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Why did Putin say no to more airstrikes in Aleppo?

Alexander Mercouris
The Duran
Fri, 28 Oct 2016 18:31 UTC
Putin
The big event in Aleppo on 28th October 2016 was the Al-Qaeda led Jihadi counter-offensive intended to break the siege of the Jihadi controlled eastern districts of the city.

The Russian military is reporting that it has failed to make much headway, and this seems to be confirmed by reports from the city. If so Putin may be calculating that air support from the Russian air force for the moment simply isn't needed, though he is trying to cover his position by giving the Russian military the option to intervene immediately if the situation changes.

Whilst that makes a kind of sense, it still begs many questions.
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Professor who's correctly called every presidential election since 1984 predicts Trump will win

Caitlin Dickson
Yahoo! News
Sat, 29 Oct 2016 00:00 UTC
Donald Trump
© AP/Evan VucciDonald Trump speaks during a campaign rally.
Hillary Clinton may still be ahead in most national polls, but at least one expert remains convinced that Donald Trump will be our next president.

American University Professor Allen J. Lichtman, who has accurately predicted the winner of every presidential election since 1984, first forecast a victory for the GOP nominee during an interview with the Washington Post last month. Granted, this was before the release of the now-infamous "Access Hollywood" tape, followed by mounting allegations of sexual misconduct, which Trump has attempted to counter with claims that the election is rigged and that the media is conspiring against him. Meanwhile, the tense presidential debates concluded with the suggestion from Trump that he might not accept the outcome of the election if he is not the winner.

Despite all this, however, Lichtman has not wavered from his prediction.

Comment: Also read: Professor who has predicted 30 years of presidential outcomes correctly says Trump is headed for a win

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NATO butts in on Turkey-Russia rapprochement


Indian Punchline
Wed, 26 Oct 2016 00:00 UTC
Putin Erdogan
© Unknown
The Secretary-General of the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) Jens Stoltenberg in his 'doorstep statement' today on the 2-day meeting of the alliance's defence ministers in Brussels said, inter alia, that an agenda item concerns "making progress on plans" for more NATO presence in the Black Sea region. He cited Russia's belligerence as the rationale for such move. Interestingly, there was much emphasis on the Russian operations in Syria in Stoltenberg's media briefing. (Transcript)

Prima facie, Syria is not 'NATO territory', but a linkage is being established between NATO posturing toward Russia and the latter's military presence in Syria. This can only happen at the behest of the United States, because Stoltenberg wouldn't even sneeze sans green signal from Washington.

Of course, generally speaking, boosting the 'enemy' image of Russia is useful and necessary for Washington to keep the alliance going, since the member countries are otherwise loathe to increase their defence budgets to 2% of GDP. The US also calibrates the NATO posturing toward Russia to curb any proximity developing between individual European countries and Moscow at the bilateral level as well as to ensure that the sanctions against Russia will remain in place.

Comment: See also:

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Bad Guys

Killary caught red handed suggesting US should rig a foreign election. Can she blame this on the Russians?

Danielle Ryan
RT
Sun, 30 Oct 2016 10:23 UTC
killary
© Carlos Barria / Reuters
Hillary Clinton has spent a disproportionate amount of time lately complaining — without evidence — about "the Russians" interfering with the US election. But it turns out that interfering in foreign elections is totally fine if you're the United States.

Clinton has used this notion of Russian interference as a non-stop talking point throughout her campaign. Any and all scandals she has faced have been blamed on Moscow, and she has used alleged Russian involvement as a convenient distraction. Her supporters have enthusiastically adopted the talking point. In light of the FBI's decision to reopen the investigation into her use of a private email server, one congressman actually suggested that Russia may be behind the FBI's decision. Yes, Russia has now infiltrated the FBI, which is working with Vladimir Putin to elect Trump and destroy Hillary. It's all a massive conspiracy.
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US Elections 2016: Hillary Clinton aide Huma Abedin and her connections to terrorists


You Tube
Mon, 24 Oct 2016 00:00 UTC

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Laptop

The Yandex domain problem or who in Russian intelligence doesn't speak Russian - Good question!

Jeffrey Carr
The Medium
Tue, 25 Oct 2016 17:01 UTC
boris and natasha
On March 22, 2016 William "Billy" Rhinehart, a regional field director at the Democratic National Committee, received an email from Google warning him that someone tried to access his account and that he should immediately change his password. He complied.

Unfortunately for Mr. Rhinehart, it wasn't Google who sent him that email. He, along with many others, were a victim of Threat Group 4127 — the SecureWorks designation for Fancy Bear (CrowdStrike), APT28 (FireEye), and Sofacy (Kaspersky Lab). Secureworks assesses that TG 4127 "is operating from the Russian Federation and is gathering intelligence on behalf of the Russian government."
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Putin: Russia is not going to attack anyone-claims of Russian threats 'simply stupid'

Jason Ditz
Anti War.com
Thu, 27 Oct 2016 17:29 UTC
putin-hillary
Complaining about Western "hysteria" surrounding repeated predictions of Russian military attacks on NATO member nations, Russian President Vladimir Putin sought to resolve two solid years of predictions to that effect with a straightforward assurance that "Russia is not going to attack anyone."

Putin accused Western nations of having "mythical, dreamt-up problems," and insisted the idea that Russia was going to attack the West was "simply stupid and unrealistic." He added that he believes the idea is being played up to justify bigger military spending.
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Laptop

Killary aide Abedin says she doesn't know how her emails wound up on pervert hubby's computer

Matt Zapotosky, Tom Hamburger and Karen Tumulty
Washington Post
Sun, 30 Oct 2016 16:09 UTC
Huma Abedin
© Drew Angerer/Getty ImagesTop Hillary Clinton aide Huma Abedin has intimated she is unsure how her emails could have ended up on a device she viewed as her husband’s computer.
Top Hillary Clinton aide Huma Abedin has told people she is unsure how her emails could have ended up on a device she viewed as her husband's computer, the seizure of which has reignited the Clinton email investigation, according to a person familiar with the investigation and civil litigation over the matter.

The person, who would not discuss the case unless granted anonymity, said Abedin was not a regular user of the computer, and even when she agreed to turn over emails to the State Department for federal records purposes, her lawyers did not search it for materials, not believing any of her messages to be there.

That could be a significant oversight if Abedin's work messages were indeed on the computer of her estranged husband, former congressman Anthony Weiner, who is under investigation for allegedly exchanging lewd messages with a 15-year-old girl. So far, it is unclear what — if any — new, work-related messages were found by authorities. The person said the FBI had not contacted Abedin about its latest discovery, and she was unsure what the bureau had discovered.

According to federal law enforcement officials, investigators found thousands of messages on Weiner's computer that they believe to be potentially relevant to the separate, Clinton email investigation. How they are relevant — or if they are significant in any respect — remains unknown.

Comment: Another take on Abedin:

The Daily Beast
The FBI found emails pertinent to its Clinton investigation, reportedly on a computer from her aide's home. That doesn't jibe with she told lawyers this summer.
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On June 28, 2016, Abedin said under oath in a sworn deposition that she looked for all devices that she thought contained government work on them so the records could be given to the State Department. (These records were subsequently reviewed by the FBI.)
[..]
Abedin helped set up a private email address for Clinton at the start of her tenure as Secretary of State, according to State Department emails. In one email, Clinton wrote Abedin on Nov. 12, 2010: "...I don't want any risk of the personal being accessible."
[..]
Asked whether the decision was made to deliberately avoid public disclosure through the Freedom of Information Act, Abedin responded, "I absolutely do not believe that no."

When told she used her Clintonmail.com address for "State-related matters," Abedin didn't deny it.

"Yes. There were occasions when I did do that, correct," she said.

But Abedin said she rarely deleted emails when it came to her official State Department email account or her personal Huma@Clintonemail.com.
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"And many of the instances where I was on Clinton e-mail, it was because I had forwarded something from a State.gov account into Clinton e-mail, and in other instances from my Clinton e-mail I was communicating with somebody who was on a State.gov account, and it was captured through there. I did the best I could to do everything right. It did not occur to me to print and file."

Abedin said she didn't keep any paper printouts of any of the correspondence that may have been deleted or otherwise lost.

"Honestly, I wish I thought about it at the time. As I said, I wasn't perfect. I tried to do all of my work on State.gov. And I do believe I did the majority of my work on State.gov.

Abedin was asked if she had "any concerns" about Clinton's use of her private email server for State Department business.

"I assumed it was allowed," Abedin answered. "It didn't occur to us."

Judicial Watch followed up, asking why no one inquired with a State Department official in charge of managing records to make sure it was allowed.


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Attention

Kashmir clashes escalating: Indian army destroys four Pakistani border posts, kills up to 20 soldiers


Sputnik
Sun, 30 Oct 2016 16:24 UTC
Indian army soldiers
© AP Photo/ Channi Anand
The Indian army destroyed at least four Pakistan's border posts killing up to 20 soldiers, local NDTV TV-channel reported on Sunday.

The incident occurred on Saturday in the Keran sector along the Line of Control, the NDTV TV-channel reported citing the Indian army.

The Indian army said that it responded to the ceasefire violations committed by the Pakistan's army in Kathua and RS Pura sectors.

Comment: More on the long ongoing 'war' in Kashmir:

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Killary, the ­Typhoid Mary of politics, has herself to blame for the mess she's in

Michael Goodwin
New York Post
Sat, 29 Oct 2016 10:15 UTC
Killary
© APHillary Clinton seen with her close aide, Huma Abedin.
We must forgive Mark Twain for his error when he declared that "history never repeats itself but it often rhymes." After all, he'd never met the Clintons.

If Twain were alive now, he would be astonished at how the headlines over the e-mail scandal roiling the presidential race are virtual repeats of the family's 1990s saga in power.

The headlines are also an omen. A restoration of the Clinton presidency would be a restoration of the national and moral chaos they invariably create.

They can't help themselves. They are corrupt and corrupters, the ­Typhoid Mary of politics.

Comment: See also:
  • Ex-FBI director James Kallstrom: Clintons are a 'crime family'
  • October Surprise! FBI Reopens Criminal Investigation of Hillary Over Weiner's 'Sexts' to 15 Year Old - Democrats Blame Putin


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