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Commander of NORAD General Ralph Eberhart didn't follow 'standard operating procedure' on 9/11 - deflected blame on FAA

James Corbett
Corbett Report
Fri, 09 Sep 2016 00:00 UTC
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General Ralph Eberhart
According to the official story of September 11, 2001, four hijacked airliners flew wildly off course over the most sensitive airspace in the United States for 109 minutes without being intercepted by a single fighter jet. As Commander-in-Chief of the North American Aerospace Defense Command on 9/11, General Ralph Eberhart was in charge of the largest failure to defend North American airspace in history.

Rather than accepting blame for his command's complete lack of response that morning, however, or even expressing regret about what had occurred, General Eberhart instead spent the rest of his career attempting to pin the blame for this failure squarely on the FAA.
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UN team heard claims of 'staged' chemical attacks in Syria, pressured to find Assad gov't guilty of using them

Robert Parry
Consortium News
Thu, 08 Sep 2016 00:00 UTC
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© State Department photoU.S. Secretary of State John Kerry on Aug. 30, 2013, claims to have proof that the Syrian government was responsible for a chemical weapons attack on Aug. 21, 2013, but that evidence failed to materialize or was later discredited.
A widely touted U.N. report accusing the Syrian government of two chlorine-gas attacks relied on shaky evidence and brushed aside witness testimony that claimed some incidents were staged, reports Robert Parry.

United Nations investigators encountered evidence that alleged chemical weapons attacks by the Syrian military were staged by jihadist rebels and their supporters, but still decided to blame the government for two incidents in which chlorine was allegedly dispersed via improvised explosives dropped by helicopters.

In both cases, the Syrian government denied that it had any aircraft in the areas at the times of the purported attacks, but the U.N. team rejected that explanation with the curious argument that Syria failed to provide flight records to corroborate the absence of any flights. Yet, if there had been no flights, there would be no flight records.

The U.N. team also dismissed out of hand the possibility that jihadist rebels who had overrun some air bases and thus had operational helicopters at their disposal might have used them as part of a staged event designed to incriminate the Damascus regime and thus justify U.S. or other outside military intervention.
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Need more boots: Hundreds more US troops deploy to Iraq on eve of anticipated Mosul offensive


Sputnik
Fri, 09 Sep 2016 21:53 UTC
Mosul, Iraq
© AFP 2016/ MARWAN IBRAHIM
More than 400 additional US troops have arrived in Iraq in recent days as the battle for Mosul is expected to begin soon, a US defense official said Thursday.

Operation Inherent Resolve spokesman Colonel John Dorrian stated that there are 4,460 US troops in Iraq, compared to 4,000 a week ago, and that Iraqi security forces are preparing to reclaim Mosul. Dorrian did not specify what the US troops would be doing, but mentioned that they were setting up a logistics hub at the recaptured Qayyarah airbase to the south of Mosul, which will serve as a staging area for Iraqi forces.

Mosul, the second largest city in Iraq, was seized by Daesh two years ago. Since that time the violent extremist group has lost much of its territory in Iraq and Syria, but has retained control over Mosul and Raqqa.
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Feel the fear: Top US spies warn defeating IS won't end terror threat


RFE/RL
Fri, 09 Sep 2016 21:23 UTC
FBI Director James Comey
© Reuters
Even the defeat of the Islamic State (IS) militants in Iraq and Syria will not extinguish the extremist group's threat to the civilized world, top U.S. intelligence officials say.

"The threat that I think will dominate the next five years for the FBI will be the impact of the crushing of the caliphate, which will happen," FBI Director James Comey told a conference in Washington on September 8.

"Through the fingers of that crush are going to come hundreds of hardened killers, who are not going to die on the battlefield. They are going to flow out."

Comment: When you feed the monster, you might get bitten. But it's always the civilians that get harmed rather than the elites who created the monster.

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Bad Guys

Obama's final jihad in Asia: Securing submission from Asian vassals, pivoting American aggression in China's direction

Wayne Madsen
Strategic Culture Foundation
Tue, 06 Sep 2016 21:15 UTC
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President Barack Obama has opted to ratchet up military tensions in Asia as one of his last foreign policy acts as president of the United States. Using climate change and free trade backdrops at the G20 Summit in Hangzhou, China and the U.S.-ASEAN and East Asia Summits in Vientiane, Laos, as mirages intended to mask his aggressive military posture in the Asia-Pacific region, Obama seeks to cement his «pivot to Asia». It is Obama's sincere hope that his anticipated successor, his former Secretary of State, Hillary Clinton, will expand on the expansionistic and aggressive regional showdown with China and Russia that his administration launched with his Asia «pivot».

The ultra-protocol conscious Chinese threw diplomacy and decorum to the wind when Obama touched down at Hangzhou International Airport and his national security adviser Susan Rice and deputy national security adviser became embroiled in an argument with Chinese security personnel. When White House officials traveling with Obama began issuing orders to the Chinese personnel, one Chinese official yelled at them, «This is our country. This is our airport». It was as if the Chinese, realizing that this would be their last encounter with Obama as president, were letting him and his war hawk national security team know who was the boss as long as they were on Chinese soil. At least on the tarmac at Hangzhou International Airport, the Chinese swung Obama's Asia «pivot» back to China.
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False flags in the DRCongo: Massacres not the work of Islamists - U.S. seeks secession of E. Congo

Ann Garrison
Global Research
Thu, 08 Sep 2016 19:23 UTC
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Beni Territory sits in the Democratic Republic of the Congo's (DRC's) North Kivu Province, bordering Rwanda and Uganda. Rich in oil, timber, gold, diamonds, wolfram, coltan and cassiterite, Beni is a vivid example of the phrase, "Everybody wants a piece of Congo." Now the indigenous people of Beni are being massacred for their land and its riches.

The massacres in Beni Territory began in 2014. Estimates are that 60 people are killed every month. After the Aug. 13, 2016 massacres, the number of victims rose above 1,200.

There is little doubt that the massacres are occurring because Beni is so rich in resources essential to the manufacture of modern life in the industrialized nations. However, Boniface Musavuli, Congolese human rights defender and author of Congolese Genocides from Léopold II to Paul Kagame, says that the aggression has been falsely attributed to Ugandan Islamist rebels. The truth is, he said, that the killers are Rwandans and Ugandans who want to eliminate indigenous Congolese people.
"In reality, killers in Beni are individuals who are coming from Rwanda and neighboring Uganda. Their goal is to severely eliminate indigenous peoples in order to take ownership of their land, which is rich in resources."

Comment: Hmmm, sounds familiar.


Comment: It really would be handy if someone were to publish the "war on terror" strategy book leaders seem to be passing around to each other. The story is always the same.

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Mahmoud Abbas and the tale of KGB moles

Nikolai Gorshkov
Sputnik
Fri, 09 Sep 2016 20:50 UTC
Mahmoud Abbas
© AP Photo/ Misha Japaridze
Western media have been making the most of the claim that Mahmoud Abbas, the President of the Palestinian Authority, was a KGB agent in Damascus in the 1980s. The news broke on Israel's Channel 1 and was reported by major media outlets globally.

Israeli researchers with the Truman Institute at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Isabella Ginor and Gideon Remez said they came across a document implicating Abbas while studying the famed Mitrokhin archive, smuggled into Britain in 1992 by KGB defector Vasily Mitrokhin.

The document, deposited with the Churchill Archives Center in Cambridge, purportedly shows that Abbas, code-named "Krotov" (a Russian allusion to a mole), was recruited by the KGB in Damascus in 1983.
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SOTT Focus: SOTT News Snapshot: September 9, 2016 edition - Korean nukes, creepy clowns, and Syrian solutions


Sott.net
Fri, 09 Sep 2016 12:59 UTC
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Broncos linebacker Brandon Marshall kneels during the national anthem before Thursday's game with the Carolina Panthers.
Broncos linebacker Brandon Marshall has joined Colin Kaepernick (as well as Eric Reid and Jeremy Lane) in his courageous protest against racism and police brutality, kneeling during the national anthem while his teammates stood. After the game, he told reporters, "I'm not against the military, I'm not against the police or America. I'm just against social injustice." He plans to continue refusing to stand for the foreseeable future, and like Kaepernick, will disclose money to charities that help veterans.

Given the hysterical response to Kaepernick's relatively benign form of protest, Marshall will surely face a firestorm of criticism from ignorant fanatics. Thankfully, other NFL athletes plan to join the protest, and members of Jeremy Lane's team, the Seattle Seahawks, are reportedly planning to make a unified statement on Sunday's game with the Miami Dolphins. Linebacker Bobby Wagner: "Anything that we want to do, it's not going to be individual. It's going to be a team thing because that's what the world needs to see. The world needs to see people coming together versus being individuals."

The game will take place on September 11th. Hopefully they go through with it. The U.S., and the world by consequence, has descended even further into madness since that day. 9/11 convinced Americans that the threat to freedom comes from the outside. It doesn't. America has enough problems of its own. It's past time they were brought to light.
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Federal judge denies Sioux tribe request to halt Dakota Access pipeline construction


RT
Fri, 09 Sep 2016 19:44 UTC
Dakota protest
© Andrew Cullen / ReutersProtesters demonstrate against the Energy Transfer Partners' Dakota Access oil pipeline near the Standing Rock Sioux reservation in Cannon Ball, North Dakota, U.S. September 9, 2016.
A federal judge has denied the Standing Rock Sioux tribe's request for a temporary injunction to halt the construction of the Dakota Access pipeline.

In a one-page ruling issued by US District Judge James Boasberg in Washington, DC on Friday, described the government's relationship with the tribes as being "contentious and tragic."

The judge said the Army Corp of Engineers "has likely complied with the NHPA (National Historic Preservation Act) and that the Tribe has not shown it will suffer injury that would be prevented by any injunction."

Judge Boasberg ordered the parties to appear for a status conference on September 16, according to the Associated Press.

In its lawsuit filed in August, the tribe had challenged the Army Corps of Engineers' decision to grant permits at more than 200 water crossings for Dallas-based Energy Transfer Partners' $3.8 billion pipeline.

They argued the projected violated several federal laws, including the National Historic Preservation Act, and will harm water supplies. The tribe also says ancient sacred sites have been disturbed.

Comment: See also:
  • The Wall Street mega-banks backing the Dakota Pipeline
  • G4S admits it guards Dakota Pipeline as protesters get attacked by dogs


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Dominoes

India seeks more than $200 billion to expand its arsenal


Sputnik
Fri, 09 Sep 2016 09:18 UTC
Indian soldiers
© AFP 2016/ ROUF BHAT
For India to meet equipment and weapons requirements necessary to expand its military capabilities in the next eleven years the country will need about $233 billion. There is some doubt as to whether the funds can be raised in that time.

The equipment and weapons are listed in the Long Term Integrated Perspective Plan (LTIPP) for 2012-2027 and, according to Defense News, funding will be sourced chiefly through Capital Head, the Indian procurement budget. Defense spending will need to increase by at least 10 percent if the funding target is to be met.

Comment: Also, India plans to acquire Predator drones from US.

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