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Another lie Comey told under oath: He 'needed a warrant' to search Weiner emails

Joe Hoft
The Gateway Pundit
Sun, 26 Aug 2018 15:46 UTC
James Comey, Anthony Weiner.
James Comey, Anthony Weiner.
FBI started their search a month prior

Amidst all kinds of confusion and cover-ups, it now looks like fired former FBI Director James Comey lied to Congress more than once about the FBI's investigation into Weiner's emails.

This past week it was reported that the FBI failed to investigate a large portion of emails on the Weiner laptop before the election in spite of fired FBI Director James Comey claiming that they had and no issues were identified:
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Mr. Potato

BBC lauds valiant RAF for keeping nasty Russian planes at bay... 2,000km away from the UK


RT
Sat, 25 Aug 2018 16:10 UTC
British war plane RAF
© SAC Cathy Sharples / raf.mod.uk / File
The BBC has struck again, plastering another alarming report across their website on Friday to warn the British people about big, bad, scary Russia. So what did those Russkies do this time? They flew a plane near their own border.

Called out on Twitter by Charles Shoebridge, a former army officer, Scotland Yard detective and counter terrorism intelligence officer, his post points out a few details the BBC missed: The Russian plane was in international airspace and the Black Sea - over 2,000km from the United Kingdom - is actually on Russia's doorstep.

"RAF fighter jets have intercepted a Russian military aircraft over the Black Sea for the second time in a week," the Ministry of Defence told the BBC. "The Typhoons were scrambled from a base in Romania on Thursday after a Be-12 maritime patrol aircraft was seen heading south-west from Crimea towards NATO airspace."
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Light Saber

Best of the Web: A warning to Trump and Corbyn: Don't fall for the anti-semitism scare

Israel Shamir
The Unz Review
Sun, 26 Aug 2018 15:19 UTC
corbyn Trump
© Press AssociationLabour leader Jeremy Corbyn and {resident Donald Trump
And the Russian warning over Syria

As a new military confrontation over Syria is impending, thought out by Israel, prepared by the British and executed by the US, the West's future depends greatly upon two mavericks, the US President Donald Trump and the UK Opposition Leader Jeremy Corbyn. These two men are as different as you can make. One is for capitalism, another one is a socialist, but both are considered soft on Russia, at least they do not foam at the mouth hearing Putin's name. Both are enemies of Wall Street and the City, both stand against the Deep State, against NATO, both are enemies of globalism and of world government. One is a friend of Israel, another is a friend of Palestine, but both are charged with racism and anti-Semitism.

It is a quaint peculiarity of our time, that anti-Semitism is considered the great and unforgivable sin, trading places with Christ Denial. Negative attitude to Christ-denying Jews had been de rigueur at its time, and the Church, or its Tribunal, the Inquisition, had tried the charged. Nowadays, the heavily Jewish MSM is the accuser, the judge and jury, considering anti-Jewish attitude as a worst sort of racism. The two leaders aren't guilty as charged, but the MSM court dispenses no acquittals.
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Bad Guys

SOTT Focus: Operation Destroy Syria Has Failed - Next Target: Hezbollah

Elijah J. Magnier
ejmagnier.com
Sun, 26 Aug 2018 15:24 UTC
hezbollah
After more than seven years of war with the goal of changing the Syrian regime, the target has now become Hezbollah. But the question remains: after the failure of the 2006 war, what can the enemies of this organisation do to achieve their goal?

Hezbollah's Secretary General Sayyed Hasan Nasrallah said in his most recent speech that "Hezbollah is stronger than the Israeli army". Israel responded by showing a drill of the Golani brigade and the 7th Armoured Brigade, in the presence of Chief of Staff Gadi Eisenkot, simulating war against Hezbollah. This drill took place after routine ground forces exercises of the 36th Division to "improve coordination and readiness in case of war".

In a message indicating that it will not distinguish civilians from militants, Israel has constructed a new training base in the occupied Golan Heights, the Snir facility, to simulate Lebanese villages. These mock Hezbollah villages are meant to be of the type Israeli soldiers might face in combat situations if an invasion of Lebanon is ordered.

Likewise, Hezbollah has constructed mock Israeli villages on the Lebanese-Syrian borders for combat training to prepare for war. Sayyed Nasrallah has promised to move the battle beyond the Lebanese borders and has asked his men to prepare to fight on "enemy ground" if war is imposed on Hezbollah.
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Briefcase

Implausible deniability: DOJ tells court it was unable to give Fusion GPS docs to Judicial Watch because of 'glitch'

Cristina Laila
Gateway Pundit
Thu, 23 Aug 2018 15:17 UTC
steele ohr simpson
Conservative watchdog group Judicial Watch attended a hearing in federal court this week after the Justice Department failed to respond to a December 12, 2017, FOIA request seeking records on oppo research firm Fusion GPS.

The Justice Department argued that it is unable to produce the requested records due to "technical issues."

Where else have we heard this before?

Judicial Watch is seeking the following from the DOJ:
  • All records of contact or communication, including but not limited to emails, text messages, and instant chats, between DOJ officials in the Attorney General's Office and Fusion GPS employee or contractor Nellie Ohr.
The time frame for the requested records is January 1, 2015, to the present.

On June 14, 2018, Judge Walton ordered the Justice Department, which had been resisting Judicial Watch's FOIA request, to "immediately commence its search for responsive records and produce responsive records..."

Additionally, Judge Walton previously criticized the Justice Department, saying:

"I think if it's been almost, since December when the initial request was made more should have been done by now. And it seems to me if you have someone who's going to come into office and they say they're going to be a disrupter, that they should appreciate there's going to be a lot of FOIA requests and therefore, should gear up to deal with those requests. So I'm not real sympathetic to the position that you have limited staff and therefore, you can't comply with these requests. So I think you're going to have to get some more people."

Comment: The lies are becoming a little too transparent. Gone are the days when the deep state was actually half-decent at deception.

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Quenelle - Golden

Syria and Iran sign deal on continued Iranian military presence and participation in Syrian war on terror


RFE/RL
Mon, 27 Aug 2018 15:12 UTC
Syrian soldiers
© APSyrian soldiers at the Quneitra border crossing between Syria and the Israeli-controlled Golan Heights on July 26, 2018.
The defense ministers of Iran and Syria have signed an agreement on military cooperation in the war-torn country, Iranian media report.

The "defense and technical agreement" provides for the continued "presence and participation" of Iran in Syria, Iranian Defense Minister Amir Hatami said in Damascus on August 27, according to the Tasnim news agency.

It also quoted Syrian Defense Minister Ali Abdullah Ayub as praising Tehran for supporting the government of President Bashar al-Assad in the seven-year Syrian conflict.

Hatami was on the second day of a two-day visit to Syria's capital, during which he also held talks with Assad, Tasnim reported.

Iranian and Russian support for Assad throughout the war has helped turn the conflict in the Syrian leader's favor.


Comment: In other words, it's a good thing. Iran, Russia and Syria are actually doing what the U.S. has presumably been trying to do for almost two decades and failing spectacularly.


Rebel forces have been routed in many parts of the country. Syrian pro-government forces are preparing to launch an assault on the northwestern province of Idlib, the last major rebel stronghold.


Comment: "Rebel forces" = al-Qaeda. "Rebel stronghold" = al-Qaeda stronghold. When are you going to stop supporting terrorists, RFE/RL?

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Attention

Israeli Knesset declares it can make laws anywhere in world, violate any country's sovereignty, ignore international law when it pleases


If Americans Knew Blog
Mon, 27 Aug 2018 15:02 UTC
Beitar Ilit
The West Bank Jewish settlement of Beitar Ilit is seen through a barbed wire fence.
Palestinian rights groups and local governments have challenged an Israeli law that seeks to the annex of parts of the West Bank. The Israeli government responded to the petition, stating that "the Knesset [is permitted] to legislate laws everywhere in the world" and that it is authorized "to violate the sovereignty of foreign countries via legislation that would be applied to events occurring in their territories."

from Ma'an News Agency and IMEMC News

The Judea and Samaria Settlement Regulation Law, sometimes called the Regularization Law, is an Israeli law that aims to retroactively legalize Israeli settlements in the West Bank Area C. It is meant to "regulate" the status of about 2,000 to 4,000 residences in 16 settlements which were built on Palestinian-owned lands. The Knesset passed the legislation 60 to 52, on February 6, 2017.

According to the law, the land on which the residences are built will remain that of the legal owners, but their usage will be expropriated by the State. In exchange, the Palestinian owners will be compensated at a rate of 125%, or receive alternate lands (whenever possible).

The Settlement Regularization Law aims to "legalize," under Israeli law, illegal Israeli settlement outposts, which have been built on private Palestinian land.

Comment: At least they're honest about it. Usually psychopaths pretend to be normal. Not Israelis. They're psychologically twisted, and proud.

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Rocket

Russia's military superiority: New missile capable of hitting hyper-sonic targets


RT
Mon, 27 Aug 2018 14:42 UTC
s-400 crimea
© Aleksey Malgavko / SputnikS-400 launchers deployed in Crimea.
Terrain-hugging aircraft cannot feel safe when confronted by Russia's newest anti-aircraft missile developed for the S-400 and future S-500 systems, as it can reportedly hit targets flying a mere 10 meters above the ground.

The 40N6E interceptor missile specifications, shown at the booth of Almaz-Antey during the Army-2018 expo near Moscow, are probably the first 'official' figures related to the advanced weapon. The missile itself reportedly passed military trials in July, with first deliveries to deployed S-400 units expected in a matter of weeks.

According to a presentation slide published by bmpd, a popular Russian defense blog, the latest missile weighs around 1,893 kg (4,173 lbs), or about 2,600 kg (5732 lbs) when stored inside its sealed transport/launch container. When launched, the missile flies at an average speed of 1,190 meters per second (2,662 mph).

The interceptor can hit targets flying as low as 10 m (33 ft) and as high as 30 km (19 miles), disproving rumors that it was designed with a built-in anti-satellite capabilities. It can engage targets at a range of at least 5 km (3 miles). The maximum range for targeting aircraft with the 40N6E is 380 km (236 miles). The range for ballistic missiles is up to 15 km, according to the presentation.

Comment: The U.S. is no longer the world's military hegemon. It hasn't been for a long time (it's actually arguable whether it ever really was). American military dominance is largely based on its naval reach. Russian anti-shipping missiles have changed that. U.S. aircraft carriers are sitting ducks. As for air superiority, the F-35 is a joke; Russian jets can 'see' American stealth jets, and the S-400 (and upcoming S-500) can target any aircraft in the area, including stealth. The U.S. makes weapons for profit. Russia makes weapons for survival. That means their weapons are effective, not just 'sophisticated' - and produced at a fraction of the cost of American ones. Arrogant American military planners seem not to have taken any of that into account over the years...

See: Losing Military Supremacy: The Myopia of American Strategic Planning

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Snakes in Suits

South Africa: A tale of cabinet ministers, paedophilia and suspicious suicides

Chris Steyn and Mark Minnie
IOL
Sat, 11 Aug 2018 00:00 UTC
pedophilia south africa, John wiley
Last weekend, a book exposed more grim secrets from South Africa’s dark past. Shocking allegations of a child-sex ring in the 1980s involving former National Party ministers were told in The Lost Boys of Bird Island, by Mark Minnie and Chris Steyn.

It is the late 1980s. Serious allegations surface against three prominent National Party Cabinet ministers, one of them the second-most powerful man in the land. They are, it is said, regularly abusing young boys on an island just off the coast of Port Elizabeth. From opposite ends of South Africa, a brave cop and a driven journalist investigate. Mark Minnie and Chris Steyn independently uncover evidence of a dark secret. But the case only surfaces briefly before it disappears completely. Thirty years later, the two finally connect the dots to expose this shocking story of criminality, cover ups and official complicity in the rape and possible murder of children, most of them vulnerable and black.

After weeks of investigation, it was hard not to suspect that David Allen and John Wiley had died because of paedophilia, blackmail, a looming Cabinet scandal of epic proportions - and the urgent need to protect the reputations of top politicians.

It was a hell of a story. There is no other way of putting it. However, little of what I knew would eventually appear in print.

The inquest failed to establish the real reason behind Wiley's death, and no clear picture emerged of the reason for what still appeared to be a suicide. Furthermore, it was found that no one could be held criminally responsible, either through an act or an omission.

The day before the inquest, on May 14, 1987, I wrote a story under the headline "Wiley inquest in Simon's Town today". I pointed out that in South African law an inquest had limited scope. That story also contained this rather promising-looking announcement: After an intensive seven-week investigation into Mr Wiley's life and death, the Cape Times will publish the "Wiley Dossier" after the inquest.

Comment: See also: Detective who published book revealing high-level gov't pedophile ring in South Africa, shot in the head only days later

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Eye 1

Counter-insurgency phony war: 'ISIS leader and 10 other terrorists' killed during US airstrike in Afghanistan


Al Jazeera
Sun, 26 Aug 2018 12:00 UTC
afghanistan nangahar map
Abu Saad Erhabi killed along with 10 other members of ISIL's Afghan branch, security agency says

The leader of ISIL in Afghanistan was killed in air strikes in eastern Nangarhar province, the fourth head of the armed group to die since it emerged in the country in recent years.


Comment: There is no 'ISIL' in Afghanistan: there are, however, counterinsurgency death squads pretending, at times, to be 'Taliban' forces and, at other times, to be 'affiliated with ISIL' by simply waving the black pirate flag of 'ISIL' and 'claiming responsibility for' an incident.


Abu Saad Erhabi and 10 other Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL, also known as ISIS) members died in a joint operation with coalition forces on Saturday night, the National Directorate of Security said in a statement on Sunday.

"The emir of Daesh in Afghanistan - along with 10 others - was killed," it said, using the armed group's Arabic acronym.

The air attacks on a village in Khugyani district, near the border with Pakistan, also destroyed a large number of weapons, explosives, and ammunition, the agency said.

Comment: This 'game' is getting really old.

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