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US & UK fire 'war crimes' accusations at Moscow as US/NATO backed rebels shell Aleppo civilians


RT
Mon, 17 Oct 2016 06:31 UTC
BBC Kerry Johnson
© BBCKerry and Johnson yuck it up with new-old shenanigans.

Ignoring yet another rebel shelling of Aleppo civilians, the US State Secretary has accused Moscow of committing daily "crimes against humanity," while the UK Foreign Secretary blamed the Assad regime for the "radicalization" of the so-called moderates.

"We are outraged by what is happening in Aleppo, which is in year 2016, beginning of the 21st century, horrendous step back in time to a kind of barbarianism, a use of force that is an insult to all of the values that the United Nations and most countries believe should guide our actions," John Kerry told journalists on Sunday.


Comment: Hypocrite says what?


"It's a humanitarian disaster that is the largest humanitarian disaster since WWII. And it could stop tomorrow morning, tonight if Russia and the Assad regime were to behave according to any norm or any standard of decency, but they've chosen not to. Instead we see what can only be described as crimes against humanity taking place on a daily basis," he added.


Comment: Wow indirect Godwin's law. Does anyone actually believe this histrionic mendacious windbag? Oh...didn't think so.


"A hundred thousand kids now under a terrible medieval siege ... by the Assad regime and its puppeteers in the form of the Russians and indeed the Iranians," said the UK Foreign Secretary Boris Johnson standing beside Kerry.
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Alarm Clock

20 Serbs arrested in Montenegro over planning armed attacks on election day - police


RT
Mon, 17 Oct 2016 05:59 UTC
Stevo Vasiljevic/Reuters
© Stevo Vasiljevic/ReutersMontenegrin Prime Minister and leader of ruling Democratic Party of Socialists, Milo Djukanovic, casts his ballot at a polling station in Podgorica, Montenegro, October 16, 2016
Montenegrin police detained a group of Serbs suspected of planning armed attacks on Sunday, the day of the country's tense parliamentary elections. The group had also allegedly intended to capture Prime Minister Milo Djukanovic.

Police chief Slavko Stojanovic said in a statement that 20 Serbian citizens suspected of planning armed attacks after Sunday's parliamentary vote were arrested. He said one more was on the run.

"They entered Montenegro intending to get automatic weapons, and later this evening to attack institutions, the police, and representatives of the state, including top state officials," Stojanovic said in the statement as cited by Reuters.

A later statement from a Special State Prosecutor on Sunday confirmed the group had intended to capture Prime Minister Milo Djukanovic.
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Chess

Clinton election likely to cause Turkey's departure from NATO

Eric Zuesse
Sott.net
Fri, 14 Oct 2016 02:16 UTC
erdogan Turkey
Turkey's two top leaders have now both indicated that, if the U.S. Presidential candidate Hillary Clinton becomes elected as the U.S. President on November 8th, then Turkey, which is NATO's only Muslim-majority member-nation, will have little alternative but to leave NATO and ally itself with Russia, in America's movement towards war against Russia.

Turkey's Anadolu News Agency headlined on October 12th, "Clinton remarks on arming PYD/PKK unfortunate: Erdogan", and reported that "President Recep Tayyip Erdogan Wednesday criticized U.S. presidential candidate Hillary Clinton's remarks on arming Syrian Kurds as 'unfortunate.' Clinton said, 'We will continue to support the PYD and YPG.' [Those are Kurdish political organizations, and the YPG is openly fighting to produce a Kurdish nation, which would remove valuable land and resources not only from Turkey, but from Syria, and also from Iraq.] 'This is a very unfortunate statement,' Erdogan said." This assertion by Erdogan followed an even stronger statement by Turkey's Prime Minister the day before, as follows: To state it simply here: Turkey's leaders are viscerally opposed to Clinton's repeated support for allowing Kurds to break away and to form their own independent nation, which breakaway would constitute a grave threat to Turkey.
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Popcorn

Democratic strategist Axelrod running scared?: 'Maybe Clinton should reconsider final debate'

Jesse Byrnes
The Hill
Sat, 15 Oct 2016 03:58 UTC
debate
© Getty
Democratic strategist David Axelrod on Saturday suggested that Hillary Clinton skip her third and final presidential debate with Donald Trump.

The former White House adviser to President Obama responded to Trump's call for a drug test before his next debate with Clinton later this month.

"You have to wonder if @HillaryClinton will/should reconsider next debate, given the depths to which this has sunk," Axelrod tweeted.



Comment: You have to wonder how frightened strategist Axelrod is that Trump will give Killary another trouncing in the debate ring!


Comment: Trump is saying this because he likely knows that Killary has been pumped up with something. In any event, the third and final debate this coming Wednesday and should prove interesting!

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Light Sabers

The evolving hybrid war on Ethiopia is all about China

Andrew Korybko
Sputnik News
Fri, 14 Oct 2016 00:00 UTC
The regime change riots and torching of foreign companies which preceded Ethiopia's imposition of a six-month-long state of emergency have more to do with waging a Hybrid War against China's Maritime Silk Road and its Horn of Africa component than they do with airing out local socio-political grievances.
Ethiopia riots
© REUTERS/ Tiksa Negeri
Africa's second-most populous country and one of the world's fastest growing economies has been in sporadic turmoil over the past 10 months as its largest plurality violently agitated over what it claimed to be socio-political injustices. The Oromo began protesting late last year because of opposition to the central government's plan to expand the capital of Addis Ababa into their region. The problem arose because the municipality is entirely surrounded by Oromia Region, so it's impossible for Ethiopia's most important city to develop in the future without reaching some sort of compromise with the neighboring locals about their land rights.

Comment: See also:

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Bad Guys

Did UK clown Foreign minister Boris Johnson threaten Russia with war?

Finian Cunningham
Sputnik News
Fri, 14 Oct 2016 00:00 UTC
Clown Boris Johnson
© AP Photo/ Jonathan Short
The bizarre US trend of encountering crazy clowns has come to Britain, reports say. The latest sighting perhaps was Britain's foreign secretary Boris Johnson standing up in parliament and appearing to threaten Russia with war.

Johnson, whose buffoonish public antics have garnered a reputation for being something of a clown, was speaking this week in the British House of Commons on Syria's conflict. He directed much of his fire-breathing act at Russia, reiterating allegations of war crimes during the offensive to retake the northern city of Aleppo.

With typical bluster, Britain's top diplomat said Russian President Vladimir Putin was turning his "great country into a pariah state" - owing to unverified reports of air strikes on civilian centers.

Comment: See also:

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Stock Down

Al-Qaeda in Aleppo Defined Out of Existence: "Perhaps 100 Fighters" - BS!

Bernhard
Moon of Alabama
Sat, 15 Oct 2016 23:53 UTC
Cartoon of terrorists and moderate terrorists
The pro-jihadist "west" is doing its best to define the number of civilians in east-Aleppo up and the number of al-Qaeda fighters in the city down. If the current numbering trend continues there will be a no al-Qaeda fighters left in east-Aleppo even as none have left. They will be redefined into "moderate rebels" who are entitled to the failed ceasefire they had never accepted in the first place.

The terrorists in east-Aleppo are encircled and besieged. The Syrian army nibbles away piece after piece of their territorial hold while the Syrian and Russian air force attack any recognized concentrations of forces or material. It is only a question of time until they are completely defeated.

Most of the fighters in the besieged area are associated with al-Qaeda. They are several thousand strong. Only few civilians remain. The eastern parts once housed some 300,000 people. About 10% of those, likely less, are still there. That are the realistic numbers. The spin differs.
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Attention

'Time of victory has come': Iraq launches operation to liberate Mosul from ISIS


RT
Sun, 16 Oct 2016 23:55 UTC
Peshmerga artillery shells ISIS positions near Mosul
© Peshmerga / TwitterPeshmerga artillery shells ISIS positions near Mosul.
Iraqi forces begun their operation to retake the Islamic State stronghold of Mosul, Prime Minister Haider al-Abadi announced.

"The time of victory has come and operations to liberate Mosul have started," Abadi said, in an address broadcast on state television. "Today I declare the start of these victorious operations to free you from the violence and terrorism of Daesh [Islamic State, formerly ISIS/ISIL]."

An offensive to retake Iraq's second largest city has been planned for months, since Iraqi forces and loyal government militia surrounded Mosul, in the country's north. The city fell to Islamic State (IS, formerly ISIS/ISIL) in June 2014, when the terrorists conducted their offensive on Iraq, overrunning nearly a third of the country.

Comment: We hope the American coalition follows Putin's advice:
Russian President Vladimir Putin said the actions of the US and France in Iraq's Mosul should be very careful to minimize the death toll among the civilian population.

"We hope that our American partners and, in this case, French partners will act selectively and will do everything to minimize and better to have no victims among the civilians," Putin said, TASS reported.

"Of course, we are not planning to fan hysteria about this as our partners in the West do because we understand that there is the need to fight against terrorism and there is no other way than an active fight," he added.

The president agreed that there are parallels between Mosul and the actions of Russia in Aleppo where Russia's troops try to prevent a humanitarian crisis and are criticized by the West for that. "The parallel is obvious," he said.

"Of course, now we can point to our partners to Mosul and say that many civilians live there, hundreds of thousands of people, and using airpower and artillery is very dangerous in regard to possible victims," Putin added.
Unfortunately, the message will probably be lost on most... The hint is almost too subtle for the Western mind to comprehend.

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Putin: Kiev's claim on Donbass security problems excuse not to fulfill Minsk deal


Sputnik
Sun, 16 Oct 2016 23:41 UTC
Petro Poroshenko walks past tanks
© REUTERS/ Mikhail Palinchak/Ukrainian Presidential Press Service
Ukrainian President Petro Poroshenko's statement on unresolved security issues in the Donbass region in eastern Ukraine is only a pretext not to fulfill a political part of the Minsk deal, Russian President Vladimir Putin said on Sunday.

Earlier, reports emerged that during his visit to Donbass Poroshenko stated that Ukraine would not advance with the implementation of the political part of the Minsk agreements while there were unresolved security issues in the region.

"I believe that this is only a pretext not to fulfill political part [of the Minsk deal]. One must go at least in parallel - both by achieving implementation of security issues and making absolutely necessary steps in political sphere for the resolution [of the conflict] in the long-term perspective in general. Without this it will be impossible to reach settlement," Putin told journalists.

Comment: Meanwhile: Militia commander Motorola killed in bombing attack in eastern Ukraine

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Militia commander Motorola killed in bombing attack in eastern Ukraine


RT
Sun, 16 Oct 2016 23:45 UTC
Arsen Pavlov
© Gennady Dubovoy / Sputnik
One of the commanders of the self-proclaimed Donetsk Peoples Republic's defense forces has been killed in an explosion after a bomb reportedly went off inside the elevator of the apartment building in eastern Ukraine.

The DNR's ministry of defense confirmed the death of Arsen Pavlov, better known under the alias Motorola, who led one of the self-defense units resisting the Ukrainian government forces in the beginning of the conflict in Donbas.

According to preliminary data an improvised explosive device was planted inside or near the elevator in the house Pavlov lived in. His murder is being treated as a "terrorist act" apparently conducted by Kiev's forces, said the speaker of DNR parliament, Denis Pushilin.

"With this murder Ukrainian side hopes to undermine the situation in the Republic," he said, adding that Kiev still aims to resolve the conflict in Ukraine "by force" but due to its inability to achieve military victory resorts to "terrorist methods."
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