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Busted: Propaganda outfit Bellingcat fabricated evidence, deliberately hid documents to push new 'Russian spy plot'

Dilyana Gaytandzhieva
Arms Watch
Thu, 28 Nov 2019 17:49 UTC
bellingcat logo eliot higgins
© Hamish Smyth/Bellingcat
One of the documents, which Bellingcat deliberately hides, is a diplomatic note from the Bulgarian Foreign Ministry, dated 5 May 2015. The Bulgarian authorities approve a diplomatic flight with weapons from Burgas to Adana in Turkey. The exporter is Emco, LTD, Bulgaria, according to documents from the Embassy of Azerbaijan in Bulgaria.

Bellingcat, an online investigation organization headed by Eliot Higgins, has deliberately and with malicious intent manipulated evidence by hiding crucially important documents in order to slander me as a journalist and misrepresent my investigation, 350 flights carry weapons for terrorists, as "intentionally incorrect".

Comment: Indeed, Dilyana Gaytandzhieva has proven to be one of the world's premiere investigative journalists of the arms smuggling trade. Eliot Higgins and Bellingcat have only discredited themselves futher with this latest slander on Ms.Gaytandzhieva's work. It would be most interesting to see Higgins try to defend himself in court. As for Mr. Higgins, one only needs to check Bellingcat's focus and background to see the real agenda

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Boat

Joint naval maneuvers between Iran, Russia, China to begin in December


RFE/RL
Sun, 01 Dec 2019 18:31 UTC
Hossein Khanzadi
Rear Admiral Hossein Khanzadi, Iran's naval chief, said maneuvers with Russia and China will start in December.
The commander of Iran's navy has confirmed that his forces will participate in joint exercises with Russia and China beginning later this year.

Rear Admiral Hossein Khanzadi on November 30 said the maneuvers will be held in the northern Indian Ocean from December 22 to January 20.

The admiral's statement did not give a specific location for the maneuvers, although some media reports said they would be in the Gulf of Oman, site of several recent naval incidents and where Western escort missions are active or about to start.

"The aim of those exercises is to ensure collective security and help boost the security in the northern part of the Indian Ocean, where various incidents, including pirate attacks, are taking place," Iran's Tasnim news agency quoted the admiral as saying.

Two days earlier, Khanzadi had said the exercises would take place in the "near future" and that the joint operation would "send a message to the world," according to Iran's Mehr news agency.

"A joint war game between several countries, whether on land, at sea, or in the air, indicates a remarkable expansion of cooperation."

"[The maneuvers] carry the same message to the world, that these three countries have reached a meaningful strategic point in their relations," he added.
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Arrow Up

Some good news: Canada foreign policy to shift as crazed neocon Chrystia Freeland is replaced by pro-Chinese politico

Matthew Ehret
The Strategic Culture Foundation
Sun, 01 Dec 2019 17:30 UTC
Chrystia Freeland
© News 1130Canadian Foreign Affairs Minister Chrystia Freeland
In Chrystia Freeland's 2012 book Plutocrats, Canada's leading Rhodes Scholar laid out a surprisingly clear analysis of the two camps of elites who she explained would, by their very nature, battle for control of the newly emerging system as the old paradigm collapsed.

In her book and article series, she described the "practical populist politician" which has tended to be adherent to business interests and personal gain during past decades vs the new breed of "technocrat" which has an enlightened non-practical (ie: Malthusian) worldview, willing to make monetary sacrifices for the "greater good".

She further defined the "good Plutocrats" vs "bad Plutocrats". Good Plutocrats included the likes of George Soros, Warren Buffet, Bill Gates and Jeff Bezos who made their billions under the free-for-all epoch of globalization, but who were willing to adapt to the new rules of the post-globalization game. This was a game which she defined in an absurd 2013 TED Talk as a "green New Deal" of global regulation under a de-carbonized (and depopulated) green economy. For those "bad plutocrats" unwilling to play by the new rules (ie: the Trumps, Putins or any industrialist who refused to commit seppuku on the altar of Gaia), they would simply go extinct. This threat was re-packaged by Canada's "other" globalist puppet Mark Carney, who recently said "If some companies and industries fail to adjust to this new world, they will fail to exist."
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Video

Best of the Web: Hong Kong unmasked: The real reasons & instigators behind anti-Beijing riots

Michele Greenstein
RT
Sun, 01 Dec 2019 15:33 UTC
hong kong protester
© Reuters / Tyrone SiuAn anti-government protester throws a molotov cocktail during clashes with police, outside Hong Kong Polytechnic University (PolyU)

Comment: The following documentary explains plainly the real issues behind the Hong Kong arrests, which mainstream western media would prefer you didn't know about.


As Hong Kong's anti-government movement continues to rage, RT looks into what sparked the unrest, the dire social inequality problems that fuel it, and how forces in Washington exploited this public discontent for their own ends.

Having personally witnessed brutal clashes and spoken to key figures on both sides of the barricades, RT America's Michele Greenstein paints a comprehensive picture of the protest's origins and handlers.

The contentious extradition bill, which was the catalyst for the uprising this summer, served only as a pretext, while its nature was grossly misinterpreted. It doesn't mean that the islanders - suffocated by prosaic issues like high prices, poor housing conditions, and declining employment prospects for graduates, rather than a lack of 'democracy' - have nothing to be angry about.

Yet the demonstrators never challenged Hong Kong's own authorities over this social inequality, directing their rage solely at mainland China - all while destroying their own city and virtually begging the US to sanction it, just to hurt Beijing.
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Snakes in Suits

In 2005 Boris Johnson wrote that UK's poorest communities are made-up of 'chavs, burglars, drug addicts, and losers'

Thomas Colson
Business Insider
Mon, 30 Dec 2019 21:30 UTC
bojo and the queen
© Reuters / Pool / Victoria Jones
Boris Johnson wrote that the poorest 20% of British society is made-up of "chavs," "losers," "burglars," "drug addicts," and "criminals," in a newspaper column unearthed by Business Insider.

Johnson, who was a Conservative MP and editor of the Spectator magazine at the time, wrote in the Telegraph in 2005 that poorer voters who live on "run-down estates," only continued to vote for Labour due to the "deluded hope of bigger hand-outs."

He added that this "bottom" one-fifth of British citizens "supplies us with the chavs, the losers, the burglars, the drug addicts and the 70,000 people who are lost in our prisons and learning nothing except how to become more effective criminals."

In an aside aimed at his political opponents, he said that some Labour MPs only wanted to ban the smacking of children due to their "revulsion when they see a chav belting her kids in the supermarket."

Comment: One can presume, absent any retraction, as well as judging by the policies Bojo has and continues to support, that it's unlikely he's changed his opinion. However Bojo needn't fret because the establishment media are on his side, as noted in RT's article It was a MISTAKE': BBC accused of BoJo bias after editing out audience mocking laughter:
It's not the first time the Beeb has been accused of shaping footage to make Johnson look better. Footage of the UK PM embarrassingly placing a remembrance wreath upside down on the Cenotaph war memorial was replaced with pictures from 2016 when he was London mayor.

There have also been criticisms that the BBC has become so beneficial for the Tories, that they are feeding correspondents with off-the-record stories that are then reported on national news bulletins, before turning out to be untrue.

Journalist Peter Oborne claims that BBC executives told him: "They personally think it's wrong to expose lies told by a British prime minister because it undermines trust in British politics."

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Target

Operation Condor 2.0: Post Bolivia coup, Trump dubs Nicaragua a 'national security threat'; targets Mexico

Ben Norton
The Grayzone
Wed, 27 Nov 2019 00:00 UTC
Nicaraguans
After presiding over a far-right coup in Bolivia, the US dubbed Nicaragua a "national security threat" and announced new sanctions, while Trump designated drug cartels in Mexico as "terrorists" and refused to rule out military intervention.

One successful coup against a democratically elected socialist president is not enough, it seems.

Immediately after overseeing a far-right military coup in Bolivia on November 10, the Trump administration set its sights once again Nicaragua, whose democratically elected Sandinista government defeated a violent right-wing coup attempt in 2018.

Washington dubbed Nicaragua a threat to US national security, and announced that it will be expanding its suffocating sanctions on the tiny Central American nation.

Trump is also turning up the heat on Mexico, baselessly linking the country to terrorism and even hinting at potential military intervention. The moves come as the country's left-leaning President Andrés Manuel López Obrador warns of right-wing attempts at a coup.

As Washington's rightist allies in Colombia, Brazil, Chile, and Ecuador are desperately beating back massive grassroots uprisings against neoliberal austerity policies and yawning inequality gaps, the United States is ramping up its aggression against the region's few remaining progressive governments.

These moves have led left-wing forces in Latin America to warn of a 21st-century revival of Operation Condor, the Cold War era campaign of violent subterfuge and US support for right-wing dictatorships across the region.

Comment: Coups are never, ever, for 'the people', and they begin many years before they are suspected. Like a movable feast, the reasons attached to the process may meander but the outcome is fixed and the price paid in victims is high.

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Attention

Fruit of the poisonous tree: FISA alterations may pose significant trouble for the FBI

Sara Carter
saraacarter.com
Mon, 25 Nov 2019 00:00 UTC
IG Horowitz
© YouTubeDOJ Inspector General Michael Horowitz
Department of Justice Inspector General Michael Horowitz's anticipated report will reveal that the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Application warrant was tampered with but the significance of that cannot be understated. It means that Horowitz's discovery will discredit the bureau's handling of its investigation into President Donald Trump's campaign and Russia during the 2016 presidential election and it could make any information discovered during the course of seeking approval for the FISA and after 'fruit of the poisonous tree," according to numerous sources who spoke to SaraACarter.com.

KEY POINTS:
  • FBI officials concerned that FBI lawyer Kevin Clinesmith's tampered and altered documents to obtain Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Warrant will put into question all the evidence gathered to obtain the warrant.
  • Horowitz referred Clinesmith to DOJ Prosecutor John Durham appointed by Attorney General William Barr for further investigation.
  • Other FBI officials will be wrapped up into Clinesmith's warrant tampering. Who approved the warrants?
  • Criminal Defense Attorney David Schoen says FBI failed to make immediate correction of any materially false statement or any material omission. "Clearly no such correcting submission was made here."
  • FBI Lawyer Kevin Clinesmith led the interview on George Papadopolous in February, 2017.
  • Clinesmith was anti-Trump and removed from the Russia investigation.
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Vader

German broadcaster: Spanish firm claimed 'We're working for the dark side' and boasted of ties to US intelligence


RT
Sat, 30 Nov 2019 14:08 UTC
Assange/CIA
© The InterceptJulian Assange
A private security firm that allegedly spied on Julian Assange in the Ecuadorian Embassy in London bragged about its nefarious activities and ties to US intelligence, according to German public broadcaster NDR.

The troubling revelations are part of a criminal complaint filed by NDR against Undercover Global, a Spanish security company contracted by the Ecuadorian government to film and review guests at their embassy in London.

The firm is accused of using the commission to carry out a vast spying operation targeting the WikiLeaks co-founder, who sought political asylum in the embassy for seven years before his hosts handed him over to British authorities. The German broadcaster claims to have a huge cache of documents detailing the illegal surveillance operation - which also targeted NDR journalists who visited Assange.

Former employees of Undercover Global said that the company's CEO, David Morales, didn't try to hide his ties to the US government. Upon returning from a trip to the United States, Morales allegedly told one of his employees: "From now on, we play in the first league... We are now working for the dark side." He is said to have traveled up to twice a month to the States to deliver materials taken from the Ecuadorian Embassy.
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Trump's claims that Nicaragua is a 'national security threat' is a ploy to legitimize US economic sanctions

Paul Antonopoulos
InfoBrics
Thu, 28 Nov 2019 00:00 UTC
Ortega
© Reuters/Jorge CabreraNicaragua President Daniel Ortega speaks with representatives of the Bolivarian Alliance for the Peoples of Our America (ALBA) in Managua, Nicaragua, November 8, 2018.
Nicaragua has been experiencing a political crisis since mid-April 2018 when a reform of the Social Security system unleashed pro-U.S. violent protests against President Daniel Ortega. His initiative for pension reforms lit the fuse for major protests that continued even after Ortega withdrew the reform just days ago to pacify the country. However, the protests not only continued, but intensified.

The ruling party detected and denounced the violent acts by rioters whose sole purpose is to destabilize the country, in conjunction with Washington escalating its pressure against Nicaragua. Dialogue processes were initiated and suspended in the absence of progress. The problem is that those who requested dialogue came to ask for power and since it was not permitted, they claimed to international media that the ruling government were not flexible in their negotiations. In the search for a negotiated exit to the crisis, the opposition called for early elections, changes to the electoral law and a new conformation of the Supreme Electoral Council.

The Nicaraguan leader explained that the hand behind the "crisis" was coordinated by the opposition and some private media outlets. The opposition wants to show that there are large demonstrations, but they are small and low key. The most conservative media in the country, which covered the protests biasedly, are paying the price by losing advertisers and readers. This led to El Nuevo Diario announcing that it stopped circulating, along with another newspaper that would stop publishing a humorous supplement.
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Erdogan: TurkStream pipeline, will launch on January 8


RT
Sat, 30 Nov 2019 14:24 UTC
Erdogan/Putin
© Ria Novosti Mikhail KlimentyevTurkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan • Russian President Vladimir Putin
Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan has announced the day that TurkStream, the 917 km pipeline across the bottom of the Black Sea, will officially be commissioned in Istanbul, capping an ambitious energy project with success.

TurkStream will be operative from January 8, 2020, Erdogan said on Saturday, according to local press. Moscow had earlier confirmed that President Vladimir Putin is likely to attend the opening ceremony in the Turkish city.

The pipeline runs from Gazprom's Russkaya compressor station, located near the southern city of Anapa, all the way to the Turkish town of Kiyikoy, where it connects to other pipelines. Comprising two offshore parallel pipelines, it is expected to carry 1.1 trillion cubic feet of gas per annum.
ship lays pipe
© RIA Novosti/Mikhail KlimentyevA 'Pioneering Spirit' ship lays pipes for the TurkStream in the Black Sea
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