The Saturday evacuation is the latest in a series of airlifts coming amid the Syrian Army's ongoing offensive on jihadists who still control small pockets of Deir ez-Zor, much of them empty desert.

A number of wounded Daesh terrorists militants have been evacuated by US helicopters from Syria's eastern Deir ez-Zor province, local sources said, as quoted by the Syrian news website Arabi Today.

On Saturday night, the militants were reportedly relocated from the town of al-Shaafah located near the Iraqi border to an unknown location. It is not the first time that US military aircraft have been spotted transferring Daesh terrorists from embattled regions.

Russian President Vladimir Putin has pointed out that the US is making a gross strategic mistake by eroding trust in the dollar as the universal financial tool through its assertive foreign policies. Sputnik has summed up what countries are turning away from the greenback and embracing local currencies.

The US dollar still feels rather comfortable, but clouds are gathering on the horizon for the world's primary reserve currency: global players are reducing their reliance on the greenback inch by inch.

Russia

Addressing the Russian Energy Week summit on October 3, Russian President Vladimir Putin stressed:

"It seems to me that our American partners are making a colossal strategic mistake, they are undermining confidence in the dollar as a universal, in fact, the only reserve currency today, undermining faith in it as this universal tool."

Moscow has signaled its determination to reduce the economic dependence on the dollar, specifying that it does not plan to impose any restriction on transactions in the US currency. The main incentive behind the move is to improve the health of the economy and shield it from Washington's recent sanctions spree.

Ecuadorian Foreign Minister Jose Valencia Amores on Friday reaffirmed the country's decision to grant asylum to the WikiLeaks whistleblowing website's founder, Julian Assange.

"His status of the person who is seeking asylum still remains in force," the foreign minister told the Universo newspaper.

Valencia added that the issue of Assange must be settled through the direct dialogue between the whistleblower's lawyers and the authorities of the United Kingdom, where he is currently residing in the Ecuadorian embassy.

The IPCC is preparing to release a "Special Report on Global Warming of 1.5 ºC."

That sentence alone should be enough to make everyone within earshot duck for cover from the coming barrage of climate-related doomporn. But, sadly, half of the public will actively cheer the occasion and the other half will have no idea what is even happening. This is as sure a sign as any that the propagandists of the Global Warming Fear Cult (and their corporate/bankster/globalist backers) have succeeded in the most successful brainwashing campaign in the history of humanity.

Allow me to explain.

The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) is a monster created by the Frankensteins at the United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP) and their cohorts at the World Meteorological Organization (WMO). Founded in 1988, the panel bills itself as an "international body for assessing the science related to climate change." More specifically, it produces "assessment reports" (often referred to as the "climate bible") that seek to assemble the scientific evidence for climate change, assess its impacts and future risks, and evaluate options for adaptation and mitigation.

So far so cute and cuddly, right?

Well, our good friends at the UN are currently convening the 48th session of the IPCC in South Korea, an event that IPCC chair Hoesung Lee describes as "one of the most important meetings in the IPCC's history." Their mission? To "consider the Summary for Policymakers of the Special Report on Global Warming of 1.5 ºC," an assessment of the risks that will be associated with the 1.5 ºC rise in temperatures that the Paris Climate Accord of 2015 ludicrously claims to be targeting.

While the world collectively holds its breath for the delivery of this report (or, more accurately the summary of this report), it's worth taking the time to consider the origin, purpose and history of the IPCC, an organization that is often glossed over as a collection of revered scientists but is in fact something very different.

The primary "customer" for the IPCC's reports (besides the repeaters of the mockingbird media) is the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC), the body formed by international treaty at the 1992 Earth Summit in Rio. The UNFCCC seeks to "stabilize greenhouse gas concentrations in the atmosphere at a level that would prevent dangerous anthropogenic interference with the climate system."

There are two things to note about the UNFCCC and its role in setting the climate change agenda.

US military documents from 2011 and 2016 reveal that although officials wanted a Syrian regime change in theory, they thought it was highly unlikely to actually happen - and hoped that if President Bashar al-Assad was overthrown, he would not be replaced by an opposition-led Syrian democracy but, rather, the same Alawite-Baathist ruling structure would continue. The end result was to be the decimation of the democratic opposition, the consolidation of Islamist forces and regime preservation.

'The US has given up on the overthrow of Assad in Syria', wroteRobert Fisk this summer. Indeed, as the Russian-backed Syrian army prepared to execute its final offensive on Idlib, western governments appeared to signal their acceptance of a bloody victory for Assad, despite the ritual denunciations.

At a time when the United States has intensified its confrontation with Russia based on claims that Moscow interfered in US and allied politics (i.e. the UK and prospective NATO members in Eastern Europe), the US openly meddles everywhere from Europe and Africa to the Middle East and Asia.

This includes Southeast Asia where Washington is busy at work creating an arc of US client states and political chaos aimed at encircling and foiling China and the rest of Asia's regional and global rise.

US meddling has been documented in Cambodia where it is attempting to disrupt growing ties between Phnom Penh and Beijing, in Malaysia where nearly the entire opposition coalition that recently came to power was funded and backed by Washington and in Myanmar where the US is cynically leveraging ethnic violence to pressure the government to sever ties with neighboring China.

A top Danish MP said Denmark should fire back and launch cyber-attacks against those who "attack" it, naming a "Russia linked group" as an example. His fellow politicians, however, were not that quick to join the call.

"We're hacking those who hack us," the newly-elected president of the parliamentary Defense Committee, Naser Khader said. He insisted that authorities know who these hackers were and proposed to start with the Fancy Bear group right away.

The latter has been repeatedly branded by Western politicians as having ties to Russian intelligence, or even being its operating unit.

While the "evidence" on any links remains elusive, the main argument of the accusers is that the group supposedly targets only states and institutions which the Russian government supposedly doesn't like. For Khader - it seems - the Russian-Fancy Bears trace is a proven fact. "Everyone" knows there is a close connection between them and the Russian military intelligence service, he insisted.

As dramatic scenes of Brett Kavanaugh protests and support dominated the airwaves, the United States Senate met to vote on S. Res. 610 - A resolution urging the release of information regarding the September 11, 2001, terrorist attacks upon the United States. Remarkably, the passing of this resolution on 9/11 information has received zero mainstream media coverage.

September 11 was the largest act of murder ever carried out on American soil which has been shrouded in conspiracy and secrecy since it happened 17 years ago. One would think that the declassification of tens of thousands of pages in regard to who may have financed and carried it out would be important news. However, according to the mainstream media, Kavanaugh is a far better sell.

In 2016, the US government released the 28 pages that showed Americans the United States not only knew of the alleged role Saudi Arabia had in 9/11 but also chose to cover that information up for over a decade. While this was certainly a massive leap forward in finding out the real story of 9/11, much of the documents were heavily redacted and there is apparently a lot more out there.

Despite numerous western mainstream media predictions about possible conflict of interest between Iran, Turkey and Russia in Syria, this conflict hasn't happened. On the contrary, prospects and possibilities of cooperation continue to increase as the war in Syria nears its end. Its latest illustration can be found in the case of Idlib where Iran did not object or confront Turkey's concerns, but accommodated these concerns, reflecting how prudent Iran is in terms of keeping the alliance alive, an alliance that, over the past two years, has served interests of all of the participant countries. One primary reason for the continuation of this cooperation is the way their interests continue to converge, not just in Idlib, but also in other hot areas of Syria, such as the northeast, where the US forces and the US backed Kurdish militias are active and are yet to handover the region to Syria. But the US, as John Bolton revealed a few days ago, intends to stay in Syria as long as Iran stays.

While this probably means that the US aims to continue to fight its war with Iran in Syria, it also opens another possibility of cooperation between Turkey and Iran in northeast Syria. While Turkey's source of discomfort is the continued US support for Kurdish militias, which Turkey considers terrorists, Iran, too, sees these groups as US proxies, likely to be used to disrupt and damage the gains they have made in Syria. Iranian leaders have recently voiced how important it is to rid areas to the east of Euphrates of the US influence. This makes Iran a natural ally of Turkey, which, too, has been seeking to achieve this goal, which is also the underlying source of persisting tension in the US-Turkey relations.

EU Commission President Jean-Claude Juncker slammed the British media for what he called an utter disrespect of politicians' human rights, and insisted that press freedom has "limits."

In an interview with three Austrian news outlets, Junker was quizzed on the way the UK media behaves on certain occasions.

It [British press] is, in part so, that they do not respect the human rights of political actors at all. Press freedom also has its limits.

While he could not say exactly where those limits lie, he urged that journalists should be able to "feel what you are allowed to do" and not "bring people in privacy in distress."