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How an American anthropologist tied to US regime-change proxies became the MSM's guy in Nicaragua

Max Blumenthal
MintPress News
Wed, 26 Sep 2018 12:16 UTC

The Guardian, The Washington Post, the BBC and NPR have assigned an American anthropologist with no previous journalistic experience to cover the crisis in Nicaragua. The novice reporter, named Carl David Goette-Luciak, has published pieces littered with falsehoods that reinforce the opposition's narrative promoting regime change while relying almost entirely on anti-Sandinista sources.

An investigation for MintPress reveals that Goette-Luciak has forged intimate ties to the opposition, and has essentially functioned as its publicist under journalistic cover. Having claimed to work in the past as an anthropologist and "human rights defender," Goette-Luciak operated side-by-side with activists from a U.S.-backed opposition party known as the Sandinista Renovation Movement, or MRS. As we will see in this investigation, U.S. government-funded organizations have supplied the MRS with millions of dollars worth of election assistance, and continue to fund its activists by funding their NGO's and social media training.

Goette-Luciak now lists himself as "director of investigations" for an obscure outlet called Radio Ciudadana that was founded a month before the chaos erupted last April. That outlet's founder, Azucena "Chena" Castillo, is an outspoken member of the MRS party who has devoted herself to the government's overthrow. Goette-Luciak's social-media profile reveals intimate ties to numerous MRS leaders and, in a recently deleted podcast interview, he has described his own work to encourage indigenous opposition to the Sandinista front.

Comment: See also: An open letter to The Guardian on Nicaragua

Senate Judiciary: Christine Ford's legal team could be in trouble

James Barrett
The Daily Wire
Fri, 05 Oct 2018 10:56 UTC

A statement issued on Tuesday by the Senate Judiciary Committee suggests that Christine Blasey Ford's legal team may have violated the ABA's Model Rules of Professional Conduct by apparently withholding key information from their client.

During the explosive hearing on Thursday, Ford made clear that she did not know that the Senate Judiciary Committee had repeatedly offered to come to her for her testimony and to hear that testimony privately if she preferred.

"I was hoping that they would come to me, but then I realized that was an unrealistic request," Ford said at one point during her testimony.

Comment: Also see: The case against Kavanaugh is collapsing

Ambitious space deals signed, India asks Russia for help with its first-ever manned mission

RT
Fri, 05 Oct 2018 06:32 UTC

Russia and India have agreed to develop landmark projects in space. New Delhi also requested Moscow to cooperate in its first-ever mission to send a man into space which is scheduled for 2022.

The deal, signed on Friday, concerns a manned space program and the development of cooperation in the sphere of navigation systems, Roscosmos head Dmitry Rogozin revealed.

India is creating its own navigation system, like GPS or Russian GLONASS. The new agreement implies that an Indian monitoring station for such a system will be built near the Russian city of Novosibirsk in Siberia.

Comment: It's telling that while Russia and India make billion dollar space deals, the US and UK are struggling to keep planes in the air or ships afloat:

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NATO intensifies information war on Russia

Strategic Culture Foundation
Fri, 05 Oct 2018 10:03 UTC

The US, Britain and other NATO allies upped the ante this week with a coordinated campaign of information war to criminalize Russia. Moscow dismissed the wide-ranging claims as "spy mania". But the implications amount to a grave assault recklessly escalating international tensions with Russia.

The accusations that the Kremlin is running a global cyberattack operation are tantamount to accusing Russia of "acts of war". That, in turn, is creating a pretext for NATO powers to carry out "defensive" actions on Moscow, including increased economic and diplomatic sanctions against Russia, as well as "counter" cyberattacks on Russian territory.

This is a highly dangerous dynamic that could ultimately lead to military confrontation between nuclear-armed states.

There are notably suspicious signs that the latest accusations against Russia are a coordinated effort to contrive false charges.

First, there is the concerted nature of the claims. British state intelligence initiated the latest phase of information war by claiming that Russian military intelligence, GRU, was conducting cyberattacks on infrastructure and industries in various countries, costing national economies "millions of pounds" in damages.

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Russia calls for US to cease illegal control of terrorist territory in Al-Tanf, delivers S-300s for "defense" measures in Syria

Sputnik
Fri, 05 Oct 2018 08:39 UTC

Russia has completed the first delivery of S-300 systems to Syria, including 49 units of equipment-related components such as radar, basic target acquisition systems, command posts and four launchers, according to Defense Minister Sergei Shoigu.

The deconfliction channel between Russia and Israel shall remain in place despite the Il-20 downing, Russian Deputy Foreign Minister Sergei Vershinin stated.

The S-300 systems supplied by Russia to Syria will provide a qualitatively new level of air defense, this delivery will be followed by other steps that the Ministry of Defense has previously spoken of, Vershinin told Sputnik.

"Indeed, the S-300 anti-aircraft missile systems have been installed, this is a qualitatively new level of air defense, I will emphasize defense. The steps that were publicly announced by Russian Defense Minister Sergei Shoigu will be taken," the deputy minister said.

Comment: With Syria's delivery of S-300s and the exposure of Israel (yet again) as a criminal regime, the allies waging the illegal war on Syria are finding their malignant position ever more untenable:

Also check out SOTT radio's: NewsReal: Israeli-French Deception Downs Russian Spy Plane Off Syria, US Escalates 'Regime Change' Against Iran

Gangster who posed with Macron in 'middle finger' pic linked to drug gang boss

RT
Fri, 05 Oct 2018 08:38 UTC

Emmanuel Macron with residents of Quartier Orleans on the French Caribbean island of Saint-Martin

The 'middle finger' affair has a new twist after it was unveiled that the young man posing with Emmanuel Macron in the notorious picture in Saint Martin was likely close to a leader of an armed gang controlling the cocaine market.

The photo-op of Macron with locals at Quartier Orleans in late September has already become a hit in the French media. Yet all eyes were on the pictures of the centrist politician with two bare-chested men.

One of them confessed to the 40-year-old president that he had problems with the law and that he even spent time in prison. The fact didn't surprise Macron at all and he told the young man to leave his troubled past behind him. The president's reaction, however, angered social media and a number of politicians.

Comment: Quelle surprise! Macron is quickly becoming renowned for his bizarre behaviour and its only serving to add to his unpopularity at home:

Done deal: India and Russia formally ink $5.4 billion S-400 air defense system

Sputnik
Fri, 05 Oct 2018 10:06 UTC

India and Russia signed a $5.4 billion S-400 Triumf surface-to-air missile deal on Friday during an annual bilateral meet in New Delhi, Kremlin Spokesman Dmitriy Peskov stated.

"Yes, on the summit's sidelines," Peskov told Sputnik, when asked a relevant question.

The delivery of the five advanced S-400 Triumf squadrons will begin in October 2020. The deal has been signed despite the looming threat of US financial sanctions.

Comment: See also: Putin heads to New Dehli to sign new $5 billion S-400 deal and meet PM Modi

New reality: Syria's S-300s force Israel to use faulty F-35s, intends to bilk US of more money and new weapons

RT
Thu, 04 Oct 2018 00:36 UTC

The IAF must increasingly rely on the futuristic stealth capabilities of the troubled F-35 jet if it's to continue its raids with impunity, after Syria's air-defenses were boosted with S-300 systems, Israeli army radio reports.

Tel Aviv's self-reserved right to freely strike 'Iranian targets' anywhere inside or outside Syria was severely undermined by Moscow's transfer of S-300 air defense systems and accompanying hardware to Damascus. The surface-to-air interceptors delivered to the Syrian Arab Army, as well as Moscow's resolve to jam the radar, navigation, and communications systems on any aircraft attacking targets in Syria via the Mediterranean coast might complicate missions for Israeli F-15s and F-16s. So, to avert potential threats to their fighter planes, Israel will rely more on the F-35 to carry out its missions in Syria, Galei Tzahal (Army Radio) reported.

"The coming attacks won't be the first, but they will be safer for the pilots in light of the new reality in Syria's skies," a source within IAF told the radio station, also emphasizing that Israel has every intention to use this "most expensive weapon in the world."

Comment: It may be the most expensive but it's also plagued with problems:

Defensive bioweapon? DARPA wants insects to spread genetically modified viruses... to 'save crops'

RT
Fri, 05 Oct 2018 08:49 UTC

A US military program dubbed 'Insect Allies' could be used as a biological weapon, a group of European scientists warns. The Pentagon's research arm claims they are intended to defend crops, but doesn't deny 'dual-use' potential.

Researchers from the Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Biology and the University of Freiburg in Germany, as well as the University of Montpellier, France, have published a critique of the program, dubbed "Insect Allies," in the October 5 edition of Science.

They argue that "the knowledge to be gained from this program appears very limited in its capacity to enhance US agriculture or respond to national emergencies" and therefore the program "may be widely perceived as an effort to develop biological agents for hostile purposes and their means of delivery," which would mean a breach of the Biological Weapons Convention.

Comment: Dilyana Gaytandzhieva originally broke the story of the US bioweapons research in Georgia: Ethnic-Specific Weapons: Leaked Documents Reveal US Diplomats in Georgia Trafficking Human Blood And Pathogens For Pentagon Biowarfare Laboratory

The Russians followed up and confirmed her main points: Russian MoD: Dozens of Georgians likely killed by US biological agents in fake drug trial

Now the US - arch hypocrites that they are - are denying any wrongdoing. Everything they are doing is for good, you see. They're researching methods to disperse highly deadly bioweapons through explosive devices (among other means) for the purpose of ... "saving crops", perhaps? Nothing to see here, move on.

Trump Tower-connected Russian prosecutor dies in helicopter crash

RFE/RL
Fri, 05 Oct 2018 08:35 UTC

The scene of the crash on October 3

A top Russian official accused of directing Natalya Veselnitskaya, the lawyer who met with senior officials of U.S. President Donald Trump's election campaign in Trump Tower in 2016, has died in a helicopter crash.

Russian media reported on October 4 that Russian Deputy Attorney General Saak Karapetyan died when his helicopter crashed into a forest during a flight in the Kostroma region, northeast of Moscow, on October 3.

Russian news agency Interfax reported that the wreckage of a helicopter carrying Karapetyan was found near the village of Vonyshevo. The pilot and a third man were also killed in the crash.

Karapetyan's links to Veselnitskaya emerged this year, when a case in Switzerland exposed the pair's operation to recruit a high-level law enforcement official who was supposed to be investigating the Swiss bank accounts of Russian oligarchs and mobsters.

The top investigator was fired for "unauthorized clandestine behavior" and allegations of bribery and breaching secrecy laws. Swiss authorities discovered that the officer -- who was identified only as Victor K. -- had met Karapetyan in Geneva and Zurich.

Comment: Could this have been an attempt to gather information related to Bill Browder and his fraudulent claims that Russian officials stole money using Browder's companies (when in fact it was Browder and his associates who stole the money and blamed it on Russians)? Browder is protected, and any attempts to expose his crimes end badly.

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ginkhoba

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JTF Truth

'' America's police forces — riddled with corruption, brutality, sexual misconduct and drug abuse — have largely become part of the problem.''...

Demore

I live in Australia, but the outcome of that election even pleased me. I hope the Left doubles down on their insanity so that all of them will...

Spur

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Puppet Masters

How an American anthropologist tied to US regime-change proxies became the MSM's guy in Nicaragua

Senate Judiciary: Christine Ford's legal team could be in trouble

Ambitious space deals signed, India asks Russia for help with its first-ever manned mission

NATO intensifies information war on Russia

Russia calls for US to cease illegal control of terrorist territory in Al-Tanf, delivers S-300s for "defense" measures in Syria

Gangster who posed with Macron in 'middle finger' pic linked to drug gang boss

Done deal: India and Russia formally ink $5.4 billion S-400 air defense system

New reality: Syria's S-300s force Israel to use faulty F-35s, intends to bilk US of more money and new weapons

Defensive bioweapon? DARPA wants insects to spread genetically modified viruses... to 'save crops'

Trump Tower-connected Russian prosecutor dies in helicopter crash

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