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Trump instructs Kelly to get Russiagate docs released to Congress

Steven Nelson
Washington Examiner
Mon, 21 May 2018 13:13 UTC
John Kelly
© Aaron P. Bernstein/Getty ImagesPresident Donald Trump stands with John Kelly.
President Trump left a Monday meeting with FBI Director Christopher Wray and Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein with an agreement on future steps to facilitate the release of Russia-probe documents to Congress.

White House press secretary Sarah Sanders said the men "agreed that White House Chief of Staff Kelly will immediately set up a meeting with the FBI, DOJ, and DNI together with Congressional Leaders to review highly classified and other information they have requested."

House Intelligence Committee Republicans led by chairman Rep. Devin Nunes, R-Calif., have sought unsuccessfully to see certain documents on the FBI's probe of possible Trump campaign collusion with Russia, including on its use of an informant.

In addition to plans for a Kelly-organized meeting, Trump left the meeting with reassurance that the Justice Department's inspector general would review whether there was politically motivated infiltration or surveillance of the Trump campaign.

Rosenstein asked the inspector general to review the matter Sunday afternoon, following a tweet from Trump that he would "officially" ask "that the Department of Justice look into whether or not the FBI/DOJ infiltrated or surveilled the Trump Campaign for Political Purposes."

Comment: See also:

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IDF goes full retard, blames Iran for Hamas "attacks" in Gaza


Sputnik
Tue, 22 May 2018 13:00 UTC
gaza teenager mourning march of return
© Spencer Platt/Getty ImagesA teenager from Gaza City mourns his brother, killed during protests at the border fence with Israel, May 2018
Since late March, thousands of Palestinians have taken to streets in the so-called Great March of Return, protesting along the border between the Gaza Strip and Israel. The clashes with border security have already left over 60 dead and scores injured.


Comment: They're not "clashes".


The Israeli Defense Forces (IDF) has lambasted Iran on its official Twitter account saying it is essentially behind Hamas and is to blame for the atrocities in the region:

"The mask has been pulled off: Hamas is Iran, Iran is Hamas. The terror along the security fence is an Iranian mission," IDF's tweet reads.

Comment: The IDF once again proves it is a supreme master of logic. Hamas is Iran, Iran is Hamas. Gaza is Hamas, Hamas is Gaza. Gazans live in Gaza, Gazans are Iran. Foreign medical personnel and journalists are in Gaza. Therefore unarmed Palestinian children and foreign medics and journalists are Iran. Palestinian babies are Hamas, thus Iran. Therefore Israel is free to kill whomever it pleases, because they are in Gaza, because they are Iran.

Someone, please, the IDF needs your help immediately. They need immediate medical and psychological attention.

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Opportunistic hypocrites: WaPo, Slate, Newsweek's actual ties to Russia

J.D. Heyes
Natural News
Mon, 21 May 2018 12:52 UTC
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Since before President Donald J. Trump took office the so-called "Mainstream" media was doing its best to convict him in the court of public opinion of "colluding" with the Russians to "steal the election" from Hillary Clinton.

In story after story, the legacy media published one suggestive story after another, each only alleging that something nefarious took place but, several paragraphs into each piece meekly acknowledging that, in reality, no evidence of criminal activity or "collusion" had been found.

But as it turns out many of these same legacy media outlets are the ones who have nefarious business ties to Russia - including the Left-wing Slate, Washington Post, and Newsweek, among others.

In fact, according to an investigation by The Daily Caller, those news organizations and some very large Internet-based social media companies like Facebook and AOL also share the same ties to Russian firms:
A dozen major American media and Internet outlets hired a Russian company called EastBanc Technologies to help with IT and web services, according to a Daily Caller News Foundation investigation. The companies include The Washington Post, Time, Newsweek, Slate, Facebook, AOL, Comcast and U.S. News & World Report.
The news site noted that former U.S. intelligence officers have deeply criticized those same media outlets for their rampant hypocrisy in retaining the services of a Russian firm, while at the same time pointing a finger at Team Trump and others within the president's circles who have, at best, inconsequential ties to Russia.

Comment: More evidence that the entire Russiagate scandal is simply mass hysteria. Plenty of people have "ties" to Russian people and companies, just as plenty of people have "ties" to British people and companies. It's past time the media got over it.

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Chris Wray and Rod Rosenstein "looked somber" when they arrived at WH for meeting on spies in Trump campaign

Jim Hoft
Gateway Pundit
Mon, 21 May 2018 12:23 UTC
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© Jeremy Moorhead / CNN
President Donald Trump held a meeting at the White House today with Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein and FBI Director Chris Wray.

DNI Director Dan Coats was also expected to attend the meeting.


Comment: Wray and Rosenstein might have not been in the best of moods, but the pictures above are not much to go by to claim they "looked somber". Regardless, the confirmation of an FBI informant in the Trump campaign is big news:

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White House doubles down on Trump's MS-13 'animals' remark


RT
Wed, 23 May 2018 12:04 UTC
MS-13 Mara Salvatrucha gang
© Jose Cabezas / Reuters
The Trump administration is doubling down on his description of the Mara Salvatrucha gang as "animals," using the term ten times in a White House statement after the media storm surrounding the president's remark.

"MS-13 is a transnational gang that has brought violence, fear, and suffering to American communities," said the White House statement about the gang, released Monday. "President Trump's entire Administration is working tirelessly to bring these violent animals to justice."

The statement comes after President Donald Trump used the term "animals" to describe MS-13 members during last week's White House immigration roundtable with local officials from California. Most media outlets interpreted his words as applying to all illegal immigrants or even Latin Americans in general, accusing the president of bigotry.

Comment: Trump's words were evidently taken out of context. He was speaking about criminal gangs such as the MS-13, and thus calling them 'animals' has nothing to do with their ethnicity or even immigration status, and everything to do with their actions. People would do better to criticize Trump for things which are worth criticizing, such as his foreign policy, particularly for the Middle East.

See also:

Liberal meltdown after Trump calls MS-13 gangsters 'animals'

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Meddling in democracy: MSM forms a chorus to bash Venezuela's election results

Stephen Lendman
Global Intel Hub
Wed, 23 May 2018 11:34 UTC
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Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro celebrates the results of "Constituent Assembly" in Caracas
Western media have been hostile to Bolivarian social democracy from inception - supporting privileged interests and hardline rule exclusively.

The NYT blames Maduro for economic crisis conditions, causing enormous hardships for its people - ignoring US political and economic war on the country, the main factor behind dire conditions.

The election was scrupulously open, free and fair. The Times falsely claimed otherwise, citing critics saying it was "rigged" for Maduro - a bald-faced lie.

Comment: Further reading:

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War is a racket: Which companies make billions from global weapons sales

Raul Amoros
howmuch.net
Sun, 20 May 2018 11:56 UTC
In 1961, President Dwight Eisenhower famously warned Americans about what he called the "military-industrial complex," a term he used to describe the toxic union between special interests and people in power. Companies can make a lot of money selling weapons to the government, and those companies can in turn fund candidates friendly to their business model. Our new visualization shows how the United States has ignored Eisenhower's warning.
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Kiev bans Russian media, jails RIA Novosti journalist for 'high treason'

Stephen Lendman
Global Intel Hub
Wed, 23 May 2018 11:34 UTC
Kiev vigilante unti
© ndrugua / Facebook
Run by illegitimate US-installed putschists, Ukraine remains a dangerous flashpoint in Europe's heartland.

Media censorship is rife, independent journalism banned. Chief editor of Russia's RIA Novosti Ukraine Kirill Vyshinsky was arrested, falsely charged with high treason for doing what responsible journalists and editors are supposed to do - their jobs.

Kiev said he "spoke out in favor of changing Ukraine's borders (referring to Crimea joining Russia) and called for creating a state named Novorossiya on Ukraine's territory with a capital in Donetsk that could be united with Russia."

Comment: Further reading: Kiev forced to recall their German consul after he's outed as Nazi sympathizer

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NYTimes, WashPo, Guardian have started backpedaling on RussiaGate

Daniel Lazare
Russia Insider
Tue, 22 May 2018 10:49 UTC
Pinocchio
The dishonesty and lying from these media titans has transcended even their shabby performance during the 2016 elections
The best evidence that Russia-gate is sinking beneath the waves is the way those pushing the pseudo-scandal are now busily covering their tracks.

The Guardian complains that "as the inquiry has expanded and dominated the news agenda over the last year, the real issues of people's lives are in danger of being drowned out by obsessive cable television coverage of the Russia investigation" - as if The Guardian's own coverage hasn't been every bit as obsessive as anything CNN has come up with.

The Washington Post, second to none when it comes to painting Putin as a real-life Lord Voldemort, now says that Special counsel Robert Mueller "faces a particular challenge maintaining the confidence of the citizenry" as his investigation enters its second year - although it's sticking to its guns that the problem is not the inquiry itself, but "the regular attacks he faces from President Trump, who has decried the probe as a 'witch hunt.'"

And then there's The New York Times, which this week devoted a 3,600-word front-page article to explain why the FBI had no choice but to launch an investigation into Trump's alleged Russian links and how, if anything, the inquiry wasn't aggressive enough. As the article puts it, "Interviews with a dozen current and former government officials and a review of documents show that the FBI was even more circumspect in that case than has been previously known."
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Storm brewing? Italian Coalition nominates Russia friendly populist as new PM

Frank Sellers
The Duran
Tue, 22 May 2018 12:13 UTC
Giuseppe Conte
Giuseppe Conte
There is a storm brewing in Europe, and the winds of disunity and populism are blowing strong

After months of back and forth over getting a majority percentage of the popular vote, the two parties with the highest public backing have come together to nominate a candidate, Giuseppe Conte, to form a new government in Italy and serve as the next PM.

The Coalition has prepared a populist proposal to combat poverty, migration, and relations with Russia, the problem is that it comes with a hefty price tag. With Italy's swelling debt problem, the plan isn't viewed with much enthusiasm by other members of the EU.


Comment: Actually, Italy seems to be at the forefront of a much wider trend so it may only be a matter of time till others may be forced to get behind them: EU tires of detrimental relations with US, looks to mutually beneficial future with Russia


Also troubling for the European bloc is the fact that sentiments in the Mediterranean country have been running a little counter to its migrant policy, which has brought about its own slew of problems for the nation that once hosted the seat of the Roman Empire.

Comment: The powers in the EU may have Italy in its sights but this populist sentiment against wealth disparity, the centralised Brussel model as well as the obviously negative effects of mass migration and the establishments enmity towards Russia, is building throughout the EU: Also check out SOTT radio's: Behind the Headlines: Atlantic Trade War? How Trump Breaking Iran Deal Could Dismantle US Empire

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