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The US grand imperialist strategy in one map

Mikhail Leontyev - translation Deimantas Steponavicius
Voltaire Network
Sat, 23 Sep 2017 18:59 UTC
Pentagon map
© Thomas Barnett
Mikhail Leontiev devoted his column on the first Russian television channel to Thomas Barnett's theory. What appeared to be an intellectual lucubration in 2001 is currently being realized. Everyone must now rethink their vision of the wars of the past sixteen years.

Transcript:

However, hello!

Trump delivered a speech at the UN General Assembly. As Saltykov-Shchedrin [1] pointed out once: "Kind folk awaited bloodshed and massacres from him, instead, he ate a doughnut."

"Strong sovereign nations allow citizens to flourish in the fullness of life provided for by God. We in America do not seek to impose our way of life on anyone. And we want ours to be so brilliant as to serve to the rest as an example, "said US President Donald Trump.

Hooray! He is giving a slack. In the past he would have aspired to impose a resplendent image to follow! But now he has given up all the aspiring. At the same time, note, to erase from the face of the Earth and to overthrow is still in fashion. Trump threatens to destroy North Korea, Iran, overthrow the regime in Venezuela ... But to try to impose an image nowadays is a big no-no.
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Letter to Jeff Sessions signed by every single Republican member of the HJC


Conservative Fighters
Fri, 22 Sep 2017 00:00 UTC
Sessions
© unknownJeff Sessions
The easiest way to spot a whiney liberal is this -

He'll demand special privileges, and then complain when those privileges are granted to everyone.

He'll want a safe space. But if you demand a safe space from his angry rants, he'll claim you're restricting his freedom of speech.

He'll want freedom of conscience. But if you demand the same for yourself and Christianity, he'll throw a fit.

So it's fitting, I suppose, that Democrats are now throwing a fit...after Republicans used their same underhanded tactics against them.

Because Republicans, like Democrats, are now calling for a special prosecutor to investigate the 2016 elections. Except this time, they're investigating Clinton, Comey, and Lynch.

Comment: What took them so long?

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Bad Guys

Military-Industrial Complex reaps billions as NATO hypes fake 'Russian menace'

b
Moon of Alabama
Sat, 23 Sep 2017 18:44 UTC
NATO building
© nato.int
The military of the Russian Federation is organized in four districts - west, central, east and south. Each year one of the districts will stage a division size maneuver. 10,000 to 15,000 soldiers leave their quarters to move against imaginary adversaries. Their training is complemented by various military and civilian staffs exercises. The active part of the medium-size maneuver takes about a week and includes some live firing.

This year, like in 2009 and 2013, the turn was on the western military district to run its quadrennial exercise. It included, as is usual in the western district, units from and within Russia's ally Belarus. The name of this regular training event is simply "West", Zapad in Russian. Zapad-2017 was publicly announced and foreign military observers were invited to watch it.
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Snakes in Suits

Clapper: His non-denial denials revisited

Andrew McCarthy
National Review
Thu, 21 Sep 2017 03:45 UTC
Clapper
© Global Look Press/Erin ShaffJames Clapper, village idiot
The former intelligence chief never actually refuted Obama administration spying on Trump.

It would be peculiar if, as he now claims, James Clapper did not know about the Obama administration's monitoring of Paul Manafort. At the time, which appears to have been the autumn of 2016, Clapper was Obama's national intelligence director. The (dubious) raison d'être of the Office of the Director of National Intelligence (ODNI) - a post-9/11 layering of yet more bureaucracy atop bureaucratic sprawl - was to ensure efficient information flow through the "community" of U.S. intelligence agencies.

That said, it is a gross exaggeration to contend, as some are doing, that new revelations about the surveillance of Manafort, the former chairman of the Trump campaign, show that Clapper lied in a March 2017 interview by NBC's Chuck Todd. Instead, what we now know proves what I warned at the time of the interview: It was a mistake to construe Clapper's answers to Todd as a blanket denial of Obama spying on the Trump campaign.

Carefully parsed, Clapper's comments left open the possibility - which some of us regarded as a high probability - that Manafort and other Trump associates had been under Obama-administration surveillance.

Comment: Surveillance and the luck of coincidental opportunities. Interrogation and the art of threading the needle.

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Jet5

Israeli warplanes strike ammunition facility near Damascus International Airport


RT
Fri, 22 Sep 2017 18:50 UTC
F-16 fighter jet
© Amir Cohen / ReutersAn Israeli F-16 fighter jet
Israeli planes have reportedly fired two missiles which hit near Damascus, targeting an ammunition facility belonging to Lebanon's Hezbollah, according to a Lebanese TV station citing "informed" sources and various social media reports on pro-Syrian webpages.

Israeli forces are reported to have carried out attacks from outside the Syrian border early on Friday, according to the Lebanese Al Mayadeen. It said the strike led to a fire, with no casualties or disruptions at Damascus International Airport reported.

Comment: Update (Sep. 23): The Arabic-language website of the Russia's state news agency, RT, quoted Syria's Elam al-Harbi news agency as reporting that the army's Russia-made mid-range Buk-M2 system targeted and shot down an Israeli missile that was fired to hit the Damascus airport.
Eyewitnesses said parts of the intercepted missile are escattered across al-Keswah area in a region near the town of al-Zariqiyeh South of Damascus city.

In the meantime, Israeli media sources and some Syrian social networks reported earelir today that the regions near Damascus international airport were hit by two or three missiles flying from outside the Syrian airspace.
See also: Israeli warplanes strike Syrian military airport in Damascus

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Clock

Chuck Hagel, James Fanell, and the new strategy to target China via Australia

Peter Lee
China Matters
Fri, 22 Sep 2017 18:05 UTC
Chuck Hagel
Secretary of Defense, Chuck Hagel
The dismissal of an unwilling Chuck Hagel as Secretary of Defense in 2014 was, I think, a watershed in the fortunes of the China hawks, both in the Pentagon and at Pacific Command.

Perhaps because it is bad form to explore the possibility that Hagel was purged for insufficient enthusiasm for a pro-active China confrontation agenda, nobody went there. But I did. Natch.

In 2015, I buried my analysis in a tediously long piece that was meant to give an overview of the evolution of US China policy, and provide a corrective to the "Chinese aggression" meme that China hawks like to lean on.

The narrative of escalating Chinese aggression is central to the China hawks' thesis that we need an escalating response.

Rather interestingly, today a lot of this narrative is coming out of Australia. Google "Chinese influence Australia" and you'll get an idea of the barrage of local and global coverage keying on the skillfully shaped message that Chinese influence--though it is not illegal--must be feared.

I've recently come to the conclusion that spate of panic stricken reports emerging from Australia concerning the China menace in economics, politics, and academics are a belated and improvised substitute for what was supposed to be the real deal: a pivot from Obama namby-pambyism to steely Clinton resolve to confront China in 2016.

Comment: Peter Lee has a new documentary available from Newsbud titled General MacArthur's Conspiracy To Start A War With China. The China hawks have a long history, and they're just as crazy today as they were 2 or 3 generations ago.



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Laptop

Federal government tells 21 states they were targeted by hackers before 2016 election - doesn't give any details

Geoff Mulvihill and Jake Pearson
AP
Sat, 23 Sep 2017 17:49 UTC
2016 election
The federal government on Friday told election officials in 21 states that hackers targeted their systems before last year's presidential election.

The notification came roughly a year after U.S. Department of Homeland Security officials first said states were targeted by hacking efforts possibly connected to Russia. The states that told The Associated Press they had been targeted included some key political battlegrounds, such as Florida, Ohio, Pennsylvania, Virginia and Wisconsin.

The AP contacted every state election office to determine which ones had been informed that their election systems had been targeted. The others confirming were Alabama, Alaska, Arizona, California, Colorado, Connecticut, Delaware, Illinois, Iowa, Maryland, Minnesota, North Dakota, Oklahoma, Oregon, Texas and Washington.

Being targeted does not mean that sensitive voter data was manipulated or results were changed. A hacker targeting a system without getting inside is similar to a burglar circling a house checking for unlocked doors and windows.
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Attention

Tom Fitton claims Mueller is setting up his own 'justice department'

Cristina Laila
Gateway Pundit
Sat, 23 Sep 2017 00:00 UTC
Rob Mueller
Mueller's team of lawyers is so big and powerful now, that Fitton described it as the Special Counsel's 'own Justice Department'. This is all thanks to AG Jeff Sessions recusing himself.

In response to a Daily Beast article titled Bob Mueller Brings on 'Tough' Guy Stephen Kelly to Handle Capitol Hill, Fitton said, "Bob Mueller setting up his own Justice Department. Shut it down."

The Daily Beast article says Mueller has now brought on a liaison to Capitol Hill:
Having hired a host of seasoned federal prosecutors for his probe of the president's associates, Bob Mueller has now brought on a liaison to Capitol Hill.

Stephen Kelly, formerly the longtime congressional affairs chief for the FBI, has joined the probe, according to several sources familiar with his new role.

"Stephen Kelly is exactly who I would hire if I wanted to share as little information with Congress as possible," said a Hill staffer who has interacted with Kelly in his new role as Mueller's congressional liaison.
Robert Mueller also just hired his SEVENTEENTH liberal hack lawyer to investigate Trump. The latest hack is an Obama/Hillary donor.

Fitton is right. Mueller has essentially set up his own Justice Department; he's the one doing all the investigating while Trump's Justice Department sits idly by doing absolutely NOTHING.

Comment: Twenty liberal lawyers or a hundred...if there is no evidence then there is no case. But even one lawyer, with cleverly and covertly falsified evidence, can potentially pull down an entire administration. Mueller is throwing everything into the pot to find the linchpin or to prove, irrefutably, the allegations are empty.

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Jet5

Pentagon spokeswoman Dana White says US flew nuclear-capable B-1B bombers just off coast of North Korea


RT
Sat, 23 Sep 2017 19:58 UTC
A US B-1B Lancer bomber
© ReutersA US B-1B Lancer bomber
The US has flown nuclear-capable B-1B Lancer bombers escorted by F-15 fighters off North Korea's coast venturing the "farthest north of the Demilitarized Zone," separating the two Koreas, in the 21st century, the Pentagon's spokesperson said.

"This is the farthest north of the Demilitarized Zone (DMZ) any U.S. fighter or bomber aircraft have flown off North Korea's coast in the 21st century, underscoring the seriousness with which we take (North Korea's) reckless behavior," said Pentagon spokeswoman Dana White.


The DMZ is a strip of land running across the Korean Peninsula near the 38th Parallel, separating North Korea from South Korea. It was created in 1953, following the armistice which ended the Korean War.


"This mission is a demonstration of US resolve and a clear message that the President has many military options to defeat any threat. North Korea's weapons program is a grave threat to the Asia-Pacific region and the entire international community. We are prepared to use the full range of military capabilities to defend the US homeland and our allies," the spokeswoman added.
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ISIS film themselves in panic as Syrian army blows them "to smithereens"

Patrick Knox
UK Sun
Fri, 22 Sep 2017 17:21 UTC
isis
In the lead up to being hit one of the panicking death cult killers appears to be aware he is being hunted down
Terrorists are filmed in blind panic as they are hunted down in the desert as their so-called caliphate crumbles into sand

THIS is the moment a group of ISIS jihadis are blown to smithereens after being hunted down by a Syrian government tank. Footage filmed on a head-cam inside an armoured car shows the moment the death cult troops spot a tank.

One of the jihadis can be heard screaming: "Tank on the right side. The tank..the tank..the tank is over there, over there, over there." The machine can't be seen in the clip but a bright flash is visible which could suggest that its barrel is firing rounds.

The jihadi can then be heard crying out: "Anti-tanks oh anti-tanks..follow us." Another asks where the tank is. And the jihadi replies: "Over there, the tank will bomb us." The armoured car then tries to out-drive the tank before stopping. Someone can be heard saying: "No-one gets off...stop...stop." Then there are pleas for the anti-tank units to protect them.


Comment: What a difference a couple years can make. Remember the days when the Western media couldn't get enough of asserting that the Syrians (and Russians) "weren't fighting ISIS"? Now this...

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