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China set to become first trillion dollar aviation market


RT
Tue, 13 Sep 2016 16:57 UTC
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© Kim Kyung-Hoon / ReutersPlanes belonging to Air China are parked on the tarmac of Beijing Capital International Airport in Beijing
Airlines in China will spend more than $1 trillion on new airplanes over the next two decades to meet the country's booming demand for air travel, Boeing said in its annual China market outlook.

It estimates 6,810 new aircraft purchases by China in the next twenty years, up 7.6 percent from its previous demand prediction until 2034.

"As China transitions to a more consumer-based economy, aviation will play a key role in its economic development," said Randy Tinseth, Vice President of Marketing, Boeing Commercial Airplanes. "Because travel and transportation are key services, we expect to see passenger traffic grow 6.4 percent annually in China over the next 20 years," he added.

According to Tinseth, the country's growing middle class and new visa policies "gives every reason to expect a very bright future for China's long-haul market."
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SOTT Focus: Cooperation between US and Russia in Syria finally a reality?

Paul Mansfield
Sott.net
Tue, 13 Sep 2016 13:12 UTC
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© Abdalrhman Ismail / Reuters
After 14 hours of marathon talks in Geneva, Russia and the USA agreed on a new ceasefire deal in Syria. A key difference to the February cessation of hostilities deal is that the US and Russia have agreed to coordinate airstrikes on Jabhat Fateh al-Sham (JFS, formerly known as Jabhat al-Nusra). There is a catch — and here is where we get the first signs of the agreement unravelling: pre-conditions of a seven-day cease fire need to be met before strikes can commence.

Under the deal an initial 48-hour ceasefire commences as of yesterday, 12 September. This ceasefire then extends to at least 7 days. Should the ceasefire hold, a Russian-US Joint Implementation Centre (JIG) will be set up to delineate territories controlled by JFS and opposition groups in areas of active hostilities. This amounts to separating terrorists and "moderate" or "sane" opposition.

Russia and the US will share targeting data and coordinate air strikes against JFS and ISIS. To ensure the effectiveness of airstrikes, the US is to persuade opposition groups it supports to separate themselves from JFS forces. Up to this point this has been an exercise in futility, or perhaps intransigence, and is another potential pitfall to unravel the agreement in its embryonic stage.
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DNC holding emergency meeting to discuss replacing deteriorating Killary as presidential nominee

Jay Syrmopoulos
Free Thought Project
Mon, 12 Sep 2016 15:59 UTC
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In a stunning turn of events, the Democratic National Committee is set to hold an emergency meeting to discuss replacing Hillary Clinton as the Democratic presidential nominee after she was caught on camera collapsing during a 9/11 memorial in New York yesterday.

Emmy award-winning journalist David Shuster noted in a social media post that Democratic Party operatives are in the process of planning a crisis summit to discuss alternatives to Clinton. The ongoing media speculation, about potentially serious health issues, was confirmed with this latest incident.

In an effort to cover up her heath problems, the Clinton campaign initially denied any health related issues and blamed the collapse on heat exhaustion only to later come forward and admit that Hillary has been suffering from a case of pneumonia for the past three days. This admission raises the distinct possibility of a larger cover-up related to her health problems.

A Democratic operative reportedly told Shuster that the combination of the shocking footage of Clinton collapsing at the 9/11 memorial, along with her campaign hiding the fact that she had been suffering from pneumonia for the past three days - represented "uncharted political territory."

Comment: See also: Calm before storm, pressure mounts as MSM admits Clinton's health is 'campaign issue' that can no longer be ignored

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Luxembourg FM says Hungary should be kicked out of EU for ill treatment of refugees


RT
Tue, 13 Sep 2016 15:22 UTC
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Hungary should be suspended or even expelled from the EU for its approach to refugees, Luxembourg's foreign minister announced. Just days before leaders meet to discuss the future of the bloc, he stressed migrants are treated "nearly as bad as animals."

Speaking to the German daily Die Welt, Jean Asselborn criticized Hungary for the way it has dealt with the refugee crisis, saying that such behavior should come with consequences.

"Anyone who, like Hungary, builds fences against refugees from war or who violates press freedom and judicial independence should be excluded temporarily, or if necessary for ever, from the EU," Asselborn said as quoted by AP, adding that it's the only way to "preserve the cohesion and values of the European Union."

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© Eric Vidal / Reuters Luxembourg's Foreign Minister Jean Asselborn.
He went on to claim that refugees are being treated "nearly as bad as animals" in Hungary.

The Hungarian government has been vehemently opposed to taking in refugees from conflict areas such as Syria since Europe's refugee crisis began. It constructed a fence along its border with Serbia in September 2015 and blocked a passage from Croatia one month later.

Budapest also introduced new legislation punishing illegal entry and vandalism of the border fences. The laws have led to almost 3,000 convictions in fast-track trials, most of which resulted in expulsion orders, according to Deutsche Welle.

Comment: Hungary, along with Greece and other, lesser EU members, is bearing the brunt of policies they had no part in creating.

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Arrested in German refugee camps - 3 Syrians suspected of ISIS links


RT
Tue, 13 Sep 2016 15:54 UTC
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© AFP
Three Syrian nationals suspected of having ties with Islamic State (IS, formerly ISIS/ISIL) have been arrested after federal police raided refugee camps in northern Germany early on Tuesday, according to prosecutors.

They suspect that the three men, aged between 17 and 26, had been dispatched to Germany in November 2015 "to carry out a mission that they had been informed about or to wait for further instructions" from the terror group, Reuters reported.

"Based on the information that the Federal Crime Office has so far been able to obtain, the three are strongly suspected of coming to Germany in November 2015 on orders from Islamic State," the Federal Prosecutors' Office was cited as saying.

"Concrete missions or orders have not so far been found in the course of investigations carried out so far," the news agency reported, citing prosecutors.
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Russia may need to prepare for gas divorce from Europe and look to Asia


RT
Tue, 13 Sep 2016 15:56 UTC
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© Sergei Karpukhin / Reuters
Political tension with Europe and the increasing role of liquefied natural gas (LNG) has the world's biggest supplier looking to increase exports to the Asia-Pacific region, according to Russia's Federal Subsoil Resources Management Agency.

"The crisis in relations between Russia and the West has already led to a reduction in Russian gas exports to the EU and Ukraine...Lower demand for pipeline gas deliveries from Russia's Western partners is not a local problem, but a long-term trend that will have a direct impact on Russia's raw material and trade policies in the coming decades," said the agency in its outlook for the country's mineral reserves development until 2030.

One of the key problems for Russia is LNG getting a bigger share on the European market.

"The significant reduction in the cost of liquefaction of natural gas destroys the monopoly of pipeline systems in transporting gas to consumers. As a result, instead of several regional markets with specific conditions and prices there is now a single global market for natural gas," the document says.
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Russian Communist Party seeks to recognize genocide of Poles by Ukrainian nationalists


RT
Tue, 13 Sep 2016 15:54 UTC
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© Władysława Siemaszków, Ludobójstwo, Henryk Słowiński collection / Wikipedia
The Russian Communist Party has drafted a motion that, if passed, would recognize as genocide the killing of tens of thousands of ethnic Poles by Ukrainian nationalists in Volhynia Region during World War Two.

The draft, prepared by a group of Communist Party lawmakers headed by MP Sergey Obukhov, reads that on July 11, 1943, two organizations of Ukrainian militants - the Organization of Ukrainian Nationalists (OUN) and the Ukrainian Insurgent Army (UPA) - simultaneously attacked about 100 settlements in Volhynia and deliberately began to kill civilians.

"Tens of thousands of civilians were killed between 1942 and 1945, the precise number of casualties is still unknown," the document reads.

The Communists also stated that it was because of help from Soviet partisans that several Polish bases managed to repel the Ukrainian nationalist attacks, albeit with limited success.
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Sick bag: US to sign record $38bn military aid deal with Israel


RT
Tue, 13 Sep 2016 15:46 UTC
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© Baz Ratner / Reuters
The US has reportedly agreed a $38 billion package to deliver military aid to Israel over the next 10 years, with the pact expected to be signed "within days." The deal will become the biggest pledge of US military assistance to another country in history.

The new aid package will see Israel receive $3.8 billion per year from Washington, an increase of $700 million from the current $3.1 billion, sources told Reuters. However, the figure fell short of the annual $4.5 billion that Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu had been seeking.


Comment: Actually, the last USrael-10-year-plan amounted to $35 billion, $3.5 billion per year, once 'expenses' were factored in.


Following the negotiations Israel says it will not seek extra funding from the US. A previous agreement that allowed Israel to spend just over a quarter of the aid given by Washington on weapons from its domestic defense industry, instead of from the US, will be also phased out.

Comment: Israel then uses these weapons to attack Syria, for example, so that al-Qaeda/ISIS can do their regime change dirty work.

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GOP's 'revolutionary' new focus on women's health


RT
Tue, 13 Sep 2016 15:01 UTC
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© Harrison McClary / Reuters
Hillary Clinton's recent public health crisis has a number of Republican politicians weighing in on her ability to serve. However, many Twitter users noted that this amount of attention to women's health is rarely seen from the GOP.

You can fool some of the people all the time or all of the people some of the time, but you can never fool Twitter. For example, Virginia State Senator Dick Black - who, yes, is actually a state senator and not a 15-year-old's parody account, tweeted, "There is clearly something wrong with #HillarysHealth."

Senator Black is, like many politicians, an expert on women's bodies, which is why in 2015, he voted to defund Planned Parenthood, which provides healthcare to at least one in five women in their lifetimes, according to the nonprofit organization. In 2003, he enacted a bill that prevented underage women from receiving abortions without their parents' consent. He also questioned whether spousal rape was real in 2002, when he said spousal rape laws create an "enormous fear of the damage to [the husband's] reputation."

Comment: SOTT News Snapshot: September 12 edition - Conspiracists vindicated, Hillary sick as a dog
Just 4 days ago Killary tweeted: "The most important quality in a president and Commander-in-Chief is steadiness—an absolute, rock solid steadiness." Nice try! Just look at some of the coverage (culled from the Drudge Report): from NBC and CBS News to Fox, Politico and more:
The last article asks an important question. Just what will happen if Killary's health continues to be an issue, or, God forbid, she kicks the bucket before the election?


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Afghanistan safer than some US inner cities - Trump


RT
Tue, 13 Sep 2016 15:18 UTC
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© Mike Segar / ReutersRepublican presidential nominee Donald Trump speaks at a campaign rally in Asheville, North Carolina, U.S., September 12, 2016.
Republican Presidential candidate Donald Trump has blasted the state of US inner cities saying Americans would be safer walking through "war-torn countries" like Afghanistan than "being in the middle of some of our inner cities."

Trump made the comments at a rally in Asheville, North Carolina, where a crowd of almost 10,000 gathered inside the US Cellular Center to hear him speak. In a brutal attack against the Democratic Party, who he claims has been controlling inner city areas for "a hundred years straight," Trump said a "new agenda" was needed.

"The Democratic Party has run the inner cities for 50, 60, 70 years and even a hundred years straight," he said, speaking to his supporters. "We are on a mission of change. That includes a new agenda for our inner cities."

Comment: What a dog and pony show the US elections are! You got the blowhard narcissist idiot Trump vs Killery the reanimated zombie psychopath. God help us all.

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