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Bayer buys Monsanto - is there more to this merger than meets the eye?

Janet Phelan
Activist Post
Fri, 30 Sep 2016 20:25 UTC
the merger
© Natural Blaze, pixabay
The chemical giant Bayer has just purchased the agricultural biotechnology company Monsanto for $66 billion. This union is redolent of marriages between members of medieval royalty, accomplished not out of love but out of a desire to keep the goodies in the family while expanding the reach and control of the royals.

And in this case, the real nature of the goodies requires special scrutiny.

Monsanto is hardly an unknown quantity. The global company specializes in herbicides and genetically engineered seeds, most notably Roundup herbicide and the genetically modified Roundup Ready seed. The impact of Roundup has raised levels of alarm, as it is thought to contribute to the worldwide spike in autism, heart disease and other illnesses. Genetically engineered seeds have also engendered concerns and have been connected with an increased risk of certain types of cancer.

Comment: End the toxic tyranny - billions against Bayer

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Bad Guys

Bringing the New Cold War to South Asia: India splits up SAARC

Andrew Korybko
Katehon
Thu, 29 Sep 2016 18:54 UTC
modi
The New Cold War between the unipolar and multipolar worlds has been progressively unfolding across the past couple of years, most visibly through the US and its allied bloc's 'containment' aggression against Russia and China. The US recently succeeded in bringing India on board and has thus opened up a southern front in its pan-Eurasian asymmetrical war. Up until this point, India's Hybrid War on CPEC and the Chinese-Indian Cold War were being waged beyond the institutional front, with the South Asian Association for Regional Cooperation (SAARC) not formally being brought into these battles. This pragmatically left open the possibility that the competition could be contained and that the organization could serve as an intermediary venue for cooling down tensions between all sides. Alas, this is no longer the case, however, since Modi-Doval decided to up the ante and mischievously forced the apolitical regional integration group to take sides in the New Cold War, splitting it up along New Cold War lines and formally bringing the global rivalry between the unipolar and multipolar worlds to the forefront of South Asian politics.

Comment: The latest news on the India-Pakistan front: Kashmir nuclear hot spot: Pakistan says 2 soldiers killed in what India calls 'surgical strikes' on militants

Pakistani theater owners have responded to the escalation by banning Indian movies. The Pakistani military has upped their rhetoric, too:
"We will destroy India if it dares to impose war on us.

"Pakistan army is fully prepared to answer any misadventure of India.

"We have not made atomic device to display in a showcase.

"If a such a situation arises we will use it and eliminate India."


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Star of David

Israeli intel officer: Iran deal a good thing, Palestinians would end terror if had a state, Israel faces no existential threats

Philip Weiss
Mondoweiss
Fri, 30 Sep 2016 15:07 UTC
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"Capt. Nativ"'s identity was shrouded at a pro-Israel event on Sept. 19
Last week I said I'd pass along more insights from "Captain Nativ" — the chief of an Intelligence Section in the Central Command of the Israeli army - who made a tour of American Jewish audiences.

I caught Nativ's speech to a synagogue on the Upper West Side (after earlier performances with rightwing Zionist groups including the Conference of Presidents); and the intelligence officer contradicted the Israeli prime minister on a number of questions. He said the Iran deal was a good thing for Israel for the "near future" because it removes any possibility of Iranian nukes; he suggested that Palestinians would end terrorist attacks if they had a state; and he said that Israel has no "existential" threats - and not a word about Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions (BDS). Oh and life in the Israeli settlements is dangerous.

Here are the soundbites in which the young Captain expressed different opinions from the prime minister:

No existential threat.
If you think, 30, 40 years ago we really had a threat to our existence, with the Egyptians, the Syrians. These days we don't have any threats to our existence. We do have threats of mainly terror threats on our borders, but we dont have any threats to our existence.

Comment: Israelis aren't that stupid. At least, intel officers like Nativ understand some of the common-sense realities of what's going on in Palestine and Israel. So when you hear a clown like Netanyahu spewing nonsense 24/7, you can take it to the bank that he's not just stupid - he's lying.

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Former CIA officer interview: US paying lip-service to fighting terror in Syria, eyeing Iran


Sputnik
Sat, 01 Oct 2016 15:02 UTC
US troops in Syria
© AFP 2016/ AHMAD AL-RUBAY
Amid the recent diplomatic wrangling between the US and Russia on Syria, Larry Johnson, retired CIA intelligence officer, tells Radio Sputnik that the US has "an enormous amount of blood on its hands" for inciting this conflict and it is in fact "lip-service to the concept of fighting terrorism," pursuing completely different purposes.

"If Russia had not intervened, the region would be in more chaos and would be on a path towards more instability," Larry Johnson, retired CIA intelligence officer and State Department official told Radio Sputnik.

"The US is paying lip- service to the concept of fighting terrorism, it is actually giving weapons and money to the terrorists which is part of the problem. The US has schizophrenia on this particular policy," he said.
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Bad Guys

Protecting their future puppets: Court rules Pentagon may keep US 'school of assassins' graduates names secret


RT
Sat, 01 Oct 2016 08:42 UTC
Fort Benning soldier graduation
© Tami Chappell / Reuters A U.S. Army Ranger shows skills during a demonstration at Ranger school graduation at Fort Benning in Columbus, Georgia August 21, 2015
A US court of appeals ruled that the Pentagon does not have to disclose the names of people who were trained in counterinsurgency at the School of the Americas, an institution that lists some of Latin America's worst dictators among its graduates.

In a divided 2-1 decision, the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals in San Francisco overturned a 2014 decision by the Northern District Court of California, which said the US public had a right to know who the US Army trains at a facility located at Fort Benning near Columbus, Georgia. The DoD appealed the decision.

Originally called School of the Americas, it was founded in 1946 and trained Latin American troops in anti-communist counterinsurgency. The school was rebranded as the Western Hemisphere Institute for Security Cooperation (WHINSEC) in the early 2000s. Critics say people involved in torture, extrajudicial killings, and other violations of human rights got their training at the facility funded by US taxpayer money, with some labeling it School of Assassins.

Comment: Read the following articles to gain insight into how the CIA has used the School of America's to train death squads, corrupt military officers and future puppet dictators to spread their pathological influence around the globe:

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Snakes in Suits

'US never had a 'Plan A' for Syria: West a root cause of crisis' says Syrian UN envoy


RT
Sat, 01 Oct 2016 14:50 UTC
rubble of damaged buildings in the rebel held area of al-Kalaseh neighbourhood of Aleppo, Syria
© Abdalrhman Ismail / Reuters
Washington never had a so-called 'Plan A' to resolve the Syrian crisis, Syrian envoy to the UN Bashar al-Jaafari told RT, adding that the West is one of the root causes of the Syrian war.

In the wake of the worsening security situation in Syria, Washington has blamed Damascus and Russia for jeopardizing efforts to peacefully resolve the ongoing civil war.

However, al-Jaafari told RT that Washington on its part never had a solid plan to settle the war inside Syria.

"The United States had never had a 'Plan A' to move to 'Plan B', Washington had a 'Plan B', they never worked out a 'Plan A'," the Syrian UN envoy said.

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Snakes in Suits

Whoops! US lawmakers have 'buyer's remorse' on 9/11 victims bill after override


Sputnik
Sat, 01 Oct 2016 14:38 UTC
9/11 terror attack
© Flickr/ Cyril Attias
The White House is calling out Congress for having a "classic case of rapid onset buyer's remorse," after House and Senate leaders admitted that there may be unintended consequences of the Justice Against Sponsors of Terrorism Act (JASTA), as regrets were expressed just 24 hours after the governing bodies overrode President Obama's veto.

The House is now considering a bill to "fix" JASTA when they return from recess. House Speaker Paul Ryan expressed concern about service members potentially facing lawsuits in other nations as JASTA currently stands.

"So I'd like to think that there's a way we could fix so that our service members do not have legal problems overseas, while still protecting the rights of the 9/11 victims, which is what JASTA did do," Ryan said in a statement to the media on Thursday.
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Light Sabers

SOTT Focus: Mainstream media unanimously supports Killary, but online polls suggest huge majority of Americans support Trump

Harrison Koehli
Sott.net
Sat, 01 Oct 2016 16:07 UTC
trump clinton
You get what you deserve.
Killary and Drumpf had their first debate earlier this week. We covered it here: First Clinton-Trump debate: Worth a laugh, but not much else. In a nutshell, Hillary lied, Trump lied a bit less. Hillary wore her fake smile, Trump squinted and got a bit angry. Hillary was polished and prepared, Trump less so. Holt grilled Trump and lobbed softballs to Hillary. By the framed parameters of the debate - i.e., who can lie the best and come up with the most voter-friendly answers (actually implementing the policies when they gain office doesn't cross candidates' minds) - Hillary probably came out on top. But when it comes to actual impact on voters, the situation isn't so simple.

As Joaquin Flores wrote in an extensive analysis for Katehon (see: Trump's victory was moral and strategic), Trump played to his fans. Hillary's support is composed mostly of people who don't like her, but who dislike Trump even more. And despite her polished performance and fake smile (actually, it's probably because of those things), the average American probably liked Trump more. He comes across as a real person - albeit a small-minded, not very intelligent person, and since when did that combination of qualities ever rankle the average American?
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Vader

The Empire's propaganda war: Russia-baiting and risks of nuclear war

Ray McGovern
Consortium News
Fri, 30 Sep 2016 13:22 UTC
Lavrov UN speech 2016
© United NationsSergey V. Lavrov, Minister for Foreign Affairs of the Russian Federation, addresses the general debate of the General Assembly’s seventy-first session.
Sept. 23, 2016
The propaganda war on Russia is spinning out of control with a biased investigation blaming Moscow for the MH-17 tragedy and angry exchanges over Syria, raising the risks of nuclear war.

As U.S. and Russian officials trade barbed threats and as diplomacy on Syria is "on the verge" of extinction, it is tempting to view the ongoing propaganda exchange over who shot down Malaysia Airlines Flight 17 in July 2014 as a side-show. That would be a huge mistake - easily made by President Obama's wet-behind-the-ears sophomoric advisers who seem to know very little of the history of U.S.-Russia relations and appear smug in their ignorance.

Adult input is sorely needed. There are advantages to having some hands-on experience, and having watched how propaganda wars can easily escalate to military confrontation. In a Sept. 28 interview with Sputnik Radio, I addressed some serious implications of the decision by the U.S. and two of its European vassal states (the Netherlands and Ukraine) to stoke tensions with Russia still higher by blaming it for the downing of MH-17.

In short, there is considerable risk that the Russians may see this particular propaganda offensive (which "justified" the European Union's economic sanctions in 2014), together with NATO's saber rattling in central Europe, as steps toward war. In fact, there is troubling precedent for precisely that.
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Snakes in Suits

Former Georgian president Saakashvili and party investigated for possible post elections coup plot

Liz Fuller
RFU/RL
Fri, 30 Sep 2016 13:35 UTC
Mikheil Saakashvili
© Sputnik
With most voters still undecided on the eve of Georgia's parliamentary elections, a mysterious audio recording has surfaced that is apparently intended to smear former President Mikheil Saakashvili and his party. The country's State Security Service is investigating whether its contents constitute a coup attempt.

The audio recording, uploaded on September 26 by an anonymous YouTube user, features the purported voices of Saakashvili and five parliamentarians from his United National Movement (ENM) discussing their options in the event of the party's defeat in the October 8 vote. The six can be heard considering the possibility of forming an opposition coalition government -- an idea dismissed by the voice attributed to Saakashvili -- or launching a long-term public protest in an effort to have the results of the elections overturned.

"Our task is to hold elections in a revolutionary atmosphere," says a voice alleged to be that of ENM parliamentarian Gigi Tsereteli. "This means stirring up the public."
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