July 6, 2016 – Astute News

July 6, 2016

World War 3 – Who is Who in the Zoo

Place Your Bets! Soon after he was elected, a representative from the American embassy in Pretoria, South Africa, came on a local news station and proudly declared that Obama was “the ruler of the world!” I thought, “Say what?” And did a double take. This was no Mandela. As internationally popular as Mandela was, he did not believe in anyone...

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July 6, 2016

US planned war in Afghanistan long before September 11

Insider accounts published in the British, French and Indian media have revealed that US officials threatened war against Afghanistan during the summer of 2001. These reports include the prediction, made in July, that “if the military action went ahead, it would take place before the snows started falling in Afghanistan, by the middle of October at the latest.” The Bush...

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July 6, 2016

EXCLUSIVE: Turkey nuked the Kurds inside Syrian territory

CNN photo taken on Kurdish territory near the Turkish-Syria border, 23rd October, 2014. Photo analysis by Jeff Smith, nuclear physicist; inspector for the UN/International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) Smith’s analysis of this photograph confirms 100% that this was a tactical nuclear weapon; several times in the past we have discussed the diagnosis of nuclear explosions by identifying scintillating pixels that appear...

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July 6, 2016

Britain, the Byzantine Empire, and the concept of an Anglo-Saxon Heptarchy: Harun ibn Yahya’s ninth-century Arabic description of Britain

Al-Idrisi’s mid-twelfth-century Arabic map of southern Britain and northern Frances, from the copy preserved in the sixteenth-century Oxford MS Pococke 375, fol. 281b–282a. Note, north is at the bottom of this map (image: Bodleian Library). The aim of the following post is to offer a draft look at an interesting Arabic account of early medieval Britain that appears to have its...

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July 6, 2016

T-34 – the Darling Among Tanks

The Т-34, the main Soviet battle tank during the Great Patriotic War, was universally recognized as the best tank by friends and foes alike. Over 50,000 T-34s were produced during the War. In many ways it has become a symbol of Victory. and you can see it on pedestals in many towns and cities in and outside Russia as a...

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July 6, 2016

They abused, cut up corpses: Escaped ISIS fighter shares his horrors from Syria

© Stringer / Reuters He spent a year in Syria, protecting one of Islamic State’s most wanted leaders, but later managed to escape. Hiding his identity and in fear for his life, the former fighter sat down with RT and recounted the terror he witnessed. RT had to change the man’s voice and keep him anonymous: A year on from...

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July 6, 2016

Price to pay for US: Beijing ready to confront Washington if it intervenes in S.China Sea dispute

© China Daily / Reuters Beijing must prepare to make the US “pay a cost it can’t stand” if it intervenes in the South China Sea dispute by force, a state newspaper editorial has warned, days before a court at The Hague rules on the territorial row between China and the Philippines. The American military build-up in the South China Sea,...

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July 6, 2016

Who and what is the real Bibi Netanyahu?

Is he a smooth-talking, disingenuous, cunning salesman who knows that everything he asserts about Israel being in danger of annihilation and not having a Palestinian partner for peace is propaganda nonsense, or, does he really believe what he says? Before I offer my own thoughts here’s a quote from London-based Jamie Stern-Weiner who co-founded the New Left Project. In a...

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Daily Archive: July 6, 2016

World War 3 – Who is Who in the Zoo

US planned war in Afghanistan long before September 11

EXCLUSIVE: Turkey nuked the Kurds inside Syrian territory

Britain, the Byzantine Empire, and the concept of an Anglo-Saxon Heptarchy: Harun ibn Yahya’s ninth-century Arabic description of Britain

T-34 – the Darling Among Tanks

They abused, cut up corpses: Escaped ISIS fighter shares his horrors from Syria

Price to pay for US: Beijing ready to confront Washington if it intervenes in S.China Sea dispute

Who and what is the real Bibi Netanyahu?