Assad, Putin Confer in Kremlin on Russian Strategy to Pacify Entire Middle East; New York Times Blows Smoke about Meeting; US, Russia Agree on Flight Rules Over Syria; Terrorist Backer McCain Claims War Avoidance Is “Immoral”; Berlin Moving Toward Cooperation with Assad as only Means of Stanching Refugee Flow; GOP House Benghazi Panel a Bogus Sham; Trump Rails at Bush 43 over 9/11, but It’s Just a Throwaway Line; Bernie Sanders, State Department Socialist; Anti-NATO Conference in Rome, Monday Oct. 26