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Merkel booed and heckled during final campaign rally in Munich


RT
Sat, 23 Sep 2017 09:33 UTC
Angela Merkel
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Two days before German federal elections, Angela Merkel, who is going for a fourth term as Chancellor, found her closing campaign rally in Munich crashed by right-wing protesters, who booed and heckled her for half an hour as she made her speech.

The loud heckling and whistling was audible on RT Ruptly's live feed from the Friday rally even before Merkel began to speak, and the organizers eventually had to raise the mic's volume. This did not prevent the German leader from giving her prepared 30-minute speech, but she added an improvised detail as an opening remark to her opponents.

"With whistling and yelling, one will surely not shape Germany's future," Merkel told the protesters on the last day election campaigning is allowed to take place.
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Syrian FM Walid Muallem says US using Al-Nusra terrorists to undermine Astana peace talks progress


RT
Sat, 23 Sep 2017 08:35 UTC
Members of the Islamist Syrian rebel group Jabhat al-Nusra
© Khalil Ashawi / ReutersMembers of the Islamist Syrian rebel group Jabhat al-Nusra
The US is enabling former Al-Nusra jihadists to subvert the Astana peace process, Syrian Foreign Minister Walid Muallem said after a meeting with Sergey Lavrov. The Russian FM in turn vowed to respond to any provocations from the US's rebel "friends."

Speaking to journalists following talks with Russia's top diplomat on the sidelines of the UN General Assembly on Friday, Muallem accused the US military of enlisting the help of terrorists to wreak agreements on de-escalation zones secured within the Astana reconciliation process.

"They are dissatisfied with the successful outcome of Astana peace process, that's why they use their [assets], including Jabhat al-Nusra [Al-Nusra Front] to impede the agreements that had been negotiated," Muallem said, as cited by TASS.

Comment: Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov said that eliminating terrorists in Syria requires military coordination between Russia and the US, but Washington rejects that, noting that this coordination is blocked by the US Congress that doesn't care about resolving conflicts.
In a press conference held at New York on Friday on the sideline of the UN General Assembly meetings, Lavrov said that the concept of de-escalation zones in Syria is limited to six months, and that in parallel with this concept there are efforts to encourage national reconciliation in order to launch intra-Syrian dialogue and pave the way towards political dialogue.

The Minister also affirmed the importance of what is being achieved in Geneva and Astana.
Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov has stressed a need for coordinated action by Russian and US military to deal a final blow to terrorists in Syria.
"We have the so-called deconflicting, but this is probably not enough when fight against terrorism is in progress, when we destroy terrorist hotbeds in Raqqa and Deir ez-Zor," he said. "In order to deal a final blow to terrorists in fact, not just deconflicting is need, coordination is necessary. However, American military are forbidden from coordination," he added.

Lavrov said Russia has informed the United States that any attempts to hamper the counterterrorism operation in Syria will not be left without reaction.

"We are delighted to meet, to make sure we are on the same page about the Syrian settlement, fight against terrorism, resumption of nationwide dialogue and to outline further steps with regard to all these issues," Lavrov said.

"I am convinced that successes of the Syrian army supported by Russia's Aerospace Force, in particularly in Deir ez-Zor and other regions, are very impressive," he said. "It is a decisive contribution to the fight against ISIL (former name of the Islamic State terrorist group banned in Russia)."

"We will be ready to heed your assessments on the issue and the situation in the country on the whole," Lavrov said.

"We have regular talks with the Americans, the Department of State and Pentagon. We have explained what is going on, as the Russian Defense Ministry had earlier announced publicly," he emphasized.

"We have sent a clear message that if there are attempts to complicate the end of the counterterrorism operation from the areas that are close to American 'friends,' or what else they can be called, it will not be left without reaction," Lavrov concluded.
Special Envoy for Syria Staffan de Mistura said the results of Astana agreements have been very fruitful in term of de-escalation in some areas in Syria.
His remarks came during an international ministerial meeting on Syria at the UN headquarters in New York.

De Mistura expressed hope in the defeat of ISIS terrorist organization in Deir Ezzor and Raqqa as soon as possible, pointing out to the need for a political settlement of the crisis in Syria.
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Iraqi Kurdistan refuses to postpone independence vote


Sputnik News
Fri, 22 Sep 2017 22:29 UTC
Kurdistan mass rally
© REUTERS/ Ahmed Jadalla
President of Iraqi Kurdistan Masoud Barzani refused to postpone the September 25 independence referendum amid mass rallies of autonomy supporters.

Iraqi Kurdistan will not postpone the referendum on the independence of the autonomy from Baghdad, despite the pressure, and will hold it on target date on September 25, President of Iraqi Kurdistan Masoud Barzani said on Friday.

A day before, the officials from Iraqi Kurdistan had expressed their readiness to postpone the upcoming September 25 independence referendum if Iraq, US, UN confirm a set of demanded guarantees.

A large rally of supporters of the independence of Iraqi Kurdistan is taking place in Erbil at one of the stadiums of the city.

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Robert Mueller expands Dragnet: Requests extensive documents from Trump White House

Kristina Wong
Breitbart
Wed, 20 Sep 2017 00:00 UTC
Robert Mueller
© AP
Special Counsel Robert Mueller has in recent weeks asked the White House for documents as part of his investigation into Russian meddling and any possible collusion with the Trump campaign, according to the New York Times.

Mueller's office sent a document to the White House detailing 13 different areas investigators want more information about, according to the report.

The Times asserted that the document requests show that several aspects of his probe "are focused squarely on Mr. Trump's behavior."

Mueller's document request does not indicate any examination of Trump's personal finances or business dealings, the report said.

Comment: Is the Deep state trying to make example of Trump, even after he caved in to the PTB?

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Prelude to WWIII: The Ukrainian Conundrum

Zoran Karaklajic
Sott.net
Fri, 22 Sep 2017 21:00 UTC
ukraine obama cartoon
© Latuff
The globalist strategy of Drang nach Osten (Eastern Conquest) is based on an ancient Vatican-Hapsburg concept that the key to conquering Russia is to create a separate Ukrainian state and extract it from the Orthodox Russian world. In 2014, globalists imposed their designs on Ukraine by instigating the violent Maidan coup in Kiev that overthrew the duly elected Ukrainian government, and in its place they installed a puppet neo-Nazi regime with a rabid anti-Russian agenda. Russia is now compelled to draw a red line in Ukraine against further US/EU/NATO eastward onslaught. The globalist action has ended Ukraine as a viable country and turned it into an ignition charge of WW3.

Ukraine emerged in 1991 from the breakup of USSR. Never before did it exist as a sovereign state. For centuries "Ukraina" denoted Russian western frontier-territory. In fact, during the czarist era this Russian territory was Malorossiya (Little-Russia) and Novorossiya (New-Russia). Present-day Ukraine - with major ethnic Russian populations in the Central, Eastern, and Southern (including Crimea) regions - is a former USSR administrative unit, the Ukrainian Socialist Republic. Ethnic/pro-Russian people of Ukraine abhor the Kiev regime's fanatical anti-Russian policies and its intent to join NATO. They call the current state of Ukraine Nulandistan in reference to former US Assistant Secretary of State Victoria Nuland, who in part engineered the 2014 Kiev coup.
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Still in the game: Bannon held secret meeting with China's second most powerful official

Tyler Durden
Zero Hedge
Fri, 22 Sep 2017 21:46 UTC
Bannon Qishan china meeting
© Agence France-PresseWang Qishan (left) and Steve Bannon are said to have met for 90 minutes at the Communist Party’s headquarters in Beijing last week.
Shortly after Steve Bannon visited Hong Kong last week to give a closed-door speech at a big investor conference hosted by CLSA, a Chinese state-owned brokerage and investment group, Trump's former strategist flew to Beijing for a "secret meeting with the second most powerful Chinese Communist party official", less than a month after the former chief White House strategist declared that America was at "economic war with China", the FT has reported.

The meeting occurred at Zhongnanhai, the Chinese leadership compound, where Bannon meet with Wang Qishan, the head of the Chinese Communist party's anti-corruption campaign.

"The Chinese reached out to Bannon before his Hong Kong speech because they wanted to ask him about economic nationalism and populist movements which was the subject of his speech," the FT quoted a "person familiar" with the situation.
Mr Wang, who is seen as the second most powerful person in China after President Xi Jinping, arranged through an intermediary for a 90-minute meeting after learning that Mr Bannon was speaking on the topic, according to the second person, who stressed there was no connection to President Donald Trump's upcoming visit to China.
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Trump to roll back some limits on drone strikes and raids

Julia Manchester
The HIll
Thu, 21 Sep 2017 09:13 UTC
drone
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The Trump administration is set to roll back various limits on drone strikes and commando raids put in place under former President Barack Obama, The New York Times reported Thursday.

Under the policy, strikes would be expanded to include "foot-soldier jihadists" who do not necessarily have leadership roles, instead of allowing strikes only if militants are considered a "continuing and imminent threat" to U.S. citizens. The proposed strikes would also no longer have to go through high-level vetting, according to the Times.

The rollbacks would apply to commando raids and drone strikes outside of conventional battlefields, and would affect missions in countries where the U.S. has not targeted active Islamic militants, as well as countries such as Yemen, Libya and Somalia, where the U.S. are taken aim at militants, according to the report.

The proposal, which has taken shape over the past few months, will leader an intensified fight against terror organizations such as the Islamic State in Iraq and Syria and al Qaeda.

The proposal is likely to enrage human rights groups advocating for increased limits and bans on drone strikes to avoid civilian casualties. However, the Trump administration will keep the requirement that there needs to be "near certainty" that no civilians will be killed during an attack.

Comment: What could possibly go wrong with this! Can we better define 'near certainty'?

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UN Headquarters: Over 50 countries sign treaty to ban nuclear weapons, US vows never to be part of it


NRT24
Thu, 21 Sep 2017 12:35 UTC
UN globe nuke
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More than 50 countries, with Brazil and South Africa among them, signed the Treaty on the Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons at a signature ceremony at the UN headquarters in New York on Wednesday.

Brazil's President Michel Temer was the first to put his signature under the document. The high-level signature ceremony was attended by several heads of state and government along with dozens of foreign ministers, including Austrian, Irish and Cuban ones. Guyana, the Vatican and Thailand are expected to provide signed advance copies of the ratification instruments later in the day.

On September 20, the draft treaty banning nuclear weapons was open for signing. The document is due to come into force 90 days later after 50 countries have ratified it. Under the treaty, the parties will be obliged never and under no circumstances to develop, produce, or stockpile nuclear weapons as well as to use or threaten to use them. It compels non-nuclear signatory states not to deploy third nations' nuclear weapons in their territories.

The treaty was approved on July 7 at the talks that major nuclear powers (Russia, the United Kingdom, the United States, China and France) skipped. Two hours later after the document had been passed, the UK, US and France released a joint statement vowing they would never become party to the treaty. Meanwhile, the Russian Foreign Ministry said that Moscow would not ratify the nuclear weapons ban treaty as it runs counter to the country's national interests.
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Hillary Clinton fresh out of appeal to progressives

David Krayden
The Daiiy Caller
Wed, 20 Sep 2017 09:43 UTC
Hitlery Clinton
© Reuters
Salon magazine suggested Wednesday that Hillary Clinton just isn't appealing - even to liberals. Liberal writer Conor Lynch describes the phenomenon as "the progressive animus towards Clinton."

He notes a recent NBC News/Wall Street Journal poll that shows 53 percent of respondents have a negative or very negative perception of Hillary, leading to the conclusion that the failed presidential candidate "seems to be getting even less popular as the 2016 election recedes further into the past."

Clinton ponders the question of her obtruding unpopularity in her new book, What Happened, asking "What makes me such a lightning rod for fury? I'm really asking. I'm at a loss."

The answer, Salon suggests, is "that Clinton was often her own worst enemy in 2016, and frequently provided her opponents with ammunition to torpedo her campaign."

Lynch says Clinton ultimately failed to address her most stinging criticism by primary opponent Sen. Bernie Sanders, and was believed by progressives to be just another Washington insider. The Salon writer states, "They essentially saw her as a standard Beltway politician - no better and no worse than other politicians who court big donors at cocktail parties in Washington and Manhattan and Beverly Hills."

Comment: Her mask is beginning to crumble. Warn the birds to stay away.

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Three Muslim women called police on House IT worker Imran Awan for apparent domestic abuse

Luke Rosiak
The Daily Caller
Wed, 20 Sep 2017 20:15 UTC
wasserman shultz awan
© Facebook / ReutersImran Awan (L), Debbie Wasserman Schultz (R)
Multiple women in relationships with Imran Awan, the indicted former IT aide for Rep. Debbie Wasserman Schultz, have recently called Virginia law enforcement and alleged being abused by him, police reports obtained under Virginia's Freedom of Information Act show.

Officers found one of the women bloodied and she told them she "just wanted to leave," while the second said she felt like a "slave," according to Fairfax County Police reports obtained by The Daily Caller News Foundation Investigative Group. A third woman claimed she was being kept "in captivity."

The third woman is Awan's stepmother, Samina Gilani, who said in court documents that Awan invoked his authority as a congressional employee to intimidate immigrant women, in part by telling them he had the power to have people kidnapped.

All but two of the nearly two dozen Democratic women Awan worked for in the House declined to comment on the police reports.

Comment: More on the House IT scandal:

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