Month: September 2015
China ready to join international fight against terrorism — foreign ministry
– China ready to join international fight against terrorism — foreign ministry:
BEIJING, September 28. /TASS/. China is ready to join the international fight against any forms of terrorism, China’s Foreign Ministry spokesperson Hong Lei told a regular news conference while commenting on information in some media about Chinese warships near Syria being ready to take part in a mission against the Islamic State (IS) terrorist organization.
“Terrorism is the enemy of mankind,” he said. “China is against terrorism in all of its forms and is ready to apply efforts for fighting terrorist forces jointly with the international community. This position of China remains unchanged.”
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All You Do Online Illegally Tracked By UK Spy Agency
27.09.2015
British intelligence has been running a secret programme ‘Karma Police’ to track the browsing activity of internet users around the world. It analyses users’ online habits, helps to build a person’s web profile and identify suspicious activities.
Jeremy Corbyn: 9/11 was ‘manipulated’
– Jeremy Corbyn: 9/11 was ‘manipulated’:
In comments that will raise questions about his suitability to lead the Labour Party, Mr Corbyn appeared to blame George Bush and Tony Blair for using the September 11 attacks in New York to allow them to go to war
Germany Becomes Absurdistan. Chaos Descends.
– Germany becomes Absurdistan. Chaos descends.:
This from a retired RAF officer is served with in the sixties now working and living in Germany.
Dear Friends,
Europe is now in total chaos and I think that you should know about it.
I have waited a week or so to see how things will develop and to glean more information before presenting the facts.
As you may know from the media, the flood of refugees cum economic immigrants into Europe has reached ridiculous proportions and to the extent that Hungary and other Balkan states have closed their borders and Turkey is considering doing the same.
Chinese GDP Propaganda Full Frontal: Plunge In Key Data Points Pitched As Bullish
– Chinese GDP Propaganda Full Frontal: Plunge In Key Data Points Pitched As Bullish:
“The discrepancy between economic growth and the two key indicators’ growth in the first six months did not fit with previous patterns, but industrial restructuring is a new factor, and should be taken into account when analyzing the new situation.”
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Vladimir Putin 60 Minutes Interview (Video)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AbuJsmDjrGc
27.09.2015
Chinese Coal Company Fires 100,000 Workers
– The “Hard-Landing” Has Arrived: Chinese Coal Company Fires 100,000:
The global commodity collapse is finally starting to take its toll on what China truly cares about: the employment of the tens of millions of currently employed and soon to be unemployed workers.
On Friday, in a move that would make even Hewlett-Packard’s Meg Whitman blush, Harbin-based Heilongjiang Longmay Mining Holding Group, or Longmay Group, the biggest met coal miner in northeast China which has been struggling to reduce massive losses in recent months as a result of the commodity collapse, just confirmed China’s “hard-landing” has arrived when it announced on its website it would cut 100,000 jobs or 40% of its entire 240,000-strong labor force.
US On The Ropes: China To Join Russian Military In Syria While Iraq Strikes Intel Deal With Moscow, Tehran
Last Thursday, we asked if China was set to join Russia and Iran in support of the Assad regime in Syria.
Our interest was piqued when the pro-Assad Al-Masdar (citing an unnamed SAA “senior officer”), said Chinese “personnel and aerial assets” are set to arrive within weeks. To the uninitiated, this may seem to have come out of left field, so to speak. However, anyone who has followed the conflict and who knows a bit about the global balance of power is aware that Beijing has for some time expressed its support for Damascus, most notably by voting with Russia to veto a Security Council resolution that would have seen the conflict in Syria referred to the Hague. Here’s what China had to say at the May 22, 2014 meeting:
In “Sweeping” Interview, Putin Calls US Syria Strategy “Illegal”, Details Russia’s Support For Assad
“In my opinion, provision of military support to illegal structures runs counter to the principles of modern international law and the United Nations Charter.”
As we never tire of pointing out, perhaps the most amusing thing about Russia’s stepped up role in Syria is the extent to which it represents the calling of Washington’s ISIS bluff.
For more than a year now, the US and its regional allies have purportedly been engaged in a sweeping effort to defeat Bakr al-Baghdadi’s army and rid the world of what’s been billed as the greatest threat to humanity since the Third Reich. Curiously, ISIS is still operating and still making periodic territorial gains despite the fact that when you strip away all of the nuance what you have is a ragtag militia battling the most advanced air force on the planet. There are of course no shortage of conspiracy theories as to what exactly is going on and even if one wishes to avoid going so far as to say that the US created ISIS, there’s no question that Washington has played a role in training and arming anti-regime forces in Syria and some of those anti-regime forces have turned out to be Sunni extremists.
DEBKAfile (Mossad): A Chinese aircraft carrier docks at Tartus to support Russian-Iranian military buildup
– A Chinese aircraft carrier docks at Tartus to support Russian-Iranian military buildup:
As US President Barack Obama welcomed Chinese President Xi Jinping to the White House on Friday, Sept. 25, and spoke of the friendship between the two countries, the Chinese aircraft carrier Liaoning-CV-16 docked at the Syrian port of Tartus, accompanied by a guided missile cruiser. This is revealed exclusively by DEBKAfile.
Beijing is not finding it hard to dance at two weddings, wooing the US for better relations, while at the same time backing Russia in its military intervention in Syria. Coupled with the warm smiles and handshakes exchanged at the lavish reception on the White House lawn, Beijing was clearly bent on showing muscle – not just in the South China Sea, but by allying itself with the Russian-Iranian political and military buildup in support of Syrian President Bashar Assad and his regime.
Dr. Paul Craig Roberts: ‘The Entire World May Go Down The Tubes Together’
… as planned.
– No Brains In Washington — Paul Craig Roberts:
Washington’s IQ follows the Fed’s interest rate – it is negative. Washington is a black hole into which all sanity is sucked out of government deliberations.
Washington’s failures are everywhere visible. We can see the failures in Washington’s wars and in Washington’s approach to China and Russia.
The visit of Chinese President Xi Jinping, was scheduled for the week-end following the Pope’s visit to Washington. Was this Washington’s way of demoting China’s status by having its president play second fiddle to the Pope? The President of China is here for week-end news coverage? Why didn’t Obama just tell him to go to hell?
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George Soros Demands EU Accept 1 Million Refugees (Costing €15 Billion) Per Year For Foreseeable Future
George Soros and his master Jacob Rothschild
FYI.
George Soros want Europe to do a lot more for the refugees, asylum-seekers, and migrants mass-exodus-ing from The Middle East. As he writes in a Project Syndicate op-ed, The European Union needs to accept responsibility for the lack of a common asylum policy, which has transformed this year’s growing influx of refugees from a manageable problem into yet another political crisis.
Each member state has selfishly focused on its own interests, often acting against the interests of others. This precipitated panic among asylum seekers, the general public, and the authorities responsible for law and order. Asylum seekers have been the main victims.
Vasili Arkhipov, The Man Who Prevented World War III
– Vasili Arkhipov – World Hero:
You may have never heard of Vasili Arkhipov. And yet life as we know it on this planet could have ended if it were not for his crucial intervention during the Cuban Missile Crisis.
Born in 1926, Arkhipov saw action as a minesweeper during the Soviet-Japanese war in August 1945. Two years later he graduated from the Caspian Higher Naval School, serving in the Black Sea and Baltic submarine fleets – just in time for the start of the Cold War, which would stay with him for the rest of his service.
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Tokyo Still Getting Nuclear Fallout From Fukushima
– Still 0.88 MBq/km2 of Cs-134/137 falls in Tokyo monthly:
According to NRA (Nuclear Regulation Authority), Tokyo still has fallout from Fukushima nuclear plant.
From their report released on 8/31/2015, 0.88 MBq/km2 of Cs-134/137 falls onto Tokyo this July. The sampling location was Shinjuku.
The comparable data on Fukushima prefecture is not listed on the same report for some reason.
Palestinian eyewitness: Shot teen did not try to stab Israeli soldier
– Palestinian eyewitness: Shot teen did not try to stab Israeli soldier:
– JTA (Jewish Telgraphic Agency):
A Palestinian eyewitness to the shooting of an 18-year-old female at an Israeli checkpoint in the West Bank said the teen was not attempting to stab soldiers.
Fawaz Abu Aisha told the Palestinian Maan news agency that Hadeel al-Hashlamon did not understand Hebrew and did not understand what the Israeli soldiers were telling her on Tuesday as she attempted to leave the main area at a Hebron checkpoint that separates the city’s Palestinian and Jewish sections.
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Exceptional twentieth-century slowdown in Atlantic Ocean overturning circulation
H/t reader squodgy:
“More evidence that Al Gore & his associates are lying…”
– Exceptional twentieth-century slowdown in Atlantic Ocean overturning circulation
Papal Blessing for Washington’s Global Terrorism
– Papal Blessing for Washington’s Global Terrorism:
By Finian Cunningham
September 27, 2015 “Information Clearing House” – “SCF“- Roman Catholic Pope Francis was hailed for his courage in challenging the United States Congress on a range of «leftwing» issues. The pontiff can take some credit for raising issues of social justice, reducing poverty and homelessness, averting deleterious environmental impacts, and calling for more humane immigration policies. But there was a flagrant omission in his address to the American lawmakers, as there was in his earlier audience with President Barack Obama. Where was his forthright condemnation of Washington’s rampant war-making and sponsorship of global terrorism?
The Bishop of Rome made no mention of US war-making and conflict. Silence is tacit acceptance, or even complicity. And when one of the world’s foremost religious leaders keeps silent, that is as good as a blessing for the warmongers.
‘Rumors Persist That the CIA Helps Export Opium from Afghanistan’
– Rumors Persist That the CIA Helps Export Opium from Afghanistan:
Despite billions spent to eradicate opium crops in Afghanistan, the crop is more popular than ever there, leading many to wonder whether some U.S. forces may actually be encouraging its growth and the heroin it later becomes.
In July, the Centers for Disease Control warned of record-breaking numbers of heroin deaths in the United States. “Heroin use more than doubled among young adults ages 18–25 in the past decade,” the CDC reported.
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Record Snowfall in Alaska
Alaska State Troopers in Fairbanks issued advisory message: Drivers use caution due to heavy snowfall. 7″ as of 2pm! pic.twitter.com/RNPirot3A8
— KNBA (@KNBA) September 25, 2015
26 Sep 15 – Fairbanks had 6.7? yesterday (Fri.). That obliterated the previous daily snowfall record of 0.8?. Just north of Fairbanks, 9? was recorded. Here’s more snowfall totals. Temps far below average A record low was set at Kodiak AK at 29 and small hail fell at Annette. The high temp. of 34 in Fairbanks was 15 deg. cooler than the average high of 49 for 9/25. Here’s snow in Coldfoot AK. Another wintry scene from Fairbanks. Alaska’s a big state and all but one of the first order climate stationshereis reporting colder than average temps. so far this Sept: Nome -2.6, Anchorage -2.0, Bethel -2.0, Fairbanks -1.9, Barrow -1.9, King Salmon -1.9, Kotzebue -1.7, McGrath -1.6, Annette -1.2, Yakutat -1.1, Kodiak +0.2. Look at how snow is accumulating in Alaska, the Yukon Territory and Russia.
Here’s a pic. from Healy AK.
Healy, Alaska today… photo from Christine Wells. Winter is coming… #akwxpic.twitter.com/AQLbFXoDDc
— James Spann (@spann) September 26, 2015
Kentucky Politician Files Lawsuit Claiming a First Amendment Right to Accept Bribes
– Kentucky Politician Files Lawsuit Claiming a First Amendment Right to Accept Bribes:
It’s a rare and precious moment when a politician does something which perfeclty demonstrates what he or she really thinks about democracy and power. This is one of those times.
From the Intercept:
The Supreme Court, in its Citizens United decision, ruled that corporations have a First Amendment right to spend unlimited amounts in elections. Now politicians in Kentucky are claiming they have a Constitutional right to receive gifts from lobbyists.
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