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Examining the new, urgently passed Japanese Defense Legislation

Vladimir Tekhov
New Eastern Outlook
Tue, 06 Oct 2015 13:02 UTC
Japan's Prime Minister Shinzo Abe.
© AFP Photo / Kazuhiro NogiJapan's Prime Minister, and US regional puppet, Shinzo Abe.
Final approval of the raft of defense laws that was effected by the Upper Chamber of the Japanese National Diet (Japanese Parliament) overnight into September 19 2015, received an overall negative reaction of the Japanese society.

An opinion poll conducted by Mainichi Shimbun almost immediately after the voting showed approximately the same results (57% "in favor" and 33% "against"), as it received roughly two months earlier, when the reaction to the new laws upon their approval by the House of Representatives (lower house) was tested.

Meanwhile, the number of respondents supporting Shinzo Abe government dropped by 3% to compare to August and amounted to 35% in September, while the number of respondents opposing his politics reached 50% (a 1% increase to compare to the previous month).

Comment: A new balance of power is emerging in the world, and Washington's doing all it can to take its legs out from under it. Also see:
It's no secret that the US wants to interrupt China's peaceful rise, and in doing so it's stoked the fire of regional rivalry in the South China Sea. The purpose behind this is twofold: (1) insert seemingly irreconcilable political differences into the economic relationship between China and its ASEAN partners (like what the US has tried to do between Russia and the EU with Ukraine and Crimea); and (2) provoke China into militarily responding to provocations from Vietnam and/or the Philippines to confirm the self-fulfilling cycle of regional suspicion that Washington has tried to foster (just as it's tried to do with Russia in Ukraine).

The fulfillment of this double-headed objective is meant to 'justify' the push to craft an institutionalized entity that will essentially serve as an Asian NATO for countering China. It's envisioned that this organization's core deployment will be centered on the Philippine islands due to geostrategic and political factors (per the latter, that the government is entirely under the influence of the US at the moment), and that it's other two primary members will be Japan and Vietnam, both of which have the most heated island disputes with China.

'Asian NATO', doomed to succeed?


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SOTT Exclusive: New power in the Middle East: Will Russia now help Iraq and Afghanistan?

Harrison Koehli
Sott.net
Tue, 06 Oct 2015 12:45 UTC
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© Instagram / kadyrov_95Gen. Abdul Rashid Dostum, vice president of Afghanistan, and Chechen President Ramzan Kadyrov, meeting in Grozny on October 5, 2015.
As Russian airstrikes pound jihadi-mercenaries in Syria, the Russian government has reaffirmed its willingness to provide military support to Iraq. During an official visit to Jordan, Russian Federation Council speaker Valentina Matviyenko stated:
In case of an official address from Iraq to the Russian Federation, the leaders of our country would study the political and military expediency of our Air Force's participation in an air operation. Presently we have not received such an address. ... I want to emphasize that Russia has no other political objectives and no interests other than the defeat of ISIS [formerly ISIS/ISIL] and that differs us from other nations that participate in another coalition.
Meanwhile, the situation in Afghanistan worsens by the day, with Taliban forces capturing province after province. Yesterday, Vice President of Afghanistan, Gen. Abdul Rashid Dostum, met with Chechen leader Ramzan Kadyrov. In addition to discussing economic, trade and cultural cooperation, Kadyrov said afterwards that Dostum told him Kabul needs Russian help in the fight against ISIS:
Dostum noted that ISIS is trying to make Afghanistan into a bridgehead. In order to prevent this threat, Kabul needs Russia's support, as in Syria. We expressed confidence that the leadership of Russia will make a positive decision in response to this request.
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Coalition for Iran Deal breaks apart, J Street looks more like AIPAC

Philip Weiss
Mondoweiss
Sat, 03 Oct 2015 00:00 UTC
Sen. Ben Cardin
© www.niacouncil.orgSenator Ben Cardin puts forward a new legislative noose for the Iran Deal.
The Iran Deal was approved in part because of a diverse coalition backing the Obama administration that included liberal Zionists, establishmentarians, and non- and anti-Zionist grassroots folks. Among those pulling on the oars were J Street, Jewish Voice for Peace, Code Pink, and the National Iranian American Council.

Now that coalition is beginning to break apart over Israel. Senator Ben Cardin of Maryland, a Jewish Democrat who opposed the deal, has put forward legislation he says is an effort to "strengthen the Iran deal" that contains potential poison pills. If the U.S. determines that Iran is sponsoring terrorist activity against its allies, Congress can rapidly impose new sanctions on Iran. And Israel will get a lot more military aid. The bill is co-sponsored by eight senators who are "the most AIPAC-sensitive", as Jim Lobe writes - attuned to the interests of the Israel lobby. Though many of them supported the Iran Deal.

The National Iranian American Council worked directly with J Street to support the deal. Now it opposes the bill as "obstruction" to the Iran deal. It could lead to another escalation of hostile rhetoric between the U.S. and Iran.
While seven of the Democrats sponsoring the bill supported the agreement, the legislation includes provisions that could prove controversial and provoke a reaction from Iran. The legislation underlines the threat of U.S. military action against Iran, authorizes the President to provide offensive military to Israel to counter Iran, and establishes a mechanism for the expedited consideration of sanctions legislation for issues outside of the nuclear sphere.

Comment: In other words, Israel can't, shan't lose for losing (and will vector, with one political posture or another, to make it so).


Comment: Politically squeeze and suffocate. From rock to hard place amongst shifting sands. Lucy and the football... We can pick our metaphor (and with Netanyahu, many seem to apply), but at the end of the day Israel has its hidden resources working behind the scenes muddying the waters, confusing the issues, torquing opinions, provoking reaction...and percentage-wise, this usually works. "Increasing sanctions for terrorism"...that depends on who actually does it. "Enhance our security relationship with Israel"...more better. "Restore the bi-partisan consensus around Israel"...exactly. This is what the $100M opposition groups were able to accomplish.

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Best of the Web: Russia the aggressor again? What about the US?! (VIDEO)

Okeyan.net
YouTube
Mon, 05 Oct 2015 12:26 UTC
aggressor
© YouTube
Is Russia the evil empire? Only in the eyes of Western nations. Under the dictatorship of the true aggressor, the US, there is blood being spilled all over the world: yesterday's 'freedom fighters' have become today's IS terrorists, butchering civilians in the Middle East, US-initiated wars have caused a massive refugee crisis in Europe, people in US prisons around the world are tortured and killed, heroin from Afghanistan is being trafficked all over the world thanks to NATO, neo-Nazis are committing genocide in the Donbass thanks to US support. So, is Russia the aggressor? Not by a long shot.

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Better Earth

Best of the Web: Shocking the world back to life and reality: Putin sent a decisive message to the West

Eric King
King World News
Sun, 04 Oct 2015 00:00 UTC
Putin king world news

Comment: The world has not had decisive and sane leadership with the true backing of the people in who knows how many years. Since 9/11, the situation has seemed like the world had gone insane with lies, war, and sickness. Russia and specifically Putin is like a vaccine of truth against the pathology that has spread throughout the world based on the West's 'leadership' contaminated with psychopaths armed with lies and manipulation.

Perhaps Russia's actions in Syria will shock normal people of conscience back to life and the reality of the situation we are facing as a species. At this moment Putin is wielding both the truth and sword effectively. May he continue to swing for what is right, decent and virtuous.


With people around the world worried about the escalating war in Syria, today former U.S. Treasury official, Dr. Paul Craig Roberts, told King World News that with four straight days of Russian bombings in Syria, Putin has sent a decisive message to the West.

Eric King: "Dr. Roberts, about this situation in Syria, obviously the Russians have bombed key targets and the rest of the world is watching and saying, 'Putin just took over and put a stop to the madness.'"

Dr. Paul Craig Roberts: "It certainly looks that way. You know Putin told the world at the U.N. meeting, 'We can no longer tolerate the state of affairs in the world.' So he told the United States, Europe, and the other puppet states such as Canada, Australia, and Japan that Russia will no longer tolerate this. And two days later they (the Russians) have taken over the situation in Syria.

Essentially the United States is responsible. This (warring force) is the group that came out of the forces we created in Libya to overthrow Gaddafi. And when Russia blocked the intended U.S. invasion of Syria, Obama sent these people to Syria and pretended they were a free Syrian army of oppressed Syrians who were fighting to liberate their country from a dictator who used chemical weapons against his own people.

But the United States lost control of them, even though Washington's clandestine operations still seem to supply them. So basically the Russians have said they can't tolerate complete and total chaos in the Middle East and it's going to stop before it engulfs Syria...
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Back to where they came from? 3000 terrorists flee Syria to Jordan after Russian airstrikes


RT
Mon, 05 Oct 2015 11:57 UTC
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© Stringer / Reuters
An estimated 3,000 Islamic State fighters as well as militants from other extremist groups have fled Syria for Jordan fearing a renewed offensive by the Syrian army in addition to Russian airstrikes, a military official has told RIA news agency.

"At least 3,000 militants from Islamic State (IS, formerly ISIS/ISIL), al-Nusra and Jaish al-Yarmouk have fled to Jordan. They are afraid of the Syrian army having stepped up activities on all fronts and of Russian airstrikes," the RIA source said.

The official added that on Sunday the Syrian army had carried out a number of attacks on Islamic State and al-Nusra fighters on the outskirts of Damascus as well as in the provinces of Deir ez-Zor and Homs.

Comment: Understandable. And predictable. Mercenaries are like that. See also: Coincidentally or not, earlier this year, the U.S. hoped to train up to 3750 terrorists in Jordan to fight in Syria. The so-called Free Syrian Army has been operating out of Jordan for at least the last 3 years. Tony Cartalucci wrote in 2012:
It is now confirmed that Saudi Arabia is shipping arms to foreign fighters and Syrian rebels operating out of Jordan. The Australian reports in their article, "Bombs in Syria as Saudis 'send arms to rebels'," that "Saudi military equipment is on its way to Jordan to arm the Free Syrian Army," quoting an Arab diplomat. Of course, as reported below, the "Free Syrian Army" is led not by Syrians, but by NATO-backed Libyan militants from the US State Department-listed terrorist organization, the Libyan Islamic Fighting Group.


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UK FM Hammond says support growing in Parliament for airstrikes in Syria


RT
Mon, 05 Oct 2015 11:39 UTC
philip hammond
© Suzanne Plunkett / Reuters Britain's Foreign Secretary Philip Hammond addresses the Conservative Party Conference in Manchester, Britain October 4, 2015.
Increasing numbers of MPs are signaling support for UK military action against Islamic State in Syria, as critics warn further airstrikes in the region will exacerbate the humanitarian crisis there.

Speaking at the Conservative Party Conference in Manchester on Sunday, Foreign Secretary Phillip Hammond said there is a growing sentiment in Parliament that Islamic State (IS, formerly ISIS/ISIL) must be targeted in Syria as well as Iraq.

"We have made a very clear commitment that before we get involved in airstrikes in Syria - other than very targeted cases where we are dealing with direct threats to the UK - yes, we would come back to Parliament and get the authorization," he told the BBC, after addressing delegates gathered in the main hall.

"And I think there is a sense that there is a beginning of consensus now in Parliament that this has to be dealt with, that we have to take the fight with ISIS to Raqqa in Syria, rather than just attacking them in Iraq."

Comment: That's right, a consensus made by Brits, in the UK, on their own. UN approval? Nah. Syrian approval? No way! The hubris is staggering.

Is Russia really the aggressor here, in the sense implied by dolts like Defense Secretary Fallon?



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Bad Guys

STRATFOR Chief outlines psychopathic Zio-Anglo-American plans for world domination in speech to Chicago Council on Global Affairs


State of the Nation
Fri, 11 Sep 2015 00:00 UTC
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Global geopolitical chessboard: Psychopathic players and cynical moves guarantee a future of perpetual war "From the Black Sea to the Baltic"

Explosive presentation hosted by the Chicago Council on Global Affairs reveals what no government official, no political representative, no NGO executive and no think tank director has ever said before in public

STRATFOR Founder George Friedman expresses the profound flaws and extreme hubris of American exceptionalism and foreign policy

The preceding map of Eastern Europe and Western Asia represents the most active part of the current global geopolitical chessboard. The few colored lines illustrate the very essence of the Anglo-American geopolitical strategy to maintain world domination and global economic control. This map was shown as a slide at a critical speech given by STRATFOR founder George Friedman. It was taken as a screenshot in case the exceedingly volatile and incriminating video is removed from the internet.

Comment: Yet another very useful insight into how these bought and paid for consultants for Empire think. On one hand they work very hard to see what the objective truth is on a geopolitical scale. On the other hand they do and say nothing that suggests any insight into how malevolent and destructive these goals are to humanity. Its as if to say, "its an evil job, but someone's got to do it, might as well be me".

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RT fact checks 4 MSM lies about Russia's anti-ISIS airstrikes in Syria


RT
Tue, 06 Oct 2015 11:18 UTC
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© Dmitriy Vinogradov / RIA NovostiSu-25 attack planes take off at Hmeimim aerodrome in Syria.
On the same day Moscow launched airstrikes against terrorists in Syria, accusations instantaneously emerged claiming Russia had failed to attack Islamic State and was instead killing civilians and striking 'moderate rebels.' RT did some fact checking to dot the i's and cross the t's.

In a rush to back the anti-Russian allegations, outdated pictures of casualties involving children were extensively shared across social media platforms. For example, a photo was posted of a Syrian rescue worker carrying an injured girl bearing the description: 'Russian strike in Homs that killed 33 civilians, including three children.' As it turns out, the photo first appeared in social media on September 25. The Russian anti-terror operation started five days later, on September 30


Comment: The last one is rich. What is it about these 'rebels' and 'terrorists' that they seem to have multiple lives? The West seems to have a bag of names out of which they randomly pick one whenever necessary. Doesn't matter if said name has already been killed on multiple occasions in the past! For example:

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Russian Air Force destroys 20 ISIS tanks near Palmyra, Syria


RT
Mon, 05 Oct 2015 21:23 UTC
Russian pilots at Hmeimim aerodrome in Syria
© Dmitriy Vinogradov / RIA Novosti Russian pilots prepared to board the SU-30 attack plane to take off from the Hmeimim aerodrome in Syria.
Russia's Sukhoi jets flew 15 sorties over Syria on Monday striking 10 Islamic State targets in various regions, according to Russia's Defense Ministry. 20 tanks and 3 rocket launchers in Homs province near embattled Palmyra were destroyed,

"During the day, Sukhoi-34, Sukhoi-24M and Sukhoi-25 warplanes flew a total of 15 sorties from the Khmeimim airbase. Air strikes were delivered at ten targets of the Islamic State [IS, formerly ISIS/ISIL] group in Syria," Igor Konashenkov, Russia's Defense Ministry spokesman said in a statement on Monday.

A pair of Su-25Ms (NATO reporting name: Frogfoot) together with an Su-24 (NATO reporting name: Fencer) carried out strikes on two IS targets in the eastern part of Homs province near the city of Tadmur, he said.

"About 20 units of medium T-55 tanks, which were earlier seized by the militants from the Syrian army, have been destroyed [in the strikes]," as well as three multiple rocket launchers, he noted.

A video released by the ministry also showed a strike against an IS ammunition depot in Homs. The ministry explained: "Bright flashes confirm detonation of munitions caused by direct hits of air bombs. Thick smoke provides evidence of fire in the depot."

Comment: See also:

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