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Secret Scottish-based office led infowars attack on Labour and Jeremy Corbyn

John Ferguson
Daily Record
Mon, 10 Dec 2018 14:08 UTC
Jeremy Corbyn
© PAJeremy Corbyn's focus is on a no confidence vote in the government - but Labour MPs are already looking to what comes next
A secret UK Government-funded infowars unit based in Scotland sent out social media posts attacking Jeremy Corbyn and the Labour Party.

On the surface, the cryptically named Institute for Statecraft is a small charity operating from an old Victorian mill in Fife.

But explosive leaked documents passed to the Sunday Mail reveal the organisation's Integrity Initiative is funded with £2million of Foreign Office cash and run by military intelligence specialists.

The "think tank" is supposed to counter Russian online propaganda by forming "clusters" of friendly journalists and "key influencers" throughout Europe who use social media to hit back against disinformation.
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Macron addresses France amid protests; is it too late?

Angela Charlton
AP
Mon, 10 Dec 2018 10:14 UTC
paris Macron graffiti
© AP Photo/Christophe EnaA man walks his dog past a tag reading : Happy Christmas Manu, referring to French President Emmanuel Macron, in Paris, Sunday, Dec. 9, 2018. Paris monuments reopened, cleanup workers cleared debris and shop owners tried to put the city on its feet again Sunday, after running battles between yellow-vested protesters and riot police left 71 injured and caused widespread damage to the French capital.
French President Emmanuel Macron is preparing to speak to the nation Monday at last, after increasingly violent and radicalized protests against his leadership and a long silence that aggravated the anger. Many protesters only want one thing: for him to declare "I quit."

That's an unlikely prospect. Instead Macron is expected to announce a series of measures to reduce taxes and boost purchasing power for the masses who feel his presidency has favored the rich. He's being forced to act after four weeks of "yellow vest" protests that started in struggling provinces and spread to rioting in the capital that has scared tourists and foreign investors and shaken France to the core.

Macron met Monday morning in his presidential palace with local and national politicians, unions and business leaders to hear their concerns. In the evening, he will give a national televised address, his first public words in more than a week.

Comment: See also:

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Mr. Potato

Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey's birthday meditation in Myanmar shows how disconnected from enlightenment he is


RT
Sun, 09 Dec 2018 23:15 UTC
Jack Dorsey
© Reuters / Anushree FadnavisTwitter CEO Jack Dorsey
Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey's trip to Myanmar where he meditated on a "concrete floor" has brought on a barrage of online mockery for being both a cartoonish whim of the super-rich and a 'tone deaf' choice of country on top of that.

Dorsey, with a net worth of some $4.5 billion, felt the righteous wrath of the monster he co-founded after sharing the details of his birthday present to himself - a meditation trip to Myanmar - with his 4.12 million followers.

Dorsey described his humbling "experience" in Myanmar in painstaking detail in a series of tweets on Sunday. In one of the tweets, he dwelled upon how uncomfortable it was to sit on a bare concrete floor "cross-legged for an hour without moving."

"Pain arises in the legs in about 30-45 minutes. One's natural reaction is to change posture to avoid the pain. What if, instead of moving, one observed the pain and decided to remain still through it?" the now-enlightened Dorsey tweeted.


Comment: Good for you Dorsey. Now how about doing something useful like making Twitter a neutral platform instead of censoring viewpoints you don't like?

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Control Panel

Trump folds on everything at G-20

Tom Luongo
Gold, Goats 'N Guns
Mon, 03 Dec 2018 00:00 UTC
Trump Putin g20
I knew there was something wrong with Donald Trump's presidency the day he bombed the airbase at Al-Shairat in Syria. It was a turning point. I knew it was a mistake the moment he did it and argued as such at the time.

No act by him was more contentious.

It cost me hundreds of followers gained throughout the campaign who wanted to believe Trump was playing 4-D chess. My Periscopes went from being events to afterthoughts.

Those that left needed to believe this because they had invested so much in him.

They had to believe he was playing some deep game with Putin to bring peace to the region.

He wasn't.
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Gingerbread

The manufacturing of a Democratic contender for President? Beto O'Rourke: 'He's Barack Obama, but white'

Michael Krieger
Liberty Blitzkrieg
Wed, 05 Dec 2018 15:07 UTC
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Congressman Beto O'Rourke
Although I haven't paid close attention to Beto O'Rourke, he's been on my radar for a couple of years after noticing certain media outlets had anointed him a "rising Democratic star." One of my principal rules of political analysis is whenever you hear mass media proclaim an obscure politician a "rising star," it typically means that individual has been deemed acceptable by the entrenched oligarchy and is being groomed as a promising puppet.

In fact, the first time O'Rourke came into my news orbit it felt like I was being sold a box of cereal by Madison Avenue. After reading an illuminating article by Ziad Jilliani earlier today in Current Affairs, it appears my intuition was correct.

The first paragraph tells you a lot about what the sorts of people who like Beto, like about him.
Beto O'Rourke-a three-term Congressman from El Paso, Texas who recently failed to unseat Texas Republican Senator Ted Cruz-is suddenly one of the hottest names in Democratic Party politics. The once-obscure representative is on the lips of many as a presidential contender. "All the guy would have to do is send out an email to his fundraising base...and he raises $30 million," one anonymous Democratic bundler told Politico. "That has totally changed the landscape for tier 1 guys, because now Bernie and Warren, now they have competition. It completely changes the game if Beto runs. And he should run...He's Barack Obama, but white."
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Propaganda

Venezuela hatchet job show how far The Guardian has fallen

David William Pear
The Off Guardian
Mon, 10 Dec 2018 01:03 UTC
native venezuelan protest police
An intended anti-Venezuela propaganda photo, which makes much more sense when you see the little girl as Venezuela, and the police as the United States.
The photo is from The National Interest, calling for a military coup.

The Guardian used to be a superb member of the Fourth Estate. It was the "guardian" for the people from the excesses and abuses of power by the government and the ruling class. The free press is vital to democracy because the governing establishments, corporations and oligarchs cannot be trusted to act in the best interest of the public.

Unfettered power in the dark becomes corrupted. It acts in its own best interests even when those interests are harmful to the public's well-being. The free press is the guardian for the public by keeping it out of the dark of the goings on and shenanigans of the rich, famous and powerful. Transparency has become an overused word in the past few years by the powerful, for the very reason to fool the public of how opaque the actions of the powerful have become.

Comment: Unfortunately Venezuela, or rather Venezuela's oil, is still in the US' cross-hairs.

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NPC

'Whatever happens, Russia did it!' Senator on 'absurd' Kiev claim that FSB is behind France protests


RT
Sun, 09 Dec 2018 21:46 UTC
yellow vest protests
© Reuters / Stephane Mahe
A senior Russian parliamentarian was incredulous after Ukrainian security services officially accused Moscow special operatives of orchestrating the Gilets Jaunes protests that have rocked France over the past month.

"Kiev is tirelessly pushing the boundaries of the absurd," senator Aleksey Pushkov, who heads the media relations committee in the upper chamber of Russia's parliament, wrote on Twitter.

"We've known long enough - whatever bad things happen in Ukraine, Russia is blamed. But recently we have seen a new strategy from Kiev - anything that happens anywhere in the world, from Brexit to the French protests, Moscow did that too."
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Bad Guys

US wants Saudi-led war on Yemen to continue, aiming at 'combating' Iran

Alexander Cornwell
Reuters
Sun, 09 Dec 2018 10:00 UTC
yemen soldier flag
© AFP
The United States wants to continue support to the Saudi-led coalition in Yemen's war and will remain engaged in efforts to combat Iranian influence and Islamist militancy in the Arab state, a State Department official said on Sunday.

Since the Oct 2. murder of Washington Post columnist Jamal Khashoggi at the kingdom's Istanbul consulate, the U.S. administration has come under pressure at home over the nearly four-year-old conflict.

The Senate last month voted to advance a resolution to end U.S. military support, which includes arms sales and intelligence sharing, for the Western-backed Sunni Muslim coalition that intervened in 2015 against the Iranian-aligned Houthis to restore the internationally recognized government.

Comment: See: Israeli government okayed spyware sale to Saudis to track Khashoggi and spy on Iran

Also check out SOTT radio's: NewsReal: Israeli-French Deception Downs Russian Spy Plane Off Syria, US Escalates 'Regime Change' Against Iran

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Fire

SOTT Focus: Joe Quinn on PressTV: French Protests Expose Macron's Globalist Regime


PressTV
Sun, 09 Dec 2018 20:43 UTC
joe quinn presstv paris protests
France is boiling with anger. Thousands of people take to the streets in cities across France for the fourth consecutive weekend to protest against government's social and economic policies. Security forces again fired tear gas, flash-bang grenades and 'rubber' bullets to disperse the protesters, leaving hundreds injured. They also arrested around 1,700 people.

The Yellow Vest movement started as a protest against fuel tax rise, but eventually turned into a general opposition to the economic policies of President Emmanuel Macron. The protests continue despite the government's decision to abandon the fuel tax hike. Four people have been killed so far. How far will this go? And what is the root cause of the popular anger against Macron's government?

PressTV today spoke with Joe Quinn, political commentator and editor of independent news site Sott.net...

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Bullseye

Could this be it? The chronically optimistic Trump-hater's guide to Mueller skepticism

T.A. Frank
Vanity Fair
Mon, 03 Dec 2018 05:22 UTC
Muellerpostercrowd
© Michael Brochstein/SOPA Images/REX/Shutterstock
In the autumn of 1995, millions of Indians flocked to New Delhi after reports that a statue of Ganesha, the Hindu deity of good luck, was drinking milk from a spoon. It turned out that Ganesha, in the form of carved white stone, was a bit porous, and he wasn't drinking the milk so much as getting coated in it, as each of the thousands of spoonfuls trickled down his side, but a collective thrill prevailed for a while. I relate this incident because its rhythms - big news, then frenzy, then comedown - bear a strong resemblance to those of Russiagate, with each development setting the Resistance into a frenzy of milk-buying and statue-feeding that fades only after a few days, replaced by an unspoken agreement to wait for further reports on Ganesha's movements.

For many Robert Mueller watchers, the air these days is electric. People sense the big shoes are about to drop. Donald Trump has submitted his written answers to Mueller's questions. Paul Manafort has entered a plea agreement, but then continued to lie-at least according to Mueller. Jerome Corsi, fringe-right author and personality, is vowing to go to jail for life rather than sign on to Mueller's version of events. Roger Stone is expecting to be indicted for something. So is Donald Trump Jr. And, most significant of all to those looking for a big payoff, Michael Cohen has pleaded guilty to lying to Congress about the timeline of a deal he was trying to make to construct a 100-story Trump-branded tower in Moscow. It turns out that the deal exploration continued past the time Trump had secured the Republican nomination, and Cohen and his associate Felix Sater, a real-estate promoter and one-time racketeer, had even discussed giving Vladimir Putin a $50 million penthouse in the building. "This is it," people are saying. "This is the big one!"

Comment: A nothing burger with cheese.

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