, first predicted in the 1980s it would happen by 1983, 1996 and then 2000. One online poster noted: “Notice the group of buildings is repeated three times? If it isn’t someone making it on their computer, it seriously could be project blue beam.” The Paranormal Crucible video added: “But added: “Or a temporal vortex, a possible parallel universe material briefly into our own reality.” “It is also possible, considering China’s technological achievements that a top secret holographic technology was tested over a heavily populated area in an effort to gauge the public reaction.”  Residents of Jiangxi and Foshan in China both claim they saw the floating city created by a type of mirage.      |
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Posted: 18 Oct 2015 02:31 AM PDT
 Schoolchildren from an undisclosed school in the city of Lübeck, Schleswig-Holstein, will spend a week doing housework for so-called “refugees”. The idea was sold to parents at a parents’ meeting as a “practical internship“, but has sparked outrage online. A letter to the parents said their children will be going to “refugee” accommodations and will be making beds, sorting clothes, and “help in the kitchen” among other things. A letter written by the Schleswig-Holstein Ministry of Education and Vocational Training, says “pupils will spend a day in a transit accommodation and help for example, fix up as beds as well as help in the collection of donations.“ This is part of the School’s “week of projects to help refugees.” According to the letter there was “no contradiction” from parents or students, and it claims that donations were collected from them. “Early on, our children should learn how they have to serve refugees???” said one commenter “Working for refugees is not a lesson.” Another outraged commenter said that his son who attends the school, came home with a note saying the children should bring “welcome gifts and food.” The German political elite have entered a competition with the Swedish political elite to see who can “progress” their country the fastest. This “progression” is towards a country where all the traditions of the past are dismantled, and ordinary European working families are thrown into a second-class position. In order to carry this out, they are pushing for a massive scale of non-European immigration, and then trying to get them into every area.      |
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Posted: 18 Oct 2015 02:02 AM PDT
 The thing about ragtag groups of militants that display a penchant for extreme violence is that in the absence of serious opposition, they can rack up gains at an alarming pace. Of course there are plenty of (possibly credible) theories out there, which suggest that some of what you see in the videos released by ISIS is for show and we won’t endeavor to assess the degree to which the group’s brutality is real versus staged, but one thing is clear: regardless of who is funding, training, and/or supporting them, there are obviously fighters on the ground in the Mid-East waving the ISIS flag and committing atrocities in its name. That works well when it comes to destabilizing fragile states that are already beset with sectarian bickering on the way to claiming large swaths of territory from a defenseless citizenry. But you can’t intimidate a modern fighter jet by waving around a sword and if you’re a newbie on the Mid-East militant scene, you can’t scare a three decade veteran by beheading a couple of people, which is why if you’re ISIS, the combination of the Russian Air Force and Hezbollah ground troops is absolutely terrifying. As we documented earlier today, Hezbollah and Iranian troops are advancing on Aleppo and Moscow is backing the offensive from the sky which means that the hodgepodge of anti-regime forces that control Syria’s largest city will almost (and we say “almost” because there are no sure things in war) certainly be routed in a matter of weeks if not days, which would effectively serve to restore the Assad regime in Syria. After that, the Russian bear and Qasem Soleimani will turn their eyes to the East of the country and at that point, it is game over for ISIS. Apparently all of the above isn’t completely lost on al-Nusra and Islamic State fighters because if you believe the Russian media (and we’re not saying you should), Sunni extremists are now shaving off their beards and running for their lives. Here’s Sputnik: Hundreds of ISIL fighters are fleeing Syria for Turkey, as Russia’s Defense Ministry previously said, and reports are popping up that they are leaving their beards behind. Now obviously, these are just pictures of hair on the ground with razors, so that shouldn’t be interpreted as anything that even approximates definitive evidence of a full-on ISIS retreat but put yourself in the following situation for a moment. You’re a Sunni extremist and your regional and Western backers have just abandoned you. You are now under siege by the Russian Air Force. If you survive the air strikes you will soon have to come face to face with the fiercest, most experienced Shiite militia on the planet and if you somehow manage to survive that, well then you have to fight the Quds Force (“how do you shoot the devil in the back“?). What would you do? We close with the perfect video clip analogy. The US is in the blue shirt, ISIS is in the red, star-spangled jumpsuit, and Russia, well… Russia is the bear. US to ISIS: “No, no, you can’t quit now, we just started. You got to give these people a show man“… Source     |
