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Trump 'true friend of Muslims,' Saudi prince says after meeting


RT
Wed, 15 Mar 2017 17:13 UTC
Donald Trump and Mohammed bin Salman
© Nicholas Kamm / AFP
Saudi Arabia's deputy crown prince is singing US President Donald Trump's praises after their meeting, calling him a "true friend of Muslims" and claiming the leader's immigration ban does not target Islam.

Deputy Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman met with Trump at the White House on Tuesday, in what his senior adviser deemed a "historic turning point" in US-Saudi relations.

The adviser said in a statement that although Washington and Riyadh had previously "undergone a difference of opinion," the Tuesday meeting "put things on the right track, and marked a significant shift in relations."

Comment: And Trump approved of this meeting by: Trump Administration to approve arms sales to Saudi war criminals

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Snakes in Suits

US senators express faux outrage over military nude photos scandal


RT
Wed, 15 Mar 2017 16:54 UTC
marine general testify congress
© Aaron Bernstein / ReutersCommandant of the Marine Corps Gen. Robert Neller testifies during a Senate Armed Services Committee
Amid a NCIS investigation of the scandal involving a Facebook group sharing naked photos of female Marines, top Navy and Marine officials faced angry senators demanding answers to the "toxic" behavior threatening to dishonor the US military's elite branch.

US Marine Corps Commandant General Robert Neller testified before the Senate Armed Services Committee on Tuesday in the 'Marines United' affair, describing the scandal as "perversion to our culture" and a "stain" on the USMC.

Last week, an investigative report discovered the existence of a secret Facebook page, accessible through the 30,000-member group, with "hundreds - possibly thousands" of photos of female Marines accompanied by salacious comments.

The scandal amounts to "insider threat," said acting Secretary of the Navy Sean Stackley, calling the posting of photos and comments "toxic predatory behavior" and "grievous breakdown of good order and discipline" that undermined unit cohesion. He described cyberbullying as a "cancer" that must be eradicated and an "attack on our core values."

Comment: This is the same group of politicians who have no problem authorizing the indiscriminate bombing of foreign citizens all in the name of imperial world control. They are most likely going back to their smoky backrooms to laugh about the nude photos and ask for a few themselves. Don't buy into the pretend moral outrage, it's for public consumption only.

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Epic Rachel Maddow fail: MSNBC's 'tax records' non-story reveals Trump made $150 million, paid 25% tax rate

Tyler Durden
Zero Hedge
Wed, 15 Mar 2017 16:23 UTC
Donald Trump and tax return graphic
While Rachel Maddow drones on with the coherence of Janet Yellen, losing thousands of viewers by the minute, the MSNBC anchor was promptly scooped not only by the White House which revealed her "secret" one hour in advance, but also by the Daily Beast which reported that its contributor David Cay Johnston had obtained the first two pages of Trump's 2005 federal income tax return, allegedly receiving them in the mail, and posted his "analysts" on his website, DCReport.org.

According to the documents, Trump and his wife Melania paid $38 million in total income tax, consisting of $5.3 million in regular federal income tax, and an additional $31 million of "alternative minimum tax," or AMT.

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Social media: UK's Home Office staff ordered to stop criticizing Trump prior to state visit


RT
Wed, 15 Mar 2017 13:45 UTC
DTrump
© Politiscope
Staff at the Home Office have been told to stop criticizing US President Donald Trump on social media ahead of his state visit some time later this year. In an email obtained by the Register and seen by the BBC, the staff at the Digital, Data and Technology unit of the Home Office was cautioned to comply with the civil service guidelines on impartiality.

The Home Office staff was ordered to "avoid commenting on politically controversial issues" in general and "giving personal opinions about the organization."

"A quick look through just a couple of known personal Twitter accounts of staff members shows that some are not compliant, stating that they work for the Home Office, posting HO work, whilst tweeting or retweeting negative posts about, for example, Donald Trump.

"We need to be careful here and ensure all our staff are following this guidance which reflects the Civil Service Code," the email added.


Comment: The Home Office is a ministerial department of the Her Majesty's Government of the UK.

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Federal judge: Sharing rules for spying on journalists, FBI not obligated to oblige


RT
Wed, 15 Mar 2017 00:51 UTC
Secret rules
© Twitter
A federal judge has ruled that not only is it okay for the FBI to spy on journalists, but that it can withhold information about its rules for snooping on reporters without a warrant.

The Freedom of the Press Foundation (FPF) sued the Department of Justice in July 2015, two years after the Associated Press reported that the DOJ had seized two months' worth of phone records of at least seven journalists ‒ and possibly more than 100 ‒ in an attempt to discover the source of a leak about a CIA operation that foiled a terror plot in Yemen.

As part of its probe, the DOJ investigated James Rosen, the chief Washington correspondent for Fox News, as a possible "co-conspirator" in the leak of classified material. After AP reported that the DOJ secretly pursued a warrant to monitor the communications of the news wire's staff, AP President Gary Pruitt claimed that anonymous sources retreated into silence, afraid that they would become a target of a government leak investigation.


Comment: There is much the 'government' does that, with full divulgence, the American citizenry would vehemently disagree and overturn. But, in this controlled continuum, that day will never come.

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US Senate: Dr. Rand Paul introduces Tulsi Gabbard's 'Stop Arming Terrorists Act'


Activist Post
Mon, 13 Mar 2017 00:00 UTC
Rand and Tulsi
© twitter
This week, U.S. Senator Rand Paul introduced the Stop Arming Terrorists Act (S. 532) to prevent American taxpayers' money from being used to directly or indirectly support armed militants who are allied with or often working under the command of al-Qaeda, ISIS, or other terrorist groups. The legislation serves as a companion bill to H.R. 608, which Representative Tulsi Gabbard (HI-2) reintroduced in January.

"One of the unintended consequences of nation-building and open-ended intervention is American funds and weapons benefiting those who hate us," said Dr. Paul. "This legislation will strengthen our foreign policy, enhance our national security, and safeguard our resources."

"For years, the U.S. government has been supporting armed militant groups working directly with and often under the command of terrorist groups like ISIS and al-Qaeda in their fight to overthrow the Syrian government. Rather than spending trillions of dollars on regime change wars in the Middle East, we should be focused on defeating terrorist groups like ISIS and al-Qaeda, and using our resources to invest in rebuilding our communities here at home," said Rep. Gabbard. "The fact that American taxpayer dollars are being used to strengthen the very terrorist groups we should be focused on defeating should alarm every Member of Congress and every American. We call on our colleagues and the Administration to join us in passing this legislation."

​You can read S. 532, the Stop Arming Terrorists Act, HERE, and you can find more information below:

Comment: Bravo. Finally some common sense. Should Congress actually pass this legislation means it would have to admit to the American public what it has been doing for the past couple of decades...Truth and Consequences! Which way will it wiggle?

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Marine Le Pen's reporter smackdown: 'No one trusts the media'

Paul Joseph Watson
Infowars
Tue, 14 Mar 2017 00:00 UTC
Le Pen Reporter
© C8District
A fascinating exchange in which French presidential candidate Marine Le Pen informs a reporter that no one trusts the media highlights how incredibly disconnected from reality the establishment press really is.

The reporter tells Le Pen her advice that people "turn away from the traditional media, (and) go and find news on the Internet" is "dangerous".

Le Pen looks bemused, asking, "why?"

The reporter responds by stating, "On the Internet, you can find conspiracy theories, all types of things, it's not necessarily verified information."

"Don't you think that the traditional media have conspiracy theories?" replied Le Pen, adding, "I've read a ton of things about Russia intervening in the presidential campaign and other things like that - I mean there is at least as much fake news in the traditional media as on the Internet!"


Comment: The fact that elections around the globe are being influenced by the distinction in media sources for propaganda/fake news versus unbiased reporting tells us that the problem extends way beyond the USA, especially in Western cultures. Those who do not recognize the difference, acknowledge and attempt to rectify are, as they say, 'doomed to repeat' and stuck in the past.

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Trump expands Pentagon authority to conduct counterterror operations in Yemen


Sputnik
Wed, 15 Mar 2017 16:14 UTC
al-Qaida sign in Yemen
© AP Photo/ Hani Mohammed
US President Donald Trump has given the Department of Defense top officials more freedom to execute counterterrorism missions in Yemen, media reported.

Pentagon commanders will have additional authority in selecting Yemen operations in order to achieve "a strategic effect" and will not need the president's approval for each strike, CNN reported on Tuesday citing official sources.

The White House is currently in talks with defense officials over similar amount of freedom in Libya and Somali, where the number of terrorist groups is rapidly growing, the media added.


Comment: Pentagon's wish accepted? Pentagon wants looser rules on using force in 'temporary areas of active hostility'


Comment: And with Trump approving weapons sales to Saudi Arabia, will the Yemen war escalate? Trump Administration to approve arms sales to Saudi war criminals

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Libya retakes oil ports from radical mercenary militias, fighting in Tripoli

Joanne Moriarty
Libyan War The Truth
Tue, 14 Mar 2017 16:06 UTC
Misurata militias
Today the Libyan National Army took back control of the ports in Libya's oil Crescent. This puts Libyan oil ports back into the hands of the legitimately elected Tobruk House of Representatives (the Libyan people). Last week saw 2 ports fall to the criminal mercenaries attempting to hold and control Libya against the will of the Libyan people. The mercenaries (all part of Murabitoun) who had been controlling the ports were scattered and chased deep into the desert.

Second, in Tripoli today, there has been fighting between the Misurata militias (all part of the newly formed Murabitoun) and the people of Tripoli. All the people of Tripoli are backing the fighters of the people who are working to cleanse their city of the criminal militias who have been abusing Tripoli and her people since they were given control in 2011 by the illegal war of Hillary Clinton and Barack Obama. I have posted some photos of the fighting in Tripoli below.

This is a short update from on the ground in Libya - the good news is that the Libyan's are now feeling strong (because Clinton and Obama are gone) and they are working to free themselves of this terrible virus that was put into their land by the force of NATO...illegally.
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Snakes in Suits

High profile and highly illegal leaks Deep State saboteurs have orchestrated against Trump

Alex Christoforou
The Duran
Wed, 15 Mar 2017 00:00 UTC
Trump and deep state

Deep state saboteurs are breaking laws in an effort to undermine President Trump.

The Obama administration, the Hillary Clinton team, the Democrat Party, neocons, and mainstream liberal media are all aligned and working in unison to overthrow President Trump, but no other actor is more powerful and destructive to the US Republic than the intelligence community, and its deep state leakers, whose single goal is to delegitimize Trump's White House.

So far in 2017, deep state saboteurs have been involved in seven high profile, and highly illegal, leaks...

Comment: The Dark Arts of the Deep State
[W]hy is Russia such a perennial target of Washington's? Why are peaceful overtures toward Moscow so scorned? As the Trump administration found out, de-escalation is a no-no in Washington. Russia, along with China, are the leading targets of American long-term foreign policy. They represent the only two nations that might seriously rival the U.S. in Eurasia, which is considered the fulcrum of the 21st century global economy. Preventing the rise of new rivals is long-standing U.S. policy, most explicitly articulated by Paul Wolfowitz on behalf of the Clinton administration in early 1990s.

None of this should come as a surprise. Consider what was at stake. At the macro level, the entire program for global hegemony is under threat. Outlined over decades by foreign policy luminaries such as George Kennan, Allen Dulles, Wolfowitz, and Zbigniew Brzezinksi, the general plan is for full-spectrum dominance, meaning control of land, sea, air, and space, on a planetary basis, with a special emphasis on "Eurasian landmass," as the ghoulish McMaster called it in a recent anti-Russian speech.

If history is any guide, it is unacceptable for a U.S. president to thaw relations with Russia unless that thaw consists of Russia capitulating to American demands.


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