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Joe Hoft: Flynn didn't lie to FBI - must have been coerced into guilty plea

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© azerbaycan24.comMichael Flynn
There is really almost no way that General Flynn lied to the FBI when being interrogated four days into the Trump Administration. There must be some reason for his guilty plea, but lying to the FBI is almost certainly not what he did.

General Mike Flynn was berated by the media in January 2017 for alleged illegal activities with Russians. The far-left media was in a frenzy about an article released by the Washington Post on January 12th based on classified information that was stolen and leaked to the press.

Later that January, only a few days after the Trump Administration moved into the White House, General Mike Flynn, the decorated war hero, was set up and interrogated in the White House.

As TGP previously reported in February 2018, according to Mike Cernovich, fired and corrupt former FBI Head Andrew McCabe altered far left FBI investigator Peter Strzok's 302 notes on his interview with General Flynn. And then McCabe destroyed the evidence.

In early May of 2018, Senator Grassley demanded the FBI and DOJ produce the transcript of Flynn's intercepted calls with Russian Ambassador Kislyak and the 302's by May 25th. The DOJ and FBI ignored him. They either refused to provide them or they were altered and deleted as previously noted.

Comment: The above is all speculation. But the fact remains that the Flynn set-up stinks to high heaven. The 'interview' (in which the FBI made sure Flynn did not have a lawyer present - compare that to Hillary Clinton's FBI interviews!) took place on January 24, 2017. The 302 write-up submitted in the case was not written until July 19, 2017, six months later.
FBI rules require that a 302 report be prepared within five days of an interview. Instead, Fox News reports that the 302 submitted to Judge Sullivan was dated July 19, 2017 and "specifically came from an interview with Strzok in which the Flynn encounter was discussed - and not the original Flynn interview." Worse still, this report was heavily redacted. One and a half pages were completely redacted.
Given the FBI's refusal to provide the actual write-up, we can hardly be blamed for suspecting a cover-up of some sort. If Mueller et al. are telling the truth, what do they have to hide?


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Russia will have Avangard hypersonic missile systems ready to enter combat duty in 2019

Avangard hypersonic missile systems
© Press Service of the Ministry of Defense of the Russian FederationAvangard hypersonic missile systems
The Avangard is a strategic intercontinental ballistic missile system equipped with a hypersonic glide vehicle

First Avangard hypersonic missile systems will enter combat duty in 2019 at the Dombarovsky missile division based in the Orenburg Region in the south Urals, Strategic Missile Force Commander Colonel-General Sergei Karakayev said in an interview with Krasnaya Zvezda newspaper.

"First complexes are planned to be put on combat duty at the missile regiment of the Dombarosky division starting next year," Karakayev said.

The Avangard is a strategic intercontinental ballistic missile system equipped with a hypersonic glide vehicle. According to open sources, the 'breakthrough' weapon was developed by the Research and Production Association of Machine-Building (the town of Reutov, the Moscow Region) and was tested from 2004. The glide vehicle is capable of flying at hypersonic speed in the dense layers of the atmosphere, maneuvering by its flight path and its altitude and breaching any anti-missile defense.

Comment: Obviously Putin meant what he said in his address of last March. Russia does not want war, but if forced to defend herself she will not let attacks from the West go unanswered. This new bit of high-end weaponry is further proof of that.


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Interior Minister says Turkey won't let US prevent Ankara's military operation east of Euphrates in Syria

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© AP Photo / Emrah Gurel
Turkey will not let the United States prevent its military operation in the Syrian territories, east of the Euphrates River, Interior Minister Suleyman Soylu said on Monday.

"[The United States] has tried to hamper us in northern Iraq, it tried to hamper us in Afrin, [Syria]. And now, it will try to hamper us east of the Euphrates. Turkey did not let it happen back then and we will not let it happen this time," Soylu told reporters during a visit to the Pakistani capital of Islamabad, as quoted by the Anadolu news agency.

He pointed out that Turkey would overcome the possible international pressure on the country over the military operation east of the Euphrates.

"The US has thought that it could intimidate us by using the men it had nurtured. It tried to set an international encirclement but we have overcome it," Soylu added.

Comment: Erdogan claims Trump supports the operation:
"There is no more Islamic State [Daesh*] in Syria, it is used as a pretext. We will not permit the creation of a terrorist corridor there. Three operations have been carried out by us in Syria, now it is the turn Euphrates east bank. We have announced it officially, spoken on the phone with Trump and received a positive response," Erdogan said at a rally, broadcast by the NTV channel.
This comes amid the ongoing Khashoggi scandal, which Turkey is using as leverage over Saudi Arabia and MBS's ties to the U.S. and the Trump administration. It also comes with this: Turkish FM says Trump working to extradite terrorist mastermind Gulen

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Light Saber

Brexit exposes the British colonial mindset towards Ireland: 'The Irish should know their place'

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© Reuters / Clodagh KilcoyneBanners by Anti-Brexit campaigners at the border town of Carrickcarnon in Ireland, October 8, 2016
Brexit watchers who are not informed on Irish history might recently have been fooled into believing that the 'Irish Question' is something new; some strictly Brexit-related conundrum. Nothing could be further from the truth.

In fact, the 'Irish question' is a phrase that has been bandied about by the British ruling elite for hundreds of years to refer to the political challenges posed by its colonial entanglement on the island and the 'problem' of Irish nationalism and republicanism. In reality then, it is not so much an 'Irish' question as a British one.

When the Good Friday Agreement was signed in 1998, it brought a fragile peace to Northern Ireland after decades of sectarian conflict. That conflict had stemmed from Britain's partition of the island nearly one-hundred years ago and the subsequent decades during which the Irish Catholic population were deprived of equal rights at the ballot box and in their daily lives. With the signing of the GFA, the Irish question was, in a sense - for both the media and political establishments - put to bed. But the Irish question has always been a light sleeper.

Comment: Indeed, Ireland appears to be in the driver's seat regarding Brexit, and it irks the British PTB no end. Part of Theresa May's endless waffling may be to avoid having to deal with the question of hard or soft borders between Ireland and Northern Ireland. A year ago the question seemed resolved.

Ireland, UK and Brussels reach Brexit agreement: No hard border for Northern Ireland, which effectively remains in EU

But now it's up in the air again: The Irish may just tell Britain to s*d off:


Arrow Up

How the New Silk Roads are merging into Greater Eurasia

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© Reuters / stringerPeople take pictures of the first freight train from Shenzhen to Minsk, capital of Belarus, that set out of Yantian Port in Shenzhen in May 2017.
The concept of Greater Eurasia has been discussed at the highest levels of Russian academia and policy-making for some time. This week the policy was presented at the Council of Ministers and looks set to be enshrined, without fanfare, as the main guideline of Russian foreign policy for the foreseeable future.

President Putin is unconditionally engaged to make it a success. Already at the St Petersburg International Economic Forum in 2016, Putin referred to an emerging "Eurasian partnership".

I was privileged over the past week to engage in excellent discussions in Moscow with some of the top Russian analysts and policymakers involved in advancing Greater Eurasia.

Three particularly stand out: Yaroslav Lissovolik, program director of the Valdai Discussion Club and an expert on the politics and economics of the Global South; Glenn Diesen, author of the seminal Russia's Geoeconomic Strategy for a Greater Eurasia; and the legendary Professor Sergey Karaganov, dean of the Faculty of World Economy and International Affairs at the National Research University Higher School of Economics and honorary chairman of the Presidium of the Council on Foreign and Defense Policy, who received me in his office for an off-the-record conversation.

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Bug

Clueless Hillary tells Americans: "If You don't support Democrats, go somewhere else"

Hillary Clinton has a message for Bernie Bros, Democratic Socialists and other constituencies of the "Dirtbag Left".
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© YouTube/KJNGoing, going, going, going...
If you have a problem with the Democrats' agenda (which, as Tucker Carlson explained in an interview last week, has shifted away from empowering "working class" Americans to favoring globalism, militarism and big business) then go vote for somebody else.

Demonstrating that she clearly hasn't moved on from the embarrassment she suffered at the hands of Bernie Sanders, who nearly defeated her in the 2016 Democratic Primary after riding a wave of support for his socialist agenda (something that polls suggest is becoming increasingly popular with young Americans), Clinton lashed out during a recent interview at "progressives" who won't stop attacking Democrats from the left.

Mr. Potato

Don't laugh at how ridiculous the MSM has become or you're giving Putin what he wants

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The BBC has published an article titled "How Putin's Russia turned humour into a weapon" about the Kremlin's latest addition to its horrifying deadly hybrid warfare arsenal: comedy.

The article is authored by Olga Robinson, whom the BBC, unhindered by any trace of self-awareness, has titled "Senior Journalist (Disinformation)". Robinson demonstrates the qualifications and acumen which earned her that title by warning the BBC's audience that the Kremlin has been using humor to dismiss and ridicule accusations that have been leveled against it by western governments, a "form of trolling" that she reports is designed to "deliberately lower the level of discussion".


Comment: If there's one place to go for comedy hour, it's the mainstream news networks. They are so far removed from reporting real objective news that it must be satire. You're better off watching a talking cat for the latest evening world news reports.


Bad Guys

Saudi-led coalition launches numerous airstrikes on Yemen despite ceasefire agreement a week ago

saudi yemen airstrike December 16th
© AP Photo / Hani Mohammed
The Arab coalition launched new airstrikes in Yemen's Al Hodeidah despite the agreements that were reached during the negotiations in Sweden, a source in Yemen's Ministry of Defense told Sputnik on Sunday.

According to the source, the bombing affected the Isa area of Al Hodeidah.

The source added that the coalition had also launched an airstrike in the province of Al Bayda, leaving two children killed, as well as bombed the northern province of Saada, located on the border with Saudi Arabia and considered to be a stronghold of the Houthi movement.

The strike comes after one-week UN-mediated talks on Yemen crisis settlement finished earlier in December. The sides agreed on a governorate-wide ceasefire and withdrawal of forces in Al Hodeidah, the establishment of a UN-chaired committee to monitor the process, a prisoner exchange, and humanitarian corridors to the city of Taiz.

Comment: So we have: the US-led continued bombing of civilians in Syria, the US and UK backed Saudi-led war on Yemen, meanwhile Iran is struggling with US waged economic warfare in the form of sanctions, and Afghanistan is suffering increased attacks from the Taliban (to name just a few of the ongoing conflicts in the area); one would think this was a coordinated attack to obliterate much of Middle East - those countries that refuse to kowtow to the establishment anyway. Also check out SOTT radio's:


Arrow Down

Arrogant Washington is changing the World Order against its own interests

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The hubris and arrogance of Washington have been at work since the Clinton regime to destroy the power and relevance of the United States.

This website has an international audience. The most asked question from this audience is the world order. There is a realization that Washington's control might weaken, a development people abroad see as hopeful. They ask me for verification of their hope.

Here is my answer:

The world order has already changed. China has a larger and more powerful industrial and manufacturing based economy than the US, and China's potential domestic consumer market is four times larger than that of the US. As economies are consumer based, China's potential is an economy four times larger than that of the US.

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Black Magic

'Macron... WHAT?' French TV channel France3 caught censoring photo of Yellow Vest protester's placard

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© AFP / Geoffroy Van der Hasselt (L) / france.tv (R)Part of original photo (L) and screenshot of doctored image broadcast by France3 (R)
TV channel France3 has "fixed" a placard held by a Yellow Vest protester, which urged President Emmanuel Macron to resign. The broadcaster explained that the sign was broadcast reading just Macron, due to a "human error."

The unfortunate blunder occurred on Saturday during an evening news program that was covering the ongoing Yellow Vest protests.

Among videos and images of the protests, France3 featured a photo supplied by Agence France Presse (AFP). It shows a couple of mounted police officers watching the crowds outside the Opera b uilding in Paris on Saturday. One of the Yellow Vests holds high a placard, reading "Macron out." Here's this photo.


Comment: Quelle surprise. News behemoth AFP has been manipulating images (and stories) to fit the agenda of their establishment backers who are clearly worried about the protests and its message.


Comment: Is it any wonder the Yellow Vest protesters have included in their manifesto that the mainstream media should be forced to give them airtime because they know the news can't even be trusted to post undoctored photos?

But then, it's not only France's mainstream media who have been caught out in the last few days: "The editorial board wants blood": Leaked messages show BBC wants to 'prove' Russia linked to Yellow Vest protests

See also: And check out SOTT radio's: NewsReal: Révolution Jaune? France Revolts Against Macron