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Russian Foreign Ministry responds to latest "hacking" accusations by US, NATO


South Front
Sat, 06 Oct 2018 11:35 UTC
Russian Foreign Ministry
The Russian Foreign Ministry has released two statements in response to the recent series of "hacking" accusations released by the US and its allies.

Comment by Deputy Foreign Minister Sergey Ryabkov on new anti-Russia accusations in the US (source):

We are watching with regret how the US authorities continue to poison the atmosphere of Russian-American relations by bringing ever new groundless accusations against Russia, which certain other NATO countries would hurry to repeat at the command from Washington. Again, the Western public is being scared with "Russian hackers," ascribing to them the "hacking" of computer networks all over the world.

Washington is doing its best to prevent the old invention about "Russian meddling in the US presidential election in 2016" from finally falling into pieces. So they are trying to bolster it up with new fakes and continue to deceive their own and the world public so as to create an additional pretext for sanctions and other measures to pressurise Russia.

Russia is used to these US methods but the purposeful fomenting of tensions in relations between nuclear powers and internationally is a dangerous path. Canada and those European countries that are devotedly catering to the US claims to world hegemony should also give thought to this.

Comment: See also:

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Nobel Peace Prize 2018 awarded to campaigners for victims of sexual violence by Congolese warlords and ISIS

Laura Smith-Spark
CNN
Sat, 06 Oct 2018 10:35 UTC
Denis Mukwege Nadia Murad 2018 nobel peace prize
Denis Mukwege and Nadia Murad
The 2018 Nobel Peace Prize has been awarded to Denis Mukwege and Nadia Murad for their efforts to end the use of sexual violence as a weapon of war and armed conflict. Mukwege, a gynecologist and surgeon, has long worked to treat thousands of women and girls affected by rape and sexual violence in the Democratic Republic of Congo.

Murad is a Yazidi woman from the northern Iraqi town of Sinjar, who was held as a sex slave by ISIS, she told CNN in an interview last year. In 2016, at age 23, she was made a UN goodwill ambassador for the dignity of survivors of human trafficking.

"Both laureates have made a crucial contribution to focusing attention on, and combating, such war crimes," said Berit Reiss-Andersen, chair of the Norwegian Nobel Committee, as she announced the award Friday at the Norwegian Nobel Institute in Oslo.


Comment: Fair play to them for helping victims, but the really crucial attention that needs focusing is on the sources of money and weapons that produce war crimes at these two locations.


"Denis Mukwege is the helper who has devoted his life to defending these victims. Nadia Murad is the witness who tells of the abuses perpetrated against herself and others. "Each of them in their own way has helped to give greater visibility to wartime sexual violence, so that the perpetrators can be held accountable for their actions."


Comment: Everyone knows ISIS is run by the CIA and friends, but less well-known is the extent of Western involvement in perpetuating the festering sore that is the DRC:

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Trump: Anti-Kavanaugh protesters are paid professionals backed by Soros - 'Don't fall for it!'


RT
Fri, 05 Oct 2018 11:12 UTC
kavanaugh protests
© Andrew Caballero-Reynolds / AFPProtesters occupy the Senate Hart building during a rally against Brett Kavanaugh
The "rude elevator screamers" protesting Brett Kavanaugh's nomination to the Supreme Court are "paid professionals" who are backed by George Soros, US President Donald Trump has tweeted.

In the same tweet, the US president also encouraged his followers to "look at all of the professionally made identical signs. Paid for by Soros and others. These are not signs made in the basement from love!" He ended his tweet with the hashtag #troublemakers.

Trump's comments come just one day after thousands of women took to the streets of Washington DC in a final appeal to senators to reject the nomination of Kavanaugh, who has been accused of sexual misconduct. The demonstration led to several arrests, including of actresses Amy Schumer and Emily Ratajkowski.

The "rude elevator screamers" comment most likely refers to the women who confronted US Senator Jeff Flake (R-AZ) as the Senate Judiciary Committee debated the fate of the nomination.
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Common denominator: IMF chiefs no strangers to criminal charges


RT
Fri, 05 Oct 2018 21:13 UTC
IMF fund
© Yuri Gripas / Reuters
Recent heads of the International Monetary Fund share a lot of common ground - even criminal charges. From Dominique Strauss-Kahn's sex parties to Christine Lagarde's misuse of public funds, they like to keep things exciting.

Maybe it's coincidence, or maybe it's the curse of the position. Any way you look at it, there's no denying that IMF chiefs seem to have a real knack for getting themselves into trouble.

But while Strauss-Kahn, Lagarde, and former IMF chief Rodrigo Rato have all found themselves in hot water, Rato was the only one of the three to receive any sort of real punishment, with a Spanish court confirming on Wednesday that he will serve four-and-a-half years in jail for misusing company credit cards.

Comment: Within a criminal organization, like the IMF, obviously one needs criminals (or useful idiots) to run it:

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Better Earth

How Russia plans to disentangle its economy from US dollar


RT
Sat, 06 Oct 2018 05:50 UTC
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© Ralf Hiemisch / Getty Images
The Russian Finance Ministry has announced a plan to wean the country of dollar dependence. It is expected to be a long and painful process. RT has asked analysts to explain how this could be done.

According to the plan published this week, Russia seeks to de-dollarize the economy by 2024. The program is long and complicated, but its key point is that Russian exporters who use rubles instead of dollars would get huge taxation benefits including quicker VAT returns and other stimulus to ditch the greenback.

But there are also other ways to strengthen the role of the ruble in Russia. "It is necessary to gradually switch to such a system of international payments, which implies payment in rubles for Russia's best and most popular goods on the world market like oil, gas and arms exclusively," Andrey Perekalsky, analyst at insurance brokerage FinIst, told RT.

Comment: A multilateral approach to world affairs is unseating the US as world hegemon, and there's very little the bankrupt US (and any allied EU countries) can do to stop it: Also check out SOTT radio's: Behind the Headlines: Trump Ditches Europe, Europe Bluffs, Russia and China Carry on With Eurasian Integration

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Nonsense: Trump accused of anti-Semitism over claim Soros funds 'elevator screamers'


RT
Fri, 05 Oct 2018 08:05 UTC
Soros
© Jewish Business NewsGeorge Soros, billionaire financier
Critics of US President Donald Trump were quick to accuse him of anti-Semitism over a tweet claiming that women accosting senators over Supreme Court nominee Brett Kavanaugh were paid by liberal billionaire George Soros.

"The very rude elevator screamers are paid professionals only looking to make Senators look bad. Don't fall for it!" Trump tweeted on Friday. "Also, look at all of the professionally made identical signs. Paid for by Soros and others. These are not signs made in the basement from love!"

Outrage ensued, obviously. ThinkProgress, the media arm of John Podesta's Center for American Progress think tank, immediately accused the president of anti-Semitism. A Slate editor chimed in, calling Trump's words an "anti-Semitic dog whistle." And a staff writer for The Atlantic called it a "conspiracy theory that a rich Jewish boogeyman is making women claim to have been raped and assaulted."


Comment: Trump can't win. In situations like this, no one can. Trump has been one of the most delusionally pro-Israel presidents in US history, yet the second he criticizes a single Jew or something bad (even if those bad deeds are proven and in the public record), he is smeared as anti-Semitic. It is simply impermissible to say anything bad about any Jew at any time (unless that Jew is being criticized for saying something bad about other Jews). It makes absolutely no sense, but little does when it comes to the land of the chosen... Only there is it forbidden to call individuals out for their bad behavior.

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Russian company discussing geological oil exploration with Libyan NOC


Sputnik
Sat, 06 Oct 2018 08:00 UTC
libyan oil field
© AFP 2018 / Abdullah Doma
Roman Panov, CEO of the Russian exploration company Rosgeologia (Rosgeo), discussed with Mustafa Sanalla, head of the Libyan National Oil Corporation (NOC), the conduction of exploration works in Libya, the Russian company said in a statement on Friday.

"During the meeting the parties discussed further steps on the development of cooperation in the sphere of natural resources management, particularly, conduction of geological exploration works to find fossil fuels in Libya as part of the earlier signed bilateral documents," the statement said.

Rosgeologia also focuses on the projects in the Middle East and other African states, according to Panov.

"These are the most promising areas of growth, where there is a high demand on our services," Rosgeologia's CEO said, as quoted by the statement.

The meeting was held on the sidelines of the Russian Energy Week (REW) forum in Moscow.

Comment: The US destroyed Iraq and didn't even get its oil (Israel did). NATO destroyed Libya, and now countries like Russia are stepping in to make deals. What was the point of all the destruction? Seemingly, the point was the destruction. In that sense, it was pointless. Historians will probably be very confused when they look back on US foreign policy in future years.

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Baghdadi reportedly escapes death once again - by showing up late at ISIS meeting bombed by Iran


Sputnik
Fri, 05 Oct 2018 07:53 UTC
bagdhadi
© Flickr / Thierry Ehrmann
The shadowy Daesh terrorist leader has been rumored to be hiding out on the Syrian-Iraqi border since May, and had been reported killed or incapacitated by US or Russian air and artillery strikes on multiple occasions, with none of the reports ever being confirmed.

Jabbar al-Maamouri, leader of the Iraqi Popular Mobilization Forces, has told Iraqi media that the Iranian missile strike in Syria earlier this month was aimed in part at liquidating Daesh (ISIS) leader Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi, and that only his lateness to a meeting of militant commanders saved him from certain death.

"The Iranian shelling against specific pockets of Islamic State east of the Euphrates in Syria using missiles [a] few days ago targeted an important meeting for the so-called Islamic State's war council, to which Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi was on [his] way," al-Maamouri said, according to Iraqi News.


Al-Baghdadi "was about to get killed in the shelling but he survived as he was a few minutes late for the meeting," the Iraqi militia commander added.

The Iranian strikes did succeed in liquidating Ali al-Mashadani, al-Baghdadi's deputy, as well as several other Daesh leaders, according to al-Maamouri.

Comment: Either Baghdadi is the cat with nine lives, or the multiple reports of his injury and death are simply propaganda or the result of rumor and guesswork. Other possibilities: he's been dead for a while now and is still being used for propaganda purposes by all sides, or he's alive and well ... and is still being used for propaganda purposes by all sides.

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YPG in Manbij, Syria, defy Turkey and US - refuse to withdraw from town


Sputnik
Fri, 05 Oct 2018 07:51 UTC
manbij
© REUTERS / Rodi Said
The Kurdish People's Protection Units (YPG) did not withdraw from the northern Syrian town of Manbij, as was ordered by Turkey and the United States, and are preparing to defend the town, the Anadolu news agency reported on Friday.

The YPG militia dug about 30 kilometers (19 miles) of anti-tank trench lines around the town's center and built escape tunnels, the Turkish media reported citing sources.

Turkish presidential spokesman Ibrahim Kalin said earlier this week that the United States was delaying the YPG withdrawal from Manbij, thereby failing to implement Washington's joint plan with Ankara.

In early June, Turkey and the United States adopted a roadmap that provided for the withdrawal of the US-backed YPG, which is regarded by Ankara as an affiliate of the Kurdistan Workers' Party (PKK), from Manbij. The PKK is listed as a terrorist organization in Turkey, the United States and the European Union.

Meanwhile, the Syrian authorities have condemned the presence of Turkish and US forces around Manbij.
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Trump's MAGA has gotten lost in translation

smoothiex12
Reminiscence of the Future...
Thu, 04 Oct 2018 00:00 UTC
money bombs
Somehow, in the midst of all this FUBAR with US bureaucrats threatening Russia to start the war for whatever reasons, and the ongoing mass hysteria around new SCJ nomination, with new rape victims which Kavanaugh may have heard about once or saw on TV, "stepping out", one piece of real news got lost. It is huge:
U.S. crude oil shipments to China have "totally stopped", the President of China Merchants Energy Shipping Co (CMES) said on Wednesday, as the trade war between the world's two biggest economies takes its toll on what was a fast growing businesses.
See dynamics here. It doesn't stop there and it goes even further:
He also said the trade dispute was forcing China to seek soybeans from suppliers other than the United States, adding that China now bought most its soybeans from South America.

Comment: See: Sanctions And Tariffs Have Turned American Exceptionalism Into Isolationism

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