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Iranian FM blasts Bin Salman for war crimes in Yemen


RT
Tue, 20 Mar 2018 00:00 UTC
Mohammed bin Salman
© Tolga Akmen / AFP
Saudi Arabia's Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman arrives for talks at 10 Downing Street, in central London March 7, 2018.
Iran's Foreign Ministry has described Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman as "delusional" and "naive" following remarks he made on a recent US TV show. Among his claims, the Saudi royal alleged Iran was harboring terrorists.

"Bin Salman's claims on Iran hosting Al-Qaeda's leaders is a big lie," Bahram Qasemi said as cited by Al Masdar News. "They were arrested and extradited to their respective governments, according to their documents and nationalities, including a number of Bin Laden's family members, that because of their Saudi nationalities, Riyadh was informed. Following the coordination, Bin Laden's daughter was extradited to Saudi embassy in Tehran."

Bin Salman is scheduled to meet with US President Donald Trump, Vice President Mike Pence and National Security Adviser HR McMaster. However, the Iranian Foreign Ministry sees the whole tour as a cynical exercise in self-promotion ahead of Bin Salman's assumed ascension to the Saudi throne.
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Mr. Potato

Shock horror! Trump congratulates Putin on election victory and media goes bananas


RT
Tue, 20 Mar 2018 22:37 UTC
President Donald Trump and President Vladimir Putin attend the APEC Summit in Danang, Vietnam November 11, 2017.
© Jorge Silva / Reuters
President Donald Trump and President Vladimir Putin attend the APEC Summit in Danang, Vietnam November 11, 2017.
All hell broke loose in Washington DC on Tuesday when President Donald Trump confirmed that he had congratulated Russian president Vladimir Putin on his recent election victory.

Journalists and Trump critics flooded Twitter with sarcastic remarks, registering their disgust at the news, using the benign remarks as more evidence of his alleged (by some) collusion with the Russian state.

CNN's national security reporter Zachary Cohen pointed out that both Kim Jong-un and Trump had now congratulated Putin, in an apparent effort to cast Kim and Trump in the same light for the crime of extending congratulations which, in reality, is fairly standard diplomatic protocol.

Daily Beast reporter Adam Rawnsley, also miffed by Trump's words of congratulations to the Russian leader, used the occasion to bring up the poisoning of a former Russian spy and his daughter in the UK, accusing Russia of using a "weapon of mass destruction" on British soil, even though there's no evidence to prove that.
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Cow Skull

Questions still surround Robert Mueller's dodgy Boston past


Sara A. Carter
Tue, 20 Mar 2018 00:01 UTC
mueller
© Getty Images
Mueller's involvement in one of the FBI's most embarrassing cases

President Donald Trump directed angry tweets at Special Counsel Robert Mueller over the weekend. The tweets were prompted by the Department of Justice's decision to fire Deputy Director Andrew McCabe Friday as recommended by the bureau's Office of Professional Responsibility took action on McCabe after the DOJ's Inspector General handed over evidence that the former FBI agent lied under oath and leaked information to the media.


Comment: Mueller is a corrupt scumbag who has no business investigating the President of the United States. The whole Russia probe has been a sham from the beginning. See also:

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Brain

'We don't even know if a Novichok program existed' - John Pilger

Alex Christoforou
The Duran
Sun, 18 Mar 2018 16:55 UTC
john pilger on rt
John Pilger: "Skripal case is a carefully-constructed drama"

Russia-UK relations have hit dangerous levels amid a row over the poisoning hoax of a former spy and his daughter.

Award-winning journalist John Pilger tells RT that this is all propaganda, a "carefully-constructed drama".

Comment: The supposed 'evidence' supporting these claims is so flimsy that it really should be obvious to anyone that the Novichok claims are a bunch of nonsense. For more info: Skripal Likely Poisoned by British Intelligence in Effort to Smear and Silence Russian World View

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Info

Jim Jordan on Trump investigation: 'When is it all gonna end?'

Carlos Garcia
The Blaze
Mon, 19 Mar 2018 22:35 UTC
Trey Gowdey and Jim Jordan
© YouTube screenshot composite
Rep. Jim Jordan (right) (R-Ohio) responded to the statement from fellow Republican Rep. Trey Gowdy (S.C.) who said that if President Donald Trump was innocent then he should act like it.
In heated interview with MSNBC's Katy Tur, Rep. Jim Jordan (R-Ohio) defended the position that the Mueller investigation should be ended, and responded to the statement from fellow Republican Rep. Trey Gowdy (S.C.) about President Donald Trump not acting guilty.

Here's part of their exchange:

"If the president is not innocent, why is he not acting like he's innocent?" Tur asked

"I think he is acting like he's innocent," Jordan responded, "but he's like so many other Americans, frustrated about what he sees that took place at the top level of the FBI. Jim Comey's been fired; Andrew McCabe's been fired; Jim Rybicky, former chief of staff, has left the FBI; Jim Baker, former chief counsel at the FBI, has been demoted, reassigned; Peter Strzok, former deputy head of counterintelligence, has been demoted, reassigned; Lisa Page has been demoted and reassigned."

"Those are the top people at the FBI," he continued, "so I think he's frustrated by that, as are the American people and what we know they did and when they started this Russia Trump investigation in 2016, namely, how they used the dossier."

Comment: See also:

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Bullseye

Many Americans believe the "deep state" is running the country

Tyler Durden
ZeroHedge
Mon, 19 Mar 2018 15:11 UTC
deep state
For the past two years, the long-running narrative, at least that promulgated by the mainstream media which continues to "explain away" Hillary Clinton's loss to Donald Trump, is that Americans had fallen for a massive, long-running fake news scam (in part aided and abetted by the likes of Facebook), which boosted Trump's popularity at the expense of Hillary's as part of some giant "Russian collusion" conspiracy theory between the Trump campaign and the Kremlin (which Mueller was supposed to uncover, but has instead shifted to investigating obstruction, seemingly unable to find anything).

But what if that entire narrative is dead wrong: what if Americans have become so skeptical in the government process and structure, they never needed a "fake news" boost to vote for an establishment outsider?

According to a new poll, that's precisely the case because a supermajority of Americans believes the faction of unelected officials, known as the deep state, is orchestrating policy in Washington, D.C. and effectively running the nation.

Comment: As the mask slips, the actions of those 'behind the curtain' are becoming more and more evident, showing their hand in media, government and policy. See also:

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Blackbox

Cambridge Analytica Under The Spotlight: Christopher Wylie Looks a Bit Too Much Like Dade From 1995 Classic 'Hackers'

Brently Kopopolous
Sott.net
Tue, 20 Mar 2018 21:25 UTC
Christopher Wylie

Uncanny resemblance? Left: Dade from the movie Hackers (1995) Right: Chris Wiley, Cambridge Analytica 'hacker' (2018)
By now I'm sure everyone has seen The Guardian's new RUSSIA-RUSSIA-RUSSIA piece entitled 'The Cambridge Analytica Files'. In it are the sordid details of how one then-24 year old computer programmer helped Steve Bannon - the most evil man in the world besides Putin and Trump - create a process to harvest Facebook data in order to build complex psychological profiles of the voting public, then used that information to manipulate voters, not only in the US but in the UK as well.

Informational Warfare, they called it, and while Information War is not new, the oldest reference being propaganda, today the methods have evolved. Guardian journalists Graham-Harrison and Cadwalladr did an especially good job of spinning the yarn; they even credited the Cambridge Analytica whistleblower Christopher Wylie as 'a master storyteller', which is of course what they are in fact doing via their article. Whether or not the story they tell is true, however, is certainly questionable.
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Megaphone

Kremlin: UK will have to back its Skripal allegations with evidence or apologize


RT
Tue, 20 Mar 2018 20:33 UTC
skripal salisbury
© Peter Nicholls / Reuters
The UK will either back up its claims of Moscow's involvement in the poisoning of ex-double agent Sergei Skripal and his daughter, or it will have to apologize, the Kremlin spokesman has said.

Foreign Secretary Boris Johnson said on Monday that Russia is wrong to deny responsibility for the nerve agent poisoning of Skripal. "The Russian denial is increasingly absurd," Johnson told reporters in Brussels. "This is a classic Russian strategy... they're not fooling anybody anymore," he added.

Peskov pulled no punches in fighting back, accusing the UK of "incomprehensible, unreasonable slander" against Moscow.

"Sooner or later, it will have to account for these baseless allegations, either by backing them up with evidence or by offering its apologies," the Russian president's spokesman said.
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Caesar

Putin gives fiery election victory speech in Moscow (Video)


Russia Insider / Youtube
Sun, 18 Mar 2018 09:06 UTC
Putin speech reelection
Sounds like he has big plans for the next 6 years.

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Eye 1

Cui bono? Someone wants to kill Palestinian Prime Minister Rami Hamdallah

Ramzy Baroud
Middle East Monitor
Mon, 19 Mar 2018 09:01 UTC
Palestinian Prime Minister Rami Hamdallah
© Prime Minister Office/Apaimages
Palestinian Prime Minister, Rami Hamdallah
On March 13, while on his way to the besieged Gaza Strip, two 33-pounds bombs targeted the convoy of Palestinian Authority Prime Minister, Rami Hamdallah.

Hamdallah was visiting Gaza, through the Israeli border checkpoint, Erez, to open a large sewage treatment plant that, if allowed to operate regularly, will make life easier for hundreds of thousands of Gazans, who have endured a perpetual Israeli siege since 2006.

The Prime Minister's visit was also seen as another important step in the reconciliation efforts between the two main Palestinian factions, Fatah - led by PA President, Mahmoud Abbas, in the Occupied West Bank - and Hamas, led by former Prime Minister, Ismael Haniyeh, in Gaza.

Although reconciliation efforts have, for years, been half-hearted at best, the latest round of talks between both groups led to a breakthrough in Cairo last October. This time, Palestinians were told that the two factions are keen on establishing unity, ending the siege on Gaza and revamping the largely dormant Palestinian Liberation Organization (PLO) institutions.

Hamas and the Islamic Jihad were to join the PLO at some point in the future, leading to the formulation of a unified Palestinian political program.

And, perhaps, this keenness at ending the rift has led to the attempt on Hamdallah's life.

But who is Rami Hamdallah?

Comment: The assassination attempt is threatening the reconciliation of the different Palestinian factions. Cui bono? No prizes for guessing.

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