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Inciting terrorism: Imbecilic journalist suggests Ukies should blow up Kerch Strait Bridge

Tom Rogan
The Washington Examiner
Tue, 15 May 2018 00:00 UTC

Russian President Vladimir Putin opened the Kerch Strait Bridge connecting Crimea, Ukraine, with mainland Russia on Tuesday. Putin did so by in a typical show of bravado by leading a column of transport vehicles across the bridge.

Ukraine should now destroy elements of the bridge.

While that course of action would be an escalation against Putin and one that would almost certainly spark Russian retaliation, this bridge is an outrageous affront to Ukraine's very credibility as a nation. Of course, from Putin's perspective that's the whole point. The bridge cost Russia's near-bankrupt government billions of dollars, but it offers Putin a formal physical and psychological appropriation of Ukrainian territory.

Comment: Sigh...once again we repeat... Russia has not 'appropriated' Ukrainian territory; the Crimean people voted in a referendum and overwhelmingly (>95%) chose to reunite with Russia. And by the way - Russia is hardly bankrupt.

Fortunately Ukraine has the means to launch air strikes against the bridge in a manner that would render it at least temporarily unusable. Because of its significant length, the Ukrainian air force could strike the bridge while mitigating the risk of casualties by those traversing it.

How would Putin respond?

Comment: The author's hysterical rant may explain one of the reasons for Moscow's zealous caution in defending her territorial waters:

Putin: US trade war on China has opened 'huge opportunities' for Russia

RT
Wed, 28 Nov 2018 18:08 UTC

The escalating trade friction between the United States and China is opening the door for Russian producers to enter the Chinese market, Russian President Vladimir Putin said at the global investment forum in Moscow on Wednesday.

"According to WTO estimates, the mutual restrictions recently imposed by G20 countries reduced global trade by almost $500 billion. Is anyone interested in this, including such a large economy as the US? For us this creates certain opportunities," Putin said, explaining that Russia will supply soybeans to China instead of the US.

"The United States supplied in huge quantities, now we will deliver. We agreed with our Chinese friends that we'll supply poultry meat and some other goods. But in fact the Americans themselves voluntarily abandoned this market, a very huge one..," the Russian president stressed.

Why is the latest alleged chemical attack in Syria greeted with scepticism by the West?

Tony Cartalucci
New Eastern Outlook
Wed, 28 Nov 2018 17:49 UTC

On the heels of another alleged chemical attack in Syria - the Western media has responded with skepticism - even silence. This acutely different response to its regular "chemical weapons" hysteria is because unlike previous incidents, it appears this most recent attack was blatantly carried out by Western-backed militants operating in Idlib, Syria.

While evidence of this most recent alleged attack must still be collected and the Organisation for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons (OPCW) has yet to arrive and carry out its investigation, it should be remembered that none of this was previously required by either the Western media to create a storm of hysteria accusing perpetrators - mainly Damascus - and demanding a Western military response, or by Western leaders who would promptly carry out such military responses.

Comment: Russia has tried to blunt some of the propaganda value of this latest attack by publicizing the information it had about terrorist preparations for such an incident. The jihadis themselves only reinforced Russia's stance with a (presumably) non-approved attack. However, the Empire's grip on the mainstream media denies this information to its subjects.

Pedo Podesta returns as self-styled 'expert' on climate change

RT
Wed, 28 Nov 2018 08:30 UTC

John Podesta, the former chairman of Hillary Clinton's presidential campaign whose private emails were infamously published by WikiLeaks, seems to have pivoted into a new arena: Climate change punditry.

Readers may recall that WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange claimed "a 14-year-old kid could have hacked" Podesta's emails because he had once used the word "password" as his computer password and responded to phishing emails.

Now, the newly self-styled expert on climate change has taken aim at the Trump administration for its "politicization of climate science" in the United States. The article comes just days after President Donald Trump dismissed a report on the dangers of climate change which was produced by his own administration. Responding to the report, Trump told journalists: "I don't believe it."

If the politicization of climate science is something Podesta is worried about, perhaps he should have let someone else write the Guardian article. After all, Clinton's former campaign chairman is hardly the most apolitical person to be wheeled out to convince the doubters and deniers of global warming.

Comment: See also:

The Manafort plea-violation story is actually a pardon story

Andrew C. McCarthy
National Review
Wed, 28 Nov 2018 16:11 UTC

© REUTERS/Jonathan Ernst/File Photo
Former Trump campaign manager Paul Manafort arrives for arraignment on a third superseding indictment against him by Special Counsel Robert Mueller on charges of witness tampering, at U.S. District Court in Washington, June 15, 2018.

Special Counsel Robert Mueller's office has informed a federal court that Paul Manafort violated his plea agreement by repeatedly lying to investigators. Prosecutors thus consider the agreement null and void and have asked the court to set a sentencing date immediately.

The alleged breach was outlined in a brief submission to district judge Amy Berman Jackson in Washington, and reported by the New York Times Monday evening. The submission by Andrew Weissmann and other lawyers on Mueller's team does not describe Manafort's allegedly false statements, other than to say that they involve "a variety of subject matters." Prosecutors are planning to file a sentencing memorandum "that sets forth the nature of the defendant's crimes and lies, including those after signing the plea agreement."

In the submission, prosecutors acknowledge that Manafort "believes he has provided truthful information and does not agree with the government's characterization or that he has breached the agreement."

On the surface, it doesn't seem that Manafort's dispute can get him very far. But when we look closer, we realize that this is about more than a plea; it is about a pardon.

Comment: And on the same day as this news, the Guardian publishes a totally fabricated story about Manafort meeting with unspecified Russians at the Ecuadorian embassy. See also:

Ahmed Rashid: Taliban was defeated shortly after invasion, but US refused to pursue political settlement

Sputnik
Wed, 28 Nov 2018 16:03 UTC

More than 17 years after US troops entered Afghanistan and overthrew the Taliban, a Sunni Islamic fundamentalist political movement, the country is still in a state of disarray.

Ahmed Rashid, a journalist and the best-selling author of "Pakistan on the Brink: The Future of America, Pakistan, and Afghanistan" and several books on Afghanistan and Central Asia, including "The Resurgence of Central Asia: Islam or Nationalism," joined Radio Sputnik's Loud & Clear Tuesday to discuss the situation in Afghanistan.

"It's very depressing, quite frankly," Rashid told hosts John Kiriakou and Brian Becker, referring to the fact Afghanistan has for a long time been in a state of political turmoil, with the government unable to establish full control over the country's territory due to various terrorist factions.

In 2017, after extremely tenuous efforts by Afghanistan's national army to thwart terrorist attacks, US President Donald Trump announced a resolution to send more troops to the war-torn state, while also appealing to NATO members to assist by increasing the numbers of their servicemen present in the war zone.

"I think a lot of advice was given to the Americans when they first came into Afghanistan, especially on reconstruction, rehabilitation by people like myself try to give the [then-US President George W.] Bush administration a proper direction. Unfortunately, they did not take that advice. Of course, the biggest mistake they made is going into Iraq; and, of course, by doing so, they took away the best American troops and forces from Afghanistan to Iraq, and those troops never returned for another seven to eight years later, when [then-US President Barack] Obama sent in troops," Rashid said.

Everything leads to the Kremlin: Nigel Farage, Moscow and six degrees of Kevin Bacon

Simon Rite
RT
Tue, 27 Nov 2018 13:50 UTC

I've noticed some journalism recently that owes a debt to the game Six Degrees of Kevin Bacon. Random links are assembled Watergate-style, and it's often pretty believable ... until you get to a subject you know a bit about.

Carole Cadwalladr of the Observer has been joining the dots and last weekend published a lengthy piece under the headline "Who is the real Nigel Farage ... and why won't he answer my questions?" The piece describes her exhaustive attempts to ask the former leader of UKIP awkward questions, including following him all the way to Australia. Reading it made me wonder why the question was needed in the headline, because the reason seems pretty obvious to me. He doesn't want to because she's mean to him.

The Observer labels Farage "Mr Brexit", which we can assume is not meant to be a compliment, but what's really being suggested is he's Mr Kremlin, or one of them, because there's loads of them.

Cadwalladr came to prominence for her work outing the alleged nefarious activities of data devils Cambridge Analytica, and is now embarked on the journalistic equivalent of attempting to find a 'Theory of Everything'; that is to say, she's trying to link everything back to the Kremlin. And good luck to her, because it's a competitive field.

Comment: Script from the 'blame Russia' playbook: Link your enemies to Moscow and they immediately become radioactive!

'If the shoe was on the other foot it would be treason': Trump rips Obama admin for 'spying' on his campaign

Cheyenne Roundtree
The Daily Mail
Mon, 26 Nov 2018 17:04 UTC

President Trump ripped into Obama and his administration for 'spying' on his presidential campaign, claiming if the same had happened to Obama it would be considered treason

President Trump ripped into Obama and his administration for 'spying' on his presidential campaign, claiming if the same had happened to the former president it would be considered treason, audio tapes obtained by DailyMail.com reveal.

In Trump's Enemies: How the Deep State Is Undermining the Presidency, authors Corey Lewandowski, Trump's campaign manager, and David Bossie, deputy campaign manager and part of the transition team, sat down with Trump for a 45-minute interview, covering a wide-range of topics, including the Mueller probe, fake news and his strained relationship with Obama.

When asked if he believed Obama knew that his appointed CIA chief John Brennan and director of national intelligence (DNI) James Clapper were conducting surveillance on citizens, specifically members of his campaign, Trump said he believed the former president was aware of what they were doing.

Trump responded: 'Personally, I think he knew. Yeah. Just remember what they did.

'Let me put it this way: if the shoe were on the other foot, and the same thing happened to him, it would be treason and they'd be locked up for 100 years.'

Comment: The text of the full interview is available here.

US, Europe & NATO risk all-out war by backing unhinged Kiev regime

Finian Cunningham
RT
Tue, 27 Nov 2018 13:11 UTC

With the US, EU and NATO all bolstering claims of "Russian aggression" - in face of contrary evidence - the real danger is that the Kiev regime will be emboldened to carry out more reckless provocations leading to all-out war.

It seems indisputable that the three Ukrainian Navy vessels were dispatched last Sunday in order to instigate a security response from Russian maritime border forces. In contrast to normal procedures for passage clearance through the Kerch Strait, the Ukrainian warships refused to communicate with Russian controls and acted menacingly inside Russia's Black Sea territorial limits.

At a United Nations Security Council emergency meeting on Monday, the US, Britain and France pointedly refused to take on board Russia's legal argument for why it felt obliged to detain the Ukrainian boats and 24 crew. The Western powers automatically sided with the version of events claimed by President Petro Poroshenko - that the Ukrainian Navy was attacked unlawfully by Russia.

The US, EU and NATO denounced Russia's "aggression" and demanded that the Ukrainian vessels and crew be repatriated immediately, even though under Russian law there is a case for prosecution.

It is the West's refusal to acknowledge facts that is part of the problem. Russia is continually accused of "annexing" Crimea in 2014 instead of the Western powers recognizing that the Black Sea peninsula voted in a constitutionally held referendum to secede from Ukraine and join the Russian Federation. Crimea was prompted to take that historic step because the US, EU and NATO had only the month before backed an illegal coup in Kiev against the elected Ukrainian government. That coup brought to power the present Kiev regime led by Poroshenko and a parliament dominated by neo-Nazi parties.

Comment: See also: Sea of Azov provocation: Kiev declares martial law, Russia warns of 'consequences'

Putin: Those pulling dollar out of Russia not just shooting themselves in foot, but a bit higher

RT
Wed, 28 Nov 2018 13:27 UTC

Russia is moving away from the US dollar, but not to the detriment of its own interests, Russian President Vladimir Putin said while speaking at the global investment forum in Moscow on Wednesday.

The Russian president called on the United States to abandon the policy of unilateral sanctions and seek common ground.

"We are not setting the target of moving away from the dollar - the dollar is moving away from us, and those who take respective (sanctions) decisions are shooting themselves not just in the foot, but slightly higher, as such instability in calculations in dollars creates a desire of many global economies to find alternative reserve currencies and create settlement systems independent of the dollar," Putin said.

The Russian economy has adapted to difficulties and is feeling confident; investors have no doubts about its stability, added Putin.

"I think, there is an understanding that despite any crises and even artificially-created difficulties, the Russian economy is adapting to these difficulties, feeling confident, creating conditions for its own internal development," said the Russian president.

Comment: And the reason he can say that is Russia has the numbers to back it up.

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Puppet Masters

Inciting terrorism: Imbecilic journalist suggests Ukies should blow up Kerch Strait Bridge

Putin: US trade war on China has opened 'huge opportunities' for Russia

Why is the latest alleged chemical attack in Syria greeted with scepticism by the West?

Pedo Podesta returns as self-styled 'expert' on climate change

The Manafort plea-violation story is actually a pardon story

Ahmed Rashid: Taliban was defeated shortly after invasion, but US refused to pursue political settlement

Everything leads to the Kremlin: Nigel Farage, Moscow and six degrees of Kevin Bacon

'If the shoe was on the other foot it would be treason': Trump rips Obama admin for 'spying' on his campaign

US, Europe & NATO risk all-out war by backing unhinged Kiev regime

Putin: Those pulling dollar out of Russia not just shooting themselves in foot, but a bit higher

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