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The group's co-founder Julian Assange suggested on Dutch television that if Rich is the source of the 20,000 emails exposing the party's sabotage of the Bernie Sanders campaign in favor of Hillary Clinton, he may have been killed over it.
However, when asked if Rich was a Wikileaks source, Assange refused to comment, merely saying they were investigating the circumstances surrounding his murder.
Best of the Web: War-crazy former CIA director who supports Killary wants to kill Russians and Iranians and threaten Assad
© Jose Luis Magana / ReutersFormer CIA Director Michael Morell
The ex-CIA chief, who worked with Clinton while she was secretary of state, told CBS This Morning co-host Charlie Rose that Iran and Russia should "pay a big price" in Syria - and by that he meant killing them.
"When we were in Iraq, the Iranians were giving weapons to the Shia militia who were killing American soldiers," Morell said. "The Iranians were making us pay a price. We need to make the Iranians pay a price in Syria, we need to make the Russians pay a price," he continued.
When asked if that meant killing Russians and Iranians, Morell fully agreed, qualifying the answer with "covertly."
Comment: And this is the kind of guy that supports a creature like Killary. Morrell's statements really put the current situation in Syria in context. The U.S. is covertly killing Syrians, Russians, and Iranians in Syria by supporting radical mujahedin, just like they did in Afghanistan. And just like those mujahedin later became al-Qaeda, the radicals the West supports in Syria are al-Qaeda today. Let that sink in. See also: State sponsored terrorism: Has CIA's plot to 'covertly' kill Russians in Syria come to pass?
Steve Chovanec's latest on this is a must-read: U.S.: "Yeah, we support al-Qaeda, but don't worry cuz it's okay"
Flashback Best of the Web: Paris strikes astonishing partnership with secret ISIS sponsor tied to Hillary Clinton
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Documents obtained by several journalistic investigations reveal that Lafarge has paid taxes to the terror group to operate its cement plant in Syria, and even bought Isis oil for years.
Yet according to the campaign group, SumOfUs, Lafarge is the corporate partner and sand provider to the City of Paris for this summer's Paris-Plages urban beach event. The project run by Office of the Mayor of Paris, Anne Hidalgo, will create artificial beaches along the river Seine in the centre and northeast of Paris.
Lafarge also has close ties to Democrat presidential candidate Hillary Clinton. Apart from being a regular donor to the Clinton Foundation, Clinton herself was a director of Lafarge in the early 1990s, and did legal work for the firm in the 1980s. During her connection to Lafarge, the firm was implicated in facilitating a CIA-backed covert arms export network to Saddam Hussein.
Green: foreign-backed 'rebels'. Red: SAA and allies.
Recap:
- The siege has not been 'broken' in strategic terms, but the situation was fluid through most of August 7th - 'rebels' from each side have connected, but are under constant shelling and fire, and cannot make use of this
- The 'rebel' sally was an act of planned desperation
- 'Rebel' forces have experienced a 30-50% casualty rate
- The 'rebel' gains of late August 6th have been largely rolled back
- The SAA 'liberated bridge' (see map above and below) remains in SAA hands
- The military academy was retaken by the end of the 6th, Tigers were involved
- Hezbollah's Special Forces heavy involvement confirmed
- The 'rebels' have gone through all their heavy tanks and are left with medium tanks
- Russian bombing sorties were used strategically in places where 'rebel' groupings were drawn/lured using tactical withdraw - see video below
- SAA and allies losses have been comparatively low (withdraws were tactical in nature)
- SAA successfully brought in reinforcements
- The maps are only misleading insofar as the SAA holding of west Aleppo would otherwise appear as a potential cauldron - but only the SAA has access to air force
- The group that decapitated the boy have been positively identified in this battle (still alive as of now) - see video below
- Radar equipment in Aleppo used by 'rebels' is reported to have been found, and is of the type used by Turkey
Comment: Sputnik also reports that the terrorists in east Aleppo remain surrounded; all supply lines are controlled by the Syrian army. A Syrian militia fighter told Sputnik that during the last 10 days, the Syrian army and associated militias killed 2,000 of the attacking terrorists. The Syrians and Russians bombed the al-Qaeda base of operations in Idlib city, just 40 miles away from Aleppo and which is used by AQ as a staging ground for the offensive on Aleppo. Footage of the aerial attacks:
Best of the Web: DC Leaks: Breedlove conspired to lie about Russian aggression in Ukraine, get more weapons deliveries for Kiev
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In private, the general likes to wear leather. Philip Mark Breedlove, 60, is a well-known Harley-Davidson fan, and up until a few weeks ago, he also served as the commander of NATO and American troops in Europe. Even during his tenure as the military leader of the alliance, the American four-star general would trade his blue Air Force uniform for motorcycle gear and explore Europe's roads with his friends.
Photos show a man with broad shoulders, a wide gait and an even wider smile. The pictures of the general's motorcycle tours were recently made public on the online platform DC Leaks. Restraint, it seems, was never Breedlove's thing.
The photos are the entertaining part of an otherwise explosive collection of Breedlove's private email correspondence. Most of the 1,096 hacked emails date back to the dramatic 12 months of the Ukraine crisis after Russia annexed Crimea in March 2014. Thousands died in the skirmishes between Kiev's troops and Moscow-aligned separatists. More than 2 million civilians fled eastern Ukraine.
Russia supports the separatists with weapons, fighters and consultants. When people began calling for Washington to also massively intervene in 2015, the Ukraine conflict risked escalating into a war between East and West.
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Indeed, far more media coverage is given to Hillary Clinton's nomination as the Democrat's presidential candidate. While Clinton was declaring to her party's convention how she would wipe out Islamist terrorists in the Middle East, the Syrian army and its Russian allies were actually getting on with that very job.
Syria's northern city of Aleppo - which was the country's biggest city before the onset of the war in 2011 - is about to be fully retaken by the Syrian army, supported by Russian air power. Humanitarian corridors have been created to allow civilians and surrendering fighters to escape before the final assault begins on anti-government militias holed up in the east of the city.
© Darryl Dyck/The Canadian PressJohn Nuttall, back, and Amanda Korody embrace each other at B.C. Supreme Court after a judge ruled the couple were entrapped by the RCMP in a police-manufactured crime, in Vancouver on Friday, July 29, 2016.
"We're just happy," Nuttall said to reporters before leaving in a cab.
But within hours, after "a nice lunch on The Drive," four Vancouver police cruisers screeched to a halt and the couple was taken away in handcuffs.
Late in the afternoon, they went before B.C. provincial court Judge Reg Harris and agreed to peace bond terms that included geographic restrictions banning them from the legislature grounds, Canadian Forces Bases, synagogues and Jewish schools.
They were then released again.
Comment: This is huge news. B.C. Supreme Court Justice Catherine Bruce is saying the same thing we at SOTT have been saying for years. How many of these stories have we been seeing in the U.S. since the bogus 'war on terror' began!? Too many to count! Canada's "CIA" - CSIS - got in on the act of entrapping gullible and mentally challenged individuals - thanks to the instruction manuals and direction of their psychopathic buddies to the south, no doubt. But this case sets a precedent that will hopefully make them think twice about doing it again (it's a long shot, but it's more than the U.S. has).
Like the CIA, NATO and many other "security" agencies that exist, CSIS needs to manufacture acts of terror in order to justify its existence and payroll. These are the real terrorist nut jobs; demanding a salary for being able to act out their U.S. and Israeli-inspired pathological tendencies. Now if only something similar were to happen in the States.
Just a sampling of the hundreds of stories we have covered here highlighting the problem:
- The FBI's 'Islamic Terrorism' Fraud
- Terror and injustice: FBI planning to increase its policy of radicalization, entrapment, and plotting terror
- FBI Linked to Yet Another Domestic Terrorism Plot
- US: Fake terror, real sentence; FBI inspiration for 25 years in jail
- Keepin us safe: FBI lures intellectually disabled teen into terrorist plot
- Surprise! The FBI drowning in counter-terrorism money, power and other resources will apply the term "Terrorism" to any group it dislikes and wants to control and suppress
- The FBI honeypot entrapment of Khalil Abu Rayyan: Just another case of FBI incitement and radicalization
- FBI forced to admit Patriot Act powers led to exactly zero major terrorism cases cracked
- NYTimes Realizes That The FBI Keeps Celebrating Breaking Up Its Own Terrorist Plots
© AFP Photo / Zaman DailyFethullah Gulen.
When we examine more closely "what" is Fethullah Gülen he is anything but the grandfatherly image of a 75-year-old soft-spoken Islamic moderate, scholar and Imam. His networks have been called the most dangerous in Germany by Islamic experts and have been banned in several Central Asian countries. Now, too, in Turkey. What's becoming clear is that the failed coup was in fact a dry-run, a dress rehearsal by Gülen's controllers in Langley to see how Erdogan would react, in order to recalibrate and prepare for a more serious attempt in the future. Washington was not at all happy with the foreign policy turn of Erdoğan turning to reconcile with Russia and possibly also with Syria's Assad.
Fethullah Gülen is not a "who" but, rather, it is a "what." The what is one of the most extensive and elaborate surrogate warfare networks ever created by the United States intelligence community, spanning countless nations including the United States and Germany, as well as the historic Turkic regions of Central Asia from Turkey up to the Uyghur peoples of China's oil-rich Xinjiang Autonomous Province.
Best of the Web: Concern trolling the siege of Aleppo: Offering civilians safe passage is only good when the U.S. does it
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No? You do not remember those concerns? The outcry from Amnesty, HRW, the UN and other organization?
That is probably because there were none.
Comment: This tweet says it all:
See also: Hilarious propaganda: U.S. concerned that Russian humanitarian op in Syria is actually humanitarian
Comment: Update: Sort of confirming they were behind the hit, Killary's team now wants to add Assange to the Clinton Body Count: