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IRGC warns Saudi Navy to keep out of Iran's waters

Royal Saudi Navy frigate Al Dammam
Royal Saudi Navy frigate Al Dammam
The Islamic Revolution Guards Corps (IRGC) has issued a stern warning to all military vessels partaking in Saudi Arabia's ongoing wargames in the Persian Gulf, the Gulf of Oman and the Strait of Hormuz, noting that any act of transgression into Iran's territorial waters shall be met with an immediate and befitting response.

A strongly-worded statement, addressed to all Saudi and non-Saudi naval vessels that are part of the maneuvers, suggested that the Islamic Revolution Guards Corps views the ongoing wargames as an evident attempt to foment tensions and compromise sustainable security in the Persian Gulf.

The IRGC statement advised all military vessels participating in the maneuvers against crossing into the country's waters, warning them not to approach Iran's territorial waters and not to even cruise in international waters that are in the vicinity of Iran's territorial waters, since any such attempt is in no way regarded as an instance of "innocent passage."

Wolf

Really?: Leaked email shows Clinton has a "dovish" side on nukes

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Hillary Clinton, who has carved out a reputation as a war hawk, has quietly voiced opposition to a $1 trillion plan to modernize America's nuclear arsenal, including a nuke-tipped cruise missile, notes Jonathan Marshall.

Whoever is hacking Hillary Clinton's emails just did her a big favor, at least with anti-war critics: One newly released message reveals her skepticism about wasteful and dangerous spending on new nuclear weapons in the name of "modernization." It's a refreshing change from her usual hawkish stand on national security.

An email leaked to the conservative Washington Free Beacon includes an audio file of Clinton's remarks at a private fundraiser in McLean, Virginia, last February. Asked by a former senior Pentagon official about her willingness to cancel plans for a next-generation nuclear cruise missile program, she replied, "I certainly would be inclined to do that."

"The last thing we need are sophisticated cruise missiles that are nuclear armed," Clinton added.

Current Air Force plans call for spending upward of $30 billion on the Long Range Stand-Off (LRSO) missile program to acquire 1,000 such weapons. The Air Force says it will begin awarding contracts as early as next summer for the stealthy missiles, which will be launched from bombers more than 2,000 kilometers from their targets.

Comment: Do not count on a few leaked emails and town hall meeting statements to indicate anything truly sensible or healthy in Killary's approach to spending on nuclear armaments. Statements like those mentioned in the article are about as meaningful as Clinton stating, "I want to help the economically disadvantaged," or "I think that Wall Street should be regulated better," and are utterly without meaning given her track record and the lies she is willing to tell in order to satisfy her pathological will to power.

It is interesting to note that these statements about nuclear weapon spending are being released now - as it may very well be one of the strongest criticisms people of good conscience have about her...


Bad Guys

US to discuss engaging in war crimes on Syrian military and government to maintain terrorist hold on Aleppo

Aleppo, Syria
© Muzaffar Salman / Reuters
Top Washington officials are set to discuss striking positions of the Syrian military without a UN Security Council resolution. Bombing air force runways with missiles fired from coalition planes and ships is being considered, according to a report.

"One proposed way to get around the White House's objection to striking the Assad regime without a UN Security Council resolution would be to carry out the strikes covertly and without public acknowledgment," one administration official who is to take part in the discussions told the Washington Post.

A meeting of the Obama administration's Principals Committee is scheduled for Wednesday, the newspaper reported, adding that a meeting of the National Security Council could follow this weekend.

The CIA and the Joint Chiefs of Staff expressed support for "limited military strikes against the Syrian government," last Wednesday, when the US discussed such "kinetic" options, the official told the Washington Post.

"There's an increased mood in support of kinetic actions against the regime," one senior administration official was quoted as saying.

"The CIA and the Joint Staff have said that the fall of Aleppo would undermine America's counterterrorism goals in Syria," he added.

Comment: This issue has clearly already been discussed. The trial run was September 17th when the US coalition bombed the Syrian Army. As to how far this will go remains to be seen. See Escalations in the war on Syria: Russia sends in S-300 missile defense system, Syrian Army advances in Aleppo for more information.


Jet1

Precision airstrikes by Russia across Syria leave US proxy terrorists in a panic

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Precision air strikes by Russian air forces on militants' infrastructure and positions in the Hama and Idlib provinces have inflicted heavy losses on illegal armed formations. In Aleppo, terrorist leaders have begun to panic. This has been reported to Russian Spring by a military source.

"In the northern part of Hama province, one of the leaders of Jebat Al-Nusra, Abdul Jabbar Fawaz al-Ahmad, was liquidated. In the al-Latamna district, a commander of an Al-Nusra sniper battalion, Ahmad Nahlawi, was also killed," the source told Russian Spring.

The source continued: "As a result of an airstrike on the building of the Sharia court in the area of Serakab (15 km southeast of Idlib), 12 Ahrar ash-Sham militants were destroyed along with 9 from Jebat Al-Nusra and 5 from Islam at-Turkestani."

North of Serakab, around 30 Al-Nusra militants were killed and more than 50 wounded by an air strike," the source added.

"In eastern Aleppo, following a series of successful Russian air force operations, an outright panic has spread among the war lords of Al-Nusra. It is known from reliable sources that in the southern part of blockaded Aleppo, incidents of militants refusing orders have been noted. In block 1070, leaders of the bandit group refused to attack the positions of Syrian government troops," the source summarized.

Source: RusVesna

Wolf

What is Joshua Wong, a U.S.-backed Hong Kong "activist", doing in Bangkok?

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© European Press AgencyJoshua Wong at Hong Kong's so-called 'Umbrella Revolution' 2014
Joshua Wong's alleged arrest at a Bangkok airport is portrayed as a slight against "democracy," yet the US-funded and backed agitator undermines his own principles of "self-determination" by meddling in another nation's politics.

Joshua Wong. Thai PBS in its article, "HK democracy activist Joshua Wong detained in Bangkok," would claim:
Wong, 19, famed for his galvanising role in the city's 2014 pro-democracy "umbrella movement", was held as he landed at the airport late Tuesday, his party Demosisto said in a statement, citing a Thai student activist, Netiwit Chotipatpaisal, who was due to meet him.

Wong was invited by Thai student activists to take part at an event marking the anniversary of a military crackdown in October 1976.

Demosisto "strongly condemns the Thai government for unreasonably limiting Wong's freedom and right to entry, and requests the immediate release of Wong," the statement said.
What Thai PBS fails to mention is that Joshua Wong and his party, "Demosisto," are US-funded and directed, and represent Western interests attempting to subvert Chinese control over its own territory of Hong Kong, as well as undermine national sovereignty across the entire Asian region.

Wine n Glass

Russian Foreign Ministry rejects claims that US diplomats were drugged in Russia, suggesting they just had too much to drink

Sergei Ryabkov
Russian Deputy Foreign Minister Sergei Ryabkov
Russia's Foreign Ministry rejected U.S. reports that two officials traveling with diplomatic passports were drugged while attending a conference in St. Petersburg last year, suggesting instead that they might have had too much to drink.

The statement, made on October 4 by Deputy Foreign Minister Sergei Ryabkov, came in response to concerns made public by the U.S. State Department a day earlier about what it said was increased harassment of U.S. diplomats in Russia over the past two years.

RFE/RL reported October 3 that the incident with the U.S. officials occurred during a UN anticorruption conference in St. Petersburg in November. One of them was hospitalized, in what officials later concluded was part of a wider, escalating pattern.

According to one U.S. government official, and another former official also knowledgeable about the case, the U.S. diplomats were part of a delegation of Americans attending the Conference of the States Parties to the United Nations Convention against Corruption, held on November 2-6 in St. Petersburg.

The U.S. government official told RFE/RL that investigators concluded that the two Americans -- a man and a woman -- were slipped a so-called date rape drug, most likely at a bar in the St. Petersburg hotel where they were staying.

Comment: If the US wants to play in the mud, they can't complain when the other sides decides to get dirty as well.


Star of David

The New York Times ignores Israeli at heart of NY hedge fund bribery scandal in Africa

Dan Gertler
Dan Gertler
The huge story about bribery by a New York hedge fund in Africa should have been on the front page, but the New York Times buried it in the financial section. And the paper did not even name one of the men at the heart of it, the billionaire Israeli businessman Dan Gertler.

The Democratic Republic of Congo is one of the poorest countries in the world, parts of it torn by chronic violence, and Dan Gertler is one of the people most responsible for its awful state. But the New York Times has never sent any of its army of reporters to look into the crimes of Dan Gertler.

Here's what just happened: a $39 billion New York hedge fund, Och-Ziff Capital Management, pleaded guilty to conspiring to bribe African officials, and agreed to pay a $413 million fine. The U.S. government prosecution brief did not directly name bribers and bribees. But broad hints in government documents made it clear that Gertler, on behalf of the hedge fund, had given $100 million, some of it in cash, to, among others, the DR Congo president, Joseph Kabila, for investment opportunities in diamonds and mining. Other media, including Bloomberg and the Wall Street Journal, were not squeamish about naming Gertler. The Journal's running coverage of the Och-Ziff/DR Congo story has repeatedly put Gertler at front and center of the corruption.

Comment: The Western countries and Israel are well known for their extraction of wealth from poor countries on their march to world dominance.


Bad Guys

France and Germany agree to share military aircraft and air base in defense collaboration

Super Hercules aircraft
© Gonzalo Fuentes / ReutersLockheed Martin C-130J Super Hercules aircraft
Germany and France have signed an agreement to share transport planes and an air base in the French city of Orleans. French officials told AFP last month that they were working towards a more "active and useful" defense collaboration.

The agreement outlines the two countries' intention to share C-130J Super Hercules military transport planes, French Defense Minister Jean-Yves Le Drian said in Paris on Tuesday, according to AFP.

France ordered four C-130Js from US aviation company Lockheed Martin in January, and Germany has been looking to acquire four to six of the same aircraft and base them in France, German Foreign Minister Ursula Von der Leyen said.

The two countries are also looking at sharing an air base in Orleans, central France.

Both countries aim to have the arrangement in place by 2021. In July, Von der Leyen accused Britain of "paralyzing" EU efforts for closer military integration with its vote to leave the bloc.

Germany is an advocate of a "permanent structured co-operation in the defense sector," which Britain has consistently opposed as an EU member.

Attention

Two Russian ships take Kalibr cruise missiles to Mediterranean for Syrian anti-terror operation

Russian Zelyony Dol small missile ship.
© Vasiliy Batanov / Sputnik
Two Russian vessels will join up with Russia's permanent naval fleet in the Mediterranean Sea, where they will assist in the military operation against Islamic State (IS, formerly ISIS/ISIL) in Syria.

"It is planned that the Serpukhov and the Zeleny Dol will go to the Mediterranean as part of a planned rotation that will join up with the permanent naval task force," Russian Navy representative Nikolay Voskresensky told journalists.

The two guided missile fast attack craft left from the port of Sevastopol on October 4 and are currently sailing through the Black Sea in order to join up with the Russian fleet.

The Serpukhov and the Zeleny Dol already participated in Russia's Syria operation in the Mediterranean in the middle of August, when they fired three Kalibr cruise missiles at Al-Nusra Front terrorists before returning to Crimea in September.

Yoda

Putin to Duma: The strength of Russia is in the unity of its people

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© Grigory Sysoev / Sputnik
Speaking before the newly elected Lower House of parliament, President Vladimir Putin emphasized the importance of having a strong national defense and rich mineral resources, but also said that the main strength of Russia was in the unity of its people.

The President also quoted the Prime Minister of the Russian Empire, the famous reformer Pyotr Stolypin, who over a century ago said that "we all must unite and coordinate our efforts in order to maintain Russia's supreme historical right - to be strong."

Putin noted that this was the right of any nation, but warned the lawmakers against taking his statement in an imperialist way, saying "We have never imposed anything on anyone and we have no plans to do so. Russia's strength is within ourselves; it is inside our people, in our traditions and our culture, in our economy and vast territories with natural riches. Of course our strength is in our defense ability. But the most important thing is that our strength lies in the unity of our people."

He reminded the State Duma that national strength was a key condition for maintaining sovereignty and independence.

Comment: Russia must be very strong, since Putin has unified Russia greater than any Western leader can currently claim to have unified their country