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CIA, err, Al Qaeda 'leader' calls for joint Islamist struggle against Russia


Sputnik
Mon, 02 Nov 2015 15:52 UTC
Al Qaeda militants
© AFP
Chief of Al Qaeda Ayman al-Zawahiri urges all Muslim supporters to join in their fight against Russia, Iran, and their local allies alongside Western countries in an audio appeal published Sunday.

The recording suggests a greater unanimity between Al Qaeda, headed by al-Zawahiri since the death of Osama bin Laden, and Daesh or ISIL, the self-proclaimed 'Islamic State' in Syria and Iraq. Up to now, the two terrorist organizations have been repeatedly competing in the recruitment of supporters.


Comment: Is the CIA calling for the various Syrian terrorist groups to band together to fight? At SOTT we have covered extensively who the real terrorists are:

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Propaganda

Five out of six Syrian hospitals allegedly hit by Russian airstrikes don't exist


Sputnik
Mon, 02 Nov 2015 15:42 UTC
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© Sputnik/ Alexander VilfPress briefing by Russian Defense Ministry Spokesperson Konashenkov.
The Russian Defense Ministry has denied an existence of five out of six Syrian hospitals allegedly hit by Russian airstrikes, said that the claims of Western media unfounded.

Russia's Defense Ministry denied the existence of five out of six Syrian hospitals allegedly hit by Russian airstrikes.

"I would like to remind you that a week ago several leading Western media outlets citing the US-based Syrian American Medical Society accused us of allegedly bombing hospitals in al-Ees, al-Hader, Khan Tuman, Sarmin, Latamna and al-Zirba," ministry spokesman Maj. Gen. Igor Konashenkov told reporters.

"We investigated this information. It turned out, in fact, that there is a hospital only in the settlement of Sarmin. There are no hospitals in al-Ees, al-Hader, Khan Tuman, Latamna and al-Zirba, and, consequently, there are no healthcare workers," he added.

Comment: So not only was it not Russia who bombed the hospitals (leaving open the possibility that perhaps Syrian forces bombed them), but the hospitals don't even exist! The U.S. is really scraping the bottom of the barrel for anti-Russian propaganda.

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Airplane

Nicolas Sarkozy under investigation for links to cocaine trafficking

John Vibes
The Free Thought Project
Sun, 01 Nov 2015 15:22 UTC
sarkozy cocaine
© the free thought project
Former French President Nicolas Sarkozy is under investigation for his involvement in a drug deal worth over $54 million. Investigators discovered that he was connected to possible drug traffickers, and regularly used a private airplane that was caught attempting to transport large amounts of cocaine internationally.

In 2013, two French pilots were captured as they attempted to fly 680 kilos of cocaine out of the Dominican Republic in an airplane that is closely tied to Sarkozy and a company owned by one of his very close associates. Just last week, these pilots escaped from the country and are nowhere to be found. Many suspect that high-ranking politicians were able to use their clout to help them escape.

The judge in the case ordered that two cellphones owned by Sarkozy be seized by police, as well as his phone records, and even his GPS location data. It is likely that investigators will attempt to use the GPS location data to place Sarkozy at the scene of the crime during the time that one of the large deals was happening.

Comment: For more on the corruption charges that hang over the head of Mr. Sarkozy see:

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Quenelle - Golden

Dismantling the anti-Russian lies of the Atlantic Council

Mark Chapman
The Kremlin Stooge
Mon, 02 Nov 2015 13:55 UTC
Propaganda

Ooo, see the fire is sweeping
My very street today;
Burns like a red-coal carpet:
Mad bull, lost its way

Oh, children; it's just a shot away
It's just a shot away...

The Rolling Stones, from, "Gimme Shelter"

Let me ask you something: if you had only recently wrapped up 24 years at the U.S. Army War College, finishing as Professor of National Security Studies; if you held a B.A. in Russian History from the University of Pennsylvania and an M.A. and Ph.D. in Russian History from the University of Chicago, and were a recognized expert in defense strategy, arms control and Russia and the post-Soviet space...wouldn't you think you could be expected to actually know something about Russia?

Dr. Stephen Blank of the Atlantic Council comes admirably credentialed, and doesn't look crazy in his picture. But his analysis of what Russia - which he at least does not refer to as "Putin", as if Russia's real name were "Putinland" or something - is really up to in Syria reads as if it were written by Masha Gessen on Psilocybin.

The implication that we are all being hoodwinked - gadzooks! - by the devilishly-clever former KGB man from St Petersburg is so clear that Newsweek reprinted the article under the title, "The Real Reason Putin is Sending Troops to Syria".

Comment: See also: The Atlantic Council, Western media, and the 'Big Lie' about Putin's Russia

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Bad Guys

Terror on the move? John Kerry's visit to Central Asia signals shift in US strategy


Sputnik
Mon, 02 Nov 2015 13:43 UTC
John Kerry
© REUTERS/ Brendan Smialowski/Pool
US State Secretary John Kerry is now on a trip across Central Asia. According to political analyst Boris Mezhuev, the US is making efforts to strengthen its influence in the region, in response to Russia's growing role in the Middle East.

On October 30, US State Secretary John Kerry started his Central Asian journey, which will continue until November 3. During the trip, Kerry was expected to visit Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan, Turkmenistan and Uzbekistan.

This is the first visit by a US Secretary of State to all five ex-Soviet Central Asian countries.

Comment: Is the U.S. looking to move their terrorist operation closer to Russia, to counter 'enemy number one'? Check out:

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Bad Guys

Terrorists in Syria confirm death of their 3 top commanders in Aleppo


FARS News Agency
Mon, 02 Nov 2015 14:20 UTC
Dead Syrian terrorist
Terrorist groups acknowledged the death of, at least, 3 senior commanders in Syrian airstrikes on the Takfiri militants' positions in Aleppo province.

The terrorist groups said on their social media pages that Abu Mua'az al-Sham, the military commander of "Sraya al-Tawheed and al-Jihad" group affiliated to the al-Nusra Front, was killed.

The field commander of Ahrar al-Sham terrorist group, Abu Adam, and Ashraf Jumaa al-Mhayer, a senior commander of the same group, were also identified among the dead, according to the terrorist groups.

The Syrian army has intensified its wide-scale attacks on terrorist groups across Aleppo.
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Ambulance

US spent millions for Afghan hospitals, where are they?


Sputnik
Sat, 31 Oct 2015 03:48 UTC
Entrance to hospital
© caravandaily.comAfghan guards stand watch at entrance to Medicins Sans Frontieres hospital after the Kunduz airstrike on October 3, 2015.
Almost two dozen hospitals that the US has funded in western Afghanistan, costing over a quarter of a billion dollars, are in locations that the United States Agency for International Development cannot pinpoint. Being unable to locate the hospitals leaves them at risk of a deadly attack similar to the one that the US was responsible for on the Doctors Without Borders hospital in Kunduz.

Federal watchdogs [along] with the Special Inspector General for Afghanistan Reconstruction at 23 of the 63 of the hospitals in the province of Herat, [found] only 12 were located within a kilometer of where USAID sent them.
  • Seven of the hospitals were more than five kilometers away from where they were sent.
  • Out of the remaining 40 sites, the watchdogs could only even confirm the existence of 19 of them.
  • "For the remaining 21 facilities, USAID provided old or unclear photographs which did not demonstrate the physical location or existence of the purported facility," the report stated.
The report pointed out that not only is this incorrect data troublesome for oversight purposes, but given the bombing in Kunduz, it could prove to be catastrophically dangerous.

Comment: Can't find the hospitals? Well, this is kind of embarrassing, don't you think? (Not to mention the tax dollars that allegedly funded these missing "humanitarian" locations. Perhaps that is missing as well?) Do the facilities really exist? Did they really find them? Or is the location difficulty and the SIGAR/GPS report a flimsy cover for a whopping big and lethal "mistake"...? Hard to say when truth and accuracy don't much matter.

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No Entry

Je ne suis pas Charlie? French government fires TV weatherman for publishing book critical of man-made global warming ahead of COP21 in Paris


RT
Mon, 02 Nov 2015 13:31 UTC
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© @philippeverdier / Twitter
A famous French weatherman has broadcast the news of his sacking in an online video, saying he was fired for writing a book challenging climate change. It comes just weeks before Paris is set to host a UN conference on the controversial topic.

Philippe Verdier, arguably France's most popular weatherman, is the author of the book 'Climat Investigation' (Climate Investigation), in which he accuses state-funded climate change scientists of having been "manipulated" and "politicized." He goes on to accuse the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) of publishing deliberately misleading data.

Verdier also says that global warming could be a positive thing for France, boosting tourism, reducing energy bills, and improving health.

The weatherman said he was inspired to write the book after French Foreign Minister Laurent Fabius met with TV meteorologists and asked them to highlight climate change issues in their broadcasts.


Comment: This was actually reported in the UK Telegraph a couple of weeks ago, which concluded:
[Verdier] said he decided to write the book in June 2014 when Laurent Fabius, the French foreign minister, summoned the country's main weather presenters and urged them to mention "climate chaos" in their forecasts.

"I was horrified by this discourse," Mr Verdier told Les Inrockuptibles magazine. Eight days later, Mr Fabius appeared on the front cover of a magazine posing as a weatherman above the headline: "500 days to save the planet."

Mr Verdier said: "If a minister decides he is Mr Weatherman, then Mr Weatherman can also express himself on the subject in a lucid manner."

"What's shameful is this pressure placed on us to say that if we don't hurry, it'll be the apocalypse," he added, saying that "climate diplomacy" means leaders are seeking to force changes to suit their own political timetables.

According to L'Express magazine, unions at France Television called for Mr Verdier to be fired, but that Delphine Ernotte, the broadcaster's chief executive, initially said he should be allowed to stay "in the name of freedom of expression".
Indeed, whatever happened to freedom of expression in France? Aren't we all 'Charlie' now??

Fickle minds abound.

Anyway, while we support Monsieur Verdier's commendable stand against the global warming lie, we think there may be more to the French Foreign Minister's intervention than concern that everyone toe the party line ahead of the upcoming climate change conference in Paris.

With the rise in extreme weather events being noticed by ever more people, the authorities will come under increasing pressure to maintain the global warming narrative because - despite it being thoroughly shoddy - it at least provides a plausible narrative with which to explain the natural climate shift the planet is undergoing, and maintains the socio-political illusion that governments can or will do anything about it.

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Heart - Black

Do you believe Kerry's bleeding heart for Syrian peace?

Finian Cunningham
Sputnik
Mon, 02 Nov 2015 13:09 UTC
John Kerry
© AP Photo/ Pablo Martinez Monsivais
America's top diplomat John Kerry appears to have developed a bleeding heart of emotional concern for Syria. So too have his British and French counterparts.

After nearly five years of relentless killing, destruction and suffering in Syria, the Western leaders are saying it's now time for peace - and hence the talks in Vienna, convened primarily at the behest of Kerry's shuttle diplomacy last week.

"It's time to stop the bleeding and to start the building," said the US Secretary of State in the Austrian capital. Russia's Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov featured prominently at the summit, which was also attended by arch-rivals Saudi Arabia and Iran. Delegates are to meet in the next two weeks to pursue, allegedly, a political resolution of the Syrian conflict.

Comment: Well said, Finian!

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Bad Guys

Best of the Web: Captured ISIL leaders in Iraq confess to receiving US intelligence support - Iraqi military commander: 'We saw US coalition jets transporting terrorists'


FARS News Agency
Sun, 25 Oct 2015 16:32 UTC
Islamic State
Spokesman of Iraq's Kata'ib Hezbollah (Hezbollah Battalions) popular forces Jafar al-Hosseini disclosing that captured ISIL leaders have acknowledged receiving logistical backup and intelligence support from the US.

"As the ISIL commanders captured in Iraqi popular forces' recent military operations have confessed, the US supports for the terrorist groups are not limited to the dispatch of logistical support," Al-Hosseini told FNA on Sunday.

He reiterated that the US has provided the ISIL with intelligence about the Iraqi forces' positions and targets.

"ISIL commanders trusted the US officials who had assured them that the Iraqi forces would not attack Fallujah because the US had urged the Iraqi government to prevent the popular forces from entering Fallujah and raid Beiji instead; hence the terrorists left Fallujah for Beiji to stay on the alert in there," Al-Hosseini added.

Comment: Think this sounds crazy? Think again...

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