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Syria on brink of final victory in Aleppo

Alexander Mercouris
The Duran
Mon, 03 Oct 2016 00:00 UTC
aleppo
© Unknown
With Jihadi counter offensives crushed, the Jihadis in eastern Aleppo trapped, and the US out of options, the Syrian government backed by Russia is on the brink of winning 'the Great Battle of Aleppo' and restoring its full control over Syria's biggest city.

Whilst all the attention is focused on the diplomacy, the fighting in Aleppo progresses steadily towards what is now starting to look like an inevitable government victory.
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Colombians reject FARC peace deal by tiny margin


RT
Mon, 03 Oct 2016 05:46 UTC
FARC deal rejected by colombia
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In a dramatic turn of events, Colombians have rejected a landmark peace agreement reached with FARC rebels, with just over 50 percent voting against the deal in a snap referendum.

Colombian voters rejected a peace deal with the Marxist FARC organization, with 50.24 percent of people voting against peace in a public referendum on Sunday.

Comment: This all may not be what it appears to be, however we would point out there is a reason why Ponerology was written as a study of Communism and its attempt to implement Marxist economics.

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Attention

Majority of Paris & Brussels attackers infiltrated EU posing as refugees - Hungarian intelligence


RT
Mon, 03 Oct 2016 05:33 UTC
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The majority of Islamic State militants directly involved in carrying out the Paris and Brussels terrorist attacks used the Balkan route to enter Europe under the guise of being refugees, the Hungarian intelligence chief stated.

Analysis of phone call intercepts established that seven of the nine attackers involved in the November Paris onslaught, which killed 130 and injured 368 people, entered the EU through Hungary last year, the Hungarian Counter Terrorism Center (TEK) chief, General Zsolt Bodnar, revealed. The seven were allegedly part of a larger 14-member terrorist cell that used Hungary as the springboard for their bloody actions in Europe.

Comment: This kind of narrative 1) is incredible and 2) continues to misscharacterize both the humanitarian nature of the refugee crisis and its costs on the refugees and host countries. At the very least this only demonstrates full incompetence on the part of intelligence services and their profound incapability of providing security, at the most perhaps it only serves as yet another datapoint in favor of possible collusion or genesis.

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MIB

Best of the Web: U.S. Special Forces officer: How the CIA armed and trained jihadists for war in Syria

Alastair Crooke
Consortium News
Thu, 29 Sep 2016 00:00 UTC
jihadists in training
The West blames Russia for the bloody mess in Syria, but U.S. Special Forces saw close up how the chaotic U.S. policy of aiding Syrian jihadists enabled Al Qaeda and ISIS to rip Syria apart, explains ex-British diplomat Alastair Crooke.

"No one on the ground believes in this mission or this effort", a former Green Beret writes of America's covert and clandestine programs to train and arm Syrian insurgents, "they know we are just training the next generation of jihadis, so they are sabotaging it by saying, 'Fuck it, who cares?'". "I don't want to be responsible for Nusra guys saying they were trained by Americans," the Green Beret added.

In a detailed report, US Special Forces Sabotage White House Policy gone Disastrously Wrong with Covert Ops in Syria, Jack Murphy, himself a former Green Beret (U.S. Special Forces), recounts a former CIA officer having told him how the "the Syria covert action program is [CIA Director John] Brennan's baby ...Brennan was the one who breathed life into the Syrian Task Force ... John Brennan loved that regime-change bullshit."

In gist, Murphy tells the story of U.S. Special Forces under one Presidential authority, arming Syrian anti-ISIS forces, whilst the CIA, obsessed with overthrowing President Bashar al-Assad, and operating under a separate Presidential authority, conducts a separate and parallel program to arm anti-Assad insurgents.

Comment: Yes, pity Syria - that has, however indirectly, and for the last how many years, bravely fought a life or death struggle against one of the most maniacal, covert and pathological forces ever to walk Earth - the CIA. And if that isn't bad enough, it has one of the most maniacal, covert and pathological forces on Earth spreading lies about the whole tragedy - the Western media.

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Bad Guys

Defense bill allows government to steal sacred Native American sites to give to billionaire mining corporation

Jafari Tishomingo
Counter Current News
Sat, 01 Oct 2016 01:18 UTC
native land
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When last year's National Defense Authorization Act (NDAA) was passed overwhelmingly the bill tacked on riders that gave Native American land to foreign investors.

Every year the NDAA passes through congress and every year it passes. With a bloated budget of 585 million, it flew through Congress with a whopping 89 to 11 vote. From the sound of the name, you would think that it was a defense bill but everything DC is smoke and mirrors.

A rider in the Bill called the Southeast Arizona Land Exchange and Conservation Act, had twice failed to win support in the House of Representatives and was blocked both by conservationists and conservatives.

The Act was added into the NDAA largely thanks to the efforts of Sen. John McCain (R-Ariz.) who sees the project as an "economic boon" that will create 3,700 jobs over several decades.

Secret negotiations gave a subsidiary of the Australian-English mining firm Rio Tinto 2,400 acres of the Tonto National Forest in exchange for several other land parcels in order to mine a massive copper deposit.

Rio Tinto has a uranium mine in Namibia in which 15% is owned by Iram since the days of Shah Pahlavi. The company supposedly removed Tehran from the mine board and claim it has not active connections with Iran. Under Namibian law, it is impossible to buy out Iran's share or forcefully remove Tehran.
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Black Cat

Hurricane Matthew to show horrific cost of Clinton Foundation theft from Haiti


Sputnik
Mon, 03 Oct 2016 03:35 UTC
hurricane mathew
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The Category 4 Hurricane set to devastate Haiti with 145MPH winds, 40 inches of rain, and 12 foot storm surge looks to be an unprecedented human tragedy with the country failing to recover after the 2010 earthquake with many in Haiti faulting the State Department, Clinton Foundation.

Two weeks ago the former Senate President of Haiti Bernard Sansaricq told a crowd of Donald Trump supporters that the Clinton Foundation stole "billions" from the Haiti relief fund following the tragic earthquake that left some 316,000 people dead due to the cascade of weakly supported structures and an outbreak of cholera.

The Clinton Foundation has been much maligned in the years that have followed for alleged malfeasance in their relief work following the 2010 natural disaster as Hillary Clinton was Secretary of State at the time and decided to contract with the Foundation, despite the obvious conflict of interest, to provide for the relief effort.

The Foundation reportedly raised $30 million for Haiti relief projects, but locals say that the projects never fully materialized while others point to luxury hotels that were allegedly constructed with relief funds in order to benefit the country's ruling establishment.
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Bad Guys

US-backed rebels unleash Grad missiles on Syrian City of Hama


Sputnik
Sun, 02 Oct 2016 23:21 UTC
Grad missle
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The strike with the high-potency, low accuracy weapon was heralded by the militant group Ahrar al-Sham as an attack on government positions, but its targeting capabilities all but assure that civilians took the brunt of the assault.

On Saturday, Ahrar al-Sham militants, deemed a "moderate" rebel group by Washington despite their links to Daesh (ISIS) and al-Qaeda, unleashed a horrific barrage of at least 40 grad missiles on the heavily populated city of Hama - home to over 300,000 people - as the intensity of the war in Syria continues to escalate following the breakdown of the ceasefire agreement last week.

The militant group which fights alongside the Syrian al-Qaeda affiliate (until a recent rebranding effort) al-Nusra Front, released footage of the shelling of Hama with grad missiles claiming that they were targeting Syrian Army positions at the Hama military airport with a weapon well-known to be among the very least accurate weapons known to cause disproportionate carnage on civilians.
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Black Cat

State Department 'loses' smoking gun email of possible Clinton insider trading


Sputnik
Sun, 02 Oct 2016 01:48 UTC
Hillary clinton
© REUTERS/ Carlos Barria
A notorious email between State Department aide Jake Sullivan and a Clinton Foundation employee exposing financial conflicts of interest by the former Secretary of State has "mysteriously" disappeared.

While the US media is fixated on the fact that Donald Trump did not pay taxes in 1995, as was revealed in a so-called "bombshell" New York Times article that amounts to essentially "water is wet" and billionaire real estate men both have accountants and qualify for many tax deductions, a major scandal has been unfolding with the State Department mysteriously losing an email that documents potential insider trading on Greek bonds by Hillary Clinton's son-in-law Marc Mezvinsky with confidential government information.
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Propaganda

Foreign Policy magazine fear-mongering: America's 'neo-McCarthyism' a worrying trend with 'liberals'

Wayne Madsen
Intrepid Report
Fri, 30 Sep 2016 22:38 UTC
McCarthy holding newspaper
There is a worrying trend among America's so-called "liberals" sweeping the country. Any computer security breach and voting irregularity is being blamed by a number of liberals who count themselves as supporters of Hillary Clinton, one-time supporters of Bernie Sanders, or neo-conservatives who abandoned the Republican Party for Clinton as being the fault of Vladimir Putin and Russia. Such fear-mongering is reminiscent of the right-wing's "Red Scare" tactics of the late 1940s and 50s and the supporters of Wisconsin's junior senator, the Red-baiting Joseph McCarthy.

Today, McCarthy has been replaced by such Russophobes as Hillary Clinton, Tim Kaine, Dianne Feinstein, Representative Adam Schiff of California, and House Speaker Paul Ryan. Propaganda material for these self-serving politicians to carry on about secret Russian plans to alter the outcome of the election is provided by FBI director James Comey, who sees an excellent opportunity to increase the bureau's counter-intelligence and cyber operations budgets.

A major source of anti-Russia McCarthyite propaganda from the establishment liberal media is Foreign Policy magazine, which was once part of the Washington Post empire. Since the sale of the paper to Amazon's Jeff Bezos, Foreign Policy remains a property of Post's former owners, the Graham family. Along with Slate, Foreign Policy is now owned by the Graham Holdings Company, which also owns the education company Kaplan.

Comment: More on the mainstream media's new McCarthyism: The New York Times and the new McCarthyism

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Eagle

Ashton Carter outlines plans for nuclear war with Russia at North Dakota missile base

Bill Van Auken
World Socialist Web Site
Wed, 28 Sep 2016 00:00 UTC
Ashton Carter
US Defense Secretary Ashton Carter delivered a speech to "missileers" at the Air Force Global Strike Command base in Minot, North Dakota Monday, defending the massive modernization of the US nuclear arsenal and issuing bellicose threats against Russia.

Carter's trip to Minot was the first he has taken to a nuclear missile base since becoming secretary of defense in February 2015. It coincided with the steady escalation of conflicts pitting the US against nuclear-armed Russia and China that threaten to ignite a new world war.

The thrust of Carter's speech was a defense of the Pentagon's proposed $348 billion plan to rebuild Washington's so-called nuclear triad of strategic bombers, missiles and submarines. Estimates are that over a 30-year period, this nuclear buildup will siphon fully $1 trillion out of the American economy.

Delivered to the officers and enlisted personnel tasked with launching Minuteman III intercontinental ballistic missiles, each carrying warheads with 60 times the destructive capacity of the bombs dropped on Hiroshima and Nagasaki in 1945, the speech at times seemed to echo the title of the satiric 1964 film Dr. Strangelove or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb.

This massive US death machine, Carter insisted, provided "the bedrock of security" that has "enabled millions and millions to get up in the morning to go to school, to go to work, to live their lives, to dream their dreams and to give their children a better future."
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