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Trump criticizes Killary for "speaking very badly" of Putin


RFE/RL
Fri, 28 Oct 2016 19:14 UTC
Hillary and Trump
© Reuters
Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump has criticized Democratic rival Hillary Clinton for speaking "very badly" of Russian President Vladimir Putin, remarks that follow Clinton's recent allegations that the Kremlin is trying to tilt the election in her opponent's favor.

Noting Russia's nuclear capability, Trump told a rally in Springfield, Ohio, on October 27 that Clinton is unwise to criticize the Russian leader so harshly and that Washington and Moscow would benefit from closer ties.

"She speaks very badly of Putin, and I don't think that's smart," Trump told the crowd.

He accused Clinton, who has suggested Putin considers Trump a potential Russian "puppet" in the White House, of "trying to get votes" with her stinging criticism of the Russian president.

"How do you speak so badly of somebody? I mean, how are they ever going to get along? Wouldn't it be great if we actually got along with Russia and other countries?" Trump asked, drawing cheers from the crowd of thousands.


Comment: This is likely the very same opinion that many Americans have towards Russia as well. What Killary and the rest of the psychopaths in power don't realize is that having someone like Trump as their opposition,who is speaking directly to Americans and apparently wants to give them what they want, is very bad for their chances of staying power.

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Eye 2

Western operative Baghdadi announces arrival of more terrorists around Mosul


Iraqi News
Thu, 27 Oct 2016 18:35 UTC
baghdadi
© Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi
ISIS media channels announced the arrival of the so-called "al-Sham battalion" to be deployed in the different regions of Mosul, in order to boost the morale of its fighters, Iraqi media outlets reported on Thursday.

Al Sumaria News stated, "ISIS media channels announced the arrival of the so-called al-Sham battalion, coming from the Syrian city of al-Raqqa, in order to be deployed in Mosul and support the other fighters of the caliphate state against Iraqi security forces."

"The ISIS announced the arrival of the battalion to raise the collapsed morale of its fighters in Mosul," Al Sumaria explained.

"The members of the battalion are masked, wear distinctive uniforms and speak with an Iraqi accent, which raised doubts that the battalion is just a play made by Baghdadi to persuade his fighters that reinforcements will arrive to support them after many fighters fled from Mosul," Al Sumaria added.
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Bizarro Earth

Bizarro World: Russia loses place on UN Human Rights Council while Saudi Arabia gets re-elected


RT
Fri, 28 Oct 2016 18:25 UTC
inside UN headquarters
© Shannon Stapleton / Reuters
For the first time since its inception in 2006, Russia has lost an election to the UN Human Rights Council (UNHRC) after being narrowly beaten by Croatia in a vote. Saudi Arabia was successfully re-elected, despite criticism from human rights organizations.

The 47 places on the council are distributed on a regional basis, with staggered ballots seeing a third of the body re-elected each year. Russia had finished its three-year term and was running against Hungary and Croatia for the two available seats from Eastern Europe.

With Hungary far ahead, Croatia received the votes of 114 of the 193 member countries, and Russia was selected on 112 ballots.

"We've been in the UNHRC for several years, and I am sure next time we will stand and get back in," said Russia's UN envoy Vitaly Churkin.

Saudi Arabia sailed through the Asian ballot with 152 votes, and will represent the region on the UNHRC alongside China, Japan and Iraq for the next three years.

South Africa, Rwanda, Egypt and Tunisia were chosen from the African group, Cuba and Brazil from Latin America and the Caribbean, and the US and the UK will represent the Western bloc, which comprises Western Europe and North America.

Over the next term, which will last between 2017 and 2019, the 14 chosen members will be tasked with formulating the UN's official position on conflicts occurring around the world, as well as the domestic policies of member states.

The elections took place against a backdrop of criticism from non-governmental human rights organizations, who say that the body has been hijacked by oppressive regimes looking to deflect criticism and drive their own agendas.

Comment: Looks like the West got what it wanted and can now use the UNHRC as another tentacle with which to attack Russia. Though this tentacle is likely to be as dangerous as a wet noodle thanks to the inclusion of the well-known human rights violator Saudi Arabia.

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Robot

Rise of the machines: Russian defense industry PM warns of 'Skynet' nuclear apocalypse scenario


RT
Fri, 28 Oct 2016 14:36 UTC
terminator
© Mike Blake / Reuters
The future of warfare involves increased use of robots, but putting a non-human in control of a nuclear arsenal is a scary scenario, believes Dmitry Rogozin, the deputy PM in charge of the Russian defense industry.

"Let's consider the Hollywood movie 'The Terminator'. Once humans realize they are incapable of acting fast enough, they delegate the decision over launching a retaliation nuclear strike to a machine, Skynet," Deputy Prime Minister Rogozin said at a meeting with students of Tomsk Polytechnic University.

"A machine is a machine. Should we entrust one with such a sacred thing as the existence of humanity? I doubt that," he added, saying he is "scared" of putting a machine in charge of nuclear weapons

The plot of 'The Terminator' sees the Skynet computer system go rogue and launch American ICBM's at Russia and China, triggering a nuclear apocalypse. The fictional company later uses robots to subjugate and eradicate survivors, but human resistance forces eventually fight back.

Comment: It appears both Russia and the US are worried about each others' use of military robotic systems, so the stage is being set. The obvious solution would be to stop developing technology that could wipe out all of humanity, but that wouldn't fill the coffers of the military industrial complex.

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Yes, Donna Brazile did pass debate question to Killary in March

Matthew Sheffield
Salon
Fri, 28 Oct 2016 18:44 UTC
brazile
© AP/Paul SancyaDemocratic National Committee Vice Chair Donna Brazile
Strong evidence has emerged to suggest that Democratic National Committee interim chair Donna Brazile passed a debate question to Hillary Clinton's presidential campaign officials before a CNN town-hall forum in March.

Although it's not clear how Brazile got a hold of the question in the first place, one plausible source is her former CNN colleague Roland Martin, who is now an anchor and reporter for News One. Martin was one of the moderators for that March town-hall event — and asked the question that Brazile apparently passed to the Clinton camp in advance.

Brazile has repeatedly denied obtaining questions in advance from CNN and has suggested that her leaked emails to Clinton campaign officials may have been forged or altered by Russian hackers. But she has not directly denied receiving questions from Martin or News One.

Her claims have been further undermined by researchers who have used publicly available email verification tools to confirm that the WikiLeaks-sourced message is authentic. The email in question was sent by Clinton staffer Jennifer Palmieri to campaign chair John Podesta and contained a quotation from a message from Brazile that had apparently been sent on March 12.
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Chess

Turkey opposes working with YPG but is okay with Free Syrian Army terrorists


Sputnik
Fri, 28 Oct 2016 16:34 UTC
Free Syrian Army
© AP Photo
Ankara suggested the partipation of the Free Syrian Army's (FSA) in the operation to retake Daesh's de facto capital of Raqqa instead of the self-defense forces of the Syrian Kurds, Turkey's Defense Minister Fikri Isık said Thursday. Earlier in the day, US-led coalition commander Stephen Townsend said the United States and Turkey were in talks over the Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF) involvement in the operation to free Raqqa from Daesh.

However, Ankara opposes SDF's involvement since the force includes People's Protection Units (YPG), which Turkey considers to be an affiliate of the Kurdistan Workers' Party (PKK), outlawed in the country. "Turkey argues that the operation for the liberation of Raqqa from Daesh should not involve participation of another terrorist group — YPG [Kurdish People Protection Unit]. As for alternatives, Turkey is ready to offer them. We, in particular, suggest using the support of the local forces, mainly the Free Syrian Army," Isik was quoted as saying by the Anadolu Agency.

On Wednesday, Isik met with his US and French counterparts, Ashton Carter and Jean-Yves Le Drian, to discuss fighting against Daesh terrorists. Carter said that the US-led international coalition intended to start the operation to liberate Syria's Raqqa in a few weeks.
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Alarm Clock

Duterte plays the 'Mamasapano' card: New investigation threatens to expose U.S. hand in 2014 special ops disaster and more

Peter Lee
Asia Times
Thu, 27 Oct 2016 18:01 UTC
philippinischer Präsident Rodrigo Duterte
© Reuters
If your response is "Mamawhat?", chances are you have not been following the parallel track of US-Philippine relations, the counterinsurgency cooperation that clearly interests President Duterte more than the international commentariat's abiding preoccupation with the South China Sea.

With the United States expressing regret and concern and issuing oblique threats (well, expressing anxiety that "foreign investors" will shy away from the Philippines as a result of Duterte's announced pro-China tilt) that invite Duterte's domestic opponents to mobilize against him, Duterte has threatened the nuclear option: reopening the investigation of the botched operation to apprehend a terrorist in Duterte's bailiwick of Mindanao in 2014.

Mamasapano is the most recent item in President Duterte's lengthy catalog of grievances against joint US-Manila intrusions into Mindanao, that includes the horrors and hundreds of thousands dead in the century-long Moro insurrection and the possible covert role by US and Philippine central government forces in a terrorist bombing campaign that killed dozens in Duterte's home city of Davao fifteen years ago.

Mamasapano is the Philippines' Benghazi scandal.

Comment: The reference to the Davao bombing campaign is intriguing. And who knows what else a real investigation might uncover about the Marwan op. A single finger? Sent to the FBI? Seriously?!

Lee comments on his blog:
The US seems to be embedded in a colonial mindset when it comes to the Philippines, something along the lines of "we've been selflessly looking after the Philippines for a century, and that thug Duterte won't be allowed to screw that up during his brief (maybe curtailed) presidency." It takes a pretty superficial view of Philippine history, one that accepts the US self-definition as the Philippines' security savior while ignoring the distortions and shortcomings of the colonial and neo-colonial relationship.

For me this tunnel vision was typified by the US media crowing over the formal delivery of a refurbished C-130 transport to the Philippine government by outgoing ambo Philip Goldberg. Message: here's the US making provisions for Philippine defense at the same time Duterte's selling out the country to China.

To me, the inadvertent message was 1) here's the US blindly stroking the pivot fetish while Duterte tries to solve the Mindanao insurgency that has cost at least 400,000 lives over the last century, win his drug war, and find a place for the Philippines in Asia that doesn't give primacy to the US preoccupation with confronting the PRC and 2) the U.S., in my opinion, pretty much has a policy of keeping the Philippines flat on its behind as an independent military force by trickling out second-hand gear to the Philippine military while the sweet stuff is dangled in front of it during US joint military maneuvers and port calls.

But the United States is trying to find political leverage wherever it can and the Western media will, I'm sure, put its shoulder to the wheel to help out.

Philip Goldberg sat down for a 45-minute exit interview with Rappler. As befitting Rappler's origins in the Soros/Omidyar network of pro-US globalization advocacy, the interview was a stream of softballs about what to do about Duterte's disregard of the awesomeness of the American relationship, an awesomeness that is acknowledged by virtually all Filipinos who inexplicably (and, if the US has anything to do about it, temporarily) at the same time give Duterte approval ratings of over 80%.

It's worth watching if you have the patience. Goldberg is a smooth cat, and the Rappler tonguebath gives you no inkling of the fact that he is intimately familiar with the wet work of end-arounding national governments to cultivate secessionist movements, you know, like what he did in Bolivia (declared persona non grata as a result) and Kosovo, and like that thing in Duterte's home province of Mindanao, which in my opinion probably the main reason why Duterte wanted him out of the Philippines.


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Bad Guys

UN lynch mob makes absurd calls to suspend Russia from UNHRC for human rights violations

Finian Cunningham
RT
Fri, 28 Oct 2016 17:36 UTC
unhrc
© Denis Balibouse / Reuters
The Western lynch mob-like campaign to 'get Russia' goes on, with the gathering this week of the United Nations Human Rights Council. By trying to suspend Russia from the council, the flagrant intent is to discredit and further demonize. The 47-member UNHRC, based in Geneva, is the United Nations' premier inter-governmental forum on human rights. Members are selected on a rotational basis. On Friday, 14 seats on the council are up for renewal.

This week 80 mainly Western non-governmental organizations associated with human rights reportedly urged the UNHRC to drop Russia's membership, citing allegations of war crimes committed during military operations to capture the Syrian city of Aleppo.Among the anti-Russia lobby were US-based and George Soros-funded Human Rights Watch. Notably, billionaire financier Soros is an open advocate for regime change in Russia.

The campaign to undermine Russia at the UNHRC was preceded last week when Britain - also a member of the council - convened a summit in Geneva. The council issued a resolution which pointedly condemned bombing of civilians in Syria, and implicitly laid the blame on Russia and allied Syrian state forces.

Russia's permanent representative in Geneva Alexey Borodavkin rebuked the UNHRC for a one-sided, politicized statement, which he said sought to solely impugn Russia and Syria. He noted the rank hypocrisy of the United States, Britain and France, along with Gulf Arab states, which lobbied for the resolution.

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Brick Wall

Inside the Politics of the Calais Jungle: Politicians Profiting from Human Misery

Steve Topple
The Canary
Tue, 25 Oct 2016 17:03 UTC
Calais Jungle refugee camp France
© Featured image via Flickr
On Tuesday 25 October, the dismantling of the 'Calais Jungle' refugee camp began in France. But the situation in Calais is symptomatic of the crisis more broadly; that is, companies and individuals profiting from the misery of refugees.

Around 9,100 people, including at least 865 children - 78% of them unaccompanied - were living in squalid conditions near the Channel Tunnel. The reason for the camp's demolition, French authorities say, is to properly deal with people's asylum claims and house them in better conditions. But the timing also coincides with the start of a major infrastructure project between the EU and the UK.

Not all is as it seems

The camp's demolition began at around 14:00 BST on Tuesday, with workers taking sledgehammers and diggers to the wooden shacks. About 2,000 people left voluntarily on Monday 24 October, and hundreds more followed on day two. By midday on Tuesday, another 16 buses had left, carrying 656 people. The Calais police commissioner says the camp will be fully cleared by Friday 28 October. Police expect only about 200 people to try and stay.

Comment: See also Joe Quinn's interview with PressTV on the subject, which speaks to the heart of the matter discussed in the above article:



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Cult

How will the Killary-bots bury this one: New emails found - FBI to reopen Clinton investigation


RT
Fri, 28 Oct 2016 17:46 UTC
Hillary Clinton
The FBI has learned of more emails involving Hillary Clinton's private email server while she headed the State Department, FBI Director James Comey told several members of Congress, telling them he is reopening the investigation.

"In connection with an unrelated case, the FBI has learned of the existence of email that appear to be pertinent" to Clinton's investigation, Comey wrote to the chairs of several relevant congressional committees, adding that he was briefed about the messages on Thursday. "I agree that the FBI should take appropriate investigative steps designed to allow investigators to review these emails to determine whether they contain classified information, as well as to assess their importance to our investigation."


The FBI director cautioned, however, that the bureau has yet to assess the importance of the material, and that he doesn't know how long that will take.
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