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NATO using WADA and doping claims to contain Russia - Lavrov


RT
Mon, 23 Dec 2019 21:26 UTC
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© Reuters / Yves Herman; Christinne Muschi
The persecution of Russia by the World Anti-Doping Agency (WADA) is politically motivated as the body remains in the hands of NATO member states who won't shy away from any means to harm Moscow, Russian FM Sergey Lavrov has said.

The decisions at WADA are made by just over a dozen people, Lavrov pointed out, specifying that they represent "11 NATO members, Australia and Japan; as well as one African country and one from Latin America."

"When the whole pathos of fighting against doping is used to support the voice of those who want to restrain Russia by all means and from all directions, there are probably grounds to evaluate these type of actions as politicized."

Earlier in December, WADA slapped Russia with harsh sanctions over the alleged manipulations with the database of the Moscow anti-doping laboratory it had received from the country's doping watchdog, RUSADA, as part of its reinstatement process.

Comment: The powers subverting the West will stop at nothing to corrupt everything so long as it furthers their nefarious goals:

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Snakes in Suits

British PM Johnson says 'not possible to reset relations with Russia' but for some reason can't say why


RFE/FL
Tue, 24 Dec 2019 01:32 UTC
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Boris Johnson speaks to British troops in Estonia during a recent visit to the Baltic NATO country.
British Prime Minister Boris Johnson says he "was wrong" about Russia and that he no longer believes it is possible to "reset' relations with Moscow amid many differences separating the two countries.

"What I've really changed my mind on was whether it is possible to reset with Russia," the prime minister told the British Spectator magazine in an item published on December 23.

"I really thought, as I think many foreign secretaries and prime ministers have thought before, that we could start again with Russia. That it's a great country we fought with against fascism," he answered after being asked by the magazine "When have you changed your mind" about something.

Comment: Putin said in a recent interview that "The worst peace is better than the best of wars..." - this reasoning is obviously alien to a dangerous, establishment puppet like Bojo.

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Broom

Libya's elected government demands UN's usurper regime gone

Joanne Moriarty
Libyan War - The Truth
Mon, 23 Dec 2019 14:26 UTC
House of Representatives - Libya
House of Representatives - Libya
As per the Great tribes of Libya representing the Libyan people, the situation in Libya is as follows:

1. The so called "government of national accord" GNA in Tripoli is not recognized by the Libyan tribes or people as a legitimate government. It was appointed by the UN in Tunisia and was never accepted into Libya - only by the dark of night did it sneak into Tripoli in 2015 and was immediately recognized from OUTSIDE Libya as a legitimate government. The GNA (usurper regime) holds less than 2% of Libya and is held in place by the support of terrorist militia mercenaries. These terrorist mercenaries are supported, armed, funded by Turkey and Qatar. Without this terrorist support the GNA would be removed from Libya in 2 weeks and security returned to Libya. And it should be noted that the GNA has been given control of the Libyan central bank and all the oil money in Libya by the UN/US/NATO. The terrorist run GNA have been stealing Libyan assets and funds since 2015. They do nothing for the Libyan people who are in desperate need of hospitals, schools, water, food, fuel, etc. This regime steals the Libyan peoples money, funds their terrorist mercenaries, enriches themselves and their friends, bribe other countries using cash and illegal treaties and continues to support the Muslim Brotherhood terrorist organization.

Comment: See also: Jim and Joanne Moriarty begin release of exclusive footage of NATO's war on Libya

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Bad Guys

Paternity suit court docs allege Hunter Biden linked to multiple criminal probes

Elizabeth Rosner and Aaron Feis
New York Post
Mon, 23 Dec 2019 22:23 UTC
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Lunden Roberts and Hunter Biden
Hunter Biden is the subject of multiple criminal investigations related to "fraud, money laundering and a counterfeiting scheme," it's claimed in court documents filed Monday in his Arkansas paternity case.

The claims were put forward by a Florida-based private-eye firm, D&A Investigations, in Biden's ongoing case against alleged baby mama Lunden Alexis Roberts, a former Washington, DC, stripper who went by "Dallas."

Biden, 49, "is the subject of more than one criminal investigation involving fraud, money laundering and a counterfeiting scheme," the filing alleges.

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Gold Coins

Major winner in Afghan election under investigation for benefit fraud in Sweden


Fria Tider
Sun, 22 Dec 2019 22:07 UTC
Razaq Ahmadzai fraud sweden
© Reuters/FacebookRazaq Ahmadzai's (far left) party Green Trend (Basej-e Milli) is an important coalition partner for President Ashraf Ghani (center, left image), who will now be appointing his new government.
The drawn-out presidential election in Afghanistan is finally coming to an end. As the Independent Election Commission (IEC) announced the results of the recount on Sunday, it was clear that the country's Chief Executive Abdullah Abdullah had been defeated. His opponent, incumbent President Ashraf Ghani, is expected to announce his new government shortly.

The election is not only a success for President Ghani himself, but also for the coalition party Green Trend (Basej-e Milli), which is set to play a pivotal role in the post-election process and receive ministerial posts in the new government.

The Green Trend is led by the double act Amrullah Saleh and Razaq Ahmadzai. Saleh is the party leader and was until January this year Afghanistan's interior minister, but he is now expected to become Vice President. Razaq Ahmadzai is the campaign manager and more of a newcomer who, thanks to the election results, has become one of Afghanistan's most powerful men.
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Bad Guys

Best of the Web: 'Russian aggression': An excuse for US politicians to further bloat 2020 defense budget - Moscow won't care

Scott Ritter
RT
Mon, 23 Dec 2019 21:53 UTC
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© Global Look Press / Shealah Craighead/White House
By including provisions to stop Russian pipelines and target Russia's actions in Syria, the new US defense budget demonstrates that country's overreach, but likely does nothing to rein in Vladimir Putin.

$718 billion for NDAA 2020 includes 'lethal aid' for Kiev

Last Friday, President Donald Trump signed the National Defense Authorization Act (NDAA) for 2020. The NDAA lays out the annual budget and expenditures of the Department of Defense and allows Congress to set the policies under which the money appropriated can be spent. The modern American military budget, which for 2020 is slated to be a whopping $718 billion, underwrites the world's largest military and defense enterprise. The NDAA for 2020 builds on the notion that the US is engaged in a major power confrontation with Russia and, as such, it mandates that the Pentagon devise and implement strategies designed to impose political, military, economic, budgetary, and technology costs on Russia.
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Attention

China detaining millions of Uyghurs? US-backed NGO and far-right researcher 'led by God' make flimsy claims against Beijing

Ajit Singh and Max Blumenthal
The Grayzone
Sat, 21 Dec 2019 20:45 UTC
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Christian fundamentalist Adrian Zenz testifying before Congress on December 10, 2019. Is China about to get its own Magnitsky Act?
Claims that China has detained millions of Uyghur Muslims are based largely on two studies. A closer look at these papers reveals US government backing, absurdly shoddy methodologies, and a rapture-ready evangelical researcher named Adrian Zenz.

The US House of Representatives passed the Uyghur Human Rights Policy Act on December 3, legislation which calls for the Donald Trump administration to impose sanctions against China over allegations that Beijing has detained millions of Muslim-majority Uyghurs in the western region of Xinjiang.

To drum up support for the sanctions bill, Western governments and media outlets have portrayed the People's Republic as a human rights violator on par with Nazi Germany. Republican Rep. Chris Smith, for instance, denounced the Chinese government for what he called the "mass internment of millions on a scale not seen since the Holocaust," in "modern-day concentration camps."

The claim that China has detained millions of ethnic Uyghurs in its Xinjiang region is repeated with increasing frequency, but little scrutiny is ever applied. Yet a closer look at the figure and how it was obtained reveals a serious deficiency in data.

Comment: Kudos to the Grayzone for bringing the Uyghur propaganda war against China to the fore. And finally:

What the MSM isn't telling you about China's Uyghur problem
According to Syrian media cited in Voltaire.net, there are presently an estimated 18,000 ethnic Uyghurs in Syria, most concentrated in a village on the Turkish border to Syria. Since 2013 such Uyghur soldiers have gone from combat alongside Al Qaeda in Syria and returned to China's Xinjiang where they have carried out various terrorist acts. This is the tip of a nasty NATO-linked project to plant the seeds of terror and unrest in China. Xinjiang is a lynchpin of China's Belt Road Initiative, the crossroads of strategic oil and gas pipelines from Kazakhstan, Russia and a prime target of CIA intrigue since decades.


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Santa Hat

The Reindeer Games

James Howard Kunstler
kunstler.com
Fri, 20 Dec 2019 00:00 UTC
WaPo team
© Rachael Bade/Twitter
The WashPo staffers had barely finished toasting "merry impeachmas" — and then quickly deleting the incriminating tweet + photo that signaled their self-owned chagrin — when the implications of the day's solemn work started sifting through those quarters of the alt-news media where the chronically self-owned don't dare to go, or even look: Nancy Pelosi and her too-clever-by-half Lawfare grunts had engineered a Hanging Chad Impeachment.

Apparently, Mrs. Pelosi wants to play Hide the Salami with the impeachment bill. She invoked some slippery procedure to stash it where the sun don't shine in the hope that the senate won't be able to follow through with its duty to try the very charges set out in the bill. How's that gonna go over when the details are actually sorted out?

So far, there are just opinions a'plenty. One was offered by Noah Feldman of Harvard, the very fellow who testified last week fervidly in favor of impeachment before Mr. Nadler's Judiciary Committee. He wrote, in a Bloomberg op-ed, that the action would signify that the president had not, in fact, been impeached, that it would only be so if the bill were conveyed to the senate. The issue of conveyance looms large in the present kerfuffle. However:

Comment: Daily Caller, 20/12/19: Dershowitz: Pelosi doesn't have the impeachment power she believes she has
Former Harvard Law School Professor Alan Dershowitz:

"The presiding officer of the Senate can set a trial date, convene the chief justice and begin the trial. So I don't think that Pelosi has the power that she thinks she has, or that my colleague Larry Tribe thinks she has.
Pelosi/sign
"I can imagine nothing more unconstitutional than a House impeachment without sending it to the Senate. It's just unheard of. The Constitution provides that it is a two-step process, not a one-step process. It doesn't say the president may be impeached, period, that's the end of the matter. It says the president may be impeached, and if he's impeached by the House, the Senate then gets to decide whether he should be removed.

"The idea that a stain would remain on the books, that the president would remain impeached, without an opportunity for the president to get acquitted by the Senate, is plainly unconstitutional. It would be as if a prosecutor decided he had insufficient evidence to get a conviction, so he went after an ordinary citizen and said, 'Look, I'm just going to indict him. Let the public know he's indicted. For the rest of his life, he will stand indicted. But I have no intention of bringing him to trial. I will deny him his Sixth Amendment right to a speedy trial. I'm going to let the indictment just hang out there.' Obviously, no judge would tolerate that.

"Could the president now go to the courts and say, 'Look, while the constitution says the House is the sole judge of impeachment, they have now violated the Constitution'? The president's legal team could theoretically go before the chief justice and seek to dismiss.

"The option that will probably be decided on is to make legal arguments, probably no witnesses, probably no experts, and leave it to the Senate whether to acquit or convict. It's likely, based on the evidence that's been presented thus far to the House, that there would be a vote of acquittal. Remember, you need two-thirds to convict. The reason we need two-thirds to convict is the framers did not want a partisan impeachment. They wanted an overwhelming consensus in favor of removing a president."


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Pistol

License to kill for Britain's secret service defines UK as a police state

Finian Cunningham
RT
Mon, 23 Dec 2019 10:19 UTC
MI5 headquarters
© Reuters/Peter NichollsHeadquarters of MI5 in London, England
Daniel Holder, deputy director of the Committee on the Administration of Justice (CAJ), one of the four groups protesting the existing policy, said the narrow-majority ruling shows there is deep misgivings even within the state about the sinister potential of such unlimited power for Britain's security forces. CAJ and the other groups are to appeal the ruling in the courts.
"We are very concerned that this ruling for now permits MI5 to continue to authorize informant or agent involvement in serious crime. This could include crimes that constitute human rights violations. There were such experiences during the Northern Ireland conflict of informant-based paramilitary collusion, with agents of the state involved in acts as serious as murder and torture."
During that conflict (1969-98), British military intelligence are known to have been involved in systematic levels of collusion with paramilitary agents and informers as part of a counterinsurgency campaign. The outcome was hundreds of extra-judicial killings carried out with the covert consent of British state agencies. One of the most notorious was the murder of Belfast lawyer Pat Finucane in 1989. Former British Prime Minister David Cameron admitted before parliament in 2012, following the publication of a government report into the Finucane killing, that the collusion in the case represented "shocking" abuse by Britain's military intelligence.

What the latest ruling by the five-judge tribunal demonstrates is that there is still a policy of impunity for British state agents and their informants if their criminal activities are deemed to be essential in the service of national security. That is an insidiously low bar of subjectivity which allows for a modus operandi of "any means necessary".

Comment: See also: UK tribunal rules that MI5 informants DO have a 'Licence to KILL'

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Arrow Up

Lavrov reveals the nature of foreign policy talks with Trump: 'He says what he thinks directly'


RT
Sun, 22 Dec 2019 21:08 UTC
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© Reuters/Sputnik/Kremlin/Mikhail KlimentyevU.S. President Donald Trump shakes hands with Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov on the sidelines of the G20 summit in Hamburg, Germany July 7, 2017.
The Russian foreign minister's visit to the White House created much ado in Washington, coming amid impeachment procedures. Sergey Lavrov has now opened up on Donald Trump's negotiating style and the atmosphere of the meetings.

"I like the way Trump discusses international agenda and issues in bilateral relations. He avoids any ambiguity and tries to say what he thinks directly," Lavrov said in an interview aired by Russia's Channel One.

This "productive approach" that not many top politicians use allows parties "to better understand the opportunities, difficulties and prospects of relations."
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