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Analysis of what Clinton's emailgate, pay-to-play and a looming GE crash have in common

Ekaterina Blinova
Sputnik
Thu, 29 Nov 2018 20:19 UTC
BilHil
© UnknownClinton Global Fraud Initiative
Yet again clouds are gathering on the horizon of General Electric, Wall Street analyst Charles Ortel told Sputnik, explaining how GE's potential market crash is connected to Hillary Clinton's email saga and the Clinton Foundation's 'pay-to-play' schemes.

General Electric Company may soon bite the dust due to its misshapen financial policies, says Wall Street analyst and investigative journalist Charles Ortel who uncovered GE's financial discrepancies in 2007, before its stock crashed.

'By 2007, I figured out, analysing publicly available data only, that GE was actually a structurally challenged and bad bank hiding inside a difficult to understand, complex, and sprawling multinational concern, I also discovered that the non-finance portion of GE was not growing its revenues, and seemed to be generating declining cash flow margins', Ortel recalled speaking to Sputnik.

Comment: According to Ortel, there is not an empowered global regulator to monitor, advise and discipline multinational companies, nor the ability to prosecute global companies engaged in scheme strategies. Unregulated Globalism: the Predators win.

Corporate Responsibility Before International Institutions:
"Generally, international law is characterized by a lack of international enforcement mechanisms, and both indirect and direct international obligations may exist without the possibility of international enforcement."

"No international tribunal authorized to prosecute corporations exists or has existed."


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Trump: Next meeting with Kim Jong-un likely in early 2019

Nicole Chavez
CNN
Sun, 02 Dec 2018 05:13 UTC
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© UnknownNorth Korean Leader Kim Jong-un • US President Donald Trump
President Donald Trump said a second summit with North Korea's Kim Jong Un will likely take place in January or February.

"We're getting along very well," Trump told reporters aboard Air Force One during the return trip from the G20 summit in Buenos Aires, Argentina. "We have a good relationship with Kim."

The first Trump-Kim summit took place in June in Singapore but Trump has said the next meeting will probably take place at a new location. The two countries are considering three sites for the potential summit, Trump said on Saturday, but he did not offer up details about where those sites were.

When asked if Kim would come to the US for a visit apart from the second summit, Trump said "at some point" he will. The President's comments came hours after Trump and Chinese President Xi Jinping held a working meeting in Argentina, discussing several issues that included a temporary freeze on higher tariffs, fentanyl reclassification as a controlled substance, and the North Korea peninsula.

Comment: Progress has been made by pacing the demands and reforms. For a callout on MSM twists to shape opinion, second-guess policy, and not relate the facts, see also: 'A great deception' is the latest accusation against N. Korea

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SOTT Focus: Actual Fake News: The Guardian/Politico Psy-op Against Wikileaks

Caitlin Johnstone
American Herald Tribune
Sat, 01 Dec 2018 00:00 UTC
Manafort/Assange
© Zero Hedge/mediabite.org/KJN
For the first few hours after any new "bombshell" Russiagate story comes out, my social media notifications always light up with poorly written posts by liberal establishment loyalists saying things like "HAHAHA @caitoz this proves you wrong now will you FINALLY stop denying Russian collusion???" Then, when people start actually analyzing that story and noting that it comes nowhere remotely close to proving that Donald Trump colluded with the Russian government to steal the 2016 election, those same people always forget to come back afterward and admit to me that they were wrong again.

This happens every single time, including this past Tuesday when the Guardian published a new "bombshell" report saying that former Trump campaign manager Paul Manafort had had secret meetings with WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange. When experts all across the political spectrum began pointing out that the story contained no evidence for its nonsensical claims and was entirely anonymously sourced, nobody ever came back and said "Hey sorry for calling you a Russian propagandist, Caitlin; turns out that story wasn't as fact-based as I'd thought!" When evidence for a single one of the article's claims failed to turn up for a day, then two days, then three days, nobody came back and said "Gosh Caitlin, I owe you an apology for mocking you and calling you Assange's bitch; turns out WikiLeaks and Manafort are suing that publication and its claims remain completely unproven."

And of course they didn't. They weren't meant to. They were meant to absorb the Guardian's false claims as fact, add it to their Gish gallop mountain of false evidence for Trump-Russia-WikiLeaks collusion, and then be shuffled onward by the relentless news churn of the corporate propaganda matrix like always.

But I'm never going to let them forget that this happened, and neither should you.

Comment: Dismantled and proven to be a lie, the story was run as if fact. A tool of the establishment, MSM is beyond remembering what integrity and responsibility to accuracy 'truly' means.

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Arrow Up

Russia-Saudi foundation will invest $2B in Russia in 2019


Sputnik
Sun, 02 Dec 2018 08:13 UTC
MBS/Putin
© AP/Natacha PisarenkoSaudi Arabia Crown Prince Mohammed-bin-Salman • Russian President Vladimir Putin
Around $2 billion worth of funds from a Russian-Saudi foundation will be invested in Russia in 2019, the chief executive of the Russian Direct Investment Fund, a sovereign wealth fund, said Saturday.

"We plan to increase investment in Russia by the joint Russian-Saudi fund by an extra $2 billion next year," Kirill Dmitriev told reporters on the margins of the G20 Summit in Buenos Aires.

Dmitriev also noted that Russian President Vladimir Putin discussed with Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman al Saud the issue of stepping up Riyadh's investments in Russian projects during the bilateral meeting on the G20 sidelines on Saturday.

"During the meeting, the Saudi crown prince and President Putin discussed the issue of increasing Saudi Arabia's investments in Russian projects," Dmitriev told reporters on Saturday.

Comment: So, America's big buddy is investing in Russia...Hmmm!

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UN demands Israel withdraw from occupied Golan Heights

Leith Aboufadel
AMN
Fri, 30 Nov 2018 00:00 UTC
Golan Heights Syrians
© SANA
For the second time this month, the United Nations held a vote on the Golan Heights region, which is currently occupied by Israel. The General Assembly held a vote on Friday reiterating the UN's demand that Israel withdraw from the Golan Heights.

According to the Syrian Arab News Agency (SANA), the majority of the UN General Assembly agreed that Israel should withdraw from the Golan Heights and adhere to borders drawn up in Resolution 242.

The Assembly denounced Israel's non-compliance with Security Council Resolution 497, asserting that Israel's decision to impose its laws, jurisdiction, and administration over the Syrian Golan is null and void.

In a statement after the resolution was adopted, acting charge d'affaires of Syria's permanent delegation at the UN, Munzer Munzer, expressed his heartfelt gratitude to all the states that voted in favor of the resolution and the other resolutions listed under the "Palestinian Cause" and "Situation in the Middle East" articles.
About the Author:

Leith Aboufadel is Editor-in-Chief, specializing in Near Eastern Affairs and Economics.

Comment: How will the UN enforce its mandate?

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'A recipe for disaster': Divisions make united EU seat at UNSC nearly impossible


RT
Fri, 30 Nov 2018 10:55 UTC
French envoy Francois Delattre UNSC
© Reuters/Amr AlfikyFrench envoy Francois Delattre in UN Security Council session.
France strongly rebuffed a German idea to share its powerful veto-wielding status at the UN Security Council (UNSC) with other EU nations. Deep rifts within the union render the proposal "a recipe for disaster," RT has been told.

The suggestion for France to transform its UNSC membership into a joint EU seat came from Germany's Finance Minister Olaf Scholz. "This will take some convincing in Paris," he said on Wednesday, "but it would be a bold and smart goal." In exchange for converting its UN Security Council seat into a collective EU seat, France will get to choose "the EU representative to the UN," the German official added.

Alongside the US, Russia, China and the UK, France is a permanent UNSC member nation with veto power.

It is not entirely clear how serious Olaf Scholz, who also serves as vice chancellor, was about his proposal, but his words caused a stir in the French media. The head of the left-wing La France Insoumise party, Jean-Luc Melenchon, said remodeling of the French seat was "unacceptable." Political strategist Charlotte Girard branded the idea coming from Berlin a "gross annexation" of France's UN status.

The French envoy to the US, Gerard Araud argued that it would be "politically impossible" to alter his nation's seat in favor of a wider EU representation. The Foreign Ministry followed up on Thursday, saying that the French diplomats are already working at the UN "in coordination" with the EU.

They noted, however, that Paris supports Germany getting its own permanent UNSC seat.

Comment: As only individual countries are seated, UNSC would have to vote and approve new rules to accommodate a seat for 'a collective' EU and that is unlikely to happen.

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US nuclear subs in Russia's Arctic? Putin comments on surreal Hollywood flick: 'Highly unlikely'


RT
Sun, 02 Dec 2018 17:13 UTC
screencap hollywood submarine movie Russia
© YouTube / Lionsgate MoviesScreenshot "Hunter Killer"
No US submarine would ever be allowed near Russia's Arctic shores, Putin has stated, ridiculing the plot of a recent Hollywood movie in which an American sub captain rescues a Russian leader captured by military coup plotters.

Putin found the story line of Donovan Marsh's Hunter Killer blockbuster a "highly unlikely" scenario, to say the least, when, at the end of G20 press conference, he was suddenly asked what he thinks about the plot where an American Virginia-class submarine docks at a Russian Arctic base after rescuing a Russian President from captivity, preventing a military coup and averting World War III.

Comment: Hollywood fantasies are for purely domestic consumption, meant to keep the lie of US superiority going. 'Murrica!

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Dead as a doorhandle: Why the UK and BBC's explanation for the Skripal poisoning simply doesn't work

Rob Slane
The Blogmire
Sat, 01 Dec 2018 17:00 UTC
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One of the tell-tale signs that an action or actions are being covered up is that the explanations given for them keep shifting - basically because the ones previously given do not comport with reality. Yet with each new shift, more reality contortions are seen and more questions raised. Objective reality is a kicker, isn't it?

This is basically what the BBC Panorama programme - Salisbury Nerve Agent Attack: the Inside Story - did. Its account of Detective Sergeant Nick Bailey is a case in point. Let me once again state that I do not know what Mr Bailey's role was in the events of 4th March. What I do know with absolute certainty, however, is that the account he gave on the Panorama programme was completely at odds with many previous accounts we have heard from both the media and public officials of high rank. For instance:
  • The British Prime Minister, Theresa May, stated a few days after the incident that, "In particular, my thoughts are with DS Nick Bailey, one of the first responders, who remains in a serious condition in hospital." And the then Home Secretary, Amber Rudd, stated of Mr Bailey that he was "one of the first responders on Sunday, acting selflessly to help others." It's all very odd, though, since according to Mr Bailey not only was he not a first responder, he wasn't even at the bench at the same time that the Skripals were said to be there.
  • According to media reports drawing on testimony from Mr Skripal's neighbours, police arrived at 47 Christie Miller Road at 5pm on 4th March. I assume that they entered the property, or at least tried, as I cannot imagine they just turned up to admire the curtains. Yet according to the Panorama programme, Mr Bailey was the first official to attempt to enter the house, and this was around midnight.
  • According to the BBC correspondent, Mark Urban, Mr Bailey approached the front door, but on finding it wouldn't open "went around to the back of the property, where he managed to gain entry." But according to the BBC Panorama account, Mr Bailey and a colleague entered the house via the front door. Which BBC are we to believe?
Now I know that we live in days when subjective truth is trying very hard to knock objective truth off its perch, but this won't do. A=A and A will never = non-A. If Mr Bailey was a hero first responder at the bench when the Skripals were there - as the Prime Minister, the Home Secretary and other officials claimed - then he cannot not have been at the bench when the Skripals were there, can he? His being there as a first responder, and his not being there as a first responder cannot both be true, can they? Like I say, objective reality really is a kicker, and it's clear that someone's being economical with the actualité. And yet no one on that programme had the honour to explain why we'd been told something, and were now being told something completely incompatible.

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Xi Jinping and Donald Trump agree to trade truce at G20

Zhou Xin
South China Morning Post
Sun, 02 Dec 2018 06:23 UTC
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US President Donald Trump and Chinese President Xi Jinping appeared to have reached a trade war truce on Saturday as they met across a dinner table at the G20 summit in Buenos Aires, Argentina.

State-run China Daily and Chinese international broadcaster CGTN both said Trump and Xi agreed to not add additional tariffs "after January 1" - when Washington was set to raise the tariff rate on US$200 billion of Chinese imports from 10 per cent to 25 per cent.

Details of trade truce agreement, including what concessions China made, were not immediately available.

The White House did not immediately comment on the outcome of the meeting on the sidelines of the summit. Senior Trump adviser Larry Kudlow said the talks went "very well", but would not elaborate.

Comment: So there's still a month to go, and who knows if the US will stick to its word. But in the end, the US either gets with the program or gets left behind: Also check out SOTT radio's: Behind the Headlines: Trump Ditches Europe, Europe Bluffs, Russia and China Carry on With Eurasian Integration

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CIA still gunning for MBS, reveal he sent 11 messages to head of Khashoggi hit team hours before and after murder

Tyler Durden
Zero Hedge
Sat, 01 Dec 2018 16:53 UTC
mbs putin
No Trump.
It has been nearly two months to the day since Jamal Khashoggi walked into the Saudi consulate in Istanbul hoping to retrieve papers needed to marry his Turkish fiance - only to be killed and butchered by a 15-man Saudi murder squad. In the intervening weeks, the Saudis have suffered remarkably little blowback (considering that the uproar elicited by Khashoggi's murder nearly triggered a global diplomatic crisis): To date, the US and Canada have levied sanctions against a 17 Saudis suspected of participating or orchestrating Khashoggi's murder, and a handful of countries who don't sell arms to Saudi Arabia have said they will stop selling arms to Saudi Arabia. Meanwhile, both Canada and the US have balked at similar measures because they would inevitably kill jobs.

Clearly concerned about the flagging interest in holding Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman accountable for his suspected role in ordering the killing, the CIA has decided to pick up where Turkey left off.

Last week, somebody inside the agency leaked a preliminary report to the Washington Post detailing the agency's determination that MbS had ordered the killing. And on Saturday morning, the Wall Street Journal published the latest (illegal) intelligence agency leak when it reported on the contents of intercepts revealing that during the hours after and immediately before the killing, MbS had exchanged 11 messages with Saud al-Qahtani, a close aide to the prince who is believed to have supervised the murder squad.
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