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Is the EU being set up? Canada-EU Trade Agreement (CETA) is a TTIP clone - provides corporatocracy with "back door" into Europe

Prof Michel Chossudovsky
Global Research
Mon, 26 Sep 2016 14:55 UTC
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In less than a month from now, an important and far-reaching "trade agreement" between Canada and the European Union is slated to be signed and ratified by the House of Commons in Ottawa and the European Parliament.

The TTIP is Alive?

The Canada and European Union (EU) Comprehensive Economic and Trade Agreement (CETA) is described by the media as "a high quality agreement that reinforces Canada's fundamental relationship with the European Union."

But there more than meets the eye.

The CETA agreement - presented to public opinion as an innocuous "bilateral" EU-Canada trade deal - constitutes a TTIP in disguise.

It includes the entire neoliberal policy gamut: commodity trade, trade in services, investment, intellectual property, financial services provisions, all of which are contained in the US sponsored TTIP agreement. It is a de facto "carbon copy" of the controversial Transatlantic Trade and Investment Partnership (TTIP) between the European Union and the United States, which has been temporarily "blocked" by both the European Parliament and the US Congress.
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US Congress expected to override Obama 9/11 bill veto - giving victims' families right to sue Saudi Arabia

Ali Rogin
ABC News
Mon, 26 Sep 2016 16:56 UTC
Obama Sauidis
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For the first time in President Obama's tenure, the Senate is set to override his veto of a bill that would allow the families of 9/11 victims to sue Saudi Arabia in U.S. courts.

The president vetoed the bill Friday, citing concerns that it could open the U.S. government to similar lawsuits.

"Our concern extends not just to the impact this would have on our relationship with Saudi Arabia, but rather the impact that this could have on the United States' relationship with countries around the world," White House press secretary Josh Earnest told reporters Friday.

Comment: Is it possible that the limited hangout of Saudi participation in 9/11 - in order to keep the country under US heel - has, in a way, backfired on the US gov; empowering Americans to hold a state government responsible for 9/11. Or is this latest chapter also part of the great game - and a continued deflection from the US's own criminal facilitation of the horrific events of that day?

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War Whore

Deir Ezzor, Syria-US coalition knew they were bombing the Syrian army

Leith Fadel
Almasdar News
Tue, 27 Sep 2016 15:04 UTC
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A senior officer from the Syrian Arab Army's 123 Regiment told Al-Masdar on Tuesday morning that his unit was among the government forces targeted by the U.S. Coalition in Deir Ezzor earlier this month.

The senior officer, who asked Al-Masdar to keep his name anonymous, stated that prior to the airstrikes, the U.S. Coalition had flown several reconnaissance drones above their positions at Jabal Thardeh.

When asked how he knew they were American drones, the senior officer answered that their Russian military advisors had corresponded with the U.S. Coalition prior to the commencement of the reconnaissance mission.
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WTO forecasts world trade growth weakest since 2009 financial crisis


RT
Tue, 27 Sep 2016 14:44 UTC
Yangshan Deep Water Port
© Aly Song / Reuters A container area is seen at the Yangshan Deep Water Port, part of the Shanghai Free Trade Zone, in Shanghai, China.
The World Trade Organization (WTO) has cut its forecast for global trade growth this year by more than a third, saying it's the first time in 15 years international commerce will slip below GDP.

According to the WTO, global trade will expand by merely 1.7 percent this year which is well below the April forecast of 2.8 percent.

The forecast for 2017 has also been downgraded. Trade is now expected to grow between 1.8 percent and 3.1 percent, down from 3.6 percent.

"The dramatic slowing of trade growth is serious and should serve as a wake-up call. It is particularly concerning in the context of growing anti-globalization sentiment," said WTO Director General Roberto Azevedo.

Comment: And according to the IMF, it's all China's fault: China biggest threat to global economic stability says former IMF chief economist 'expert'

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Oscar

Oliver Stone slams "superficial election," media "idiots" & Orwellian U.S. politics

Ben Norton
Salon
Thu, 22 Sep 2016 13:47 UTC
Oliver Stine
© Credit: Carlo Allegri/Invision/APFilm director Oliver Stone in 2012
The award-winning director of "Snowden" condemned U.S. warmongering and foreign policy in an interview

"I'm 70 years old and I'm still angry," said Oliver Stone. "I'm still angry about the way we treat people. It's depressing as hell."

The Oscar-winning filmmaker entered his seventh decade last week. He also released his latest broadside against American corruption and complacency, the biographical thriller "Snowden," with Joseph Gordon-Levitt as National Security Agency whistleblower Edward Snowden.

Stone spoke at a small event in New York on Sept. 14, where he blasted the "superficial" U.S. presidential election, the "idiots" in the media and belligerent U.S. foreign policy. He also discussed difficulties in making Snowden and applauded whistleblowers for "courageously" exposing lies, as Salon previously reported.

Comment: Oliver Stone to RT: 'U.S. has become an Orwellian state'

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Propaganda

Washington Post claims Russian radio, not NATO bombing, turned Serbs against the alliance

Bryan MacDonald
RT
Mon, 26 Sep 2016 13:35 UTC
Belgrade May 27 air raids over Yugoslavia
© ReutersNATO aircrafts leave marks in the sky (top left) as they bomb a thermal plant in the suburbs of Belgrade May 27, 1999 during air raids over Yugoslavia.
The Washington Post expects its readers to believe Serbia's lack of enthusiasm for NATO membership is because of "Russian disinformation." Naturally, it has nothing to do with the "defensive alliance" bombing the country seventeen years ago.

Sometimes you read something in a newspaper and it just makes you laugh. Previously, that impulse was reserved for tabloids like Germany's Bild or Britain's Sun, or more outlandish American stuff such as the National Enquirer or The Weekly World News. You know the type of content: "Elvis' Tomb is Empty" or "Al-Qaeda Threatens to Bomb Coronation Street Set."

All obvious nonsense, but amusing and harmless stuff from outlets with zero credibility in the first place.

Increasingly, I'm finding established broadsheets comical too, but in this instance it isn't really funny. While everybody knows the yellow press is full of scarcely researched tittle-tattle, we expect better from the Western establishment's so-called serious media. Sadly, in recent times, especially while riding the wave of Russia scare stories, their content has become more and more factually challenged and increasingly lazy.
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Mission creep: Japan boosts 'logistics' cooperation with US military citing tensions with China and N. Korea


RT
Tue, 27 Sep 2016 13:23 UTC
Members of the Japan's Ground Self-Defense Force 1st Airborne Brigade
© Toru Hanai / ReutersMembers of the Japan's Ground Self-Defense Force 1st Airborne Brigade.
Japan has amended its Acquisition and Cross-Servicing Agreement (ACSA) with the United States to enable the provision of military supplies list under the country's new security legislation enacted earlier this year.

After decades of maintaining a defensive military posture, in March Tokyo passed a set of two laws enabling Japan to practice collective self-defense, and allowing for significant expansion of the nature the country's military forces operations in overseas missions.

Previously Japan collaborated with Washington partly through the ACSA by supplying fuel, food, and providing logistics, as well as other non-lethal items during joint exercises, UN-led peacekeeping operations, and international search and rescue operations. That Japanese aid to the US has been limited to military emergencies affecting Japan.
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Nuke

Pentagon chief keeps cold war alive: NATO is reviewing their 'nuclear playbook' to deter 'terrible attacks' by Russia


RT
Tue, 27 Sep 2016 13:06 UTC
LGM-30F Minuteman III intercontinental ballistic missile
© Tech. Sgt. Bob Wickley / USAF / ReutersU.S. Air Force technicians perform an electrical check on an LGM-30F Minuteman III intercontinental ballistic missile in its silo at Whiteman Air Force Base, Missouri.
The Pentagon chief put Russia on par with North Korea when he spoke about threats faced by the US and its allies, and the need to invest billions into refreshing NATO's nuclear playbook to integrate conventional and unconventional deterrence methods.

Addressing US servicemen, missile units and B-52 crews at Minot Base, Defense Secretary Ash Carter stated that the US and its allies had not built any new nuclear weapons or delivery systems in the last 25 years - and said that American nuclear forces must be ready to engage in a possible nuclear confrontation with Russia.

"Russia has long been a nuclear power, but Moscow's recent saber-rattling and building of new nuclear weapons systems raises serious questions about its leaders' commitment to strategic stability, their regard for long-established accords of using nuclear weapons and whether they respect the profound caution that Cold War era leaders showed in respect to brandishing their nuclear weapons," the Pentagon chief claimed.
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Attention

American consulate warns of US-branded hotels in Turkey face 'specific and credible' terror threats


RT
Mon, 26 Sep 2016 22:41 UTC
Marriott Hotel
© FRANKO LEE / AFP
A US consulate in Turkey is warning of "specific and credible" potential terrorist threats against hotels run by American companies in the resort city of Adana. Just days earlier, the State Department allowed families of its diplomats to return to Adana.

"US Consulate General Adana informs US citizens that it has obtained specific and credible threats of potential terrorist activity targeting US-branded hotels in Adana," the consulate said in a statement on its website. "US citizens in Adana are advised to exercise caution when patronizing these establishments."

Comment: See also: Intel on potential ISIS terror plot against UK and German mission in Ankara, British embassy still closed

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US owes apology for soldiers' deaths in Deir Ezzor: Assad advisor


PressTV
Tue, 27 Sep 2016 10:53 UTC
Bouthaina Shaaban
© Photos by AFPSyrian President Bashar al-Assad’s media and political advisor Bouthaina Shaaban
A top advisor to Syrian President Bashar al-Assad says the US should officially apologize for killing dozens of Syrian troops in an airstrike.

Assad's media and political advisor Bouthaina Shaaban made the remark on Monday during an interview with the Lebanon-based al-Mayadeen TV network.

She noted that Washington has conveyed apologies to Syria but not in an official manner.

Following the incident, a US administration official said the US has "relayed our regret through the Russian Federation" over the deaths of the Syrian government forces fighting the Daesh Takfiri terrorist group.
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