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Celebrate Columbus Day by remembering the only Native American to defeat the Federal government in war: Red Cloud

Claire Bernish
The Free Thought Project
Mon, 10 Oct 2016 21:45 UTC
Oglala Lakota Sioux chief Mahpiua-Luta called Red Cloud
Columbus Day has rightly become the subject of disdain and sharp criticism given the altogether ridiculous idea he "discovered" a land already inhabited for aeons and wrought genocide against its population.

Peoples indigenous to that land have since been forced to battle an equally brutal government for the right to simply exist. Centuries of exploitation and genocide have corralled these original inhabitants into (in many cases) arbitrary areas politely termed "reservations" — but are decidedly more akin to 1930s German ghettos.

And the government of these so-called 'United' States still continues its exploitation, as in its surreptitious alignment with Big Oil to allow construction of the Dakota Access Pipeline which will likely contaminate the Standing Rock Sioux' drinking water — and that of some 18 million people, all told.

Thanks for nothing, Columbus.

Comment: More in the history of Columbus Day: Columbus and the Indians: By Howard Zinn

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Eye 1

It's not Russia: U.S. spooks meddling in U.S. Presidential election - backing Killary, trying to stop Trump

Alexander Mercouris
The Duran
Mon, 10 Oct 2016 21:00 UTC
James Clapper
© Kit Fox/Medill DC/ClickerJames Robert Clapper Jr. is a retired lieutenant general in the United States Air Force and is currently the Director of National Intelligence.
The fact and evidence free statement by US intelligence that Russia was behind the DNC leak is an attempt to swing the US Presidential election in Hillary Clinton's favour and amounts to the direct interference of US intelligence in a democratic US election.

The single most important event of the US Presidential election took place last week and to my knowledge it has gone completely unreported.

This was not the video tape of Donald Trump's grotesque and deeply offensive sexual banter from 2005.

It was the public confirmation that an intelligence agency is directly interfering in an ongoing US Presidential election.

The intelligence agency in question is not however that of Russia as is being reported. It is that of the United States itself.
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Eye 2

'Hair on fire': US concerned over Yemen war crimes complicity, issued no-bomb lists to Saudis


RT
Mon, 10 Oct 2016 20:58 UTC
Sana, Yemen after Saudi air strikes
© Khaled Abdullah / Reuters
The Obama administration is worried about potential complicity in war crimes in Yemen and tried to curb civilian deaths by issuing 'no-bombing lists' for Saudi warplanes, Reuters reported. At least one bridge crucial for aid delivery was bombed despite being on such a list.

Saudi Arabia is responsible for 60 percent of about 3,800 civilian deaths in Yemen, according to a UN human rights office report published in August. Saudi warplanes targeted markets, hospitals, schools and other civilian targets, the report says.

The US supports the Saudi war effort by selling arms to the Saudis and providing refueling and logistical assistance. In November 2015 the US announced a $1.29 billion deal for precision munitions specifically meant to replenish Saudi stockpiles used in Yemen. In September 2016 the US Senate gave the go-ahead for a $1.15 billion sale of tanks and other military equipment to Saudi Arabia by blocking the bill opposing the controversial transaction.

Comment: Yes, the US is complicit in war crimes along with Europe throughout the Middle East and Africa. They are above the law and only seek ways to mitigate the fallout rather than halting the wars, civilians be damned.

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Network

Philippines to develop defense relationship with China and Russia following talk of 'breaking-up' with US


teleSUR
Mon, 10 Oct 2016 20:54 UTC
duterte
© AP Photo/Bullit Marquez
"Maybe we should re-assess (the relationship)," said Defense Secretary Delfin Lorenzana. "Are we benefiting, are we getting what we should be getting from alliance? It is part of this growing up."

Philippine President Rodrigo Duterte caused a diplomatic storm by declaring that joint U.S.-Philippines military exercises would cease, a defense agreement would be reviewed and, at an undisclosed time, he might "break up" with the United States.

U.S.-Philippines ties are going through "bumps on the road" and the Philippine military could manage if the U.S. were to withdraw aid, Defense Secretary Delfin Lorenzana said Friday.

The value of U.S. military aid to the Philippines was "not that much," he said, and the military could ask Congress to make up for a shortfall of some US$50 million to US$100 million a year in U.S. military aid. Lorenzana added that the Philippines also intended to buy arms from China and Russia.

Duterte, well known for a ruthless stand against crime from his years as mayor of a southern city, won the election in May on a promise to wipe out drugs and drug dealers.

He said on Thursday if the United States and the European Union objected to his drugs war and wished to withdraw aid, they should do so, and the Philippines would not beg.
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Bullseye

Jill Stein: Clinton supported catastrophe that led to rise of ISIS


PressTV
Mon, 10 Oct 2016 18:01 UTC
jill stein
© Dominick Reuter / ReutersGreen Party presidential candidate Jill Stein.
US Democratic presidential nominee Hillary Clinton was responsible for the rise of the Daesh (ISIL) terrorist group in the Middle East, says Jill Stein, the US Green Party presidential nominee.

Stein made the comments after the second US presidential debate between Clinton and her Republican rival Donald Trump on Sunday.

"The power of ISIS (ISIL) in Syria comes directly out of the catastrophe of Iraq, which Hillary Clinton supported, and Donald Trump did, as well," Stein said Sunday during an interview (part two is here) with the Democracy Now! news program.

Stein and Libertarian presidential nominee Gary Johnson were excluded from the presidential debate under stringent rules set by the Commission on Presidential Debates, which is controlled by the Republican and Democratic parties.

The two candidates had failed to garner the 15 percent support in five polls required to qualify for the debate.

Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Clinton makes a point during the second presidential debate at Washington University in St. Louis, Missouri on October 9, 2016. (Photo by AFP)
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Eye 2

Second WikiLeaks email dump from Killary campaign chair - Bill's sex life causes 'problems', bratty Chelsea, and stressed-out suicidal Clinton staffer


Sputnik
Mon, 10 Oct 2016 20:34 UTC
clinton wikileaks
© RT
On Monday morning the whistleblower organization released an additional 2,086 emails from Hillary Campaign Chair John Podesta exposing her plot to prop up Trump, undercut Bernie, and how Bill and Chelsea Clinton drove a Clinton Foundation staffer to the brink of suicide.

Whistleblower organization WikiLeaks released the second batch of emails from Hillary Clinton's presidential campaign chairman John Podesta - 2,086 emails from a treasure trove of hacked materials that the group's founder Julian Assange says includes over 50,000 total emails placing the Clinton campaign once again in a back foot defensive posture after an underwhelming debate performance.

The latest leaks appear to focus prominently on former President Bill Clinton and daughter Chelsea Victoria Clinton with exchanges ranging from sordid sexual affairs to Bill and Chelsea driving a Clinton Foundation member to the brink of suicide until she was talked down.

"I had a multi-email exchange with someone in the media this morning - a name you would know - who is telling me that there are people close to the Clintons who say WJC's (William Jefferson Clinton) sex life could be damaging to her," said prominent liberal political pundit Brent Budowsky in a message to John Podesta.



Comment: Ya think?


Comment: An organization takes on the character of its leader. All in keeping with Killary's abusive nature as detailed by those who saw it up close and personal.

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Quenelle - Golden

"We have no right to lose": Russian volunteers in Donbass will never give up

Anna Dolgareva
Fort Russ
Mon, 10 Oct 2016 19:14 UTC
Pro russian volunteers
© Associated PressPro-Russia rebels walk in Debaltseve, eastern Ukraine.
In 2014, Donbass was filled with Russian volunteers. This evoked enormous enthusiasm among people. Officially, in August 2014, the number of 3,000-4,000 such volunteers was named. In reality, around 10 times more Russian volunteers have come through Novorossiya.

Volunteer militiamen. Doctors. Humanitarian workers. And not only Russians. Anti-fascists from all over the world came to Donbass. This formed a motley and heterogenous militia including everyone from marginals and desperate tattooed lads who had nothing to lose to intellectuals from St. Petersburg...Most were young and forged the date of birth in their passports so as to not be kicked out, but there were also retirees. There were communists and monarchists. All kinds of different people.

They all probably had one thing in common: a passionate spark and anxiety in the soul that doesn't allow one to live with violence and injustice. This anxiety drove them into the war, into the thick of it all.

Then things got complicated when the war gave way to a nasty world. The external, clear, and absolute enemy opted for a second plan.

Meanwhile, other problems appeared which were not so clear. Many had left their families behind in Russia and these families called them home. Some considered their work done while some got bored with the new military bureaucracy that replaced the field mess that they had gotten used to. Overall, there were many reasons why people went back. Many, however, returned. But not all.
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Bad Guys

The US invasion of Afghanistan has further sunk the region in terrorism


RAWA
Fri, 07 Oct 2016 19:36 UTC
afghanistan nato
Fifteen years ago, the US and its allies bombarded our defenseless and helpless people, and occupied Afghanistan, under the pretext of "war on terror". The US military intervention was undoubtedly the beginning of a new chapter of pain, suffering, and misery for our nation, as the Jehadi terrorists replaced the Taliban terrorists, and our country plunged into the abyss of fundamentalism, misogyny, corruption, insecurity, poverty, unemployment, drug trade, pillage of national assets, intervention of neighboring countries, and thousands of other catastrophes.

When the US B-52s were raining down on the Taliban brutes, driving them away from Kabul, and the CIA-created Jehadi criminals were installed in their place, RAWA made some predictions, the truth of which can now be clearly seen after a decade and a half. In an appeal to the UN, dated November 31, 2001, we declared, "The retreat of the terrorist Taliban from Kabul is a positive development, but entering of the rapist and looter NA in the city is nothing but a dreadful and shocking news for about 2 million residents of Kabul whose wounds of the years 1992-96 have not healed yet." A year after the 9/11 attacks, RAWA stated again, "For the people of Afghanistan, it is 'out of the frying pan, into the fire'. Instead of the Taliban terrorists, Jihadi terrorists of the 'Northern Alliance' have been installed in power. The Jihadi and the Taliban fundamentalists share a common ideology; their differences are the usual differences between brethren-in-creed." This is the unforgivable treason of the US against the people of Afghanistan, besides supporting Afghan fundamentalism for forty years.
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Attention

UN Syria envoy Mistura warns Al-Nusra Front terrorists taking Aleppo civilians 'hostage'


Sputnik
Mon, 10 Oct 2016 19:47 UTC
Destroyed Aleppo buildings
© AFP 2016/ AMEER ALHALBI
United Nations Special Envoy to the United Nations appealed directly to the al-Qaeda affiliate warning that they are imperiling the lives of hundreds of thousands in Aleppo.

On Thursday, UN Envoy to Syria Staffan de Mistura offered a direct appeal to the notorious terror organization Al-Nusra Front (Syria's longtime al-Qaeda affiliate) calling on the group to immediately evacuate from the besieged city of Aleppo because their presence undermines efforts at peace and place civilians unnecessarily in the direct line of fire.

Comment: Damascus has already issued a statement to the rebels in East Aleppo: Last chance: Damascus offers East Aleppo militants to leave besieged area safely

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Question

USA 2017-2020: An ungovernable nation?

Charles Hugh Smith
Of Two Minds
Mon, 10 Oct 2016 18:12 UTC
John Adams quote
The only way to govern successfully is to actually solve the underlying systemic problems, but doing that requires overthrowing a corrupt, self-serving elite.

Regardless of who wins the presidency, a much larger question looms: will the U.S. be ungovernable 2017-2020? There are multiple sources of the question.

One is of course the remarkable unpopularity of the two candidates for the presidency. For all the reasons that are tiresomely familiar, whomever wins the presidency will remain deeply unpopular with roughly 40% of the adult populace.

Though we can't say "never," let's say it's "extremely unlikely" that fans of Hillary Clinton will cotton to Donald Trump, or vice versa: both candidates have been public figures for decades, and it is highly unlikely that the usual "I will serve all the people" speech given by the new president will change many minds.
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