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OPCW whistleblower's Syrian gas attack hoax testimony casts doubts about similar incidents

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© Reuters/Mohamed Abdullah.jpgUN chemical weapons experts
Last month, WikiLeaks published the evidence and testimony provided by an Organisation for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons (OPCW) whistleblower who revealed that the watchdog appeared to have willfully ignored data that the Syrian government did not stage a chemical attack in Douma, Syria in April 2018 in order to fit a convenient narrative.

Recently, the Courage Foundation, a respected UK-based civil society organisation dedicated to protecting whistleblowers, convened a panel including Jose Bustani, former director general of the OPCW, WikiLeaks editor-in-chief Kristinn Hrafnsson and others to study whistleblower testimony which casts major doubt on the watchdog's integrity in its investigation into the alleged April 7, 2018 chemical attack in Douma.

Along with testimony, the whistleblower provided materials including internal emails, text exchanges and suppressed draft reports, leading the panel to conclude that "key information about chemical analyses, toxicology consultations, ballistics studies, and witness testimonies was suppressed, ostensibly to favour a preordained conclusion."

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Arrow Down

War on Yemen: Saudi-led coalition shows signs of collapse as Sudanese forces withdraw

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© LobeLogSudanese fighters in Yemen
Withdrawal of 10,000 Sudanese soldiers from Yemen indicates the collapse of the Saudi-US coalition, a prominent analyst said on Sunday.

Omar Ayasrah told the Arabic-language al-Jazeera news website that the Saudi-led coalition was formed under the pretext of returning legitimacy to fugitive Yemeni President Mansour Hadi but facts changed on the ground and now the coalition is attempting to replace Hadi's government with the coup launchers.

He referred to Saudi Arabia's failure in protecting its southern borders against Houthi counter-attacks and said the Yemeni army and popular forces succeeded in sending their drones to the heart of Saudi Arabia, humiliating the country and forcing Riyadh to accept the principle of talks with the Yemenis and finding political solutions.

The spokesman for Yemeni Armed Forces stated on Saturday that more than 4,000 Sudanese militiamen fighting alongside Saudi-led military forces against Ansarullah fighters have been killed and many more injured ever since the Riyadh regime and its allies launched a military aggression against Yemen.

Light Saber

Republican John Ratcliffe: Schiff is running a corrupt process to overthrow Trump

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© C-SPANRep. John Ratcliffe, R-Tex
A former federal prosecutor who sits on the committee tasked by Democrats with removing President Donald Trump from office blasted Rep. Adam Schiff, D-Calif., as being unfit to oversee the process. Rep. John Ratcliffe, R-Tex., told The Federalist on Friday that Schiff's problem isn't mere partisan political bias, it's that Schiff has a conflict of interest given his secret interactions with the anti-Trump whistleblower before his false complaint against Trump was even submitted.

"It's more than just bias — it's an actual legal conflict of interest," Ratcliffe told The Federalist. "Schiff is using his authority as a Chairman presiding over an impeachment inquiry to prevent the investigation and discovery of facts about his own actions or the actions of his staff."

"He is essentially a witness in the trial over which he is presiding," Ratcliffe continued. "He has a conflict of interest because his testimony is relevant to the origins of the impeachment process that he is simultaneously conducting, directing and managing."

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Pirates

More US military personnel and equipment move out of Syria under cover of dusk

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© Reuters/Azad LashkariA convoy of U.S. vehicles is seen after withdrawing from northern Syria, in Erbil, Iraq October 21, 2019
The US began withdrawing troops and equipment from positions in northern Syria last month, after Turkey kicked off its (since halted) military operation against Syrian Kurdish militias. But President Trump has also indicated that the US will continue to host "some" troops in eastern Syria, with the goal of "keeping" the war-torn country's oil.

The Syrian Arab News Agency has published new footage it says shows a large convoy of US military vehicles being withdrawn from Syria into Iraq.

The video shows an armoured vehicle flying the American flag at the front of a large convoy of civilian transport trucks carrying Humvees and Joint Light Tactical Vehicles (JLTVs), Heavy Expanded Mobility Tactical Trucks (HEMTTs), oil tankers, containers carrying unidentified supplies, pickup trucks and minivans, what appear to be Oskosh tank haulers, and construction equipment. Multiple bystanders are seen watching or filming the vehicles as they pass.

Comment: Fort Russ News reports the U.S is continuing to dig in around Syria's oil fields:
The United States Army is planning to set up several more military bases in Syria's Qamishli region as it is looking for suitable locations, Kurdish-language media stated.
"We can confirm reports that the US is to establish three small new military bases in Qamishli," Rojoua Information Center affiliated to the Kurdish militia wrote on its Twitter page.
It noted that the US Army is presently looking for an appropriate location to set up its new bases. Qamishli is the capital of al-Hasaka province where about half of Syrian oil wells are located. The US Army's attempts to set up military bases there are aimed at taking control of the region's oil resources.

In a relevant development in late October, Syrian state TV reported that a column of the US troops had returned to northeastern Syria's Hasaka province from Iraq as Washington announced relocating troops to oil regions in the war-torn country.
More than one group is not happy about the U.S. move: Sputnik reports:
A US military convoy in northeastern Syria has come under fire from local Turkey-backed radicals but was not hit, a representative of the Central Command (CENTCOM) of the United States said on Monday.
"On 3 November, a US patrol in northeast Syria witnessed several artillery attacks, shells landed a kilometer or more from the road it was moving on. The patrol was not touched," the CENTCOM spokesman said.
The spokesman added that US forces retain inalienable right to self-defence, saying that the security of the troops is given priority.

Earlier, Major General Yuri Borenkov, head of the Russian Centre for the Reconciliation of Opposing Sides in Syria, said at a briefing that the United States had informed the Russian side of the shelling of the American military by militants from nearby town of Tal Tamer.
Only in a neocon's twisted mind can "self-defense" be used to justify open pillaging of another country's resources.


NPC

Labour Party MP panned for hinting Tory adviser could be 'Russian Spy'

Dominic Cummings
© Reuters / Henry NichollsAnti-Brexit protesters hold signs featuring Dominic Cummings in London
The Labour Party has pressed Foreign Secretary Dominic Raab over security clearances granted to adviser Dominic Cummings, citing "serious concerns" over his time spent in Russia. Where have we heard this before?

According to the UK media, citing a letter sent to Raab by Shadow Foreign Secretary Emily Thornberry, the Labour Party has been approached with "serious concerns by an official-level whistleblower" about the three years Cummings - Prime Minister Boris Johnson's senior adviser - spent in Russia after graduation in 1994.

In the letter, Thornberry asks Raab to comment on Cummings' security clearance, and for more information about the purpose of his visit to post-Soviet Russia and the "relationships" he may have built there, as well as his relationships with the Conservative Friends of Russia group.

The "serious concerns" mentioned in the letter are unknown, and even Thornberry herself wrote "we make no claim to know the veracity of the claims."

Copies of the letter have also been sent to Mark Sedwill, head of the civil service, as well as the heads of MI5 and MI6 and the chair of the intelligence and security committee (ISC), Dominic Grieve, UK media writes.

Comment: The mass political and social hysteria is spreading. It's mindless automatons like David Lammy who are the real danger - not fictitious 'Russian spies'. Throughout human history, the periodic outbreaks of violence, witch hunts, and overall idiocy have been maintained and spread by morons like Lammy, parroting baseless propaganda until emotions reach the breaking level. But the Lammys of the world continue to think they're clever and the paragons of virtue.


Network

'Break IT monopoly of companies & countries or risk losing the right to have a say in your future' - Medvedev to ASEAN

ASEAN
© RIA Novosti / Dmitry AstakhovDmitry Medvedev speaks at 2019 ASEAN Summit
Russia wants the demonopolization of "a few corporations" that dominate the IT market, because countries without their own hi-tech solutions risk losing the "right for future," Prime Minister Dmitry Medvedev told an ASEAN summit.

"Companies and whole countries are increasingly dependent on hardware and software [provided by] several corporations that actually dominate the market," Medvedev stated as he spoke at a summit of the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) in Bangkok. He didn't give names but mentioned three American and two Chinese entities.

That domination hampers "healthy competition" and affects bringing brand new ideas to life, the prime minister noted, along with other, more serious challenges.

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Newspaper

"Corruption has been raging for decades": Lebanese President wants to restore people's trust amid anti-government protests

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© AP Photo/ Hassan Ammar
The Lebanese society must unite in the fight against corruption, while the authorities should restore people's trust, President Michel Aoun said on Sunday amid mass protests in the country.

"The corruption has been raging for decades and will not be overcome if we do not unite our efforts ... The people's rights and trust have been lost. This is a big problem and we must restore this trust," Aoun said, addressing his followers in the city of Baabda.

The Lebanese government resigned this week after 13 days of protests over economic hardships. Outgoing Prime Minister Saad Hariri has been asked to perform his duties until the new government is formed.

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Propaganda

Foreign Ministry calls 'fake news': NYT claims nasty Russians harassed sick American diplomat

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The New York Times has spun a tale of Russian treachery based on its usual anonymous sources. Though the Russian Foreign Ministry stepped in to correct the record, the paper didn't let facts get in the way of a good story.

According to the Times, the debacle kicked off in August, when Russian officials delayed a sick American envoy from leaving Moscow for treatment, part of a Cold War-style "harassment campaign" against US diplomats.

The man in question, a military attache at the American embassy in Moscow, fell ill and needed evacuation to Germany for hospital treatment. According to the NYT, his plane was delayed "for hours for no apparent reason," despite protests from embassy officials and the State Department in Washington.

Comment: The NYT is just doing its job as one of the media mouthpieces for the CIA. As the article says, it never lets facts get in the way of a good propaganda piece.


Bad Guys

Ukraine whistleblower wants to testify in writing instead of appearing before Intel committee - UPDATE: Whistleblower ready to reply to Republicans

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The Ukraine whistleblower at the center of the House Democratic impeachment inquiry wants to testify to Congress in writing instead of appearing in person, Fox News has confirmed.

The Wall Street Journal first reported that lawyers for the anonymous CIA officer have asked lawmakers if the whistleblower could submit testimony in writing, but the House and Senate Intelligence Committees have not yet responded.

The request comes amid Democrats' desire to protect the identity of the whistleblower, along with worries over safety and media scrutiny. President Trump and Republicans believe the president should have a right to confront his accuser, and have also cited new reports indicating the whistleblower could have partisan motives. His attorneys have acknowledged he is a registered Democrat who has worked with at least one 2020 candidate. On Thursday, reports surfaced that the candidate was Joe Biden.

Comment: Gateway Pundit adds:
A CIA snitch filed a whistleblower complaint on August 12 over President Trump's July 25 phone call with Ukrainian President Zelensky where the two discussed ferreting out corruption which included the Biden crime family.
  • The so-called "whistleblower" is a Democrat who had a "professional" tie to a 2020 Democrat.
  • The "whistleblower" coordinated and took guidance from Adam Schiff's staff and Schiff lied about it.
  • Schiff's staff recommended attorneys for the so called "whistleblower."
  • The "whistleblower's" attorneys worked for James Clapper, Hillary Clinton, Chuck Schumer, and donated to Joe Biden.
  • It was reported this week that one of the attorneys for the "whistleblower's" is a member of the #Resistance.
  • And earlier today we reported that the 'whistleblower' worked with Joe Biden in the executive branch when he was Vice President.
Now this...

Three current and former national security officials tell One America News that the CIA whistleblower likely accompanied Biden on one or more of his trips to Ukraine while Vice President.

UPDATE 03/11/19: RFE/RL reports:
The U.S. intelligence official whose whistle-blower complaint led to a House impeachment inquiry against President Donald Trump has agreed to answer written questions from Republicans.

The whistle-blower has offered Devin Nunes, the top Republican on the House Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence, the opportunity to submit questions, the intelligence official's lawyer Mark Zaid said in a tweet on November 3.


The official will answer the questions "under oath and penalty of perjury," Zaid said. However, the whistle-blower will not answer questions that seek to expose their identity, the lawyer tweeted, saying it could jeopardize the individual's safety as well as that of their family.



Sheriff

FBI only cares about 'maintaining current power structure': Lee Camp roasts feds for targeting left-wing groups that threaten status quo

FBI officers
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A new report has accused the FBI of disproportionately targeting left-wing activists, even though right-wing extremism poses a far greater threat to national security. Par for the course, according to Lee Camp.

Defending Rights & Dissent, a civil liberties group, cataloged known instances of First Amendment abuses and political surveillance by the FBI since 2010. The organization found that the feds devoted disproportionate resources to spy on peaceful left-leaning civil society groups, including Occupy Wall Street, Abolish ICE, and various anti-war movements.

The bureau seemed less interested in right-wingers, even though the far-right has been responsible for countless acts of violence and terrorism in the country. None of this should surprise us, the host of Redacted Tonight said.


"The FBI is not in the job of protecting you. They're in the job of protecting the ruling class system. So they don't focus on things that really harm us. They don't care about us. They care about maintaining the current power structure."