Comment: Trump just made a few more friends, foreign and domestic. You can bet Killary and her neocon friends are steaming.

Update: Too good to be true? The interview did provoke some self-righteous paramoral indignation among Democrats:


But the Trump campaign says the interview never happened:

On Thursday, the Belgrade weekly Nedeljnik published what it said was an interview with Trump, under the headline "I apologize to Serbia." The five-question interview was supposedly answered via email, through Trump's campaign director in Indiana, the paper told US media.
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The interview was quickly noticed by the US magazine Newsweek, and soon thereafter by other media outlets. Newsweek quoted London-based professor Eric Gordy, who described the remarks as "another sign of (Trump's) alignment with Russia."

Hillary Clinton's campaign echoed Gordy in a statement shortly after noon on Thursday, accusing Trump of pushing "the talking points of his ally" Russian President Vladimir Putin. "While Hillary Clinton has stood up to Russia, Trump continues to pander to Putin," said Clinton's foreign policy adviser Laura Rosenberger.
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Marko Prelevic, one of the authors of the interview, told both Newsweek and BuzzFeed News that the questions were sent out by email and that the answers came back through Suzanne Jaworowski, head of the Trump-Pence campaign in Indiana. Contact with the campaign was established through Vladimir Rajcic, a Serbian-American actor, Prelevic said.

However, Jaworowski said the interview never happened. "There was no Trump interview on Serbia," she told Politico on Thursday afternoon. "I don't know where that came from. I never facilitated any kind of interview with a Serbian reporter."

"This was a hoax and we look forward to receiving a formal retraction and apology from all involved,"added Jason Miller, the campaign's senior communications adviser.

The quote about the bombing that Nedeljnik attributed to Trump sounded nearly identical to a quote the Serbian press has been reporting for almost a year, supposedly from a Larry King interview on CNN but without ever citing a source.

The only documented instance of Trump mentioning the Kosovo War is in his October 1999 appearance on Larry King's show, when he said, "I would have done it a little bit differently."

That the interview was fake, but the things said in it are true, things which led to many Americans accusing Trump of treason, says a LOT about how Russia is aligned with Truth, and America with The Big Lie.

Comment: See also Ry Dawson's debate analysis for ANC Report:

Comment: We hear endless fake stories in the MSM of the Syrians and Russians bombing hospitals. Here's a story we don't hear:

Comment: One of the world's longest conflicts sees no end in sight: World's longest conflict of Kashmir: 'We the people' should stand up.

Update: Pakistan claimed that India also suffered casualties in the fighting on Thursday - eight soldiers dead and one reportedly captured by the Pakistani army. India denied the report, adding that one soldier had "inadvertently" crossed the line of control. Pakistan also claims that the Indians never launched any "surgical strikes" on terrorist positions; the Indians stayed on their side of the line of control, but did engage in cross-border fire directed at Pakistani small arms and mortar positions for five hours. Pakistani general Bajwa:

"Where did all the dead bodies go?" he asked. "Where were the funerals? Why haven't the Indians produced any dead bodies if they took them back?"

"Where is the damage?" General Bajwa said of India's claims of "surgical strikes," adding that he welcomed an independent inquiry. "Our side is open to the United Nations observers and journalists."

Pakistan convened an emergency cabinet meeting on Friday regarding the deteriorating situation in Kashmir. India then evacuated its border region of some 10,000 villagers, citing fears of "military reprisals" from Pakistan for India's cross-border strikes.

Today, India has proven that its fight against terror is serious business indeed. Indian authorities have arrested a Pakistani pigeon carrying a mean letter written to Indian PM Modi, reading: "Modi Ji, do not consider us same people as we were during 1971 (Indo-Pak war). Now each and every child is ready to fight against India." Keep up the good fight, India. The world has had enough of pigeons.

Update (Oct. 13): Somewhat hilariously, the pigeon tale continues. Arrested on October 2, the anti-Modi-message-carrying pigeon has had its wings clipped to prevent it from flying back to Pakistan. An anonymous Indian police official told the Telegraph: "We have sent a preliminary report to the union home ministry, including an x-ray report of the bird, which did not reveal anything suspicious." The same official revealed that police aren't even sure that the pigeon is from Pakistan! Talk about hysteria...

Comment: The louder the claims of Russian hacking based on no proof, the louder the claims to nationally control the elections it seems. Russia has no need to hack the elections because neither candidate will be friendly towards Russia. The US should be more concerned about their own voting procedures and how they are easily rigged.

Comment: Hmmm... Air Force investigates outage of secret computer network at major drone base

Comment: It may very well be that the above, and other stories, are being propagated to scare the average Brit back into EU fold - and also lay blame on Brexit for further economic downturns that have nothing to do with Brexit (and everything to do with economic mismanagement).
See this for instance:

Britain's lowest earners, many of whom make just £7.20 ($8.83) an hour, will see their salaries plummet as Brexit triggers an economic downturn, experts warn.

According to a new report by the Resolution Foundation, leaving the European Union will hit increases to the national living wage, slowing down growth and setting back living standards far below current predictions for the coming years.

The newly established National Living Wage (NLW) will rise to £7.50 ($9.15) an hour - 10p ($0.12) lower than expected.

"While there is much uncertainty over Britain's long-term economic outlook, most economists agree that wage growth in the next few years is likely to be weaker than expected prior to the referendum,"said the think tank's policy analyst Conor D'Arcy.

"An increase to around £7.50 will deliver a welcome annual pay rise of up to £600 for full-time staff. Though that's less than the £800 raise previously forecast."

But former Chancellor George Osborne's previous aim to lift the NWL to £9 ($10.98) by 2020 is now well off the mark. A more likely scenario would see minimum pay reach £8.20 an hour ($10) by the end of parliament.

"Ambitious policy announcements need equally ambitious implementation plans to make them a success. With over four million workers set to be earning the new legal minimum by 2020, ministers need to work closely with employers to ensure that they're not just able to pay the legal minimum, but can offer staff a route out of low pay altogether," D'Arcy added.

If no further drops are registered in the NLW, an estimated 800,000 workers could be helped out of low pay by 2020. Yet the current number of low wage workers in Britain is nearly six million - three in every five of which are women.

Shadow Chief Secretary to the Treasury Rebecca Long-Bailey commented that the "uncertainty" resulting from the Tories' "lack of plan for Brexit" was affecting the most vulnerable workers in Britain.

"This prediction that we will see a smaller living wage rise next year is bad news for workers who are already worried about their future due to a chaotic Tory Brexit and the impact this could have on our economy," she added.

Comment:

• Spreading death: U.S. military building a $100 million drone base in Niger
• Destroying Africa: US conducts secret drone war through network of African bases

Comment: And there is so much more being revealed from the WikiLeaks data dumps:

• 'Clintons won't forget what their friends have done': WikiLeaks release 6th batch of Podesta emails
• Killary hates everyday Americans' and 9 other revelations from leaked Podesta e-mails
• Wikileaks emails: Clinton insiders whine that American sheeple have grown 'non-compliant', despite attempts to keep them docile and submissive
• Second WikiLeaks email dump from Killary campaign chair - Bill's sex life causes 'problems', bratty Chelsea, and stressed-out suicidal Clinton staffer
• A real life 'House of Cards': The most striking WikiLeaks revelations from the 'Podesta Files'

Comment: Iraq would like to keep Mosul a part of Iraq - while Turkey, the US and other countries have different plans for it...

See: SOTT Exclusive: Turkey-Iraq tensions on the rise as battle for Mosul inches closer

Update: According to one of Sputnik's "diplomatic sources", here's the story behind the U.S. response:

The United States asked Iraq to postpone requests for setting a specific date at the UN Security Council to discuss the Turkish intervention in Iraq, because they will handle the issue and call on Turkey to withdraw its troops immediately from Iraq.

Well, it doesn't look like Turkey has backed off an inch. But then again, a UNSC date hasn't been set either.