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MSM wrong about why Nikki Haley resigned as UN Ambassador

Seraphim Hanisch
The Duran
Wed, 10 Oct 2018 18:05 UTC
Nikki Haley
The American ambassador to the United Nations, Nikki Haley, announced her resignation from her post on Tuesday, October 9th. Haley, 46, plans to complete her work at the end of the calendar year.

The former governor of South Carolina, Haley was picked to be the American ambassador to the UN by President Trump on November 23, 2016, shortly after Donald Trump won the Presidency. Her confirmation was nearly unanimously approved in the Senate, 96 to 4. She is the first Indian-American to hold a Cabinet-level position in the American government.

Haley has also been a major lightning rod as regards US foreign policy. As many readers of The Duran know, her stated foreign policy positions on record are strongly pro-Israel, strongly against Iran and in all fairness, time after time she has drawn the ire of many geopolitical observers for holding nothing less than the common standard American position on many foreign policy matters.

This has drawn ridicule, as known by a prank call two Russian comedians did with her, and lots of ire, especially because she appears to hold a Zionist position more strongly than other recent American ambassadors. However, while appearing notably hawkish in reported incidents in UN meetings, her points of view are not always echoes of the will of the President.

One fairly recent example was in April of 2018, immediately after the alleged chemical weapons attack in Idlib that was answered by a most peculiar three-nation, 103-missile strike that was reported later to have killed no one, and damaged nothing of importance. Haley spoke about how the US was getting ready to impose very harsh new sanctions against Russia, only to be stopped in her tracks by the President who said that this was not to take place; that there would be no new sanctions taken against Russia.

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Bizarro Earth

America's confrontational approach to China is a rejection of reality

Adam Garrie
Eurasian Future
Wed, 10 Oct 2018 10:24 UTC
ChinaUS Flags
© Reuters/Hyungwon Kang
The age-old aphorism "if it isn't broken, don't fix it" can accurately describe China's mentality towards both domestic matters and issues concerning cooperation with international partners. China's model is one that transformed the world's most populace nation from a place where at the turn of the 1980s 88% of all Chinese lived in poverty to a country where the current 2% national poverty rate (all in rural areas) is set to be eliminated in two years. The Chinese model has also transformed the country into one whose purchasing power parity (PPP) has outstripped that of the United States to become the largest in the world while China's overall GDP is set to overtake that of the US before the year 2040. In this sense, not only is China the world's largest single national market but China is also fast becoming a hub of world leading cutting edge innovation.

In 2013, China looked to help its traditional partners and new partners to harness the win-win spirit of sustainable economic development through the Belt and Road initiative. It is through understanding Belt and Road's relationship with the wider world that one can clearly apprehend the foolishness of America's policy of unilateralism and hostility directed towards China.

Belt and Road for international peace through prosperity

China follows a supremely flexible course of action both in its approach to domestic reforms and international partnerships. China's reformist former leader Deng Xiaoping once said, "I do not care if a cat is black or white, so long as it catches mice". It has been this attitude which prioritises problem solving over stagnant platitudes of inflexibility that has led China to take the best elements of a command economy and combine it with the best elements of a market economy in the context of Deng's market socialism. This has led to China elevating more people out of poverty than any nation has ever accomplished in modern history.

Comment: See also: And check out SOTT radio's: Behind the Headlines: Trump Ditches Europe, Europe Bluffs, Russia and China Carry on With Eurasian Integration

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SOTT Focus: Google Didn't Just Ignore Its 'Don't Be Evil' Motto - It is Literally Surveillance Central

Gordon Vick
Sott.net
Wed, 10 Oct 2018 03:15 UTC
Google spying
For the last five years or so, I have been involved with a non-profit called SeniorNet. SeniorNet's mandate is to assist people aged over 55 with understanding how to use their PCs, smartphones and tablets more effectively so that their more effective use of these tools can improve their quality of life.

One of the things I have found quite mind-blowing while working with seniors is how few people are concerned about their privacy and either refuse to consider the risks they face using tools like Google products or Microsoft's latest OS, or else rationalise it with the hoary old chestnut - if you're not doing anything bad, you have nothing to worry about - which is just wrong on so many levels.

Recently I have been reading an enlightening book by Yasha Levine called Surveillance Valley, which is basically a history of the internet that explains how it emerged from a Pentagon ARPA project (now DARPA - Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency) to facilitate data-sharing between military/intelligence agencies so they could improve their counterinsurgency programs against targets both inside and outside the USA. Levine also details how every breakthrough in technology that enabled the internet as we know it today was either spun out of ARPA research or was directly (and primarily) funded by such.
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Megaphone

Trump savages Medicare for All, as more Americans embrace socialism


RT
Wed, 10 Oct 2018 19:09 UTC
health care protester
© REUTERS / Mike Blake
President Trump once again lambasted the idea of socialized healthcare, as Medicare for All becomes a mainstream Democrat position and more and more Americans warm to the idea of socialism.

In a USA Today op-ed on Wednesday, Trump penned a scathing criticism of 'Medicare for All,' a Democratic proposal that would see healthcare handled by the government and funded by the taxpayer. Trump argued that such a plan would cost taxpayers $32.6 trillion over its first decade and rob seniors of their right to choose their health cover.

"The Democrats' plan also would mean the end of choice for seniors over their own health care decisions," Trump wrote. "Instead, Democrats would give total power and control over seniors' health care decisions to the bureaucrats in Washington, D.C."

Trump also suggested that socialized healthcare would be a first step towards a socialist America, and accused Democrats of trying to "model America's economy after Venezuela," a formerly oil-rich socialist state now wracked by starvation and mass exodus of refugees.
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Iranian-Saudi detente might transform the region but US power is there to prevent it

Finian Cunningham
RT
Tue, 09 Oct 2018 16:28 UTC
bin Salman
© ReutersCrown Prince Mohammed Bin Salman
The rivalry between Iran and Saudi Arabia has for decades roiled the Middle East with sectarian conflict, instability and war. Thinking about how the region would look if these two powerhouses normalized relations is intriguing.

But, sadly, such an outcome is unrealistic.

When President Trump recently spoke contemptuously of the Saudi rulers, saying "they wouldn't last two weeks without US military protection", it was a candid moment of truth. However, US neocolonialism as it currently exists, will endeavor to always prop up the Saudi rulers no matter how despotic.

American power and Saudi rulers are a symbiotic scourge on the region, which, shamefully, will never permit restoration of relations with Iran.
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Attention

The Left promises to abuse power if they win and voters should take them seriously


Washington Examiner
Tue, 09 Oct 2018 09:13 UTC
rag flag
© unknown/KJN
In 2005, the Supreme Court issued its landmark decision in Kelo v. New London, diminishing Americans' property rights. The ruling said that governments can seize your home through eminent domain, even if their intention is merely to hand the land over to private developers.

Conservatives saw this as one more bad ruling from a Supreme Court that issued a whole lot of them. House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi, D-Calif., was a bit more sanguine, and her famous response exemplifies the respect and reverence that liberals once had for the Supreme Court, just so long as it was influencing culture and moving the national conversation in a way they liked.

"It is a decision of the Supreme Court," she said, emphasizing its finality. "If Congress wants to change it, it will require legislation of a level of a constitutional amendment. So this is almost as if God has spoken."

Today, the Left is in a panic because they fear that God's voice (and perhaps even his wrath) are about to turn against them. And it is making them very dangerous. The Supreme Court's composition is changing, and they have responded like cornered animals, with their vicious and desperate campaign of slander and political dirty tricks during the confirmation process of Justice Brett Kavanaugh.

Comment: In the past to varying degree, political parties were willing to adjust their differences and find ways to come together for the good of the country. Not so this time and it appears the divide is intensifying, not abating - as evidenced in massive manipulation by leadership, agencies, media and private interest sources. The signs are evident and concerns for escalation are valid. America has to decide if its whole is more important than its factioning parts.

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Bug

Takes one to know one! Clinton predicts Dems can't be civil until they win


RT
Tue, 09 Oct 2018 23:06 UTC
Killary
© Reuters/Rebecca Naden
Republicans only respect strength and Democrats can only afford civility if they win in the upcoming midterms, Hillary Clinton has argued against the backdrop of increasingly violent US politics.

"You cannot be civil with a political party that wants to destroy what you stand for, what you care about," the former presidential candidate told CNN's Christiane Amanpour in an interview that aired Tuesday. "That's why I believe if we are fortunate enough to win back the House and or the Senate, that's when civility can start again. But until then the only thing the Republicans seem to recognize and respect is strength."


Comment: It is always a choice. Killary and the Democrats have made theirs.

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Attention

FBI took Rosenstein's comment to wiretap Trump and invoke 25th amendment seriously


RT
Wed, 10 Oct 2018 17:58 UTC
Rosenstein Coats McCabe
© Aaron P. Bernstein/ReutersDeputy AG Rod Rosenstein, DNI Daniel Coats and Acting FBI Director Andrew McCabe during a Senate Intelligence Committee hearing.
Top FBI officials reportedly consulted with a senior lawyer if they could act on a suggestion by Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein to secretly wiretap President Donald Trump, apparently taking it seriously and not in jest.

The New York Times reported last month that in 2017 Rosenstein had quipped about secretly recording the president's communications and later using the tapes to oust Trump from office by invoking the 25th Amendment, which allows the cabinet to declare a president unfit for duty. The scoop was quickly shot down, as people involved in discussion assured that the remark was sarcastic and not an invitation for a palace coup. Speculation that Trump would retaliate against Rosenstein by firing him likewise never materialized.

The story made a surprise comeback in the US media on Tuesday, after some outlets - including The Hill, Fox News and the Washington Post - reported that the wiretapping suggestion may have been done in earnest. At least that was the impression of FBI's top legal counsel James Baker, who was approached about the suggestion by the bureau's then-acting director Andrew McCabe and 'Russiagate' investigation lawyer Lisa Page.

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Laptop

US Telecom: New evidence of Super Micro hardware hacking found

Jordan Robertson, Michael Riley
Bloomberg
Tue, 09 Oct 2018 11:01 UTC
Circuitry lockkeyhole
© HIMSS
A major U.S. telecommunications company discovered manipulated hardware from Super Micro Computer Inc. in its network and removed it in August, fresh evidence of tampering in China of critical technology components bound for the U.S., according to a security expert working for the telecom company.

The security expert, Yossi Appleboum, provided documents, analysis and other evidence of the discovery following the publication of an investigative report in Bloomberg Businessweek that detailed how China's intelligence services had ordered subcontractors to plant malicious chips in Super Micro server motherboards over a two-year period ending in 2015.

Appleboum previously worked in the technology unit of the Israeli Army Intelligence Corps and is now co-chief executive officer of Sepio Systems in Gaithersburg, Maryland. His firm specializes in hardware security and was hired to scan several large data centers belonging to the telecommunications company. Bloomberg is not identifying the company due to Appleboum's nondisclosure agreement with the client. Unusual communications from a Super Micro server and a subsequent physical inspection revealed an implant built into the server's Ethernet connector, a component that's used to attach network cables to the computer, Appleboum said.

Comment: See also: Report: China planted chips in Apple/Amazon servers; Amazon, Apple, Super Micro say 'no'

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Putin urges Russian agri expansion in international markets and become largest seller of non-GMO


RT
Wed, 10 Oct 2018 13:56 UTC
Putin/Farmers,
© Reuters/Alexei DruzhininPutin and Farmers
Russian agricultural production has surged by 20 percent over the past five years, according to President Vladimir Putin. He urged domestic producers to steadily expand their presence on domestic and foreign markets.

He called the growth a "real breakthrough" and said:
"There is a need to consistently work on broadening the presence of Russian producers on the domestic market and exploring the foreign ones."

It is necessary "to reinforce the base of the Russian agri-industrial sector, its human resources and production potential, equip farms with modern machinery, improve labor productivity, and promote domestic developments in the sphere of selection, genetics, biotechnologies and output of high-quality, eco-friendly and safe products."
Putin noted that, as of last year, national self-sufficiency figures were over 170 percent for grain, 153.1 percent for vegetable oil, 105.2 percent for sugar, 93 percent for meat and meat products, 87 percent for potatoes, 85.9 percent for vegetables, and 82 percent for milk and dairy products.

Comment: How different to have a leader and government aimed at the health and welfare of its people!

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