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NPR deliberately misleads public in report on AIPAC vs Ilhan Omar

Alison Weir
If Americans Knew
Sun, 17 Feb 2019 22:31 UTC
NPR headquarters national public radio
Washington D.C. headquarters of NPR, National Public Radio
NPR's All Things Considered segment underreports AIPAC's finances, uses only Israel partisans as commentators, minimizes power of AIPAC, ignores Palestinians, and fails to inform listeners of the full scope of the Israel lobby

A recent NPR report, "Unpacking What The American Israel Public Affairs Committee Does," misleads listeners on several points.

The report is in response to freshman Democratic Congress member Ilhan Omar's tweet that AIPAC is the cause of U.S. politicians' support for Israel over U.S. needs and principles. Omar has come under numerous attacks ever since.

NPR's report, broadcast Wednesday, substantially downplays the power of AIPAC. In doing so, it suggests that Omar's comments were "antisemitic," while failing to interview anyone with different views.

The report was on NPR's All Things Considered, which says it is "the most listened-to, afternoon drive-time, news radio program in the country."

Comment: NPR's role in the 'unholy choir' of Western propaganda

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Snakes in Suits

Graham calls McCabe comments 'beyond stunning' as he threatens to subpoena former FBI chief

Andrew O'Reilly
Fox News
Sun, 17 Feb 2019 22:56 UTC
McCabe
© static.politicoFormer FBI Dir. Andrew McCabe
Sen. Lindsey Graham, R-S.C., vowed Sunday to investigate alleged discussions at the Department of Justice about invoking the 25th Amendment as a way to oust President Trump from office and threatened to subpoena former FBI Deputy Director Andrew McCabe if he refused to testify on the matter before the Senate.

"We're going to find out what happened here and the only way I know to find out is to call the people in under oath and find out, through questioning, who's telling the truth because the underlying accusation is beyond stunning," Graham, the chairman of the Senate Judiciary Committee, said on CBS' Face the Nation.

Graham added that he also plans to subpoena both McCabe and Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein if they won't voluntarily agree to testify before the committee.

"There is no organization beyond scrutiny," Graham said. "There is no organization that can't withstand scrutiny. And the FBI will come out stronger."

He said: "But we've got to get to the bottom of it. What are people to think after they watch "60 Minutes" when they hear this accusation by the acting deputy - acting FBI director that the deputy attorney general encouraged him to try to find ways to count votes to replace the president? That can't go unaddressed."
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Bullseye

Lavrov says Europe has 'lost monopoly' on regional integration as East rises - 'EU needs renovation'


RT
Sun, 17 Feb 2019 22:12 UTC
Europe poster
© Agence France-Presse/Georges Gobet
Russian foreign minister says European project failing to provide security and prosperity for continent, while EU wastes its energies on confronting Russia to please Washington.

"A unified Europe still hasn't been built," Sergey Lavrov said in his keynote address at the Munich Security Conference. "Everyday issues - from eradicating terrorism, to providing steady economic growth - have not been addressed with adequate solutions."

Instead, the Russian diplomat said that Europe has been happy to play "follower" to Washington's "leader" all while pursuing a "NATO-centric" foreign policy.

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Dollars

The Venezuelan myth keeps us from transforming our economy

Ellen Brown
Truthdig
Thu, 07 Feb 2019 00:00 UTC
Venezuelancash
© Carlos Garcia Rawlins/Reuters
Modern Monetary Theory (MMT) is getting significant media attention these days, after Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez said in an interview that it should "be a larger part of our conversation" when it comes to funding the "Green New Deal." According to MMT, the government can spend what it needs without worrying about deficits. MMT expert and Bernie Sanders adviser professor Stephanie Kelton says the government actually creates money when it spends. The real limit on spending is not an artificially imposed debt ceiling but a lack of labor and materials to do the work, leading to generalized price inflation. Only when that real ceiling is hit does the money need to be taxed back, but even then it's not to fund government spending. Instead, it's needed to shrink the money supply in an economy that has run out of resources to put the extra money to work.

Predictably, critics have been quick to rebut, calling the trend to endorse MMT "disturbing" and "a joke that's not funny." In a Feb. 1 post on the Daily Reckoning, Brian Maher darkly envisioned Bernie Sanders getting elected in 2020 and implementing "Quantitative Easing for the People" based on MMT theories. To debunk the notion that governments can just "print the money" to solve their economic problems, he raised the specter of Venezuela, where "money" is everywhere but bare essentials are out of reach for many, the storefronts are empty, unemployment is at 33 percent and inflation is predicted to hit 1 million percent by the end of the year.
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Attention

Pence accuses Iran of plotting 'another Holocaust', demands Europe leave nuclear deal

Allison Deger
Mondoweiss
Fri, 15 Feb 2019 00:00 UTC
Pence
© Virtual Embassy in IranVice President Mike Pence speaks in Warsaw, Thursday, February 14, 2019.
Vice President Mike Pence accused "the murderous revolutionary regime" of Iran of calling for "another Holocaust" during a two-day summit in Warsaw yesterday where the Trump administration is rallying support for action against the Islamic Republic.

Administration officials have long used strong rhetoric on Iran, but the speech marked a first for alleging a so-called genocidal plot.

Speaking of a visit to Auschwitz planned for today Pence began,
"anti-Semitism must be confronted, wherever and whenever it arises, and it must be universally condemned." Turning his attention to Iran, he continued, "But beyond its hateful rhetoric, the Iranian regime openly advocates another Holocaust and it seeks the means to achieve it."
The gathering in Poland was attended by officials from 60 countries. Pence pleaded a case for Europe to adopt sanctions and abandon JCPOA, the 2015 Iran nuclear deal. Pence referred to the agreement as a "devil's bargain with our common enemy."

Comment: Europe is 'not allowed' to think for itself and make independent decisions. Nixing compliance, how soon will this stubbornness be 'corrected' and attributed to the Iranian regime?

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[Pence also said:]
"The authoritarian regime in Tehran... openly advocates the destruction of the State of Israel. The Ayatollah Khamenei himself has said, 'It is the mission of the Islamic Republic of Iran to erase Israel from the map'.

As Iran celebrated the 40th anniversary of the Islamic Revolution on 11 February, Pence vowed to exercise maximum pressure on the country.

"Forty years ago this month, the mullahs seized control of that country. [....] Today, America's economic sanctions on Iran are the toughest in history and will get tougher still unless and until Iran changes its dangerous and destabilising behaviour".



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Brick Wall

Beto O'Rourke 'absolutely' supports destroying existing walls on US southern border

Greg Re
Fox News
Sun, 17 Feb 2019 14:12 UTC
Beto O'Rourke
© Beto O'Rourke/FlickrFormer Texas Democratic Rep. Beto O'Rourke
Former Texas Democratic Rep. Beto O'Rourke said Thursday that he would "absolutely" support tearing down existing barriers along the southern border with Mexico, in a full-throated embrace of open-borders rhetoric that has left conservatives wondering where other potential 2020 Democratic White House hopefuls stand on the issue.

O'Rourke's comments came as the House and Senate passed a compromise spending bill that would partially fund President Trump's proposed border wall, to the tune of $1.4 billion. Trump, who had been pressing for billions more, has vowed to declare a national state of emergency to fund the remainder of the project.

Amid the congressional debate, Texas GOP Rep. Dan Crenshaw wrote on Twitter earlier Thursday that he wanted O'Rourke to answer a simple question: "If you could snap your fingers and make El Paso's border wall disappear, would you?" He cited Department of Homeland Security (DHS) figures suggesting that illegal border crossings dropped sharply in El Paso following the construction of a wall there.


Comment: O'Rourke's campaign: Finished before it starts? He even makes Pelosi seem, well, sort of viable.


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Propaganda

Vanessa Beeley: BBC 'Trying to limit damage' of fake news on Syrian chemical attack


Sputnik
Thu, 14 Feb 2019 20:23 UTC
Douma
© Sputnik/Mikhail VoskresenskiyDouma, Syria after liberation from terrorists
BBC Syria producer Riam Dalati tweeted on Wednesday that the video of people treated after an alleged chemical weapons attack in the Syrian city of Douma had been fabricated. Sputnik has discussed the development with Vanessa Beeley, an independent investigative journalist who specialises in the Middle East and Syria in particular.

Sputnik: This doesn't really look good though, does it, for Mr. Dalati. Why do you think he decided to speak up now? He is now contradicting himself basically.

Vanessa Beeley: Well, yeah, and effectively this is a damage limitation operation. One of their own, so to speak, James Harkin, who is a mainstream journalist, he writes in the Internet and he also writes for the Guardian, and the Guardian's Simon Tisdall I believe it was, almost immediately after the alleged attack in Douma, which has, of course, been largely discredited by the OPCW report that has told us that no organic phosphates were used, there is still an element of doubt over whether chlorine was used. But the OPCW report itself has already negated the use of sarin in this attack.

But when Harkin himself is saying that this event was staged, then, of course, the BBC and Louisa Loveluck of Washington Post are immediately, in my opinion, trying to limit damage.

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Look deeper at McCabe, alt-left media won't

Howie Carr
Boston Herald
Fri, 15 Feb 2019 12:02 UTC
McCabe
© static.politicoFormer FBI Dir. Andrew McCabe
And now it's time for the rest of the story about crooked G-man Andrew McCabe.

This is important as we prepare for a weekend of unctuous oohing and ahhing in the alt-left media over the fired FBI director. Sunday night he'll be treated as a conquering hero on 60 Minutes, that perennial destination for dodgy Democrats down through the decades.

He'll be portrayed as the greatest lawman since Wyatt Earp, because after becoming the head fed in May 2017 he immediately opened the phony-baloney Russia "investigation" of President Trump.
"I was very concerned that I was able to put the Russia case on absolutely solid ground, in an indelible fashion. That were I removed quickly, or reassigned or fired, that the case could not be closed or vanish in the night without a trace."
For starters, what "Russia case," exactly? There is no case - even Peter Strzok, another of the bent G-men, admitted to his gal pal that "there is no there there."

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Bullseye

Slandering-on: Biden warns of foreign election interference, cites Russia


RFE/RL
Sat, 16 Feb 2019 23:34 UTC
biden
© epaFormer VP Joe Biden
Former U.S. Vice President Joe Biden has warned of efforts by foreign countries to interfere in upcoming elections, "particularly coming from Russian" actors.

Speaking on the sidelines of the Munich Security Conference on February 16, Biden warned of the threat of "cyberattacks, dark money influence operations, and disinformation" from Moscow, but "also other actors, to undermine confidence of people in each of our countries in the democratic process. Foreign election interference is not only a serious threat to our democratic institutions, I believe it's a threat to our national security," Biden added.

The 76-year-old Biden, who has not yet announced whether he will run in the 2020 presidential election, served as vice president under President Barack Obama from 2009 to 2017.

He was speaking on the occasion of the launch of a body called the Transatlantic Commission on Election Integrity. The effort has established an online registry where political parties and candidates are asked to sign a pledge to "not aid and abet those who seek to undermine democracy."

Politicians would vow not to use materials that were "falsified, fabricated, doxed, or stolen for disinformation or propaganda purposes." Doxxing is a term that refers to the publishing of someone's stolen private data.

Comment: That's about the best he's got - sounding tough on phantom threats.

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Mueller questions Cambridge Analytica director Brittany Kaiser in collusion investigation

Carole Cadwalladr
The Guardian
Sun, 17 Feb 2019 19:01 UTC
Brittany Kaiser Cambridge Analytica
© Hardy Wilson/The ObserverBrittany Kaiser is said to be cooperating fully with the Mueller inquiry.
Second former employee of controversial data firm to be questioned by special counsel's inquiry into Russia collusion

A director of the controversial data company Cambridge Analytica, who appeared with Arron Banks at the launch of the Leave.EU campaign, has been subpoenaed by the US investigation into possible collusion between the Trump campaign and the Russian government.

A spokesman for Brittany Kaiser, former business development director for Cambridge Analytica - which collapsed after the Observer revealed details of its misuse of Facebook data - confirmed that she had been subpoenaed by special counsel Robert Mueller, and was cooperating fully with his investigation.

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