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Schmuel Rosner: Full-time NYT propagandist for Israel

Donald Johnson and Philip Weiss
Mondoweiss
Sun, 23 Sep 2018 09:00 UTC
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Jewish supremacist Shmuel Rosner
The New York Times just ran a column by Shmuel Rosner calling for Palestine to become part of Jordan in order for Palestinians to obtain political rights. The column includes several swipes at Palestinians as lesser to Israeli Jews, and needing to be separated from Israel:
Since 1967, Israel hasn't been able to identify a Palestinian leadership that can be trusted to keep the peace and maintain order.... And so it has always hoped that Israel's eventual separation from Palestinians will include a guarantee of - to put it bluntly - adult supervision.

Comment: If anyone needs supervision it is the Jewish State, which is seemingly stuck at the developmental level of a three-year-old: selfish, no regard for telling the truth, and a total lack of responsibility for one's actions.


Why does the Times have this guy in its stable? The anti-Palestinian racist viewpoint is adequately represented by Bret Stephens and Thomas Friedman, but they also write about other things - Stephens wants a war with Iran, for instance and doesn't like Trump. He and Gail Collins have adorable Resistance lovefests sometimes. Thomas Friedman loves CEO's and austerity and war and occasionally even says something sensible about global warming.

But all Rosner does is talk about Israel from a far right perspective.

Comment: Better yet, people like Rosner don't just need adult supervision, they need to be institutionalized, for their own good and the good of those around them.

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Second woman accuses Kavanaugh of sex abuse - claims are even weaker than Ford's

Matt Margolis
PJ Media
Mon, 24 Sep 2018 08:36 UTC
Brett Kavanaugh
© AP Photo/Alex Brandon
As Christine Blasey Ford's accusation against Supreme Court nominee Brett Kavanaugh lost all credibility, it was reasonable to assume there was a reason for all the stalling. Many believed that somewhere, somehow, leftists would find someone else to come forward with accusations of sexual misconduct against Judge Kavanaugh.

Earlier this evening The New Yorker published a story written by Ronan Farrow and Jane Meyer proving that theory correct. This story centers on Deborah Ramirez, who has come forward (or was pushed to come forward) with a claim that while she and Kavanaugh were both students at Yale, they were both at a drunken dorm party where Kavanaugh allegedly exposed himself to her.

Judge Kavanaugh has already released a statement denying the allegation. "This alleged event from 35 years ago did not happen. The people who knew me then know that this did not happen, and have said so. This is a smear, plain and simple. I look forward to testifying on Thursday about the truth, and defending my good name - and the reputation for character and integrity I have spent a lifetime - against these last-minute allegations."

Comment: The sad thing is, accusations like Ramirez's work. As in geopolitics, the new normal is "highly likely, therefore guilty" - no evidence, no trial, just guilt by accusation (e.g., the Skripals, Assad "gassing his own people", Russia "downing MH17", etc.). For example:


A pattern of accusations does not equal a pattern of conduct, you idiot.


On what possible basis is an accusation from a woman who was drunk and doesn't even remember if Kavanaugh was the 'guilty' party, "credible"? Another idiot. And another:

This kind of hyper puritan moralizing has gone over the top. On what planet is a drunken, uncertain memory of a man's genitals "deeply disturbing"? And since when is it the FBI's job to investigate every instance of drunken college students exposing themselves in the '80s?

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Israel thinks apologies and high level personnel will absolve it of Russian jet tragedy


Sputnik
Sun, 23 Sep 2018 14:39 UTC
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© AP Photo / Ariel Schalit
Israel is guided solely by its military interests in the region, and this factor along with the lack of coordination with the Russian side led to the crash of Russia's Il-20 military plane in Syria, Egyptian military expert Adil Suleiman told Sputnik.

The Egyptian analyst noted that the tragedy was the result of a lack of coordination at the operational and tactical levels. "It was not taken seriously in full, especially by the Israeli side," Suleiman said.

"Israel does not care about anything apart from its interests, especially with regard to military operations. It is not ready to bear military losses and look weak... Israel is not interested in who is on the other side, whether it is the Syrian side, which is armed with Russian advanced weapons, or any other," he noted.

Comment: See also:

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Bad Guys

Please God, no: Trade tensions between US and China could drag on for decades

Pepe Escobar
Asia Times
Sun, 23 Sep 2018 21:03 UTC
Trade war
© iStockWe might be at the start of a decades-long trade war between China and the US.
Alibaba's Jack Ma has warned that the ongoing US-China trade war could last at least 20 years. As we'll see, it's actually more like 30 - up to 2049, the 100th anniversary of the foundation of the People's Republic of China (PRC).

Steve Bannon always boasted that President Trump was bound to conduct a "sophisticated form of economic warfare" to confront China.

The logic underpinning the warfare is that if you squeeze the Chinese economy hard enough Beijing will submit and "play by the rules."

The Trump administration plan - which is, in fact, trade deficit hawk Peter Navarro's plan - has three basic targets:
  1. Displace China from the heart of global supply chains.
  2. Force companies to source elsewhere in the Global South all the components necessary for manufacturing their products.
  3. Force multinational corporations to stop doing business in China.
The overarching concept is that unending confrontation with China is bound to scare companies/investors away.

There's no evidence South Korean or German conglomerates, for instance, would withdraw from the vast Chinese market and/or production facilities.

And even if the Flight Away from China actually happened, arguably the American economy would suffer as much, if not more, than China's.

The latest US tariff volley may lower China's GDP by only 0.9 percentage points, according to Bloomberg Economics. But China may still grow a healthy 6.3% in 2019.
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UK has "grave concerns" over Steele involvement in Russiagate, pleads with Trump not to declassify docs

Tyler Durden
ZeroHedge
Sun, 23 Sep 2018 18:48 UTC
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Donald Trump and Theresa May
The British government "expressed grave concerns" to the US government over the declassification and release of material related to the Trump-Russia investigation, according to the New York Times. President Trump ordered a wide swath of materials "immediately" declassified "without redaction" on Monday, only to change his mind later in the week by allowing the DOJ Inspector General to review the materials first.

The Times reports that the UK's concern was over material which "includes direct references to conversations between American law enforcement officials and Christopher Steele," the former MI6 agent who compiled the infamous "Steele Dossier." The UK's objection, according to former US and British officials, was over revealing Steele's identity in an official document, "regardless of whether he had been named in press reports."

We would note, however, that Steele's name was contained within the Nunes Memo - the House Intelligence Committee's majority opinion in the Trump-Russia case.

Comment: Steele is small fry compared to Stefan Halper. How much will the documents reveal about him, and about Alexander Downer for that matter?

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Pure hubris: The New York Times as judge and jury

Joe Lauria
Consortium News
Fri, 21 Sep 2018 00:00 UTC
New York Times
© New York Times
Seeking to maintain its credibility, The New York Times dispenses with the criminal justice system and basic principles of journalism to weigh in again on Russia-gate, reports Joe Lauria.

We've seen it before: a newspaper and individual reporters get a story horribly wrong but instead of correcting it they double down to protect their reputations and credibility - which is all journalists have to go on - and the public suffers.

Sometimes this maneuver can contribute to a massive loss of life. The most egregious example was the reporting in the lead-up to the invasion of Iraq. Like nearly all Establishment media, The New York Times got the story of Iraq's weapons of mass destruction - the major casus belli for the invasion - dead wrong. But the Times, like the others, continued publishing stories without challenging their sources in authority, mostly unnamed, who were pushing for war.

The result was a disastrous intervention that led to hundreds of thousands of civilian deaths and continued instability in Iraq, including the formation of the Islamic State.

In a massive Times article published on Thursday, entitled, "A Plot to Subvert an Election: Unravelling the Russia Story So Far," it seems that reporters Scott Shane and Mark Mazzetti have succumbed to the same thinking that doubled down on Iraq. They claim to have a "mountain of evidence" but what they offer would be invisible on the Great Plains.

Comment: By 'doubling down on its mistakes', the NYT risks exposure for distortion, hearsay, false accusations, lack of source identification and the stigma of yellow journalism. The power of any story is its truth supported by facts.

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Clinton-linked company diverted millions via bogus project

Mark Megaghan
Conservative Daily Post
Fri, 21 Sep 2018 10:23 UTC
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© Jewish Business News/The Cut/KJNGeorge Soros • Hillary Clinton
$90 Million was squandered on a program to find jobs for women in a collapsed economy; the only ones to benefit share strong ties to Hillary Clinton and George Soros.

According to a federal audit, the U.S. taxpayers blew about $90 million to fund a project doomed from the start. "Someone must be pocketing the cash," Judicial Watch reports. The trail of breadcrumbs led straight to a company linked to Hillary Clinton and some of her favorite cronies, and even deeper down the "deep state" ladder to Mr. George "Satan" Soros himself.

In 2014, While Hillary Clinton was at the helm as Secretary of State under Barack Obama, the U.S. Agency of International Development [USAID] scraped together $216 million taxpayer dollars for a program helping "tens of thousands of Afghan women get jobs and gain promotions."

Some say it was Hillary Clinton's personal ATM machine. Others believe the cash was funneled to the Muslim Brotherhood. Only one thing is certain, there weren't any jobs for many women before or after the project.
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Attention

'We'll overthrow them!' Giuliani stirs up 'Iran Uprising Summit' after deadly terrorist attack


RT
Sun, 23 Sep 2018 05:05 UTC
Rudy Giuliani uprising summit
© Amr Alfiky/ReutersIranians want the US to overthrow them...
The US will overthrow the Iranian government once socio-economic conditions there, shaped by sanctions, are ripe for a revolution, presidential lawyer Rudy Giuliani told a cheering crowd on the day of the deadly attack in Ahvaz.

"I don't know when we're going to overthrow them. It could be in a few days, months, a couple of years, but it's going to happen. They're going to be overthrown, the people of Iran have obviously had enough," said Giuliani at a so-called 'Iran Uprising Summit' held by the Organization of Iranian-American Communities in New York.

Speaking to members of Iranian expat and dissident communities in the US, who are seeking political change in Iran, the 74-year-old lawyer praised Donald Trump's bullish approach towards Tehran, boasting that sanctions slapped on Iran, after the White House unilaterally withdrew from the internationally-backed nuclear deal in May, are stalling the country's economy and damaging Iranians' lives.


Comment: Something to be proud of?


Comment: Damage control: Giuliani should not be let off leash.

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Syria, the UN and the 'Slobodan Milošević treatment'

Kurt Nimmo
Global Research
Thu, 20 Sep 2018 00:00 UTC
Trial of Slobodan Milošević
© YouTubeTrial of Slobodan Milošević and the corruption of international justice.
It's long been obvious the United Nations is a rubber stamp lapdog of the United States. It set the stage for a decade of sanctions that killed hundreds of thousands of Iraqis and piled sanctions on Libya that resulted in the US and NATO (another lapdog) taking military action that killed around 30,000 Libyans.

Now that supposedly august body has signaled it will investigate war crimes in Syria.

The Associated Press reports the "resolution adopted by the assembly said the body, known as the 'International, Impartial and Independent Mechanism,' would help collect and analyze evidence of violations of human rights and international humanitarian law 'to facilitate and expedite fair and independent criminal proceedings.'"

There is nothing fair and independent about it. If it were truly fair, the top human rights violator, the United States government and its Pentagon, would be at the top of the UN's to-do list.

The US is responsible for the "civil war" in Syria. It has agitated for "regime change" since at least 2005 under the guise of "democracy promotion," well before the CIA sent operatives - many were "rebels" that participated in the US-NATO Libyan massacre - into the city of Deraa to stir up trouble.
"The staged uprising in Deraa had some locals in the street who were unaware of their participation in a CIA-Hollywood production," writes Steven Sahiounie. "They were the unpaid extras in the scene about to be shot. These unaware extras had grievances, perhaps lasting a generation or more, and perhaps rooted in Wahhabism, which is a political ideology exported globally by the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia and the Royal family and their paid officials."

Comment: See also:

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Report: Israeli intel chief boasted of IAF's 'precision' just before IL-20 shootdown


Sputnik
Sat, 22 Sep 2018 20:05 UTC
Russian ll-20
© Reuters/Sergey PivovarovRussian ll-20 reconnaissance aircraft
Tel Aviv has ordered the commander of the Israeli Air Force to continue talks with his Russian counterparts about the destruction of the Russian IL-20 recon aircraft over Syria. Israel's Defense Ministry maintains that Syria is responsible for the destruction of the plane, which took place during an Israeli air raid on Syrian targets in Latakia.

In an interview with Haaretz take shortly before the destruction of the Russian IL-20 but published Friday, Israeli Air Force Intelligence chief Brig. Gen. Uri Oron bragged that while the Russian presence in Syria was a "challenge" for the IAF, it didn't constrain its activities.

"Does the Russian presence constrain the IAF's activity? It challenges us. We have to be very precise. [But] that doesn't mean that the IAF only flies in Israeli skies," Oron said.

"The Russians' arrival in Syria was one of the strongest things to shape reality in the area in recent years," Oron noted, saying that before the Russian intervention, "everyone was sure that ISIS was about to roll over Damascus."

Oron expressed confidence in his agency's ability to obtain and transmit accurate intelligence to the IAF to allow it to "cause accurate damage without major collateral damage," with the present focus being the alleged Iranian presence in Syria.

Comment: See also:

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