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Sending a message to Francis? US intel sez 'we disrupted some vague plot to harm Pope'


The Telegraph
Sun, 13 Sep 2015 23:52 UTC
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Pope Francis is set to visit the United States on September 22 2015.

The United States has broken up a threat against Pope Francis, who will visit Washington and other US cities this month, it emerged on Sunday.

No details of the threat were given.

US authorities are concerned about the visit because the Pope likes to get out among the huge crowds that gather to see him, said Michael McCaul, chairman of the House Committee on Homeland Security.

"He's a very compassionate man. He likes to get out with the people," McCaul said on ABC's "This Week" talk show.

"With that comes a large security risk. We're monitoring very closely threats against the pope as he comes into the United States. We have disrupted one particular case," Mr McCaul said.

Comment: Francis is ruffling feathers at the top with his outbursts against the rampant oligarchs...

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Germany has introduced border controls along the EU's internal borders


RT
Sun, 13 Sep 2015 23:33 UTC
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© Leonhard Foeger / Reuters
Migrants wait for busses at the crossing point between Hungary and Austria in Nickelsdorf, Austria September 13, 2015.
Austrian train operator OeBB says Germany has stopped all trains coming in from the country, and Germany's Interior Ministry has abruptly introduced "temporary" border controls with Austria. More than 2,100 extra police have been dispatched to secure the borders.

Austria's national train company OeBB also announced earlier that it is suspending services to and from Hungary, which is where most asylum seekers arrive from, on their way to Germany. It was unclear if smaller operators would follow suit.

Germany's Interior Minister Thomas de Maiziere has announced that the country is immediately introducing border controls, following an internal vote between the country's ruling coalition partners.

"At this moment Germany is temporarily introducing border controls again along [the EU's] internal borders. The focus will be on the border to Austria at first," the politician said at a news conference in Berlin.

"The aim of these measures is to limit the current inflows to Germany and to return to orderly procedures when people enter the country."

Comment: Obviously, it never occurred to the psychopathic leaders who instituted the continuous wars throughout the Middle East, Africa and the Balkans that their policies would one day come back to haunt them. Now, due to their lack of foresight and the capacity to even care about the devastation they have wrought; millions who have already suffered more than enough are now stranded on the EU borders. On the other hand, if it did occur to them, things are simply going according to plan. There are enough refugees in the country to create a plausible scenario for any future false flag attack use to implement draconian 'security' measures, ramp up the Islamophobia, set up 'refugee camps', and perhaps worse...

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Europe needs to grow up and follow Russia's lead on Syria


Sputnik
Fri, 11 Sep 2015 19:39 UTC
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© Reuters/ Alaa Al-Faqir
The Norwegian newspaper Dagens Naeringsliv laments that Europe has fallen into a postmodernist stupor characterized by a lack of leadership and political will, and that Russia needs to shake Europe's leaders out of this state in order to solve the Syrian conflict, which has resulted in the ongoing refugee crisis.

The refugee crisis facing Europe must force its politicians to return to the principles of realpolitik in order to solve the Syrian crisis, by making political decisions based on reality and not a "postmodern paradise" that denies responsibility for the plight of millions forced to leave their homes in the Middle East, political scientist Janne Haaland Matlary wrote in the Norwegian newspaper Dagens Naeringsliv on Friday.

Citing the disastrous 2011 military intervention in Libya as an example of the dangers of EU and US foreign policy, the author, a professor of Political Science at the University of Oslo, warns that attempts to remove Syrian President Bashar al-Assad from power will only lead to a power vacuum, and a greater crisis.

"We created a power vacuum [in Libya], which was quickly filled by a variety of militias and terrorist groups, earning massive incomes on the illegal transportation of refugees and migrants."

"The parallels with Syria are obvious. Is it not better to take a political decision which chooses the stability of a dictator to a 'Libyan scenario'?" asks Matlary, a member of Norway's Conservative Party and former representative of the Christian Democratic Party, who served as Norway's State Secretary for Foreign Affairs from 1997-2000.

Comment: Europe's spineless submission to the United States has brought nothing but disaster. Europe needs to do some serious reformulating of its policies instead of continuing as a vassal to the US. Russia is offering a much more realistic way out than the short-sighted and self-destructive 'strategies' European leaders have been following. Yet with 'bomb-threats', the anti-refugee hysteria, and pathological types at the helm, we won't hold our breath for any actual leadership emerging any time soon.

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Light Saber

Jeremy Corbyn win revitalizing UK's Labour Party, Cameron sulks, snipes


teleSUR
Sun, 13 Sep 2015 21:03 UTC
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Jeremy Corbyn leaves his home the morning after being elected as the new leader of Britain's opposition Labour Party, in London, September 13, 2015.
The day after Corbyn won the Labour leadership, David Cameron said that the member of parliament would undermine the nation's defenses.

Newly elected British opposition leader, Jeremy Corbyn, is a "threat to national security," according to U.K. Prime Minister David Cameron.

The day after Corbyn won the Labour leadership with a massive 59.5 percent of the vote, Cameron took to Twitter Sunday saying that the leftist, pro-immigrant rights member of parliament would undermine the nation's defenses.

"The Labour Party is now a threat to our national security, our economic security and your family's security," he said.

The Conservative Party also took to social media to blast Corbyn, urging followers to spread the message about the "risk" presented by the new opposition leader. The move represents a push by Britain's ruling party to portray Corbyn in negative terms to set the tone for future debates, including the forthcoming parliamentary vote on bombing Syria, which will test the strength of Corbyn's influence over his party.
Over the course of his leadership campaign, Corbyn pledged that he would scrap the U.K.'s Trident nuclear program, and oppose airstrikes on Syria, having been particularly vocal against the "illegal" war in Iraq.

Comment: Is there a more absurd statement Cameron could make. It is precisely the UK government's war-mongering which threatens that country's security. If Corbyn is able to make good on his platform, the current hatred for the UK would drop by orders of magnitude.

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Bad Guys

UK to continue providing military support to fascist armed forces in Ukraine


Sputnik
Fri, 11 Sep 2015 19:29 UTC
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© AP Photo/ Efrem Lukatsky
UK Foreign Secretary Philip Hammond said that the United Kingdom will continue to help Ukraine's armed forces to modernize and provide technical assistance to support reform in the fight against corruption, public financial management, the ease of doing business and asset recovery.

The United Kingdom will continue to provide military support to Kiev, in response to what London considers to be Russian aggression in Ukraine, UK Foreign Secretary Philip Hammond said Friday.

"The UK will continue to support Ukraine to restore its sovereignty and territorial integrity and reforms its institutions. Specifically, we will continue to help Ukraine's armed forces to modernize and provide technical assistance to support reform in the fight against corruption, public financial management, the ease of doing business and asset recovery," Hammond stated.

The statement comes on the opening day of the 12th annual Yalta European Strategy in Ukraine. The conference, aimed at promoting Ukraine's European integration, brings together top European and world diplomats.
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Food blockade to Crimea more likely to harm Ukraine than peninsula


Sputnik
Fri, 11 Sep 2015 18:30 UTC
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© Sputnik/Yuiy Lashov
Crimea is virtually free from its dependency on shipments of produce from Ukraine, according to the First Deputy Minister of the Industrial Policy of the Republic of Crimea Konstantin Ravich.

Earlier, Ukrainian MPs and leaders of the pro-Ukrainian Mejlis, claiming to represent the Crimean Tatar nation, Refat Chubarov and Mustafa Dzhemilev declared their intent to block all shipments of goods and foodstuffs from Ukraine to Crimea. In order to do so, a group of "Crimean Tatar activists and Ukrainian patriots" is scheduled to arrive at the Russian-Ukrainian border in Crimea in late September.

"I believe that there's no reason to be afraid of some food blockade," Ravich said. "The residents of Crimea and tourists, when they visit local stores they see that Crimea virtually stopped using produce from Ukraine."

The deputy minister added that by considering the food blockade of Crimea the Ukrainian politicians dealt a mortal blow to the Ukraine's image as a reliable business partner.

Mikhail Kurkov, head of the Crimean Food Company, said that most of the goods and foodstuffs are delivered to Crimea from the Rostov and Krasnodar Regions of Russia, and that the local Crimean enterprises also increase their production output.

He also added that the capacity of the Kerch ferry is more than enough to provide the residents of Crimea with all the things they need.

Comment: Crimea chose wisely: Growth fastest in 20 yrs thanks to Russia, sanctions

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Chess

Lavrov skeptical about US sincerity in fighting Daesh


PressTV
Sun, 13 Sep 2015 18:47 UTC
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© AFP Photo
Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov
Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov voices skepticism about the sincerity of the US, as the leader of the so-called international anti-Daesh coalition, in the fight against the Takfiri militants in the Middle East.

In an interview with Russia's Channel One TV on Sunday, Lavrov said Moscow has been informed by sources in the US-led coalition that there have been instances when Washington would refuse to authorize airstrikes on confirmed Daesh positions, adding that this raises questions about the US motives.

"I hope that I won't fail anyone, saying that some of our colleagues from the coalition states say that they receive information where exactly, on which positions the [so-called] Islamic State (Daesh) troops are located, but the commander of the coalition [of course, from the US] doesn't approve the strike," he said.
"I could suspect that apart from the claimed purpose - fighting [the so-called] Islamic State - there is something else [as the aim] of the coalition," he added.

Comment: Lavrov's skepticism is well deserved given the United States' role in using terrorism as a weapon to maneuver around the Middle East and all the world. The United States' position as the dominant super power is leading the world into total chaos, and it loathes the thought of Russia taking the reigns and actually doing something productive for the world.

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Sheeple

Western 'experts' ignorance used as a weapon against Russia

Mark Chapman
The Kremlin Stooge
Wed, 09 Sep 2015 00:00 UTC
Putin
Brute Force and Ignorance,
Just hit town,
Looking like survivors,
From the Lost and Found.

Brute Force and Ignorance,
Have come to play,
A one-night stand at eight o'clock,
Then they'll be on their way.

From, "Brute Force and Ignorance", by Rory Gallagher

Whooo! Rory Gallagher - remember him? Don't be surprised if you don't, because he was probably the best blues guitarist you never heard of. Born in Ballyshannon, County Donegal just before the nineteen-fifties and rock & roll took off like a scared cat, a teenage Rory Gallagher stayed up late to listen to Radio Luxembourg because he couldn't afford records. He played entirely by ear, couldn't read a note, but he could play anything that had strings on it. In 1971, influential British music magazine Melody Maker voted him International Guitarist of the Year, ahead of Eric Clapton, with whom he shared both influences (Big Bill Broonzy, Leadbelly, Muddy Waters) and a soulful blues style. In 1995 he was dead in a London hospital, of liver complications, when he was just 47.

Anyway, this post isn't really about Rory Gallagher, except perhaps in the sense of what a prophet he was. Because we have entered - are firmly established, in fact - into an age in which a significant group of people in the English-speaking world are proud to be ignorant. George W. Bush was the first president who routinely cited his low academic standings - because he thought it made him sound folksy and one of the little people - and a startling proportion of the general public is now apparently quite happy to be misled by "experts" who don't know what the hell they are talking about.

Comment: Exposing Western media's anti-Russian propaganda

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Daniel Ellsberg: Israel's hostile, inhumane treatment of whistleblower Vanunu a relic of British colonialism


RT
Fri, 11 Sep 2015 01:29 UTC
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After 18 years in prison, the man who exposed Israel's nuclear weapons program to the world, Mordechai Vanunu, remains restricted under obsolete principles contradicting the UN Charter on Human Rights, prominent whistleblower Daniel Ellsberg told RT.

Calling Vanunu a "preeminent prophet of the nuclear era," Ellsberg stressed that Israel must recognize, for its own good, what Vanunu did was right and come clean about the existence of its nuclear weapons program. The Israeli government should also stop lying to its own people and the world and admit that they were the first to introduce nuclear weapons to the Middle East, he added.

Ellsberg, who exposed the Pentagon Papers on the Vietnam War to the American media in 1971 and was prosecuted and branded a "traitor" by some for his move, also talked about Vanunu's ordeal from the perspective of a whistleblower.

RT:Ten years since his release, Vanunu is still under constant government pressure, is in constant fear of arrest. Why is that happening, do you think?

Daniel Ellsberg: I think it's essentially what they want to be a life-time punishment, in effect, for embarrassing them, actually, in a policy that really can't be defended in the nuclear era. Is it really legitimate for a country to develop nuclear weapons in secret and continue to maintain the secrecy, then, indefinitely from the world, or pretend to keep that secret? I think not. I think Vanunu did exactly the right thing by telling his fellow citizens, and the rest of the world, that Israel had a large nuclear program. And for that, he served 18 years in prison: 10 and a half in a very small cell of isolation - a 6 by 9 foot cell - what Amnesty called "torture," essentially, for that long period.

Comment: Nuclear, chemical and biological weapons: Israel's arsenal is a plague upon the world

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Psychopathic leaders like Cameron, not Hungary, caused the refugee crisis

Richard Sudan
RT
Fri, 11 Sep 2015 16:10 UTC
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© Laszlo Balogh/Reuters
A mother breastfeeds her baby in front of piles of rubbish at a migrant collection point in Roszke, Hungary September 11, 2015.
I've seen a lot of anger directed at Hungary over the last few days. There's been a lot of criticism of the government, and close scrutiny of the words of the Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban.

I'm not a fan of the Hungarian government, and I don't like the wall being built between Hungary and Serbia. I'm even less of a fan though of the politics which led to this dire situation in the first place.

Whatever you think of the politics in Hungary, it is not to blame for the refugee crisis. The same liberal media which is quick to criticize the Hungarian leadership, is not so quick to criticize those who are directly responsible for helping to cause the civil wars that continue in the lands which people are fleeing from and who, in the face of it, are calling for yet more war, and unbelievably so.

Over the last few days there seems to have been a lot of focus on Hungary and other so-called EU gateway countries, with all kinds of accusations and finger pointing having taken place. The crisis is said to be a European problem by some, a Hungarian one by others, or perhaps a German one depending on your view.

The conversations and chatter in the media continue, and all the while the British government is quietly contemplating bombing Syria, in a move which beggars belief. It's clear then, why attention is being shifted away from war-mongering Cameron toward another distracting scapegoat.

The liberal media and the government, both want to bomb Syria, and both are resolute and steadfast in blaming anyone but the British state for its hand in causing the refugee crisis. That really tells you all you need to know.

ISIS is the problem, Assad is the problem, and now this week, we are being told that Hungary and other nations on the border of the EU are the problem.

Comment: After 9/11, the U.S. declared a global war on terror. Millions of Muslims have been killed as a result of that big lie. The infrastructure and life in these countries has been completely destroyed as a result of that that massive lie. We are in the midst of a new holocaust as a result, this time against those with brown skin.

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