Puppet Masters
"I know, the US is listening. I'm sure it's the CIA, it's also the one who will kill me," Duterte said in Cebu City on Tuesday, rejuvenating fears that Washington may seek his demise over his independent foreign policy and willingness to obtain weapons from other global suppliers.
To avert possible smartphone intrusion by outside powers, which Duterte said could include "Russia, China, Israel, and maybe Indonesia," the 73-year-old leader is considering going back to using a basic cellphone, with which eavesdropping and interception is harder.
"A total of 830 gang leaders, more than 86,000 militants, including 4,500 immigrants from the Russian Federation and the CIS countries, were eliminated," according to a video posted on the ministry's YouTube channel.
The crisis in Syria started in 2011, when various opposition groups attempted to overthrow the Syrian President Bashar Assad during the Arab Spring riots. Russian military started the operation in the country in 2015 in order to stop civil war and help the internationally recognized government to fight radical militants, including those of the Daesh* terror group.
In response to the question "why did Julian publish damning docs against Hillary at such a crucial time which gave Humpty Dumpty Trump the upper hand?" Christine Assange replied "Its the duty of media to inform citizens about corruption," adding "a #DNC #Bernie supporter disgruntled with rigging leaked docs proving corruption."
"What should Wikileaks should have done? Hold on to them till after the election to advantage #Hillary?" she continued, adding "You are shooting the messenger!"
Comment: More on the controversy surrounding Seth Rich and the convenient timing of his death:
- Ed Butowsky: Seth Rich's father confirmed his son was the Wikileaks leaker
- Deadly Wikileak reveals Clinton's murder of Seth Rich to 'make an example'
- Does Donna Brazile know who killed Seth Rich?
- Kim Dotcom: "I have evidence Seth Rich was WikiLeaks' source"
- Sy Hersh: Seth Rich WAS in contact with Wikileaks
- Political assassination? Law enforcement sources claim murdered staffer Seth Rich leaked DNC emails to WikiLeaks, investigation being blocked

Michael McFaul walks outside as he leaves the Russian Foreign Ministry headquarters in Moscow, May 15, 2013
Q: My name's Lucy Komisar. I'm a journalist.
About the Magnitsky Act, which is an irritant now in U.S.-Russia relations, William Browder's allegation of the murder of the man he calls his lawyer, Sergei Magnitsky, was the basis of the act, establishing the first targeted Russian sanctions in 2012.
Making the matter more precarious was that Reid's letter was leaked several days later to the New York Times in the lead up to the presidential election. The letter stated, "evidence of a direct connection between the Russian government and Donald Trump's campaign continues to mount."
Documents obtained by Congress revealed senior bureau officials were already expecting Reid's letter even before the senator wrote it, according to congressional sources. Brennan, whose security clearance was pulled last week by President Trump, is now a contributor for MSNBC.
In mid-December, the United Nations granted Russia an exemption to the arms embargo on the CAR, paving the way for deliveries of weapons to that war-torn country that is still immersed in an internal conflict. The embargo is effective until Jan. 31, 2019.
This week, over 300 US newspapers ran editorials on the same day - an event in itself that points to some high degree of collusion and groupthink - denouncing Trump's insensitive portrayal of them, as if the notion that journalists were not in the same sleaze league as lawyers, politicians and professional con artists never crossed anyone's mind before. Even the peace-loving Mahatma Gandhi recommended "equality for everyone except reporters and photographers."
But is the MSM really an "enemy of the people?"
Comment: See also:
- Survey says: Only 6% of Americans trust the media
- Mainstream media says in unison: 'This is extremely dangerous to our democracy'
- Journalists admit intelligence services, lobbies and advertisers dictate MSM content
- Conspiracy Theorists Are Popular Because People are Fed-Up with Government and Media Lies
- 28 good questions that the mainstream media should be asking
China finds itself reeling under trade disputes with the US, as the next round of tariffs on $16 billion worth of Chinese goods is expected to start on August 23.
Earlier this week, Russia offered to bail out China from the trade war with Washington. Moscow offered 1 million hectares (2.5 million acres) of arable land available to Chinese farmers to meet its large-scale demand for soybeans - and of course, prevent a massive soybean shortage that would lead to political/social upheavals across the country.
Maybe, the US trade war on China should be interpreted as a piece in a much larger chessboard: A war on Eurasia integration, or the One Belt, One Road (OBOR) initiative.
On June 13, 2018 the US government-funded National Endowment for Democracy presented its 2018 Democracy Award to a collection of Korean activists who aim to topple the communist government of North Korea.
The event was timed to coincide with President Donald Trump's peace summit in Singapore with Kim Jong-Un. The ceremony appeared to be the opening shot of a massive public relations effort aimed at stifling normalized relations with North Korea.
I covered the ceremony because these organizations are doing precisely what Congress accuses Russia-funded media outlets and troll farms of doing in the United States. They interfere in other countries' politics with foreign money. The only difference is they do it openly, and in the name of spreading freedom.
Founded in 1983 by then president Ronald Reagan, the National Endowment for Democracy became an international vehicle for the neoconservative agenda. Its founding cadre were Cold War ideologues who were, like so many early neoconservative operatives, former Trotskyists who once belonged to the Social Democrats USA party.
Comment: Excellent reporting by Blumenthal. See also:
- Hypocrisy Inc.: The National Endowment for (meddling in) Democracy
- No big surprise: Extensive US meddling in Malaysia's general election
- US meddled in Venezuelan elections, says Foreign Minister Jorge Arreaza
- US Government's own data reveals US interfered in 81 foreign elections
Here's what it looks like when all the pieces are sewn together
It smells like conspiracy and treason. Everyone needs to read this. Slowly, and patiently, because it's very important......
From 2001 to 2005 there was an ongoing investigation into the Clinton Foundation.
A Grand Jury had been impanelled.
Governments from around the world had donated to the "Charity".
Yet, from 2001 to 2003 none of those "Donations" to the Clinton Foundation were declared. Now you would think that an honest investigator would be able to figure this out.
Look who took over this investigation in 2005: None other than James Comey; Coincidence? Guess who was transferred into the Internal Revenue Service to run the Tax Exemption Branch of the IRS? None other than, Lois "Be on The Look Out" (BOLO) Lerner. Isn't that interesting?
But this is all just a series of strange coincidences, right?
Guess who ran the Tax Division inside the Department of Injustice from 2001 to 2005?
No other than the Assistant Attorney General of the United States,
Rod Rosenstein.
Guess who was the Director of the Federal Bureau of Investigation during this time frame?
Another coincidence (just an anomaly in statistics and chances), but it was Robert Mueller.
What do all four casting characters have in common?
They all were briefed and/or were front-line investigators into the Clinton Foundation Investigation.
Another coincidence, right?

















Comment: That's 86,000 mostly pathological mercenaries and agents of US/Saudi/Israeli geopolitical chaos that have been wiped off the face of the earth. And while we don't celebrate the deaths of anyone, we do acknowledge the will, the fortitude and the incredible efficiency of the Russian and Syrian coalition to put an end to the rampant and relentless destruction of Syria and her people.
Lest we forget, it all began with this fateful speech to the UN by Russian President Vladimir Putin - given days before Russia got militarily involved in Syria: