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Former Israeli Prime Minister Shimon Peres put into medically-induced coma


RT
Tue, 13 Sep 2016 18:46 UTC
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Shimon Peres, the former Prime Minister and President of Israel, has been put into a medically-induced coma at a hospital in eastern Tel Aviv, according to a statement from his office.

Peres's spokeswoman announced on Tuesday that the Israeli political heavyweight was rushed to the Sheba Medical Centre in Tel HaShomer after suffering a stroke, but said he was "stable and fully conscious" on Tuesday, AP reported.

Translation: "I wish former President Shimon Peres a speedy recovery. Shimon, we all love you and wish for your recovery".

Later, Reuters cited a statement from his office confirming that doctors had decided to put Peres into an induced coma.

Peres previously suffered a heart attack on January 14, 2016 and was admitted to hospital again two weeks later while suffering chest pains, but was released after two days.
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SOTT Focus: SOTT News Snapshot: September 13 edition - What is Israel doing in Syria? Are Killary's batteries running out?


Sott.net
Tue, 13 Sep 2016 14:37 UTC
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© Digital Globe/Foundation for Deep EcologyRandom revealing picture of the day: New Delhi, India, where many landfills are reaching a breaking point. The surrounding population of Delhi totals some 25 million people.
The Syrian ceasefire officially went into effect last night. The Russian General Staff reports the Syrian government has fully halted attacks on all but Daesh and Nusra areas. Early reports yesterday suggested "some reduction in violence", according to Kerry. German FM Steinmeier called it a "significant" reduction in violence. Today we have the same story: largely holding, only minor violations reported (e.g., rebels shelled army positions near the Castillo Road north of Aleppo - they even attacked Russian Marines during a live broadcast with the Russian Defense Ministry). Things are even reportedly calm in rebel-held east Aleppo -- somewhat surprising given the presence of Nusra there. And even the UK-based one-man anti-Assad psyop known as the "Syrian Observatory for Human Rights" is reporting that not a single civilian has been reported killed in the last 15 hours. SOHR focuses on civilian deaths allegedly caused by Syrian airstrikes, but as usual, he (it's just one guy) doesn't pay all that much attention to civilian deaths caused by rebels.

The Russian military reported 23 violations by rebel militants over the past day, shelling residential and army positions and causing 6 deaths in Aleppo and 10 wounded. Russia has called on the Syrian government not to respond to these provocations: "I ask everyone not to succumb to provocations, to carefully record all possible violations and send the data to the Russian Reconciliation Center," Russian General Staff official Viktor Poznikhir said.
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Lavrov advocates publishing US-Russia agreement on Syria to ensure both sides are in compliance


TASS
Tue, 13 Sep 2016 19:41 UTC
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The Russian foreign minister says Moscow suggests making the agreement public to ensure there are no doubts whether the sides comply with it

Moscow is for the publication of its agreement with the United States on Syria and for seeking its approval by the UN Security Council without any amendments, Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov has said.

"We hear Washington say it is not sure whether Russia will comply with the agreements in their original form, the way they were written down," Lavrov said. "This is a strange statement, especially if one bears in mind that the agreements incorporate the United States' reaffirmed obligations to separate terrorists from the moderate opposition."

The United States, he recalled, assumed that obligation early this year.

"Soon it will be twelve months since then. Nothing has been done. Moreover, there've been speculations the moderate opposition should not be separated from al-Nusra (outlawed in Russia - TASS), but legalized altogether and possibly, merged with ever more groups in order to create an effective force on the ground for resistance to the Syrian army," he said, adding that "all this will require a very frank discussion."

Comment: Washington refused to list Ahrar al-Sham among terrorist organizations, hasn't provided coordinates for Jabhat al-Nusra terrorists
The Russian Defense Ministry confirmed that Washington hasn't yet provided any information that allows for pinpointing the coordinates of Jabhat al-Nusra terrorists in Syria with precision.

Chief of the Russian Reconciliation Center at Hmeimeem Airbase Lt. Gen. Vladimir Savchenko said that the United States' failure to provide this information hinders the successful implementation of reconciliation in Syria, asserting that he was informed that the Syrian governmental forces are prepared to resume the truce regime and that the Syrian side are informed of the principles of the Russian-US agreements regarding Syria and gave its approval to implement them strictly.

Savchenko explained that the Coordination Center's main task is to guarantee the arrival of humanitarian aid convoys to affected areas, particularly in the eastern and western countryside of Aleppo, adding that the Center will monitor the implementation of the cessation of combat activities and work to set mechanisms for rebuilding infrastructure in Aleppo and other areas across Syria.

He also noted that 5 foreign states and 5 international organizations have voiced readiness to provide comprehensive support for Syrians in the humanitarian field.

On a relevant note, the General Staff of the Armed Forces of the Russian Federation announced that Russian military personnel have all the resources for monitoring the situation in areas covered by the cessation of combat activities, stressing the need for implementing the cessation completely which involves not to be provoked by breaches and to monitor any breaches with precision, adding that Russian military aircrafts will continue to target terrorists in Syria and that work is underway to establish a joint center to specify targets for Russian and American air forces.

Meanwhile, the Russian Foreign Ministry revealed that the United States refused to list Ahrar al-Cham among terrorist organizations despite Russia's calls to this effect, voicing concern that the organization will refuse to abide by the truce.

The Ministry said in a statement that the reaction of some armed groups illicit concerns, including Ahrar al-Cham which refused to abide by the Russian-American agreement.
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Israel and Facebook working together to decide what the masses can see and read

Glenn Greenwald
The Intercept
Mon, 12 Sep 2016 18:28 UTC
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Last week, a major censorship controversy erupted when Facebook began deleting all posts containing the iconic photograph of the Vietnamese "Napalm Girl" on the ground that it violated the company's ban on "child nudity." Facebook even deleted a post from the prime minister of Norway, who posted the photograph in protest of the censorship. As outrage spread, Facebook ultimately reversed itself — acknowledging "the history and global importance of this image in documenting a particular moment in time" — but this episode illustrated many of the dangers I've previously highlighted in having private tech companies like Facebook, Twitter, and Google become the arbiters of what we can and cannot see.

Having just resolved that censorship effort, Facebook seems to be vigorously courting another. The Associated Press reports today from Jerusalem that "the Israeli government and Facebook have agreed to work together to determine how to tackle incitement on the social media network." These meetings are taking place "as the government pushes ahead with legislative steps meant to force social networks to rein in content that Israel says incites violence." In other words, Israel is about to legislatively force Facebook to censor content deemed by Israeli officials to be improper, and Facebook appears eager to appease those threats by working directly with the Israeli government to determine what content should be censored.

The joint Facebook-Israel censorship efforts, needless to say, will be directed at Arabs, Muslims, and Palestinians who oppose Israeli occupation. The AP article makes that clear: "Israel has argued that a wave of violence with the Palestinians over the past year has been fueled by incitement, much of it spread on social media sites." As Alex Kane reported in The Intercept in June, Israel has begun actively surveilling Palestinians for the content of their Facebook posts and even arresting some for clear political speech. Israel's obsession with controlling Palestinians' use of social media is motivated by the way it has enabled political organizing by occupation opponents; as Kane wrote: "A demonstration against the Israeli occupation can be organized in a matter of hours, while the monitoring of Palestinians is made easier by the large digital footprint they leave on their laptops and mobile phones."
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Don't be fooled again: Presidential election is a circus to distract us from the ongoing devastation of the world by corporate elites

Chris Hedges
Truth Dig
Sun, 11 Sep 2016 17:50 UTC
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The naive hopes of Bernie Sanders' supporters—to build a grass-roots political movement, change the Democratic Party from within and push Hillary Clinton to the left—have failed. Clinton, aware that the liberal class and the left are not going to mount genuine resistance, is running as Mitt Romney in drag. The corporate elites across the political spectrum, Republican and Democrat, have gleefully united to anoint her president. All that remains of Sanders' "revolution" is a 501(c)(4) designed to raise money, including from wealthy, anonymous donors, to ensure that he will be a senator for life. Great historical events happen twice, as Karl Marx quipped, first as tragedy and then as farce.

The multibillion-dollar extravaganza of our electoral Circus Maximus is part of the smokescreen that covers the ongoing devastation of globalization, deindustrialization, trade deals such as the Trans-Pacific Partnership, endless war, climate change and the intrusion into every corner of our lives by the security and surveillance state. Our democracy is dead. Clinton and Donald Trump do not have the power or the interest to revive it. They kneel before the war machine, which consumes trillions of dollars to wage futile wars and bankroll a bloated military. To defy the fortress state is political suicide. Politicians are courtiers to Wall Street. The candidates mouth the clichés of justice, improvements in income equality and democratic choice, but it is a cynical game. Once it is over, the victors will go to Washington to work with the lobbyists and financial elites to carry out the real business of ruling.

While there is a difference in the temperament of the two major presidential candidates, that difference will play out only in how our poison will be delivered. Political personalities serve global corporate centers of power. They do not control them. Barack Obama illustrates this.
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Putting the ball in Kiev's court: Ukrainian separatist leaders announce unilateral cease-fire

AP
Yahoo! News
Tue, 13 Sep 2016 17:51 UTC
Ukrainian separatist leaders Aleksandr Zakharchenko (left) and Igor Plotnitsky
Ukrainian separatist leaders Aleksandr Zakharchenko (left) and Igor Plotnitsky.
Separatist leaders in eastern Ukraine on Tuesday announced a unilateral cease-fire starting at midnight Wednesday, which could be a major step in solving the conflict that has raged for more than two years.

The conflict between Russian-backed separatist rebels and Ukrainian government troops has killed more than 9,500 people since it began in April 2014. Ukraine and the separatists signed peace accords in Minsk, Belarus, last year but they were never fulfilled. What's more, the initial cease-fire has collapsed, turning an all-out war into a simmering conflict that nonetheless still claims lives.

Alexander Zakharchenko, rebel leader in Donetsk, made the cease-fire announcement in a recorded statement aired on Russian television on Tuesday, berating Kiev for a "lack of willingness to solve the problem in a peaceful manner."

Zakharchenko said he has ordered rebel troops to cease fire at midnight Wednesday and urged Ukraine to do the same.
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Under White House protection, CIA suppressed Senate torture probe, threatened congress members


RT
Mon, 12 Sep 2016 22:32 UTC
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A Senate report into the CIA's use of torture and its cover-up was heavily redacted and almost never published, with the Obama administration trying to protect the agency, its lead investigator has revealed for the first time. Daniel Jones, the Senate Intelligence Committee staffer who led the probe into the CIA's detention and interrogation program following 9/11, has revealed the drama behind the six-year effort in a three-part expose authored by Spencer Ackerman and published over the weekend by The Guardian.

From 2008 to 2014, Jones and his colleagues examined over 6.3 million CIA documents, eventually authoring a 6,700-page classified report concluding that the agency had lied about torture to two US presidents, Congress and the public.

Speaking to the media for the first time, he spoke of how the 525-page declassified executive summary almost came to be suppressed, and how the man who set him on his career path - Denis McDonough, the White House chief of staff - sided with the CIA in redacting some of the most relevant information from it. "They redacted all references to Allah," Jones said. "Like, really? Under what national security concern?"

Comment: CIA torture program whistleblower John Kiriakou: "Everything the CIA has told us about this program from the very beginning has been a lie.The CIA said they weren't torturing prisoners. That was a lie. The CIA said they were not sending people to third countries to undergo torture. That was a lie. The CIA said they were not sending people to secret prisons around the world. That was a lie. CIA Director John Brennan said he did not have his employees spy on Senate investigators. That was a lie."

So, even if the report is accurate and we can somehow miraculously fill in what all was redacted, what will ever come of it? The CIA has WH protection. Why? The CIA can 'take out' anyone/everyone it chooses. The CIA has not been held accountable, likely never will be. We will never know the depths and breadth of its operation -- a dangerous and irreversible concentration of power.

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CIA still covering up its involvement in Chile's 9/11 coup


teleSUR
Fri, 09 Sep 2016 00:00 UTC
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Though intelligence documents from the 1973 coup period have been declassified since 1999, the CIA continues to censor them. The CIA continues to withhold information on its involvement in the Sept. 11, 1973 coup that led to the death of President Salvador Allende in Chile, followed by a deadly dictatorship, according to documents posted Friday by the National Security Archive.

In the list of published documents, the section regarding Chile is censored. The President's Daily Briefs, the intelligence reports given daily to the U.S. president, in particular former President Richard Nixon days before Allende's death, were among those censored.

According to Peter Kornbluh, director of the Archive's Chile Documentation Project, censorship on this issue makes no sense since the intelligence agency has officially acknowledged its ties to those who plotted the coup from inside the Chilean military, and declassified several intelligence reports since. "The CIA is trying—but failing—to hold history hostage," Kornbluh said. "The CIA is attempting to cover up what Nixon knew about coup plotting in Chile and when he knew it, as well as hiding the CIA's own contacts and connections to the coup plotters."

Comment: We may never know the true extent of manipulation, destruction and evil perpetrated by the CIA and other such absolutes. They create their own necessity and protect it with self-appointed impunity. Untouchable.



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CNN's Russophobia problem

Dominic Basulto
A Medium Corporation
Sat, 10 Sep 2016 00:00 UTC
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CNN just absolutely exploded with Russophobia this week after Donald Trump's comments about Vladimir Putin in his Commander-in-Chief Forum interview with Matt Lauer. You had CNN prime time hosts like Erin Burnett and Anderson Cooper falling all over themselves to analyze the whole Donald Trump-Vladimir Putin bromance angle, with Burnett even calling Putin "Trump's obsession."

And it wasn't just Burnett and Cooper — you had normally level-headed political analysts like Gloria Borger and John King suggesting that Trump's comments about Russia and Putin were traitorous, unpatriotic and treasonous. And you had the very diligent Manu Raju trying to track down just about every Republican he could find in Washington, in order to ask them what they thought about Trump's Putin comments at the Commander-in-Chief Forum — a segment that included Senator John McCain escaping into an elevator while calling Putin "a murderer and a thug."

There's just one problem with this. It's not unpatriotic or treasonous if you support better U.S.-Russian relations. It's not unpatriotic or treasonous to suggest that the U.S. president needs to talk with his Russian counterpart. And it's not unpatriotic or treasonous to suggest that Russia might become an equal partner of the United States in helping to defeat ISIS. This isn't the Cold War era all over again, even if that's the narrative that the mainstream media crowd wants to run with these days. Maybe the folks at CNN and NBC have been watching too many episodes of "The Americans."

Comment: See also:
Russian expert Stephen Cohen: Trump wants to stop Cold War with Russia, but media just parrots Killary narrative

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Russian troops take up positions in Aleppo, Jihadis given ultimatum

Alexander Mercouris
The Duran
Tue, 13 Sep 2016 17:32 UTC
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Russian troops take positions along Castello road - the key road leading into Aleppo from the north - as Russian officials speak of Jihadi forces in eastern Aleppo evacuating the city.

Russia's official news agency TASS has confirmed that Russian troops are taking positions along the Aleppo road - the main road leading into Aleppo from the north, which was captured by the Syrian army in July.

At the news conference in Geneva on Sunday US Secretary of State Kerry confirmed that part of the agreement between the US and Russia for a ceasefire in Syria involved the 'demilitarisation' of the Castello road, to allow for humanitarian access into Aleppo. This is what Kerry said
".....this arrangement (the US-Russian agreement - AM) also requires forces from both sides to pull back from Castello Road - and we have agreed on that pullback. Castello Road is a major artery into Aleppo, and what this pullback will do is create a demilitarized zone around it, permitting as quickly as possible the resumption of humanitarian and civilian traffic along that road. And that will be achieved over a period of time by some monitoring, which is essential to the compliance."
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