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VP Biden to meet Erdogan as post-coup tensions surge


PressTV
Sun, 14 Aug 2016 20:56 UTC
Biden meets Erdogan
US Vice President Joe Biden is set to meet with Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan, the White House says, marking another attempt by Washington to improve worsening ties with Ankara since the failed coup in July.

Biden will arrive in the Turkish capital on August 24, the White House said in a statement on Saturday.

"While in Ankara, the Vice President will meet with President Erdogan and Prime Minister [Binali] Yildirim to discuss the US-Turkey relationship and a range of issues of importance to both nations," the statement read.
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Bad Guys

7000 US/UK/Saudi-backed terrorists ready to cross into Syria from Jordan


Fars News Agency
Sat, 13 Aug 2016 20:49 UTC
nusra
Saudi intelligence officers have been training at least 7,000 anti-Syria fighters in Jordan's territories and plan to dispatch them to the war-hit country via its Southern borders to distract the army from the war in Aleppo, Arab media disclosed.

"Over 7,000 men have been trained in a Saudi-established military camp in Jordan near the border with Syria's Dara'a province, and now they are ready to be dispatched to join other terrorists' battle against the Syrian government and army," the Lebanese al-Manar reported.

"There are several British and western military trainers and advisors in the Saudi-established camp. The western officers are to accompany the fighters in their war against the Syrian government," the paper said.

Jordan hosts a large refugee camp near the border with Syria.
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Snakes in Suits

Brexit 'could be delayed until late 2019': Whitehall departments not ready to trigger Article 50

Ashley Cowbur
The Independent
Sun, 14 Aug 2016 20:13 UTC
Theresa May
© PA
Ministers are reportedly in discussions over a delay in triggering Article 50, the formal process of leaving the European Union, which could see Britain remain a member of the bloc until late 2019.

Theresa May, who is expected by many to trigger the two-year process of leaving the EU in early 2017, could push back the timetable because her new Brexit and international trade departments will not be ready, sources in the City of London have told The Sunday Times. Elections on the continent, including those in France and Germany, could also delay Article 50 of the Libson Treaty being triggered.

"Ministers are now thinking the trigger could be delayed to autumn 2017," a source who has reportedly had discussions with two senior ministers told the newspaper. "They don't have the infrastructure for the people they need to hire," the source added, in reference to the new Whitehall departments being set up from scratch to handle the Brexit negotiations.

"They say they don't even know the right questions to ask when they finally begin bargaining with Europe," the source said.
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Attention

The psychopath next door, in the office and halls of power

Jesse
Jesse's Café Américain
Sat, 13 Aug 2016 20:01 UTC
"What is good? All that enhances the feeling of power, the will to power, and the power itself in man. What is bad? All that proceeds from weakness. What is happiness? The feeling that power is increasing— that resistance has been overcome.

Not contentment, but more power; not peace at any price, but war; not virtue, but competence. The first principle of our humanism is that the weak and the failures shall perish. And they ought to be helped to perish."

Friedrich Nietzsche
Mammon
© Jesse's Café Américain
There is a range in human behaviours. There may be a baseline, but not all are the same.

And this is why theories that assume that everyone has a basic world outlook that is the same like you, that all people have a natural desire to be friendly, helpful, and sharing falter out of either a good nature or from a good maximizing, selflessly reasoning behaviour, falter so badly when applied to the real world.

When a society fails to restrain some of the worst behaviours of those who prey on others in term of power or money, their example serves to bring out the worst in a much larger subset of the population that is marginally sociopathic, weak in their human values.

Bad behaviour breeds bad behaviour, and those who profit by it find ways to justify this through self-serving social and political theories, to themselves and to others.

And the pity is that people who have this variation in their character, either through nature or nurture or both, as in the case of psychopaths and sociopaths, are naturally attracted to high profile positions of power.

If they ever speak frankly about their view of things amongst their confidants, the normal person would be stunned by their distorted world view, often writing off large segments of the population as unworthy and disposable, for the most part because they impede their desires, although they will often ascribe it to some irreparable defect in these others, making them unworthy of life.

Psychopaths breed and nurture sociopaths, imitators who are able to extinguish their own empathy and remorse through ideology and excess including violence, sex, and drugs.
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Snakes in Suits

Russian media reports US preparing chaos in Macedonia, Serbia and Greece to prevent Turkish Stream


MINA Macedoniaonline
Sat, 13 Aug 2016 20:03 UTC
Serbian Daily newspaper
Serbian daily Informer, citing Russian media has stated the nations of Macedonia, Serbia and Greece are "screwed" after the latest pact between Putn and Erdogan which decided to get the Turkish stream project back on track.

The only way for the United States to let the three Balkan nations live in peace is if they give up on their business partnership with Russia, regardless of how beneficial it may be for all three.

US has their own gas project called Trans-Adriatic pipeline (TAP) which is in competition with the Russo-Turkish project. The gas would come from Baku, Azerbaijan. The US wishes to see Russia isolated in every field, particularly in business and wants the three Balkan nations to be under Washington's auspices.

The US nearly created a war in Macedonia which was used as a message to Belgrade that the same destiny awaits them unless they fulfill Washington's requests - reports Informer, citing Russian media.
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Bad Guys

Report: New pro-Saudi terrorist group emerges in Syria to counter Kurdish fighters


FARS News Agency
Sun, 14 Aug 2016 19:59 UTC
Syrian militants
A new terrorist group which is affiliated to Saudi Arabia has emerged in Northern Syria, media reports said.

A sum of 150 militants from al-Jabour tribe which has close relations with the Saudi regime have formed a new terrorist group in Northern Syria and named their group 'Al-Moqavema al-Arabia to Counter Kurdistan's Democratic Union Party'.

They claimed that in their recent operation they have targeted and assassinated a commander of the Kurdish fighters in a suicide attack in Hasaka province.

The fresh terrorist fighters have also killed three other Kurdish fighters in their recent operations.

The main headquarters of the 'Al-Moqavema al-Arabia to Counter Kurdistan's Democratic Union Party' is in Turkey.
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Bad Guys

1,000 vehicles cross Turkish border into Syria, distribute aid to ISIL terrorists


FARS News Agency
Sun, 14 Aug 2016 19:57 UTC
Turkey border
Some 1,000 vehicles carrying foodstuff and medical equipment have crossed Turkey's border into Northern Syria in the last three days heading towards ISIL-held regions, local sources told Kurdish media.

"At least 1,000 small and large trucks have transferred a large volume of medical equipment and foodstuff among the ISIL terrorists in Northern Syria," Hawar reported.

"The vehicles entered from Bab al-Hawa border crossing into Western Idlib," the sources said.

"The convoys of aid cargo were guarded by Turkish and ISIL security forces," they went on to say.

Turkey is among the main supporters of the militant groups operating in Syria, with reports saying that Ankara actively trains and arms the Takfiri elements there and facilitates their safe passage into the violence-wracked country. Ankara has also been accused of buying smuggled oil from the ISIL.
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Stock Down

U.S. reaches Kiev-like lows in propaganda: Killary crony McCaskill says Trump and 'friend' Putin founded ISIS


Sputnik
Sun, 14 Aug 2016 19:34 UTC
Picture of Putin and Trump
Trump and Putin after they created ISIS.
Taking to the Sunday show circuit Senator Claire McCaskill ran roughshod over any semblance of logic or foreign policy coherence associating Syrian President Bashar al-Assad with Daesh to make the fantastical cognitive leap that Russia 'founded' the terror group.

The Hillary Clinton campaign established a new low in American political thought on Sunday morning somewhat miraculously finding a way to link their anti-Russian propaganda campaign, that has now called for sanctions against the country despite any evidence that they were traced to the WikiLeaks file dump exposing corruption in the Democratic Primary, to the latest topic of the hour - the Daesh terror network.

Not since the George W. Bush administration have the American people been bombarded with such circuitous fits of repetitive illogical statements - at that time it was macabre insinuations that somehow Saddam Hussein was linked to the 9/11 terror attacks in order to secure a blank check for war - for the purpose of personal political gain at the risk of compromising not only national, but international security.

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Mail

'Aleppo medics' letter begging Russian airstrikes to stop may be a fake


Sputnik
Sat, 13 Aug 2016 21:42 UTC
Hospital patients aleppo
© www.ibtimes.co.inal-Quds hospital, Aleppo, Syria
Reporting inconsistencies, a peculiar set of names, and implications on strategy call into question the veracity of a much publicized letter by "the last few doctors in Aleppo," but do not outright disprove its authenticity. "It has not been possible to verify the names of all the doctors listed in the letter," stated an article by The Guardian that set forth a firestorm of Western articles demonizing the Assad regime and its Russian allies after 15 medics in East Aleppo, reportedly the last remaining doctors in the al-Nusra controlled portion of the city, begged the Obama administration to intervene to permanently break the Syrian Army's siege.

"We have seen no effort on behalf of the United States to lift the siege or even use its influence to push the parties to protect civilians," read the letter. "Unless a permanent lifeline to Aleppo is opened it will be only a matter of time until we are again surrounded by regime troops, hunger takes hold and hospitals' supplies run completely dry."

The letter also alleged that Syrian and Russian forces are engaged in a systematic "targeting of hospitals" and blasted the Obama administration for its failure to intervene on behalf of so-called rebel groups.

The letter exploded onto the pages and television screens of the Western media described as "heartbreaking" and championed as a call to "stop the sins of Aleppo" in a full-on publicity offensive against the Assad regime that ignores the reality that Daesh or al-Qaeda affiliate al-Nusra are the likely alternatives to the Syrian President.


Comment: Copy of letter to Obama from 15 Aleppo doctors go here. Besides the inability to verify some of the undersigned (printed) as actual doctors, note the language and message, the passioned pleas and descriptive passages, the command of statistics. Quite a beautifully written and instructive letter for a bunch of MDs overwhelmed with hundreds of casualties from deadly bombing raids and not enough supplies, equipment or manpower to go around. There are no actual signatures, no letterhead, no email headings -- nothing to indicate where this was written or by whom. And, how would these doctors know what either Russia or the Syrian regime is targeting while performing medical services to the overflow of patients? Given the immediate publicity and propaganda factor, this letter demands a closer look.

See also: Western corporate media 'disappears' over 1.5 million Syrians and 4,000 doctors

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Snakes in Suits

Biden's advice: Work with and against Russia simultaneously


Sputnik
Sat, 13 Aug 2016 21:02 UTC
Joe biden
© www.motherjones.com
Vice President Joe Biden has offered his sage advice for the next president on how to conduct relations with Moscow. In his essay, published by Foreign Affairs, the vice president suggested that the next president should combine "deterrence" and "tactical cooperation." Naturally, Russian analysts have something to say about Biden's recommendations.

In his essay, which offers recommendations on how the Washington might try and maintain its global hegemonic status, the vice president warned that "in nearly every part of the world, the United States contends with regional powers that have an enormous capacity to contribute to the international order - or to undermine it." Accordingly, he added, "much will rest on how America chooses to lead."

Specifically as far as Russia is concerned, Biden wrote that the US must "continue to pursue a policy that combines the urgent need for deterrence, on the one hand, with the prudent pursuit of cooperation and strategic stability, on the other."

Reconstituting the US claim that Crimea's vote to rejoin Russia was actually an 'illegal annexation' by Moscow, and accusing Russia of "continued aggression in eastern Ukraine," Biden argued that these actions "violate foundational principles of the post-Cold War order: sovereignty and the inviolability of borders in Europe." Accordingly, he noted, "we have rallied our allies in Europe and elsewhere to impose real costs on Moscow, making clear that this pressure will continue until Russia upholds its commitments under the agreements reached in Minsk aimed at ending the conflict."


Comment: Minsk agreements...apparently there is more than one interpretation of what these signify, their implications, exactly why and when they became ineffective, and who is to blame...according to whatever Western narrative is required.


Comment: US: mask on. Russia: mask off. Russia keeps holding up the mirror. The US keeps refusing to contemplate its image. Biden is the vice-bellwether of essentially more of the same.

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