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SOTT Focus: Behind the Headlines: The 2016 US Presidential Race at the End of Murica's Imperial Reign


Sott.net
Sun, 16 Oct 2016 16:00 UTC
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It's ugly. It's fascinating, And it's fascinating in its ugliness. The 2016 US presidential race has seen so many sensational twists and turns, and its implications are so clearly horrendous for the United States and for the rest of the world, that we can barely turn away from the next statement, scandal or knock-on effect that this contest of wills presents us with. King Kong v. Godzilla doesn't even begin to describe it. But describe it we will, because whoever "wins," everyone loses.

Join us this week on Behind the Headlines as we delve deeply into these and other major stories of the day.

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Boat

US Navy commissions 'quantum leap' stealth destroyer: The new Batmobile


RT
Sun, 16 Oct 2016 10:18 UTC
Ship
© US Navy / ReutersUSS Zumwalt
The latest addition to the US Navy, the USS Zumwalt, has joined the fleet. The technologically-advanced destroyer has been compared to the Batmobile by a top US general.

"If Batman had a ship, it would be the USS Zumwalt," said Adm. Harry B. Harris, Jr., commander of the US Pacific Command at the commissioning ceremony in Baltimore.

At more than $4 billion a vessel, the Zumwalt is a multi-mission stealth ship with a focus on land and surface attacks.

The 16,000-ton destroyer, named after former Chief of Naval Operations Adm. Elmo Zumwalt, is armed with twin 155mm Advanced Gun Systems, two Mk46 30mm guns, Standard and Evolved Sea Sparrow surface-to-air missiles, Tomahawk cruise missiles, vertical-launch anti-submarine rockets, and several .50-caliber M2 machine guns.

It can also carry two MH-60R Seahawk helicopters as well as MQ-8 Fire Scout unmanned aerial vehicles, SEAPOWER magazine reported.

Comment: See also: Scandal management: Pentagon spends most of US gov't PR budget


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Eye 1

WikiLeaks emails show Clinton campaign collected data to discredit Bill Clinton accuser

Rosalind S. Helderman
The Washington Post
Sat, 15 Oct 2016 00:00 UTC
Bill clinton rape accusers
© Melina Mara/The Washington PostJuanita Broaddrick, second from right, watches the Oct. 9 presidential debate in St. Louis with Kathleen Willey, left, and Kathy Shelton.
After Juanita Broaddrick, who has long accused former president Bill Clinton of raping her in 1978, repeated those allegations in a January tweet, aides to Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Clinton quickly moved to gather information that could be used to undermine her account, hacked internal campaign emails released Saturday by the group WikiLeaks show.

There is no evidence that the campaign publicly responded to Broaddrick's tweet. But the email exchange between Clinton campaign chairman John Podesta and David Kendall, a per sonal attorney for Bill and Hillary Clinton, offers unusual insight into how Clinton's aides prepared to deal with one of the most sensitive topics it would face during the campaign.

"I was 35 years old when Bill Clinton, Ark. Attorney General raped me and Hillary tried to silence me. I am now 73....it never goes away," Broaddrick had tweeted on Jan. 6, during the Democratic primary season.

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Eye 1

The US government has the prevention of whistleblowers speaking out down to a science

Lucas Ware
Waking Times
Fri, 14 Oct 2016 00:00 UTC
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John F. Kennedy was outspoken against the secret government growing behind the curtains of American democracy. In his address to American publishers and the media in 1961, two years prior to his public assassination, he remarked about the nature of secrecy and the dangers of allowing our government to operate without our consent and beyond our knowledge, warning the press to consider the importance of their role in protecting American liberty from the emergence of the Deep State. In essence, JFK was the first major American whistleblower.
"The very word "secrecy" is repugnant in a free and open society; and we are as a people inherently and historically opposed to secret societies, to secret oaths and to secret proceedings." ~John F. Kennedy
Today, as the world hangs on every Wikileaks release coming from Edward Snowden, it is clear that the role of whistleblower in our society is critical to the survival of freedom, and also clear the public demands the truth.

The Science of Destroying Whistleblowers

There is a definitive science to preventing and destroying whistleblowers which includes a continuum of intimidation tactics that are very effective at keeping government employees from going public with information that could be harmful to the state.
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Radar

Third 'attack'? US destroyer 'appears' to have 'detected missile threat' off Yemen


RT
Sun, 16 Oct 2016 13:53 UTC
The USS Mason
© Karl Ronstrom / Reuters
Just two days after the US launched retaliatory strikes in Yemen and vowed to continue with the "self-defense" measures it deems necessary, the USS Mason has allegedly fallen under attack for the third time in a week, according to the Pentagon.

"The Mason once again appears to have come under attack in the Red Sea, again from coastal defense cruise missiles fired from the coast of Yemen," Navy Admiral John Richardson, chief of naval operations, told reporters at an event in Baltimore on Saturday.

The US warship had to deploy countermeasures to avert being hit by an undisclosed number of missiles that were said to have come from Yemen's Houthi-controlled territory.

"Earlier today, a US Strike Group transiting international waters in the Red Sea detected possible inbound missile threats and deployed appropriate defensive countermeasures," Pentagon spokesman Cmdr. Gary Ross said in a statement to Navy's USNI News.

Comment: Something strange going on with this US ship. A lot of guessing going on, with "possible" and "appears", let alone whether the Houthis are even responsible. See:

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Target

The US Lost the Right to Accuse Russia of War Crimes a Long Time Ago

Darius Shahtahmasebi
Anti Media
Mon, 10 Oct 2016 13:00 UTC
Russian President Vladimir Putin (C) looks back at U.S. President Barack Obama (L)
© Pablo Martinez Monsivais / Reuters
Renowned journalist Glenn Greenwald recently tweeted the three rules of American exceptionalism:
Glen Greenwald tweet
Greenwald's astute observations were presumably made in response to Secretary of State John Kerry's recent remarks that both Russia and Syria should face war crimes investigations for their recent attacks on Syrian civilians.

"Russia and the regime owe the world more than an explanation about why they keep hitting hospitals, and medical facilities, and women and children," Mr. Kerry said in Washington, where he spoke alongside French Foreign Minister Jean-Marc Ayrault, as reported by the Independent.

Unsurprisingly, Russia responded by urging caution regarding allegations of war crimes considering the United States has been waging wars in a number of countries since the end of World War II. It has picked up a number of allegations of war crimes in the process.
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Question

Man of the people? Trump sets GOP record for individual donors

Kathryn Blackhurst
Polizette
Sun, 16 Oct 2016 13:45 UTC
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GOP nominee draws in mostly small contributions from 2.6 million Americans

The Donald J. Trump Campaign for President announced Saturday in a statement that it has hauled in a a total of $360 million from a record-breaking 2.6 million individual donors.

The millions of individual people who have contributed to Trump's presidential bid throughout the election season total the largest donor pool of any other Republican candidate in history, the campaign claimed — despite the fact the total amount raised by Trump still trails the $480 million raised and spent by 2012 GOP nominee Mitt Romney. Most of those contributions came from small donors.

"These numbers show that Donald Trump continues to have incredible broad based support from across America," Steven Mnuchin, Donald J. Trump for President finance chairman, said in the statement. "We want to thank our many volunteers and contributors that are clearly committed to electing Donald J. Trump as President in November."
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9th batch of Podesta emails reveals Clinton advisors' angst over Killary's inability to show genuine remorse and regret


RT
Sun, 16 Oct 2016 13:29 UTC
John Podesta
© Kevin Lamarque / ReutersJohn Podesta
WikiLeaks have uploaded yet another batch of emails from Hillary Clinton's campaign chair, John Podesta. This ninth release brings the total number of leaked files to over 12,000.

Ranging from how to take down Sanders, to strategizing around sexual assault allegations against Bill Clinton, multiple aspects of the Clinton campaign have been laid open to public consumption through a series of WikiLeaks releases this week.

The thousands of emails already released also cover topics including US allies Saudi Arabia and Qatar clandestinely funding ISIS, the Clinton campaign's efforts to handle the media, and courting billionaire donors. You name it, John Podesta sent or received an email about it.
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Propaganda

Propaganda war over Wikileaks: In the Democratic echo chamber, inconvenient truths are recast as Putin plots

Glen Greenwald
The Intercept
Tue, 11 Oct 2016 00:00 UTC
Vladimir Putin’s annual televised speech
© Alexander Utkin/AFP/Getty Images TV sets in a shop in Moscow on April 16, 2015, during the broadcast of Russian President Vladimir Putin’s annual televised phone-in with the nation.
DONALD TRUMP, for reasons I've repeatedly pointed out, is an extremist, despicable, and dangerous candidate, and his almost-certain humiliating defeat is less than a month away. So I realize there is little appetite in certain circles for critiques of any of the tawdry and sometimes fraudulent journalistic claims and tactics being deployed to further that goal. In the face of an abusive, misogynistic, bigoted, scary, lawless authoritarian, what's a little journalistic fraud or constant fearmongering about subversive Kremlin agents between friends if it helps to stop him?

But come January, Democrats will continue to be the dominant political faction in the U.S. — more so than ever — and the tactics they are now embracing will endure past the election, making them worthy of scrutiny. Those tactics now most prominently include dismissing away any facts or documents that reflect negatively on their leaders as fake, and strongly insinuating that anyone who questions or opposes those leaders is a stooge or agent of the Kremlin, tasked with a subversive and dangerously un-American mission on behalf of hostile actors in Moscow.
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Alarm Clock

Best of the Web: John Pilger: A World War has begun. Break the Silence

John Pilger
Johnpilger.com
Sun, 16 Oct 2016 15:00 UTC
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Speaking at the University of Sydney earlier this year, renowned film maker and anti war and social activist John Pilger exposed the truth about US intentions around the world and the risk such desperate warmongering poses for humanity.
In the last eighteen months, the greatest build-up of military forces since World War Two -- led by the United States -- is taking place along Russia's western frontier. Not since Hitler invaded the Soviet Union have foreign troops presented such a demonstrable threat to Russia...

What makes the prospect of nuclear war even more dangerous is a parallel campaign against China.
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