Russian President Vladimir Putin stressed that all countries genuinely interested in fighting terrorism should unify their efforts in Syria, in response to questions at the Valdai Discussion Club conference in Sochi, Russia on Oct. 22. But he also revealed that the Obama administration rejected offers by Russia to have meetings of political and military delegations between the two countries to discuss possible solutions.

“It would be wonderful if we united forces … if all the region’s countries and the outside powers, including the United States, came together on this,” Putin said. “In essence, this is just what we proposed.” He noted that Russia had proposed a military delegation go to Moscow and then that a Russian delegation led by Prime Minister Dmitry Medvedev go to the United States, but both proposals were refused by Washington.

On the Russian military effort in Syria, he said “We are acting in accordance with our convictions and with the norms of international law. We hope that coordinated action between our strike aircraft and the other military systems being used, coordinated with the Syrian army’s offensive, will produce positive results.”

Speaking just one day before the Vienna meeting of Russia, the US, Saudi Arabia and Turkey, Putin reported that, in fact, he had raised a question about fighting ISIS with Al Assad when the Syrian President was in Moscow on Oct. 20. “I asked him, ‘How would you react if we see that there is an armed opposition in Syria today that is ready to genuinely fight terrorism, fight the Islamic State, and we were to support their efforts in this fight against terrorism just as we are supporting the Syrian army?’ He said, ‘I think it would be positive.’|”

“We are reflecting on this now and will try, if it all works out,” Putin reported, “to translate these agreements into practical steps.”

Putin also added that all concerned countries should be thinking to the future of economic and social reconstruction of Syria, and indeed, of the Middle East.

On October 22, Judicial Watch, the legal activist organization whose Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) suits have uncovered important documents showing the lies and abuses of the Obama administration in military and national security matters, announced that it had

The documents from the DSCC were provided to Judicial Watch with an October 2, 2015 cover letter, in response to a court order in an FOIA lawsuit in the U.S. District Court in Washington DC filed in October 2014.

The DIA cable says:

Judicial Watch President Tom Fitton released the documents with the statement, “These new smoking-gun documents show that intelligence tied the Benghazi attack to terrorists not to any videos.  It is inescapable that Barack Obama, Hillary Clinton, Susan Rice knowingly lied about the Benghazi terrorist attack.”

The FOIA cases brought by Judicial Watch have previously uncovered other crucial evidence against Obama.  In May 2015, the group received DIA documents from the middle of 2011 that warned that Al Qaeda in Iraq (now calling itself Islamic State) was capturing territory and would create a caliphate — some of the very reports that document what former DIA Director Lt. Gen. Michael Flynn (July 2012 to August 2014) identified as a “willful decision” by Obama to support the jihadis in Syria and Iraq. 

Final talks ended in Bonn last night, on the draft statement for the Paris global warming event in December, the COP21 (the 21st Conference of the Parties), starting on Nov. 29. At the beginning of this week, a draft text, 20 pages long, was presented, and roundly denounced, along with the process behind it, as “apartheid” for the developing world, by South African diplomat Nozipho Joyce Mxakato-Diseko on behalf of the G77 plus China, of which South Africa is currently the chair. Following this, she and other leaders came under attack in Bonn. They were blamed for holding things up, demanding an unwieldy, long text, and so on. However, the Group of 77 plus China bucked the attempts to corral them into compliance with the conference controllers. Now the latest version of the draft text is over 60 pages, after having various lip-service clauses added in. Whatever got included in the latest version—e.g., a hint of aid funds to poor countries to go green—the text, its premises, and originators, are all evil. It is possible that there will be many votes tonight to reject it.

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One last-ditch session is planned in early November, to try to bull through a shorter draft.

Yesterday a new report demanding “low-carbon transformation” of the whole world energy system was issued by the Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research (PIK), the outfit led by Hans Joachim Schellnhuber, the green genocidalist, who co-authored the encyclical, Laudato Si’. The crazed PIK document, “Beyond the Numbers: Understanding the Transformation Induced by INDCs (Intended Nationally Determined Contribution),” purports to review how well the national emission-reduction plans of 150 nations will collectively keep the Earth’s temperature down, relative to the goal of not exceeding 2 degrees Celsius by 2050. For example, it evaluates Obama’s U.S. Clean Power Plan, and China’s program, announced June 30.

Cardinal Peter Turkson, Schellnhuber’s cohort on the Encyclical, will visit California in November. Head of Justicia et Pax, Turkson’s specialty is eco-justice, a British royalist “issue” designed for pushing measures to wipe out people. He will keynote a conference at Santa Clara University Nov. 3-4, titled, “Our Future on a Shared Planet: Silicon Valley in Conversation with the Environmental Teachings of Pope Francis.”