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Absurdity reigns: 6 things we learned from Secretary Carter's Senate testimony

RT
Wed, 09 Dec 2015 22:22 UTC

© Gary Cameron / Reuters
United States Secretary of Defense Ash Carter at the Senate Armed Services Committee in Washington on December 9, 2015.

Senators have spent hours grilling the Secretary of Defense about US strategy in fighting ISIS. While the Pentagon chief stuck to the administration's main talking points, he did make some intriguing admissions about what the US has done, and wants to do.

Ash Carter has testified before the Senate Armed Services Committee on multiple occasions in recent months. However, Tuesday's appearance was given significant coverage by all the major US news networks. The focus of their reports was on the secretary's sound bites - such as the quip that Islamic State (IS, formerly ISIS/ISIL) was "not contained" (which directly countered President Barack Obama's most recent assertion), or such truisms as "the truth is, we are at war."

Comment: The US is not backing down on its absurd Mideast policy with no real objections from the Senate. Full speed ahead.

Another eyewitness to San Bernardino shooting says it wasn't 'terror couple' who carried out the attack

M. David
Counter Current News
Wed, 09 Dec 2015 12:05 UTC

"It's not him," a third San Bernardino shooting witness proclaimed about Sayd Farook and his wife.

The so-called "terror couple" have been accused of masterminding an ISIS terror attack on a Christmas office party where Sayd worked.

Earlier this month, the attorneys for the Farook family maintained that they do not believe the suspects are the ones who carried out the attacks in question.

Several eyewitnesses and family of witnesses and victims initially said that three athletic Caucasian men had been responsible for carrying out the attacks. Police immediately banned them from speaking with the media.

Just days ago, another eye-witness in the office came forward and said that in spite of what the law enforcement and mainstream media narrative is saying, the people who carried out the attack where very athletic, large, Caucasian men, who were three - not two - in number. Farook's wife, it should be remembered weighed approximately 90lbs.

Comment: See: San Bernardino mass shooting: 3 white gunmen, 2 unlikely culprits, and 1 saving grace

US and Turkey destroying Syria in order to create Sunnistan

Mike Whitney
Counterpunch
Wed, 09 Dec 2015 00:00 UTC

What is the connection between the US bombing of a Syrian military base in Ayyash, Syria, and the Turkish invasion of northern Iraq?

Both of these seemingly isolated events are part of a larger plan to Balkanize the Middle East, to strengthen Washington's grip on dwindling resources, to draw Russia into a costly and protracted war, and to ensure that ME oil remains denominated in US dollars. Author Joseph Kishore summed it up like this in a recent post at the World Socialist Web Site. He said:

"The basic force behind the war in Syria is the same as that which has motivated the imperialist carve-up of the Middle East as a whole: the interests of international finance capital. The major imperialist powers know that if they are to have a say in the division of the booty, they must have also done their share of the killing." ("The new imperialist carve-up of the Middle East", World Socialist Web Site)

Global economic reset: Three pillars holding the monetary system together are crumbling

Brandon Smith
Alt-Market
Wed, 09 Dec 2015 16:23 UTC

In my last article, I outlined the deliberately engineered trend toward the forced "harmonization" of national economies and monetary policies, as well as the ultimate end goal of globalists: a single world currency system controlled by the International Monetary Fund and, by extension, global governance, which internationalists sometimes refer to in their more honest public moments as the "new world order."

The schematic for the new world order, according to the admissions of the internationalists, cannot possibly include the continued existence of U.S. geopolitical and economic dominance. The plan, in fact, requires the destabilization and reformation of America into a shell of its former glory. The most important element of this plan demands the removal of the U.S. dollar as the de facto world reserve currency, a change that would devastate our current financial structure.

I outlined with undeniable evidence the reality that major governments, including the BRICS governments of the East, are fully on board with the globalist agenda. There is no way around it; the BRICS, including Russia and China, have openly called for a global monetary system centralized and dictated by the IMF using the SDR basket. This same plan was outlined decades ago in the Rothschild-owned magazine The Economist. We are witnessing that plan being implemented in front of our very eyes today.

De Mistura: Syrian crisis on agenda for UN, Russia and US

Press TV
Wed, 09 Dec 2015 04:02 UTC

© AP
Staffan de Mistura, the UN special envoy for Syria, US Secretary of State John Kerry and Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov wait for the start of an international conference on the Syria conflict in Vienna, Austria, November 14, 2015.

The United Nations special envoy for Syria says the UN as well as Russia and the United States will hold talks over the deadly conflict gripping Syria in the Swiss city of Geneva later this week. Staffan de Mistura told Reuters on Wednesday that the trilateral Geneva negotiations, scheduled for December 11, were part of the preparatory work for a new round of international negotiations seeking to find a solution to the crisis. "It's to talk about how to better organize the future Vienna meetings," the UN envoy said.

The news of the three-way Geneva meeting was first broke by Russia's Ria Novosti news agency, citing Russia's Deputy Foreign Minister Gennady Gatilov. The Russian diplomat said, "We will present our vision of the situation (in Syria), with emphasis on the need to intensify the fight against terrorism. It is a priority for us. We call for an increase in joint efforts in this area."

Two rounds of such international talks, attended by Iran, were held in the Austrian capital, Vienna, on October 30 and November 14. At the end of the mid-November round of the Vienna negotiations, the participants agreed to meet again in "approximately one month" to review progress toward a ceasefire and the start of a political process in Syria.

Last week, UN Secretary General Ban Ki-moon announced the fresh talks on the conflict and diplomats said the negotiations were likely to be held in New York on December 18.

Comment: It's not what is said in a meeting, it is what is done in the field.

Yemeni forces kill 14 Blackwater mercenaries in Ta'iz

FARS News Agency
Wed, 09 Dec 2015 02:37 UTC

The Yemeni army and popular forces killed over a dozen Saudi-hired Blackwater militias in an attack on a military base in the province of Ta'iz.

A sum of 14 Blackwater mercenaries, including a British, a French, an Australian and six colombians were killed in an attack on Al-Amri military base in Zobab region in Ta'iz province near the Bab al-Mandeb Strait, the Arabic-language Al-Masira news channel quoted an unnamed military source as saying on Wednesday.

After pulling out its troops from Yemen, the UAE recruited and sent Colombian forces to Yemen to replace its regular troops.

Yemeni Army Spokesman Sharaf Luqman has said that the Blackwater forces dispatched to Yemen comprise Al-Nusra, the ISIL and Al-Qaeda terrorists.

The UAE had previously sent mercenaries from Latin America, specially Colombia, to Yemen without prior coordination with Saudi Arabia.

The United Arab Emirates has quietly built an army of Latin American mercenaries to fight for Yemen's deposed government in a proxy war.

In a program launched by Blackwater founder Erik Prince and now run by the Emirati military, the force of 450 Latin American troops - mostly made up of Colombian fighters, but also including Chileans, Panamanians and Salvadorans - adds a new and surprising element to the already chaotic mix of forces from foreign governments, armed tribes, terrorist networks and Yemeni militias that are currently embroiled in the Middle Eastern nation, Fox News reported.

It seems there are also going to be hundreds of other foreign mercenaries — Sudanese and Eritrean soldiers — brought into Yemen.

Fed up: Iraqi defense committee calls to review and cancel security agreement with US

RT
Wed, 09 Dec 2015 15:26 UTC

© Sgt. Cody Quinn / Reuters
Iraqi soldiers train with members of the U.S. Army 3rd Brigade Combat Team, 82nd Airborne Division, at Camp Taji, Iraq

The Iraqi parliament's Security and Defense Committee has called for a review and cancelation of the agreement with Washington on security, a committee member has stated.

Iraq needs either to overhaul the terms of the agreement on security or annul it, Hamid Mutlak, an Iraqi Parliamentarian and member of the Defense and Security Committee told Sputnik.

"The [Iraqi] government and the parliament need to be review its security agreement with the US, because Washington is not serious about its implementation. We will demand its cancelation," Mutlak stated.

He also commented on the deployment of the Turkish troops in Iraq.

"Iraq will be defended only by its sons, but Turkey will withdraw [its troops], since the land of Iraq is sacred, and its sovereignty is a red line. We have a right to give this issue an international character and to demand from the UN Security Council the withdrawal of Turkish troops," he said.

Comment: Iraq is likely aware that the US has no real interest in fighting ISIS but is only active in the Middle East in order to maintain control over Iraq and other countries in the area. Iraq would be best served by kicking the useless Americans out and aligning with Russia, who has shown real, tangible results in fighting ISIS

Saudi Arabia and Allies exhausted with futile aggressions in Yemen

FARS News Agency
Wed, 09 Dec 2015 05:59 UTC

The Saudi-led aggressors have become frustrated and disappointed with over nine months of war of attrition in Yemen which has brought them no result despite spending billions of dollars on military hardware.

Not only the Saudi leaders, but the US and other Arab countries in the Saudi-led coalition are tired with the prolonged war against the Yemeni people and revolutionary forces.

Some US decision-making centers in the US have blatantly warned Saudi Deputy Crown Prince and Defense Minister Mohammed bin Salman that the time is up for the Saudi regime in Yemen.

The Saudi officials have held several rounds of talks with UN special envoy to Yemen Ismail Ould Cheikh Ahmed in Riyadh to find ways to get out of the Yemen quagmire. The Saudi regime has now given up its previous preconditions for settling the Yemen crisis.

Kicking ASSIS and taking names: Russia destroys 204 terrorist targets in Syria in the past 24 hours

Sputnik
Wed, 09 Dec 2015 15:14 UTC

Russian warplanes have carried out 82 sorties and hit 204 terrorist targets in Syria in past 24 hours, the Russian Defense Ministry said Wednesday.

"In the last 24 hours, Russian jets conducted 82 sorties against 204 terrorist targets in Syria, located in the provinces of Aleppo, Idlib, Latakia, Hama and Homs. Furthermore, 32 of the sorties were conducted at night," the ministry's spokesman Maj. Gen. Igor Konashenkov said.

The airstrikes involved Su-24M, Su-25SM and Su-34 strike aircraft carrying out missions with escort by Su-30 Flanker-C fighter jets. After the combat missions all aircraft have safely returned to the Hmeymim airbase, the spokesman added. Since September 30, Russia has been conducting an aerial campaign in Syria against the Islamic State (ISIL, or Daesh in Arabic) extremist group, which is outlawed in Russia, following a request from President Bashar Assad.

Cool heads prevail: Su-24 downing gave grounds for war, but Russia chose not to respond 'symmetrically'

RT
Wed, 09 Dec 2015 14:59 UTC

The downing of a Russian Sukhoi bomber by the Turkish Air Force was sufficient reason to start a war, but Moscow chose not to respond symmetrically, says Russia's Prime Minister Dmitry Medvedev.

"What did 20th-century countries used to do in a similar situation? A war began," Medvedev said on the Talk to the Prime Minister TV program.

Medvedev said Ankara had "violated the norms of the international law," giving Russia what's called in international judicial language 'a casus belli', or a reason to start a war.

"That was a direct assault on a foreign state. In the present situation a war is the worst what could happen. That's why a decision was taken not to give a symmetrical answer to what the Turks had done," the PM explained.

Comment: The world should be grateful for the patient statesmanship of Russia.

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Puppet Masters

Absurdity reigns: 6 things we learned from Secretary Carter's Senate testimony

Another eyewitness to San Bernardino shooting says it wasn't 'terror couple' who carried out the attack

US and Turkey destroying Syria in order to create Sunnistan

Global economic reset: Three pillars holding the monetary system together are crumbling

De Mistura: Syrian crisis on agenda for UN, Russia and US

Yemeni forces kill 14 Blackwater mercenaries in Ta'iz

Fed up: Iraqi defense committee calls to review and cancel security agreement with US

Saudi Arabia and Allies exhausted with futile aggressions in Yemen

Kicking ASSIS and taking names: Russia destroys 204 terrorist targets in Syria in the past 24 hours

Cool heads prevail: Su-24 downing gave grounds for war, but Russia chose not to respond 'symmetrically'

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