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Elites protecting their own: State Dept. says it can't find emails of former Clinton IT staffer


RT
Tue, 10 May 2016 13:23 UTC
Clinton and staffer
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U.S. Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Clinton and Bryan Pagliano, aide to former U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton.
The State Department says it cannot find emails to or from former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton's senior information technology staffer, Bryan Pagliano, dating from her tenure.

Pagliano, who set up and maintained Clinton's private server, is a key witness in the FBI inquiry into Clinton's handling of sensitive material on that server.

He was granted immunity by the Justice Department in exchange for his cooperation.

State Department spokesman Elizabeth Trudeau said in a press briefing Monday that "the Department has searched for Mr. Pagliano's email pst file and has not located one that covers the time period of Secretary Clinton's tenure."

"To be clear, the Department does have records related to Mr. Pagliano and we are working with Congress and FOIA [Freedom of Information Act] requesters to provide relevant material. The Department has located a pst from Mr. Pagliano's recent work at the Department as a contractor, but the files are from after Secretary Clinton left the Department," Trudeau added.

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Star of David

Israel imposes travel ban on BDS founder Omar Barghouti

Palestinian BDS National Committee
Mondo Weiss
Wed, 11 May 2016 13:23 UTC
Omar Barghouti

Omar Barghouti
Israel has officially refused to renew the travel document of Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions (BDS) movement co-founder Omar Barghouti in a move that amounts to a travel ban and is an escalation of its attacks on Palestinian human rights defenders who nonviolently advocate for Palestinian rights under international law.

Barghouti, who lives with his family in Acre, has Israeli permanent residency and requires an Israeli travel document to be able to travel in and out of Palestine/Israel. His immediate reaction was: "I am unnerved but certainly undeterred by these threats. Nothing will stop me from struggling for my people's freedom, justice and peace".

Israel's decision not to grant a renewal of the travel document on baseless bureaucratic pretenses is being viewed by human rights experts as the first step towards revoking Barghouti's permanent residency.

Israeli Interior Minister Aryeh Deri had threatened as much at a recent anti-BDS conference held in Jerusalem when he disclosed that he was "inclined to fulfill" a request he had received from a far-right Israeli member of parliament to revoke Barghouti's permanent residency.
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Bad Guys

Analyst Walt Peretto: Obama a factor in a psychopathic global agenda


Press TV
Tue, 10 May 2016 04:53 UTC
Obama
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Obama's link in the chain: Caught in the middle or holding his own?
"Improved race relations" in the United States under President Barack Obama is a "distraction from the progression of the global psychopathic agenda," according to an American writer and researcher who is based in Washington, DC.

During his commencement speech at Howard University in Washington on Saturday, Obama said that, "race relations are better" since he graduated from the university in 1983, but noted "the country is still suffering from inequality and racism." The United States is in "a better place today," Obama added, citing his historic election as "one indicator of how attitudes have changed."

"While it appears that the United States as a society is becoming more tolerant and more equal with less obstacles for minorities, the society as a whole is on a slippery slope when it comes to basic human rights like privacy and freedom of speech," Walt Peretto told Press TV on Monday.

"The 9/11 false flag attacks and other events since 2000s, like the wars in the Middle East, mass migrations into Europe from Syria due to the supporting of violent mercenaries and drone strikes has turned much of the Middle East into chaos," the analyst stated.

"Here at home police brutality has been rampant under Obama's watch. This certainly does not help race relations. We still have a stop and frisk policy in New York and numerous other problems that effect most people across the board which is part of a larger agenda that wants to transform the United States and the world into a greatly depopulated planet with a single global government."

"Obama is part of this agenda and he is merely one link in this chain that will eventually reach a New World Order unless we all realize that the impetus behind this global agenda is a ruling class that are largely bred to be devoid of empathy, guilt, and remorse," Peretto said. "This way they are not impeded by these normal human emotions as they carry out their 'family businesses' in international finance, intelligence agencies, and politics," he added. "These clinically psychopathic elites are behind the funding and promotion of politicians like Barack Obama, David Cameron in the UK, Angela Merkel in Germany, etc. The elites want their own puppets in these positions to constantly make promises to the masses that they have little intention of keeping," the commentator noted.

Comment: Living in a world whose morals and customs are meaningless to them and even seen as oppressive, psychopaths dream of a "happy" and "just" world where their depraved worldview is accepted as reality. They seek, by any means necessary, to achieve positions in government where their dreams can be brought to fruition. Ponerogenic groups are those with a statistically high number of pathological individuals, to the point that the group as a whole exercises egotistical and pathological behavior. Deviants function as leaders and ideological spellbinders, and while normal people may act as members, they have typically accumulated various psychological deficiencies. These groups can either infiltrate existing governments or exert their influence from "behind the scenes." Bribery, blackmail, murder and similar terror tactics are used to achieve these ends. Individuals with varying psychological defects will fill roles in which their particular 'gift' is applicable. "The earlier phase of a ponerogenic union's activity is usually dominated by characteropathic, particularly paranoid individuals, who often play an inspirational or spellbinding role. -Political Ponerology by Andrew M. Lobaczewski, excerpts

With the above as a guide to the underbelly of government, it is easy to see why Obama was selected (a glib audience-pleaser) and how his thin "shell of decency" has been exploited. Whether Obama is a natural psychopath or not, he has, by choice or default, been fulfilling his role in the grand and diabolical scheme of the psychopathic agenda. As many societies all over the world are in its clutches, it is essential individuals and nations recognize this prototype, this pattern, and make all efforts possible to expose its perpetrators and intent.

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Israel seizes Palestinian family's land and gives it to radical group led by convicted terrorist

Matt Broomfield
The Independent
Mon, 09 May 2016 13:07 UTC
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Run by convicted terrorist Ze'ev Hever, Amana builds illegal settlements in the West Bank
The Israeli government has been accused of seizing land belonging to a Palestinian family and handing it over to be used for the new headquarters of a radical Zionist organisation.

According to an investigation by Israeli news source Haaretz, the land has been given to Amana, an NGO which builds illegal settlements and outposts in the occupied West Bank.

The group was formed as an offshoot of the messianic Zionist movement Gush Emunim, and is run by Ze'ev Hever, a convicted terrorist.

The Israeli government has helped Amana set up new headquarters on the land, Haaretz reported, without informing the Abu Ta'ah family that their land was being expropriated.

Officials have been accused of redrawing existing property maps and hiding vital documents from the property's owners.
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Snakes in Suits

Despite NATO increasing activities, Erdogan criticizes it over low military activity in Black Sea


Sputnik
Wed, 11 May 2016 12:38 UTC
Recep Tayyip Erdogan
© REUTERS/ Murad Sezer
Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan condemned Wednesday NATO's insufficient military presence in the Black Sea and urged the Alliance to enhance cooperation in the area.

"We should enhance our coordination and cooperation in the Black Sea. We hope for concrete results from the NATO summit in Warsaw on July 8, 9... The Black Sea should be turned into the sea of stability. I told the NATO secretary general that you are absent in the Black Sea and that is why it has nearly become a Russian lake. We should perform our duty as we are the countries with access to the Black Sea. If we do not take action, history will not forgive us," Erdogan said in Istanbul.

According to Erdogan, the admission of Bosnia and Herzegovina and Macedonia to NATO is important for security and stability in the region.
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Snakes in Suits

Erdogan lashing out: Accuses EU of harboring terror groups, urges bloc to fix own laws


RT
Wed, 11 May 2016 12:30 UTC
erdogan
© Adem Altan / AFP
Turkey's president has refused to bring the country's anti-terror laws in line with EU standards, claiming Europe lecturing Ankara is a "black comedy", as it offers safe haven to terrorist groups' political wings and refuses to fix its own flawed laws.

"European countries continue to be safe havens for the political extensions of terrorist groups. When this is the case, it's a piece of black comedy that the EU criticizes our country over the definition of terrorism," Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan said in Ankara on Tuesday.

Turkey continues to hold the EU hostage over the migrant crisis, as the country ultimately aims to join the bloc. Meanwhile, it has been pursuing visa-free travel negotiations. Last week Brussels urged Ankara to amend its terrorism laws in line with EU standards. Erdogan refused.
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Bloodletting continues: At least 52 killed, 78 injured in Baghdad ISIS-claimed car bombing


RT
Wed, 11 May 2016 12:14 UTC
People gather at the scene of a car bomb attack in Baghdad's mainly Shi'ite district of Sadr City, Iraq, May 11, 2016
© Wissm al-Okili / Reuters
People gather at the scene of a car bomb attack in Baghdad's mainly Shi'ite district of Sadr City, Iraq, May 11, 2016.
A car bombing attack in Baghdad claimed by Islamic State killed at least 52 people and injured dozens of others, Reuters reports citing hospital and police sources. The car bomb set of in a Shiite Muslim district of the Iraqi capital.

An SUV rigged with explosives was parked near a beauty salon in a busy market in the Sadr City neighborhood, Iraqi police reported.

The bomb was detonated by a suicide bomber, a media outlet that sympathizes with Islamic State (IS, formerly ISIS/ISIL) reported.

The blast killed over 20 people on the spot while others succumbed to their wounds shortly after. At least 60 people were injured by the blast, and many remain in critical condition.

Comment: The US seems completely powerless to stop the ISIS carnage. It makes you wonder, are they really serious about fighting ISIS? It doesn't look like it.

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Turkey on 'dead-end path' as Erdogan consolidates unchallenged power


Sputnik
Wed, 11 May 2016 02:42 UTC
Erdogan ape
© De Telegraaf
With the resignation of Prime Minister Ahmet Davutoglu, the Turkish president is on a fast track to consolidate unchallenged power.

"Davutoglu didn't even give an honest reason why he's going. It was a surprise to all us," an official familiar with Turkey's ruling Justice and Development Party (AKP), told Deutsche Welle.

The Turkish prime minister announced that he would step down last week. The move wasn't entirely unexpected, as tensions between Davutoglu and President Recep Tayyip Erdogan had been building, but the impact of Davutoglu's decision could have major consequences for the future of Turkey.

"I want to be optimistic, but I have to say that Turkish political life is heading down a dead-end path," KONDA polling company director Tarhan Erdem told DW. "From this point forward, we will not be able to estimate what will happen in society. That is to say, Turkey has embarked on an unforeseeable process."

Erdem points to Erdogan's increasingly dictatorial tactics, including punishing journalists and academics who are critical of the Turkish government.

Comment: Further reading: Western democracy: Turkish MP threatens to shoot Kurdish MP in parliament

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Bad Guys

NSA-inspired coup in Brazil aims to create 'gory constitutional crisis'


Sputnik
Wed, 11 May 2016 02:37 UTC
Rousseff Brazil
© Host photo agency
Dilma Rousseff
One day after the Brazilian people breathed a sigh of relief after the lower house impeachment vote was annulled, that decision was unheroically walked back, creating what may become a gory constitutional crisis.

On Monday, Brazilian President Dilma Rousseff saw the effort to oust her in a legal coup suddenly all but called off, when acting speaker of Brazil's lower house Waldir Maranhao moved to annul the April 17 impeachment vote, citing procedural improprieties.

But on Tuesday the mercurial Brazilian impeachment circus stunned the world again when Maranhao renounced his own move to annul the April 17 vote, increasing the likelihood that Rousseff will face a 180-day suspension from office when the country's Senate votes on Wednesday, paving the way for the unpopular conservative, Vice President Michel Temer, to assume the presidency.

Brazilians fear that Temer and his unelected Brazilian Democratic Movement Party will move quickly to privatize the country's natural resources and institute austerity measures in Latin America's most populous country.

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Arrow Up

Syrians take to the streets protesting against US imperialism, flagrant violation of country's sovereignty


ANBA
Sat, 07 May 2016 20:14 UTC
syrians protest us presence
Syrian people took to the streets in southeastern city of Hasakah on Friday and burned the US Flag.

People of Hasakah, who were angry with the arrival of 250 US soldiers to the Kurdish-controlled town of Rumeilan without Syrian government's mandate, condemned "the US imperialism" and the "illegal presence" of US troops in the Hasakah province, Iraq-based Ara News reported.

State-run SANA news agency cited Hasakah Governor Mohamad Zaal al-Ali as saying "The stand of Hasakah people is a confirmation that the existence of such [American] troops in Rumelan means a conspiracy against Syrian people, who refuse to let those who supported terrorism against their country to have their troops on Syrian soil," reported.

A similar rally had earlier been held on Wednesday as local residents called for American Troops expulsion from their country.

"We are categorically against the impermissible and flagrant violation of our country's sovereignty. We will not allow American boots on our soil. We are also against any plans for a division or federalization of Syria," Al-Hasakah Governor Mohammad Zaal told on Wednesday.

On April 28, US President Barack Obama announced that Washington would "deploy up to 250 additional US personnel in Syria including Special Forces." They are reportedly expected to train the Syrian Democratic Forces.
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