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NYT covered up Google tape's most newsworthy details

John Nolte
Breitbart
Thu, 13 Sep 2018 00:00 UTC
Google guy
© AP Photo/Eric Risberg, Jack Nicas/LinkedIn
The New York Times reported on the explosive Google Tape back in March but chose not to informs its readers of virtually all the key details revealed during this company town hall.

On Tuesday, Breitbart News obtained video of an hour-plus long company meeting at Google that took place shortly after the 2016 presidential election. You can watch the full video to judge the context of these individual quotes for yourself - but in my view, what you have here is a smoking gun proving the biggest Internet search engine in the world (by far) intends to abuse its corporate power to affect the outcome of elections, to manipulate searches in a way that will result in political outcomes desired by a multinational corporation and Silicon Valley.

Comment: See also: Google launches tool to identify trolls and 'toxic comments'

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Iraq: IRGC claims missile attack on Kurdish rebels, 11 dead, dozens wounded


Al Jazeera
Sun, 09 Sep 2018 00:00 UTC
IRGC attack
© AFP
Iran's Revolutionary Guards Corps (IRGC) confirmed on Sunday that it had launched deadly missile attacks against Kurdish rebels in northern Iraq a day earlier.

Rockets struck the headquarters of two Iranian Kurdish opposition parties in Iraq's semi-autonomous Kurdish region with reports saying at least 11 people were killed and 50 others wounded.

The missiles hit the headquarters of the Kurdistan Democratic Party of Iran (KDPI) and the Democratic Party of Iranian Kurdistan (PDKI) in the town of Koya, 300km north of Iraq's capital, Baghdad.

It was the first such attack since 1996.

"The terrorists' headquarters ... was successfully struck by seven surface-to-surface rockets on Saturday by the missile department of the Guards' aerospace force," the IRGC said on its Sepah News website on Sunday.

The statement added its drone division was also involved in the attack.

According to Soran Louri, spokesman for the KDPI, which is blacklisted as a "terrorist" group by Tehran, the death toll in the rare cross-border attack was 15, he told AFP news agency. About 30 others were wounded, according to local medical sources.

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Russia predicts it can completely dump the US dollar in five years time


RT
Fri, 14 Sep 2018 12:43 UTC
Dollar,Rubles
© Aleksey Sukhorukov/SputnikGeorge is looking just a shade peaked!
The head of the Russian Lower House Committee for Financial Markets has backed a plan to completely stop using the US dollar, noting that the program can be completed in three to five years.

"I think these are all very feasible proposals, though they are not designed to save our banking system, but to implement the measures that would make our whole financial system independent from external influence," MP Anatoly Aksakov said on Friday.

The lawmaker told RIA Novosti he believes that Western nations will not lift the sanctions against Russia any time soon, but instead will likely impose new, even harsher restrictions.

Aksakov said that given the current political conditions, dumping the dollar must become a global trend, and that the Russian economy's current dependence on the dollar could be completely ended in a relatively short period of time - in three to five years.

Comment: Bet it will happen in three rather than five!

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Erdogan: US is behind the 'economic assassination attempt' on Turkey


RT
Fri, 14 Sep 2018 10:40 UTC
Erdogan/lira
© Murad Sezer/Reuters/Citifmonline.com/KJN
Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan has accused Washington of waging an economic war against his country. Speaking before his ruling AK party in Ankara on Friday, he urged boosting the role of the Turkish lira in settlements.

"We have faced a heinous attack targeting the Turkish economy after a series of negative statements from the US about our country were used as an excuse," said Erdogan, calling the collapse of the national currency against the dollar "an economic assassination attempt".

The Turkish government is trying to stabilize the lira, which has plunged over 40 percent against the US dollar this year. Erdogan said that all savings should be converted to lira, and called on Turks to trust the national currency.

The Turkish currency has strengthened after the central bank hiked the key interest rate by 6.25 percentage points to 24 percent. Erdogan has been a fierce opponent of raising rates and some investors in the Turkish economy had fears he could be interfering in the central bank's affairs. Erdogan warned on Friday that his patience with interest rates had limits.

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Fast thoughts on Idlib and other business

smoothieX12
Reminiscence of the Future
Sun, 09 Sep 2018 00:00 UTC
SyrianFlagIdlib
© RT
As I wrote in Russia As A Cat, Russia will continue to "eat chicken" at her own pace ignoring angry monologues from the "democratic world" and will continue extermination of unicorns and humanitarian terrorists in Idlib apace. The process continued today with new airstrikes against those "rebels". It is symptomatic, then, that Russia's Ambassador to Syria gave this statement to TASS. I give this news piece in full and want to remind you that Russia's high level military and diplomat figures DO NOT make statements off the wall. Those statements are always sanctioned from the above:
DAMASCUS, September 7. TASS. Russia is helping Syria restore and modernize its air defense system, Russia's Ambassador to that country, Alexander Kinshchak, told TASS on Friday. "We are helping our Syrian partners to restore, modernize and boost the efficiency of the integrated air defense system," he said when asked how well Syria is protected against possible airstrikes by Western nations. "Much is yet to be done because everything was in utter devastation, but certain results can already be seen," he said. In late April, chief of the main operations directorate of the Russian General Staff, Sergei Rudskoi, said that Syria would soon receive new air defense systems and promised that Russian specialists would help the Syrian military to master them. He refrained from details of the systems, saying only that the S-125, Osaand Kvadrat systems used by the Syrian army had been restored and modernized with Russia's assistance. In late August, the Russian Defense Ministry warned about a possible provocation plotted in the Syrian Idlib governorate by militants under supervision of British special services. Thus, according to the ministry, militants were planning to simulate the use of chemical weapons against civilians by Syrian government troops to furnish the United States, the United Kingdom and France with a pretext to deliver an airstrike on Syrian government and economic facilities.
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How Turkey obstructs Russia and Assad in Idlib

Tom Rogan
Washington Examiner
Thu, 13 Sep 2018 12:57 UTC
Map Idlib
© mediadc.brightspotcdn
Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan can't stop an imminent Russian-Syrian-Iranian axis offensive against Idlib province, but he is complicating that endeavor in a number of ways.

First off, Erdogan is reinforcing Turkish control over arterial supply routes that connect Idlib with Turkey. As first reported by the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights on Thursday, Turkish military convoys are moving armored vehicles, including tanks, toward Turkish observation posts (small military bases) in Idlib. This reinforcement is designed to ensure that Turkish forces can defeat any attacks by Bashar Assad's military or militias. The Turkish military and Assad despise each other, so the potential for a conflagration is significant.

But Erdogan also wants to show Russian President Vladimir Putin his profound dissatisfaction at the axis offensive. While Erdogan should have seen this development coming, he hopes that putting tanks in the axis path will deter it from acting with extreme aggression. Note that Turkey is focused on ground operations here because Idlib and western Turkey are in comfortable range of Russia's S-400 air defense system at Latakia. While Turkey could destroy that system and overwhelm Russian aircraft in Syria, it won't go that far and spark a major conflict with Putin.

As my annotated Google map below shows (relying on SyriaLiveMapUA and my own research), Turkey (green lines) is reinforcing the northern approaches into Idlib (green arrows and northern green square) so as to prevent the axis from dominating Turkish freedom of movement. Turkey already controls northern Syria's border area (green circles).

Comment: The map and Turkish positions may be the only reality-based information in this Washington Examiner article. SOHR is not a reliable source, nor are the MSM determinations of: Turkey's actions and motivations, 'axis bloodletting', slaughter of civilians, maximizing the death toll, Assad's (NON) use of chemical weapons and deserving 'devastating US-allied retaliation'. It reveals the entrenched propaganda messages propagated to sway legislators and the public to accept and demand Western involvement and military action - a cover for entrenching the US in the ME.

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Yoda

SOTT Focus: Congresswoman Tulsi Gabbard Accuses Trump, Pence of Shielding Al-Qaeda in Idlib


Sputnik
Fri, 14 Sep 2018 18:03 UTC
Congresswoman Tulsi Gabbard
© Agence France-Presse/Nicholas Kamm/FileCongresswoman Tulsi Gabbard
Speaking on the House floor on September 13, Congresswoman Tulsi Gabbard accused the Trump administration of protecting al-Qaeda terrorists in Idlib. According to the congresswoman, this amounts to the betrayal of the American people and victims of al-Qaeda's 9/11 attacks in the US.

Rep. Tulsi Gabbard (HI-02) called out President Donald Trump and Vice President Pence for allegedly protecting al-Qaeda* in Idlib, Syria, while speaking in the House on September 13.

"Two days ago, President Trump and Vice President Pence delivered solemn speeches about the attacks on 9/11, talking about how much they care about the victims of al-Qaeda's attack on our country. But, they are now standing up to protect the 20,000 to 40,000 al-Qaeda and other jihadist forces in Syria, and threatening Russia, Syria, and Iran, with military force if they dare attack these terrorists," the congresswoman stressed.

Comment: A Syrian 'gas attacks' timeline - Notice the pattern?

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Vader

Best of the Web: Tucker Carlson rightly wonders at Washington's Idlib logic: US to bomb Syria to protect Al-Qaeda?


RT
Fri, 14 Sep 2018 17:28 UTC
Al qaeda Syria
© Khalil Ashawi / Reuters
Washington's threats to take military action to deter a Syrian assault on Al-Qaeda-held Idlib province has prompted Fox News host Tucker Carlson to ask the obvious question: Why would the US bomb a country to protect terrorists?

Carlson marveled at how 17 years after the September 11 terrorist attacks, the US was now using its military might to shield - rather than eradicate - Al-Qaeda.

"More than 10,000 rebels in that province are believed to be aligned with Al-Qaeda. So that would mean that 17 years after 9/11, America could soon find itself bombing a country to protect Al-Qaeda sympathizers. Why would we do that?" Carlson asked.

Comment: The Empire's hypocrisy is laid bare. Tucker called it when he mentioned that Iraq used chemical weapons against Iran in their war, but the US stood by because they approved of the goal to destroy Iran.

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Vader

Proof that the US protects Al Qaeda in Syria

Eric Zuesse
The Saker
Fri, 14 Sep 2018 16:23 UTC
US troops in Syria
© Aboud Hamam / Reuters
There's plenty of proof that the U.S. Government protects Al Qaeda in Syria. Right now, America is protecting Al Qaeda's main center throughout the world, which is the province of Idlib in Syria. This protection is part of a bigger picture, no merely isolated phenomenon.

For example: the key point of difference between the Obama Administration in America and the Putin Administration in Russia, regarding the establishment of a cease-fire in the Syrian war, was that Obama refused to allow Al Qaeda in Syria to be bombed during the proposed ceasefire, but Putin insisted that both Al Qaeda in Syria and ISIS in Syria must continue to be bombed during the ceasefire. Obama was protecting Al Qaeda in Syria, but Putin insisted upon bombing Al Qaeda and not only ISIS during any ceasefire there. (See the proof at that link, and you will also understand why Obama was protecting Al Qaeda in Syria.)

Right now, the U.S. Government and some of its allies are threatening to go to war against Russia if Russia will bomb the world's highest concentration of Al Qaeda terrorists. Those terrorists are located in the only province of Syria that has always preferred Al Qaeda and ISIS to the Government of Syria's secular President, Bashar al-Assad. That's Idlib province, which now is Al Qaeda central, like Afghanistan used to be before 9/11 (and for which the U.S. bombed Afghanistan right after 9/11).

Comment: Turkish Defense Minister Akar calls for halt of military operations in Idlib

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Yoda

'Wash your mouth out before insulting legitimate government': Italy's Salvini hits out at top EU official over 'little Mussolinis' remark


RT
Fri, 14 Sep 2018 19:08 UTC
European Economic and Financial Affairs Commissioner Pierre Moscovici (L) and Italian Deputy PM Matteo Salvini (R)
© ReutersEuropean Economic and Financial Affairs Commissioner Pierre Moscovici (L) and Italian Deputy PM Matteo Salvini (R)
Italian Deputy PM Matteo Salvini fired back at top EU economic official Pierre Moscovici, telling him to "wash his mouth out" following Moscovici's remark on the spread of "little Mussolinis" in Europe.

Moscovici, the European commissioner for economic and financial affairs, voiced his fear over the rise of right-wing forces in some countries, comparing the situation to the WWII era.

"Fortunately there is no sound of jackboots, there is no Hitler, (but maybe there are) small Mussolinis. That remains to be seen," he told reporters in Paris on Thursday.

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