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Does the Kremlin really believe Hillary wants to start a war with Russia?

Clinton Ehrlich
Foreign Policy
Wed, 07 Sep 2016 00:00 UTC
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An American embedded within Moscow's top foreign-policy brain trust explains why Putin and his cadres are backing Trump.


Comment: It is a misnomer to say Moscow is backing Trump. Russia is not, cannot be, involved in the US election nor back a US politician for President. This is different from preference or working ability.


If Hillary Clinton is elected president, the world will remember Aug. 25 as the day she began the Second Cold War. In a speech last month nominally about Donald Trump, Clinton called Russian President Vladimir Putin the godfather of right-wing, extreme nationalism. To Kremlin-watchers, those were not random epithets. Two years earlier, in the most famous address of his career, Putin accused the West of backing an armed seizure of power in Ukraine by "extremists, nationalists, and right-wingers." Clinton had not merely insulted Russia's president: She had done so in his own words. Worse, they were words originally directed at neo-Nazis. In Moscow, this was seen as a reprise of Clinton's comments comparing Putin to Hitler. It injected an element of personal animus into an already strained relationship — but, more importantly, it set up Putin as the representative of an ideology that is fundamentally opposed to the United States.


Comment: If Putin holds the "Hitler" personae, then presumably the American public will miss or overlook the stronger homegrown likeness. Unfortunately for Clinton, the label doesn't stick.


Comment: A candidate in the US presidential bid has to become distinguished from 'the other.' If one can't do that on merit (of which Clinton is completely lacking), there is always the ability to lie, cheat and fake it, no matter the cost to the process, the people, the world's eye, or personal integrity (of which Clinton has none). Is she dangerous? Oh yes. Imagine: 'Psychopathy for President.'

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War Whore

Meet NATO's troll extraordinaire, 'Brig Gen.' Joel Harding

Ivan Zaitsev and Yana Dianova
Russia Insider
Thu, 08 Sep 2016 16:50 UTC
“Brig. Gen.” Joel Harding
“Brig. Gen.” Joel Harding
From a dirty alley, a figure emerges from the shadows to conduct yet another covert operation. His mission is officially deniable, much like Tom Cruise in Mission Impossible or the Houndcats in the old cartoon series. It is to stalk any target of opportunity conjured up in his mind. Striking terror and bewilderment in passersby, a phosphorescent rainbow-hued lightning streak formed his trademark facial camouflage, reminiscent of Ziggy Stardust and the Spiders from Mars. This pretty much described the world he inhabited, which remains his world today.

Meet "Brig. Gen." Joel Harding. His exploits from the Cold War and since are classified, but anyone can visit his bare-knuckled WordPress-based blog to read about the deeds of this maestro of all "dark arts."

He sees himself as one of the 10 men standing between the "free world" and a totalitarian world mind-controlled by the FSB-GRU-SVR and Vladimir Putin, and his mission is the same as it was in his glory days. The other nine have since passed on, and there is a growing suspicion that "Putin did it." Only Brig Gen. Harding stands tall, the only consummate professional cum patriot saving the United States from a possible Kremlin takeover via Donald Trump, whom he sees as a Manchurian Candidate for Putin.

Comment: In part II it is revealed that 'Brig Gen. Harding', in addition to his full time trolling has a hankering for teen porn.
It so happens that our "former senior US military intelligence officer" or "Brigadier General" was sued recently for copyright infringement of Internet-distributed pornography (Case No. 1:16-cv-00384-AJT-TCB) in the US District Court for the eastern district of Virginia, Alexandria division. The plaintiff, Malibu Media LLC, is seeking damages from the defendant, a certain Joel Harding who uncannily shares the same address as our Brigadier General, for the unauthorized downloading, copying and distribution of the plaintiff's copyrighted pornographic movies. The Plaintiff charges that the "defendant is a habitual and persistent BitTorrent user and copyright infringer." This is of course natural for an online stalker who trolls through 3,000 blogs to uphold the US Constitution. Most of these blogs are presumably centered on content such as the one below in his one-stop centre for "information warfare" patsies and imposters.

Is this how former senior US military officers while away their time? As the court files in Virginia reveal, our dear "Brig Gen" Harding seems hopelessly addicted to teen pornography from "former Soviet-bloc countries, such as the "Czech Republic, Slovakia, Russia, Hungary, and Romania." Notice that the defendant, Joel Harding, scrupulously omitted to mention Ukraine in the defendant's affidavit. Yet, it is post-coup Ukraine that supplies an overwhelming majority of "Eastern European" teen porn models today, contributing to a surge in HIV infections. The rates are reportedly so cheap now that even Ukrainian MPs are known to watch pornographic movies during parliamentary sessions. Why bother with the affairs of state when Kiev's policies are decided by Victoria Nuland in Washington.

Anyway, Harding's teen porn activities were supposedly a cover for hush-hush counter-espionage and information warfare of the highest order. Harding took the plaintiff's allegations like a true soldier in order not to blow his clandestine-covert mission. Instead of claiming "Putin did it" or "Russia framed me", this time the defendant claimed that he merely "acted in good faith as an innocent infringer under Section 504 of the Copyright Act and without any intent to infringe Plaintiff's work."


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Isis veteran fighter shares group's plan to spread even after defeat in Iraq & Syria

Patrick Cockburn
The Independent
Sat, 10 Sep 2016 16:42 UTC
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© AFP/GettyA young boy watches smoke rising over Jarabulus from the Turkish-Syrian border town of Karkamis on 1 September
Isis will flourish and survive even if it is defeated in the present battle for Syria and Iraq an Isis militant has told The Independent.

In an exclusive interview, Faraj, a 30-year-old veteran fighter from north east Syria, says that "when we say that the Islamic State [Isis] is everlasting and expanding, it is not a mere poetic or propaganda phrase". He says the group intends to rebuild its strength in Saudi Arabia, Egypt, Libya and Tunisia, adding that "Isis has sleeper agents all over the world and their numbers are increasing".

In his account of his life in Isis, Faraj makes plain that only a year after the caliphate was declared in the wake of the capture of Mosul in 2014, its leaders could foresee that it might be overrun militarily. He reveals hitherto unknown details of the apparent close cooperation between Isis and Turkey and the degree to which foreign fighters who flooded into Syria to fight for Isis alienated local people from the movement by ordering them about and interfering in their lives.
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Death of TTIP - An abhorrent political deception

Graham Vanbergen
True Publica
Fri, 09 Sep 2016 16:32 UTC
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The global mainstream media have loudly hailed the stunning success of the peoples uprising against the Transatlantic Trade and Investment Partnership or TTIP in the light of its demise. In the last few years protests broke out all over Europe as the unelected bureaucrats steamed ahead with this unpopular trade deal, even after the results of the largest ever consultation study in the EU Commission's history resulted in a 97% negative response of 150,000 people.

The emerging movement spawned enormous online activism never seen before, culminating in the largest petition in Europe's history with a staggering collective of over 3.2 million signatures delivered by passionate foot-soldiers right to the epicentre of where the political elite inhabit in the EU. The beating heart of TTIP activism was Berlin, Paris and London. This is not to forget the huge protest effort made by citizens across almost all of the EU's major cities.
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Perpetual war: 15 years post 9/11 has only yielded death, debt and destruction

Alex Emmons
The Intercept
Sat, 10 Sep 2016 16:22 UTC
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In the days after the Sept. 11, 2001, terrorist attacks, when Congress voted to authorize military force against the people who "planned, authorized, committed, or aided" the hijackings, few Americans could have imagined the resulting manhunt would span from West Africa all the way to the Philippines, and would outlast two two-term presidents.

Today, U.S. military engagement in the Middle East looks increasingly permanent. Despite the White House having formally ended the wars Iraqand Afghanistan, thousands of U.S. troops and contractors remain in both countries. The U.S. is dropping bombs on Iraq and Syria faster than it can make them, and according to the Pentagon, its bombing campaign in Libya has "no end point at this particular moment." The U.S. is also helping Saudi Arabia wage war in Yemen, in addition to conducting occasional airstrikes in Yemen and Somalia.

Fifteen years after the September 11 attacks, it looks like the war on terror is still in its opening act.
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Clinton expresses regret for saying 'half' of Trump supporters are 'deplorables'

Dan Merica & Sophie Tatum
CNN
Sat, 10 Sep 2016 15:44 UTC
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Hillary Clinton expressed "regret" Saturday for comments in which she said "half" of Donald Trump's supporters are "deplorables," meaning people who are racist, sexist, homophobic or xenophobic.

"Last night I was 'grossly generalistic,' and that's never a good idea. I regret saying 'half' - that was wrong," Clinton said in a statement in which she also vowed to call out "bigotry" in Trump's campaign.

The Democratic presidential nominee sparked an uproar late Friday when she described Trump's supporters at a fundraiser.

"To just be grossly generalistic, you can put half of Trump supporters into what I call the basket of deplorables," Clinton said. "Right? Racist, sexist, homophobic, xenophobic, Islamaphobic, you name it."

She added, "And unfortunately, there are people like that and he has lifted them up. He has given voice to their websites that used to only have 11,000 people, now have 11 million. He tweets and retweets offensive, hateful, mean-spirited rhetoric."

Clinton then said some of these people were "irredeemable" and "not America."

Comment: Additional news bites on Hillary's 'grossly generalistic' statements:

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Heart - Black

Canadian activist: Canada and the U.S. have no right to preach about human rights


Khamenei.ir
Sat, 10 Sep 2016 00:00 UTC
Denis G. Rancourt
Denis G. Rancourt
Regarding human rights violations, the US and Canada have no lessons to give. Their jails are overcrowded with citizens. The bail system systemically denies constitutional rights. Physical isolation that amounts to torture is widely used. Jail sentences are disproportionate and there is no rehabilitation. The police summarily attack and murder black, aboriginal, and economically excluded citizens on the streets and in detention.

Denis G. Rancourt is a former tenured and Full Professor of physics at the University of Ottawa, Canada. He is known for his applications in physics education research. Rancourt has published over 100 articles in leading scientific journals, and has written several social commentary essays. He is the author of the book Hierarchy and Free Expression in the Fight Against Racism. While he was at the University of Ottawa, he supported student activism and opposed the influence of the Israeli lobby at that institution, which fired him under false pretext in 2009. In an exclusive interview with Khamenei.ir, Rancourt answers questions on Canadian supreme court verdict against Iran, Canada's role in the Syrian crisis and how his activism was suppressed by the Israeli lobby on campus:
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Ukraine did it?: Leaked documents implicate Kiev in MH17 shoot-down

Boris Rozhin
South Front
Fri, 09 Sep 2016 00:00 UTC
Original by Boris Rozhin (Colonel Cassad); translation by J.Hawk
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Ukrainian MOD documents, testifying to UAF's high command complicity in the shot-down Malaysian airliner tragedy, are being offered for sale on the Internet.

On July 15, 2014, UAF Colonel General Viktor Muzhenko gave the order to transfer the 3rd Air Defense Missile Battalion of the 156th Air Defense Missile Regiment to the vicinity of the town of Zaroshchenskoye. The Ukraine MOD coded telegram No. 104 was received by the 8th Directorate at 9:10 in the morning. The battle disposition, classified "secret", was received by the Sector B commander and the commander of Unit No. 1973, earlier located in Lugansk, at 1:10 in the afternoon of the same day.

This and other coded telegrams were published on September 9 in the "collectibles" section of an internet trading site. The asking price was 900,000 rubles. The auction will end on September 30. In the text of the telegram, Muzhenko explains that the air defense missile regiment is needed in Zaroshchenskoye in order to cover the Amvrosiyevka-Snezhnoye line. In his next directive, he orders collaboration be established with the National Guard commander in order to "prevent opposing aircraft from entering the zone of responsibility." Aircraft.

Comment: See also:

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War Whore

Disaster in the making: Killary's key advisers are a 'who's who' of the warfare state

Zaid Jilani, Alex Emmons and Naomi LaChance
The Intercept
Thu, 08 Sep 2016 00:00 UTC
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Hillary Clinton is meeting on Friday with a new national security "working group" that is filled with an elite "who's who" of the military-industrial complex and the security deep state.

The list of key advisers — which includes the general who executed the troop surge in Iraq and a former Bush homeland security chief turned terror profiteer — is a strong indicator that Clinton's national security policy will not threaten the post-9/11 national-security status quo that includes active use of military power abroad and heightened security measures at home.

It's a story we've seen before in President Obama's early appointments. In retrospect, analysts have pointed to the continuity in national security and intelligence advisers as an early sign that despite his campaign rhetoric Obama would end up building on — rather than tearing down — the often-extralegal, Bush-Cheney counterterror regime. For instance, while Obama promised in 2008 to reform the NSA, its director was kept on and its reach continued to grow.

Obama's most fateful decision may have been choosing former National Counterterrorism Center Director John Brennan to be national security adviser, despite Brennan's support of Bush's torture program. Brennan would go on to run the president's drone program, lead the CIA, fight the Senate's torture investigation, and then lie about searching Senate computers.

That backdrop is what makes Clinton's new list of advisers so significant.

Comment: There is no longer any doubt, Killary as president will be a guarantee of more wars and global chaos:

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'Genuine solidarity': Ex-FM recalls Russia's response 9/11 attacks


Sputnik
Sun, 11 Sep 2016 14:06 UTC
9/11 memorial
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In the immediate aftermath of the September 11, 2001, attacks no one in the US government knew what was going on, Russian ex-Foreign Minister Igor Ivanov said in an interview with RIA Novosti.

According to Igor Ivanov, upon receiving the tragic news, President Vladimir Putin ordered an immediate telephone linkup with US President George W. Bush. "Bush was on the plane because [the Secret Service] was trying to move him out as they feared a similar attack on the White House. No one knew what was going on. Sergei Ivanov tried to get in touch with Condoleezza Rice and I - to get through to Colin Powell. We finally managed to put Putin through," said Ivanov, who served as Foreign Minister from 1998 until 2004.

"After talking to President Bush, Putin instructed our government agencies to work closely with their US colleagues in the war on terror. I immediately called Colin Powell to express our solidarity and discuss what we were going to do next," Ivanov recalled. "As instructed by [President Putin] I conveyed his personal message to [President] Bush. It outlined our position on fighting international terrorism and our readiness to build up our across-the-board cooperation with the United States," Ivanov continued.

Comment: See also:

On the trail of New York's forgotten Russian Teardrop monument to the 9/11 victims

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