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Paranoid British army issues top-level secret alert to staff about Russian journalist "threat"


RT
Sun, 02 Dec 2018 19:49 UTC
Timur Siraziev
© Russia's Channel 1The UK Bureau chief of Russian Channel 1, Timur Siraziev.
There seems to be no sign of Russophobia abating in the UK, as the British Army has issued a warning against talking to a Russian journalist who was doing just as many other journalists were: Reporting on a cyberwarfare facility.

The British Army has issued a top-level security alert to all its bases across the UK, warning soldiers that they should by no means engage in any conversations with a certain Russian journalist, should one happen to approach near any military facility. The "official-sensitive" document obtained by the Daily Mail also advised members of the military to call the nearest police department "ASAP" to deal with such a "threat."

Actually referred-to as a 'spy' in the British media, it was in fact the UK Bureau chief of Russian Channel 1 who had been making the report about the 77th Brigade base in November. Timur Siraziev and his cameraman were seen filming near the Berkshire facility where they had presented press credentials. Their access was denied, so they filmed their report outside and left.

Comment: See also: Also check out SOTT radio's: The Truth Perspective: How To Survive A Totalitarian Nightmare: The Psychology Of Tyranny

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SOTT Focus: If You Murdered a Bunch of People, Mass Murder is Your Single Defining Legacy

Caitlin Johnstone
medium.com
Sat, 01 Dec 2018 21:36 UTC
george hw bush
Thought experiment:

Think of an acquaintance of yours. Not someone you're particularly close to, just some guy in the cast of extras from the scenery of your life. Now, imagine learning that that guy is a serial murderer, who has been prowling the streets for years stabbing people to death. Imagine he goes his whole life without ever suffering any consequences for murdering all those people, and then when he dies, everyone wants to talk about how great he was and share heartwarming anecdotes about him. If you try to bring up the whole serial killing thing, people react with sputtering outrage that you would dare to speak ill of such a noble and wonderful person.

"Look, I didn't agree with everything he did, but you can't just let one not-so-great thing from a man's life eclipse all the other good things he's accomplished," they protest. "For example, did you know he was a baseball captain at Yale?"

"But... what about all those people he murdered?" you reply.

"God, why can't you just pay respect to a great man in our time of mourning??" they shout in exasperation.
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TV

Ratings-obssessed US media go partisan and divide country


RT
Sun, 02 Dec 2018 20:37 UTC
Obama press conference
© Reuters / Jonathan ErnstJournalists wait for US President Barack Obama to start his annual year-end news conference in 2016.
Lamenting about their political opponents living in a media bubble has become a routine on either side of the isle in the US. But as this self-isolation continues to divide the country, there is little hope for change, RT reveals.

Media outlets have become increasingly partisan in the US, pandering to prejudices and biases of their audiences. The phenomenon of a media bubble - when a person can select its information sources to completely shut off undesirable opinions - may have originated online, but now traditional media are eager to serve the same purpose, as long as it benefits their ratings.

Watch a report by RT's Caleb Maupin on how the US fell into the divisive split over what reality is.

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Arrow Up

The sleeping lion awakens! US-China cold war is upon us

Darius Shahtahmasebi
RT
Thu, 29 Nov 2018 15:29 UTC
china flag
© kjn
"China is a sleeping lion," Napoleon Bonaparte said. "Let her sleep, for when she wakes, she will shake the world." A new Cold War is upon us, only this time the giant is no longer deep asleep; stirring as it begins to wake.

"China is leveraging military modernization, influence operations, and predatory economics to coerce neighboring countries to reorder the Indo-Pacific region to their advantage," a recent summary of the 2018 US National Defense Strategy states:
"As China continues its economic and military ascendance, asserting power through an all-of-nation long-term strategy, it will continue to pursue a military modernization program that seeks Indo-Pacific regional hegemony in the near-term and displacement of the United States to achieve global preeminence in the future. The most far-reaching objective of this defense strategy is to set the military relationship between our two countries on a path of transparency and non-aggression."
Interestingly enough, the Pacific region is a key location in which the US and China may eventually collide in an inevitable showdown, though the media appears to rarely focus on the topic. According to the National Defense Strategy, the Indo-Pacific region is number one in a three-region list of key areas the US will focus on competing in to "deter aggression."

Just how much of a threat does China pose to Washington and its allies?

Comment: Recommended film by John Pilger, "The Coming War on China"



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Stop

US, China agree on a trade war ceasefire after Xi, Trump summit

Roberta Rampton, Michael Martina
Reuters
Sat, 01 Dec 2018 01:13 UTC
theXiTrump
© The Japan TimesChinese President Xi Jinping and US President Donald Trump at the G20 meeting in Buenos Aires, Argentina.
China and the United States agreed to a ceasefire in their bitter trade war on Saturday after high-stakes talks in Argentina between U.S. President Donald Trump and Chinese President Xi Jinping, including no escalated tariffs on Jan. 1.

Trump will leave tariffs on $200 billion worth of Chinese imports at 10 percent at the beginning of the new year, agreeing to not raise them to 25 percent "at this time", the White House said in a statement.

"China will agree to purchase a not yet agreed upon, but very substantial, amount of agricultural, energy, industrial, and other product from the United States to reduce the trade imbalance between our two countries," it said. "China has agreed to start purchasing agricultural product from our farmers immediately."

The two leaders also agreed to immediately start talks on structural changes with respect to forced technology transfers, intellectual property protection, non-tariff barriers, cyber intrusions and cyber theft, services and agriculture, the White House said.

Both countries agreed they will try to have this "transaction" completed within the next 90 days, but if this does not happen then the 10 percent tariffs will be raised to 25 percent, it added.

Comment: Sounds like a lot of welcomed progress and equality in concessions, responsibilities and commitments going forward.

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Post-It Note

Putin reveals what he told Trump during a brief talk at the G20 summit


Sputnik
Sun, 02 Dec 2018 14:31 UTC
Putin
© Sputnik/Алексей НикольскийRussian President Vladimir Putin
Trump cancelled his meeting with the Russian president on Thursday after being briefed on the Kerch Strait incident, in which several Ukrainian Navy vessels and their crews were detained for violating Russia's maritime borders.

Russian President Vladimir Putin has revealed the content of his brief informal conversation with US President Trump at a cultural dinner in Buenos Aires for G20 summit leaders, an event which was closed off to the press.

"In a nutshell, I answered his questions about this incident in the Black Sea," Putin said, speaking to reporters at his post-summit press conference. "He has his own position, I have my own position; we each stuck to our own views, but in any case I informed him about our perspective on this incident," he added.

Earlier, White House Press Secretary Sarah Sanders confirmed that Putin and Trump had spoken at the dinner, but provided no further details.

Comment: Whatever Trump's reasons to cancel the meeting with Putin, there will be another opportunity. On the brighter side, his meeting with Xi was a remarkable success, well worth the focus.

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Stock Down

Analysis of what Clinton's emailgate, pay-to-play and a looming GE crash have in common

Ekaterina Blinova
Sputnik
Thu, 29 Nov 2018 20:19 UTC
BilHil
© UnknownClinton Global Fraud Initiative
Yet again clouds are gathering on the horizon of General Electric, Wall Street analyst Charles Ortel told Sputnik, explaining how GE's potential market crash is connected to Hillary Clinton's email saga and the Clinton Foundation's 'pay-to-play' schemes.

General Electric Company may soon bite the dust due to its misshapen financial policies, says Wall Street analyst and investigative journalist Charles Ortel who uncovered GE's financial discrepancies in 2007, before its stock crashed.

'By 2007, I figured out, analysing publicly available data only, that GE was actually a structurally challenged and bad bank hiding inside a difficult to understand, complex, and sprawling multinational concern, I also discovered that the non-finance portion of GE was not growing its revenues, and seemed to be generating declining cash flow margins', Ortel recalled speaking to Sputnik.

Comment: According to Ortel, there is not an empowered global regulator to monitor, advise and discipline multinational companies, nor the ability to prosecute global companies engaged in scheme strategies. Unregulated Globalism: the Predators win.

Corporate Responsibility Before International Institutions:
"Generally, international law is characterized by a lack of international enforcement mechanisms, and both indirect and direct international obligations may exist without the possibility of international enforcement."

"No international tribunal authorized to prosecute corporations exists or has existed."


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Calendar

Trump: Next meeting with Kim Jong-un likely in early 2019

Nicole Chavez
CNN
Sun, 02 Dec 2018 05:13 UTC
KimTrump
© UnknownNorth Korean Leader Kim Jong-un • US President Donald Trump
President Donald Trump said a second summit with North Korea's Kim Jong Un will likely take place in January or February.

"We're getting along very well," Trump told reporters aboard Air Force One during the return trip from the G20 summit in Buenos Aires, Argentina. "We have a good relationship with Kim."

The first Trump-Kim summit took place in June in Singapore but Trump has said the next meeting will probably take place at a new location. The two countries are considering three sites for the potential summit, Trump said on Saturday, but he did not offer up details about where those sites were.

When asked if Kim would come to the US for a visit apart from the second summit, Trump said "at some point" he will. The President's comments came hours after Trump and Chinese President Xi Jinping held a working meeting in Argentina, discussing several issues that included a temporary freeze on higher tariffs, fentanyl reclassification as a controlled substance, and the North Korea peninsula.

Comment: Progress has been made by pacing the demands and reforms. For a callout on MSM twists to shape opinion, second-guess policy, and not relate the facts, see also: 'A great deception' is the latest accusation against N. Korea

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Wall Street

SOTT Focus: Actual Fake News: The Guardian/Politico Psy-op Against Wikileaks

Caitlin Johnstone
American Herald Tribune
Sat, 01 Dec 2018 00:00 UTC
Manafort/Assange
© Zero Hedge/mediabite.org/KJN
For the first few hours after any new "bombshell" Russiagate story comes out, my social media notifications always light up with poorly written posts by liberal establishment loyalists saying things like "HAHAHA @caitoz this proves you wrong now will you FINALLY stop denying Russian collusion???" Then, when people start actually analyzing that story and noting that it comes nowhere remotely close to proving that Donald Trump colluded with the Russian government to steal the 2016 election, those same people always forget to come back afterward and admit to me that they were wrong again.

This happens every single time, including this past Tuesday when the Guardian published a new "bombshell" report saying that former Trump campaign manager Paul Manafort had had secret meetings with WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange. When experts all across the political spectrum began pointing out that the story contained no evidence for its nonsensical claims and was entirely anonymously sourced, nobody ever came back and said "Hey sorry for calling you a Russian propagandist, Caitlin; turns out that story wasn't as fact-based as I'd thought!" When evidence for a single one of the article's claims failed to turn up for a day, then two days, then three days, nobody came back and said "Gosh Caitlin, I owe you an apology for mocking you and calling you Assange's bitch; turns out WikiLeaks and Manafort are suing that publication and its claims remain completely unproven."

And of course they didn't. They weren't meant to. They were meant to absorb the Guardian's false claims as fact, add it to their Gish gallop mountain of false evidence for Trump-Russia-WikiLeaks collusion, and then be shuffled onward by the relentless news churn of the corporate propaganda matrix like always.

But I'm never going to let them forget that this happened, and neither should you.

Comment: Dismantled and proven to be a lie, the story was run as if fact. A tool of the establishment, MSM is beyond remembering what integrity and responsibility to accuracy 'truly' means.

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Arrow Up

Russia-Saudi foundation will invest $2B in Russia in 2019


Sputnik
Sun, 02 Dec 2018 08:13 UTC
MBS/Putin
© AP/Natacha PisarenkoSaudi Arabia Crown Prince Mohammed-bin-Salman • Russian President Vladimir Putin
Around $2 billion worth of funds from a Russian-Saudi foundation will be invested in Russia in 2019, the chief executive of the Russian Direct Investment Fund, a sovereign wealth fund, said Saturday.

"We plan to increase investment in Russia by the joint Russian-Saudi fund by an extra $2 billion next year," Kirill Dmitriev told reporters on the margins of the G20 Summit in Buenos Aires.

Dmitriev also noted that Russian President Vladimir Putin discussed with Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman al Saud the issue of stepping up Riyadh's investments in Russian projects during the bilateral meeting on the G20 sidelines on Saturday.

"During the meeting, the Saudi crown prince and President Putin discussed the issue of increasing Saudi Arabia's investments in Russian projects," Dmitriev told reporters on Saturday.

Comment: So, America's big buddy is investing in Russia...Hmmm!

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