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As Nagorno-Karabakh battle goes on, Armenia asks Washington if it supplied Turkey F-16s to aid Azerbaijan

RT
Mon, 05 Oct 2020 10:41 UTC

Armenia's prime minister wants clarification from the US about the sale of F-16s to Turkey, claiming the advanced jets are bombing civilians amid the 'existential' battle with Azerbaijan over the contested Nagorno-Karabakh.

Turkey and Azerbaijan strongly denied the claims, but the rebuttals have not prevented Armenia from raising the issue of Ankara's perceived involvement in the Nagorno-Karabakh fighting with its major NATO ally, the United States.

Last Thursday, Armenian Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan held a telephone conversation with US National Security Advisor Robert O'Brien, the New York Times reported on Monday. Washington "needs to explain whether it gave those F-16s [to Turkey] to bomb peaceful villages and peaceful populations," Pashinyan told the Times.

According to the Armenian leader, O'Brien "heard and acknowledged" his grievances and promised to arrange a separate phone call with President Donald Trump. That conversation did not take place, however, as Trump announced he had tested positive for Covid-19 shortly afterward.

Comment: Many countries have the F-16 fighter jets. Is the US responsible for how and when they are used years after purchase?

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War enters second week: Armenia and Azerbaijan accuse each other of shelling cities, targeting civilians

Trump promises second major tax cut

Nihal Krishan
Washington Examiner
Mon, 05 Oct 2020 10:18 UTC

President Trump said Monday that he would push for another significant tax cut if he is reelected, while bashing Democrats as tax-hikers.

"BIGGEST TAX CUT EVER, AND ANOTHER ONE COMING. VOTE!" Trump tweeted early Monday morning, while hospitalized for COVID-19.

The first tax cut he was referring to was the Tax Cuts and Jobs Act of 2017 that overhauled the corporate tax code and implemented temporary tax cuts for families. Trump announced last year that he's also planning legislation for a middle-income tax cut if the Republican Party wins back the House of Representatives.

"Trump said he wants a big middle-class tax cut," said Stephen Moore, one of Trump's top outside economic advisers. Moore told the Washington Examiner that he met with Trump and his economic team 10 days ago in the White House, during which a tax cut for 2021 was discussed.

"He said he wants to lower the income tax percent to 15 from 22, create a tax-free savings account for the middle class, and revive the payroll tax cut idea. The goal is to get help for folks who make less than $100,000 a year," said Moore, who is also a contributor to the Washington Examiner.

Moore said there's a "high likelihood" Trump will announce a specific tax cut plan in the next couple of weeks before the election.

Comment: Covid won't keep Trump from communicating his 'capital plans' with The People!

War enters second week: Armenia and Azerbaijan accuse each other of shelling cities, targeting civilians

RT
Sun, 04 Oct 2020 12:30 UTC

Heavy fighting continued on Sunday, as the conflict over the disputed Caucasus region of Nagorno-Karabakh entered its second week with both Armenia and Azerbaijan making opposing claims of escalations by the other side.

Baku reported that Azerbaijan's second-largest city, Ganja, was hit by Armenian missile strikes, while Yerevan insisted that Azeri forces shelled Stepanakert, the major population centre in the mainly ethnic Armenian Nagorno-Karabakh.

The two rivals carried out artillery and missile strikes throughout the day, with the intensity of the conflict showing no signs of winding down. Civilian areas were damaged as a result, both sides alleged.

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'Crimes against humanity' says Dr. Reiner Fuellmich

P. Gossein
No Tricks Zone
Sun, 04 Oct 2020 18:23 UTC

Recently I wrote a post about Reiner Fuellmich, a German trial lawyer who is certified to practice in both Germany and California.

PCR test is a fraud

Over the years, Fuellmich has landed some awfully impressive trophies, among them Deutsche Bank and VW. Now he's taking aim at Big Pharma and tech companies for what he considers to be crimes against humanity, mainly that the PCR test is a fraud. .

Designed to make people panic, submit to Big Tech

In a recent video he talks about how all the COVID-19 measures imposed, such as social distancing, wearing a mask, lockdown and quarantine are designed to "make people panic so that they believe without asking questions that their lives are in danger so that in the end the pharmaceutical and tech industries can generate huge profits from the sale of PCR tests, antigen and antibody tests and vaccines, as well as the harvesting of our genetic fingerprint."

Hat-tip: Reader Sommer

Fuellmich sees nothing less than attempted crimes against humanity taking place.

What follows is his video on the subject, and well worth viewing.

Baku doesn't need Syrian mercenaries or military help from Turkey in conflict with Armenia, Azeri presidential adviser tells RT

RT
Sun, 04 Oct 2020 16:55 UTC

Reports of Azerbaijan getting military help from Turkey and using militants from Syria in the conflict over Nagorno-Karabakh is "Armenian propaganda" and "fake news," Hikmet Hajiyev, a senior adviser to the president, has told RT.

"There are ties of strategic partnership... and there are also brotherly relations between Turkey and Azerbaijan - but in this conflict Turkey isn't involved as a third party," Hajiyev insisted. The participation of Ankara in Baku's dispute with Armenia over Nagorno-Karabakh - a mainly Armenian-populated region regarded as part of Azerbaijan under international law which declared independence and remains under Yerevan's control since a 1994 ceasefire - is only of a "political, geopolitical and moral" nature, he added.

Comment: Macron put his foot in it:

Azerbaijan's president has called on his French counterpart to apologize for his recent claims that Syrian soldiers have been funneled into the disputed Nagorno-Karabakh, where Baku is fighting against Armenian forces.

"There are no mercenaries. We have an army of 100,000 soldiers," Azerbaijan President Ilham Aliyev said in an interview with Al Arabiya on Sunday. "I demand that France apologize and show responsibility."

Last week, French President Emmanuel Macron made the headline-grabbing claim that he had "reliable information" indicating that members of certain Syrian "jihadist groups" had arrived in the flaming Nagorno-Karabakh hotspot through the southern Turkish city of Gaziantep.

As Syria settles down, is the Azerbaijan-Armenia conflict slated to be the next East-West conflict hotspot? According to Sir Halford Mackinder's theory of geopolitics, it is perfectly positioned.

China says US and Indian bans on TikTok, WeChat broke WTO rules - what about the Great Firewall?

Finbarr Bermingham
South China Morning Post
Mon, 05 Oct 2020 16:47 UTC

At a closed-door meeting at the World Trade Organisation (WTO), China has accused the United States and India of breaking global trading rules over bans on Chinese-made apps, including TikTok and WeChat.

China took to the floor at the Council for Trade in Services meeting on Friday to accuse the pair of taking measures that are "clearly inconsistent with WTO rules, restrict cross-border trading services and violate the basic principles and objectives of the multilateral trading system", according to a Geneva trade official who was privy to the discussions.

US President Donald Trump has targeted the popular apps with a series of orders that aim to ban US entities from doing business with them or downloading them from American app stores. In addition, the Trump administration wants to force the sale of TikTok to a US buyer by November 14.

Washington has claimed the apps collect data that "threatens to allow the Chinese Communist Party access to Americans' personal and proprietary information - potentially allowing China to track the locations of Federal employees and contractors, build dossiers of personal information for blackmail, and conduct corporate espionage".

Comment: Apps and websites banned in China include: the standard Silicommie Valley data-suckers like Facebook, Twitter, Instagram, Gmail, Snapchat, YouTube, etc., as well as Quora, Reddit, Soundcloud, Amazon, Medium, Wordpress.com, Yahoo, DuckDuckGo. Oh, but you can use a special censored version of Bing, so there you go, it's not banning "on a blanket basis."

How Russia shifted the balance of power in the Mid East & beyond

Ekaterina Blinova
Sputnik
Mon, 05 Oct 2020 16:28 UTC

Five years ago Russia became involved in the Syrian civil war, prompting an abrupt U-turn in the situation on the ground and ending the spread of Islamist terrorism in the country. Middle East expert Ghassan Kadi and Syrian journalist Basma Qaddour have taken a look at the Russo-Syrian strategic partnership's achievements and plans.

On 30 September 2015, Russia started an air operation against Daesh* in Syria in response to a request for military help from the Arab Republic's legitimate government headed by President Bashar al-Assad.

"We all know that thousands of people from European countries, Russia, and the post-Soviet region have joined the ranks of the so-called Islamic State, a terrorist organisation that - I want to stress again - has nothing to do with genuine Islam", President Vladimir Putin told a special summit of government members on that day. "There is no need to be an expert to realise that if they succeed in Syria, they will inevitably return to their own countries, and this includes Russia."

Comment: Nations around the world have seen that Russia can be a true friend:

Trump could return to WH today if condition has continued to improve, his doctors say

Danielle Wallace
Fox News
Mon, 05 Oct 2020 16:23 UTC

President Trump could be released from the Walter Reed National Military Medical Center as soon as Monday, his medical team said in an update Sunday to members of the White House press pool, as the president continues his treatment on dexamethasone and Remdesivir to fight coronavirus.

Dr. Sean Conley said Trump has experienced two episodes of transient drops in oxygen levels. From Thursday into Friday morning, Conley said Trump was doing well with mild symptoms and oxygen levels in the high 90s. By later Friday morning, the president had a high fever and his oxygen levels began dipping below 94%.

At that point, Conley recommended supplemental oxygen treatment due to concerns about the possible rapid progression of the disease. Trump was adamant he did not need the treatment, but it was nevertheless administered for about an hour at the White House.

He began showing milder symptoms and began moving about his residence at the White House, but, despite these improvements, Conley said the medical team determined the best course of action was to transfer Trump to Walter Reed in Bethesda, Md., by Friday afternoon for a more thorough evaluation and monitoring.

Dr. Sean Dooley, a pulmonologist at Walter Reed, said the president has remained without a fever since Friday morning and his cardiac, kidney and liver functions are all still normal. He said Trump has not shown signs of shortness of breath and was walking around his medical unit without limitation or disability.

Comment: The conspiracy theorists over at the WSJ will seemingly grasp at the smallest of straws in order to come up with an anti-Trump story. Now they're saying that Trump kept his diagnosis secret ... for a period of mere hours until the initial results were confirmed by a second test. But they're not the only ones with questions. This one, from a "prominent Republican" seems more important to ask:

"It's weird that all these Republicans are getting it. I don't know what the f**k is going on. But one thing I've learned is: when something major happens thirty days before an election, it usually has to do with the election."

The latest to come down with the Covid (i.e., to be tested positive, whether or not they show any symptoms) is WH Press Secretary Kayleigh McEnany (who isn't showing any symptoms).

Trump hasn't been discharged yet, but he did briefly leave the hospital, slowly driven past the crowd of cheering supporters holding vigil outside the facility.

Naturally, this was bad, because Orange Man Bad.

Better if he just holed up in his basement like Biden has all this year, right? No, that's why Trump's supporters like Trump:

And here's Trump's latest video message, from yesterday. He's been to 'Covid school', and he's going to tell us all about it:

Heating up: Report that 'unidentified aircraft' attacked pro-Baghdad militia in Iraq near border with Syria

Ilya Tsukanov
Sputnik
Sun, 04 Oct 2020 16:01 UTC

© REUTERS / Stringer
Shi'ite Popular Mobilization Forces (PMF) gather with Iraqi army on the outskirts of Tal Afar, Iraq, August 22, 2017

Over the past year-and-a-half, Iraq's pro-government paramilitary forces have accused Israel of targeting them in air raids on multiple occasions. Tel Aviv has accused 'Iranian-backed' militias of using Iraq to ship weapons to Syria, but has declined to comment on whether or not it has carried out any operations inside Iraqi territory.

A Popular Mobilization Forces (PMF) militia unit was bombed by unidentified aircraft west of the town of Akashat, Iraq near the Iraqi-Syrian border, Arab media have reported, citing a security source in Iraq's western Anbar Governorate.

Comment: More on the Popular Mobilization Forces (PMF)

Mexico rising: Atlanticist media-hate is in overdrive as President Obrador drains the swamp

Joaquin Flores
Strategic Culture Foundation
Fri, 02 Oct 2020 00:00 UTC

Mexican President Lopez Obrador is draining the swamp, and Atlanticist media isn't happy about it. In fact, the New York Times and the Washington Post hate him for it. Right now, to carry Mexico's Fourth Transformation forward, AMLO requires an additional mandate beyond the movement that put him in power, and this means a referendum that condemns the corruption of Mexico's past five presidents - Carlos Salinas de Gortari, Ernesto Zedillo, Vicente Fox, Felipe Calderón and Enrique Peña Nieto. Such a move would solidify a type of revolution underway in the country - a condemnation of the socio-economic course of the past thirty years.

The general view of AMLO and Mexico's mainstream left including the nationalist left, is that the country took a catastrophic turn towards neoliberalism in 1982. This represented an ideological split in the PRI, leading towards the PAN. This is how Mexico arrived at two neoliberal parties, similar to Democrats (like the PRI) and Republican (like the PAN) in the U.S. AMLO's mission originally with the PRD in 1989 and then the labor supported, trans-class MORENA (Movimiento Regeneración Nacional) was to return to an older type of PRM/PRI politics before neoliberalism (akin perhaps to FDR in the U.S.). This was envisioned to be in line with social-nationalist greats of the revolutionary period like Lazaro Cardenas.

The politics of MORENA, also meaning a mestizo or indigenous woman, have taken up the banner of 'national regeneration' - palingenesis - as the fundamental theme behind the Fourth Transformation. To make Mexico great again also means to drain the swamp.

Everyone: here's a mid 90's? (It looks like it might have been updated etc.) Mike Rivero at WRH column: THE "BIG BANG" IS JUST RELIGION DISGUISED...

Rowan Cocoan

.. .. wanted: man date

Jibrish

I got no problem with a gay person. I got no problem with the gays, I'm not one of them, but I have no problem with them. What I do have a problem...

Buffalo_Ken

Ruthless descendants of those who used obsidian daggers to cut the hearts out of live captives.

bbrebozo

How to beat a dead horse. Next up, Gay Bond? Gay Star Trek? Gay President? Oh right, we already had that sequel.

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Puppet Masters

As Nagorno-Karabakh battle goes on, Armenia asks Washington if it supplied Turkey F-16s to aid Azerbaijan

Trump promises second major tax cut

War enters second week: Armenia and Azerbaijan accuse each other of shelling cities, targeting civilians

'Crimes against humanity' says Dr. Reiner Fuellmich

Baku doesn't need Syrian mercenaries or military help from Turkey in conflict with Armenia, Azeri presidential adviser tells RT

China says US and Indian bans on TikTok, WeChat broke WTO rules - what about the Great Firewall?

How Russia shifted the balance of power in the Mid East & beyond

Trump could return to WH today if condition has continued to improve, his doctors say

Heating up: Report that 'unidentified aircraft' attacked pro-Baghdad militia in Iraq near border with Syria

Mexico rising: Atlanticist media-hate is in overdrive as President Obrador drains the swamp

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