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More lip flapping: Kerry seeks multi-party negotiations with Russia, Saudi Arabia, Jordan, Turkey on Syria


RT
Mon, 19 Oct 2015 15:16 UTC
U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry
© Jacky Naegelen / Reuters
US Secretary of State John Kerry has announced possible multi-party negotiations with Russia and Middle East states to find a "tangible' political solution for the Syrian crisis. Moscow says the proposal is being examined.

Three weeks after the beginning of the antiterrorist air operation of the Russian Aerospace Force in Syria, John Kerry announced that the conflict in Syria has no realistic military solution, Reuters reports.


Comment: Funny then that the US made no efforts to find a political solution these past years in Syria.


Kerry is going to hold talks with leaders of Russia, Turkey, Saudi Arabia and Jordan in order to discuss "real and tangible options" in search for a political solution for the Syrian crisis that has been ongoing since February 2011.

Washington intends "to try and avoid the complete and total destruction of Syria," Kerry said at a joint press conference with his Spanish counterpart Jose Manuel Garcia Margallo in Madrid.

The negotiations are due to take place "in a few days," though Kerry has not elaborated on the exact location and timing of the event. He only mentioned that the meeting could take place as early as by the end of this week.

Comment: The US is really floundering here with a lack of a clear perspective on the Syrian crises. They keep flip flopping with words but their actions prove otherwise. Pathetic. Kerry and Nuland are on a European tour visiting Spain, Greece and Turkey.

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The devil looks after his own! UK government accidentally deletes pedophile ring testimonies

John Vibes
The Free Thought Project
Mon, 19 Oct 2015 14:57 UTC
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The Independent Inquiry Into Child Sex Abuse (IICSA) apologized this week after vital testimony from victims of child sexual abuse was "instantly and permanently deleted" from their servers. The agency said that the loss of data was due to a technical malfunction, which dumped an untold number of testimonies that were submitted to their official website. The agency now claims that there was no security breach, and that while the testimonies were lost, the privacy of the victims is not at risk.

An Independent Inquiry into Child Sexual Abuse (IICSA) was established by the British Home Secretary, Theresa May, on 7 July 2014. The inquiry was intended to investigate why pedophile rings seemed to be exempt from capture.

IICSA posted the following statement on their website:

Comment: High-ranking pedophiles continue to be protected by governments while victims suffer from the repeated lack of justice.

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Bad Guys

Fanning the flames of war: Syrian opposition receives new batch of US-made arms


Sputnik
Mon, 19 Oct 2015 14:38 UTC
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© AFP 2015/ BARAA AL-HALABI
Rebel fighters from the First Battalion under the Free Syrian Army take part in a military training on June 10, 2015, in the rebel-held countryside of the northern city of Aleppo.
While the Syrian Army is liberating the country from the internationally recognized evil of ISIL, local rebels fighting the Assad regime received a new batch of US-made anti-tank missiles.

The US and its allies who want to topple President Bashar Assad via a proxy war led by opposition forces, delivered the new weapons in response to the government army's advance that began on Friday.

The militants have hit at least 11 vehicles since that day, according to the London-based Syrian Observatory for Human Rights. However, a member of one of the rebel groups complained that "A few will not do the trick. They need dozens."

The armed rebels received military aid via Turkey as a part of the US support program.

Comment: The US plan for Syria is further being exposed here. They are really not interested in defeating ISIL. They want Assad removed from power whatever the cost.

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Propaganda

Poroshenko prohibits media from showing him shaking hands with Putin


Sputnik
Mon, 19 Oct 2015 14:34 UTC
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© Youtube/ NewsFromUkraine
Ukrainian President Petro Poroshenko didn't want Ukrainian citizens to see him shaking hands with Russia's Vladimir Putin and ordered his administration not to show the footage of his meeting with the Russian president, said Viktor Zubritsky, a former producer of TV Channel 112 Ukraina.

According to Zubritsky, the TV Channel received a series of phone calls from the president's administration prohibiting the release of footage of the handshake between Poroshenko and Putin on TV.

"Poroshenko shook Putin's hand, but requested that Ukrainians not know about it. And very strangely no Ukrainian TV Channels noticed the handshake," Zubritsky said.

However, 112 Ukraina showed the handshake and soon after received court papers informing them an upcoming search of the TV Channel's offices. Ukraine's court ordered a thorough search and seizure of all computers, media files, USB carriers, etc. In other words, the court decided to terminate the operation of the channel, Zubritsky explained.

Comment: Ukraine has had an abysmal record when it comes to 'freedom of the press' ever since the Western coup d'etat occurred last year. See:

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Attention

Sir Richard Branson announces UN set to call for end to 'war on drugs'


RT
Mon, 19 Oct 2015 14:28 UTC
Sir Richard Branson, founder of Virgin Group and Virgin Unite
© Lucas Jackson / Reuters
The United Nations is on the verge of calling for governments around the world to end the "war on drugs" by decriminalizing the use and possession of illicit narcotics, according to businessman Sir Richard Branson.

In a surprise post on the website of his company, Virgin, the entrepreneur and drugs campaigner said the UN Office on Drugs and Crime (UNODC) is about to announce a "refreshing shift" in direction.

Branson claims he broke a global media embargo to make the announcement, as the news was due to have been launched at a conference on Sunday. The Virgin chief said he feared the UN would bow to political pressure and withdraw the statement at the last minute.

Comment: There is a lot of money being made in the drug trade by certain countries. Reducing their income will not go over very well. Besides, the UN has shown it is ineffective in enforcing what it declares the world should do.

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Iran calls for Asian anti-terror coalition, says US-led coalition a "charade"


Sputnik
Mon, 19 Oct 2015 14:20 UTC
Sixth Xiangshan Forum
© AP Photo/ Ng Han Guan
Iran's deputy defense minister calls for the creation of an anti-terror coalition in Asia.

The fear of increased terrorism across the Asian continent calls for the creation of a broad "great Asian coalition," Iran's deputy defense minister said Monday.

"Terrorism has created a lot of challenges on the international stage, and its promoters are making every effort to spread extremism, violence, chaos and insecurity across the world, particularly in the Asian continent," Brig. Gen. Nasrollah Kalantari said as quoted by the ISNA outlet.

Speaking at the Sixth Xiangshan Forum in Beijing, the Iranian official questioned the motives of a US-led coalition in Syria and Iraq, calling the year-long efforts in the two countries to root out the Islamic State jihadist group a "charade."

"The US and its allies in the region and the world, which themselves, both overtly and covertly, set the stage to breed terrorism, have no right to claim to be fighting it," he stressed.

Kalantari cited the recent escalations in the decades-long Israeli-Palestinian conflict, that had led to the deaths of up to eight Israelis and 45 Palestinians in knife, gun and car attacks over the past weeks, in support of his assertion.

The Xiangshan Forum in the Chinese capital gathers defense officials in the Asia-Pacific region.
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USA

Russian historian Nikolai Starikov: Refugee crisis is organized against Europe (VIDEO)


Russia Insider
Sat, 03 Oct 2015 12:59 UTC
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Russian intellectual, author, and politician Nikolai Starikov gives some insight into the sudden refugee chaos that has befallen Europe in recent weeks. His highly plausible contention is that there is simply too much organization and planning behind the mass exodus for it to be in any way a 'spur of the moment' phenomenon.

When one considers that no Gulf Arab states (which are amongst the wealthiest nations on the planet) took any of their fellow Arab and fellow Muslim 'brothers', that no Anglo Saxon nations took any significant influxes (the UK's cynical offer to take 20,000 people over a five-year period is a joke), and that these moneyed, highly-aggressive, demand-making hordes seem to be channeled specifically into a Germany that cannot be allowed to achieve independence, the picture becomes clear.

Perhaps it's not entirely bad for the Germans though. The ghoulish, half-dead Saudi King Salman's pledge to build 200 mosques in Germany in order to spread hardcore, hate-filled, Salafist garbage to the newly tens if not hundreds of thousands of unemployed and unassimilated military-aged Muslim men could very well have a positive impact on German society. Every cloud has a silver lining, as they say.

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Question

Suicide or murder? BBC journalist found hanged at Istanbul airport


RT
Mon, 19 Oct 2015 12:39 UTC
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Jacky Sutton, a British BBC journalist and acting director for the Institute for War and Peace Reporting (IWPR), has been found dead at Istanbul's Ataturk Airport after missing a connecting flight to Iraq.

Sutton, 50, was found hanged in a toilet cubicle in the early hours of Sunday morning after missing her connecting flight from Istanbul to Erbil, Iraq, which departed at 12:15am.

According to airport staff, Sutton appeared distressed when she was told she had to buy another ticket.

She was found dead a few hours later.

The full circumstances of her death remain unknown, but friends and colleagues insist she must have been murdered.

'Someone killed Jacky'

Iraqi journalist Mazin Elias, who has previously worked with Sutton, said it is highly unlikely she committed suicide, alleging "someone killed Jacky.""She continued in Iraq - everything was difficult, everything was a challenge, but she still continued," he told the Mail Online.

Comment: Sutton appears to have been instrumental in establishing independent media in Iraq:

Here is a more recent interview with her.

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US bombs civilian infrastructure in Syria while Russia bombs terrorists

Hazem Sabbagh
Syrian Arab News Agency
Sun, 18 Oct 2015 12:34 UTC
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In blatant violation of international law, warplanes of the US-led alliance violated Syrian airspace and attacked a power plant that feeds Aleppo city, causing a blackout in the city.

A military source told SANA that warplanes of the Washington alliance violated Syrian airspace and attacked civilian infrastructure in Mare'a, Tal Sha'er, and al-Bab in Aleppo countryside on Sunday.

The source added that the warplanes attacked the biggest electric power plant that feeds Aleppo city, which resulted in cutting off power from most neighborhoods in Aleppo city.

This transgression comes only 8 days after two F-16 warplanes belonging to the alliance targeted two power plants in al-Radwaniye area east of Aleppo city, cutting off power from the area.

Comment: The U.S. and NATO get all up in arms about Russia violating Turkey's airspace (Turkey constantly violates Armenian airspace, but no mention of that in the MSM), despite the relatively benign nature of those violations, the Russian apologies, and the Turkish acceptance of said apologies. Yet what does the U.S. do? Blatantly violate Syrian airspace. And what do they do while there? Bomb civilian infrastructure. Yep. Good ol' freedom and democracy at work!

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South Front International Military Review: Russian airstrikes kill al-Qaeda commander in Syria


South Front
Sun, 18 Oct 2015 12:26 UTC
Sanafi al-Nasr

Al-Qaeda commander Sanafi al-Nasr killed in Russian airstrike.
Jabhat Al-Nusra supported by Harakat Ahrar Al-Sham, Liwaa Suqour Al-Sham and the Free Syrian Army (FSA) started a counter-offensive against the Syrian Arab Army (SAA), Hezbollah and the National Defense Forces (NDF) at the village of Al-Wadihi in the Aleppo Governorate's southern countryside. At the moment the Syrian forces is holding a full control of the village but the clashes are going in the neighbouring area.

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