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Dozens of Palestinians killed by Israeli forces at Gaza border while idiot Jared Kushner blames the victims during speech in Jerusalem

Christopher Brennan and Janon Fisher
New York Daily News
Mon, 14 May 2018 20:56 UTC
Jared Kushner delivers a speech
© MENAHEM KAHANA/AFP/Getty ImagesJared Kushner delivers a speech during the opening of the U.S embassy in Jerusalem on May 14, 2018.
The opening of the U.S. Embassy in Jerusalem turned into a major diplomatic fiasco Monday when Israeli forces killed more than 50 protesters and injured over 1,200 along the Gaza Strip during the festivities.

The White House laid the blame for the violence at the feet of Hamas, the fundamentalist Islamic group, but the international community condemned President Trump's decision to relocate the embassy from Tel Aviv.

The President and his son-in-law, Jared Kushner, the architect of Trump's Middle East policy, maintained it was a "great day" for Israel.

Kushner; his wife, Ivanka Trump; Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin, and about 800 well-dressed guests attending the opening at the former U.S. Consulate compound in southeastern Jerusalem that was rededicated as the new embassy.

About 50 miles away, more than 40,000 protesters at the Israel-Gaza border clashed with Israeli troops before, during and after the embassy kickoff.

Comment: Kushner is a Zionist robot with almost zero pretenses about being impartial about this conflict. While we know that Trump selected Kushner to be one of his lead men for "peace", the over-riding factor was that Trump knew it would please his Zionist benefactors to put Kushner in the middle of things. Still, if all this embassy moving and cozying up to Saudi Arabia is part of a larger plan to actually do something constructive in the region, it would be nice to see some hints of that. But don't hold your breath.

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Light Saber

Report: Inspector General will declare FBI, DOJ broke law in Clinton email probe

Joshua Caplin
Breitbart
Thu, 17 May 2018 23:22 UTC
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© Alex Wong, Chip Somodevilla, Win McNamee/Getty Images
A new report suggests an imminent Inspector General (IG) report may rule that FBI and Justice Department officials broke the law in their handling of the Hillary Clinton email investigation.

Investigative reporter Paul Sperry said Thursday that Justice Department Inspector General Michael Horowitz has "found 'reasonable grounds' for believing there has been a violation of federal criminal law in the FBI/DOJ's handling of the Clinton investigation/s," adding that the top watchdog official has "referred his findings of potential criminal misconduct to Huber for possible criminal prosecution."
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Bug

SOTT Focus: Shadow Democracy: Spider at Heart of 'Russian' Election Meddling Lives in London


Sott.net
Thu, 17 May 2018 20:52 UTC
strategic communication laboratories
SCL, 'Strategic Communication Laboratories', Oxford Street, London, England: and actual 'Troll Factory' and global leader in 'election-influencing operations'
The following video presentation by Luke O'Hare for Bella Caledonia elaborates on an article published by the same author a couple of months ago:
SCL, Parent Company of Cambridge Analytica, is Military-Intelligence Front For British Establishment [original title: 'SCL: A Very British Coup']
The Guardian and some other outlets continue harping on about Cambridge Analytica and how it was the vehicle for a conspiracy between the pro-Brexit faction of the British elite, one of Trump's backers (Robert Mercer), and 'the Russians'.

Just spelling it out reveals how implausible that scenario is.
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Star of David

SOTT Focus: Gaza and Palestine 101 for Americans

Chris Kanthan
Sott.net
Thu, 17 May 2018 22:55 UTC
One should ask, "Why are Palestinians protesting?" before cheering for their death in Gaza. Blaming Hamas is a talking point that hides many facts and realities. In the last two days, 65 Palestinians have been shot to death and 2000+ have been shot or otherwise wounded - including 200 doctors and nurses and a couple of journalists - by Israeli snipers. Number of Israelis injured? ZERO!
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Quenelle - Golden

Globalists threaten to 'do a Greece' on Italy as anti-EU coalition govt forms in Rome

Jon Henley
The Guardian
Thu, 17 May 2018 20:27 UTC
salvini juncker
Italy's new government, likely to be formally confirmed within the next few days, sets a perilous precedent for Brussels: it marks the first time a founding member of the EU has been led by populist, anti-EU forces.

From the EU's perspective, the coalition of the anti-establishment Five Star Movement (M5S) and the far-right League looks headstrong and unpredictable, possibly even combustible. Leaked drafts of their government "contract" include provision for a "conciliation committee" to settle expected disagreements.

Mainly it looks alarming. Both parties toned down their fiercest anti-EU rhetoric during the election campaign, dropping previous calls for a referendum on eurozone membership (popular votes on international treaties are, in any case, barred by the Italian constitution). But as they approach power, the historical Euroscepticism of the M5S and the League is resurfacing.

An incendiary early version of their accord called for the renegotiation of EU treaties, the creation of a euro opt-out mechanism, a reduction in Italy's contribution to the EU budget and the cancellation of €250bn (£219bn) of Italian government debt.

Comment: Let's make something absolutely clear at the outset: it won't be because this new govt 'runs the Italian economy into the ground' that Italy then the EU goes through another eurozone earthquake. It'll be because the Banking Oligarchy - through its EU/IMF puppets - deliberately squeezes Italian people 'for voting wrong', as Greeks did when they voted in Syriza.

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USA

Mark of the Beast: The United States is a country that tortures people

Charles P. Pierce
Esquire
Wed, 09 May 2018 12:36 UTC
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© Getty Images
The children of the Senate Intelligence Committee certainly were treated to some ripping yarns on Wednesday, when Gina Haspel came to tell them the scary bedtime stories that qualify her to run the CIA. We had shadow warriors, and far-flung outposts, brush passes, dead drops, and dusty alleys, and dark moonless nights. If the hearing had gone on 10 minutes longer, John le Carré's attorneys might have dropped in with an intellectual property action. Then, of course, they all went into executive session, where they could all talk about the really cool, really super-secret spy stuff that the rest of us can't know about, but are obligated to pay for. And, ultimately, there was one basic message to come out of this hearing to the world.

The United States is a country that tortures people. It is also a country that arranges for other countries to torture people. We did in back in the Bush administration and we'll do it again, if you scare us deeply enough and there are enough hack lawyers in the Department of Justice and the White House Counsel's office to draft memos to cover our asses. The United States is a country that tortures people, and we'll do it again, under the right circumstances. We'd just rather it not make the papers, is all.

Comment: Haspel, the psychopathic monster, has been confirmed as the new CIA director.

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Attention

Conflict of interest? Mueller and the Russian oligarch

John Solomon
The Hill
Mon, 14 May 2018 03:30 UTC
Oleg Deripaska
© Getty ImagesOligarch Oleg Deripaska
Special counsel Robert Mueller has withstood relentless political attacks, many distorting his record of distinguished government service. But there's one episode even Mueller's former law enforcement comrades - and independent ethicists - acknowledge raises legitimate legal issues and a possible conflict of interest in his overseeing the Russia election probe.

In 2009, when Mueller ran the FBI, the bureau asked Russian oligarch Oleg Deripaska to spend millions of his own dollars funding an FBI-supervised operation to rescue a retired FBI agent, Robert Levinson, captured in Iran while working for the CIA in 2007. Yes, that's the same Deripaska who has surfaced in Mueller's current investigation and who was recently sanctioned by the Trump administration.

The Levinson mission is confirmed by more than a dozen participants inside and outside the FBI, including Deripaska, his lawyer, the Levinson family and a retired agent who supervised the case. Mueller was kept apprised of the operation, officials told me.

Some aspects of Deripaska's help were chronicled in a 2016 book by reporter Barry Meier, but sources provide extensive new information about his role.

Comment: Mueller may be investigating himself into a mess.
See also: Picking up where The Hill left off, more to this story from RT, May 16, 2018:
Special Counsel Robert Mueller, the man leading the probe into alleged collusion between US President Donald Trump's election campaign and Russia, has himself fallen under suspicion of having ties to a Russian oligarch.
...

The Russian businessman [Oleg Deripaska] then brushed off the idea of any collusion between Trump and Moscow by calling it "false,"the Hill reported. However, the media [The Hill ] apparently missed the fact that this alleged meeting between Deripaska and the FBI agents took place some three years after Mueller vacated the office of the FBI head and was succeeded by James Comey.

John Solomon, the Hill's executive vice president for video, who authored the piece [above], then assumed that Mueller might be reluctant to include Deripaska in the probe precisely because of the businessman's previous ties to the FBI, which could in particular cast a shadow on the activities of the former FBI director himself. Mueller was apparently legally barred from asking for Deripaska's help in the 2009 operation and his actions might lead as far as to him being accused of impropriety, Solomon boldly states, citing legal experts.

However, the information about the alleged ties between Deripaska and the FBI (and eventually Mueller), which is presented as a set of facts, might not be as unambiguous as it seems. Solomon based his report about the Russian businessman's involvement in the 2009 operation on accounts which were mostly provided by allegedly well-informed sources both "inside and outside the FBI." The only person identified by name is the Levinson family lawyer, David McGee. Solomon also goes on to claim that Deripaska himself as well as his lawyers also confirmed his role in the mission.

However, when the story was earlier reported by the Western media, a spokesperson of Deripaska's Basic Element diversified industrial group actually dismissed the reports by saying that information related to the businessman in this case is "absolute nonsense that has nothing to do with reality."

The information about Deripaska's alleged 2016 meeting with FBI agents was reportedly received by Solomon from Adam Waldman, a US lobbyist, who is best known for acting on behalf of Russian businessman Deripaska. However, Waldman is not known to have ever made any similar statements before.

These facts apparently have no importance for the US media, however, which have already made a habit of accusing various US officials of having hidden links to Moscow. Notably, it is not the first time when the former FBI director has been accused of having some potentially suspicious ties. Earlier, it was reported that Mueller met with another perceived 'pro-Moscow' high-profile figure - the former Ukrainian President Viktor Yanukovych.


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EU Chief Tusk: With friends like Trump, who needs enemies?


Liberty Headlines
Wed, 16 May 2018 20:06 UTC
Donald Tusk
© Ints Kalnins / Reuters
The European Union's top official launched a stinging attack Wednesday on President Donald Trump, slamming his "capricious assertiveness" and saying the US leader acted more like an enemy than a friend.

EU president Donald Tusk urged leaders meeting in Bulgaria to form a "united European front" against Trump's withdrawal from the Iranian nuclear deal and his move to impose trade tariffs on Europe.

Tusk even compared the US administration to Europe's traditional foes Moscow and Beijing as he launched his broadside hours before a dinner of the 28 leaders in Sofia where they will discuss the issue.

"Looking at the latest decisions of President Trump, someone could even think with friends like that who needs enemies," Tusk told reporters.

"But frankly speaking, Europe should be grateful to President Trump, because thanks to him we have got rid of all illusions. He has made us realise that if you need a helping hand you will find one at the end of your arm."


Comment: The EU is only now coming to that conclusion? They were happy enough being US vassals for years... as long as they were getting something in return.


The transatlantic rift has hijacked the agenda of a summit on Thursday at which the EU leaders will meet their Balkan counterparts in a bid to foster closer ties and keep Russia out of their backyard.

Comment: Maybe Europe should thank Trump for seemingly bringing them to their senses. The only question now is if they can follow through. See also:

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Nuke

Question: Was there ever an Iranian nuclear weapons program?

Gareth Porter
The American Conservative
Mon, 14 May 2018 00:00 UTC
Guy and nuke
© Washington Times/KJNThreat and Proof
A review of the evidence points to Israeli and MEK disinformation, not an open-and-shut case.

Donald Trump's decision to pull out of the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action (JCPOA), which has set the stage for another Iran crisis, has opened a new round of domestic political struggle, as Democrats in Congress, the anti-Trump television networks, and the tattered remains of the old anti-war movement try to push back.

But that effort has a fatal weakness at its core. It concedes to Trump and opponents of the Iran deal an effective argument: that the Iranians have been lying when they say they've never had a covert nuclear weapons program. The theme of Iran's duplicity has been the emotional core of the assault on the JCPOA. It is no accident that the title and consistent theme of Benjamin Netanyahu's melodramatic YouTube slideshow was "Iran lied."

As I detail in my investigative history of the Iran nuclear issue, the Obama administration itself fell for a false narrative about a secret Iranian nuclear weapons program allegedly in operation from 2001 to 2003. After Netanyahu's April 30 show, former secretary of state John Kerry tweeted:
"Every detail PM Netanyahu presented yesterday was every reason the world came together to apply years of sanctions and negotiate the Iran nuclear agreement-because the threat was real and had to be stopped."
But a far more effective counter would have been the truth - that the long-accepted accusation about Iran's covert nuclear weapons program is the product of an elaborate disinformation operation based on documents forged by Mossad, Israel's foreign intelligence agency.

Comment: The US is a long-cultivated echo chamber and Israel is the noise - reverberating a continuous message until all vassals absorb it so completely, it resembles 'truth'.
See also:

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Dominoes

Brennan's denial of reliance on dossier contradicted, IC report implies Clapper was leak source

Paul Sperry
RealClear Investigations
Tue, 15 May 2018 00:00 UTC
Brennan
© The Moscow TimesFormer CIA Director John Brennan
Former CIA Director John Brennan's insistence that the salacious and unverified Steele dossier was not part of the official Intelligence Community Assessment on Russian interference in the 2016 election is being contradicted by two top former officials.

Recently retired National Security Agency Director Michael Rogers stated in a classified letter to Congress that the Clinton campaign-funded memos did factor into the ICA. And James Clapper, Director of National Intelligence under President Obama, conceded in a recent CNN interview that the assessment was based on "some of the substantive content of the dossier." Without elaborating, he maintained that "we were able to corroborate" certain allegations.

These accounts are at odds with Brennan's May 2017 testimony before the House Intelligence Committee that the Steele dossier was "not in any way used as the basis for the intelligence community's assessment" that Russia interfered in the election to help elect Donald Trump. Brennan has repeated this claim numerous times, including in February on Meet the Press.

In a March 5, 2018, letter to House Intelligence Committee Chairman Devin Nunes, Adm. Rogers informed the committee that a two-page summary of the dossier - described as "the Christopher Steele information" - was "added" as an "appendix to the ICA draft," and that consideration of that appendix was "part of the overall ICA review/approval process."

Comment: In regards to scale, impact, persons of importance, persons of interest, betrayals, crimes, plots, set-ups, collusion, international intrigue, spies, victims...it's all there. And, it's unraveling.

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