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China's Xi Jinping makes point of holding BRICS meeting BEFORE G20 summit in Hangzhou

China's President Xi Jinping
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The role of the developing countries in the global governance system is growing, and the BRICS member-countries (Brazil, Russia, India, China, South Africa) are the driving force of this process, Chinese President Xi Jinping said at an informal meeting of the BRICS leaders on Sunday ahead of the G20 summit in China's Hangzhou.

"The joint economic growth of the emerging markets and developing countries is perhaps one of the most significant changes in the modern world, and the BRICS member-countries are the driving force of this process as well as important G20 participants," he said. Xi Jinping also noted that the countries should step up coordination and cooperation for the development of BRICS and the G20 group and pointed to the need "to help strengthen the role of the emerging economies and developing countries" to consolidate their position in the global governance structure.

Bad Guys

Saudi dissident leader discloses Riyadh supporting ISIL in Iraq through envoy

Ambassador to Baghdad Thamer al-Sabhan
A prominent Saudi dissident leader living in the UAE disclosed that Riyadh is supporting the ISIL terrorist group in Iraq with the help of its Ambassador to Baghdad Thamer al-Sabhan.

"Saudi Arabia is sponsoring the ISIL through Samer al-Sabhan, the country's ambassador to Baghdad," Abu Yousef, also the former prayers leader of Riyadh Grand Mosque, wrote on his twitter page on Sunday.

He said that Sabhan is supporting the ISIL in Iraq to please Saudi King Salman, adding that Sabhan is betraying Iraq through his presence in Baghdad.

Abu Yousef called on the Iraqi government to cut its relations with Riyadh as soon as possible to prevent more losses.

Eye 1

German spy agency 'illegally restricted' supervision of citizen rights violations and abuses

BND glove
© sputniknews.com"Hand over the data!"
The German Federal Intelligence Service (BND) has been trying to hamper its own oversight, the country's data protection commissioner said in a leaked report, which also unveiled excessive and systematic violations of citizens' rights by the spy agency. The paper examined how the BND data collection center in the southeastern city of Bad Aibling monitored the telecommunications data of German citizens. The 60-page report was initially obtained by NDR and WDR media outlets and was also posted online by the netzpolitik.org website.

In the leaked document, dating back to March 2016, Federal Data Protection Commissioner Andrea Vosshoff claimed the BND clearly hampered her attempts to investigate the agency's work. "The BND has illegally and massively restricted my supervision authority on several occasions. A comprehensive and efficient control was not possible [...] these are grave legal infringements,"Vosshoff stated.

She noted that the intelligence service specifically impeded on her attempts to investigate so-called 'selector' lists of keywords used by BND to search for and identify information relevant to a certain case from databases and data flows. These include phone numbers, emails, chats, content from public social media, messages in web forums, geographic coordinates, keywords etc. According to Vosshoff, who is responsible for monitoring the activities of government agencies with respect to citizen's rights on personal information, the "BND has collected personal data without a legal basis und has processed it systematically."

The commissioner pinpointed 18 severe legal violations and filed 12 formal complaints in seven fields of the service's activity, detailing attempts to block her inquiries as one of them. Vosshoff went on to say in her report that despite BND's claims that the "information is essential" it cannot "substitute a missing legal basis".

The facility in Bad Aibling and the "selectors" scandal made headlines back in 2015, when it became apparent that BND had been spying on European politicians and companies for America's NSA (National Security Agency) for over a decade. In exchange for data sharing, BND took the lists from the NSA and added them to their own monitoring system.

Comment: Bad enough that humans use, abuse and manipulate personal data on a global scale without legality, permission or lofty motives. Wait until sentient AI gets ahold of it! Game over. Completely over!


Bad Guys

Riyadh training 5,000 militants from Libya to Eritrea for war in Yemen

Saudi trained militants
Riyadh has transferred nearly 5,000 militants from a number of terrorist groups from Aden port to Eritrea's Assab port to go under military trainings and then be sent to the Saudi provinces bordering Yemen, sources said.

"The terrorists, some of whom are from the Al-Qaeda, will be dispatched to Najran, Jizzan and Asir provinces to fight against the Yemeni army and popular forces and prevent their further advances in Southern Saudi Arabia," the sources stated on Sunday.

They added that the Yemeni forces' advances deep inside the Saudi territories have frightened the Saudi officials more than the ballistic missiles fired from Yemen.

Umbrella

Syria: US-Russia to complete major military alliance agreement

lavrov kerry
© Sputnik/Ilya Pitalev
The deal would call for full-coordination between US and Russian military and intelligence forces in Syria in exchange for Moscow forcing Assad to ground the Syrian Air Force.

The United States and Russia inch closer to completing a major agreement calling for military and intelligence cooperation in Syria in exchange for Russia agreeing to pressure President Bashar al-Assad to refrain from targeting civilian dense areas and allowing for both food and medical aid to flow into impacted areas according to reports from CBS News correspondent Margaret Brennan.

Pursuant to the proposed arrangement, the US and Russia would coordinate airstrikes against Daesh (ISIS) as well as al Qaeda-linked terrorists including the former al-Nusra Front. While the United States and Russia would jointly takeover the aerial campaign against jihadists in Syria, Assad's Syrian Arab Army Air Force would be grounded in a bid to prevent unnecessary collateral damage against civilians and US-backed rebels.

Comment: So, who's on first? Levels of enemies. Levels of allies. Some mix and match. Today, bomb them. Tomorrow, don't. Confusing? Yah! Nice mess, USA. The best idea would have been hands-off in the first place. That didn't happen. The devil will be in the details, should this deal materialize.


Books

Kremlin: Eton students garner private audience with Vladimir Putin

Eton meets Putin
© www.theguardian.comEton meets Putin
Ministers wait hours for an audience with Vladimir Putin, CEOs sit nervously for months hoping for a summons to see him, and even Donald Trump was stood up during a 2013 visit to Moscow and told Putin was too busy to see him. There was no such problem for a group of 11 Eton schoolboys, however, who flew to Moscow and were met by the Russian president in the Kremlin last week, stopping to take a group photo inside the seat of Russian power with their best "massive banter" poses.

Putin, who is notoriously difficult to access and is frequently hours late to meetings with other world leaders, apparently devoted two hours of his time to discuss world affairs with the Eton boys, proving that attending the elite boarding school is useful for opening doors not only in Britain.

The schoolboys have beaten both the prime minister, Theresa May, and Eton alumnus Boris Johnson, the foreign secretary, to a meeting with Putin. May is expected to meet the Russian president on the sidelines of the G20 summit in China next week.

David Wei, one of those present at the meeting, wrote on Facebook: "It took me a total of 10 months, 1,040 emails, 1,000 text messages, countless sleepless nights, constant paranoia during A2 exam season, declining academic performance ... but here we are. Guys, we truly gave Putin a deep impression of us and he responded by showing us his human face."


Comment: Putin is a bridge-builder to other countries and future generations.

It's unlikely to change their programming, but maybe, just maybe this particular Eton set won't be so rabidly anti-Russian when it takes the reins of the British regime in a couple of decades.


Beer

Coca-Cola: Funding Colombian death squads?

Coca Cola
© www.spyderonlines.com"Things go better with Coke..." Maybe not.
Coca-Cola was accused of hiring hitmen from a prominent paramilitary group between 1990 and 2002 to kill at least 10 trade union leaders. U.S.-based Coca-Cola company along with more than 50 other companies were accused by Colombian courts of financing terrorism for their ties to the now-disbanded paramilitary organization, United Self-Defense Forces of Colombia [AUC], a fact trade union leaders have been denouncing for decades. The cases against the companies will be heard in a transitional justice tribunal after the peace deal with the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia and the government is signed.

Coca-Cola was accused of hiring hitmen from the AUC between 1990 and 2002 to kill at least 10 labor union leaders who were trying to organize Coca-Cola's plants. U.K. oil company BP has also been taken to court for its funding of AUC, along with kidnapping and human rights abuses.

Other companies suspected of financing terrorism, commonly referred to as the "para-economy," include Colombia's largest beverage company Postobon, cement company Cementos Argos, state oil company Ecopetrol and banana distributor Chiquita Brands International.


Comment: Corporate accountability values profits over basic human welfare, especially in the rape and plunder of third world countries where anything can be bought for the right price.


Jet3

Saudi warplanes attack Yemen 80 times, kill more civilians

Saudi forces bombs in the Yemeni capital
© AFPA picture taken on August 30, 2016, shows smoke billowing from buildings following an airstrike by Saudi forces in the Yemeni capital, Sana’a.
Several Yemeni civilians, including a child, have been killed as Saudi warplanes carried out more than 80 airstrikes on different areas across its southern neighbor.

According to Yemen's al-Masirah television, Saudi military aircraft targeted residential areas in the Yemeni provinces of Sana'a, Ta'izz, Hajjah, Mahwit, Omran and Hudaydah around 50 times in the early hours of Sunday.

Riyadh's air raids on the al-Sabain district of Sana'a Province killed one child and wounded over 20 others.

An unspecified number of civilians also lost their lives when Saudi fighter jets attacked residential areas north of the Ta'izz airport.

Jet2

MH-17 inquiry, Episode 5: 'It was shot down by a MiG'

The 5th episode of MH-17 Inquiry has just been released, and it looks like a blockbuster.

Contrary to all speculation heretofore that Malaysian airlines flight MH-17 might have been shot down by a SU-25 - an aircraft primarily intended for the ground attack role - the producers of this documentary advance a different theory.

The MiG-29 has the speed, operational ceiling, and armament to shoot down a Boeing 777. And Ukraine has plenty of the fighters in its inventory.


Document

More MH17 docs released; Dutch assumed pro-Russian separatists responsible

MH-17 wreckage
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A court forced the Ministry of Security and Justice to publish more documents on the disaster with flight MH17 thanks to a joint call on the Freedom of Information Act by broadcasters NOS and RTL Nieuws and the Volkskrant. A number of new details were revealed, including that the Dutch government assumed from the first that [pro]-Russian separatists were behind the downing of the plane.

The documents released are the interpretation in reports of the National Coordinator for Counterterrorism and Security written shortly after the disaster. It involves facts over what happened, the perpetrators and large problems expected to follow. RTL Nieuws published the documents on their website.

The Dutch government quickly realized that no one could have survived the crash and that there were probably many Dutch victims. They were right - 196 of the 298 victims were Dutch. "Given the images of the crash, the probability of survivors is nil", the documents read. And: "(...) it is very likely that some of the victims are of Dutch nationality. Given the holiday period it is likely that there were several children on board."

Comment: Maybe certain documents requested are not being released because there is still mileage to be had by blaming Russia with false accusations and propaganda. Even if the Dutch are willing to share what they know, the instigators of the Ukraine pivot to the West are not likely to let that happen. The longer it takes for any official records to surface, the more assuredly the Ukraine or the West had its hand in this dreadful, false flag tragedy.