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Feds allege in court that Trump directed Michael Cohen to make hush money payments during 2016 campaign

Lucien Bruggeman and James Hill
ABC News
Sun, 09 Dec 2018 15:33 UTC
Michael Cohen
© Julie Jacobson/Associated PressMichael Cohen walks out of federal court in New York, Nov. 29, 2018.
Federal prosecutors have implicated Donald Trump in a scheme to silence women who alleged during the 2016 campaign that they had extramarital affairs with him before he became president, according to court documents.

In court filings submitted Friday afternoon by federal prosecutors in New York, the government alleged that President Trump, at the time a candidate, directed his longtime personal attorney and fixer, Michael Cohen, to make payments in an effort to silence adult film actress Stormy Daniels and former Playboy playmate Karen McDougal.

Cohen had leveled this accusation against the president during his plea hearing in New York in August, saying then-candidate Trump directed the hush money deals that were made in the closing weeks of the 2016 election. Cohen told the court he acted "in coordination with and at the direction of a candidate for federal office," referring to then-candidate Trump.

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Eagle

Russian Deputy: US employs terrorists to exert pressure and work against sovereign countries

Paul Antonopoulos
Fort Russ News
Sat, 08 Dec 2018 00:00 UTC
US soldiers
The US uses terrorists as a tool of pressure and direct interference in the affairs of sovereign states, said Russian Deputy Vyacheslav Volodin.

"The US geopolitical ambitions, which continue to use terrorists and extremists as an instrument of pressure and direct interference in the affairs of sovereign states, impede working together. [The Americans] try to justify on the basis on the so-called concept of resistance to violent extremism," the Russian politician said indignantly.

He explained that under this concept countries are forced to apply "antiextremist standards" in the education of society by so-called "international independent experts", circumventing legitimate authorities.

"As a result of these actions, state institutions are undermined, extremist ideas and appeals to 'colored revolutions' are inflamed in society. Terrorism is further strengthened, harming entire countries and regions," commented Volodin.

Comment: Many Americans are far too ignorant of US bullying and aggression - but those countries who have fallen victim to it now understand it all too well - and are preparing themselves for what will inevitably be a day of reckoning.

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Question

If America is a consumer paradise, why are Republicans and Democrats the only choices available?

Robert Bridge
RT
Thu, 06 Dec 2018 14:55 UTC
Voting booths
© Getty Images
Americans enjoy the excesses of consumerism to the point of overabundance and redundancy. Yet come election time, the only choice to be found on the threadbare shelves year after year is Republican and Democrat.

Enter any grocery store in the United States and you will likely suffer culture shock at the mind-numbing variety of consumer choice. A shopper could spend hours hunting and gathering down long aisles of cold breakfast cereals, snack foods, fizzy drinks and hundreds of other assorted waist-busters that American consumers can't imagine doing without. But is this superfluity in the supermarkets just compensation for something that is conspicuously missing from the political scene?

If the US political system were imagined as a supermarket, the cornucopia of variety would come to a screeching halt. Instead, shoppers would be greeted with row after row of Republican and Democratic labels all screaming out for your attention - high-sodium stuff for long shelf life, like Mitt Romney canned corn and Hillary Clinton spaghetti sauce. Meanwhile, back at the ranch, all of the commercials on television would be spotlighting the Republican and Democratic brand as if nothing else existed in the world.
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Caitlin Johnstone: The Bush eulogy and how it was covered by the media - is a pile of stinking garbage

Caitlin Johnstone
caitlinjohnstone.com
Thu, 06 Dec 2018 00:00 UTC
Bush eulogy
George W Bush gave a eulogy for his father today, and establishment sycophants everywhere are falling all over themselves to tell us that this means his presidency has been redeemed and piles of human corpses are awesome. I take some time here to yell at them.

British pundit Piers Morgan: "Wow. Wonderful tribute by President George W. Bush to his father President George H.W. Bush. Proud, poignant, loving, funny & ultimately very emotional. Remarkable to think of a father and son both ascending to the White House. They must have shared so much together."


Comment: Thank goodness for voices like Johnstone's who see right through the monumental criminal Bullshit we're being told to believe and call things out for exactly how they are!

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Attention

Comey admits FBI failed to verify Steele Dossier it used to obtain a spy warrant on Carter Page, Trump says Comey told 245 lies


RT
Sun, 09 Dec 2018 14:31 UTC
James Comey
© REUTERS / Joshua Roberts
Former FBI Director James Comey has admitted the Steele dossier was still uncorroborated by the FBI at the time he left the bureau. The infamous dossier was used by the FBI to monitor Trump aide Carter Page.

The House Oversight Committee has released a 235-page transcript of Comey's grilling 24 hours after the former FBI director was questioned by lawmakers on the Capitol Hill. While Comey, who was fired by Trump in May 2017, tried hard not to spill the beans, he let out one startling confession - the FBI did not verify the scandalous dossier compiled by ex-British spy Christopher Steele before it went to the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court where it was used to obtain a warrant on Trump's former campaign advisor Carter Page.

Responding to Rep. Ratcliffe, (R-Texas), Comey admitted that before signing off on the FISA warrant in October 2016, he repeatedly referred to the dossier as lacking credibility, but said that he did not know that he "was referring to all of it."

"Maybe I was, but I had in mind some particular portions of it that were salacious and unverified," Comey said during his closed-door testimony.

Comment: Also see: Grilled for six hours, Comey to be called back for more questioning in closed-door House hearing

Video of Comey's testimony and transcript can be found below:





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Dollars

Bye-bye dollar: India and UAE agree to trade in local currencies


RT
Sun, 09 Dec 2018 14:26 UTC
Dubai's cityscape
© Reuters / Ahmed JadallahDubai's cityscape
New Delhi and Abu Dhabi have inked a currency swap agreement to boost trade and investment without involvement of a third currency like the US dollar.

The swap is for an amount of two billion UAE dirham or 35 billion Indian rupees (US$495 million), according to the Indian Embassy in Abu Dhabi.

"The bilateral currency swap agreement between India and UAE is expected to reduce the dependency on hard currencies like the US dollar," the embassy said.

"It is also expected to give a push for the local currencies of the two nations and may reduce the impact of volatility in exchange rate arising from the dependency on a third currency. It is also expected to reduce the transmission costs arising from exchange rate risk," the embassy added.

The sides also discussed cooperation in energy, security, trade, investments, space, defense, and so on.
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Ukraine's Poroshenko poses with 'elite' paratrooper sporting Nazi SS skull and cross bones insignia


RT
Sat, 08 Dec 2018 19:02 UTC
poroshenko nazi soldier
© AFP / Sergei Supinsky
Petro Poroshenko has met the country's elite troops - paratroopers - ahead of their redeployment to bolster the "partial" martial law state. One of the soldiers openly sported an insignia of a Waffen SS division.

"Looking at your hardened, courageous faces, I once again realize nobody will overcome Ukraine. We are ready to protect our land with weapons in hands, to fight for each piece, we will not give it up to anyone," Poroshenko told the troops while speaking in the region of Zhitomir on Thursday.

The president stood for photos with the servicemen, who were to be redeployed to other, "dangerous" regions of the country to prop up the 30-day period of the so-called "partial" martial law that Poroshenko announced following the Kerch Strait incident.

Comment: That they feel so confident to display their allegiance with such notorious regimes tells you all you need to know about Poroshenko, his military, and the Western establishment which keeps them afloat - and this is just one example amongst many.

See also: Also check out SOTT radio's: NewsReal: Donbass Leader Assassinated as Russia Exposes Chemical Plot in Syria

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Bad Guys

9th Circuit Court Libs block Trump asylum policy for second time

Dom Calicchio
Fox News
Sat, 08 Dec 2018 21:32 UTC
9th Circuit Judge Jay Bybee
© C-SPAN9th Circuit Judge Jay Bybee
Speaking to reporters in Mar-a-Lago, President Trump laments 'terrible decisions from the Ninth Circuit,' suggests Congress gets involved.

The Trump administration's bid to immediately reinstate its policy of denying asylum to those who enter the U.S. illegally was denied Friday by the 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals.

The San Francisco-based court stated in a 2-1 ruling that the policy was likely "inconsistent" with existing law.
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Bad Guys

Colluding in war crimes: Britain's unreported military alliance with Israel

Mark Curtis
Middle East Monitor
Thu, 06 Dec 2018 14:24 UTC
Netanyahu may
© AFPBritish Prime Minister Theresa May and Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu meet in London on 6 June
Britain's international trade secretary, Liam Fox, recently visited Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, pledging to increase trade and investment between the two countries, which already stands at a record $9bn.

While more than 230 Palestinians have been killed and thousands more injured by Israeli forces since March, London's ties with Tel Aviv are growing ever stronger.

Yet, I cannot find a single article in the British "mainstream" media noting the depth of supportive UK policies towards Israel. This media blackout is allowing Britain to continue backing Israeli aggression in the occupied territories with impunity.

Arms as usual

Comment: See also: And 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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Poroshenko's meddling with church violate Ukraine's constitution


RT
Sat, 08 Dec 2018 06:48 UTC
poroshenko ukraine religion
© Global Look Press
Poroshenko's drive for an independent Ukrainian Orthodox church breaches the secular nature of the country, experts say, while some believe it might be part of a foreign-inspired strategy, not just a pre-election stunt.

Ukraine - according to its Constitution, at least - is supposed to be a secular state, and Poroshenko's activities constitute an obvious violation of the country's fundamental laws, historian and political analyst Vladimir Kornilov believes.

"He's flagrantly violating the Constitution of Ukraine, which has established separation of the church from the state; he's grossly violating a whole bunch of Ukrainian laws, including presidential ones," Kornilov told RT.

"The head of the state himself decides when the so-called 'unification council' of churches will take place. Where else in the world, in which Christian country, is that possible nowadays?"

Comment: As it is, the breakaway Ukrainian church looks like it will become a lacky of the US-sponsored Patriarch of Constantinople, and Porky's stint as US puppet in Ukraine looks numbered.

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