60
Minutes Report on Benghazi - IT'S NOT a "Fake Scandal"
After All!!!
Someone
at CBS News is bound to lose their job over this. It's real reporting
that completely flies in the face of the official story pushed on the
world about what really happened in Benghazi. This was on CBS's 60
minutes, not FOX. Take some time & watch it. If this does not
make you mad as hell, demanding accountability - check your pulse!
'Super
typhoon' Dujuan kills two and injures hundreds in Taiwan
More
than 12,000 people are evacuated from their homes and half a million
are without electricity as storm leaves trail of destruction in the
north of the island
‘Super
typhoon’ Dujuan killed two people and left more than 300 injured in
Taiwan
after it swept across the island before reaching land in eastern
China, authorities said on Tuesday.
Almost
half a million people are still without electricity in Taiwan.
The
storm hit the Chinese coastal city of Putian on Tuesday morning,
state news agency Xinhua said, but there were no immediate reports of
damage.
Many
of the injured in Taiwan were hit by flying debris or involved in
traffic accidents, the emergency operation centre said. It put the
death toll at two and the number of injured at 324.
Severe
winds uprooted trees and smashed windows and the heavy rains
triggered multiple landslides.
More
than 12,000 people have been evacuated and almost 3000 are in
temporary shelters, authorities said.
Taiwan’s
aboriginal mountain communities are particularly at risk during
typhoons, often affected by flooding and mudslides.
Landslides
blocked the roads into the hot spring town of Wulai, in mountains
just outside the capital, Taipei.
It
was the latest hit for Wulai which was severely damaged by flooding
and landslides in August when typhoon Soudelor hit. Some residents
were unable to return home for weeks. Many shops and hotels were
still rebuilding even as the latest typhoon struck.
“The
roads are blocked but residents aren’t in any immediate danger,”
a spokesman for New Taipei city fire department said.
Dujuan
was categorised as a “super typhoon” by regional forecasters,
taking residents by surprise as it sped up before reaching land late
on Monday in the eastern county of Yilan.
It
was downgraded to a “moderate typhoon” by Taiwan’s central
weather bureau as it crossed the island.
“It’s
expected the typhoon will continue to weaken and its radius to keep
shrinking,” the weather bureau said.
At
the peak of the storm 2m homes were left without electricity. On
Tuesday morning 498,458 were still without power.
Towering
waves crashed through windows at a seaside hotel in eastern Yilan and
fierce winds also damaged Taipei’s famous 101 skyscraper.
In
Hsinchu city, a crane fell from 20 storeys on to cars below but no
one was injured, local reports said.
Performances
by the US rock band Bon Jovi, due to take place in Taipei on Monday
and Tuesday, were cancelled.
China’s
national meteorological centre issued a red alert on Monday
afternoon, Xinhua reported, adding that 260,000 people have been
evacuated in the eastern province of Zhejiang.
Tens
of thousands of boats were called back to shore in Zhejiang and
neighbouring Fujian province and all flights at three airports in
Fujian were cancelled on Tuesday, state media said.
Typhoon
Soudelor caused at least eight deaths in Taiwan last month and killed
21 people in China
Extreme
weather in Australia
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IMPORANT MESSAGE IT IS VITAL YOU READ AND SHARE/TAG THIS AS EARLY
SEASON HEAT POSSIBLY RECORD BREAKING FOR THIS TIME OF THE YEAR &
WIND PLUS THE CURRENT DROUGHT SITUATION IS LIKELY TO INCREASE THE
CHANCE OF IGNITING FIRES IN SOUTH EASTERN AUSTRALIA BETWEEN FRIDAY
OCTOBER 2ND & WEDNESDAY OCTOBER 7TH ****
In
what will be a shock to the system a possible five day heatwave is
becoming very likely for the Southern states from Friday 2nd October
onwards.
South
Australia, Victoria, Tasmania, NSW, inland parts of Western Australia
will all be impacted.
A
high will move into the Tasman sea by Friday and remain there for 4-6
days and create a blocking set up with hot north to north west winds
set to drive temperatures up to record breaking numbers for this time
of the year.
Temperatures
are likely to reach the 30's in Adelaide and possibly Melbourne by
Friday and continue this way until the middle of next week! A very
weak change may cool things off for a brief period Sunday for
Tasmania and possibly southern parts of Victoria but otherwise the
heat will be continuous in what will seem like December weather
rather than early October.
It
is possible Adelaide may see temperatures reach 37-38c during this
heatwave and Melbourne could see temps rise as high as 35-36c by
early next week.
Some
parts of inland SA and northern Victoria may see temperatures close
to 40c during this period especially early next week.
ACT
and Sydney will also see this heat with temperatures also likely to
hit the 30's and even Hobart may see temps close to 30c by early next
week.
The
worrying and disturbing part is this heat is likely to break records
for so early in the season and some regions of Victoria and SA that
have seen very little rainfall this year with the drought being worse
on records in some parts of SE SA and western Victoria & it is
likely to increase the fire risk rapidly and catch some people off
guard especially with stronger winds which is possible on Saturday
and Tuesday/Wednesday ahead of changes. At this stage very little to
no rainfall is shown by the models the next 7 to 10 days even after
this heat is done.
Please
take pre cautions and clean up your land as this risk of fires in
this time period is real.
Map
one: This shows temperatures at 850 levels. The dark red represents
temperatures in the high 30's nearing 40c for Tuesday October 6th and
as we can see that is likely to happen in a large region from
northern WA through most of SA into Victoria and southern NSW. This
is shown through the EC Euro model.
Map
two: Temperatures expected next Monday October 5th week across
Australia with most of Australia seeing hot conditions (away from SW
WA) this is shown by the GFS model via BSCH.
Britain
is facing a threat from Putin and Russia It
comes as tensions between Nato countries and Moscow continued to
mount, with Russia threatening “nuclear counter measures” over a
plan to bolster nuclear facilities in Germany. David
Cameron is currently trying to find a “compromise deal” with
Russian president Vladimir Putin over tackling the IS terror group in
Syria. But
Russian aggression in Eastern Europe, an increase in Nato
air-space incursions by Russian bombers, and the development of a new
Russian “super tank” has led senior commanders to admit that the
prospects of a conventional ground war In Eastern Europe can no
longer be ignored. The
British Army has 227 Challenger 2 main battle tanks but, while they
are still respected, they are in urgent need of upgrade. Last
year the British Army took part in live-fire Nato exercise in Poland
with more than 100 armoured vehicles. Operation Black Eagle
“highlighted the British Army’s ability to deploy an armoured
battlegroup at short notice anywhere in the world in support of the
nation’s allies.” PA The
British Army has 227 Challenger 2 main battle
tanks However
the Sunday Express has learned that, unlike its Nato allies, Britain
not able to deploy a full squadron of 14 tanks plus two in reserve
within the regulation 30 -days time limit. Some,
according to serving members of the Kings Royal Hussars armoured
regiment, took more than three months to make ready because they had
been mothballed, or cannibalised for parts. Speaking
recently General Sir Nick Carter, head of the British Army, confirmed
that the future of the Challenger 2 was being considered at the
highest levels. "We
have got issues with the tanks we've got and if we don't do something
about it we will have issues - what we will do is in discussion, “
he said. Senior
Army sources confirmed last night that the development of the new
Russian T-14 main battle tank, unveiled at the Moscow Victory Day
Parade in Moscow in May, had “focussed minds” on the issue.
AP Vladimir
Putin poses a threat despite working with Britain against
ISIS Boasting
exceptionally think armour and an “unmanned turret”, the T-14 is
the first of a new generation of power tanks for the Russia Army,
which hopes to have 2,300 of them by 2020. Last
week Russia announced that it would be forced to take counter
measures to “restore the balance of power” in Europe if the
United States carried out upgrade its nuclear presence in Germany by
placing 20 B61-12 nuclear bombs at the Büchel Air Base later this
year. Speaking
last night Maj Gen Patrick Cordingly who, as commander of the “Desert
Rats” 7th Armoured Brigade, led US and British forces to victory
over Iraq forces in 1991, said: “There
are 100 nations in the world who have battle tanks – they have them
for a reason and for us not to invest in our main battle tank now
would go against logic. “Even
in Afghanistan, it would have been usefully to have our own battle
tanks. We were forced to rely on the Danish army. “A
tank is more than a weapon system – it also makes a statement. And
when you’re trying to reign in another country, it helps to be able
to make a statement in this way. “
The
2010 Strategic and Security Defence Review saw most British battle
tanks put into storage as planners focussed on “asymmetrical”
warfare of the type fought in Afghanistan. So
convinced were military planners of this that BAe was allowed to sell
off its tank-manufacturing base in Newcastle in 2012, though BAe
retained a rump of 60 specialists at tis facility in Tidworth. Britain’s
armoured base in Germany was also earmarked for closure by 2019,
though recently there have been moves to reverse this decision. Events
since then, including the Russian invasion of Crimea have shown
Britain and the rest of Nato “must be prepared to revisit
Cold War scenarios, and this includes conventional, symmetric warfare
in Eastern Europe,” said a source last night. However,
the Challenger 2 will have to jostle for priority against £9bn worth
of other armoured vehicles – many intended for conditions like
Afghanistan
They
include the troubled Scout and Warrior programmes. The
Scout Reconnaissance Specialist vehicle has already eaten up £4bn. “The
Scout is now so heavy because of protective armour and anti-IED
capability that is can’t cross bridges or be airlifted – not
brilliant for a reconnaissance vehicle’” said one industry
insider last night. Last
night Nick, de Larrinaga IHS Jane’s think tank said: The Ukraine
crisis has certainly prompted a rethink. The chance of a symmetric
conflict happening has risen, and our ability to deal with it is less
than it was during the Cold War. It
needs to be taken a bit more seriously. “If
you look at all the mine resistant, ambush protected vehicles bought
for Afghanistan are very little use doing anything cross-country. “The
one area that hasn’t been heavily invested in is the Challenger 2
fleet. Either a life extension programme or a replacement programme
would seem sensible.”
Afraid
Yet? WWIII One Giant Step Closer After B61-12 Nukes Reach Europe
Washington's
decision to station 20 next-generation advanced nuclear bombs of Type
B61-12 is threatening to turn the specter of WWIII into a terrifying
reality, F. William Engdahl warns
Although
the Pentagon has advertised its B61-12 as a life extended version of
the standard strategic US nuclear bomb, it is in fact a brand new
nuclear weapon with vastly improved military capabilities, and the
most expensive nuclear bomb project ever, Engdahl, an American-German
economic researcher, emphasizes, citing Hans M. Kristensen, Director,
Nuclear Information Project at the Federation of American Scientists.
The
deployment of new nuclear weaponry in Germany by Washington "is
no minor affair as it brings the likelihood of nuclear war by
miscalculation between the United States and Russia one giant step
closer and it makes the German Republic a direct high-priority target
in any such escalation. Ashton "Ash" Carter and the
war-hawks running the US Defense Department appear to be losing all
contact with reality," Engdahl noted in his article for New
Eastern Outlook.
Nuclear
Test
On
July 1, 2015 the Pentagon tested its new B61-12 at Tonopah Test Range
in Nevada, prompting sharp criticism Russia.
Engdahl
quoted Russian Deputy Defense Minister Anatoly Antonov, who pointed
out that "the atomic bomb, which was tested, is a dual purpose
device. It can be both an element of strategic offensive weapons —
when delivered by heavy bombers — and an element of non-strategic
nuclear weapons when delivered by tactical aircraft."
To
complicate matters further, on September 18 a report claiming that
the Department of Defense is currently "reviewing and updating
its contingency plans for armed conflict with Russia" was
released by the US reputable media source. The new US defense plan
purportedly included the use of so-called "tactical"
nuclear weapons against Russia.
Nearly
simultaneously, on September 20 German Air Force Eurofighter Typhoon
fighter jets began patrolling the airspace of the three Baltic States
— in close proximity to Russia's borders — "with full
ammunition loads."
"German
Air Force's Inspector General Karl Müllner stated that the decision
to fly fully armed was designed to "motivate" German
pilots. He didn't elaborate on which Air Force might become the
enemy, nor what his pilots were being motivated for. The new B 61-12
nuclear bomb could also be fitted to German Tornado fighter jets.
Perhaps that would really motivate the German pilots," the
researcher noted gloomily.
Engdahl
also highlighted that in July 2015 the incoming US Chairman of the
Joint Chiefs of Staff General Dunford branded Russia as America's
"existential threat."
The
researcher also called attention to a peculiar remark made by Pope
Francis during his speech at Havana's Jose Marti Airport on September
19.
The
Roman pontific noted that the "world… needs reconciliation
amidst this Third World War." Curiously enough, the "third
world war" phrase "was never part of the original redaction
of the Pope's speech," the researcher underscored, quoting
Brazilian political analyst Pepe Escabar.
Just
hours after the
incredible speech delivered by Russian President Putinat
the United Nations General Assembly, the US has quietly announced
that it will be suspending its program of training allegedly
‘moderate’ rebels in Syria to fight against the Assad
regime. Colonel
Steve Warren told Foreign Policythat
US forces were now looking to ‘re-evaluate’ their efforts, which
the news outlet calls a ‘humiliating
setback‘.
While
the US will continue to support those rebels it has already trained
and deployed, it will no longer deploy new fighters.
Yesterday, Putin
called for the West to respect the ‘valiant’ efforts of
Assad’s government and the Syrian army in their fight against
terrorism. Therefore, this move can easily be understood
as the single biggest development in the on-going crisis in
Syria, as it removes support from forces seeking to destroy Assad –
a clear victory for Putin.
This cessation of support for
forces fighting against Assad will strengthen the Syrian fight
against ISIS. Perhaps, if that support was instead used in coalition
with Russia’s
own efforts in the region,
ISIS would be gone in almost no time at all.
America’s
‘Train Wreck’ Middle East Policy Is Now Exposed As Total Fraud
21st
Century Wiresays… As 21WIRE reported
yesterday, Russian president Vladimir
Putin’s opening gambit at
the UN General Assembly in New York City has sent shock waves through
the geopolitical fault lines.In
his speech at UNGA 2015, President Putin completely exposedthe
hypocrisy and willful deception of western actions in Syria.
He decried the continued exportof
so-called ‘democratic’ color revolutions and when referring to
the Middle East he asked, “how
did that turn out?“ From
drones to regime change, the world is now seeing what an utter
failure every aspect of US foreign policy has been in the Middle East
over the last 25 years. Australian
MP and Minister for Foreign Affairs, Julie
Bishop,
normally an obedient robot when it comes to following the orders of
the Anglo-American Empire, has suddenly stumbled upon a patch of
common sense on Middle East policy.
Needless
to say, this did not go over very well with Washington DC’s finest…
The
recent military escalation by Russia and reported sightings of
Chinese war ships in the Mediterranean in the last week must come as
something of an embarrassment to the war hawks in Washington, and the
knives may well be out for whichever rookie secretary forgot to
register the
war on terror as
a trademark. Still this has done little to change the tri-partisan
rhetoric coming out of Canberra.“I
don’t for a moment shy away from the comments that we have made in
the past about the illegitimacy of the regime.” “President
Assad unleashed chemical weapons on his own people, and the death and
destruction in Syria is appalling and at unprecedented levels,” Ms.
Bishop recently said in an address to the United Nations General
Assembly in New York.
In
hearing these remarks I can’t help be reminded of the outrageous
claims and bald faced lies which led us into war in Iraq in 2003.
Whatever happened to all those weapons of mass destruction which
Saddam was stockpiling? Was he able to secretly shield them from UN
weapons inspectors with an invisibility cloak? Perhaps the same cloak
that Dr Assad is using to hide his chemical weapons arsenal? Or the
one that Iran is evidently using to conceal its uranium enrichment
program?
Not to put too fine a point on it, but when
the executive
director of Human Rights Watch is leading the cheer for the
removal of the legitimate government of a sovereign nation state
which currently enjoys the support of 80% of its people, one might
wonder if we are being told the whole truth.
Having
taken part what now seems like an age ago in the rallies against the
2003 invasion of Iraq – the biggest protests Australia has seen
since the Vietnam War, I’m more than a little miffed at the lack of
public outrage at Australia’s compliance in 2015. Perhaps the media
is doing a better job of selling its lies and deception this time
around, but so far I remain unconvinced. I am tired of the blatant
propaganda surrounding this illegal war. I’m tired of the
persistent references to “civil war” in a country which is
clearly being attacked by outside forces. I’m tired of hearing the
government of Syria constantly referred to as “the Assad regime”,
and carnal knowledge of dead animals aside, I’m well tired of David
Cameron referring to Bashar al-Assad as a butcher.
So
far as Washington’s support for terrorists is concerned, there’s
no putting the cat back in the bag. I have argued this extensively in
other essays, but it doesn’t take a political analyst to see that
Obama, Netanyahu, Ergdogan, Salman and Abdullah before him have been
working hand in glove with various terror groups to destabilize and
ultimately remove the Syrian government for their own nefarious ends.
Washington’s war hawks have bypassed congressional appropriations
by directing their client state Saudi Arabia to deploy radical
anti-Syrian (and often anti-US) militants against Assad, unleashing a
wave of terror on the region. Playing both sides against the middle
may have some merit in games of strategy, but willingly supporting
terrorists who commit atrocities against civilians by any other name
is still a war crime.
CONFUSED:
President Obama now a victim of his own twisted official narrative on
Syria.
Of
course there are many players in this proxy war, each with their own
interests: Obviously there’s the US and its allies, who in their
relentless quest for world domination just can’t seem to keep their
grubby hands out of other people’s business. In their latest
adventure, United States Secretary of State John Kerry and the late
King Abdullah of Saudi Arabia in collusion with Wall Street insiders
had contrived to control the entire region’s oil and gas reserves
and to weaken Russia and Iran by selling cheap oil to China.
There’s
Russia, whose soft underbelly comprises almost every country ending
in ‘stan’ from which Islamist extremists might enter its borders.
Already feeling the squeeze of tough trade sanctions since the
shooting down of MH17, this manipulation of the oil market, despite
weakening its economy, will likely strengthen its resolve.
There’s
Israel, a newly created, US backed, militarised rogue state whose
original British colonial design includes not just the annexation of
both the West Bank and Gaza but of all the land from the Nile to the
Euphrates including parts of Lebanon, Jordan, Syria, the Sinai, Iraq
and Saudi Arabia. (The plan for Greater
Israel involves
the Balkanization of surrounding Arab states, beginning with Iraq,
which is to be divided into Shia and Sunni territories and a separate
Kurdish state.)
There’s
China, an emerging superpower now lumbered with a stalling economy
and forced to choose between a ready supply of cheap oil and the
prospect of the war in Syria spilling into Iran, Southern Russia and
eventually breaching its own western borders.
There’s
Germany, which seems to have embraced the prospect of close to a
million new low paid workers with the same enthusiasm with which it
welcomed the surge of cheap skilled labour at the close of the Soviet
era (an attitude perfectly consistent with EU ambitions to enforce
human misery through austerity.)
And
then there are the endless hordes now beating a path to Europe in
what’s been called the biggest mass movement of refugees since
WWII. It’s not just the Alawites, Yazidis and other religious and
ethnic minorities once protected under Syria’s Ba’athist
government who now face a grim future, but the entire Syrian
population, of whom more than half are now internally displaced or
have fled in fear for their lives. Pray tell what conceivable form of
‘regime change’ would ever allow these people to return to their
homes?
Syria
was and is the last secular nation state in the Middle East, and as
has been argued by many, not least President Putin himself, it is for
the people of Syria and nobody else to decide who will govern them.
Russia is now working in concert with Iran, Hezbollah and other
regional partners to end the horror brought to bear by Washington’s
incessant meddling, and while Obama still condemns Russia’s
strategy as “doomed to failure” and continues to demand Assad’s
ultimate resignation, this outcome is looking increasingly less
likely.
While
China’s last minute arrival is obviously a game changer, it’s not
like the US were never invited to the party. Putin’s attempts to
forge an alliance of nations to deal with the growing threat of
global terror have never specifically excluded US participation, but
with the US demonstrably the world’s greatest sponsor of terrorism,
it does make things a little awkward. As well as Iran, Iraq,
Hezbollah and the Syrian Arab Army, the new coalition looks likely to
include all members of the Collective Security Treaty Organisation
(CSTO); Russia, Belarus, Armenia, Kazakhstan, Kirghizstan, and
Tajikistan. This poses an obvious question right off the bat. Is
Washington really afraid that Russia’s intervention will make
matters worse in Syria? Or rather that putting an end to ISIS once
and for all might render the US irrelevant?
What
emerges from this picture is a strong sense that Washington’s war
hawks are losing, or have lost, their grip over Middle East politics.
The Iranian moderates who are inclined to cooperate with the West for
economic reasons are naturally allied to Russia where the Syrian ISIS
threat is concerned; the Gulf monarchies seem only too happy for
Russia to broker a peace between warring Shi’ite and Sunni
factions, and with Russia now flexing its military muscle, Netanyahu
is hardly likely to be spoiling for a fight either.
Whether
or not any of this could lead to a lasting peace in the Middle East
it’s too early to say, and with the likes of Carly Fiorina now set
to trump Trump for the GOP candidacy, and Hilary Clinton still a
likely choice for the Democrats, Washington’s campaign for global
hegemony is unlikely to end any time soon. It does however seem that
we may have reached a turning point. Could the battle for Syria prove
a victory for peace and diplomacy in an increasingly multi-polar
world? Or is this how WWIII begins?
Obama's
Gutless fantasy ridden diatribe humiliates Americans while Putin
"tells it as it is"
Washington
Never Joins a Coalition That It Cannot Control
Russian
President Vladimir Putin’s message at the UN General Assembly was
stark; either sovereign states get together in a broad coalition
against all forms of terror, and the principle of statehood is
respected as enshrined in the UN charter - or there will be chaos.
This
UN General Assembly revealed that the Obama administration's
perpetual newspeak does not cut it anymore. A review of UN speeches
by both Putin and Obama is almost painful to watch. Putin acted like
a serious global statesman. Obama acted like a poseur flunking a
screen test.
Putin's
key talking points could not but be easily accessible to the Global
South — his prime audience, much more than the industrialized West.
1)
The export of color — or monochromatic — revolutions is doomed.
2)
The alternative to the primacy of statehood is chaos. This implies
that the Assad system in Syria may be immensely problematic, but it's
the only game in town. The alternative is ISIS/ISIL/Daesh barbarism.
There's no credible "moderate opposition" — as there was
not in NATO-"liberated" Libya.
3)
Only the UN — as flawed as it may be — is a guarantor of peace
and security in our imperfect, realpolitik geopolitical environment.
Gotta
slay those myths
Washington
believed its own Arab Spring myth in 2011, betting that after Tunis
and Cairo, Damascus would fall in a flash.
The
Beltway believed its own myth of "moderate rebels" taking
power.
The
Beltway did not listen to Syrian minorities warning about the danger
of an extremist Sunni/Salafi-jihadi take over.
Thus
the current Syrian tragedy; the end result of a formidably complex
power play, political and religious, Syrian, regional and global.
ISIS/ISIL/Daesh
— for all its barbarism — may eventually win a few battles, but
it won't control the whole of "Syraq".
To
defeat the cancer, there's only one possibility: a real military
campaign conducted by a real coalition including the US, Russia,
Iran, Turkey, Saudi Arabia.
Washington
though never joins a coalition that it cannot control at will.
Thus
a possible road map of what may lie ahead — as debated by Obama and
Putin, face to face, for 90 minutes in New York; a two-headed
coalition, one led by the US, the other led by Russia, but
"coordinating" on the ground.
Still,
Moscow will be struggling to form a wide-ranging coalition duly
approved by the UN.
The
task is immense. "Syraq" will have to be reconstituted.
That
implies an Iraq acceptable for all Iraqis — and that's impossible
to accomplish without Iran. And a Syria acceptable to all Syrians —
and that's impossible without Iran and Russia.
Washington
after all would have never been able to accomplish both in the first
place. The Empire of Chaos specializes in nation breaking, not nation
building.
Gotta
slay that dragon
Gorbachev
wanted to integrate the USSR in the European family — aiming for a
Europe from the Atlantic to the Pacific.
Post-Soviet
Russia though was not even invited to enter the house. What happened
was NATO colonization of the former Soviet space.
Gorbachev
dreamed that the West would share peace dividends with Russia. What
Russia got instead was a neoliberal shock — and a humiliated
society treated as a loser of the Cold War. Exceptionalism prevailed.
Under
Putin, Russia tried once again a strategic partnership with the EU.
Does anyone remember Sergey Lavrov as late as 2011 swearing that
modernization of Russia was ready to go as a pan-European project,
just as in the time of Peter the Great?
Yet
by 2007, Putin had changed the game, and was ready to openly contest
the unipolar "order" — and slowly but surely project
Russia back to the geopolitical limelight.
Post-Ukraine,
still under sanctions, but armed with a strategic partnership with
China, the time for a checkmate is now.
In
New York, Putin even proposed the lineaments of a New World Order.
The genuine article, not that "vision thing" concocted by
Daddy Bush post-collapse of the USSR.
It
would be an equitable, fair world order — where state sovereignty
is respected, sanctions are meaningless, NATO ceases to expand ad
infinitum and exceptionalism does not apply.
The
devil will be in the (many) details, of course. For instance, if a
coalition to fight ISIS/ISIL/Daesh is forged and blessed by the UN,
it will need the — virtually impossible — cohabitation of Sunnis
and Shi'ites.
And
in the near future, Brussels will have to tame visceral internal
antagonism to have the European Union interacting with the Russia-led
Eurasia Economic Union (EEU), which by that time will be totally
integrated with the China-led New Silk Roads.
What's
certain — for the overwhelming majority of the Global South — is
that the Empire of Chaos made a mess everywhere, from Northern Africa
and Southwest Asia to Russia's western borderlands.
Putin
now rides into the hellish mess ready to slay the dragon of chaos —
and the machinations of the Empire of Chaos. His sword? The UN. No
wonder checkmated neocons, neoliberalcons and "humanitarian"
imperialists can barely conceal their apoplexy.
In
his UN General Assembly address, Obama attempted to cover up
Washington's massive war crimes, crimes that have killed and
displaced millions of peoples in seven countries, with feel good
rhetoric about standing up to dictators.
Today
is the 70th anniversary of the UN. It is not clear how much good the
UN has done. Some UN Blue Hemet peacekeeping operations had limited
success. But mainly Washington has used the UN for war, such as the
Korean War and Washington's Cold War against the Soviet Union. In our
time Washington had UN tanks sent in against Bosnian Serbs during the
period that Washington was dismantling Yugoslavia and Serbia and
accusing Serbian leaders, who tried to defend the integrity of their
country against Washington's aggression, of "war crimes."
The
UN supported Washington's sanctions against Iraq that resulted in the
deaths of 500,000 Iraqi children. When asked about it, Clinton's
Secretary of State said, with typical American heartlessness, that
the deaths of the children were worth it. In 2006 the UN voted
sanctions against Iran for exercising its right as a signatory of the
non-proliferation treaty to develop atomic energy. Washington claimed
without any evidence that Iran was building a nuclear weapon in
violation of the non-proliferation treaty, and this lie was accepted
by the UN. Washington's false claim was repudiated by all 16 US
intelligence agencies and by the International Atomic Energy Agency
inspectors on the ground in Iran, but in the face of the factual
evidence the US government and its presstitute media pressed the
claim to the point that Russia had to intervene and take the matter
out of Washington's warmonger hands. Russia's intervention to prevent
US military attacks on Iran and Syria resulted in the demonization of
Russia and its president, Vladimir Putin. "Facts?!, Washington
don't need no stinkin' facts! We got power!" Today at the UN
Obama asserted America's over-riding power many times: the strongest
military in the world, the strongest economy in the world.
The
UN has done nothing to stop Washington's invasions and bombings,
illegal under international law, of seven countries or Obama's
overthrow by coup of democratic governments in Honduras and Ukraine,
with more in the works.
The
UN does provide a forum for countries and populations within
countries that are suffering oppression to post complaints-except, of
course, for the Palestinians, who, despite the boundaries shown on
maps and centuries of habitation by Palestinians, are not even
recognized by the UN as a state.
On
this 70th anniversary of the UN, I have spent much of the day
listening to the various speeches. The most truthful ones were
delivered by the presidents of Russia and Iran. The presidents of
Russia and Iran refused to accept the Washington-serving reality or
Matrix that Obama sought to impose on the world with his speech. Both
presidents forcefully challenged the false reality that the
propagandistic Western media and its government masters seek to
create in order to continue to exercise their hegemony over everyone
else.
What
about China? China's president left the fireworks to Putin, but set
the stage for Putin by rejecting US claims of hegemony: "The
future of the world must be shaped by all countries." China's
president spoke in veiled terms against Western neoliberal economics
and declared that "China's vote in the UN will always belong to
the developing countries."
In
the masterly way of Chinese diplomacy, the President of China spoke
in a non-threatening, non-provocative way. His criticisms of the West
were indirect. He gave a short speech and was much applauded.
Obama
followed second to the President of Brazil, who used her opportunity
for PR for Brazil, at least for the most part. Obama gave us the
traditional Washington spiel:
The
US has worked to prevent a third world war, to promote democracy by
overthrowing governments with violence, to respect the dignity and
equal worth of all peoples except for the Russians in Ukraine and
Muslims in Somalia, Libya, Iraq, Afghanistan, Syria, Yemen, and
Pakistan.
Obama
declared Washington's purpose to "prevent bigger countries from
imposing their will on smaller ones." Imposing its will is what
Washington has been doing throughout its history and especially under
Obama's regime.
All
those refugees overrunning Europe? Washington has nothing to do with
it. The refugees are the fault of Assad who drops bombs on people.
When
Assad drops bombs it oppresses people, but when Washington drops
bombs it liberates them. Obama justified Washington's violence as
liberation from "dictators," such as Assad in Syria, who
garnered 80% of the vote in the last election, a vote of confidence
that Obama never received and never will.
Obama
said that it wasn't Washington that violated Ukraine's sovereignty
with a coup that overthrew a democratically elected government. It
was Russia, whose president invaded Ukraine and annexed Crimera and
is trying to annex the other breakaway republics, Russian populations
who object to the Russophobia of Washington's puppet government in
Ukraine.
Obama
said with a straight face that sending 60 percent of the US fleet to
bottle up China in the South China Sea was not an act of American
aggression but the protection of the free flow of commerce. Obama
implied that China was a threat to the free flow of commerce, but, of
course, Washington's real concern is that China is expanding its
influence by expanding the free flow of commerce.
Obama
denied that the US and Israel employ violence. This is what Russia
and Syria do, asserted Obama with no evidence. Obama said that he had
Libya attacked in order to "prevent a massacre," but, of
course, the NATO attack on Libya perpetrated a massacre, an ongoing
one. But it was all Gaddafi's fault. He was going to massacre his own
people, so Washington did it for him.
Obama
justified all of Washington's violence against millions of peoples on
the grounds that Washington is well-meaning and saving the world from
dictators. Obama attempted to cover up Washington's massive war
crimes, crimes that have killed and displaced millions of peoples in
seven countries, with feel good rhetoric about standing up to
dictators.
Did
the UN General Assembly buy it? Probably the only one present
sufficiently stupid to buy it was the UK's Cameron. The rest of
Washington's vassals went through the motion of supporting Obama's
propaganda, but there was no conviction in their voices.
Vladimir
Putin would have none of it. He said that the UN works, if it works,
by compromise and not by he imposition of one country's will, but
after the end of the Cold War "a single center of domination
arose in the world"-the "exceptional" country. This
country, Putin said, seeks its own course which is not one of
compromise or attention to the interests of others.
In
response to Obama's speech that Russia and its ally Syria wear the
black hats, Putin said in reference to Obama's speech that "one
should not manipulate words."
Putin
said that Washington repeats its mistakes by relying on violence
which results in poverty and social destruction. He asked Obama: "Do
you realize what you have done?"
Yes,
Washington realizes it, but Washington will not admit it.
Putin
said that "ambitious America accuses Russia of ambitions"
while Washington's ambitions run wild, and that the West cloaks its
aggression as fighting terrorism while Washington finances and
encourages terrorism.
The
President of Iran said that terrorism was created by the US invasion
of Afghanistan and Iraq and by US support for the Zionist destruction
of Palestine.
Obama's
speech made clear that Washington accepts no responsibility for the
destruction of the lives and prospects of millions of Muslims. The
refugees from Washington's wars who are overflowing Europe are the
fault of Assad, Obama declared.
Obama's
claim to represent "international norms" was an assertion
of US hegemony, and was recognized as such by the General Assembly.
What
the world is faced with is two rogue anti-democratic governments-the
US and Israel-that believe that their "exceptionalism"
makes them above the law. International norms mean Washington's and
Israel's norms.
Countries
that do not comply with international norms are countries that do not
comply with Washington and Israel's dictates.
The
presidents of Russia, China, and Iran did not accept Washington's
definition of "international norms."
The
lines are drawn. Unless the American people come to their senses and
expel the Washington warmongers, war is our future.
Russia
has taken the initiative in the Middle East. Russia, Iran, Iraq and
Syria have made an agreement to set a joint information center to
coordinate their operations against ISIS. The center will be based in
Baghdad.
The
main goal of the center will be gathering, processing and analyzing
current information about the situation in the Middle East –
primarily for fighting IS. The Iraqi army’s joint operations
command confirmed the agreement on Saturday.
Meanwhile,
the Syrian troops took control of the hills overlooking the Eastern
Ghouta region east of Damascus, pushed the Jaish al-Islam terrorist
group from there. Positions on the top hills allow to maintain supply
routes in the sector.
From
Pepe Escobar -
"OK,
guys, here's how it works. We'll pull a Donbass in Syria. Daesh will
fall into the trap, just like the Ukrainian army did. Our Sukhois
will cut off supplies for Daesh in western Syria. We will create
multiple cauldrons. And then the Syria Arab Army, the Iraqi militias
led by Soleimani and the Iranian advisers will finish the job.
Popcorn? "
From
Mark Sleboda -
Yes
- the New Cold War does have an ideological facet, as well
ex
Unipolar Universalism vs Multipolar Particularism
Obama:
Everyone believes as we do Putin: No, we don't. Obama: Yes, you
do. Putin: No, we REALLY don't. Obama: You will after we
finishing "liberating" you. Putin:
*sigh* #HereWeGoAgain
Vice
News claims: "US senior official: Putin and Obama agree on joint
strikes against ISIS"
“Putin
and Obama agreed on coordinating air strikes against ISIS” -
according to Vice News.
Citing
an anonymous source, the American publication Vice
News writes that after a 90 minute meeting US President
Barack Obama and Russian President Vladimir Putin agreed on
coordinating air strikes against ISIS terrorists.
The
publication reads: “After US President Barack Obama and Russian
President Vladimir Putin traded barbs during their speeches at the UN
General Assembly on Monday, the leaders of the two countries met for
90 minutes behind closed doors inside the deliberation room of the UN
Security Council.
The
bilateral meeting, which took pace in the company of ministers and
advisers, including Secretary of State John Kerry, was perhaps the
most exciting and anticipated political event amidst a year of
general disagreement. The discussion was largely devoted to the civil
war in Syria, where Russia has recently increased its military
presence, sending personnel, planes, and automobiles.”
Six
Sukhoi Su-34 aircraft have eventually arrived at Latakia to join the
Russian contingent already there.
Images
allegedly shot around the al-Assad International Airport clearly show
one Russian Fullback about to land at the airbase in western Syria
where 28 Russian aircraft have arrived last week.
