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Not learning from history: Vietnam supports US interventions in Asia Pacific to promote 'peace and prosperity'


RT
Thu, 20 Oct 2016 17:25 UTC
US Soldiers
© AFP
Vietnam, which defeated a massive US invasion in the 1970s, says it supports Washington's intervention in the Asia Pacific "if it brings peace, stability and prosperity" to the region, the country's top military official told US counterparts in Hanoi.

Senior Lieutenant-General Nguyen Chi Vinh, Vietnam's deputy defense minister, met on Monday with Cara Abercrombie, the US Deputy Assistant Secretary of Defense for South and Southeast Asia to boost military-to-military cooperation between Hanoi and Washington.

Vinh said that "Vietnam supports international intervention of the US and other partners in the region if it brings about peace, stability and prosperity," according to the Defense Ministry's statement.


Comment: That is a big "if" since peace and prosperity doesn't seem to be in the interest of the US.


The remark, controversial for a country that suffered a decade-long US invasion in the 1960s and '70s, was made on the margins of the 7th Vietnam-US defense policy dialogue in Hanoi, the statement said.
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SOTT Exclusive: Newsflash! Candidates Should Not Concede Stolen Elections


Sott.net
Thu, 20 Oct 2016 16:23 UTC
clinton
It's un-American to contest rigged elections. Unless you're a Democrat.
Killary and her media shills are horrified that Trump suggested he may not accept the election results on November 8. In response to the question as to whether he would accept the election results, Trump responded:
"I will tell you at the time," said Trump, who has frequently discussed voter fraud and a "rigged" system.

"I'll keep you in suspense, okay?" Trump told moderator Chris Wallace.

Hillary Clinton responded, "That's horrifying."
Their arguments:
  1. every previous presidential loser accepted the final decision
  2. conceding assures a peaceful transition between administrations
  3. not conceding suggests you don't respect American democracy, therefore you are a commie traitor
All of these are bogus reasons.
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Taking a cue from Duterte? Trump promises to rid the US of drug lords

Jonah Bennett
The Daily Caller
Thu, 20 Oct 2016 16:00 UTC
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© REUTERS/David BeckerU.S. Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump speaks at a campaign rally in Henderson, Nevada October 5, 2016.
Republican nominee Donald Trump said at the third presidential debate, that as one of his first acts as president, he'll deport the drug lords to prevent heroin from streaming across the southern border.

"One of my first acts will be to get all of the drug lords - all of the bad ones - we have some bad, bad people in this country that have to go out," Trump said Wednesday evening. "We're going to get them out, we're going to secure the border, and once the border is secure, at a later date we'll make a determination as to the rest."

"But we have some bad hombres here," he added. "Drugs are pouring into through the border. We have no country if we have no border. Hillary wants to give amnesty. She wants to have open borders."

Comment: And of course, he made no mention of the corporate and US government drug lords:

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Saudis, China and foreign central banks liquidate a record $346 billion in US Treasuries

Tyler Durden
Zero Hedge
Tue, 18 Oct 2016 09:34 UTC
Liquidation sale!
One month ago, when we last looked at the Fed's update of Treasuries held in custody, we noted something troubling: the number dropped sharply, declining by over $27.5 billion in one week, the biggest weekly drop since January 2015, pushing the total amount of custodial paper to $2.83 trillion, the lowest since 2012. One month later, we refresh this chart and find that in the latest weekly update, foreign central banks continued their relentless liquidation of US paper held in the Fed's custody account, which tumbled by another $22.3 billion in the past week, pushing the total amount of custodial paper to $2.805 trillion, another fresh post-2012 low.

TSY custody
Then today, in addition to the Fed's custody data, we also got the latest monthly Treasury International Capital data, which showed that the troubling trend presented last one month ago, has accelerated. Recall that a month ago, we reported that in the latest 12 months we have observed a not so stealthy, in fact quite massive $343 billion in Treasury selling by foreign central banks in the period July 2015- July 2016, something truly unprecedented in size and scope.

Fast forward to today when in the latest monthly update, that of July, we find that what until a month ago was "merely" a record $343 billion in offshore central bank sales in the LTM period ending July 30, one month later this number has risen to a new all time high $346.4 billion, or well over a third of a trillion in Treasuries sold in the past 12 months.
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Billionaire Hillary Clinton backer wants new tax that funnels middle class money to Wall Street

Michael Krieger
Liberty Blitzkrieg
Wed, 19 Oct 2016 13:11 UTC
Blackstone Group LP President Tony James
© Jin Lee/BloombergBlackstone Group LP President Tony James
"I find the whole thing astonishing and what's remarkable is the amount of anger whether it's on the Republican side or the Democratic side," the Wall Street mogul said at the World Economic Forum in Davos. "Bernie Sanders, to me, is almost more stunning than some of what's going on in the Republican side. How is that happening, why is that happening?"
- From January's post: Billionaire CEO of Blackstone Trolls the American Public - He Doesn't Get Why People Are Angry

David Sirota just penned a very important and interesting article zeroing in on how Wall Street is maneuvering to propose and implement a new retirement tax on Americans under a Hillary Clinton Administration.

Leading the charge is billionaire financial oligarch Tony James, who is COO of private equity giant Blackstone. Mr. James is a generous contributor to Hillary Clinton's Presidential run, and is listed as a "Hillblazer" by her campaign for having raised at least $100,000 toward her candidacy.
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EPA once again bows to chemical industry influence: Postpones Glyphosate Cancer Review

Carey Gillam
Huffington Post
Wed, 19 Oct 2016 15:37 UTC
Environmental protection Agency
This might have been a tough week for Monsanto Co. The Environmental Protection Agency was slated to hold four days of public meetings focused on essentially one question: Is glyphosate, the world's most widely used herbicide and the lynchpin to Monsanto's fortunes, as safe as Monsanto has spent 40 years telling us it is?

But oddly, the EPA Scientific Advisory Panel (SAP) meetings, called to look at potential glyphosate ties to cancer, were "postponed" just four days before they were to begin Oct. 18, after intense lobbying by the agrichemical industry. The industry first fought to keep the meetings from being held at all, and argued that if they were held, several leading international experts should be excluded from participating, including "any person who has publicly expressed an opinion regarding the carcinogenicity of glyphosate."

As the meetings drew near, CropLife America, which represents the interests of Monsanto and other agribusinesses, specifically took issue with at least two scientists chosen for the panel, alleging the experts might be unfavorably biased against industry interests. On Oct. 12, the group sent a letter to the EPA calling for Dr. Kenneth Portier of the American Cancer Society to be more deeply scrutinized for any "pre-formed conclusions" about glyphosate.

Comment: Listed below are just a few examples of how time and again the EPA favors industry when assessing chemical dangers:

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Hillary Shill Brazile Dodges Debate Rigging Question, Tells Megyn Kelly "Go To Russia"

Ian Schwartz
RealClear Politics
Wed, 19 Oct 2016 15:47 UTC
Donna Brazile
© ABC News
DNC interim chairwoman Donna Brazile categorically denied that she received a debate question on the death penalty in advance in an interview with Megyn Kelly after the third presidential debate (unrelated to the debate in question). The question was for a Democratic primary town hall hosted by CNN and co-moderated by Roland Martin, the journalist who asked it at the forum. This information was revealed in a recent Wikileaks dump of John Podesta's emails.

"From time to time I get the questions in advance," the email subject was titled in a letter written from Brazile delivered to Podesta's Gmail.

The email read:
On Mar 12, 2016, at 4:39 PM, Donna Brazile wrote: Here's one that worries me about HRC. DEATH PENALTY 19 states and the District of Columbia have banned the death penalty. 31 states, including Ohio, still have the death penalty. According to the National Coalition to Abolish the Death Penalty, since 1973, 156 people have been on death row and later set free. Since 1976, 1,414 people have been executed in the U.S. That's 11% of Americans who were sentenced to die, but later exonerated and freed. Should Ohio and the 30 other states join the current list and abolish the death penalty?
Brazile did not give a coherent explanation other than to say she won't respond to content that was stolen, the hacked emails, and that she will not let herself be "persecuted" by Megyn Kelly who grilled her for an explanation. She also accused Kelly of being a "thief."

Comment: If there's one positive thing about this election, it has been seeking the crooks squirm. All people like Brazile can do is issue blanket denials and blame Russia, citing intelligence agencies that assure us they have "evidence" that we will never see. Sorry guys, but "WMDs in Iraq" was your last chance on that one, and you blew it. And the expose Megyn Kelly references at the start of her interview with Brazile:
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Of course she does: Killary deflects away from WikiLeaks revelations by blaming Russia and Putin for cyberattacks


RT
Thu, 20 Oct 2016 04:46 UTC
Killary
© Clinton shifts debate away from WikiLeaks revelations by blaming Putin for cyberattacks — RT AmericaKillary lying through her teeth at the debate
Hillary Clinton has played the "Russia card," deflecting from her "open borders dream" exposed by WikiLeaks to hacking claims against Trump and Vladimir Putin. Trump condemned the cyberattacks, saying Clinton's ire stems from personal bias, not evidence.

The third and last presidential duel could well have passed with no mention of Russia, which grabbed the spotlight unexpectedly amid a debate over immigration, essentially serving as Clinton's shield from what could have evolved into a rather uncomfortable discussion.

Moderator Chris Wallace, of Fox News, had asked Clinton to clarify her opinion on "open borders," an issue that Donald Trump has been accusing her of pushing through, risking a "disaster."

Comment: It's too bad that Trump didn't capitalize more on the fact that it is Killary who's been setting up the American public to think that the election is being rigged by Russia to help Trump - implying that a Trump win could only happen with "Russian hacking". Yet again we see how the pathological politician accuses others of exactly what they themselves of guilty of.

See: SOTT Exclusive: Newsflash! Candidates Should Not Concede Stolen Elections

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WikiLeaks 13: Frustrated Abedin concerned that Clinton 'created this mess'


RT
Thu, 20 Oct 2016 15:28 UTC
Clinton and Podesta
© Carlos Barria / Reuters
WikiLeaks has released yet another batch of emails from Hillary Clinton's campaign chair John Podesta. This is the 13th time the whistleblowing site has released such communications from his account.

This brings the total number of emails leaked to more than 23,000.

WikiLeaks has said there are around 50,000 emails to be released in total and that this will be completed before the presidential election is held on November 8.

Previous releases have included damning examples of collusion between the campaign and the media, disparaging comments about former Democratic presidential candidate Bernie Sanders, among others, and copies of speeches given to Wall Street bankers, including Goldman Sachs.
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A letter from the International Monsanto Tribunal at the Hague

Ronnie Cummins
Organic Consumers Association
Wed, 19 Oct 2016 15:14 UTC
Monsanto tribunal
We are today in the midst of a battleground for two very different approaches to agriculture. One is the agro-ecological approach based on the use of open source traditional seeds based on biodiversity and living in harmony with nature. The other is the mechanistic world of an industrial system based on monocultures, one-way extraction and the use of pesticides, poisons and GMOs, where chemical cartels compete to take over our agriculture and food systems, destroying our ecosystems along the way." - Brochure for The People's Assembly, The Hague, Oct. 14, 2016, "Seeds of Freedom—Navdanya"

The Monsanto Tribunal

On October 14-16, over a thousand activists, journalists and witnesses from around the world gathered in The Hague, Netherlands, headquarters of the International Court of Justice, to put Monsanto on trial for crimes against humanity and nature ("ecocide"). Before a distinguished international panel of judges, 30 witnesses—including farmers, consumers, scientists, indigenous people and former governmental officials—from Asia, Africa, Australia, Europe, North and South America, delivered detailed and shocking testimony on how Monsanto and its agribusiness accomplices have poisoned the environment and devastated public health.
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