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"We see the games they play": Erdogan says Turkey won't bow to US

RT
Sun, 19 Aug 2018 15:05 UTC

Ankara won't bow before those who set up their "own order by exploiting the world" and make Turkey their "strategic target," Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan said, referring to the US amid a deepening diplomatic rift.

"They were not able to make us collapse and they will never be. If they have their dollars, we have our God," the Turkish president told thousands of supporters of his ruling Justice and Development Party (AKP) who gathered for the Grand Congress in Ankara on Saturday.

Though he didn't name the US directly, his jab was clearly in reference to Washington, which has recently imposed economic sanctions on Turkey. He said that Ankara won't surrender "to those who apparently seemed like a strategic partner" while trying to make Turkey "a strategic target with all of their concrete steps."

Erdogan said that despite "some people" threatening Turkey with economic restrictions or foreign currency exchange rates, "we are telling them that we see the games they play and we challenge them." Turkey won't bow before those "who set up their own order by exploiting the world," he added.

Comment: Turkey has known for long enough of the duplicity in Washington but, after a time benefiting from playing them against Russia, it seems it may now be ready to pick a side:

All US sanctions against Russia are based on lies

Eric Zuesse
Strategic Culture Foundation
Fri, 17 Aug 2018 00:00 UTC

All of the sanctions (economic, diplomatic, and otherwise) against Russia are based on clearly demonstrable intentional falsehoods; and the sanctions which were announced on August 8th are just the latest example of this consistent tragic fact - a fact which will be proven here, with links to the evidence, so that anyone who reads here can easily see that all of these sanctions are founded on lies against Russia.

The latest of these sanctions were announced on Wednesday August 8th. Reuters headlined "US imposes sanctions on Russia for nerve agent attack in UK" and reported that,

"Washington said on Wednesday it would impose fresh sanctions on Russia by the end of August after it determined that Moscow had used a nerve agent against a former Russian agent and his daughter in Britain." This was supposedly because "Sergei Skripal, a former colonel in Russia's GRU military intelligence service, and his 33-year-old daughter, Yulia, were found slumped unconscious on a bench in the southern English city of Salisbury in March after a liquid form of the Novichok type of nerve agent was applied to his home's front door. European countries and the United States expelled 100 Russian diplomats after the attack, in the strongest action by President Donald Trump against Russia since he came to office."

However, despite intense political pressure that the UK Government and 'news' media had placed upon the UK's Porton Down intelligence laboratory to assert that the poison had been made in Russia (labs in several countries including the UK have also manufactured it), the Porton Down lab refused to say this. Though the US Government is acting as if Porton Down's statement "determined that Moscow had used a nerve agent," the actual fact is that Porton Down still refuses to say any such thing, at all - this allegation is merely a fabrication by the US Government, including its allies, UK's Government and other Governments and their respective propaganda-media. It's a bald lie.

Trump: 'We won't let discrimination against conservatives happen on social media'

RT
Sat, 18 Aug 2018 16:13 UTC

US President Donald Trump has spoken out about censorship against conservatives on social media, saying it is a "very dangerous thing" and calling for everyone to be allowed to participate in the online conversation.

"Social media is totally discriminating against Republican/conservative voices. Speaking loudly and clearly for the Trump administration, we won't let that happen. They are closing down the opinions of many people on the RIGHT, while at the same time doing nothing to others," Trump wrote.

He went on to call censorship a "very dangerous thing," while taking the opportunity to slam "fake news." "There is nothing so fake as CNN & MSNBC, and yet I do not ask that their sick behavior be removed..."

Trump also questioned "who is making the choices" regarding who gets removed from social media, adding that "mistakes are being made." "Let everybody participate, good and bad, and we will all just have to figure it out!" he wrote.

Comment: What stays? What goes? As of now it is a matter of banning first and examining later, since complaints are deemed more important in hierarchy than the discernment and protection of the rights of the message writer. See also:

WH preps more security clearance cancellations

Sputnik
Sat, 18 Aug 2018 04:38 UTC

The White House has drafted documents revoking the security clearances of current and former US senior officials whom US President Donald Trump has accused of criticizing him and his policy, The Washington Post reported Friday.

A Senior White House official, familiar with the matter, told The Washington Post that Trump wants to revoke "most, if not all" of them. Moreover, White House spokesperson Sarah Huckabee Sanders and White House deputy chief of staff Bill Shine have reportedly discussed when would be the best time to revoke additional clearances. US media outlet reported that Sanders and Shine are discussing the matter in an attempt to have Trump's revocations serve as a distraction during 'unfavorable news cycles'.

Earlier this week, Trump revoked the security clearance of a former CIA Director John Brennan, a vocal critic of the president, which drew the ire of opponents and free speech advocates.

The US-based media outlets suggested earlier that Trump Administration was also reviewing the security clearances of Obama-era US officials including former FBI Director James Comey and former Director of National Intelligence James Clapper.

Comment: Brennan is unhinged and Trump made the right call.

NYT: White House counsel cooperates with 'Russiagate' probe, Trump says he allowed it

RT
Sat, 18 Aug 2018 23:06 UTC

White House counsel Don McGahn has cooperated with Special Counsel Robert Mueller's 'Russiagate' investigation into US President Donald Trump, the New York Times reports. Trump says he allowed it for transparency.

Citing "a dozen current and former White House officials and others," the NYT reports that Donald F. McGahn II has been talking to Mueller about the part of the special counsel probe that deals with Trump's alleged obstruction of justice. Over the past nine months, McGahn has had at least three interviews totaling 30 hours with Mueller, allegedly spilling the beans on some of Trump's actions that would not be known otherwise.

One of those was Trump's supposed attempt to fire Mueller in December 2017, which had also been reported by the NYT and also sourced from anonymous people "familiar with the episode."

McGahn chief reason for approaching Mueller is self-preservation. His and his lawyer's reported plan is to cooperate with the special counsel as much as possible in order to be exempt from suspicion of wrongdoing.

While the NYT seems to portray McGahn's move as a significant development in that it's unusual for a lawyer to share so much with an investigator looking into his client (although McGahn is technically the official presidential lawyer, not Trump's personal one), Trump and the White House say there's really nothing to see here.

Comment: 'Nothing to see here' has to be correct. If there was anything remotely attention-getting in 30 hours of questioning, we would have seen it blazed all over the news.

Examining the real John McCain

Jack Kerwick
LewRockwell.com
Tue, 25 Jul 2017 00:00 UTC

As soon as John McCain had been diagnosed with brain cancer, Democrats and Republicans in Washington and the press spared no opportunity to lavish praise upon this lifelong government employee.

The truth, though, is that in exchange for the billions and billions of dollars that McCain has confiscated from them for well over three decades, taxpayers have received an ever-burgeoning administrative state, relentless illegal immigration from the Third World, and, of course, war - and all while McCain has pretended to be a "conservative."

Thanks to his labors, hundreds of thousands of human beings, both foreign and American alike, are now dead. And hundreds of thousands more are traumatized, orphaned, homeless, maimed, and continually besieged by those murderous terrorist organizations, like ISIS, that have taken over their countries after McCain's policies prevailed.

McCain is not alone in having their blood on his hands. Yet in a Regime, a Government-Media-Complex, comprised of warmongers, McCain enjoys the dubious distinction of being the warmonger par excellence.

Comment: While McCain is not the only one to blame, he has been a central figure and hounding influence in all the tragedies stated above.

Judicial Watch: Reopen the Hillary email investigation; more classified information has surfaced

Joseph Jankowski
Planet Free Will
Fri, 17 Aug 2018 00:00 UTC

Judicial Watching is calling for a re-opening of the investigation into Hillary Clinton's emails after finding more classified information on the former Secretary of State's non-"state.gov" email system.

On Thursday, the watchdog revealed that it had received two batches, 184 pages and 45 pages, of newly uncovered emails belonging to Hillary Clinton from the U.S. Department of State sent and received over her unsecured server.

The emails were uncovered by a FOIA lawsuit filed on May 6, 2015, after the State Department failed to respond to a March 4, 2015 FOIA request seeking all emails sent or received by Clinton in her official capacity as Secretary of State, as well as all emails by other State Department employees to Clinton regarding her non-"state.gov" email address.

Judicial Watch broke down what they found:

Comment: Reopen the Killary email investigation AND investigate why Killary, so far, has total immunity for multiple proven infractions on numerous accounts.

Biden: Trump underestimates Brennan if he thinks he can gag ex-CIA chief John Brennan

Sputnik
Thu, 16 Aug 2018 02:18 UTC

President Donald Trump is mistaken if he believes that former CIA Director John Brennan will be silenced by having his security clearance revoked, former Vice President Joe Biden said in a statement.

"If you think it will silence John, then you just don't know the man," Biden said via Twitter on Wednesday.

Earlier in the day, White House spokeswoman Sarah Huckabee Sanders read a statement that Trump has revoked Brennan's security clearance and is considering doing the same with the security clearances of other former officials, including former FBI Director James Comey and former Director of National Intelligence James Clapper.

Trump said in the statement that Brennan has been unprofessional and used his status to make a series of unfounded and outrageous allegations as well as wild outbursts on internet and television about the Trump administration.

Biden characterized Trump's move as an act unbecoming a president and emphasized that Brennan has never been afraid of openly expressing his opinion. Brennan responded to Trump by saying that his principles are worth far more than security clearances and pledged he would not relent.

Comment: Plotting revenge for Brennan's necessary and deserving revoke of privilege? Trump isn't silencing Brennan. Brennan has done this to himself. See also:

Trump: 'Syria stabilization fund ridiculous, let other countries pay'

RT
Sun, 19 Aug 2018 04:16 UTC

US President Donald Trump has praised Washington's cancellation of $230mn in funding for stabilization in war-torn Syria. Let "other rich countries" pay it, Trump says, while the US spends its money on its military and allies.

The US officially ended support for stabilization projects in Syria on Friday. The $230mn worth of funding had been frozen for months before that however, after House forbid any funding for government-controlled territories in Syria. Now Trump says the idea of paying for the stabilization of Syria is "ridiculous," at least for the US. America should spend its money on its military and "countries that help us." As for Syria, let "other rich countries in the Middle East" chip in now.

US Democrats to propose constitutional amendment to block Trump from revoking clearances

Sputnik
Sat, 18 Aug 2018 04:13 UTC

A new US constitutional amendment will be proposed in Congress next week that if passed would prevent President Donald Trump from revoking security clearances at his own discretion, the top Democrat on the Senate Intelligence Committee, Mark Warner, said in a statement.

"I will be introducing an amendment next week to block the President from punishing and intimidating his critics by arbitrarily revoking security clearances. Stay tuned," Warner said in a Twitter post on Friday.

Earlier this week Trump revoked the security clearance of former CIA Director John Brennan, a vocal critic of the president, which drew the ire of opponents and free speech advocates.

The White House is also reviewing the security clearances of other Obama administration officials including former FBI Director James Comey and former Director of National Intelligence James Clapper.

Brennan in a recent New York Times piece accused Trump of colluding with Russia vis-a-vis the 2016 election - a charge the president and the Kremlin have repeatedly denied.

On Friday, Senator Rand Paul in an interview said Brennan deserved to have his clearance revoked for leaking classified intelligence information.

Comment: No one in the Trump administration has been more punished and intimidated than the president.

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Puppet Masters

"We see the games they play": Erdogan says Turkey won't bow to US

All US sanctions against Russia are based on lies

Trump: 'We won't let discrimination against conservatives happen on social media'

WH preps more security clearance cancellations

NYT: White House counsel cooperates with 'Russiagate' probe, Trump says he allowed it

Examining the real John McCain

Judicial Watch: Reopen the Hillary email investigation; more classified information has surfaced

Biden: Trump underestimates Brennan if he thinks he can gag ex-CIA chief John Brennan

Trump: 'Syria stabilization fund ridiculous, let other countries pay'

US Democrats to propose constitutional amendment to block Trump from revoking clearances

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