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Cell Phone

New documents reveal AT&T is spying on Americans for profit

Kenneth Lipp
The Daily Beast
Tue, 25 Oct 2016 15:13 UTC
AT&T in binocular graphic
© Rob Hyrons
The telecom giant is doing NSA-style work for law enforcement—without a warrant—and earning millions of dollars a year from taxpayers.

On Nov. 11, 2013, Victorville, California, sheriff's deputies and a coroner responded to a motorcyclist's report of human remains outside of town.

They identified the partially bleached skull of a child, and later discovered the remains of the McStay family who had been missing for the past three years. Joseph, 40, his wife Summer, 43, Gianni, 4, and Joseph Jr., 3, had been bludgeoned to death and buried in shallow graves in the desert.

Investigators long suspected Charles Merritt in the family's disappearance, interviewing him days after they went missing. Merritt was McStay's business partner and the last person known to see him alive. Merritt had also borrowed $30,000 from McStay to cover a gambling debt, a mutual business partner told police. None of it was enough to make an arrest.

Even after the gravesite was discovered and McStay's DNA was found inside Merritt's vehicle, police were far from pinning the quadruple homicide on him.

Until they turned to Project Hemisphere.

Comment: Another step to dictatorship: The US is on a path to total dictatorship

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Footprints

Senior Syrian MP: West planning foreign terrorist leaders' escape from Aleppo


FARS News Agency
Mon, 24 Oct 2016 15:41 UTC
Fares al-Shahabi
A senior Syrian legislator said the western states seek to rescue the terrorist groups' foreign ringleaders from Aleppo and ordered them to stay in the city until they can work out a deal with Damascus and Moscow.

"The terrorists stationed in Eastern Aleppo had taken orders from Saudi Arabia, Turkey and Qatar to remain in the region," Fares al-Shahabi told FNA on Monday.

"The main reason behind such an order was the West's intention to make a deal (with Syria and Russia) which would lead to the evacuation of foreign ringleaders of the terrorists from Eastern Aleppo," he added.

Al-Shahabi said that the foreign commanders of the terrorist groups in Aleppo are nationals of the NATO member states and Israel.

The latest reports from Eastern Aleppo said that Fatah al-Sham Front (the newly-formed al-Qaeda-affiliated terrorist group previously known as the al-Nusra Front) continues to seize people's food supplies by force and executed an Imam who tried to persuade civilians and militants to leave the Eastern part of Aleppo.
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Satellite

Russia Has Satellite Photo Evidence Proving It Didn't Strike Syrian Hospital


Sputnik
Tue, 25 Oct 2016 15:28 UTC
Aleppo
© Sputnik/ Mikhail Voskresenskiy
Accusations that Russia is conducting airstrikes on non-military facilities in Syria have turned out to be fake, the head of the Russian General Staff said Tuesday.

"In a satellite photo obtained on September 24 (before the strike date) you can see the Sahur hospital. In the other picture, made on October 11 (after the alleged strike) you can see no differences in the state of the object. This fact indicates that allegations against Russian Air Forces by some eyewitnesses in fact are fakes," Sergey Rudskoy told journalists.

According to Lt. Gen. Sergei Rudskoy, chief of the Russian General Staff Main Operational Directorate, media accused Russia earlier this month of carrying out an airstrike against a hospital in eastern Aleppo.

Russia, however, is ready continue introducing humanitarian pauses in Syria's Aleppo on request, but only if it has information on willingness to withdraw the wounded and civilians, the Russian General Staff said.

According to Lt. Gen. Sergei Rudskoy, chief of the Russian General Staff Main Operational Directorate, the calls to the leaders of opposition to allow withdrawal of civilians and the wounded, as well as militants, were left unanswered.
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Heart - Black

Washing their hands: 1 in 4 councils refuse to take Calais child refugees... including Theresa May's constituency


RT
Tue, 25 Oct 2016 15:22 UTC
syria refugee children britain
© Yves Herman / Reuters
Almost 40 councils in England are refusing to accept any of the roughly 1,000 child refugees evacuated from the Calais 'Jungle' camp, which is being demolished by the French government this week.

Up to 10,000 people are being removed from the makeshift camp on a stretch of wasteland near the French port town of Calais. Several hundred of them are unaccompanied children.

Speaking in the House of Commons on Monday evening, UK Home Secretary Amber Rudd said around 800 child migrants had told officials visiting the camp they had relatives living in Britain. Almost 200 have been brought to the UK so far, including 60 girls, under the Dubs amendment, which protects vulnerable refugee children in Europe.

Despite the ongoing demolition, no new arrivals will be considered by British authorities, as the government wants to discourage more children from making the perilous journey to northern France.

Comment: The British population is now faced with the consequences of their government's kowtowing to Washington, following it into one war after another. How many actually make the connection?

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Stop

Duterte: US should not treat Philippines like a 'dog on a leash', wants foreign soldiers out of the country


RT
Tue, 25 Oct 2016 08:49 UTC
duterte
© Erik De Castro / Reuters
The US shouldn't treat the Philippines like a "dog with a leash," says President Rodrigo Duterte, adding that he does not want to see foreign soldiers in his country. The remarks are the latest in a string of inflammatory statements aimed at Washington.

Speaking at a press briefing on Tuesday, Duterte said he looks forward to a time when he no longer sees "any military groups or soldier in my country, except the Filipino soldier," GMA News reported.

"I really hate it. I don't want it. We don't need it. There's not going to be any war in the future," Duterte added referring to the presence of foreign troops.

He said Washington could "forget" about an Enhanced Defense Cooperation Agreement (EDCA) with Manila if he is to stay in power.

"...We have the EDCA. Well, forget it. If I stay here long enough, one day that EDCA will, if it's an executive agreement then I will just..." he said leaving his sentence hanging in the air.

Comment: Duterte is no doubt one in a long list of those who would love to see the backs of the US military and its proxies:

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Ambulance

Russian military reports 60 civilians killed and 200 injured in US-led coalition strikes of Mosul residential areas


RT
Tue, 25 Oct 2016 14:39 UTC
US airstrike bombing Mosul
© Ahmed Jadallah / Reuters Smoke rises after an U.S. airstrike, while the Iraqi army pushes into Topzawa village during the operation against Islamic State militants near Bashiqa, near Mosul, Iraq October 24, 2016.
Over 60 civilians have been killed and at least 200 injured during three days of US-led coalition airstrikes on residential areas in Mosul, the Russian military reported.

"There were numerous attacks of the US-led coalition targeting residential areas, schools, and other civilian objects both in Mosul and in other parts of the Iraqi Nineveh Governorate," Gen. Sergey Rudskoy, head of Operations in the Russian General Staff, told journalists on Tuesday.

"We are closely monitoring the situation around Mosul. So far we see no substantial progress in liberating this city from the terrorists of ISIS," he added, referring to the terrorist organization Islamic State by its former name.

According to the Russian military, among the civilian objects hit by US-led coalition airstrikes was a school for girls in southern Mosul, which was attacked last Friday.

Comment: Update: "We would require more specific information in order to determine if Coalition aircraft were involved in this alleged incident," the spokesperson for Operation Inherent Resolve stated. "If Russian authorities have further information on this allegation, we encourage them to share it with us to enable an investigation."

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Red Flag

Missing from Hillary Clinton's email: CIA and Saudis worked together to create terror

Kurt Nimmo
Newsbud
Tue, 25 Oct 2016 15:08 UTC
hillary clinton Saudi Arabia
Hillary Clinton's email to her current campaign manager John Podesta dated August 17, 2014 implicates Qatar and Saudi Arabia as the main "logistical and financial" supporters of the Islamic State. In the email, Clinton recommended the United States use its "diplomatic and more traditional intelligence assets to bring pressure on the governments of Qatar and Saudi Arabia" to put them "in a position of balancing policy between their ongoing competition to dominate the Sunni world and the consequences of serious U.S. pressure."

Secretary of State Clinton's proposal appears to be a reaction to growing awareness of the role Gulf monarchies have played in supporting and funding not only the Islamic State and al-Nusra but a constellation of jihadi groups in the Middle East. Left unmentioned by Clinton is the fact the United States under a number of administrations has worked closely with the Gulf monarchies to spread Sunni Wahhabism across the Muslim world.

The financial elite in the West played a direct role in the spread of Wahhabism. In 1976 Saudi Prince Mohammed al-Faisal established the Faisal Islamic Bank of Egypt (FIBE). Several of founding members were leading members of the Muslim Brotherhood, including the "Blind Sheikh," Sheikh Omar Abdul-Rahman, implicated and in the first World Trade Center bombing in February 1993. The Muslim Brotherhood became an MI6 and later a CIA asset during the covert war and assassination plot against the nationalist pan-Arab leader in Egypt, Gamal Abdel Nasser.
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Георгиевская ленточка

Keeping their word: No Russian or Syrian airstrikes on Aleppo for 7 days, humanitarian corridors open


RT
Tue, 25 Oct 2016 14:46 UTC
russia syria aleppo humanitarian pause
Aleppo destruction
Aleppo has not seen any Russian or Syrian air raids for a week, creating the necessary conditions for a humanitarian pause to work, the Russian Ministry of Defense said, adding that terrorists in the eastern part of the city still hold civilians hostage.

"Russian Aerospace Forces and the Syrian Air Force have completely ceased flights over Aleppo during the last seven days," Defense Ministry spokesman Major-General Igor Konashenkov said Tuesday, adding that their jets "do not approach or conduct strikes" anywhere in the vicinity of the city.

According to the Defense Ministry spokesman, 48 women and children left the rebel-held area on Monday.


"Late Monday, October 24, 48 women and children accompanied by officers of the Russian reconciliation center and Syrian authorities left eastern Aleppo through [the] humanitarian corridor. They have been provided with the necessary medical aid, hot meals, and night accommodation," Konashenkov added.

Comment:

From Sputnik:
The moratorium on Russian and Syrian airstrikes in the 10-kilometre radius (6.2 mile radius) around Aleppo, effective since October 18, will be extended, the Russian General Staff said Tuesday.

Russia is ready to continue introducing humanitarian pauses in Syria's Aleppo on request, but only if it has information on willingness to withdraw the wounded and civilians, the Russian General Staff said Tuesday.

According to Lt. Gen. Sergei Rudskoi, chief of the Russian General Staff Main Operational Directorate, the calls to the leaders of opposition to allow withdrawal of civilians and the wounded, as well as militants, were left unanswered. "We are ready to continue introducing humanitarian pauses upon the first request, but only if we have credible information on readiness for withdrawal of the wounded, the sick and civilians," he told at a briefing.
The Empire doesn't give a fig about humanitarian efforts to relieve Aleppo's suffering citizens and will never "separate the moderates". Its goal is to preserve the terrorists (primarily al-Nusra) to continue its beknighted quest to topple the legitimate government of Syria.

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Ambulance

The UN-Affordable Care Act: Obamacare premiums to increase 25 percent in 2017


RT
Mon, 24 Oct 2016 14:57 UTC
Obama Care
The Obama administration today confirmed that the president's signature healthcare plan will see a double-digit spike in prices of premiums next year. Many Americans covered under the so-called "Obamacare" will be down to just one insurer.

Before taxpayer-provided subsidies, monthly premiums for mid-level health plans will rise by an average of 25 percent across the 39 states that use the HealthCare.gov website, reports the Associated Press. The exchange was created by the 2010 Affordable Care Act, mandating the purchase of health insurance.

Not only that, but consumers will have fewer options to choose from, as the number of HealthCare.gov insurers will drop from 323 in 2016, to 167 in 2017.

"So, enrollees may need to change doctors or drugs when they switch insurers," said Caroline Pearson of the consulting firm Avalere Health.

Comment: More on the Obamacare premium fiasco: Obamacare premiums jump: When does the death spiral blow up?

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Newspaper

More damaging Podesta emails: Clinton team's dilemma - can we survive not answering press questions?


RT
Tue, 25 Oct 2016 14:49 UTC
hillary clinton
© Brian Snyder / Reuters
Top staff members of Democratic presidential nominee Hillary Clinton discussed in May 2015 how the candidate could possibly avoid press questioning "at message events" throughout the summer of that year, according to staff emails published by WikiLeaks.


Comment: Why would she want to avoid press questioning? Is she trying to hide something?

On Monday, WikiLeaks released a seventeenth collection of emails from the hacked account of John Podesta, Clinton's campaign chair. One email chain, from May 21, 2015, discussed how Clinton could avoid spontaneous press exchanges at campaign events.

The exchange ‒ between Podesta, campaign vice-chair Huma Abedin, campaign manager Robby Mook, and communications director Jennifer Palmieri ‒ came more than two months after a much-publicized 10-question encounter with members of the press in March 2015 that went awry for Clinton as she was pushed to answer for her use of a private email server as secretary of state. After December 2015, it took about nine months for Clinton to hold another traditional press conference, all as news media and her opponent, Republican Donald Trump, questioned Clinton's perceived lack of press availability.
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