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Turkmenistan is seeking to revive energy partnership with Russia

Sergie Blagov
Asia Times
Mon, 07 Nov 2016 18:52 UTC
President of Turkmenistan Gurbanguly Berdimuhamedov
© AFP 2016/ ATTILA KISBENEDEKPresident of Turkmenistan Gurbanguly Berdimuhamedov
Turkmenistan, the most reclusive nation in Central Asia, moved to revive relations with Russia. However, both nations seem to remain slow to find common grounds on energy and security issues.

This week, Turkmenistan's President Gurbanguly Berdymukhamedov traveled to Russia seeking revival of bilateral ties. During a meeting with President Vladimir Putin on November 1, Berdymukhamedov hailed relations of "strategic partnership" between Russia and Turkmenistan. In a perceived exercise of Central Asian flattery, Berdymukhamedov promised to remain a reliable partner of "great Russia."

In response, Putin noted remaining "unsolved issued" in relations between Russia and Turkmenistan. He also said that bilateral trade was down if calculated in US dollars, but refrained from disclosing any numbers.

Turkmenistan's president's trip to Russia came after a long hiatus. Berdymukhamedov last visited Russia in December 2011, and traveled to the Caspian summit in Astrakhan, Southern Russia, in September 2014. In contrast, this year Putin held eight bilateral meetings with Kazakhstan's President Nursultan Nazarbayev.

Comment: Turkmen President to Visit Russia on Nov. 1 for Talks With Putin - Kremlin
Kremlin's press service said that President of Turkmenistan ill visit Russia for talks with Vladimir Putin on November 1.

President of Turkmenistan Gurbanguly Berdimuhamedov will visit Russia for talks with President Vladimir Putin on November 1, the Kremlin said Monday.

"On November, 1 President of Turkmenistan Gurbanguly Berdimuhamedov will pay a working visit to Russia at the invitation of Russian President Vladimir Putin," the Kremlin's press service said.

The two leaders are expected to discuss key issues of bilateral cooperation and exchange views on regional issues, it adds.


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Article 50 Brexit bill in draft by Theresa May's ministers


RT
Mon, 07 Nov 2016 13:47 UTC
London Big Ben
© ESB Professional/ShutterstockThe "Brexit' bridge, Article 50.
Prime Minister Theresa May has already got her ministers preparing the first draft of a bill to trigger Article 50, which will kick off the two-year process for leaving the EU, following a High Court ruling that Brexit must be put to a parliamentary vote. Senior government sources told Sky news that Downing Street has begun work on a draft bill in order to push the legislation through parliament before May's self-imposed March 2017 deadline for invoking Article 50.

Primary legislation could take six weeks to clear both Houses of Parliament and is subject to amendments, which could lead to significant delays. Downing Street has said it plans to appeal last week's High Court decision, but declined to say whether ministers are drafting the legislation to be put before parliament in case it loses its Supreme Court appeal.

On Monday, Shadow Brexit Secretary Keir Starmer said Labour would not block a Brexit bill, but called for greater transparency from the government on the process of withdrawing from the EU. "We will not frustrate the process by simply voting down Article 50, but we're absolutely clear that before we get to that stage the government must put its plan before Parliament," he told BBC Radio 4.

"We can't have a vote in a vacuum, and we can't proceed with this approach where the prime minister says 'I hold all the cards for the future of the UK in Europe and its relationship with Europe, and indeed in the world, and I'm not going to disclose even the basic terms of our departure.' So of course we need that discussion."

Comment: May is confident she can overturn a court decision posed to delay Brexit. Trotting out "the will of the people" (always convenient when politicians need it) her goal is March 2017 which requires Britain to "follow their leader."

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Wikileaks: Interview questions for Trump and Cruz were DNC-CNN collusion

Daniel Chaitin
Washington Examiner
Sun, 06 Nov 2016 10:38 UTC
Wolf Blitzer and Donald Trump
© www.hultonarchive.comWolf Blitzer and Donald Trump
Newly released emails from WikiLeaks suggest that the Democratic National Committee colluded with CNN in devising questions in April to be asked of then-Republican primary candidate Donald Trump in an upcoming interview. In an email to DNC colleagues on April 25 with the headline "Trump Questions for CNN," a DNC official with the email username DillonL@dnc.org asked for ideas for an interview to be conducted by CNN anchor Wolf Blitzer.
"Wolf Blitzer is interviewing Trump on Tues ahead of his foreign policy address on Wed. ... Please send me thoughts by 10:30 AM tomorrow."
The sender of the email would seem to be DNC Research Director Lauren Dillon, who was identified in previous reports of DNC emails released by WikiLeaks in July.

Several hours after the first email was sent, Dillon said in a follow-up email that the interview had been cancelled, "as of now," but shared a list of questions thought up by the DNC that she said could be used for the next interview.

Some of the questions included: "Who helped you write the foreign policy speech you're giving tomorrow? Which advisors specifically did you talk to? What advice did they give you? Did they give you any advice that you chose not to take?" Others explored Saudi Arabia's alleged involvement in the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks, a pre-preemptive strike against North Korea and court-martials for members of the military who didn't follow orders.

Comment: When does the ongoing pile-up of misdeeds, corruption, collusion, treason come to accountability? When is integrity, honor and that little old thingy "justice for all" going to kick in? For shame, America...You're Fired!

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Desperate Democrats: Trump surge brings out violence against his supporters, attacks on his backers

Matthew Vadum
PoliZette
Sat, 05 Nov 2016 10:30 UTC
trump rally 2 guys
© Mother Jones
As Election Day nears and the GOP nominee rises [in the polls], attacks on his backers, signs and buildings are escalating... Physical attacks on Donald Trump supporters and their personal property appear to be growing increasingly common as Election Day approaches and passions intensify.

As LifeZette recently reported, there was a foiled assassination attempt at a Trump rally and many Trump supporters have been beaten up or hit with flying objects throughout the course of the fall campaign. While the mainstream media has relentlessly promoted Hillary Clinton's candidacy, it has largely ignored or downplayed these violent attacks against supporters of Donald Trump.


Comment: Killary's desperation campaign is pulling out all stops to smear Trump, a 'sign' it is running scared.

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Podesta: 'Leakers should shut up', chastises FBI probe into Killary's emails


RT
Sun, 06 Nov 2016 21:26 UTC
Kil and John P
© Your News Wire
The chairman of Hillary Clinton's campaign, John Podesta, has harshly criticized the FBI chief's recent announcement of a new investigation into his candidate's private email server. Podesta said letting the public know of what's going on before the election was a "mistake." "I think what [FBI director] Mr. Comey did just nine days ago was a mistake," Clinton's campaign chairman said on Sunday in an interview with NBC News' Meet the Press.

When asked whether the agency's revelation benefited their rival, Republicans' Donald Trump, Podesta said he had "never questioned his [Comey's] motivation," but claimed it had a certain purpose. "It broke with precedent, there is a reason for that policy, it looked like it was interfering with the election," he said, adding: "I think the men and women of the FBI are doing a tremendous job out here across the country, but the leakers should shut up."

In late October, Director Comey revealed that after his agency had learned of new emails involving Hillary Clinton's private email server during her time as a Secretary of State, it would "take appropriate investigative steps." The news prompted one US Democratic senator, Tim Ryan, to allege that it was Moscow who might be behind the new leak that caused the reopening of the FBI probe.

Comment: Suppression is the inoperative word here. The FBI is no longer able to suppress what they know about Killary and cohorts. Killary and cohorts are no longer able to suppress their illegal and treasonous behavior. Interesting times. Like watching a political bomb go off in slow motion!

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Lord Richards: Backs Trump, trashes Clinton, sides with Russia

Alexander Mercouris
The Duran
Sun, 06 Nov 2016 00:00 UTC
Sir David Richards
© BFBS.comSir David Richards, former Commander in Chief, Land Forces British Army
Former Chief of British Defence Staff calls for dialogue with the Russians, rejects idea of no fly zone in Syria as threatening war, says Jihadis should be told to leave Aleppo, and calls for alliance with the Russians against ISIS.

Lord Richards of Herstmonceux, who has been successively Commander in Chief, Land Forces of the British Army, Chief of the British Army's General Staff, and from October 2010 to July 2013 Chief of the Defence Staff (ie. the professional head of the British armed forces), has broken ranks with the British political class's antipathy to Russia, and has called for the US and Britain to agree to the Syrian government's recapture of eastern Aleppo.

Lord Richards's comments, made in a parliamentary debate in the House of Lords where he sits as an independent, could not be clearer. Since they are so unusual I reproduce them in full as they have been provided by the Independent newspaper.

Firstly Lord Richards criticised the present ideological crusade against Russia, and spoke of Donald Trump as someone who as President might restore dialogue with Russia, thereby securing world peace.

Comment: The West keeps stalling, looking for that mythic 'middle road', as a way to postpone what they must know will be a Syrian-Russian victory. Lord Richards has made good points. If he truly has the military's position, it explains the reluctance of the US and West to order their own soldiers into Syria. They won't go willingly, and for what objective.

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Best of the Web: The seven Furies challenging the Western Empire: China, Russia, Iran, Venezuela, Philippines, Yemen and populist movements everywhere

James Petras
The James Petras Website
Sun, 06 Nov 2016 16:49 UTC
furies
The Furies take on the scourge of the American Empire.
'Nemesis, Winged balancer of life, dark-faced goddess, daughter of Justice'

Introduction

Seven is a winning throw of the dice. But in our civil society, seven now signifies the multi-thong scourge, the whip used by the Western world as its instrument of punishment and, in response; seven signifies Nemesis and her sisters, the inescapable agents of the West's downfall.

The seven scourges of the Western world are used against the people of Asia, Africa, Latin and North America. These whips are constructed, wielded and unleashed especially by the US and the UK.

The seven sisters of Nemesis, the Erinyes, are the Furies who pursue the injustices committed by the Western world against Asia, Latin America, Africa and Europe. Those holding the scourge detest and fear Nemesis and the Furies, but are incapable of destroying them. Try as they might, their whip is in corrupt and feeble hands and, of course, it can only follow their orders: Otherwise, it just twitches and remains immobile, while Nemesis pursues the scourgers of humanity.
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ALBA Social Movements condemn attacks on Brazil's Landless Workers' Movement


The Bullet
Sun, 06 Nov 2016 00:00 UTC
Attack on MST
© Global ResearchBrazilian military and police attack on Florestan Fernandes National School
On the morning of November 4th, 2016, Brazilian military and civilian police used violent force to storm Brazil's, Landless Workers Movement's (MST) Florestan Fernandes National School (ENFF) in Guararema, outside of Sao Paulo in Brazil. According to several witnesses, the police stormed their way into the facility by forcing their way through the main gate shooting live bullets, and threatening people.

As a founding member of Via Campesina, the MST has worldwide recognition as an important peasant social movement, with a commitment to the protection of rural communities and workers and the struggle for land reform. The Florestan Fernandes school has been committed to building social consciousness and popular unity for over 10 years. Hundreds of students are currently studying at the ENFF which is administered by the MST to provide political and socioeconomic education to working class youth and adults from around the world.

Criminalization of Social Protest

The act is clearly a violent action taken by the current illegitimate government to intimidate the MST and their allies, who stand in clear opposition to the administration of Michel Temer, who led the parliamentary coup against elected president Dilma Rousseff and took control of the government in August of this year. The attack is part of a broader policy of criminalization of social protest and attacks against the MST.

The campaign of terror against the MST has already left its mark on two other states in Brazil: Parana and Mato Grosso do Sul, where civil police arrested members of the MST calling them members of criminal organizations, despite the Supreme Court of Brazil recognizing the MST as a legitimate organization.

Comment: This attack on the Florestan Fernandes National School has all the earmarks of a fully operational police-state under the authority of corruption lord Michel Temer.

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Peskov: The Western military alliance was established not for peace-building, but exactly for aggressive actions


RT
Mon, 07 Nov 2016 17:49 UTC
Units from NATO allied countries take part in the NATO Noble Jump 2015 exercises, part of testing and refinement of the Very High Readiness Joint Task Force (VJTF) in Swietoszow, Poland
© Anna Krasko / Agencja Gazeta / ReutersUnits from NATO allied countries take part in the NATO Noble Jump 2015 exercises, part of testing and refinement of the Very High Readiness Joint Task Force (VJTF) in Swietoszow, Poland
Reports of the new reinforcement of NATO troops close to Russia's borders show "the aggressive character of the organization," the Kremlin has said, commenting on recently announced preparations to deter an alleged Russian threat.

The Western military alliance was established "not for peace-building, but exactly for aggressive actions," Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov said on Monday. Despite the fact that blocs which opposed NATO no longer exist, it's impossible to change the alliance's "aggressive nature" due to its ideological and political bases.

Comment: See also: Peskov: NATO's massive build-up of forces is ridiculous, Russia not threatening anyone

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Russia, China sign mega trade deals, hope to see $200bln in trade per year in next 3-7 years


RT
Mon, 07 Nov 2016 16:38 UTC
keqiang medvedev
© Alexander Astafyev / SputnikRussian Prime Minister Dmitry Medvedev and Chinese Premier Li Keqiang at the document-signing ceremony following the 21st regular meeting of the heads of the Russian and Chinese government, St. Petersburg, November 7, 2016.
Economic cooperation between Russia and China is meeting expectations with more than $40 billion in trade this year, said Russian Prime Minister Dmitry Medvedev during a meeting with Chinese Premier Li Keqiang in St. Petersburg.

Moscow and Beijing will make additional efforts to increase trade to $200 billion in next 3-7 years, according to the Russian PM.

Medvedev says a preferential trade regime between the countries is being considered, which would increase the use of national currencies in settlements.

Li Keqiang is paying an official visit to Russia to discuss trade and investment ties, as well as cooperation in oil, gas and nuclear power.

Comment: They are also looking into financing the Western Europe-Western China Highway stretching from China through Kazakhstan and Russia to the Baltic Sea:
"We are going to discuss with the AIIB the possibility of funding the project called 'the Meridian.' As you know, it is a highway, which is set to link Western China to Western Europe," [Russian First Deputy Prime Minister Igor Shuvalov] said at a meeting of the Russia-China committee of entrepreneurs.
They are also planning to cooperate more closely on food and agriculture.

Russia is so isolated, we don't know how it can possibly cope.

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