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One Day in Gaza: The Frontline Documentary that PBS pulled

Alison Weir
If America Knew
Fri, 24 May 2019 10:04 UTC
Palestinians in Gaza March of Return
Palestinians in Gaza carry an injured girl on March 31, 2018.
Recently, hundreds of PBS stations around the United States were scheduled to broadcast a powerful new Frontline documentary: One Day in Gaza. But viewers tuning in found that it had been replaced by a slightly updated Frontline report on Robert Mueller that had been broadcast two months before and had been streaming online ever since.

PBS no longer has the Gaza film listed on its schedule.

The documentary was to be aired on the one-year anniversary of events that took place on May 14, 2018, when tens of thousands of men, women, and children in Gaza gathered with the intention of deploying the tactics Gandhi had used in freeing India from British control.
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Oil Well

Envoy to US: India terminates Iran oil imports


Sputnik
Fri, 24 May 2019 02:39 UTC
India ended its imports of Iranian oil last month, Indian Ambassador to the United States Harsh Shringla told reporters at the country's embassy in Washington on Thursday.
Oil tanker india
© Sputnik

Comment: How many times have we seen this method of subjugation. Destabilize a country, take away their defenses, and rob them of everything they have... All for democracy. The problem is that Iran isn't a pushover, so this attempt won't play out like Libya, Iraq, etc.

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Document

President Trump orders intel community: Declassify docs and fully cooperate with AG Barr

Sara Carter
SaraACarter.com
Fri, 24 May 2019 01:45 UTC
DOJTrump
© Gage Skidmore/CC by-SA 2.0/MGNUS President Donald Trump
Note: This story is developing and will be updated

President Donald Trump directed the intelligence community Thursday to "quickly and fully cooperate" with Department of Justice Attorney General William Barr's investigation into surveillance activities during the 2016 presidential election, said White House Press Secretary Sarah Sanders.

In Thursday's memo Trump ordered the Department of State, Secretary of the Treasury, Secretary of Defense, the Attorney General, Secretary of Energy, Homeland Security, Director of National Intelligence and the director of the CIA to assist Barr in his review of the activities of the agencies during the FBI's probe into alleged - now debunked - collusion between the Trump campaign and Russia.

"Today, at the request and recommendation of the Attorney General of the United States, President Donald J. Trump directed the intelligence community to quickly and fully cooperate with the Attorney General's investigation into surveillance activities during the 2016 Presidential election," said Sanders in a statement released late Thursday. "The Attorney General has also been delegated full and complete authority to declassify information pertaining to this investigation, in accordance with the long established standards for handling classified information."

"Today's action will help ensure that all Americans learn the truth about the events that occurred, and the actions that were taken, during the last Presidential election and will restore confidence in our public institutions."
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Bad Guys

The Next Economic Crisis, The Looming Post-Multipolar System And Hybrid War Forever

J.Hawk, Daniel Deiss, Edwin Watson, Dermot Arrigan
South Front
Tue, 21 May 2019 00:00 UTC
post multi-polar world
The Impending Crisis

At one time, specifically during the post-World War 2 Bretton Woods era, it looked like as if the capitalist model could be indefinitely sustainable and avoid plunging the world into major world conflicts. That era began to come to an end during the stagflation crisis of the 1970s, and came to a complete end at the end of the Cold War which ushered in the era of the so-called "globalization" which took form of unbridled competition for markets and resources. At first this competition did not show many signs of trouble. There were many "emerging markets" created as a result of the collapse of the Soviet bloc into which Western corporations could expand. However, the law of diminishing returns being what it is, the initial rapid economic growth rates could not be sustained and attempts to goose it using extremely liberal central bank policies, to the point of zero and even negative interest rates, succeeded in inflating-and bursting-several financial "bubbles". Even today's US economy bears many hallmarks of such a bubble, and it is only one of many. Sooner or later the proverbial "black swan" event will unleash a veritable domino effect of popping bubbles and plunge the global economy into a crisis of a magnitude it has not seen since the 1930s. A crisis against which the leading world powers have few weapons to deploy, since they have expended their monetary and fiscal "firepower" on the 2008 crisis, to little avail. The low interest rates and high levels of national debt mean that the next big crisis will not be simply "more of the same." It will fundamentally rearrange the global economy.

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Radar

Russia will retaliate if US expands its near-border radar facility in Norway - Foreign Ministry


RT
Thu, 23 May 2019 17:13 UTC
Globus
© AFP / Pierre-Henry DeshayesFILE PHOTO. Globus-2 radar stations are seen in Vardo, northern Norway.
Moscow has vowed to retaliate if Washington sees through the modernization of its Globus-2 radar facility in Norway, saying that the radar is used specifically to spy on Russia.

The warning was issued by the Foreign Ministry spokeswoman Maria Zakharova on Wednesday during a press briefing.

"There is every reason to believe that the radar will monitor Russia's territory and will become part of the US global missile defense network," Zakharova stated.

As any other country, Russia won't leave the "military preparations" right on its borders unanswered, she warned, and will take unspecified retaliatory measures.

Comment: Surely the people of Norway can see there's no benefit in hosting US belligerence:

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Newspaper

US, Japan, South Korea & Australia gather for 1st combined naval drills in Western Pacific


RT
Thu, 23 May 2019 07:24 UTC
Phillip Sawyer.
© Reuters / Issei KatoPhillip Sawyer.
US Navy ships conducted joint drills with warships from allies Japan, Australia and South Korea in their first combined exercise in the Western Pacific.

The Pacific Vanguard exercise near the US island of Guam takes place ahead of President Donald Trump's visit to Japan this weekend.

The drills "joins forces from four, like-minded maritime nations that provide security throughout the Indo-Pacific," Vice Admiral Phillip Sawyer, commander of the US Navy's Seventh Fleet, said on Thursday.

The six-day exercise involves two Japanese destroyers, two Australian frigates and a destroyer from South Korea, with as many as 3,000 sailors participating, Reuters reports.

Comment: See also:

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Quenelle

Iran youth will witness demise of "American civilization", and Israel - Khamenei


Reuters
Wed, 22 May 2019 10:24 UTC
Khamenei
Iran's youth will witness the demise of Israel and American civilization, Iran's Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei said on Wednesday in comments published on his official website.

"You young people should be assured that you will witness the demise of the enemies of humanity, meaning the degenerate American civilization, and the demise of Israel," Khamenei said in a meeting with students.

He gave no further details.

Tensions have spiked between Iran and the United States after Washington sent more military forces to the Middle East, including an aircraft carrier, B-52 bombers and Patriot missiles, in a show of force against what U.S. officials say are Iranian threats to its troops and interests in the region.

Comment: He has a point; the West as a whole has lost touch with its roots and is becoming increasingly debased; as for Israel, if it continues on its notorious trajectory, its future is bleak: Also check out SOTT radio's:

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Bad Guys

Unintended consequences: US to triple import of RUSSIAN oil amid sanctions against Venezuela


Sputnik
Tue, 21 May 2019 21:42 UTC
russian oil tanker
© Reuters/Hani AmaraA Russian-flagged oil tanker is seen in Tripoli Naval Base after coast guard of the central region guards captured it
As of May 2019, US imports of Russian oil amounted to some five million barrels, while American refineries imported a total of 7.5 million barrels in all of 2018.

The US has rapidly increased its oil imports from Russia, with a total of 13 tankers carrying five million barrels of crude and oil products arriving in the first half of May amid dropping Venezuelan crude production due to Washington's sanctions, Bloomberg reported, citing Caracas Capital Markets managing partner Russ Dallen. The latter described Russia's crude export as being "on steroids", stating that the import of Russian oil by American refineries is set to triple.

Comment: Well and good for the US that, for now, Russia is willing to sell its oil. But what will happen when Russia has enough customers who treat it with respect and cordiality? Will the US feel arrogant enough to demand the Russians sell it however much oil it needs to make up for sanctioning Venezuela? Does Trump's administration honestly think the Kremlin will immediately capitulate?

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Camcorder

William Binney: Mass surveillance state undermines and destroys democracy - exclusive Herland Report


FRN
Wed, 22 May 2019 00:00 UTC
William Binney
© IMDbFormer NSA Director William Binney
Former NSA director, William Binney, has come forward in a Herland Report exclusive, to disclose the NSA's massive violation of the constitutional rights of U.S citizens. But more, it involves the targeting of people around the world regardless of citizenship. Among the key, critical components is how the new methods of investigating and charging an alleged suspect, strip the accused of their basic constitutional rights.

Moreover, what exactly is 'parallel constructed evidence'? This is an illegal method of creating cases against a person, but using evidence achieved through a method called parallel construction.


Comment: See more information from William Binney:

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Attention

Loretta Lynch: Comey's testimony misrepresented a key Clinton probe conversation, took her by surprise

Greg Re
Fox News
Tue, 21 May 2019 00:00 UTC
James Comey
© ReutersFormer FBI Director James Comey
Former Attorney General Loretta Lynch has flatly accused former FBI Director James Comey of mischaracterizing her statements by repeatedly alleging, under oath, that Lynch privately instructed him to call the Hillary Clinton email probe a "matter" instead of an "investigation."

Lynch, who testified that Comey's claim left her "quite surprised," made the dramatic remarks at a joint closed-door session of the House Oversight and Judiciary Committees last December. A transcript of her testimony was released on Monday by House Judiciary Committee ranking member Doug Collins, R-Ga.

The episode marked the latest public dispute to break out among high-level ex-Obama administration officials, as multiple government reviews of potential FBI and Justice Department misconduct continue.


Comment: See also:
Dems. Feinstein and Schiff say Lynch directive to Comey made them queasy too

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