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Move over NATO: Russia and Libya want to restore full-scale interaction


ITAR-TASS
Thu, 22 Oct 2015 20:24 UTC
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© Natalya Garnelis/TASSRussian Foreign Ministry building in Moscow.
Russia and Libya want to restore full-scale interaction, the Russian Foreign Ministry said on Thursday after a meeting between Russian Deputy Foreign Minister Mikhail Bogdanov, the Russian president's Special Representative for the Middle East and Africa, and Libyan Foreign Minister Mohammed al-Dairi.

"The situation in Libya was central to the meeting. The Russian side stressed the importance of overcoming the internal political crisis in that country (Libya) as soon as possible and mobilize the necessary resources for effective counteraction to a growing terrorist threat," the Russian Foreign Ministry said.

"In this connection, the sides voiced support for the U.N.-mediated international efforts to create a government of national accord (in Libya) and expressed readiness to contribute to the effective completion of the intra-Libyan dialogue proceeding from the priority task to preserve Libya's sovereignty and territorial integrity," the ministry stressed adding that the Russian and Libyan foreign ministers had also discussed practical aspects of Russian-Libyan bilateral relations.

"They confirmed reciprocal interest in restoring full-format interaction in traditional areas of cooperation as the situation in Libya gets back to normal," the Russian Foreign Ministry said.

Comment: Russia is moving so fast that it is making US and NATO heads spin!

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Russian results: Militants' field commanders suggest local truce to Syrian troops


ITAR-TASS
Thu, 22 Oct 2015 20:16 UTC
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© Valery Sharifulin/TASSA syrian army soldier.
Certain field commanders of terrorists in Syria suggest to the Syrian government forces local truces, head of the Main Operations Directorate of the Russian Armed Forces' General Staff Andrey Kartapolov said Thursday.

"Certain field commanders are starting getting in touch with Syrian troops units with suggestions on local truces and holding talks," Kartapolov told journalists.

Comment: Finally some tangible results from the relentless Russian offensive in Syria.

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Pistol

Getting crazier: Jewish Israeli shot dead by security guard after being mistaken for terrorist


RT
Thu, 22 Oct 2015 19:48 UTC
IDF soldiers
© Ammar Awad / Reuters
A Jewish Israeli man was shot dead by security guards in Jerusalem after being mistaken for a terrorist. He had gotten into an argument with the guards and was subsequently killed when he reached to grab a gun from one of them.

The incident took place as the man was getting off a bus and the two security guards were trying to get on. A dispute ensued and the guards demanded to see his identification papers.

However, when the man tried to grab one of the guard's guns, he was shot dead, as they believed he was a "terrorist," police said, as cited by AFP.

Two similar events have also occurred recently involving Jewish Israelis injured or killed due to mistaken identity.

Comment: Hatred and paranoia have turned many Israelis' brains to mush. Now, the tensions are rising and more "mistakes" will undoubtedly be made, which will only increase the violence. It is tragic, but at least these Israelis are making it crystal clear to the world the extent to which they are blinded by rage and barbarism.

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The Empire of Chaos is in a jam

Pepe Escobar
Sputnik News
Thu, 22 Oct 2015 19:10 UTC
Syrian Supporters
© Reuters/StringerSyrians, living in Lebanon, carry banners as they wave Russian and Syrian national flags to express their support to Syria's President Bashar al-Assad and to thank Russia for its operation in Syria, outside the Russian embassy in Beirut, Lebanon, October 18, 2015.
The no-fly zone in Syria already exists. It is run by Russia and Washington is unable to jam it.

NATO is desperate. The Pentagon is desperate. Imagine waking up one day in Washington and Brussels just to realize Russia has the ability to electronically jam — detect, trace, disable, destroy — NATO electronics within a 600 km range across Syria (and southern Turkey).

Imagine the nightmare of row after row of Russian Richag-AV radar and sonar jamming systems mounted on helicopters and ships jamming everything in sight and finding every available source of electromagnetic radiation. Not only in Syria but also in Ukraine.

Lt. Gen. Ben Hodges, commander of U.S. Army units in Europe, was even forced to qualify Russian electronic warfare capabilities in Ukraine as "eye-watering."

For their part, caught in the crossfire as sitting ducks or headless chickens, that mighty ideological aircraft carrier known as the USS Think Tankland was left dabbling with the four options left for Washington to "achieve its goals" in Syria.

The first option is containment — which is exactly what the Obama administration has been doing. The recipe was proposed in full by the Brookings Institution; "containing their activities within failed or near-failing states is the best option for the foreseeable future."

But that, Think Tankland argues, would "crush the popular opposition" in Syria. There is no "popular opposition" in Syria; it's either the government in Damascus or a future under the ISIS/ISIL/Daesh Salafi-jihadi goons.
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Eye 1

Big Brother is watching: Australia will use Facebook photos in surveillance database


RT
Thu, 22 Oct 2015 19:13 UTC
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© Mike Segar / Reuters
Photos from social media websites like Facebook could be used in an Australian counter-terrorism database. Critics are concerned about the system's lack of "transparency," but the new legislation can come into effect without being passed by parliament.

Senior officials from the attorney general's office confirmed late on Tuesday that photos from social media could be used in the system, which is known as "the capability," the Guardian reports.

The Australian Justice Minister, Michael Keenan, announced last month that the government would be spending US$13.3 million to develop a database (The National Facial Biometric Matching Capability), which would store still images that law enforcement officers could use to track terrorists.

It had been believed that the images would come from official documents such as drivers' licenses, passport photographs or images taken from security cameras. The government claims that the technology is necessary as a human face is unique, just like a person's fingerprints.
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UK goes full Orwell: Government to take children away from parents if they might become radicalized


Tech Dirt
Thu, 22 Oct 2015 18:49 UTC
1984
© Screen Capture YouTube
From the ministry-of-love dept

If there are two edicts I try to follow whenever I'm writing, they are, first, write what is true and, second, avoid cliche at all costs. I bring that up only as a preface before saying the following: the UK is walking down an Orwellian path. It's nearly the cliche of cliches to say something like this, and yet it happens that the cliche is true. While there is most certainly a real thing known as a threat from Islamic terrorism, there is also such a thing as overreaction.

What started as the British government's attempt to ban extremist thought from social media and television (under the notion that some thoughts are too dangerous to enjoy the freedom that other thoughts deserve) then devolved into the conscripting of teachers that were to be on the lookout for children that might become radicalized.

To assist them with this, the government helpfully provided spy-software to use against students. Spy-software which itself was found to be exploitable in the most laughably easy of ways. This employed two of the most horrifying aspects of Orwell's Oceania: the concept of thought-crime and the employ of citizens to fearfully surveil one another.

And now it seems the UK is going even further, adopting Oceania's reputation for the swallowing up of citizens should they be found suspect of thought-crime by those watchful citizens. Specifically, the Family Division of the Judiciary has put out a memo declaring exactly how it will remove children from the homes of anyone it suspects might radicalize those children. Here's a snippet.
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Eye 2

Investigative journalist: US operates super-secret 'Little Guantanamo' sites for political and religious prisoners


RT
Thu, 22 Oct 2015 18:50 UTC
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An investigative journalist is speaking out about the Bureau of Prisons' use of Communication Management Units to house political and religious prisoners, primarily Muslims. Once inside, inmates have restricted rights to visits, phone calls, and letters.

"The people who are there ... are overwhelmingly Muslim, and then there are a handful of prisoners that are there because of their 'anti-government and anti-corporate views,' particularly environmental, and a couple of animal rights activists," investigative journalist Will Potter told RT.

Potter was one of the few journalists allowed to visit a CMU when he visited Daniel McGown, an American environmental and social justice activist who was arrested and charged with arson. He was sentenced to seven years' imprisonment and released on parole in 2013. Potter was allowed to visit him as a friend.

"They told the prisoner Daniel McGown that if I wrote anything about our visit, he would be subjected to harsher penalties because of that," Potter told RT. "When I arrived at the prison, I was reminded that prison officials knew who I was and that if I asked any questions that my visit would be immediately terminated."
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Quenelle - Golden

World after Empire: China announces it will cancel debts held by world's most impoverished nations


The Higher Learning
Thu, 22 Oct 2015 18:15 UTC
Xi and Putin
© Asia TimesPresidents Xi Jinping and Vladimir Putin
Since the 1990s, a major part of Chinese foreign policy has been to invest in developing countries around the world.

This includes private investments, like the billion-dollar solar project being spearheaded by a Chinese energy company in Ghana or the multibillion-dollar canal being built by a Chinese infrastructure firm in Nicaragua.

It also includes public investment projects like the Asian Infrastructure Investment Bank, which was launched earlier this year to help fund infrastructure projects in impoverished Asian countries (and to reduce the amount of influence wielded by the U.S.-led investment banks).

On Saturday, Chinese President Xi Jinping made yet another commitment to help economic growth in the developing world, announcing that China would be canceling the debts of the world's least developed countries.

President Xi made the announcement while addressing a United Nations summit on global development goals. During his speech, he also pledged to establish a $2 billion fund dedicated to improving conditions in the most impoverished countries around the world.

Comment: Times are definitely a changin'. After all, it's been a major goal of the US 'empire' to keep the world in hellish conditions and thereby thwart any contenders for power. But, fortunately, a 'multi-polar world' looks to be an idea whose time has come. Check out:

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Iran and Russia to establish joint bank to finance projects between the two countries


PressTV
Thu, 22 Oct 2015 17:51 UTC
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Iran and Russia have agreed to establish a joint bank in what is meant to facilitate financial transactions between them.
Iran and Russia on Thursday agreed to establish a joint bank in a bid which is meant to facilitate financial transactions between the two countries.

The agreement was announced by the Central Bank of Iran (CBI) which said it was reached during a meeting between the visiting Russian Energy Minister Alexander Novak and CBI chief Valiollah Seif.

The two also agreed for Iran to join the Eurasian Development Bank, the CBI announced in a statement.

Seif and Novak also emphasized that both Iran and Russia need to cooperate over the establishment of a major interbank network - what they agreed is necessary to ease trade activities between the two countries.

Novak, for his part, emphasized that Russia is ready to provide credit lines as well as any other adequate financial facilities for the development of prioritized infrastructure projects in Iran.
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Protecting the perverts: UK establishment wants to ban journalists from naming suspected pedophiles

Michaela Whitton
The Anti Media
Thu, 22 Oct 2015 17:45 UTC
Jimmy Saville
© Matthew Lewis/Getty ImagesJimmy Saville, pedophile
The U.K. establishment is seeking to ban journalists from naming sex abuse suspects before they are charged. The proposed ban aims to protect them from pre-charge publicity.

Former prosecutor Alison Levitt QC, who provided the executive summary for the Jimmy Savile scandal, told The Guardian that "It should be a criminal offense to name someone before charge. I feel strongly there should be a presumption of not naming before charge, with an exception in certain cases."

Currently, police in the U.K. do not name someone being investigated for allegations of sexual abuse, but they may occasionally release the name of a suspect if they think it will encourage other victims to come forward.
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