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Mr. Potato

Delusional Schiff wants to 'investigate' disputed Trump-Cohen story while BuzzFeed doubles down despite Mueller denial

Tyler Durden
ZeroHedge
Sun, 20 Jan 2019 09:54 UTC
Adam Shiff
Adam "Shiffty" Shiff
House Intelligence Committee Chairman Adam Schiff (D-CA), still licking his wounds from getting grounded by President Trump last week, has vowed to "absolutely" investigate a BuzzFeed News report that President Trump directed his former personal attorney to lie to Congress about a potential Trump Tower Moscow project that never materialized - despite special counsel Robert Mueller's office claiming the report is untrue.

"Absolutely. Absolutely," Schiff told CBS's "Face The Nation" after being asked whether he would investigate the allegations.

"Congress has a fundamental interest in two things. First, getting to the bottom of why this witness came before us and lied, and who else was knowledgeable that this was a lie," Schiff added.

Comment: You'd think when the sainted Special Counsel himself, Robert Mueller, says the BuzzFeed story is bogus, the Washington drones would listen.

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Arrow Up

Tulsi Gabbard stands her ground and says she doesn't regret meeting Assad


RT
Mon, 21 Jan 2019 09:41 UTC
Tulsi Gabbard
© Global Look Press/ CNP/AdMedia/Ron SachsDemocratic congresswoman Tulsi Gabbard
Democratic presidential challenger Tulsi Gabbard has refused to budge on her anti-war views and apologize for meeting Syrian President Bashar Assad in 2017, defending dialogue as the "only alternative" to "more war."

Anti-war congresswoman and Iraq veteran Gabbard (D-Hawaii) was pilloried by mainstream media as well as the political establishment, both on the left and the right, for going on a privately funded fact-finding trip to Syria in January 2017, during which she visited Aleppo and met with President Assad.

Gabbard was labelled an "Assad apologist" and "Putin puppet," nicknames that have resurfaced after she announced her presidential bid earlier in January. But rather than renouncing the perceived "ills" to rally some mainstream support, Gabbard told CNN's Jake Tapper on Sunday that she did not regret her decision to speak face-to-face with Assad.

"It continues to be very important for any leader in this country to be willing to meet with others, whether they be friends or adversaries or potential adversaries, if we are serious about the pursuit of peace and securing our country," Gabbard said. She referred to Trump's meeting with North Korean leader Kim Jong-un to prove her point, saying that the "stakes are far too high" to brush away dialogue if it can help avert a major war.

Comment: See also:

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Wolf

Ocasio-Cortez holds record as most-viewed C-SPAN House speech ever on Twitter

Sam Gillette
People Magazine
Mon, 21 Jan 2019 07:33 UTC
Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez
Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez
When it comes to Twitter, it looks like President Donald Trump has some competition.

New York Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, who was one of a wave of new faces joining Congress earlier this month, made C-SPAN history when a video of her speech from the House floor went viral on Twitter on Thursday.

"In just over 12 hours C-SPAN tweet of [Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez's] floor remarks last nite have become most-viewed twitter video by @cspan of any remarks by a member of House either party. 1.16M," wrote Howard Mortman, the broadcaster's communications director. He then confirmed that Sen. Kamala Harris holds the record for most-watched tweet video of the Senate, with 7.14 million views.

As of Friday afternoon, the just-over four minute video had 2.48 million views.
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Battery

SOTT Focus: Credulous Atheist Believes Evidence-Free Establishment Russia Narrative

Caitlin Johnstone
medium.com
Fri, 18 Jan 2019 21:52 UTC
sam harris
The 'renegade of the intellectual dark web', Sam Harris (mainstream pundit, more like)
The other day RT reporter Dan Cohen flagged how New Atheism guru Sam Harris recently had a shady cold war manipulator on his podcast promulgating the establishment narrative that Russian hackers and trolls interfered in the 2016 US election, despite the fact that there is no more publicly available evidence for this than there is for the existence of biblical Jehovah. I find this both fascinating and hilarious.


Comment: Can we say... ideologically-possessed?

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Bizarro Earth

On the threshold of a major regional reset, the Syria outcome will haunt those who started this war

Alastair Crooke
Strategic Culture Foundation
Mon, 14 Jan 2019 00:00 UTC
Globe ME
© Unknown
The Middle East is metamorphosing. New fault-lines are emerging, yet Trump's foreign policy 'hawks' still try to stage 'old movies' in a new 'theatre'.

The 'old movie' is for the US to 'stand up' Sunni, Arab states, and lead them towards confronting 'bad actor' Iran. 'Team Bolton' is reverting back to the old 1996 Clean Break script - as if nothing has changed. State Department officials have been briefing that Secretary Pompeo's address in Cairo on Thursday was " slated to tell his audience (although he may not name the former president), that Obama misled the people of the Middle East about the true source of terrorism, including what contributed to the rise of the Islamic State. Pompeo will insist that Iran, a country Obama tried to engage, is the real terrorist culprit. The speech's drafts also have Pompeo suggesting that Iran could learn from the Saudis about human rights, and the rule of law."

Well, at least that speech should raise a chuckle around the region. In practice however, the regional fault-line has moved on: It is no longer so much Iran. GCC States have a new agenda, and are now far more concerned to contain Turkey, and to put a halt to Turkish influence spreading throughout the Levant. GCC states fear that President Erdogan, given the emotional and psychological wave of antipathy unleashed by the Khashoggi murder, may be mobilising newly re-energised Muslim Brotherhood, Gulf networks. The aim being to leverage present Gulf economic woes, and the general hollowing out of any broader GCC 'vision', in order to undercut the rigid Gulf 'Arab system' (tribal monarchy). The Brotherhood favours a soft Islamist reform of the Gulf monarchies - along lines, such as that once advocated by Jamal Khashoggi.

Comment: Turkey plays both sides of the geo-political fence whenever it is convenient or a calculated advantage. Regardless of where Turkey lands in the grand scheme of things, its reputation predicts it isn't predictable, and its loyalty will be moment-to-moment. Israel's disregard of loyalties or cooperative circumstances - in order to further its own agenda - has become painfully obvious. It is cruising for an international bruising and the 'anti-Israel axis' may just provide it. The GCC are closing ranks.

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Snakes in Suits

William Barr's confirmation as new US Attorney General - Trump's plan or duped by the Deep State?

Larry Chin
Global Research
Mon, 14 Jan 2019 00:00 UTC
William Barr
© Tom Williams/Getty ImagesAttorney General William Barr
William Barr's confirmation to become Attorney General [took] place January 15-16, 2019. This article was originally published on December 12, 2018. The serious questions raised in the piece remain completely unanswered.

Why was Barr chosen, given his shocking and deeply criminal/cover-up kingpin background?

Was Trump duped by Deep State enemies, who have placed another predator into his administration with the power to destroy his presidency? Or has Trump co-opted and turned Barr, in the hopes that Barr will do Trump's bidding? Why would Barr ever turn against his own Deep State cronies?

Does Trump have a plan? With Barr in place, is Trump signaling to his enemies that "I now own the Deep State"? Or is Barr the Deep State's ultimate and final weapon against Trump, who remains surrounded by Bush/Clinton "swamp creatures" such as National Security Adviser John Bolton, who is one of Barr's many fellow Iran-Contra co-conspirators, Vice President Mike Pence (who is in ideal position for a coup against Trump, and remains very cozy with the Clintons, dozens of Obama appointees that remain in place, and Republican "Never Trumpers", all of whom continue to undermine Trump.

Pay careful attention to the confirmation "hearings". How many of the senators "questioning" Barr are themselves connected to the Bush/Clinton era criminal operations that Barr supervised as George H.W. Bush's attorney general?


Comment: See video below for the full confirmation hearing of William Barr for US Attorney General. See also:


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Attention

#Resistance heroes? An ex-FBI official says bureau attempted to keep 'progressives out of office'


RT
Sun, 20 Jan 2019 13:20 UTC
FBI agent
© Reuters/Sergio Flores
For liberals swept away by Russiagate mania, the FBI is worshipped as a fearless protector of democracy. According to a former FBI official, however, the bureau has actively worked to keep "progressives" out of office.

Terry Turchie, a former deputy assistant director of the FBI's Counterterrorism Division, appeared on Fox News host Tucker Carlson's program to discuss congressional investigations into Donald Trump's alleged ties to Russia. Criticizing the Democrat-controlled House for seizing on factually dubious news reports about Trump's alleged Kremlin collusion, Turchie nonchalantly disclosed that part of his "mission" at the FBI was to try to keep "progressives" and "socialists" out of office.
"The electorate in some places is putting more and progressives and self-described socialists in positions," Turchie told Carlson. "And, ironically, years ago - when I first got into the FBI - one of the missions of the FBI in its counterintelligence efforts was to try to keep these people out of office."

Comment: The FBI mandate? ...an interesting and controversial question in the grand schemes at hand. Was it set up to be a covert shaper, diffuser, director of perceptions related to the status quo? Let's see:
The FBI's mandate is established in Title 28 of the United States Code (U.S. Code), Section 533, which authorizes the Attorney General to "appoint officials to detect and prosecute crimes against the United States." Other federal statutes give the FBI the authority and responsibility to investigate specific crimes. Currently, the FBI's top priorities are:
  1. Protect the United States from terrorist attacks,
  2. Protect the United States against foreign intelligence operations and espionage,
  3. Protect the United States against cyber-based attacks and high-technology crimes,
  4. Combat public corruption at all levels,
  5. Protect civil rights,
  6. Combat transnational/national criminal organizations and enterprises,
  7. Combat major white-collar crime,
  8. Combat significant violent crime,
  9. Support federal, state, local and international partners, and
  10. Upgrade technology to enable, and further, the successful performances of its missions as stated above.


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Jet5

Russian military jets collide over Sea of Japan


RFE/RL
Fri, 18 Jan 2019 19:49 UTC
Russian jets
The Russian Defense Ministry says that two Su-34 jets were performing training flights when they came into contact.
Two Russian jets have collided in midair in the Far East, the Russian Defense Ministry said.

In a statement on January 18, the Russian military said that two Su-34 jets were performing training flights when they came into contact about 35 kilometers from the shore in the Sea of Japan.

Both crews ejected from their aircraft but it was not immediately clear where they were. Rescue crews have been dispatched to the area. There was no immediate information about the fate of the jets.

The Russian military said the fighter jets were not carrying missiles.
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Bad Guys

US sends warship to the Black Sea in effort to provoke Russia


RFE/RL
Sun, 20 Jan 2019 19:39 UTC
USS Donald Cook
The guided-missile destroyer USS Donald Cook in the Mediterranean Sea on December 15, 2014.
The U.S. Navy says the USS Donald Cook is heading to the Black Sea to conduct maritime security operations and enhance maritime stability with NATO allies in the region.

The Arleigh Burke-class guided-missile destroyer was navigating the Dardanelles Strait in Turkey on January 19 as it headed north toward the Black Sea, the U.S. Navy said in a statement.

"The U.S. Navy routinely operates in the Black Sea consistent with the Montreux Convention and international law," the statement said.

It did not say when it expected the ship to reach the Black Sea, but the TASS news agency quoted the Russian Defense Ministry's Defense Control Center as saying it is "tracking the movements" of the Donald Cook, which according to international convention may stay in the Black Sea for no longer than 21 days.

Comment: More from RT:
[Deployment of the Donald Cook] is the second such deployment in less than two weeks as, earlier in January, the Whidbey Island-class dock landing ship USS Fort McHenry was deployed to the Black Sea where its crew trained together with the sailors of the Romanian Navy. The US Navy statement said that the US military vessels' "routine" deployment to the Black Sea is in full accordance with the international law.

The Russian Navy dispatched a patrol vessel to monitor the actions of the US destroyer as it entered the Black Sea waters, the Defense Ministry said in a statement. It also used additional "electronic and technical means" to monitor the situation. Under the international law, the US ships are allowed to stay in the waters of the Black Sea for no more than 21 days, the ministry said.

Six American military vessels carried out missions in the area in 2018, including the guided-missile destroyers USS Ross, USS Carney and USS Porter as well as the command ship USS Mount Whitney, the dock landing ship USS Oak Hill and the expeditionary fast transport USNS Carson City.


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Magnify

Kennedy and King families call for Congress to reopen assassination probes


Who.What.Why
Sat, 19 Jan 2019 00:00 UTC
Truth and Reconcilition probes Kennedy King assassinations
After five decades, the mysteries behind the assassinations of John F. Kennedy, Robert F. Kennedy, Martin Luther King Jr. and Malcolm X may finally get the scrutiny they deserve.

A group consisting of relatives of the Kennedy and King families, as well as their confidantes and other prominent voices, is calling for a Truth and Reconciliation Committee to get to the bottom of these tragic murders.

Over the decades, those in power, whether in government, media, or academia, have contended that all of these murders were simply the result of lone-wolf actors: There was "no collusion," and please don't mention that other "C" word - conspiracy.

But parallel to these affirmations, an ever-growing group of dissenters has pointed out the inconsistencies in the official narratives. They have demonstrated that those events could not have unfolded the way we've been taught on TV and in standard textbooks. Indeed, the evidence of a deeper and darker story is so compelling that one must begin to ask why those in power are not investigating further?

Comment: There are few documentaries in existence today that have followed the murders of all three of these beacons of hope, JFK, MLK and RFK, like Evidence of Revision. The vignette footage used in this film reveals the terror and manipulation that underpinned society at that time. Much has been forgotten and yet it still haunts the very fabric of Western civilization today.
Evidence of Revision is a six-part documentary containing historical, original news footage revealing that the most seminal events in recent American history have been deeply and purposefully misrepresented to the public. Footage and interviews provide an in-depth exploration of events ranging from the Kennedy assassinations to the Jonestown massacre, and all that lies between.

The footprints left in this archival footage reveal the coordinated, clandestine sculpting of the America we know today. Evidence of Revision proves once and for all that history has been revised, even as it was written!
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