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Plundering Libya: Sidra under the NATO bombs


Fort Russ / Strategika51
Sat, 10 Sep 2016 12:00 UTC
Libya
© AFP 2016/ ABDULLAH DOMA
Translated from French by Tom Winter

In a Libya, where fabulous private fortunes get hidden out of public view amidst the chaos, (the war is prosperity for some) the chief of the National Libyan Government (GNA), Fayez Al-Serraj, the guy who was brought to Tripoli on board a surface warship of a member state of NATO, effectuated his first visit to Syrte, where the last blocs of Daesh are learning to appreciate the fire from US Super Cobras and from the AV-8B Harrier IIs of the Italian Aeromarine. Back on May 12, forces faithful to the National Libyan Government launched an offensive to take the city of Sidra, which had fallen into the hands of Daesh-North Africa.

But actually, it's the US aviation that opens the way for local forces spinning their wheels despite the active support of US, British, Dutch, and Italian Special Forces.

The CAS (Close Air Support) came to its zenith in July 2016, as the US attack helicopters sprayed the former militias that participated in the war against Colonel Gaddafi along the famous Avenue of the Dollar, the main arterial of this coastal town which used to be a tourist haven.
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Nuke

Russia begins phase 2 construction at Iran's Bushehr nuclear power plant: Adding two more 1GW reactors


RT
Sat, 10 Sep 2016 09:50 UTC
Bushehr nuclear plant Iran
© Valeriy Melnikov / Sputnik
Iran and Russia have held an opening ceremony for Phase 2 of the construction of the Bushehr nuclear power plant, in which two more 1,000 MW reactors will be added at the site, while six more are still in the pipeline. Phase 2, which was launched on Saturday, will add two VVER-1000 reactors to the one already operating in Iran. Their design was updated with additional safety features based on experience derived from the Fukushima nuclear disaster. Russia and Iran signed a contract for the expansion of Bushehr in 2014, a year after Russian specialists commissioned the plant's first reactor. The contract includes an option for six more reactors, which could be built at other sites sometime in the future. Phase 3 may be commenced as soon as 2018, Iranian Vice-President Eshaq Jahangiri said during the ceremony.

The Bushehr project was launched in 1975 under the shah's government, but it ground to a halt after the Islamic revolution of 1979 because German manufacturers withdrew. Russia's nuclear construction company Atomstroyexport took over the project in the 1990s.
"The competition of Phase 1 has proven that Russia always delivers on its promises to foreign partners, regardless of the political climate in the world," said Russian nuclear chief Sergey Kirienko during the opening ceremony in Iran.

Comment: The Bushehr nuclear power plant first joined the national grid on September 4, 2011 with the power of around 60 megawatts. Its current output is 1000MW that was reached in August 2012.

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Attention

Kerry & Lavrov agree on new Syria ceasefire


RT
Sat, 10 Sep 2016 02:25 UTC
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© Xinhua
Russia and the US have agreed on a new ceasefire plan on Syria that includes a ban on government airstrikes in certain areas and cooperation on strikes against jihadists, Russian FM Sergey Lavrov announced after the marathon talks with the US's John Kerry.

Opening the much-awaited press conference after some 13 hours of talks, Kerry said that the two have agreed on a comprehensive approach to Syrian reconciliation. He called "on every Syrian stakeholder to support the plan that the United States and Russia have reached, to ... bring this catastrophic conflict to the quickest possible end through a political process."

According to Kerry, the plan is to ensure that Syrian government forces will not carry out combat missions where the so-called moderate opposition is present.


Speaking of fight against Al-Nusra and its efforts to blend with moderate rebels, Kerry stressed "going on Al-Nusra is not a concession to anybody" but "is profoundly in the interests of the US."


Comment: The fact that Kerry even has to say that suggests it's not true. It's open knowledge that the US has supported al-Nusra and done its best to protect them until this point. So excuse us for not thinking Kerry is being even a tiny bit sincere here... That's not to say it's impossible that the U.S. will turn on its former allies, but it would only do so if its hands were forced, ever so gently, of course.


Comment: While these negotiations were going on:
With the Jihadi fighters in eastern Aleppo once again completely trapped, the Syrian army is dropping leaflets giving them just 2 days to surrender or leave through the corridor that has been left open for them. That is consistent with earlier reports that the Russians had told the US that they wanted the Jihadi fighters out of Aleppo by mid September.
That is, the weekend. The 'ceasefire' is supposed to start Monday. Will the Nusrats be less willing to leave now that the ceasefire has been agreed upon? Will they comply? Shave their beards and exchange their flags?

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Radar

Commander of NORAD General Ralph Eberhart didn't follow 'standard operating procedure' on 9/11 - deflected blame on FAA

James Corbett
Corbett Report
Fri, 09 Sep 2016 00:00 UTC
General Ralph Eberhart
General Ralph Eberhart
According to the official story of September 11, 2001, four hijacked airliners flew wildly off course over the most sensitive airspace in the United States for 109 minutes without being intercepted by a single fighter jet. As Commander-in-Chief of the North American Aerospace Defense Command on 9/11, General Ralph Eberhart was in charge of the largest failure to defend North American airspace in history.

Rather than accepting blame for his command's complete lack of response that morning, however, or even expressing regret about what had occurred, General Eberhart instead spent the rest of his career attempting to pin the blame for this failure squarely on the FAA.
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No Entry

UN team heard claims of 'staged' chemical attacks in Syria, pressured to find Assad gov't guilty of using them

Robert Parry
Consortium News
Thu, 08 Sep 2016 00:00 UTC
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© State Department photoU.S. Secretary of State John Kerry on Aug. 30, 2013, claims to have proof that the Syrian government was responsible for a chemical weapons attack on Aug. 21, 2013, but that evidence failed to materialize or was later discredited.
A widely touted U.N. report accusing the Syrian government of two chlorine-gas attacks relied on shaky evidence and brushed aside witness testimony that claimed some incidents were staged, reports Robert Parry.

United Nations investigators encountered evidence that alleged chemical weapons attacks by the Syrian military were staged by jihadist rebels and their supporters, but still decided to blame the government for two incidents in which chlorine was allegedly dispersed via improvised explosives dropped by helicopters.

In both cases, the Syrian government denied that it had any aircraft in the areas at the times of the purported attacks, but the U.N. team rejected that explanation with the curious argument that Syria failed to provide flight records to corroborate the absence of any flights. Yet, if there had been no flights, there would be no flight records.

The U.N. team also dismissed out of hand the possibility that jihadist rebels who had overrun some air bases and thus had operational helicopters at their disposal might have used them as part of a staged event designed to incriminate the Damascus regime and thus justify U.S. or other outside military intervention.
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Info

Need more boots: Hundreds more US troops deploy to Iraq on eve of anticipated Mosul offensive


Sputnik
Fri, 09 Sep 2016 21:53 UTC
Mosul, Iraq
© AFP 2016/ MARWAN IBRAHIM
More than 400 additional US troops have arrived in Iraq in recent days as the battle for Mosul is expected to begin soon, a US defense official said Thursday.

Operation Inherent Resolve spokesman Colonel John Dorrian stated that there are 4,460 US troops in Iraq, compared to 4,000 a week ago, and that Iraqi security forces are preparing to reclaim Mosul. Dorrian did not specify what the US troops would be doing, but mentioned that they were setting up a logistics hub at the recaptured Qayyarah airbase to the south of Mosul, which will serve as a staging area for Iraqi forces.

Mosul, the second largest city in Iraq, was seized by Daesh two years ago. Since that time the violent extremist group has lost much of its territory in Iraq and Syria, but has retained control over Mosul and Raqqa.
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Snakes in Suits

Feel the fear: Top US spies warn defeating IS won't end terror threat


RFE/RL
Fri, 09 Sep 2016 21:23 UTC
FBI Director James Comey
© Reuters
Even the defeat of the Islamic State (IS) militants in Iraq and Syria will not extinguish the extremist group's threat to the civilized world, top U.S. intelligence officials say.

"The threat that I think will dominate the next five years for the FBI will be the impact of the crushing of the caliphate, which will happen," FBI Director James Comey told a conference in Washington on September 8.

"Through the fingers of that crush are going to come hundreds of hardened killers, who are not going to die on the battlefield. They are going to flow out."

Comment: When you feed the monster, you might get bitten. But it's always the civilians that get harmed rather than the elites who created the monster.

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Bad Guys

Obama's final jihad in Asia: Securing submission from Asian vassals, pivoting American aggression in China's direction

Wayne Madsen
Strategic Culture Foundation
Tue, 06 Sep 2016 21:15 UTC
obama
President Barack Obama has opted to ratchet up military tensions in Asia as one of his last foreign policy acts as president of the United States. Using climate change and free trade backdrops at the G20 Summit in Hangzhou, China and the U.S.-ASEAN and East Asia Summits in Vientiane, Laos, as mirages intended to mask his aggressive military posture in the Asia-Pacific region, Obama seeks to cement his «pivot to Asia». It is Obama's sincere hope that his anticipated successor, his former Secretary of State, Hillary Clinton, will expand on the expansionistic and aggressive regional showdown with China and Russia that his administration launched with his Asia «pivot».

The ultra-protocol conscious Chinese threw diplomacy and decorum to the wind when Obama touched down at Hangzhou International Airport and his national security adviser Susan Rice and deputy national security adviser became embroiled in an argument with Chinese security personnel. When White House officials traveling with Obama began issuing orders to the Chinese personnel, one Chinese official yelled at them, «This is our country. This is our airport». It was as if the Chinese, realizing that this would be their last encounter with Obama as president, were letting him and his war hawk national security team know who was the boss as long as they were on Chinese soil. At least on the tarmac at Hangzhou International Airport, the Chinese swung Obama's Asia «pivot» back to China.
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Pirates

False flags in the DRCongo: Massacres not the work of Islamists - U.S. seeks secession of E. Congo

Ann Garrison
Global Research
Thu, 08 Sep 2016 19:23 UTC
congo
Beni Territory sits in the Democratic Republic of the Congo's (DRC's) North Kivu Province, bordering Rwanda and Uganda. Rich in oil, timber, gold, diamonds, wolfram, coltan and cassiterite, Beni is a vivid example of the phrase, "Everybody wants a piece of Congo." Now the indigenous people of Beni are being massacred for their land and its riches.

The massacres in Beni Territory began in 2014. Estimates are that 60 people are killed every month. After the Aug. 13, 2016 massacres, the number of victims rose above 1,200.

There is little doubt that the massacres are occurring because Beni is so rich in resources essential to the manufacture of modern life in the industrialized nations. However, Boniface Musavuli, Congolese human rights defender and author of Congolese Genocides from Léopold II to Paul Kagame, says that the aggression has been falsely attributed to Ugandan Islamist rebels. The truth is, he said, that the killers are Rwandans and Ugandans who want to eliminate indigenous Congolese people.
"In reality, killers in Beni are individuals who are coming from Rwanda and neighboring Uganda. Their goal is to severely eliminate indigenous peoples in order to take ownership of their land, which is rich in resources."

Comment: Hmmm, sounds familiar.


Comment: It really would be handy if someone were to publish the "war on terror" strategy book leaders seem to be passing around to each other. The story is always the same.

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MIB

Mahmoud Abbas and the tale of KGB moles

Nikolai Gorshkov
Sputnik
Fri, 09 Sep 2016 20:50 UTC
Mahmoud Abbas
© AP Photo/ Misha Japaridze
Western media have been making the most of the claim that Mahmoud Abbas, the President of the Palestinian Authority, was a KGB agent in Damascus in the 1980s. The news broke on Israel's Channel 1 and was reported by major media outlets globally.

Israeli researchers with the Truman Institute at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Isabella Ginor and Gideon Remez said they came across a document implicating Abbas while studying the famed Mitrokhin archive, smuggled into Britain in 1992 by KGB defector Vasily Mitrokhin.

The document, deposited with the Churchill Archives Center in Cambridge, purportedly shows that Abbas, code-named "Krotov" (a Russian allusion to a mole), was recruited by the KGB in Damascus in 1983.
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