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Imperial power play at the UN: Human Rights Chief urges Security Council to cut veto right over Syria


Radio Free Europe / Radio Liberty
Tue, 04 Oct 2016 00:00 UTC
Zeid bin Ra'ad Al Hussein
UN Human Rights High Commissioner Zeid bin Ra'ad Al Hussein
The UN high commissioner for human rights has called for "extraordinary steps" to halt the "ghastly avalanche of violence and destruction" in Syria's northern city of Aleppo, urging the Security Council to introduce a limit on its members' veto power.

The Security Council should "adopt criteria to restrain members from using the veto when there are serious concerns that war crimes, crimes against humanity, or genocide may have been committed," Zeid Ra'ad al-Hussein said in an October 4 statement.

Comment: After all the information that has been divulged regarding US/Western facilitation of Daesh, al-Nusra and so-called moderate rebels that al-Hussein has been privy to - and he wants to tie the hands of Russia and follow the bogus "pro-humanitarian" narrative?? One must logically conclude then that this guy is simply another shill for Empire...

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Wall Street

No doom and chaos? IMF admits UK is fastest growing G7 economy despite post-Brexit recession warning


RT
Tue, 04 Oct 2016 15:14 UTC
British money
© Money Sharma / AFP
The International Monetary Fund (IMF) has backtracked on its gloomy post-Brexit forecast for Britain, now saying the UK will boast the fastest-growing major economy in 2016.

In its new report, the IMF predicts the UK's gross domestic product (GDP) will grow by 1.8 percent this year ahead of the US, Germany, Japan and other members of the G7.

Prior to the June referendum, the IMF claimed a Brexit would plunge the UK into recession. It has now conceded that those warnings proved to be overly pessimistic.

However, it forecast a sharp slowdown in 2017, claiming the economy would eventually suffer from the shock of the EU referendum result. It said expansion next year would be just 1.1 percent, lower than expected in the immediate aftermath of the Brexit vote.


Comment: IMF must keep the propaganda line of doom and gloom for upsetting the financial world order.


Comment: Let's see what the financial elites will be up to this week: Financial elites confront existential threat to their world at IMF meeting

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Wall Street

Financial elites confront existential threat to their world at IMF meeting

Rich Miller, Saleha Mohsin and Malcolm Scott
Bloomberg
Tue, 04 Oct 2016 13:16 UTC
Washington DC picture
Policy-making elites converge on Washington this week for meetings that epitomize a faith in globalization that's at odds with the growing backlash against the inequities it creates.

From Britain's vote to leave the European Union to Donald Trump's championing of "America First," pressures are mounting to roll back the economic integration that has been a hallmark of gatherings of the IMF and World Bank for more than 70 years.

Fed by stagnant wages and diminishing job security, the populist uprising threatens to depress a world economy that International Monetary Fund Managing Director Christine Lagarde says is already "weak and fragile."

Comment: Financial elites are worried their 'world order' isn't working out and may get desperate to reinstate their rule. They don't care about the average person in so far that they are kept happy and feeding the financial machine. When the 'casino' implodes, it will be a chance to change this financial order to something more beneficial to the people.

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Wall Street

Bill Gross: Central banks have turned financial markets into 'Vegas casino'


RT
Tue, 04 Oct 2016 14:49 UTC
Bill Gross
© Jim Young / Reuters
Unprecedented central bank monetary policies such as negative or zero rates have turned financial markets into a casino, said bond investor Bill Gross of Janus Capital. He recommends investors switch to gold and Bitcoin, if they want to keep their money.

"Our financial markets have become a Vegas/Macau/Monte Carlo casino, wagering that an unlimited supply of credit generated by central banks can successfully reflate global economies and reinvigorate nominal GDP growth to lower but acceptable norms in today's highly levered world," Gross said in his 'Doubling Down' investment outlook.

The investor oversees $1.5 billion at Janus Capital explains gold and Bitcoin are safe havens for those who want to preserve their cash.

"At some point investors - leery and indeed weary of receiving negative or near zero returns on their money, may at the margin desert the standard financial complex, for higher returning or better yet, less risky alternatives," Gross said.

Comment: This highlights why banks need to go back to being banks and not allowed to invest or speculate in the markets.

Death of democracy: Big Banking has turned America into an oligarchy

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War Whore

War mongers US, Britain, France scrap UN diplomacy embrace terrorism against people of Syria

Felicity Arbuthnot
Global Research
Sat, 01 Oct 2016 13:07 UTC
Axis of Evil
© Press TV
An ambassador is a ... gentleman sent to lie abroad for the good of his country. (Attributed to Sir Henry Wotton, 1568-1639.)
When Vitaly Churkin, Russia's Permanent Representative to the United Nations ("We the people of the United Nations, determined to save succeeding generations form the scourge of war ...") rose to speak at the UN to address Syria's ongoing tragedy, on Sunday 25th September, US Ambassador to the UN, Samantha Power, François Delattre, Permanent Representative for France and British Permanent Representative, Matthew Rycroft, metaphorically threw their toys out of the pram and walked out. Anything more infantile and further away from the UN's founding aspirations would be hard to find.

They would have done well to hear Mr Churkin's full address (1) it lays out home truths and the reality of international State sponsored terrorism - resulting in Syria's living nightmare - in succinct detail. He began:
It is the sixth year that the Syrian people have been suffering a grave tragedy. In 2011, Washington and some other Western capitals decided to continue the reshaping of the geopolitical space of the Middle East and North Africa, which started with the US and UK criminal invasion in Iraq in 2003. Besides, both in Libya and Syria they continued to 'use an axe' without any disdain for the support of terrorist groups ... consequences of countries' break-ups and flows of millions of refugees were qualified as an unforeseen 'irritant'.
Samantha Power, however, has never seemingly found a conflict she would not embrace (safely, from afar, of course.) The Balkans, Afghanistan, Iraq, Libya and now Syria, "liberation" by annihilation seemingly ever her preferred option. The UN welcomes some unlikely Representatives to uphold its founding aspirations.

Comment: See also: NATO's 'Civil War' Machine Rolls Into Syria

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Light Sabers

Duterte goes on anti-Western tirade again in speech, tells Obama he can "go to hell"

Jim Gomez
Associated Press
Tue, 04 Oct 2016 13:03 UTC
duterte
© AP Photo/Bullit Marquez
Philippine President Rodrigo Duterte told his U.S. ally Barack Obama "you can go to hell" in a speech Tuesday that was his latest tirade against the U.S. over its criticism of his deadly anti-drug campaign.

He also lashed out anew at the European Union, saying the 28-nation bloc, which has also criticized his brutal crackdown, "better choose purgatory, hell is filled up."

Duterte, who took office in June, has been hypersensitive to criticism over his crackdown, which has left more than an estimated 3,000 suspected drug dealers and pushers dead in just three months, alarming the United Nations, the E.U., the U.S. and human rights watchdogs.

The tough-talking former city mayor, who describes himself as a left-leaning leader, has had an uneasy relationship with the U.S. and with Obama and has declared intentions to bolster relations with China and Russia as he revamps the country's foreign policy that has long leaned on Washington.

Comment: It's a little difficult to get a read on Duterte and whether his bombastic comments towards the West are because he sees the evil actions they have committed and wants to ally with China and Russia, or because he is just a little unstable. Either way, he is making the Philippines into more than just an imperial vassal state for the US by continually stirring the pot:

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Bad Guys

Russian embassy in Syria attacked by Al-Nusra terrorists


RT
Sat, 01 Oct 2016 12:56 UTC
Nusra Front fighters
© Stringer/Reuters Al Qaeda-linked Nusra Front fighters.
The Russian embassy in Damascus came under fire on Tuesday from a neighborhood controlled by militant groups, including Al-Nusra Front, the Russian Foreign Ministry reports.

One of the mortar shells fired at the embassy complex hit the residential area, while two others landed near the embassy building, the ministry said in a statement. Nobody was injured by the explosions.

"According to reports, the shelling came from the Jobar neighborhood of Damascus, which is under control of the terrorist groups Jabhat Fateh al-Sham and Failak ar-Rahman," the ministry said.
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Bad Guys

40 million Russians practice evacuation drill as country prepares for 'sudden threat'


Interfax / Fort Russ
Tue, 04 Oct 2016 11:21 UTC
US Nuclear weapons test
© Flickr/ International Campaign to Abolish Nuclear Weapons
Translated by Inessa Sinchougova

On October 2nd, Oleg Manuilo, the spokesperson for Russia's Ministry for Emergencies (MCHS) announced that a large scale "civil defense" drill will take part in the next few days.

Over 40 million personnel from Russia's regional and municipal authorities, as well as emergency and evacuation services will be involved.

"The drill will take place from the 4th to the 7th October 2016. As a total, over 40,000 million people will be involved, with 200,000 specialists from various rescue services, and over 50,000 equipment units will be put to the test." - Manuilo said.

Comment: Russia will leave no stone un-turned when protecting her people from NATO's aggression. Also see:

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Propaganda

'NYT' finds no 'camera-ready villain' in Yemen


Mondoweiss
Mon, 03 Oct 2016 00:00 UTC
Amanda Taub
© UnknownAmanda Taub
Sometimes the most interesting thing you can learn from reading the New York Times is not information about the world, but information about how the New York Times wants its readers to think about the world. The piece by Amanda Taub on why the war in Yemen gets so little attention is, or should be, an instant classic in the realm of Orwellian thinking. If it was a subtle piece of irony or satire, an attempt at undermining the usual New York Times attempt at molding public opinion, it was a masterpiece. But more likely this is just an illustration of how mainstream liberal journalists actually think.

The piece is titled, "Why Some Wars (Like Syria's) Get More Attention Than Others (Like Yemen's)." Here is the crucial section:
"Yemen's death toll is lower than Syria's, and although Al Qaeda does operate there, Yemen's conflict has not had the kind of impact on American and European interests that Syria's has. There is no obvious good-versus-evil story to tell there: The country is being torn apart by a variety of warring factions on the ground and pummeled from the air by Saudi Arabia, an American ally. There is no camera-ready villain for Americans to root against.

The war's narrative is less appealing to American political interests. Yemen's Houthi rebels pose little direct threat that American politicians might rally against. On the other side of the conflict are Saudi airstrikes that are killing civilians and targeting hospitals and aid workers, at times with United States support.
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Jet4

Russian lawmakers may soon ratify Syria air base deal


RT
Tue, 04 Oct 2016 05:45 UTC
russian jet soldier
© Maksim Blinov / Sputnik
The Russian parliament has indicated that it may ratify a new agreement for the deployment of a Russian air group at Hmeimim air base by the end of the week.
"The State Duma may react with ratifying the Syrian air group agreement," a source told RIA Novosti. "And that would be the best response."

The agreement would authorize deployment of a Russian air group to the base for an unspecified period of time.
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