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China: 'Talks needed, not the opposite,' after US labels North Korea a terrorism sponsor


RT
Tue, 21 Nov 2017 18:46 UTC
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The international community should put extra effort into resolving the Korean crisis diplomatically instead of doing the opposite, the Chinese Foreign Ministry has said, one day after the US reinstated North Korea as a state sponsor of terrorism.

"We still hope all relevant parties can contribute to easing tensions, that the relevant parties can resume talks and [adopt] the correct track to resolving the Korean peninsula issue through dialogue and consultation," said Lu Kang, Chinese Foreign Ministry spokesman, as cited by AFP. Lu described the situation in the region as "sensitive," and added that it would be "helpful to bring all parties back to the negotiation table instead of doing the opposite."

"More should be done in that regard," the Chinese spokesman said. However, Lu stopped short of specifically mentioning the US or criticizing Washington for its fresh step against Pyongyang.

On Monday, Donald Trump announced that the US was putting Pyongyang back on its list of state sponsors of terrorism and promised a new wave of sanctions against the North. "Should have happened years ago," Trump said, saying that Pyongyang has "repeatedly" sponsored acts of terrorism, including "assassinations on foreign soil."

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Dominoes

Why the fall of the House of Clinton may trigger domino effect worldwide

Ekaterina Blinova
Sputnik
Wed, 22 Nov 2017 19:16 UTC
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Over the past two decades the Clintons have created nothing short of a global network consisting of influential foreign politicians, oligarchs and royalty, exercising what Wall Street analyst Charles Ortel called "the cult of unregulated globalism." The fall of the House of Clinton may bring an end to this globalist structure, he told Sputnik.

"The Clintons - and the Bushes and Obamas - have embraced the cult of unregulated 'globalism' wherein a small band of cronies drawn from the billionaire class, multinational companies, international nonprofits, academia, and media swarm around the world trying to dominate the political agenda, as they move financial markets, and put deals together," Charles Ortel, a Wall Street analyst and investigative journalist, told Sputnik.

According to the analyst, this approach gained momentum starting around 1988 and allowed globalist elites to build even greater fortunes out of being able to control any national government.
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Umbrella

South Korea, rejecting a US-led anti-China alliance, normalizes relations with Beijing

Marko Marjanović
Checkpoint Asia
Mon, 20 Nov 2017 00:00 UTC
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© The Diplomat
Moon Jae-in has just dealt a major blow to America's "Pivot to Asia"

Great news. China and South Korea have patched up their relations. When the US began moving its THAAD missiles to South Korea, ostensibly aimed at North Korea, China imposed undeclared economic sanctions on Seoul.

On the sidelines of the APEC meeting in Vietnam on November 10-11 the pair formalized a deal where China will normalize economic relations with South Korea, and Seoul in turn publicly declares it will not allow further US missile deployments on its territory, will not join the US anti-missile shield, and will not join into an anti-China military alliance with US and Japan.

Mind you, these are not so much concessions to Beijing, as they are concessions to the public of South Korea, which elected Moon in the first place. The anti-Japanese sentiment in Korea would not permit an alliance with Tokyo in the first place. That South Korea will not participate in US missile shield initiatives has been the position of Seoul since Kim Dae-jung, Moon's mentor and originator of the Sunshine Policy of engagement with Pyongyang. Likewise, many South Koreans know that THAAD can only intercept missiles at the altitudes above 40 kilometers. That means it is, even just in theory, incapable of protecting the great majority of South Korean territory including the capital city from a missile from the North.

Particularly since Hillary Clinton's tenure as the US foreign policy chief and her Asia Pivot policy, the US has been working overtime to drive a wedge between China and its neighbors and organize an anti-Chinese alliance right on Beijing's doorstep. The election of pragmatic and peace-inclined Moon Jae-in and his success in normalizing relations with China instead has dealt a huge blow to that policy.

Comment: Another captive 'ally' ditching USA's empire. Next?

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Attention

Palestinian Authority freezes contact with US over PLO office shutdown


RT
Tue, 21 Nov 2017 21:36 UTC
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The Palestinian Authority (PA) has "frozen" all contacts with Washington, the territory's 's foreign minister has said. The move follows the US decision to close the Palestine Liberation Organization (PLO) office in America's capital.

By closing the office in Washington, DC, the US itself made any contacts with the Palestinian Authority impossible, Riyad al-Malki told AFP. "In practice by closing the office they are freezing all meetings and we are making that official," he said.

President Mahmoud Abbas ordered all contacts with Washington on hold until Palestinian demands are met, sources within the PA government told RT. They further explained that the US should allow the PLO office to continue its work in Washington and also remove the PLO from its list of terrorist organizations in order for contact to be resumed.

The US State Department refused to renew the operating license for the PLO office in Washington Saturday, Palestinian officials said.


Comment: Is there a communication parallel between Israel and Palestine similar to the US and North Korea? Talks haven't been forthcoming on any principal's agenda. Interesting how 'talks' are typically third party solutions. The US should take its own advice (to Israel and Palestine) and lead by example with North Korea.

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Snakes in Suits

Syria round-table talks: Putin, Erdogan, Rouhani discuss solutions amid ISIS demise


RT
Wed, 22 Nov 2017 07:11 UTC
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Russian President Vladimir Putin is holding a meeting in Sochi with his Turkish counterpart, Recep Tayyip Erdogan, and Hassan Rouhani of Iran to share their views on Syrian reconciliation. The three countries previously agreed to be guarantors of the Syrian peace process.

Welcoming his dignitary guests, Putin said the meeting comes at a crucial moment in the Syrian armed conflict, when there is an opportunity to end it. "The militants in Syria have sustained a decisive blow, and now there is a realistic chance to end the multiyear civil war," he said. This would require giving the Syrians a period of peace, during which they would be able to settle their differences, Putin added. This will require compromise by all parties in Syria, both the government and the rebels, he stressed.

Rouhani said that the crisis in Syria has been exacerbated from the start and seriously prolonged by the foreign meddling, including "supplying and arming and other forms of support of militant groups. These consequently formed the core of the terrorist groups Islamic State and Al-Nusra Front."


Comment: See also:
Trilateral meeting in Sochi: Putin, Erdogan & Rouhani agree on holding Syrian national dialogue congress

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Question

Dinner talk: McMaster trashed Trump, said he had intelligence of a 'kindergartener'...or did he?

Kristina Wong
Breitbart
Mon, 20 Nov 2017 00:00 UTC
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National Security Adviser H.R. McMaster trashed President Trump at a dinner in July with Oracle CEO Safra Catz - mocking his intelligence, five sources told Buzzfeed in a report published on Monday.

McMaster reportedly called Trump an "idiot" and a "dope" with the intelligence of a "kindergartner," according to the sources, four of whom told Buzzfeed they spoke with Catz directly.


Comment: And, the word is 'kindergartener.' (A word even a kindergartener knows!)


"[Catz] said the conversation was so inappropriate that it was jaw-dropping," one source said.

McMaster also reportedly disparaged Secretary of State Rex Tillerson, Secretary of Defense James Mattis, former White House chief strategist Steve Bannon, and Trump's son-in-law Jared Kushner at the dinner. McMaster reportedly said Kushner had no business being in the White House and should not be involved in national security issues.

Sources tell Buzzfeed the dinner took place on July 18 at the Washington, D.C. restaurant Tosca.

Oracle's senior vice president for government affairs, Ken Glueck, and a National Security Council spokesman "heatedly denied the comments" to Buzzfeed.

National Security Council Michael Anton told Breitbart News in a statement: "Actual participants in the dinner deny that General McMaster made any of the comments attributed to him by anonymous sources. Those false comments represent the diametric opposition of General McMaster's actual views."

Comment: More ups and downs, ins and outs than a soap opera. Did McMaster make this or that comment, did he not...seems as though it is the whim of whomever is asked. Perhaps Breitbart ought to just ask McMaster.

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Light Sabers

Erdogan: West is exporting its worst elements to Islamic countries to ensure its own future


RT
Wed, 22 Nov 2017 19:24 UTC
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© Kayhan Ozer / ReutersTurkish President Tayyip Erdogan
The West is exporting the worst elements to Islamic countries in an attempt to ensure its own future, the Turkish president has said. Recep Tayyip Erdogan claims that islamophobia, neo-Nazism and racism are replacing values such as democracy and human rights in the West.

"Unresponsiveness to the violence that has been going on in Syria for seven years, to the inhumane treatment refugees are subjected to at border gates, and to the genocide of the Rohingya have revealed the true face of the West," Erdogan said as cited by Anadolu.

"Islamophobia, neo-Nazism, and racism [are] beginning to replace values such as democracy, human rights and freedoms more and more" in the West, he added.

Comment: He also had this to say at an address for the Organisation of Islamc Cooperation in Istanbul:
"A dirty scenario is being carried out to destroy the unity, future, common sense and richness of the Muslim world," Erdogan said during an address at the Organisation of Islamic Cooperation (OIC) in Istanbul.

The premier added that the Islamic world has been going through a difficult period in recent years which could be considered a "period of strife" with all the meaning of the word.

The Turkish president accused the West of exporting all its historical diseases to the Muslim world.

"The West's silence on the brutality that has been taking place in Syria for seven years, closing its doors to migrants, and not condemning the massacres in Myanmar have shown its true face," he said.

He questioned the need for Muslim countries to pay billions to Western powers. "Who benefits from disintegrating our countries through artificial borders?" he asked.


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Attention

The rise of MBS....and his possible downfall

Uwe Parpart and Pepe Escobar
Asia Times
Tue, 21 Nov 2017 13:38 UTC
Salman & Mutaib
© ReutersMohammad bin Salman (left); Mutaib bin Abdullah.
In a two-part analysis of the recent and ongoing revolutionary developments in Saudi Arabia instigated and executed by Crown Prince Mohammad bin Salman (MBS), Asia Times editor Uwe Parpart and roving correspondent Pepe Escobar recount the details and background of the recent MBS power grab and attempt to ascertain whether it will last. In a matter of days, MBS may ascend to the throne, leaving to his father, King Salman, the ceremonial role of Custodian of the Two Holy Mosques. The November 4/5 MBS power play was a prelude. What does it portend? Who masterminded it and drove it? Who will benefit? What does it mean for the world's most volatile region? Below, part 1.

When the black limousines arrived in the dead of night on Saturday November 4, and into Sunday November 5, few of the Saudi princes, ministers, ex-ministers, military leaders, media moguls and top businessmen who had been asked to attend the posh Ritz Carlton hotel in Riyadh's diplomatic district thought it wise to decline the invitation.

Conveyed by Saudi police, the invitations were issued by Crown Prince Mohammad bin Salman (MBS), chairman of a brand new Supreme Committee to investigate public corruption that was created by a series of royal decrees just hours before the arrests.
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Quenelle

Trilateral meeting in Sochi: Putin, Erdogan & Rouhani agree on holding Syrian national dialogue congress


RT
Wed, 22 Nov 2017 20:07 UTC
Sochi November 22, 2017
© Michael Klimentyev / SputnikSochi November 22, 2017
An all-Syrian congress which will see wide representation of the country's opposition is to be held in Sochi, Vladimir Putin said after talks with the Turkish and Iranian presidents, Recep Tayyip Erdogan and Hassan Rouhani, who backed the idea.

"The presidents of Iran and Turkey supported the initiative to convene an all-Syrian forum-congress of the national dialogue in Syria. We agreed to hold this important event at the proper level and ensure the participation of representatives of different sectors of Syrian society," Putin said after the talks in Sochi on Wednesday.

"We've tasked the Foreign Ministries, the representatives of special services and Defense Departments to work out the list of participants and the timing of the congress to be held here, in Sochi," the Russian president added.

The all-Syrian congress is aimed at "gathering delegates from various political parties, internal and external opposition, ethnic and confessional groups at the negotiating table," Putin said.

Comment: See also: Russia, Iran and Syria work on diplomacy while insane US Deep State pushes for war

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Propaganda

Russia follows America's lead, approves 'foreign agents' media law, starts with CIA propaganda outlet 'Radio Free Europe'


RT
Wed, 22 Nov 2017 08:09 UTC
Radio Free europe Radio Liberty
© Alexey Vitvitsky / Sputnik
The upper house of the Russian parliament has overwhelmingly supported a landmark bill requiring foreign media outlets such as Voice of America, Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty to register as foreign agents.

The Federation Council supported the legislation during a vote on Wednesday. Under the law, any foreign-funded media outlet may be designated a foreign agent by the Justice Ministry. The status stipulates that those outlets must comply with the requirements of the new law.

The bill was introduced to the State Duma, the lower house, and adopted by MPs on November 15. In the bill, "foreign media performing the functions of a foreign agent," are defined as entities distributing "to unlimited audience, print, audio, audiovisual and other messages and materials."
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