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SOTT Focus: Twilight of the U.S. Empire gives way to Philippine Rebirth

Shane LaChance
Sott.net
Fri, 21 Oct 2016 18:00 UTC
Xi Jinping Duterte
© Getty ImagesChina's President Xi Jinping and Philippines president Rodrigo Duterte shaking hands.
The United States is playing the 'confused stalker' after the Philippines President Duterte announced a separation between the two countries during a visit to China on Thursday. Duterte stated: "I announce my separation from the United States. Both in military, not maybe social, but economics also. America has lost."

"I've realigned myself in your ideological flow and maybe I will also go to Russia to talk to [President Vladimir] Putin and tell him that there are three of us against the world - China, Philippines, and Russia. It's the only way," President Duterte said, much to the chagrin of the U.S. empire.

The Russian ambassador to the Philippines, Igor Khovaev, responded in turn: "Formulate your wish list. What kind of assistance do you expect from Russia and we will be ready to sit down with you and discuss what can and should be done." Possibly alluding to the rising problems of terrorism in the Philippines, Khovaev extended the offer of help to "any area, any field of possible cooperation."

State Department spokesman John Kirby said Duterte's statements were "inexplicably at odds with the very close relationship we have with the Filipino people as well as the government there on many different levels, not just from a security perspective."

"It isn't just the United States that is baffled by this rhetoric," Kirby said. "We have heard from many of our friends and partners in the region who are likewise confused about where this is going." Kirby, confused? Imagine my shock!

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Snakes in Suits

Kiev threatened to send fighter jets to ground Belarusian passenger plane


RT
Sat, 22 Oct 2016 15:55 UTC
Belavia's Boeing 737
© Andrey Rudakov / Sputnik
Ukraine's Security Service (SSU) turned around a passenger plane en route from Kiev to Minsk, the capital of Belarus, threatening to launch fighter jets to intercept it, a statement issued by Belavia airlines claims.

According to the aviation company's statement, its passenger plane bound for Minsk was forced to return to Zhulyany airport after departing from Kiev after the aircraft's pilot received an order from a Ukrainian traffic controller to immediately head back, with no further explanation.

"On October 21, 2016, Belavia Boeing 737-800 number EW-456PA, carrying out flight V2-840 from Zhulyany (Kiev) to Minsk was forced to return to the departure airport. There were 136 passengers and six crew members on board," Belavia said in a statement, noting that, according to the flight schedule, the plane was a mere 50 kilometers from the Belarusian border when it was ordered to turn back.

"It was also stated [by the traffic controllers] that in case the order was not fulfilled, fighter jets would be sent into the air," the statement continued. The conversation between the pilot and air traffic controllers, including the threat to send fighter jets to intercept the plane, has been recorded and is currently in possession of Belavia, the company's deputy director general, Igor Cherginets, told RIA Novosti news agency.
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China lured into Cheney's Japanese trap

F. William Engdahl
New Eastern Outlook
Sat, 22 Oct 2016 13:27 UTC
US war ships
As the situation in the South-China Sea continues to deteriorate, we should remember that it was Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe who took advantage of Japan's role as host to the recent Group of 7 industrial nations' annual summit to introduce a provocative resolution criticizing China's presence in controversial islands of the East China Sea known in China as the Diaoyo Islands and in Japan as the Senkaku islands. The G7 resolution was part of a carefully orchestrated escalation of tensions, ultimately between USA and its Asian allies, proxy-led by Abe's Japan against the Peoples' Republic of China.

The US war "games" over the various largely uninhabited South and East China Seas islands, which have been getting very serious recently, must be seen in the light of parallel Washington war games aimed at militarily encircling Putin's Russia with US troops stationed at the NATO-side of the Russian borders, US so-called anti-ballistic missile defense in Romania aimed at Russia, and the not-so-covert role of the CIA and Obama Administration via the State Department Über-warhawk Victoria Nuland to justify US and EU economic sanctions against Russia, itself a form of war.

The May 27 G7 Declaration states, "We are concerned about the situation in the East and South China Seas, and emphasize the fundamental importance of peaceful management and settlement of disputes." Not the wording, but the fact that the G7, that was founded in the 1970's to discuss economic problems, intervened in the issue is a significant escalation.
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Wikileaks releases 15th batch of Podesta emails


RT
Sat, 22 Oct 2016 13:45 UTC
hillary podesta
© Carlos Barria / Reuters John Podesta, chairman of U.S. Democrat Hillary Clinton's presidential campaign
Wikileaks has released its 15th batch of emails from Hillary Clinton campaign chair John Podesta.

Wikileaks has already released half of the 50,000 mails it vowed to publish in the lead up to the presidential election on November 8.

The latest tranche comprises of around 1,095 emails on a range of campaign operations.

Saturday's release includes emails calling a Sanders adviser a "f**ker", incorporating Martin Luther King Jr quotes into Clinton speeches, and referring to the Daily Show as "infuriatingly disgusting".
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People

Aleppo locals on moderate rebels: 'They're cowards hiding behind women's backs'


RT
Fri, 21 Oct 2016 00:00 UTC

More reports of militants shooting at and torturing people trying to leave the besieged Syrian city of Aleppo have emerged, as locals waiting for their relatives by humanitarian corridors share their horrific stories with RT.

Fighters from the Free Syrian Army (FSA) and Al-Nusra Front terrorists "open fire or beat and torture everyone once he or she tries to leave the city," Wahid Hammami told an RT crew on Friday, while desperately waiting for news from his family at the safe end of a humanitarian corridor.

Hammami explained how his relatives had become trapped in eastern Aleppo, meaning his son-in-law has had to go back into the militant-occupied part of the city to rescue his mother and brothers.

Comment: See also:

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Heavily redacted: State Department releases 122 of Killary's previously undisclosed emails


RT
Sat, 22 Oct 2016 13:43 UTC
Hillary
© Joe Raedle / Reuters
A small batch of emails dating back to Hillary Clinton's tenure as secretary of state has been made public. The release is part of approximately 15,000 previously undisclosed Clinton emails that the State Department was ordered to produce.

The emails can be read in the State Department's Virtual Reading Room.

Several emails from August 2011, related to a conference call with Turkey's Foreign Minister Ahmet Davutoglu, were redacted in their entirety. So was another email, forwarded from Clinton adviser Jake Sullivan, with the subject heading "I know this doesn't help matters..."

A dozen emails involve Bill Clinton aide Oscar Flores, a retired US Navy officer, while the rest are mainly traffic between Hillary Clinton and her aide Huma Abedin.

Comment: As can be expected, the Wikileaks emails are proving to be far more enlightening!

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What Turkish raid on Syrian Kurds means for Ankara-Washington ties?

Amberin Zaman
Al-Monitor
Thu, 20 Oct 2016 00:00 UTC
Turkish fighter jet
© GETTY/Gokhan SahinA fighter jet flies above the Syrian town of Kobani on Oct. 19, 2014, in Sanliurfa, Turkey.
Turkish jets pounded US-backed Syrian Kurdish-led forces during the early hours of Oct. 20 in an apparent attempt to prevent them from establishing a long-coveted corridor to link up territories under their control in northern Syria. The Turkish attacks follow sustained threats from President Recep Tayyip Erdogan to take further action against the People's Protection Units (YPG), which are closely linked to the Kurdistan Workers Party (PKK).

The airstrikes will likely further complicate Washington's efforts to balance its relations with Turkey, a key NATO ally, and the YPG, which remains the US-led coalition's most effective partner against the Islamic State (IS) in Syria. The YPG's continued attempts to expand its territory in defiance of US warnings to stay put have not helped.
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Newsbud's Sibel Edmonds breaks a new shocker: "Turkey has nuclear capabilities"

Sibel Edmonds
Newsbud
Fri, 21 Oct 2016 13:22 UTC
In this special sneak peak, we share a highlight from a brand new episode of Newsbud's Roundtable that hasn't even aired yet. This episode features Sibel Edmonds and Professor Filip Kovacevic. The topic of discussion is the heightened tensions between the US and Russia, specifically Turkey's role. In this must see episode which will air in its entirety very soon, Sibel Edmonds unexpectedly reveals info that to this day has not been admitted to officially.


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Notes

Sibel Edmonds case: Front page of the (UK) papers (finally)

"We Can't Afford to Let Them Spill the Beans"

Found in Translation

Whistleblower Sibel Edmonds In London Times

Sibel Edmonds: 'Buckle Up, There's Much More Coming'

Nuclear secrets for sale on black market

NY Times confirms US involvement in Nuclear Black Market

The EyeOpener- CIA & the Nuclear Black Market: A Case Study

Sibel Edmonds' 2005 Spring Offensive: FBI Shields Pakistan/Turkey Nuclear Weapons Development, Drug Trade, Cheney, Rumsfeld

Is Turkey Secretly Working on Nuclear Weapons?

Comment: Sibel Edmonds does great investigative work.We'll be tuning in!

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Snakes in Suits

Changing tactics: Clinton repackages her Syrian 'no-fly' plan

Robert Parry
Consortium News
Thu, 20 Oct 2016 13:13 UTC
Hillary Clinton
© Mike Segar / Reuters
While the major news media focused on Donald Trump's agnostic response about whether he would respect the results of the Nov. 8 election, Hillary Clinton slipped in a little-noticed but important revision to her call for a "no-fly zone" in Syria, suggesting that it would be negotiated with Russia and Syria.

"This would not be done just on the first day," Clinton replied to a question about the military cost and human toll that imposing a no-fly zone would require. "This would take a lot of negotiation. And it would also take making it clear to the Russians and the Syrians that our purpose here was to provide safe zones on the ground."

Before Wednesday night, Clinton had left the impression that the U.S. military would unilaterally impose a "no-fly zone" on Syria, a military action that not only would violate international law but would require a major commitment of U.S. forces to destroy Syrian air defenses and to shoot down planes from the Syrian and possibly the Russian air forces.
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Putin warns NATO - Russian radar can prove US is responsible for civilian deaths in Syria

Alexander Mercouris
The Duran
Fri, 21 Oct 2016 13:09 UTC
Putin
One of the strangest incidents of the Syrian conflict took place on 18th October 2016.

According to the Russians two Belgian F-16 aircraft, after having taken off from an air base in Jordan, and after having been refuelled in the air over Syria by US aircraft, carried out a bombing raid on the Kurdish village of Hasajek in Syria's northern Aleppo province, killing 6 civilians.

On the same day there were reports that the 'Syrian Defence Forces' - an umbrella organisation dominated by the Kurdish militia the YPG - has captured this village from ISIS.

The Russians say that they were not told of this bombing raid by the US led anti ISIS coalition despite the agreement between the US and Russian militaries that they would inform each other of such raids.

The Belgians categorically deny that the raid took place. In order to lend force to their denials, they summoned the Russian ambassador to the Belgian Foreign Ministry to complain personally to him about the Russian claims.
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