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The first refuge of scoundrels: Saudi Arabia resorts to terrorism in face of military fiasco in Yemen

Catherine Shakdam
New Eastern Outlook
Thu, 01 Sep 2016 18:33 UTC
yemen
If Yemen remains synonymous with unrest and violence thanks to the military deluge Saudi Arabia has insisted on drowning the impoverished nation under since late March 2015, Terror had yet to claim its fill of blood. Terror as it were never could assert its warped religious rationale onto Yemen - not beyond a few clusters, not to the point where Terror could ever present any real existential threat to the Yemeni Republic.

This was then ... today is a brand new day!

Today, Saudi Arabia is actively working to change that reality! Saudi Arabia I would add, absolutely needs for Terror to become Yemen's newest existential threat to counteract that which is now threatening its own.

For all its outwardly show of force, and display of grand political and financial stability the kingdom sounds hollow - nothing but a waning house of cards under the terrible sun of revolutionary Arabia.

Al Saud Royals face a storm they can neither control, nor comprehend. As they sought to tame Yemen's claim to political self-determination, as they plotted the dismantlement of Yemen's national sovereignty and national identity, it is Yemen's lost sense of unity, solidarity, and national strength it awakened.

Comment: Recent Yemen news:

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Uzbekistan President Karimov dies after 27 years of rule


RFE/RL
Fri, 02 Sep 2016 18:04 UTC
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© Brendan Smialowski / ReutersUzbek President Islam Karimov
Uzbek state TV has announced the death of President Islam Karimov, following days of unconfirmed reports suggesting the only post-independence leader of Central Asia's most populous country had already died.

The Uzbek presenter read a statement from the Uzbek cabinet and parliament and said the 78-year-old Karimov had died at 8:55 p.m. local time the same day of a stroke.

He said a funeral would be held on September 3 in the late president's birthplace, the ancient Silk Road city of Samarkand.

Comment: Further reading: Uzbekistan: Fears of instability surface as President Karimov suffers stroke

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Former head of Israeli army's Central Command: Israel the 'world champion of occupation', brought 'occupation to level of art'


Sputnik
Fri, 02 Sep 2016 18:01 UTC
IDF soldiers
© AFP 2016/Jaafar Ashtiyeh
The former head of the Israeli army's Central Command, General Gadi Shamni, called Israel the "world champion" of occupation, adding that Jerusalem's approach will never result in a peaceful solution to the ongoing Israeli-Palestinian conflict.

Shamni made his remarks on Wednesday, at the Interdisciplinary Center in Herzliya.

"We brought the occupation to a level of art. We are the world champions of occupation. I was head of Central Command. The commander of the occupation," he said.

Speaking of Israeli policies toward Palestinian territories, he said that "Palestinians will not accept the continuation of the endless occupation."
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Gold Seal

Pepe Escobar: At the G20 Summit, China will take the lead in the fight against the West's all-out war ambitions

Pepe Escobar
Sputnik
Wed, 31 Aug 2016 17:37 UTC
G20 billboard
© AFP/ Aly Song
The G20 meets in tech hub Hangzhou, China, at an extremely tense geopolitical juncture.

China has invested immense political/economic capital to prepare this summit. The debates will revolve around the main theme of seeking solutions "towards an innovative, invigorated, interconnected and inclusive world economy."

G20 Trade Ministers have already agreed to lay down nine core principles for global investment. At the summit, China will keep pressing for emerging markets to have a bigger say in the Bretton Woods system.

But most of all China will seek greater G20 backing for the New Silk Roads - or One Belt, One Road (OBOR), as they are officially known - as well as the new Asian Infrastructure Investment Bank (AIIB).

So at the heart of the G20 we will have the two projects which are competing head on to geopolitically shape the young 21st century.
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5 Gaza women fight Israel ban to attend techwomen mentorship program in US


RT
Fri, 02 Sep 2016 17:31 UTC
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Three young women selected for a US State Department-sponsored education program struggle to chase their dream because Israeli authorities decided that allowing them out of blockaded Gaza would pose a security threat.

TechWomen is a program for women living in Africa, the Middle East and Central Asia, who are invited to the US for a five-week mentorship. They study their chosen fields in the San Francisco Bay Area and Silicon Valley to hone their tech skills and establish social networks. Since its launch in 2011, 333 women have participated in the course, according to its website.

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Greek government gives broadcasting licenses to only 4 TV channels - Troika's hidden hand or fighting a NATO 5th column?

Alex Christoforou
The Duran
Fri, 02 Sep 2016 15:49 UTC
Alexis Tsipras
Greece's radical left Syriza government awarded new broadcasting licenses to only a handful of companies in a controversial step to limit the number of TV channels.

The Greek government seems to be getting ahead of the media censorship curve.

The Alexis Tsipras radical left Syriza government has taken a very controversial step in cementing media censorship by issuing TV licenses to only four entities.

The winners of the TV licenses paid a total of €246 million, which we are sure will make absolutely no dent in Greece's mountainous €350 billion debt load.

Tsipras said the move to regulate the TV sector was about stamping out corruption and mismanagement, but the media says it will curb free speech and shut down stations, putting thousands of people out of work. With an unemployment rate that is near 27%, the last thing Greece needs is more people looking for a job.

You know the world has been turned upside down when a far left socialist government (which states it is for free speech, human rights and open borders) begins closing down TV stations under the guise of mismanagement.

Syriza's move to authoritarian rule was brash and direct, by only offering four licenses to the highest bribe bidder...meaning some of the eight channels now broadcasting nationwide will now close down.

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Evil Rays

New Russian hi-tech jammer operational - blocks all GPS navigation systems


Sputnik
Thu, 25 Aug 2016 17:25 UTC
russian troops
© Sputnik/ Vladimir Astapkovich
An integrated jamming system to screen strategic facilities from cruise missiles, smart bombs and drones using GPS, GLONASS, Galileo and Beidou global positioning systems for homing has entered service with the Russian armed forces, the newspaper Izvestiya wrote citing a Defense Ministry source in Moscow.

Dubbed as POLE-21, the system consists of jamming modules installed on mobile phone towers and working as a single whole to cover entire areas and making them impregnable to satellite navigation systems. Besides being powered by a tower's circuit, the Pole-21 modules also use their GSM antennas as a backup channel for signal control and transmission.

"The system has already been successfully tested and is now operational," the source told the newspaper.

All the four global positioning systems whose signals are effectively deflected by Pole-21 work within the 1176.45 and 1575.42 MHz range. Even a 20 watt transmitter is enough for Pole-21 to jam all signals in this range within a radius of 80 kilometers.

Pole-21 has one downside though. While generating radio interference against the enemy using the GPS satellite navigation systems, it does the same to domestic users of GPS and its Russian analogue - GLONASS.
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Handcuffs

Circa sources: Hillary violated federal records laws, and the FBI knows it

John Solomon and Kellan Howell
Circa
Thu, 01 Sep 2016 16:43 UTC
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Though it was not their primary mission, FBI agents who investigated Hillary Clinton's email collected significant evidence suggesting she and her team violated federal record-keeping laws, including persisting to use a private Blackberry and server to conduct State Department business after being warned they posed legal and security risks, government sources tell Circa.The evidence was compelling enough to convince FBI Director James Comey that the Clinton team had not complied with record-keeping laws and to cause at least one witness to raise their Fifth Amendment right against self-incrimination during an investigative interview, the sources said.

In public, the FBI recommended not filing criminal charges against Clinton on national security grounds. But in private, the Bureau chose to defer to the State Department on whether to recommend anyone to the Justice Department for criminal prosecution on records law violations, the sources said, speaking only on condition of anonymity.

Each email transmission of a government document that was not preserved or turned over to the State Department from Mrs. Clinton's tenure could theoretically be considered a violation of the Federal Records Act, the main law governing preservation of government records and data.

Other federal laws make it a felony to intentionally conceal, remove or destroy federal records as defined under the Act, punishable with a fine and imprisonment of up to three years. A single conviction also carries a devastating impact for anyone looking to work again in government because the law declares that any violator "shall forfeit his office and be disqualified from holding any office under the United States."
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Propaganda

New York Times propaganda: Kremlin killings?

PaulR
Irrussianality
Sun, 21 Aug 2016 16:57 UTC
propaganda graphic
The front page of Sunday's edition of The New York Times bears the headline 'More of the Kremlin's Critics are Ending Up Dead'. According to the long article which follows: 'Muckraking journalists, rights advocates, opposition politicians, government whistle-blowers and other Russians who threaten that image are treated harshly — imprisoned on trumped-up charges, smeared in the news media and, with increasing frequency, killed.'

The article then cites Gennadi V. Gudkov, 'a former member of Parliament and onetime lieutenant colonel in the KGB' as saying, 'The government is using the special services to liquidate its enemies. ... It was not just Litvinenko, but many others we don't know about, classified as accidents or maybe semi-accidents.'

I have two serious doubts about the Times article. First, it makes a claim about an 'increased' frequency of state-sponsored murder without providing any evidence that such murders are indeed more frequent than in the past. The article mentions 13 deaths. The great majority of these occurred before Vladimir Putin returned to the presidency in 2012. This is hardly evidence of an 'increasing' frequency of state-sponsored murder.

Second and more importantly, the article fails to provide evidence that most of the people it mentions did indeed die unnatural deaths and also died at the hands of Kremlin assassins.

Comment: The NYT should be reporting on this: 33 of the most intriguing cases on the Clinton Death List

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Dollars

Trump considering using seized assets from drug cartels to fund wall on Mexican border

Jon Conradi
LifeZette
Thu, 01 Sep 2016 16:54 UTC
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To fund construction of a new U.S. border wall, Donald Trump and senior advisers are considering various ideas, including the use of assets seized from drug cartels and others in the illicit drug trade.

As the debate over who will pay for the wall dominates the discussion on cable news, sources involved in the pre-planning of the GOP nominee's Mexico trip told LifeZette the Trump camp is looking for innovative ways to pay for the construction of the border wall — ways that both countries can support. Sensitivities in Mexico regarding Trump's visit, and specifically paying for the border wall, are running high.

A senior Trump policy adviser stressed the proposal was just one of several funding options being discussed and said the idea was not raised during Trump's meeting with Mexican President Enrique Peña Nieto.

Advocates of the "make the cartels pay" plan believe it has the added benefit of punishing the "worst of the worst who bring violence to our streets and prey on innocent Mexicans and Americans," while giving political cover to both leaders to accomplish their objectives. Sources close to both the Mexican government and the Trump campaign have confirmed that this proposal exists, but wish to remain anonymous given the preliminary nature of the discussions.
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