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"Mysterious hackers" blame game is in full swing in the US

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In recent weeks the US media has been going ecstatic about yet another scandal allegedly associated with Russia. The mainstream media has done everything it could to convince its readers that the latest hacker attack, which compromised the e-mails of the Democratic National Committee and showed there was a case of election fraud in favor of Hillary Clinton, was supposedly launched from Russia.

For sure, no evidence that would somehow link this event to Russia was presented, and it's highly unlikely that we will see any in the future. The Western propaganda machine is desperate to link this recent attack to two other attacks that were also blamed on Russia, when voter registration systems in two US states were compromised. We are being told that through such actions of Russia's President Vladimir Putin is allegedly trying to manipulate the presidential elections in the United States in order to give an edge to Donald Trump.

However, as it has been pointed out by a notorious American blogger Eric Schuler, who mainly covers foreign policy and economic topics, those stories are completely absurd and can only be promoted as "hot news" by delusional people.

Fruitless attempts to hunt down the mysterious Russian hackers that allegedly hacked into the networks of the Democratic National Committee have been made by the New York Times. However, this media sources is shamelessly admitting that that all suspicions about the so-called Russian "machinations" got a new twist when the FBI issued a warning about possible cyber attacks by Russia's hackers on the polling stations in Arizona. The FBI, in turn, is acting in the best interest of the Senate Minority Leader Harry Reid from Nevada, who urged it to launch an all out investigation, saying that the threat of Russian hackers is much more serious that it is actually believed, since they may allegedly falsify the official election results.

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Guccifer 2.0 angry about his DNC hack being blamed on Russians

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A person claiming to be the hacker responsible for leaking confidential materials from the Democratic Party told the Wall Street Journal that he is not connected to Russia and is angry that Moscow is getting all the credit for his actions.

The newspaper reported on Wednesday that it had exchanged a series of direct messages with a person identifying himself as Guccifer 2.0, who was using the same social media account that was previously used to leak Democrat materials. However, the WSJ said it couldn't identify the person sending the messages by any other means.

The alleged hacker responsible for breaking into computer networks of the Democratic National Committee and Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee denied having any ties with the Russian government or Russia.

"I read several reports, some experts found out that my proxy IP is hosted at a service that's somehow connected with Russia and has a version in Russian as well as in English," the individual wrote as cited by WSJ. "This is their strong evidence," he wrote, adding a smile emoticon.

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Guarding strategy of tension: Anti-terror special forces at Belgian nuclear power plants

Anti-Terrorist Special Forces
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Special counterterror forces will be permanently deployed to guard nuclear power plants in Belgium, local media reported Thursday. In the past months, Belgian nuclear facilities have been guarded by a force of 140 army personnel.

According to the De Morgen newspaper, the government has decided to replace them with a special unit composed of federal police officers trained to intervene in case of a terrorist attack.

The counter terror unit, to be armed with semi-automatic weapons, should be ready for the deployment next year, the paper reported.

Security at Belgian NPPs is generally provided by unarmed personnel from private security firms. However, after the deadly March 22 attacks in Brussels, the government decided to increase security measures at the two plants with seven operating reactors, which could be targeted by terrorists, and send military personnel to help guard the NPPs.

Comment: See also: SOTT Exclusive: Strategy of tension: Belgian locals report the murder of nuclear site guard & theft of his access key


Pirates

Evil among us: '5000 Daesh terrorists are in EU'

Jeremy Shapiro
Jeremy Shapiro
An estimated 5,000 members of the Takfiri Daesh terrorist group are currently living in the countries of the European Union (EU), Press TV reports.

The revelation was made at a conference called the European Security Policy in the Belgian capital, Brussels, on Wednesday, where it was also revealed that the vast majority of the Takfiri terrorists living in the EU are themselves European citizens.

Experts at the conference discussed the EU's failed security police, saying the terrorists, who are scattered all across the 28-member bloc, have ambitions to carry out more deadly attacks on European soil.

The conference criticized the lack of a coordinated approach to tackling terrorism and poor levels of intelligence sharing among EU countries.

Comment: See also: Kosovo's Daesh training camps, a nursery for young terrorists


Eye 2

Killary: "Taking action to toppling Qaddafi was the right decision"

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The US policy of putting together a coalition to topple Libyan leader Muammar Gaddafi, who was then brutally murdered, was the right decision, Hillary Clinton told a security forum.

"We were able to save lives [in Libya] we did not lose a single American in that action," the US Democratic presidential candidate said on Wednesday night at an event organized by the nonpartisan Iraq and Afghanistan Veterans of America. "Taking that action was the right decision," Clinton stressed.


Comment: Murdering Gaddafi and turning Libya into a nation of chaos is only the "right decision" when making a country inhabitable and destroying its culture and economy is the purpose. If that's what Killary was going for, then it was the right decision.


Clinton was US secretary of state under President Barack Obama in 2011 when the United States encouraged Britain and France to provide air cover and support for rebel forces seeking to topple Gaddafi in Libya.

She claimed on Wednesday that the policy "saved lives" that the long-time Libyan leader would have taken had he reestablished his authority.

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Bullseye

Obama angers Americans after he calls them lazy and uninterested in other parts of the world

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© Soe Zeya Tun / ReutersU.S. President Barack Obama arrives for the gala dinner during the ASEAN Summit in Vientiane, Laos September 7, 2016
President Barack Obama says Americans are so uninterested in the rest of the world because they are "lazy" and don't feel like knowing about "other people." His remarks have not gone unnoticed at home, where angered Americans suggested he stay abroad.

"[...] We are such a big country we haven't always had to know about other parts of the world," Obama told a Young Southeast Asian Leaders Initiative (YSEALI) town hall. "If you are in Laos, you need to know about Thailand and China and Cambodia, because you are a small country and they are right next door and you need to know who they are."

"If you are in the United States," Obama continued, "sometimes you can feel lazy and think, 'You know we are so big we don't have to really know anything about other people.'"

"That's part of what I'm trying to change," Obama added.


Comment: The truth is, Obama's not wrong. Americans are ignorant and lazy. But, part of the reason for that is that the elites have engendered that behavior intentionally so that people could be more easily controlled. Obama may claim to be trying to change that, but his bosses have no intention of creating a smart, aware and motivated populace.


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Anti-Russia witch hunt to cover-up (real) DNC scandal-US media lies

Democratic National Convention in Philadelphia
© Mike Segar / ReutersCongressional candidates that are running for office and being supported by the Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee appear onstage on the third day of the Democratic National Convention in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, U.S. July 27, 2016.
What course of action should the US media take when a batch of leaked emails reveal dirty dealings inside of the Democratic National Committee in a pivotal election year? Blame the Russians, of course.

In an effort to expose the dry rot gnawing away at the foundation of the US political system, Russia, according to that bastion of journalistic infallibility, The Washington Post, has now joined ranks with irksome whistleblowers and is data dumping on the 2016 presidential elections.

"U.S. intelligence and law enforcement agencies are probing what they see as a broad covert Russian operation in the United States to sow public distrust in the upcoming presidential election and in U.S. political institutions," Dana Priest, Ellen Nakashima and Tom Hamburger wrote, and I would hope with all three tongues in cheek.

Alleging that Russia is to blame for attempting to "sow public distrust in the upcoming presidential election" is not only a delightful piece of nonsense; it is subterfuge on a grand scale.

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Beaker

What's cooking? The alarming rise of US bio-defense labs on Russia's borders

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© AFP 2016/ KIhalil Mazraaw
Concern in Russia is increasing over the growing number of hard-to-access, double-purpose medical laboratories, financed by the US Department of Defense, appearing alongside its borders; they are researching biological weapons, indicating that they are "not entirely peaceful".

The US is constantly citing Russia as a "major threat" not only to itself but to its "European allies." Washington has been using this as a pretext for the deployment of additional contingents of NATO troops alongside Russia's borders.

However, it seems this is not the only "preventive measure" which is being set up on the Russian frontiers.

Earlier in September, Russia's Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov reminded that Washington opposes the idea of tightening international control over biological weapons.
During his yearly address to future diplomats at the Moscow State Institute of International Relations (MGIMO), Russia's top diplomat said that America's staunch opposition to Russian efforts to create a monitoring mechanism for the execution of the Biological and Toxin Weapons Convention (BTWC) indicates that the US may be conducting biological research that is "not entirely peaceful."

Comment: A catastrophe in the making!


Info

Ukrainian defense officials face criminal charges in Russia over Donbass genocide

Children in Donbass region
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Russia's Investigative Committee has launched criminal cases against Ukrainian Defense Ministry and General Staff officials over the genocide of Russian-speakers in the self-proclaimed Donetsk republic.

The committee, which is Russia's top federal law enforcement agency specializing in cases of special state importance or public interest, released a statement saying that it had opened an investigation into the actions of Ukrainian Defense Minister Stepan Poltorak, Chief of General Staff Viktor Muzhenko, current and former commanders of the Ukrainian ground forces Anatoly Pushnyakov and Sergey Popko, and the head of the Ukrainian National Guard, Yuri Allerov.

All of these Ukrainian officials face charges of "genocide of an ethnic group of Russian-speaking people, including minors, residing in the self-proclaimed People's Republic of Donetsk."

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Russian SU-27 jet intercepts US spy plane flying over Black Sea: Update

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© Sputnik/ Igor Zarembo
A Russian fighter jet intercepted a US spy plane flying over the Black Sea, according to US Defense officials cited by the Reuters news agency. The officials said that there were multiple interactions between two aircraft and called the intercept by the Russian jet "unsafe and unprofessional."

The official, speaking on condition of anonymity, said the incident lasted about 19 minutes and the Russian Sukhoi Su-27 fighter came within 10 feet of the US Navy P-8 surveillance plane.

Officials are now reviewing the incident with the pilot to determine whether it should be included in the annual meeting of US and Russian officials about more serious intercepts, the official added.

Comment: The Russian Ministry of Defense has commented on the event:
"On September 7, 2016, US Navy P8 Poseidon reconnaissance aircraft made two attempts to approach the Russian airspace over the Black Sea while flying with switched-off transponders. Su-27 fighter jets were scrambled from the Belbek airbase [in Crimea]," ministry's spokesman Maj. Gen. Igor Konashenkov said in a statement.
The MoD added that the pilots performed in strict adherence to international flight regulations. While the Americans whine about having their spy missions stopped in its tracks, the Russians are clearly keeping an eye on everything happening near their border and making sure the Americans know they are watching.

Update:

The Russian Defense Ministry said that after the Russian jets approached the US spy planes close enough to visually identify them, the American aircraft sharply changed direction and flew away from the border. The ministry added that it was just the latest attempt by US aircraft to approach the Russian border close to the region where the massive Caucasus-2016 drills are being held.

The ministry stressed that there is no need for such actions, as it already officially invited military attaches from 60 countries, including NATO members, as well as more than 100 foreign journalists, to attend the final stage of the drills.