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Buffoon Trump, venomous Clinton, and other delusional US presidential candidates and their threats to Russia

Brian Cloughley
Counter Punch
Fri, 15 Jan 2016 00:00 UTC
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The United States chortled with glee about Turkey's shooting down of a Russian Su-24 on November 24 and the Pentagon called it "a sovereign act of self-defence." It wilfully ignored the fact that even if the Russian pilot had indeed mistakenly violated Turkish airspace there was not, by the wildest stretch of the imagination, the tiniest threat to Turkey.


Comment: NATO Orders Stool-Pigeon Turkey to Shoot Down Russian Jet


Even the Turks admit that the alleged incursion was "for 17 seconds from 9.24.05 local time."

It is bizarre to the point of psychosis to suggest that this could pose a threat requiring "self-defence." But rationality about Russia is not greatly in evidence in the United States at the moment, and in this context it is interesting to examine the attitudes to Russia of the rivals for the US Presidency.

Comment: Are any of these candidates NOT psychopaths? With the current pool of candidates being these delusional nut-jobs, the US will only continue down the drain.

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It doesn't matter who wins - US presidential election is an expensive charade

Sam Gerrans
RT
Sun, 17 Jan 2016 19:56 UTC
Hillary and Trump
© ReutersDemocratic presidential candidate Hillary Clinton (L), Republican U.S. presidential candidate Donald Trump.
For the price of one US presidential election, you can make the four or five most expensive Hollywood films of all time. Unlike a movie production, we already know how the elections will end: higher prices, more wars and less freedom. Yet, the show must go on.

The 22nd Amendment to the US Constitution prevents the incumbent, President Barack Hussein Obama, from running for a third term. Some - including perhaps Donald Trump - might argue that Article Two of the same Constitution should have prevented him from running for a first term; and that being the case - why should he not now run for a third?

But it seems the baton is set to be passed to someone new, and the question - as pressing as ever for any American - comes down to this: what flavor of sweet, sickly, fizzy poison do you want to spend the next four years drinking: Coke or Pepsi?

Decisions, decisions.

To me, the entire left-right paradigm is a long-winded, blathering version of Punch and Judy where the populous gets to vote on which puppet is going to have a giant corporate hand no-one elected shoved up its rear-end while it reads words on teleprompters written by people who have a far better understanding of what the game-plan is than the politicians themselves.

Meanwhile, the seeming changeover will make no difference; the underlying narrative will not miss a beat: more countries with brown people in them will get blown up, more countries with white people in them will be run into the ground, and a small number of international banks will continue to live off the labor and suffering of both.
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US 'will face difficulties' if they want to invest in Iran's economy - President Rouhani


Sputnik
Sun, 17 Jan 2016 17:44 UTC
Iran President
© President of the Islamic Republic of Iran website
Following Iran's implementation of its part of the deal to lift sanctions and monitor its nuclear activity, Iranian President Hassan Rouhani said that his country will not pursue the development of economic links with the US.

Iran will not try to develop its economic ties with the US after Washington lifts sanctions against the Iranian economy, Iranian President Hassan Rouhani said on Sunday.

On Saturday the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) announced that Iran has carried out all the necessary measures to enable the implementation of the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action (JCPOA) Tehran agreed with the IAEA and six countries (China, France, Germany, Russia, the United Kingdom, the United States) plus the European Union in July 2015.
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SOTT Focus: Behind the Headlines: Fascism 2.0 - Mass hysteria against refugees in Europe


Sott.net
Sun, 17 Jan 2016 17:00 UTC
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New Year, new show time! Behind the Headlines will now be broadcast 2 hours earlier than previously, that's 12-2pm EST / 5-7pm UTC / 6-8pm CET

New Year celebrations apparently passed relatively uneventfully in Germany, which last year took in a staggering 1.1 million refugees fleeing Western wars in the Middle East and North Africa. But then, four days later, descriptions of very ugly scenes in Cologne emerged in the media.

People took to the streets to protest against 'sexual terrorism' committed by 'a thousand' refugees, officials began retracting and contradicting earlier statements, and mass hysteria broke out in Germany and across the Western world as the media hinted at a massive cover-up.

On today's episode of Behind the Headlines, we're joined by Dutch Sott.net editor Amari Roos to discuss the backlash against refugees in Europe, the latest developments in the Middle East, the many 'Islamic terror'-related incidents around the world thus far in 2016, and some of the recent extreme weather events.

Join us from 12-2pm EST / 5-7pm UTC / 6-8pm CET this Sunday, 17 January 2016, for a global perspective on current events

Running Time: 01:39:00

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Bad Guys

Deir Ezzur tragedy: Islamic State kidnaps 400 civilians in Syria refuted by Syrian Field Commander


FARS News Agency
Sun, 17 Jan 2016 15:51 UTC
Islamic State militants
Militants of the ISIL Takfiri terrorist group abducted at least 400 civilians after a raid on government-held areas in Deir Ezzur that saw the slaughtering of 300 people, mainly the family members and relatives of the Syrian army soldiers and popular forces, on Saturday.

At least 400 civilians were nabbed from Deir Ezzur after the ISIL Takfiri terrorists committed a massacre in al-Bagilya village in the western part of the province, killing around 300 civilians, most of them women, children and elderly people, on Saturday.

The ISIL slaughtered around 300 people in the Deir Ezzur province on Saturday, killing the entire families for alleged cooperation with the Syrian army troops. According to a source close to the Syrian government, some of the victims were beheaded.
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Bad Guys

Austria suspends Schengen agreement, radically changes refugee policies


RT
Sun, 17 Jan 2016 05:56 UTC
refugee migrant crisis
© Unknown
Vienna is radically changing its policy towards migrants and refugees, Austrian Chancellor Werner Faymann told local media. Faymann said that with the new measures introduced at Austria's borders, the existence of "the whole EU is in question."

"All refugees must be controlled, economic migrants must be sent to the countries of their origin,"Faymann said in an interview with Austria's Oesterreich newspaper, to be published on Sunday.

The government is implementing a strict monitoring system for asylum seekers, the chancellor said, adding that, just like in neighboring Germany, its border controls are being tightened, and repatriations of refugees are carried out.

Comment: Also see: New Year's in Cologne: Sexual crime and the radicalizing of European society

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Syrian Army liberates al-Bagilya settlement following ISIS massacre


Sputnik
Sun, 17 Jan 2016 01:32 UTC
Syrian army
© AFP 2016/ GEORGE OURFALIAN
Governor of the Syrian province of Deir ez-Zor said that Syrian Armed forces liberated al-Bagilya settlement, where the militants of Daesh militant group had killed 280 people.

Syrian Armed forces liberated al-Bagilya settlement, where the militants of the Islamic State (ISIL) militant group had killed 280 people, governor of the Syrian province of Deir ez-Zor told Sputnik on Sunday.

"ISIL militants entered in the village of al-Bagilya... last night and perpetrated a massacre of whole families. For this reason the army headed to this region to save the population. There were clashes with ISIL militants, they suffered significant casualties, the rest succeeded to flee to the neighboring areas controlled by ISIL," Mohammad Qaddur Ajnyyja said.

Comment: Thank the US' psychopathic foreign policy for this massacre. Also see: U.S. starves Syria, media covers it up by blaming Assad

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Bad Guys

U.S. embargo of Iran still in place despite lifting 'significant' part of sanctions


Sputnik
Sun, 17 Jan 2016 05:39 UTC
US Treasury Secretary Jacob Lew
© AP Photo/ Pablo Martinez MonsivaisUS Treasury Secretary Jacob Lew
US Treasury Secretary Jacob Lew said that the United States will continue imposing sanctions on Iran for its sanctionable actions outside of the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action.

The United States will continue imposing sanctions on Iran for its sanctionable actions outside of the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action (JCPOA), US Treasury Secretary Jacob Lew said in a statement.

On Saturday, International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) confirmed Iran's compliance with the agreement on country's nuclear program and implementation of the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action (JCPOA) came into effect. Soon after that, the regime of sanctions imposed on Tehran by the United States has been substantially weakened.

Comment: Also see:

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Changing narratives: Was U.S. Navy on spy mission near Iran's Farsi Island military base?

Justin Raimondo
AntiWar.com
Fri, 15 Jan 2016 03:24 UTC
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Your bullshit-ometer should be making an awful racket in response to the shifting explanations given for the twenty-four-hour Iranian hostage scare involving two US Navy boats intercepted in the Gulf.

First they told us "at least one of the boats" had experienced a "mechanical failure." Then they said the boats had run out of fuel, although it wasn't clear if they meant both boats. Then they said "there was no mechanical problem." Then they claimed that the two crews had somehow not communicated with the military command, although "they could not explain how the military had lost contact with not one but both of the boats." As the New York Times reported:
"Even as Mr. Kerry was describing the release on Wednesday morning, American military officials were offering new explanations about how the two 49-foot patrol boats, formally called riverine command boats, had ended up in Iranian territorial waters while cruising from Kuwait to Bahrain."
And they still haven't explained it - or any of the other distinctly odd circumstances surrounding this incident.

Comment: Further reading:

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Briefcase

Investment analyst: A recession worse than 2008 is coming

Michael Pento
CNBC
Fri, 15 Jan 2016 10:33 UTC
Wall Street
© Benzinga
The S&P 500 has begun 2016 with its worst performance ever. This has prompted Wall Street apologists to come out in full force and try to explain why the chaos in global currencies and equities will not be a repeat of 2008. Nor do they want investors to believe this environment is commensurate with the dot-com bubble bursting. They claim the current turmoil in China is not even comparable to the 1997 Asian debt crisis.

Indeed, the unscrupulous individuals that dominate financial institutions and governments seldom predict a down-tick on Wall Street, so don't expect them to warn of the impending global recession and market mayhem.

But a recession has occurred in the U.S. about every five years, on average, since the end of WWII; and it has been seven years since the last one — we are overdue.

Most importantly, the average market drop during the peak to trough of the last 6 recessions has been 37 percent. That would take the S&P 500 down to 1,300; if this next recession were to be just of the average variety. But this one will be worse.

A major contributor for this imminent recession is the fallout from a faltering Chinese economy. The megalomaniac communist government has increased debt 28 times since the year 2000. Taking that total north of 300 percent of GDP in a very short period of time for the primary purpose of building a massive unproductive fixed asset bubble that adds little to GDP.

Comment: See also:

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