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North Korea vows to strengthen nuclear capability as 'a righteous self-defense measure'

David Brunnstrom
Reuters
Fri, 23 Sep 2016 21:32 UTC
North Korean Foreign Minister Ri Yong Ho
© REUTERS/Eduardo Munoz
North Korea vowed on Friday to further strengthen its nuclear weapons capability, in spite of U.N. condemnation and sanctions, and said it would never abandon its deterrence while it was threatened by nuclear-armed states.

In an address to the United Nations General Assembly, North Korean Foreign Minister Ri Yong Ho described his country's nuclear weapons as "a righteous self-defense measure" against "constant nuclear threats of the United States."

"Going nuclear-armed is the policy of our state," he said. "As long as there exists a nuclear-weapon state in hostile relations with the DPRK, our national security and peace on the Korean peninsula can be defended only with reliable nuclear deterrence," he said, using the acronym for the Democratic People's Republic of Korea, North Korea's official name.

Comment: See more articles on the North Korea problem:

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Israel almost started another war with Hezbollah in 2015

Philip Weiss
Mondoweiss
Fri, 23 Sep 2016 21:13 UTC
idf soldier
"Capt. Nativ"'s identity was shrouded at a pro-Israel event on Sept. 19
Israel's dependence on American Jews produces some farcical situations, and this is one of them. An Israeli intelligence officer touring American Jewish spaces to brief American Jews about threats to Israel tells a bunch of old Jews (me included) at an Upper West Side synagogue what no one knew at the time: Israel was "really close to opening a war against Hezbollah" in January 2015.

The Stephen Wise Free Synagogue is a Reform synagogue on the Upper West Side of Manhattan with a reputation for liberalism, boasting of visits from MLK and Archbishop Tutu. But its Israel committee listed an event last night with an Israeli intelligence officer called Captain Nativ:
Take part in a discussion on intelligence information and terrorism led by the chief of an intelligence section in the Central Command of the IDF who focuses on acting against the terror threats that Israel faces from the West Bank.
"Captain Nativ" had had a busy week. He'd addressed this pro-Israel counterterrorism conference at the Yale Club on Monday, described as "Chief of an Intelligence Section in the Central Command of the IDF." There, his identity was shrouded with the picture above. Nativ also spoke to the NYU Law Students for Israel— a closed event. And he spoke to the Conference of Presidents of Major American Jewish Organizations earlier in the week.

Comment: This is how the IDF works: kill an "enemy", have the enemy retaliate, then decide whether or not to "retaliate" to that initial retaliation. If that final phase proceeds, the IDF and Israeli media then conveniently ignores the first phase, and frames their attack as a "retaliation" for the "unprovoked" retaliation in phase two. Luckily for Israel, they didn't choose to do so this time; Hezbollah would've humiliated them, again.

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Russia says let's improve Baltic air safety! NATO's reply is no thanks, we'll pass

Danielle Ryan
RT
Fri, 23 Sep 2016 21:17 UTC
U.S. F-22 Raptor fighter jets
© Justin Connaher / U.S. Air Force / Reuters
NATO has rejected air-safety proposals made by Russia which would have ensured all military planes flying in the Baltic region would operate with their transponders switched on. This makes no sense.

According to the Wall Street Journal, NATO officials said the proposals "would do little to improve" air safety — a strange response, given that NATO has repeatedly scolded Russia for allegedly flying its military jets over the Baltic with transponders switched off.

Headlines about 'dangerous' and 'unsafe' Russian military flights have been ten-a-penny over the last couple of years. Such stories have become so ubiquitous — and the media so obsessed with blowing them out of proportion — that at one point a woman in Cornwall became convinced that she saw Russian bombers overhead one day when she was out for a driving lesson.
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After winning Pulitzer publishing his NSA leaks, Washington Post calls for Snowden to be punished


Sott.net
Fri, 23 Sep 2016 21:07 UTC
WaPo Snowden
Recent WaPo editorial calling for Snowden to be punished... 3 years after the paper was instrumental in giving Snowden a platform. What changed?
Journalist Ben Swann points out the apparently ridiculous recent u-turn by the Washington Post on Ed Snowden. From publishing his NSA docs 3 years ago, the WaPo now wants to see the whistleblower behind bars...

What changed? Maybe it's because Snowden is in Russia? Even though Snowden has had nothing to do with the Russian government, since the leaks broke in 2013, Russia has become 'Number 1 Threat' to American hegemony, so the US government perhaps feels the need to set as many harsh examples about the dangers of 'consorting with the enemy' as it can...
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Snakes in Suits

The fight is on: Obama vetoes bill allowing to sue Saudi Arabia over 9/11


RT
Fri, 23 Sep 2016 21:05 UTC
9/11 Memorial
© Justin Lane / Reuters
President Barack Obama has vetoed the legislation that would allow families of 9/11 victims to sue Saudi Arabia. The bill passed unanimously in both the House and the Senate and was met with widespread public support.


Comment: Obama claimed it would hurt national security but was also worried the US might get sued:
Obama said other countries could use the law, known as JASTA, as an excuse to sue U.S. diplomats, service members or companies - even for actions of foreign organizations that had received U.S. aid, equipment or training.

"Removing sovereign immunity in U.S. courts from foreign governments that are not designated as state sponsors of terrorism, based solely on allegations that such foreign governments' actions abroad had a connection to terrorism-related injuries on U.S. soil, threatens to undermine these longstanding principles that protect the United States, our forces, and our personnel," Obama said in a statement.

Known as "Justice Against Sponsors of Terrorism Act" or JASTA, the bill creates an exemption to the doctrine of sovereign immunity established by a 1976 law, thus allowing US citizens to sue foreign countries for terrorism that kills Americans on US soil.

Fifteen out of 19 men who hijacked commercial airliners and used them as missiles to target the World Trade Center and the Pentagon on September 11, 2001 were subjects of the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia. Two were from the United Arab Emirates.
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SOTT Focus: Propaganda spin cycle: 'Syrian Observatory for Human Rights' is funded by US and UK governments

Beau Christensen
Sott.net
Fri, 23 Sep 2016 21:57 UTC
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For 5 years, bloody mayhem has been going on in Syria, and in all that time only independent media has picked up on the really obvious flaw in the official narrative about the "Syrian civil war" ...

Officially, the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights (SOHR) is a UK-based organization providing data to the Western press about troop movements, government policy and public sentiment in Syria. The Western press then reprints the information they are given - no questions asked:
sohr media
What Western media editors conceal from the public however, is that the "Syrian Observatory for Human Rights" is neither based in Syria nor is it an observer of what actually goes on there. It is essentially one man - Abdul Rahman, aka Rami Abdulrahman, aka Osama Suleiman - a three-term convicted criminal in Syria, based out of a small house in Coventry, England, and his 'team of four activists in Syria'.

Apparently all it takes to inform the entire Western media about everything that is happening on the ground in Syria is four people. Four people could, theoretically, provide reasonably objective reports, but only if they were open to receiving information from many sources, including ones supportive of the Syrian government. They might even be able to produce - using objective discernment - reliable statistics of casualties, refugees and terrorists/rebels. But SOHR has consistently reported the 'civil war' from only the perspective of the so-called 'rebels', discounting Syrian government reports out of hand, as well as reports from civilians that reveal rebels' crimes.

That fact alone makes SOHR about as reliable a source of information on the Syrian conflict as the US State Department and the British Foreign Office, who have a vested interest in spinning the war to produce one end: the death or removal of Syrian President Bashar Al Assad.
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Attention

Lavrov on ISSG Syria meeting: We can't let ISIS and Al-Nusra exploit lack of ceasefire in Syria


RT
Fri, 23 Sep 2016 20:30 UTC
Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov (left) and US Secretary of State John Kerry
© Eduard Pesov / Sputnik
The armed opposition must reciprocate with Syrian government peace efforts and not let terrorists benefit from the stalled ceasefire, says Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov. His US counterpart claims Russia has not yet produced a "constructive" offer.

The members of the International Syria Support Group (ISSG) who convened on Thursday for the second time on the sidelines of the UN General Assembly failed to revive the crumbled truce in Syria following what UN Syria's envoy Steffan de Mistura dubbed "long, painful and disappointing" talks, as cited by Reuters.

"We can't go out to the world and say we have an agreement when we don't," US Secretary of State John Kerry told journalists, as cited by AP.

Comment: This ceasefire deal has no where to go because of the not so hidden US agenda: Blatant subversion: Syria ceasefire deal breakdown shows US under military rule

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Bad Guys

Rage unleashed: Ukrainian brawler MP makes political point with his fists after debate (VIDEOS)


RT
Fri, 23 Sep 2016 08:22 UTC
Ukrainian brawler MP
© 112 Украина / YouTube
A Ukrainian MP, notorious even among his colleagues for making his political point with his fists, was caught on camera ambushing a long-time rival after a TV debate and later vandalizing the man's car.

Vladimir Parasyuk is one of several MPs in the current Ukrainian parliament, the Verkhovna Rada, who got their positions by capitalizing on the publicity they gained as leaders of paramilitary units which played a key part in overthrowing Ukraine's previous government.

During his days as a lawmaker with immunity from prosecution, the cocky 29-year-old has engaged in several brawls with Ukrainian officials, both inside the Rada and in other offices.

One of his opponents is Aleksandr Vilkul, whom Parasyuk and several likely-minded MPs forced to leave the parliamentary rostrum for speaking Russian. The conflict reignited on Thursday, when both were invited to a political talk show at television Channel 112.
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Ambulance

Does Killary have Parkinson's? Dr. Noel interview examines the evidence

Charles Bausman
Russia Insider
Thu, 22 Sep 2016 19:13 UTC
Hillary in glasses
Blue-tinted sunglasses help reduce Parkinson's symptoms.
Upon seeing Hillary's weird collapse at the 9/11 ceremony, the RI editorial team had a collective "Holy Cow" moment, because we knew that in an instant, the whole election had just shifted strongly in Trump's favor.

We immediately began scouring the internet for background, and came across the video analysis of Dr. Ted Noel, who has been arguing since August in very detailed and convincing videos, that the evidence suggests that Hillary could well have Parkinson's. Noel's arguments are very convincing, certainly the most credible explanation out there that we could find about Hillary's weird behavior.

We also researched articles criticizing Noel's hypotheses, and found them unconvincing, to say the least.
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SOTT Focus: SOTT News Snapshot: Syria ceasefire failure is entirely the U.S.'s fault


Sott.net
Fri, 23 Sep 2016 20:54 UTC
Sergey Lavrov and John Kerry
Kerry: 'No, really, I DO have the final say on all foreign policy decisions!'
The Russian cellist and conductor Sergei Roldugin recently shared an eye-opening anecdote regarding Putin and Obama. He apparently told a group of journalists - "confidentially" - that "Obama's bodyguards are not trusting enough to leave him alone with Putin, so that they can speak one-on-one." Sure, Putin is a martial arts master and ex-KGB, but to imagine he would put Obama in a chokehold or poison his tea is ridiculous. There has to be another reason, besides concerns for his physical safety, why Obama needs minders during his meetings with Putin. What could it possibly be?

The answer should be clear, and it has to do with what we wrote about on Tuesday regarding the differences of opinion between the State Department and the Pentagon, for example. But it goes deeper than that. Even disregarding the infighting and departmental rivalries, there is a power structure in the U.S. which goes beyond any individual group, whether the Pentagon, CIA, FBI, State Department, etc. Peter Dale Scott, among others, calls it the 'deep state' - a network of individuals in the public and private spheres who wield a disproportionate amount of influence on policy. This is the "CIA within the CIA", and the interconnections with Wall Street, private intelligence firms, Big Oil, big banks, arms manufacturers, and so on.

When it comes down to it, Obama has relatively little power. He was probably sincere in his promises to close Guantanamo, for example, but the simple fact is: it wasn't his decision to make. He may have had a hand in averting all-out war on Syria in 2013, but he couldn't have done it without the catalytic role of Russia's intervention with Assad to destroy Syria's chemical weapons. When it comes to unilateral decisions, however, Obama doesn't make any. And he can't. Thus, his minders. If Obama were to have a private conversation with Putin, there's a risk he may go "off script", and that simply isn't allowed.
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