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Duterte announces intention to retire as Filipino leader by 2020


RT
Wed, 28 Feb 2018 18:34 UTC
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© Romeo Ranoco / Reuters
Rodrigo Duterte, leader of the Philippines, has said that he no longer has the energy to run the country and will seek to retire early instead of completing his term as president. "I will not wait until 2022," he claimed.

Opposition figures and international human rights organizations have long decried Duterte's supposed dictatorial tendencies, which included leading a brutal drugs war that has left thousands dead. It now appears his term will end sooner than expected with Duterte insisting he "will step down by 2020."

"I am old. I have no more ambition. I really would like to rest," the 72-year-old strongman added. The remarks are an apparent move to allay domestic fears that Duterte seeks to emulate former Filipino dictator Ferdinand Marcos.

Marcos ruled the island nation from 1965 until he was ousted by the "people's power" revolution in 1986, and was notoriously corrupt. The dictator himself was characterized by his extravagance and brutality.
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Pentagon admits no proof of E. Ghouta chem attack - blames Russia anyway


RT
Wed, 28 Feb 2018 16:57 UTC
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© Bassam Khabieh / Reuters
Smoke rises from East Ghouta neighborhood in Damascus, Syria, on February 27, 2018.
The Pentagon admits it used NGO reports on alleged recent chemical attacks in Syria and cannot confirm if they even took place. The lack of evidence, however, did not get in the way of the latest Russia blame game galore.

Russia was predictably the target of a barrage of accusations from the West after reports claimed that several people in the Damascus suburb of East Ghouta, which is controlled by militant groups, suffered symptoms consistent with exposure to chlorine gas on Sunday. The western media immediately took the opportunity to put the blame for what it called a suspected "chemical weapons attack" on the Syrian government and Moscow, which has been backing Bashar Assad's forces in their fight against terrorist groups.

Western officials were quick to accuse Damascus of being behind the incident. British Foreign Secretary Boris Johnson said that the West should not "stand idly by" if it is proven that the Syrian government launched this attack.

Comment: Psychopaths have no imagination. They keep dragging out the same story, only to have it refuted. Fact don't bother them though, they just plow on with their own version of reality.

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The screws tighten around Netanyahu as he's named by state prosecutor in new bribery scandal


RT
Wed, 28 Feb 2018 18:26 UTC
Netanyahu
© Nir Elias / Reuters
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu
Israeli MP Benjamin Netanyahu, already under investigation for two instances of corruption, may complete a hat-trick. A state prosecutor has named Netanyahu as the beneficiary of a PR scheme worth "up to a billion shekels."

Earlier this month, police recommended Netanyahu be indicted for allegations of bribery, fraud and breach of trust. These are being addressed in two separate investigations, known as Case 1000 and Case 2000.

However, the Israeli leader now risks being dragged into another scandal-ridden investigation - Case 4000 - that revolves around his former media adviser striking a deal with communications giant Bezeq for positive coverage in return for business favors. Alongside his ongoing tenure as Prime Minister, Netanyahu also served as the country's communications minister from 2014 to 2017. As such he directly benefited from the alleged deal, state prosecutor Yehudit Tirosh said in a hearing on Tuesday.
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Lavrov: US training EU armies to nuke Russia


PressTV
Wed, 28 Feb 2018 19:10 UTC
Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov
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Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov (R), flanked by Russia's newly-appointed UN Ambassador Gennady Gatilov, addresses the UN disarmament conference in Geneva, February 28, 2018
Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov has accused the United States of hurdling international nuclear disarmament efforts by training European armies to use tactical nuclear weapons against Russia.

Addressing the United Nations Conference on Disarmament on Wednesday, Lavrov said the US military had deployed strategic and non-strategic weapons across Europe and was using them in joint military exercises with other European countries, including the NATO military alliance's non-nuclear members.

"As we all know, these nuclear missions violate the Non-Proliferation Treaty (NPT), and non-nuclear states plan and take part in the US exercises and learn how to use the nuclear weapons," he said.
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Russia is laughing at Mueller's indictment of 13 Russian nationals

Leah Barkoukis
Townhall.com
Mon, 26 Feb 2018 18:07 UTC
Maria Zakharova

Russian Foreign Ministry spokeswoman Maria Zakharova
The Justice Department's charges filed against 13 Russian nationals for interfering in the 2016 U.S. presidential election have not been taken seriously by Russian officials.

In fact, some, including Maria Zakharova, spokeswoman for Russia's Foreign Ministry, have considered the indictment so absurd that it could be the work of a professional comedian.

"I sometimes get the impression that ... behind these statements that are made in the U.S. are some of their most popular comedians, maybe Jim Carrey," she said, reports state news agency Tass.
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Putin: Moscow will not forever tolerate the shelling in eastern Ghouta that hit Russian embassy


RT
Wed, 28 Feb 2018 17:44 UTC
Kurz Putin
© Alexei Druzhinin / Sputnik
Russian President Vladimir Putin and Chancellor of Austria Sebastian Kurz, in Moscow on February 28,2017.
Moscow is not going to keep tolerating the daily shelling of Damascus by eastern Ghouta militants that recently hit the Russian embassy in Syria, President Vladimir Putin said after meeting Austrian Chancellor Sebastian Kurz.

The current hotspot of the Syrian crisis - Eastern Ghouta on the outskirts of Damascus - is being used by numerous terrorist groups as a base, from which they launch attacks on the capital and other areas in the country, Putin said, responding to a Russian media journalist's question on the situation there. Damascus is being shelled up to 80 times a day from the besieged area.

Putin particularly stressed that the Russian embassy in Damascus has come under mortar fire. The building has been shelled and suffered damage on numerous occasions during the Syrian conflict. On February 6, the Russian trade mission in the Syrian capital was also targeted. Luckily, the building was unoccupied, but civilians were injured in the attack.
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US top general complains to Congress that Russia 'threatens our ability to dominate Middle East region'


RT
Wed, 28 Feb 2018 17:17 UTC
General Joseph Votel
© General Joseph Votel, commander of US Central Command
General Joseph Votel, commander of US Central Command
The US is seeking to contain Iran's rising influence in the Middle East and fend off challenges to Washington's hegemony posed by Russia and China, the top general commanding US forces in the region told Congress.

General Joseph Votel, head of the US Central Command (CENTCOM), briefed the House Armed Services Committee (HASC) on Tuesday on the efforts against Islamic State (IS, formerly ISIS/ISIL) and the wars in Syria, Afghanistan, and Yemen. All of which fall under the purview of CENTCOM, "the only geographic combatant command executing active combat operations," Votel pointed out.

The US has partitioned the globe into six combatant commands. Under this arrangement, CENTCOM's area of responsibility extends from the Libyan border with Egypt to Pakistan's border with India, and from Kazakhstan's border with Russia to Sudan.
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Federal judge backs up Trump on border wall challenge


Spectrum News Jamestown
Wed, 28 Feb 2018 17:07 UTC
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© AFP Photo/GUILLERMO ARIAS
Border wall prototypes rise at the US/Mexico border in Tijuana, Mexico on January 22, 2018
A federal judge in San Diego who was taunted by Donald Trump during the presidential campaign has sided with the president on a challenge to building a border wall with Mexico.

U.S. District Judge Gonzalo Curiel on Tuesday rejected arguments by the state of California and advocacy groups that the administration overreached by waiving laws requiring environmental and other reviews before construction could begin.

The challengers said a law that gave the Homeland Security secretary authority to waive the reviews had expired.

The ruling removes a potentially big obstacle for one of Trump signature campaign pledges. Environmental reviews are subject to legal challenges that can significantly delay or block construction.

Trump berated Curiel during the campaign for his handling of fraud allegations against now-defunct Trump University, suggesting the Indiana-born judge's Mexican heritage reflected a bias.
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Congress attempting to pass Bill H.R.1865, removing protections of site owners for what their users post

Kannibal
Investment Watch Blog
Wed, 28 Feb 2018 16:45 UTC
hooded internet user troll
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Link to the bill itself:

https://www.congress.gov/bill/115th-congress/house-bill/1865

This enables one troll or spammer with CP to effectively kill any website they don't like for any petty reason. Smaller sites don't have the resources or manpower to maintain surveillance over their websites unlike Reddit. This will kill smaller content creators internet wide and lose tons of great smaller communities.

Spread this around and call your congressman to vote NO on the "Allow States and Victims to Fight Online Sex Trafficking Act of 2017" (FOSTA)

The Electronic Frontier Foundation goes into even more detail on how that hurts smaller websites from sustaining themselves and even hurts the victims of Sex Trafficking as well
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Vader

The CIA, Soros And Obama vs. Democracy - Why the US Empire Has No Moral High Ground

Paul Jacob
Townhall
Sun, 25 Feb 2018 16:45 UTC
puppet strings
Is American foreign policy so foreign to our values that those who have served at the very pinnacle of the national intelligence agencies have trouble telling the truth?

"Have we ever tried to meddle in other countries' elections?" Laura Ingraham, host of Fox News' The Ingraham Angle, asked James Woolsey, director of the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) from 1993 to 1995, during President Clinton's first term.

"Oh, probably," Mr. Woolsey replied. "But, uh, it was for the good of the system, in order to avoid communists from taking over. For example, in Europe in '47-'48-'49, the Greeks and the Italians, we, the CIA-"
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