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Bullseye

Trump's last chance to snub the deep state

Ron Ridenour
Strategic Culture Foundation
Sun, 13 Dec 2020 00:00 UTC
Flag and Assange
© Tolga Akmen/AFP/Getty ImagesJulian Assange
Any semblance of rationality during the past dozen years in the United States regarding what the Republican and Democratic parties really stand for is hard to find, other than money, of course.

Political science courses used to teach that Republicans are conservative, oppose labor unionization and decent wages, always ready to war on somebody in the interest of "national security". While they like to kill foreigners in their wars, especially people of color, they are appalled at the notion that American fetuses should be stopped from growing into human beings.

Democrats were said to be liberal, maybe even "progressive", willing to protect workers on the job, allowing unions, using dialogue in diplomacy instead of warring — without good cause, of course. Just ask Bernie Sanders. He voted against the Iraq war, albeit voted for financing it once it began. All the other wars were OK for that so-called "socialist". In comes the "peace president". Barak Obama took over Republican Bush's two wars — Afghanistan and Iraq — and extended them, and even added five more to his cowboy gun belt: bombing Libya, Syria, Yemen, Somalia, Pakistan. Every Tuesday he sat beside his CIA Director John Brennan, and pushed buttons on who should be droned that day. Never mind the fact that none of these wars were actually declared as such. They were "humanitarian actions" to purportedly help someone get human rights. That they were all unconstitutional did not faze Obama, the supposed lawyer specialist in the constitution.
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Bad Guys

Disgraced ex-agent Strzok's declassified messages give insider view of FBI's Trump campaign probe

Chuck Ross
The Daily Caller
Thu, 17 Dec 2020 18:53 UTC
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© Chip Somodevilla/Getty ImagesPeter Strzok
The Justice Department declassified a batch of internal FBI messages from Peter Strzok, the former counterintelligence official who oversaw the bureau's investigation of the Trump campaign's possible ties to Russia.

The messages, which Senate Republicans released Thursday, provide new insights into the thinking of investigators who worked on Crossfire Hurricane, the code name for the investigation into the Trump campaign.

The documents, obtained by The Daily Caller News Foundation ahead of their release, show Strzok and his colleagues discussing strategies for how to handle the investigation, as well as how to approach interviews with targets of Crossfire Hurricane.

Comment: What a collection of slimy Swamp creatures. Each one is worthy of a deep dive, but here is a small sample:

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Black Cat

Bellingcat hates scrutiny, but possible ties to Western intelligence should be discussed when considering its 'work'

Kit Klarenberg
RT
Wed, 16 Dec 2020 18:20 UTC
bellingcat
© bellingcat.com; AFP / Dimitar DilkoffBellingcat screenshot (L), Alexei Navalny (R)
Bellingcat founder Eliot Higgins once attacked journalists for using anonymous sources, citing a lack of "purity." Now his outfit, which continues to almost perfectly align with UK geopolitical priorities, is reliant on them.

If past form is a guide, it's likely Bellingcat staffers will attack this article on social media, labelling it "propaganda" and cherry picking one or two sentences, out of context, in a bid to discredit the whole. But the fact remains the journey of their outfit from a supposedly 'open source' investigation unit to something which increasingly resembles a fully-fledged intelligence agency, or a small, public division of a larger, clandestine organisation, deserves examination.

On Monday, the controversial 'online investigations' website published a bombshell exclusive, claiming that Alexey Navalny had been closely followed by a host of FSB operatives on his various travels before he was allegedly poisoned with Novichok in August.

Comment: As obnoxious as Higgins is, he has prompted Russia to consider tightening up its security, and that's a good thing:
A package of new measures designed to protect the secrecy around Russian security officers is working its way through the country's parliament, just one day after Western internet sleuths claimed to have traced an agent's phone.

In a press release, the State Duma parliament said the rationale for the bill was that
"the unauthorized publication on the internet of information about events and circumstances of the private life of law enforcement officers, regulatory officials and military personnel is currently expanding, negatively affecting their ability to exercise their powers, hindering the administration of justice, and the fight against crime."
The news comes one day after US government-funded online investigations outfit Bellingcat claimed to have pinpointed a member of the FSB, the country's top domestic security agency, to within a six-minute drive of where opposition figure Alexey Navalny was staying when he was allegedly poisoned in August. According to them, the officer had flown to the Siberian city of Tomsk and was located roughly within the same area the day before Navalny was taken ill on a flight to Moscow. Navalny's team and Bellingcat allege that the events amount to a state-sponsored attempt on his life with the nerve agent Novichok.

Russia has strenuously denied claims of involvement, with the Kremlin labelling earlier allegations in Britain's Sunday Times newspaper as "bulls**t." Vladimir Putin's team is yet to respond to the details of Bellingcat's new report, but a press conference has been called for Thursday, where the president may take questions on the matter.

Eliot Higgins, the founder of the Western state-backed group, pointed to the new measures as proof that his unit has exposed security flaws. "Despite official silence on our Navalny investigation," he wrote on Twitter, "it seems The State Duma is rapidly passing legislation seemingly in reaction to our work." That said, the measures were proposed over a week ago, so it is more likely to be related to previous instances where there were concerns over access to confidential data online.

The Bellingcat expose has, however, sparked fears that it could be part of wider Western intelligence efforts against Russia. Former Russian Duma member Sergey Markov previously claimed that "Bellingcat looks very much like the information warfare department of MI6 to me." He added that he believes "very professional people are working on their falsifications." The group previously came under fire for moving away from its original stated intention of using only open-source material, admitting to relying on so-called "confidential human sources" in its investigation into the alleged poisoning of Sergei and Yulia Skripal.
Bellingcat does indeed have ties to British intelligence organizations, notably, the Institute for Statecraft's step-child, Integrity Initiative. Higgins also shills as needed, for the Atlantic Council and NATO:

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Quenelle - Golden

A deeply divided America: When Deplorables Become Ungovernables

Pepe Escobar
Strategic Culture Foundation
Thu, 17 Dec 2020 16:23 UTC
Deplorable
© Andrew Nicla
China, Russia and Iran are the top three existential "threats" to the U.S., according to the National Security Strategy. Three features distinguish the top three. They are all sovereign powers. They are under varying degrees of sanctions. And they are the top three nodes of the 21st century's most important, evolving geopolitical process: Eurasia integration.

What do the three sovereigns see when they examine the dystopia that took over Exceptionalistan?

They see, once again, three - discombobulated - nodes in conflict: the post-historic Pacific and Atlantic coasts; the South - a sort of expanded Dixieland; and the Midwest - what would be the American heartland.

The hyper-modern Pacific-Atlantic nodes congregate high-tech and finance, profit from Pentagon techno-breakthroughs and benefit from the "America rules the waves" ethos that guarantees the global primacy of the U.S. dollar.

The rest of America is largely considered by the Pacific-Atlantic as just a collection of flyover states: the South - which regards itself as the real, authentic America; and the Midwest, largely disciplined and quite practical-minded, squeezed ideologically between the littoral powerhouses and the South.

Superstructure, though, is key: no matter what happens, whatever the fractures, this remains an Empire, where only a tiny elite, a de facto plutocratic oligarchy, rules.
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Cow Skull

'Stirring up a Russia scandal to vilify Trump': Declassified Brennan CIA notes prove claims were political hoax


The National Pulse
Tue, 15 Dec 2020 00:00 UTC
Obama Brennan


Newly declassified documents, released to the U.S. Congress, appear to prove the expensive and nationally demoralizing Russian interference narrative was a broad political hoax by the Democratic Party.

Proving claims made in the explosive book The Russia Lie, documents released by Director of National Intelligence John Ratcliffe allegedly show CIA Director John Brennan plotting against a political candidate and appearing to brief or prepare to brief the President of the United States at the time - Barack Obama - on the matter.

Brennan notes

Comment: One of the biggest political lies ever to grace Washington is being exposed piece by piece by ugly and deceitful piece:

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Attention

US & Ukraine vote AGAINST anti-Nazi resolution proposed by Russia at UN General Assembly, eyebrows raised as Germany abstains


RT
Wed, 16 Dec 2020 23:11 UTC
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© Reuters / Gleb GaranichMembers of neo-Nazi Azov battalion take part in Ukraine's Independence Day celebrations in Kiev, Ukraine, August 24, 2020.
A Russian resolution condemning the "glorification of Nazism" was passed by the UN General Assembly, on Wednesday, with overwhelming support, though, remarkably both the US and Ukraine made a point of voting against the motion

Equally noteworthy was the fact that all delegations from European Union member states, including Germany, abstained from the vote, with the United Kingdom following suit.

Many other European countries - such as Serbia, Moldova and Bosnia - supported the motion, as did Israel.
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Breaking: Attorney Phill Kline and IT expert J.R. Carlson Presser Wednesday exposing Mark Zuckerberg's dark money cash for chaos

Jim Hoft
The Gateway Pundit
Tue, 15 Dec 2020 09:02 UTC
Attorney Phill Kline from the Amistad Project and IT expert J.R. Carlson announced they will be releasing a major report on Wednesday exposing Mark Zuckerberg's dark money cash for chaos in the 2020 election.

Kline will release his groundbreaking report exposing dark money in the election tomorrow at noon Eastern, at the Westin Arlington Gateway on Glebe Road, in Arlington, Virginia.
Mark Zuckerberg

Comment: Here is the full presentation by the Amistad Project:


See also:

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Eye 1

Enjoy your restricted Christmas because a total lockdown will follow - Britain's Ministers

Guy Faulconbridge
Reuters
Wed, 16 Dec 2020 08:20 UTC
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© REUTERS/Caitlin Ochs(FILE PHOTO)
Prime Minister Boris Johnson said on Wednesday that people should plan only for a "merry little Christmas" and exercise extreme caution but he refused to outlaw festive family gatherings as COVID-19 cases soared across swathes of Britain.

After imposing the most onerous restrictions in Britain's peacetime history, Johnson is now keen to avoid becoming the first leader since Oliver Cromwell in the 17th century to cancel Christmas, even though the United Kingdom has the sixth worst official COVID-19 death toll in the world.

Hours after pubs and restaurants were forced to close again in London and some other areas to tackle a worsening outbreak, Johnson said plans to ease restrictions for five days from Dec. 23 would go ahead but urged people to be careful.

Comment: RT reports on the similarly sorry state of life in occupied Scotland:
Scotland's Sturgeon says safest way to spend Christmas is not to mix households, as UK leaders diverge over Covid guidance

England, Northern Ireland, Scotland and Wales have "unanimously" agreed to keep relaxed Christmas Covid-19 rules in place, the PM said, but Edinburgh and Cardiff have upped their own guidance, advising against household mixing.

Scottish First Minister Nicola Sturgeon and Welsh First Minister Mark Drakeford have both strengthened their guidance for the festive period, amid fears that increased household mixing could cause a Covid-19 resurgence.

Under plans agreed by all four administrations, up to three UK households will be allowed to mix from December 23 to 27.

Speaking on Wednesday, Sturgeon told reporters that Scots should think carefully about their plans during the five days of relaxed restrictions, saying: "Unequivocally, the safest way to spend Christmas this year is within your own household and within your own home."


Sturgeon knows very well that to follow this baseless guidance would leave a great many spending Christmas essentially, or actually, alone. For example, the cities are deserted over the holidays because in our age people are not living with or even nearby their loved ones and family.


She added that those living in parts of the UK where coronavirus levels are markedly higher should not be travelling around the country.

A similar message was espoused by Drakeford, who said Wales was facing a "very serious situation" with one in five people testing positive for the virus.

New rules in Wales state that only two households should come together to form an exclusive Christmas bubble during the five-day period, but one person living alone can also join this arrangement.

Drakeford warned that a full lockdown would follow the Christmas break, as Covid-19 infections soar in the country.

UK Prime Minister Boris Johnson said on Wednesday that England, Northern Ireland, Scotland and Wales had "unanimously" agreed that the relaxation of rules would not be scrapped, but called on Britons to show "personal responsibility."


Allowing for people to take charge of their own health hasn't featured in many of the restrictions over the last 8 months, and it's likely Bojo will use this to blame revelers for the total lockdown that comes in January.

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Black Magic

Fired, bumbling MI6 operative Christopher Steele turned inventing Russian 'intelligence' into a lucrative cottage industry

John Helmer
Dances with Bears
Sun, 13 Dec 2020 19:15 UTC
chistopher steele
Christopher Steele
Until Christopher Steele was introduced to Victoria Nuland in 2014, there had not been as penetrating a British spy penetration of US policymakers in Washington since 1943. That was when Roald Dahl and Ian Fleming, on orders from London, unbuttoned their flies and penetrated as many of the wives of US politicians, newspaper proprietors, and oil corporation chiefs as London thought they should mount in order to tap their pillow talk, and by whispering in their ears influence their husbands.

The story of Steele's relationship with Nuland over two years, 2014 to 2016, has just been unbuttoned, er declassified, by two Republican committee chairmen of the US Senate in a file of 126 pages. At the time, Nuland was the State Department's chief policymaker for Russia and the Ukraine as Assistant Secretary for European and Eurasian Affairs. The chaperone, er go-between, was a State Department official named Jonathan Winer. At the time, Winer wasn't working directly for Nuland; officially, he was State's special envoy for Libya.
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Cult

Western media condemns Soros & US-government backed American NGO chief's expulsion from Russia, but ignores lobby group's funding

Kit Klarenberg
RT
Sat, 12 Dec 2020 18:28 UTC
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© AFP / Fabrice COFFRINI; REUTERS / Maxim Shemetov
Western journalists, rights groups and governments are concerned about the head of a foreign NGO being asked to leave Russia. However, serious discussion of the organization's background, and funding sources, is completely absent.

Last week, it was announced that Moscow had revoked the residency of Vanessa Kogan, a US national who heads the NGO Stichting Justice Initiative (SJI) in Russia. If her appeal against the decision isn't successful, she'll be forced to leave the country, where she has lived for over a decade, and has two children who are Russian nationals.

Authorities had been mounting pressure on the organization for some time — one of its branches was deemed a foreign agent in 2019, and the group's offices in Dagestan, Moscow, and Ingushetia have been raided by officials in recent months.
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