Russian President Vladimir Putin will address the UN General Assembly on Monday.

The 70th jubilee session of the UN General Assembly officially kicked off at the UN Headquarters on September 15. The Assembly's annual general debate involving heads of state and government will open on Monday, September 28.

Russian President Vladimir Putin is expected to speak about the situation in Syria and the international cooperation in the fight against terrorism, among other issues.

Analysts do not rule out that Putin will touch upon the Ukrainian issue, but forecast that it is unlikely to be the major issue on the agenda.

"The President will arrive in New York in the morning [September 28] and immediately go to the UN headquarters, where his speech is scheduled for approximately 10:45 [14:45 GMT]. After that, we are planning to hold a meeting with UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon. By this, we want to emphasize the importance we attach to the central role of the UN and its Security Council in international relations," Putin's aide Yuri Ushakov told journalists ahead of the Russian leader's visit to New York.

Putin will also attend a luncheon hosted by the UN Secretary-General in honor of heads of the delegations attending the session.

The Russian leader is also expected to hold a number of separate bilateral meetings.

Fears of hundreds of Islamist militants sneaking into Denmark with refugees are quite exaggerated, if a Danish security agency is to be believed.

At a recent press conference, the Danish Security and Intelligence Service (PET) countered rumors of ISIL benefiting from the EU refugee crisis by sending dozens of its supporters to European countries, aiming to spread terror across Europe in the near future.

The head of Denmark's primary security agency, Finn Andersen, said it's not a likely route for jihadists to infiltrate the kingdom, according to intelligence.

"Based on the intelligence we have, we don't believe that organized militant groups will use human smugglers or refugee routes in an attempt to get terrorists into Denmark - simply because the route is not desirable," Andersen said at a press conference this week, as cited by TheLocal.dk.

ISIL claims it sent thousands of its militants alongside refugees and migrants currently coming to Europe in masses. PET refers to this notion, widespread on social media and in public discussion, as "misdirection".

The sovereignty of all states, including Ukraine, should be respected, Russian President Vladimir Putin told CBS's 60 Minutes, stressing that he knows "for sure" that the US was involved in the ouster of President Yanukovich in 2014

Speaking to veteran journalist Charlie Rose, Putin said that Russia respects the sovereignty of Ukraine, adding that "at no time in the past, now or in the future has or will Russia take any part in actions aimed at overthrowing the legitimate government."

He added that Moscow "would like other countries to respect the sovereignty of other states, including Ukraine. Respecting the sovereignty means preventing coups, unconstitutional actions and illegitimate overthrowing of the legitimate government."

It is "absolutely unacceptable" to address issues through unconstitutional means, he said referring to the coup in Ukraine in February 2014.

"Our partners in the United States are not trying to hide the fact that they supported those opposed to President Yanukovich," he said.

Putin added that he "knows for sure" that the US had in some way helped oust Viktor Yanukovich. Moscow knows "who had meetings and worked with people who overthrew" the ex-president, as well as "when and where they did it," he said.

"We know the ways the assistance was provided, we know how much they paid them, we know which territories and countries hosted trainings and how it was done, we know who the instructors were. We know everything. Well, actually, our US partners are not keeping it a secret," he said.

$8.9 million NIH study led to mobile system for 'real time behavior monitoring'

Researchers at the National Institutes of Health (NIH) have developed a system that can predict the "psychological status" of users with smartphones and hope to private companies to bring the invention to the market.

The technology appeared on a list of NIH inventions published in the Federal Register that are now available to be licensed by private companies. The government allows companies to license inventions resulting from federal research in order to expedite their arrival on the marketplace.

The system uses smartphones to ask people how they are doing mentally during the day and based on the results can "deliver an automated intervention" if necessary.

"The NIH inventors have developed a mobile health technology to monitor and predict a user's psychological status and to deliver an automated intervention when needed," according to the notice published Wednesday. "The technology uses smartphones to monitor the user's location and ask questions about psychological status throughout the day."

"Continuously collected ambulatory psychological data are fused with data on location and responses to questions," the NIH said. "The mobile data are combined with geospatial risk maps to quantify exposure to risk and predict a future psychological state. The future predictions are used to warn the user when he or she is at especially high risk of experiencing a negative event that might lead to an unwanted outcome (e.g., lapse to drug use in a recovering addict)."

The NIH said the technology has potential commercial applications for "real-time behavior monitoring" and "therapeutic delivery of an intervention via a mobile device."

Researchers developed the system from a project that tracked the mood and cravings of drug users in Baltimore. The $8.9 million federal study sought to develop algorithms that could "automatically detect behavioral events (such as episodes of drug use or stress) without requiring self-report."

Pope Francis may be the rock star. But once again, the real heart of the action is all about Russia and China — those prime "threats" to Exceptionalistan, according to the Pentagon.

Where's Benjamin's Angel of History when we need him? His gaze is now certainly focused on the home of the brave. Francis may have brought the House down in DC, but it's Xi Jinping who really rocked da house in the West Coast, while Putin gets ready to be crowned the new King of New York. Who'd imagine that the New Great Game in Eurasia could be so fun?

Calling Frank Underwood

Even before Putin talked new world order geopolitical business at the UN, China's Xi Jinping was talking Silicon Valley business with, well, the whole Silicon Valley elite. It's all in the photo, delightfully deconstructed (see image below) by the South China Morning Post.
This is where the action is — much more than in what Xi may have discussed with Obama; cyberspace piracy, spying, new Japanese laws on defense, the environment. China needs top IT to turbo-charge not only the internal market but also key nodes of the New Silk Roads.

Even Facebook was allowed to bow to the Red Emperor. Mark Zuckerberg, in suit and red tie, talked to Xi for less than a minute, in Mandarin, at Microsoft's campus. Side by side was none other than a smiling Lu Wei - who controls China's Great Firewall, which blocks, among others, Facebook. As a priceless aside, here's Internet-alert Lu Wei calling all and sundry to "sail into the future with mutual benefit and win-win."

Barely blinking while he bought 300 Boeings for lunch, Xi's real howler in the West Coast was his House of Cards gambit.

Referring to Beijing's massive crackdown on graft, he said, "We have punished tigers and flies ... It has nothing to do with power struggles. In this case there is no House of Cards."

Non-biased China hands all interpret the anti-corruption campaign as essentially a clean up of the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) so it may continue to rule ad infinitum. It's the party, stupid. So obviously there's a "hard rain's gonna fall" component, because resistance from powerful interest groups is immense.

The irruption of House of Cards was predictable. Much more than a nod to Netflix, this was about China. According to GlobalWebIndex, no less than over 200 million Chinese have been using VPNs to get to Netflix and watch the season 3 of House of Cards on streaming video.

As the Syrian civil war continues to rage and Islamic State maintains its foothold in the region, Virginia state Senator Dick Black told RT that "if the US stopped training jihadists and arming jihadists, the war will end."

In a lengthy interview, the Republican state senator connected the crisis in Syria to the actions of countries such as Saudi Arabia and Turkey, who he said have armed extremists like Islamic State militants that are fighting against the Syrian government. He also blamed US meddling in the Middle East for the rise of terror groups like Islamic State (IS, also known as ISIS/ISIL).


"It is my hope and prayer that the United States wakes up and says it is time to end this slaughter. It is time to stop trying to topple regimes, bring order to the Middle East [and] stop the bloodshed. If we stop training jihadists and arming jihadists, the war will end."

Media interest in Saudi Arabian connections to the crimes of 9/11 has centered on calls for the release of the 28 missing pages from the Joint Congressional Inquiry's report. However, those calls focus on the question of hijacker financing and omit the most interesting links between the 9/11 attacks and Saudi Arabia—links that implicate powerful people in the United States. Here are twenty examples.

1. When two of the alleged 9/11 hijackers, Khalid Al-Mihdhar and Nawaf Al-Hazmi, came to the U.S. in January 2000, they immediately met with Omar Al-Bayoumi, a suspected Saudi spy and an employee of a Saudi aviation company. Al-Bayoumi, who was the target of FBI investigations in the two years before 9/11, became a good friend to the two 9/11 suspects, setting them up in an apartment and paying their rent.
2. Al-Mihdhar and Al-Hazmi then moved in with a long-time FBI asset, Abdussattar Shaikh, who was said to be a teacher of the Saudi language. Shaikh allowed them to live in his home for at least seven months, later saying that he thought they were only Saudi students. In an unlikely coincidence, both Al-Bayoumi and Shaikh also knew Hani Hanjour, the alleged pilot of Flight 77. Although Shaikh was reported to be a retired professor at San Diego State University, the university had no records of him. He was then said to be a professor at American Commonwealth University but that turned out to be a phony institution. During the 9/11 investigations, the FBI refused to allow Shaikh to be interviewed or deposed. The FBI also tried to prevent the testimony of Shaikh's FBI handler, which occurred only secretly at a later date. Despite having a very suspicious background, the FBI gave Shaikh $100,000 and closed his contract.

It is now well known that John Boehner is a dedicated lifelong Roman Catholic. It is also known that he has pushed for having the Pope come to America and address the U.S. Congress over many years. Meeting the Pope has always been a dream of Boehner's which has just come true. What he failed to realize was that such a moment would trigger a realization of his profound betrayal of Roman Catholic teachings and universal morality.

One relatively short papal visit after the historic Congressional address put John Boehner face to face with himself. Clearly, the Pope reflected back to him the woeful lack of commitment to the most basic principles of civilization and pillars of Western society. Whether the Pope told him directly or by papal courier, Boehner had violated Catholic law and morality IN THE WORST POSSIBLE WAYS.

In so doing John Boehner, through his continual crimes of commission and acts of omission in his capacity as Speaker of the House, was directly responsible for the whole nation's transgression of natural law and divine order. His meeting with the Pope surely brought this reality into stark relief. Hence, his uncontrollable crying and emotional outburst in having to confront his grave offenses against the Almighty. In yesterday's case, not against the Pope, against the Lord Almighty.

In 2014, President Obama named the three major threats to US national security; ISIS, Russia and Ebola (because spiraling national debt, unequal distribution of wealth, over-incarceration, climate change etc. are less pressing issues.)

It would be fair to say that Russian politicians took much offence to being placed in this list, next to a terror organisation and a disease.

In relation to this statement, Putin answers a number of questions from a US journalist at the Valdai International Discussion Club, late 2014.

To draw his point to a close, Putin mirrors the words of John F Kennedy in a 1963 speech titled "A Strategy for Peace", unusual for its time due to the warmth of the address to the Soviet Union at the height of the Cold War.

Putin is likely to echo the words he said at Valdai when he speaks at the UN in New York tomorrow.

Jeremy Corbyn claimed the 9/11 attacks were 'manipulated' by the West so it could go to war in Afghanistan in an article he wrote 12 years ago, it has emerged today. The Labour leader made the assertions in a number of written pieces where he criticised Tony Blair and George W Bush for using the September 11 attacks in New York to go to war. He claims Osama bin Laden was made to look responsible to facilitate their aims and seemed to endorse conspiracy theories about a 'New World Order'.

In the 2003 piece for The Morning Star, he wrote: 'Historians will study with interest the news manipulation of the past 18 months, The Telegraph reports. 'After September 11, the claims that bin Laden and al-Qaida had committed the atrocity were quickly and loudly made. This was turned into an attack on the Taliban and then, subtly, into regime change in Afghanistan.'

Prior to that, he wrote a series of articles which appear to have endorsed the conspiracy theory about the 'New World Order'. The revelations come ahead of Mr Corbyn's first Labour conference as leader where a number of MPs are expected to state the party is unelectable under him.