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'Welcome to mainstream news' - Leaks, fake news, and hidden agendas

Jon Rappoport
NoMoreFakeNews.com
Tue, 10 Sep 2019 01:59 UTC
Analyzing mainstream news anti-logic

Wikileaks mobile information collection unit
© Flickr
Thousands of articles have been written about the so-called Russian hack of the US election. The term "Russian hack" suggests the Russkies actually found a way to subvert the results of voting machines.

But of course, no convincing evidence has been presented to support such a charge. In fact, when you drill down a few inches below the surface, you find this charge instead: Russia hacked into email accounts and scooped up Hillary, DNC, and Podesta emails, and passed them to WikiLeaks, who then published them.

But no chain of evidence supporting THAT claim has been presented to the public, either. Even assuming the assertion is true, an important factor is intentionally being ignored: THE CONTENT OF THOSE LEAKED EMAILS.

In other words, if making all this content publicly available cost Hillary the election, and if no one is seriously questioning the authenticity of the emails, then THE TRUTH undermined Hillary. However, no major media outlet is reporting the story from that angle.

Comment: Have a listen to an older 2007 Podcast from back in the Bush days - then play it forward over the last twelve years:

SOTT Podcast: Media Spin, Limited Hangout, and the Melting of the American Mind

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By hosting US nuclear missiles Romania and Poland pose an irresponsible threat to Russia

Paul Craig Roberts
paulcraigroberts.com
Fri, 23 Aug 2019 00:00 UTC
Putin Trump
After falsely accusing Russia of violating the Intermediate-Range Nuclear Forces Treaty (INF), Washington unilaterally repudiated the treaty. Thus did the US military/security complex rid itself of the landmark agreement achieved by Ronald Reagan and Mikhail Gorbachev that defused the Cold War.

The INF Treaty was perhaps the most important of all of the arms control agreements achieved by American 20th century presidents and now abandoned in the 21st century by US neoconservative governments. The treaty removed the threat of Russian missiles against Europe and the threat of European-based US missiles to Russia. The importance of the treaty is due to its reduction of the chance of accidental nuclear war. Warning systems have a history of false alarms. The problem of US missiles on Russia's border is that they leave no time for reflection or contact with Washington when Moscow receives a false alarm. Considering the extreme irresponsibility of US governments since the Clinton regime in elevating tensions with Russia, missiles on Russia's border leaves Russia's leadership with little choice but to push the button when an alarm sounds.

That Washington intends to put missiles on Russia's border and pulled out of the INF Treaty for this sole purpose is now obvious. Only two weeks after Washington pulled out of the treaty, Washington tested a missile whose research and development, not merely deployment, were banned under the treaty. If you think Washington designed and produced a new missile in two weeks you are not intelligent enough to be reading this column. While Washington was accusing Russia, it was Washington who was violating the treaty. Perhaps this additional act of betrayal will teach the Russian leadership that it is stupid and self-destructive to trust Washington about anything. Every country must know by now that agreements with Washington are meaningless.

Comment: See: Putin gives grave warning to Romania and Poland against installing NATO's ABM missiles, "no one is listening"

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Yemen: Another shameful US defeat is now apparent

Finian Cunningham
Strategic Culture Foundation
Mon, 09 Sep 2019 00:00 UTC
Houthis demonstration
© Flickr / Felton Davis
An official confirmation by the Trump administration of it holding discreet talks with Yemen's Houthi rebels indicates a realization in Washington that its military intervention in the Arab country is an unsalvageable disaster requiring exit.

There are also reports of the Trump administration urging the Saudi rulers to engage with the Houthis, also known as Ansarullah, in order to patch up some kind of peace settlement to the more than four-year war. In short, the Americans want out of this quagmire.

Quite a turnaround. The US-backed Saudi coalition has up to now justified its aggression against the poorest country in the Arab region with claims that the rebels are Iranian proxies. Now, it seems, Washington deems the Houthi "terrorists" worthy of negotiations.

This follows a similar pattern in many other US foreign wars. First, the aggression is "justified" by moralistic claims of fighting "communists" or "terrorists" as in Vietnam and Afghanistan. Only for Washington, after much needless slaughter and destruction, to reach out to former villains for "talks" in order to extricate the Americans from their own self-made disaster.

Talks with the Houthis were confirmed last week by US Assistant Secretary of Near East Affairs David Schenker during a visit to Saudi Arabia.

"We are narrowly focused on trying to end the war in Yemen," said Schenker. "We are also having talks to the extent possible with the Houthis to try and find a mutually accepted negotiated solution to the conflict."

Comment: Like with the withdrawal from Syria that Trump wanted to enact several months ago, we should take US overtures towards creating "mutual peace" in Yemen with a heaping spoon of salt; there is far too much profit to be made - and chaos to be induced - that serves the pathological elite warmongering class - for this profitable disaster to be resolved constructively.

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Abbas says all agreements with Israel over if Palestinian land annexed


RT
Tue, 10 Sep 2019 20:22 UTC
West Bank
© AFP / Jaafar AshtiyehFILE PHOTO: Palestinian protesters confront an Israeli patrol in the West Bank
Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas has said that all agreements signed with Israel will end if Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu makes good on his promise to annex the West Bank's Jordan Valley.

The agreements, presumably meaning the Oslo Accords -which set out joint Israeli-Palestinian governance and security responsibilities throughout the West Bank- would be null and void if Israel annexes any of the Palestinian territory it occupied in 1967, Abbas said on Tuesday evening.

"We have the right to defend our rights and achieve our goals by all available means, regardless of the consequences, as Netanyahu's decisions contradict with United Nations resolutions and international law," Abbas warned

Comment: See also:

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Pirates

Guaido under treason investigation in Venezuela over backroom Essequibo bargaining revelations

Paul Dobson
Venezuela Analysis
Tue, 10 Sep 2019 19:50 UTC
Essequibo venezuela guaido treason
© Roberto InsignaresJuan Guaido, Vanessa Neumann and Manuel Avendaño are accused of renouncing Venezuela’s claim over the Essequibo region to the United Kingdom in exchange for political support for their regime change agenda.
Self-declared "Interim President" Juan Guaido and two of his top advisors are being accused of treason and have had a criminal investigation opened against them.

Authorities have accused Guaido, his UK envoy, Vanessa Neumann, and his international office coordinator, Manuel Avendaño, of surrendering Venezuela's claim to the disputed Essequibo region in exchange for political support from the UK government.

The move comes as a recorded phone conversation between Neumann and Avendaño was released on Friday, in which the former can be heard advising Guaido's Venezuela-based team to "drop" the "official [government] line that we want to take control of the Essequibo from Guyana."

Neumann goes on to reference talks with the British Foreign Commonwealth Office and Guyana's high commissioner, clarifying that "they won't support [Guaido's efforts to overthrow Maduro] while we continue [that] line."

Comment: Venezuela prosecutors open probe into opposition leader Juan Guaido for 'high treason'

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Arrow Up

Trump says he could meet with President Rouhani, perhaps at UN General Assembly


RT
Mon, 09 Sep 2019 19:56 UTC
Trump/Rouhani
© unknownIranian President Hassan Rouhani • US President Donald Trump
US President Donald Trump said he has "no problem with the idea" of meeting with his Iranian counterpart Hassan Rouhani. There are rumors the meeting could happen later this month at the UN General Assembly.

Trump left open the possibility of the meeting during one of his helicopter press-conferences at the White House on Monday, prior to departing for North Carolina. "Iran should straighten it out, because they're in a very bad position right now."

Secretary of State Mike Pompeo said on Sunday that Trump was willing to meet with Rouhani "with no pre-condition," because "we don't want war with Iran."
"It's up to the Ayatollah to make the decision about the direction he wants to take his country," Pompeo added, referring to Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei, who is rumored by the US media to be against the meeting.

Comment: See also:

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Prime Minister of Deception, Netanyahu finds yet another 'super secret' Iranian nuclear facility...


RT
Mon, 09 Sep 2019 18:58 UTC
Netanyahu
© Reuters/Ronen ZvulunNetanyahu speaks at news conference September 9, 2019.
As the world seeks to defuse tensions between the US and Iran, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has reappeared with fresh and controversial claims of "secret" Iranian nuclear activity, and he had visual materials to help.

In a brief press conference on Monday, Netanyahu claimed that Israel has discovered a secret Iranian "nuclear weapons development site" at Abadeh, south of the city of Isfahan. The Iranians "destroyed" the site, however, upon learning that Israel knew about it, Netanyahu said.

Using dramatic visual aids to back up his story - a penchant that has inspired mocking and memes - Netanyahu said it was "incredible" that "every time" Israel reveals information about Iran's alleged nuclear activities, Tehran suddenly moves to "cover up their tracks."

Comment: More from Sputnik, 9/9/2019: Possessor of real nukes cries wolf: Zarif reacts to Netanyahu's claim
Zarif: "[Netanyahu] and the #B_Team just want a war, no matter [the] innocent blood and another $7 TRILLION," the 'B Team' comment a reference to Netanyahu, hawkish senior Trump advisor John Bolton, Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman and UAE Crown Prince Mohamed bin Zayed, each of whose names have the letter 'b' in them. The "$7 trillion" was presumably a reference to President Trump's criticism of his predecessors, whom he accused of spending $7 trillion on "endless wars" in the Middle East.

Zarif accompanied the tweet with a 2002 video clip featuring Netanyahu's testimony to US lawmakers in the run up to the Iraq War, with Netanyahu promising "enormous positive reverberations" for the entire Middle East if Saddam Hussein's government was toppled. "This time, he assuredly won't be on the sidelines watching," Zarif warned.

[Netanyahu] "Even before that, Iran knew we were on to them, and so they cleared the [Abadeh] site. They cleared it...and then they actually covered up the site. This is an actual cover-up. They put gravel on it to try to hide their traces, but they didn't," the Israeli prime minister said, showing alleged satellite photos of the demolished alleged nuclear facility.

The UN's nuclear watchdog has yet to comment on Netanyahu's presentation. Earlier in the day, IAEA acting director-general Cornel Feruta told reporters that he had had "very substantial discussions with Iranian senior officials," and that he had been "pleased with the tone and the input that we received in those conversations."

Following Netanyahu's presentation Monday, Yair Lapid, co-leader of the opposition Blue and White Party, accused the prime minister of engaging in pre-election "propaganda" at the expense of Israel's national security. "The Iranian nuclear programme cannot be used for campaign Shenanigans," he tweeted. Israel is set to hold snap legislative elections later this month after Netanyahu's Likud Party and its allies failed to form a coalition government after elections in April.
From Sputnik, 9/9/2019 Israeli FM urges JCPOA parties to annul deal, join US sanctions
Israeli Foreign Minister Israel Katz on Monday called on the signatories of the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action (JCPOA), known commonly as the Iran nuclear deal, to annul the pact and join the US sanctions against Tehran in a bid to stop what he called Iran's "terrorist ambitions."

"Following IAEA's announcement on Iran's violation of JCPOA, I call on France, UK, Germany and others to annul the agreement and join American sanctions against Iran. The world must unite against Iran's military nuclear and global terrorist ambitions," Katz posted on Twitter.
Iranians and IAEA reps
© Reuters/Nazanin Tabatabaee/WANAActing head of UN's IAEA, Cornel Feruta, meets with Iranian FM Javad Zarif in Tehran, September 8, 2019.
On Sunday, the acting director of the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA), Cornel Feruta, said in a press briefing following his visit to Tehran and talks with senior Iranian officials that the agency was "informed about Iran's latest activities related to centrifuge research and development."
See also: And this from May, 2018:




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Italian Connection: Obama's attempts to set up Trump, deep state ties to Italians, server scandal

Joe Hoft
Gateway Pundit
Sat, 07 Sep 2019 00:00 UTC
Renzi/Obama
© italoamericano.orgItalian PM Matteo Renzi • Former US President Barack Obama
The recent firings of top Italian spies were likely related to Obama and a plot to set up candidate and President Trump in a Hillary email scandal. We first reported this in May and now it appears this story is finally receiving sunlight!

In May Italian Prime Minister Conte asked for the resignations of four top intelligence officials after his call with President Donald Trump. After that it was reported that the recent removal of these top Italian intelligence ministers from their positions as top spies in the government had been uncovered.

Our story started in January 2017 when Computer World wrote about alleged crimes committed by Italian Giulio Occhionero:
The Tuesday arrest of Giulio Occhionero and his sister, Francesca Maria, has brought to light what appears to be the biggest, and highest-profile, hacking of institutional and corporate accounts ever reported in Italy. The siblings have been planting the Pyramid Eye remote access Trojan on computers using a spear-phishing technique over several years, according to the arrest order. They attacked at least 18,000 high-profile targets, including former Prime Ministers Matteo Renzi and Mario Monti, President of European Central Bank Mario Draghi, as well as employees and heads of various ministries including Internal Affairs, Treasury, Finance and Education.
But Giulio Occhionero claimed that he and his sister, Francesca Maria, were set up.

Comment: Check out the video for perspective on the Italian connection and the set up to frame Trump:


See also: Former Italian PM linked to Trump spying and Obama is also a cohort of the Clintons and George Soros

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MIT Media Lab director resigns in wake of institute's hidden financial ties to Epstein

Bowen Xiao
The Epoch Times
Mon, 09 Sep 2019 00:00 UTC
Joi Ito
© Phillip Faraone/Getty Images/WIRED25Joi Ito onstage at WIRED 25 Festival, San Francisco, CA, 2018
Massachusetts Institute of Technology's (MIT) Media Lab Director Joi Ito resigned on Sept. 7, a day after a new report detailed how the lab attempted to hide its financial relationship with recently deceased sex offender Jeffrey Epstein, who had been facing trial on child sex-trafficking charges.

According to dozens of pages of emails and other documents obtained by The New Yorker, the Media Lab continued to accept gifts from Epstein, even as he was listed as "disqualified" in MIT's official donor database. The lab concealed the full amount of donations received from Epstein by marking his contributions as anonymous.

The documents also revealed that Epstein apparently served as a mediator of sorts between the lab and other wealthy donors, soliciting millions in donations, including from Microsoft founder Bill Gates and investor Leon Black, the report said. According to The New Yorker, the financial connections between the lab and Epstein went "well beyond" what the lab and its director previously described in public statements.
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Trump-Russia; Clinton-Libya: Tale of two probes and the FBI

Mark Hemingway
RealClear Investigations
Mon, 09 Sep 2019 00:00 UTC
Hillary
© Current AffairsFormer Secretary of State Hillary Clinton
Records recently posted online by the FBI indicate that it did little to investigate allegations from private sources connected to Republicans about a scheme in which associates of Secretary of State Hillary Clinton tried to exploit their connection to her to profit from the turmoil in Libya in 2011.

The FBI received the documents in June 2016, around the same time it launched an exhaustive, three-year investigation of the Trump campaign's ties to Russia based, in part, on information from private sources connected to Democrats that in the main would prove to be false - the Steele dossier.

The bureau's different responses to these documents also came during the same period when FBI Director James B. Comey controversially cleared Clinton, in his first of two exonerations, of criminal wrongdoing in the bureau's probe of her unauthorized and insecure email setup.

The documents, quietly released as part of the FBI's case files for the "Midyear Exam," its code name for the Clinton email investigation, revive a lingering mystery from Clinton's tenure as the nation's chief diplomat: Why did Sidney Blumenthal, the former journalist and Bill Clinton White House aide, send her a series of detailed memos and reports about Libya beginning in 2011?

Comment: See also:

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