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However, this bothers human-normals, and Assad and Putin both fall into that category.

On the plus side, maybe those responsible can be charged with their war-crimes for a change, thereby discouraging others in future from bombing 'beautiful babies' to 'teach lessons' to legitimate governments to be overthrown by them to install puppet-dictators over their people more easily.

Normal people aren't ok with revenge-murders of random citizens.

I have a burning disgust and anger set in my soul, as I expect others here have - and it isn't my friends, neighbours and fellow-citizens being bombed - supposedly 'to make a point' and cover up other crimes - at least at this point. I need a makiwara board...

New alert:

Strike on Damascus comes just as Syria got the chance for a peaceful future – Moscow
Published time: 14 Apr, 2018 02:56

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Edited for two typos.

Re:edit: yes, they went after Iranians.

https://sputniknews.com/world/201804141063539742-syrian-interceptor-take...

VIDEO: Syrian Interceptors Take Off Against Incoming Missile Before Loud Boom
© AP Photo/ Hassan Ammar
World
04:40 14.04.2018(updated 05:55 14.04.2018)

New video reportedly taken from Syria shows air-defense interceptors taking flight after US President Donald Trump announced that the US, UK and France would strike Syria.

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New video reportedly taken from Syria shows air-defense interceptors taking flight after US President Donald Trump announced that the US, UK and France would strike Syria.

​"God bless you, God bless you," a man can be heard saying, shortly after the interceptor seemed to collide with a missile, making a large boom sound.

"F*ck those American bastards," the man from the video says.

The Syrian Army reports shooting down 20 US, UK and French missiles. When asked about the missiles, the Pentagon during a briefing that it could not comment on the reports.

On Friday night, Trump said that strike operations were underway in response to an alleged attack in Douma, which Damascus and Moscow maintain was a false flag. Analysts are puzzled by the logic of Trump's decision to stand up against "Gas Animal Assad" by raining explosives on Syria and killing Syrians.

Damascus, Homs, a research facility in Barzeh, and an IRGC base in Qasioun Mountain have reportedly been targeted during the military operations.

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In addition to U.S. Navy warships, U.S. Air Force B-1 bombers also took part in strikes against Assad regime in Syria: officials
8:37 PM - Apr 13, 2018 · Arlington, VA

https://sputniknews.com/russia/201804141063540065-russia-aggression-syri...

US Violates All Int'l Norms, Russia Views This as Act of Aggression - Lawmaker
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Russia
04:55 14.04.2018(updated 05:57 14.04.2018)

By conducting strikes on Syria, the US is violating all international norms, and Russia views this as an act of aggression, says Alexander Sherin, first deputy chairman of the State Duma Defense Committee, who compared US President Donald Trump to Adolf Hitler.

"The US President Donald Trump is not just a criminal for the whole world, he is Adolf Hitler number two," Sherin told Russian media.

Earlier this day Trump announced he ordered military strikes on Syria.

"[Trump] is a criminal — but that's not enough. One can call him Adolf Hitler of today, because look — he even chose the time, just like when Hitler attacked the USSR," Sherin told reporters.

"This is the second 'Belgrade,' this is a turning point, the Russian Federation has received an act of aggression because, according to all international norms, this is a violation of all international rights. This is a declaration of war against a sovereign state, towards which a nuclear power is fulfilling its obligations of help and security," Sherin said.

"Everything we've done, all the effort put into this, they try to multiply it all by zero and simply put Russia on its knees," he added.

The strike on Syria is a ill-thought and provocational step by the US that can lead to unpredictable consequences, said his colleague, Yuri Shvytkin a deputy chairman of the State Duma Defense Committee.

"I think this is an ill-thought, half-baked, let's say, provocational, short-sighted, provocational step from US authorities' side that can lead to unpredictable consequences," he told reporters.

The actions of France, UK and the US in Syria do not benefit building constructive relations with Moscow, he added.

Shvytkin said that an emergency session of UN General Assembly is required in order to condemn the actions of the US and its allies.

The US seeks to conduct a strike in Syria in order to disavow the victory of Russia and its partners, said Alexei Chepa, deputy chairman of State Duma Committee on International Relations.

The actions by the US and its allies will not go without consequences. All responsibility lies upon Washington, London and Paris, Russian Ambassador to US Anatoly Antonov said, commenting on the strike.

"The worst apprehensions have come true. Our warnings have been left unheard. A pre-designed scenario is being implemented. Again, we are being threatened. We warned that such actions will not be left without consequences," Antonov said on Friday. "All responsibility for them rests with Washington, London and Paris."

The Western nations have conducted a strike on a capital of a sovereign state that strives to survive in among terror aggression, Russian Foreign Ministry said in a statement. Syrian capital was attacked at very moment when the country had a chance for a peaceful future, the ministry said.

The Ministry blamed the Western media, whose reports became the ground for Coalition's strike on Syria.

US-led missile strikes against #Syria has just hit a civilian neighborhood of #Damascus.

— Paul Antonopoulos (@oulosP) April 14, 2018

@MrWebster

but you gave a gallant effort trying to pound some sanity into the place and all you got for it was to be flagged. Unfuckingbelievable that some twit flagged you.

The current headline on Huffpost: "The US's Useless Strikes". At TOP from what I can tell nobody condemned the attacks on any anti-war or moral justification. In fact the implication is that for
Trump to prove he is not Putin's puppet, Trump needs to kill more people includeing Russians while causing massive damage to the infrastructure of Syria.

So we will simply get a repeat cycle of Russia hysteria and accusations against Trump that he is soft on Putin. Putting pressure on Trump once again to use more force against Russia.

Add to this is now Al Queda off-shoots know how to manipluate the West for it to act as its air force.

@Ellen North

where the live stream didn't die when Russia was speaking.

https://www.rt.com/news/424153-un-security-council-syria-meeting/

US aggression against Syria undermines UN, diplomatic solution – Russian envoy (WATCH LIVE)
Published time: 14 Apr, 2018 15:14
Edited time: 14 Apr, 2018 17:16

Russia has called an emergency meeting of the UN Security Council over the strikes that the US, UK, and France carried out in Syria on Saturday, calling the attack "blatant disregard of international law."

By acting without any mandate from the UN Security Council, the US and its allies violated the norms and principles of international law, as well as undermining the authority of the UNSC, Russian Envoy to the UN Vasily Nebenzia said, denouncing the strikes against Syria as “an aggression against a sovereign state.”

Nebenzia also called the attack "hooliganism." He said that the two research facilities that were targeted in the strike had been inspected by the OPCW, which didn't find any traces of chemical weapons.

Just like a year ago, the US used a staged a chemical attack against civilians as a pretext for its strikes, Nebenzia said, adding that Russian military experts found no trace of any chemical agent at the scene of the alleged attack in the Damascus suburb of Douma. “In a sign of cynical disdain,” a group of Western countries decided to take military action without waiting for a group of OPCW experts to present the results of an investigation into the incident, according to Nebenzia.

Russia did “everything possible” to convince the US and its allies to refrain from their military plans, which could destabilize, not only Syria, but the whole Middle East. However, Washington, London, and Paris “preferred to disregard appeals to common sense,” he added.

“The time for talk ended last night,” the UN envoy to the UN, Nikki Haley, said, referring to the coalition airstrikes in Syria. She then added that the US, UK, and France “acted” not out of “revenge… punishment [or] a symbolic show of force but… to deter the future use of chemical weapons” by holding the Syrian government responsible for what she called “atrocities against humanity.”

She also claimed that the actions of the coalition were “justified, legitimate and proportionate.”

The British representative to the UN, Karen Pierce, called the coalition operation a success, claiming that “none of the British, French or US aircraft or missiles involved in this operation were successfully engaged by the Syrian air defenses.” Pierce also called the UK actions a “humanitarian intervention” aimed at “alleviating overwhelming humanitarian suffering” of the Syrian people.

The time for talk died when the evidence uncovered by independent experts would have officially disproven their claims and, perhaps, proven their complicity in evidence potentially found within their funded terrorist's seized chemical weapons workshops for the intended, but thereby thwarted, chemical strike to be yet again blamed on Assad - the ex-London ophthalmologist - who has the nerve to try to improve the life conditions and dignity of his people, rather than further increase the wealth and power of what the US PTB feel to be The Right People at their cost.

Hard to do this when the US and allies bring in terrorists, artillery and sanctions to further harm the civilians there and elsewhere. And, as was publicly admitted by one Albright and shining example, a half-million babies and children dead - as well as with the inflicted suffering and deaths of however many more useless-to-them elderly, sick and poor adults - is more than 'worth it' for these psychopaths to gain more power and wealth by inflicting famine and lack of even basic medicines upon entire populations in their pursuit of totalitarian global domination.

So, the actual chemical attack was thwarted by Syrians, but the usual White Helmet faked 'video evidence' was to allow the plans to go forward anyway, as has been made obvious.

Generally, it's difficult to prove the absence of evidence, but here, the absence of anyone in Eastern Ghouta actually suffering nerve gas exposure and the absence of evidence in soil samples had already been established. It just needed to be independently verified by experts - who we can hope have not been influenced to be anything less than scientific, by those notorious for corrupting or intimidating organizations and individuals.

People abstained from voting for the Russian resolution (can't think of the correct term ATM) in protest over the knowledge that it would be vetoed.

It's probably good that it's recognized, or at least made more obvious than ever, that the UN has been made obsolete by the control of destructive self-interests, but only if replaced by something better than this pretense, where nobody starts off with the power to simply quash all voices speaking for justice.

Listening to this made me very tired, especially after listening to cursing during the outrageous propaganda claims made by the perpetrators skimming over the facts on Big Lie-flying wings and the demonstration of the fact that the perpetrators now feel that they can continue to do whatever they like, in ongoing flagrant contravention of international law and basic human morality.

They apparently fired off 110 missiles, 100 of which were intercepted; no idea how many people died, were injured, rendered homeless... haven't yet had the stomach to look. Guess this place is kinda my connection to humanity in a world where the expression of humanity is targeted for abuse and missile strikes...

As stated, I'd received a notification that the first team of the OPCW Chemical weapons investigation had arrived in Damascus, with a second team to arrive soon, which news, within I believe perhaps an hour, triggered the strikes in an obvious attempt to stop the investigation, whether by directly destroying the area so that accurate testing and the evidence of the terrorist chemical workshops could not be examined, or by allowing the evidently coordinated reentry of the terrorists just chased out to either contaminate/'adjust' evidence or occupy the site, so that it could not be tested and evidence of terrorist workshops (potentially implicating such as the US, British and French self-interests already established as being involved in such things?) be officially noted.

As has been pointed out, if there really was any belief of a chemical warfare production plant existing, this should have been pointed out to the OPCW, rather than their bombing it, to release toxic chemicals killing any civilians not directly hit by missiles, flying debris, the collapse of buildings...

So in that sense, the targeting of a scientific research site at least apparently failed to kill any civilians, unless there were any security guards, cleaners or late workers within. Destroyed a lot of research work, I expect, and put a lot of people out of work, apart from the damage, costs, waste... the trademark of the PTB...

However, although the US PTB routinely target civilians and often label them 'terrorists' to pad 'kill lists', the evident intention here was to prevent the investigation as well as to weaken the country and harm the civilians so that yet another country could be invaded, permanently occupied by the US PTB, setting up military bases everywhere in order to be able to attack anyone, anywhere, in the now-unmistakable process of global take-over - under the pretext of fighting what are often known to be their own pet terrorists.

But as far as the last information I've heard indicates, this sick and sickening exhibition of lawless bullying and murderous destruction hasn't worked to prevent the investigation, however revealing of the intent and pathology of its perpetrators it's otherwise been.

https://www.rt.com/news/424140-opcw-syria-chemical-inspection

Chemical weapons investigation team arrives in Damascus – OPCW
Published time: 14 Apr, 2018 12:42
Edited time: 14 Apr, 2018 14:54

A fact-finding mission by the UN’s chemical weapons watchdog has arrived in Damascus. The agency said earlier its work would continue despite airstrikes carried out on the country hours earlier by the US, UK, and France.

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BREAKING: #OPCW Fact-Finding Mission (FFM) team has arrived in Damascus, #Syria to commence its work.
9:30 AM - Apr 14, 2018

Inspectors from the Organisation for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons (OPCW) are in the country to investigate the circumstances surrounding reports of a gas attack in the Syrian city of Douma, where at least 70 people are reported to have died from chemical exposure. Syria and Russia called for an OPCW inquiry into the claims.

The agency, set up to ensure the destruction of chemical armaments, is due to assess the scene and take samples from alleged attack victims to determine the cause and potentially uncover the perpetrators.

The OPCW, whose members include Syria, Russia, the UK, France, and Russia, issued a statement on Saturday saying the investigation into the alleged use of illegal chemical weapons will continue.

The statement comes after a night of bombing, which saw US, French, and British forces launch missiles at sites including a military facility outside Homs and a suspected research center in the capital, Damascus. Both Russia and Syria have condemned the airstrikes as a breach of international law, and insist that Assad forces did not deploy chemical weapons. ...

This, following, was prior to the attack - and evidently sparked fears of exposure in those complicit in the planning of the thwarted chemical attack by terrorists, and who arranged for/used a propaganda release in order to proceed with plans of an attack involving 110 missiles launched into and around populated and rural areas, although apparently 100 of them were intercepted, and failed to flatten the city and to kill, injure and dispossess the numbers of citizens there which were evidently intended.

(Emphasis mine)
https://www.rt.com/news/423970-opcw-syria-douma-experts/

‘They can go anywhere they want in Douma’: OPCW team arrives in Syria to investigate alleged attack
Published time: 12 Apr, 2018 18:33
Edited time: 13 Apr, 2018 11:26

The first four chemical weapons experts from the OPCW have arrived in Syria on a fact-finding mission (FFM) into the April 7 Douma incident, while Western leaders continue to blame the government for the alleged attack.

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In response to media queries, the Spokesperson for the Organisation for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons (OPCW) confirms that the OPCW Fact-Finding Mission (FFM) team is on its way to Syria and will start its work as of Saturday 14 April 2018.
10:53 AM - Apr 12, 2018

"We will facilitate the arrival of the team to anywhere they want, in Douma, to check whether or not there was use of chemical substances," said Bashar Jaafari, Syria’s envoy to the UN in New York, adding that a second team is due to arrive on Friday.

The Damascus suburb of Douma was recaptured by the government this week, so experts from the UN-backed Organisation for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons are expected to have easier access than on previous occasions when the alleged attacks happened in areas of ongoing fighting or those controlled by radical Islamists.

Syria and Russia both requested an FFM team to be dispatched after opposition groups claimed that the Syrian army executed a chemical weapons attack there, alleging there were scores of deaths and hundreds of casualties.

Both countries have claimed that the incident was “staged” with the purpose of galvanizing Western rebel backers after the US earlier announced that it was planning to pull out of Syria, and they say that there may not have been any chemical use at all. ...

But should the terrorists 'just happen' to retake the area while the country is under attack by their paymasters, it wouldn't be safe for any such investigation to be conducted, would it?

Previous investigations apparently could not be carried out on the ground in other areas precisely because of this hazard.

Gee, so, who 'ya gonna believe - the people who insisted upon independent experts to verify their findings, or the lying sponsors of terrorism who seek to avoid any such thing? Decisions, decisions...

Every time I believe my disgust and outrage levels of capacity have been exceeded, there's always more... psychopaths must be eliminated from all governmental and policy areas; this could be possible and would vastly increase our chances of survival.

And we of the countries with currently PTB-controlled governments do not want any other country taking our right of self-government, either, as may occur if we fail to work out pacific methods of political change ourselves; we want democracy back to serve our own public and country's interests, which means that we must ourselves form the electoral choices from which we choose, within an electoral system designed to provide us with the government most desired by the population majority - not with that desired by parasites and predators seeking that last drop of life-blood they resent us having.

Progs only. For all of humanity, in both senses of the term.

Website had an 'unexpected error', while trying to post, after the thread I was on last night no longer existed when I came on...

This has likely already been posted, but I've just started watching it now, before checking back to see if the thread/website's available, having been busy with more direct news, as might well have been others:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=reuQAoXM8bE

Redacted Tonight
Published on 13 Apr 2018

WEB EXCLUSIVE: Strikes In Syria - The Hard Facts (with Max Blumenthal)

Sputnik has different numbers on the number of missiles intercepted:

https://sputniknews.com/europe/201804141063570354-serbian-president-comm...

Syria Strikes Remind Serbian President of NATO's Bombing of Yugoslavia
© AP Photo / Dimitri Messinis
Europe
21:30 14.04.2018(updated 21:33 14.04.2018)

The president said that the US, French and British attack on Syria on April 14 was a reminder that a policy of military neutrality was the only correct course for Belgrade to take.

"For all of us who are over 18 or 19 years old, this campaign is a painful reminder of the period we went through," Aleksandar Vucic said, speaking to Serbian television on Saturday.

The US led-tripartite attack made several things very clear, Vucic said. "The policy of military neutrality is the only policy which we can conduct, because being on the side of the strong does not necessarily mean that you are on the side of morality and truth," he noted.

According to Vucic, the situation in the world today now resembles the one which the world faced ahead of the First World War. "There is a struggle for resources, for oil, copper, aluminum – a clash of interests. This atmosphere reminds me of the one which existed ahead of the First World War; although I will not say that something like this can happen, since the forces and military might of countries today are frightfully immense."

Serbia's goal must now be to quietly work to improve its economy, but also to strengthen its military "to be able of defend ourselves," the president said.

Yugoslavia was subjected to a 78-day NATO bombing campaign between March 23 and June 10, 1999. The bombing led to upwards of 5,700 civilian deaths, and contaminated areas of the country with radiation from NATO's depleted uranium (DU) rounds.

The US, France and the UK launched 103 air and warship-launched cruise missiles into Syria on Saturday morning, aiming at targets in Damascus and Homs province. According to the Russian military, Syrian air defenses intercepted 69% of the missiles.

Dear gawd, gotta hear this first interview presented!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o-o3EI4Ojyw

The Monologue: MUST LISTEN - Is SKY News Using Actors To Sell Syria Chemical Weapons Lies?
Richie Allen

Published on 13 Apr 2018

Silly me, there was a Twitter thingy on, which was probably what was preventing me from posting this... hate being this tired and stupid!

Lol, edited because I typoed 'stupid'. Sigh...