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Puppet Masters
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The same phenomenon of "ISIS evaporation" was registered in Sinjar when 7500 Kurds, supported by the U.S Air Force, occupied the key northern Iraqi city, finding a very small number of ISIS fighters in it.
So where did all these ISIS fighters go to?
War criminal and murderer Alparslan Celik.
"We demand that the Turkish authorities take immediate action to catch Alparslan Celik and his accomplices and charge them with criminal offence for killing a Russian pilot and taking part in hostilities as members of an illegal armed group in a foreign country," Maria Zakharova, spokesperson for the Russian Foreign Ministry said in a statement.
Comment: Russia's Western "partners" sure do make it easy for the Russians to expose them as the lawless freak-shows they are. Leaders with an ounce of common sense would have immediately denounced Celik's actions and subsequent statements - even if they privately approved of them. Heck, even a fairly smart psychopath would see that doing so would be a better PR move than to tacitly sanction his actions and statements by not making a suitable reply.
Not having done so, the Russians are now in the position where it is perfectly suitable to shame Turkish leadership. By bringing attention to their lack of action, it exposes the Turks' tacit approval of this lawless murder. That is a good PR move - on the Russians' part. Not only that, it's the morally right thing to do.
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Simon Danczuk
Simon Danczuk
The Sun newspaper alleges Danczuk exchanged explicit messages with teenager Sophena Houlihan after she contacted the Rochdale MP to ask for a job as a case worker in his office.
Danczuk has been a prominent campaigner against child sexual exploitation and played a role in exposing the late Sir Cyril Smith as a pedophile.
Comment: This is a repeating pattern: politicians or other figures of authority who either take a stand against the exploitation of children and youths, or take positions of influence in organizations devoted to protecting children, and who themselves exploit and abuse children. It's the best place to be for sex offenders: good 'cover', and easy access to prey.
The MP is also a vocal critic of Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn. He recently told Sky News he would "probably give Jeremy a D if I had to score him."
Comment: Danczuk is probably fairly representative of the character of most MPs and leaders in most Western governments. For an idea of what a real leader should be, see: Traits that define ethical leadership
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"Nothing classified. Really."
"Nothing classified. Really."
As a result of a Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) lawsuit, the agency was ordered in June to release all 54,000 pages of emails that Hillary Clinton sent during her term as Secretary of State, using a private server.
The monthly quotas set by US District Court Judge Rudolph Contreras mandated the release of 43,000 pages, or 82 percent of all messages, by the end of December, with the remaining emails made public by the end of January 2016.
On Thursday, the State Department announced that the December batch would fall short of the mark, at only 5,500 pages.
"We have worked diligently to come as close to the goal as possible, but with the large number of documents involved and the holiday schedule we have not met the goal this month," the agency said in a statement on New Year's Eve.
"To narrow that gap, the State Department will make another production of former Secretary Clinton's email sometime next week."
Moreover, unlike the previous releases the new batch will not be searchable by subject, author or recipients. Reporters will have to manually review each message.
Comment: More dodging and weaving on behalf of Killary.
Further reading
- Intelligence agencies find that Hillary Clinton received "Top Secret" emails on her personal account
- Hillarious: Hillary Clinton emails reveals she was reading a book on how to delete emails
- Hillary Clinton's 'hacked' Benghazi emails: FULL RELEASE
- Former intelligence officials suggest Hillary Clinton should lose her security clearance
Due to this most recent terror plot that was foiled (and also created) by the FBI, the US government is raising the terror threat level to "Cower in Fear"
"The FBI thwarted Emanuel Lutchman's intent to kill civilians on New Year's Eve," Special Agent in Charge of the FBI Buffalo Division Adam Cohen said.
Comment: According to an article in International Business Times:
Lutchman and the other person — who was secretly working with the FBI — allegedly discussed planting a bomb inside the restaurant/bar, kidnapping and killing people and wearing masks to avoid identification. The duo bought masks, gloves, zip ties, knives, duct tape, a machete and ammonia at Walmart Tuesday night. Lutchman later said, "we just gotta do it, man."Sounds like yet another patsy set up by the FBI to take the fall for a terror plot that they created, in order to make them look like they're doing something pro-active (they're not), while also terrorizing people with the idea that terrorism can happen to them anywhere, at any time.
Comment: Creating fake terror plots seems to be the modus operandi of the FBI. Could this be a setup for an upcoming Daesh/ISIS false flag terrorist attack on the US?
- FBI Organizes Almost All Terror Plots in the U.S.
- FBI Tries To Coax Muslim Into Bombing US Capitol
- The Underwear Bomber - Crushing Freedom With Phony Arab Terrorism
- Government agents 'directly involved' in almost all high-profile U.S. terror plots
Symbolic gifts from Putin to Modi: a manuscript by great pacifist Mahatma Gandhi and a Bengali sword.
In contrast, his meetings with Vladimir Putin are more business-like. A year of high level exchanges and background work by ministers and diplomats resulted in nearly 16 high level agreements which are estimated to be worth US $100 billion in Russian exports to India over the next decade.
The uncharacteristic one day event, low on symbolism, was cobbled together to fit in with the very different foreign policy priorities of Russia and India. Indian business is cooler toward Russia than Russia's private sector is toward India. And while the Indian diaspora are in leadership positions in Silicon valley and London, Moscow's Indian community has shrunk to a few dozen from its high of 50,000 in the early 1990s.
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"The leaders thoroughly discussed the still tense and unstable situation in southeast Ukraine in the context of implementation of the agreements coordinated in Minsk February 12, 2015," the Kremlin reported.
"They agreed to extend their validity to 2016. The importance was noted of further work of the Contact Group to fully and comprehensively implement the Minsk Package of Measures," it said.
Comment: Ukraine has nothing to show of any progress in the Minsk agreements and the West seems to have lost interest.
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Over the past 15 years the world has changed dramatically. When George W. Bush was elected as the president of the United States in 2000, the only concern Washington had was the regime of Saddam of Hussein in Iraq, the article, translated into English by the website Whattheysayaboutusa.com, said.
Since then things have dramatically changed. Now we have open rivalries between the three great powers — the United States, Russia and China — and the ongoing crisis in the Middle East as a result of the Iraq War, the Arab Spring and the rise of Daesh (Islamic State), El Pais said.
"A multipolar world had become a true possibility — if only international organizations would acknowledge it," the article said, referring to the fact that Western-led international organizations, such as the G-20 and the IMF, refuse to fully recognize the power of new emerging economies.
Comment: The arrogance and wishful thinking of the neoconservatives driving U.S. foreign policies make them blind to the fact that these policies are failing to achieve their aims. Their relentless drive for global domination is only bringing the world closer to WWIII, which is unlikely to end as they imagine.
- The fall of the hegemon occurred on September 28, 2015
- Does the U.S. really want to engage in a new World War with Russia?
- Obama and his Neocon crazies instigate war in the South China Sea but China doesn't bite... yet
Former CIA counterterrorism officer and whistleblower John Kiriakou told Sputnik on Tuesday that the change in the Code seemed focused on bringing military legal procedures up to date to deal with the burgeoning field of cybercrime and cyberespionage.
"It may be that the law was outdated and didn't include 'cybercrime," Kiriakou said.
The Defense Department has proposed a reform in the US Code of Military Justice to introduce punishment for specific computer offenses for the first time.
Retired US Army Major Todd Pierce, an author and expert on military law and civil liberties, told Sputnik the reform seemed to be focused on serving military personnel who became whistleblowers such as Chelsea Manning, rather than on civilian contractors such as Edward Snowden.
Comment: Further reading: