Why China Is Reviving Confucius - Sunday September 20th, 2015 at 11:47 AM
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As President Xi Jinping aims to re-establish China as a great world power, he has begun steering it back toward traditional culture his party long reviled.
Israeli concerns about Russia’s military buildup in Syria will be the focus of a meeting between Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and Russian President Vladimir Putin, according to Israeli officials.
The Vatican on Saturday signaled its willingness to compensate the victims of its former ambassador to the Dominican Republic, who died before going on trial for sexually abusing young boys.
In the wee hours of Saturday morning, Japan took a step toward having a military in line with most armed forces around the world, one that would be able to take part in combat even when the country is not under direct attack.
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Following days of being shuttled from country to country, thousands pour through Croatia and Hungary in a bid to reach Germany.
Croatian police are overwhelmed as thousands of refugees attempt to board a train in the town of Tovarnik on Sunday. Several European countries have imposed border controls, as recent migration figures have shown nearly half a million people have made trips across the Mediterranean to reach Europe so far this year, while the EU has received almost a quarter of a million asylum requests in the three months to June
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Kerry also says US prepared to negotiate the timing and conditions for Assad to step down
Critics say proposal risks taking jobs from locals and leave foreigners open to exploitation
Celina Oseguera, former national coordinator of the federal prison system, among those detained over Guzman's July jailbreak
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Gunmen kill senior police officer in Egypt's restive Sinai
Washington Post CAIRO — Egypt's Ministry of Interior says gunmen have killed a senior police officer in the restive Sinai peninsula. The ministry says in a statement that Brig. Gen. Ahmed Mohammed Askar was killed late Saturday when militants opened fire on him in ... Horror and fear in Gaza as Cairo floods tunnelsNews24 'State of Sinai' claims assassination of top security officialDaily News Egypt Hamas, Egypt to discuss flooding of Gaza tunnelsAl-Bawaba BBC News all 110 news articles » |
In Picture: A Look at Europe's Migrant Crisis
MOSCOW (Reuters) - Thousands of people rallied on the streets of Moscow on Sunday to demand fair elections and challenge Vladimir Putin's 15-year-old rule, in the first significant opposition protest in the capital for months.
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Refugee Crisis: Planned Invasion of Europeby The European Union Times
Tidal wave of illegal immigrants will force West to intervene militarily in Syria.
Dr. Mark Christian, an Egyptian-born former Muslim who served in the Egyptian military, told World Net Daily earlier this week the refugee crisis in Europe is an orchestrated event.
“The media is making this out to be a spontaneous refugee crisis when this is actually a very organized event,” Christian said.
The flood of refugees into Europe is designed to put pressure on the West and provide a pretext for an invasion of Syria, the removal of Bashar al-Assad, and the installation of a Sunni government, Christian claims.
In May declassified US Defense Intelligence Agency documents from 2012 revealed the United States and its partners in the Gulf states and Turkey supported the Islamic State and plan to establish a Salafist principality in Syria.
Christian, who heads up the Global Faith Institute in Nebraska, told the Hungarian Times the goal since the presidency of George W. Bush and the reign of the neocons at the Pentagon has been to remove Bashar al-Assad in Syria, Saddam Hussein in Iraq, Moamar Gadaffi in Libya, Hosni Mubarak in Egypt and other secular leaders in the Middle East and North Africa and replace them with radical Sunnis.
The Muslim Brotherhood, a documented CIA and British intelligence asset, failed to install a Sunni government in Egypt. The country is now ruled by a military dictatorship.
Dan Sanchez, writing for AntiMedia, warns “if the hawks were to get their wish of seeing Assad finally overthrown and his forces dismantled, there would then be zero local resistance to ISIS, Syrian Al Qaeda, and the other jihadist groups completely overrunning Syria.”
35 Million Migrants
35 Million Migrants
On Saturday Hungary’s minister for foreign affairs and trade, Peter Szijjártó, said the number of migrants rushing into Europe could exceed 35 million.
“It’s a self delusion to call this situation a migration crisis; it is a massive migration of nations, with inexhaustible reserves,” Szijjártó said.
“I don’t think that the analysis results, stating that 30-35 million people out there could possibly become migrants, would be an exaggeration.”
“Libya, Yemen, Syria, Iraq and Afghanistan are all countries with a huge population and an extremely unstable situation,” he added.
Moreover, according to United Nations data, 75 percent of the migrants entering Europe are men, and only 51 percent are Syrian.
“Of the 366,402 refugees who arrived by crossing the Mediterranean Sea so far in this year, 51 percent — 186,865 — have been Syrian, up 5 percent from last month,” the International Business Times reported on September 6.
“Far behind at 12 percent are Afghans, and ranking third are Eritreans at 8 percent. The remaining 29 percent included refugees from Nigeria, Iraq, Sudan and Somalia.”
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US Vows to Support Russia’s Anti-ISIS Effort in Syriaby The European Union Times
Washington has signaled its readiness to cooperate with Russia in the intelligence sphere in order to fight the Islamic State militant group in Syria, according to the German newspaper Bild am Sonntag.
The United States has announced plans to develop intelligence cooperation with Russia in a bid to destroy the so-called Islamic State (ISIL), the German newspaper Bild am Sonntag reported, citing sources in the US secret services.
According to the newspaper, representatives of the US Central Intelligence Agency and Russia’s Foreign Intelligence Service held a meeting in Moscow last week to discuss cooperation between the two countries on Syria.
Bild am Sonntag reported that Washington plans to render intelligence assistance to Moscow so as to support Russia’s activity against ISIL militants in Syria.
The newspaper attributed Washington’s move to the Islamic State’s ever-increasing clout and the growing flow of refugees to Europe.
During a telephone conversation on Friday, Russian Defense Minister Sergei Shoigu and his US counterpart Ashton Carter agreed to continue to discuss the situation in Syria in the future.
Earlier that day, US Secretary of State John Kerry said that President Barack Obama sees the talks between the two countries’ military as an important step.
According to him, Washington is seeking areas of common interest with Russia on the possibility of bilateral military cooperation in Syria.
Syria has been in a state of a civil war since 2011. Government forces have been fighting against opposition factions and numerous insurgent militant groups, including ISIL and the al-Nursa Front.
According to UN figures, more than 220,000 people have been killed in Syria since the conflict began, with the number of Syrian refugees abroad exceeding 4 million people.
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CIA Breaks With Obama, Vows To Help Russia Defeat ISIL/ISISby The European Union Times
A startling new report circulating in the Kremlin today prepared by the Foreign Intelligence Service(SVR) states the United States Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) has “broken contact” with President Obama and has begun providing Russia with highly classified intelligence/satellite reports on Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL/ISIS) bases in Syria.
According to this report, and confirmed by the German newspaper Bild am Sonntag, top CIA officials requested and received an immediate meeting with their SVR counterparts in Moscow this past Wednesday (16 September) where they pledged to assist Russia in defeating ISIL/ISIS and stated that their reason for doing so was in order to prevent an all-out war from occurring in this region between NATO and Russian forces.
This SVR report notes that they were told by their CIA counterparts that all of these American intelligence agents were “appalled” by the Obama regimes refusal to accept from Russia a massive list of known/suspected Islamic terrorists on the grounds that it was not “politically viable in the present atmosphere” to accept help from President Putin in protecting both America and Europe from these terrorists who are now entering these countries by the tens-of-thousands disguised as refugees.
Further angering the CIA, this report continues, was the stunning revelation last week of an“intelligence revolt” in the American military when 50 of these spies publically stated that their honest assessment of the ISIS war were instead being turned into happy talk by the Obama regime to keep the American people from knowing the truth about the grave situation currently unfolding in the Middle East.
Even more stunning, this report notes, these angry CIA agents meeting with the SVR confirmed that the Obama regimes efforts to build an anti-ISIL/ISIS counterforce in Syria was so inept that afterspending $500 million, there are only 5 of these fighters reported to be trained.
To how critical to Russia’s efforts to destroy ISIL/ISIS forces in Syria this meeting/agreement with these CIA officials was, this report says, was evidenced by President Obama’s statements before it when he warned on 11 September that Moscow’s strategy was “doomed to fail”, a “big mistake”, and in a patronizing little addendum said President Putin was “going to have to start getting a littlesmarter”.
However, this report continues, immediately after the CIA met with the SVR, President Obama changed his course and ordered his Defense Secretary to start contact with Russia military officials to try to coordinate actions in the war zone.
Where this latest development of the CIA now actively assisting Russian military forces in Syria will lead, this report queries, is still not known as the Obama regime has not been known for showing consistency in anything…rather they have, instead, along with their allies, continued their rampage destroying the Middle East which has collapsed the nations of Iraq, Syria, Libya, Afghanistan, Yemen and Egypt leading to hundreds-of-thousands dead and fleeing from this needless genocide.
And to the difference between Russia and the Obama regimes military involvement in Syria, this report reminds its readers, Russian military involvement is due to the fact that they were actually invited as they have a longstanding mutual defense pact with Syria…which they will not only honor, but will send as many troops as needed to defeat ISIL/ISIS should Syria ask for them so that no more American soldiers have to die.
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The Archbishop of Canterbury has offered to host one or two refugee families in a cottage in the grounds of his Lambeth Palace residence in London.
Hungarian interior minister Sandor Pinter said the crossing on the M5 highway between Roszke and Horgos, Serbia, had been reopened for vehicles, which will be checked.
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Metropolitan police say knife crime up 18% in London by Vikram Dodd police and crime correspondent
Availability of knives on the dark web and cultural changes among young people towards carrying knives seen as factors in rising knife violence
Rising knife crime is being caused by a cocktail of a reduction in stop and search, increased sales on the dark web of weapons such as the foot-long “zombie knife”, and a burgeoning culture of youth violence, Scotland Yard police chiefs have said.
Knife crime is up by at least 18%, after years of falling, and the capital alone has seen 10 youngsters stabbed to death in the past nine months.
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The Nusra Front, an affiliate of Al Qaeda, killed dozens of Syrian government soldiers who had been taken prisoner when a northern air base was captured this month.
The vast majority of American Catholics approve of the direction the pope is leading their church - but will it draw them back to an institution slow to change?
A diplomatic row escalated in Europe as governments clashed over how to handle the stream of migrants making their way across the continent.
SANAA (Reuters) - Yemen's Houthi group plans to free three Westerners held in the capital Sanaa for months, a source in the group said on Sunday.
MYTILENE, Greece (AP) -- Among the tens of thousands fleeing war and despair in the Middle East, one group feels a special relief in reaching Europe: those who have escaped areas ruled by Islamic State extremists and the harsh scrutiny of their religious police....
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After the GOP's last presidential debate, a new CNN/ORC poll shows Donald Trump's support dropping, with Fiorina replacing Carson for a 2nd place
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Classified briefings released on events that shook White House in '60s
CBS News WASHINGTON -- The CIA has released 19,000 pages of classified intelligence briefings that took place during some of the darkest days of the 1960s. It was President Kennedy, angered by bad intelligence on the disastrous attempted invasion of Cuba's Bay ... New CIA Information on JFK AssassinationHuffington Post CIA documents from JFK-LBJ era shed light on turbulent periodMyStatesman.com CIA declassifies trove of Cold War-era intelligence memos Grand Haven Tribune WLRN-Lawfare (blog) all 35 news articles » |
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