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Lavrov calls US claims that Russia employs Snowden "just nonsense"


Sputnik
Sun, 09 Oct 2016 14:23 UTC
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Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov called US accusations of Russia employing former National Security Agency (NSA) contractor Edward Snowden "just nonsense."

The US accusations of Russia employing former National Security Agency (NSA) contractor Edward Snowden are groundless, Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov said.

"We did everything to contain our conflicts [with the US]...Then there was an incomprehensible offense... at the situation with Snowden. We were accused of recruiting him... This is just nonsense. Everybody knows it," Lavrov told Russia's Channel One in an interview.

Comment: Anti-Russia witch hunt to cover-up (real) DNC scandal-US media lies

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Joint drills to be held by Russian and Egyptian paratroopers


Middle East Monitor
Tue, 04 Oct 2016 16:46 UTC
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Egyptian forces in the Sinai Peninsula, October 27, 2014
For the first time in history, Russian paratroopers are to take part in joint drills with their Egyptian counterparts in Africa, Sputnik news agency reported the Russian defence ministry saying yesterday.

According to Sputnik, the Russian paratroopers, who are expected to leave for Egypt this month, will be using their own equipment.

"For the first time in history a Russian paratrooper unit with its own weaponry and equipment is planning to leave for Africa to participate in a joint international exercise," a statement of the Russian defence ministry said.
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During the darkest period in America's recent history 22 million emails were "lost" by the George Bush White House

Nina Burleigh
newsweek.com
Sat, 08 Oct 2016 19:50 UTC
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© Kevin Lamaroque/REUTERSU.S. President George W. Bush holds a news conference in the briefing room of the White House in Washington July 15, 2008.
For 18 months, Republican strategists, political pundits, reporters and Americans who follow them have been pursuing Hillary Clinton's personal email habits, and no evidence of a crime has been found. But now they at least have the skills and interest to focus on a much larger and deeper email conspiracy, one involving war, lies, a private server run by the Republican Party and contempt of Congress citations—all of it still unsolved and unpunished.

Clinton's email habits look positively transparent when compared with the subpoena-dodging, email-hiding, private-server-using George W. Bush administration. Between 2003 and 2009, the Bush White House "lost" 22 million emails. This correspondence included millions of emails written during the darkest period in America's recent history, when the Bush administration was ginning up support for what turned out to be a disastrous war in Iraq with false claims that the country possessed weapons of mass destruction (WMD), and, later, when it was firing U.S. attorneys for political reasons.

Comment: Clinton's email habits look positively transparent?!
At this point, we can only guess why Clinton and her staff chose not to use official systems. And the most obvious guess at this point is a fear of transparency. Congressional oversight committees, FOIA-demanding journalists, diligent historians, and even everyday citizens have more ways than ever to monitor the work of public officials and to acquire records of their correspondence, budgets, and all manner of comings and goings.


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15 years on: What is the US legacy in Afghanistan?

Catherine Shakdam
RT
Sat, 08 Oct 2016 15:54 UTC
Taliban militants are seen with their weapons in an undisclosed location in Afghanistan
© Stringer / Reuters
Afghanistan, it has been said, is the place where empires come to die. And while we might still fail to grasp all the geopolitical entanglements of this Afghan War, it is clear America overestimated its ability to project power in Central Asia.

Fifteen years on and Washington is no closer to a resolution in Afghanistan. Actually, the situation is much worse than that: 15 years on and America has lost all of its bearings; drowned in the middle of a furious geopolitical realignment it could not foresee, and yet managed to bring about.

But what did exactly happen, and more importantly still, why Afghanistan?
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Leaks and counter-leaks: Clinton and Trump more unpopular than Putin among American voters

Bernhard
Moon of Alabama
Sun, 09 Oct 2016 16:07 UTC
The tape of Trump talking dirty was released just in time to sidetrack from the release of more of Clinton's dirty secrets by Wikileaks. Trump's talk was juvenile and sexist bragging in front of other "boys". Surprising it was not. There will be more releases like that, all timed to run cover for Clinton.

The just released emails of her campaign chairman John Podesta about Clinton's talk to Wall Street and other Clinton related issues are indeed revealing. She is the sell-out you would expect her to be:
*CLINTON SAYS YOU NEED TO HAVE A PRIVATE AND PUBLIC POSITION ON POLICY*

Clinton: "But if everybody's watching, you know, all of the back room discussions and the deals, you know, then people get a little nervous, to say the least. So, you need both a public and a private position."
It is funny how the U.S. electorate has a deeper "very negative" view of Trump (-44%) and Clinton (-41%) than of the much vilified Russian President Putin (-38%).
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Comment: Further reading:

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The tweets fly in the sex scandal drudge match between Trump and the Clintons

Alex Christoforou
The Duran
Sun, 09 Oct 2016 15:55 UTC
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The Clinton Campaign dropped an October scandal on the Trump campaign.

No doubt Clinton had this recording for months, maybe years in advance and was waiting for the right time to unload it in order to dismantle Trump bid for the US Presidency.

Unfortunately for the Clinton's, when they decided to get into a "sex scandal" grudge match with Donald Trump, the Clinton campaign seems to have forgotten that sex scandals are synonymous with the name Bill and Hillary Clinton.

Get ready for some ghosts of Clinton days past to start making their appearance.

First we have Melania coming out in defense of her husband...and folks do not feel sorry for Melania, she knows exactly what she signed up for when she married Donald Trump.

Comment: Will the Clinton campaign's tactics backfire? After all, people who live in glass houses shouldn't throw stones.

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The despicable and heinous timeline of Gaddafi's murder

Chris Welaenbach
Counterpunch
Wed, 05 Oct 2016 00:00 UTC
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Jean-Paul Pougala's April 14, 2011 piece in Pambazuka News titled "The Lies Behind the West's War on Libya" describes how Africa first developed its own transcontinental communications system by purchasing a telecommunications satellite on December 26, 2007: the African Development Bank ponied up $50 million toward the nearly $400 million cost of the orbiter and the West African Development Bank added $27 million more. Libya contributed $300 million, which made the purchase possible. Pougala writes that when it was up and running, the new system was "connecting the entire continent by telephone, television, radio broadcasting, and several other technological applications such as telemedicine and distance teaching."

After 14 years of foot-dragging by the IMF and the World Bank, Libyan leader Muammar Gaddafi's generosity allowed for this one-time purchase that spared the nations of Africa a $500 million annual lease payment for access to a telecom satellite and euchred Western banks out of potential billions in loans and interest. At this time, Gaddafi was also seeking to establish a trans-African banking system based on gold to free the continent from its financial bondage to the IMF and the World Bank—which would gravely harm both predatory entities.

Since 2003, Gaddafi had worked hard to repair his reputation for financing terrorism by renouncing any future support for terrorist organizations and by establishing a fund to compensate victims of Pan Am Flight 103 and UTA Flight 772, each destroyed by acts of terror believed to have been financed by Libya. On December 10, 2007 Gaddafi traveled to France for a pow-wow with then-President Nicolas Sarkozy.


Comment: Gaddafi took these measures knowing full well that the Flight 103 terrorist attack was likely a false flag operation designed to pin the blame on and to demonize him - a strategy we see today with flight MH17 and the West's villification of Russia.

Comment: The parallels between what occurred in Libya - and what we are now seeing attempted in Syria by the US and the West - are numerous. Syria, Russia and Iran are now not only fighting for their very existence, but having learned the lessons of Libya, have drawn their own line against the types of aggression that are threatening most of the world at this time.

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SOTT Focus: The Truth Perspective: Thirty-plus years of Visas for Al-Qaeda: Interview with J. Michael Springmann


Sott.net
Sun, 09 Oct 2016 16:00 UTC
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J. Michael Springmann worked for the State Department in the 1980s, in Saudi Arabia. What he witnessed and experienced did not make much sense at the time, but what he later learned put it all in context, and helped to explain the entire course of U.S. foreign policy for the next 30 years. In short, just as the CIA provided funding and training for radical Mujahideen to fight the Soviets in Afghanistan, they have been doing the same thing ever since. Prior to 9/11, this legion of foreign fighters was used to destabilize and destroy Yugoslavia. Afterward, Iraq, Libya, and today Syria.

For this entire period of time, al-Qaeda has been a fighting force for America, a fact that has been known for years, but which is only now going mainstream due to American failures and Russian successes in Syria.

Today, we interview Mr. Springmann about his time at the consulate in Jeddah, and the events that led him to blow the whistle and expose the reality of the U.S.'s creation and support of terrorism around the globe.

You can visit Mr. Springmann's website here: michaelspringmann.com

His book is Visas for al-Qaeda: CIA Handouts That Rocked the World

In the second hour of the show, we discussed the latest Trump and Clinton leaks, and how they reveal what everyone should have already known: politicians are two-faced and corrupt, and fairly unsavory individuals. Brent closed the show with another Police State Round-up on police un-accountability.

Running Time: 02:04:03

Download: MP3


Here's the transcript of the show:
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SOTT Focus: Russia Checkmates US in Syria: Expect More Terrorism, Not Nuclear War

Joe Quinn
Sott.net
Thu, 06 Oct 2016 22:58 UTC
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© Sputnik/Andrey Stenin
If you happen to be a member of the 'international community' - i.e., if you live in North America, Europe or Australia/New Zealand - you may have noticed a subtle shift in recent years in what you 'know' about Russia and its president, Vladimir Putin. From being just another country that you might like to visit one day, Russia and its leader have been transformed into the source of much of the world's problems.

From 'Russian aggression in Europe' to 'annexing Crimea and fomenting civil war in Ukraine' to 'shooting down passenger planes' to 'hacking American democracy' to 'bombing innocent civilians and hospitals' (and bunny rabbits) to 'creating the European refugee crisis' to having a monopoly on 'state-sponsored doping' and 'supporting terrorists in Syria', there doesn't seem to be much that Russia hasn't done to royally screw up the planet.

Of course, the astute reader will have noticed that most of these allegations come from American politicians, political pundits and newspapers.

In recent weeks, the level of anti-Russian vitriol coming out of places like the US State Department has reached such a pitch that we all might be excused for taking up yoga in anticipation of the moment when we must perform the necessary maneuver to kiss our collective arse goodbye in a global nuclear conflagration.

But the existential threat of a 'hot war' between Russia and the USA is more the stuff of nightmares and propaganda than reality. The reality is that the 'exceptional' USA is all out of options, including nuclear, when it comes to impeding Russia's emergence as a major world power with global influence.
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Turkish MP believes Putin's 'strategic' visit to Turkey may help Moscow, Ankara bring peace to Syria


Sputnik
Sun, 09 Oct 2016 13:44 UTC
Putin and Erdogan
© Sputnik/ Michael Klimentyev
Russian President Vladimir Putin is scheduled to visit Turkey for the first time since the relations between two nations soured following the downing of a Russian bomber over Syria by a Turkish fighter jet.

On October 10 Russian President Vladimir Putin is expected to meet with Turkey's President Recep Tayyip Erdogan, and to deliver a speech at the World Energy Congress, which is being held in Istanbul.

The two leaders will discuss the current events in the Middle East and in Syria, as well as bilateral relations between Turkey and Russia and joint energy projects, including the potential revival of the suspended Turkish Stream natural gas pipeline.


Comment: Rapprochement? Vladimir Putin to meet Erdogan in Istanbul despite continued Syria differences


Comment: Çonkar sounds hopeful but thinking the US would adhere to any 'conflict resolution plan' that doesn't play into the US agenda is wishful thinking.

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