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Trump on 9/11 during campaign trail: 'You'll find out who really knocked down The World Trade Center'

Tim Hains
Real Clear Politics
Wed, 17 Feb 2016 00:00 UTC
Trump on 911
At a Wednesday morning campaign event in Bluffton, SC, Donald Trump takes his relitigation of the Bush administration's record on 9/11 and Iraq to the next level, seeming to imply that we don't currently know who "really" committed the 9/11 attacks.

Trump says if he is elected: "you will find out who really knocked down the World Trade Center."

"It wasn't the Iraqis," he explained. "You may find it's the Saudis."

"They have papers in there that are very secret," he also said, referencing the 28 still-classified pages of the 9/11 commission report. "But you will find out."
DONALD TRUMP: We went after Iraq, they did not knock down the World Trade Center. It wasn't the Iraqis that knocked down the World Trade Center, we went after Iraq, we decimated the country, Iran's taking over, okay.

But it wasn't the Iraqis, you will find out who really knocked down the World Trade Center. Because they have papers in there that are very secret, you may find it's the Saudis, okay? But you will find out.

But when I look at a guy like Lindsey Graham, you'll end up being over in that war forever, you'll start World War Three.

Comment: While Trump may not have all the ins and outs of what actually occurred on 9/11, he probably knows some things. But what's just as interesting is how clear he is on the fact that the Iraq war was big mistake, and his disdain for political monstrosities like Lindsay Graham who are behind the drive, effectively, for WWIII.

See also: Did Trump just call out Israel for supporting ISIS on MSNBC?

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UK Home Office propaganda unit detailed in job advertisement


Middle East Eye
Thu, 22 Feb 2018 14:58 UTC
Theresa May (L), then the home secretary, appeared alongside Sara Khan at the 2014 launch of Making A Stand
© (screengrab) Simon Hooper
Theresa May (L), then the home secretary, appeared alongside Sara Khan at the 2014 launch of Making A Stand
The British government is seeking a new head for a Home Office communications unit responsible for producing a series of ostensibly grassroots counter-extremism campaigns targeting British Muslims.

A job advert posted earlier this month offers rare insight into the work of the Research, Information and Communications Unit (RICU), which is based within the Home Office's Office for Counter-Terrorism and Security.

It reveals that RICU, which has been described as disseminating "covert propaganda", has a £40m ($56m) budget and employs about 70 staff delivering a "national and international communications programme" to support the government's counter-terrorism and counter-extremism strategies.

Comment: When the majority of the 'terrorist' activity in one way or another leads back to the established powers in the West, it's not hard to image what message this 'network' will be pushing:

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Erdogan says US is a 'double-faced, liar, crook' country, as he promises a 'hot summer' for the Pentagon

Marko Marjanović
Checkpoint Asia
Fri, 23 Feb 2018 19:37 UTC
Turkish tanks
American charm offensive fails to reassure Erdogan US won't keep driving a dagger into his back

After the latest series of US and Turkish threats, warnings and ultimatums, which culminated with Erdogan saying the Americans were in need of an "Ottoman slap", the US sent over a series of delegations headed by Tillerson, Mattis and McMster to try and repair the relationship:
The Trump administration has embarked on a new campaign to try to repair ties and pull Turkey out of its deepening alliances with Russia and Iran. As part of that, senior U.S officials including Mr. Tillerson, National Security Adviser Lt. Gen. H.R. McMaster and Defense Secretary Jim Mattis, have held intensive talks with Turkish leaders in recent days as they try to persuade Mr. Erdogan to step back from his warming relations with Moscow and Tehran.
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Lavrov calls out US & allies for refusing to amend UN draft to include guarantee Western-backed militants honor Syria ceasefire


RT
Fri, 23 Feb 2018 18:34 UTC
syria war artillary
© Khalil Ashawi / Reuters / File
Washington and its allies refuse to amend a resolution drafted by the UN Security Council to include guarantees that militants will observe the ceasefire in Syria, Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov said.

Russia is ready to vote for the UNSC draft, but for the proposal to yield real results, it needs "a formula allowing the ceasefire to be made real, and based on the guarantees of everyone in Eastern Ghouta [province in Syria] and beyond." Moscow's top diplomat also cautioned that there are no guarantees that the militants will stick to the humanitarian pause instead of a continued shelling of residential areas in Damascus.

These guarantees should be supported by those who can influence "extremist groups" in Eastern Ghouta, Lavrov stressed, apparently referring to the US-led coalition. At the same time, Washington and its allies do not want to pass any amendment that would place responsibility on itself for the militants' failure to stop the hostilities, according to the diplomat.

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US State Department warns Iraq of 'consequences' if it buys Russian S-400 missile systems


PressTV
Fri, 23 Feb 2018 19:24 UTC
Russian-made S-400 surface-to-air missile defense systems
© Photo by Sputnik news agency
This file picture shows Russian-made S-400 surface-to-air missile defense systems on duty in the Crimea peninsula
The United States has warned Iraq, among a number of other countries, of the consequences of extending military cooperation with Russia, and striking deals to purchase advanced weaponry, particularly the S-400 surface-to-air missile defense systems.

US State Department spokeswoman Heather Neuert said on Thursday that Washington has contacted many countries, including Iraq, to explain the significance of the Countering America's Adversaries Through Sanctions Act (CAATSA), and possible consequences that would arise in the wake of defense agreements with Moscow.

On August 2, 2017, US President Donald Trump signed into law the CAATSA that imposed sanctions on Iran, North Korea, and Russia.
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Mueller charges Manafort and Gates with new tax, bank fraud charges - no Russian connection

Josh Gerstein
Politico
Thu, 22 Feb 2018 17:13 UTC
mueller manafort
Special counsel Robert Mueller turned up the pressure on former Trump campaign chairman Paul Manafort and aide Rick Gates, as a federal grand jury returned a new indictment Thursday charging the two men with tax and bank fraud.

The new 32-count indictment returned by a grand jury in Alexandria, Virginia comes after Mueller separately charged the pair in Washington last year with money laundering and failing to register as foreign agents for their work related to Ukraine.

The new indictment accuses Manafort and Gates of dramatically understating their income on federal tax returns filed from 2010 through 2014. The pair is also accused of bank fraud totaling more than $20 million tied to three loans Manafort applied for in connection with various homes he owns.

In all, Manafort and Gates laundered more than $30 million in income, chiefly from their Ukraine work, the new indictment alleges.

None of the charges currently facing the pair appears to relate directly to the core of Mueller's investigation into alleged Russian interference in the 2016 presidential campaign. But the special counsel has jurisdiction to pursue certain crimes he finds in the course of his probe and appears to have approval from Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein to pursue some matters the FBI was investigating before Mueller was named last May.

Some of the alleged bank fraud appears to have overlapped in time with the Trump campaign. Manafort and Gates joined the campaign in the spring of 2016 to help plan for the Republican National Convention, and Manafort was campaign chairman from May until he resigned on Aug. 19. But the White House has subsequently tried to distance itself from him, with Trump saying at one point that Manafort only worked for him for a "very short period of time."
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Palestinian detainee dies in custody after brutal beating in West Bank (VIDEO)


RT
Fri, 23 Feb 2018 12:45 UTC
Palestinian demonstrator
© Mohamad Torokman / Reuters / File
A Palestinian demonstrator in the West Bank
A Palestinian man died hours after he had been severely beaten during an arrest by Israeli forces amid clashes in the West Bank. While the troops are accused of intentionally killing the man, the IDF say he tried to attack them.

The confrontation between the 33-year-old Yassin al-Saradeeh and the Israeli Defense Force (IDF) took place in the city of Jericho at dawn on Thursday during a demonstration. The video posted by the Palestinian Information Center (PIC) on Twitter allegedly shows the moment when the man runs towards the Israeli troops after throwing some objects at them. As seen on the footage, the group of at least six soldiers knocks him to the ground, with some of them beating the Palestinian with their guns to the head, before arresting him.
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Crusader

Rothschild propaganda rag The Economist portrays Putin as octopus - projection or envy?

Bernard
Moon of Alabama
Thu, 22 Feb 2018 11:16 UTC
octoputin

The title page of this weeks Economist
Now consider one of the earliest cartoons that used this image:

octoroth

The Rothschild banking family of England, Coin’s Financial School, (1894)

Comment: But it's mostly reserved for Russia. This is from 1877:

russia octopus


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Trump mulls pulling ICE from uncooperative 'sanctuary' California: 'They'd beg us to come back'


RT
Fri, 23 Feb 2018 12:24 UTC
ICE immigration California
© Mike Blake / Reuters
Homeland Security ICE bus is parked outside federal jail in San Diego.
President Donald Trump said he is "thinking about" ordering border patrol and immigration enforcement out of California over the state's sanctuary policies, to demonstrate that it would result in a crime wave.

Trump brought up California's "sanctuary state" policies at Thursday's meeting about school safety at the White House, prompted by last week's mass shooting at a Parkland, Florida high school.

"Frankly, it's a disgrace. The sanctuary city situation," Trump told a gathering of his Cabinet members, state and local officials. "If we ever pulled our ICE out... in two months they'd be begging for us to come back. They would be begging. And you know what? I'm thinking about doing it."

Comment: And some cold truth: Forensic criminologist: The truth about crime, illegal immigrants and sanctuary cities
I am a former Spanish speaking career detective who investigated violent crimes within the Hispanic and other ethnic immigrant communities.

I am also a forensic criminologist who is a subject matter expert in violent crime who advocates for facts and evidence. Here are some verified crime facts and statistics with you so that you will know the truth about the precarious relationship between violent crime and illegal immigrants.

As Americans, we should only care about three things: (1) are the immigrants in the U.S. illegally; (2) have they committed violent crimes predominantly against U.S. citizens; and (3) had these criminals not been in our country illegally, these crimes, the victimization of our citizens and the costs of their crimes borne by American taxpayers could have been completely avoided.

Previous administrations have deliberately kept Americans in the dark about illegal immigrant crimes

Most states and our federal government have kept information and statistics about illegal immigration, crimes committed by illegals and the costs borne by you the U.S. payer out of public view

[...]

According to the FBI, 67,642 murders were committed in the U.S. from 2005 through 2008, and 115,717 from 2003 through 2009. The General Accounting Office documents that criminal immigrants committed 25,064 of these murders.

To extrapolate out these statistics, this means that a population of just over 3.5 percent residing in the U.S. unlawfully committed 22 percent to 37 percent of all murders in the nation. This is astounding.

Illegal immigrants clearly commit a level of violent and drug related crimes disproportionate to their population

Vetted crime statistics from USDOJ, the U.S. Sentencing Commission and the U.S. Government Accountability Office (GAO) are both clear and demonstrative that illegal immigrants who comprise only 3.5 percent of our nation's population, are convicted and sentenced for the crime of murder at a rate of three times that of their American citizen and legal immigrant counterparts.


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Black Magic

Israel continues to plant Jewish 'tombs' around al-Aqsa Mosque


The Palestinian Information Center
Fri, 23 Feb 2018 12:09 UTC
Israel continues planting Jewish graves around al-Aqsa Mosque

Israel continues planting Jewish graves around al-Aqsa Mosque
The Israeli government is cooperating with Jewish settlement associations to escalate its ongoing Judaization policy at al-Aqsa Mosque and the rest of the Old City in occupied Jerusalem, the PIC reporter revealed.

The PIC reporter on Tuesday quoted eyewitnesses as affirming that Israeli associations started installing fake Jewish tombs around al-Aqsa Mosque.

Israeli bulldozers were seen carrying Jewish tombstones and planting them around the Mosque to indicate graves, but underneath, there are no bodies, nor skeletons.

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