"[T]hat 9/11 was a Jewish plot or the 7/7 London attacks were staged; the idea that Muslims are persecuted all over the world as a deliberate act of Western policy [are lies]" - David Cameron

The recent speech by UK Prime Minister (PM) David Cameron proposed dealing with "non-violent extremists" as harshly as with ISIS.

In his vocabulary, "non-violent extremists" are those who challenge the truth of the official narrative of 9/11 or what the UK has claimed about the London 7/7 subway bombings.

He appears to be unaware or deliberately ignorant of the mountain of proof that 9/11 was brought to us compliments of the CIA, the Neo-Cons in the Department of Defense and the Mossad.

Moreover, we know that 7/7 was a contrived event, where we have documentaries and books that demonstrate it was done by MI-5 using four young Muslim men in the role of patsies.

Calling his bluff, the leading expert on 7/7, who is also a student of 9/11, responded to the PM's absurd position by turning himself in to Scotland Yard as a "non-violent extremist", but Scotland Yard refused to arrest him.

I woke up this morning to read the news in the Guardian that the pope believes in angels. I took the headline on faith, and moved on. The Guardian introduced me to Joshua Wong, leader of "the spontaneous nature of the civil disobedience," in Hong Kong, as if to illustrate the pope's charming belief.

Joshua Wong, I'm told, is the seventeen-year-old "co-founder of Scholarism, the student movement which kickstarted [sic] the demonstrations," in Hong Kong. At fifteen, Joshua (I may be permitted the first name?) founded the movement in protest to Beijing's proposal to introduce "national education," which Joshua's supporters believe is "brainwashing."

I assume, the "brainwashing," would be free, Beijing not being on a course of manic privatization-of-everything that I've heard of. In the United States, "brainwashing," if we're talking of university, is liberally and democratically available as the road to lifelong indebtedness - and scarce income. If Joshua is not aware of the perils of education in the self-proclaimed freest and most democratic society in the world, he, too, may believe in angels.

This week on SOTT Talk Radio, hosts Joe Quinn, Harrison Koehli and Niall Bradley discuss the status of the West African Ebola outbreak. No doubt things are bad for people there, but what are the chances of this outbreak spreading to colder climates in North America and Europe? What is or are the best forms of protection we can take against Ebola?

With the heat turning up in the Middle east, we also discussed the twists and turns in 'Pipeline-istan', the ridiculous threats made against Western targets by these mysterious ISIS terrorists. As thousands take to the streets in Hong Kong, are we looking at the democratization of China? Or is there more to the protests than meets the eye?

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Armenian government on Thursday approved a draft document on joining the Treaty on the Eurasian Economic Union.
A treaty on Armenia's joining the Eurasian Economic Union is on the table and will be signed at a CIS summit in the Belarusian capital Minsk on October 10, Russian Deputy Prime Minister Igor Shuvalov said at President Vladimir Putin's meeting with the government on Friday.

"The treaty stipulating the Republic of Armenia's joining the Eurasian Economic Union has already been worked out," Shuvalov said.

Armenian government on Thursday approved a draft document on joining the Treaty on the Eurasian Economic Union.

"Upon joining the Treaty, Armenia becomes a member of the Eurasian Economic Union," the document says.

We hate to be the one to state the obvious (again), but how much more like a bad pandemic movie is this so-called "Ebola crisis" going to be allowed to get?
Yes. "Allowed." The word was chosen carefully here. Why?

Let's start back at in oh, let's go with June, back when Ebola first began murdering people in Guinea, Liberia, and Sierra Leone. Somewhere between 300 and 400 people had died, and the news was still fit for little more than the ticker tape at the bottom of the screen on most 24/7 networks. Barely anyone was even paying attention. People shrugged it off with little fanfare and the apathetic attitude of, "Well, that's just what happens in Africa sometimes..."

The death toll continued to rise. Ebola continued to openly spread. No travel restrictions between borders were put in place. No air travel bans were instituted. No nothing. Finally officials had to call it - this Ebola outbreak was the deadliest in known human history. So what did that change?

Not much. The World Health Organization (WHO) declared the situation was "totally out of control" and "one of the most challenging Ebola outbreaks ever." So challenging in fact, that they rushed to action by... calling a meeting .

Meanwhile, more people died. The virus continued to spread. The healthcare system in these African nations was finally - not surprisingly - overwhelmed. No one in the mainstream press bothered to mention the fact that biowarfare researchers from Tulane University and the U.S. Army Medical Research Institute of Infectious Diseases, Fort Detrick had just so happened to have been over in the Ebola hot zone countries, propagating cultures of different types of Ebola viruses (and Marburg virus and Lassa virus and Dengue virus and West Nile virus and yellow fever virus and chikungunya virus) in labs in the years leading up to this outbreak.

Here's one of the scholarly articles published from that research just this past July in the CDC's journal Emerging Infectious Diseases.

In it, the researchers conclude, "PRNT is the laboratory standard for immunologic assays... In the ebolavirus PRNTs, we did not include the newest discovered ebolavirus, Bundibugyo virus, which cross-reacts with EBOV [Ebola virus] in immunoassays. Ebolavirus infections in Sierra Leone might be the result of Bundibugyo virus or an ebolavirus genetic variant and not EBOV."

US officials are far more concerned than they are publicly acknowledging about the gigantic cyberattack against JPMorgan that affected as many as 76 million households.

And they believe Russians with at least loose connections to the country's government are behind the attack, according to a new report from The New York Times.


JP Morgan revealed Thursday that as many as 76 million households and 7 million small businesses may have had private data compromised in the breach, one of the largest and most serious into a US corporation.

Data that may have been compromised in the breach include contact information and "internal JPMorgan Chase information" relating to the users, according to an SEC filing from the company.

If latest reports are to be believed, the Islamic State militants might be conspiring to deliberately infect jihadists with the deadly Ebola virus and send them to America in order to spread the disease in the US - an event that could see America being attacked in a new pseudo-war.

The Israeli News Agency, a site which claims to be Israel's first online news organisation has confirmed the authenticity of the report saying it "clears all news items relating to Israeli security with the Israel government press office."

The agency said, citing "Israeli security sources", that dozens of ISIS fighters in Syria have fallen ill and had symptoms of Ebola. This news quickly ignited a new conspiracy theory claiming that ISIS is planning to send Ebola-infected militants into the US to spread the disease.

"While Western nations fighting the Islamic State might consider this reported Ebola outbreak among radical jihadists to be welcome news, there is a very big, very dangerous downside to Islamic terrorists being carriers of the virus," Norvell Rose, the winner of numerous journalism honours, writes for WesternJournalism.com.

The article also cites the Israeli News Agency (INA) for inference into why the news could prove dangerous for the Americans. The INA in its report quoted a source it identified only as "AVi", who is "a global anti-terrorism consultant" as saying: "We know that ISIS has training camps in Africa and it is highly possible that this is where contact with the virus was made.

Members of the German media are paid by the CIA in return for spinning the news in a way that supports US interests, and some German outlets are nothing more than PR appendages of NATO, according to a new book by Udo Ulfkotte, a former editor of Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung, one of Germany's largest newspapers.

Ulfkotte is a serious mainstream journalist. Here he is on Germany's leading political talk show a couple of years ago. The book is a sensation in Germany, #7 on the bestseller list. Its political dynamite, coming on the heels of German outrage of NSA tapping of their phones. Check out the RT.com story on it in the video below.

Here at Russia Insider, it has long been apparent to us that there is something distinctly odd about the German media regarding Russia. We follow it, and it is much more strident than even the anglo-saxon media regarding Russia, while German public opinion is much more positive towards Russia than in other countries.

Another interesting thing about it is that it is very disparate. Some major voices are very reasonable about Russia, but most are negative, and some are comically apocalyptic. This is what one would expect if there was some financial influence ginning the system.

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Gleb Pavlovsky

The interview below, conducted in January 2012 by Tom Parfitt, then working for the Guardian in Moscow, has never before been published. It is a remarkable document - arguably the most revealing single account of Putin's vision of rule, and its roots, to have emerged so far. From late 1999 to 2011, Pavlovsky was a key adviser to Putin in the management of Russian opinion - one of the regime's two leading 'political technologists', along with Vladislav Surkov. The profiles of the pair were quite distinct. Where the half-Chechen Surkov, born in 1964, is a pure product of post-communism, who rose through banking and business to the counsels of the Kremlin as a post-modern ideologue and part-time novelist, Pavlovsky - born in Odessa over a decade earlier, in 1951 - was a dissident student in the late 60s, taxed with 'anarchism and left extremism'. Arrested in the early 80s for his part in an underground journal, after collaborating with the authorities he was exiled to the north, rather than jailed. Under Gorbachev he returned to Moscow, becoming an active publicist in the democratic ferment of the time, before throwing in his lot with Yeltsin and helping to organize the rigged election that kept him in the Kremlin in 1996. Thereafter he was an architect of 'managed democracy' under Putin, whom he could observe closely for over a decade of service, until in the spring of 2011 he opposed his patron's return to a third Presidency, and was dismissed. Intellectually sharper and more historically minded than Surkov (also, if less drastically, side-lined), Pavlovsky draws a striking portrait of Putin's background, temperament and outlook - above all his attitude to capital. He also offers a vivid insider's account of the way in which the political consensus Putin had enjoyed started to fall away once he decided to brush Medvedev aside and move back to the Kremlin - requiring, in Pavlovsky's view, a now full-out financialization of a political system that has become a 'hybrid of an insurance company and a casino'. Pavlovsky, famous in the eyes of critics for his 'swaggering cynicism and épatage', describes himself as a 'specialist in the construction and protection of government'. Since this interview, he has been outspokenly critical of the regime's handling of the crisis in the Ukraine, as unleashing blind emotions on the street of just the sort that the political technology he helped build was designed to suppress. In a recent article, he has singled out the role of Russian television for attack, fearing that it has become a quasi-independent and potentially destabilizing power within the regime, as a 'pathogenic' force whipping up a popular hysteria that may come back to haunt it.

The US military expects to increase the number of troops deployed to Liberia to fight the Ebola outbreak to nearly 4,000, up from a planned 3,000-strong force, the Pentagon said on Friday.

About 200 soldiers are already in Liberia setting up a headquarters for the US mission, which is aimed at training health care workers and setting up medical facilities for international aid teams.

President Barack Obama earlier this month announced that about 3,000 troops would eventually head to West Africa to help with efforts against the deadly virus.