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A 'global conspiracy' undermines Orthodox world - Patriarch Kirill


RT
Tue, 30 Oct 2018 14:12 UTC
Patriarch Kirill.
© Sputnik / Sergey PyatakovPatriarch Kirill.
There is a global conspiracy against Orthodox Christianity, the head of the Russian Church believes. Moscow's ongoing quarrel with Constantinople over Ukraine is just a symptom, he said.

Patriarch Kirill alluded to a global conspiracy against Orthodox Christianity as the cause of the ongoing rift between his church and the Ecumenical Patriarchate of Constantinople during an annual religious conference in Moscow.
The stakes are very high, and the incentive to destroy the unity of the Church has a global dimension. It's not a fight over jurisdiction. It's a fight against the only powerful Orthodox force in the world.
The Russian Christian leader added that Orthodox Christianity served as an "island of freedom" standing against values and ideas forced upon mankind by globalism.


Comment: For an idea of what he's referring to: Post-nihilism, a template for where we are heading


Comment: To paraphrase what Patriarch Kirill himself declared a little time before the schism issue: End Times coming, so don't get all revolutionary!

See also: Also check out SOTT radio's: The Truth Perspective: Powers, principalities and UFOs

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'Thief!' Trump slams African-American candidate in Florida governor's race


RT
Tue, 30 Oct 2018 20:49 UTC
Donald Trump, Andrew Gillum
© (L) Reuters / Alexander Drago; (R) Reuters / Joe Skipper
As mid-term elections draw nearer, US President Donald Trump has called a Democrat running for Florida governor nominee a "thief," spurring accusations of racism against the African-American candidate.

In a Monday morning tweet, Trump hailed Republican gubernatorial candidate Ron DeSantis as being a "great congressman" who was educated at Harvard and Yale. Then he called his African-American Democratic opponent Andrew Gillum a "thief" and the mayor of "poorly run" Tallahassee, "said to be one of the most corrupt cities" in the US.
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The US Midterm election and its impact on relations with Russia

Peter Korzun
Strategic Culture Foundation
Tue, 30 Oct 2018 15:59 UTC
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The US official statements are often extremely tough and sometimes even bellicose but, like it or not, Russia is an international actor a dialog is inevitable with. National Security Adviser (NSA) John Bolton, a known anti-Russia hawk, visited Moscow on Oct.22-23. He never sounds friendly but the intensity of his contacts with Russian officials is impressive enough. It was the third time in four months he held talks with high-placed Russian officials, including a five-hour conversation with the Russian counterpart and talks with defense and foreign ministers. Before the recent visit, he came to Moscow in June and met Secretary of the Russian Security Council Nikolai Patrushev in Geneva.

Russian President Vladimir Putin has been invited to visit Washington in early 2019. The invitation has not been yet formally accepted and the scheduling is still to be ironed out. Before that the Russian and US leaders will meet in Paris at the WWI Victory centenary commemorations on November 11. This meeting will be special. A very important event - the US midterm election on Nov.6 - may change the background. If Republicans win or retain the majority in both houses, President Trump will go to Paris relieved of a heavy load with his position much strengthened. No more talks about an impeachment caused by "Russiagate".

Comment: US-Russian relations are at their lowest in decades and we may suspect the depth and breadth of the mechanics that have been set in motion to disengage this administration. If Republicans have a winning hand, the author's assumptions of the way forward might be realistic. If not, there is no way to predict the level of harm that will be done.

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China's Silk Road and Israel

Thierry Meyssan
Voltaire Network
Tue, 30 Oct 2018 00:00 UTC
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Beijing continues unceasingly to develop its "Silk Road" project. China's vice-President, Wang Qishan, has undertaken a tour of the Near East which took him to Israël for four days. According to the agreements which have already been signed, within two years China will control the major part of Israël's agro-food industry, its high technology and its international exchanges. A free trade agreement should follow, and the geopolitics of the whole region will be turned upside down.

The visit of Chinese vice-president Wang Qishan to Israël, Palestine, Egypt and the United Arab Emirates is aimed at developing the "New Silk Road".

In the autumn of 2013, China made public its project for the creation of maritime and especially terrestrial communication routes across the world. It unblocked colossal sums of money and began to realise its plan at a rapid rate. The main axes will cross either Asia or Russia towards Western Europe. But it is also planning routes across Africa and Latin America.

Comment: The 'soft' strategy of dominance? China is expanding that capability.

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How the media both encourages and sustains political warfare

Kyle Jensen, Jack Selzer
The Conversation
Tue, 30 Oct 2018 03:12 UTC
News headlines
© UnknownWeapons of mass deception!
Since his inauguration, President Donald Trump has been waging war against the American press by dismissing unfavorable reports as "fake news" and calling the media "the enemy of the American people."

As a countermeasure, The Washington Post has publicly fact-checked every claim that Trump has labeled as fake.


Comment: ...the bulk of which 'fact-checked facts' were themselves fake.


In August, The Boston Globe coordinated editorials from newspapers across the nation to push back against Trump's attacks on the press. The Associated Press characterized this effort as the declaration of a "war of words" against Trump.

News organizations might frame themselves as the besieged party in this "war." But what if they're as much to blame as the president in this back-and-forth? And what if readers are to blame as well?

In an unpublished manuscript titled The War of Words, the late rhetorical theorist and cultural critic Kenneth Burke cast the media as agents of political warfare. In 2012, we found this manuscript in Burke's papers and, after working closely with Burke's family and the University of California Press, it will be published in October 2018.

In The War of Words, Burke urges readers to recognize the role they also play in sustaining polarization. He points to how seemingly innocuous features in a news story can actually compromise values readers might hold, whether it's debating the issues further, finding points of consensus, and, ideally, avoiding war.

Comment: Excellent dichotomy. Unfortunately for the mesmerized public, as media controls the message, there is more 'purposeful fiction' being written than fact.

There is - as the article suggests - one useful 'way out': seek out more sources. This is what Americans have been doing, which is why the US MSM has been rabidly attacking those alternative sources.

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As warnings from US Navy rise, Xi tells his military to prep for war in South China Sea


RT
Tue, 30 Oct 2018 12:30 UTC
Chinaboat
© REUTERS/Manaure QuinteroMembers of the Chinese People Liberation Army Navy.
Chinese President Xi Jinping told military officials responsible for the disputed South China Sea to be better "prepared for war" as tensions with the US are rising. Beijing may be bracing for a worst-case scenario with the US.

Xi made the blunt remarks last week as he was meeting the Southern Theatre Command, the military officials responsible for one of China's five strategic war zones. The calls were made on Thursday as part of his four-day visit to Guangdong province, but the Chinese state media reported them only on Friday.
"It's necessary to strengthen the mission... and concentrate preparations for fighting a war. We need to take all complex situations into consideration and make emergency plans accordingly. We have to step up combat readiness exercises, joint exercises and confrontational exercises to enhance servicemen's capabilities and preparation for war."
One of the key responsibilities of the Southern Theater Command is protecting China's interests in the South China Sea, where Beijing claims sovereignty over a number of islands. The sea is of strategic importance to Chinese trade. The US rejects the territorial claims and has been sending so-called Freedom of Navigation missions through the waters and airspace, which Beijing considers its own, as a gesture of defiance.


Comment: Rising military tensions never bode well. Without a treaty, what becomes the failsafe?

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5,200 troops, helicopters, drones engaged as Pentagon braces for 'migrant invasion'


RT
Tue, 30 Oct 2018 00:53 UTC
US Custom and Border Protection agents
© Reuters/Jose Luis GonzalezUS Custom and Border Protection agents take part in a drill on Mexico - US border.
The White House is not joking around in its efforts to "deter" thousands of Central American migrants from entering the United States, announcing the deployment of 5,200 troops and dozens of "air assets" to the US-Mexico border.

Two caravans of migrants, currently making their way through Mexico towards the US, will be outmatched once they reach the border, where additional 5,200 troops deployed under Operation Faithful Patriot will be awaiting their arrival at some 26 crossing points in Texas, Arizona and California.

The regular troops, which are being deployed "with weapons," will provide logistical and reconnaissance support to some 2,092 National Guard personnel already deployed since April along the Southwestern frontier.


Comment: Will the Tex-Mex border become another potential Gaza? Or will cool heads, all round, prevail?

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Palestinian Central Council suspends Israel recognition


Sputnik
Tue, 30 Oct 2018 02:57 UTC
Palestine Central Council
© AFPPalestinian Central Council
The Palestinian Central Council (PCC) decided to suspend the recognition of Israel as well as to end the Palestine Liberation Organization's (PLO) commitments toward the agreements signed with the Jewish state until it recognized the Palestinian state within the 1967 borders.
"In view of Israel's continued denial of the signed agreements, the Palestinian Central Council... decided to suspend the commitments of the PLO and the Palestinian Authority toward the agreements with the occupying power [Israel] until Israel recognized the State of Palestine within the 1967 borders with East Jerusalem as its capital," the PCC said in a press release.
According to the statement, the PCC also decided to stop security and economic coordination with Israel "on the basis that the transitional phase, including the Paris agreement, no longer exists."

The PCC authorized Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas to implement these decisions.

Comment: Frustrations and denials are finally actionable choices for Palestinians to quit the Oslo Accords and Paris Protocol. With nothing to lose, how will this play out going forward?

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Russian MoD: White Helmets have begun filming fake chemical weapons attack


Sputnik
Mon, 29 Oct 2018 22:02 UTC
WHelmet
© Pravda Report
According to the Russian Defense Ministry, the filming of the fake chemical weapons' attack has already begun.

The Russian Defense Ministry has stated that several dozens of 'White Helmets' members had arrived in the Syrian Aleppo province from Idlib to carry out a chemical weapons' provocation. The White Helmets have already started the filming, involving unknown local residents, the Russian military stated.
"Militants of illegal armed groups do not abandon their attempts to destabilize the situation in the Idlib de-escalation zone. The Russian center for reconciliation received information from residents of Aleppo that they [militants] are preparing another provocation with the use of toxic agents to accuse the government forces of using chemical weapons against the local population," Lt. Gen. Vladimir Savchenko said as quoted by Russia's Defense Ministry. "Members of the White Helmets organization are carrying out staged filming with participation of civilians unknown to local resident."
Savchenko specified that, according to information received by the Russian center for Syrian reconciliation, militants planned to provoke the Syrian Armed Forces to open return fire, adding that their plan also included the staging, in a territory controlled by illegal armed units, of an artillery shelling with projectiles containing toxic agents allegedly conducted by Syria's military.
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'They all look alike': Killary 'corrects' moderator who mixed up black Dems


RT
Mon, 29 Oct 2018 23:46 UTC
Hil Cory Eric
© Recode/YouTube; Jim Bourg/Reuters; Yuri Gripas/ReutersHillary Clinton; Senator Cory Booker, D-New Jersey; Former AG Eric Holder
Conservative commentators are outraged that former presidential candidate Hillary Clinton made a racist joke, saying African-Americans "all look alike" while correcting her interviewer who mixed up two Democrat politicians.

Video of the exchange first began making the rounds on Monday. It shows Clinton getting interviewed on Friday on a stage in New York, by Kara Swisher of the tech news site Recode.

"What do you think of Cory Booker," Swisher asked, "saying 'kick them in the shins,' essentially?"

"Well that was Eric Holder," Clinton shot back, deadpanning a beat later, "Yeah, I know they all look alike."

Comment: Humor? Killary speaks with 'barbed ire'.

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