Putin has this on his list of questions for Trump when they meet again.
https://www.rt.com/news/442219-kremlin-attack-us-syria/
A senior Russian military official has accused the US of being directly involved in a drone attack on the Russian airbase in Syria’s Khmeimim. The aircraft were controlled from a US spy plane nearby, he claimed.
Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov was speaking about a report made by Russia’s Defense Ministry. It said that the drone attack on the Russian airbase was directed from a US P-8 Poseidon surveillance plane.
The base located in Latakia governorate has been attacked by primitive drones on numerous occasions. According to Col. Gen. Aleksandr Fomin, Russia’s deputy defense minister, the attack on January 6 was done with direct help from the American military.
Speaking at a high-profile security forum in China, Fomin said a Boeing P-8 Poseidon was deployed in the area on that date, when 13 drones were launched to attack the Russian base. The US reconnaissance plane took control of the drones once the troops defending the base used electronic warfare to disrupt the control signals for the UAVs.
https://www.zerohedge.com/news/2018...-trump-will-allow-iran-remain-connected-swift
In a stark reversal from its position just days earlier, the Trump administration is expected to allow Iran to remain connected to the SWIFT banking system the
Washington Examiner reports, in what amounts to a major concession to European allies who have been pressuring senior U.S. officials to keep this key lifeline to the Islamic Republic open.
As recently as this weekend,
Reuters reported that in order to further isolate Iran from the global financial community, Treasury Secretary Mnuchin said that the U.S. Treasury was in negotiations with the Belgian-based financial messaging service SWIFT which intermediates the bulk of the world’s cross-border dollar-denominated transactions, on disconnecting Iran from the network. Washington has been pressuring SWIFT to cut Iran from the system as it did in 2012 before the nuclear deal.
The latest reversal comes as a result of 'ongoing talks between top U.S. officials and European allies "who have been pressuring the Trump administration to take a softer line on Tehran" ahead of the Nov. 4 implementation of new sanctions on Iran.
The unexpected move has been met with "frustration" by Iran hawks both on Capitol Hill and elsewhere who have argued that SWIFT continues to provide Iran with a critical financial lifeline which it is using to fund terrorist operations across the region despite its ailing economy. Yet despite opposition from the "hawks", Iran will remain connected to the SWIFT system
http://www.investmentwatchblog.com/...nged-2368-points-from-the-peak-of-the-market/
The level of panic that we witnessed on Wall Street on Wednesday was breathtaking. After a promising start to the day, the Dow Jones Industrial Average started plunging, and at the close it was down another 608 points. Since peaking at 26,951.81 on October 3rd, the Dow has now fallen 2,368 points, and all of the gains for 2018 have been completely wiped out. But things are even worse when we look at the Nasdaq. The percentage decline for the Nasdaq almost doubled the Dow’s stunning plunge on Wednesday, and it has now officially entered correction territory. To say that it was a “bloodbath” for tech stocks on Wednesday would be a major understatement. Several big name tech stocks were in free fall mode as panic swept through the marketplace like wildfire. As I noted the other day, October 2018
looks a whole lot like October 2008, and many believe that the worst is yet to come.
http://www.investmentwatchblog.com/...ufactured-in-the-us-and-china-from-1999-2017/
https://govtslaves.info/2018/10/24/...rettes-based-on-data-were-not-allowed-to-see/
When Food and Drug Commissioner Scott Gottlieb
threatened to crack down on vaping products last month in response to “an epidemic of e-cigarette use among teenagers,” he alluded to “preliminary data” showing that “youth use of e-cigs is rising very sharply.” Although we still have not seen those numbers, that has not stopped Gottlieb from making policy decisions based on them, including changes that could limit the appeal and availability of products he concedes have enormous potential to reduce the harm caused by smoking.
“From 2017 to 2018, according to new preliminary data from the National Youth Tobacco Survey, the number of high-school-age children reporting use of e-cigarettes rose by more than 75 percent,” Gottlieb and Secretary of Health and Human Services Alex Azar said in an October 12
Washington Post op-ed piece. They linked not to the NYTS results, which have not been released yet by the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, but to a September 12
Post story that said, based on information from unnamed officials, “The latest data, not yet published, show a 75 percent increase in e-cigarette use among high school students this year, compared with 2017.” In other words, Gottlieb backed up his claim about unpublished survey data by citing a leak to the
Post that probably came from him or someone he authorized.
Just another day in paradise, Yankee style.