Top Headlines: January 21st, 2016

When time is short throughout some days, there will be a new format in giving you the day’s top geopolitical headlines, in condensed form.

The following are today’s top stories:

 

Russia’s Dark Rider (The Trumpet)

New Book of Putin Quotes Echoes History’s Darkest Dictators (The Trumpet)

Crackas strike again! Xfinity account of John Holdren is breached (SC Magazine)

China’s PLA forces carry out landing drills near Taiwan outpost days after elections (South China Morning Post)

China’s secret plan to use the force of ‘Star Wars’ (Spacewar)

FINANCIAL PANIC: China’s stock markets hit again as fears grow for GLOBAL CRASH (Express)

And Now, the Fallout (Hoover Institution)

A multi-speed Europe (VOXeurop)

Lawmaker: Obama Admin Fueling ‘Campaign to Destroy Israel’ (Washington Free Beacon)

U.S. flies fleet of F-22 stealth fighters to air base in Tokyo (The Asahi Shimbun)

IMF Deputy says Fed will crash markets with promised rate hikes (TruNews)

Could The World Be Headed For A Financial Crisis Worse Than 2007? (TruNews)

Polonium 210: Deadly substance that killed Russian spy for sale online (Express)

Google, Yahoo and other tech companies provided ‘full assistance’ to NSA spying on Americans, says agency lawyer (Natural News)

“Palestinian” official: Establishing a state within ’67 borders only a step to destroying Israel “in stages”

“You can’t say it to the world. You can say it to yourself.” We hear. And yet the useful idiots in Washington refuse to hear. “PA leader: Stages plan to eliminate Israel is basis of PA policy,” by Itamar Marcus and Nan Jacques Zilberdik for Palestinian Media Watch, January 6: Senior Palestinian official Abbas Zaki posted on his Facebook page an interview he gave to Syrian TV in which he said the PA will only agree to a treaty with Israel if the Palestinian state is established on the 1967 lines. However, he stressed that ’67 lines would only be the beginning. After that, the Palestinians will continue with the stages plan:

Khamenei: Zionist regime will disappear from map

Iranian Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei said Wednesday that he was confidant “the fake Zionist (regime) will disappear from the landscape of geography,” Iran’s Mehr News Agency reported.

Khamenei made the comments during a meeting with veterans of the Iran-Iraq War.

“The light of hope will shine on the Palestinian issue, and this Islamic land will certainly be returned to the Palestinian nation,” Khamenei was quoted as saying.

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“[Al-Quds Day] is a reflection of the fact that no other way exists apart from resolve and strength to completely eliminate the aggressive nature and to destroy Israel,” Jalali said, according to a report by Iran’s ISNA news agency.

Full article: Khamenei: Zionist regime will disappear from map (Jerusalem Post)